HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-7-14, Page 7A Leap Tear Episode.
Re leaped into the carriage
.As she hold the leaping horse,
And thou leaped in beside 1m;hthen
They all leaped on their Gonne.
The stars that shone above them
Seemed. to leap and sing' for joy,
And a tender lovonight seemed to leap
To the sweet eye e elf the boy.
'With strong right arm she guided
The leaping horse full well;
Her loft pressed to her leaping heart
Her love. Then silence fell—
Upon thorn; and the leaping bells
Made merry music ring,
..tend leapingMeadlong into love,
Their leaping hearts did sing.
'Then eaped a question from her lips;
From his there leaped a " Yes ' ;
What room was mid as leaning home
They calm, let each one guess.
And when her mother asked her why,
This leap year act she'd done.
She said, "Such things have been good form
Since Eighteen Ninety-one."
CARRIES ROMANCE.
The Cliok of a Pistol an Important Factor
in Love -Making.
ARRIE CORNELL was a very
pretty girl and considered the
belle of the circle in whioh she
moved. She was also a kind,
good girl, but had unhappily one
fault, which not seldom threw
all her good qualities into the
shade. She was too easily misled
'by appearances, and would fancy almost in-
credible stories at the slightest suggesVon.
Her imagination seemed like that of a
good novelist, ' always ready to grasp a
chance word and turn it into a story. Any-
thing out of the common line of events was
to her most delightful. But her worst mis-
take was that ehe called her life dull and
uninteresting became it flowed camly and
peacefully.
Having never yet shed tears of bitter die -
appointment and sorrow, he did not know
how they blind the eye, how they wring the
heart; she thought only how interesting a
sad, pale melancholy countenartce was, and
would often look with real disgust at her
own round, dimpled, rosy cheek.
One of her best friends—what young girl
hes not at least a dozen best friends ?—was
Winnie Bliss, a silly, good-natured damsel,
'who never took the troubleof having an
opinion of her own, but always adopted
those of others.
This Winnie Bliss was a great comfort to
Carrie, as she was at any time ready to
grieve with her because nothing occurred to
change the monotony of her existence. It
was really as if fate had determined not to
throw a pebble in Carrie's path, and that
"the course of true love seldom runs
=tooth " could not even be applied to her
c '
ase as the course of hers did flow as
calmly as the waters of a lake in a summer
day.
Engaged to a young man who had known
her when she was a child, and to whom her
brother was happy to entrust his sister—
}ler parents were long since dead—she had
not even the aatisfaction of braving any
reproach or danger to become his, or to do
or suffer anything unendurable for his sake.
All was extremely unromantic, and like
every -day life—nothing desperate, nothing
Bonnstirring, heart -breaking in it.
If he, at least, would lose in some affair
an arm or leg, or if she was in danger—but
only in danger—of losing her money, that
one or the other could show some more than
human attachment, it would all have been
very web, but to love and marry without
any trouble whatever was almost too much
for any real life and would never have made
success in a book.
The last summer Carrie was to spend as
Miss Cornell had passed, and she had just
returned from the seaside, where she had
been with her brother, when she met Win-
nie Bliss in the street.
"Oh, Carrie, I am so glad to see you !
When did you return ?" said Winnie stop-
ping her friend, who seemed in great haste,
and had not perceived her.
" We came home a few days ago. I
thought of going to see you to -day," re-
plied Carrie.
"You say that you have been already
several days here and have not been, to
see me yet I cannot say that I feel par-
ticularly flattered at this, when we were
always just like sisters,' said Winnie,
feeling really bnrt.
"1 would have gone sooner, but every
step I take is watched, and I am afraid to
leave the house when Brother James is
there."
"But why ? What has happened ?"
"If there ever was an une.ppy girl,
Winnie, I am the one; and if you will
walk to the postothce and home again, I
will tell you all about it. I must have
one heart to which I can confide my
troubles."
"Then you are really unhappy ? " asked
Winnim but in such a tone as one would
use to ordinary mortals when they were
asked if they had received an unexpected
fortune.
"Unhappy t That is not the word to
express it. 11 wonder if there is a woman
whose fate is more tragical than mine,'
mid Carrie, a bright tear awimming in her
eyes, yet with unmistakable satisfaction in
the tone.
"'You know," continued she, when
having posteina letter, the two girls were
cosily stales in Carrie's sitting -room,
"that we went to Bournemouth inatead of
going to Bath, as we at first intended to do,
because there Mr. Newbold her intended)
could go to see us every Saturday andretum
on Monday to the city.
"We found no acquaintances when we
first arrived, and I felt during a few days
rather lonely, until a party of ladies and
gentlemen came, some of whom my brother
had met the year before. I became quickly
acquainted with them and had a gay,
delightful time. My cavalier on all excur-
sions was a Mr. Algernon , Devereux, from
Bristol, one of the most fascinating young
men you ever saw. He is nob as handsome
as Mr. Newbold, but oh ? so interesting -
looking, and can talk like a book. He has
not at all the common, healthy, contented
appearance of Thomas no indeed. He
looks pale as death, and just as if noth-
ing on earth could please him any moro—
ns if he had said farewell to all earthly
halm/nem
"'Not many daya had pained before he
paid me the most marked attention, and to
-make a long story short, told me that he
loved me—worshipped me—and that he
could not live without me. Just fancy, my
situation. I on the eve of being bound
to another'such to listen to a declaration ;
and, worst
of all, to feel that Thomas din
not fill my. heart.
"Knowing, however, how much Mr.
'Newbold: loved and trusted me, I would
perhaps have tore myself away from the
fascinations of Algernoe Davoreux and left
Bournemouth hentediately had not my
brother, who of tonne saw his devotion to
me, begniato permute him.
4° Whenever he paw usi together he would
click a pistol, and hewho watt formerly too
opposed to carrying weapons was anddenly
never seen without one.
"1, of course, became more and more
interesta in Algernon Devereux—don't
erolvthink the, name lovely te—whete''I BO.Wr
bim in uch censtant danger on my
account.
"1 really have no idea what I am going
to do, as my brother has told me that as
soon as I break with Thomas he is going to
ahoot Mr. Devereux.
" I ask myself over and over egain, how
will it all end? But I cannot answer the
question. How my brother alwans finds out
when and where Algernon and 1 meet I do
not know, but one thing is certain, he is
always there clicking his pistol.
"1 had resolved the other day to toll
Algernon that be mutt abandon every
thought of me, but when I met him and my
brother stood but a few feet from us, click-
ing his pistol, how could I, knowing Mr.
Devereux in such danger, tell him what I
knew would break his heart ?"
Winnie sympathized fully with her
friend, and thought just as she did, that
the whole Minn* was more dreadful and
rnore romantio than anything she had ever
read, which was surely Raying much. She
wondered not at all that Carrie had the
click of the pistol constantly ringing in her
ears.
When the young ladies had entered
Carrie's Bitting -room theyhad not observed
i
that her brother was n the adjoining
parlor, and consequently heard every word
they spoke.
"1 received a valuable lesson from you,
sister, dear," he mid to himself when Car-
rie took Winnie into her room upstairs to
show her Algernon Devereux's picture.
The click of my pistol shall no longer
drive you to admire the one whose life the
pistol endangers. I understand you now,
my little woman. I made the man of too
much consequence' that was the trouble.
Just wait, we shallchange tactics and shall
soon know which of the two your foolishlit-
tle heart cherishes."
" Carrie," said James the following
day, "1 met some of our Bournemouth
friends and invited them to tea to -mor-
row."
"1 am glad you did," returned Carrie.
"Who is coming ?"
"Mr. and Mrs. Murray, Miss Robins,
her couains and Mr. Devereux."
" Who was it you named last?" asked
Carrie thinking she had not heard rightly.
"Mr. Algernon Devereux," replied her
brother, blandly; "1 think I did very
wrong in disliking him because he made
love to you. Nobody is responsible for
his feelings, and I would have, perhaps, to
kill scores of girls if I watched Thomas as
I fooliahly watched you. Who could
blame him if, constantly thrown together
with a fascinating woman, he became inter-
ested in her? Because, you know, he
might love you still and have only a silicon
romantic attachment for her."
"Did you hear that Thomas pays par-
ticular attention to some one ?' asked
Carrie, firing up at the bare idea of such a
possibility.
" No, I did not ; at Ieast, not that I rec-
ollect. Have a nice tea to -morrow, I shall
try to make up with Mr. Devereux. I
really believe him to be a nice young man,
and, by George ! we eannot all have the
face, figure and mind of Thomas Newbold
—some must be inferior animals."
" There is something concealed in Brother
James' words," said Carrie, when she was
alone. "He who clicked his pistol every
time he saw Mr. Devereux and me to-
gether would not invite him to spend the
evening with us were it not for some pur-
pose. He 'surely heard something about
Thomas as his remarks about his failing in
love with another girl were otherwise en-
tirely uncalled for. Let me see. Do I
know anyone to whom Thomas was un-
usually devoted at Bournemouth? Yes,
yes," continued she, after a short musing,
"this very Miss Robins whom Jamie in-
vited, he found such a nice, clever girl, and
I recollect well that one Saturday, when,
not expecting him so early, I returned from
a walk witeAlgernon, I found him talking
to her in the garden. I shall watch them
closely to -morrow."
That day and the following one Carrie's
thoughts were coupled only with Themes.
The click of her brother's pistol was, of
course, a satisfactory excuse to herself for
listening to Mn Devereux's declaration of
undying love and devotion, but what excuse
had Thomas for making love to another girl?
None.
It was nothing but wretched faithlesauess
with him and Carrie could trust no num any
more. Shepitied all women whose happiness
depended on them.
The next afternoon came and Carrie
received her guests with a fluttering
heart.
Her color came and wont when Thomaa,
not having met Miss Robies since she
had returned from Bournemouth, warmly
shook hands with her and expressed his
pleasure on seeing her looking so well.
In vain Devereux tried to eatch Carrie's
eyea.
It seemed as if for her he did not exist
the ffint part of the evening ; and when
ahe epoke to him anterwarda she found
that he was uninteresting, just a common
mortal—surely because no pistol clicked in
her ears.
Feeling very wretched and very unhappy
—not romantically, but really so—she
stole out of the room after supper to com-
pose herself somewhat in the cool October
air.
She was, however, not alone when she
returned to the parlor. Thomas was with
her; and when they passed James he
whispered to him that Carrie had con-
sented, to be his wife next month on her
birthday.
Jamea gives to all brothers who have to
guard a pretty sister the advice not to click
a pistol in her hearing when she lends too
hospitable an ear to the blandishments of an
undesirable young man.—M. Southgate, in
Drake's Magazine.
At a convention of the Conservatives of
South Huron, held at Henn% Mr. D.
Weismiller, of Kippen, was selected as the
Conservative candidate for the Local Legis-
lature at the next election. Mr. Weismiller
opposed Mir. John McMillan, M. P., in
South Huron at the last Dominion election.
Herr Werth, editor of the Freisinnige
Zeitung, has been nentencedtothree months'
imprisonmeat for les° limiest° in having de-
clared that Emperor William ehot two stags
on the Sohorfhaide preserve in the close
season, although he afterward withdrew the
statement and admitted that he had made a
mistake.
A despatch from Toriquin states that
another battle has taken place between the
French and the Tonquin pirates who were
entrenched at Thermos.. The French force
numbered 150 men. After a desperate re-
sistance the French charged the pirates'
position and carried it, but not until they
had lost Sixteen men killed and seventeen
wounded.
Winnie—How nicely your trunk is
packed ! Did, you do it yourself ? Mrs.
Newed—Oh, no ; Sohn packed it for me.
Winnie—How funny I didn't know men
could do such things, Mrs. Newed,
proudly—My husband can ; he has even
told me that he packedra primary once.
The statertuint that ZO per centof the
population of India are widows ia more
important than it iteems. In former times
widow e were burned vvith their dead hus-
bands, and the percentage of survivors was
very innell indeed.
ILAUGH AND LEARN]
Female barbers don't pay. A woman's
eorapes are the OauSe of most men troubles.
A judge is not elways eloquent, but a
great many people hang on his words.
Politics makes strange bed -fellows, bub
they dense get to bed very early nightie
Adlai E. Stevenson, Democratic candi-
date for Vice -President, is of Sootch-Trish
dleieittv.oman question : "Now isn't thia
a pretty time of night for you to be getting
home ?'' •
The quarrelsome man who is always spoil
ing for a fight is never in a. hurry to enlist
when a war breaks out.
Astronomers say that there are at least
twenty moons in the solar system, and that
some of them are superior to ours.
Summer snap companies must have been
numerous in Shakspeare's time. He speaks
of one man playing many parts.
Mrs. Flip—George, what doyou think of
that bathing costume ? Mr. Flip—Oh, it's
good as far as it goes.
Some one says that liquor strengthens the
voice. That is a mistake; it only makes
the breath strong.
"Do you refuse me on account of my
age? I am only 55." "That's just it. You
may live fifteen or twenty years yet."
The " European plan," reduced to prac-
tice, is the scheme of ordering what you
want and taking what the waiter brings.
The Pennsylvania woman who gave a
costly funeral to her pet mastiff the other
day came under the exact definition of a dog
gone idiot.
Mr. Gladstone dotes on tea, but wants it
made by his wife. Mrs. Gladstone, of
miurse, is a good cook. Did any man whose
wife was a poor cook ever become great?
" I say, my friend," said a traveler in
Maine, € can you tell me where there's a
haunted house ?" " Yes, sir," was the
reply; "come with me and you'll find any
kind of spirits you want."
" Where is that white spotted blue neck-
tie that I had a short time ago ?" asked the
husband. " Pray forgive me," said the
wife as she hung her head contritely ; " I
used it to make a bathing suit."
There are 53 telephone companies in
the United States, all belonging virtually
to the Bell monopoly. They have 241
exchanges, 476,356 telephones and 8,165
employees.
J. M. Barrie, the Scotch author, whose
work is just now a fad amoug certain
people is writing a play for J. L. Toole,
the celebrated comedian, whom he will in-
troduce in the character of a Cockney
sportsman in Scotland.
Of the 200,000 women working at differ-
ent trades in New York city 27,000 support
their husbands. In America, as in France,
the average size of familieshas been steadily
decreasing for the last half century. The
average is now 4.94, where in 1850 it was
5.50.
The editorial room of the White Ribbon,
the new paper to be started in London with
the customary "ample capital," will be a
curious sight with the Duchess of Bedford,
Lady Carlisle and Lady Somerset on their
respective tripods.
Black gowns are not the only wear, a
they were a few years ago, but every woman
likes to own at least one. That one, to be
very choice, should be of grenadine, with a
gleaming, glittering lining of yellow taffeta
silk showing through its meshes, and plenty
of lace and jet for decoration.
Not Much in it.
Jonea—My boy has begun to take music
lessons.
Brown—What's he taking the music les-
sons for?
Jones—For a dollar and a half an hour,
mostly. At least, I can't discover anything
else in it.
He Was Sure Enough.
"They say Clara is going to marry Jack
Bonsanstocks ?"
"
" They also say he is a fair catch."
"Yes, it was at a church fair she caught
him."
Matrimonial Amenities.
Husband (during a thunder storm)—Come
away from that telephone, Mary; you'll
attract the lightning.
Wife—Do you think so?
Husband—I do. You are beautiful enough
to attract anything.
His only Compunction.
Minister (to small boy caught in the
orchard)—Doesn't your conscience ever
trouble you after you have stolen fruit, my
son ?
Small Boy—No, air, but my stomach often
does.
No Wonder. \
"The conductor turned all sorts of colorn
at once, didn't he?"
" Yes, be was spotted.'"
Supply and Demand.
Hostess—What has become of Sandy
Smith, who stood so high in your class?
Alumnus—On, he's taken orders.
Hostess—He's in the ministry, then?
Alumnus—No, in a restaurant.
Remember the Sabbath Day.
Husband—Wife, hand me out my Sunday
coat.
Wife—But, my dear, this is not Sunday ;
it is only Saturday.
"1 know it's only Saturday, but I'm
going to attend a fashionable dinner, and it
will be Sunday before I get back."
Served Dim Right.
"You look pale to -night," said the bar-
ber's wife when he returned from his day's
work.
"I've had a trying day," said the barber.
"A young fellow came in this morning who
behaved so like a puppy that I made a mis-
take and cut his earsinstead of hie hair."
metamorphosis.
Maud—What a beautiful new gown Jane
is wearing. Did she bring it from abroad?
Clara—No ; it's her last season's dress ;
dressmaker turned it inside out, and now
she says it's from the other side.
Linsband's Jurisdiction.
Pryor—Do you run your household?
Frank—No; my wife runs that.
Pryor—Ah, I sec; you run the office.
Frank—No; the janitor runs that.
Pryor—What in thunder do you run?
Frank—Well, I run back and. forth.
The Third Jump. .
"Is it true Misii Gertie, he said, "there
are just two things a woman will jump at—
conclusion and a. mouse?"
"No," she answered "There is a third."
After thinking the matter over a few
moments he tremblingly made her an offer,
but she didn't jump at it. He was not the
right man.
An Increase.
Bridges—What has led to the recent sur-
prising increase in the membership of your
church ?
Brooks—Our pastor is organizing minitnittees for the personal investigation of the
city Vice,
Thls MISSIOnar, isa Hustler,
We'll have t� recall our missionary
from acress the watem" amid the preaoher.
" Why," iteked the deacon. Ian% he
doing his duty 1"
"Lo, He's oivilized the heathen, staked
off their land in town lots, and those who
ain't in the real estate business are plityllaj
poker and runnin' for the Legislature.
Heredity. '
Mrs. Snooper—Mrs. Staggers' baby is
bottle -la
Snooper—Takes after its daddy already,
does it?
It Sounded So.
Bunker—Old inan,Pve got is new addition
to my household.
Hill (who lives in the next block)—So I
hear.
Job's Comforter.
First Dog—A bad boy has tied a cracker
to my tail.
Second Dog—Never mind. It will soon
go off.
Natural Seleetion.
Ted—I suppose you intend to spend your
vacation far from the busy haunts of men?
Ned—You bet your life, old fellow. I
want to go where the women are.
Looked Like It.
Biggs—I believe Brown is insane.
Diggs—Why?
Biggs --Because he has brought suit against
the New York Railroad for killing his
mother-in-law.
Fainful Error.
" Igot a dreadful shock at that 'phone
yesterday."
" What was it—lightning?"
"No, no ---the telephone girl. She thought
it was the office boy 1"
oust His Size.
Mrs. Plankington—Is your little boy
going to have a new white flannel suit this
year?
Mrs. Bilderwick—Not exactly new. It's
one his father had last year.
For Lack of Food.
First seaside girl—There's a great man-
eating shark down on the beach, dead.
What do you suppose killed him?
Second seaside girl—Starvation, proba-
bly, if he was a man-eating shark.
No Doubt About It.
Jaggs—I heard of a young lady who gets
a great many people into trouble.
Gaggs—You did ; what's her name
Jaggs—Miss Representation.
The Safest Way.
"Why did you strike him with your
club when he pointed the gun at you? He
distinctly told you it was not loaded."
"1 know that judge; that's the reason I
lammed him."
Better Than Thanks.
Mamma—Did you thank Mr. Nicefello
when he gave you that silver dollar?
Little boy—Yes'm--that is, sorter.
" What did you say ?"
" I tole him nex' time he kissed Sis I
wouldn't tell."
Temperance Notes.
In Damascus drunkenness is known as the
"English disease."
The woman board of commissioners for
the World's Fair, through their President,
Mrs. Palmer, have endorsed closed gates on
Sunday and no liquor.
Mayor Fleming, of Toronto, is trying to
do away with the slot machine, a device by
which boys still obtaincigarettes in defiance
of the law.
Gen. Booth says that nine -tenths of the
evil that he has • to fight against in the
social department of his work is caused by
drink.
Brewers make from 60 to 70 per cent.
profit on their goods, and the retailers over
100 per cent. This is hard on the man who
drinks, but harder on him who doesn't.
A plan for pensions of five shillings a
week for all persons over 65 years of age is
receiving the attention of well-known
stateeinen and journalists in England. his
proposed to levy a tax on all alcoholic
drinks in order to raise the fund neceasary,
and as the drink traffic is the cause of so
large a portion of poverty and want, this
suggeation is exceedingly appropriate.
A governor of Canterbury jail once re-
marked: "1 have had 22,000 prisoners
through my hands since I have been the
governor of this jail; but, though I have
inquired, I have notdiscovered one tee-
totaller among them."—The Youths' Tem-
perance Banner.
An Old, Old Story.
Then there is the tale of the lady whose
husband is taken suddenly ill one night at
a hotel. She rushes downstairs and pre-
pares a stiff mustard plaster to put on him,
and runs up with it again. Inherexcite-
ment, however, she charges into the wrong
room, and, rolling down the bed -clothes,
presses it lovingly upon the wrong man. I
have heard that story so often that I am
quite nervous about going to bed in a hotel
now. Each man who has told me has in-
variably slept in the room next door to that
of the victim and has been awakened by
the man's yell as the plaster came down
upon him. That is how he (the story -teller)
came to know all about —Jerome K.
Jerome in Idler.
Charles W. Bicknell, aged 16 years, was
shot dead by James J. Stanton, a compan-
ion about the same age, at the former's
home on Washington street, Providence,
R. I., on Saturday night. Stanton was
playing with two revolvers, one loaded with
blank and the other with ball cartridges,
and, !minting both at Bicknell, began firing
the blank cartridges in rapid succession.
In the excitement he forgot the deadly
charge of the other weapon, and pressed its
trigger. Bicknell, with his head pene-
trated with a bullet, died shortly after-
ward. Stanton was arrested pending an
investigation.
In the churchyard at Disney Dale stands
what is supposed to be the oldest yew tree
in the world. It is 33 feet in girth, and
the fabulous age of 3,000 years is attributed
to it. Modern vandals have so hacked and
gashed its trunk that a fence has been built
around the tree to preserve it from further
mutilation.
Various directions are given for prevent-
ing wrinkles. One authority says that the
best recipe is to allowlife to sit lightly upon
one, not to worry, and to use cold water in
preference to hot for the face, and to "tone
up the tension with skin tonic." Face
massage will do a great deal ; but, truth to
tell, wrinkles depend on the mind, the dis-
position and the mental phase, as well as
the physical. Prevent wrinklee coming by
keeping the skin braced up and vigorous,
and attend to digestion.
The French Government has received a
telegram from Hanoi the largest city of
Annam, conveying the news that tweet
dissatiefied Chinese workmen had kidnapped
M. Wain, a hub -contractor on the Langan
railway, near Bade.
The boiler of a threehing machine outfit
exploded on the farm of Fred. Lewis, Month
Virden, near the Dakota boundary. Robb.
Bothwell was very seriouely injured, Thee.
Campbell badly scalded and Newton LeWie
and John Drumm bac* bruised.
A society known as the Knights of the
White Shield has been organized in Irrn
inghani, Abs,. tepreserve the aupremticy Of
the whiten,
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The People's party of the United States
will meet in national convention at Omaha
to -day.
Hon. W. McCrea Judge of the District
noifghAtl.gorna, died a; Sault Ste. Marie laat
A team of horses, supposed to have been
stolen, has been seized at Humberstone,
near Port Colborne.
The Grand Trunk Railway has taken over
the Toronto Belt line, and will have cars
running in a few days.
Fred. Prosser, aged 17, was drowned in
the Humber last evening by the upsetting
of a boat as he stepped into it.
DA W. B. Green, a well-known New York
physician, was run over and killed by the
newspaper train at Long Branch, N. J.,
yesterday.
Bradstreet's reports 33 Canadian busi-
ness failures for the past week, as compared
with 26 the preceding week and 42 in the
fourth week of June, 1892.
The first election for the new English
Parliament was held in South Paddington
yesterday, when Lord Randolph Churchill
was elected by acclamation.
The Chronicle's St. Petersburg corres-
pondent says thereal mortality from cholera
exceeds the mortality given in the official
reports. A regular panic prevails at Baku.
Five men were killed in a railway
nwirgehatk. near Logansport, Ind., Saturday
The electiona thus far held in England
show the return of eleven Liberal -Unionists
and four Liberals.
Cyrus W. Field is again very seriously ill
in New York. His physicians say he may
die at any minute.
The French Chamber of Deputies passed
a Bill on Saturday to indemnify the suffer-
ers from Anarchist outrages.
A young man named William Glen was
killed by a falling beam at a barn raising in
Mornington Township, Perth.
Another cloudburst struck Illinois Satur-
day evening. The flood in the Illinois
Valle caused a great deal of damage.
At a meeting of the French Cabinet, on
Saturday, a project for holding an intm na-
tional exhibition in Paris in 1900 was ap-
proved.
The Dominion Educational Convention
will open at Montreal to -morrow. Over a
thousand teachers are expected to be in at-
tendance.
The military camp at Belleville broke
up yesterday. .
Mr. Hugh John Macdonald has recon-
sidered his decision to retire from Parlia-
ment.
Edmund Deedea, Sheriff of Norfolk
yesterday.
Marquette
at Eastwood, near Woodstock,
Marquette Conservatives will nominate a
candidate for the Commons on July 14th at
Minnedosa.
Reports from many parts of Ontario
show that crops have been damaged con-
siderably by the rains of the last week.
The Toronto Junction Council last night
repealed the by-law limiting the number of
liquor licenses to be granted in the town.
Investigation into the charges against
Sheriff Sutton, of Bruce county, will begin
in Walkerton to -day before Mr. .Bmilme
Irving, Q. C.
Archbishop Cleary, of Kingston, will is-
sue a circular asking for contributions to
assist in the election of the home rule can-
didates in Ireland.
A summons has been issued against the
proprietor of the Senate and House of Com-
mons bars, charging him with selling liquor
to persons not connected with the House
during prohibited hours.
The Royal Commission on Prohibition
will commence to take evidence in the
Lower Provinces about the end of the pre-
sent month.
A number of dock laborers at Southamp-
ton became engaged in an election fight on
Saturday, and one of the participants was
stabbed to deathjourney, suffering much for want, of water,
Margaret Mather, the actress, has been but reached Bymangnato safely, though
weak from lack of ordinary pecersaries of
granted a divorce in Chicago from Emil
Haberkorn, her husband, on the ground of life—only to find. why God had permitted
desertion and non-support.
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IN DARREST AFRICA. —
Mow Rev. Dr. Johnston is Being Led Across
the Continent.,
"From Dr. Johnston's last letter (we
were nearly eight months with no tidings),
written April 4th, at Bymanguato,
Bechuanaland, I judge that he will reach
Blantyre, if all be well, by the end of July,
so that some time in the fall he should' be
on his way to Jamaica. Owing to reports .
of a hostile tribe, the Matambela, to be •
encountered 011 the route from the Zambesi,
all the Barotse carriers, nearly 200 all told,
deserted Dr. Johnston one night, and
returned to the Barotse valley, without
giving him any warning. This necessitated
an entire change in his route, and there
being no other way, he returned, crossed the
Zambesi, and procured an ox waggon and
traversed the Kalhari desert 31 days'
TIMILTILX2TPS baNtifigillariell60 toffeee.
The King of Dahomey, who has been car-
rying on a warfare with France for some
time, has made peace overtures, which,
however, the French Government has re-
fused to entertain.
A despatch from Porto Novo contains the
information that on Thursday last 500
Dahomans attacked and pillaged the village
of Gome, six miles distant from that place,
and kidnapped 15 of the natives.
A few minutes before 1() o'clock on Satur-
day night James Robinson, a carpenter,
who lived at 728 King street west, Toronto,
deliberately committed suicide by jumping
from the King street bridge into the Don
river.
The dead body of William Morrison, a
painter of Toronto Junction, was found in
the basement of an unfinished house on
Bathurst street yesterday morning. An in-
quest will be held this afternoon.
The Philadelphia party of scientists for
the relief of Lieut. Peary and party arrived
in St. John's, Newfoundland, on Sunday, on
their way to Greenland, whither Lieut.
Peary preceded them last summer on his
way to the North Pole.
Two alarming accidents occurred on the
Rideau street line of the Ottawa electric
street railway on Saturday evening, the
first of which waa the most serious, and
nearly resulted in the death of two ladies
from Si. Joseph's village,
The Allan steamship Scandinavian, from
Boston, which was reported as having been
seen making her way back to Glasgow with
her machinery apparently damaged, is now
advised as having been detained only two
hours, owing to bearings becoming heated.
On Dominion Day at the evening celebra-
tion, in Tilsonburg, a rocket, which was ac-
cidentally ignited and shot into the crowd,
struck a 10 -year-old child of Mr. Firby, of
Bayham Township, inflicting a terrible
wound. The child, if it recovers, which is
doubtful, Will be blind for life.
A cable from Berlin says Heinz°, the
souteneur,accused with his wife of the mur-
der, several years ago, of a night-watchnnan
named Braun, has been found guilty and
sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude. Ilia
wife, a woman of dissolute character, has During the thee ifx nmiths of mee year
/moo sentenced to ton years for onninlioitY 24,213 untnigrante reached Winnipeg for
in the crime. the Mete
him to be deserted, and render he neces-
sity of taking this very trying journey. The
King Bhgyaini, wife and child, with hun
dreds of their tribe, all down with fever.
The doctor wrote that the empty buts told
what a harvest death was having.
Thousands have died during the past few
months. The field belongs to the London
Missionary Society, being the place where
the sainted NI offatt planted his first mission,
but owing to some trouble with the king the
last missionary had been sent away, and up
to that time no other had taken his place
—the nearest doctor lived 400 mile'
away, so that they were practically
shut off from help of any kind.
Immediately on arrival, Dr. Johnston
went to the King and Queen, and when he
wrote (5 days after), both were recovering,
also their child. My husband assured me
the fever was not dangerous when properly
treated, and that he had not lost a case
that he had seen within two days of the
patient becoming ill, only that in the
absence of any help, it almost invariably
proved fatal. Bhgyhanii besought Dr.
Johnston dot to leave them until at least
the death rate among the natives was
lowered, as in the immediate compound of
the King, the natives were dying off at the
rate of 15 a day. Dr. Johnston said he ac-
cepted the situation, believing his presence
there to be the outcome of a divine plan,
and that no one would wish him to leave
these people in their terribly sad condition.
Thirty thousand people in the plague -
stricken district, all in mud huts, within
radius ol 2 miles.
'What to Feed the Dog.
In the matter of food many dog ownere
make grievous errors, and are therefore re-
miss in their duty toward our friend, the
dog," writes Dr. Gordon Stables. "I think
the rule of a light breakfast about 8 a, m.
and a good nutritious dinner at 5 p. m. is a.
good one, bub we should never neglect to
give some mashed ,greens twice or thrice a
week, nor forget that change does good.
An occasional dinner of well boiled tripe is
a great Meat to almoit any dog, so in a bit
of liver lightly boiled. As to bones, young
dogs may have safe ones, but old dogs are
better without;a handful of bonemeal
mist do duty instead."