HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-6-2, Page 7'RAS A GLORIOUS BLUNDER,
'The Brilliant Charge of the Light
Cavalry at Balaclava.
LORD LIJOAN'S MISTAKE.
ite tient Cardigan to Charge the whew: pats
tery—The Slaughter in the North Valley
—The Struggle Allitlelig the Guns—Wight»
Ing the Russian leorsemen—The Retreat
—ReetIonaton% Timely Worle—Counting.
the Cost.
Time Otitoher 25th 1854
Place, the southward slope of the Cher-
sonese, looking toward Balaclava.
Twenty minutes ago 673 horaemen, the
,
flower of the British Light Cavalry, dashed
1;1 down from those heights along an Avenue of
0 Death, iuto the very heart of the Russian
Jq,, k, army, sileneed a battery, sabered its gun -
iii.
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r'.(, nem ane_s_rode back again. Now
0
e they call the roll, and count the cost of the
“,!•
achieveinent which as long as the martial
spirit warms the human breast shall reflect
imperishable glory on 13ritish arms.
" Men," says the intrepid Cardigan as
•he sadly gazes at the laaniounts before him,
,1 "t was a mad -brained triele, but it was
fauleof mine." no
"ever mind, My Lord I we are ready to
go again!" e
Yes ; brilliant as was the charge, great
as must be its moral effects, and deserving
of praise as are the gallant fellows who
made ib, it was, nevertheless, a stupendous
blunder.
Let me take the reader over the ground.
* so
?Yonder is the North Valley stretching
'away in front. on the left is the Fedionkine
Hills, occupied by jabrokritsky with 8 bat-
talions, 4 squadrons and 14 guns. On our
right is the Cameway Heights, held by
Liprandi with his atrong force of infantry
•and field artillery, extending to the Arab-
tabia Red.oubt. His cavalry have withdrawn
A full mile an.d a half down the valley
where, behind a Don Cossack battery of la
pieces, they stand massed, probably count-
ing their losses iu the recent engagement
with Saarlett's Heavies. The enemy lave the
valley covered from either aide and one end
by artillery, infantry and cavalry. -
His line on the Causeway Heights, how-
ever, is weak. Scarlett's attack has caused
the retirement of his horse and. at the re-
doubts captured by him yesterday he would
be ill able to withstand an athlete. Lord
Raglan from the Headquarters B el sees his
'opportunity, as itonnot be seen from the
valley or the lower slnpes and he deter-
mines to make the attempl to recapture the
‘redoubts and save the guns. lie is not
.given to placing too much faith iv+ cavalry.
He has been awaiting the appeerance of
.Cambridge's and Cathcart's Divisions of In-
fantry, but the latter is tardy. What he
edoes must be done soon if it is to effect hie
hmrpose. The Russian flank may he welly
'turned; he will appeal to the cavalry.
October 25th, 1854, will be a great day in
' the anneal; of cavalry. The men were early
under arms. Just as they were about to be
dismissed for breakfast they received the
order to advance. Their haversacks were
empty. The Heavy Brigade won glory on
empty stomachs; it is the Light Brigade's
two. now. Right under their eyes on the
hippes of the Chersonese the brilliant dash
of the Heavies was made, while they were
compelled to stand with sheathed sabres
hid cursethe orders which doomed them to
anaction. But their work is cut out for
•them now 1 Soon Captain Morris who has
dust implored in vain that Cardigan would
allow him to lead his regiment to •the sup-
port of the Heavies, may give his charger
the rein and revel in the carnage of a veri-
table Talley of Death 1 - e
Down from Headquarters Heights comes
an aide with a despatch from Lord Ragan:
" Cavalry to advance and tako advantage of
.any opportunity to recover the heights. rhey
will be supported by the infantry who have
been ordered to advance on two fronts."
Brief enough, explicit enough, it seems ;
but Lord Liman fails to grasp its meaning
or its urgency. He cannot see the whole
field as can his chief ; he does not compre-
hend the object of the order. Leaving the
;Heavies to await the arrival of the infantry
he advances across the valley with the Light
tltrigade, and there he halts them and waits
—and waits.
Every field glass on Headquarters Hill is
lamed on the cavalry on the right slope of
the valley. Lord Raglan cannot know that
his orderhasbeenenisconstrued—that instead
of advancing on the enemy and looking to
the infantry for support, Lucan is waiting
to support the infantry with his cavalry:.
To the Commander -in -Chief his inettion is
;inexplicable, provoking ; it invites disaster,
:and that disaster—the loss °Mlle guns—the
very one the order was intended to prevent.
Even now, unseen by Lumen, but in full
view of the staff on Headquarters Heights,
Liprandi's artillerymen move forward With
horses and lasso tackle to carry off the
captured ordnance. Over half an hour has
passed since Lamm received the "third
eeler" ; why does not he advance
'Lord Raglan's patience id exhausted.
Calling Quartermaster General Airey he
dictates a new order. To whom shall it be
,eatrusted ? • Nolan! Nolan, the brilliant,
elashing aide-de-campof Airey. The daring
young• cavalry enthusiast seizes the impor-
tant paper, and at break -neck speed tears
• down the slope. He has been chafing at
Lord Lucan's inaction and, what he • con -
°elves to be, wilful disobedience of the
"third order " of the Commanding Officer,
.and he burns with eagerness end anger as
he brings his steed to its haunches before
Lord Lucan, salutes, and presents the
"fourth order."
Sitting hi his saddle in front ot the troops
Lord Lucan reads the order:
" Lord Raglan wishes the cavalry to advance
rapidly to the front and try [to] prevent the
enemy carrying away the guns. , Troop of horse
artillery May accompany. French cavalry is
,On your left, Immediate.—AIREY.e
There is nothing obscure in the order.
Lord Lucan looks at the young aide. Is
that a look of muthority Dammed, of im-
patieace or of contempt on his handsome
iluthed 'fitee. Airey signed the •order ;
Airey's aide bore it. Load Lucan has been
inclined to credit Airey with originating
;orders which he only tranemits. Having ih
Mind the Cossack battery a mile and a half
clown an artillery -swept valley, he Pimps at
the conclusion thee the order ie a blunder,
and, forgetful of his ridden, forgetful of
the presence of the aide, he rails at the
commanding officer end lus strategy. Little
wonder that the young eaptain is shocked!
Little wonder that he anewere an aagry
•interrogatoty in leas reSpeetful tone than he
should Ude tOWATC1d p. superior officer :
"Lord Raglan's orders are that the
brigade Amid gawk immediately."
"Attack, sir 1 Attack what, sir 1 What
guna 1 "
" There, my lord, is your enemy ; there
are your gilt%
The menial words the no los :monad
b Whieh 'Nolan indicatee the
diecipline, 'bring swift puniehment• Dees
Lora Lucati piece Nolaa under &meet Not
he. He aces& Nolan's taunting words as
an explemetion of the order, his ecornfel
gesture as a threaten, and assume it to be
net diVePtiOn. toward the Arabtabia
Rodoubt, but toward the Cossack battery,
banked by Ryjolls aquOrpna, away down
the North Valley. He hositatea no longer,
He will order the Light Brigade into that
cul -de -sae of death
Lord Cardigan is no coward, but he re -
°elves the order with unfeigned surprise :
" Certainly, sir ; but allow me to point
oat that the Russians have P. battery in the
valley in or front, and batteries and rifle-
men on each ilank."
canaot help that ; it is Lord Baelall's
positive order that the Light Brigade attack
immediately."
There is no misunderstanding on Lord
Cardigan's part. He realizes the serioure
nese of the work he has to do ; he has
pointed out that obedience mona the ooli-
tic° of the brigade. Now the reasoning man
gives way to the soldier. He has but one
duty—to obey.
"The brigade will advance !"
Every man in his place! • There is
motion in the brigade. Men and horses
feel there is warm work cooling. Narrow
the frone ! Captain Oldham's 13th Light
Dragoons and Capt. Morris' 17th Lancers
will lead the way. Col. Douglas dresses up
the llth Hussars, Lord Cardigan's troops,
to form the second line. Lord George Paget's
4th Light Dragoons and Col. Shewell's 8th
Hussara fall in as the third line, The brigade
is ready.
Fifteen or twenty yards in advance of the
centre of his first line Lord Cardigan, at-
tired in the uniform of the llthlEfusastra and
resplendent in gold lace, bestrides his
whitentockinged cheatnun charger. He is
a leader who leads! " The brigede will
advance." And with their commanding
offieer as pilot the fated Light Cavalry
swine% into a trot and fronts straight down
the Valley of Death.
Nolan is electrified Standing on Head-
quegters Hill he ha made a mental map
of the field. He has been waiting in the
expectation that we would bring forward
the left thoulderamd now he sees that this is
not our intention. He knows well that a
terrible blunder has been made—that the
result will be to sacrifice the brigade. He
bore the order; he even pointed out to
Lord Luau the location of the guns to
whioh it referred. It may not yet be too
late to rectify the error. He will try 1
Spurring out from the left front of the
first line he rides diagonally across the front
of the advancing brigade, waving his sword,
shouting to attract attention, and pointing
in the direction of the Arabtabia Redoubt.
Cardigan sees him, but, far from divining his
object, views his strange conduct as a grave
breach of military ethies—an unseemly
endeavor to excite and hurry the brigade.
And he rides on undeceive&
The Rues is awakening. The guns on our
front and on either slope come into action.
The gunners are feeling for our range.
Nolan has nearly crossed our front when a
fragment of an exploding shell strikes him
full on the breast and tears a way to his
heart! As the brigade advances the steed
turns short and gallops toward the line,
bearing the horribly mangled Nolan, left
hand on rein and sword. arm uplifted. As he
nears us his blade drops, and from the lips
of the ghastly rider comes a shriek so weird,
• unearthly, horrible, as to chill our blood 1
And from his natural conning tower on
the heights Lord Raglan and staff look
down upon us with wonder and alarm.
Liprandi sees us too. Never for :moment
does he suspect that our goal is the Cossack
battery. He has rightly judged Lord
Raglan's intentions, aaul he expects us to
bring forward the left shoulder and move on
the Arabte,bia Redoubt. So sure is he that
the recapture of the guns is our object that
he withdraws his infantry beyond No. 2
Redoubt and forms hollow squares to with-
stand our expected attack. What an oppor-
tuity Lord Lucan's blunder has lost 1
The Light Brigade has now fairly entered
bhe Valley of Slaughter. Down the stretch
in our front tear solid shot which crash
through our ranks, and from right and left
slopes a hellish hail of shell, round shot,
grape canister and musket balls sweeps men
and horses before it. Dead horses go down
to obstruct our progress; wounded horses
plunge about wildly, with horribly human
screams, crushing wounded riders and break.
ing our ranks. On ! On! ! Before us the
• battery in full play; behind us a trail of
dead and mangled. horses and men I Follow
the white stockinged charger, men! Cardi-
gan points the way!
elan line, but are soon CoMpelled retreet
end hew their way threilhli a nankin body
of Gooch apearmen. Wbile the conflict
with the cavalry rages, the BPS theYee ep
artillery teams to attetript to save, the gem.
He is not to be permitted to do so posed .& gallant little aand, compesed ef
men from the 13th Light Dangoons and 17th
Lancem offers desperate and bloody reeist-
apee, uatil 13rigacle Major Mayow orders. a
obargeon the cavalry in the rear. Nor is the
coast clear yet. The lith Hussars and 4t11
Light Dragoons are among the artillerymen,
cutting, slashing, thrusting. Valorously
the Russians strive to eave the Cizar's
ordnance. Determinedly their assaila,nts
struggle for possession. Cornet Edward
Warwiche Hunt actually dismounts and
attempts to unhitch a Buesian team ! The
carnage is hideous ! Mild-mannered and
ordinarily tender-hearted men Jeweils° very
fiends of slaughter ! Sabres drip, and men
are bespattered with gore 1 Ale 1 ib is
horrible enough 1 But the brave lads hold
the battery ; they even disable some guns
in the rear, which the enemy is in the act
of removing ! Well diem, Paget 1
Four hundred yards beyoud the battery
Col. Showell, with the remnants of the 8th
Hussars, 'finds himself without ordere and
with squadrons of Russian horse on three
side of him. He has waited several
minutes—minutes tvhicb. were hourlong to
him. Just as he is joined by Mayow and
hie fifteen Lancers he descries three
squadrons of Russians moving swiftly down
and forming front toward the Russian rear.
Well does he know their object They
intend to out off his retreat ! "Right
about—Wheel 1" and the 70 horsemen, are
hurled at the three equadrona forming in
the valley. The struggie is leriet ; the loss
small, and melting away before the
onslaught the Russian horsemen. are soon
seeking safety on the higher elopes. And
our little band, joined by Capt. Jenyna
with a few survivors of the Inch Light
Dragoons, begins the retreat up the Death
Valley..
Col. Douglas, with a little body of the
lith Hussars, has been pursuing the enemy
far down the valley, toward the aqueduct;
but now he is pressed back . by a strong
force of cavalry. The 4th Dragoons, in
broken formation, just out of the struggle
for the battery, come up at the critical
moment, and Lord Patget, aelf.possemed aa
if on the parade ground, grasps the situation
• at a glance. The little group of 70 Dra-
goons and Hussars are within 40 yards of a;
compact body of attacking Russian horse 1
"11 you don't front, iny boys, we are
done 1" Timely appeal I Close in the
stragglers; narrow the front! The Rus-
sians know what that formation means;
they have learned to look for much from
our cavalry. They hesitate; they halt;
and the danger is past.
But what is that body of troops in our
left rear? Our own 17th ? 011, no ! It is
many times the strength of our 17th even
before to -day's fatal folly. Lieut. Roger
Palmer has sharp eyes and well he knows
the headgear of the Russians. It is
Jeropkine's three squadrons, who, seeing
our plight, have moved down from the
Tractir Road to intercept us and out off our
retreat. Well may Lord Paget say: "We
are in a. devil of a fix !' Minutes are
precious; but in great crises men think
quickly. Lord Paget sees the value of in-
stant action, and he rises to the
occasion. " Threes about 1" and
joined by a few stragglers tram the
iirst lite we begin the retreat along the
death -strewn trail. Three squadrons deep
the Russians form in onr path. Does it
mean annihilation? It looks like ib As
Lord Paget's little troop approaches Jerop-
kine swings back the right shoulder and
wheels his squadrons half back to attack it
• on the flank at the moment of passing.
• The manceuvre is tactically good, butrather
slowly executed. "Throw up your left
flank 1" shouts Lord Paget, but he is not
heard, and grazing the front of the solid
squadrons, dodging lance thrusts and parry-
ing sabre strokes, our little host sweeps on.
And where is Lord Liman the while his
Light Cavalry is being sacrificed? Ilia
Lordship's blurder has been a terrible ono;
it is to cause his recall, to reflect on his
judgment and cloud his military future;
but it leaves no tarnish upon bis personal
valor. He fully intends to be in the fray.
He divides the Heavies into three lines to
follow Lord Cardigan' force down the
valley, intending to preserve a connection
and have thus a chain of supporting lines.
But the pace is too fast. In spite of his
effort, by riding out far in advance of his
men to preserve , the formation,
Lord Cardigan's rapid charge and
the demoralizing cannonade breaks the
oontinuity he had planned to preserve. The
cruel cross-fire is decimating the Heavies.
Lord Punkt is wounded; Capt. Charteria
falls dead beside hum; Lord Lunen is shot
in the leg and his horse is twice wounded.
The Light cavalry' is rapidly fading. from
sight in smoke aud dust far down in the
front; the connection has been irreparably
sundered ; shall he further imperil his
troops, or shall he not? He has decided.
"They have sacrificed the Light Brigade;
they shall not the Heavy if I can help it 1"
And back they ride out of the raking
cross-fire from the heights, to count their
losses, to wonder how the battle rages down
the valley, and to be ready to cover the
retreat.
But will there be any retreat Does it
seem possible that any remnants of the gay
brigade that has 'Wit disappeared in .yonder
battery smoke will ever make their way
back ? Even if they break away from the
Russian cavalry how can. they hope to run
the gauntlet of rear and cross batterim ?
Think of those rapidly served guns on.
the Causeway Heights and on the
Fedioukine Hills 1 It seems impossible
that anything can survive such a storm of
iron.
Bub jabrohritsky is not to be permitted
to complete the work of slaughter from the
Fedionkine Hills.
• Far up the valley that brave Frenchman,
General Morris, with his magnificent Chas -
sours d'Afrique, looks down on the advance
of the Light Brigade. Generous admiration
°lumps to horror as he sees it charge
straight down between the Russian bat-
teries. He perceives that a terrible !minder
has been made ; he will do what he can to
minimize its effect. He is a man of prompt
decision, jabrokritsky'e batteries, doing
such deadly execution, must be silenced;
and he will silence them. Ile orders the
gallant D'Allonville and the " Travellers "
to attack.
Bringing forward the right shoulder the
regiment moves off et a quick pace,
wheels( to the right and evVeeps down upon
the flank of the nearest battery. Veterans
are there. The Rassion artillerymen quickly
limber up and dash off, while Jabrokritsky
himself leads up a strong force to prevent
D'Allonville from berrying off the guns.
Bat D'Allonville's work is doe ; the recall
is eounded, and he retires. And, thanks te
the noble Frenchman's well-timed attack,
the murderous batteries of the Eedionkine
vvhich inflicted to numb injury on out
cavalry in their adeance, are eilent during
their retreat.
And studs a retteat Lance thrusts and
sabre stroke:3 may .be parried or evaded ;
not s6 the plueging ehot, , the hail of
musket, halls and the whirrnig feaginents
gest9tennaittv th ptered gut% on the 04110, eta.oym. en,,t,F4 of the enemy's eavelry. Morris' of ehell. Arad yet the efforts of Liprandiat
.caa m h e• nanatui hericera heee deafen in the Ras- gunners are to some extent a 'cover for the
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retreatielt OValree protecting thein from
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they ride over bodies ef dead oPMradefl-
Xelleted men, sorely wounded, Wing to
their horses, and others not so fortunate
struggle along on fooe or, exhaueted and weak
from loss of blood, lie down to be speared to
death and stripped by the implacable:A
Cosche. Brave !Qom( , give up their
gimlets to wounded comrades and walk be,
sido them. And all the time Liprandial
gunners on the Ceuseway Heights do their
worst. Would that Lord Luean had had
General Morels' foresight But, hark a
British cheer I And out of the smoke of the
fray, Lord Peeet, bringing up the rear of
the stragglers, emerges to be warmly
greeted by Lord Cardigan and fello vv sur-
vivors.
It has been e pregnant twenty minutes !
Dearly has glory been purchased. The
13111 Light Dragoons muster only ten men!
Examination !Shows that we have loat 113
killed ; 134 wounded; 15 unwounded
prisoners, and that 475 horses were killed
and 42 wounded. We have lost roomy °lila
ors. And what have we gained?
Ah 1 it was splendid Yes " says the
sage French general, Boaque4 ".Ib is
splendid ; but it is not war !'
" What did you mean air," says Lord
Raglan, by attacking a .battery in front,
contrary to all the usageo of war, and the
customs of the service ?"
"My Lord," replies Cardigan, ,,r hope
you will not blame me, for I received the
order to attack from my superior officer in
front of the troops."
* * *
And so tile Charge of the Light Brigade—
brought about by a most deplorable blunder
—hen become by reason of the bravery of
the ofacere and inen engaged, enshrined in
history, to shed Metre on British arms and
to live as an example of daring and devotion
to duty; while, notwithetanding hie unfor-
tunate seveee.nce from his men—which none
regretted more than he—Lord Cardigan is
conceded to fully deserve his commanding
• officer's high encomium
"He was as brave as a lion !"
/slASQUETTn.
pursuit Y the Ruesthn equeelreee. But
Eighty yards yet! Orash Every gun
in the Cossack battery belches forth its
metal vomit ! The carnage is horrible.
The chestnut charger and rider are safe'but
cruel desolation is wrought in our line. Men
and horses mingle 18a welter of confusion,
and die missiles which have mangled and
dismembered them hurtle on to do further
destruction in the supporting lines. Many
officers go down. Capt. Oldham of the leth,
Capt. Coad, Cornet Montgomery, Capt.
Winter, Limb. Thomson and ine.ny others
are never seen afterward. But it is the
last salvo. Extricating themselves from the
floundering mass of disabled and writhing
horses and men the fifty or s'urty survivors
of the first line plunge after their leader
into the bettery smoke.
Sabres in the airenow, men 1 Bravely you
have run the gauntlet of Death down the
valley, without a chance to strike a blow !
At them now 1 Remember your slain com-
rades 1 The second and third lines, in
diminieled echelon, are here. Swabs and
ramrod% are droppea. Down go the Cossack
gunners, spitted through or with cleft
skulls, or they crawl beneath the gun car-
riages for shelter 1 Many au artilleryman's
wife will weep for this day' work 1
On past the guns sweeps Capt. Morris,
with a score of survivors of the 17th
Lenore, which he drives stheight at the
halted squadrons of Russian horse. Down
go the Muscovite spears, and in an instant
the gay Lancers are buried deep in their
ranks. Morris rides at the squadron leader
and, point on, transfixes him with his
sword. Unlucky thrust 1 The very death -
,blow to his enemy pinions him to the body,
from which he cannot withdraw his sword,
and he is held by the wrist -knot until,
struck down by sabers and lances, he is
made a prismer. Lieut. Chadwick, too is
severely lee:eluded and falls into the hands
of the enemy. Well is it for them that
officers are near at hand! 'Unrestrained by
officers the Cossacks have a way of saving
trouble with prisoners.
Where is Lord Cardigan
Shooting through the babtery, far in
advance of his men, Cardigan finds him-
self alone in the presence of solid phalanxes
of Russian cavalrywho attempt to str-
round and caper° him. He parries their
lance thrusts until almoat uhhorsed, and
then gallops back through the battery.
Where are his men?Through the smoke
he sea little groups and etragglera of the
13th Lialit Dragoons and 17bh Lancers
retreating up the vally, and giving his horse
the rein he follows thein. Add this mistake
is the regret Of Cerdigan's life—that he
:timid have retired and left a single men of
his &amend fighting belibid him!
Mee.nwhile remnants of the brigade are
enraged in terribly unequal struggled with
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A young woman who loves to,work among
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sum of pin money if she aelects some popu-
lar (not necessarily fashionable flower) and
devotes most of her time to cultivating the
different varieties of it for the city markets.
A number of women have made from one
hundred to two hundred dollars each season
in this ways,. yOna woman in an Ohio town,
sena a few common white daisies to Cin-
cinnati, which met with such ready sale in
the early months of the season that she was
encouraged to cultivate them on a large
scale, and now makes a handsome sum of
money each year by sending them ba, in
great white bunches, to be sold on the
streets.
THE DIFFERENCE
A little red race
With soft, wrinkled akin;
A little snub nose
And wee puckered chin;
A little bald head,
And weak, watery eyes
Two red, toothless gums
That he shows when he oris:
Two thin, little hands
That are clutching the air,
A. small fretful voice
That demands constant care.
• That was the way he looked to me,
When I called, her Arst born to see.
l3u1 she said with pride: "1 hope that he
Looks as pretty to you as he does to me I"
—The man who knows enough to go in
when it rains is staying at home with his
family this spring.
RE DREARY DRIZZLE.
When the dreary drizzle, drizzle
Lasts for weary, weary weeks,
Making life a wretched fizzle,
Making oceans out of creeks.
What a bore to press the pillow
Of a cottage chamber bed,
And to listen to the ever- '
Lasting raindrops overhead!
—The devil isn't scared about losing his
grip on the man whom some silly woman
marries to reform.— Womankind,
—" Marriage was a failure with them,
then ?" Well, you could hardly call it a
failure. Suspension would be the better
word." "Suspension?" "Yea ; they mu -
Wally agreed to separate."
—The largest advertisement in the world
is said to be in Glasgow and to belong to the
Glasgow Neum. It is in flowers on the gide
of a • hill and can be seen four miles with
the naked eye. Each letter is forty feet
high.
At Ottawa yesterday- Major John Stew -
are, commanding the Ottawa Field Battery,
lodged a complaint against Capt. Bliss, of
the same corps, chargine him with unlaw-
fully signing a false pay list, and with
wrongfully unterting thenames of three non-
commissioned officers who ye/we not on duty
ou the occasion for which payment wpm de,
minded.
--Jupiter Pluvids isnot only previous, he
is ales) subsequent, it seems.
Jenny Hill, the English aerionomic singer,
ie seriously ill of pneumonia.
• The cloth workers of Aachen, who have
been oft strike over a question of wages,
have been beaten by their employere.
The employee e are returning to work at the
hest terms they can make.
The editor of the Soo:fillet journal, the
Muenieltener Post, of Munich, has been
arrested on a charge of treamon, based oh
certain violent articles in the papers.
The body of George Reynold, a stone-
mason, was found in the raneway in front of
Meldrum, Davidson at Co's, mill, Peterboroa
yesterday. It ie supposed he fell in 8001 -
dentally.
The director of Warner's Obeervatory, 18
Rochester, has succeeded in obtaining an
excellent photograph of the eight -tailed
comets that is creating wonder in the astron-
omical world.
The degree of LL. D. has been conferred
by. the Catholic University of Ottawa upon
Mr. 3. IL Barrett, Collector of Inland
Revenue, Winnipeg, ih recognition of ser -
111 eonnecton with the &hoot Act
disptite.
The longest Words.
Here are the nine longest words in the
English language at the present writing:
Suticonstitutionalist.
Philoprogenitiveness.
Incomprehensibility.
Disproportionableness.
Honorifthibilitudinity.
Velocipedestrianistical.
Transubstantionableness.
Proantitionsubstationist.
Antheopophagenerian.
Noen.—Our readers having spare time on
their hands cannot do better than take up
an agency for the Domininion Silver Co3y.
Read their advertisement.
Omitted the Function.
"My wife has sent me around to thrash
the society editor," he announced, as he
entered the editorial rooms.
"What's the trouble ?" asked the chief.
"In writing up her dinner and ball last
night he neglected to call it a function.
That calla for blood. Let me get my hands
on the villain!"
Its Excellirait Qualities
Commend to public approval the California
liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs. It is
pleasing to the eye'and to the taste, and by
gently acting on the kidneys, liver an
bowels, it cleanses the system effectually,
thereby promoting the health and comfort
of all who use it.
Arranging For Ontario's Exhibits.
Mr. N. Awrey, M. P. P., Ontario Com
inissioner for the World's Fair, left for
Chicago yesterday to make some prelinsinary
arrangements. In reponse to the circular
lasued applications have already been nsade
that will occupy all the space at present
allotted to this province. The principal
object which Mr. Awrey has in view in
going to Chicago is to secure more space for
Ontario.
FITE.—All Fits stopped free by Dr. Rline's
Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first
day's use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and$2.90
trial bottle free to Fib cases. Send to Dr. Xline,
931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.
JUDGE Ross, in his address to the Gran
Jury at Cobourg Assizes, expressed his
opinion that the result of the extension of
the franchise was to give the right to vote
to men without education or ability suffi-
cient to enable them to exercise their right
intelligently, and consequently they were
susceptible to corrupt influences, and lent
themselves the more readily to the commis-
sion of illegal acts.
Mr. C. Harper, Ottawa, Ont., writes: "
have pleasure in stating that your Pinl
Pills are a wonderful tonic and reconstruct°
of the system. Since beginning theirUse
• have gained on 1111 average, a pound of flea
a week. I have recommended them to
number of my friends, who declare tha
they are the only medicine that they hay
ever used that done all that is claimed fo
its Sold by all dealers.
THERE has been a Temple of Fame enter
bailment up in London, and Geo. W. Arm
strong writes - to the Free Press confessin
that it was a great success, but he wa
arixious on one point—in what does th
entertainment differ 18 point of characte
nein an ordinary theatrical entertainment
Then he asks:
What was the tendency of the Temple o
Fame entertainment?
1st. To promote sensuous ideas.
2nd. To create a taste and love for gaud
apparel.
3rd. To divert the young and tender Chri
Man mind from the solid and serious to th
flippant, light and gay.
This entertainment and the fact that he Oa
large posters in Windsor announcing tha
the King's Daughters would perfor
"Cinderella" in the Opera House, lea
Mr. Armstrong to suspect that the Churc
and the world, especially the theatrica
world, are getting so alike that only a
expert can tell the one from the other. Bu
then with some people it is a Sill to smile.
VATE'S IRONY.
He was the pride of the Sunday Eschool,
Could spell out backward the golden rule;
Ile memorized versos and texts by the yard,
And answered all questions though never s
hard ;
His promise was brilliant, but, sad to relate,
Quite differonbly spun was the thread of hi
fate;
And to show how perverse things sublunar
are,
Re is now in a dowtatewn saloon tenditig bar
Little things console us because Iittl
things afflict ue.
ISSU NO 22. 1892.
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There is a right time for eeerything, but
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"That's a very neat turnout," said the
young woman% father 68 A6g1.18t68 sped
from the door'.
Self-love is at once the mosti delicate and
most tenacioue of. our sentiment! ; a mere
nothing will wound it, but there is nothing
on earth will kill it,
—The entice* for the crops is splendid,
the weather being just the thing. There
has been a large breadth of pottitme
planted, owing to the ()hospices of the teed.
LeOhoma's Tansy eq, Pennyroyal Pitit,
Tho only sato nod rel I ille Fceneh Pill on the rintrinni,,
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