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COSTLY SALMON ANGLINa
POR'rUNES PAID OR THE
RIGHT TO FISH.
Large Sums Invested by American
Anglers in Canadian. Sal-
mon Rivers.
F.aormous sums of money Are ex-
pended by the American salmon fish-
ermen who are at present flockieg
eagiern Canada, es usual at this,
thee of the year, writes ' a eaxebee
corresporelent.
Apart from all other expenses the
cost of the, fishing rights is often
great. The rate of iricreese in values
is illustrated by the fact that the
tingling of the Reslogotiche ahd its
tributaries was leased some years
ago by fishermen who are still =teal -
lag salmon in Canada for $1:50
yean while thousands of clollars are
eow paid aenually for the right to
fish theeevaters of these rivers, eon -
trolled by the Governnient, and
$500,000 Nvould not sullice to •per-
ches° the remaining p ale n rights.
Neaele $4,00,000 has actually lieen
paid to riperian proprietors on the
Restigouehe by the present fielders of
fishing rights, •
The largest 'owner of these rights
at present is the Restigouehe Sal-
mon Club, one of the most notable
concerns of the hind in the world.
Its membership includes many multi-
malionairee and numbers it present
but thirty-two in all. Its shares are
eagerly sougbt at $10,000 each.
The headquarters and main club-
_ liouse of tbe Restigouche are situat-
ed at Metapedia, at the junction of
the Metapedia and Itestigotiche riv-
ers. Here tbe members of the club
who have fished by day, wearing the
usual attire of anglers in the woods,
must observe the club rule of don-
ning evening dress for dinner.
• It would require a petty large
chest to hold all the title deeds in
virtue of which the Restigouche Sal-
mon, Club exercises
ITS FISHING RIGHTS.
It is interesting to note that for the
New Brunswick side of Tom's Brook
and •Indian House posts, the sum. of
$7,500 was paid in 1885, while the
eauebec side of the Indian House pro-
perty, all the way down to about
one •mile below Tom's 13rook, cost
$35,000 in 1895,' Yet in 1880 S.
and 3. Wilmot bought the same pro-
perty for $1,500. The increase in
its value was thus 2,800 per cent. in
• eftcen years. The Patapedia pools
were acqtared by the club in 1894
for $25,000, the sellers having paid
$2,000 for them in 1882 to the resi-
dent proprietors. High prices have
• also been paid for salmoe fishing on
• the Restigouche by individual Ameri-
can sportsmen,
la 1880 the late Robert ' Goelot
purchased. the Moore property, about
six miles from Metapedia on the Que-
bec side of the Restigouche, for $20,-
00e. Yet he fished this water, which
is.. about three quarters of a mile in
extent, only on two occasions, and
'then with poor success, as the owner
• 'of the opposite side of the river as-
*
, serted that the boundary line be-
tween the two provinces was the mid-
dle of the stream, and all the best
of the fishing was on the New Bruns-
wice side of the river. This made
Mr. Goelet's purchase of very small
value so far as fishing was concern-
ed% In 1896 Mr. Goelet purchased
the • McAndrew property, seventeen
miles from Metapedia, for $85,000.
`In. 1883 it cost The McAndrew about
$5,000. '
The Sweeney and Dean Sage estate
properties at the mouth of the Up-
salunitch, severer miles from Meta-
pedia, were originally purehased
from resident proprietors between
1880 and 1885 for about $5,000.
The Sweeney lots are now held by
Mr. Payne of Cleveland, who paid
•$85,000 for them in 1895. The late
Dean Sage sold part of his eights
on the New Brunswick side to his
friend; Mr. Clyde of New York, for
$7,000. Harry Hollins became the
. proprietor some ten years ago of
the Brandy Brook pool and neigh-
borning waters, paying $15,000 for
:them.
For the Kedgwick pools at the
mouth of the river •where it enters
the Restigouche, and for some of
The lower pools, Archibald Rogers of
New York paid $7,000 a few years
ago, and they could not now be
bought for $70,000.
In addition to the main clubhouses
of the :Restigouche Salmon Club, its
;members have at their disposal a
number of comfortable subsidiary
eamps in different parts of their ter-
ritory. So far this season the sport
has been far from good, eluniga bet-
ter sport is looked foe later, the
Veason being late, and the
clueing the Irasheshoo, portious of
the Nepisault and the for tlee
lease of Which thousanels of dollars
have been paid d,uring a single year,
are owned ,outright by Ivers W. Ad-
ams of Boston.. Mr. Adams is at
present fishing' the Moist° himself, in
comaany with Dr, lieeer Bishop of
Boston, Senator Aldrielx and Henry
R. Reed of Boston,
Enormous salmon are eapturee 111
the lefoisie, hundreds of them, every
yeer. The Waslieshoo is leased by
Mr. Adams in a New York friezal for
$1,000 a year,
Janes 3. Hill pays $8,000 a year
rental to the Government for the
lease of the St. John River in Lab-
rador, and. its distance from Quebec
renders it almost necessary to em-
ploy a, steam yacht to reach. it. He
is eels° the lessee or the St. Paul or
Esquimaux River.
The Bone.venture Salmon Club,
composed almost exclusively of Am-
ericans, •pays $2,000 a year for the
lease of a poreion of the river Bona -
venture. The St, Anne des Monts
brings an annual rental of $1,500 ,a
year. H. F. McLachlin pays $900 a
year for the Dartmouth. The $t,
John's Salmou Club of Boston pays
$700 per annum for the St. John's
of Gaspe, and Thomas Murdoch of
Chicago pays $650 a year
FOR TX -IE yoriz RIVER.
Louis Cabot, of Boston, owns the
entire lower part of the Grand River
of Gaspe, where the best fishing is
to be Iliad in the stream, and though
it cost him a mere trifle he has re-
fused for it an offer of nearly $100,-
000. Though not very large, as sal-
mon river e go, it is one of the most
picturesque in the country and atm -
tains very large fish, salmon between
thirty end forty pounds in weight
being common en it.
The lease or purchase of fishing
right is of course only the beginning
of the salmon fisherman's outlay.
Unless he is satisfied to live in tents,
a ctunp is required.
Lord Mountstephen's fishing lodge
at leletis • cost him $4,000. Many
anglers are satisfied with more mod -
°mite quarters however.
There are canoes to be provided,
too, and experienced guides, cooks,
etc., are necessary to comfort, both
in camp and upon the river. There
is also the question of supplies and
of transporting them from Gamboa
or Montreal to the fishing camp.
-And the salmon fisher's angling
outfit may be as expensive as he
cares to make it. The flies are worth
from 60 cents to $1.25 each, and
good casting lines, strong enough to
hold the king of fresh water fish,
cost from $4 to $7 apiece. Rods,
reels, and lines comanan,d equally high
prices.
Unless the fist are extremely plen-
tifui it is not too much to say that
the salmon taken by anglers costs
them from $5 to $25 a pound.
in chronic. Bright's disease, where
the normal structure of the kidney
is quite altered, and a hard substance
is rennet', which replaces and ele-
strays the healthy tissues, just as
sear does the flesh ,sulastance else-
where. Can any rational person Pon-
ceive it possible that such a state of
things ean bo beeetited by medicine?
Even if we could remove the nexely-
forneed substance, it is quite certain
we never could restore the parts of
the kicinmr which would have been de-
stroyed,
Again, there is a large number of
ailments which are in no Dense of
the word diseases, although they are
palpably referred to as such, and
are so deecribece As a matter oe
fact, they are merely
FISH SCARCE AND SMALL.
• Scarcely second in importance to
the Restigouche is the 'Cla,scapedia.
It is probable that the provincial*
goeeimment could easily obtain • a
cmarter of a million dollars for its
fishing rights in this famous stream.
For a portion of them it receiVes
$8,500 a year from the Cascapedia
Salmon Club.
• No finer poole, no better fishing
and no larger sahnon are to be found
in North America than those of the
•.Cascapedia. It, has been fished ber
nearly all the recent Governors -Gen-
eral of Canada, and the Merquis of
Lorne, now Duke of Argyle, who fre-
quently fished it with his wife, • the
Princess Louie declared it to be the
finest examen river in the world. It
contains no fewer than twenty -eine
• spleadid salmon pooes.
In one season Lord Lansdowne and
Itis party killed in the river 820 sal-
mon; weighing 7,277 pound, and in
the following year Lord Stanley of
• Preston, now the Elarl'of Derby, and
his party killed 800 Ash, weighing
7,692 pettincle. It was on this river
Mat R. G, Dun entertained President
• Arthur, and the record fish of eteneel-
cox freeh water, a salinon of fifty.
four pounds, is said to have beet).
merle 'one of Me. Dunes catehee upe
eM the Onscapedia. be ay ouch thieg as "a ware," An
Very valuable salmon reverse in- j, eacellent illustration of this is sem!.
CAN DISEASE BE CURED?
SOlVLE TERRIBLY MISLEADING
NOTIONS.
Most of the More Serious Diseases
•
Run a Definite
FUNCTIONAL DERANGEMENTS,
some organ or another being for the
time unable to work.properly.
• Thus, if your watch ems a wheel
broken, there is enteaa ae,maee to !beneath the veneer of stolidness I showed brave men .fighteng despeiate-
part of its machinery, and that is 1 see many incidents electi tell mute ly, maiming the guns in the face or
equivalent to disease; but if 'a par- tales of war and what it involves. a terrible fire."
Couree.
The popular idea of "a cure" is
something which can arrest the pro-
gress of a disease and hurry -up its
determination. There is a very wide-
spread notion that every malady has
its specific remedy, and if the proper
drugs were .only known and prompt-
ly administered. the sufferer would
almost immediately recover. •
Books have been published from
time to tirne which foster this no-
tion, because they contain alphabeti-
cal lists of diseases, against each
'item of which is t.;et oft the supposed
remedy. This naturally leads the
readers to imagine they have in their
hands a kind of "ready reckoner,"
and that they need only to pick out
the name of an iiihneiat in order to
disco -ver the clue to its "cure." The
Iden has fastened on the public mind,
• partly as a result of the quaint
quaciker3r of bygone times, and partly
in consequence of nuanerous go -called
remedies now so largely advertised.
,
NA.TURE THE GREAT ntEALER.
The idea, that eVery. disease calls
for 501110 particular drug is entirely
erroneous, and terribly misleading,
because it diverts attention from
what is actu.ally going. on; and; with
one or two exceptions, is positively
untrue. Most of the more serious
run a definite course, and nothing
has yet been discovered which can
arrest their progress or hasten their
end by a single day. If, therefore,
thieenotion is fallacy, what can
be more absurd in itself, or more det-
rimental to the patient's welfare,
than to keep pouring into his stom-
ach unpalatable medicines, which are
almost certain to prevent his assimi-
lating his proper food. •
Take a well-lcnbwn example—"pneu-
motile," or inflammation of the Mag.
This dieease, in every single instance,
must pass through its several stages;
and if the patient can be properly
nursed and his strength supported
by suitable nourishment, it will ter-
minate .1.1a recovery of its own ac-
cord%
You may give what drugs you
please in ouch a case, but they will
1
DEAD HEROES IN for eaifteroPe, But the larttve
ILL LLLI l'sailors did not heed, 'My went on,
;fearing not death, right Mee the
A SOLDIER'S YUNEIRAI, WITH- harbor, far up the climinel,
OUT A tOORFSE. 4.'The steamer was struck in Many
JelteCes, but did not sink. She did not
Priests Perfome, All the Rites of go down un.til the explosives on
Thetheabeed tee main boerd were fired. • The erew left ber
.in two boats, faeieg a heavy fire
S oldiers and swept by big waves, Tee other
In Tokio one sees little to iedieete steamers had not mulled , the came -
that the melon is at war. One hears eel, Some never reached it, being
little regarding the War, except wheel suuk by mines. The Totoeni Mana—
tee mails thaw from home, writeS 0Stie, once carried the fishermen to
correspondent. • Saghalien—dashed agaietet booms
Now ancl tlhen there is a flatter of plaeed at the • eatra,nce, and wee.
excitement, a lantern procession in injured, but die. not Bade until she
which thousands march, wave paper . reached a favorable place.. The at -
transparencies, all aglow, and shoat koku Maru struck a submarine mine
"baereais." Now and again a fewand went down near the boom, wheel
flags are displayed, more often to Was destroyed ley the explosion. The
commemorate some festival than to' other steamers came one by one, and
celebrate a victory. Tolcio is too the fire from tbe shore batteries be-
au, from London to be greatly in came/ heavier, the flashes from • the
touch with the war. Yee, if I look searchlights blinding. Their flaslees
ticle of dust is only interfering • with , Such All iacident I saw a few clays
its works, teat is hut a temporary ago at Kawasaki. Though but a
derangement, and the equivalent of quiet little village of 'small houses,
functional disorder. To .speak of
cure" in sucb, interferences with the
body's machinery—M the mere die-
turbances of its functions—by the ad-
ministration of raedicines is every bit
as smiseless, and a gross misuse of
works. In making these assertioes
we do not cleey that many drugs
have a place in medical treatment—
we simply state that they do not
erica "a cure."
The symptoms of a disease may of-
ten be alleviated by their use—as, for
instance, dyspepsia. But it is al-
together a mistake to • call such a
use of /medicines "a cure," because
it is bet dealing with a symptom,
and affords but a temporary relief.
To "cure" this trouble, in any true
sense of the word, the cause of the
Indigestion lutist first be discovered
and then effectually removed.
not hasten the crisis by as raue as
five minutes, because the disease has
its owe MmHg. This fact is „dead
against the popular notion; and for
a time it will be as unpalatable as
the nauseous merlieines so liberally
edminietered.
FALLACIOUS CURES.
Much the same thing may bo said
of the fevers, of which scarlet fever
is a goad type. Thee 'diseases run
their course, from the implauting of
the contagion in the body to their
final °termination; and, dose the safe
forms as you will, you inevitably die-
eover that their malady 15 not araen-
able to treatinent by drugs. •
In the thronic dieeasee, whether of
Long or short duration, there cahnot
THE DANGER OF DRUGS.
Take another example—one which
will illustrate both points, and
which is all too cbmmon in this
country, the "cirrhotic" condition
known as the inebriate's liver. Here,
again, we have the structure of the
organ completely changed, and new
material formed to such ah extent
that all the drugs of the Pharinaco-
poela could not restore its pristine
perfection.
What, then, le possible in such a
case? In the first place, by raedicine
we may relieve such symptoms, as the
nausea, or vomiting of blood; 'then
we can remove the cause—tbat is to
say, stop the supply of all alcoholic
liquor. Yet such treatment as this
cannot in any sense be called "a
cure," for the damaged liver will
remain damaged to the end of the
chapter. As well might the surgeon
wlho has amputated ,a leg refer to
his work as a "cure" when he sees
his patient limp,on a wooden stump,
or perambulate the streets with a
wooden crutch. '
PATIENCE AND CAREFUL NURS-
ING.
It is quite time the public mind
was put right in this matter of
"cures," for the extent to which
people are dosing themselves with
drugs is positively alarming. More-
over, there is no medicine which
does -not to some extent interfere
with the process of digestion, and
when this process is alreader dis-
turbed by disease it is worse than
folly to still further upset it by
needless drugs.
So many ailments are associated
with dyspeptic trouble that to en-
danger a person's life by putting
fresh obstacles in the way of his as-
similating nutriment is only adding
to prevent came."—Dr. Joseph
Cater in London Answers.
SENTENCE SERMONS.
To restrain prayer is to retain
care.
Oppressing truth raver suppresses
it,
A little faith is -Worth. a lot of
feeling. ,
There is no sacrament without ser-
vice.
Safe sins are the mosi dangerous
ones.
Love is the great power that levels
up.
Patience is the perfume of Mushed
joys
Legislation cannot take the place
of love.
I -Te cannot be sovereigu who will
not serve.
There can be no education without
inspiration.
Light is the only protection
against darkness.
Real religion is the only' remedy
for irreligion.
Burning the ledgers will not bal-
ance the books.
A inan does not have to be gulli-
ble to bo gentle.
Half of what we call difficulty is
only danger.
A. sham religion is the costliest
thing a man can get.
The best c,ure for your sorrow is
care for another's.
Better fail trying to do right than
succeed en doing wrong.
There is no merit in the wait -till -
I -get -a -chance forgiveness,
No day is more dangerous than
the one that dawns without its
duty.
SINGING WAR SONGS. „.
"All," continued. Iehijiro, "remain -
thatched with rice stalks; Kawasaki evert) killed. The boats from the
edeat their pests until the end. Many
is faenous. All Japan knows that ,meete.weerrant were. under heavy f1).0.
the .temple of Kobo Daishi is there, ' They were rowed in the face of a
and every month thousands visit it strong wind. and adverse sea, and
to clap their hands and pray before, though , the lights of the torpedo
its -images. Every Buddhist in "Teei boats veaiting to rescue the crews
pan knows that the sainted abbot,
who carved the great "jizo" in the could be seen when the light rays
block of ancleeite on the way -to Fa- were not 'flashing frora shore, the
boats could not reach them. The
leone, hewed his image from a block crews of other boats could be heard
of wood and cast it into tbe sea from singing war songs, but they could
China's shores. Every seeker after not be seen. The boat in which my
the light knows how the fishermen of brother was went ashore, and, with.
Kawasaki found. the image adrift on 12 others, he fought -until all were
the face of the waters when casting dead. Be and his comrades rushed
their nets and brought it to the at the batteries, seeking to destroy
village to work wondrous miracles, the searchlights, but they could not.
there. Therefore they built a temple-. for the enemy were many.
and pilgrims come yet from dietant 1 e"All fought bravely until the mid,
villages to visit the 11.013r place. Bee ! disdaining to surrender, They died
hind the village, whose open -fronted' as Japanese should, with their faces
houses face the sea,as the homes of ta the foe. Others, who were also
seafarers ever do, are miles of rice unable to reach the torpedo boats,
fields, square on square, as far as the
eye can see. landed and fought desperately, most
of them being killed. Some were
FUNERAL WITHOUT A CORPSE. taken prisoners. Their friends Will
On, one of the by-paths I saw, early be very sorry, The other boat's
this month. a quaint little proces- crew from the Mikama Marti was
sion, a funeral party, going through, rescued. The sailors had. been un -
the paddy fields, as yet little more able to attract the waiting torpedo
than squares of flooded ooze, to- craft betause the signalling appara-
wards the noted temple at Kawasae tus was 'destroyed, but they seng
ki. A few men, bare -legged and with war songs and the rescuers heard
common "Imori" and coats e marked them., My brother Was not saved."
with the ideogra phs peculiar to fish- Ichijiro conceu;ded with pride. it
ermen, carried a ridge -roofed box pleased , him that his brother lad
of unpainted wood. Others preceded not been saved. It was a great lime
them, carrying white lanterns.Some or that had befallen the house of
followed with flags, long banners of .Uyenoyama in that the stoker bad
white with rows of black characters' not been rescued. But, that bis
in the "katikana" of the commoner, 1 manes might be well received, the
not the most compact Chinese char-' family lia,d given of its savings to
acter of the men of education. Indis-e the priests of Kawasaki and had
• tinctly I heard ft bronze gong sound -L, carried the collin to have the mystie
Mg over the fields from the temple words that Buddha taught .said over.
that was almost hidden in a grove of it at the temple of Kobe Daishi,
trees trained in the shape of junks,
for this is a silor's temple. The
"plum rain" --Tay rains are ever
known as the ,"plum rains"—fell
heavily; the paths were wet and mud-
dy. There was no need of prayers
for ram this season and: no occasion
for journeys to carry water from! Eland, •the King has conferred the
the sacred lakes of Harume Moun-
coveted Cross on Lieut. Clement
Leslie S
ta. But the processionists did not mith of the Duke of Corn-
inheed the downpour. Few carried uni-' wall's Light Infararee Lieut. Smitb.
. is one of three officers "strongly re-
brellas. They had marched for milestohne wvilinldaigneg epfatThase,rtiinaliclefeaprtihneiii.d t'lletion" by Major -G choral C. C. Eger-
frtolnlie t ton commanding the Somaliland
c°111111encied for favorable considers,-
bay, bound for the temple of the sea-
farers to invoke ehe gods to care for 1 An force a • PRIVATE THEATRICALS:
ld
and on the mystic way. The coffin Rahamat Ali was hit early. in the
carriers held a ,ight burden, for 110 eght with the dervishes at Jidballi
corpse was within , the box. It was on San. 10. Lieut. Smith and Dr.
nomE SURGERY.
A bit of home surgery, stated to
have been practised when a splinter
is driven into a child's hand parti-
cularly deep, is its extraction by
steam, A bottle with a stAciently
wide nouth is filled two-thirds with
hot water, and the mouth is placed
under the injured spot. The euctioia
cfraWs the Mash down when a little
pressure is used, and the steam, in a
=anent or tWo extracts inflainnut-
tion and splinter together, This is
very ofeleaelous, wheel the offending
substaned liaS been in foe Moveral
home, long eeough to have started
VICTORIA CROSS HERO.
How the Cross Was Won in Senn -
For come:lime:me bravery in Soma-
VAGARIES OF A TIARQUI8
MS•EXTRAVAGANCE C0S3
MX roll mins
Bankrupteer of Marquis of Augle.
sey Reveals 'His Way
of Living,
The Marquis of Aegiesey erasro-
oet1y declared a beaticrupt and men
were plathel in possession of Anglesey
Castle by his creditors, It Is be-
lieved that the property still left in
the ca,stle is worth mealy hundrede
of ix/uncle.
Of the vast sums spent by the
present peer much remains in jewels
or 0.7°17 eenceiVable description, in
great wardrobes el clothes, in plate
of silver end feted, and in thousand
and one minor ornalnents,
it was indeed a stra,nee life which
the young peer led in the ancient
Castle. No dandyR
of the egeney
ever equalled 'him in the magnincence
of his private rooms, in his staff of
-valets, or in his extraordinary tee-
lection of clothing-, pis evening
coats were of a, remarkable variety
of colors. Sometimes he would ap-
pear in blue, solnetienes in pink, and
sometimes in varying shades of scar-
let.
WONDERFUL WARDROBE.,
His overcoats were perhaps hie
most remarkable collection. They
varied from modest tweed to Per-
sian lamb at 300 guineas, and
sables at a still higher figure. They
were arranged in rows of twenty
apiece in a little gallery which ran
from his dressing-roona Many
thof
ese still remain. in the castle, and.
even at second -hated represent a very
large sum indeed.
IIis bedroom and private sitting -
room. were hung with pale blue silk.
From the roof swung many silver
birds, from the beaks of which elec-
tric lights were suspended.
Pins and jewellery of curious form
were laid out upon his dressing -
table. They were chiefly marked by ,
some oddity which made them rare,
and, therefore, their value very
great. For a single black pearl he
had paid £10,000. The drawers of
his cabinet were crowded with jew-
els. They were heaped together with-
out any particular order. Often the
drawers were without a lock.
VARIED COLLECTION.
Great presses hold the Marquis'
suits of elothes. They are of every
description, and to the eyes of the
ordinary man seem in 3nany cases of
high and preposterous coloring and
pattern.
Beneath the rows of hats, walking -
sticks are displayed in stands.
These, too, are of the most varied
description.. The handles are moutie
ted with. preeious stones, with gold
and silver, and with many strange
woods and enamels. Their value
must amount to soveval thousands of
pounds.
The kennels of Lord Anglesey are
a remarkable feature of the castle.
He possesses many hundreds of
dogs. They are all of carefully se -
elected breeds, many of them, indeed,
being prize -winners.
The larger ones enjoy open yards
and the smaller live in hothouse ken-
nels during the winter months, only
emerging in the spring. His favor-
itee have the honor of jewel collare
of expensive and artistic design.
, lerin ing, indeed, was the act that It was perhaps in his private thee-
-the manes ofa senor now translated won. the cross. Hospital Assietant tre that Lord Anglesey was best
known to the public. For a whole
year he maintained a company of
from twenty to thirty actors and
a funeral -without a corpse. At the Welland went out to his assistance
actresses. They lived in the village
temple the shaven priest of Buddha. and endeavored to bring him out of
wo miles from the castle,
rezited prayers over the "kan-oke"1 action on a horse. But Au was about t
(the coffin box) and he performed all killed, and his two beave would-be travelling to and fro every night.
the rites of Buddahood as though Vie' rescuers were surrounded by the en- Ths players have now been disband. -
body of the dead. were in the coffin, ! emy. Helping the doctor on to his ed, and must regret the loss of a
which looked Mee a tiny house. Then.' horse, Lieut. Smith turned his head good engagement.
the bearers carried it away far over; to the Imes of safety, Fato was
the fields hack to the village of Tsuee against the two; the beast went
rimui, where in a new -made grave down with a crash. 'A passing mule
they laid an empty box. And the! was caught. . There was another at -
obsequies of Kokichi Uyenoyama, the' tempt to mount; the mule wee lcilled.
stoker, 'were conaplete. , , Then Dr. Welland was speared, but
"BOTTLING UP" PORT ARTHUR. his dauntless competitor; stood by
him to the encl„pouring the contents
That night M an airy home of of his revolver into the surrounding
paper screens. beneath an overhanging foe, : '
thatch at Tsurumi I heard the tale "I was much astonished to find he
of how the stoker died from Ichijiro, had escaped withhis life," reported
1115 elder brother, whose face beamed Lieut. Stevens to the major -general.
with pleasure because of Kokichrs' Lieut. II. 'A. Carter of the 117th.
encl. He told me with pride the' elahrattas, Indian Mounted Infantre,
story he had heard from an officer of will be appointed to the distiageish-
he imperial fleet wile. had returned ed service,. order. During the fight
t
to Seeebo. In retelling the tale e at Jedbalh on Dec. 19 he returned to
omit the odd idioms, the peculiar the assistance of Pie. Ji Singh,
mamma -isms of speech, but in other who had been dismouatecl ie another
nart• of the field.Taking him up
respects it is as the story was told .
bebind him. he brought him safely
to me, through an interpreter,
the matted floor in the house of Uy- h
-' tosiaiisiiaoiwigi aliiiitxteast.ry
in the 'same ac-
enoyaina at Tsurumi. lion. was , performed by Subadar
"My brother was of the blockading I Maim Gujan 119th Infantry (the
expedition at Port Arthur which suc-11Vfooltan Regiment), and hie coeduet
ceeded," said Ichijiro, the first eon' has been brought to the notice of the
I
of, Sho Uyenoyama„ the fisherman. Government of India.
"He is dead, but we are proud, for Lance-Sergt. Thomas Gawn, lst
he died with his face to the enemy,1- Battalion Hampshire Regiment, has
doing his duty. Thousands sought been granted the distinguished cone
to take part in the expedition. My duct medal for gallant conduct due -
brother had the good fortune to be ing the action at Illig on April enst.
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VICAR AND WORKMEN,
chosen. They left a ceetam place
on May 2 in nine steamers, escorted
by torpedo boats. Bands played and
The vicar of a colliery district, in
men cheered, shouting 'be:near as Leiceeterehh'e, England, has just ac -
they sailed. The weather was fine. complished the remarkable feat of
My brother was a stoker on the restorieg, xeminly by his own ,nian-
steamer Mikawa Ma,ru, which was,
with the other steemerse to block th.o
harbor eeleort, Arthur. All were old
nal labor, his dilapidated church.
Since Febreare, 1901, the vicar has
labored as a workman all the week
steamers and were plied with stones and preadheef to his people on the
and cement, so that they Would soon Sundays. ITo has worked at the
be solid.. When suek.
"On the niget after they left the
sea became very rough, a strong gale
blew and the sea ran .high; The
conenandor signalled to the vessels A specice of sheep commoit in Sy -
to abandon the attenifit, but; they eat je so encumbered by the weight
were eparated and failed th see the of lie tail that the eheelleede fiX a
sigeill lights; for the night was dark. Piece of thin hoard to the Under
Ail Went on, as planned; toward Port part, whore it is not covered with
Arthur. Tho onenly was erepaeed, , thick wool, to prevent it feme being
and what the Mikawa Meru wes foer torn by the bushes, etc, Some have
Miles from, the harbor mouth the Small 151)0015 affixed to feeilltete the
lights flashed on her aad A. heavy tire dragging of these hoards alter them.
church almost alone, the only assis-
tance being a few days by one Vann.
SIT,EEP'S TAILS,
In. his selection of plays Lord Ang-
lesey was rather vague. He would.
sandwich a pantomine between a
new tragedy and an old comedy,
without ever worrying 'himself at the
contrest.
Many of the treasures of the castle
of Course are heirlooms, and cannot
be parted with in the present ar-
ra.ngements which aro being made
with his creditors. A. large case
contains the memorials of the gal-
lant Lord Uxbridge, who lost his
leg and won his reputation at Wat-
erloo. Therein you may see his hel-
met and cuirass and the =ay spoils
which he brought home from that
'blood-stained battlefield, including
several relics of Napoleon.
The difficulties of Anglesey the
peer have been a source of great
trouble to. Angelesey the island. Ho
spent his money freely, ancl was,
ther'efore, highly popular with the
Welsh. The family has been long
enough among them to ca.use the
•"11)051 he possession" to appear as a
desecration Lo the castle.
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MUSICA.L SNAILS,
A German scientist recently point-
ed out that snails are able to draw
immense weights, and now a French
naturalist claims that there are few,
ally, animals ev.hich have a higher.
appreciation of music than snails.
This naturalist is M. S. Jourdain,
and his views ou the subject are ex-
pressed at length in a paper which
he has addressed to the French Biol-
ogical Society. Place some :Mails
on a -pane of glass, sa'ys, and yoU
win 11mq-that as they move 0V01. it
they will make musical soneds simi-
lar to those 'which a person Call pro-
ditee ley wetting his finger and then
rubbine it around a glass tumbler,
Complete airs, ho points, out, have
been played on 'tumblers in tide way,
and he expresses the opinion that ,
quite as geed reeults can be 'obtain. -
ed tieing Wills Inetead of lingers.
WOlelse.
Probably the eivift'est reread ever
Made in locomotive building has been
a extol apt i ;shed at l' hi ladeephi , wheat
from guns mounthe on. the lowiThe tail of ft :C0111111011 Sheep et Otis la 111111. of locomotive bulleers have
greund at the harbor entrance, 011 serf, usually, weigbe lb, or up- aceoniplishod the remereable feat of
'either eide, swept &bout her, The' wares, while 011ie ef 0 lergee species, terning out seven locoinetivete a day,
SailOrS Swy that the shells Were -so I rater beteg WOII fiettened, will weigh The order wee a hurried one toe lam
Japanese Government.
5125 eome,011 ite evil corigeaueimes, ethick that it Wes like rain, with b1.11-1430 potaide
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