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A Washington diepateh eays ; Another
serious complication has arisen in regard to
the enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion
Act. The that Arose when United States
,commbssiouers, appointed by United Stetes
judges, orderedthereturnto Caneda of China-
men who, accordiag to the opinion of the
Attorney-Generel and the rules of the
Treasnry Department, should have beeu
sent back to China. This has resulted in
some confusion, and Chinamen entering this
country by way of Canada were liable to. be
returned to Ceneda or China, according to
which country the commiskoner by whom
they were tried regarded as the country
"whence they came." The new trouble is
explained by a telegram received by At-
torney -General Miller to -day from 1_7nited
States Marshall Price, at Pembina, N. D. It
• was in regard to the case of two Chinamen
Who had entered the country by way of
Manitoba, and whose deportation to that
country lied been ordered by Commissioner
Carruthers. Marshal Price took the men
to the border line, and. the customs effieMls
at Emerson, Man., refused to allow them in,
except on payment of a head tax of $50
each. The marshal says he refused to pay
the money, and that the Chinamen could
not He therefore brought them back, and
wired the Attorney -General that he would
hold them in custody until he received
further instructions. This new state of
ffairs, which practically prevents the
overnment from sending out of the country
.any Chinese who enterfrom Canada without
paying the head tax required by the law of
that country, embarrasses the authorities
very much. The Attorney -General said
this afternoon that he had not answered the
marshal's telegram for the simple reason
that he did not know how to instruct him
_to proceed. It is believed by many that the
only solution of the trouble is by legislative
enactment.
GRAND TRUNK. REPORT.
Good Prospects Ahead— The St. Clair
Tunnel—New Directors.
A London cable says: The Grand Trunk
half -yearly report was issued last night, in
-view of the meeting on the • 30th instant.
The directors admit the disappointing
eesults of the half -year's operations, the
net traffic receipts being £471,775, as com-
pared with £549,469 for the preceding half-
year; and the net revenue receipts being
X502,288, as compared with Z591,891 for the
previous half-year. The decline is caused
by the low freight rates and low fares,
and the deficient harvest of last year.
This year's harvest, however, is so
excellent in quality and quantity as to as-
sure improved traffic until this time next
year. The prospects of the company are
more hopeful than for some time past. The
condition of the road is such as to enable
the company to earn increased traffic. The
41tx* Totors feel justified in expecting a general
improvement in the position of the company.
The St. Clair tunnel greatly redounds to
the credit of the company, and will be of
immense advantage to the system. Two
agreements in reference to the Waterloo
Junction Railway will be submitted to the
meeting. Mr. George Allan has been
elected a director, in place of Mr. Campbell,
resigned, and Mr. Alexander Hubbard,
deputy chairman of the Great Western Rail-
way of England, will be proposed in place
•of Mr. Dickson, deceased.
BLEW IHS DRALNS OUT.
Suicide o. the Ex -United States Consul at
St. John, N. B.
A St. John, despatch says: James Mur-
ray, ex -United States Causal at St. John,
returned from a trip to New York this
morning. About 12 o'clo his wife was'
startled to hear a loud report from her hus-
band's bedroom. She rushed to the room,
where a horrible sight met her. Lying on
his back on the floor in a pool of blood,
his nerveless hand still clutching a smoking
Winchester rifle; was her husband. Doctors
-were on the scene in a few minutes, but
could do nothing. He had laid his plans
for self-destruction with considerable de-
liberation. 4 He hadarisen from his bed and,
without stopping to dress, had procured the
rifle from his son's room. Going back to
his own room and standing in front of the
mirror, he had held the muzzle of the rile
with his left hand and pulled. the trigger
with his right hand. The bullet entered
-under the right ear and came out over the
top of the left ear.
Murray was well known in New York
city, was a member of the Tammany or-
ganization and was appointed consul by
Cleveland. Since his retirement he has
continued to live here as the business repre-
sentative for James D. Leary in despatching
the famous rafts of logs to New York.
Murray was 50 years of age and leaves a
wife and three children. No particular
cause is given for the act.
CARPENTER SIIICIDED.
A.Victim of Insoninia, He Took Chloroform
While Insane.
A London cable says: The world of
science was painfully startled to -day when
it became known that Philip Herbert Car-
penter, M. A., F. R. S., the distinguished
scientist and high authority upon deep sea
dredging, whose death was announced yes-
terday, had committed suicide. .At an
inquest to -day, Rev. Dr. H1e, father -in -
lave of the deceased, testified that he found
Mr, Carpenter dead in bed with a bottle of
chloroform on a table by his side. The
-dead man held in his hand an empty turn.
131e; which had apparently 'contained
chloroform, and on the table was a sheet of
paper, upon which the deceased had writ-
ten: "1 cannot any longer endure the load
of insanity which I have borne for the last
three weeks. I have ruined myself and left
my wife and children beggars through my
madness." Dr. Hale said his son-in.law
bad lately stiffered from insomnia, and that
he made investments which preyed upon
his mind. It was also shown that madness
existed in the dead man's family, and a
verdict in accordance with the facts was
rendered.
The Attempted Coup in Paraguay.
A Buenos Ayres despatch says: AM,
tional accounte have been receive(' here of
the recent attempts at revolution in Para-
guay. The rebels were ledby Major Vera
and Deputy Machin, of the Liberal party.
They made a desperate attack On the bar -
tsetse occupied by the regiment commanded
by Col. )dlino. For a few Minutes the fight.
leg was very fierce, and then Vert*, and
Machiei both fell. The loss of their leadee
elenaorelized the rebels, and they broke and
fled. The Government forces also met with
lmavy loss, Colonels Mine lead O'Sura, be-
sides six men, being among the killed. The
result of the fight completely settles the at-
tentpted revolution.
Cobatigger—The niaterial for this quilt
must have cost a pretty figere. MM. Cob-
rigger—How can you say such a thing.?
All tele but a man Wouild know that it is
mack of pieces 1eft over. Why, meet since
We `were married, whenever I bought a hew
therm1 got an extra yard or so or this veil,
.101tP0e.
THE RIPPER IN BERLIN.
An Abandoned Woman Murdered and Her
Body Mutilated,
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TkIE 'MURDERER SURPRISED.
A Berlin cable says The city has been
treated to a " Jackathe-Ripper ' sensation.
The body of a wretched, abandoned woman
was found horribly stabbed in her lodgings,
in a squalid quarter of the town, The body
was horribly slashed and mutilated. • The
assassin, who is unknown, escaped. The
woman was seen to enter the house with a
*stranger at 1 o'clock this morning, and ten
minutes afterward e the man was semi to run
away. The woman was found a little later
lying on the floor fully dressed, even to the
matter of her gloves. Her throat was cut
and abdomen ripped open. A huge reward
for her murderer was promptly offered. The
police suspect a well-dressed young man
who was some time before on the street.
The name of the victim was Hedwig
Nitsche, and she lived in Holsmarket Game.
Portions of the woman's body after being
cut off were carried away by the murderer.
The room where the body was found and
the surroundings were entirely untouched.
The person in charge of the building where
the body was found drove a good trade for a
while by exhibiting the remains to the pub-
lic for a small sum of money until the polioe
interfered.
Blood was spattered. all over the ceiling
and walls of the room, and it seems impos-
sible to arrive at any other conclusion than
that the deed was the work of a madman.
The police have already arrested several
persons, but they have all been discharged
for lack of evidence, and the authorities are
still hopelessly without a clue to the sick-
ening tragedy. The body of the woman was
nearly severed, and was ripped from the
neck downwards. It seems that another
woman tried to enter the room before the
crime was committed. Her attempt dis-
turbed the assailant, who suddenly rushed
out, pushing aside several who were in his
way. The weapons used by the murderer
were two knives belonging to the landlady
of the house but the police are of opinion
that the firsewound, and Which would have
proved fatal, was inflicted by the assailant's
dagger. The excitement in town has greatly
increased tonight, and has steadily grown
since the discovery of the crime. There
have been many other crimes, including
suicides, within the past few days in the
lower quarters of the city. The rewards
for the arrest of the fiend reach 300 marks.
OVER AN EMBANKMENT.
Terrible Railway Disaster in France—
Fifteen Killed.
A Paris cable says : A passenger train
was derailed near Moirans today, and ran
over an embankment. A number of the
carriages were telescoped. Eight persons
were killed and thirty seriously Injured.
The train, which was running at a high
rate of speed at the time of the accident,
was drawn by two locomotives. The acci-
dent occurred on a steep incline and curve,
and is supposed to have been due to a
defect in the brake of the second locomo-
tive. The embankment over which the
train rolled is 40 feet high. A dozen car-
riages be in a shapeless heap at the foot of
the bank.
According to later particulars from the
scene of the accident fifteen persons were
killed and eighteen injured. Three of the
injured are not expected to survive tilt
night, and fifteen others are in a critical
condition, one person having both legs
broken. The bodies of two of the victims
are crushed and mangled beyond recogni-
tion.
A relief train has arrived at the scene,
and the work of rescuing is being carried on
with the aid of torch lights. The sight is a
sickening one. One of the rescued is a
little girl, who was found crying and caress-
ing her dead mother.
CHILI DOESN'T GROVEL.
She Expresses No Regret for the Outrages
on IT. S. Citizens.
A Santiago despatch says: The United
States Government to -day, through
Minister Egan, formally demanded repara-
tion from the Government of Chili for the
attack recently made in Valparaiso upon a
number of the seamen of the United States
cruiser BaltimOre. Mr. Egan, in present-
ing the Chilia,n Junta with the statement of
the assault on the American sailors, ex-
pressed in distinct terms the feeling of great
indignation which the State Department at
Washington feels at the whole affair, and
especially at the brutal conduct of the police
of Valparaiso in joining with the mob in the
latter's attack upon the Baltimore's seamen,
and in drawing their bayonets and using
them against the unarmed Americans. Mr.
Egan also particularly called attention to
the additional brutality of the police of
Valparaiso in using horses to drag the
Americans to prison. After making a brief
but pointed summary of the face to which
he had been instructed to call attention,
Minister Egan informed the representatives
of the Junta that in the name of the United
States he demanded reparation for the in-
sults and injuries complained of.
Up to the present time the Junta has ex-
pressed no regret for the attack made on the
American sailors.
BIG IRONCLABS.
ThC11. Launching a Feature of a Great Rus-
sian Celebration.
A St. Petersburg despatch says : The
capital of Russia is en fete today, for the
Czar has declared that this, the 54th anni-
versary of the battle of Navarino, where, in
1827, the combined British, French and
Russian fleets under Sir Edward Codeine -
ton, the distinguishedEritish admiral, anni-
hilated the Turkish and Egyptian navies,
should be celebrated with special pomp and
significance. The occasion for this special
celebration was the launching of three new
Russian irenclads—one of them, the Nava
arino, being a battleship of immense size
and emwer. These launchings tools place
in the presence of all the foreign naval
attaches and crowds of people. Among the
spectators was Admiral Count, Heyderse who
fought at the famous battle which is being
so grandly celebrated. The launch of the
new naval monster was succeseful, and there
is now floating in these waters a barbette
battleship said to be at least equal in size,
strength and speed to anything of the same
clase poeseesed by any navy in the world.
The other two vessels launched today ere
belted gun vessels, heavily armed, of con-
siderable speed, and are designed for coast
defence purposes.
Bad Catering.
judge First Can/Abel—I'm goingto
write a letter of edmpliment to the mission-
ary *moiety.
Second Cannibal—Whata the matter?
First Cannibal—That last missionary they
tientwas a reformed actor, and I hate ham.
A good many ploys by women will be
used thia season. Martha Morton has two;
Etta Henderson. and Matilda Estran, one ;
Blanehe Matsden, two ; Adelaide Ober,
one, and Agnes Monroe, one.
A IlibliDiat CONFESSED.
'Etneit IlaSh.Money and Sulbsequtnintly hided
Ills Wire's Paramour.
A. Pittsfield, Mass, despatch saye
William Coy today conformed, the minder of
John Whalen, whose body was found buried
On the meuutain side atWashington, Mass.,
lase Tuesday. He sap he learned oxiSatue-
day, August 29th, thatWholen had planned
an elopement with Mrs. Coy. When he
reached home late on Saturday night
Whalen was absent. He went into the
house to get is lantern, and started to hunt
Whalen up. He could fins -Lap trace of him,
and returned to the househ-,ancl found
Whalen's trunk standing in the room. He
broke it open and found his wife's clothing
packed in it. While examining the trunk
Whalen came in. This was between 2 and
3 o'clock in the morning. Whaleu asked
Coy what he was doing at his house, and
a quarrel followed. According to Coy's
story Whalen stepped outside and. re-
turned with an axe and club, and
then struck Coy with his fist, knocking
him into a corner. Whalen then seized the
axe and struck twice at Coy, who grappled
with him, and after a hard streggle suc-
ceeded in getting possession ef the axe.
Whalen then seized the club, and as lie tried
to strike Coy, the latter struck him with
the axe, smashing in his skull. Whalen
fell dead. Coy finally took the axe and cut
Whalen's throat, to make sure of his death,
then dragged the body into the yard, and
left it while he cut the blood-stained pieces
out of the carpet and bedding and burned
thein, He then went into the yard and out
the legs from Whalen's body with the axe,
and carried the remains up to the mountain
and buried them. Coy says he killed Whalen
in self-defence, and exonerates Joe Kellyand
Mae Coy, saying they knew nothing about
the crime. When asked about how he came
to have so much money immediately after
Whalen's disappearance he became reticent,
but finally said Whalen gave it to him in
consideration of his saying nothing about
his (Whalen's) intimacy with Mrs. Coy.
A BOMB IN THE SANCTUM.
Attempted to Blow up the MeCaribylte
(Wawa, the "National Press."
A Dublin cable says: Great excitement
was caused in this city this evening by an
apparent attempt to blow up the office of
the National Press, the organ of the Mc-
Carthyites. The members of the staff of
the paper were just on the point of beginning
the night's work, when a bomb fell in the
area in front of the windows on Abbey
street, where the editor's rooms are situated.
The bomb exploded with a tremendous re-
port, but fortunately there was no one in
these particular rooms at the time and con-
sequently no one was hurt. If the missile
had been intended to injure anybody in the
editorial room there is no doubt the effort
would have been pre-eminently successful
for the window glass was broken, the casings
shattered and the furniture in the room
badly damaged. The offices in the basement
were also badly damaged, and indeed
windows in all the adjacent houses were
broken. The wildest rumors were spread
and an enormous crowd quickly collected.
For a time -there was much excitement.
Notwithstanding that every effort was made
to search out the miscreant the authorities
thus far are without any clue whatever. It
was noticed at the time of the explosion by
those who were present that the flames
arising from the exploded bomb had a very
offensive odor.
SAVAGE VENGEANCE.
A Texas Mob Burns a Brutal Murderer at
tine Stake. -
A Queen City, Tex., despatch says: Sev-
eral miles from this place Lee Green, a yel-
low negro, 19 years old, shot the wife of a
prosperous farmer, instantly killing her,
while she was washing, and threw the body
into a well. He then threw her little girl,
aged 7 years, in, breaking her thigh and
killing her also, after which he took her
little boy, aged 4 years and threw him in
after the others, but falling to kill him, he
threw some timbers and the wash -kettle
and tub in the well at him. The boy es-
caped unhurt, but is very ill from standing
in the water on his mother's body. When
his father returned from the gin, where he
had gone with cotton, he heard the boy call-
ing and made the discovery. The object of
the wholesale murder was robbery. The
rev° escaped. The whole country is up in
arms. Green will be lynched if caught.
A later despatch says: The negro
Lee Green, who murdered the family of
Farmer Horne, near here, was jailed last
night This morning a mob took Green
from jail and escorted him to the scene of
his crimes where he was fastened to a tree
by a trace chain,fagots piled high up around
him, and he was burned to death. A
crowd of 1,000 whites and blacks witnessed
the lynching.
SPECULLTLNG �N CIIINESE.
That's That Uncle Sam Thinks Mr. Rowell
is Doing.
A Chicago despatch says: Treasury
Agent Scanlan said yesterday that he had
received advices from his inspectors, who
are now watching the Canadian border, that
there were 10,000 Celestials in Vancouver
and along the line of the Canadian Pacific
Railway, who are suffering for the want of
food. Chinamen in unprecedented numbers
are being landed at Vancouver, said Mr.
Scanlan, and they are unable to obtain em-
ployment or food. The vast number of
arrivals, he believed, was the result of a
notice spread among the Chinese by an in-
fluential Chinaman who returned home, that
it is very easy to get into the United States.
He believed also the Canadian Government
was assisting the Celestials into the country
in order to get $50 per head which they are
compelled to pay when they enter Canada.
The Government is also expecting some ex-
clusive legislation next winter, and now de-
sires to get in all the Chinamen it possibly
can. The big rush, if not stopped, will re-
sult in uatold suffering among the new
arrivals.
THE MUDGE GAVE WAY.
In Engineer Rushes Part of in Train. Over a
Burning Bridge.
A Birmingham, Ala., despatch says: A
train of thirteen cars loaded with coal was
wrecked on the Columbue and Western rail-
road near Goodwater yesterday. As the
train reunded a curve Within a few yards of
Goodwin creek the engineer save the trestle
approach to the bridge on fire. It was too
late to stop, and he pulled the throttle open
and attempted to cross by sheer force of
speed. The engine and two cars got across
sdely, but the third Went dosen nearly fifty
feet and the others followed. The rear -ear
was the caboose with Conductor Rice and
likennan Okawford on board, Both met
were killed and their bodies burried with the
ears. Rice leaves a *ife and two children
in Columbus. Crawford was single and also
lived in Columbus. In his efforts to save
the men who Vent down, En ineer Hen-
dricks was severely burned The coal is
still burning.
A hussar who tried to swim across the
river Oder in his uniform, On a het, was
dreamed in the Middle of theriver.
STILL WAITING,
Tine Ontario Express and Transportation
CeMPanY and the Grand Trunk.
A Montreal despatch says : The Ontario
Express and Transportation Company,
wbich was reorganized last spring with the
iuteneion of doing business over the Grand
Trunk lines, are Atilt waiting. However,
they hope that they are approaching
the end of the delay, and that soon
they will be handling freight, At the
last session of the Federal Parlia-
ment they obtained the legislation asked
for reepecting their charter, and then
they came back to negotiate with the
Giancl Trunk. The Exprese Company
make this statement They say that
they have made application to the Rail-
way Committee of the Privy Council for
a hearing on the merits of their case,
the Grand Trunk Railway being still
inclined to discriminate against them,
refusaig a rate of 0,000 per week, the
wise as paid by the company now
covering the line, unless paid half -
yearly in advance, and on the condieion
that the railway can remove the express
company at pleasure without recourse.
Such conditions being considered contrary
to law, equity and oustom, the express com-
pally cannot agree to them and aro there-
fore compelled to appeal to the supreme
tribunal. Mr. Wainwright, Assistant
General Manager of the Grand Trunk Rail-
way, was spoken to this morning in regard to
this matter. He said the terms offered the
new company were the same as those under
which other express companies were work-
ing, and that in fact there was no discrim-
inating in the case referred to. As regards
the appeal to the Railway Committee at
Ottawa, he had not 'heard of it, although
such might be the case. e
What did the Grand Taunk intend doing?
He thought that within a very short time
the railway company would take over the
whole express business carried on ever their
lines and do it themselves as they did the
other work of transportation. It would
solve the present difficulty. It was likely
that the change would be made soon.
To -day the Ontario Express & Transpor-
tation Company registered their Aut of
Incorporation at the Court House in this
city, the registration stating that Mr. J. M.
Kirk, of Montreal, was President, and that
their head office was in Toronto.
THE BOILED EXPLODED,
Causing the Loss of Several Lives and
Malt a Million Dollars.
A Louisville, lay., despatch says: By a
boiler explosion here this afternoon one man
was killed, several persons injured, and
nearly half a million dollars' worth of pro-
perty destroyed. At 5 o'clock William R.
• Adams, a fireman at the electric light plant
of the Louisville Gas Company, was throw-
ing coal into the furnace, wben one of the
nests of seven boilers exploded. The shock in
the vicinity was like an earthquake. Adams
was thrown to the ground with terrific
force and received ench internal injuries
that he will die. The shed in which the
boilers were located was completely de-
molished, and pieces of iron and timber and
showers of red hot coals were thrown in
every direction. A great mass of iron and a
deluge of burning cools were thrown across
a narrow alley into the rear of Kahfrnann &
Strauss' big retail dry good store, and the
wall of the store was carried away.
• Half a dozen clerks were gathered
about the bookkeeper at the back
of the store. With the bookkeeper,
Solomon Dreyfus'they were caught
in the wreckage, but it is believed all
• escaped alive. Dreyfus was seriously, but
not dangerously, injured. Carrie Dinkiel-
spiel, Hattie Ennis and Lena Sickles were
slightly injured. In a moment apparently
the whole building was in flames. The
wrecked building was at once beyond con-
trol, and attention was turned to saving the
Courier -Journal building, two doors north,
and the Polytechnic Library buildings
two numbers south. The Polytechnic
building on the south was saved with heavy
damage from water to the books, pictures
and art collections. The fire caught and
burned out the two upper floors of J. M.
Escott & Sons, dealers in pictures, fine mir-
rors and wall papers, photographers' sup-
plies, etc. On the south Leverson's confec-
tionery and Porter's millinery store were
damaged.
COLLIDED AND -SUNK.
The Boston and Charlwood Crash To-
gether and the Latter Sinks. -
A London cable says: The British
steamer Boston, from Cardiff for London,
has arrived at Plymouth after having been
in collision with the British barque Cheri -
wood, Capt. Salmon, from Antwerp for
Valparaiso. The Charlwood foundered
almost immediately after the collision with
a loss of 16 lives. Three men were killed
on board the Boston at the time of the col-
lision, and the steamer's bows were badly
stove in. The captain of the Charlwood,
his wife, son, a governess, and the
stewardess, together with all the barque's
officers and six seamen, a total of 16, per-
ished in spite of the desperate efforts made
by the lifeboats of vessels, which happened
to be near at the time of the collision, to
rescue the crew. The spot where the ves-
sels met was not far from the Eddystone
rocks, 14 miles from Plymouth. Only an
apprentice and the captain's daughter were
saved.
After the Green. Goods Sharks.
A New York despatch says: Inspector
Byrnes' raid on the green goods brigade re-
sulted last night in the arrest of two more
croaks almost in the shadow of police head-
quarters. They are Samuel Little, alias
Goldstein and Harry Sounderson, alias
Odelo Walker. A lot of green goods para-
phernalia was found in their rooms. Fifty
thousand circulars in French, calculated to
catch unwary French-Canadians, and a
guide bookcontaining thousa.ndsof addresses
of French-Canadians were found, besides
letters sealed and addressed. An opium
layout was also confiscated. It is a remark-
able fact, Inspector Byrnes says, that nearly
all green goods men have been found to be
opium fiends.
A Mirage Causes a wreck.
A Philadelphia despatch says : A loin age
in the Carribbean Sea was the cause of the
total lose of the new American barquentine
Steadfast, while bound from a port of Spaili
with a cargo of street paving asphalt. She
was wrecked several weeks ago, but the
Crew only recently reached here on their
way home from the Wend of St. Croix, the
scene of the disaster. The vessel had never
before made a voyage, and cost her owners
nearly $40,000. She crashed Over the reefs
and was soon fast on the rocky shore, where
her wreck still remains. The mirage made
the island appear twenty miles away.
Great Britain and Ireland last year drank
567,000,000 gallons of beer, 42,000,000 gal.
ions more than were consumed in Germany.
An English religious paper recettly
printed theAfetlillitwnirriegd,eeemaranro, remarkable daldyv eyrotteg-
man desires a pastorate, Vivid preacher,
nuaicaI vMee, organizer, Tall, and
of good appearance, Blameless' life. Very
big -hest references. Beloved by all, Salary
CRAZY MEN AND WOMEN.
Annual Sports of the Nontreal l'rotestomt
Hospital for, the Moue.
IialhallAlahla YET TOUCHING aNOIDENTS.
(MontreaaWitnesse
Ia the treatment of the insane the people
of this Prouince heve been made distress-
ingly familiar with the dark cell, the strait
jacket and the promiscuous herding which
cut off every ray of hope.
What do you think of the annual field
sports at Verdun as a set offto mediawalism ?
A broad level sward, over which the cold
wind swept in gusts that pinched the nose
and stung like the lash of a whip. On the
east siae A long, thin line of men. On the
west a long, thin line of women. In the
centre a number of well-known gentlemen
in a highly excited but intensely cheerful
frame of mind, getting up poles and pacing
out starting points,and shouting like school-
boys, " Go it, Tom," "Hurry up, Roder-
ick Dhu," " What's the matter with you,
Billy ?"
The first annual field sports of the
patients of the Protestant Hospital for the
Insane ! Need it be said that "Fred"
Perry was there? The wind caught his
long locks and made cords of them. His
face and hands were a blend of dark redazicl
purple. lie was the very picture of misery.
" Misery !" he said scornfully, " I never
was as happy in my life." And that was
probably the truth, for, in rushing around,
and encouraging everybody to do their best,
he no more thogght of the cold. than
" Uncle Tom s• thought of his country
when he was bleeding the Public Works
Department" Benignity shone through the
spectacles of Mr. Chalks Alexander.
Many a hand was stretched out to grasp
his in love and gratitude. The men
said: "Ah, but he's the good man,"
and one female patient exclaimed:
"He's a darling, and I love him."
"Love him!" said Mr. Perry, in mock
passion. "Have you gone back on me,
then ?" "Mr. Perry, said the lady, draw-
ing her shawl across her breast with uncom-
promising firmness, and speakieg with
freezing politeness, "Mr. Perry, I do not
love you. I never said I loved you. I
never paid compliments to any man except
Mr. Alexander, who will bring me some
nice candies, and then I won't have to ask
these people (looking around upon the at-
tendants and the lady visitors in great
scorn) for them. I am a lady, Mr. Perry.
I am not brought out to attend these sports.
I take no interest in them. I shall not run
in your egg race. You need not ask me. I
endure these associations. I do not like
them." And with that she walked majes-
tically to a seat, folded her arms resolutely
across her breast, and calmly ignored the
whole proceedings.
There were no less than twenty events
on the programme. It was curious to note
the varying degrees of interest expressed in
the contests. Putting the shot and vault-
ing with the pole have the element of the
serious. They fell quite flat. The obstacle
race is farcical. The movements are rapid
and numerous. The sibuations run over
with the ludicrous. The obstacle races
were received with 'shrieks of laughter.
When the contestants began to crawl under
the barrels the air rang with shouts. The
poor fellows at the east end forgot the cold
and stamped and clapped their hands with
delight. But when it came to climbing
those bare poles—a work of difficulty for a
man as subtle as Napoleon—and the men
fell and rolled over one another—then the
men and women broke forth into shouts and
shrieks of laughter. Let there be plenty of
movement, and let the ludicrous be as
palpable as you can make it and and strip
human nature of dignity and make it play
the harlequin, and the vacant mind be-
comes fixed, then it kindles into life, and
for the dull, heavy eye there is glow and
sparkle. So there was a barrel race and a
three-legged race, and a wheelbarrow race,
and an egg race—all brimming over with
fun. There was a woman's race which was
quite a success as far as the very interesting
and intelligent body of attendants was
concerned, but in which the patients could
not be induced to participate. "Come, now,
Sally," said Mr. Perry, to one of the
women, "Brave bet a dollar on you." "1
don't care, Mr. Perry," she retorted, "You
can bet every cent you have in the world.
I will not run a step. Do you know who.
• you are talking to? Why there is not a
man here whom my husband would allow to
enter his door. The idea of asking me to
join in a race !" and she cast a look of
superb disdain at poor Mr. Perry, who
accepted every rebuff with the greatest
meekness.
But all the patients were not aroused to
interest. Groups of men huddkd together
at the met side, and refused to move about
"Isn't it cold ?" said a young man. "Bub,
then, what can you expect at 32 below zero?
I predict there will be ten feet of snow to-
night. I have that from the woman who
has been at the top of the Ottawa observa-
tory since the beginning of the world. She
is lovely, but not so lovely as Mrs. Burchall,
whom I used to drive out every day." There
was .another young man who, taking out a
Bible, began to preach. He poured forth a
torrent of incoherent jargon. One old man
walked about twenty yards backward and
forward for two long hours, unconscious of
all around him. Leaning against the fence,
was a middle-aged man who repeated in
sepulchred tonea--
" By the grace of God,
We draw the sword.
Bixby million years ago,
I was."
One man squatted on the ground in the
bitter weather, and, seizing a bit of news-
paper, blown within his reach, became pro-
foundly engrossed in its contents. " Ab,
well," whimpered an old man of about 50,
with small, thin hands which he beat one
against the other; "Ah, well, I'm a
poor deserted baby, and nobody loves me."
And, in a great gusli of self-pity, weak tears
trickled down. his checks One man tried
to sneak over the fence. "Don't you think,
Tommy," said one of the attendants, whose
sharp eye had noticed theznovement, "don't
you think you will , hurt your arms if you
don't come down ?" Tommy thmight
there might be something in the
pointed suggestion. He came down,
and his eye was not able to
meet the eye of the attendant. Some of the
men smoked. One man took off his boots
and sat in his socks. The vacant eye, the
midden gleam of hilarity that expired in the
deepest gloom, the haunting look of uncon-
scious sadness, the fixed hopeleseness of as-
pect found here and there—these were
enough, and rriore than enough to put a
"lump" in tho throat of a thoughtful
visitor.
But the way Dr. Burgess, formerly of the
Ilarnilton Insane Asylum (who was master
of ceremonies) slapped the contestants on
the shoulder and called them by their names,
and beamed affection upon them, and stimn-
la,ted them by voice and gesture—this was
good to see. And it was good, too, to see
hoW heartily the elector's able assistatt, Dr.
Anglin, seconded Ms efforts.
Abralnim Lincoln was the first President
to issue a Thanksgivingproclamation.
CoutILDWEN'S
sow, of the litiainit linoughtS and SaYbails
Of thO Little Ones.
Here are some quaint definitiona given
by children and collected by the Rev. W.
F. Crafts, in the Pa 14 41all aazette ; " What
does backbiter mean?" " Please, air, it
may be a flea." laa4& t, )she
Blacksmith's shop--' The place whore
they make horses. 1 saw a tram nailing on
thealaltrfsoeo—t ‘ An 1 a
011101.;i'
eoMal with four legs, one
thaton"eIlAccell—co'lAlhlreart'ewent to Aleop in the
Litble sins --a I didn't break any of the
commandments, but I guess 1 cracked some
of <1Nernes.t"'Egg—' The one the old hen meas-
ures
" Seasons—A teacher inquired of the
members of a class of children, if any Of
them could name the four seasons. In-
stantly the chubby hand of a 5 -year-old
was raised, aud promptly came the
Pepper, salt'vinegar and mus-
tard."ana'w
'S
etra''
Stars—' Theeggs the moon hap laicl.”
riim DISTURBER OF EUROPEAN PEACE:.
Quoting the statement of a Russian jour-
nal that 20,000,000 Russians are in want of
food, the Toronto Globe says that "the case
is one which should appeal to the charity of
the world, and especially of the people on
this ado of the Atlantic), where the crops
have been exceptionally abundant." Thae
idea that some men should be starving io
death while others have more than enough
to eat is repulsive, but the difficulties in
the way of relieving the distress in Russia
are almost, if not quite, insuperable. Sup-
pose Canada, for instance, should vote a
million dollars' worth of relief, and that
would be a liberal contribution for a country
of Canada's population and wealth, without
making any allowance for the expense of
transportation and distribution of the sup-
plies there would only be five cents'
worth for each sufferer—barely enough
to sustain life for one day. Then
there is the feeling that the Czar
and his nobles are rich enough to feed
the Russianpeople, if they would dispense
with luxuries and give back in this emer-
gency a portion ot the wealth which has
been collected from the people by taxation
in more prosperous times. Only the other
day, the Czar was launching new and expen-
sive ironclaxls, and spending money to cele-
brate the victory of Navarine, which was
won sixty-four years ago. ea Why doesn't he
quit his military tomfoolery and feed his
starving people? And why doesn't he dis-
band that immense army, the maintenance
of which not only impoverishes Russia but
constantly threatens the peace of Europe
and compels the other nations to keep
up large standing armies. No other
country has any desire to invade Russia.
The Russian army is not needed for defence
against a foreign foe, and it would not be
needed to repress insurrections at home, if
the Czar would give his people liberal insti-
tutions and a voice in the management of
their own affairs.
The Russian peace establishment is about
850,000 men, and thetotal war strength,
exclusive of the opoltchenie, is reckoned at
2,300,000. This is the force which threatens
Austria, and compels her to maintain a
peace establishment at 336,000 men, a war
strength of 1,600,000 in the first line; and
over 700,000 in the secondline, making a
total of something over: 2,300,000' mese
ready to bear arms.. Germany has a.
peace establishment ofeaa490,000 men-,.
and the war establishment, including:
the trained Ersatz reserve, is 2,250,000, to -
which, in estimating the complete fighting
strength, must be added the Landsturm,
or reserve of old soldiers, intended prim- )
arily for home defence, and bringing the
total number of armed men up to 3,000,000.s
With this forma Germany has no cause to
fear the result of a brush with France
which has a peece establishment of 535,000a
while the active army and reserve on a war -
footing amount to 1,400,000, and the addi-
tion of the territorial army or final reserve
brings the total up to 2,800,000: Italy has
a nominal force of 2,500,000 men; of which -
800,000 is trained and effective for service
in support of her allies in the Triple Alli—
ance.
It is one thing to be sorry for a fellow s
mortal who has nothing to eat, but it in
another thing to keep alive a man who ,
may be aiming a bullet at his reliever'ss
heart a few months hence. If the:Germans,
the Austrians, the Italians and perhaps the -
British will have to fight allied France and
Russia a few months or years lience, spend-
ing dollars and lives to deprive their,.
enemies of life, one is tempted to ask why it
is not better to let those enemies starve -
now, for if ten or twenty million Russians
starve to death in 1891-92; there will be
fewer of them to bear arms and contribute
taxes.a year or two later. In actual war, it
is deemed a military virtue, not only to
kill the enemy, but to destroy his provisions
and bring starvation upon him. Is it wells,
to strengthen an enemy before the war
breaks out ?::aaa ee's
In this case, man's inhumanity to man iss
traceable to the ruling houses, The Russ
sian farmers and workmen have no,
enmity against the corresponding classes,
in Germany, and the British would gladly
trade and be friendly with the Russians.
But Russia's Czars, from Peter the Great
down to' Alexander III., have dreamed of
universal conquest, and their subjects have
aidalown their lives by theafmillion to help
carry into effect the ambitious schemes of
the Czars. It seems a pity that the Czars..
cannot be cleared off the face of the earth,.
and the people spared to pursue the avoca-
tions of peace, but the time has not come for
that. Perhaps the great famine of this year.
will be the beginning of the end.
Tim kid and tine Wolf.
A wolf was one day standing high on the
-
roof of t shed when a kid came trotting by.
The wolf thought the kid would make a
nice dinner. " I think," said the wolf Com-
placently, "that you may as well say your
prayers." " Come off de roof," replied the
kid jeeringly. At this the wolf abandoned'
the idea of killing him. "A kid as tougir.
as that," he reasoned, "would certainly be'
very poor eating." Moral : A judicioula
impudence is often useful in this wicked
wicked world.—Saagtle goundings.
Slight Acquaintance.
• Mrs. De Riche (who has been trying tos
snub Trotter)—Are you really going to the
Schuyler Van Pelts' dinner? 'Why, I didn't
imagine that you knew them.
Trotter (carelessly) — .AW—yes — know
them slightly. Going to marry their .
daughter, you know.
A Courtsidii.
Chapter I. --Anticipation—He would if he
could. Chapter II. — Realization -- He
wooed and he could, Chapter IIL—Con- ,
summation—He wooed anti he cooed. —Iefe.
It is becatise ignorance le bliss that court-
ing is so much pleasure to young people.
Ifteagry Joe—So Puddina Pete is dead?
He was a mighty sitecessful feller, Bill.
Slopot Bili—V'�u bet 1 He never done int
hour's work in his life.
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