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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-8-29, Page 6PUKE'. NOTES'. When a Toronto oltizeu neglecte to Pay his taxes ise ie punished oaly ly the re proachful glances of the Coll eotor and finally by the preaance of the Bailiff. Bat ha'North Carolina the men =Maestri to oelleei taxes la Inde of eteitser atuff. A man. %via° refueed to pay his taxes wes taken ie band lv the Collector aria, hammered or three nunutes, at the enti of which time be withdrew his atatement that the tax WAO a robbery, and paid the arnounte—Ex. The Right Honorable Joseph Chamberlain ancrLord Rudolph Churchill are having a tolerably warm time in Birmingham, where the former ha a held away for many years. M. Chamberlainhi course in Parliament and out, appear e to have offended the Tories of the conetituenoy ; while the dash and vigor of Lord Iteridolph Churchill have apparent- ly touched a popular olaord, and the young independent Tory peer is said to be cuttinn the ground from underneath the old repre- sentative. M. Tricoupis, the Grecian Prime Minister, is appearantly some such man as Boulauger. He is, according to reports, aexiout, to stir up a fine in Orete, and would like to establish control of the island. It may ultimately be found that the late troubles there are trace- able to Greek sonnets ; nevertheless the nod. torition of the Sultan that any atteropb on the pert of Greece to land troops or incite a rebellion'will be considered a cause for war, will probably dampen the ardor of the Greek Prime Minieter, especially seeing that the great powers appear to endorse the Turkish vlew. Last year a fearful aocidenb occurred• in Canada in connection with a belloonitit's feat at an exhibition. It was not the bal- loonist's fault, and WOO not down on the bills, but even in the regular performance itself there was enough risk to realm it a foolhardy attempt, quite on a par with the suicidal ventures or Niagara °ranks. This year the same crowd thaw shuddered and wept over the sight of a man falling from a great height to le killed on the greund will be enabled to regale huff by viewing a, man jump ever a hundred feet into a net, This kind of thieg wilt work out its own euro after a time, idhe annual consumption of beer in the British islands is over twenty-two gallons per head, and of wines and liquors about five quarts per bead. While this couslintp- tion representa a good deal of moderate drinking, it cannot be denied that it has al- so produced a large amount of drunkenness. The convictions for drunknese in 1885 were 154 601, in 1887 they were 139492, and in 1888 they were 156,809. These figures do not represent the number of drunkards. On the one hand. there are drunkards who nevergeb into the Courts ; and on the other hand, the aggregate is swelled by repeated convictions of the same person. Statistecs recently published by the New York "Independent" show that the growthof the Churches in the United States during the past: year was very great:. The increase in the total number of communicants of all Churches was 887,000, of church buildings 3,882, and of ministers 3,865. The Metho- dist Church is the strongest of the religions bodies, having4,723,887 dommunicants, and i atter it come, n the ordernamed, the Roman Catholic, Bert tiss, Presbyterian Lutheran, Congregational, and Episoopel Churchee, The rapid growth of all of these bodies seems to indicate that those .who maintain that Aaamistienity is losing ground are very much mistaken. The prospect of the mail route earl the .Australian trade bane, diverted from San Francisco to British Columbia continues to cause intense uneasiness out there, The San Francisco "Examiner" thialis that the steamship line ought to improve the service, for, it says, "so long as the Canadian Ind- ite will carry passengers from Yokohama to London for $300 and give them a lees sea voyage by two days, and carry them In a most luxurious style from Vancouver to the Atlantic sea -board, and vice versa, withoub change of cera, landing them in Liverpord a day and a half culler than by the American routes, the British line will -einguestionably control the traffic. 'The new French law of nationality may 'give ries to trouble. It provides that those whose fathers were French ab the time of their birth are French citizens, whether born in France or abroad, and that they can only cease to be such by securing the formal consent of the French Government to their naturalization abroad, The constitution of the United states provides that every person born in that country and subject to its jurist. diction is an American citizen. It may happen, therefore, in case of a war in which Franoe is engaged, that persons who are American citizens according to United States law will be held liable if found in France, to military service. 'The laws of the two countries on the subject of citizenship are directly confilotiag. — The next— ii;tingcen, country will be Lord Brassey, who has so far interested himself in Canadian colonize - tion as to become preaident of a colonization company having 26,000 acres in the Qua Appelle Valley. One good feature about Lord Brassey's Dominion enterprise is the fact that it was too large. Companies can. nob settle vast bracts with success, as rimy Canadians who have interested themselves in experiments of the kind know to their sorrow.. An undertaking that will provide the land for a hundred or two hundred settlers has the better chance of succeeding. The company, in that case, has its resources well under control. As Lord. Braesey's com- pany has a capital of $250,000, it will be able by loans to equip all its settlers well. The New York "Tribune "asserts that " the Canadian journale, in their excitement over the seizure and escape of the Bleak Diamond., lose sight of the threatened ex - filiation of the fur -seal speoiee by unrestriot• ed fishing and hunting, This hi not so, nor have Canadian journsis discussed the matter in such a way as to justify suoh an assertion. What they object to is that the Government of the United States, after re- cognizing the right of Canadians to fleh Behring Sea by abking Great Britain to joie in arrangementa for the proteotion of the Atheriee, and after reoeivieg a favorable re• ply, Ohould, without any attempt to make such arrangements, adopt the high 'handed Minnie that it has.—a. The Medina' Health Office": in Montreal, Who proposes to exandue into thee:tenses of the enoessive infant inertality in that city, believes he Will be able to Amy that many youtig children die through the weeknees of their mothers—vomen who instead of spehd- ing their youth in healthful ocoupetions have been coheigned to faetory life. There on be little doubt that the unhealthy con- ditions atteching to the average factory aro PrOeMettiVe of disasner to tat operative in *he near luture, etv ew have stipposed that they have oast the ilhadow of death npott postetity. Still 11 18 probable that the tinnaielral life the operative lee& impaire he oonatibution and renclere the support of the young during the earlier period of Oxistonee inteteeeible. The plait° fer working' girle tiOt at the bench, tette in flie kitchen, l''`EVB13, TIF,E " A EOU' S HIS - Perhaps the moat popular acing ever writ. ten was " Ever of Thee," It is not untrue to state that no song ever had such e sale, and certainly no pablieher ever eeaped so naeoli profit tonna gentle as did Mr. Turner from the publioatien of "Ever of Thee." But there is a romance attaching to it which until now has not been writ ten, )aappened in this way : On a oold day in the January of 1850 the door of Mr. Tur- ner's music shop in the Poultry, London, was nervously opened, and a most unoleao, ragged specimen of humanity dragged him- self tn. He looked as though he hadn't been washed for months. His beard was unkempt, and dirty, and matted. For leoota he wore some folds of filthy rags and in all he was a epecimen of the most: degraded class of that community. One of the clerks said to him: "You get out of here," The two ladles who happened to be in the shop noticed his woe begone look, and were about to offer him some money when a Mr. (a olerk in the establishment), fleabag the pour fellow shivering with the cold and apperently hungry, pitied him, and brought him into the workshop so that he might have a "warm up 1` by the stove. A few minutes after Mr. Turner, the proprietor, canna in, and, fleeing the ragged individual, asked what he wanted and Who allowed him in ?" "1 did," said Mr. T--. " The poor fellow looked so cold and miserable I couldn'e eend him oub in this piercing wind without giving him. a warm, and, besides, he says he had some business with you." "Business with me 1" "Yee, sir; I have a song 1 should like you to listen to." Turner eyed hirnsfrom head to foot, and then laughed outright. The miserable looking object at the stove began to grow uneasy and begged to be allowed to play • the air of hits song, which he then unearthed from his rags and handed to the music publisher. Turner -looked at it and said "Who wrote this?" "I did, sir,' oame from tlae rags. "You 1 Well, I'll have ie played over, and if it's any good I'll give you something for it." "1 beg your pardon, sir; I'd prefer to play it for myself." "What i you play? Well, bring him up to the piano -room when he gets warm and we'll humor him." In e, few minutes the bundle of rags was aerated at the concert grand piano, and "lever of Thee" was played for the first time by its composer, James Lawson. His listeners were electrified when they hoardthis dilapidated looking tramp make the piano almost speak. His Leach Was simply marvelous and his very soul seemed to be at his finger tips. When he had finish- ed he turned to his little audience and seid "I'd like to sing for you, but 1 have a terrible cold, .1 haven't been in bed for five nights. I'm hungry, sir, and I feel I could tot do it justioe. Turner was almost dumb with AITIOZO. merit. The air would take; he knew it would be a mown, and he decided that; this man had a history which, perhaps, might advertise the song. So he determined to cultivate him, and in flattery (as he thought) pressed him to sing Pleb one "stanze." Lawson protested bat finally agreed, and if Turner was amazed when he heard him play he was positively enraptured when that hungry voice—hungry with love, hungry physioally—poured in the sweet- eab of tenors the fires state% of the song in which his soul lived, It was the story of lost love, but he cherished in and as he sang it was easy to see that he lived and breathed only for that lovo. "Ever of Thee" hes never been so snug since. But that trial verse made its =mess, and to the experienced publisher, Mr. Turn- er, it was deculedly apparent that he had secured a great song. Addressing Mr. T—, he said: "Mr. T—, take this man along; get him a bath, a shave, some deoent clothes ; in fent, fix -him up like a gentleman, and bring hun here, and we shall see about this song." T—" rock hint along." He took him to a beth, and while the unclean was being made clean he bought for him a shirt, a pair of shoes, some socks, collars, cuffe, and underwear. Then he had him shaved. Then bhey hied to a clothier's, and, ham ing removed the rage, Lawson was quickly' clad in fine raimena The obange was begin. ning to tell, Already the tramp seemed to be the guide and treasurer. He was a splendid -looking fellow and had quite a dia. tingne appearance. Butt the bee was still there, and a mirror-like ohimney pot was purchased to complete the make-up. T -- toughed when all was finthed. He was in his working clothes, and thia unfortunate looked like a dude. The good olothes fitted him, and they suited him and his appearance much too well to continue the assumption that Mr. Lewson was a tramp. He was a gentleman all over, and he looked ib. T-----aaid to him : "ear. Lawson, I wish you would go into the shop before me. They won't know you, and it will be tsuch a joke." " I don'b mind that„ M. T—, but won't; you let me have a drink." T—refused to stand the drink ; he told Mr. Lewson that if he wanted a dinner he could have tb, but drink he could not have. eateeee Fnally tho two wont iato the Ship and Turtle dinivg room., and, over a chocolate wed sirloin speak, tie author of "elver of Thee" told the followiug store: "1 was mice rich, Mr, You know what I arn now, You were astortioted to hear me play ehe piano so well. Thee little eong has been the only companion from whieh I gained any comfort for the pests twelve months, It brought back to me the days when a was rich, loved, look up to aud happy. Of oourse it has its sad side for me, But the memory of what ib reoalls is the dearest thing in my existence.' T --interrupted him ab this (point and iudioeted that it was growing late, "hese bear with me," rejoined his ocnn ptinion. "Let me tell you how and why I composed the little song. Two pawn ago I met a girl in Brighton. If God ever allow- ed one of his angels to oeme on earth she Wag that one. I adored her. She boomed toreturn the affeotion. 1 eecorted her everywhere, was ab her beck and call morn, noon, and night, and it was currently heliev. ed diet Miss Blank and I were engaged. I had to return to Lon ion on business, and when I went back to Brighton the hwas gone. " Three menthe enter I met her at a bale She had just finished a waltz with a tell, goon,lookieg man, and was promenad- ing the hall on his arm. She recognized me, Bub when I said : "How So you 'do, Miss B auk ?" she quickly rejoined• : "I'm well, Mr. Lewson, buy I am eurpris- ed to hoar you oall me Miss Blank. When ?oil left Brighton so euddenly I thought I ehould never see you again. You left no address—never oalled again, and—well, I am married.' " `To whom ?' I gasped. " To Mr, Frfzi,' she replied, pointing wt the same time to the gentleman with whom she had been ditncing. "Thea ended my life. My Marie my dream, was gone. 1 left the hall, went to a low ge,mbling place, and in drink and gambling endeavored to my grief. It lasted bub a little time, for in four months I was penniless. "Then came my trial. The men who played with me shunned me. My friends shut bheir doors, and a few daya later my last sovereign NM gone. I was utterly stranded, hotneleas, and unhappy ea•it would be poseible to make a human being. For night I slept in the cabmen's coffee houses ; then I was considered a nuisance and some doorstep served me for a bed. I pawned every trinket, deoent aunt of olothes—every- thing, and finally I spent three months in a work.house under an assumed ame. "Ili was there the presence of Marie haunted me again One day—Christmas day—as we were at dinner. Several rioh people came to distribute among us such gifts as tobecoo, warm clothing, one I was hungry and didn'b look at the visitors, when suddenly a voice I knew snid to me "My good man, which would you prefer, some warm olothing or some pipes arid tobacco ?" I looked up. It was Marie. I rushed from the table out into the fields, and there I was found, hours after, insen• sible. "In my bed, there in that work -house hospital, I wrote the words of the song you heard me sing to -day. Then I got well, and, hick of life, I left the piaci° and became night watchman at some new buildings they were putting up in Aldersgate street. While there the music of my song came to me. I got a sorap of manuscript music paper and jotted it down, and for a time was happy. My old friends often passed me at night, jolly and careless, libtle dream ing that James Lawson was the . poor night watoltman who anawered them indolent questions. "Often, when all was still, I poured out my soul in this little song, and after a- while the gamins used to come and listen to me. It pleased them. To me it broughe back the memory of a dead love and a ruin- ed life. But yoa are tiring of my story. There is Hale more to rell. . "I could nob endure the solitary medita. tion of my past. I again began to drink. I lost my situation, and as a last resort 'I thought that perhaps my little song was worth a few shillings and brought it ti Mr. Turner." • At this the poor fellow burst into tears. When he was himself again they wenb out, and a few minutes afterward Mr. Turner, addressing Lawson, said: "Mr, Lawson, here is 10 shillings. It will be enough to get your supper and a decent room to -night. To -morrow morning I want you to call here and I shall give you a good position in my ;warehouse. As for your song I want you to remember Shia: If you will keep sober I will pay you a good royalty, but if you spend this 10 shillings in drink not another penny will you get." Lawson left the shop and did not make his appearance for fiVO days. Then he was in a condition almose as bad as when he first entered it. Rs wears was gone ; his boots were exchanged for old ones; his hat was—well, it was an apology for a hate His coat (an old one) was buttoned tight around bis collarless neck, and his hair was unkempb ani face unshaven—as unclean as it was five days ago. Mr. Turner looked at him. He did not even speak to him. The smell of bad. rum suffoiently told him all he wished to know, fie took a half.crown from his pocket, heeded it: to Lawson. and turned on his heel. Addressing .Mr; T— he :mid "11 this comes here agam, put him out." The composer of "Ever of Thee" immedi- ately lef the shop, and heaven only knovve wirat hie fate hail been Certain it is that he never called at Turner's again. Men, women, and ohilaeen of every color and °lime sing the Bong of the tramp, Lannon, And the composer anti his tied life are foigotten end unreeognized in the dear old song, "Ever of Thee,"--Naglish Paper. A VICTIM 01:DESPOT/SM. Wanted to Shake the Hand or the Presi- dent, but Got a Still Colder Shake. 1 Long after the hoer of midnighe on Fri- day an individual with an sir of assertive digniby and an unsteady gait might have been seen climbing the hill to Mr, Blaine's ' Br Harbour cottage, After ranking a circuit of the house he finally found what seemed to be an entrance, and rang a bell at what happened to be the kitchen door. He rang twice, then knot:hell and then r"Piggiaght'ins, there 7" a voice with saw teeth on"itrfimnahileYrei,baid; thunder 1 Me, Bill Bugg of Buggville." "What do you want ?" "1 want to greet) the hand of the Preen dent of the United States," "Wel], you can't. Gelb out I" "Who can't? Who get out? Noe me, Bill Bugg of Buggville 1 No, sir. I'm a hero of the war, end am entibled to recogni- tion by the Chief Magistrate of a grateful country. I gave my heart's blood to my native lend and the PU eesident of the nited States. I bared my breast to the enemy's bullets thab the Union might be preeerv- " Go 'long, confound you!" --" and that Ben Harrison might get a salary of fifty thousand a year—and I want to see him 1" "You can't 1" "Can't ase who? Who is it I want to see? Is it the haughty descendant of a line of kings? Is it a throned monaroh ? Or is it the chosen servant of the people? Is this the abode of royalty or Is it the lodging place of a ORM m of a republic ?" ''Get out or I'll cell the dog 1" "No air, it isn't the Sultan of all the Turkeys that! wanb to see. The man whose hand I want to shake is plain Benjamin Z. Harrison, a (Afton of the United States, who has only one vote, like myself, and pweeosprise.n„o orown but the good will of the No answer. Thump, thump 1 : I S' H here 1 Is this a selagoverned come 7tr Silence. nc • monwealfh, or are we ruled by an Aeiatio despot ? No answer. "1 say 1 Gimme a pieoe of pie and never mind about shakin' hands with the Oriental po tenta te." , Deep, double bass growls, from Margaret Blaine's English =stiff. A rattaing of chain. A sudden rustling in the bushes. A jump over a fenoe. A gallop down hill. The hush of night once more falls over Stanwood Cottke,--tArizena Kicker. The Brooklyn Eagle thinks that the epee- tacle of the Black Diamond running away with her "prize crew" to Victoria at the very time that the Republican Jingoes were in rapture over her seizure was a most; amusing one and that the captain of the Rash must be "a fellow of infinite jest," But, it remarks, "as muoh as the Ainerioma people eej oy fun a great majority of them will object: to the introduction of such practice( jokes into the field of international politics. They are apt to come too high for the amount of amusement they afford. When the damages for Captain Shepard's act are awarded by a courb of competent jurisdiotion Uncle Sam will have to foot the bill." A Montreal doctor prescribed ten grains of basulphate of morphine for a sick child i by mistake, He had ntended to write bi- sulphate of quinine. The result of the pre- scription was the death of the little patient. There is no inech thing as id -sulphate of mom phine. The doctor therefore holds that the druggist, instead of supplying the sulphate of morphine as he did, should have enquired of the writer of the presoription what drug he really intended to administer. Had he done so the error, it is urged, would have been discovered in time. The occurrence shows how eardly a fatal mistake may arise. Yet, fortunately, such mistakes are extreme- ly and wonderfully rare. In Toronto they are guarded against] both by dootors and druggist. The former read isnd re -read their prescriptions; the latter call up the dootor and require Ms consent to wdanger- ono prescription before making it up. It is now announced that having made a six months' test of electric motive ',ewer, the Boston Street Railroad Company has found it satisfeotory„ said will at onoe adopt the electric system. The company has 250 miles of road, and the cost of the change from horse power is estimated at $4,500,000. The reasons given for the step are that one central plant will operate the enbire system, and the cost of operation will be less than one-half that of running horse oars ' • that the electric oars will run at a aimed offrom twelve to fif teen miles an hour, witioh is one-eighth faster thin the average speed of the New York elevated trains; and that the earnings of the company will be increas- ed from thirty to forty per oent. These are cer fishily good reasons. The day of the horse car in large cides on this contioent awes= to be coming to an end. What can the Wild Waves Rave Been Saying? PIG-STIOKIN% IN INDIA. The 'mid stoat, Eareesion letvely Snort for Rom Mau tend, Horse. Our hereon spears, aud eqeipage would go to the BMA ba the afternoon and We our- selves would canter out in this weaning on our ponies, amp a ivritor in "Murray's Mag- azine." Wo lied A AN:ailing diversion for the road. We would find a pepasock a mire or so from his village Enid beteroepb him. Then began a moat exciting ohese at full gallop; by flightis of diminiehing length he would keep ahead till he tired, then he would run at a great pace till amity caught by the leading horseman, who, precipitating him. self from his pony, would ewes the tail which paid the penalty of a feather or two AO a trophy, Arrived ab she rendezvous we would find everything ready, bede prepared and dinner laid under the trees, and our horses picketed dorm by and too exalted (knowing what it all means) to touch their food. After dinner Beide° ap- pears and reports most favorably. The piga' habitat is an ieland. This sounde queer to the uninitiated, but pigs care naught for a river and they feel rider be- hind one. At night they swim somas and forage inland for their food, returning to the island by the firsb streak of dawn. •Our plan of campaign with them was as follows: The beaters wait till about midnight when the pigs have crossed the river, and then line the brink and light fires, mid so bar the pigs' return, Some move uneasily about in the open but most betake thernselies to a good patc:h of 00VOT AbOAt a mile and a half inland. The hunters are now aroused by a "reveille" sounded on an inverted tin wash baein, and after a hasty toilet and cup of tea are in the saddle and ready for action. A line is formed with beater e and horsemen and proceeds across the open coun- try toward the cover. Perhaps one or two of the uneasy ones who have nob taken to aov- er are accounted for at this stage of the pro- ceedings. In any ease a mobe is made for a patch ot cover, and while the line of beaters goes round to the back of it: the horsemen disinoune and concerti themselves i/2 fronb of in A signed iagiven and wibh a mighty roar the beat begins. Our hearts palpitate with excitement as the stirring sound reaches us. From where we are hidden we command the eharp oubline of the cover's limit and scan it with eager eyes. After sundry false alarms, caused by deer and jackals, at lase a boar breaks in real earnest —a splendid fellow, He 00•210O trom the cover with a crash and glances round with flashing eye and foaming tusk. • Oar hearts strum still AO we gaz3 at him in breathless excitement, Will he take to the open or double back? That is the aleimportemt question. He is of two minds --doubtful whether to ohoome the oover, with its howl- ing throng, or to face the unknowa dangers of the open. He trots forward a libtle and thinks again and listens. We mark his mount'. dproporttons and long for the word to As he looks at last like going we sneak down to our horses, To mounb is difficult, with the horse and man in equal agitation. We manage it somehow and grasp the spear. Now we see that the die is case and that the boar has deoided on the open, He sets his head toward the river and canters off. Now the word is given, "Ride 1' Then we all wheel off to geb between the boar and cover, and having managed this we settle down to ride our beet. Tne boar now learns his new danger. What is bleu unwonted ()lettering behind him? None ever dared before to burry him. ..an anything make him rum? But this is something new—men and horses in swift pursuit. He must: try his unwont- ed prices. He does nob hurry bill we are getting rather near and we see him looking out of the corner of his wicked eye and see the gleam of his white busks. The inexperienced think he is caught. Not so. He now lays himself out to do his best, and a sudden spurt shows that he has the legs of us for the neat halfanile at least. We are now all doing our best and going raoing speed: Bub the race cannot last ; we Lave now come a mile or BO and he begins to tire. Eaoh now strains his utmost to obtain the coveted firsb spear ; but the case is nos al- ways to the swift ; the leading horseman gets up to him and prepares bo deliver hie thrust when the boar gives a j ink, sharp as a hare, and throws the rider out by twenty yarde. This lets another in, who, with better for- tune, draws first blood—(Chicago Mail, No Cheques Cashed or Money Loaned. "You have probably observed in your travele," said the hotel olerk to a New York Sunman, "the sign hung out at she cashier's desk in all the leading hobels "No money loaned or cheques cashed here 1' Those ague are hung out to proteob the hotel trom dead- beats, and they serve the purpose to certain extent. We make a mistake now and then, as woe the case here a couple of weeks ago. An old codger came along with an old fashionea satchel, and he looked so bard up and rusty that I gave him the poorest room In the house and asked for a deposit of $5. He made it and I gave him no further Wen - tion. At the end of the week he main° up to settle hie bit', and when I gave him the figures he pulled out a chequebook and fill- ed up a oheque for tha amount. " • Can't take 15,' I said, as I shoved it bac31. "'Why 7, "'Got beab too often.' "'But it's good.' WMaeyllb,%.1 have no ourtenoy and must pay you by oheque; very few people refuse them,' " ' Look here, old fellow,' I replied, my mad coming up, 'if you think to beat this house you will get: left 1 Either dome down with the bill or you'll go to gaol "He tore up the cheque' filled in another for $200,000 on a Chioago dational bank, and handed it over with the remark: " ' Please step over to the bank and cork them to assure themselves then tide would be honoured in Chicago.' "1 went over to a national bank, and in- side of an hour Chicago had answered that oheque signed by the old man for 00,000 was as good as gold. I had made a mistake in razing my man up." "But who waa he ?" "He is familiarly known as 'Old Hutalia king of the wheat ring." An Awakening of Consoience.—First Tramp—" Look. Tom, this is the minister's house ; the vsiudow's open and all the folio are at ()hutch, an they don't keep no dorg, ito that we obuldn't have a goiter snap 1" Second Tramp (With suppressed emotion)-- " The minister's house, do you say? Ah, Bill, I have been a bold bad mare but I have never yet robbed the clergy.. They are hard-workin' bit, an' their pay is sinall besidoe, bottle of the tehderesb rdoolleetione elan inneecent boyhood is coupled with my Sunday abed (wipes away e tear). But, Bill, you haven't got the sense feelink in the matter I has; end if yet)* nee& up yer mind to entee the place, Why, stay out. aide ien' keep watoh, an' ril give a whiatlo if /. tree any one combs' 1" IVIEBLETS. D. 13rodcur, the Montreal physioian, is experimeating with the • Brown-Scquard elixir. 15 is understood that the Holy Office pro, poses making the regulations governing mixed marriages much stainer in Canada. Mr. J. 0. Aitkens, who has been making a tour of the North-West Provinces, thinke that the total orop will be about nine million bushels. • La Xineree denounces the Liberals o Manitoba for their proposed orusiede against the Separate schoels and dual language in Manitoba. An octagon cave has been discovered on the farm of Mr. Leakier, near Bath, Onteein which is a spring of mineral water said it be similar to the oelebrated deep well ate Oswego. Edward McLaughlin, against whom a ver - diet of manslaughter was returned tor shoot- ing R. Ferguson at Madawaska, surrender' imAewel,rfitaini ibs eneenwitiianqePde gbarionke oritl. .W. F. johneton, superintendent of the Massey /vIanufacturing Company, oherging him with the eeduction of Miss Emma Taylor, of Torouto. The trial of Marshall C. Twitohell, •the young man °kluged with burglariously en• teriog Mrs. Martin's house in Kingston un- der peculiar circumstances, has been fixed for September 16, The Petroleum Supply. Professor John F, Carrel, assistant geo- logist for the State of Pennsylvania, is quot-° ed as saying that the supply of petroleum was last year 5,000,000 barrels less than the demand, and that the phortage is bound to become more pronounced, in consequence of bhe failing oondition' of the different oil fields, A few years ago stooks were piling up at the rate of 2 000,000 Mirada a month, or almost that, whereas they are now'being decreased by something like 1,000,000 bar- rels a month. Thera. are now, its is true, about 12,000,090 barrels of potroletzm in tanks in the Ohio field, but this is because Ohio oil has not been used extensively as an l3ut the Ohio field, Profepsor Carrel believes, will not prove to be so ex- tensive or productive as =illy suppose, No field thus far known, or likely •to be ever known hereafter, will equal the yield of the Bradford, which has produoed 56,000,000 barrels of oil, and at one time Yielded as high as 105,000 barrels every tweney four hours. lts production is now down to 18,- 000 to 20,000 barrels a day, and the pool is being drained to the dregs. • Possibly there are some pools of 1,000,006 to 3,000,000 bar- rels in some of the old fields, and in new territory not yet opened up, but the pros; peots that stioh is the °atm are growing hist every day. Kentucky may become some- thing of an oil producer, though nothing great, for the oil-bearing sands underlie a portion of that State, and lap over into Tennessee. Texas has some oil, bub the experiments undertaken in that State by Professor Carroll for others convinced him thee petroleum does not exist in paying quantition • His New Job, Jenks: "Got SS new job, did you eay Yearly salary, I suppose ?" Grubbs: "Well, 1 work by the weak." Janke : "What you doing ?" Grubbs. "Tending hese:del" patients." Sarcasm. Husband fetter a qaarrel with hia wife— "Weil, lot us drop iu. 1 don't care to have any words about is, and beeides I like to talk to a sensible person when Tam talking." Wife (wish a sarcastic laugh)—"Yon don't always do it then." H.—" I don't ?" W.—" 1 sometimes hoar you talking to yourself." The Mounted Police, OTTAWA., Lug. 29. —Mr. Fred White comptroller ol the N. W. M. le, has returned to Ottawa after his annual inspiration of the police. He rays the force is in splendid con- dition. Desertions are few and recruits plentiful. Next, year the time of the 500 man who enlisted in 1885, when the strength of the force was doubled, will elapse, and consequently a big effort will be necessary to meantain the force at full strength. 1,000a. Mr. Wilibn earl the ranches are doing weft both in mislay horses and cattle. The , Governor General's visit to the North-west Is being eagerly looked for. One hundred me fifty police will aot as his guard of honor, and even with this force withdrawn for a time from duty the patrol from the Red river to the Rookies will be maintained. • The Johnstown Scandal. now nearly two months since the great calamity in Peuasylvanie and the larger, part of the money freely and spontaneously given by the people to relieve .the euffarers by the flood is still in »he hands of commit- tees or effieials. itis'clearly a caseof e splendid charity strenared by recrtape; neutralized by incempatenort or periereed by politics. Which is it? Women and children are suffarivg for the COMMOIleet COM., forts of life„ and men who have lost their all are despairing and dyieg, while the commit- tees are higgling and heelceting over for distributing the money entrusted to them. To s ddei. new,horror to the situation, typhoid fever and other epidemio diseases have broken out, and ,there are not halt enough clootors to treat the siok.--(N. Y. World, • • A Ohinado" Noneymoon. "John. ,dear," said a newly marriodChl cage woman to her hubband, l'eu are never going to scold about your male, are you ?'' "No ; indeed." "Nor fled fault With me when I buy dressee ? "Nener." "And yen'll alwairs think jteet as much of me as you'd° nOW ?" "Always." "You dear, kind, good John el know I shan't want a diVorce from you for over 50 many.months,— [Merchant Traveller. , The Admiralty auehorities have sent a cargo of coal frotn Newmtable, tiround Cepd Horn, 50 Vitetoria, B. Ca fist the fleet, al - Windt coal oambe had almost for the asking on VatecoUver Island. /It is very apparent that "my lords" are nob aorMeinted with the resourctee of this country, During the war of 1812 the Admiralty senb lumber to Can- ted% for the construction of gunboats to be need on the lakes, and, with a delicate regard for the ciOnVeniende and comfort of the crew, whiled fresh weter tanks to be built to theme like veemola. So that after all the naval lords et° Sustaining their teputation for ovetdoing the thing,—(Ex.