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Before and After Taking.
Ole, joyous, gladsome picnic, morn!
Row cool the air, the eltiee how bright,
A, thousand naentalioas are born,
To fill the heart with wild delight.
The incense from the tremerowned
The babble of the eveocliand riti
The wild bIrd'ssong which grandly thrills
And all the forest arches fills;
The mystic whisper a the trees,
The clrowswhaun ot bumble bees ;
A scene designed the gods to pleaee,
A deeam of happiness ana ease,
That all our being thrills.
Oh, weary, dreadful picnic night!
I almost wish that I were dead.,
I m looking like a perfect fright,
.A.ncl filled with achefrom feet to head,
It rained incessantly same more;
My,clothee are wet and stained and torn,
rre:_yeeling miserably forlorn.,
I'mesorry I was over born.
The woods were fuller beggar's lice,
We drank rain water without ice;
.And dinners full ot ants aren't nice;
Hereafter a ethnic device
Will catoh me -in a horn.
What's the 11 s e e
What's the use of always fretting
Over iils that can't be cured?
What's the use of finding fault with
What we know must be endured ?
Does it make our burdens lighter
It we grumble %oath their load ?
Does it make life's pathway smoother
It we fret about the road ?
Better use our time than fill it
Full of sighs and VMS regrets
Over Some imagined blunder,
As he does who always frets.
TUE OPERA AT SCUDDY.
THE little town of Scuddy, away
out on the Kansas border, on the
proposed line of the D., K. & N.
Railway, was enjoying a beem of
no mean proportions. Strangers
were arriving daily, improv, ments
were going on at every ham, and
the little trading past was fast
taking upon itself metropolitan airs.
Its citizens were jealously proud of its
advancements, and the personal safety of a
man who would have elided to assert that
the town was not booming would have been
very liable to be endangered.
Badgerton was Seuideds own rival, the
only thorn in the side of its citizen. Badger -
ton did not exist exeept upon the map, they
scornfully asserted, but for all that, it oc-
casionally made it presence felt.
The Scuddyitem hailed with delight any
opportunity to gain advantage over Badger-
ton'and were feverishly alert to secure any.
thing that would boom Scuddy on towards
prominence and discomfit its rival.
It was this spirit that caused Jack Bates
to prevail upon the Acme Opera Company
to visit Scuddy. Jeck had seen the com-
pany at one of the towns further east, and
had learned that they intended to visit
Badgerton and not Scuddy.
It was not much in the vray of an opera com-
pany, and Jack did not admire operas, any-
how. But, as he expressed it, " he didn't
keer two whoops in Halifae for operys no-
how ; he was plumy alive to the interests
uv Scuddy, and didn't propose that no one-
hoss place like Badgerton should get the
bulge on her."
To have it said that the opera company
had visited Scuddy and had scorned to ap-
pear at its rival, would be a cause for the
most profound satisfaction to every resident
of the latter place.
By guaranteeing that every place of busi-
ness would be closed on the night of the
performance, and that every person in town
and from as far out as the Yellowhammer
Ranch should attend at $1 per head, or if
unable to be present should send the dollar,
anyhow, Jack was able to secure the com-
pany. In return the manager signed a con-
tract to the effect than he would not visit
Badgerton under any circumstances. If
asked his reason, he y romieed to reply that
the place was not of suffilient importance to
warrant it.
Great was the rejoicing at Scuddy when
Jack Bates announced the .awed news. A
mass -meeting was held, andJack's acumen
and fostering care of Scuddy's prosperity
were lauded to the skies. His name was
even mentioued as that of a candidate for
the Mayorship at the next election.
When the stage drew up to the combined
hotel and post -office, a few days later, with
a more elaborate flourish than usual, it
seemed as if every person in the little set-
tlement was there to welcome its arrival.
Bill Hankley, the driver, seemed to have
acquired a new and added dignity since the
citizens had seen him last.
"Air they thar ?" asked Jack Bates, anx-
iously.
"You bet !" was driver Bill's reply. A
shout of welcome went up from the crowd
as the door of the stage opened and the
singers alighted. Old Colonel Darby, whose
enthusiasm had got the better of hie judg-
ment insisted. upon delivering an address of
welcome.
, The last to leave the coach was a small,
pale -faced, yellow -haired man, who bore in
hie arms a little bundle. It might have
been a roll of clothing, or it mighthavebeen
a baby,
The yellow -haired . man was assigned a
little room in the " L" of the hotel, on the
first floor. He placed the bundle on the
bed, and, softly removing the wrappings,
revealed 'a baby, uneasily sleeping and
catching its breath by fitful gasps. Its
little face was thin and burning with fever.
It opened its ble eyes and stretched its tiny
hands feebly toward the yellow -haired man.
"1 'ant a d'ink, papa," the parched lips
piped weakly.
All day long the yellow -haired man sat
beside the fever -stricken baby. Oftimes
his head sank on hie breast, as if from sheer
exhaustion, but he was always ready to in-
stantly attend to the feeble cry of "'Ant a
d'ink, papa," oft repeated.
The chilseemed to be sinking rapidly.
Its hot breath came and went in painful,
fluttering gasps.
Often the yellow -haired man's eyes closed
involuntarily, but the baby's feeble wail for
water always aroused him.
He took the little eufferer in his arms,
and, as the sun sank from sight behind the
distant mound, he seated himself before the
open window.
The soft southwestern breeze, laden with
the perfume of the wild verbenas, gently
agitated the interlaced morning glory vines
that crossed the window,
It dallied about the little hot fa.ce, fanned.
the burning cheeks'and kissed the small
parched lips. It toyed with the baby's
yellow curls, so like those of the pale -faced
man who bent above it.
The little head nestled closer to the man's
heart.
"Sing, Boma," the parched lips whis-
pered. '''' .
It was only an old-fashioned lullaby,
elinple, even silly perhaps, but the tenor
voice that sang it so softly glorified the
homely air.
The swift, Indian summer twilight of the
plains came and went: and still the yellow.
haired man sat in the dim room by the open
wiadow and sang the sweet old lullaby,
The song went steadily en, and presently
the body wag still, except for , the feverish
breathing.
Out in the derknees a night hawk fell,
Seentingly front the very clouds almost to
the earth, uttering, as he turned to begin
his ascent, his weird, booming, discordant
,
ery.
The door Opened (witty and someone tip-
toed into the remit.
Said a low voice, yOur cue cornett
In five minutes. Yon must go now."
The yellow -haired man left the sleeping
child softly on the bed, and followed the
newcomer out into tlae darkness.
He staggered weakly ea they strode along
the dark street, and once would have fallen
had. not his comrade caught hint.
" Take my arm, Paul," the comrade
said.
The impromptu opera house, a new,
half -finished building, with a make -shift
stage and scenery, was crowded to over-
flowing.
The citizens of Souddy were present
almost to a man, and even the cowboys
from as far out as the Yellowhammer and
Spade ranches were in attendance.
Jack Bates, with a bouquet clutched in
his hand, occupied a pronament position
and applauded every part of the perform-
ance with impartial vigor.
The performance had been going on for
some tirne when the yellow -haired tenor
appeared. Ile came upon the stage with
unsteady, stumbling steps. His yellow hair
was tossed about and his face was drawn
and pallid. When he began to sing the
audience regarded him with marked dis-
favor. He was intoxicated, they thought.
His tones were inharmonious and often
almost harsh and broken by choking
catches, now and then, as if the singer had
smothered a sob in his throat. Then as his
voice soared up, up, in a triumphant burst
of music, it broke in a discordant, croak -
like sound, that completely destroyed the
melody.
The cowboys began to hies, and Jack
Bates expressed his disfavor in an audible
growl. The singer did not heed them'but
continued the discordant and often half -
inaudible song, as if it had been the most
delightful melody in the world.
The cowboys yelled their disapproval at
the top of their voices, and one or two fired
off their pistols by the way of protest.
The tenor ceased and one of the ladies
began a song that was like the sweet music
of a lark's liquid notes. A wild shout of
applause arose from the cowboys, and Jack
Bates stood up and cast his bouquet upon
the stage. The yellow -haired man leaned
wearily against one of the supports of the
impromptu scenery. Then, as his turn
came again, he broke into the lady's happy
song with his doleful, tuneless croak.
The cowboys gave a howl of disgust and
wrath and half a dozen of them started
toward the stage, as if to wreak summary
vengeance upon the miserable singer.
He ceased just as they reached the stage.
Bending forward, he seized the bouquet that
Jack Bates had thrown to the lady, and,
without a word, the yellow -haired man dis-
appeared from the view of the audience.
They heard the door of the back entrance
slam behind him. Jack Bates, with a about
of wrath, dashed down the aisle and oat into
the darkness, followed by the half-dozen
irate cowboys and a few others.
A light was shining from the vine•clad
window in the " L " of the hotel when the
angry little crowd reached it. The cow-
boys were for rushing into the hotel and
severely drubbing the offending singer, but
Jack Bates restrained them.
" Hold on," he LIMA "Let's see what the
coward's sedoin' first."
"Like's not he's a-hidird under the bed,"
growled one,
Jack Bates gazed through the interlaced
vines a moment and then stepped back.
" What's he up to ?" waked one.
"Look fer yerself ?" Jack whispered.
One by one they peered in through the
morning glory vines, and each drew back
without a word. Within the room the
yellow -haired man was kneeling beside the
ned, with his face buried in his hands. His
slight, frame was shaking with sobs.
The little pinched face of the baby was
white now, and the painful gasping for
breath had ceased. The baby had died alone
while the father was away.
The little hands were folded across the
small bosom, and upon them lay Jack Bates'
bouquet.
No sound came from the little mob out-
side except one, when the jingles on a cow-
boy's spur clanked against a fellow, and
there was a sound from Jack Bates like an
ill -suppressed sob.
A dark figure came among them, and
whispered for the crowd to follow him. It
was the man who had called the yellow -
haired tenor to the performance.
" Boys," he said simply, "his wife died
last mont, leaving him alone in the world
except for the baby. Last week the child
was stricken with the fever and has grown
worse since. Hardly a moment at a time
has the baby been out of his arms for the
last few days and nights, and all that time
he has barely closed hie eyes for an in-
stant in sleep. He has missed his meals
to -day for fear his absence would disturb the
baby. The baby's dead now. That's all,
boys."
A few moments later an awkward squad,
consisting ot Jack Bates and the cowboys,
entered the room where the yellow-hairee
man knelt by the dead baby. Their hats
were off and their bared heads were bowed.
The Man who had spoken outside was
with them.
'Paul, he said," "here are some friends
who wish to speak to you."
The yellow -haired man rose to his feet
and confronted them without a word. Jack
Bates cleared his throat and began awk-
wardly.
" Pardner " said he, "yere's a leetle bun-
dle we found in the road just now. Hit
belongs to you an' the dead baby."
They turned and filed out into the dark-
ness.
The tenor's comrade opened the little
package that Jack Bates had placed on the
bed. When the old, soiled handkerchief
was untied, there was revealed a little heap
of money -gold, silver and notes to a good-
ly amount -the gift of Jack Bates and the
cowboys.
When and What to Read.
If you are impatient, sit down quietly
and have a talk with Job.
If you are just a little strong -headed, go
to see Moses.
If you are getting weak-kneed, take a
look at Elijah.
If there is no song in your heart, listen to
David.
If you are a policy man, read Daniel.
If you are getting eordid, spend a while
with Isaiah.
If you feel chilly, get the beloved disci-
ple to put his arms around you.
If your faith is below par, read Paul.
If you are getting lazy, watch James. -
Golden Censer.
Refused by Inference.
Dallas -1 hear that you propoeecl to Miss
Testy last night and got a refusal?
Callous -Well, as to that, she didn't
bluntly refuse me ; she wouldn't wound my
feelings by doing that, yet the inference of
her remark was plain enough.
Dallas-Wha.t reply did she make to your
proposal?
Callous -She said if I was the last Man
on earth she might consider it.
"1 bay, my triend," said a traveller from
Maine, can you tell me Where thete's a
haunted house ?" "Yes, sir," was the re-
ply, "Come withme and you will find any
kind of Spirits you Want."
A towel trust hart been established. It
Will come down with a crash.
DOMINION PARLIAMENT.
Mr. Speaker anuommed the resignation of
Mr. Robert Watson, M, 13., for Marquette,
Man., and said the Speaker's warrant had
been issued for a new eleotion.
Mr. Haggart presented the resolutione in
favor of railway subsidies of which notice
had already been given, and whioh have
been publiahed.
Mr. Laurier protested strongly against
bringing down resolutions involving such a
large sum and upon ao important a question
at etioh a late hour of the session. The
resolutions numbered, sixty, and called for
the expenditure of several million. Now
that so many members were absent, and so
many others were preparing to go, it was
quite impossible that these questions should
be fairly and fully discussed.
Mr. McMillan (Huron) drew attention to
the report of John McQueen, British farm
delegate to the Maritime Provinces. He
said this report was suppressed by the Gov.
erne -lent, and only brought to light when
the Opposition insisted upon its production.
Mr. Colter followed in a plea for free
trade relations for his province with the
United States.
Mr. Mills (Bothwell) drew attention to
the administration of the Department of
Indian Affairs, which he claimed, demanded
investigation by the House. He complained
of the large amount expended on salaries,
no less than $560,000 being paid out in this
way, out of all proportion to the eervices
rendered. He was confident that the
efficiency of the service could be increased
and $100,000 wiped off the salaries. The
service had no other purpose than to pen-
sion off party followers on the public
treasury. In one agency the amount dis-
tributed among the Indians was less than
half that paid the white men for salaries.
Mr. Mills concluded his address on the
Indian Department management, criticizing
the payment of salaries to unncecessary
officials.
Mr. Dewdney, replying, said he was dis-
appointed in the hon. gentleman's speech,
as he usually profited by his criticism, but
he feared he could not upon this occasion.
He contended that the expenditures alleged
to be extravagant were in fact necessary to
the strict supervision of the Indians, with-
out which the Indians would retrograde.
It must not be forgotten that the agencies
were spread over a vast area.
On the item, commercial agencies $5,000,
Mr. Paterson asked for an explanation,
for, as he understood, the expenditures
under this head were not all upon com-
mercial agencies.
Mr. Foster said that already the com-
mercial agency system had been establiehed
in France. The representative of Canada
there had been instructed to send in a report
upon the commercial conditions and tariff
changes. In Britain the immigration agents
were also made commercial agents. There
were two agents in the Leeward Islands,
one in the Windward Islands, one in
Jamaica, and one in British Guiana. The
firet reports of these officers were expected
by next mail. Ile was making arrange-
ments also with a view to establishing a
similar agency in Yokohoma. The agents
were not extravagantly paid. The system
was admittedly an experimental one. The
item passed.
The House resumed in Committee of
SuPPIY-
On item $10,000 for a monument to the
late Premier, Sir John Macdonald,
Mr. Laurier said that it was to be the
policy of the country to spend public money
for the purpose of honoring the memory of
public men who had passed away, he could
not fairly object to this item. But Canada
had lately lost a great man, one of her
ablest statesmen, one who in his (Mr. Lau-
rier's) estimation, stood as high as the late
Premier. If this policy was to be pursued,
the liberality of the Government and the
House shauld not be confined to one side of
politics.
Mr. Foster said he agreed with the view
taken of the late Mr. Mackenzie. The
Government had considered the subject of a
monument in his memory, and would con-
sider it further, but they did not reach such
a eonelusion as would justify a vote being
asked at this time.
Mr. McMullen said that though Sir John
Macdonald had ruled the destinies of the
country for a quarter of a century, this was
not regarded by all the people of this coun-
try as a good thing, but many regarded it
rather as a misfortune. It was not right to
ask political opponents to contribute to 'a
monument of a dead political leader. -
Mr. Foster said such references to Sir
John Macdonald did not show a generous
spirit, and he thought were unworthy of the
hon. gentleman.
The item passed.
Mr. Foster promised to bring down on
Monday the report of the recent conference
at Washington.
After recess the House resumed in com-
mittee on the criminal code, and passed all
the sections except those reserved at the
former sittings for further discussion, and
excepting also the schedules. The commit-
tee rose and reported progress and asked
leave to sit again.
Mr. Mulock asked as to the truth of the
statements he had heard that the Govern-
ment had had an inquiry made into certain
transactions of the Intercolonial Railway.
He was informed that the Auditor -General
had been enquiring into the amount due to
the railway, and that theresult was the dis-
covery that a very large sum was owing to
the Government for freights over the rail-
way.
Mr. Foster said all he could say was that
no special investigation had been under-
taken, but the Auditor -General, in the pur-
suance of his duty, had made an audit of
the accounts. He had not made any report
on the subject up to this time, nor had he
even made any extended verbal statement
of the results of the investigation.
The House then went intro Committee of
Supply, and passed a number of items relat-
ing to the steamship Subsidies.
On the item $103,000 to subsidize three
lines of steamers from Halifax and St. John
to the West Indies and South America.
Mr. Landerkin asked if the trade with
the West Indies was growing in a manner
satisfactory to the Minister of Finance.
Mr. Foster replied that it was improv-
ing.
Landerkinquoted the trade and naviga-
tion returns to show that from 1875 to 1877
inclusive the trade with the West Indies
was $11,409,684, while from 1885 to 1887
inclusive it was ,582,269, a falling off of
over four millions. This did not Beene to
him a satisfactory state of affairs.
Mr. Mills contended that the prime diffi-
culty as to exports was that Canada put
barriers in the way of imports from ,the
West Indies. The experience of the world
proved that goods could not be sold by one
nation to another unless it was prepared to
take in return what that other had to sell.
It was because she recognized thia principle
that Britain's foreign trade had grown to
such enormous proportions.
After further discussion the item passed.
Capt. Hermann °leis of the Commissary
Department at Burnet:burg, Prussia, has
been sentenced to four years' penal servi-
tude for embezzling 1ii,000 markii belonging
to his regithents funde.
Half the year, le gone. fifftVe yea no
Mood it I.
THEMF1IWI SEPAIUTION.
Dreadful fOrtrertugs or TWO Patti Hearts in
the Flour City.
They had been married but six weeks,
end her "own dear, blessed George" waa
going away, to be gone three "whole, dread-
ful days." She had gone to the dation to
see him off, and was clinging tightly to hie
arin as they walked up and down the plat-
form waiting for his train to baok into the
station. Both of them were as solemn as
they would have been had he been exiled to
Siberia and was about to start for that
delectable country.
"You'll write every day, won't you, dar-
ling?" she said.
"Yes, indeed. And you must write me a
long letter to -night."
Oh, I will. And you'll take real good
care of yourself ?"
"Oh, yes ; I will."
"Oh, you must. What would I do if
anything should happen to my boy ?"
"Oh, nothing will happen to me, dar-
ling."
Oh, but something might. It would
kill me if anything should happen to you."
"You foolish little girl to be so fond of
me. But I'll be all right."
"Be so carefnl getting on and off the
cars. Promise me that you won't got off or
on to a oar while it is in motion."
"Oh, I won't. You take good care of
yourself, darling."
" Oh, I shall just sit ansi cry all the
time."
"Shall you miss me so much ?"
"Miss you? Oh, George !"
" My darling 1"
"The minutes will seem tome like years!
Won't you miss me ? "
" Miss you? I shall think of you every
minute."
"You dear old boy! Oh, that is your
train corning in?"
Yes."
" Oh, George 1"
You must be a brave and strong li le
aw.ow`Hymano;
‘acan I when you are go -go -going -a-
" There, there, don't cry ;you'll attract
so much attention."
"I -I ----don't care how much attention I
attract, and I -I -have to cry 1"
"No, you mustn't. Come now,'kiss me
good-bye."
"Oh, George 1"
"Good-bye, darling."
" You'll be so careful ?"
" Yes, yes. Good-bye 1"
"And you'll be sure to come home Fri-
day ?"
"Yes, indeed. Good-bye, sweetheart."
"Good -Oh, I shall be so anxious about
you."
"Ob, I'll come home all right. Good-
bye."
"Good-bye, darling."
"Good-bye."
"Oh, George, how can I let you go ?"
"You must, my pet. Good-bye."
"Good-bye, my treasure bov. Wave
your handkerchief from the window, won't
you, darling?"
" Yes, yes. I must
ringing. Good-bye."
" Good -b -b -bye f'
"There, there don't cry. Bye, bye 1'
" Goodhye. Be just-as-careful--as-
Good-bye.'
" Good-bye 1" he shrieks from the car
window. She waves her handkerchief ex-
citedly, and his own flutters from the car
window as long as the train is in sight, and
she goes tearfully home'while he -well, the
ways of a man are past finding out, but let
us hope that he is thinking only of her.-
Minnewpolis Times.
go now; the bell is
A Desperate Young Man.
"Tell me, my daughter," said Mr. Munn,
with some anxiety in his manner, as he led
his only child to a seat in the parlor,
"wasn't young Mr. Gasket here last night?"
" Yes, papa. Why do you ask?" "Did
you and he have a quarrel ?" "No, papa -
not a quarrel exactly. But tell me Has
anything happened to him 2" "Did he or
did he not propose marriage to you ?" "Yes,
he did, papa," replied the girl, now thor-
oughly alarmed. "Do tell me if anything
has happened to him. Has he committed
sui-" "What was your reply, daughter?
Did you accept him ?" "No, papa. Has
his body been discov " "Did you give
him any encouragement whatever ?" "No,
sir. Did he shoot himself, or-" "You
rejected him finally and irrevocably, did
you?" "Yes, papa, and he said he'd go and
do something desperate, but I didn't think
he'd make away with himself. Oh, papa,
isn't it awful ?" " Yes, it's awful. 1 sus-
pected that you had rejected him when I
heard what he had done to -day." "Oh,
papa, do you think I shall be arrested for
it?" "Oh, dear, no. You didn't have to
marry him just because he asked you."
"Bat tell me what he has done, papa ?"
"He's gone to work." -Detroit Free Press.
Drew a Line at the Shirts.
The husband of Mrs. Sarah T. Rorer, the
cooking lecturer of this city, is a mild-
mannered gentleman, who is contented to
sink his personality, mind his own affairs,
and let his wife travel about and gather
fame unhindered. He broke over the traces
with a vengeance the other day, says the
New York Times, when he burst into her
presence with his arms tilled high with a
fresh delivery from the laundry. "This
thing must stop right here," was his angry
greeting. "Why, what is the trouble,
dear?"asked his spouse. "Trouble!
trouble enough !" he retorted, his voice
shaking. "1 have stood by quietly and let
you have your own way with the public.
That is all right. I make no objection now.
But when my shirts come back from the
laundry marked Sarah T. Rorer,' I draw
ehe
Wealthy, but -Oh, My
Mrs, Pry -Those Watkinses must be
awfully poor people.
Mr. Pry -Why? How so?
Mrs. Pry -They never give a beggar any-
thing -never.
Mr. Pry -Do you!?
Mrs. Pry -No; but it isn't because I
haven't plenty.
A Veteran Still Fighting.
"Ansi you want a pension?"
" Tha,t'n what."
"How long were you in the war ?"
" Well, sir, I wur married 'long in '69,
an' peace ain't been declared yit ; so you kin
jes' calkilate far yerself 1"
A Boomerang.
Young Van der Million -Wouldn't it be
rare fun for ue to become engaged just for
the summenyou know?
She -Just the thing 1 Inever did believe
in long engagements.
--" Oh, misery! cried the editor.
"What's the matter now?" "1 just threw
a poet out of the window, and his wife, who
was waiting for him below, has presented
one of our =mance coupons at the citehier's
deek. He had it on him 1 Another $500
gone, when $2 would have bought not only
his poem but his everlasting gratitude." -
Puck.
The scarlet fever epidemie in old London
hi growing more Serials.
MOCKED TO DEATH.
Collision on the Trolley Road, Kills a Morse
and Wreetra a Car.
New York Recorder: The Brooklyn
trolley made another attempt late Saturday
night to prove to is grateful public what it
could accomplish in the death -dealing line,
when one of the Ninth :street and Coney
Island electric cars ran into one of the Van-
derbilt avenue home cars on Ninth avenue,
between 10th and llth streets, and killed
one of the horses. The wrecked horse car
was in charge of Conductor William
McGarry, James Kennedy being the
driver. Fortunately there were only
four passengers on board, two of whom
were Cherles Murphy, who keeps a bicycle
hall at 15th street and Ninth avenue, and
his wife. Kennedy was slowly driving up
the hill on Ninth avenue, when the trolley
ear came thundering alongbehind. At that
point the latter runs on the same track as
the horse car. Robert A. Sharkey, a
lawyer, who has an office in the Jefferson
Building, was riding on the front seat of
the trolley car, and he says the motorman
was talking with the conductor, who stood
on the step. For this reason he did not see
the horse car until he had run full tilt into
it. The force of the collision was so great
that the horse car was knocked completely
off the track and turned sideways, and Ken-
nedy was sent spinning over the front dash-
board, the fall seriously injuring his hip.
Both horses were thrown to the ground, one
of them falling directly in front of the
motor, which could not be stopped in time.
The struggling animal was struck, and as
the wire underneath the motor touched him
the circuit was completed, and it was
shocked to death. Mrs. Murphy was found
to be suffering so intensely from the shock
that a physician had to be sent for, and he
considered her condition critical. At the
office of the trolley company it was said
that a strict investigation would be made,
and if the accident was found to be due to
the motorman's carelessness he would be
promptly dismissed.
PATENT MEDICINE ritamors.
The Manufacturer's Friend is the Fellow
who Buys the Second Bottle.
"A patent medicine that is retailed at
SI a bottle must not cost the manufacturer
more than 10 cents a bottle," declared the
inventor of a. medicine at a eeeret meeting
of the druggists the other day. ,
"11 it does," he arlded, •' the manufac-
turer won't make enough to maintain his
family on. The druggist pays 60 cents for
the preparation. That leaves an apparent
margin of 50 cents a bottle to the producer.
But at the start the advertising will cost
him 75 cents a bottle, leaving a deficit of 25
cents. In other words, it costs about 75
cents to induce one man to buy his first
bottle of patent medicine.
"The profit lies in the fact that the man
doeen't stop at the first bottle, but keeps on
baying it and advising his friends to buy it.
A medicine has to turn the corner, as it
were, before producing it pays. Some of
the concerns collapse while they're waiting
for the citizen to buy his second bottle. -
New York Hercdd.
Native Born and Other Canadians.
Comma Bulletin, No. 11, which deals with
the nationality of the population of Canada,
has just been issued. The component parts
of the population of the Dominion are shown
in the following table, giving the number of
each nationalityaccording to the birth-
places in every 10,000 inhabitants :
1891. 1881.
Native born in every 10,0008,050 8,580
Born in England 4.00 390
"
Seotland 230 270
310 130
20 10
" Ireland
" Newfoundland
" other British posses-
sions 10 6
" European countries-. 110 91
" United States 170 181
" other countries.. 14 42
In Ontario in 1891 the native born popu-
lation was 80.9 per cent. and foreign born
79.1. In 1881 the figures were 77.6 and
12.4 per cent. Of the native population in
1891, 77.7 per cent. were born in the Pro-
vince and 2.2 per cent. in other Provinces.
In 1881 the figures were 74.6 and 3 percent.
The following table shows the numbers of
native and foreign born population in each
Province in the two periods:
Native born. Notnativeborn
1891. 1881. 1891. 1881.
British Colum-
bia.. . .... 56,291 34,957 41,322 1,452
Manitoha... ... .. 108,017 48,992 41,489 16,962
New Brunswick. 299,154 289,905 22,109 31,268
Nova Scotia..... 123,890 412,589 26,506 27,983
Ontario 1,710,703 1,493,609 403,618 429,719
P, E. Island 102,652 99,369 6,126 9,522
Quebec 1,406,514 1,282,225 82,021 76,802
N. W.Territories 47,783 23,939 19,016 1,576
Total ..4,155,004 3,685,545 615,507 608,334
Contrary to the general impression the
French Canadian population is not increas-
ing in a greater degree than the English
speaking. In 1881 the French Canadians
were 30.1 per cent. of the population of the
whole Dominion, but in 1891 the per cent -
age had fallen to 29.4 percent. The greatest
changes have been in Manitoba and the
Northwest Territories. In the former the
French speaking population was 15 per cent.
of the whole in 1881 and only 7.03 per cent.
in 1891. In the Territories the per centage
has fallen from 10.1 per cent. in 1881 to 2,03
per cent. in 1891.
The End of a Long Suit.
The Supreme Court of Canada on Tues-
day gave judgment in the case of Broa,c1-
head. vs. The Penman Manufacturing
Company, of Paris, an action to compel the
defendants to pay royalties on a patent.
The plaintiff is an American and he com-
menced this action over three years ago,
Mr. F. C. Moffatt, of Toronto, being his
solicitor and Messrs. Crerar, Crerar &
Bankier, of this city, solicitors for the de-
fendants. The action was tried befere
Street, J. at Toronto Assizes in 1889, and
judgment wee given for the plaintiff, order-
ing the defendants to pay royalties as long
as the patent should live. From this
judgment appeals weretaken successively to
the Chancery Divisional Court and
to the Court of Appeal, 8,nd both appeals
were distnissed with costa by the unanimous
judgments of the courts appealed to. The
defendants' solicitors then took the case to
the Supreme Court, where it was argued
last February, Mr. Crerar, Q. C., being
counsel for the appellants, and Messrs.
Moffat and Masten for the respondent. The
judgment of the Supreme Court allows the
eppeal, reverses the judgments of Street J.,
the Chancery Divisional Court and the
Court of Appeal, and orders the plaintiffe
action to be dismissed with costs, both in
the Supreme courts and in the mute below.
Several Shareholders of the defendant com-
pany live in Hamilton, and they will be
glad to know that this long and stubborn
fight is ended at last, and in their favor.
-Babies get ten time more feeding than
they can possibly digest. They are fretful,
need a cool drink or chopped ice, or a walk
out in the air, and instead of these they are
made to nurse when they are not hungry. If
kept warm, dry, clean and quiet most chil-
dren Will thrive and seldom cry. Crying is
a protest against conditions that are In-
jurious.
A detective from Scotland Yard, London,
is in Quebec, looking up the saitecederzto of
Dr. D. N. bream.
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BRITISH," NOT 4` ENGLISH."
The Scotch Okinx Equal Share in Great
Britain's Glory,
BUT ARE SOOTOEMEN FIRST.
(From Circular of Scottish Horne-Ruie Union.)
"Too great a tendency to self-esteem toe
little disposition to regard the feelings the
hebite, and the ideas of others," is essen-
tially an English characteristic; an absolute
disregard ot the national sentiment of
smaller nationalities is part of their
nature ; end conciliation is not one
of the arts for whioh Englishmen are
famed. It is to these causes and an
ignorance of historical facts that thia
custom against which we protest has
sprung up. We have no idea of relin-
quishing that which is our own, or any
idea of demanding a repeal of the union.
On the contrary, our demand resolves it-
eelf into this, that the spirit of the treaty
should be observed. We have therefore no
intention of submitting to domineering pre-
tensions which have not it shoalow of a
foundation to rest upon.
Scotland's claim to the honororable ful-
fillment by England of these treaty obliga-
tions becomes the stronger when Scot-
land's share in the work of the United
Kingdom is considered. Who built up
this British Empire? What was its con-
dition at the time of the union? Save a
few Wanda in the West lndies and the
plantations in North America which were
afterward lost through criminal folly,
there were few possessions. The rise of
the empire dates from the union. Our
Highland regiments, which have fought
so valiantly in every part of the world, did
so to maintain the honor, not of England,
but of tho United Kingdom. Go where
you may and you will find Scotsmen occu-
pying foremost places and doing more than
their proportionate share in adding to the
dignity and lustre of the British names
Why, then, insult Scotland by speaking of
Britain as England, ignoring Scotland and
what she has done? No difficulty is experi-
enced in using the proper names in all dip.
'emetic correspondence. Why not in all
references common to both? la all mo.ttera
affecting the British Empire we
acknowledge but one interest -and he
regard to loyalty, we owe none to England,
and never did. Our loyalty is due solely to
the British Crown and the British Govern-
ment.
Lately a politician had the audacity to
declare that Scottish nationality bad ceased
to exist. To declare that Scottish nation-
ality had ceased to exist or is a mere dream
without an object is to deny history and to
fly in the face of fact. We possess and
cherish glorious historical tradition unsur-
passed by any other nation on the face of
this earth. We are bound together by a
name with which are associated the stirring
memories of a thousand years. For cen-
turies the Scottish people maintained their
individuality against powerful invasions
from without and the efforts of -kingcraft
from within, and they have retained that
individuality after living for nearly 200
years under the same Government with
another nation seven times as numerous and
in spite of the in fluence of an absent Court and
Legislature. Scotsmen are willing to unite
with the other nationalities in constituting
a larger nationality under the British name,
but no more willing to be called English
than the English would be to consent to be
called Irish.
We further protest against another usur-
pation in being robbed of the fame of great
names and the memory of brave deeds.
Great Scotsmen -great in politics, in
science or in letters -are often classed as
Englishmen. The leader of Her Majesty's
Opposition (Mr. Gladstone) we have beett
told is the greatest Englishman that ever
lived. The leader of the House of Com-
mons (Mr. Balfour) is the noblest Eng-
lishman of , the present day. Instances
innumerable might be multiplied.
Scotsmen they are in the first place.
Britons afterward -but Englishmen never!
The noble achievements of our Scottish
regiments are often chronicled as the brave
deeds of Englishmen done to maintain Eng-
land's honor. What is England's honor to
them but a name and nothing more? It is
the stirring memories of unconquered ances-
tors that inspires them "to do the deeds of
deathless fame " which honor the British
name.
The attempt to merge Scotland in Eng-
land, which is repugnant to all the facts
and associations of Scotland's past history,
violates a soleirm treaty and robs Scotsmen
of a birthright of inestimable value. Every
public man so acting, we declare, standa
self -convicted of a deliberate wrong. The
union neither did nor could denationalize US.
!Mutterings of an Undertaker.
New York Herald: "Put on airs, my
beauties," muttered an undertaker, travel-
ling on the elevated railroad. "Put on
airs, but when I get you there won't be any
airs, and one of yon will look pretty much
like the other."
A bevy of bright and haughty damsels had
boandeel the train at Twenty-eighth street
and their bearing annoyed the undertaker.
"1 tell you," he said, "when I bury
them they all look pretty much the same.
They don't sneer o.t the poor old undertaker,
either. I never saw a proud looking corpse
in my life, and I've buried thousands. No
difference, air! The millionaire in the ice-
box and the pauper you couldn't tell apart.
Put a President or a Senator in the morgue
and I defy any one to pick them out from
the other people there.
" That'e what I think always when I see
people putting on airs. It doesn't worry
me in the least. I remember the time when
the undertaker will be laying 'em out and
when a live newsboy will be worth fifty of
Cooking by Observation.
Mr. Newweded-This coffee is as weak
as water again.
Mrs. N. -I can't account for it, my dear.
No matter how careful I am, it's always the
same way.
Perhaps you don't use enough coffee.
Nonsense. I put in a whole half cupful,
and everybody says that's plenty.
Did you measure the water?
Huh! Who ever heard of measuring
water? All cooks pour right out of the
teakettle. I've seen 'em often -so there.
He Didn't Care.
Wool-Johlots is married again, and his
lawyer told him last night that his Dakota
divorce wouldn't hold water.
Van Pelt --What did he say?
Wool -Didn't care whether it would or
not; they are going to Kentucky to live.
' A Bad Break.
Witherby-I made the mistake of my
life this morning. I told my wife I didn't
like her new gown.
Platiltington--What, was she angry
Witherby-Oh, no, it wasn't that ; but
she wante another One I
Prince Bismarck, who WAS pelted with
glowers by admiring young fatliers at Khaki..
gen and had his eye injured, WAS almost an
unfortunate as Mr. Gladstone at whom a
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