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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-5-31, Page 6ageseaserteers who do not receive their paper promptly will please notify it at onee, Advertising rates on appfleatiou. eneseriptien, tele Dollar per year, hi. advance, THE EXETER, ADvoc • -- ,---P THURSDAY, MAY 81, 1201. W eek's COmmercial SumMary-.. Dun's review of last week statesthat the pram fer wheat was the lowest ever nettle. The yield for the present seaeon is l'XiVetVil to far exceel government pre- dictione, which point to a short erop. The mineral production. of Canada for 1893, with comparisons, as issaed by the Geologieal Survey at Ottawa, are: Me- tallim 6'1 5S2,100 ; non-metallic, 814,891,- 291 ; eetimate of mineral products not returnee, largely stractural inateriale, $27e.5-14 ; 1893, total, 81.9,250,000; 1892, total, $1.ereti.000 ; 1891, total, $20,50e,- 181) e total, 818,000,000 ; 1889, to- tal, $14,500,000 ; 1888, total, 813,500; 1efe7, total, e12,500,000. The most im- portant iten ie coal, placed at 3,710.170 ton-, valatel at e8,422,250, about $2.20 a ton. • Niiikel (entres next with 3.992,082 pounds, allied at 82.070,3e1; after that briike, valued. at 81.275,000, followed by golil 51,00e ounces), valued at 8927,044. A mile cif explanation points out that Nova eleotia and Ontario gold is Tabled at effeee, Qmillec at S.v.4. and British Co- lumbia mil Yukon district at 817 per °ulnas. Iu the Bay of Quint° dietriet the prate peers', of a geed fruit crop are eXeellent, and. as canning is au important industry there this is meet gratifying. The grain crop elec.: 1, ieks Failures in Camila for the week ending the lfell :am ia ehew a deciilea falling off. being twigy:dour, as against forty-two last week and. twelity-two in the corres- pondingWeek la id year. . The amount involved is Vvry nmeh smaller, the failure of E. 'Beauvais & Co., with lia- bilities fd about 868.000, being the only imeertent one anneuneed. Within throe years the price n71,cif plati- 1;lure: s inereaeed five- foll. This is due eays The Popular Sce- enee Nesve, to the heavy demand for this metal for eleetrieal purposee. It is now nearly ae dear as gold, and if the price keeps iming up will soon be dearer. .A. railrea d eleigh the Germans have built in aedir 1o.v, extending from Is- rael. harber ea (ft) m Hee east: Gf Con- Staliti.U01)10. a y sotith 8‘i9 miles to Autede. 1m. as 1it1e weee. says the Rail-- re:el cazette, ne any in the world. Not only 'e,i• t ils ;gel briieeee, but the ties and t. legraph poles are iron. There are no 1esi4 than 1.201 eridges on the line. one mettemeng 504 feel. ono 45e, one 445 and three e27 feet. There are sixteen tunnels the hmeest measuring 1,41ei feet. This is the railr-ad which penetrates into the infer:or of .e.siatic Turkey. • In the reaitee States the striking coal ralemsauleolte workers are still oat, an eimincUS works have stopped. through .he fuel famine. Oastums re- ceipts are 33 per cent. less than a year age. and internal revenue 7 per cent. less. The Chiereto. Burlington .& Quiacy Rail - nate is see4 tee lie consideriug making use of oil as fuel should the strikes continue. The eareinge of trunk lines' in the United Statee :-how a decrease of over 18 per cella mei:pared with last year, and. in Canada 12 per wale The coal supply of the terand Trauk is said to be sufficient for :lot more than a mouth's restricted serviee, cute in Montreal alone some 1 70e men have. been thrown oat of work by the closing f the G. T. R. workshops. A Star epoeial eable from London says: The that el:einem, of Canadian cattle to the BritleIi islee has; arrived and passed the special. Government inspector. There were 370 head in this shipment, and no one animal i. repereel to have been re- garded as suepieious. The beasts in this herd, ohiih are of useful, but not the best, trunty, laymeht, from. 4e to 5 pence per poend. It is ilfiW thought that if the 0,480 Cal:glee% ,scif le afloat pass the same examieatien, it eleeeld enable Hon. Her- bert Gerilaer, erndileet of the Board uf Agriculture, ter' Imre() the obroetious em- bargo. Tide eourse he will undoubtedly paretic if the farther suepieion arises. The Lancet in elle week's lame gives medical support to Caneda's case. The Calvie Company hoe contraoted for 1,000 tone of soft coal to be brought from Scotland. The first consignment of coal has arrived at Garden Island. The com- pany 14 getting the coal cheaper than the American soft coal. QUEEN OR 'WIFE? A Prot' Little Story of Victoria's Early Married Days. The inerriage of certeen Victoria, than only twenty years of ago, to Prince Al- bert. of Saxe -Gotha, waeme, is well known, a veritable love match, but for someyeage the royal lady fond some difficulty in reconciling her sense of dignity anci her wifely affection. The story goes that on day. after a little disagreement, Her Maj- esty having expressed herself itt rather a despotic, tone, the Prince, whose manly self-respect WilA smareing at her words, sought, the seclusion of his own apart- ments, closing and locking the door after him. In about five minutes some one knocked at hie door. ' "'Wlio is it?" enquired the Prince. " It is X. Open to the Queen of Eng: land!" haughtily responded Her Majesty. There was no reply. After a long inter- val there Mille a. gentle tapping and the low -spoken words: It is I, Victoria, your wife." And then -the door was opened, and the 'young hriderwas clasped in her husbands arms.' To'beteco culture occupies 1'1500;000i acres. NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS. THE WEEKS' HAPPENINGS. interesting /tines and Incidents, Import- ant and instructive, Gathered from the Various Provinces from the ,At - Janda to the Pacific. The queen's Hotel at Winnipeg has closed owing to finencial All the :shops cm the Grand Triank sys- tem are closed cfown on o,ecolint of the coal famine. William Vareoe, of Seymour East, fell backwards off a 1311(1 roller Oil Thursday evening and. broke his nook. Guelph has meingh coal to last two mouths, and manufacturers there are not alarmed at the coal famine cry, John Diekie, an employe or the G.T.R. at Toronto, was killed. while coupling cars in that city ou the 17th inst. Archibald Galbraith, phrenologist, was found dead in his bed 'Wednesday morn- ing at the Alvineton House, Alvinston, The Minareal Board. of Health has de- cided to ask the mayor to issue a procla- matioit calling upon the people to be vac- cinated.. ,Tames W. Smith has been committed for trial at the St. Thomas Sessions on a charge of setting fire to a vacant barn in Aylmer. The miners' strike at Springhill, is over, the deference having been ar- ranged, and the miners resumed. work on 'Money. The first shipment this season of Cana - dean cattle has arrivedin the old aountry and the 870 auiniele passed inspection as perfectly sound. At Brantford Wednesday George Aird was thrown froin a buggy ancl had one of hie ribs broken. The vehicle collided with an electric car. The 'Western Union Telegraph Com- pany is adedeed that the telegraph route via northern Siberia to China„Tapan and plaeee south is interrapted. A Windsor family named. Parker has been poisoned byeating a cake purchased at a confectioner s. Mrs. Parker is very low, and is expe,!tod to die. • J. N. Travers, formerly manager of the Bank of Montreal at Hamilton, died in Paris Wednesday. He had. been abroad for hie health over two years. . Evangelists Crossley and Hunter go to Parry Sounil to hold union evangehetic eervicee on Jelly 15. _A. tmiori committee are making duly° preparations. .Rev. John C. Garrett, who had boon furate under the Venerable Archdeacon McMurray at Niagara for five years• has been appointed rector of the parish. The Ingersoll stone -throwing case again came betore the magistrate' in that town Tnestlay, and several wituesees were ex- amined. The enquiry was adjourned for two days, Mr. Edward Haycock, a member of the firm of donee & Hayeoek, Ottawa, which built the departmental blocks itt the sixties, died Sunday. He was in his eighty-second year. At Belleville George Van Wert,. of Trenton, about forty years of age, .was sentenced to seven years in penitentiary for a crime in which complainant was a twelve -year-old girl named Pickle. John. Cloniter, a farmer from Bolton village, was found dead in his bed at the Kirby Homec. Toronto: The room was full of gas. The deceiteed was about forty years or age and has a family. Mr. Gunn, whose grocery store in Guelph was burned some 'months ago, has iesued ae.git against the Waterloo .:autual Insurance Company to compel payment, they having refused to settle. Lieut. Quincy, formerly from Belle- ville, Ont., won the Tattersall's gold medal for teat pegging and the Murray eolil medal for tilting the rings at the assar tournament in Chicago. Capt. Sohn McCullough, drowned, off the Cumming:4 in lelilwaakee harbor, be- longed to Kingston. He was a native of Wolfe Island. Thomas Tureotte, another of the mieeing, belonged to Kingston also. Charles Williams. sou of Mrs. Sylvester Williams, of St. Thoma, returned home last week after being absent and unheard of for seven years. He was most of the time in South America. He left home at sixteen. The special evangelistic services whieh have been elinducted. in Galt by Major Hilton and Rev. Grant Taller for the past three weeks were broaght to a close. un Sanday. Over 650 persons professed con- version. Mrs. james Vanderburg, of Dunnville, who has been missing since Friday night, was found drowned in the Grand River aboat 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. It was no doubt a case of suicide, as she had threatened to drown herself before. Me. Tavernier, manager of the Ida Van Courtland Den:made Company, made the directors of the Guelph Opera House an offer of $1.2d0 a year rent. If the offer -is aocepted Mr. Tavernier will locate perma- nently there and manage the opera house himself. In speaking to the volunteers in churc,h in Kingston. on .Sanday lest Rev. 0. F. Lowe, late of Halifax, urged the men to sot their faces resolutely aeainst unclean language, of which he had hearci more here than in any other city of similar size which it had ever been his lot to dwell in. Mr. Dewitt, a deaf and dumb farmer near Colwell, was killed a few clays ago. horse be ing freight a came frightened at a pass- nd ran away, throwing the man from the wagon, and leaving him so terribly mutilated that .he • died shortly after warde. Ho leavee wife. and five small children. The request tiee of Montre terest of the of the inunicipel authori- al for a guarantee; of the in- ir bonds by the Dominion Go verninallt for the.purpose of construct, 1119 an inland dock in.' the eastern section of the city has been referred to the II-. nance Department for a repine from e financial standpoint. The bishop of Huron has ordained the following clergymen : Rev. Geo. A. Rob- inson, to be curate at New St. Paul's, Woodstock; Rev. j. A. Tan000k, to be curate at Brantford; Rev. R. J. Free- born, to be incumbent et' Blenheim; Rev, Mr. Sherwood and Rev. Mr. Arrni - tam who will remain at the college ie. London. Preparations for the great corivention of Baptist Young People, to be held in Toronto in july note, are eetively pro- gressing. The ccennuttee itt oharge have already the promiee of more than thirty prominent 13a,ptiet, pastors and educator 'find paptilar Young People's workers to be present and participate in the COnven- don. Among them are such wanes As 1.14, S. MaeA.rthur, D.A4 New York; Rev, D. D, DiraeLaurin, Detroit, M, Ellie, D. D., Baltimore, M(1%; .Preiident B. L. Whitman, Colby University, Me. ; B. H. Carroll, DJ)., Waco, Texas, M. Lawrence, D.D., Chicago; President S. B. teembrell., Mercer 'University,. Georgie, ; Henry C. 'Vedder, editor of The Examin- er, end j. B. Calvert, editor of The Christian Inquirer, of New Yoek. City; A. S. Hobart, D.D„ Yonkers, N.Y.; Z. Grown; D.D. Detroit; J. , Taylor, D. D., Mobile, Ala.; W. etieeere. D,D., Roehester ; Rev, B. Oranfill,. editor of The Texas -Baptist Standard., Waco, Tex.; Rev. S. A. Northrop, Pert Wayne, When the full progionirrie is annoanced it will contain no less than eine hundred names, representing ell parts of the Milted States and Canada. It was reported on May 8 that au old and somewhat melancholy My, Mrs. L. Linteen, of Kohler, which. is e small Til- lage near Onyege, had. strayed from her homo. on. the 7th. A. thorough search has been made, but thus far no clue to her whereabouts has been found. A reward is offered to anyone who will give any in- formation that will lead' to her recovery. She is dream(' in black and wears a red. handkerchief on her head, She is a small person, very thin, and weighs less than 100. pounds. She wears hilt shoes, has thick neck, hair partly grey and a little bald spot on the top of the head. She has a mark below ono of her knees from an old eat. A. sad accident occurred in the Ganan- oque Spring and. Axle Company's grind - lug room Wednesday night. All the men had stopped their stones with the ex- ception of Robert Fowler, and as the whole power was coneentratee on his stone it flew around withi terrific force. Suddenly it burst with terrible force, throwing Mr. Fowler SMUG distance from the frame on. which he was working. One of the pieces, weighing many handreas of pounds fell some thirty feet away, an- other ifew ap into the air and came down again, smashing the frame and floor. Mr. .Pewler was picked up and taken to his home, when medical aid, was male in. His injuries are all internal, and it is not thought he will Eve. • The Countess of Aberdeen leaves Ot- tawa on the 20th en route for England. She is to be away six weeks, and will visit Ireland. and Scotland. She returns in Judy, accompanied by the Dowager Countess of Aberdeou. Their Excellencies have finally decided. to take "Maple- wood," in Halifax, for the sturimer, and. they will probably take up their abode there about the beginning. of July. Hali- fax is to be unusually gay this summer, and many people from other parts of Can- ada speak of making it their summer headquarters. Several American yachts. with fashionable parties from New York and Boston. are expected in Halifax early in ,Tuly, and no end. of exciting events are foretold. A. determined attempt at, suicide or else a remarkable sequence, of accidents oc- curred Saturday on Hess street, Hamil- ton. David Dow, a contractor, was at work with a gang of his employees re- modelling a block of houses. Shortly be- fore noon Mr. Dow jamped or fell from a top storey window, but escaped. with a slightly contused face. Shortly after he repeated the experiment, but fortunately was not hurt, and. was found with his throat badly hackecl with a handsaw that lay beside him. The workmen who were with him say he fell on both occasions, and. account for the wound. in his •throat by the theory that on the second. occasion he fell on the handsaw. No reason is known why he should seek to take his life. as he is a prosperous man itt the prime of life. It is not likely that his injuries will prove fatal. Mr. W. A. Freeman, James street north. Hamilton, has made an assign- ment to David Blackleg and E. D. Cahill, of Carscallen, Cahill & Ross. The liabil- ities are roughly estimated at 875,000, caul the assets about 3100.000. Mr. Free- man was connected with a number of business enterprises, including the To- ronto Wood & Shingle Company, whose failure is said to be the direct cause for Mr. Freeman's aseigument ; the Mimic° Sewer Pipe Works, a fertilizing works in East Hamilton, and a general easiness in brick, weed and coal, and mantels and grates. The failure will result in the breaking down of the brick combine. AB. the hrickmakere sold their output to Mr. Freeman, who regulated the price of brick. The Bank Of Hamilton is one of the principal creditors, the figares run- ning to tens of thousands. During the musical festival to ba held next month in connection with theopen- ing of the new Massey Musio Hall, To- ronto, a competition in staging will take plaeo, and Mrs. Alexander Cameron will donate a 8100 cash prize each to the best soprano and terror, and, in addition, the Toronto College of Music will present to iirieh a year's echolneehip, valued at81.60. The judges will be the leading soloists taking part at the festival—Emma Juch and Lillian Blauvelt, the two famous so- pranoe ; Clara Poole King, contralto; H. H. Rieger and Cart E. Delft. These art- ists aro chosen to prevent any dissatisfac- tion that might arise were- they residents of Canada: The competition may be pithlic, but it has not yet been fuely de - aided. It will he for parity of voice, and is open to all Canada. There is already a Het of candidates who intendecompeeing for the prime, and, those who desire to da so should send their names to the secre- tary of the College of lefusio, Pembroke street, within the next two weeks.. Mr. W. J. Gage, the well-known pub- lisher, Toronto, who has for some time taken a deep interest in the cause and mire of tubertmlosis, or, as the disease is more commonly called, consumption, has come forward with a very generous offer, the result of which may be the establish- inent of a special hospital for tha treat- ment of consumptives'where they may be properly isolated, In a letter to Mayor Kennedy, which -will be laid before (Doan - oil ou Monday, Mr. Gage says: "ef any- thing can be done towards diminishing, the fatal termination of the disease of cousumption that' is so common to this country, and which comae to the homes of those lees able to straggle against its ravages, I believe an effort should be made to this end. With this objeob in view I would herewith propose that the Oity Council grant a site in High Park for the ereotion of tt suitable home for eon- sumptives. To aid in the erection of a home of this kind, which shall not cost less than. $50,000, I will. be preparedeb give the sum of 825,000 on the appoint- ment of a Board of Trustees duly named foe that purpose." Every crowned head of Europe, with the exception of that of Turkey, is de- seended from one of two sisters, the, daughters of Deice Ludwig Rudolf of Biunswiek-Wolfenbuttel, •whe lived eleout; one hundred and fifty years ',vb. DO1VIINION PARLIAMENT OUR LAWMAKERS IN COUNCIL Proceedings of The Senate and nouse of Commons, New Bills Introduced and The Budget Debate Continued, The free book clauses were changed so as to read: "Books printed by tele, gov- ernment, or by any essociation, for the promotion of seience or letters, and offi- cial annual reports of religious cm beaevo- lent associations, issaed in the course of the proceedings of the said associations; books not being: printed or reprinted in Canada, which are includee end used as text -books in the curricadeni of any nni- versity or incorporated college 'in Canada for the use of students thereof; books es- pecially imported for the beim fide use of incorporated Mechanics' Institutes, nubile free library, and univeigiey and college libraries, and law libraries, and every duly organized law association or socieby, for use of its members, not more then two copies of each 'book under regula- tions to be made by order lee eotmeil, and books, bound, or unbound, which have been printed and manufactured more than twelve years." On the iteni of sugar on the free list, Sir Richard Cartwright asked the Govern- ment whether centrifugal sugars worild be considered as eefinedeend taxed, what- ever their color or standard, or whether they would come in free under sixteen Dueoh standard. Controller Wallace re- plied that centrifugal sager wits not re- fined sugar. The most important change was the dropping of sale from the free list. To inquiries what he proposed to do about a duty on it, Mr. Foster repliell that he in- tended to give notice of a duty, the rate of which, however, he would net say at that time. Itt the dutiable list the following clause was pat under the classification of chem- icals: All medicines, chemical or inhere maceutical preparations, when compound- ed of more than one substance, including patent and proprietary preparations, tinc- tures, pilis, powders, troches or lozenges, syrups, cordials, bitters, anodynes, tonics, plasters, liniments, salves, ointments, pastes, drops, water essences, oils, and ell chemical, pharmaceutical or official pre- parations or medicines not otherwise pro- vided for; ahl liquids, 50 per cent. ad valorem, and, all others 25 per cent. ad valorem; providerl that this item shall not be held to include drags ancl prepara- tions recognized by the British tend United States pharanacopwa as official. Amendments were made so as to make these clauses on the free list read as fol- lows: Iron, steel or brass manufacturesnehich ot the time of their importation. are of a class or kind not manufactured in Can- ada when imported for use or construction or equipment of ships or vessels, free. Saddle jiggers, stirrups and saddle trees of all kinds. jute, fax or hemp yarn, plain, clyed'or colored, when imported by manufacturers of carpets, rags and. mats, and of jute webbing or jute cloth for use in their own factories. Hatters' furs not .on. the skin, and hat - tors' plush of silk or cotton. Fire bricks, not to include stove lin- ings. Cyanide of potassium and nitrate of silver were put on the free list. In the dutiable list following changes were made: Window shades, which in the new tariff were made to read 35 per cent., but not less than five cents per yoga.. The barrels in which beef or pork are imported were made free. Buggies,car- riages, pleasure carts and small vehicles. ages., costing not more than 850, 35 and 35 per cent. Buggies, carriages and pleasuxe carts costing over 350, 35 per cent. Ohiledren's carriages, 35 per cent. Acid, acetic and pyroligenous, n.e.s.: when used itt the manufacture of vinegar specific duty of fifteen cents a gallon ai any strength not exceeding the strength of proof, and two cents for each degree of strength in excess of the strength of proof. For druggists' use the rate was left at fifteen dents per gallon and one cone additional. The House went into committee of ways and. means. Leather was the first item taken tip. Under the provisions of the new tariff leather and skins, belting leather, solo leather, upper leather, incladingdongola, cordovan, kid, lamb, sheep and. calf, were placed at 15 per cent. ad valorem. This was changed to 17e per cent. Lumber upon which a duty of 20 per cent. was imposed was changed to taken' all lumber not on the free list, and fat- ther manufactured than cb.-essed on one side. Manufactures composed wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca goat, or other like animal, blan- kets and flannels, overceatinges, and eat clothen.e.e., weite changel to o dents per pound and 25 cents ad valorem. . Mr. McKay moved the House into com- mittee on his bill to incorporate the Wel- land Power and Simply Canal Company. limited. A dense was added declaring the works chartered by the bill to be .In the general interests or Canada. COL Tisdale moved the House into com- mittee to _consider Mr, eilaea's kili to in- corporate the Cariboo Railway Company. The bill received, its third reading. Robillard Moved the Houle into committee on his to confirm an agree- ment between the, Ottawa City Passenger Railway Company and the Ottawa Elece trio Street Railway Company and an agreement between the .said companies and the eorporation of the eiter of Ottaara, and to unite the said companies under the nettle af." The Ottawa Electric Railway Corn pan y ." The bill was reed a third. time. The House then event into committeeof ways and means. • Mr. Paterson continued the debate on the propositioe of the Finance Minister to change the duties on woollens to 5 cents per pound and 25 per cent ad valorem. The item passed. Fabrics composed wholly or in pare of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca gook, was changed to 80 per tont. The item passed withoub change. Beady -made clothing, wholly or part of moll was made 5 cents per pound and 30 per cent. ad valorem, Shirts, rams., were made &epee cent. ad valorem, Window shades, in the piece or cat or hemmed, were made 85 per cent, all valo- rem, but not less than 5 cents per square yard. lileamelled floor, stair, shelf and oil efoth, eorlt rea,tting or carpet and linoleum was made 80 per cent. but not less than A Cents per square yard'. Socks and steekings of all kinds, nee,s., were made 1.0 cents per dozen pairs and 85 per cent, ad valoreni, • The slate duty was itinereled to read that the duty should not be more than 75 'erd90te1)eciOnelfeeor1 re efo°voih'elcla t -6e4' it ,. when split or dressed only, and school or writing slates 30 Per cent. On the item of mining machinery inthe free liSt, Mr, -Mara, 'saict he wished to see the mostliberal. constructiOri given to this elass of .articles, and proposed to add to the 'tariff e list of 'articles not Made in Canada, whieh prospeetom and capitalists .eould gee eould be brought in free. • • At the suggestion of Hon. :Mr. Poster, Mr. Mara handed his list to the Conipteol- ler of Customs, who will furnish colleet- ors of customs throughout the country with apples, Hon. Mr. Haggert, in replyto Mr. Mu - lock, said the total amount of claims against the Government in respect of the works known as the Welland and Grand Wink Railway bridges from the cone- menceinent of the works to their comple- tion was 3490,754, and the amount paid. on account Of these claims was 3894,790. Mae McCarthy moved for correspond- ence with respeot to the admission of Ro- man Catholic vestments free when con- Sienecl to the Rev, Father Brady, of Woodstock, while (as Mr. Ms,Oarthy al- ieecl) similar privileges were refused to the Rev. 0. Farthing, rector of the Anglicen Church at Woodstock. Mr. llicklaithy made out that 3500 worth of church 'vestments and other aetielee con- signed to Father Brady wore admitted free, while the Rev. J. 0, Farthing was chargee duty on a similar class of goods for the use of the Anglican Church.. Mr. Wallace aceesed Mr. McCarthy of inspiring the charges made againsthim regarding this -Woodstock case. This was a matter with which he .(Me. Wallace) had hail nothing to do, and he had not known of tho violation of the 'Customs Act, until recently. Mr. Wallace then went on to read the correspondence, and showed that , there was nut a single line in the correspond- ence tosustain the charges made by Mr. McCarthy that he (Mr. Wallace) was capithee of doing rin injustice to one men and favoring mother. Mr. O'Brien was the next to speak on this matter. He denied that any copy of the correspondence had been got from him for publication, and said that Mr. Wal- lace-11nel not been charged with anything. Th.e statement had simply been made that there had been discrimination at the port of 'Woodstock. Mr. McCarthy then. got up and said he ems astonished at the heat of the Comp- troller of Customs. He had simply want- ed to pat the blame on the proper official, and claimed that the correspondence was not complete. Mr. Farthing h.ad accept,. ed the 'responsibility for the publication of the lettors in the Mail. Sir John Thompson said there was an extraordinary aniount of suspicion upon the part of Mr. McCarthy. The simple faces •were that tho colleetot had charged 340 less duty than he should. They were not to sappose that this was done by the direction of the Comptroller of Customs. Mr. Mills (Annapolis) moved that "it is, expedient to amend the ElectoralFran- chise Act so that it shall not be lawful for any person to vote at any election for a member or members to represent the people in the Parliament of Canada who at any time within twelve months before the day of sueli election was an employe, an appointee., receiving pay or emolu- ment, a holder of a, commission for the expenditure of money or recent of wages or emoluments of any kind of or from any of the Provincial Governments of Canada, which have enacted or may here- after enact a similar disfranchisement as to their election, cif employee, etc., of the Federal Goverument." Throwing The Gauntlet. One of the most common appeals in disputes was to the wager of battle, by which a cause was pat to the hazard of a fight between plaintiff and, defendant or between champious engaged by them. In this a glove or gauntlet was thrown down as a challenge. and picked up to bind the, engagement-, The duel which ensued was a legal process carried out with prescribed formalities, and, there was no doubt what- ever about the verdict, since that wae given by defeat. often' by death. Thee custom, althotigb it lingered long. de - (Aimed with the decay of -chivalry had finally been left in abeyance for close upon two hundred years, when it was suddenly brought forward again in 1817 in a trial for nuneler. . The accused. Ab- raham Thornton., had, been acquitted by a ;eery, much to the dissatisfaction of the public, and. was already set free, wheu William Ashford, the brother of the mur- dered girl, entered an " appealfor mur- der" under the mouldy old statute which had been tacitly but not formally re- pealed,- and Thornton was again arrested. At, the hearing before the Court of King's Bench it was the prisoner's turn to create a sensation. after he had pleaded " Not guilty," by throwing down a gauntlet on the floe]: of the court in the -Old form of chellenge,_ gelding, "1 am ready to defencl the:seine with. my body." The judges, and there were four of them, after much diecussioin decided •that tlee accused could claim to put his innocence to the proof of combat. and the mewl:Lege would have had to lie carried oat in ali their anti- quated absurdity. but iOr the withdrawal pf young meshfoed, who was physically in foxier to his opponent and does not seem to be willing to heave the perils 'which; accoreing to. old Butler, ''environ the Intim who meddles with cold iron" There the case ended, but when another appeal was put in within e fe.w months it became neeessary to interfere before re- spectable courts of law were brought to the lee -el of n prize fight and an act of. parliament put an end alt litet to alt j adi- alai cluele. • • LASTED ONE NIGHT. • Tlui Reform ,Instituted by a Druggist With 3poterprise. " Tho trouble with us," said the drug- gist thoughtfally, 'Is that we don't keep opea long enough. There is lots of late businees at the dreg store, and a man will patronize that store in the daytime that he Is obliged to patronize at night. It would pay us to keep open later and note rely much on the night bell." The partner was a little doubtful, and called ettention to the extra, expense for gas and a olork, bat he finally gave in, the mein ergamont being that the late sales would. certainly pay the expense, and that, the number of patrons secured would result in a profit. I3oth stayed up the first night, one en- thusiastic and the other skeptical. One explained that, of eourse, they couldn't expect a enstomer to drop in the first thing, and the other remarked that he would be sarprised if they soid enough:1in three nights to pay for the gas burned by one jet in half an hour. They watched the people who occasion- ally passed the, store, and, the partner shrugged his shoulders and said: See?" every time a men went by— • It was pretty nearly time to close up when a boy came in and bought a 1.0-oent package of cigarettes, The drugtst would have enjoyed throwing the boY as he heard his partner laugh, but hi; ro- b:allied. It was nearly Midnight, and the extra two horns :they had remained open had resulted in a profit of a cent or a cent and a half. Then a main oame hurrying along the street. He saw the light in the window and made a bee line for the store " Here he comes " exclaimed the drug.. gist joyfully. "Some one sick, Sure. I toll you we ought to keep open f or hu- manity's sake, if not for profit." s George! I was rt,fraid I wouldn't find you.open," exclaimed the Man as he en- tered. "We intend to remain open till 12 or 12;80 after this," exclaimed the drug- gist, as he went around behind the coun. is ter, "It's a good. thing, a good thing," said the man approvingly. " 0110 can niter tell when he may need something from a drug store. Give me three 2 -cent stamps, please." Not a word was said as they closed and locked the doors. The druggist did not feel like saying anything, and the partner thought it dangerous. And the next night they closed between 9 and 1.0, as they hall formerly done. NOT THE CASE. Several Examples Furnished as Proof.. "1 have often heard," said the man with the blaelt necktie, "that there is a special providence that watchee • over chunicen men. Their luck is proverbial.: They fall down flights of stales and coal holes and the like and come up smiling, They walk into 'canals and float about euntil somebody rescues them. They can't hurt themselves, tradition says. How- ever, I have had occasion to test the theory, and I scoff at it. I am a meeker, ThieFrec;sinilenhlreige,ik iniin it. w a man onoo who wae an habitual drinker. He was hill most of tho time. One day he went to sleep on the Ride of the street. A coal wagon came along and the driver dumped two tons of chestnut coal MI him. Now, according to the theory, that man should have escaped unharmed.. .But ho No such luck: When they _shoveled. the coal off him they found him there flat on his back.--" "Dead. 1 suppose." broke in the mare with the bell-crowned high hat. " No; he wes alive enough as far as that goes, but the weight of the coal had. brOkOrt a bObtlO that contained two of the finest (meets of sour mash ever'distilled. "Then, there was another man I knew who had the same failing. He got drunk because he couldn't help it. Ono day he was coming up in the street iitt a very wabbly meaner, and he walked by a store that had its sidewalk trapdoors open. Of course, he fell in. He strucksloiraiLogf Voixtreoes„ contrivances they have for down, and he shot into the ni Feu° of that cellar as if he had beerx fired out of a Krupp gun. He hit a crate of croOkery—" "And broke ib and his leg, undoubt- edly," broke in the young Man with the bell-crowned high hat agum. The man with the black necktie shook his head. "No," he replied, "not exact- ly, although I believe he did spoil e few dozen washbowls and pitchers. Bat thalt. cats no figure either way, By the theory he should have escaped unharmed. In- stead.,.they hauled him off to the police court and he went to tho penitentiary for six months for attempted burglary. "But that case wasn't a marker to my own saddest experience., I'll admit thee on the afternoon I am speaking of I had taken too much chink. 1 was hazy as to my whereabouts. I wanderell down to the docks. I had no business there, that was probably the reason why I was there. I walked off into the water. Now, by the rule, I should have been rescued imme- diately after I had struck the water. wasn't though." Here the man with the black necktie stopped and sighed. "What happened?" inquired; the young until -with the bell-crowned hat. eaigerly. "Why, instead of going co'mforlia,bly into the water, which would have helped tsober me, if nothing else, I fell into one of those infernal seders the ferry -boys use. I went to sleep, and that ferry -boy didn't do a thing but row me around the harbor for six hours while I slept and charge me 33 an hour after I waked up." Not Above Criticism. I don't take any great aceount of th.e proverbs apd axioms and. such that's printed in the magazines nowadays," re- marked Mrs. Philander Peasley to her hasband, as she laid down the last num- ber of a monthly publication. "I've been a -studying over a volume of 'em that some man has writ here, and I wonder that folks'll publish euch staff. You can make 'em mean ono thing or nothing, just according as you see fit. Now here's one of 'em : 'It is unfortunit' to seize the wrong e,hance to do or say a thing as 'tis to let the right one pass by.' "Now, I'd like to be told how folks would come out of they was to be sca't at both ends like that? What I like is the old-fashioned provdrbs ; there ain't any two ways of taking 'em. and getting mis- led. " Make hay while th,e sun shines.' Now ain't that dear? Haste makes waste.' What's truer than that, I'd like to know? There ain't one of them old sayings but what's true as preaching, howsomever you take 'em. Tb.ey can't be turned and twisted round to mean any- thing a body pleases." " Do you recall one about a thing ain't lost when you know where 'tis enquired Capt. Beasley, in his usual shrill quaver. " I should say I did," replied his wife, promptly. " and—zany's the time I've heard, it." " Well," said the captain, with a sug- gestion Of a laugh in his trembling old voice, "1 had a eook once that quoted that to me whett the teakettle was washed. overboard and all the caps and saucers, but eve didn't seem to be able to find 'em, Sary "1 reckon you've set up about :long enough this evening," said Mrs. Beasley, cuid she bundled the captain off to bed with considerable haste. The Doctor's A.dvice. "It's pretty damp for a person with the theamatism to be prowling around, Uncle 3:tamtvt.t.ibbi e, floss, but it's der cloator's "Do you mean to tell me the doctor ad. vised you to be out nights ?" "Not "zactly dat way—but he said I must have chickerbrof Patoo—PoIttottese to o.owepapertztott,