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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-4-23, Page 7OUR OTTAWA LETTER THE SEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF CANADA A REMARKABLE ONE. The Premier's Resignation imminent --- Pledged to Remedial Legislation --The Famous Seventy -Fourth Clause—Protest- tont Ministerialists Not Perturbed. To human endurance there always must be an cud. The Canadian House of Commons, that for six days and five nights sat continuously, is now no more. There are no members of parliament in Canada to -day. Gone is their greatness; all are now ex -M. P's. For the first time in the history of this Dominion the Rouse of Commons has lived its full term of five years, for the few hours that intervened between dissolution and midnight on the 24th of April need not be taken into consideration. The Seventh Parliament of Canada justly may be termed remarka- ble. It has seen four Premiers at the head of the Government. It has seen two of these die in harness. It has given two State funerals to the mortal remains of these great men. For the first time the Senate has given the Dominion a Prime Minister; in fact, two of the four states- men who have led the Government in the past lustrum have come from the Red Chamber. And these are not all of the notable exceptions which the dead parlia- • ment has furnished. The Conservative party has had at its head, for the first time, a man who was not a lawyer. Mac- donald, Abbott, Thompson, all were gen- tlemen learned in the law. Mackenzie Bowel, began life as a printer's devil, arose to the position of proprietor of the newspaper in whose office he learnt his trade, and now is chief of Her Majesty's Privy Councillors for Canada. Also, it may be mentioned, during the life of the parliament that has been dissolved, Alex- ander Mackenzie, the leader of this Do- minion's only Liberal Administration, died in April, 1802, and was mourned by many a man who had fought him bit- terly in his life time. So long as this Do- minion endures, the Seventh Parliament will be remembered. During its life two hundred and ninety men have occupied seats in the Chamber of the Commons. There have been nineteen deaths amongst the two hundred and fifteen members. The other seats have been vacated by ad- vancement to the Senate, by political ap- pointments, by the judgment of the Election courts. The Premier's Resignation Imminent. As you already have heard, the resig- nation of Sir Mackenzie Bowell is only a matter of tune. Amity has been restored between the Prime Minister and the members of his Cabinet. Even the gen- tlemen who three months ago were most vigorous in denouncing the First Minis- ter now have the most cordial feeling for him. The reason of this is that an un- derstanding has been arrived at whereby the Prime Minister will resign in the near future. The statement of the condi- tion of affairs percolated from the Coun- cil chamber to the watchful newspaper men, thence to the press of the country. Sir Mackenzie saw it, and became filled with wrath. Assuredly, said he, the com- pact has been made, but it had been un- derstood. that for the present no an- nouncement was to be made. No one recognizes more clearly than does Sir Mackenzie, that it is impossible for him long to remain at the head of the Ad- ministration, But the old gentleman does not lack for personal vanity and he fears that the country will apprehrend that his resignation was compulsory. He would be less than human were he to • cherish any feelings of positive esteem for Sir Charles Tupper, who, all the world knows, is to be his successor. Sir Charles is to essay the task in which Sir Mackenzie failed. Sir Charles came to Canada to integrate an Administration that was on the brink of falling to pieces. What his permanent success may be,nene of us know. The immediate result has been that the firmness, the dictatorial manner that Sir Charles possesses, have brought many doubting brothers into line. The task which he accepted—the leadership of the House of Commons— was a difficult one. The greatest and most important debate that the four walls of this chamber ever have heard, was about to commence. Rumors of strife within the ranks of the Conserva- tives were rife. D'Alton McCarthy told Wilfred Laurier that he felt safe in promising him twenty-four Conservative votes if he would move the six months hoist for the Remedial bill. The Liberal leader had decided on another plan. He had prepared an amendment to the mo- tion for the second reading, calling on the Government to appoint a commission of investigation. D'Alton McCarthy's positive assurance induced him to adopt a new plan of action. The Equal Righter had gone over the list of Conservative members. He had decided that Moncrieff, of East Lambton; Hutchins, of North Middlesex; Marshall, of East Middlesex and Wilmot, of Sunbury, N. B. would vote for the six months hoist. Therein he erred. The men whom I have named were seen personally by Sir Charles. What took place behind the closed door of the baronet's room will never be known. But,, when the members stood up after tee division bells had rung, eighteen, and not twenty-four Minister- ialists were found to have bolted. Pledged to Remedial Legislation. . "This Government will go to the coun- try pledged to the principle of remedial legislation." So said Sir Charles Tupper on Wednesday night last. Preoursing this sentence had come an announcement from the leader of the House, that the: Remedial bill would be withdrawn "for the present." "Constant and determined obstruction," said Sir Charles, "has shown the Government that, with the limited time .remaining at our disposal, it is impossible to conduct the bill through the committee stage. There is other public business of an urgent nature which must be attended to. Certain money votes have been asked in order to pay thenation's bills. I therefore move that this committee rise and report pro- gress." Mr. Laurier, who had heard, as had everybody within the precincts of these buildings, that the bill was to be withdrawn, could not let slip this oppor- tunity of making an attack on Sir Charles and on the Government. The bill had not been introduced until six weeks of the session had gone, he said, and the discussion on the second reading of the measure had not commenced until two months after the opening of perils, - went. The session had been called for the express purpose of carrying `the bill. In place of carrying out their ' pledge the Ministers had spent their time—or a very large part of it, in plotting amongst themselves. The Famous Seventy -Fourth Clause. "No' man has done more to prevent the, passage of the bill than you have," in terposed the Minister of Finance. And then the House adjourned. Darin the evening Sir Charles bad stated tri he was prepared to move an amendmen' to the famous seventy-fourth clans whereby, in the event of the Provinc Government of Manitoba declining grant, financial aid to the Separa the Federal authorities neight convey sufficient funds to the Rom Catholic Board of Education. The . funds were to be deducted from th province's income from the school Ie. which the Federal Government holds i trust for the Provincial Govenrunen This was a rather • important announ ment, for it Is upon clause seventy_f that much of the importance of the bi • During the nixie days that had bee passed in committee fourteen out of th one bundled and twelve clauses of th bill had been amended and adopted b the committee. The Government h withdrawn one for the purpose of makin alterations to it. It easily will be see that, at the rate of progress which 'th • at 0 ia1 to ate au se e Ian n t. tu+- our i11 n e e y ad g e Committee of the Whole was making, would have taken something like thr months to get through the committee stage alone. The obstruction of the bill was well-planned and •was successful. D'Alton McCarthy, with his four faith- ful supporters, co-operated with the Lib - orals. The French on both sides of the House put in ten uneasy days. The Bleus, or French Conservatives, were wild with rage at the English Liberals who were blocking the progress of the bill. The Breus were in an unfortunate position. It was their hard fate to be compelled to sit, and chafe and fume. Action, denunciation of the obstructive tactics of the Anti-Remedialists would have been playing their enemies' game. The French Liberals were in even more unfortunate case, Twenty of them bad voted for the six months hoist. The party whip had cracked, rand though seven of them had broken away and had voted with the Government, there remained a score who had taken their political lives in their bands. These tenieritous poli- ticians looked afar off to their constitu- encies, where, in their minds' eye, they saw infuriated electors, angry and venge- ful. Of all the members of this House of Commons the French Liberals who voted against the Remedial bill accepted the greatest risk. True it is that certain Con-' servatives from Ontario had hardihood when they stood up and voted for the measure. But these Ontario Conserva- tives, many of them, will not run again. They will abandot polities, and will be succeeded by Anti -Remedial candidates. Further than this, the English-speaking member of parliament does not usually depend upon politics for his living. The contrary is the, case with the French leg- islator. To many of them, the thousand dollars that a grateful country annually pays them as an "indemnity" makes up the major portion of their yearly income. There is many a French member who, after having spent his session in Ottawa, carries home with him eight or nine hundred dollars in bank bills. Such is the result of frugality. It will be seen that the man from Quebec who accepts the risk of losing the greater portion of his income, has a certain quality of cour- age. This quality, when the bill was in its bonunittee stage, was not strongly ap- parent The French Liberals chafed une der the obstruction. They were anxious to have the measure go . through, and voted with the Government in nearly every division. Now they will go home and explain to their constituents how it was that they came to aid the hated McCarthy in denying to the Roman Catholics of Manitoba the schools for which they—or their clergy—have been clamoring. It must have been with this contingency in view that D'Alton Mc- Carthy said to the House on Wednesday night, "I ant as good a Conservative as any man who sits McCarthyon the Treasury benches." Now, Mr. Mhas made this claim before. His argument is that the leaders have deserted, and that he holds the true Conservative faith. Ac- cording to the member for North Sim - ate, the National Policy is effete, and should be superseded by a revenue tariff. An argument as to the tenability of Mr. McCarthy's position would be out of place in an independent letter. But there can be no doubt as to the reason for his emphasized assurance • that he still is a good Conservative. The Liberal leaders in Quebec will assure the people that there has been no alliance with the hated McCarthy. "It simply has happened," they can be imagined as saying, "that a member of the Conservative party, who was disgusted with the Government, co- operated with us. That gentleman was Mr. McCarthy. But do not think, dear friends, that he is any ally of chis, He is the enemy of Mother Church. True, he is better than the members of the Government, for his enmity to our race and our religion is outspoken, while theirs is concealed." ports in the daily press, have seen fit to make wide and sweeping charges against the sessional visitors to Ottawa A. few Sundays ago the Reverend Mr. McKay, a minister of Woodstock, Ont., amazed the country by asserting that the fancy ball given by the Governor-General and Lady Aberdeen in February last had been nothing more or less than a debauch.This Woodstock minister asserted that drunken men and women were conspic- uous at the function. He made other charges that no self-respecting man would circulate and that no ()lean news- paper would print. Further than that, he asserted that the ball had cost the coun- try twenty-five thousand dollars. The matter came up in the Route the other day, when Sir Charles took occasion to state that the ball had not cost Canada one cent, Their Excellencies had paid for everything. And, as was well known, there had been little -drinking, al- though there. had been plenty to drink. Said Sir Charles Tupper:— "It is a gross injustice to lead the pub- lic, who are ignorant on this subject, to it imagine that there is a restaurant in this ee House that is the scene of disgraceful or- gies. I have had occasion, especially dur- ing the late sittings, to take refreshments iu the rostaurarut at very late hours, and I have never seen these orgies. I have never seen a man in that restaurant under the influence of stimulants; I have seen very little intoxicating drinks taken by any one, and, from my own persolfai testimony, therefore, I can vin- dioate the House front the gross and un- founded aspersion that has been so gen- erally and broadly east upon it. I draw the attention of the House to this matter because it is very wrong for any person to mislead those clergymen, who, of course, have the very best possible inten- tions, but who, with the best possible in- tentions are branding their country, on false premises, with an obloquy that will extend all over the civilized world. Now, Rev. Dr. McKay, I think it is, has made, in the pulpit, statements that I am sure he will deplore to the last hour of his life, when he finds how grossly he has been deceived and misled. He has stated that the Government of this coun- try spent $26,000 in connection with the ball which was given recently by His Excellency. I state that the Government has not spent a dollar, but that the en- tire expenditure was borne by His Excel- lency." Sir Richard, who on one occasion had to threaten to mention the names of cer- tain members who had imbibed too freely, blamed Sir Charles for having driven members to drink by his course in insisting on continuous sittings. Speaker White explained that the rules for the management of the restaurant were par- ticularly strict. And the matter dropped. The whole truth about the matter is, that during the continuous sittings, two men out of the two hundred and fifteen members of the House, took too much drink. And those two men took a great deal too much. Protestant Aiinisterialists Not Perturbed. Protestant Ministerialists seam to have no perturbation because of the Govern- ment's statement that the party will fight the next election under the banner of remedial legislation. They expect to lose some seats in Ontario, but Quebec is expected to make up for these losses. Al- ready, Conservatives will assure you that the majority of the Administration will be not less than thirty. Clarke Wallace, who maintains his antagonism to the Government prophesies its defeat. D'Al- ton McCarthy has not relaxed his efforts towards securing Mr. Wallace's active aid in the approaching campaign. I do not think the man from North Simcoe will be successful. Mr. Wallace has only one point of difference with the Adminis- tration. Mr. D'Alton McCarthy has a dozen. D'Alton McCarthy has thanked God that Sir Charles Tupper is not his leader. Clarke Wallace has said not a word against the Secretary of State. And. Sir Charles, while he has. denounced Mc- Neill and Sproule, as renegades and trait- ors, has said not a word against Wallace, The reason for this is Trot far to seek. On the one hand, Sir Charles- fears the Orange influence that is behind Wallace. For his part, the Grand Sovereign of the Orange Order cherishes ,a hope that' he may yet be in full communion with the. men with whom he now is at variance. Meanwhile, Wallace's enemies, who are. not all in the House of Commons, are spreading the report that at the coming Grand Lodge convention the member for West York will be deposed from his high estate. They mention the name of Ed- ward P. Clarke, of Toronto, as a possible opponent. But, the other night, Mr. Clarke announced that he would be an Anti -Remedial candidate . in West To- ronto. That riding adjoins Wallace's. In the coming election antagonism to. the Grand Sovereign would in nowise benefit Edward F. Clarke. Clerical Char`ies. Certain clerical gentlemen of the land, misled by their friends, and by the re - A NEW MOTIVE POWER. An Invention Which Does Away With the - Use of Propellers on Vessels. 'Naval engineers are much interested in the results of a forthcoming experiment at the Brooklyn Navy Yard of a machine designed to send a vessel through the water without the aid of propellers. The test is to be made by order, of Sec- retary Herbert, and the device will, by election of the inventor, be fitted into a 28 -foot boat, although the department. would prefer the use of a 104 -foot boat, which is now at the yard. By burning oil, gas is generated, which enters into a cylinder. There it is ignited by means of an electric spark. The force • of repeated explosions drives the piston up and down. As the result of the explosion a jet of air is blown out of a tube in the stern of the vessel and the resistance of the water rouses the boat to move forward. The engineering experts say that the inven- tion, which has been tried privately, does not give much promise of usefulness in naval warfare, but the inventor claims that it will be of great service in torpedo boats and that with his device they can be driven noiselessly and at a phenome- nal rate of speed. The Sense of Hearing. Of the five senses with which human nature is gifted, that of hearing seems to be more constantly increasing in value than any of the others. This may be ac- counted for by the fact that in the pro- gress, of science of late years such import- ant inventions as the telegraph, telephone and phonograph all depend upon the hearing for their very existence; and when this sense of hearing is educated by long practice in these and other direc- tions, very important and surprising re- sults have,been attained. By way of illus- tration, the telegraph operator can, by sound, recognize an acquaintance at the key who is sending a message from a dis- tance, simply by his or her style of send- ing, on the same principle that one can recognize another's handwriting with which they are familiar by sight, while to the ordinary observer the clicking of the sounder would be the same, no mat- ter how many changes . were made in the senders—Electric Power Wrinkles on Women's Faces. It has been held by hygienists that the wrinkles on a woman's face are often due to impure air, a cause of which is not infrequently the exclusion of sun- shine. The skin owes its beauty, says Science Sifting,, to the nerves which control the fine blood vessels of the sur- face, whose work lends glow and clear- ness to the face. The nerves, in turn, owe their sensitiveness to the air, which is our chief nutriment, inhaled by gal- lons hourly; and should be pure and in- vigorating. When the nerves are dead- ened by close air the fine muscle, lose their tone, the tissue of the fac c shrinks, and t„ese shrinkigs bacon' wrinkles. So, let the sunshine and ab into the house, even at the expense 0. carpets and furniture. An Unjust Charge. A strange story of money recovered comes from Liverpool A chimney. sweep in cleaning an oven flue found 440 in 'coin in a bag On telling the lady of the house she burst into tears Land fainted She had put the money there herself years ago, and having forgotten the fact had ' accused her son, who was rather wild, of stealing it, with the result that he had left the house in indignation and had never returned. Some Satisfaction in It.' Of course it is more comfortable to a lady to sit down than , to stand up in a street car; but we are crediblyinformed that quite as much pleasure comes from the latter position, inasnnuCh as the ;sit ting men are all feeling just as mean as they can feel. The knowledge of this fact causes the standing lady to feel quite happy—Boston Transcript. TATTOOING A FAD. RESORTED TO BY TRAVELERS AS A MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION. Men and 'Women of Refinement Now Sub- mit to the Operation. Which is Painlessly done by Electricity. The large number of railway accidents which have taken place recently has given a widespread boom to the art of the tatooer. There has been such a large per- centage of unidentified dead among those killed in the smash-ups on the railroads of the country during the past few months that it has had a remarkable effect on the traveling public. Men and women, who a year ago would have shud- dered at the mere suggestion of having the point of a tatooing needle touch their skin, are having their names, monograms and even crests tatooed upon their budies. And they all say that they have been tat- coed in the belief that the marks made by the needles will be the best means for the identification of their bodies should they meet death away from home and friends. But there is another class of people what caught by the pop•slar fad, are hav- ing emblems of secret societies and fra- ternities to which they belong marked upon their skin. Many of the best known college men of the country carry the in- signia of their fraternity worked upon their arms. It is among the drummers and members of the theatrical profession, however, that the tattoo man finds his 171e OLD (NCI 14' - ��, fDf •THE r-iEw WAY`., THE ELECTRIC NEEDLE. greatest number of patrons. They spend a large portion of their lives in railroad oars, their danger from death in wrecks is greater than any other class of people, excepting railroad mon, postal clerks and express messengers, and the tattooer is reaping a rich reward of coin from them. With the spread of the tattooing fad in all parts of the 'United States and Canada the work with the ink and needles has been made well nigh painless. The tat - toeing art has kept step with the march of progress in other directions, and a bran new method of puncturing the skin has taken the place of the old. Instead of the laborious work of early days, an electric tattoo machine has been invented, Wnero it required an hour in the old-fashioned way to tattoo a name or a figure, the elec- tric machine does it in a few minutes. The inventor of the machine is in New York, and recently he chatted interest- ingly of tattooing in general and the prevalent craze in particular. He is Pro. fessor O'Reilly, probably the best known tattooer in either the Tin1ted States or Great Britain. Many of the most noted tattooed men and women who have been on exhibition on both sides of the At- lantic are examples of his skill, "I have tattooed thousands of parsons, both in this country and England," he said, "but at present the craze exceeds anything I have ever experienced during the last twenty years. Most people be- lieve that only sailors and a vulgar class in general have tattoo marks pat upon them. That is true, in many instances, but by far the largest number of those that I am tattooing now are men and women of intelligence and refinement. The only explanation that I can make for this is that the danger of being ' buried among the unknown dead in ease of a railroad, steamboat or other accident has been so strangely emphasized during the present year that men and women who travel much very wisely have the needles and ink place sure identification marks upon their bodies. "Many of those tattooed, the ladies es• pecially, have the work done with ar- tistic surroundings. Men generally want Trim STYLE FOR LOVERS. to be tattooed on the arms, while' the women almost invariably have the decor- ation placed on the lower limb. I reoeutly tattooed a serpent in brilliant colors around the leg of one of the best known comic opera prima donnas of the country. It bears her name in delicate letters. Another popular actress had me place a garter in vivid hues below the knee of her left leg and tattoo upon it "Tom," the name of her sweetheart, and one of the most prominent juvenile men in the profession. "I tattooed the insignia of Delta Kappa Epsilon, one of the strongest of college fraternities, upon the arm of almost every member of the society. George Gould is one of the young menupon whose arm I placed the symbol of she fraternity. "Almost every day I put secret society marks on the arms of patrons. Two months ago I was surprised by a call from a tramp. He wanted a peculiar mark by which he was known to knights of the road tattooed in the palm of his right hand. 'A peculiar practice among vain wom- en is to have their lips tattooed with car- mine ink to keep them a perennial' red. Quite a number of nice young men come to me to have their lips and also their cheeks tattooed with a rosy tint. There are many persons who believe that even diseases can be removed by having the body from the nedk to the heels tattooed. The carbon in the ink seems to have a beneficial effect. Carbon is death to pois- onous gases or microbes in the body. '1 believe that the original -idea of tat- tooing was for medicinal purposes. In Burmah all the males are tattooed; When eight days old the male baby is tattooed on each breast. When twelve years old the tattooers put a girdle of peacooks and griffins around the waist of the boy. The peacock is the national emblem of Bur- mah, and the griffin, a fabulous animal with an eagle's bead, t lens end body of a lion. But no matter what the origin of tattooing may have been, the art is hay ing a big boom." ter. i• Aistaigazgazaimmil a� ;''or Snf'ant3 andChildren. PI 07E ` You Know 7 that Pa stile, Bateman's Drops, Godfrey's Cordial, many so -rolled Soothing Syrups, one Most remedies fol' children are composed of opium or morphine'? Tao Yen "to—'e that opium and morphine are stupefying narcotic poisons ? 7,-••+-77- that in most countries druggists are not permitted to sell narcotic,, itlthout labeling them poisons? 72? "Va7 - ew that you should not permit any medicine to be given your child -oats you or your fihycleiaa know of what It Is composed? • ti - •ren. -that Castoria is a purely vegetable preparation, and that a list o; 3puLlislexlwith every bottle? • that Cactorie is the prescription of the famous Dr. Samuel Pitcher u.^>uier nearly thirty years, and that more Castoria is now sold that. ell cti•„r reaecles for children combined ? 'l ' + . rc , r•-• ^ter that the Patent Ofiiice'Department of the United States, and r u,.unt ire, i;^.ro lamed exclusive right to Dr. Pitcher and his assigns to use the warp t:x its formula, and that to imitate them is a state prison offense I ?' a rem - 7yeav- that one of the reasons for granting this government protectionwae •ecause Castoria had been proven to be absolutely harmless? o Zion igreen that 35 average ' doses of Castoria all furnished for 35 ecus, or one cent a dose ? Ito You Know that when possessed of this perfect preparation, your children za;: be kept well, and that you may have unbroken rest? ' WTQl1, these things are worth knowing. They are facts. The flee -simile rigalature 1e On every wrapper. Farm` rren Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. n c;�•?r h nr•-� .;; -e,.... ; , „•)n :tag ->i sin;Mu-•, a:i. te•'w.`rie- ,." = - ODDITIES OF DRESS. National Characteristic• or the Attire of European Women. It is strange that whereas in every country of Europe. among the higher class a, well as the pehi Autry, a distinct - five pee ulaway of mist ame exists, there is abeolote.y nothing of the kind in North Americw says the Philadelphia Times. The newness of the country does not ex- plain this,' as in South American States, which are younger than oar nation, a na- tional eoemine is the rule. The Russian "kakuchnik" is one' of the most charming articles of adornment in Europe. It originated among the Muscovite peasant women, but has been adopted during this century by the ladles of the court, who have elaborated it into a red velvet cap ole breidered in precious stones, It is worn with, the red velvet court mantle and jeweled stomacher brought out on state occasions, and more than outrivals the plumes and veil worn at the English court. The Spanish mantilla is well known and has been somewhat vulgarized on the comic stage The national dress of Roumania has escaped that fate. Carmen Stave always wears it when at home. It consists of a white linen sleeveless gar- ment made with as few folds as possible and somewhat resembling the Egyptian "feilahetn." It is thickly embroidered In a cross-stitch arabesque in bright red, sky-blue, orange, yellow and black silk threads, a band of similar embroidery encircling the waist, with streamers of colored ribbon falling therefrom in a shimmering cascade, The hair is braided in four plaits loosely tied with chains of sequins and the feet are encased in crim- son kid slippers strewn with seed pearls. In Poland princesses and peasants wear around their throats several rows of huge coral beads, and so loth to part with these supposed bringers of good luck are they that when a grando dame is arrayed for a ball and is obliged to put on p arts and diamonds she carries her coral beads in her pocket, In Austria-Hungrary is found the greatest divergence in the matter of cos- tume, The garb of the Hungarian peas- ant is so fetching that the wealthy ladies copy it when on their estates. It consists of a short puffy skirt of crimson and yel- low a small sleeveless velvet bodice im- prisoning a snowy shirt, stiffly Starched and embroidered in contrasting colors, and an artistically knotted head scarf from under which escapes a thick braid. of hair entwined with colored ribbons. In the plains of Provence and in the Normandy lands the wealthy still cling to their little lane cap, the intrinsic value of which is sometimes inestimable, made as they are of rare point lane fastened down with gtaintly chased golden pins, heirlooms in families. The Story of a S 'mnambulist. This is a story told by a doctor in an- swer to the question, Does a man see while in a somnambulistic condition? "About 10 years ago I had as a room- mate a young fellow who was a student in the medical college, and a bright young fellow he , was, too. He was fond of shooting, and to keep pp his practice he had a fine air -gun and he converted the hall on the tnird floor, which we occu- pied, into a shooting -gallery. I used to take a hand myself every time I had a chance, and sometimes for an hour at a time he would be banging away at the target he had fixed at the far end of the ball. ' "One morning I mime in from a pa- tient's about 3 o'clock and found the whole upper story dark. I lit the gas in the front room, which we used as sitting-, room, and was about to go out and light the gas in the ball, when the young fel- low faire walking in from our sleeping - room, atrired in :bis night clothes, and with his eyes wide open. I spoke to him. thinking something was the matter with him, but he did not answer, and in a minute I saw that he was walking in his sleep. "This was not altogether unusual with him, but I had never caught him in the set before,. and concluded I would watch him, He game directly across the room, going around a chair and a table that stood in his path, and opening a drawer where he kept the air -gun, he took it out and then he loaded it, getting, the small bullets we used out of a box on the man- telpieee Thisbox he stuck into what would' have been . his coat -pocket, if he had had a coat on, but as he hadn't the box fell to the floor, whim ne toes no note of. "Then he went into the dark ball. care- fully avoiding all furniture in his way, and going as straight to the door as if lie had been awake. I followed him cau- tiously into the hall, and when he reached the usual point from which we did our firing he stopped, took -careful aim and fired. The slight snap and shook of the gun seemed to have quite a differ- ent effect than either my voice or the bright light in the room, for on the in- stant be dropped the gun, made a half step forward and fell into my arms, just about as he would have fallen out of bed if he bad waked suddenly on its edge. • "He was wide awake in a minute and began laughing and asking me what had happened. I told him, and we at once lit the gas in the hall and examined the tar- get. arget. The target had been repainted after we had had our last practice, so that we could see plainly where his bullet had, bit, anti I assure you he had made almost a center shot. Now," concluded the phy- sician, "in the lighted room, he missed all the furniture in his way, and in the dark hall, be hit the target. Do you think he could see, or,aouldn't he?" Twin Suns. The star Alpha Centauri—the nearest star to the earth—consists, as the tele- scope shows, of two suns, one of which is five or six times brighter than the other. But recent observations by Mr. Roberts at the flaps of Good Hope Observatory have led him to the conclusion that the two components of Alpha Centauri, much as they differ in brightness are really nearly equal in weight. Together they are twice as heavy as our sun, says a writer in the "Youth's Companion." It seems to follow from these Mots that one of those twin suns is losing its light, and in the course of ages may become only a gigantic opaque planet, while Its compan- ion will still continue to blaze with solar splendor. Positively the Newest Thing. I see that a very (Maturing young woman, Mrs. Bondurant Henry, gave a walking party recently, the route being Fifth avenue from Fifty-ninth street to Mailiard's, where light refreshments were served. This is quite a novel enter- tainment. It was preceded by a luncheon at Mrs. Bondurant Henry's apartments, Central Park South, and the guests were all of one gender—the superfine. Mrs. Henry is a young anthem matron, and possesses the beauty of the women of her climate—the famous Blue Grass region of Kentucky.--Gothamite. ivlrls Bate • was sick, eve gave her tinstercls. When she was a Child,/ se cried for Castoria. When she became Nisi,, she clung to Castoria. Mica she had tlhildrer . she gave them Castorat 7 Wit:?.'-.<'�;^7 •L, , ..}..•1,.,.c.: �,. CURE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL REiWEDY FOR MAPI OR BEAST. Certain In its effects and never blisters. Read proofs below: KENDALL'S SPAVENCURE. Boas Car man. enderson' IllCo. • Fe' '94. Dr. B.. J. 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