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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-5-3, Page 2l3ubserihers who do net receive their pepet promptly wen please notify us at once. Advertising retgs on tipplfoatign TIIE EXETER ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1895, LATEST CANADIAN NEWS. V1'Qek's eommerclal Summary. The oattle market is not as strong as last week, and gables from Liverpool are easier at 5 8-4d to 6d. fur Canadian. Sheep are quoted at 6 1-2d. Prices of wheat in Toronto continue to hold, there being sales at 70e and 72c, or. an advance of about 25c per bushel from the low prices of last autumn. The feeling is that wheat in Chicago ie going higher, It is partly owing to this feeling and partly to the advance in many other products, that speculators are buying wheat in. anticipation of a rise New post-fices were opened in Ontario on April let as follows : Audley,, Ontario Co. ; Calyon, Simcoe Go, ; Hardwood Lake, Renfrew Co. ; Landbank, Bothwell Go. ; Mandeville, Muskoka ; Whitney, Nipissing. There is a decrease in wheat for the week of nearly two and quarter million bushels. but the visible supply in the United Staee; and Canada is 70,487,000 bushels, as against 66,217,000 a year rgo, and 76,000,000 two years ago. DOINGS OP TILE WEEK. Arranged and. Condensed For. Our Rosy Readers, Raab. Province Furnishing its not of Interesting Items. In Montreal the week has been rather a quiet one a: regards general business. The raw, rainy weather which masked last week, and the beginning of this, was most unfavorable to dry goods retailers, who had looked for a good Easter trade, and with wholesalers in this line sorting bu.iness is just moderate. In general wholesale trade there is no particular briskness. There were 31 failures in the Dominion last week, es against 27 the week before and 45 in the same week of 1894. Of the 15 in Ontario, only one had a rating as high as $8,000. and one rated up to $2,000, the balance had the lowest credit or blank rating. Quebec had 11, an in- crease of one over the previous week. British Columbia had five. None were reported from the other provinces. Lumber operations have commenced on the Upper Ottawa. EdwHrd Charbonneau was drowned no .r Pembroke Monday. Sir Charles H. Tupper is confined to his house with a heavy cold. Seven pounds of dynamite and 200 per- cussion caps were found under a sidewalk at Dundas. A hotel quite unlike world. Eve or her own, vents, but the them at all. my room, a trave nay tea and toast wh my bath and waits n also keeps my olcthes blacked, sees to my la carriage when I want oil errands. When traveling, to the tickets and luggage a simple bed on the cars, for n', is le a country of magnificentdistances, involv- ing a considerable Right travel. There sheets. Flu the eileee pal hie Wen. tem tee IAT UNCLE SAM IS AT. '' .ACROSS the ITntttld. States of Itemi that *Hi' eating Reading. Tho conditioned eo bretally, Wean_ a few n : yards A. young son of John Mo•Beath was are no regular sleeping . ears hke ours, killed by an express train at Woodstock but the seats are long enough for the Thursday. passengers to stretch out on and wide The English market for Canadian enough to make a reasonable couch, horses is sou];ing np. A, week ago sixteen which the traveler provides with his own exported horses sold there for from $120 thin mattress, pillow and wraps. The to $2)0 each. number of servants in a great hotel is Hamilton, Ont., dealers have advanced confusing at first. In a long corridor the price of American coal oil from 17 you see one before each door. They cents to 23 cents and Canadian oil has usually sleep there wrapped in a sheet or blanket and curled up on the floor. gone up 4 cents a gallon. Mr R. A, Stark, saw miller, one of the pioneers of Gi ey county, died on Friday night. He was reeve of the township of Derby for several years. In the D Government Savings Bank, the balance on deposit on March 81st was $17,097,755. as against $17,112,- 739, at the c ose of February. The Canadian Horse Show, held in To- ronto, was brought to a close on Satur- nay, and has proved a financial success, the receipts consider ,bly exceeding the expenditure. Mass Louisa Kirby, of Ingersoll, died suddenly on Sundry night. Her rela- tives were awakened by screams in her room and found her dying. She expired soon after. The meat situation is becoming serious. Prices of beef are being forced upward at a rapid rate, and it is difficult to tell> whether mainly through careful mani- pulation by western traders or an actual scarcity of animals. A statement of re- ceipts of cattle at the principal cities for the last three months shows a deereeee of 280,000 head from the total arrivals dur- ing the first quarter of either of the pre- ceding yearn. Hogs have gained in sym- pathy with beef, although receipts con- tinue in fair volume. Here and There. The ministry of Greece has slipped up. xxx The modern hotel must be made safe everywhere. xxx If you fail after. doing your best you have still done well. xxx After one puts a project then has it on hand. xxx Are you still keeping those good reso- lutions and that diary? on foot, he On Saturday the City of Toronto, a splendid new steamship, built for the North Shore Navigation Company, was way north to their Arctic bre eding successfully launched at Owen Sound, in ground, he cannot expect to have sport the presence of a large eomany. with either parent birds or progeny in The Dominion Government has been the tall, and he ought to see, therefore, requested by the Imperial authorities to that curing shooting is incase i'ably send an agent to Loneon to discuss with wasteful. Anyrne who knows anything them the points raised in connection at all of ornithology, if he takes the with the Canadian copyright question. trouble to dissect the ducks shot in the The auditors of the township of Til- spring can in nine cases out of ten fin 1 the embyros of future broods already bury North have discovered a shortage forming, and if it is wasteful and unwise of $5,000 ine the books of Clement Mail - to catch fish during the spawning season long, ex -treasurer of the township, and when they are filled with eggs, surely it he was arrested, charged with convert - is equally wasteful to shoot ducks in the ing that amount to hes own use, spring. Mr. A. R. Stagg, one of the most pro- minent citizens of Brookville, died there Too Much of Everything. Mon'. ay, aged 57. He had been a;neem- It is Prof. Nordau who says this old bar of the Town Council for eighteen world is era. weary. It is tired out, years, and was also a c School like the individual human being, it has B and trustee He was a staunch Con- hysteria, and is suffering all the anguish servative in politics. of nerve exhaustion, with its attendant The celebrated Grand Trunk conspi- depression of spirits. The tenison of racy case in Montreal, in which three civilizatian is breaking do wn the heart conductors were charged with conspiracy and nervous system. Men fall by the to defraud the Grand Trunk Railway way, and almost:before they have crossed Company by knocking down fares on the the threshold of middle life exhibit a de - Montreal -Toronto route, ended on Satur- say that should only come at the appoint - day in a disagreement of the jury, who ed three score and ten, Shock fo lows stood eleven to one for acquittal. shock in this modern life, and there is no The Board of Trade of British Columbia escaping them. It is as though a child has forwarded to the Dominion Govern- had set some complieated machinery in meat a resolution asking that the sum of motion and was incapable of stopping it. $425,000, the amount of damages claimed Prof. Nordau does not say it, but the by the British Columbia sealers from the secret of this fatigue of civilized human - United States, be placed in the estimates, ity lies in having too much of every - should the Imperial Government not ad.- thing ; too much of pleasure, too much of vane that amount. maddening work, too much of emotion, The American and Canadian Naviga- which the moderns now cultivate as if it tion Company of Oak Harbor, N.Y., who were another form of genies—and a gift want to establish a winter and summer from heaven. And there is also tea much line 'of car ferries into Canada, have, wealth, too much poverty. If these through their mans er Ernest W. Sim- crimes of civilization could be abolished mons, asked the civic authorities whether man wouldn't be so fatigued. they will exempt them from taxation if ed oat. —None but those who have Toronto is made a terminus. The city's become fagged outknow what a depressed, assistance is also sought in gettingrsub miserable feeling it is. All strength is silver from the Dominion and Provincial gone, and deep dency has taken hold of governments. the sufferers. They feel as though there Ridgetown has decided to follow the is nothing to live for. There,however, plan adopted by the Walkerville Council is a cure one box of ParmeleePills will some time ago, and will exempt from tax do wonders in restoring health and ation all residences of the valve of $600 strength. Mandrake and dandelion are and over that are erected in the town two of tbe articles entering into the com ewithin the xemption to next graduated 'athe ording to position of Parmelee's Pills. A Good .Hove. Judge Vance, of Michigan, has written a letter'fo the Ontario authorities stating that the Michigan legislature contem- plates adopting the Ontario game and fish law, having come to the conclusion that such a move would be in the inter- ests of sportsmen and the public of both state and province.. The projected move will be a popular one on this side of the border, t.,ntarie's game law £• rbids spring shooting and shooting and fishing on Sun- days, and it has long been a grievance with Canadian sportsmen that Yankee gunners could legally do what is forbid- den to their Canadian fellow•nimrods. The Canadian law, too, as regards spring shooting is undoubtedly the best one. Common sense teaches a man that if he shoots ducks in the spring when on their THE EINE: es a Number ound Inter- nell, who was ordentown, N, was improved yes - physician has now some r" eoovery, he Baptists of St. Louis have put the ethodists thereof to the blush. The white Baptist preachers have invited the blacks to join their conference, but the white Methodists won't even admit negro branches of the Epworth League to i;el lowship. Nowhere is the color -line inure out of place than in the church. On Sunday evening, while Evangelist. Dwight L. Moody and an immense con- gregation were praying for rain in Fort Worth, Texas, a storm burst upon the town, bent down the roof, which fell upon the congregation, causing a panic, and a large number of persons were seriously injured. The Western Watchman, a Roman Catholic paper of St Louis, Mo., e'ited by the Rev. Father Phelan, says that the Christian Endeavor and Epworth League are honeycombed with immorality, and tbat their gatherings for downright viciousness and depravity have never been equalled since the horrible eatur- nalla of Greece and Rome. xxx Because a man falls on the ice it does not follow that he ants any. xxx There is no such a thing as inherited experience. Take yours and pay for it. xxx Some women talk women's rights, and others get there without talking at all. xxx There are not twenty farmers living in Iowa ten miles distant from a railway station. xxx Something is wrong with the man who clubs and kicks his cattle, horses and poultry. xxx Probably we hear so much about the new woman because it isn't polite to say "old woman." xxx Thirty-two hundred patents have been granted in this country for methods of electrical locomotion. Breezy Bits, "Oi hoyn't eaten anythin' to -day," re- marked Mr, Dolan, "but a glass av milk, an' Oi drank thot." "The scenery for the torture chamber is not ready. What will we do ?" Manager -•-"That's all right ; just have a little girl recite `Curfew Must Not Ring To night,' " xxx Only forty United States vessels are now engaged in whaling. Thirty years ago there were 500. xxx Flammarion says that the earth is cool- ing very rapidly. Europe has lost five degrees this century. xxx A fatal fall from a great height is said to be painless, an unconsciousness pre- cedes the crash of concussion. At Westport, Mo. an ordinance has been introduced in tete Board of Alder men forbidding women to wear bloomers on the street. It begins to look as if wo- men would have to be granted the elec- tive franchise before long to protect .hemselves from such barbarous inter- ferences nterferences with their right to pick out their own clothes. Parvenu Hostess (to-stable„boy, attired as waiter for the occas.on of a dinner party) "James, why do you not fill Mr, 1)e Gluttonnces glass ?” Tad,es—"Lor', ma'am, what's the use ? Ile empties it as fast as I fill it." Robert (as his cousin picks up a sheet of music). "I'd rather you wouldn't sing, Neu," Nell—"I thought you were fond of music?" Robert—"I am," We don't see what fun there can be in kissing a girl out skating when her nose is cold. Prof. Xinnicutt of Myrtle Point has a tame yearling deer that follows his child ren to school and would go into the build- ing with the children if permitted. At recess the deer will run around among the hundred irmore pupils, hunting foe his playmates, and when he finds Mr. Kinnieutt's children be li ks their hands and appears to be very glad to find them, Delay is Dangerous. Do not delay a.single moment, butsend for a bottle of Miller's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil if you ars threatened with con- sumption or lung troubles. The sooner you b gin to create new blood the sooner will you gain a victory over death's emissaries. Miller's Emulsion is the most remarkable consumptive cure in the world. It, creates new blood immediate- ly. No other preparation of Cod Liver Oil can compare with, Miller's Emulsion There is no excuse for persons dying from consumption when this splendid remedy is at hand. MilIer's Evulsion is the great strengthener and blood maker, and eures coughs, colds, bronchitis, scrofula and. all lung affeetions. In big betties, 50e and $1, at all drug stores, At Close Quarters. Her lily cheek he pressed to his, They were so near,so very near; And then she said : 'I am so glad That there is naught between us, dear." value. What man lacks in wisdom is usually The tug owners of the Welland Canalmade up in self-conceit. had their meeting at Port Colborne on Try It, Tuesday and will enter into an associa- tion the same as last year. They reduced Mrs. Rose, Gerrard St, E., Toronto, the price of towing vessels through the says : "I kad weak lungs and a bad canal of 500 tons and under, loaded. to 15 cough , I was told to try Pectria. Sia cents per ton, and 12 cents on light vas 25 cent bottles cured me completely.' sels per ton, last season's schedule being Allan & Co,, Front St., Toronto, proprie- 16 and 14 cents respectively, and also tors. Ask druggists. made a reduction on harbor towing on vessels over 850 tons, The tugs and the The great lung healer is found in that winter fleet are fitting out to be ready on excellent medicine sold as Bickle's Anti - the opening of the canal to -day. Consumptive Syrup. It soothes and di - Dr. Ryerson, M.P.P., who was recently minishes the sensibility of the membrane of the throat and air pass appointed deputy surgeon general, is in ages, and is a Ottawa in connection with the new ar- sovereign remedy for all coughs, colds. rangements made by the Militia Depart hoarseness, pain or soreness in the chest, ment for medical services for the volun- bronchitis, etc. It has cured many when teers. The doctor is anxious to see that supposed to be far advanced in consump- the it edical stores for the district are tion. adequate. He is of the opinion that the A Domestic Siege. system which prevails in England and "Mercy ! Goodness 1" exclaimed Mr. the United States of making the sur- Watkins, dropping his pipe in consterna- geons as surgeon -captain or surgeon- tion, "what is that awful riot in the major, according to service, should be in- kitchen ?" troduced in Canada. Surgeon -General "That's the war with China," answered Bergin is also in the city. his wife placidly, going on with her book. Late on Tuesday night a stranger There is nothingequal to Mother called at the residence of Mrs. William Treble, Windsor, and handed her an en- Graves' Worm Exterminator for destroy worms. No article of its kind has `elope, said that it contained an amount in iven such satisfaction. of money that he owed her husband, who g died a number of years ago. Before the All Wrong. envelope was opened he disappeared in t Doou call this right?" protested the darkness. The amount... was $80, Longo ks, taking back his rejected poem. made up of .four $20 bills, idead thweho familyee r No," replied the editor, "it's long have not the slightestfrom it:" ways stranger was. Mr. Treble was for years y . a conductor on the Grand Trunk Rail- When all other corn preparations fail, way, and some think the man was some- try Holloway's Corn Cure. No pain one whom he had helped along. whatever, and no inconvenience in using THE C.O.D. HAN., IHEARD him while yet a long way off—my C.O.D. man. A profession- al tramp has a gait of his own—a gait belonging particularly to the pro. Weldon, '1'he step is short, as if he walk- ed over the ties of a railroad bed, and the feet are barely lifted clear of the earth., Instead of heel -and -toe you catch only a, soutf !. souft ! scull ! and you catch the: idea at once that the man ie tired and di' -• oouraged. Down the h 11 came wee tramp in a certain uncertain way, and I knew that he was feeling blue, loi,g- enough before he entered my door and sat down with a sigh. When 1 looked up- s was surprisedat the cl ange. Some- thing like an attempt had been made to. comb his hair ; his face had been washed. clean ; he had donned a cellulo..d collar, and his necktie was presentable. 1 alien , . all around and from head to heel there was a 50 per cent improvement. I was. wondering how it had come about when hequietly said : " Uncle Abe, the You never knew him tramp. He had been my pard for the last ten years. Tramps go in pairs, like other human beings, 1 picked him up, one day down in Texas, and from that, date to yesterday we shared good and bad luck together. We struck this town,. in company, and though we worked sepa- rate lines 'during the day m e always, came together at night. What we had. we shared equally, even to rases and cold. and hunger. Some day 1 might have - brought him up to see you, for though_ only a tramp he was a man of ideas and. woula have interested you for an hour." I noticed that he spoke of his friend in the past tense. Perhaps he read the question in my eyes, for he said : "Yes, he is dead, and I have just re-• turned from seeing the earth in potters'' field heaped on his pine coffin. Yes, dead and buried, and at, rest—poor old pard ! Ile hadn't been himself for weeks. Hee was getting along in years. and cold and hunger and exposure proved tuo much for, him. Died like a tramp—buried like a. dog—gone who knows where." I. had never found my C. O. D. man displaying such emotion, and I ceased writing and leaned back in my chair and. thus encouraged him to gu on. "Woman," said the sentimental boarder, whois unmarried, of cou•se, •'woman is the sweetest fruit of civiliza- tion." "Yes," assented the Cheerful Iaiot, "she does make a great jam at the bar- gain ocunter." "Did anybody insinuate that I sold myself ?" inquired the New York police- man. "I didn't hear that," replied his friend. "A11 that come to my ear was that you gave yourself away." Cora—"What are you going to do on your birthday ?" Clarissa, ---Going to take off another year. Bingo—"Now that you are living in the country, I should think you would find it lonesome riding back and forth on the train." Witberby—"Not at all, old man. I always have a servant girl with me." Winston—"What do people mean when they say of a girl that she is quaint?' " Wonston- " "They mean usually that it is charitable not to express their real opinion of her." Sae put her arms around his neck And for a Feasou Ht• disappeared from earthly gaze as stars are Lid in sunlit days; Chose lovely arms, s . wonarLus soft and fair, were in tnc.se monstrous sleeves teat women wear -- That was the reason. FOREIGN. Cholera has broken out at Mecca. It is stated that the life of the Prince of Wales is insured for £3,250,000. A valuable discovery of old coins bas been made in Anadol, in Bess cable, It is stated that the Foreign Office re- fuses to accept Nicaragua's reply to the British ultimatum. The report of a recent battle in the Chickasaw Nation between Gov. Moseley and factions is denied. A despatch received on Monday in Cal- ortte from Simla confirms the report of the relief of Fort Chitral. An electric railway has already been planned by the Japanese in Corea, for- merly occupied by Chinese. Russia is urging that the European powers should revise the terms of peace arrived at between China and Japan The Rev. Frederick William Farrar. D.D., Archdeacon of Westminster, has been appointed Dean of Can erbury. A parcel post service is to be instituted between India, Aden and Zanzibar and the British Central Africa Protectorate. At the Oxford election on Saturday Viscount Valentia, Conservative, was elected over Dr. Fletcher Little, by 632 votes. The Queen has decided to discontinue the early drawing rooms, and will in future hold four drawing -rooms after Fester. M. Jules Hurel and M. Catulle Meudee fought a duel in Paris Thull"sda•y. The latter was wounded. The duel cncernel Oscar Wilde. The Lancet says the commission ap- pointed to investigate tuberculosis a ill present its report to the Imperial Parlia- ment next week, A Frenchman named Rulliere, son of the dynamiter Ravaehol, has been given eight years penal 'servitude in France for attempte.i murder. The Czar has rejected a petition which was recently presented to him by journal ists and literary men in favor of a modi fication of the press laws. Mrs. M. Stephens, of Albany, N.Y., writes us es follows i "My stomach was so weak that I could not eat anything sour or very sweet, even fruit at tea -time would cause heartburn, fullness or op. pression of the chest, skort breath, rest- lessness during sleep and frightful dreams of disagreeable sights, so that I would dread to go to sleep. With the use of Northrop & Lymen's Vegetable Discovery this unpleasantness has all been remov- ed, and now I can: eat what suits my taste and fancy." Not in It. " ;A,lasf I am not, in ib," exclaimed the homeless dog as he paseel .the sausage faetry, A computation has been made by the Canadian Indian Department of the sur- rendered surveyed Indian lands, of which the Government is the trustee for the various Indian tribes in Ontario. The total area is 452,694 acres. These are bringing, when sold, about $1.50 an acre, The land disposed of in 1894 was 82,385 acres, which yielded the sum of $44:711. Besides this, the Indians of On- tario, who number 1.7.330, own 3,680 houses, 858 barns, 1,577 stables, 77,749 acres of cultivated land. Their, live stock consist of 3,857 horses, 2,887 cows, 888 oxen, 48 bulls, 961 sheen, 4,807 pigs and. 8,084 young stock. The crops of the Indians in this Province last year consisted principally of 65,589 bushels of wheat, 107,778 bushels of cats, 81,.115 bushels of peas, 11.,119 bushels of barley, 87,255 bushels of potatoes aced 11,501. tons of hay. Tet addition to this they had fish, furs and other' industries valued et $165,1.72. it. ,& Friendly Suggestion. Jimbly--"There is something the ter with my head, and the doctor do seem to know what it is." Jorkins—"Why don't you go wheelwright ?" mat- esn't to a Safe, Certain, Prompt, Eeonoainie.— These few adjectives apply with peculiar force to Dr. Thomas' 1electric Oil—a standard external and internal remedy, adapted to the relief of coughs, sore throat hoarseness and all affections of the breathing organs, kidney troubles, en- coriations, soreness, lameness and physis cal pain. Words of Wisdom. Suffering is ness. He who does ing ill. It is no worse to stand than to trample on it, Remember that the top side of a cloud is always bright. A. lazy man loses heart every time he looks at the clock. Love is the only thing that more than pays for all it gets. The sin that shines the brightest is the one most apt to kill. The man gains nothing who loses his character and saves his money. The windows of heaven are always shut against the man who will not work. The devil may feel proud of his work when he looks at a drunkard's home. For every fault we see in others we have two of our own which we overlook. A. prudent man is like a pin, Lis head prevents him from going teo far. If we use no ceremony towards others we shall be treated without any. If we would not fall to the bottom of the river, let us not walk too near the brink, The worst of it is that people do not always get when they wake up spirit- ually. A man may suffer without ,committing sin ; but he cannot commit sin without suffering. Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding ; that civility is best which ex- cludes all • furmality. Which is the greater, shame—that of accepting what is untrue, or that of re- fusing what is true ? Gold rn the pockets of a man makes him greater ; there is naught but grace in his heart which can make him better. You'll find it will be best To meet with smiles the pleasant glance, and thi"h a; i friends are true And never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. The great thing in observation is not to be influenced by our prect,nceived nc- tions, or what we want to be true, or by our fears, hopes, or any personal ' ele- ment, and to s ee the thing just as it is. Positive good is the best means of cur- ing negative evil. When we are deliber- ately planning to increase the happiness of others, and to further their welfare, we are not likely to injure them . by thoughtless a& ion. The Imperial Opium Commission has published its report, which decides against prohibition of the growth of the poppy or the manufacture of opium in India. Efforts are sh 'rtly to be made in Lon- don to raise money to aid in the construc- tion of the proposed ship ' canal from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean. Two Did let. Mr. Nordin notary public, Toronto, says : "Dr, 0018011'e Stomaeh :Bitters cured rare of dyspepgsia,ye It will cure, you, l'i:ity cents &bottle. Allan & Co., Front et., Toronto, proprietors. Ask druggists. Sir Robert Low telegraphs that Chitral garrison, the objective point of the pres- ent British relief expedition, is being ter- ribly pressed, and that it is doubtful if the troops can arrive in time to save the garrison. In reply to the representations of Si.t Philip Currie, tbe British Ambassador at. Constantinople, the Turkish Government has promised to instroct the Provincial Governors to abstain from oppressing the Armenians. The grand jury found a true bill against Oscar Wilde, who ie charged with serious misdemeanors, and his trial was set down for Friday next at the Old Bailey. Wilde's friends will endeavor to obtain a post- ponement of the trial. The Japanese Government has issued an official statement declaring that the commercial advantag •sobtained by Japan in the treaty with China will be shared by the other powers under the most favored nation treatment. It is stated that the discipline is so lax in the Dannemore Stat prison that par- ties of prisoners often go away for hunt- ing trips, lasting a couple of weeks at a time, and on their return present the deer they have shot to the warden. Owing to existing treaties between Great Britain and Austria and Great Britain and the German Zollverein, Can- ada has now to give Austria and Ger- many the same tariff concessions as she has agr.;ed to give to France. This is the additional legislation that is necessary before the French treaty can go into force. Est United States Consul Waller was recently tried by a French court-martial at Tamatave, and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for having acted as a spy in the ititerests of the Roves, and now the authorities at Washington are protesting, first. that the charge is groundless, and, second, that, the French had no authority try thoritto the ex -Consul by y court-martial. not necessarily unhappi- nothing is very near do - on ceremony "Itis a queer thing to be ' in at the. death' of a man," he continued after a bit. "I don't mean of a man who has enjoyed the comforts and pleasures of life• and whose friends gather at his bed- side in the last hour, and whose grave. will be marked by a shaft of marble. Such men have squeezed the most out of. ` life and ought to be resigned to die when there is nothing more to be had. Uncle. Abe was always a human being—most always a man. He told me the story of his life, and it was pitiful even for a tramp, In thinking of tramps, did it, ever occur to you that it takes a power- ful weight to pull a man down into the. mire? Those who look upon a vagabond as one who simply lets go of manhood, and respectability and lets the current carry him down are greatly mistaken. There must come disappointments, mis fortunes, loss of confidence in his fellow- man, desperation and despair. His heart. must dry up and his faith must grow small. He must come to realize that the world is against him and will not give him a show before he will let go for good and all," I knew that he was right, even though 1 had never pondered over the matter. Man in his normal condition may be, vicious, but he respects himself and Iiia, inclination is to ascend instead of d spend. "There was a man—poor old Abe !— whom the world refused a chance even. for his life. Misfortune walked hand in, hand with him. Fate always had a trap. set for his feet. He was pulled down and down until he became an outcast—until, the terms humanity, charity and. phil- anthrophy were mockery in his ears.. But I told you he was most always a man. There were times when he forgot himself, but only at long intervals, when, Fate begrudged him a bed in a fence cor- ner or a crust to stay his hunger. ou and all others look upon the nag as a liar and a thief and a man without moral ob- ligation. bligation. You wrong him; There was a man who reverenced truth and re'pected honesty, and his word was never broken. Had he been less truthful and honest it would have been to .his benefit." Igleeeed furtively at my man and saw .tl-..t he had tears in his eyes, and that '" is hands trembled as he clasped them about his knee. He turns d his face, away, let go of that knee to clasp the•, other and softly continued : "He died the death of a vag—the death, he had looked forward to for many years. There was the doctor who looked him. over in a formal way --the undertaker, who seemed impatient to have done with it—a bed on which only an outcast would rest in his dying hour. They said a tramp lay dying, but I knew him for a, man. If given a fair show • his voice might have been heard in the halls of the nation and men would have cheered' him instead of passing. him by as a stone by the wayside. It is nothing to the world how a vagrant dies—whether he lives or dies—but let me say to you that Uncle Abe died like a man. I feared that he wouldn't. It was my fear that, at the last he would lament and revile an cry out against the fate k hich had draggedhim down. But he didn't. When the i..ark of death had set itself upon his face he had no laments. Men had. wronged him, but he did not revile them. The world had pulled him down and kept, him down, but he had no bitter words,. He had sometimes said that God had for- gotten him among the millions, but faith, m God Dame back to him and was with him as he gasped his life away. When. the end came that poor old man—that low-down vagabond to whom aquarter was a fortune—that human being in rags and tatters—folded his arms across his breast and died like a man—died as. a man worth his tens of thousands might die. They came and lifted him into a, pauper's coffin and hurried him away, There was no funeral ceremony ---no fu- neral procession—no crape. I alone fol- lowed the vehicle and stood by with un- covered head while the dirt was thrown upon his coffin. That was the end. Out of a human being they had made a tramp —a vagabond—a thing which walked about and begged for rags and crusts but tut ofdeath. there had come a man." As he rose up I handed him a.bill. "Thanks,':" he whispered. "You know what I am going to do. I will go up there and plant a head -board at his grave, and on that head -board will be written : "Rare Lies a Ram" A Japanese War Story. Every war brings out stories of heroism that last long after many other incidents of the c Elliot are forgotten. Boyish bravery in the heat and smoke of battle in particular, is always told of, and seems to have more distinction than that nF the older soldier who is trained to do his duty under all circumstances. Al- ready from the Japan -China war has come a story of a brave little bugler that is likely to be told over and over again. It was on ane of the battlefields, which have not been frequent in this war, when the Japanese troops were somewhat panic- stricken and were retreating before the Chinese, that the little bugler was mor- tally wounded. Stricken and dying as he was, the brave lad did not forget his duty. He saw the brave troops flying, and knew that the Chinese were gaining a victory ; with splendid courage he raised himself, and, grasping his bugle, sounded a loud and stirring "charge" ; the troops hoard and rallied under its message, charged valiantly in obedience to it, and the day was theirs. But the little bugler had died as they fought,'and did not even know that his effort had been successful, His comrades knew, however, what he had done, and they bore him from the field in triuniph, and Already the "uta," a poem of honor, has been written in his memory, while his mother has as rayed d herself in robes of stat and honor, and wound her hair with flowers, the proudest woman in the em- pire, that, her only son should have thus distinguished himself. And then he reaehed down for his old fur cap, wiped a tear from his eheels with his sleeve, and when I looked up again, he had disappeared. A queer, strange. fellow, my C. O. D. man is.