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The Exeter Times, 1887-9-8, Page 71ff NARROW' ECAPE. I never told anylbody how very, very near I WES IO death that night, just a year ago; but ati I can now look back and calmly re. call each thoeght, each word, each act, 1 think I wil write it down as a warning to all who may find themeelves similarly eir- eumstanced, hoping, with all my heart, that the number may be few. In the first place'my name ie FTCCIeriak Putnam. I am, and have been for the leo t ten amare) the foreman and bookkeeper of the large lumbering establishment of William -Winston & Co., and hope to be for another decade, unless something better turns up. Mr. Winston is the resident partner and manager of the manufacturiug part of the business. The other members of the firm, of which there are two, live in the city, at the footdef the lake, and attend to the sales t4 of Iiiifior, which we send them by vessels. Th. s is by far the largest share of what the m '1 cuts, although the amount of our sales directly from the niill, to supply the country to the west of us, is quite latge. Well, one cold Decernber evening, tu# as I was preparing for home, I heard footsteps on the creaking snow outside, and presently the office door flew open, as though Immo one in haste had given it a push, admitting a tall, stout, well-dressed man, with a small traveling -hag in one hand and a shawl thrown over one arm. I was alone—Tar. Winston having gone to the house some half an hour before, looking the safe, in which we ktpt our books and ropers, and taking the key with him, as Beeel, r had already closed tile damper to the stove, put on my overcoat, and was just in the act of turning down the lamp—but, of course, I waited. "Gd evening, sir," said the man, bust- ling up to the stove, and kicking the damper open with his right foot. "Has Winston gone to the house 1" I answered that he had. " When ? I was afraid of it." He drew out his watch—a very fine one, I thought. "1 shall not have time to go hp," he said. "The train is due in fifteen minutes." "Is there anything I can do ?" I asked. "1 wanted to leave some money with Winston. I intended to stop in town a day or two, but I have just got a despatch that calls me 'home." "What name, sir ?" "Anderson, of .Andersonville." t I knew him then, though I had seen him but once before. He had been one of our best Western customers. I say had been, for the reason that during the past year his payments had not been so prompt. In fact, he was considerably behind, and Winston had that very day told me to write him and 'punch him up a little," as he expressed it. The letter was then in the breast -pocket of my overcoat. 0 " 'You can leave the money with me, sir, and I will give you a receipt." He seemed to hesitate, which nettled ;Ile somewhat. I have never blamed anybody akaivelver. el T uch is my bill ?" he asked, eye- ing me sharply. I answered promptly, for I had struck the balance not more than half an hour before: "Eleven thousand seven hundred and ifty dollars and twenty-three cents." "Humph 1 less than I supposed. Write out 1 receipt for that amount." He left the stove, and came and looked over my shoulder whet wrete. "It is all right, Mr. Putnam. I know you mew. You've been with Winston a long time. 1 can tell your signature any. wherei He , e lxdrom an inside pocket a large blackfwallet, very round and full, and counting out eleven different pales of bank • notes, he told. me to run them over. It wit a ehort and easy task, for each pile contain- ed just ten ens hundred dollar bills. The balenee was in fives, tens, and twenties, and it took more time to count them;• but M last we got it, so that both were satisfied, At this moment we heard the whistle for the station. Anderson sprung for his traveling -bag, and giving me a hasty hand- shake, was off on the run. I closed the door, and counted the money again. Finding it all right, I wrapped. a piece of newspaper around it, and slipped it • into my overcoat pocket. I did not feel quite easy to have so much money about me; but as Winston's house was at least a mile distant, I concluded to keep it ant )morning when I could deposit it in the bsek I closed he damper again, drew on my gloves, teak he office key from the nail jQapover be , and stepped up to put out-thelight. Ai I did so, I saw a bit of par on the floor, which, on picking up, I saw was the receipt I wrote for Mr. Ander- son. He had dropped it in his hurry. I put it in my pocket, and thought no more about it, only that I would mail it to him. I would have done it then, but as the last mail for that day had gone out on the train which took Mr. Anderson, I could do it mat as well in the morning. Then, too, I was in something of a hurry that night, for I had an appointment; and I may as well istate here that it was with a young lady, who, I hoped, would be my wife before many months. I hastened to my boarding-place'ate my supper, and then went over to Mr. Warner's wearing the overcoat with the MOHey in it, as I did not feel easy about leaving it in my room. Carrie was at home, of course, as she was expecting me, and, leaving my coat and hat in the hall, I went into the parlor. I do not think a repetition of our conver- would be very interesting, so I will pass er it, merely remarking that nothing ()e- rred to disturb me until I arose to take my leave. Carrie went into the entry for my coat and hat, that I might put them on by the warm fire, but she came baok with only my hat. "Why, Fred, you certainly did not ven- ture out on such a -night as this without an overcoat ?" ' ",No coat ?" I exclaimed, in a dazed sort of a way, for the thought of the money, flashing upon me so suddenly, had almost Stunned me, Thb next moment I tore past her like a madman, as I was. The coat wits gone 1 Then I teas unnerved. I grasped at the! stairrail, and caught it just in time to sup , fort myself. Carrie (same running out, her ace pale with alarm, "Oh, Fred I are you sick / Let me call mother and the doctor! Volt are as white as a sheet 1" "No, no, Carrie 1" I entreated, "There am better now," And I was better. I was strong, all at once -- desperately strong. And what brought about this change? The simple • receipt whieh I had in my pocket. Ander- son had nothing to show that the mot:my had been paid; and was not my uneided .word as good its lis? was foolish enoitgli to believe that I could brave it through, and / grew confid- ent and quite easy at once. 14; "There, Carrie, I am muoti better now The room wao too warm, I guess. 89 Btal10 BIleak./Ilief has MAW in ited stole my coat Well, let it go. It was an old one, and have a better lane," was there nothing in the pockets ?" asked Carrie. r It is etrange how suepicious guilt will make us. I really thought that Carrie sus- pected me, and an angry reply, was on the end of my tongue. •I suppressed it, how- ever, and uttered a falsehood instead : "Nothing of consequence, Carrie. A. good pair of gloves and some other trifling notions." "1 am glad it is ino worse, Fred. Now, if you will wait just a moment, 1 will get you one of father's coats to wear home." Thus equipped I left her. You may guess that my slumbers that night were not very sound, nor very refroh- ing. I never passed a more miserable night and in the morning my haggard looks were the subject of remark. "Why, Fred, you look as though you had met a legion of ghosts last night 1" eaid Win- ston, "What is the matter ?" I had a bad night of it," I answered, with a sickly smile. "And you'll have another, if you're not •careful. You had better keep guiet to -day. By -the -way, did you write to Anderson ?" I do not lt now how I managed to reply, for the question set me to shivering from head to feat and I was so weak that I could scarcely sit in my chair. 1 must have aneWered in the affirmative, however, for hesaid : "Then we may look for something from him to -morrow, or next day ?" Immediately after he added : "Why, Fred, you shiver as though you had the ague, and you are sweating like a butcher 1 You're sick, man! Come l jump into nay cutter, and I'll take you home." I was glad of the chance to get away, and •reaching int room, I locked myself in. Winston sent a doctor round, but I re- fused to see him. Then Winston came himself, but I would not open the door. Then my landlady came, then some of my fellow -boarders, but I turned them all away. Ala 1 those were terrible hours that I passed, and the night coming on brought me no relief. Can you not guess what I was meditating? Coward that I was, I had at last resolved upon self-destruction. I commenced my preparations with the same calmness and deliberation that I would have used in the most common transaction. I wrote a short explanation for Carrie, an- other for Mr. Winston, a third for my poor mother; and I smiled them all. In a fourth envelope I enclosed the receipt to Mr, Anderson. All this accomplished, I went to my secretary and took out the weapon of death. It was simply a revolver, small and insig- nificant enough in appearance, but all suffi- cient. Having examined the cartridges, to make sure that there would be no failure, I sat down before the fire, and placed the cold muzzle to my forehead. In another second I should have been life- less; but just as my finger began to press the trigger, there came a tap on my door It startled me and hastily concealing my weapon, 1 called out that I could admit no one. "Not me, Fred?" I knew Carrie's voice, and a yearning to lookteon her loved face got the mas of me. Quietly slipping the tell-tale. letters, which I had left on the table, into my poc- ket, I opened the door. • •, "Oh, Fred, you are real sick 1" exclaimed Carrie, the moment the light fell on my face. "Why did you not send for me? .Aren't you better ?" "Worse," I answered huskily ; "but, Carrie—good heavens 1" As I uttered this exclamation, I started back, and then forward; and theia—Ibardly know whae(for, hanging across Carrie's arm, was my overcoat 1 Recovering from my astonishment, I snatched it from her, and thrust my hand into the pocket. I drew out eleven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars and twenty- three cents. You have heard about, and perhaps seen, the singular capers of a madman, or the wild antics of those crazed with rum or the gro- tesque dancingof savages. Nell, judging from what Carrie told me and from the ap- pearance of my apartment after it was all over, I am Hid to believe that, were it pos- sible to concentrate the three above-men- tioned species of demons into one, their capering and dancing would appear tame in comparison with mine that night. But I cooled down after awhile, and just in time to save Carrie's head a thump from the chair or the washstand, which I had se- lected as partners in my crazy waltz. Then I asked for an explanation. It was the simplest thing imaginable. I do not know why I had not thought of it before. • It was simply a blunder of Carrie's father. He had mistaken my coat for his own, and worn it down town, never dreaming that a small fortune was lying idly in the pocket. Well, I didn't b,ave the brain fever over the affair, but I was the next door to it. I made a clean breast of the whole thing ex- cepting my attempt, or, rather, my resolve, at self destruction. No one ever guessed that part of it, and I tell it to -day for the first time. 0 I sent Mr. Anderson his receipt, handed over the money to M. Winston, and went right on with my duties, a wiser and a better man, I hope. And td.morrow, God willing, I shall lead Carrie to the altar. ael—soseellae—ermas--- The Sultan not a happy Man. The Sultan of Turkey sitsin Yildiz Kiosk and refuses to be comforted. Not that he cares a straw about Bulgaria or about the Anglo-Egyptian Convention. Matters of far graver import impress his soul with an overburdening weight. On Wednesday last 1Tafiz Bohm= Agin breathed his last and is now in Paradise with the houris. The Agha, although a pure-blooded negro, was the ireatest and most inffirentia,r man in the mpire, and had succeeded in rendering himself inclespensable to the Sultan. He held the office of Chief of the Eunuche, a dignity which ranks with that of Grand Viz- ier and entitles the bearer thereof to be ad- dressed as "Your Highness." His official title was "the Guardiari of the.Bacred Doors which lead to the Abodes of Felicity." The ladies of the harem are now squabbling to their heart's content about his suecosor, turning the honey of the Sultan's life into gall and wormwood, His courtiers have, of comae, deserted the "Caliph of the Faithful" oin this aWkward position and taken up an attitude of armed neutrality. Truly, the popular German song IS correct when it asserts that the "Sultan's life is not a happy one." Emperor Williath has presented to the Pope a mitre of exquisite workmanship adorned with brilliants, rubies, sepphiree, and emeralds in hohoer of the Papal jubilee, The Kaiser also wrote a letter. A male member of a noble English family has opened a retail business under an assum- ed name, HEALTH. Geed Cheerful companions attendants and vis- itors—;f any are ednutted—are as neceseary, or as appropriate, as pure air, sunlight and pleasant surroundings. The influence of the mind over the body is far greater than is usually supposed, animating or ,depress- ing, and can not well be overrated. The long -faced gentry, with repulsive eounten- emcee, breathing an atmosphere of condensed acidity, constantly expecting some terrible event, some unlooked for calamity to befall the sicls, some awful change in the weather, etc., have no mission in the sick room, if, indeed, they have in any decent society. Those who constantly look on the dark side, predicting unfavorable changes, who de- light m reciting the history of similar cases, all of which terrobsate,d fatally, attended by unusual pains and sufferings, can not but exert a pernicious influence, seriously modi- fying the symptoms, rendering a recovery more and more doubtful the longer their in- fluence is fella The boisterous and reckless, on the one hand,and the cunning whispers, with evil surmising, on the oth9r, should be carefully excluded from the sick room, particularly when the patient is delicate and sensitive. Indeed, no intelligent and prudent person will be either clamorous or whisper, when the case is regarded as doubtful. If there is whispering, the aver- age patient will wish to know the occasion for it, while careful listening willoften pro- duce an undeeirable fatigue. Such slyness, :such attempts to oonceal important truths as it may naturally appear to the sick, will naturally excite curiosity if not alarm, the patient suspecting worse results than are anticipated by the attendants. Nothing of the kind should ever be allowed in the sick room. Pleaeant, cheerful tones, remarks not demanding much consideration, no alarm, with smiling faces, cordial greetings, countenances expressive of hope and assur- ance—as much so as the circumstances will possibly admit—will legitimately aid in as- suaging the rigors of the symptoms, and miti- gating the sufferings. Shall visitors be ad- mitted? To exclude all will convince the patient that the case is serioue, reacting un- favorably. If admitted, it should be with careful restrictions. If 1 were dangerously sick, I should wish the company of one or more loved friends, taking my hand in 8 theirs, with one on my brow, while I might be permitted to listen to cheering words of affection, not being expected to answer c many questions nor to have the conver- sation so continued as to produce fatigue. Indeed the simple presence of such a friend a with comtersation for only a few moments, au might be suffident. To exclude all would a convince me that my friends despairedof my a life, making me feel keenly that I was de- " serted in my time of need, by those who a° should sympathize with and cheer me. u The presence of judicious friends, I feel u sure, will effect more good than harm. charged with nicotine. In order to know the extent to which the llings receive the poisoned Air it is only necessary to remem- ber that the area of these pneumonic glob- ules is some 1,200 square feet, There As a popular notion that the paper verappiugs of cigarettes do the mischief. Tee poor perhaps does burn the inoeth. The wrappers of some Turkish eigerettee are impregnated with opium, and these, of course, do harm; but that is not the fault of the cigarette, Tho trouble with cigarettes is that people will emoke cigarettes at time when they will not smoke eigare, and that cigarette smokers thus use more tobacco than other people, and that cigarette smok- ers inhale tobacco and take into the lungs air charged with nicotine. Sun -Stroke. When a person falls with min stroke, he should at once be taken, to the coolest place available, His clothing should be removed and cold epplieetione made to his head and over the whole body. Pieces of ice may be packed around the head, or cold water may be poured upon the body from the water pot. The ice -pack to the spine and cold enemata will also be found of advantage. As a preventive measure there is nothing like keeping out of the sun; but where this is impossible, as in the case of laborers, and ' others a device consisting of a cloth or large handkerckief fastened to the hat. band, will be found of advantage in shield- ing the back of the head from the sun's rays. Hints. Many housekeepers object to the open grate fire that imparts such a cheerful air to the sitting room on a wintry night, on the score of dust and coal dirt. Neverthe- less, a grate fire is one of the healthiest means of heating a room, and, introducing a free circulation of air, keeps the room well ventilated. Steam heat would be ex- cellent did it not, by its excessive dryness frequently produce unpleasant headaches. Much ill health may be avoided by pay- ing attention to little things. Every man, woman and child should be careful togo in well wrapped up the biter weatherim- pending. Overshoes are an article that, though unpleasant to wear, are indispen- ible in cold weather. The ears and neck hould be well protected, and heavy cloth- ing worn next to the skin. Avoid taking old above all things. Dandruff is a common complaint of late, nd one that it seems troublesome to eradi- ate. The mixture given below has been nown to remove the persistent trouble when other means ha,ve failed: Take one - all ounce of carbonate of potash, and one unce of alcohol; add sufficient water to ring the mixture up to eight ounces, and se a little at 'a time, rubbing well into the °alp until it forms a lather. Cigarettes. Whether or not young Mr. Knevals died of smoking cigarettes, it is perfectly well o known to physicians that a man may die p from carrying that practice to an excess, p and that excessive cigarette smoking does do a great deal of harm. In the first place, t people who smoke cigarettes do more smok- g A correspondent of the Lancet says: "A few years ago, when in China, I be- came acquainted with. the fact of the natives suffering facialneuralgia using il of peppermint, which they lightly ap- lied to the seat of pain with a camel -hair encil. Since then, in my own practice, I requently employthis oil as a local antes- hetic, not only in neuralgia, but also in out, with remarkably good results." Ing than those who use cigars and pipes. If O man is ,going to leave his office to run across the street for a minute, or is walking to the corner to take a horse cal, he will not light a cigar; he knows it must be thrown away immediately, and a sense of economy testrains him. But if he is in the habit of rolling cigarettes, he mity take a whiff at any time, and is pretty 'sure to be always doing it. The result is that where a non- smokezthas the benefit of some fresh air in the lungs whenever he is out of doors, the cigarette smoker takes in air charged with nicotine, Smokers of cigars and pipes do not, as a rule, inhale smoke, but cigarette smokers sclo. Why this should be, it is difficult to say, but it is an acknowledged fact that it is so. It is thus easy to see why the results of cigarette smoking should he so baneful. The air in reaching the lunge and the blood goes through the windpipe and the bron- chial tubes. Between the windpipe and the lungs the bronchial z ubes keep dividing into two. This incessant subdivision reduces them ultimately to great fineness. In the lungs they are sea cely wider than a hair. At the end of each bronchial tube there is what is called a pneumonic globule. It is in this globule that the air and blood meet! it is here that the Mom:nen/lies "aerated," or oxygenized. In the case of men who in- People say that next winter different col - hale the smoke of cigarettes, these globules, ored lacemarlor window curtains will be the instead of receiving fresh air, receive air fashion. Sad Effeot of .Ear Boxing. Science publishes some valuable records collected by Dr Samuel Sexton on the ob- served effects of boxing the ears. Dr Sex- ton has fifty-one cases upon his records in Mich the ear has been injured by blows of the open band or fist. The nature of the injuries varied considerably. One had in- flammation of the ear, with suspicion of , intracranial trouble, and a running of the ear for twelve years following a blow upon that organ. This patient subsequently died of brain disease. In another case the ear became inflamed and the hearing very much impaired, In another case the pa- tient was slapped by,his father upon the left , ear, and immediate pain and deafness en-, sued with a bloodydischarge, from which he was three months in recovering. The dangers to which Dr. Sexton calls attention are so grave that parents and all others should choose some other method of punishing their children than boxing the ears. It is not improbable that, if Dr. Sex- ton pursues his enquiries further, he will find other cases in which brain disease has followed this barbarous practice. 0 flousentaid ToGtvar.R. IT's you. Pend hrother MARY. in ilousentaid IHICHHIC VOA CANDOR, IT POES tY HEART 000» TO SEE YOU An TILE TART A PRETTY :PICTURE. StrRt AND _ne's TIIE IMAGE or /311.1' THEY Att SAY ILE:LOOKS LIKE nte BLESS YOUR SOUL, IditkqiirtIt'S HOT HAIJE:GOOL,LOOK., Territorial Waters. One of the meet interesting of the papers read at the xecent conferenee in England of the Association for theReform and Codificas tion of the law of Nations, Sir Travers TWiSS presiding, was that by Mr. George Belen-Powell, M. P., on "The 'Amite and Privileges of Territerial Waters," a subject of special lute', est to Great Britain aucl the United States at the present time, Cali% a statement made by Mr. Sewaid to the Span- ish Government in 1862, thet "there are two principles universally admitted—first, that the sea, is open to all nations; and, secondly, that there is a portion of •the sea adjacent to all natione over which the BOVOT. eigHty of that nation extends to the exclu- mon ef every other political authority," and any other authorities to a similar effect, Mr. Baden-Powed deduced the principle that by internatioual law a nation. is permitted, " for the purposes of its own security and welfare, to hold command of portious of the open aea which abut upon its coasts." The great difficulty is to define the limits of these waters. The common rule has been to recognize the "cannon shot limit," the ac- cepted maxim being, Finitu.t terra: dalran- iunt ubi flnitur armor= vis. For all practi- cal purposes this is the marine league of three miles, which is claimed in the British Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Act, and agreed to by the United States, though not by other nations. For different purposes other distances have been at various tim s claimed by different nations as within the juriediction. Norway specified in one case four miles, England six miles, under an Act of Geo. IT., and again twelve miles under the "Hovering Acts." The United States in 1875 claimed -the same for revenue pur- poses, and even as far as the Gulf Stream for the exclusion of belligerents. Spain has claimed a six -mile belt around Cuba. The question of jurisdiction over bays has caused much controversy, having at various times formed an important issue in the fishery disputes between Great Britain and the United. States. Another difficulty of a different nature is that raised by the claim of the latter power to exclusive jurisdiction over the Behring Sea, on the ground that it is land -locked, although the distance between its shores, as pointed out by Mr. Adams in 1822, is not less than 4,000 miles. In the discussion which followed the reading of Mr. Baden-Powell's paper thei Hon. David Dudley Field, of New York, expressed his eonviction that it was abso- lutely necessary that the views hem by the various nations on these points should be investigated on their merits—a work which the Association, composed as it was of in- dependent gentlemen of all nations, was well ableto perform. On his motion, there- fore, it was resolved that the chairman -of the meeting should appoint a committee of five to consider Mr Baden-Powell's paper and to frame general rules for the common regulation of the duties and privileges of adjacent States in territorial waters. The linnugration Problem. What is to be the end of ,the immigration problem? All the people in this Western World are, in one sense, inunigrants They or their fathers came from the othe side of the flood. They have greatly prosper ed. For the most part this Weetern Workl has been a good land to them. They have felled trees ploughedfields, built married and been given in marriage and generally have had a good time. Well, then, what right had they toe:mine ? What right had they to that land or to those trees? They were generally poor. They were strangers. In many cases they were little better than beggars. They came all the same and they were welcomed. No questions were asked; and now, what are they or their children doing? They are saying that they don't want any more poor people to come. It was all very well for themselves and their fathers, ragged, poverty-stricken wretches though they were. But those who are still fleeing from the old world's poverty and ty- ranny must now be stopped. Why? "We don't want any more 1" And who are the "we ?" The very persons or their children who were glad to come, poor as church ITARious Topics. A young female cricketer of Notting ham - Miss oodGn rue;:lla e, in a ericket match of botheeXea scored 217 agRithe bowling of four really g Mrs. Goff 9f Pleasant Valley, Wis., who was elected Town Treasurer, hes just secur- ed her office in spite of vigorous opposition on the part of the male officeholders of the town.fituterine, es it is caned in England, is used, BO extensively that the dairymen have applied to Parliament for a law compelling its mune to be changed from, butterine to margarine. They think Unit they can head it off in that way. • A big schooner laden with jos arrived at Philadelphia on Tuesday, and was to be mie loaded next day. As he lay at the dock she sprung it leak, fInd the salt water rushed in so fast that nearly all the ice was melteci before it could be got out of the hold. The Louden cabmen recently sent it dele- gation to the Horne Secretary, Mr. Mat - theme asking that the number of cab licen- ses shall be limited. There are now fifteen . thousand of them. The lot of a London cab driver, while he sits in a comparatively com- fortable seat, is hard. Mr. Matthew e prom- ised to consider the application. Town Clerk Whittaker of Salem has a young Leghorn rooster that has a fine ear for music. When Miss Whittaker seats herself at the piano to play he hurries into the room through the door or window, flies upon the instrument, and, after looking at the keys for a short time, hops upon them, and pounds out notes that seem to fill him with delight. A Georgia newspaper tells of a man who, riding through the woods near Americus, heard a hissing and crackling over his head and, looking up, saw a big ball of fire. It struck a large oak tree with a loud crash and split it open from top to bottom. The tree took fire at the root, slowly kindling, but burning fiercer as it increased. The man went on his way, but returned in a few hours, and the place where the tree stood was marked only by a blackened, smoking hole, where the fire had burned down into the ground. Pere Denizot, an old French miser, died recently in Paris. He lived by himself in an old. house 10 Rue de Brosses, in the Quartier des Archives. He was the laugh- ing stock of the neighborhood, as he wan- dered around in rags driving hard bar- gains with butchers for dog meat and scraps.. Apoplexy carried him.of finally. An In - specter of police, while making up his re- port of the death in the old man's room - accidentally knocked over a table from the drawer of which fell several rolls of gold,. The officer hunted through the wretched place, and found gold and silver amountin. to 100;000 francs. As Pere Denizot is sup- posed to have he heirs, all this money goes in the state An apparatus has been devised by means of which, it is claimed, a breach in a vessel's hull from a collision or other cause, may be . I effectually closed from either the inside, or r outside of the craft. For closing in opening - from the outside a frame made of any appro- priate size, andweighted so as to sink in the water is provided To the ed es 7 • g of mice though they were, in order to earn bread and clothes in this new land. What right have they to the land that they should order off others as intruders? Right They have no right whatever except that they came sooner. And now they set up as 'know nothings" and tell the hunger -bitten of to -day such as they were forty years ago— "Come if you dare. 31 you do we shall send you back, it may be with a buffet you won't forget 1" Is all this fair? And yet cart any one wonder if in this highly pro - toted land those who live by labor should object to the pauper workers of Europe being the only article that is admitted duty' free. It suits the millionaire and the menu faeturer to have his labor cheap whil what he makes is kept, by hostile twill artificially dear in order that he may p18the consumers pockets under forms of law But after all this does not look very fa like. The workingmen of the United State and Canada will not always be gulled b the transparent falsehood that high tarifl keep up wages when at the very dine a unlimited supply of thews and sinews in th shape of European labourers are being con- tinually poured into the country duty free. Those who have managed to profit by protec- tionist lieshave gulled andgouged the toiling masses for a good while, by posing as the workingman's friends and protectors; but that fraud is nearly played out, and the cheated and over -taxed laborer begies to waken up to the fact that he has been 'done" by fallacies the most transparent, and by humbug of the most impudent and selfish description. "Keep out the cheap products of the poverty stricken mechanics of Eu- rope," cry the manufacturers of this new world, " in order that labor may have its reward in good wages." But with a wink they at the same time import those poverty stricken mechanics themselves, in order that they may be able to dictate what wages they have to pay to their " hands" and bow much they may spend on their own palatial mansions and on their other senseless ex- travagances. No wonder the workers are beginning to think of a trick worth „,two of that. one side of the plate are secured wooden strips, attached to which are cushions of rubber or other suitable material. The fraine is lower- ed over the apertures from the deck by ropes secured to eyes in one edge; the pressure of the water causes the plate to hug the hull, so that it will prevent all or nearly all the inflow of water to the vessel, the CUShi011/3 forming water-titaat joints between the hull and frame; the inner surface of the plate is provided with several bolts, to Which ropes niay be attached, in order to secure the platein place from the inside of the vessel. Quden Victoria and Lipski. • Queen Victoria is still stopping at Osborne, with her favorite daughter Princess Bea- trice as her companion. The Queen's eldest daughter, the Crown Princess of Germany, and her daughters are at Norris Castle close by, and do not intend returning to the Vaderland until the end of the year. much to the joy, it is said, of the Sage of Varzin, whom the French describe as the "astute . barbarian." Though living in such seclusion the Queen is quite in touch with popular . feeling, and to her alone is due the week's reprieve which wits recorded on'Sunday last to Lipski the prisoner lying under sentence of death. It raised a weight off many minds. Mr. Henry Mathews, the present Secretary of State for the Home Depart- ment, who seems to have learned no -wisdom _ from his rough experience in the Cass case,. e had already retired to the sacred seclusion e of his club when there came a telegram from k I Victoria Regina commanding—and not sug- , misting, as is the custom—the reprieve of te 1 the man whose guilt is so open to doubt. s Every morning since the Prince of Wales's y I departure for the Continent there arrives at e Osborne a letter with the German postmark n1 directed in Alleert Edward's handwriting; • e ' for, since his so dangerous illness at Sand- ringham, now some seventeen years ago, the Prince of Wales has become the most dutiful and considerate of sons. Any father who allows his son or daughter to grow up ignorant ef swimming, wherever there are at all facilities for learning the art, is grossly negligent of hie duty to the State, and is most unkind to his children, There ie not a year passes in which valuable lives are not lost from this pert of education having beeeneglected. Even the power of keeping afloat for a quarter of an hour would have saved not it few. It ought to be looked upon as a disgrace for any Cana- dian boy not to be able to swim a mile. The prize offered by the French Govern- ment of $10,000 for the most valuable dis- covery relating to the utilization of electric- ity, is to be awarded next December. It is for any use or application of electrieitta tamely, ae a source of heat, of light, or of chemical action, as a means of transmission of mechatiical power, or of verbal communi- cation in any form, or, finally, as a curative agent, Longevity of Missionars. It is stated that the average life of mission- aries in foreign lamb is rather more than eighteen years. In tropical climates, initially regarded as less favorable to health, the average time of service varies from seventeen and a half to twenty-three and three-quarter years. The proportion of deaths among female missionaries is not greater, but somewhat less than among men; and the average of of both compares favorablywith that of i ministers and their wives n this country. A Wrinkle for the Blind. A blind man sits in the corner of a door- way, and when he hears the bight footstep of a lady he takes off his hat and bows his head, covered with the snows of seventy Winters, saying, "Oh!madam, take pity on a poor blind man who is deprived of the pleasure ' of seeing you 1" That fetches them. Electricity has entered English sport For the angler who wishes to let his line. float gently with the stream, without the trouble of watching it, a little electrical arrangement has been devised whereby it pull upon the line closes the circuit and rings a bell. Clark Smith of Fort Supply and Miss Guseey Nason of Port Sill, 200 miles apart, were married by telegraph on Monday. The iriegphotrnti ts:,ythat" e v ery to ing went lovely, and it full ceremony was given by means of Marsline Stonley, a young ettleeti„ woman' of Philadelphia was 00 disappeinten at Miss-, ing a train that was to take her to a plobio that she took it big dose of laudanum and so killed herself.