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The Exeter Advocate, 1891-1-22, Page 2The cadet Rnd of rdan. (13y J, Ctletigew.) _When enotine flritics disa"reo antre MAMA coot end—wilt that should be, Tell tied them there sae mace oleo Wi' warly tricks, Tlka,,t honest Men will fail to gie Sic lads their licks, The deinmmente fouk, sire or son, Wile's aim is virtue's path to shim, Thae take a' earthly, on the run, 13y way o' gam, Wlaile 'sonnies thus sae foully won Gio little pain, The righteous lad, wha's self is king, Will ou 601110 pillar highly hIng Efis,naorals, that their honk may bring Wi' canine airt Theineetilu', that he seems to ding, Ben to WO By'some sheep shanks it's ta'on, for grautit, TOIre reapect the sidor's wantit, Withoot it, man's a creature stuntit, Like runts o' kali, While poortiths ige lire a'oso, aye hauntit, Aft tap for sale, If worth's the standard 0' the carle, Be be a king, prince, (lake or earl, Bud his peer, a loosorno poarl, Illd oot o' sicht By PovertY, wha'. gruesome dirl Ho still mann fecht. Thojclovou elute, tlao' amply hiddn', Will whylos peep thro' at nature's biddiu', Tho' shiraiu' helms on that lute ridden To some high throne, The hutnble wights inire hae stridden, Au' warslt ou What Emirs Meat3 preachin' an' their pray& ? Their ploadia' au' their penance payto', If self the sinfu' finds the Way in Deepdoou the heart. Au' guid resolve, it's aye gaiusayin', WI' drivlisb airt. Should instice in the balance summon The medium man, or average wongat, To oast accounts o' a' things human, Alas I alas! Few wad be farad to rank in common Wi' time that pass. But that's nae plea, tho' plans miscarry, For you an' me to peen au' worry Owre some deep sheugh, au' there to bury The wrang'd remains Olconscience, strangled iu tho hurry For pr. -sent gains. Na'na, ma man, COale let us gather The sense o' richt in coils thogither, An' spirg a pirnie for a tether, That man's career May win:the sanction o' s brither In eke speore. That than wile ars sae sairnedriven, By poortith for the morsel given, May eke the !nevem' o' a livm' In this great plan, An'iwife an' weans cry oot to heaven, God bless the man. "LAST CARRY LOVERS." A Tale of the American Revolution. In January the disturbing new of Dun- more's invasion of Aaeomes County, with a host of attendent rumors, provoked a wild state of exoiteneent. Two companiee of minute -men were called, marching from the village with flying colors and drams beating to meet the British, who, it wae said, were advanoing upon Kingston. It was then that Betty's heart failed her. Where was Tom 2 He would never remain on the fleet if there were active service on the shore, and the mexiety consequent upon -the possible results broke finally into her former dreamy security. The winter had been very mild, naviga- tion was still open, and a light fall of snow lay on the ground, when, one windy morn. ing something occurred that caused a break of excitement in the plantation routine. Betty in the store -room weighing out /lour with her sleeves rolled up, heard the sound of voices and negroes shouting with laughter, end stepped to the long window through whioh the cold sunlight streamed in on the well-atored shelves. Coming front toward the village across the lawn, surrounded by a crowd of negroes and hslf- grown boys, was a ourions-looking man—s peddler, ae she could see by his pack. A brown great -coat flapped about his feet, revealing buckskin breeches and gaiters. The lower part of his face was hidden by a heavy growth of beard; and a cooked hat adorned with a black cockade, mole as the patriots wore at their militia meetings, was pulled far over the only feature plainly to be seen—the tip of a red nose and bright greenish eyes. That he was something of a clown was evident by the bursts of mirth, and in his gestures in exhibiting hie pack, which was bright with gay handkerchiefs and ribbons. " Here," he cried," I have got everything to adorn, everything to beautify, and every- thing useful, beside a many whimsical and odd conundrums, Both as love -potions and charms to ward off bad look." "Good Lnd " simpered a pert negro wench and house servant. "Yes, by my magic I know your name. Symphronia, get your mistreee to buy this strine of blue beads, and you shall marry Mr. Rozier's Sam next corn-hneking." There was a murmur of a,dnoiring wonder at the stranger's supernatural knowledge, and Symphronia elurik, frightened, into the background. " Here," he continued," I have setroenet ribbons, gauze ribbons, snuff.boxes, 'ker• chiefs becoming to dark.compleoted people, wonders frona China, Peru, and Phila. delpby." "Po' de Lord, maims 1 You been dere too? " "Yee, I have been to Philadelphy, and eeen the place where they change the moons. Seen it? Zeunds ! I'd 'a brought away some bits of the old moons for charms, but they cost too dear." " Heve ye ever seen an orstrioh ? " queried a white lad, Assurance could go no farther; it was time for credulity to take a breathing spew. " Rabbit me, d'ye think I'm a witch? No, I've never seen any o' them ere, but I've seen their tracks." Catching sight of Betty at the window, he celled ont : Yee, and I've got some thinge that wonld suit the pretty lady too, if she'll let rne allow them to her." Betty, whose glance saw deeper then ex. ternale, told him to come in, and by a gest. nre dispersed the open-mouthed group. Entering the room, and sefe from peering eyes, the peddler took off hie hat, revealing the rebravvd, pockmarked visage of Tom's faithful factotum Peregrine. " Zounds - saving your ladyship's. pres. enoe—but I had a tight shave of it, Mies. Who should I see, as 1 out across the tohscoo field to keep from going throngh the village, but Mr. Will Ringgold riding along the road. He took a sharp look at me, and I trembled, for fear of being known through all these fol. de-rols, for the Regulatore are keen as bounds after any poor fellow, and they'd 'a give me a suit of tar and feathers in e jiffy for a British arty, which there is no denying his worship, Lord Danmore, has been sending up here off and on. • Cete on gossong been droll,' sea he, for I understand French perfectly—being in that country two weeks, serving as vally to Sir Franoie Atibton—eo I rinderstemd his ferrite lingo, and lueky for Mr. Torn I did too. 'Du, memo,' see. I, as nstars1 es you please. • ,Te uis un pauvre diviele de gossong franpais! Get out, you varlet,' ewe he, laughing; you're no more Frensh than "Peregrine," said Betty, authoritatively, "is Mr. Tom here --at Lord's Gift? Tell me." "Hist " he whispered, looking around as if the preservmjars and °rookery were amt. bushes for a black cockade or a beiliffie etaff, "Pray, mite, speak more quiet; for if the Regal Mote and teIr. Philip Reed fonnd it out, they'd be after hire, and then—good. bys Wellthen, miss, he is here. Thst he Iis st this minute, tired out with our ride freta Atetomac County, reefing on some elute flitheis as this, safe hidden in hie metheett room before we got off tmuight." " Tell mo all about it, Will I eee him ?" "Well, iniEle, you must let me begin where I left off, aud tell yon my own way, for I never was oee o' them as could begin at the finisla and go beck to the Mart. No, mise, I leave alwaye to be up with the hounde at the first " Hoop -le!' and in at the death." Betty wee trenibling with inspetience, bat she was too dignified to allow a sub- ordinate to see her imitation, which found distretotion in dipping her hand into a bag of beetle and letting them slip through her ax fingere, while Peregrine eontinued his rambling and loquacious narrative. " Well, miss, all the time I was standing there, he was eyiiag me sharp enough, and I VMS bowing and smilieg as Frenohy as poesible, eaying, 'Ori, mom,' and 1 ,Te ne comprend pas votre parley.' Then he tossed me half a crown and rode en, and a lot of village folk came runniug after me. Yon see, we oon't went them to find out nothing before to night, because to -night we are going to roe- over from Lord'a Gift to just beyoed the point, vehere there is a palmy lying in welt to carry tm down the bay to the good ship Charlotte, and there we are with sails flawing bound for England, safe and imond unleas we're landed in Davy Jones' looker, as the tare say." "Mr. Toto is going away to England 7 " Pain seemed to make Betty numb. "Have you a note or a message for me ? " "Lord hien you, miss, here it is 1 I hadn't forgotten it, and was jaet getting to thet point ; but I guess you are tired of me and my gabble, and ' enough's as good as e feast.' " Torn had written in his etiff, formal style and handwriting, of which Betty knew every peculiarity by heart. Me DEAR ElazABETEE—Peregrine has told you of our plans fur to -night. You will appreciate my deep regret at'being unable to Bee you in person, to urge with that elm quence which a fervent adoration inspires, your consent to the only possible course by which we can ever be united. " Prithee, be to -night at 7 o'clock at the landing under the pine tree, ready to go with me to safety, far from this roisera.ble country. At midnight, God willing, we will arrive at the Charlotte, where we can be married immedisktely, and where you will meet, from the ladies on board, with that kindness and attention whioh must ever be at the command of my dearest life. Fear not, sweetheart, I am etrong and will take thee and care for thee always. I await the moment with impatience ; I count the tardy hours intervening before the &lel blissful moment which, after cruel separation, will bring thee forever to the awake of thine own Betty rose; her face was transfigured by love and hope as she stood in the sunlight, her hair shining like burnished gold, the note hidden in her neckerchief, nestling like a bird over her heart. "1 will come," ehe said. Atter giving Peregrine a glass of black- berry cordial, ehe bade him steal off softly to the lending while no one was around, and then, when he was quite away, she did a very silly and natural thing—took out the note and kissed every line. Betty had no idea of not obeying one to whom ehe had given her allegiante, or of setting at defiance this stronger power that had eaid to her "come." What was before her ehe could not divine, but the future was to be with Tom. She felt that awekened eense of a new duty, of the need of carving out one's individual destiny, which strengthens many women who have before existed mildly obedient to early influences, causing them to leave the peaoefal past and venture forth with the loved one into an untried existence. Sad and agitated at leaving her home and Miss Clem to what seemed the dreary round of the old lite, the familiar surroundings and environment which had become part of herself gained new interest as seen for the last time. The afternoon wore on quickly and sombrely. Gray °loads gathered and scurried up from the western horizon of dark water, fleeting over the low, dead land with vertig lights end shadowe that seemed 5,10,475 by the rising wind. Betty eat in her owe room, colleoting into a small bundle the few articles the was to carry, meeting with reluctant eyes at every moment mementoes of the past, wraiths of time that was 570 more, that filled her with tender regret. Here was a broken half- penny which she and Torn had exchanged before he went to England; here, folded in withered leaves width she and Bab had gathered from the blooming rose.bnehes that were now sere and trembling in the blast, was the neckerchief where the lilies had lain and Tom's lips had rested. Never before had the silence seemed more profound in the gloomy,still house. Ont aidefrom the yard carne the well.known sounds of every -day labor, one of the men sawing wood and Ringing, and Illammy Lar vociferously scolding the pickaninnies. Yer Absalom, yer little black Satan, wat I ten yer 'boat gveine ter de rabbit gums dis mornin' ? Ef yer fergits it ter morrer mornin' (muttered and in- coherent threats). To.morrow morning, Betty thought, Absalom world reluctantly draghis toasted black limbs from the fire, and sally forth to the rabbit gnros down by the walnut -tree; bat where would she be 2 "Tar 'Mandy, hang ap dem dish•olonte, an' tote Miss Clem die lettle snack er lunch, an' tell her I done tole yer ter fatale it. How kin yer 'spec 'yo mistress, as is got more larnin' in her little finger 'an others is got in they whole corporosities, ter 'sport her isistence 'thont vittles an' drink." Poor Aunt Clem A pang of compunc. tion seized Betty. She would see her once again, and for that end she intercepted 'Mandy in the hall, taking frons her & waiter on which Mammy had placed some tempting dainty. She seldom dared intrude upon her annt's solitude, and she trembled as she knocked on the heavy oloaed door and heard Miss Clam's command to enter. CHAPTER XIV. Before her was a scene as impressive as Albrecht Darer's allegorical "Melancholia." The ourtaine of one window were drawn close, and beyond a space of gloom watt an area of semi -darkness, lit by two candles in eilver candlesticks thet stood among e pile of booka littering a table, casting a jaun- diced light upon her aunt, seated on a high stool, her hair escaping from a peaked night-cap over it purple woollen wrapper. Thie wrapper, disparting at the waist, revealed it petticoat spotted with ink, a pair of yellow stockings, and elippers half on and half off. In the background the white auditing of the bed rose ghostly, and between them the two green, glaring eyes of Tib, the cat, shone like twin refleotione of the -candles, Theee were the salient points of the piotnrer but through the gloom, on the table, on the the floor, oa her annt's lap, ehe saw books, books, book& In the gray light l3etty permed, the waiter in kter hand, holding the door half ajar. "Come in, child, arid abut the door, for the wind thief; with tho waning day, and the night Will be wild. Be meted and be . ellen* while I compare this passage front 1111101WWW0WW1011011.1011WWISOteet Seneca with one from $ir Pritnois Bacon, which it OoBsly resembleth itt meaning." man en one age finds a truth, and another later confirms it, thereby gaining the oredie of new mattere and novelty. Chaucer, who is to be greatly oommeuded as a poet speaking of the truth of nature without hidden needling or perilous oheoaration, Pays " • Out or old botee in goodtoy Oenaetbah this new lotowledge that men lerot " Betty was seated within the shaded of the sanctum, watching her attune dishev- elled head bending over it folio on her knee, while her eager, black eyes and bony fore- finger eosnried the page with ' that avidity tvizioh, be it gluttony of mind or body, is tetizifui to the eight. Meanwhile the shut- ters rattled, the grayness beoatne deeper, end a eense of dread of the present and sue• penee for the future chilled the poor ohild's Scan. " Well, how wage the med world? "add, at length, her aunt; how goes on the puny equebble which the Biliputians on this side of the paddle they call the Atlantic have Scan waging with the Liliputians on the other? For, truly, they do all seem trifling, and no larger than ante, wheu compared to the immensity of ewe. Some affirm that there ie no absolute standard of size, all things taking their meaeure by comparison. Thi e enn that I have so gazed all that all trivial matters are as naught to me, is the enn of knowledge—the light of that eubtle fluid whioh some hold to be the soul of man and the prime mover of life, which is bound neither by the outer corporeal coating nor by the artificial reckoning of time, ea that those that possees it live in eternity with the departed. Still it is necessary that there be this outer posting of matter, tor, without the brain, how would come the charming phanteeies engendered thence De nihilo nihiluin. Hath Jed fetched home the load of fodder I bid him purchase from Sampson and stored it in the west loft " She followed this with close and shrewd questions as to farm and village matters, answered by Betty promptly and initiate°. torily "Now get you gone, child. I have more to do than to prate with you." Betty rose, but lingered a moment. "Aunt," she said," is there anything I can do to pleaee yon? Have I been lacking in any way ? " "Talent! No. What do you lack—a gown or any gew-gaws 2 " Something intense in the girl's' manner, a new pathos in the young face, may have reached her mystically befogged senses. "What is it ? Are you pining for that young Rozier ? Have you the lover's mei. ancho ly 2 Wait till I find Burton's'Anat- omy,' and read you the symptoms. Et in Area dia ego, which, being altered into Eng. !Leh for the benefit of your ignorance, meanae I, too, have been in a fool's plat - diem' Tut, girl, I mean no herrn. Some. times I deem that I may be wrong, nay mad, to be thue away from humanity; bat I cannot tell. No man can see himself. Just as I may never gaze, save in a glees, upon theists features that you see plainly, until my disembodied spirit hover above my olay, so shall I never see the truth of my- self, my nature and being, till I may be dead; and I ratty be all wrong and other people right. Bat whet would you? Swift died saying,' / ant what I " The pnrase seemed to fascinate her. She repeated it over and over with deepairing emphasis," I am what I am. I ara what I am." Then, as if stung to madnese by the tbought, she sprang up, her eyes flashing, seized a candlestick, and cried out " Begone ! Leave me to myself, that I cannot eecape from. Begone, I say 1" Roneed by the noise, the oat jumped upon the table, her back arched and tail buthy Betty rushed into the hall and left theirs standing thus, the woman and the oat; and how long they stood there, or what they did afterward in that lonely roora,'neither you nor I will ever know. It was now quite dark. As ahe entere the door of her own room, the clock str , six. She lighted a candle from the fire and went to the window. The wind was rieing, howling around the cornere of the house, away frorn over the water where Toni was winning to come to her, tossing with uneasy motion the bare branches of the catalpa tree against the disk of the moon, skirting the bright edge of a etorm wrack. One of the negroes bearing a lantern reeved like a Jack-o'-lantern through the shs.de of the grove, aoross the snow-covered, moonlit lawn, toward the friendly glow of the village lights. How well Betty knew the life those lights represented I The reddish gloat° to the right was from the tavern where Mr. Jessup, the joiner, old Billy Wright, and a aoore of other convives fuddled themselves with punch and Mambo and declaimed politics. A little nearer was Mies Staoy's modest lamplight, softened by muelin ourtaine, be- hind the safe intrenchment of which Miss Stacy, with Norval barking at her heels, and Judy acting as hindrance, was making up the inevitable Thursday night baton of yeast bread. Here and there, eeparated by tracts of darkness, were the other home lights that she knew so well, and would never again see. Many other winter even- ings she had watthed the same scene, secure in the warmth of her own cosy room, where she had slept since she was a little child, and failed to realize what the night and cold meant. But now she must go out into it, face the wind, and walk over the snowy fields alone, to meet Tom. That thought strengthened her. It was time to go. She tied on her long, warm mantle, and the hood she had worn tho evening when they had walked home from Miss Stacy's. Her face in the mirror looked at her with eyes wide end stertled. She picked np the bundle and gazed around. Good- by to the room, good -by to the soft white bed that bad sheltered and held her like a friend, She knelt down by it and prayed the eimple prayer of her childhood, as trusting in the goodneee of "Oar Father" as when, a little child, ehe had knelt there with bare, chubby feet. With sobs choking San throat she went to the door, looked in once, and then was tip -toeing down the steps and opening the heavy hall door. Canine name up, whining with delight. She patted his curly head, looked into his eyes, said," Be still, old fellow," and closed the door gently behind her. She was away from the house, from Mies Clem, and the dead lying in the graveyard. The deed was done, and, as she fled over the snow, her shadow stretched far in the moonlight. She crept close to the hedges, passing, the coartere, and fleeted 'over the &las toward the water. Her thought was of Tom's note, hidden, touching her like a carer's, and of Toro's words "Fear not, Bweetheart : I am strong, and will take thee and care for thee always." She was down now, by the landing, and overhead the pineattee strained and shaded her. There wag tine to breathe; her breeth turned to vapor in the cold air. She shivered end drew her mantle closer to ithield her from the wind that swept the white land earwig the ice•orusted shore, wectohing to see the boat rut forth. Between her and the friendly stars the wind roamed, bearing the two voices that Usa wea wont to distinguish, each now alter - tutting and now dominant. There was one, a low howl of sullen despair, tend the other a ehrill, impish laughter. Idaybe when she died God would let her he oits of the Stier spirits to away the topmost branoltes of the fared treee; or to roam eround the homes she kuew,.eoeing %wet room, and sighing to helot Hi to. TOM floated in the firelighl and lamplight. Ifere wee where they had onoe stood, she and Tom together. She (mild Bee hie few now, with the bright, quizzical eyes and grave smile, wheri he had first seemed to belong to her. Why did he not come What could have happened? Aorose the water ehe heard shouts, a pistol shot, D1050 01000, and a boat put out from the oppo- site shore. With a fearful anxiety she clasped her hands over her beating heart, and stood down on the etep, blown by the planing wind, waiting for the boat to draw nearer to see him este, loving her. Over the water it came quiokly, but in the meonlight ehe could see but one man, Bested. Which was it, where was Tom ? In the bottom lay a dark form, and Pere- grine wee rowing. "Jump in, quirt's, for God's flake! Miss l3etty "; nearing the steps as ehe jumped in, end then pushing off, breaking through the thin ioe eplintera that were forming at the water's edge. "Take Mr. Tornio head on your lap. It's the d—d Regulators, saving yer presenqe. Somebody saw rue and prated. Just as we got to the landing they sprang from the bctehes, end Mr. Philip Reed dazed Tom They sodded. and Mr. Tom shook him off; but the hound knocked him over into the boat, and he struok his head, and I think heie stunned. They haven't a boat, but they'll be around by the shore soon. Curse 'ern " She did not know, did not hear, only con. scions of the dear head that lay on her lap; of the pale features in the wan light, as the boat struggled with the eurging waves. "Is he dead? Quick! What think you ? Tom, oh, Tom, it is 1—Betty." "Naw, he's not deed—just bit on the head and stunned -like. But he'll be froze with the cold." Then Peregrine applied all hia energy to rowing and guiding the boat through the rough water. Tom's face wee very cold, and looked pinched and rigid. Betty unfastened her mantle and spread it over him, feeling nei ther cold nor eenee of danger aa she brooded over him. "Have they killed you, oh, my love Sweet, epeak to me. Thou art not dead, oh, love, tny love! Tom, it is I, who belong to thee—I—Betty." There came a half smile on his face in She moonlieht. Consoionsness Beamed re- turning. Bending low over hia lips, which moved, she caught the words: My wound is deep, I fain would sleep; Take thou—' "Kies rue—sweetheart." Wite her arms around his neck, the bent San lips to his and breathed out her ttoul. "Great God!" oried Peregriee, "she struck What the boat struck Betty never linew, for in an instant znoonlight and all things were blotted out in the oblivion of the chill. ing, dark water& Joined in that lad embrace, they wan- dered forth—who knows ?—as Betty had said," out into the oold shades together " ; while that whioh had been young and fair of them was washed ashore, to be laid on the cliff evhere the garden they had lived in and loved blooms to rosy, nneeen sweetnees, and changes to mutated decay above them —all that remains of the joy that was once theirs. All are au one now, roses and lovers, Not known of the cliffs and the flolds and the sea, Net a breath of the time that has been hovers In the air now soft with a summer to be, Not a breath than there sweeten the seasons hereafter Of the flowers or the Jovare that laugh now or weep, When, as tl3ey that are free now of weeping and laughter We shall sleep. Burned the Wrong Man. A. thief of Ningbein, near Ningpo (Prom ince of Che Kiang, China), called Lai -Vow (sciald head) wet) robbing a house in the village of Chengkiatnan, when he wee heard by an old man left in charge of the place, the owner and his wife being at a party. The caretaker went up stairs to look, bat found no one, for the intruder had hidden hitaself in the rafters of the roof. The watchman then proceeded to treat hineself to a solitary pipe, and by some miechence set fire to the house. The build- ing burned while the old man slept on, and the thief came down again to finish hie work, but was alarmed at seeing the flames , and was making the beet of hie way off, whten he was caught by the villagers. Unfortunately for him, the fire spread until 17 hate were burned down. The lynoh law practiced in Chinese villages is very severe upon incendisriee, and in the minds of the villagers there seemed no doubt that in ausinow they had caught one redhanded. His appeals for justice or mercy met with no response. They tied him hand and foot with straw ropee, poured lamp oil on the poor wretch, and hurled him into the burning matte, where death after a few minutes put an end to his terrible suffer- inge.—London Telegraph. Fixing the Responsibility. " Sojourner " in the Chioago Herald says : If a scalper's office was made as odious as a jank shop,the receiver of stolen goods, or a gambler's den, then, perhaps, people would be ashamed to buy scalped tickets and deferred from starting a journey on them. People are not afraid to cheat a railroad, and you hear of men who would be ashamed to steal money or articles and would not defraud any one else, boast how they " beat the conductor " on a oar out of a ride. They do not say " stolen a ride " or " not pay their fare," but coin a subterfuge for having " defrauded a rail. read company." The public are to blame ; they encourage and connive at trend and are ready to improperly get as cheap or free pissage, but some one psys more for those who pay less than what is sufficient for working the roada and the dividends. It iVmanifest that it is right for ell to pay ecinally, and every one who travels should lend a helping hand to bring that about. A;Prominent Doctor Accused of meadow! IA gentleman recently made a startling aMusation in the hearing of the writer. Sad he, "1 firmly believe tied Dr.---, in- tentionally or unintentionally, killed my we. He pronounced her complaint—Con- stinption--monrable. She accepted the verdict, and—died. Yet eines then I have heard of at least a dozen cases, quite as far adyanced as hers, that have been cured by Di. Pioneer; Golden Medical Diecovery. Her life might have been saved, for Corn sunption is not incurable." Of course it is not The " Discovery " will remove every trani of it, if taken in time and need faith- fully. Consumption is a diseasci of the blodd—a scrofulous affection—and the "Decovery " strikes at the root of the evil. For all oases of weak lungs °pitting of bleed, severe lingering coughe and kindred ailrc'ents, it ie tu eovereign remedy. 1 • Tie Korai lyroph patients at the Toronto General Hoepital are progeessing satiefam *OM?. Si Riohard Cartwright addressed a larg meeting 55 Harridan last entening. Bron Georges Hanemann, an eretwhile femme prefeot of the Efeine, is dead. THE SEALS IN CERT. Britain and Canada Moro the U. S Supremo Court. THEY ISE FOR A DECISION On the Jurisdiction of the United States in Behring Sea. The Case of the sealer Savwurd—A 'Test Case—The Court Surprised—The Argu- ment to be Beard in Two Weeks. A. Washington despatch says : A few moments bezore 12 o'clook to -day one of the meet eminent lawyers of the United States, Mr, Joseph A. Choate, of New York, entered the Supreme Court room and placed beside him e gripsack filled with briefs. A few minutes later he was addreeeing the court irk support of a petition which ceased every member of that bench to look on the coun- sellor in surprise. The Attorney.General of the United States, who eat beside him, listened with amazement. Mr. Choate proposed by a petition, which he desired to have the Supreme Court grant him, to sue for a writ of prohibition to bring directly before the court the question of the Sebring Sea, together with ali the controvereies re. hang to it which are now pending be. tween the United Statee and Great Britain. Moreover, Mr. Choate spoke on behalf of a British subject and also on behalf of the Government of Great Britain. The British subject is Mr. Thee Henry Cooper, owner and claimant of the British ethooner Say ward, which was reoently seized in Alaeka on the ground of violating the laws of tbe United States relative to the catching of seals in Behring Sea. The appearance ot the British Gov- ernment was entered by Sir John Thompson, Her Brittanio Majesty's Attorney•General for Canada, end the entry of appearance was contained in the petition which closed ' with these words: "And the said Sir. John Thompson, K. C. M. G., Her Britannia Majesty's Attorney.General for Canada, most respectfully informs thie honorable court that the fent that this, his sugges- tion, is presented with the knowledge and approval of the Imperial Government of Great Brit ain will be brought to the atten- tion cf the court by conneel duly thereunto authorized by Her Britannic, Majesty's representative in the United States." The entry of appearance direct for Thomae Henry Cooper was made by Mr. Choate for the petitioner, and the entry of appearance for the Attorney General of Canada was made by Mr. Calderon Carlyle, one of the most noted Moat attorneys of Washington. DAY Frat AnernisiENT Finn. In view of what has been recently trans piring between the State Department and the Britieh Foreign Office it need not be said that the prooeedings which it was at- tempted to inetitnte in the Supreme Court to -day ceme in the nature of an extraordin- ard surprise The court indicated their surprise by giving Mn. Choate distinctly to understand that they did not receive the petition. The Attorney -General of the United States, Mr. Miller, said that the matter was such a earprise to him that he desired most earnestly that the ocurt ehoulci grant some delay in order that, as the representative of the Govern- ment, ho oorad consider the matter. Mr. Choate said that, in view of what was prooeeding in another branch of the Gov- ernment, the Supreme Court of the United States might not care at present to von- sider it, and for that reason he wae willing that there should be some delay. The court decided that in two weeks from to day the argument of the counsel would be heard as to whether or not permission should be given to the British Government on behalf of the British subjeet aforesaid, to file this petition. At that time the Attorney. General of the United Suttee will undoubtedly be prepared to decide on the course of the United States. If this peti- tion shall be granted the whole question of the claim of United States jurisdiction in Behring Sea will be transferred to the Suprema Court. Tun cAsE OE THE SATIVARD. The circumstances of the seizure of this vessel are as follows: On the 95h of July, 1887, as set forth in the brief of Mr. Choate, the schooner W. P. Sayward, a British vessel duly registered and doom mented as snob, and having her home port at Victoria, in the Province of Britiet Columbia, commanded by one George R. Ferry, a British alibied as captain and master thereof, was lawfully and peaceably sailing on the high seas, to wit, in latitude 54 0 43 north; longitude 167 51 west, 59 miles from any land whatsoever, and then being 59 miles northwest from Cape Cheer- ful, Oanalaska Island, upon waters between Ounalaska and the Prybyloff Islands in Behring Sea. Here the vessel was seized by the United States revenue cutter Ruth, under iestructions of the Treasury Department; was brought into the United States Court for the District of Alaska; was tried for a violation of the laws of the United States, the specific charge being that the commander of that ship had captured 34 fur seals in violation of eeotion 1,956 of the Reviaed Statutes of the United States. The vessel was libelled and the decree of the court was that the libellant was entitled to a decree and for. feiture of the British vessel, ber ta,okle, apparel, boats, cargo and furniture. The said Cooper took an appeal from the mid court of Alaska to the Supreme Conrt of the United States, and the Supreme Court of the United States dist:aimed tbie appeal on the application of the claimant, appel- lant laimeelf, on the ground not only bemuse he was advised that there is an ppeal given to the Supreme Court of the United States from the District of Alaska by the laws of the United States, lent be- cause he was slim advised that the District Court being wholly tvithout jurisdiction, its decree was and se a nullity. The legal effect of that wanld be that in consequence of the dismissal of hie appeal, according to the praotioe of the United States Supreme Court, the mandate of the latter court will isane in due coarse without further con. sideration by the court, which mandate would in ordinary course not only permit but command the District Court of Alaska to proceed to execute Re decree of forfei. tore. And it is for this reason that the said Cooper now appears before the court and prays that the court should make an order that the ordinary mandate Ethan not reach the District Conrt before a writ of prohibition, prayed for, or a rule to show why said writ 'Mould not issue, shall be served 'upon that con& TUE Mann The grounds upon whioh the British Government, speaking through the petition for this British eubjeot, bases its claim are as follows : That by the law of nations the nounteipal Iowa et es oquntry have no extra, territorial, force, and oaonot operate on, for6iim heeeele on the high lieut. it Ake i lege y wpm ble, under the publio leer, Or a foreign vessel to commie a breach tnuniolpal law beyond the limit% of the territorial juriediotion of the law -reeking States, The geizure o a foreign yeseg beyond the iimits of the new:delve' terr%,. tocial jnriedietien for breach of municipal reguletioce is not Warranted by the law of 'natione, and saoh eeizure cannot give jurisdiction to the courts of the offended country, least of all where the alleged act vets ooromitted by the foreign vessel at the IPelorreietoroifsi sitieigiareiotbioeny.OndattebvnatahneidiPaawa of natione a British veseel sailing on the high seas is not subject to any mutt - ape( law, nnlees that of Great Britain, and by the said law of nations a British ehip eo miling on the high seas ought not to he arrested, seized or detained under any color of any law of the Uilited States'. That by the law ef the United Steles, aa well as by the Jaws of netions, the Distriot Courts of the United States have not and ought not to entertain jurisdiction, or hold plea of an alleged breach upon the high seas of the munieipal laws of the United States by the captain and crew of a Blitieht vessel, and can acquire no jurisdiction by seizure of snob yeeeel on the high Noa. though she be afterwards brought by force within the territorial limite of the juriedia- tion of said court. That on 955 of July, 1887, there WEB between the Governmenta an people of Great Britain and the United States profound peaoe and friendship, which relations of peace and friendehip had happily subsisted for nearly three- quarters of a century before the said 9th uf July, 1887, and still endure to the great comfort and happineas of two kindred peen plea, eto. seceeeene nurse INTERVIEWED. Secretary Blaine was seen at his reed= denoe itmmediately after it had beat= known that the Canadian Government had filed a petition in the Supreme Court in regard to the Behring Sea controversy, and asked what he had to say in referenoe -to it. The Secretary mid he had no informa- tion yet as to the filing of any such paper& Atter carefully reading through the proofs shown him, he said: '1 This ie something that lute been threatened for tome time and of whioh I have been quite aware. /1 ie, therefore, II0 eurpriee to rae, as I had anticipated it. I heve nothing whatever to eay on the snleject now. I shall probably have something to say officielly later, and so I do not think it best to talk for publi- cation at this time. You may say, how- ever, that the department is not taken unawares." "Do you care to say whether or not thig case in the Supreme Court will have the tffeet ot transtetring the scene of the con- troversy from your depertment to the court ?" The Secretary ensiled and s tid " would prefer to remain quiet on that sub- ject just now. There will be something official to say /titer on. I atin sty that this is no coup on the part of the British Gov- ernment in the least. Good morning." The subordinate cffictale in tbe State Department, however, were wholly sur- prised at the turn whioh affairs had taken. The news of the filing of the papers in the court was news indeed to them, and calmed general wonder as to the outcome, Mr. Partridge, the solicitor of the department said that he had heard nothing whatever of the matter and cared to express no opinion of the merite of the claim. He did not think, however, that the tiling of the case would have the effect of eettling the con- troversy, and indionted that, in bis judg- ment, the department had plenty of powder left with which to fight the matter to an issue. What a Pomersst (Pa.) County Man Thinks of the invalids' Botet and Surgica.1 In- stitute, Located at Buffalo, N. T. W. H. Miller, of St()) entown, Pa., who has been suffering for nearly a quarter of et century from an affection of the kidneys, resulting in the necessity for a surgical operation, after consulting and being treated by a number of our own doctors, as well as receiving the treatment and advice of some of the most eminent professional men of the land, finally became acquainted with the above Institute, and their mode and means of treatment. After due correspondence with the World's Dispensary Medical Association, the proprietors of the Invalids' Hotel, he was induced to visit said institution. On arriving there and after being fully acquainted with the abundant means they possess, he lost no time in making the neoeseary arrangemente for the requirect treatment. After remainiog for nearly four week s at the Invalide Hotel, where you receive the kindest and best treatment, and where patients are loth to leave, aftee recovery, he returned to his famPy and friends a cured and happy man. In giving this to the public, Mr. Miller wishes to say that be owes the aforesaid institute nothing but his best wishes. And the fact that his own fellness and great relief is due to similar testimonials from others who were successfully treated there for all manner of chronic diseaees front every State and Territory of the Union. Canada, Mexico and South Americia. It is O marvel of success. Be further says, should this fall to the notice of any suf- ferers from chronic dimases, such as eeem to baffle the ekill of your own physician— bat first and above all give your own physi- cians a fair and impartial trial, and all the available means offered, as Somerset county may justly feel proud of her medical men, who spare no means nor time in the treatment of all cases entrusted to their charge, And if they fail, in many cages, it will be an aot of charity to point you to a place where a probable cure may be effeoted, which is the humble intent of the above communication. The above &etiolation is courteous, prompt and reliable.—Somerset, Pa., Herald. An interesting Interview. Clerk—If you please, eir, I shall have to ask yon to melee me for the rest of the day. I have just hear of—er—an Addition to my family. Employer—Is that so, Penfold ? What is it, boy or girl ? Clerk—Well, sir, the fact is---er—(some- what embarrassed), it's two boys. Employer—Twins, eh? Young man, I'm afraid you are patting on too many heirs. Well, Don't be so Overbearing. Buffalo News : Inaatnneh as they are strong, the eanadiane should be merciful. We really do not want them to conquer us and annex us to the British Empire. —Four hundred tent of every tnillion of the residents of Saxony, n Germany, commit suicide. Xis Leipsio the propor- tion is the highest in the world, reaching 450 per million. In London it is only 85 per tnillion. No bath is considered complete in which a bag does not fleet. The contents depend nport the resources of the bather. Almond meal, bran, orrie root, candled lavender flowere, borax and shaved +motile soap are eome of the eteeedoriee approved by fashion.