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The Exeter Advocate, 1894-9-20, Page 6it - Subscribers who da not recolvetheir paper promptly will please notify us at ones. Advertising rates ou Application. THE EXETER ADVOCATE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 20, 1891, Week's Commercial Summary. Returus from all the plate glass facto- ries in the United States show that of a total of 767 pots in the .country 492 are in operation. Canada's mineral ,production last year reached a total value of 819,250,000, or a quarter of a million dollars less than the previous year's output, The output of pig iron by the German furnaces for the sax months ending June 80th was 2,649,071 tons, being en increase of 247,181 tons, or 10.8 per cent., as com- pared with the first half of 1.898. Trades unions have existed in China for over 4,000 years. The Celestial work- man levies toil on every transaction ac- cording to laws laid down by his trades union,and without for a moment taking into consideration what his employer may consider proper. The United States Consul at St. Peteas burg reports that the early completion of the Siberian railroad "is likely to have•a depressing effect upon the prices of grain throughout the world." One rough esti- mate place's Siberia's European grain ex- port at 6,000,000 bushels from the west Siberian section, The British Chamber of Commerce at its annual meeting this month will con- sider onsider among other important matters the practice of commercaal gambling, which is the selling of produce by parties when they neither hold. it nor have it contracted. for. This, it is alleged, " injtres trade, and ought to be made illegal and attend ed with penal consequences" The Canadian oil industry has suffered in common with others from the general depression. Drilling has been altogether stopped for a time, and it was felt that until the recuperation of business in the fall and the consequent increased circula- tion of money together with the probable higher price of oil there would be little or nothing done in oil production. Some improvement and a general resumption of operations are shortly expected. • Here alum There The tax of 25 per cent, imposed on im- ported diamond., by the United States Government promises to transfer the business to Toronto and other Canadian cities, x x`x Time is hope for European peace in the fact that Roumania is borroving824,000,- 000, not for the purpose of arming troops; but in order to carry out certain needed public work. xxx Now that China bas also given to the world. the cause of the war, we have a right to expect the opposing forces to get down to business or else put on their coats and go Bovie. The failures in the Dominion again in- creased from forty the previous week to .forty-seven last week, as against twenty the same week a year ago. Ontario had twenty failures, of which that of A. 0. Fraser, of Galt. and the BritishAmerican Starch Co., of Brantford, were the most important, Of the nine failures in Qua - bee only one was rated up to $2,000, the balance had the lowest credit or blank rating. British Columbia was favored with eight failures, something unusual. Prince Edward Island still shows a clean sheet. x'xx A: postmaster in Oklahoma has been arrested for tampering with registered letters. He is described. as "a Methodist preacher, a town boomer, editor of the local paper, justice of peace and candidate for the Territorial Legislature." xxx The hospital car is one of the new things in railroad enterprise. The car is divided into compartments, and supplied with cots, stretchers, medicines of all kinds likely to be needed, and the usual appliances of an emergency relief carps. NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS. THE WEEIC'S HAPPENINGS. Interesting Iteuie end Incidents, Import - net and ;Instructive, Gathered frow the Va.rions Provinces, Sneak thieves infest Guelph. Port Dover harbor is being dredged. Bread is 16 Cents a pan in Ganano1Ue, Tilsonburga collects taxes twice a year. Collingwood will have a regatta this fall The G. T. R. will erecta fine station at Berlin, Brussels is afflicted with measles and typhoid, The Bracebridge planing mill is being enlarged. Markham's new Agricultural Hall will cost $3,000, A gold mining fever is threatened. at Medicine Hat. Aurora is annoyed by the depredations of fruit thieves. A new Baptist chureh has been organ- xxx A St. Louis inventor claims to have succeeded in. so concentrating the electric light that it will illuminate the brain. The same plan Can be used in studying other parts of the body. It is said that broken bones can be studied and injuries learned which have hitherto baffled at- tempts at examination. xxx The United States Senate is keeping up its record. It already contained a horsethief, a bank defaulter, a wife de- serter, a peculator of public funds and several gamblers and drunkards. Now one of the Senators has been made co- respondent in a divorce suit. xxx Gophers have done much harm in the west, the loss from their ravages in the Regina district being estimated at 8100,- 000. 100;000. An exchange says that they shaved the fields and that the farmers are merely ranchers of gophers. Something must be done at once to suppress the pest or they will suppress the farmers. Canadian Fish and the Duty. The collector of customs at Cape Vin- cent, N.Y., has raised a question of con- struction of the new tariff act as to the rate of duty on fish. He reports that one of the principal articles of import from Canada at that point is fish, brought over in most cases the day they are caught. Section 481 of the new act places " fish frozen or packed in ice, fresh," on the free list. But these fish are neither frozen nor packed in ice. Section 211 imposes a duty of 20 per cent. on "fish in cans or packed in any other manner, not specifically enumerated or provided for in this act." The Cape Vincent fish, however, are not "packed" in any way. The only pro- -vision of the act which can be made to the case in point is section 8, which im- poses a duty of 10 per cent. ad valorem on the importation of all raw or manufac- tured articles not enumerated or provided for in this act. The collector will be in- structed to levy a 10 per cent. duty. The Canadian fishermen along Lake Ontario, who have been in. the habit of sending in fresh fish to Ogdensburg and other lake ports not packed in ice or packed at all, will not necessarily be pre- vented by the decision of Secretary Carlisle, that, under the new tariff law, fish not packed in ice and not frozen are dutiable at the rate of 10 per cent. ad valorem, as non -enumerated unmanufac- tured articles, from entering fish free. All that would seem to be necessary for these lake fishermen to do is to loosely pack their fresh fish in ice" The indica- ttons are that, under the very liberal con- struction onstruction which Secretary Carlisle has been giving to this new tariff act, fresh fish would be considered adequately pack- ed in ice to meet the requirements of the new law if they should be thrown into a box with a few pieces of ice. That, at least, is the belief of those who have been watching the broad construction which the Secretary of the Treasury has been giving to the law. xxx The friends of a certain preacher, says a Clinton paper, are joking him about some little coincidences that are said to have happened recently in his domestic circle. His wife lately presented him with a daughter, and the same evening his driving mare had a foal, his cow had a calf and his cat five kittens. ized at Eimvale. Rain has quenched the forest fires in New Brunswick. The Icelanders settled in the Northwest are all doing well, A "Jaek the Hugger" was recently ar- rested in Windsor. Dore's carriage works have been burned. Stouffville must pay 81,578 for school purposes next year. The A. M. E. Conference will meet at Windsor next year. Bicycles are multiplying fast in all parts of the country. The fruit crop around Georgian Bay this year is very poor. There are 100 applicants for the post - mastership of Clinton. Major -Gen. Herbert is expected to visit Winnipeg next month. Woodstock's rate of taxation this year is 20 mills on the dollar, W, J. Orr, of Croeinor°, had both bones in the right arm broken below the elbow last week by a kick from a colt. Dan MoFarlans, of Kinloss, has a stock. of corn growing in his field that measures ten feet seven inches in height. The oldest practising physician in Qn- tario, if not in Canada, is Dr. Barnhart,. of Owen Sound, who started in 1884. The cheapest election expenses report- ed are those of Thos. Garvey, M.P.P. for Centre Grey, and they are put at 817 65. The policy shop at Fort Brie was raided by the police Friday and closed. The principal gamblers °soaped across the line. fn Wingham xxx The police commissioners of New York are breaking up bribe -taking police cap- tains and detectives so rapidly that the force will have to be reorganized. Rev. Mr. Parkhurst has done a great work in New York, and when the city returns to good government the citizens will have him to thank for it. xxx A preacher down south, who has been urging the blacks to emigrate to Liberia, has been shot in the head by whites. They say the result of his efforts will be to strip the land of labor, and that would not do. This will be news to those who think that the whites in the south are anxious to get rid of the negroes. xxx A short time ago a resident of Toronto sent his two children to anAmeriean city to visit their grandmother for a year. When application was made to admit the children to a public school they were re- fused admission on the ground that as they were from Canada they were non- residents. Doubtless the authorities had right upon their side, but the incident shows to what length ill -feeling for Can- ada can go in the States. The Manitoba wheat crop this year will be close to 20,000,.1100 bushels, which is nearly 5,000,000 bushels more that last year. Mrs. Levied Miller has sued the City of Guelph for $2,000 damages for injuries received by reason of a defect in the walk. PIA A despatch frons Kingston says Rev. G 0. Johnston will accept the invitation of Parliament street Methodist church, To- ronto. While playing cricket at Lindsay W. Richardson was struck on the back of the head with a ball and had a small bone broken. Louis,Frechette, the well-known Cana- dian poet and journalist, has arrived in Paris, where he will remain for two months. Over 100 hands are now employed in the Simcoe Canning Factory. It is said that the M.C.R. will run its tracks into Queenston this fall. At au operation in the Hamilton hos- pital twenty-six doctors were present. Owen Sound greatly rejoices on account of its district lacrosse championship. The Dominion Trades and Labor Con- gress will meet in London next year. There has been an enormous run of salmon in British Columbia this year. Rev. 0. 0. Elliott has just been ordain- ed in the Baptist church at Tavistock. Mr. Sid Croll, of Clinton, is the most expert lather in the county of Huron. Rev. S. Buchanan has been called to the Presbyterian church at Uptegrove. Yellowstone Bill's wild west show has been seized by the sheriff at Caledonia. Athens and Charleston Lake are now connected by telephone with Brockville. Richard Sadler. near Wiarton, shot a male bear measuring eight feet in length. Mr. Foster, of Sighbridge, died very suddenly while on a hunting expedition. Bishop Dunn (Anglican), of Quebec, on Sunday ordained his son to the diacon- ate. It will cost $8,200,000 to connect the great lakes by canal with the lower lakes. Meaford will shortly vote on a water- works by-law to provide water for that town. Grasshoppers are dying in large num- bers. A small red Sy is said to be the cause. A case of leprosy has been found in Nanaimo, and the victim taken to Darcy Bland. Dr. Wm. Trudgeon, who died. recently near Goderich, was buried with Masonic honors. Ernick Sullivan, seven-year-old, of near Kingston, was dragged to death by a horse. George's Last Request. "George Ferguson, you have gone a little too far." Pale with indignation and outraged pride, the young woman looked him sternly in the face. "Why, Laura," he stammered., in help- less confusion, "I—I—er—ah—I didn't think you would care." "Didn't think I would care 1" she echoed with freezing mockery. "Did you think, sir, that an acquaintance of ten or twelve months entitled you to a privilege, unasked, that my most inti- mate ntimate friends of many years' standing would not have dared to claim ? Have you no conception, six, of ,the meaning of the word presumption?" What had this young man done ? Intoxicated with her beauty, andfancy- ing he saw in her glorious dark eyes a challenge, half coy, half sauey, he had rapturously kissed her. Dumb with astonishment, George Fer- guson now quailed before the lighting like indignation of the high-spirited girl. He saw he had made a fatal mistake. "This must end our acquaintance, Mr. Ferguson," she said. "In many respects it has been a pleasant one. I hacl come to esteeem you highly; to regard you as a young man of high and noble impulses, free from the trivialities, the weaknesses, the inordinate self-conceit and assurance that the spirit of the age seems to infuse into the mental Constitutions of the young men of modern society. You have thrown yourself down from the pedestal upon which I had mistakenly placed you, Mr. Ferguson," she continued) sadly, "h..ereafter we meet as strangers." Be it so, Laura ifajones, replied he, with recovered self-possession. "I shall not presume to question your right to dismiss me thus summarily, however strongly I might feel inclined to protest against the injustice of your act in so do- ing:. I bow to your mandate. Hence- forth we are strangers. But before I take my last farewell of you, as 1 am about to do, and go out into the world to struggle with it as only a sorrowing, lonely man, deprived of his last earthly hope, must struggle to keep; bitter despair from gnawing his heart -strings asunder—be- fore I leave forever the presence of one with whom I have passed so many happy hours, whose memory will cling to me through all the cheerless years that may yet drag their weary length over my head. (have one last request to make of you.' "Whet is it, sir," "Please get up off itiy,lap." Canadian Lumber Free. The Secretary of the treasury at Washington has finally decided that Canadian lumber shall come in free. There have been several reports that Secretary Carlisle had made such a de- cision, but he did not do so until Tues- day, when in a letter addressed to the Collector of Customs at New York he ruled that the reciprocity condition of the new tariff bill does not attach to the pro- vision for the free admission of lumber from the Dominion of Canada. Mr. Carlisle bases this action upon informa- tion which he has received, said to be of- ficial., that no export duties are imposed in Canada upon the articles of wood men- tioned in the free list of the new tariff bill, and also that there are no stumpage dues now imposed by the Dominion Gov- ernment. This will give free entry to all Canadian lumber so long as the Dominion Government shall not impose export duties or the'Provincial Government stumpage dues. Ills FbeIings Bad (Changed. First Gentleman (entering the apart- ment of Second Gentlernan)---A.bolit a year ago you challenged me to fight a duel. Second Gentleman (eternly)---I did, sir, First Gentleman ---And I told you that I' had just been married and I did not care to risk my life at any hazard, Second Gentleman (haughtily) --I re- member, sir. First ientleman (bitterly)- -Well, my feelings are changed ; any time you want to fight let me know. When a Londoner who made a living by swallowing unusual articles of dict died recently, an autopsy revealed the pres- ence in his stomach of a bullet, 25 pieces of cork, 20 pieces of tinfoil, 18 inches of string with a cork fastened to each end, and a piece of leather nine inches long with hooks in. it. A portrait of Judge Doyle, once head- master of the Gabriel' high School, has been presented to that institution by his old pupils. By the succession tax upwards of $10,- 000 of the estate of .the late Thomas Trivitt, of Exeter, goes to the Provincial exehequer. Michael Pender gave as an excuse for troubling his wife while in a state of in- toxication in Hamilton that he had holes in his socks. Winter supplies are being sent from Midland to the lumber camps, and the boats are busy hauling freight to the North Shore. Inspeetor DeBarry, of Buffalo, Tuesday went to Dunkirk, N.Y., and deported three Canadians. He also sent home two from Fredonia. A young man named J. Russell, of Dundas, was nearly killed while working on the track of the Welland Railway above Thorold. was entered through a baok window by burglars Sunday night during a heavy thunderstorm and the vault and a fire and burglar proof safe . blown open.. About 8600 in cash was taken and several htuadred dollars' damage was done to the safe and vault. DRATli 05' A CANADIA,t; i11ILLIONAIB13. Woodstock's well-known millionaire, Wm. 0. MoLeod, son., . died Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock, Deceased came •to. this country from Scotland when a young titan, and by hard work and good ju41g- inent acquired wealth to the amount of from $1,000,000 to 52,000,000, He died at the advanced age of eighty-eight, and has been very feeble for nearly a year. He leaves a widow and eight children. ATTACKED 11'11 11101IwAYMuN. Tuesday 'evening about dusk as a farm- er named Prentice was returning to his home, five miles from Clarksbter", he was stopped by three then. One `geld' the horses while the Ether two knocked hint down and rifled his pockets, taking a purse containing about 88. There is no clue to the highwaymen, but they are supposed to be part of the gang that burglarized the banking office of -Hart- mar & Wilgress, of Clarksburg, ten days ago, IN AND OUT OF SCITOOL LITTLE BIT OF IECUItII) Z.. A Little Fun Now and Then is Rellehrit by the $est of Neu. A Cure roar the. Dyspepsia and the Blues. Judge Wiseman's proverbs.. Most any kind nv pattriotism will male: a man take the stump, but most enny kind wont make him take a musket, Sum statesmen are small periaters.and, few in a hill. Givin a man an offis is givin him a: ohans° to swell. Gitlin thar dont hezitate long betwixt a nave and a fool in polliticks. A split in a party always leaves a akar., The big men in a party air the hardest; to carry, A boughteu vote iz likely to $pile on•:'' yore hands if you can't use Aright away, A party that takes the cake in a pollit- iekle campano begins reachin fer the pie, ez soon ez the calnpano is over. MANITOBA W}mAT OROP. Manitoba has every reason to be proud of its magnificent crop this year, There will be close on to 20,000,000 bushels of wheat, nearly 5,000,000 more than last year, and every particle has been saved without .the slightest damage from frost or wet. The great bulk of it will grade No. 1 hard, Of seventy-five ears received recently from all points by the Ogilvies, of Winnipeg, seventy-two graded No. 1 hard, Fifteen million busdiels will be exported. This means, at the present low prices, about 50,000,000 to come into the province this fall. As the farmers have been -very economical for the past two or three years, this amount of money ought to be immediately available for the purchase of new supplies, instead of hav- ing to pay old debts, as in the years when the future had been heavily discounted. Further, since the purchasing power of a dollar is much greater than a few years since, this amount of money means a good supply of necessaries and comforts for the population during the coming winter. The whole situation is such as to lead to a very hopeful view of the future. The Ontario Government has granted an additional $1,000 in aid of the settlers of the Rainy River district who suffered by the recent fires. Cardinal Traschereau has resigned the archbishopric of Quebec owing to failing health, and Mgr. Begin, co-adjutor, will assume the word:. J. R. Booth's loss by the recent fire at his Ottawa piling grounds is estimated by himself at $68,700. He holds an in- surance of $40,000. Walter Stewart and Albert Fleming, of Lncknow, sawed a maple log which made three hundred feet of lumber in less than eight minutes. Rev. A. McNabb has been ordained and inducted, to the pastoral charge of Whitechurch and Langside by the Pres- byterians of Maitland. While William Louks, of Delhi, was carelessly handling a revolver it discharg- ed and sent a bullet through the first finger of ,his right hand. The total amount subscribed to the Irish Evicted Tenants' fund. is 1;18,000, and of this the United States and Can- ada contributed only £884. A horticultural society has been organ- ized at Hastings, Ont., with Mr. F. W. Fowlds as president, Mr, A. Wilson, sec- retary, and Dr. Coughlin treasurer. Rainy River advices state that a large number of settlers are still missing, and friends are searching the burning chstriots in hopes of securing their bodies or find- ing then alive. Mr. John Reuter, a Spanish lumber merchant of Venezuela, is in Ottawa for the purpose of establishing a trade in Canadian pine logs between this country and Venezuela. Frank F. Radway, of London, Ont., made a new' 100 -mile bicycle record for America at the Rosedale grounds, To- ronto, Tuesday. His time was 5 hours 1 min. 10 2-5 secs. There have been seven camps of Seli- gson Indians at Walkerton during the summer. Geo. E. Williams, of Kingston, is now general secretary of the St. John, N.B., Y.M.C.A. Nettie Bain, of Chatham, aged fifteen, was gored by;a cow on Sunday and severe- ly bruised. The opening of the Chatham Masonic Hall, now being repaired, will be a bril- liant affair. The majority of newspapers in the County of Huron take a week's holiday once a year. The Muskoka tourist season, just dos- ing, has been the best ever known on these lakes. Charles Hansen has been sentenced at Winnipeg to five years at Stoney Moun- tain for theft. David. Ross, aged eighty, died at Oul- ross the other day, having lived in Can- ada anada fifty years. The schooner Evening Star, of Goder- ich, is ashore at Fisherman's Bay, loaded with cordwood. 1VIr. Phil H. Levin, a well-known ama- teur athlete of Montreal, died Sunday after a long illness An Indian woman on Georgina Island is over 100 years old and walks a long distance to church. It is said that twenty-five people have been burned to death an the Canadian side of Rainy River. Woodstock Connell has passed a by-law regulating the limits within which livery stables may be kept. A Tay farmer has two acres of sweet peas in bloom and has sold the seed. to United States buyers. John 1Vlatthew, son of John Matthew; of Port Arthur, was drowned at fort William on Saturday. The Collingwood Meat Company gets men from Denmark to cure pork by the Scandinavian process. It has been decided by the sharehold- ers to wind up the Canada Meat Packing Company of Montreal.. The first shipment, an experimental one, of Northwest cattle for the English market, .has been made. The Grimsby Presbyterian ehureh will have as its new pastor Bev, John Muir, of :Edinburgh, Scotland. Two Kingston young ladies have ap- plied for positions as conductors on the eloctric railway of that city, About forty appeals have been entered against Georgina voters' list arida cou;t to hear the appeal will be held. Beyond a Theory. Moddlin—Now, my theory is--hic--- thash mon earl drink reasonable—hie— quantity and not—hie--get dtunksh ! Dinsmore --Weil it is a condition, and not a theory, whitconfronts you new. I]VIIRY HOUSE BURNED. Further accounts of the ravages by the fire state that every house on Grassy River road has been burned. At Mr. Gauisby's place, three miles from Rainy River, the fire came up about 8 o'clock on Friday afternoon while Mr. Gamsby and son were at work in the woods. Mrs. Gamsby and four children were in the house. which was soon in flames, and they fled to save their lives. While run- ning down the corduroy road along Grassy River the corduroy caught bre and, being as dry as tinder, all were soon hemmed in and suffocated. Mrs. Gamsby was still alive when found, but died iron' her injuries Sunday morning. Tho eldest daughter had pushed on beyond her mother, and when found her head and feet had been burned away. All the family were buried in one grave on Sun- day afternoon. The agony of father and son, the only remaining members of the family of eight, was heartrending to wit- ness. All the houses on the Grassy -River road were destroyed, the settlers losing everything. Among the settlers who lost their all were Philip Dorion, as. Robert- son, William Doriner, August Hansford, Geo. Watts, Horace Theoker . and many others. At one time the town of Fort Francis was threatened and in imminent danger, but the citizens fought off the fire, and after a desperate fight with the flames, saved the town. Along the older settlements, where the clearinggs were larger, the fires did not reach tine river but raged in the rear of the clearings, destroying thousands of dollars' worth of valuable timber. At Barwick settlement the few settlers lost everything, escaping only with the clothing they wore. There was no insurance on any of the houses burned, and being shelterless and with- out means to begin again their circum- stances are most distressing. Resigned to the Depression. Smythe—Do the hard times affect your- business? otubusiness? Landlady (theatrical boarding-house)— Not at all; my boarders wouldn't pay anyhow. On a Western Railroad. Conductor -Here, that half dollar in counterfeit. You can't pass that on this. train. Passenger—I just thought I would try it. We don't seem to be passing any-- thing ny-thing else. Her Literary Propensities. Friend—"Your daughter seems deter- mined to win a name for herself by writ- ing." Papa—"Yes, she has answered over a hundred matrimonial advertisements auk isn't discouraged yet." Burglars broke open the Grand Trunk station at Brussels Friday night and got $12 from the cash drawer. On the pre- vious night they stole a lady's watch and some money from Mr. G. Cardiff's house. The residence of Mr. ,Tohn Eakins, cat- tle dealer, at Millbrook, was burglarized of 8200 worth of jewellery and a couple of suits of clothes Monday afternoon daring the absence of the family. No clue. The Governor-General opened the Pro- vincial Exhibition at Quebec Tuesday. His Excellency spoke, ie. both English and French, and had a most hearty reception. Lieutenant -Governor Chapleau also made a speech. A monument erected to the memory of the victims of the colliery horror of 1891 was unveiled at Spring Hill, N.S., Tues - nay by Sir John Thompson. The Premier, Sir C. H. Tupper end other prominent gentlemen made appropriate speeches. The funeral of the victims of the French River canoeing disaster, Messrs. Christie, Northwood and Rispin, took plane at Chatham Tuesday, and was at- tended by people from all parts of the Province, and the occasion was one of great +olemnity. Special Officer Trowbridge has been causing a little consternation at Sus- pension Bridge by having a lady fined for bringing into Canada goods purchas- ed on the United States side. He also seized a gentleman's team for alleged violation of the custom's regulations. The Standard Oil Co. has been nego- tiating with the Ontario Natural Gas Co. of Windsor with a view to' buying the entire stock of the gas company. J. H. Stuart, one of the principal stockholder's. said this week the gas company would sell to the oil company for $2,000,000. The Root of the Trouble. Mrs. Grumps—The idea of us eastern housekeepers being worried sick with ser- vant girls ! There is no such complaint in San Francisco. There they employ Chinese and have no tronbie at all. Mr. Grumps—Of course not 1 Chinese. are men, and men are used to being bossed. Count of Paris Dead. The Count of Paris died at Stowe House. shortly before 8 o'clock Saturday morn- ing. He began to sink visibly at mid- night, but:at intervals was clearly con- scious, recognizing the Countess and his children as they bent over him, and mur- muring words of affection for them. A.11 the members of his family were around him when he died. According to the Times the Count of Paris left property valued at £4,000,000. Special despatches from Stowe Arouse relate that during the last four days the dying man took no refreshment whatever except a few drops of fruit syrup, and this was swallowed with great difficulty. Several times within the last four days the Count suffered an attack of syncope. His pulse ceased to beat, and it was thought he was dead. He revived, how- ever, and the struggle for the prolonga- tion of life began anew. The Count gradually sank from nightfall, though re- taining consciousness, and quietly passed away at 7.40 Saturday morning. He ex- perienced no pain. Louis Philippe Albert d'Orleans, Count de Paris, was born in Paris, August 24, 1888, He was a son of the Due d'§Orleans and a grandson of Louis Philippe, King of France. He was educated in Bignier in Paris, and after the revolution of 1848 in Eisenbach, and subsequently in Clare- mont, England. He travelled extensive- ly, and in 1860 he visited the east in com- pany with his brother, the Duo de Chartres. During the American civil war the two brothers, with their unele the Prince de Joinville, visited this con- tinent. The Count de Paris served on the staff of Gen, McClellan from Novem- ber, 1861, till after his retreat to James River in the summer of 1862, when he re- turned to England, having reeeived the warmest commendations for courage and military capacity. In 1864 he married his • •cousin, a daughter of the .Due de Montpensier. 1 The Count was admitted to the National .Assembly at Versailles in 1871, and in December, 1872, the Assembly voted the restitution of the property of the Orleans family. In 187$ he visited the Count de Chambord and relinquished his claims to the throne in favor of thcilatter on con- dition of ,being recognized as the sole heir after Chambord's death to the regal rights of both branches of the Bourbons. The Cotint had six children the eldest of whorm Prince Louis Philippe Robert Due d Orleans, succeeds to the title and becomes head of the Bouillons. His etd- rst daughter is the Queen of Portugal, The Coant de Paris published a nutmber of . books, including a history of the American civil war. Living Up to His Light. "That new hand I hired this morn- ing," said Farmer Haycroft, "plowed one furrow across the field and then went ani laid down, and he hasn't moved since.' "What was the matter with him?" "He said he believed in goin' accordin'' to scripter, and that when a man has put. his hand to the plow he never ort to turn, back:" A Family of Amateurs. Cultured mother—My dear, your sister. Clara is an amateur pianist, Dora is an amateur photographer, Edna is an ama- teur painter, and Elvira is an amateur astronomer, but you don't seem to be anything. Pretty daughter—Oh, ves, mamma, T am an amateur financee. Here's my first engagement ring. i r � lliaan James, about sixty-five years of age, caretaker of the Paris cemetery, died Friday from the effects of arfall from. a tree. Deceased was trimming shade trees at the residence of John Walker. when apparently he made a misstep and falling about twelve feet received inter- nal injuries, The celebrated ease of the Queen v. Larkin, Connolly & Co. came to an un- expected eanelusien 'Tuesday, when at the suggestion of Mr Justice Iiurbic ge, counsel, Came to a settlement, ny which judgment was entered .for the Crown in 5100,000; and for the defendants in $40,- 000, each finding to earry its own costs. 13tfltgrARS Ax 14IARttD'AI1II, 1VIeCttiloeh & Young's private batik He Had no Particulars. Smith—Robinson was looking for you to -day, Brown. He leaves for the West: to -morrow morning and he wanted to cote lect that $25 you owe him. Brown—Yes, I saw him a little while ago. I promised to forward him the money next week. Smith—In what part of the West does. he expect to settle? Brown—I don't know. I didn't ask. him. What She Thought. A lady who had spent a great deal of time in trying to teach her servant girl, to make a good drawn butter gravy, and who found no little scolding necessary to accomplish it, called Bridget into the din-. ner table one day and said severely s " Bridget, the drawn butter gravy is: actually bitter." "Is that so, ma'am?" asked Bridget, sorrowfully. " It is, Bridget. Now, how do you ac- oount for it?" " I do' know, ma'am ; but I do be think - in', ma'am, that I dhropped a tear intil it." She Know. "Yes," said the parson at tea table,. "young Jordan was out driving with Miss: Popinjap the other evening and his horse ran away. They were both thrown out, and the buggy was smashed to pieces. It was a providential escape for both of them; but I can't understand how the young man came to lose control of his horse " "He must have been driving with one hand," flippantly suggested the minister's eldest son—a wild rake of a boy. "Or perhaps he had the reins around his neck," said Edith, a shy young beauty of sixteen, with a charming mien. And then everybody exclaimed in chorus " Why, Edith ]" Fortifying Herself. The day had been set, and now the pair of turtle doves were talking over the arrangements for their married life. "Fred, dear," she said. "Yes, love." "From my reading I have imbibed the idea that young husbands are prone to criticise their wives' cookery, and to make invidious comparisons between that and the cooking they were accustomed to. at home." "Oh, I think that's all a joke, m ocv "I'm afraid not, Fred. Besides I a free to admit that I don't know much about cooking." "Oh, you'll learn. Never fear." "Nowt I know your mother is a good cook;'1. That is true.'' "So is mine." "She is," "When you have chimed with its, Fred, you have sometilnes praised mother's cooking, and oceasionelly intimated that it was better than your own mother was capable of in sem- particular lines." "Yes. Her pies, for instance." "Exaety. Well, Fred, my point is this : To prevent any disappointment on your part about the conking in our happy little family, I Have decided that mother dear shall make her home with us, and superintend the culinary s,rrang ements. Do y Don't ot't think: that is a good idea?" And Gted.replied feebly thathe thought. it was, Then he went home earner tham. ustualto think it, ever in the seclusion of. his own el -Amber.