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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-7-31, Page 6lietralliniATIONAL ntaimWAYS. Queetions Affecting retina Cemerlp in. the V.S. senate. A Washington despotch of Wednesday says ; The resolution of Mr. Cullom relit. Aloe to the Canadien railroads was adopted this morning aSter it had been amended he important partioulars. Mr. Washburn, of Minnesota, who was ormerly connected with the "Soo has claimed from the time that this resolu- tion was introduced that it was aimed at the Canadian Pacitio, and that it war in- tended as a drive at that railroad. Mr. Cullom denied thin and insisted that he had no partioular railroad in mind. In order to maim sure of this, Alm Washburn propoeed an amendment which should in elude the Grand Trunk in the scope of the inquiry; and that amendment was adopted by Mr. Cullom. But the reeolution was so changed in other important particulars that the repre- sentatives of the Detroit elevator men, who are interested in having the exieting status °hanged, as they claimed that the Canadian railroads by their elevators have destroyed their business, say that one-half of the in - &emotion that was deeired is not asked /or. " One portion of the resolution that was struck out related to the method of importations in bond. It was this busi- ness that the Michigan elevator men de. sired to have inquired into, and their representatives at the Capitol to -day say that the amendment to the resolution so 3nntilates it that it might as well have been wholly drafted by the attorneys of the Canadian railroade, who are constantly about the Capitol. " LET ME KILL HIM l" A Wronged Husband, a Lecherous Drum- mer and a Faithless Wife. A Cincinnati despatch of Thursday says: be biggest sensation known in sooial circles here for years occurred yesterday, when it became known that John M. Sohiely, one of the leading Knights of Pythias of the State, had found his wife ianfitithful. He has suspected her for a short time, refusing to doubt her, though her conduct has caused mach gossip. The Sohieley's, who are rich, live in a magnifi- cent home on Perk avenue, one of the most exolueive quartere of the city. Sohiely came home srddenly from an outing and wand T. H. Haliet, a handsome drummer, in his wife's room. Both were in neglige attire. " Let me kill him 1" yelled the infuriated husband; but Mrs. Sohiely held him while Hallet, half-dressed, escaped. Schiely at- tempted to kill his wife, but she escaped. She says she is willing to leave Schiely if he will keep the three children, which are hers by a former marriage. As she has taught them to detest him he refuses. He has neoured all the magnificent jewelry, valued at 5'20,000, wbioh he had given her, and begun divorce proceedings, Mrs. Sohiely, who is a beauty, and wae acknow- ledged to be the most richly dressed woman in Cincinnati, has relatives at Utica and Richfield Springs, New York, and in Chicago. FARMERS AWAKENING. Minnesota Alliance Denounces the Iniquit- ous War Tariff. A Si. Paul despatch of Thursday says : The Ferment' Alliance and United Labor Party Convention reassembled to -day. A platform War adopted, which demands that *he" war te.riff " be iadic&lly revised; de- nounces the McKinley bill as "the crown- ing infamy of proteetion "; demands Gov- ernment control of railways, that diaorimination may cease, reasonable rates be established, watered stook not receive the reward of honest capital, and pooling of rates be absolutely prohibited. Forpro- sincere it demands free and open markets for grain, and proper facilities for trans- portation, etc. It holds that mortgage indebtedness should be deducted from the tax on realty ; demands lower interest, an increase in the volume of money, and free coinage of silver ; asks for the Australian ballot system ; holds that United States Senators and railway commissioners should be elected by ballot; and, finally, considers that recent Supreme ()curt del:nen:ins are fraught with danger to our form en government. WINCHESTER LOGIC. Two Rival Factions Re sort to the Arbitra- ment of the Bille. A Louisville, Ky., despatoh says : Another outbreak of the Smith -Messer fend is reported from Knox ooanty. The battle oconrred on Thursday evening at Hubbard'e on Stinking Creek, one of the most lawless sections in the State. There was a political meeting there, the candidates for the various county offices being advertised as speakers. Both the Smith and Messer factions were on hand, carrying their Win- chesters and "forty -fours.' It is not known just how the trouble began, but at about 3 o'clock the shooting commenced, and when the melte had cleared away four men were found to have bitten the dust, while the rest had disappeared. Eighteen =en were arrayed on one side and about 25 on the other. Those killed were two of the Mills boys, belonging to the Messer laction, and Robert Burchett and John Howard, belonging to the Smith crowd. Propeller Stranded. A despatch from Cheboygan, Mich., states that the Canadian propeller Cuba, bound down with grain, stranded on Grey's _Reef at 4 o'clock on Sunday morning in a fog, and is full of water. The captain went to Cheboygan for help and employed the tug Favorite, which left with a full wreck. ing outfit. A part of the cargo is being pumped overboard, and it is expected that the waste will be releand on Wednesday morning, The Cuba has a full list of pas- aengers and about 20,000 bushels of corn, bound from Chicago to Montreal. The passengers are safe but have had their trip out short by this mishap. They have been forwarded to their destination by other boats and rail. The steamer belongs to the Chicago and Montreal Transportation Company, of Toronto, which has hitherto been lucky with it boats. The cargo is fully insured. The owners here state that the despatch is true. • Five Drowned in a Yachting Accident A Uinta, N. Y., despatch says : The steamer St. Lawrence collided with the pleasure yaoht Cabberine in the St. Law. ren00 river, near Alexandria Bay Thurs. day night. Of & party of 12 on the yacht five were drowned. They were Edward Pemberton, Mrs. Edward Pemberton, %Ire. W. D. Hart, Miss Margaret Henry, and Engineer John Batumi. They were all from Bradford, Pa., except Beneficed, and are people well known in social circles there. Rateeia has pnrohated from the Baron of Staakelberg, for 1,000,000 fearice, Worms licland, in the Baltic. The moat densely populated sqtare rail° in the world is not in China, or Belgium, but in the city of New York, and that is inhabited by 270,060 people, the large part f Whom are Itethenti. r.1 BO1Th4OING 01 CLONE Lights Down on on Iowa Town,ausIng anon Damage. A Council Bluffs, Ia., despatch says ; A epeeist from Pacific junotion, sixteen mike south of here, gives newts of a cyclone which etruca that piece at 2.15 o'clock this xnorning, nreckieg two business blocks and several reeeleuces, and overturniug a pas- senger coach, During the eight a severe electric' storm prevailed. In addition the rain fel zu tor- rents. The etinseiphere about a e iniglat became remarkably etill, yet dente. It was difficult for ono to breathe. Egyptian darkness prevailed, dispelled only by a vivid flash of lightning at the above hour, when without warning, a large funnel - shaped cloud descended from the heavens like an arrow, with an accompanying roar that terrified the entire city, The cloud struck the ground about 800 feet from the Burlington depot, na in a moment two business blocke, a grocery store and a feed store and three residences were torn to pieces as if made of paper. The timbers were carried up into the air and lost sight of. The cloud, after travelling about 300 feet on the ground, rose into the air, only to alight again within a block's distance. It struck the second time a trifle to the west of the Burlington depot, and in a twinkling a passenger coach belonging to the Chicago, Burlington ta Quincy Railroad war hurled into a ditoh and badly damaged. A con. dnotor in the employ of the company, who was sleeping in the coach, was terribly bruised and cut and may die. After wreak. ing the coach the cloud flew upward and vanished. Fortunately none of the build- ings that were destroyed were occupied at the time. BARGE CUT IN TWO. Fatal Collision on the Detroit Elver -The Stearing Gear Wrong. A Thursday's Detroit despatch says: This evening, as the steamer City of De- troit with three excursion parties aboard came within the city limits, her steam steering apparatus gave out unaocciuntably and she sheered about, and ran into the steam barge Kesota, owned in Cleveland, cutting her completely in two aminshipe. The Kesota's cargo was iron ore, and it slid into the river, holding the eevered parts under water, leaving the bow and stern above water, with the City of Detroit directly over her. Captain Fick and crew of seventeen were rescued by row boats and yachts. The aged mother of the steward, name unknown, was drowned. The captain's wife was saved by a seaman diving after her as she was sinkirm. Judge Nichols, oi Batavia, Ohio, an exeursionist on the City of Detroit, was severely injured by the breaking of some shrouds, and his son and three or four other passengers were slightly hurt. All except the judge are able to continue their trip. The damage to the City of Detroit is 520,000, and she will be on the dry dock for three weeks. The liesote was veined at 512,000, and is a total wreck. MOLTEN IRON. Seventeen Men Frightfully Burned by the Explosion of a Furnace. A New York despatch says: Saturday afternoon, while the employees of Cassidy Adler'e iron foundry, on West 55th street, were standing about a smelting, furnace, which contained about six tons of iron, some of which was being run off into moulds, the cupola exploded, and eeventeen men were more or less burned by the molten metal. Peter &anon'the foreman, was probably fatally burned. The liquid metal covered his entire body so that recognition was barely possible. Edward McNally and Fred. Rosenken were also terribly learned about their bodies, but may pull through. The rest were able to go home after treatment. The explosion was caused, it is said, by the neglect of some workingmen, who are assigned to that task, to keep stirring the molten iron while it was being strained into the moulds The gases that generated in the molten iron caused the exelcsion. /timed at Canadian Railways. A Washington despatch of Tuesday says: Senator Cullom is very much in earnest in the matter of the Canadian railroads. His former resolution callingupon the Secre- tary of the Treasury for information as to the methods of importation of grain from Canada has not yet been adopted by the Senate, owing to the oppoeition of Senator Washburn, of Minnesota, who is said to be interested in the" Soo" road. But today Mr. Cullom introduced another resolution, which goes over under the rule for one day, calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to the practices which have grown up in connection with all im- portations from Canada in bond, with special reference of the regulations which have been adopted for the safety of the revenue. Mr. Cullom is of the opinion that under the present bonded system there are great opportunities for fraud. Beating a Trust. A Chicago despatch says : A statement was published some weeks ago that a trust had been formed on the Georgia water- mclon crop. The melons were shipped to accredited agents in all the Northern cities to be sold at wholesale by auction. The plan did not suit the ideas of the local dealers here, and they quietly formed a counter combination. Accordingly when the first Georgia melons were pat up for sale there was only one bid -a wickedly low one -for the whole lot, and the melons had to go at that. Then the purohaser divided up the shipment with his fellow - conspirators, and they charged fall prices to the small dealers and the public, thereby making immense profits. The plan was adopted elsewhere, with the result of amash- ng the melon trust. Yachting Parties Drowned. A. St. Joseph, Mich„ despatch says The two yachts which were lost in Mon- day's storm are the Sable and lago. They left this place for Chicago on Monday morning'having on board James and Joseph Beaupee, of Chicago, and their cousins, John and Abraham Dururche, of Muskegon, Midi. Cept. Stein, of the steamee Puritan, descried the two boats on Wednesday evening in the lake, about thirty miles from this shore. The two boats wore tied together, one upside down, the other lying on her side. The Puritan was soon brought alongside, No holies were seen lashed to the wreck, Undoubt- edly all the men were thrown otat and left to fill watery graves, Both yttehts left Chicago about two weeks ago to make a tour of the lakee, "Yon needn't talk about keening one's word," mud a husband to his wife during a slight misunderstanding; o when I first asked you to marry me yott declared that yon wouldn't marry the best man in the world," "Well, I didn't," snapped the Wife'a Margaret Mather has isOlved an impor- tant problem for actresses who have hue - bandit in front. She has engaged Jeannie Winston to do her hugging and kissing, 00 Fiddler Eialettekorri will not need to be eon - Peened by jean:easy. THE SUPERIOR 00IIRTS. The Autumn Assizes and Autumn Chan ftsr7 Siftings Open on the Elates Below. AUTUMN ASSIZES, 1899. Immoral, 0, J. Toronto, Civil- Tuesday, Sept. es " Criminal .. . Monday, Oot, 13. Milton Brampton St. Catharin Orangeville Wednesday, Oct. 29. es Teesday, Nov. 4, Tuesday, Nov.11. Stratford...-. menden, Sept. 15. Hamilton Monday, Sept. 22. Welland- ..... ......... ..... „Monday, Oot. 8. Guelph Monday, Octme. Suncoe Monday, 0ct.20. Cayuga Berlin Thursday, Oot, 23, Monday, Oct, 27. Brantford Monday, Nov, 3. r61,00NBRIDGE, J, Barrio .. „Monday, Sept. 8. Ottawa Monday, Sept, 22. Pembroke Wednesday, Oot, 1. L'Orign al.. ............... Tuesday, Oat, 7. Perth Monday, Oct. 13. Owen Sound Monday, Oct. SO. Peterboro' wonesday, Oct, 29, Lindsay Tuesday, llov. 4. STREET, J. Kingston „Monday, Sept. 8. Brookville Monday, Sept. 16. cornwan Tuesday, Sept. 23. Belleville Monday, Sept, 29, Picton Monday, Oct. 6. Napanee Monday, clot, 13. Cobourg Monday, Oct. 20. Whitby .. .. Monday. Oet. 27. YAOMMION, J. London Monday, Sept. 8. Woodstock Thursday, Sept.18. Walkerton Monday, Sept. el Goderich.... ....... Monday, Oet. 6. Sarnia Monday, Oot. 13. Sandwich Monday, Oot.20, Chatham.- .... . ... - ...... Monday, Oet, 27. St. Thomas Wednesday, Nov. 1 AUTUMN CHANCERY SITTINGS, 1890. ROBERTSON, J. Toronto Monday, Nov. 17. BOD, C, St Thomas "Wednesday, Oct 1, London Monday, Oct. 6. Barrie .. . ...... .-...... Monday, Oct, 13. Walkerton Monday, Nov. 10. Goderich Friday, Nov. 14. Sarnia Tuesday, Nov. 18. Sandwich Friday, Nov. 21. Chatham Wednesday, Nov. 26. Whitby Monday, Dec. 8. FERGUSON, J. Cobourg Monday, Sept. 15. Lindsay Friday, Sept. 19. Peterboro' Tuesday, Sept. 23. Ottawa Monday, Oct. 20. • Brockville - ... ....... -Monday, Oct. 27. Cornwall Friday, Oct. 31. Belleville Tuesday, Nov. 4. Kingston Monday, Deo.l. ROBERTSON, T. Simcoe Tuesday, Sept, 16. Owen Sound... .... ....... Tuesday, Sept. 23. Brantford Tuesday, Sept. 31 St. Clatharines...... ......„Monday, Oct. 6. Stratford Monday, Oct. 13. Hamilton Monday, Oct. 20. Woodstock Monday, Nov. 3. Guelph Monday, Nov. 10. A FISHERY SEIZURE. French Authorities Make a Catch -A Bard Case. A St. Pierre, Miq., despatch says: The schooner Mary, thirty tons, owned by a poor fisherman at Placentia Bay, which was chartered by Chafe Rosblanohe, of West Newfoundland, to carry a cargo of dried codfish to St. John's, arrived here loaded with 600 quintals and ten barrels of cod roes. On these latter are paid a bounty for the French catch and mire of 54 per barrel, and they are used in France as bait for the sardine fishery. The foreign articles consequently are strictly prohibited. The Customs officer caught the crew of the Mary in the act of landing three barrels of roe of the value of $9. The vessel was seized and a French guard put on board. The orew were lodged aehore awaiting a trial before the Superior Court on Weariest day next, when a verdict will probably be rendered of forfeiture of the oargo, which is valued at 535,000, and the vessel at 51,000, with a fine on the French pur- chaser. This is hard on Chafe, who is a struggling young merchant, and is equally hard on the poor owner. Neither of these had any complicity in the fraud, which was perpetrated by the crew to obtain liquor. The French merchants are press- ing for a conviction. Big Strike ot Ironworkers. A Trenton, N. J., despatch says: Be- tween 1,200 and 2,000 iron workers this morning refused to go to work in the New Jersey Steel and Iron Mills, which are owned by ex -Mayor Abraham S. Hewitt, of New York city, because of the refusal of the firm to sign the Amalgamated Iron Workers' Association scale of wages, and recognize that laboe organization. Mr. Hewitt is in ill -health and travelling in Europe, and there is no one here who can authoritatively sign the scale asked by the men. The Knights and the Amalgamated Association have secretly organized the works, which have been norounion for years. The firm is stacked with orders, and has been running day and night. It is said the firm will not sign the Berle. A Great Will case. A Rochester despatch says: The will of Gen. Lester B. Faulkner, dated in 1876, by which he left all his property to Mrs. Frances Brown and her sons, the probate of which has been opposed by the widow of the testator, was refused probate by Surro- gate Nash, of Livingston county, on Mon- day, July 141h, on the ground that it had been subsequently revoked by Gen. Faulk- ner. Dr. Bacon, who was Gen. Faulkner's attending physician during his last illness, and Comfort Allan both testified to the re- vocation of the will of 1876 by Gen. Faulk. ner a few days before his death. No new will could be produced, but on the evidence the sarrogate refused probate. Great Fire Raging in Constantinople. A last night's cable says: A great fire is raging in the Stain. boul quarter of Constantinople. The conflagration began in a timber yard, and the flames, fanned by a strong wind, spread rapidly to the adjoining property. Fully 1,000 houses and shopa have been deetroyed. The Price of Beer. A Chicago despatch says ; For some weeks the breweries in this and adjoining cities have been engaged in a war among themselves, and the price of beer by the barrel has been out in two in the middle. At a meeting of the brewers last night an agreement was formulated for the final settlement of the war. Charity and anstice. Charity ie the summit of justice -it is the temple of which jnatice la the founda. tion -bid you can't have the top without the bottom; yon cannot build upon charity. Yon must build upon justice for this main reason, that you have not at fine charity 10 bnild with. It is the last reward of good work. Do justice to your brother - you oan do that whether you love hira or not -and you will come to love laim. But do injnatice to him bedew° yon don't love him and you will come to hate him. - John Buskin. It is better to bo right than to be One feudal ; but there hell 00 Much fun about it. The difference between A Iself-rinade man arid an " npotart" is timely thief ; One is yotir friend and the either 10111. Coroner Hertz, who is investigating the Tho Owners IteofurseeentosuTrees.t A Chicago despatch of Monday's says: U' -A Verdict THE T1004. EXPLOSION. eXpleiolOU on the steamer Ttoga, to -day re - owed an answer to his repute that the Munro. Bright, proprietors of the Genesee Oil Werkinof Buffalo, who shipped the naph- tha on the Tipp, ehould come here and testify before the coroner's jury of inquest. The Meiiars. Bright decline to come, and say that they gee no reason why they should do rao. They diSolaim any responsibility for the explosion. They say : " All Carriers from Buffalo put all the products of petroleum in the same classification, charge the same freight and make no die. tinotion between them, all these products being designated oil.' There was no con- cealment whatever from the steamboat (someone' of the character of the shipment. The steamboat company knew the character of this and previous similar shipments, and we understand that Deputy Oil Inopector Prager has often condemned as unlit for illuminating purposes diamond B barrels in the presence of Union Steamboat em. ployees and officials." Agent Morford, of the 17nion Steamboat Company, to which the Tioga belongs, tes- tified by way of answer to the letter of the Messrs. Bright. He said there were a num. ber of artioles, such as dynamite, nitro- glycerine, benzine, gasoline, camphor and naphtha, which his company refused to handle at all, and its printed rate sheets contained instructions to its agents not to receive them for transportation. If his company had known that the barrels shipped by the Genesee Oil Compaiay con- tained naphtha it would not have accepted them. The jury returned a verdict censuring the Union Steamship Company and pre. luring a oharge against the Messrs. Bright for consideration of the grand jury. DO YOU NEED A CHANGE ? Then Change Your Room -It is 13etter Than Nothing. A well-known medical authority ie so strong an advocate of change that he says: "Change your climate if you can; if you can not do that change your house; failing your house, change your room; and if not your room, then rearrange your furniture." If possible every family should go away once a year for a month's stay under dif- ferent surroundings; if this is not possible, changes of a week at a time will probably save you a dootor's bill if yon have become "run down" in health. Make aa many expeditions as you can during the summer; go once a week if possible and you will find them more efficacious to build up the strength than any tonic that oan be ad- ministered. If possible get different food for the family at such times than they are daily acenstomed to, even if it is not as delicate. A change of food will often stimulate a jaded appetite. When children or grown people begin to lose appetite and seam listless, better t'ne,n a spring tonic for the blood is a visit at a distance where there is a complete change of scene and food, -Detroit Journal. Hard on Toronto. Toronto has had its summer carnival. It was not a success, in fact, it was a positive failure. We have no sympathy with the promoters. Toronto has a good thing in its Industrial Exhibition and it had no right to hold a carnival. It was simply oopying Hamilton. Some Toronto people were a little jealous of the great success of Hamil- ton's meeting last year. The promoters of Hamilton's carnival had an object in view. They wanted a gathering of businees men and the carnival was chiefly a meane of entertaining them. It was a plucky thing for the Hamilton people to do but their car- nival was a big success and everybody went away thoroughly satisfied with it. The Toronto people had not the grit nor the go about them that the Hamilton people had. It was pointed out to them that a Merchantin Convention would make their carnival a emcees, but the Toronto people are too much given to fakes and their carnival was one of the biggest fakes of the ago. A car- nival every year for Hamilton may perhaps be more than she could be expeeted to undertake. Why not ran a gigantic fair there, say every fourth year, during the time of the Merchants' Convention, and in others Years let the carnival and convention be held in succession at London, Kingston and Ottawa 2 -Toronto Canadian Grocer. Some Terrible Figures. An address by Lady Henry Somerset, on temperance, is published in London, in which she pictures the misery occasioned by strong drink in the Whiteohapel district, wherein there have been the past year so many mysterious and shocking murders of women. "How can I put before you the sin and misery of that scene? To see the children flocking out of these dens of sin 1 state no exaggeration, 11.0 overdrawn pic- ture. Yon have only to read police reports. Last year you will find in London alone 500 children under 10 years old were taken up dead drunk, and there were 1,500 under 14, and 2,000 under 21." It is also etated re- garding Lady Henry Somerset that she has recently struck a blow financially at the liquor trade. She owns a good deal of property let on lease, and several of the leases are about to fall in. Some of these are of publio-houses. Her ladyship has announced that she will renew no lease of a present publio-house unless the tenant will agree to change his business. The Value of sincerity. Though a men must be sincere in order to be great, he need not be great in order to be sincere. Whatever may be the aim of our brain, the strength of our powers, the talents of any kind with which we are gifted, eineerity of heart, or of belief, or of life is possible to us all. It is of itself a kind of greatness which, in spite of many other drawbacks, will make itself felt. The honest, up- right man, who lives openly, fear- lessly and truly, professing only what he feels, npholding only what he believes in, pretending nothing, disguising nothing, de- ceiving no one, claims unconsciously a re. qui and honor that we cannot give to any degree of power or ability wielded with duplicity or cunning. If vse could correctly divide the world into the sincere and the insincere, we should have a much truer eatimate of real worth than we generally obtain. -New York Ledger. A idisapprehension. " How cool she is l" exclaimed Mr. Kajones, admiringly, as he watched the daring female trapeze performer at the oircue. " Yea," snapped Mrs. Kajones, as she Vigorously wielded a big palm -leaf fan. " Alinost anybody could bo cool tvho didn't have any more of a costume on than she has." It has been officially estimated tha) rio fewer than 170,000 wolves are roaming at large in Unsafe, and that the inhabitanta of the VolOgda loot year killed no fewer than 42,000, and of the Caftan dietriot 21,000. FIFTY YEARS REECE Prophecy by the Fast Mester aft. Cecile Lodge, F. and A. IL There is a Mosconi° lodge in New York' which holde its meetings in the day time. It is known among the fraternity as the afternoon lodge," or the "matinee lodge,", and its xnernbership is chiefly made up of actors, rausiciane, morning newspaper men arid others whose °emotions oblige them to be on duty at night. This lodge, the designation of which is St. Cecile, No, 568, F. and A. Me cele- brated itEl 251h anniversary on June 171h in the comrnandery room of the Masonic temple, A large audience of members and friends were most agreeably entertatned by a niaraloer of actors, gingen and instal. mentalists, including Fred. Solomon and Geo. Olnai of the Casino, the "County Fair" quartette, Geo. W. Morgannhe organ. iet, and others. When the programme was rather more than half finished, Mr. Charles H. Govan, a former master of the lodge, was presenten to the audience, and gave a most unexpected address. He began by saying that twenty. five years Was quite long enough to deter- mine the vitality of an organization, and that it wail reasonable to suppose that St. Cecile Lodge was destined to an existence of great duration and vigor. "1 have no doubt," he said, " that fifty years from now, in this same indestructible edifies, there will be a celebration by the members or this lodge of the magnificence of which we can form only a faint conception. I expect to be present on that occasion (Laughter.) It has often been said that sickly peeple live the longest if they are not too sickly. They are prudent ana temperate because they have to Isa. Therefore, as I have not enjoyed robust health for twenty years, and never will again, I expect, by reason of the extra. ordinary precautions I will have to take, that I will be alive when all my big red- faced brethren of middle age have died off from congested livers, apoplexy, fatty de- generation and other ailments peculiar to thou who live not wisely but too well. I will ask you to imagine that the 75th an- niversary has arrived, and that an old gentleman -not a lean and alippered pan. taloon," but a tolerably well-preserved old chap -by the name of Govan is brought forward and introduced as the oldest living Past Master of St. Cecile lodge. I will pull myself together and my something in this strain: " Brethren, -I have jast arrived from the great metropolis -Chicago where I have been making a visit to some of my grand- children and great grandchildren, who are settled there. Worshipful Brother Griffith, of this lodge, accompanied me to the sta- tion, and as the electrio. express was about to start, not more than six hours since his last words were : Tell the brethren Of St. Cecile that although I cannot be with them in the flesh I will be with them in the spirit. Tell them also that I will address them for a few minutes through the micro telephone.' Fifty years ago it took me nearly a third of the time to reach this epot from the eastern section (then called Brooklyn) as it did to -day to come from Chicago, and as I overlooked this beautiful oity from the top of the tunnel tower, at the western end of this street, before descending the chute, and recalled the smoke -enshrouded desert of brick and mor- tar known as New York in the past, I re- joiced that I had been spared to see thio happy time. I can appreciate the change as you young men cannot. You have never known what it was to live in a city with so few parks; that the only playground for moat children was the streets ; where, in- stead of the beautiful elevated sidewalks, with all the retail stores on the same level, with roadways underneath, and the ground floors of the business district given up to wholesale traffic, horses, carriages, carts and pedestrians, bales, barrels and boxes were all jumbled together on the dusty ground, and you had to risk your life at every cloning; where, instead of the silent electric motor, which takes you wherever you want to go at a rate of five miles a minute, yon had to depend on a horrible, nerve -wearing arrangement on stilts, called an elevated railroad, which roared like a leviathan while it crept like a snail, and on which you shivered in winter and stewed in summer. "This is now a city of homes, but in my young days it was largely a city of hovele. Since the government first took the trans- portation business out of the hands of rtis• °ally corporations it has gradually become possible for every workingman to• sit under his own roof -tree, for it now costs no more either in time or money to ride twent miles than it formerly did to ride on mile, and the portions of Westchester Long Island and Eat Jersey lying within a radius of twenty miles from this spot, which were once eolitary and desert -like, now blossom like the rose. In my early days hundreds of thousands of strong men tramped the country looking vainly for somebody to hire them. I have seen women picking up rage and paltry odds and ends in the street for a livelitioom I have seen little children barefooted on November nighte selling papers or begging pennies. I have seen swarms of them at work in dingy factories when they ought to have been at play. I have seen sick men at work, when they ought to have been in bed because they could not afford to stop. All these evilwere rife in my time, because of a system of taxation whieh choked production at the foundation head and permitted a few idlers to grow rich at the expense of their toiling breth- ren. " Meanwhile the people, though daily conscious of 0$ great wrong, were sorely confneed by the sophistries of the press and the .pulpit, both of which tried to de- lude us into the belief that we were a free end happy people, amid the clamor of sooialism, anarchism, nationalism and I know not how many other isms, each of which was warranted to be a sure cure for all the ills afflicting the body politic. I am thankful that the people had at length the wisdom to see that the remedy for all the evils besetting them lay in a simple amend- ment of the laws by which the products of labor were released from taxation, and all government revenue wets derived from a single tax on the rental value of land. No words of mine can de. scribe the tnagioal change which followed when the incubus of land monopoly was lifted from our civilization. The good remits were so pronounced and umnistek. able that our example epread like wildfire throughout the world. Natural opportani. ties being everywhere set free, no man suffered from enforced idleness. Land speculation was abolished, for the reason that holden could no longer afford to keep land idle, but had to build, cultivate or sell. Thi a caused such a demand for labor that wages went uplike a rooket and have stayed tip ever since. The working and businesa day was gradrially Phortened from ton or twelve houra to six --from 9 solo. to 3 p.m.t-beeause every labokmaving invert - thin, indeed Of serving to still further enrich the land owners, went to lighten th burden of life for all mankind, "Bi. Cecile, aa you all knew, *as once eg no n men e an afternoon lodge. Now, the only differ- ence between this and other lodges ie the* Vire meet two boure later -et 9 in the evening instead of at 7, Theatrical and musical performances being now given between the home of 5,30 and 8.30, eaten and musioiane are emended to attend lodge, ii.tonntiotghtehereerovbwlifehgds °col imov) ttThwejaimtel tel vdeel sea Joao rune; heaanne opoil their beautiful complexions over well. mg Bt01788 and wasli:'tubs, or to roughen their fingers withertehes, Mainers and Oalle. tiO BOO, washing powders, or to burn, themselves up With kerosene oil; for all, laundering is 110W a0110 as if by Magi() at the public laundries, hygienic knowledge ha a become BO wideepread and the race has ece gained in vigor that raw food has , largely taken the place of cooke& and tea and coffee are no longer a daily necessity ; every house has its own electric light plant and its own toe machine ; manufacturing and culinary operations are now conducted by meane OV water gee, which is far cheaper tban coal , used to be, and a roaring lire is now started by eimply turning a gas -cook,. which at ouoe tune on the gas and ignites it. The whiskey amines° has ceased to be profitable ; the old prohibition party found out long ego that the chief cause of intem. peranoe WU poverty -that men drank to forget their misery -but when poverty was abolished Caere was comparatively few troubles left to be drowned in the flowing bowl. Drunkenness is now considered a diagram, because there ie DO 0=80 for it. Inventions have not proved an unmixed blessing, however, for us MaBOnS, for since the wonderful improvements in fly. ing maohined we are obliged, during our meetinge, to have a tyler at every window. ‘, The beautiful and spaoious parks and commodious dwellinge which distimmish the east central quarter of this inand occupy ground once the eite of wretched tenement houses, where neither decency ihe nor comfort was poseible and where chin dren died like murriam emitten sheep. The struggle for existence) 18 nO longer the des- perate battle it once was, in which men grew prematurely old and sank into the grave before their time ; business and pro- fessional jealousy no loeger array men against each other; standing armies, so long a standing menace to the peace of nations, have been disbanded to engage in peaceful pursuits, and the lesson of universal brotherhood set for mankind one hnndred and fifty years ago by Brother Robert Burns has been so well learned that, really, my brethren, I do not see that there is much further nee for our order, except to preserve well loved traditions and to promote sociability," Englishmen. What do I like best in England? askin Bab, The men. I like them because they are real, and by real I mean looking in pretence. I like them because they nre big and• healthy -looking. I like them because they wear their clothes as if they grew on them, and not as - it they were assumed by the assistance of a shoe -horn. I like them because they realize their own rights and insiet upon having them. I like them because, while they are polite, . they do not make you think it is a sugar ioing like that on pound cake. I like them because they like children, dogs and horsee. I like them because they can row a boat, ride a horse and drive a four-in-hand well, or else not at all. I like them because they are big and strong looking -I prefer a brute to an effeminate men. I like them because they like American women, -New York World. Gorgeous Parasols. A contemporary has this to say Inc the - parasol efferirg : " The sun umbrella, or as the French say, the en bus cas, is in.. danger of being displaced by the parasol. The former is the most useful article, as it serves a double purpose, Chiffon and crepe • and other flimsy stuffs of gossamer light- ness are the materials run on for para. sols. Some of the most gorgeous are flounced all the way up. Artificial flowers ornament the handles. These are rooted to the stick iteelf, and don't get out of order by the heat or preesure of the hand. Some of the newest parasols are entirely veiled with butterfly net. They are wonder- fully pretty." Nevertheless,the red sun ura. brella has been the seller " par excellence" of the spring season, and at the present writing is having the strongest kind of summer resort popularity. Curious Lore of the Bog. In Buffalo, when anybody shows a trace of hoggisbnese in the street cars, or does. anything wicked on the etreete, they say he is a Canadian. In St. Paul they lay it on the Minneapolitans ; and when anybody in Chicago starts to paint the town people shake their heads pityingly and eay he ire from St. Louis. So in Philadelphia, who. ever mime a row in that peaceful hamlet is said to be from Jersey, just as in New York the victim of the bunoo steerer and. visitors who show themselves delightfully fresh and green are said to be jerseymen. " To Jersey" means, in Philadelphia and among New Yorkers whoknow Philadelphia customs, to go on a epree, to the theatre, or on a vacation in which each man pays hia own expenses. -New York Sun. What Causes Divorces. Judge (to married couple who want a divorce) -What began this trouble between yon? Wife -It began, your honor, in a dinner. sion as to whether the moon is inhabited. Now, I maintain it is. Husband -It's an error. There is no, atmosphere -- Judge -Get out of this court you pair of lunatics ! What difference tian it make to you whether the moon is inhabited or not? -Boston, Courier. Count Tolstoi grows more decidedly crank every day. During a recent filmset he refused all medical assistance, declaring . his belief that it was impious to inter. fere with designs of Providence. Al Asbury Park there is one bathing. place on the beach for white people and another for colored people. They all, however, bathe in the same ocean. Asbury Park is in New Jersey; not in South Carolina. Tete Suez Canal is a monument to the skill and energy of that distinguished Frenchman, M. De Lassoed, and the Panama Canal is a standing token of his vaulting ambition unfulfilled. The latter canal has already swallowed up more than $225,000,000, many years of work and many thousands of lived. The Isthmus is is mass of wrecked machinery and plena. The ooramittee from France, jut home from an examination of the work, report the need of twenty years' thrice and 1,737,. 000,000 francs to complete the °anal. They add that considering the time required, the interest as the work proceeds and tho general financial °bargee, at least 3,000,- 000,000 frame will be necessary. A penny Raved is A penny earned; but the, ocket.pieee you carry ten yeare socunitie