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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-7-14, Page 2STANLEY NOT SO POPULAR. As an Anti -Home Baler He Meets With Hough Treatment. °EASED BY A LAMBETH MOB. A London cable saya : Henry M. Stanley and Mrs. Stanley tried this evening to addreaa a meeting of Lambeth electors in Ilawkinia Hall. The crowd was n eiroarious from beginning to end. But little £3aid by each of the speakers was heard. The police seemed powerless to quiet the riotous demonstrations, and eventually the meeting broke up in a. ,general fight, followed by persistent at- tempts to assault the candidate and his wife. As soon as Mr. Stanley appeared on the platform it was evident that trouble w as brewing. There were groans and Shuffling on the outskirts of the crowd, and somebody shouted "Three cheers for Gladstone." The first sentence spoken by -Mr. Stanley was greeted with derisive laughter. The disorder grew until at the end of the first five minutes Mr. Stanley's address had become a mere dumb show. A few persons in front were yelling for him to go on, while the rest of the audience groaned or shouted gibes and insults. Mr. Stanley turned and motioned to the chairman, who requested the interference of the police, About fifty constables pushed their way 'through the hall, pushing men back to their seats and warning the shouters that further a:offences would be punished with ejection. 'Mr. Stanley proceeded when order was re- stored to speak of Mr. Gladstone and Home Rule. "Who has a stupid scheme ?" cried •out a woman. This reference to Mr. Stan- ley's denunciation of Gladstone was fol- lowed by cheers, shouts of "Sit down," "Let your wife talk for you," "Go back to America," and a steady chorus of howls. With the aid of the police however, the disturbance was again subdued, and by aoheer power of lung and perseverance, Mr. Stanley was able to make himself Insand fitfully for about 25 minutes more. Mrs. Stanley then took the platform. She Was received little better than her husband had been. Her references to his loyalty to Greet Britain were received with laughter, and her attempts to discuss polit- ical issues were rendered futile by uproari- ous demands that her husband speak for 1 himself, and shouted inquires as to what constituency she wished to represent. A fight was started near the platform and another in the rear of the hall. Mrs. Stan- ley became nervous and embarrassed, lost her line of thought, and in response to a gesture from Mr. Stanley, turned to sit down. The instant she turned all restraint en the meeting vanished and the crowd be- came a hooting and fighting mob. Mr. Stanley hastily started with Mrs. Stanley for the door, and his few supporters in the audience tried to hurry after him. They had to fight their way to the doors through blowa and abuse, most of them coming out with their hats smashed and their clothes torn. The mob broke from the doors of the hall with a sash and swooped down on Mr. Stanley's carriage. He had barely got airs. Stanley inside when they were upon him. Some- body grabbed him by the arm to pull him back, bout he tore loose, jumped in and slammed the door. The driver started up and the mob followed, pulling at the car- riage doors and trying to stop the horses. They wrenched off one door, but before they could do more the driver got his horses into a gallop and was beyond their reach. Mrs. Stanley was badly frightened. She was almost in hysterics when she left the hall, and she screamed several times during the mob's attack upon the carriage. CHONERA AND TYPHUS. Ravages of the Twin Plagues in Famine - Stricken Russia. A St. Petersburg cable says: The num- ber of victims in cholera -stricken Baku is steadily increasing. On Monday 55 fresh eases of the disease were reported at that place, and on the same day 57 deaths hap- pened. A quarantine has been established at Ouzanada for the purpoea of preventing contagion through the transportation of Aaiatic merchandise. Travellers are for- bidden to pass between the Caucasus and trans -Caspian Provinces. The Austrian Lloyd's has suspended its steamship service between Batoum and Trebizond. The cholera is spreadinginTiflis,Petrovsk and Astrakhan, despite the stringent regu- lationto prevent it. The Odessa correspondent of the Daily . Hews says : " It is reported at a foreign consulate hero that there have been fifty fatal cases of cholera at Tiflis in four days. It is feared the authorities are suppressing the truth." The Standard's Berlin correspondent says : "Private telegrams from Constanti- nople repreeent that the whole southern -shore of the Caspian Sea is infected with cholera. Quarantine has been established at Port Said against arrival a from all Black Sea ports and all ports on the Red Sea ex- cept Aden and Perim." The Vienna correspondent of the Times says : "Reports from the Russian frontier indicate a recurrence of typhus fever in talamara. There were 3,300 cases at Novu- zensk at the beginning of June, 550 of which proved fatal owing to the scarcity of doc- tors." A Paris cable says : The newspapers an- nounce that • the number of cases of cholera in the outskirts of this city is increasing. The Director of Public Aid admits that the disease has existed in the vicinity of Paris for the last three months, but insists that it has appeared in only a mild form. He says that the presence of the malady is due to the people drinking water taken from the Seine without having the liquid boiled be- fore being used. He declares that no true case of India cholera has yet been reported. DANN BEHIND THE BARS. be Buffalo Bank Defaulter's Deficit Growing Bigger Hourly. A Buffalo despatch says: Bank -defaulter Dann was arrested yesterday on a warrane secured by Ald. John White. Dann is now confined in the police cells, where he will probably remain until at least after the 4th, The amount of bail has been fixed at 8100,000. Aid. White's passbook showed $3,014 34 to his credit, while the bank edger showed hut $434. Dann paid over l0,000 to the bank on Friday,but within an hour after work began at the bank yester- day morning this amount was swept out of existence. New discoveries during this time aggregated $10,,000 deficit. The total deficit le not known, but it is eatimeted at from $300,000 to $500,000. "You were out again last night," said the wife, reproachfully, at breakfast. " To be caudid with yota" he replied, "I wasn't I With 'in ' just $14." —" He's an awful maser. I never heard of him giving anything away in his life." " Didn't he give his daughter away when she was married ?" "You're awfully funny, 'artin't you? His dauelotet eloped." —16 is hopta that the rain is over for the prong. Surely jfardter Playing can afford to take one dasae. rest, after his exertions of the past few weeks. T HE ST BANDED CHICAGO Rer Two Hundred rassengers Taken Off Without Any Disaster. EFFORTS TO SAVE THE VESSEL, A London cable says The Lunen line gnawer City of Chicago, Capt. Redford, which left New arork June 22nd for Liver- pool, and was signalled off Browhead at 4.45 o'clock this afternoon, is ashore on the Irish coast, two miles west of Kinsale. She went ashore in a dense fog about half a mile inside the West Head of Kinsale. Tugs have been despatched to the scone The steamer ran her stem into the cliff. The life -boats were at once launched, and other life-saving apparatus brought into play. The sea was smooth at the time she ran aground. The wind was moderate from the south-south-west and light. The West Head of Kinsale is about twenty miles west of Qeeenstown. The City of Chicago is an iron steamship of 3,383 tons. She was built at Glasgow in 1883. She struck the cliff within half an hour of high water. The passengers and mails from the stranded steamer are now being landed by means of the lifeboats. The powerful Liver- pool tug Stormcock has gone to the scene of the accident, and will render whatever as- sisitance is necessary. The fore compartment of the steamer is full of water, evidently the result of her bottom coming in contact with the jagged rocks at the place where she struck. The fog is still dense, and the vessels which are to lee despatehedto the assistance of the City of Chicago will have to proceed very slowly and cautiously. The weather is so thick that the tugs have not yet succeeded in clearing the harbor, and will experience considerable difficulty in reaching the dis- abled linen The agent of the Cunard Line is making arrangements for sending the tender Jackal to the scene as soon as pos- sible. From the information received here re- eding the location of the place where the ity of Chicago struck, it is supposed that she is grounded at a point known as Barrels Rocks. She is in a bad position, and from all that can be learned at present it is be- lieved that it will be a difficult task to get her afloat. A London cable says: The Liverpool underwriters have despatched their biggest wrecking vessel to Kinsale to aid the Inman liner City of Chicago, which went ashore near the Old Head of Kinsale on Friday night. The wrecking vessel carries powerful pumping and other gear, and it is intended to commence lightening the ship to -night. Two compartments of the steamer are full of water. Forty feet of the bottom from the forefoot have been torn away, and it is feared that the fastenings of the after com- partments will give way, owing to the vessel's bumping on the rocks. A lot of the ship's furniture and about 100 boxes and trunks, the contents of which were com- pletely saturated with water, were landed to -day. The weather continues fine. Lloyd's agent at Kinsale has been aboard the City of Chicago. He found Capt. Red- ford in charge. The steamer is firmly grounded on the rocks and her two forward compartments are full of water. As the vessel approached the Irish coast a dense fog set in. When Cape Clear had been passed Capt. Redford decided to make Queenstown, as several of his passengers were to land there. The fog sometimes lifted, and he concluded it would be perfectly safe for him to do so. The steamer did not strike on the Barrel rocks, as was at first stated. Before she had rounded the old Head of Kinsale she ran on the mainland. Soundings had been taken which showed plenty of water, and the steamer was going nearly full speed. When she struck she forced her- self into a large opening in a beetling cliff that stands 200 feet above the sea. The shock was something fearful, and many of the persons on board were thrown completely off their feet. The bows were torn out, and the fore com- partment was full of water. The coast guards were promptly at the scene of the wreck. The 200 passengers got ashore after a trying and exciting ordeal. Though there was not the slightest trace of a panic it was a strange and blood -stirring experience for the ladies and children. Tenders reached the wreck at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. The tups continue to attend the steamer. The disaster will not interfere with the re maining service of the Inman line. The passengers concur in praising the care given them by the crew, especially during the thrilling momenta when women and chil- dren were helped in the dead of night and in an impenetrable darkness up the rope ladders. Now thet the excitement attending the rescue is over, everyone, sailors and all, wonder that no serious accident happened. Aside from the boy, who fell, not the slight- est mishap occurred to the passengers. A DASTARDLY SCOVATDREL. Impersonated a Marshal and Abducted Fourteen Girls. A Springfield, Ill., despatch says : In the United States court on Friday James R. Sheppler pleaded guilty to six indict- ments for falsely impersonating a United States marshal. He operated extensively and in various portions of the country. Several young women are numbered among his victims. These he arrested on trumped- up charges, and, after getting them away from home and friends, frightened them into submitting to his will. No fewer than fourteen young women testified against him before the Grand Jury. It is thought Sheppler will be indicted in the United States court at Fort Smith, Ark., for the murder of a member of a marshal's posse in the Indian Nation, in 1890, that was en- deavoring to effect the arrest of a gang of horse -thieves. —"Does it pay to be religious, do you think?" " Pay ? You bet it does! Look at Talmage He gets $25,000 a year.4 The trial by court-martial of 16 persons, including M. Karavaloff, formerly Bulgarian Premier; and M. Elfordn, formerly Bulga- rian Premier ; and M. Moloff, a former Cabinet Minister, was continued yesterday at Sofia, when the evidence showed that Milaroff, one of the conspirators, had pro- cured bombs and poisoned pills from Zank- off and others, and had also organized bands of brigands to operate in Bulgaria. —" Why dichecher come out t' play ball yist'day ?" "Had to stay home an' keep th' flies off o' the baby." ` Hmh We got a baby, too, but they ain't no flies on it." —Native Christian women in China have formed a society to discourage the outdone of compressing the feet in childhood. Old Thomas Haywood, a resident of Lon- don for years, was killed on the Egerton street crossing of the G. T. R. Saturday afternoon. He was crossing the track with his horse and waggon just as No. 7 mail train from the east, due thereat 12.40p.m., was thundering along. It is said by an eye- witnese that his here° stopped on the track. Whether this is so or not the locomotive struck Mtn, killing him instantly. His rig WSW shattered into splinters, but his horse eseapkt, LIVELY TIMES IN ERIN. Many a Uoolc-Dowu Argument Used at Political Meetings, POLIOE PROTECTO'BRIEN. A. Dublin cable says : A serious political riot took place at Waterford on Friday night. Two political meetings were held in different parts of the city. At one, the principal speaker was Mr. Ja E. Redmond (Parnellite), who represented Waterford city in the laat Parliament. At the other meeting Mr. David Sheehy (Anti-Parnellite), who eat for South Galway, was the principal speaker. Both meetings were well attended, and the usual style of campaign oratory was indulged in. There was no trouble at the meetings, but later the supporters of the Parnellite faction, headed by a band, stormed Mr. Sheehy's committee -room. The Anti-Par- nellites fought the attackers desperately, but the latter were in too strong force. The police charged the assailants, but their efforts were uaeless, and the committee -room was captured. During the fight many of the participants on both sides were wounded, including Mr. Sheehy, who was wounded in three places. Several arrests were made. While Mr. William O'Brien was address- izig a meeting at Limerick in support of the candidature of Mr. F. A. O'Keefe (Anti- Parnellite), the assemblage was attacked.by a band of Parnellites armed. with sticks. A fierce fight followed, during which several of the participants were wounded. The police arrested the rioters, and escorted Mr. O'Brien to his hotel. • Mr. Timothy Healy addressed a meeting in Dundalk to -day in his own behalf as can- didate for North Louth. The town was the scene of violent disorder all day. Prior to Mn Healy's arrival a number of contingents of his country supporters on entering the town were attacked by Parnellites and a serious fight ensued, many being badly in- jured. When Mr. Healy arrived, his sup- porters paraded the town and frequent fights occurred along the line of march. The meeting which was held in the after- noon in the market square was attacked by Parnellites with sticks and stones. The Parnellites were repulsed after a fierce contest in which many were injured on both sides. Aiterward the police kept the two factions separated. Fighting was re- newed later in the evening. The rioting which broke out in Limerick last night while Mr. Wm. O'Brien was ad- dressing an anti-Parnellite meeting con- tinued until midnight. Mr. O'Brien left Limerick secretly this morning. While Mr. O'Brien was speaking last night another faction fight broke out at the other end of the town. Parnellites and McCarthyites pelted each other with sticks and stones, and many were injured on both sides. The McCarthyites were finally routed. Mr. Johnson, a Parnellite candidate, ad- dressed a meeting of 5,000 in Newry to -ay. While he was speaking a crowd of McCar- thyites interfered, and a number of fierce flghts ensued, sticks and stones being freely used, and several persons being wounded. The fighting ended in the repulse of the Mc- Carthyites. RIOTING IN MADRID. Bitter Opposition Offered to the Tax on Financial Operations. A Madrid cable says: The new taxes impond by the Spanish Government on various branches of business are meeting with strong opposition. The Bourse operators on Friday refused to do business owing to the tax on Bourse transactions. The retailers in the market are highly in- dignant at the imposition of the new tax, and yesterday they formed a procession and marched through the streets shouting and yelling, and in every way showing their disapprobation of the tax. The paraders assaulted the police who tried to keep them in order. Finally the civil guard was called upon to disperse the procession, which had now become a mob of rioters. The civil guards charged upon the mob, but met with unexpected resistance. The crowd held their ground and checked the charge of the civil guard with a shower of missiles. Stones and heavy sticks were thrown at the guard and many of them wereseverely hurt. A volley was then poured into the rioters and many were wounded. This ended the disturbance. That Wonderful Grand Old Man. I have often thought, in talking with Mr. Gladstone, as I have had the privilege of doing, and in seeing him in various public capacities, what a tressure he would be if he lived in America, to the newspapers. He would furnish them with three columns of matter right straight along every day. I have heard this extraordinary man, when past 80, speak in the House of Commons in the afternoon then afterward meeting him at dinner, where he was the life of the table, diecuseing the question, in which ladies might be interested, and then I have seen him at the Social Science Association late in the evening delivering an address on the most abstruse of the questions which were before the association. I was invited one afternoon five years ago to meet him, where I would se him alone at the house of one of the leaders of the Liberal party. When 1 entered he was there, for he was always early. It was raining hard. He immediately propounded to me the con- undrum, what was the average rainfall in the United States. Then he gave me what was substantially the average rainfall all over the world, and differentiated it in different countries, and gave what he re- garded as the climatic reasons for it. At the table he discussed the politics of every country in Europe and the relations of each country with the other in a manner that showed that onlya foreign statesman familiar with a foreign office for generations could do. He gave . a most interesting history of the procedure and evolution of Parliamentary practice, in the House of Commons ; then he went with me to the opera, was intent upon the music and the stage, and in the intervals of the acts he gave a resume of all the great actors and of all the great composers, with the views of the beet critics in the last twenty years. I wondered whence came this ex- traordinary vitality, this marveloue physt cal and mental vigor at 82, and I came to the conclusion that it came, of course, &et from a good constitution • second, from a temperate life, and third, from the fact that he had always been, and will be till the day he dies, interested in his work and up to his work.—Chauncey M. Depew. A special cablegram to the Mailsays that at Thursday's session of the Italian Cabinet Council, King Humbert explained the result of his reedit conference with Emperor William at Potsdam. Rolling mill employees in Philadelphia, numbering over 1,000, owing to their em- ployers' refusal to Wien the scale of wages that hae been in force for several years past, have gone on etrike. hire Chester Bullis, of Steven's Mille, Vt. e was killed last night by the acohlental discharge of a gun in the hands of her la - year -old sem Tat charge penetrated the heart, causing inetantaneous death. GLADSTONE AT GLASGOW. An .Appoal to Make the Irish Happy and Contented, GIVE THEM JUSTICE. A Glasgow cable says : Mr. Gladstone arrived in the city Saturday afternoon. Ram was falling, yet the streets through which he passed were lined with crowds who cheered continuously. The meeting was timed for 3 o'clock, but the ticket - holders had assembled at the theatre at noon in order to secure places, the interval being beguiled with vocal and instru- mental music. Mrs. Gladstone and Messrs. Trevelyan, Bannerman and other members of the House of Commons occu- pied seats on the platform. The arrival of the "grand old man" was the signal for it demonstration, the audience risingto their feet and singing "Auld Lang Syne," "He's a Jolly Good Fellow," and other popular songs, reminding the auience of the religious struggles in Scotland 200 years ago. Mr. Gladstone said he wished to point out that Ulster consisted of nine counties, of which four were represented wholly by Home Rulers, Tyrone, Down and Antrim being also largely represented by Home Rulers. It was a curious fact, he said, that the cry of alarm emanated almost entirely from that part of the country where the Proteetants are in a large majotity. The spirit of Irish nationality a century ago was more vivid in Antrim and Down than elsewhere in Catholic Ireland. He pro- ceeded to point out that Protestant agend- ancy, through the possession of land and pub- lic authority, had been used to goad, prac- tically, a united country into paitial re- bellion in order to split it into parties. They must not disguise from themselves the fact that the act of union was con- ceived in it spirit of utter hostility to Irish nationality. He was not it man to disparage the danger of ecclesiastical power, but it did not impress him with great alarm. He greatly doubted whether the power of the Irish priesthood over their flocks was as great as it was 50 years ago. He believed that the more liberty was ac- corded the mass of the Irish people the loss risk there could possibly be of the sur- render of that liberty into the hand of ecclesiastical power. They ought to ask themselves whether it was the local clergy they had to fear or whether it was not the danger to liberty by the undue tampering between England and Rome. For nearly a century the British Govern- ment had coquetted with Rome about Ire- land. Now it new phase appeared in the question of marriages.' It was proposed to nullify the marriages of persons abandoning the Catholic church with a view to eluding the Catholic marriage laws. Surely that was a private and personal concern. The law had no right to interfere between private conscience and God, who ought to rule. That was the work of the Lintorn-Sim- mons mission and the Salisbury Govern- ment, which had received the allegiance of Irish Presbyterians, who solicited the confidence of the Scotch Presbyterians to watch the designs and to restrain the ex- cesses of ecclesie.sticalpower. He was pained and grieved beyond description and ashamed that these elements of religious animosity should be imported into civil, national and Imperial questions. He protested against the hard necessity and the folly the Irish minority had laid them under in examining the claims they made and showing how futile they were (Cheers.) The claims that the Government was restoring order in Ireland were quite untenable. Ireland had not been in a state of peace and order since 1884. She had incurable and unconquerable hostility to- ward the unequal laws and the coercive Castle goverinnent which the present leader of the dissident Liberals, when he was in his right mind, described as unexampled and intolerable. To this hour the Govern- ment had been unable to induce anybody to take a farm in Ireland from which the tenant e had been evicted. When the Irish mind had acquired the confidence of the British people the samewercomeawaited the words "God Save England" as "God Save Ireland," and stamped the zeal, free and permanent union which had gradually been in course of coneolidation between the two coun- tries. The Land Act. of 1887 had done much to pacify Ireland, but it could not be compared with the silent, all -embracing pro- cess which he described. For upward of 500 years there had been an almost un- broken succession of political storms in Ireland. These storms were in strong con- trast with the future which the present emotion of 'the pish mind justified them in anticipating. Loud and prolonged cheers went up at the close of the address and were con- tinued in the streets as Mr. Gladstone was driven to the railway station to take a train for Dalmeny. The labor candidates will figure more conspieulously in this than any previous election. Besides the nine labor members of the late Parliament, all of whom are stand- ing again, there are 29 other labor candi- dates in English constituencies. Six of the new men are miners, and of these Mr. Woods, who stands for the Ince division of Lancashire - Mr. Aspinall, who stands for Wigan, and Mr. Johnson, in North War- wickshire, have a clear course before them. Mr. Arch and Mr. Ball, agricultural labor- ers, have been taken up by the Liberals of northwest Norfolk and East ,Sussex, Mr. W. J. Davis and Mr. Bloor have been chosen by the Gladstonians of Birmingham as the men most likely to oust Messrs. Kollings and Kenrick. There are several cases in which labor candidates are gentl- ing independently and opposing both Liberals and Conservatives. The prospect is that the number of labor members in the coming Parliament would be double the number in the Parliament just dissolved. A SHARP THIEF -- Plays Inspector and Walks Off With An , Insurance Company's Funds. A Berlin cable says : A daring robbery Is reperted from Flensburg. A man en- tered the branch office at that place of the Prussian Insurance Company, presented a card to the manager, indicating that he was authorized by the head office of the com- pany in Berlin to examine the books and cash of branch offices, and took possession of the office. After looking over the books, he took the cash boxes, stating that he would deposit them in a bank and count the money the next day. After finishing the inspection of the office documents he did not return, and the too -unsuspecting man- ager of the office finally realized that he had been swindled. The amount of money stolen is abotit 100,000 marks. The stranger gave his name as Gustave Schwabe but this is supposed to be an alias. No Clue to his whereabouts has yet been obtained. --" Miss Hinkley, will you be my wife?" "Why, eurely, Mr. Sappy, you mug know I am engaged to Harry Watkine." "Groat Scott ! Is there a girl in town , that isn't engaged ? You are the seventh I've asked thuo week." —It is generally the man who can least afford the cost who has the reddest nose. JIMMY'S FOURTH. IF you had asked any one of the boys the Pelham grammar Bohool who wa the most popular boy in school h would have answered without hesita tion "Jimmy McKinley." Yo might suppose from this that Jimm was a rich, handsome little fellow ; bu he Was only a very red-headed Iris boy, the only son of a widowed motile who took in washing from some of the bee families in Pelham. And as for beauty Jimmy's fair akin was 80 crowded wit freckles thee all the new ones had to over lap the others, and the ratiff red hair woul never stay in place any more than the but tons would keep their hold on his roug jacket. But he had a pair of merry blue eyes tha had a trick of laughing when he was tryin his best to keep his face sober, and he wo friends every day of his life, The boys a liked him for his bright, sunny temper, hi perfect honesty and a manly way he had o standing up for anything that was sufferin or being abused, whether it was a boy or dog. But about the cow. At the time whe our story begins, as the novelists say, thee wasn't any cow in the Widow McKinley' barn but out under the apple tree in th small orchard lay the poor dead creatur which had helped to support the famil for the last five years, and which Jimm had driven, or rather accompanied, to pas ture every summer morning and tenderl cared for in the winter, until she seemed t him like it friend. People used to laugh good natured] when they saw Jimmy coming down th street, with one hand on Mollie's horns feeding her choice handfuls of clover an asking her if it was good. One sharp, crue stroke of early summer lightning had bee quite enough to still the heart of the poor faithful brute, and Jimmy and his mother on this bright, sunny morning, were sobbin and bewailing their loss. I fear that the first thought in th widow's mind was that Jimmy must now stay out of school and be put to work, an he was such a bright scholar that she ha almost hoped the cow would fit him fo college. Mollie gave an unusually larg quantity of milk, as if she knew that it wa Intended for a poor widow, and Jimm thoroughly enjoyed taking it on his littl handcart to his customers, because ever one said that it was the best milk to b had in town. The poor boy mourned as fo a lost friend. Up on the ball ground of the Pelham grammar school the boys were discuss ing Jimmy's misfortune. Jimmrny wa pitcher in the baseball nine, and a lemon pitcher too. "Poor Jamesie !" said Bob Millet. "11 oved Mollie next to his mother. Why didn' that unlucky streak of lightning hit one o Farmer Dent's cows? He could easily spar one." " Father says Jimmy will have to leav school now and go to work," said Leste Quimby. "They can't afford to buy anothe cow, and Mrs. McKinley is not able to work all the time on account -of her rheumatism. So Jimmy will have to help support the family." " What a shame !" cried little Harry Wilbur'jumping withthe ease of aJapanese acrobat from the high post on which he had been sitting "I say, boys, let's buy em' a new cow! I'll give all my fireworks money if you'll do the same, :me I know we can get our fathers to help. Come on! "My Fourth of July money is a pretty small sum this year," said Tommy Trask, " but 1'11 give it every cent. Three cheers for redhead Jimmy !" The boys all gave the cheers with a will and added an especially ferocious "tiger," and after that subscriptions came in easily. Harry Wilbur took out his small memoran- dum book and recorded the amounts in it very neat, exact hand, and in every case suggested immediate payment. "Cash down saves agreat deal of trouble, you know, boys," he said. He was wise enough to know that the tempting packages of firecrackers, the rockets Roman candles and fancy pieces displayed fie Gunther's win- dows might prove too strong an attraction for their pocketbooks. " See here, Harry 1" exclaimed one "this plan rules out all the fun Fourth of July morning—no powder, no crackers, the whole town as still as Sunday." " Fun!" shouted Harry. "Wouldn't you call it the best kind of fun to buy a prime cow and drive her up to the McKinleys on th morning of the Fourth ?" Three cheers for Harry Wilbur were called for and given with zest, and the boys went into the school -room with minds full of fine cows and pocket money. But the most that could be raised among them all was a small sum compared with what was needed. " Let's earn the rest," suggested the cap- tain of the P. G. S. baseball nine. "It won't be our present if we beg the money of our fathers." The suggestion met with favor, and the boys worked for the next four weeks as if the welfare of the town depended on what they could earn. They solicited errands from the grocers and farmers and mill owners. They drove caws and picked greens and sweet flag to sell in the neigh- boring town. They fished and hunted for game, and gathered great bunches of young wintergreen which they carried to the express station two miles away and sold to the passengers. Every Saturday night they had a meet- ing in Harry Wilbur's barn to count over what they had earned dnring the week. It was really astonishing how the money grew. Mr. Wilbur kept it in his safe, and he had to count it about six times a week for the boys' malefaction. The air was full of excitement. Poor Jimmy, in the meantime, was sor- rowfully working away on his lessons, believing that this was his last chance with his beloved books. The boys were almost too kind to him. And yet he could aee that they had a secret which they were carefully keeping from him. It hurt the boy, for he loved them all Even Harry Wilbur,whom he had drawn i to school on his sled n the winter and had taught to swim and skate, was careful to stop talking with the boys when Jimmy came on the playground. But they iall made him presents of nice things from home and treated him like a little prince, which he was in heert if not in station. It is not unlikely that the money in Mr. Wilbur's safe received a few additions from the larger purees of the boys' fathers who weee in the secret. At all events there was qttiee enough on the Saturday morning befd e the Fourth of July te buy a fine cow. s Mr. Wilbur took six of the boys in his dou le carriage over to a large stock farm, and bout five timean many more walked over 'to assist in the important business of selecting the very best cow that could be had for the money. They inspected a great number before they Were quite satisfied ; but at last the farmer glowed them a beautiful, gentle - eyed ereature with a smooth, deep red coat and a long, arrow ehaped mark on her forehead. H e eaid rshe Was very kind and easily Managed, 111161 !VIVO an abuudanee of the richest milk. The boys Were delighted With her, tsad each of the thirtymix walked around ber and inspected her with great seriousness. It was their purchatoe, and ifi they had not earned the right to be critioali I do not know who had. Harry Wilbur named her Rocket on the' spot, on aocount of the mark on her form, head, and perhaps with another idea in his mind. Never was A cow more hospitably treated than was Rocket during the next few days. In the stable of Mr. Wilbur's barn she was. visited every dem by crowds of boys, and was fed on clover and other choice green things wbich seemed perfectly to agree with her, for on the morning of the Fourth her sleek coat looked like a shiny garnet satin. Jimmy McKinley looked out of his min - dew before breakfast that morning—of course the boys could not wait any later than that ! There were all the boys coming up the road, and they were leading by a long evergreen rope something that moved, to be sure, but was so crowned wreaths and vines and ferns that one would hardly have suspected what it was. Jimmy did not stand on ceremony, but rushed out to meet the procession and see what was on hand. Harry Wilbur's eyes shone like two gam —he was so excited—and when he led pretty, large eyed Rocket up to Jimmy, and put the end of the evergreen rope in his hand and tried to make the little speech -which he had prepared with such pains, something felt very queer in his throat and he could only say: "She's your's, Jimmy. We boys earned her, and you can come to school now. Oh, dear, oh, dear 1" and the little fellow threw himself on the ground and cried fox' joy. Jimmy stared in amazement, and when he fully understood that the beautiful gift was for him, and that the boys had loved him enough to give it to him, his laughing blue eyes grew misty too, and his poor mother broke down entirely and showered if rich blessings right and left. But Tommy Trask was equal to the occa- sion, and he proposed three cheers for the Widow McKinley, and three for Jimmy and three times three for Rocket, and then they danced around the bewildered cow and cheered her until their throats were dry.— Youth's Companion. M'ho Fired the Barn? A barn had been burned in the suburbs,, and a tramp had been arrested for setting fire to it, says the Detroit Free, Press. After most ot the testimony wasin, the prisoner was permitted to make a state. ment. "Your Honor," he said, "if anybody set this barn afire it was the prosecuting attorney !" The prosecuting attorney was, on his feet in an instant, and the tramp held, up his hands appealingly. "Let me go on," he said, and the court let him go on. " Didn't you," he said, addressing the prosecutor, " throw a man out of your second story -window yesterday evening?" The prosecuting attorney said he had caught a tramp in his house about 8 o'clock the evening before, and had fired him through a window. "Thanks !" said the prisoner. " That was me. I went out on to a shed roof that broke my fall and almost broke my neck,. and went on down, where I lit on the hired, girl, and scared her 60 she made a break forr the back yard, where she startled a stray dog so that he made off with a howl for the street, running between a policeman's legs and upsetting him. The policeman made a , swipe at him with his club and hit a horse 1 standing by the curbstone, and he ran away, I' and up street he scattered a crowd of women, and then scared a horse hitched to, a milk waggon, and he broke for home and tbere scared a cow, and she ran over a cat in the stable yard watching a rat hole, and the cat went into the barn, where a lantern was hanging, and the lantern nem turned over on to a pile of hay ancl set it. are, and the man that ought to have been there was downtown trying to catch the horse that scared the crowd that scared his horse that ran away and set the barn on fire. And that's how it happened," con- cluded the tramp with a long breath of relief. The court was paralyzed. "And where were you all this time'? was the next en- quiry. " Me ?" he asked innocently. "Oh 1 I was in the gentleman's kitchen eating the hired girl's supper, while she was out trying to find the policeman tare dog upset, so's he could come and see what had dropped on the hired girl." The case isn't settled yet. How the Persians Dine. Persian dinners are very much like ours,. turned the wrong way round. The feast is preceded by pipes, while tea and sweetsi are handed about. Then the servants of• the house appear, bringing in a long' leather sheet, which they spread in the - middle of the floor ; the guests squat round this, tailor fashion. When all are seated a fiat loaf of bread is placed before every one, and the music begins to play. The various - dishes are brought in on trays and ar- ranged round the leather sheet at inter- vals. The covers are then removed, the. host says " Bismillah " (in the name of God), and without another word they all fa to. Close Rivals. "1 think I have the most tender hearted husband in the world," remarked Mrs. Glim. . "Ile can't bear to beat his children, even when they need it ever so bad." " That's nothing," replied Mrs. Glanders.. "My husband is so tender hearted I can't . get him to beat the carpet." An earthquake shook was felt in Veron on Thursday. At the International al Mere' Exhibition, which is being held in London, Eng., the - champion gold medal offered for the best wheat boa been awarded to the Manitoba, Government for all exhibit of Red Fyfe. A witless horseshoe'that is fastened to the hoof with a chop, is coming into use in Paris. Leonard Grawburger, a Yarmouth farmer, was bitten by a dog while on the St. Thomas market on Saturday. The wounds were cauterized, but before reach- ing home he suffered itttense pain, and bad results were feared. The five perforations in the calf of his leg have run into one large sore, yet Dr. McLay, of Aylmer, his physi- cian, says that them: are no symptoms of '- hydrophobia this afternoon. George E. Johnson, an employee of Frank,. Burnett, was killed by a falling tree in Seymour township last week. The de— ceased with another man was engaged in. making it bush fence, and their labors were nearly completed. In getting out of the, way of a falling tree he was caught in one of the branches. He was pitched headlong against a stump and killed instantly. The deceased leaves a wife and several children. Aboub three weeks ago gates were erected at the entrance to Thousand Island park, the great Methodist ground of the !Thousand Islands, and an admission fee of ten cents was charged. Lag night a party of enentinent cottage owners editors° to the scheme tore down the gates, which were a looked, threw them into the river and sank them. There ie great excitement among the re trustees of the park.