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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-6-28, Page 7DOMINION PARLIAMENT. NTETII SESSION R..SEYENTII PAU. IAKENT. RAILWAY PASSES. The resumption of the adjourned debate on the Motion her the second leading of Mr. Mulook's bill prohibtting members from travelling 'on passes was next on the order paper, When this was reached the yeas and nays were debtanded, The House divided, and the motion was lost by 100 to 46. QUEBEC FREEMASONS Mr White (Cardwell) moved the second reading of the bill removing certain dis- abilities under which the Masonic body under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Quebec at present labour. The bill frees this body from a pronibition contain- ed in a statute of the old Province of 'sewer Canada against...the bolding of meetings lin- eativinetind antoolaticins, • 'in- fringement of which was punishable by severe penalitos. The motion was carried. CONTRACTS TO ALIENS. Mr. M'Lennantuoved the second read- ing of his bill to prevent the lotting of con- tracts to aliens. The bill, he said, propos- ed to mat with contracts made by the Government of Canada, and none but these would be interfered with. It did not nterfero with alien labour coming into this country, nor with emigration. In the United States there were all so. ts of drawbacks and difficulties in the way of outsiders obta ning contracts. Mr. Ilaggart said the bill applied to aliens of every country, and the Govern- ment might not have the power to enact such legislation. Tho hon. gentleman's remarks had been directed almost solely to aliens of the United States, and he doubted whether such a measure was ad- visable in the public ,nterest. Mr. Maclean said the mover of the bill spoke for a largo number of Canadian con- tractors. Canadians now found them- selves harassed and driven out of the United States, and unfairly treated in fishery, labour, quarrantine, and other laws. Mr. Tisdale, while cencedtog the,rights of the United States or individual States to pass whatever hostile legislation they pleased, deprecated extreme measures. He favoured as far as possible the employ- ment of Canadian labour in Canadian works. Mr. Gibson thought the bill objection- able, as there might be occasions when foreign labour would be desirable. Mr. Macdonell thought Canadian con- tractors could hold thier own with any, contractors. Mr. Sproule said the action of Mr. De - Burry at Buffalo, whose sole occupation seemed to be deportation of Canadians, sometimes made it almost to be regretted, that there was not sonic such law on the, statutes as that introduced by the hone member for Glengarry. CONTRACTORS' RIGHT TO VOTE.' Mr. Edgar moved the second reading of: a bill in amendment of the CriminalCode. of 1892, which prohibits any officer or ,con-' tractor of any Government subsidized rail- way contributing money towards the ,elece tion of any parliamentary candidate. Mr. Amyot pointed out that the ,thunse as drafted applied only to contractors. holding Federal contracts. Sir Charles H. Tuppersaid the hosel gentleman's bill was appaeently based sm an nmendnientnnivedby the leader Of the Opposition to the railway resolutions last session. , STATE FUNERALS. Mr. Ouirnot, in answer to Mr.Brunean, said Public State funerals had been given to Sir George Etienne Cartier,to Slr eJohn A. Macdonald, and to Sir John Thomp- son, at a cost respectively of $10,000, :$6,- 988, and in the latter case the accounts were not yet adjusted, but the anachunt, Lt was expected, would be about the sum salt- ed, $25,000. The Government paid $295 on account of the funeral of Thomas Dungy McGee. POLLUTION OF RIVERS. Mr. Costigan moved the second reading of a bill further to amend the Fisheries Act, which prohibits the pollution ,of water frequented by fish, mentioned in the t under penalty, but provides for ex- emption by the Minister of Marine of ,oer- tain streams in which it may be in the interest of 'the public to permit the deutzap- ing of mill rubbish or sawdust. No such exemption, however, shall be granted till June 30tin Sir Charles H. Tupper remarked that this was not a new thitig. Independently of politics, the lumbermen had made out a case to the satisfaction of the Minister, which he was now submitting'. t� the House. Sir Jaines Grant argued that sawdust In the Ottawa river had. not proved injuri- oue to healih, had not driven away the fish, and had not seriously obstructed. navigation. . PROHIBITION COMMISSION, Mr. Foster, on the item of $800, further expenses in connection with the Royal Commission on the liquor ttaffic,said that the amounts received by the individual members of the commission ivere:—Sir Joseph Hickson, chairman, $3,220; Mr. E. F. Clarke, $2,468; Mr. Gigault, $2,- e74; the Bev. Dr. McLeod, $6,018; 'Judge MacDonald, $3,918; Mr. Monaghan, mere - Cary, $10,068. Mr. Flint aid the large expenditure on the commission was to be regretted, and that the information, could all have been obtained in a very small radius, and at much less expense.' Mr. Davies said the people looked upon the cominiasion as a farce. LADY THOMPSON FUND. Mr. Tarte, on the item of $25,000 coa- tribution to the Lady Thompson fund, said the late Premier had a large enough salary to have provided for his family after his death. he was rightlyinform- ed a fund of $88,000 had already been raised, which was quite sufficient to main- tain Lady Thompson in the circumstances to which she had been aceustomed. He thought a vote of $10,000 or $15,060 would nee be objeoted to Mt. Laurier shared in the viw of thee member for South Oxford, that a sum should be voted to Lady Thoinpson, Mr. Macdonald (Huron) could not for one, moment agreo in taking the earnings of large number of people, who worked • early and late in order to make ends meet, for. the purpose of contributing to a second fund for the widow's benefit. The family was not largo, and there were two young men who would have, to do as he (the speaker)—work for their own living by the sWeat of their brow. The reseintion wee coneurred in, A. VICTIM OF FAIRIES. A New Explanattioa of the Strange Tragedy in Tipperary. An Irish correspondent of the London Spectator writes to inform the readers of that Paper that the Englieh papers seemed to have Inissed the real point of that hor- rible chapter in the history of superstition —.the murder of Mrs. Cleary in the County of Tipperary. She did not fall a victim to the belief in witchcraft or in demonise al eessession—neither has sow veal bold in Ireland, She perished owing to the belief In the fairies, a belief to this hour singu- larly prevalent through the whole of Mon - titer, and, lam told, also in the North and Wer. A promizient tenet of the believers In the feiriee and their powers is the super - stilton of "the changeling," Spenser, in the "Fairy Qneon." write : From thence a Fairy thee uneveeting reft, There as thou slepst in tender swaddling bond, And her base elfin broods there for thee left; Such, nien do changelings call, so chang'd "ba fairies theft. In Munster, when a child appears deli- cate, or a young woman consumptive or hysterical, the conclusion often is that the child or the women has been carried off by the fairies to be Inade a playmate or nurse to the young fairies, and that a fairy sub- Stitute resembling the person taken away Is deposited in its place which gradually declines and ultimately dies. The belief that if the changeling be tortured by fire its fairy parents will hear its crles,ruslx to its aid, carry it back to fairyland, and at the same thne restore the real person, who will be found sleeping calmly in bed. Cleary and "the neighbors" evidently believed that the being they tortured was not Cleaey's wife, but a changeling. He addressed her: "In the name of God, are you Bridget Boland?" (her maiden name) believing that thus adjured the being would confess it was a fairy. He saki when he set fire to her: "You will soon see my wife come down the chimney," be- lieving that the fairies would snatch away the tortured. fairy and restore his real wife. Again, after the burning, many of the men of the laoality sat up all night in a fort" (earth embankment of ancient Irish village), armed with black -handled knives. These poor people thought that a fairy procession w,aald pass by; that in its midst would be Mrs. Cleary riding on a gray horse,and that if any one rushed for- ward and cut her bonds with a black - handled knife (a potent weapon against all evn spirits) she woald at once be restored to the world, In the "Tales of Terror and Wonder" it was thus that Fair Janet rescued Tam Lin from the nudes. She sat at Giles Cross on Hallowe'en, at the "murk and midnight hour," when she sees the fairy host go by: First she let the black pass by And next she let the brown, Ent quickly ran to the milk -white steed And drew its rider down. Thus Fair Janet rescued Tam Lin; thus the poor dwellers on the slope of Shere-na- mon (the "Witches' Hill," a haunted mountain) believed that they would rescue Bridget Cleary. Dorathy and Dolly. You is a very awful bad naughty dolly to make such a much fuss about it's hot. I is mostly melted my own self, an' ,course don't want to see you talkin' an' talkinn'bout the same thing all the time. Ispose you just thinks if you cries. an' whines an' makes such a trouble that any- body can't stand it that you will be taked down beside Of the seen whereyou'ean play in the lovely sand most all the time an' won't have to wear much clothes what is starched up all nice and pretty. If you. is a good little dolly, an' your papa has got Inough money, maybe you can go jest a little bit of awhile. An if you is bad girl an' your papa is not got 'nough money, then 1 don't know nuffin"tall about that. My papa said if anybody's mother would go to camp out somewhere anybody could wear their worstest old close an' have fun. But f lkses' mammas they just only likes to stay in an old hotel place an' wear great big new dresses what gets all spoiled down if anybody only just takes a walk. Now, Dolly, I is goin' to tell you a secret. It's 'bout my mamma, an' you mustn't never, never tell. When my papa says she can't never have no fun 'cause she's 'fraid she'll anash her sleeves, she don't say nothin' an' when he says she can't learn to ride on a wheeleshe don't say nothin'. An' when any papa is all gonad away she goes an' she puts on some awful funny close what she keeps hangin' in my closet. She puts on a skirt on to each one of her legs, only the little skirts is peckered up round the battens.. An' when she gets all fixed up awful quick she just gets out my ra.pit's wheel an' she just scoots. An't that pretty funny, Dolly? 'cause I mustn't tell my papa nuthin"hout it, an' mamma will buy me a wheel all for my lone self. X wants it awful bad, an' sometimes I most thinks I needs it, 'cause when my papa ain't gone way o 1 on a wheel my neanieult is, an' whole lots of times when my papa is gone my mamma is gone on somebodyosaelse's wheel. When . ride on to my wheel I is goin' to tie you on too, Dolly, so you needn't to begin to cry cause you ain't got no wheel. An' may be I'll get my papa to bny you a little bit of a wheel, too, Dolly, for -anyway I wouldn't have no fun rutin" an' havin' fun with everybody when sny poor little dolly was home all by herself. Childrens likes to have fun just as much as big folks, an' thinks it would be awful cute for you to ride on to a little wheel behind ine, an' I'd ride betind mamma, an sue could ride behind my papa or else befront of him. An anyway, if I can't buy you a wheels nor take you to play in nO sand, then, anyway, I'll mit some nice cold water in the bafftub an put you in, all ov, r your hair an' everyfing, an leave yon for to soak an'soak in there most all summer till it ain't hot no more. Pardonable Curiosity. "Charley, dear," said Mrs. Hentimune, "I don't think I take ehough i n nrese in things that stun care for. Won't you tell me stiniething about baseball?" "Of course. Anything that I can." "I've noticed that when a club gets beat It's because the Umpire doesn't do right." styes.), "And sometimes because the weather Isn't right." styes.), "And sometimes because the audience doesn't do right" styes.), "Well, Charley dear, what I want to know is what the players have to do with the game?" Crandpals Birthday. Many bar py returns of the day, grand- pa; and Inamsna says if you give each of us fifty eente we Mustn't lose it DON'TS FOR $1,VIAIMERS. William Ilesnmingware adrlee to.thou4' Who like to Hattie. It is jilet as dengeroue to play with water atilt is to play with fire. Probably no sport is more dangeroas than swim" ming, just as none other is qtlite eo de- lightfal. If you use proper caution no exercise Is safer than swiming But what is proper caution? It is almost impossible to learn bow to swim by reading any amount of printed instructions, but it Is easy to learn how to take care of one's self in the water. One of the best 'swim- ming teachers I ever knew summed it all up in these word: Don't be rash. Don't be frightened. Do yen think it childish to be cautious? Put away the idea. The' bravest men are nearly always the suost car tun • No matter how well you think you know a swimming -place, take nothing for granted. So many changes take place in a year. Sand bars aro formed by the tides. If you dive from a pier, how can you know without natality investigating what tim- ber may have been swung loose by the wateekactinns Wince 1114' eear, and be now . lurking for you benea h the surface? And as fax as swimming in strange water, never do it without learning all you can about the conditions. Diving is certainly the best way for you to enter the water—always provided that you know all about its depth. Nothing can be more unhealthful than the dawd- ling habit of wading out ankle-deep or knee-deep, and waiting to get your cour- age up. The hot' sun beats down oil your haste Your feet and legs are in the (and water whose temperature is anywhere from ten to twenty-five degrees lower than that of the air. You can't remain ong under these con- dttions mithout injuring yourself. Na- ture's plan is to have the head cool and. the extremitles marm. Go contrary to this, and you are in trouble. Deranged circulation causes cramps. In places where it is not safe to dive you can easily stoop over and throw a few handfuls of water on your head. Then, hurry forward and throw yourself in—fall in. Will other fel- lows laugh at your precautions? Well, lot them laugh, and pay for it with the twinges of cramps. I have been swim- ming twenty years, and I've never had a cramp, simply because I've followed the rules laid down here. ...Never let yourself be frightened in the water. A bey found himslef far outside of the breakers at Cape May. He swam deep—that is, with his feet far below him —and found that in spite of his efforts he was making no headway, or very little. Instead of howlin for help he.put his wits to work. He soon found that the off shore current was below the surface,and that at the very top of the w ,ter the flow was to- wards the shore. Thereupon he drew up his legs, swam as near the surface as he could, and he got the beach under his feet at last. Another boy was dragged far out by one of those deadly, swift, sudden cur- rent stleat pounce on a bather unawares. He waved his tune and shouted for help. When he saw the men on shore running toward a surf -boat he calmly turned over on his back and devoted all his energies to floating. He had been carried nearly a mile before he Was rescued. If either one of these boys had been 'frightened he prob- ably would havedrowned. Helpful Mrs. Hilltops. "The morel see of Mrs. Hilltops dm more I'm agtonished at her," said Mr. Hilltops. "I don't believe there's any- thing about.a house she can't do. She gets, the nails out of the children's shoesand out of mine. She mends the carpet sweeper and fixes the clothes •wringer and . keeps the clocks going. The latest and most astonishing thing she's done is to ant my watch. It stopped the other day and of course I took it to Mrs. Hilltops; we all go to Mrs. Hilltops for everything. Could she fix it? An hour later she brought it back running. I asked her how she did it and tben I'm sorry I did; there are scene questions that it is better not to ask. She says she fixed it with a penknife. I:ffind- der a little as I think of Mrs. Hilltops pry- ing about in the interior of the watch with a penknife, but the watch is going and what more cau I ask? If I had. a watch to fix to-mororw I'd take it to Mre. Hilltops; that is, an ordinary watch. If it was a *1000 chronometer I might per haps take it to a jeweler; but if it was Just an ordinary 'watch, say one that didn't cost more than $4 or $5, I should take it to Mrs. Hilltops without a mom.ent's hesi- tation." Sunshine Above. "A Scotch shepherd was dying.and had the pastor called in. The dying shepherd said to his wife: 'Mary, please go into the next room, for I want to see the minister alone.' When the two mere alone the dying shepherd said: '1 have knowea the Bible all my life, but I am going, and am afeeied to dee.' Then the pastor quot- ed the psalm. 'The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want." Yes, mon,' said the shepherd, I was .amiliar with that before you were born, but Inn a-goine and I am afeered to dee.' Then said the pastor: 'You know that the psalm says: Though I nalk through the :valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil." "Yes,' said the dying shepherd, "I knem that before you mere born, hut it does not help me.' Then said the pastor: 'Don't you know that sometimes when you were driving the sheep down through the valleys and the ravines there would be shadows, all about you, while there was plenty of sun- shine on the hills above? You are in the shadows now, but it is sunshine higher up.' Then said the dying shepherd: 'Ahl that is good. I never saw it that way be- fore. All is well. "Though 1 pass through the valley of the shadow of Cath, Thou art with me." Shadows hero, but sun- shine above.' So the dying shepherd got peace. Living and dying may we have the Sarne peace!" caternillars. No limit has ever been found to the uses of a small boy's pocket. One day at school a little girl put in} her hand to attract at- tention. "leacher, Johnny's got a caterpillar!" Johnny was of course called to the desk, made to surrender the cherished possession, and sent to his seat with a reprimand. In about two minutes the same small hand Waved in the air again,and the same small voice complained: "Teacher, Johnny's got another cater- pillar!" A so ond stnnender of the caterpillar and a second admonition followed. Hardly had silence once more settled over the room, when a frantic waving elf the hand was followed by a perfect shriek of dis- may. "Teacher, Johnny'S got a whole pOcket- ful of caterpillars!" This time the teacher's dismay equaled her pupil's and Johnny Was proinptly sent hotne with his brood of strange pets. GAINED A POUND A. DAY, A LANARK COUNTY EARXEE'S Jtkl• MARKABLE CURE, •••••••••••••••••• Waken With Ilillous Fever tneAfterlef. feet s of whjela Brougbt Rim Almost to the rave—He Gladly Speaks fen the Lienefit of Other Sufferers. Sin th'll rallS Record. Mr. Joseph Isl. Barton, who lives.about a snits) from the village of Merrickville, is one of the best known farmers in the township of Montague. Up to the eprtng of 1894 Mr.Bartou had always enjoyed the beasstaken t ofileienalth. At that tbne hoWever he w with a bilious fever, the effects of which 1 ft him in a terribly weakened condition. When the time came around to begin spring operations on the farm he found himself too weak to take any part In the work, and notwithstanding that he was treated by an excellent physiontn, was constantly growing weaken and his eondi- tiori not only'grisatly alarmed himself bele bus friends. Having read so much eon - doming Dr. William' Pink Pills, he de- termined to give them a trial,and without consulting his physician he began their use. He only used one box, and, not feel- ing better, he discontinued the use of the pills. This was where he now admits he made a serious mistake as he ot only fell back to his former weakness, but became worse than before. He amid now do no work of any kind,unci the least exertion left him almost helpless. Life wa a misery .1. sound a day, to him and he was on the point of giving his case up as hopeless when a friend strongly urged him to again begin the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. He agreed to uo so, and by the time he had used three boxes there was a marvellous change in his appearance, and he felt like a new man. He still continued to use this life- saving medicine, with astonishing results. During his illness he had fallen in weight to 105 pounds, but be soon increased to 1430 peunds. In fact, as he says, the in- crease averaged about a pound a day while Rio was taking the pills. He is now able to co any kind of work on his farm, and it is needless to say that he is not only a Ilrm believer in the efficacy of Dr. Will- iams' Pink Pills, but loses no opportunity to sound abroad their praise, with the re- sult that.others in his locality have bene- fitted by his experience and advice. To those who are weak, easily tired, nervous, or whose blood is out of condi- tion, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills come as a veritable boon, curing when all other medicines fail, and restoring those who give them a fair trial, to a full measure of eipalth and strength. They vvill be found an absolute cure for SteVitundance, loco- motor ataxia, rheumatism, paralysis, sciatica, the after effects of la grippe, loss of appetite, headache, *dizziness,' chronic erysipelas, scrofula, etc. They are also a specific for the troubles peculiar to the fe- male system, correcting irregularities, suppressions and all forms of female weakness. In the case of men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses of any nature. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold only in boxes bearing the firm's trade mark and wrapper (printed in red ink) and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company', Brock -vine, Ont., or Schenec- tady, N.Y., at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50. DUNS OF THE OLDEN TIME. Wreathed in Courtesy Uncultivated by the Present Generation. It is often remarked that with our fore- fathers courtesy was a studied art that re- cent generations do not have time to culti- vate This is quite well illustrated, says the Utica Observer, in the following let- ter: "Whites Town, June•16, 1798.—Honor- ed Sir: A few months ago you did xne the honor to beconie my debtor for the pur- chase of goods at My store amounting to 12 dollars and eighteen p. nem. I have no doubt that a small transaction of this na- ture may have slipped your mind and I trust' you will parnon and excuse me for mentioning it to you upon this occasion. If you could find it convenient to forward It by safe hands the same would be greatly appreciated for I am in expectation of the receipt of some nine barrels of extra fine rum, for which I shall owe the consignor a part of the purchase price, and which I ,desire to pay at the earliest convenience. If you should not find it convenient to forward the same, take no thought of what I have written until you might chance to come this way, when you may' qtait the indebtedness in your own time. I I should be pleased at any occasion to receive a visit from you, and should you Rio in neon of rum, axes, log chains, or some very heavy boots for self or servants, should be pleased to sell them to you. Y'r obet servant, WM. GREEN." It is understood that Mr. Green had a small supply depot near Oriskany Creek, and his polite and apologetic dunning let- ter (so different from the "Please remit at once" of the present day) was sent to a man named Doxtader Who resided down the Mohawk Valley, somewhere near Fort 'Plain. Com pail sor a Conclusion. He was a flirt and the girl knew it, lie had been saying tender things and looking unutterable ones for weeks. And every time he opened his mouth he put his foot in it. At last he came to the point. I have lost my heart, he said to her, in that way which every Woman knows so well the interpretation of. She looked at him searchingly. " Solonce," she responded, "says that nothing is lost." He was about be reply when he caught himself. Then he got out ef the presence of that girl, for he knew in his Soul that she was science, and that in her opinion his heart wee nothing, CURE FUR STIFF 40IIITIO. New Foroa of an old ItentedY naced • in OperatIon in London. The applieution of heat is one of the tuneermiti remedies for the various forme of ehennua ism. Almost every modern city hue its Turkish or Russian bath, and tete neimerable ncivilized tribes enjoy the Se1ers in iniall 11 1 Nte'r 14117°w1.°1 1Yei °I;iluni let 14 slwf ti 018 11 It:ill:tee' 11D nglb 01050 40 borbood of water miniature hats, ssech as ehildren° might build in inlltation of Indian tepees. Them are the "sweat huts" of the Navajos. When one of that inteligent and thri ty tribe finds himeelf besee by a severe cold or rheumatio pains, be goes to a secluded spot, close to water, and builds a little conical lust of sttelts. The bottom wade of the sticks may be possibly two feet apart, and the upper ends are lashed to- gether in ai point. The interetices of this rough Office are carefully chinked up,ancl the inside is covered with a layer of mud, which snakes it absolutely air tight. Then, building a 'fire, the Indian places stones on the embers. When the stones begin to crack with the heat, they are cast inside the hut, and waterds thrown noon them. The Indian creeps in ,closes the narrow en- trance aperture,and remains in the steam- ing atmosphere until he is nearly suffocat- ed. The latest form of this crude thera- puy is used in a London hospital. It con- sists of a copper cylinder about three feet long and eighteen inches in diameter, which will hold an arm up to the shoulder or a leg up to the middle of the thigh. The patient, who is suffering from sprains, or gout, or rheumatic affections, is placed in an arm chair, the limb is introduced into the cylinder and the joint made air -tight by a rubber band. The inside temperature of the cylinder is raised, if necessary, to 800 or 40u fahr., by means of gas burners. \Vben the enclosed moisture begins to have a scalding effect, say at about 260 degrees, the end of the cylinder is opened, and the moisture escapes. The effects are greatly increased local circulation, pi ofuse perspiration, and relief from patn. • For theTfirrastvteilmineginoilhias 1Pifaes. Mr, Walker had received a pa se from the railroad company, and it was for himself and one, Rio had invited his wife to go with him to the city, 100 miles or so away. She was no less pleased with the honor conferred than he was,. and•they sat up nights for a week studying the pass and making a note of every line and word upon it, not ex- cepting the conditions upon which travel- ers use passes. It was good for thirty days, and they were two weeks getting ready for their eventful journey. At the end of that time they were all fixed, and an hour before train time Mrs. Walker was fidgeting about the house in terror of getting to the station just as the train was pulling out of it. Her busban t was calm- er, as is the manner of men, but he was eager and they were on hand a half bour before the starting time. They got away at last, and for the first fifty miles they were as happy as two childrenon a holi- day. Then, as the•train flew around a sharp curve, there came a grinding and a dragging ; passengers began to scream, and ' finally with a great crash, the wholething I stopped and the car toppled half over and Jested there. For an instant, as always in such cases there was a profound silence, and then leirs.. Walker rose from the aisle and dragged her husband from between the seats. "Oh, Henry," she screamed, "we shall be killed; I knew we shall, and we are traveling on a pass eind.can't suethe com- pany!" Nobody was hurt but everybody was hysterin ar d as the good lady's wail. of anguish fell upon the dusty air of the car, such a laugh went up as almost made the accident ludicrous. An. Alleged Misfit Coffin. The jury which had been listening to the very unique and extraordinary testi- mony in the case of Miss Minnie Heincke against Undertaker. Kohlermann of Law- renceburg, Ind., returned a verdict in Judge Dowling's eotert in that city recent- ly in favor of the defendant. The plaintiff who is an indignant yeung woman, will have to pay the expenses of the court trial, together with attorney's fees, and the amount will run up to more than she has earned as a seamstress within the past year. It is was very singular case, the like of which was never docketed in the civil courts of this country. On the 23rd of last January there died in Lawrenceburg John Heineke, a German, aged 60 years. He had lived in Lawrenceburg inany years. The day after Heinthe's death Undertaker Louis Kohlermann was called in to take charge of the remains. The family was poor, but they manted their dead father laid awa,e- as respectablyas their limited pair es would allow. The undertaker promised them a very neat 'job for $75. He took a mahogany casket from several he had in stock, and with four white horses hauled it to the humble Heineke home. The dead body was placed in the big black box, and roses and other flowers mere scattered inside and outside of it. Tha remains lay in the parlor for four days. On Sunday afternoon, with all the pomp and ceremony the family could afford to indulge ln, the body of the dead was removed to a vault in Greendale cemetere and there deposited until spring, when, they t houId bury it. The Sunday following the encasement of Heinake's body in the vault, Miss Minnie, the only living daughter, visited tele cemet ry to- gether with several family friends. • She expressed a desire to see her father's face, and the sexton, being of an accommodat- ing disposition, opened the vault. A fe- male companion of Miss Heincke'S saw the faee before the daughter did, and pull- ed her away before her eyes had a chance to rest upon the ,thrpec. That was on February 2. The einnor soon became noised about Out tlse body had been de- posited in a coffin far too small for tne man. The undertaker was consulted and he went out to see for himself. Sure enough, the nose touched the glags cover- ing. He told the children of Heincke that he would chtutsre th 3 coffin and ho kept his evord, be transfer being snade a few lays following. Subsequently the body Was interred. A few days afterward the undertaker was staxtled upon being serv- ed with a notice that suit had been Med by the, daughter in the sum of $1,000 for' damages alleged to have been clone her heart and feelings because her father's face had been put out of shape by the glass covering of the cruel coffin. Miss Heincke was in the court room during the trial. She often wept during the delivery of the testimony. OVer forty Witnesses' wore examined. The judge's charge was in fever of 010 defendant, and the jury, after deliberating ton minates, agreed that the eriginal coffin, Width, ulna/Innis) had been exhibited he Mut, was amply large, and that the &infanta as an undernaker had performed his duty. eneeens- • BRIDAL ROBES Ares Winne elik or flusttn, and Howe Rokther Short Train* , The 'lune briies cannot all afford Wed - tiling dresses like that one of aliss Sloatie's whose millionaire uncles she could not count upon the fingers of ber tevo hanea But then, there are not so very many June briam who have anY Millionaire uncles at all, or aunts either for that matter, se they caneot expect to rival her in gowns who is many tiniee the better of them in dollars. i:Towever the difference in bridal gownS Is really only a difference in the number s te. s.'keeeetere wenen neeenz BILK. of diamonds or pearls or other ornaments and that is true of an ordinary ball gown. Most wedding dresses are made of white satin or heavy silk. It is the accepted rule thee such a'gown should be some- what stately and of course white. They are trimmed with the finest lace the bride can afford, for this is the beauty of a. wedding gown. Of late brides have note. been using so much pasmmenterie aneln fringe as formerly. The wedding gown pictured here Leone heavy faille silk. The skirt is cut round s in front and on the sides to the back breadths which sweep the floor for about twenty-four inches. Long trains enene for wedding dresses are out of fathion., White silk is put on in folds arouud the . bottom of the dress and at intervalsot ,four or five inches is set a whitegeste, The bodice has a flounce of enbite. lafse caught OD each shoulder with a sinneseh. of , orange blossoms and lapped surplieeentsb-- ion just above the waist. A plaetapn of' plaited chiffon softens the effect of the stiff silk. The veil is voluminenenas all bridal veils should be. . Mourning Customs.. The custom of wearing black; fog, de- ceased relatives is not a very old, pne, be- longing to the reign of Edward, 111. of England, when only the nobility were permitted to employ it, and they , wore innuesese gowns and black mantlesaiped with ermine and with yellow bonds— yellow being the color of Egyptina mourning, derived from the changing, leaf at the death of the year. There were-, statutes in England which forbade ger- inents cut in fantastic or odd shapes, and the confiscation of the garment was the penalty of disobedience. The Chinese wear white for mourning, that being to them the color of hope. It will be recall- ed by the reader of history that Mary Stuart, queen of Scots, was cenled thee "White Queen" because she wore white, when the widow of Lord Darnley. She:, has also given her name to a bonnet that. is a favorite design with widows, and ale. ways in season. -There iss a tendency in Aneerica to do„ away with the wearing of black but the - newest edict of the doctors is that the putting on of mourning is a sinitary blessing inasmuch as it takes the. thoughts ot the bereaved from the gloom and sorrow of death and gives them chance for reaction, a healthy impulse ine the direction of life and self. In Australia and New Zealand there is, a peculiar custom of geese who, in obedie. ence to the wish of friends who are gone,, (Tenet adopt a mourning habit. A card, of apology is published in connection withe a notice of the demise which reads: "By tbe wish of tbe deceased the family and relatives will not wear mourning." The Mcelesinstie`i; Joke: In the "Recollections of the Dean of Salisbury," recently pnblished, the fol- lowing is told:. 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