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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-6-21, Page 7DOMINION ,PARIJAMENT., writ sEssoo— SETINTH JARL /ANENT. SAULT STI). MARIE CANAL. Mr. flaggart, nenswer to Air. Lister, said, tae Sault Ste. Maio cu wa not yet opened, or traffic, and would not be until the channels approaching the canal at each ena wore elearea of obstructiene in the salvo of rooks, The managers of the Caned tat Peelfie ratilwey and Beaty tine a steamers had not refueed to use the Caeadian canal so far aa hie knewledge went. TEM NOBLE CASE. Mr, Landerkin moved for copies of all orders -in -Council, letters, doeuxuents, pars, petit ous, reports, commissions, aud evidence in reference to the with - drama a the iishory•license and the scale- ure of the fisoing fleet and plant of the Noble Bros, on the Georgian Bay. He eakt he understood that during the long term of 86 or 40 years the Noble Bros. had been engaged in the fishery business, there had, never been a charge against them that had been sustained. In March last, as Was their custom, they sent in. their alien - eaten to tho proper authority for a license, accompanied by the foe of $280. When the time arrived the boats of the Noble Brosovho had no idea a license would not be granted, were eent out for fishing operations on the Goorigan Bay. The li- cense u4not Item received when they commenced to do this, but the Nobles were in the same position as other fishermen. „who were at work at the saine•time, From the fact that the fishery overseer sent beak the cheque; in order to get the bank ex- change, the Noble Bros. had no doubt the license would be forthconaing. The fish- ery officer came along, however, and seiz- ed four tugs and several skiffs belonging to the Arm, without, however, interfering :kb any other vessels on Georgian bay, although there were some 80 or 40 in the same positi. n as the Noble craft. The boats were marled off without even allow- ing the nuts to be lifted. A fine of 970 and costs was imposed, and a license re- fused, and the result was that the business of the fame in -which they had invested ' $50,000 capital, suffered a serious loss, and severe.' hands were thrown out of employ- ment. Mr. Costigan hoped the House would aot entertain the motion,because it would be irregular in view of a pending judicial investigation, which had been ordered. The fact that an investigation had not taken place earlier was due to the Nobles themselves. The hon. gentleman, he be- lieved, had been quating from evidenoe contained in a statement of the ease issued by the Noble fireawhich materially differ- ed front the official version of the testi- mony given before the commission. Mr. Laurier, resuming the debate on the Noble case, was surprised at the atti- tude of the Government. Why should not the papers be brought before the House, which was the great court of enquiry? Sir Charles H. Tupper explained that while the punishment. seemed heavy for the offence, it was given on account of the bad record of the Noble brotbers, who, while they bad only been caught in flag- rant violation. of the regulation once, had -undoubtedly assisted others, and by ex- ample caused many to violate the Act. If papers were brought down, they would only enable the claimants to make out a case against the Crown, which, in the in- terest of justice, it was not regular or lit - ting to do. Mr. Lister had no doubt that the Minis- ter, when in charge of the Marine Depart extent, firmly administered the fishery- laws, much more rigorously, in face than those interested would like. His opinion was that if the hon. gentleman enforced the laws as he desired, he would work a great deal of injustice to the fltherreen of this country. Mr. O'Brien observed that so far from the Minister of Marine having acted with harshness and severity, he had displayed a spirit in enforcing the regulations which under the circumstances was most credit- able to his heart as well as his head. If there were any cases in which the Minis- ter had acted with severity, that severity was ju.stiflable. Still, he thought that in the present case the papers should be brought down. Mr. Sproule dLffered from the last speaker. The Nobles contemplated bring- ing an action against the Crown. for dam- ages, and that to his mind was a strong reason why the Government should notby the production of the papers give away the case on the other side. Sir James Grant said no class had the right to try and make political capital out of the fitheries of the country. .Mr. McMullen said this was another evidence of the inability and incapacity of the administration to efficiently carry out the affairs of the country. .&n amendment to strike out letters, docum' ents papers, and reports was car- ried, and the niotion as amended was adopted. PERMANENT CORPS. On the item of $45,000 for pay and al- • lowances to the permanent corps and ac- • tive militia. Mr. Maxim* asked if the department had adopted a policy as to the expenditure upon the permanent corps. There was le feeling throughout tne country that too large a portion of the grant for militia purposes .ivas being spent upon the per- manent corps. The belief entertained. in faot was that this corps formed a small standing army; which was gradually eat- ing up the militia great. The object of • these centres of instruetion was to qualify men to take commands, but it had failed to aecomplish that aim. In this respect it differed from the former aystom whichl. was elastic, inexpensive, and practica Mr. Denison said two or throe years ago he had suggested that the old system should be engrafted on the present systole. The advantage of the old system thould be looked into by the Minister. At present the country did not get as much advent - age from the permanent corps as it should. Mr. Dickey said:—i nazi tell the hon. . gentleman who has just spoken that his sugges ions with refereed° to incorpotat- ing the old system of schools upon the neve Will receive my earliest .ritt elation . When X have tittle to make some referees In the Mill la Depaetment, as I sincerely hope to be able to do. With respect to the peratatteist corps, I can tell the commit- tee that my present intention is be redtiee them to the number of 800 men and Offi- cers, which the committee will see le a very Material reduction. X also impe to reek° them more goner/1,11Y serviceable in the drilling of the active militia ated the fur- nishing of deli). instructore, • Mr. Prior thought the permanent ootpe amid be kept tip to a force of cathodeand men, and shoal& be anaittained ita the present efileient state, Sir Riebard Cartwright seid he were all agreed tbet wbetever was done Aetna be in the interest of a foe= of whieh they thoulti till feel proud, Wheeever mends had. been Made upon there, the force had responded. in a canner •that Intet by no means discreeitable to them, alagazteee as well as Daily r.lirforq (01 TiSdale would lik0 to see teeth per- tilblite to Bake this Be vartment at r es 0 • I' aper o oaL Iatret MISCELLANEOUS READING -,—r rou nail (no AND YOUnie inenent roma and militia maiutathed at the present establishment, bat he would proter to see the former redliced if that could not be done. Ho would like the militia to drill every year. 111'. r3ifiUt spoke upon an 'repression ex - Wing that the ranks of the, permanent force were depletes.' by by desertion, HP then allude(' to the possibility of the oommand of the militia fo co being entrusted to a Otinadian. - Mr. Dickey vented that there was a good deal to be said in favour of a native coni - =Lauding officer, as well as in favour of a general connected with the Imperial ser - Phe item was Passed. THE SAULT CANAL. The next item taken up was that of $810,000 for the Sault to. Marie canal, which passed after some explanations by Mr, Hamar. , On the vote of P,700 to °over the en- quiry into the Lacleiae canal expenditure. Sir Charles H. Tapper stated that an application under the criminal code was pew -ling before the assizes at Montreal to lay tee evidence taken against Mr. St. Louis in the Police Court before the grand pry, Mr. Multi& declered it was an outrage that a robbery approaching the amount of P50,000 should have taken place with- out some one being placed behind the bars. The Government's attitude was an invitation to other contraotoes to do likeWIT:DEPENDENCE OF MEMBERS. Mr. Itielock introduced a bill better to aseure the independence of Parliament. The bill was directed against the presence of piecemeal in the House and against the custom which prevailed. of Member's of Parliament applying for positions of em- olument, which, if accepted, would at once disqualify them for remaining members. THIRD READINGS. The following bills were read a third Respecting. the Manitoba and North West Loan Company ilimited)—lifr.Deni- ri Respecting tbe St. Lawrence and Ad- ir remit Railway COmpany—Mr.Sproule. N espe tug the Canada Southern Rail- way aonipany—Mr. Ingram. tpeeting the Groat North-West Cen- r a Railway Company—Mr. rant. 1-1(seecting the Tomiscouata Bailway Comp utay—Mr. McAlister. • To incorporate the Lindsay,Haliburton' and Mattawa Railway Company— Mr. Mathes. To incorporate the Canadian Order of Foresters—Mr. Taylor: OF COURSE IT WAS A GOLDVISH. And Clara being a Moro Expert Angler Succeeded in Landing It. "Men are just like fish," observed the tall girl in gray, "I don't wonder that Darwin thinks they are descended from them." "I think Mr. Darwin only spoae of apes. dear," mildly suggested the girl with ti • eyeglasses. "Did he? Well, it's all the same, 'any- how. I'm so busy with the man of to -day that I don't dare to go back any farther; I'm sure the poet was quite sensible when he said that the proper study of woman- kind le man. " ' "I -I think he said 'mankind,' dear," hinted the girl with the eyeglasses. The girl th gray turned fiercely upon her!: "See, here, Emily Marshmallow, you may know all about apes, yes, and the height of the north pole and—and lots of other unnecessary things, but you know as well as I do that they won't do you a bit of good with a man unless be is exam- ining you for a teacher's certificate; and precious little, then, with the pair of eyes you have in your head," she ended up triumphautly. "What was it about the list, anyhow?" wked the girl with the eyeglasses,sudden- ly interested in the subject. "The fish? Ob, I remember. Well, you see, if youaty to catch them with a hook and line they are too suspicious to bite unless you itua them with a bright color- ed fly. But if you go after them with a net and just slip it neatly over their heads they are easily enough landed." "Oh!" blankly replied the girl with the eyeglasses. "Whm And that horrid Clara--" "Oh, it's all about Clara, is it?" "itis. She is busy to -day deciding whether to call him Wilfred or Mr.Sweetie after they are married." "But I thought be was quite as atten- tive to you as to her?" He was; but I used a hook and line, Clara a net. He is gasping a little yet, but he is safely landed. You see, Clara and I had a discussion not long ago about the best way to manage a man who kept calling and calling—and saying nothing In partioular. To decide it we wrote the elitor of the Young Lady's Chaperone; the reply was, 'Refuse octagonally to see tee young man,'" "And did you. follow—" "I did. Wilfred called the vety day the taper carne, Clara happened to be with me up in my room at the time, and I sent down word that he would please excuse me as I was engaged. Then what do you suppose that deeeitful Clara did?" 'Went down hersolf?" • "N -n. She saddenly remembered that she had. forgotten to post an important letter and ran down the bank stairs and over home. Of course he went right over there, as the sly thing knew he would, so She just rau into the back parlor, where he'd be sure to hear, and sobbed: 'Oh, mamma, ho—he has just been over to see Eva again and—and she Wouldn't oven see him, while I—' Her Mother, being a Widow, understood at once Mad said: delta know really whet you are talking about, poor child, elr. Sweetie is in the parlor," "But how on eateth did yon find out how it happened?" "I suspected souiethiag, deal., and so followed close on Clara's heels, but before I (meld get into the room the door had closed upon her and`that borrid mother of here took me upstairs to ask my advice about the analciaig over of an old gown," Bread Crams, Bread etrunba rant taming the house - cleaner's best friends, Clrushed to a coarse powdee, they may be used to clean Vele cat° lamp shades, tareene, show eases, scarfs and the bolting °loth ttitleS so doer to the head of the deeoratiVely • imitated. Ilrecia amnia; will also remove grease spote atom wall papers, and are indeed, invaluable in fa:shoeing wall papers that beet b000nte dingy. • A Strohe of Economy., , hgteed hp eminalthal „osts, Chi what 'twould take to keep a wife, With this rent—be vowed to,eliug To single bleestedness of jibe. , But changed his mind eompletely, when Bo went to W011a0 1 uul, Red there nebeld the Armless -maiden whom le xnade at meg Ins lady fair. Now when his friends Metered eat what Ilinilirstatraetad 10111, (1110th be "I knew I'd have no sl enves to bui Which proves a ATCat ewmomy. When the Apple Blooms. When the apylea fun of bloesoms and the blossouss And ths beese fun of nfl of aney,buzzice up and 'W'hen tin llavpr o1 the'llIties and the smell of Mixes with the .Yonny.jump-ups bloomin' by • tee garden fence i Oh, its then you want to Fit up soon and wash Whiltarcialf Vi.blaingici'sInging round about yon0\Try w I lere, And the leares of iito amfold again es fresh as When the apple's fuli of blossoms and the blos- soms lull of bees, There's a eoftenin' of the Wenn Idea o'kin to love, perhaps, ,StealstiiiieLes‘tvityloteurN%\'‘hreaupsy.ou:see the b.u,s peeliff , o And the ba'uty breath of 0:Orilla , ntak searales LII the dew : With the riga' Buil acreage' up the sky so bright and blue, Mnits tlio icicles 'at time has frose a.erost yonr °Jowled life Till you think about your sweetheart and you e and kiss your wife; For it s then's aboutthe time o' year yerself and her agrees, When the apple's full of blossoms and the blos- soms fail of bees. Everything's so ghat and happy you just want to laugh outi aria, Per yourevorries, Lice the snow, Inc melted ahem) clean out of sight, And thabeoNvvett.thle of the bluebird in the sky so fur And the pleasant coo and gurgle of the 'pigeon and the live. And the very wind 'at fans your face with kiss- es seems to say "Rest yourself a little, old man, heaven habil eo fur away : Take a day off alai go lishin', for, the's mighty few like these, When the apnle's full of blossoms and the blos- soms full of bees." • Working the Workingman. How i it you can tax a $'7,5 exert seam:t- ilt $10 a year for a license and can't tax a $290 vacant lot s much? Because the owner of the express wagon shifts his tax in part over to the hirers of kis trap. The lot owner can't shift his tax, manes the rental value of the lut is less than $10, you can't collect it. An lin authorizea Invitation. "I was orry, Willie," said his Sunday - school teacher, "to see you keep your seat when he superintendent asked those who 'wanted to go to Heaven to rise. Don't you want to go to Heaven?" "Yesan.:" Then why didn't you rise?" "Cos he didn't bay no right to t 11 me to rise ma'am," answered Willie. •Ile ain't no Angel Gabriel." • A. Prayer with a Codicil. Little Jack prays every ntght for all the different members of his family.His father .hadebeeraaway at one time for short journey, and that night Jack was praying for him as usual. Bless papa and. take care of him," he was &Taming, as usual, -whets suddenly he raised a is head find listened. Never nand about it now, Lord," made the little fellow, "I„ hear him clown in the hall." A 'Difference. • • .1 1 ; The rich man revels in fine. aersoisal property and mils ions in securitie , and the assessor's list shows him to be a poor man, nearly in want. Rich en axe sent for, called into the assessor's i.rivate room, and informed that they are assessed at so and so. The assessor boldly makes the announcement that both can make money if the rich man is agreeable, and st eight - way tho inan's figures are lopped off. The assessors get rich doing this. • Church Asking to be Taxed. The guests of honor at the regular monthly dinner of the relatable:an club the other night were Rev.' Drs. R. E Mac- Arthur and Abbott E. Kittredge. Dr. MacArtirox announced that the officers' of his church in Fifty-seventh etreet have been seriously r onsiclering the advisability et requesting the tax commissioners to assess the thurch property, on the ground that a chime is not entitled to exemption from taxation by the state. Roth Wound t3p. "'What I don't like," said the all-round reformer, "about you single -taxers isahat if any no remarks what a fine day' t is, you at canoe proceed to glow bow the single tax would affect that." "Why," said the new convert, "I don't see how one could help showing it, when It is so directly connected. Here is this beautiful sunlight—only a tithe of God's creatures can enjoy it. Think of the peo- ple etrnalla in the salines. Here are the Soft breezes of spring—wbat use are they to the clwellere in the city closes? Tho sumraer warmth can but increase their miseries. Now, the single ex would give opporennity *— •• "And the young men arose and wound up that reformer and oarried h in out and buried him." Robert Calyces Supreniallontente Thirty years ago next suanmer 1 went over to my old home in England, after an aissenee of fifteen years, to find "the wo- men who most influenced ine"—sny inother, writes the Rev. Robert Collyer, DD., is the series of " The Woman. Who Most Influenced Me," in the June Ladies' Home journil, She wits sitting in the old rocking -chair where she had nursed all ber children, but eould not rise at once, be- cause the sudden shook of hor joy held hor there some moments, and the years had wro ght s ch a thane in me that she' looked up with a touch of wonder, but whet I said "mother" she hold. (let ber arms mid cried, "My lad, I did not know thy face bat I k ow thy voice." Them woke only a few threat& of silvet ie her hair when I left home, but now it had grown tal white. X eoticed tho threads coin rn g soon after my father died suddertie while be was woe -king at his anvil on is blazing Jaly (lay eiventy-one yeare before this tbnci atui she was ninth changed now, bet not at rill for the worse with the years, only, 1 thought, es a soiled rosy apple cheeps towned the perfect ripe- ciess. ssing Links« There is gill a lingering belief in the old superstition that ember beads protect children from disease and the Superstition a eus not to be confined to the poor, for such necklaces feteh 330 itiga cia il in the shops. Come wbkcb ims leanest disappear- ed as an ornament for grown folks, still Is used itt ohildrea's necklaces, and i$ sl1P, posed to have an even higher qiialltY ishau ani her—that of protecting the weenie frOM evil spirits. Seehneekleaes are eontelleillY worn by Italian °Mean and are occasion- ally brought from Europe as giete to the children of the well to-do. Scores of Welter families in southern Peensylvania have proservea the marriage Certificates of their ancestors for many generations, signed, isa Is the Quaker eus- tom, by all the guests at the ceremony. Some undertels'ers down towu whose customers are poor people ere using coffins mete of paper, The coffins are made isa all styles out of pressed paper pulps just the same as the contemn paper buckets. When they met varnished and stained they resemble polished wood, and in point of durability they are hutch better than wooden ones, it is elaimea. It is affirmed that an intelligent man may learn in less than is week to maul - palate a trolley car. Tbe mechanism of the thing is simple enetegh, but the quali- ties most needed in the motor man are quiekness and juclgtnent. These things are of (verso not acquired in a week or in mallY Weeks, and it takes perbaps a enan of higher average intelligence than the street 03117 driver to manipulate with safety and precision the apparatus of the trolley car, One of the cheapest and most beautiful of potted. plauts• and oneaonsequently be loved by the poor is the primrose. It blooms for many weeks together, and the plant, with caramay be carried over from. oue waiter to another. Its great enemy is the heat of the summer hereabouts. Cheaper and more easily propagated is the plantain, which will endive all sorts of weather, can be multiplied indefinitely, and blooms a large part of the 'man It, too, is a prixne favorite in the tenement quarters, where the poor still have the merit to cultivate oftwers. Antique coins for personal adornment are reguaely quoted, and those most com- monly obtainable are quoted at prices varylug ermn $2 to $150. The most valu- able of these coins are those in gold of Syria, Egypt and Greece from 300 to 100 years B. 0. Roman 00i31S since the Chris- tian era are quoted from $00 to $75. One of the absurdities of the time is a dictionary of 800 or 400 pages, the size of a big thumb nail, enclosed in a case of-al- aminum, silver or gold, and read by means of a magnifying lens lat into the case. Many persons bought them at fifty cents, and a few were foolish euough to , take the gold -cased ones_ at more than twenty times that price. "My mother -in law tells me," said Mr. Goslington, "that the best thing to olean piano keys with is alcohol and water; that water alone, drying slowly, makes the keys turn yellow, but that mixed with a little alcohol the whole evaporates more • quickly, and so the yellowing is measur- :ably avoided. It scarcely seems as though • this could be is tecenteaiscovery; but I 'never heard of it beforeeild so I mention . .it for the benefit of those who in this, re - spat may be like myself." • Even a: e old book trade is feeling the • • • h times. There are plenty of books- 'offeredeo the dealersaneathe beak monserts: are hard up. Furthermore the cheapness of flimsy books is interfering with the sale ' of second- and standard works. The dealers have met tine by purchasing the Imip new books in large lots. Mean - bile the dry goods stores are selling all rts of books at rates that alarm even the bocond-hand dealers.' There is a remarkable difference in the density of 'mahogany as it comes to the cabinet makers. A &pare foot of 'Cuban xuahogany, an inch thick, woighe on the average six pounds; a like piece of Santo Domingo inallogany weighs four pounds, and a like piece of Mexican mahogany weighs two and a half pounds. The differ- ence in weight beteteen old pieces of Santo ,Dozaingo mahogany taken from the wreck of antique ftu•niture and a piece of season- ed new Santo Domingo mahogany is muoh less than might be expected. Hothouse; strawberries from New Jer- sey, now in -the market, sell at $8 a bas- ket. The fruit is large, perfectaind beau- tiful, but the baskets are small; they run about fourteen berries to the basket. Ear piercing has so much gone out of fashion now that special devices to enable women to wear earrings without submit- ting to the drill have some vogue. They bear the trade mane of ear vises and cost "Doirp*lo6maasPaalir. .eengraved in the hi,ghest style of the art for about $75, though the kind the colleges give out die not cost quite so much. A. man really proad of his academie degree must hay a box fo.. his diplomas, and silver boxes for this use cost from $60 to $100. . "The diary habit seems to be falling off," fao says a salesman in one of the large 'book stores in Elmira, who judges from the galore The principal demand in this line has been for memorandum calendar pads from school teacher, and from base- ness men. • Soxne persons make a speeialty of sup- plying gamy wedding etertificates at something more than the ordinary price, and one foam of a rthicate provides is place for photographs of the °entreating parties. Other wedding certificates aro done on vellum and ornamented With gold and silver Stith Daley cost as much as $75. Since silver has b000me so cheap thimbles of that metal cost little, and men' e collar buttons may be had as low as twonty-five cents, and unless elaborately abased rarely cost so much as fifty cents. The chief ergennent bi gayer of the silver oollar button is its durability. It.is likely to outlast even the mother-of-pearl and to bo chea, or in the end than a succession of bone buttons. The one drawback to the metallic button is the feet that it leaves a :mall black , deposit about the button hole. "Once in is country hotel," gad a tma- vehbor, as I looked around in the dark in rey room, after I had gone to Nadel save over on the bureau a (serious little that'll - oils face. It was rather startling at first but then I know that it must be the match box. 1 Tenuambered the match box, foe 1 mixer laid soon ono like it be- fore. It was !Ikea little munpkie, and it had painted upon one side 015 115 eyes, nose, arid mouth so that it re:ambled a little jack-o-aantetn and these had beon eainted with luminoes taint so as to make it coley rto find the Inatch s in the night T. felt, however, that the loention of the mateh vox, had now been stifilelently• impreseed waft my mind, se I got ttp and tutned the Oath* face to the wall." Candies or the Ocean. Frazer river people, as well as the nito tivos of Alaska,. are golug to be well sup- plied. With attitude' light for emue thne to cone, and th electrie light industry ttt Sake has received ci severe blow, while the gas twills (it Vancouver are threetenea With anocuous dos ueeude. Ail of this has eoxii.+ about through a reravkable run of 'fish svhielt has occarred along the (east f IiritiSh Co =hie and of Alaska, during fitiriellitrute waitt.' el TetcardiNtivse,rt°vhineobt b°avvrelbbleartiaY found swinaineng in the 144010a Oman in immense shoals A cleepetch from. Van - ;Aeneas says that vaille the fishing lasted. it was more profitable than gold mining. One eatch thet was made beat an previous records. A getimer rejoining in is e appropri- ate mane or Finnie captured seventy bucieets of the living ea, adios, which are called by the nativett eulachons, and he sold them for $17.50 cst thernarketprice of twenty -Ave cents is bucket. Wheu candles are being hauledoet ot the water and sold at this rate the local gas companies might as well go out Of business, and as is result the Standard Oil oornpa y on the Peoific coast bee been driven from the market temporarily. The eulachons or candle - fish, which belong to the smelt family, have long been fashionable among the natives of Alaska. They are largely com- posed of fat. When thew'', they are stared away and used as candles during the long winter. After the Alaskan has had his dinner he takes out a dried fish, sticks the tail in a <amok of the table ana touches a Match to the nose,. Then the ftSh burns with is bright and steady glimmer. Thus the Alasakau poet never burns the mid. - night oil, for his literary labors are illu- minated by eulathon, which, if unusually large, may burn for an hour or more be- fore it sputters out at the nal. The Alas- kans also use these fish at their rude re- ligious eremonies. Rowsaf candle fish are stuck in a board with their heads upward. Before the ceremony an cad 1113111 lights the itsh. They bu n like a cow of oandles and throw a weird hat over the congre- gation at their devotions. These fish are so oom mon in the waters of Alaska that the natives scoop them up with a board. A large plank like a aldle Is studded with nails and an Indian stand- ing on the shore or in a boat sweeps it through the water, gathering In great numbers of these natural candies when the shoal is thick. At New Westmin- ster last week the catch of candle fisle was so large that they are now being frozen by the ton, and. it is proposed to ship thern to different points as an experiment. This will jeopardize the oil monopoly all along the Pacific coast. Another advantage about these creatures is that if they are not available as candles, they maybe eaten, end they also snake an excellent substi- tute for cod-liver oil. They are so fall of fat as to be almost transparent. The scientific name of t ese creatures is Thal- eichthy- pacificus' but none of the natives of Alaska wouldrecognize them other than as "water candles." They are de- scribed as anadromous deep-sea salmonoid fish. They resemble the smolt in, form, but with weaker dentition and smaller scales, and they are of dusky coloration, growing to nearly a foot in length. In the spring immense shoals of these fish are to be met with along the whole northwest coast of America, and they aseend all the rivers north of the Columbia to spawn. The natives of British Columbia call the eulachon the pan -fish, and use it as a candle by inserting in it the pith of a rush or a strip of bark as a wick. Another species is the anaplopoma finthrice which resembles the pollock and attains a length of ttventy inches and is weight of five pounds. Such is candle would burn for several nights. The larger species is also called the black candle -fish, the horse mackerel and the beshuw. Itlwould only need a shoal of natural. matches now to complete the happiness of the Alaskan In- dians and the destruction of the oi mono- poly in, oux arctic province. The supply of ocean candles gathered this spring will, it is said, last the Indians for several years unlees they take to eating them. • Too Dry to Bear a Sermon. Be had a red nose, an untrimnied growth of Titian whiskers and a breath that would have posed as the spirit of the still, says the New York World. One foot Was clothed in a carpet slipper, the other in a top -boot and. he had a cigar stub that was is relic of the gutter perched in the corner of his mouth. "Say, pard," he saki, "Pm dead. broke and dead dry. Can't yer giveus the price of a The other well dressed and comfortable, caught a whiff of the stirrupatup breath and began a lecture on the evils of intem- perance and tobacco. But the weary ped- estrian cut him short. "Say," he protested, "I'm too dead. dry to hear a sermon. Can't yon do anything in the wet line?" The other peremptorily refused, and the seedy person, with a glance of disdain, went at him once more. "Mn nem'," he said, "do you know you remind me of the Japs at Port Arthur." "My!" said the other, astonished; "why so?'' Why," said the seedy person, you give me 310 quarter." A Privileged Person. Princess Mathilde is one of the few Catholics vwho are entitled to eat meat during Lent by a special decree, of the Pope. This diS13011Sati.011 was accorded to her under Netlike: eircumstances. When tbe Queen of Westphalia, the mother of Princess Medina) once paid a visit to Pope Pius IX. at the Vatican, the Pope had a speciat "hall" drawn out for her benefit in .memory of her visit dispensing her from fasting daring the whole of her lifetime, "Your II lipase will pardon me," said the Queen "brit 1 sun entitled to eat meat at all times oven without your Holiness' permission, for I are a Protest - an ." The Pope siniled and said: • "Well, then' I will transfer the dieponsation to yettrdaughter Mathilde." This was done and the order remains in force to the pres- ent day. A Dorn. Colorist. Sybil —"Why, you funny bey, yataaa painted the snow brown, the cows.blue and the trees pink 11' Cyril—"Ye X know; toad when Via painted the sky red it'll be fielshed. You s a I don't Want anybody tito think reV copied It from anything. ' Arthur (who has beeIt taking quittine pills on the rePresetitatiOn that they are "snob, manning little eggs")—Manante malninal the little eggs eon gave me have hatched out into birds, and they are all singing at once on the inside of my head. A little gtel. was evothecad talking to her tioli wileSo atin Nal beano offeexposing the Kindest: "You dealt good, 'bedient, little dolly ; 1 know 1 told yea to chear ami. food line, but I didn't 'speet yeti cauld allow it so 4110 as that," A GRATEFUL MOTHER. itei.41",ES HOW IIER DAUGUTER,S LIFg WAS SAUD. Anaemia, and 001101,1a Dcbliity fecal Brought Her to tile Verge of the Gruye—Physlelans held out No liopo 01 ReeoVerY — Dr. Williams' Pinlg Pitts .Again P1'0,6•0 a Life Saver. Frani the Ottawa Free Press. A personal paragraph in the Free Press 801110 time ago einialY elating that Mies Sophie Belanger, 4e8 Cooper street Ca- tawa, had recovered from is serious illness caused by anaemia and general debility, bas apparently awakened more than usual interest and pleasure among her relatives and aequalatences. So inuen so, indeed, that is reporter of the paper found. it ex- teelnelY interesting to visit thefanaily and enjoy a (gat with Mrs Belanger on the recovery of her daughter lifter she had Inc two years been considered irrecover- ably is victim of this terribly enervating and dangeroas disease. Aire. Bola:tiger IS is very intelligent Frencia-Canatliase wife of Mr. Joseph Belauger, whose wall paper and pnint and glass establishment is. et 146 13ank street. Miss Sophie Belauger, the whiloin invalid, vecillatiag between. death and life, is a prolaising young lady assereatte eseta• 1'1 aga, rrs e L t 0...3 Sile lay on a ccuaa Mae one dying. of seveuteen years. She is a student under the nuns bn St. jean Baptiste school on Primrose HILL Over two yearss ago she fell sick and. =pally wasted away. The nature of her disease rtepeared to be a pro- found mystery to the physicians as they were- called in one after the other. De- spair seized the family as they look -ed. -epen the once beautiful, spirited girl, lying day in and day out, weeks and menthe on her coach, simply slowly vanisbing and they powerless even to raise a smile to her wan lips. Each succeeding medical man gravely told the parents to prepare for the worst. However, Mrs. Belamger is not one of those women who give up in de- spair wbile there is still hope, as her own words will denote. "It was a terrible time," she said. "We had been told again and again that noth- ing could be done to save Sophie, and had almost been forced by appearances to be- lieve it. I have now to say that but for Dr. Williams Pink Pil s she would have been, in her grave instea,d of attending school every day the livens st of the lively. It began like this; the poor girl was com- ing to me three or four times a day ex- claiming, "Oh ma; I have such a terrible headache. I cannot stand the pain of it." This event on for a long time, weeks in fact, -until we began to look at it in a very serious light. We had almost every French doctor in the city called in, but with no result. Sophie got worse and worse. Her face was small atcl yellovr while her lips were as whiteas your collar. She was listless and apathetic made° weak she could not raise her hand to her head. A. leading dootor forced her to take a cer- tain kind of powders, which seeread to be taking the flesh farm her bones. Her skin became hot and parched, her eyes sank into her head and she lay on tbat couch as oae dead, teeing no interest whatever in things going on aeound her.' Then it was vve became confirmed to the popular belief that she was going to die, It was agonizing to look at her, but we became partially resignal to the fate that appeared to be overtaking us. She was watched clay and night but we could de- tect no change unless for the worse. All hope had gone. I had read of the cures by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and about this time I noticed is description published in the Free Press somewhat similar to Sophie's case. Something seem- ed to urge 3110 to give them atrial =anew I thank Grod I did. I sent for sosne and began giving them to her one at a time. Before long we saw an improvement and gradually increasea the dose from one to two and then to three at regular intervals. It was incredible to mate the change. Her color C01110 back, a different look in her eyes, her general health and appearance gave us all neve interest in her. Before the fourth box was gone Sophie was able to be up and around again, and a further use of thens fully r stored her health, or rather snatched her from the brink of the grave. To Dr. Williams' Pink Pills is due all the credit for we had stopped doc- tor's medicine and simply gave her these, following the directions around the box. My daughter's life was saved by Pink Pills and no 'one knows better than her mother. I wish to tell everyone of the cure, as it is almost ianpossible to believe that the poor thing that lay there, and the happy rosy-cheeked girl who goes regular- ly to her classes are one and the same per- son in such a marvellously short space of time, and you may be aux,: I am advising ailiug neighbors to use this wonderful medicine.' just as the reporter wets leaving Miss Belanger returnect from school. She Was the picture of grace,health and beauty, her litho physique denoting health in every movement, while her face showed the w ern, caddy glow of health, Sim corrob- orated ail her mother had said, besides adding seine new testimony. Happiness now ebideth ili that home whom misery heict sway too long, and Mrs, Belanger tests her faith iri Dr. Williams Pink Pills, whieli will do for other weak and Whig girls what they diet= her daughter. A Close Call, Theta was is palm. It was like the titan before the °loads burst. "It seems," observed the man who had, successively discussed the weathet, mita toxine and Ibsen, "that women aro some- what &trifled by the blemner," When he looked into the soulful eyes of the othatare by his sidef bbs Rest impulse Was to explain that ete Meant divided as to eentlinent. Upon second thought, how- ever, he concluded to 'age her to permit him to assist her to Ithother pIateI of lee extent. A mat doesn't learn awe:Alois to ilwife by devotion to the belleof tile ball -room.