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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-7-7, Page 6GLADSTONE'S MANIFESTO, His Last Appeal to His Midlothian Constituents. HOME RULE ron IRELAND. A London cable says: Mr. Gladstou Vent out yesterday his election manifesto i the form of an address to the electors o Midlothian. It is undoubtedly the able political paper that hers come from theGran Vld Man's hands in many years. In it h &mime at some length the Irish geeetio touches upon the minor issues of the care pato, and elorses with a pathetic allusion the probability that before the opening o another campeign he will be in his gray He said: " Great Britain will now decide whethe three countries /shall henceforth coeatitut in reality as well as in atatato name th United Kingdom. " Ire:lend was never so loyal to the Crow or united in heart as in the years followin 1782 when she enjoyed local government until the concord was disturbed in 1795 b wicked machinations. For a generatio after the union Ireland slept a deadly slee of physical misery and political servitude The reforms of 1829-32 gave her conscioue sees and a voice. From th.en her heavy grievances in battling for her aspiration have constituted a great standing burden i Parliament, anO the chief impediment t the fulfillment of its duties. "The proposal for which the Liberal have for the last six years contended wil set Ireland free to manage her domesti affairs by a Local Legislature in close sympathy with Irish life, and will ad Perlis merit free to overtake vast arrears of busi nese and supply the legislative wants o England and 'Males. "The constant growth of sound opinion testified to by the result of a multitude o bye -elections, has shown that the British people now thoroughly comprehend how irresistible are the claims of Ireland on our honor and justice, and how a settlement will open a direct road to the satisfaction of British interests long held in suspense. "Ole Government of Ireland by the past Parliament has utterly failed in every re- spect except that of enabling the Irish agri. culturist to improve his condition by the Act of 1887, the main provisions of which the Ministry denounced in 1886 as immoral and dishonorable, and thereby drove the people to the Plan of Campaign, and be- come the true author of whatever dangers and hardships were thus produced. "Ireland, indigha.nt at the broken pledges of the Tory -Dissident coalition is =wee than ever hostile to the methods of government of Dublin Castle, but calm and peaceful in reliance on the electors of Great 'fain. The sentiments already prevailing between the British and the Irish supply a happy omen of the reciprocal affection which must follow a frank concession of Home Rule, sheltered by Imperial suprem- acy. Even in ate two counties in the north svhere alone alarm prevails over calm reason, I have no doubt experience will quickly bring the population back to that sense of brotherhood with the rest of Ire- land which before the union so honorably distinguished their fathers." Mr. Gladstone here reviews the Govern- ment's legislation, dwelling upon the im- perfections in the English Local Govern"' ment Bill and Small Holdings Bill, which he says the majority, especially the ex - Liberals, prevented the Liberala from bring- ing to a tolerable standard of efficiency. He then proceeds to enumerate the chief items of the Newcastle programme. He says that the proposed payment of labor members of Parliament and similar measures will ren- der labor the greatest possible service by placing it in a condition to help itself. Regarding the shorter hours of labor, he says that much has already been done by legislation and voluntaryarrangement which constitutes a guarantee of future progress, but he impresses upon workers that what is achieved is due to popular government, which is founded upon a just appreciation of personal liberty-, with which the true strength of the working classes is essentially In conclusion, he says he feels that this must surely be the last general election in which he shall solicit the suffrage aids con- stituents, and that he can only expect to execute a small special share of the work he ?aa.s sketched out. s n n TIM HEALY MOBBED. Sind, Flour and Stem.; Thrown at the Sharp4ongued MeCarthyite, A Dublin cable says: Mr. Timothy Healy finds it dangerous to openly appear on the streets of Dublin. He was recognized there on Tuesday, and was compelled to take refuge in a house under a guard of police. Again yesterday, as he was leaving a .Feder- ation meeting, a crowd tried to stop him. Some of the crowd saluted him with cries of "Dirty Tim !" Stones and handfuls of mud were thrown at him. He jumped into a passing car, which was meshed through the mob, knocking down and killing one of the men. The crowd pursued the car, and a bag of flour was thrown over Mr. Healy. 4 When he reached the officeof the Freeman's Journal and National Presshe jumped from the ear'and as he did so a man hit him a severe blow on the jaw with a stick. He was alao struck on the face by a stone. The police seized one of his assailants, who was to -day sentenced to fourteen days'imprison- meat. A DUEL TO THE DEATH. Marquis De Mores Slays the PerSeentor of Itis Friend. &Paris cable says: A duel was fought yesterday between the Marquis de „Mores and Captain Mayer, in which the latter was so severely wounded tbat he died last evren- ins. The duel ;grew out of the anti-Semetic campaign that has been carried on in the Libre Parole, the Anarchist paper, of which Edouard Drumont is the editor. The weapons used in the duel were swords. The Mastitis de Mores is a close friend of Dru- mont, and was one of the witnesses in his favor in the recent libel suit brought against him by M. Burdeau, Vice -President of the Chamber of Deputies. Drumont, in this case, was sentenced to three months' im- prisonment, and to pay a fine of 1,0001. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of .the Marquie de Mores, end orders have been given to proseouth the seconds of both the centeetants. Orrick Returne. Timid Female—I saw ari advertieeinerit for a Wife In your paper this morhing. Editor—Too late—The advertisergot her nix hours ago, took a bridal trip in a hand- car, end is now suing for a divorce. Watch Our latent toluthra—Allanta Con- stitution. Sir Samuel Baker, the famous .African explorer, now at Aseouan, Writethat there would be now no diffioulty on the part of the English in establishing an Egyptian force at AbuelitainMed, on the Nile, about ISO Miles belovellethee, Which is the key to the position of the Mahdiste: A BERLIN SENSATION. A Murder InveStigation Reveals a Horrible State of Affairs, • TEE EXPEROR INTERPOSES, A Berlin cable says: The trial of a 0580 with highly sensational features has begun here, and is being conducted privately. The prisoners are a potter named Heinae and his wife, both of diereputable cherseter. They are accused of murdering a night. watchman namea Braun, oil the night of September 27th. Breunhs body was found at six o'clock the next morning within the railings of $t Elizabeth church, in the Invalidetraase. It was suspended from a tree, and there were two terrific: wounds in the head. A burglar's jimmy covered with blood, a screw -driver and a necktie were found near by. The steps of the church were covered with blood, the mur- der probably having been com- mitted there. Snuff was scattered all over the ground, and also on Braun's face. It was apparent that the snuff had been used to blind the man in order to make his robbery and murder easierHeinze and his wife were arrested in .April, 1890, the mur- der having up to that time remained a mystery. The police seem to have had no clue, and were finally indebted to a co n fession of the woman herself for the facts upon whieh the arrest was made. The con- fession, which was made out of spite to Efeinze, was afterwards withdrawn, but the police bad now obtained corroborative evidence to establish the case against the prisoners. Strange to say, however, the amused were both released. The woman, besides being a street-welker, had often served the police as an informer, and had incidentally put several police officers in a position to be blackmailed. Her so-called husband was in reality a souteneur, and his threats of making. exposures which would stir high circles m Berlin to their foundations was an additional reason for the action of the police in abandoning the case. But the release of the prisoners after a confession had been made caused a scandal in the quarters where it became known, and finally the higher officials of the Interior Department found it adviaable to order the suspects to be rearrested. They were put on trial last November, and the evidence taken revealed one of the filthiest atories ever brought out in a comb of justice. One of the matters offered in evidence was a letter from one Franz Just, in Chicago, in which he offered to give the names of the murderers for one hundred marks. He also took advantage of this circumstance to demand that Just be summoned to testify to his know- ledge of the case. The trial was adjourned for this purpose, and a commission was sent to Chicago, who recently returned with Just's affidavit. The trial was accordingly resumed to -day, and will probably last until Friday. The secretly with which it is con- ducted is due to an expression of the Em- peror's desire that the disgusting testimony be not made public. The evidence is thoroughly Zolaesque, and gives a horrible idea of the lowest strata of Berlin life. An interesting eireu.mstance in connection with this case is the fact that the revelations it gave rise to in its first stages led to the Unwire edicts of the Emperor against the infamous class known as souteneurs, who were immediately afterward driven out of all the cities of Germany, so far. as it was possible for the police to reach them. WARM IRISH POLITICS. Sticks and Stones Figure Prominently at Political Meetings. A Dublin cable says: Mr. Jordan, M. P., was bataoked by a crowd of Parnellites to- day on arriving in Limerick to address an anti-Parnellite meeting. Mr. Jordan was struck on the head, his hat being smashed in, and he was compelledto take refuge in a railway station. A strong detachment of police afterwagds escorted him to his hotel. On the way the Parnellites atoned the police, who finally used their swords to disperse the crowd. Several arrests were made. While Mn William O'Brien was attend- ing mass this morning in Cork a crowd of Parnellites surrounded the church and con- tinuously jeered and hooted. When Mr. O'Brien emerged from the church he was at once surrounded by the crowd, and having boarded a car was escorted to his hotel. Several fights took place on the way, sticks being freely used. Outside the hotel a serious conflict arose in which several per - eons were injured. The crowd was finally dispersed by the police. Mr. Wm. Redmond and the Lord Mayor of Dublin made an attempt this morning to canvass Blarney street, Cork, an anti- Parnellite stronghold. They were continu- ally pelted with stones, and were soon com- pelled to flee. An anti-Parnellite meeting held this afternoon, addressed by Mr. Wm. O'Brien, was attacked by Parnellites, who used sticks and stones freely. The anti-Parnell- ites fled. TRE TORPEDO WORKED. An Instructor Blown to Fragments While Attaching a Detonater. A London cable says: A serious accident caused by the temerity of a torpedo in- structor is reported as having happened on board the Nile, one of the moat formidable of England's armored vessels, and attached to the Mediterranean squadron. An in- structor in the use of torpedoes named Corbett, was trying to force a torpedoes, into a mining charge of gun -cotton, when the cotton exploded, blowing a hole in the deck of the vessel and killing Corbett and a seaman, who was sedating him. Corbett was blown almost to fragments, and a portion of his body struck Lieut. Pitt, who was standing near by, covering him with blood. Commander MacGill, of the Nile, also had a narrow escape from injury. CLEVELAND, we are told, is the first can - date beaten at the polls who has been re- nominated for the United States: Preeiclency, and, what is odder still, he has to oppose the man who beat him. • It is also the firs time a nomination has been given to a COM, didate who entered the convention without a deigns delegate from his own State in favor of him. Both candidates have been Presidents, and a glarice at Mr. Cleveland's two former campaigns show a that when he ran against Mr. Blame in 1884 he received 219 electoral votes out of 401, or enly Seven- teen more than were essential te his oleo. tion. In 1888 Mr. Cleveland failed to carry Nese York and Indiana, both of which went Demooratio four years before. He 'got but 168 electoral votes, while Mr. Harrison scored 233. This year the Electoral Col. lege consists ef 444 vote's, That is an addition of 43 vote; to the aggregate of 1888. —Captain Streatfeild, A. D. C. to General Herbert was relieved of $260 by a. pick- pocket while taking a nap on the tram by which he Was going to Belleville. Arehhisliep Frame hag addressed a letter to his clergy, in which he forbids picnics and pleasure excursions upon Sundays and holy days. A VIRAGO'S AIIVI. A Woman Strikes Gladstone in the Eye With a Missile, SERIOUSLY INJURING THE ORGA A London cable says While Mr. Gla stone was driving through Cheer yea day to attend a meeting someone threw stone that etenck him near the eye. He s tained no serious injury, and announe that he would go on and attend, the me As he proceeded the crowd cheer him lustily. It is not known whether t atone was thrown purposely, but it is b lieved by his supporters that it was bbs da tardly act of sonie bitter enemy of Ho Rule. When Mr. Gladstone arrived at the h in which the meeting was held he was gi'v an ovation, the audience cheering, yellin waving hats and hamdkerehiefs, and in eve way showing their admiration for the great leader. The cut on Mr. Gladstone face was plainly visible. In the course his remarks he showed that there was doubt in his mind that the man who ha wounded him had done it from malice. H said the opponents of the Liberals we fighting them with the weapons of intimid tion, the invention of religioue bigotry. H added: "For the first time in our histor the Prime Minister was a &abeam in the land." Mr. Gladstone, oo tinuing his speeoh, said that th opponents of Home Rule had declare that if the Howse of Oonamons passed Home Rule Bill the House of Lords woul reject the measure, and that if they passe another Bill of a like nature the dissolutio of Parliament would. follow. But the peopl would not be worried or pestered with dissolution at the will of the House o • Lords. The appeals to bigotry, he said were much more serious. He did no believe that the Catholics of Ireland woul be guilty of the charges which had bee nitride against them. While speaking Mr Gladstone frequently held his handkerchie to his injured eye. After the meetin Mr. Gladstone went to the leading Chests oculist to learn if there was any danger o his eye being affected by the iniury he ha sustained. Since the first report of the assault o Mr. Gladstone was reeeived, it has •bee ascertained that the guilty person is woman, and that the missile which ah employed was a large piece of hard ginger bread. The gingerbread was thrown wit considerable force,. and struck Mn Glad stone on the nose, Just beneath the left eye and thenglanced upwards, grazing the ey and causing the aged statesman much pain. Mr. Gladstone endured great discoinfor throughout his drive to the place where the meeting was held. As the pain increased, he began to fear that the organ wasseriously injured, and decided to seek medical assist ance as soon as possible. When Mr. Glad stone arrived at the headquarters of the Liberal Club, two doctors were immediately summoned. Theymade a careful examination and found that the 'injured eye was consid- erably inflamed, and that the skin on the nose was grazed. They applied some allevi- ating remedies and succeeded in moderating the pain which the patient was. suffering. After copiously bathing his eye with a waoh prescribed by the doctors, Mr. Gladstone felt relieved and decided to address the meeting. In spite of the disturbing incident which marked his visit to Chester, Mr. Gladstone made a spirited speech, which was applauded throughout, and at its con- clusion the speaker received an ovation. Mr. Gladstone complained of the difficulty whieh he experienced in reading certain quotations during his speech, and when he had finished speaking he found that his blared: eye had become very painful and tender, evidently having been irritated even by the little use to which it had been put. Mr. Gladstone again sought the assistanceof the doctors, and they made another ex- amination. Apparently the injury which had been inflicted to the eye was considered to be serious enough th warrant the sufferer n taking the greatest caution to pre- ent any evil consequences, as Mr. Glad - tone at once repaired to the office of an rainent oculist and placed himself under reatment • The oculist in attendance upon Mr. Glad - tone states that there is a large abrasion at he corner of the eye extending to the edge f the pupil. He says that the greatest care will be necessary to prevent serious and ertnement injury to the organ. The wound n Mr. Gladstone's nose bled freely. The oman who threw the missile was recog- ized as the wife of an artisan. She has ot yet been arrested, but the police are n her track and expect to soon have er in custody. Mr. Gladstone, in describ- g the assault, said that the woman hrew the hard mass of gingerbread at him ith great violence and with such sudden - ass that he could make no attempt to ard it off. LONDON, June 26.—The injury which Mr. ladstone received at Chester yesterday by eingstruck in the face by a missile is pro- m/ming favorably. His son Herbert tele- re,phs to -night that the inflammation of the ye has abated considerably and is likely to O followed by no serious results. Mr. ladstone otherwise is in excellent health, hough he is confined to the boils% Later—Mr. Gladstone's injured eye has een bandaged, and he will remain in a arkened room for a few days. It is stated hat the woman who threw the missile at im said she threw it for luck. The oculist, .examined the eye this afternoon. He ye the injury is progressing favorably and he pain has greatly decreased. There was a remarkable scene this morn - g in the City Temple, where it had been nnonnced that Rev. Dr. Talmage would reach. The building was crammed to the oora and hundreds were unable to gain Omission. Rev. Dr. Parker opened the roceedings by referring to the attack on r. Gladstone. Ile said it had been re- orted that Mr. Gladstone had been brutally Wilted last evening. He characterized e outrage as mean, cowardly and amnable, and he asked those in the diem of the same opinion to rise. The tire audience at once arose. Dr. Talmage id: " / agree with Dr. Parker that it as an infamous attack. In 24 hours you 11 hear loud thunder of indignation roll - g back from America." Other speechea ere made, which were continuously inter- pted by cheers, shouts of " shame " and Wee. Ilibernians' Elections. The eecond Provinciel Convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Ontario was held it Toronto yesterday. • There were about 30 delegates present. The re- ports of the Provincial officers showed the Order to be in a flourishing condition finen- eially as well as numerically. The number of counties organized is 7, tattliber of divisions 15, total membership 1,860. John talon Hamilton, was re-elected Provincial delegate; John McGarryp Toronto, Provin- cial Secretary, and M. Guerin, Stratford, Provincial Treasurer, The next convention will be held at Stratford. in June 1894 • —It ill a pity th deceive a child to keep it let qn HE OPERATED IN CANADA. The Notorious Dr, Neill a Graduate of Oollege. KS AWFULLY BLAU% RECORD, A Montreal despatch says; Absolute prof has been discovered that Thomas Neill, now in Londoe, Eng., charged with poisoning Matilda. Cloevy, is Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, a native of Quebec, city, who was graduated from McGill College in Mon- treal, and who was sentenced to a life term in State's prison for abortion. Thomas Neill Cream, although he has lived the most of hie life on the American continent, was born, so the register of Mc- Gill College says, in Glasgow, Scotland, on May 27th, 1850. While still a young lad his parents emigrated to Canada and settled in the ancient city of Quebec, where old Mr. Cream managed to accumulate a comfort- able competency. Young Cream fine worked in the shipbuilding trade as a oar - Renter. As he showed considerable natural ability his father decided on sending him te Montreal to study at McGill College for the profession of medicine. Cream went through his chosen course. It was in 1872 when Cream entered college, In 1876 he graduated and was a full-fledged M. D. CREAM AT KINGSTON. Crowell criminal oareer commenced im- mediately after leaving the university. Be• ginning the practice of medicine in Kings- ton, it was not long before whispers were in ciroulation regarding certain unprofessional practices that were strongly suspeoted on the part of the young M. D. Rumor was made a certainty when one morning the dead body of a young woman was found lying in a shed in the rear of Cream's office. The authorities took the matter ulh and the coroner's post mortem examination proved beyond a doubt that the woman had perished from the effects of a criminal operation. Suspicion pointed strongly to Cream as the person who had performed the operation, but the evidence wets not con- sidered conclusive enough to warrant the arrest of the suspected physician. How- ever, public feeling was so stirred up against Dr. Cream that he lost his entire practice and was compelled to leave Ringeton. He i then took up his residence n Hamilton, Ont. Here again his illegal practices got him into trouble. Shortly after Cream's arrival in Hamilton another woman was found dead from malpractice, and this time the evidence pointed so directly towards Cream that he was arrested and put on trial for the murder of the woman. The testi- mony was insufficient to convict him, how- ever, but Cream, disgusted with Canada, emigrated and made Chicago his home. SENTENCED FOR LIFE. This was in the latter part of 1877. Cream was evidently a confirmed abortionist. The next time, however, he was captured at his work. A considerable sensation was caused in Chicago 18 1878 by the death from malpractice of a Chicage lady. Cream was arrested, charged with the crime and in this instance the facts were brought directly home to him. The testimony of the maid- servant, a negress, who saw the operatiou performed, convicted Cream and his career was brought to an end by his being sen- tenced to imprisonment for life in the Illinois Prison at Johet. Cream served 13 years of his sentence, when he received a 'pardon on account of his ill -health. When Cream entered the outer world once more he found himself the pos- moor of a comfortable fortune. During his imprisonment his father had died. A clause of his father's will, in which Dr. Cream was left a legacy, was as follows : "I hereby bequeath to my son, Thomas Neill Cream, the sum of $16,000 in the stock of the Merchants' Bank of Canada for his own use should he ever regain his rights to citizenship." HE LEAVES FOR ENGLAND. After leaving the prison Cream went to the old country, and it was then, appar- ently, that under the name of Thomas Neil he met Miss Sabbittini, who is one of the most important witnesses in the inquest now being held in London into the death of Matilda CloevY. In March last Cream again visited his old home in Quebec oity, and came from there to Montreal, where he realized on hi a stock in the Merchants' Bank. The identity of Thomas Neill, now under arrest in London for poisoning Matilda Cleave with Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, is conclusively proved by a series of letters now in possession of D. Battersby, general railroad and steamboat ticket agent, Mont- real. Mr. Battersby has a number of letters signed by Thomas N. Cream, asking for rates from New Yotk to Glasgow or Liverpool. (The TIMES cannot recollect that such a man was ever in Hamilton. Certainly no such trial as is spoken of in the despatch took place in this city with Cream, Neill or Murray as the accused.] AFTER A RUNAWAY WIFE. Das She Gone Crary or Merely "Gone With a Bandsomer Man "? A London despatch says: Seven years ago Abraham Fisher, of Benmiller'a hamlet about one mile from Godericb, inthe town- ship of Colborne, was one of the happiest of men. To -day he is the most disconsolate, and of course there is a woman in the case. Seven years ago, as has been stated, Fisher led to Hymen's altar a blushing bride; to- day he us scouring the country to find what has become of her. In conversation with a reporter to -day Fisher stated that they had had no quarrel to speak of during all these years; that their married life had been an unusually happy one, notwithstanding that the union has not been blessed with children. And this is why he can- not account for his wife's strange action in pieking tip and getting out without letting him know her intentions. He excuses his wife's strange conduct by stating that he fancied she wa,a out of her mind, as • she was troubled with a cancer. When it was saiggersted that she might have eloped Fisher scouted the idea. "No, no," said he "she would never run off with anybody. According to Mr. Fisher's story his wife left Goderich on Tuesday afternoon mi the 4 o'clock train, presumably for London. Fisher, who was working in the field, did not miss her until he returned to the house at 6 o'clock, when he was thunderstruck to find that she had gone, bag and baggage. He at once gave the alarm, and hastened to GoOdrich to in. tempt her, if poseible. Failing in this, he took the train on Wednesday for this city, arriving here late last night. • He searohed every hotel in the city, but nowhere could he find his runaway wife. During a thunderstorm at Kahn, B. C., two men near the Sloan Star Mine were stet& by lightning, one of them being instantly killed. The other was insensible for some hours, but eventually recovered. "Many Guns," an Indian from the Northwest, who has been attending the Mohawk Institute school at Brantford; was gored by a hull while feeding oettle on Sun- day, end received injuries Which it ia tested Willprove TEMARIE rulammog.., HE bath a lovely voithe," lisp Si u l nn9lr "Andhe!mutr,n ds n remreyongolwh knowing puff at his cigarette. " has always been my experience th women with musical Voice good looking." They vvere talking about their telepho girl—she who flirted with them ao naive over the wires. " She ith quite young, too, y' know continued Mr, Potter, picking a carnati to pieces, " beeeUthe hci confided to that elle vvathn't out yet. Just fenthy !" "You fellow ought to warn your 'Dia (4 the oresswires ' to be more carefu growled Barker, head clerk and getter Diogenes in the famous law -office of La will & Testament " When his majosty t senior partner called up the law courtth morning oho helloed back and wanted know if that wasn't Charlie. The old nt turned purple and threatened to see t superintendent." "She must have thought it was Cheri Dennison," said Gubbins. " They are gettin to be a grea.t deal too thick of late, and la night I heard him ask her to go out drivi this afternoon." "Bah Jove 1" ejaculated Simpkinson Po ter. "01 courthe she refused," "No, she didn't," replied Gubbin because he said '1,600 Smith street. A right, Miss Mellerby, I'll be there on titn But here comes the man in question speak for himself." Mr. Charles Dennison entered, arrayed clothes of bewildering cut and wearing a eloquent box coat, in the lapel of which r posed a royal gardenia. "My dear Charles?" said Barker, trust you are not going to do anythin rash 2" Dennison glanced around the office. wit illaconcealed triumph. "I am going to tak our telephone girl, Miss Mullerby, ou driving," he observed, giving every ayllab frill emphasis. To his surprise no one made any corn ment on this intelligence. Gubbins looke out of the window and Simpkinson Potte placed his carnation stalk between the leave of a law book. "1 do believe," he said at last, " tha you knew alla,bout it beforehand." 0.5.,:"7 "All about what ?" queried BarIel "Oh, yes! You have to take some girl ou driving. I'm sure we all sympathize wit you.* . " Yeth, indeed, Charlie," exclaimed Simpkinson Potter, " ith's a beastly nuith- &nee, old boy; but never mind. It nein soon be over." "Be sure to get on Miss Mellerby's right ' side " said Gubbins. "My experience is thattelephone girls are always deaf in one efealrptoieware just jealous," he said, and a few ins m Dennison waited to hear no ore. "You minutes afterward they saw him driving a roan mare and a smart dog cart around the corner. * . Arrived at No. 1,600 Smith street Charles Dennison found the house to be a model suburban cottage, looking sunnily south- ward and overrun with flowering creepers. "Just the place for young love," he ro- mantically exclaimed, as he hitched his roan to a fantastic green dragon on one of the gate posts. "1 wish to goodneas Gub- bins and that lisping idiot Potter were here to watch my meeting with Laura. I had better not call her Laura first, by the way. Things that sound all right over a telephone wire might be quite startling when one is brought face tcaface." Here Charlie opened the gate and strode up the short gravel path. Everywhere in the little garden be noticed the iziaces of a woman's tender care. "And yet,": he murmured, " they talk about telephone girls only caring for chew- ing gum and flirtation." His ring brought a pleasant -faced matron to the door. " Mrs. Mellerby, is it not ?" tusked Charlie taking of his hat with his best air. He hada reputation for astuteness and was much gratified when the lady nodded a smiling assent to his question. "And you are Mr. Charles Dennison, I uppose ?" she said. " We did not expect you quite so soon, but earliness is an excel- ent fault. Won't you come in?" Of course Charlie went in, remarking to himself that Mrs. hi.ellerby seemed much better than the general run of girl's mothers. She could not be more than 40, e thought, to that the fair Laura was robably not yet 20 Moreover, Mrs. Mellerby's plump figure and distinot traces f past beauty promised well for .Laura's ppearance. They entered the pretty little parlor and at down. Then Mrs. Mellerby laughed ayly and said: "Well, Charlie, which hall we talk about finite–the weather or our dog cart ?" Charlie laughed likewise, 'though he thought the use of his Christian ante a little odd. " Let us talk about the clog cart,"he said. "Very well," replied Mrs. Mellerby. Under those circumstances I fear I shall ave to begin with a disappointment. The act is, dear boy, the girl who was to have ken my place 18 sick and I am obliged to o to the office this afternoon. I am very orry to break off our engagement, but yon ee it is impossible for me to go out driving -day." To saythat Charlie Dennison jumped fully foot frona his chair at this speech would e no exaggeration. "1-1 beg your pardon!" he exclaimed. If Mrs. Mellerby noticed his startled ex- ression of countenance she mistook or retended to mistake its cause. "1 know Ws a shame," she said, depre- sanely, "bub what can I do 1 They are ery strict at the Central Office and I am bilged to go. When you called me up esterday, Charlie, I felt sure of getting off is afternoon. Now I am compelled to newer hellos' from all parts of the city r six weary hours. After all, it is just as are on me 08 00 you." By this time Charlie Denhison had man. ee to collect his thoughts. But what oughts So this old woman V788 the Laura" of his dreams, the fair *telephone genue whose flirtations seemed buoyant ith breezy girliehness. Hew the boys ould laugh if they knew. But they must ver know. It was a kindly fate which d saved him from this affliction. In his art he blessed that other woman who had llen'sick at such a proeitious time. "Please don't be mad -about it, Charlie," Id Mrs. Mellerby. Charlie was obliged to say something. A man c -cant help being a little disap. inted, you know," he stammered hypo- tically. "1 really c -counted on taking rt out driving. Now shall have to drive alone." . Here, with something of his pristine 1518 he contrived to make a wry face suit - le th the occasion. Mr. Mellerby laughed. " Suppoae," she d, "that I were to provide a aubetitute. is curious thet in all our long telephone ks never remembered to tell you that I a widow. But I am and have the arest little girl imaginable. I was going ask you if it would not bore you too eh to faith her out for a short drive in place. She is just wild to drive id some- ing else beeides a street oar." e4 It at are ne ly on me na 1," al at - he is to an he ie at ng t• g, 11 e.' to in 11 e - le • wramormiase, Fool, Charlie's heart, whieh had almost resumed its normal condition, fell rapidly at this suggestion. It was certainly a case of oat Of the frying pan, eto." RO had only escaped the horror of being obliged to equire Mrs. Mellerby through the city to And himself confronted with the even more obnoxious alternative of playiug dry nuree to that lady's " dear little girl." If you, are not afraid of my mare," he geld, with a painfol effort at looking uncomerned, " shall be most happy. But I fear the brute is deoidedly restive----" 14 You are an excellent driver, I'm sure," replied Mrs. Mellerby oweetly. "Yes, I think I can trust my Gertie to your care. Excuse zue for a. moment and I will call. her." When 1Vire. Mellerby left the room Charlie Dennition covered his face with Ilia hands. This, then, was the punishment of his indiscretion. He eould yet escape, but escape would be cowardly ; and, besides, 1V1rs. Mellerby rnight tell the story to the other fellows over the telephone. On the whole, it was better to remain and see ths. thing out. His thoughts were interrupted by the mellifluous voice of Mrs. Mellerby. "Charlie," murmured that lady, "permit me to introduce you to my daughter, Gertie." Charlie Dennison almost shouted when he beheld the "dear little girl " who stood in the door. For the "dear little girl" wars as fair a specimen of 18 -year-old beauty as ever his eyea had rested on. She was not so very " little " either, being quite as tall as her mother, and looking, with her wavy brown hair and gray eyes, like a vivified portrait of that comely personage taken. many years before. Charlie's syatem felt by this time at; if it had undergone a succession of electric, shocks, so that Miss Gertio's first impres- sions of him were hardly favorable. It is - needless to say that Charlie at ones fore- swore any idea of flight He took "his Laura's daughter oat driving with ther lightest heart in the world, and drove twice beneath the windows of Lastwill & Testa- ment, to the unspeakable chagrin of both. Gubbine and Saripkinson Potter. * 0 * Mrs. Mellerby no longer occupies her seat • in the central telephone office ; yet when she wishes to send word to the boya itt Lastwill & Testament's she tells her son-in- law, Charlie Dennison, about it at the breakfast table. Joule GERALD BRENAN. A HAMILTONIAN ? III•••••••• The Toronto Island. Freak Claims to be an EnsPisfee ofMr. Adam BroWsi. There is no longer any doubt, says the Toronto Globe, that the absurd story told by the young man found bound on the crib at the eastern gap on Monday morning is an absolute fabrication. Bugle -Major Wm. Fosder, conductor of C School Band, saw the lad yesterday and said that he visited the fort last week and behaved rather queerly. He told the soldiers he had worked in the Hamilton post -office, that he was an official there, and that there was atillplenty of work to be had in the .Ambitious City. Turning to one of the men he said : "Haven't you been in Hamilton? I think I saw you once on the mountain over there." The stranger seemed to be troubled about something all the time he was at the fort. He wore a gold watch and chain and kept looking at the time almost con- tinually. He was about the fort grounds for nearly two hours, and during that time he was sent away from the gate probably half a dozen times, coming back in a few minutes. When he returned the last time he asked for a piece of small rope saying that he wanted to tie up a parcel which he wished to send to Hamilton. One of the men gave him some cord, but it was not the same as that with which he was found bound on Monday morning. The prisoner still sticks to his story, but, now that the authorities are satisfied that he has been deceiving them, stringent measures will probably be taken to extract from him the truth. SHOT DOWN IN COURT. A. Fifteen•yeavold Lad Slays the Betrayer of His Sister. A New York despatch says: The great- est excitement known in many years was occasioned yesterday in part one of the . Court of General Sessions, when Max Cler- get was deliberately murdered by Edward Davin, a brother of 15 -year old Sarah Davins, wbom Clerget had assaulted. Judge Martine was on the bench when Clerget, who is 18 years old and a Frenchman by birth, was arraigned to plead to the charge of criminal assault committed on June 18; on Sarah Davina. The charge had been made by an officer of Gerry's Society. Clerget pleaded guilty, and was on his way back to the prisoners' pen, when Edward Davin's, the 15 -year-old brother of the girl, stood up in his seat in the rear of the court room and fired a shot from a 38 -calibre re- volver, which struck Clerget in the body. Clerget fell and died instantly, the shot having passed through his heart. On.the way to the coroner'e office the police said Devine stated the dead man had ruined his sister and he shot him. . A DESPERADO CAPTURED. -- Ike Mulder. the Essex Terror, Placed Bellied the Bars. An Essex despatch saye : Ike Mulder, the notorious colored outlaw, who for the past five years has terrorized the people of Colchester South, was arrested to -day in that township by a posse of five constables. Only one shot was flred before Mulder gave himself up. He found the house surrounded more systematically than on former oeca- eions when unsuccessful attempts were made th arrest him. He is wanted on a charge of assault with intent to kill. .An attempt was made two years ago by Con- stable Walters and an assistant to take him, and though they shot him be got away, returning th o fire as he ran. He fa believed to be the ringleader of a gang of men who made travelling in Colchester un- safe several years ago by a eystern of high - weir robberies. Be has for years been a terror to the people of the township, and hire arrest is hailed with delight throughout the country, —Baldheaded customer in barber shop - 1 want a hair cut. Affable barber—Yee, • sir ; which hair 1 I AND NOT IN TF/E PlIBLIQ STRNET8 Ido• not mind these monstrous trains I That all the women wear, Nor that they raise each clouds of duSt, 9 Do I a copper care. i't t 1 am very free to say I'would savo thena lots of rack Lonly they would run their trains Upon a private track. —You are alwaye a fault flnder,"' growled the wife. "Yes, dear," responded the hirsband meekly; "1 found you." —earl—Does he love you? Madge—ren sure lie does; I spilled some strawberry ice cream over his new lavender trousers the other zght, and he never even naid " Great Com" " Dia rinds aveighhig over 17 carats are not consiti 'red good form for shire front adorn. - inertia' '1