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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-7-26, Page 711 FOR SABBATH READING, „CURRENT ElElinaLOITS TALICs 'Trite ad Wise Selections of the Ablest Men of the Day on Morality and Re- ligion for Howe BeaOng. Shriven, A.D. 142'5. ." After he had given hie final dirties - ions, he asked his physicians how long, they thought he might live. And when they bold hien 'About two hours,' he shut •out from his thoughts every earthly .eare, and spent his remaining moments in devotion." 1have let the world go. • That's the door that closed Beland the holy father, I an shrived. 41,11,a dooniLe—all's shaped and ronnded And one hour yet to wait for death. Good Lord! How easy 'twos to let this vain life go 1 Why, I protest, 1 wno have fought tor life • These fifty years, more times them 1 would count, I gave the poor thing up but now as though 1 toss'd away a slulluig—asit the priest? 1 gave up as lightly as I gave Mai Yor an autar-eloth hind scarf of cloth of gold' Wile king bound round my arm at Agincourt, • .1' ,One hour—one hour 1 and then a tug o' the heart And I. shall see the saints. How pima they make it, These limiest 111011 of God! Was it at Lisle a met that paunchy little yellow friar, ,Ltke Oupid ih atniss,mic with tne jaundice, And played at cards with, him two days to- getner ? Stay, 'twin; at Calais, where 1 fought the count— 'r Lady, but they mimk'cl nim1—'twits at Wads— Row had had some converse with that brother it might have Deem tne better for my soul. Though tis all one. 1 take it, now. . . The Abbess He told a master ,story of an Abbess— An Abbess and a (Jlerk—but godly talk, HI remember me aright . we had not. Ay, 'tis fair lying here, to watch the sun ,Creep up p.m vaiL 1 woulu mat 1 had thought To give that Igleat the ruoy in my hut To buy Min better stove ul sacred - The CULOilltai. g,.) to .earadise, methinks, Something too raneid-navored. What's tne clock ? This hour's too full of _minutes—minutes—min- Mes. Ah, wen, I have done with time. 'Tis but an hour. .1 have let the world go. Would my dog were here A mean or a selfish action in one's early life is sure to be remembered with shame when brought back to mind in one's later years. It is header to face one whom we have wronged than to face one who has wronged us. He may for- give us, but we cannot forgive ourselves. We are likely to be troubled at his pres- ence, nob so much from fear of his wrath, as from contempt 'of our conduct. We lay up trouble for ourselves when we give place to spite or envy or jealousy at home —or away from home. Sometimes I have thought in my med- itation, "If Christ would descend but as a beam of light, that I might see Him, it would be such a help to my senses!" And .1 have listened in hours of sorrow, ancl I have head nothing. I bay° called, and none has answered. I have reached out Imploring hands, and nothing took them. I have said "My Lord and my God, if Thu a art, speak to me 1" and there has been no response. And yet out of these .hours I have some feeling still that a silent and invisible God can be more to .me, taking life all through, than if He were actually present an(l visible in a bodily form. I take hold of the invisible by more sides than I do ,.the visible. •Childhood's memories are fresh and -strong in the mature heart. A boy never grows old to his father or his mother. His father is his father, and his mother is his mother as truly when he is a man .as when he was a, boy. And his brothers •"Sam" and "John" are brothers Sam and John to him as long as he and they are alive. And the loves of one's early home life stand out in the memory when the hatessancl the jealousies and the hick- erings of that life are forgotten. If only brothers and sisters realized, while they were boys and girls at home together, how their common life must live isi their future memories, they would_ be more loving and less quarrelsome, in order that those memories might be brighter in ,dd age. The young man has had no experience. To him there are no rich memories. Life is all before him. He looks forward with anticipation and hope, and presses on in •the direction of his longings. The pic- tures in his mind are pictures of imagina- tion, and of possibilities to be attained to. He sees visions of what may be, and he strives for their realization. The old man, on the contrary, has had ear periences, and. his chief mental treasures are in memory. There is more of life to him behind than before. His backward ooks are of mingled joy and sadness, and it is difficult for him to turn his thoughts ein the opposite direction. His mental pictures are of historic faas ; and what has been, is to him more real than what is to be. He dreams dreams of the past, and asks himself whether anything can be so good or so bad as that which he has known. 'When ,mankind coulee to its complete- ness in Christ it will be able surely to aejoice in every triumph of God in this -world, and at the same time be filled -with love and tenderness for the most hateful of those who work against God. What is the passage in the New Testa- ment to set alongside the song of De- borah: "So let all thine enemies perish, 0 Lora?" Turn to the great New Testa- ment and. hear the prayer of Jesus on the cross: "Father, forgive them, for they know riot what they do." Behween that barbaric ery of triumph over the destruc- tion of God's enemies and this infinite compassion of our Saviout -whae a vast distance I ' Not until we have come to the place where we shall absolutely rejoice in every word of Christ, with that teseis many of our joy which comes only with ,our eomplete dedicatiote and at the same time, having nothing) in ourselves, but that pity and desire to help even the worst of men, not until then do we show ourselves to be true disciples of the Master. Not for souls. But for a soul, Only one. One at a time. Not by wholesale, but individually. Not indefinite souls in Africa or New Zealand, but orie soul in your own family, in your own cirele, in. your own. community. Work for a soul. Dr. Cayler tells of a warm-heart- ed lawyer in his church who made up his mind to work for the conversion of a cer- tain infidel in his congregation, He went to work deliberately. He was patient and persistent. He did not lack faith or wisdom. He was kind and gentle. His yearaing after the soul of his friend. brought a rare degree of Christ - likeness to his own We, After awhile the infidel said to him in a half -jest: "Mr. you would better give me up as a hard ease, and. try somebody else," But the soul -hungry lawyer did not give up his friend. He gave himself all the more to his self-appointed work,' and did not cease his praying and work- ing mail his friend was soundly convert- ed to God. 0 worker in the cause of the unsaved, pick out your own soul Then devote yourself wholly to your task. Do not be diverted from your royal purpose. Let that one soul be constantly ia your thoaghts, in your prayers, in your plans. And it may be that, sooner than you think for, GOcl will grant you your heart's desire. One soul. Not a score. Only oae. Pray for one. Plead for one. Work for one. Behind all oharauter chore are endur- ing principles, and it is by these prin- ciples, handed oti often from sire to son, but developed for the first time some- times by han itt whom they are illustrat- ed, and greatness is nuxturecl and the truest kingship achieved. We see, now and then, men of the humblest lineage, as the world. reckons such things, who mount to the loftiest eminence from low- liest amel most obscure beginnings, and we see all along, in the history of such men, certain dominant aspiretions, cer- tain clear con.vietions, a faith and. cour- age and majesty of rectitude, which rule and mold. them from the beginning. Such men, whatever their origin, seem to be born of great truths and nurtured by grand ideas. In the womb of these their intellects were nourished, their wills disciplined and their consciences enljghtened. If we go back- to the moth- ers who bore them, no matter in what humble station they lived. ancl toiled and nourished. their little ones, tins same noble qualities appear; and these are the inflaences'that rule and mold the man. Such a man, in whatever high station he stands, is great and noble, because he is, most of all, the son of noble beliefs and noble convictions. Two ships are la ens harbor. You have to make a journey round she world, and must decide which of these ships you will take. You go aboard the first to ex- amine. "How many times has this ves- sel been around. the world?" you ask the captain. "Oh, she has never been at all," he replies; "she has just been banded." "Are you perfectly sure she can double Cape Horn ±15 15 gale of wind?" "0 yes, there is no trouble. The stories about the difficulties of doubling Cape Horn are exaggerated." You then go on board the other ship. "Captain, has this vessel ever been around. the world ?" "Yes, sir, this is her tenth. voyage." "Is there any danger in doubling Cape Horn?" "My friend, there is always danger doubling that cape. The seas are heavy and angry. But you need have no fear; every plank and every yard of canvas, and every in.& of cordage itt this ship has been made to meet the storms while doubling that cape." Which vessel do you go on ? Condensed eeaesee The great sin is made up oflittle follies. We all encourage folly because we "don't like to say anything." Never get "in it" unless you are sure you can get out without being laughed at. The joy a preacher feels in saving sin- ners, the angler experiences in catching fish. All the world loves a lover except the man who happens to have a lover in his employ. Childrenwould do as they are told a great deal better if grown folks did as they tell. It is a mistaken notion that the people will not criticise a man unless he is a candidate for office. The lessons an old man learns by ex- perience the children say are not as harsh as he represents. People should take more care of their health while they have it, and less after they have lost it. Delany wise things that old men say are never heard because of interruptions from young fools. When a woman says a foolish thing, she can always depend on a, man answer- ing ha with something that is worse. /6 is often the case that the women who give their children romantic names have husbands who do not know how to spell them. The Lord never made any woman. so (rood looking that other women could not see where her looks might have been ira- proved. The women neecln t worry if their hus- bands get letters addressed in other women's writing. They are usually dressmakers' bills. Did you ever tame that a man who does not " talk" about others isgener- ally admired. You can be admired itt the same way, and feel better in that tender spot away down deep in you. There is no surer sign of ill -breeding than rudeness towards d.epenclents, MISCELLANEOUS READING, GlIATE AS WELL AS GAY. Heading 'or Leisure Moments for Old and 'Young, Interisting and Profita- ble. Jane Jones, Tans, Tones keeps a•whisperin" to me all the An'tstamyes' "Why don't you melte it a rule To study your lessons, an.' work hard me' learn, An' n eYer be absent from. school? Remember the story of China &mitt, gas he (dumb to the top; Got all the knowledge 'at he ever had DOwn itt the bia.elcsmithIn' shop." &um Jones she honestly said it was so ; • Mebbe he did—I datum ; 'Course, what's a.keepin' me 'way from the top Is not never havi n' no blacksini thin' seep. gee said 'at Ben Franklin was awfully poor, But fall o' ambition an' brains, An' studied philosophy all 'is hull life— An' see what he got for Ins pains, He brought eleetrleity out of the sky With a kite an' the lightnin, an' key, So we re owin' him, moron any one else, Per all the bright lights 'at we see. Jane JOT1OS she actually said it was so ; Mebbe he did—I dunno ; 'Coarse, what s alleys been hinderin' me Is not lama' any kith, lightnin, or key, Jane Jones Skid Columbus was out at the knees When he first made up his big scheme; An' all the Spaniards an Italians, too, They laughed and just sidcl 'twas aldrearn ; 13rit Queen Isabella she listen'd to nim, An' pawned all her jewels o' worth, An'. bought 'Im the Santa Marier 'nd said (3,0 hunt im the rest of the earth." Jane Jones she honestly said it was so; Mebbe he d Ic1-1 dunno ; 'Course, that may all be. but you must allow They ain't any land to diseover Just now, .A. Hypao We Duel. I am a firm believer in hypnotism, s dentine and otherwise,' ' said a man who looked as little like a crank or a faddist as could well be imagined. He was one of a group talking on. occultism in gen- eral and this as collateral, and when he made the announcern.ent there was an imraediate demand for the reasons for the faith that was in him. "Twenty years ago," he went on in response to the demand, "L was a stu- dent in France, and at that time hypno- tism, or mesmerism, as it was then known, did not hold the place it now holds. On the contrary, the believer itt mesmerism was considered by a majority of the mose respectable people to be mentally lax, so to speak. My roommate and best friend was an American attending a medical school, and. both of us were more or less interested in things occult, as active - minded young men are likely to be when they are not rich enough to indulge itt all frivolities of youth which are quite Ike contrary of occultism. We attended hypnotic seances and that sort of thing at every opportunity, and it was notlong until my friend, Walter, began to 'show sisals of being a mesmerist himself. When wee discovered he had the gift, we were greatly elated, an.d on every occasion, among our friends, he was practising and perfecting his skill. So adept did he fin- ally become that had it not been for the prejudice against it we would have turned it to account to assist our revenues, which about this time felt the need of assist- ance, as we had made the acenaintance of a fast crowd and our exchequer was assuming a degree of emaciation which was positively painful. "Otto night, on our way home from a small festivity, not at all in the line of occultism, we stopped at a well-known cafe, where a number of giddy youths like ourselves werainakina a night of it, and when we left the place Walter had a duel on his hands with a fiery young official, who had been slapped itt the face for certain remarks, which, if Walter had been duly sober, he would never have no- ticed. However, that was of no avail now, and nothingwas left except to fight, and to fight with. the Frenchman's choice of weapons, as Walter was the challenger. What a fool he was; what a fool I was; • what a fool the Frenchman was; what fools all of us were; what a fool a man always is when he is drunk! Yet it did. not strike us so that night as we rolled along to our rooms. But the next morn- ing, when the wine was out and the wit was in, Walter and I would gladly have given all we possessed to be out of the ugly business. What the Frenchman thought about it I have no notion, Very likely he didn't think about it at all, but took it as a matter of course, for that was the way he had been raised.' It was quite different with us; though, for we had fathers, mothers, sisters and sweet- hearts back in America, to whom a duel was quite as dreadful as it was to us— when we were sober. There was no hon- orable way for us to get out of it, how- ever, if we wanted to stay in France, and to have gone away under such circum- stances was even worse than the risk of murder or being murdered, so there we were. Of course all the arrangements devolved upon me as Walter's friend, and every move I made itt the affair seemed to me as if I were getting Walter ready for his funeral under his own direc- tion. It was,siraply horrible, and there were times when I wished I had been. reared in an atmosphere of duels, and had swords for playthings and pistols for pop- guns. Forty-eight hours was the limit of my time for such reflections, however, and before the expiration of that a duel with swords had been arranged to take place at daylight in the suburbs, and poor Walter didn't know half as ranch about a sword as he did about a plowshare, and he didn't know enough about that to have run a straight furrow if it had been staked out for him across a field, while the Frenchmen was a noted swordsman. Still, much to my surprise, Walter ap- peared quite calm after the first twenty - 1 our hours of sober thought, and I could. not account for it, unless it was that calmness oi despair we read of and occa- sionally happen on in our experience. In this instance I thought I had happened on it, and I am free to say it did not add to my cheerfulness. "Well, the time came,and we were there promptly, with a faint hope itt my palpitating bosom that something would interfere with the other side to prevent alt appearance. 'But it went to pieces early; the Frenchman was there before we were, and what was worse, he showed signs of being glad he was there. How I did want to take him out to some quiet spot and wring his infernal neek ! And how handsome Walter booked, pale, of course, but the very picture of a man! Alia how I felt when I thought of whet word I might have to send, home to his dear old mother and father, and to that sister of his, who was more to methan all the others! "If both principals had been French- men I might have been less wrought hp' but there was an Arneriean in it, and somebody was bound to get hurt, "Before we got down to business 'Wal- ter began to act queerly, and I thought the strain was proving too great for Iiimj but he whispered something to me and I watched tie Ilrenchnutn. Presently he observed Walter's peeuliar motions and actions, whieh were just enough not be exeite comment, and they were continued until the two men took their plaees. 11 was evident the Frenchman thought Walter was about to work some western • trial( on. him to offset his superior skill with the sword, and. he became more in- tent than ever, Walter was extremely awkwaed with his sword, but he managed to keep it in front of him, which he did with the point stieking straight at his adversary. He had. caught the French- man's eye meanwhile, and as they ad- vanced to the encounter I thought, that from the fixed gaze of Monsieur that he had made up his mind to stick Walter full of holes in the first boat and end the affair, so he could get baek to an early breakfast, but it did not turn out that way, for when they came within touch- ing distanee Walter, with his oyes firmly fixed on the Frenchman's, threw his sword point slightly to one side and the Frenchman's followed it. Once, twice, thrice he attempted to make a thrust, but invariably the sword flew wide, Monsieur's seconds noted the strange ac- tions of their principal, but could not ac- count for it, and at last Walter, with a side swipe, as the boys say in these days, fetched the Frenchman a terrible whack it the neek with the flat of his sword, very much as if he had hit hira with a fence rail, and knocked him out so com- pletely that he could not respond, and for some time the surgeons thought he had beenkilled. When he recovered con- sciousness Walter stood by, and on him the Frenchman first openet1 his eyes, He attempted to rise, but Walter gently waved him baok with, the greatest mag- nanimity and assured the seconds that he was perfectly satisfied if Monsieur were; Monsieur said he was and shook hands. "Five minutes later we were in our carriage on our way bade to Paris, when Walter collapsed. and fell over itt my arms in a dead faint. When he had re- covered and pulled himself together he lauped almost hysterically. ' By George, old man,' he said, I -wouldn't again go through what I have gone through inthe la,st forty-eight hours for a million dollars. Whew! I never was so badly scared in my life,' and he drew a long breath. But I say, olrl boy, he concluded, mesmerism beats swords all hollow to fight a duel with.' "That last sentence explained every- 1Valter had put his mesmerism against the sword. of the Frenchman and vanquished him in the open field. "Bat we never boasted of our victory —at least not in France." Captain p,t.L.Is> aud Tony. ma Captain Stick was a remarkably precise old gentleman and. conscientiously just man. He was, too, -very methodical in his habits, one of which was to keep an account in writing of the conduct of his servants, from day to day. It was a, sort of account -current, and he settled by it every Saturday afternoon. No one dreaded. these hebdomadal balancings more than Tony, the boy of all -work, for the captain was generally obliged to write a receipt for a considerable amount across his shoulders. One settling afternoon the captain, ac- companied by Tony, was seen. "toddling" down to the old stable, with his little ac- count book in one hand and a small rane in the other. After they had reached the "Bar of Justice," and Tony had been properly "strong up," the captain pro- ceeded to state his accounts as follows : "Tony, Dr. "Sabbath, to not blacking my boots, etc., fi.ve stripes. "Tuesday, to staying four hours at mill longer than necessary, ten stripes. "Wednesday, to not locking the hall door at night, five stripes. "Friday, to letting the horse go with- out water, five stripes. Total, twenty- five stripes. Tony, Cr. "Monday, by: first-rate day's work in garden, ten stripes. "Balance due, fifteen stripes." The balance being thus struck, the captain drew his rawhide and remarked: "Now, Tony, you black scamp, what say you, you lazy villain, why I shouldn' t give you fifteen lashes across your back., hard as I can?" "Stop, ole mass," said Tony; " dar's i de work n de Ogden, sir—dat ought to tek some off." "You black dog," said the captain, "haven't I given you credit of ten stripes for that: Come, °cane !" "Please, ole massa," said Tony, roll- ing his eyes about in agony of fright; "dam's—you forgot—dar's de swain' ob de fLoor—ole missile say nebber been scour as ,good before." Soho, you saucy rascal," quoth Capt. Stick, " you.'re bringing in more offsets, are you? Well, now, there!" Here the captaitt made an. entry upon his book. "You have a credit of five stripes, and the balance must be paid." "tor a -mighty, massa, don't hit yet-- dar's sumpen else—oh, Lord! please don't —yes, sir—gotura now—ketehin' de white boyeand fetchin' um to ole milsus, what trow rock at de young duck." "That's a fact," said. the captain; "the outrageous young vagabond—that's a fact, and. I'll gives you credit of ten stripes for it. I wish you had brought him to me Now we'll settle the bal- ance." " Bress de Lord, ole massa," said Tony, "cat's all." Tony grinned ex- travagantly. The captain adjusted his tortoise -shell spectacles with great exact- ness, held the book close to his eyes and ascertained that the fact was as stated by Tony. He was not a little irritated. "You swear off the account, you infer- nal rascal—you swear off the account, do you ?" "Al de credit is fair, ole massa," an- swered Tony. "Yes, but—" said the disappointed captain, "bat—but—" still the captain was sorely puzzled haw to give Tony a few licks anyhow; "but—" An idea popped into his head. "Where's my costs you incorrigible, abominable seonndrel ? You. want to swindle me, do you., oat of my costs, you black, deceitful rascal? And," added °Wain Stiek, chuckling as well at his own ingenuiby as the perfect justice of the sentenCe,"1 enter judgment; against, you for costa—ten stripes," and forth- with administered the stripes and satis- fied the judgment. "ICI' tiger !" said Tony, " nigger! What die jukgraelie for eoss ole massa talk 'bout ? Done git off 'bout bleckin' de boot, gel off 'bout stayin' long time at de mill, and elseeet tines else, but, dis judg- men' for ems panne de debbil. Bross God, nigger must keep out ob de ole sta- ble, or, I'll tell .you what, dat judgraen' for coss make e back feel mighty warm., for true!" ' Yoh will find that the more resolve tot to be useless, and the holiest desire to to help other people, will in the quickest and most delicate ways, improve yourself, FROM TIIE UNITED STATES DOINGS .4.elkOSS DIE LINE, Buele Sam's Broad Acres Furnish Quite a vow email Items that are Worth a Careful Heading, Severe earthquake shocks are reperted from Ueltieo. kc,a'rg. President Cleveland has signed the bill admitting Utah as a State. There were 4,000 delegates at the Chris- tian Endeavor Convention at Cleveland. The U, S. cruiser Baltimore has arrived at Chemelpo, Corea, to protect American interests. The strike at the National tube works, MeKeesport, Pa., has beenaidectlared off. It lasted nine weeks, • The mints at San Francisco and. New Orleans have been in.strueted to com- mence silver coinage at once. President Dabs is said to be sending out "revivalists" to again work up interest in the American Railway TJnion. A dozen men were blown to pieces by an explosion of dynamite at the Stockton colliery, near Hazleton, Pa., Tuesday. Prof. 0. G. Ziline,n, of Shibley College, Cornell, died Tuesday from lockjaw brought on from an accident an July 4. At Bradshaw, West Virginia' Nellie Keane, aged nine years, hangedherself because she was kept from school to attend two babies. Debs, Howard, Keliher and Rogers, of the A. Ie. U., were sent to jail. in Chicago Tuesday because they could. not secure 86,000 bail each. Fifty-two persons were poisoned by ice cream at a church festival in West Un- ion, D.1,, last week. One is dead, and. three others are dying. Williaro. A. Johnson,' colored, a Har- vard stadent, was arrested at Newport, R.I., Tuesday for forgeries on Boston firras amounting to $1,725. He confessed and was taken to Bastott without requisi- tion papers, Twenty banks and eighty beading business houses of Chicago have despatchs ed a telegram to the Senate and House of Representatives at Washington demand- ing that the pending tariff legislation be terminated at once, Official reports have been received of a severe earthquake felt throughout the ex- treme southern part of Mexico a few days ago. The shock destroyed many thous- ands of dollars worth of property, the most serious loss being in the mountain- ous district south of San Carlos, which is very remote from railway or telegraph communication. No loss of life has as yet been reported. Bernard F. Gentsch, ex -postmaster of Buffalo, and. a probable candidate for mayor this fall, shot and killed himself itt a field back of his house on Seneca street Monday. Although he was worth about $180,000 at the time of his death, worry over a loss a $8,000 sustained by a local bank through a loan recommended by him is supposed to have unbalanced his mind and caused the tragedy. There has been a big break in the miners' ranks along the Pennsylvania road. About 400 diggers employed by the Pennsylvania & Westmoreland Gas Coal Company, and many others at the works of the Pennsylvania Gas Coal Company, returned. to work. The firm has signed no scale, and refuses to re- cognize any union. The Pennsylvania =leers, in'convention, almost unanimous- ly decided' to continue the fight. Troop A, United States cavalry, of Fort Reno, under command. of Capt. j. 0. MaeKey, which has been detailed to guard the Rock Island road, missed death at the hands of the Pond Creek wreckers at one o'clock Tuesday morning by less than 200 feet. Two explosions of dy- namite occurred within. 200 yards at the southern outskirts of the city immediate- ly the special train carrying the troops from Enid to Pond Creek station had passed. One of the shots exploded im- mediately under the train but did. no damage, but the other blew out a cattle guard and shattered the rails, and would have completely demolished the traitt had. it exploded a few seconds later. Governor Hogg, of Texas, was present- ed. with a gold watch by the officers of the state militia, and itt response took a gloomy view of the future. He predicted that within six weeks marshal law svouM be declared in California, Kansas, Color- ado and and that the anarchists of Chicago would. use dynamite and "be- spatter the lofty buildings of th.e city with the hearts, lungs and livers of citizens." He alluded to President Cleve- land's having ordered. the troops there and judge Cooley's letter commendatory of the act, and. said that he felt humiliat- ed over it, as it was a dangerous invasion of state rights and had not been done be- fore since 1860. The Governor predicts a great revolution soon, and possibly dis- memberment of the great repu.blic, anless a foreign war diverts the attention from internal dissatisfaction. Another mine disaster occurred. at Stockton, Pa., No. 8, Tuesday, and in detail is the most shocking one that ever took place in the Lehigh coal fields. Two hundred sticks of giant powder exploded in the midst of a gang of miners and net enough of their bodies was left intact whereby to recognize them. The Bast men to go do wn in the shaft in the morn- ing were the drivers, and these are the only ones to return alive from the open- ing. How many men and who they were who followed in the next boat is not definitely known, and for this reason the exact number of men killed will not be known until a list of the living is taken. The drivers went into the stables to harness their mules, and it was while thus engaged that the explosion took place. The drivers were hurled about prcaniseuously. The men were paralyzed. with fright, and fearing an explosion of gas had taken place and a collapse of the entire mine was about to follow they simply waited for death. As soon as the lights were seen the demoralized drivers hastened to the bottom of the shaft. There a terrible sight met their gaze. Strewn over the twisted and torn timbers were fragments of humatt flesk and bones, and limbs of the unfortunate miners. The men were too sick to attempt; to re- move the remains of the dead. Reseuin parties were quickty formed, and heade by Superintendent Roderick a corps of miners descended into the mine. Then work of recovering the bodies was at once began, bat it was a difficult task. Prag- merits of human flesh were found Some distance from the slope, dinging to the rails and ties and stieking to the roof while everywhere were bones and limbs It is believed that at least a dozen men were blown to pieces. Arrangements for bringing the remains to the surface were at once made. Orders for tem boxes were given to t)aeundertakers. At the bottom, of the sone, as each fragment of hrman flesh was found it was taken to the turu. out, whieh is a wide opening. An provised table was erected there, and the work of sorting out the pieees of flesh was put in charge of several men. As each limb and article of flesh was brought out it was washed and dearlal and placed where it fitted the body. In order that the feelings of the relatives of the men might be spared, it was arranged to hoist eada box to the top of the tower, and from there take th.ern to their several homes. As each box appeared on the surfaee an. agonizing wail went up from, the multitude in waiting. Women tore their hair and shrieks of agony rent the air, WHAT A TIME THEY HAD. An Unusual Episode in a Toronto Hotel — the Obliging Night Clerk Tells About 11. ")res, something happens around here occasionally," replied the night clerk of the Palmer House, Toronto, as he glanc- ed up at th.e face of the elocle and noted that the hour was 12.80. "Something happened a few weeks ago a-nd I don't mind giving you a few particulars. You have herd of Hamilton, perhaps ?" "Yes, in a, roundabout way," replied the interviewer. " Well, one day a raiddle-aged man walked. in here and. registered, as from Hamilton. There was nothing peculiar about the man, and nothing exciting about his having come from there. He had his wife with him, and remarked that he might stay thxee or four days. On the evening of that day a young man arrived from Whitby. "Web!, there you are—a man and bis wife and a young man.. Nobody around here gasped for breath or turned. in a fire alarm. I saw the young man around the office here and took him to be a drummer. He was a natty little chap, but had no peculiarities to attract attention. He had a room on the fourth oor, but after the first day changed to the third a,n.d right opposite the Hoosier and his wife. On the third night of his stay he came in from the theater right behith the mar- ried couple. One of the headquarters de- tectives was standing here al:leaning to me, and as the young fellow passed through to the elevator the officer whis- pered that he'd bet his reputation against a cent that it was a woman dressed in man's attire." 6' Well?" " Well, I laughed at the idea, but it was a pointer. I put the bell boys and. chambermaids on to it, and next day I had reasons to believe the detective was right, It was a chambermaid who got the first clew, and how do you suppose she got it ?" "Couldn't guess." "No, I don't believe you could. Wheu you get out of bed in a hotel in the morn- ing what do you do?" " Dress and. wash and hustle for the dining -room." "Just so. But a woman doesn't. In eighteen cases out of twenty she spreads up the bed and tidies up the room a bit. It was so in this case. She had combed her hair, of course, and, of course she had left the long heirs behind. Aman would have flung the towel on the floor after using, and one of the pillows might have been on the floor. There were a dozen pointers to be picked. up in five minutes. I gave the thing away in the one and was delegated to pursue the thing to the end. The next step was to see the head waiter." " What could he doP' "Watch her while she ate or have one of his waiters. A. woman will give her- self away at the table in spite of all she can do. She sits with one foot over the other. She. uses the napkin differently from a man. She sips her coffee or tea with a spoon and cuts her meat into smaller pieces. It's a wonder that Sher- lock Holmes, observing as he was, never referred to this matter. At the next meal all of us were satisfied that the young man was a woman in disguise, and it became my duty to follow him to his room and ask him to vacate. The idea, of course, is to get around such things without creating a row. I waited aebont half an hour after Much and then went up. The Hoosier and his wife had pre- ceded me by ten minutes, and I found a lively scrap takingplace in their room, The wife, with hair flying, collar hang- ing by one end and her face badly scratched, was hiding in a earner, and the husband and my young man were rolling about on the floor and indulging in lots of hair pilling and clawing. stepped. in, locked the door and pulled them apart, and then explanations were in order." "Begin with the Hoosier," said the in- terviewer. "Well, he was not a talkative man. The most he said wouldn't make two lines in your paper." "And the woman in the carrier ?" "She didn't seem inclined to talk, either. She tried. hard to faint away, but when. she couldn't do it she began crying." "And the young man.?" "He talked enough for all hands. He called the Hoosier 'Will,' and said he had long mistrusted him and had now found him out and would. apply for a di- vorce. She was his true and lawful wife, of course, and she had the straightest kind. of a ease against him. By George! but how she did go for those two people! She had a ready tongue by nature, and, being all worked up she turned loose and made the dose a bitter one. I tried. to quiet her by saying she had broken the law and might be arrested for masquerads ing in male attire, but she turned on me and defied me, and evidently ached to get her fingers into my hair." "And how cua it all end?" "1 gave them all notice to be out in an hour, and they went. The surplus wo- masi went over to Detroit, Ibelieve, while man and wife left for Hamiltosi on the same train, but not in the same car. She paid her own bill and he payed his. Just before they left the house, and while waiting in the parlor for the bus, the wo- man broke loose again and clawed his face and tore off his collar sad tie. She brought a trunk with hov nnd a proper outfit, and when she wells away she was dressed as a woman, It was ts good thing she didn't have a pistol or a knife, for she was furious enough to ao murder. She left la slide a hurry that her suit of male clothing was forgotten—and is here yet, waiting her order." " And no newspaper feller got auto the racket ?" "Not a ale. A reporter for one of the height of it, and the day-elerk got a, aftern0011 papers was in hero just et the drummer te show him a trick WW2 a burned match to blind him. If he reads this he may remember it. It was afters wards remarked that we never need be afraid of him eatching on to anything we were trying to cover up,"