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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-7-28, Page 7alio avoid Reporter. With lingers inky and moist, aand eyelids ready to " greet," Our local " sits in lazy despair, Andgrowls aHt the terrHotible heat. Hot 1 ot ! In office, in hall, and M street, Dut hot as it is he still heats hie blood. Thus blessing " the terrible heat: sweat I Sweat I Sweat Till cellar goes down to a string, And aweat—sweat—sweat, Till your shirt is ready to wring. V1S oh 1 ta be a, frog, Deep in some dark abyss, Rather than cater to popular taste For "locals " in weather like this. News ! Newel News t And copy for priuters to set! Yes, news—newe—news, Nair, there's nothing moving but weat. 'Tis oh to be a slave, Compelled to make bricks without straw, As well as just now make local hash To cram the popular maw. • THE HONEYSUCKLE'S STORY. lot Manes Lever, Who Wooed but Proved False. ER mother planted me when he first married John Grant, the gamekeeper, and came home to live. As you, see, the lodge is very pretty, but gray etone al- ways looks cold and drear if there are no clinging vines to enliven the picture. This is why I am here—to en. liven and beautify—and I flatter myself that I more than fulfil my duty. Yes, as I was saying, her mother planted eme, and at twiligbawhen John had finished work, they would come together, and she would say : "How that honeyauckle grows! Why, John, I do believe it will blossom before next summer 1" "1 shouldn't wonder, dear," he would answer. "The lodge will look nearly as Eno as the Great House with the honey- suckles covering it all over." How proud we were—we three—on the day when my first tendril twined round the doorpost ! 'Maus I grew and flourished in the sun- light, and gradually the whole front of the • lodge was gay with nodding blossoms. But although I was happy, still at times alonely feeling overcame me that I could not account for. John had his work to do, and even the little wife had no time to waste on the porch. But one morning my silent wish was gratified, for they brought her out to the doorway—a tiny bundle of flannels -- a baby—and I knew my playfellow had arrived. Then came a Sunday morning when a little triune procession hied down the path with their best robes. In about an hour , they returned, with several additions to the party, and sat down to cakes and wines in the porch. Presently John rose and pro- posed a toast --"Miss Louise Grant." Then Iknew they had been to the christening. Now you see there were two of us to grow—Baby Lou and 1—and the days palmed like dreams. She would play by the hour, digging, in the sofb earth about my roots, stopping occasionally to pick a hunch of my sweetest bloeitoms and thrust them through the big gate to tho pass- ers-by. One morning she came out with a school bag on her arm and my lonely days began once more. Thus bhe years passed and Lods grew to be a woman with a sweet, gentle face—not exactly beautiful, but so loving and true that every one called her pretty, and it seemed to me that "Master :Fred" —as John called the heir to the great house --caine to the lodge oftener than before. At Brat an errand for his lady mother would be the excuse; then he would develop a sus- picious anxiety for John's opinion of the advisability of inviting a party down for the shooting • but finally all disguise was • abandoned and Louise would watch for him, leaning her brown head against the pillar of the piazza, where I could caress her to my heart's content. But not long was this pleasure afforded me, for when his firm tread was heard upon the gravel her lithe figure would straighten and grow tense with impatience and her blue eyes strain to catch a glimpse of the beloved form through the gathering shadows. She loved him truly and las Ineve it ; but Master Fred grew tired and the time came When sho would watch for him in vain night after night: Finally, if he did ap- pear, it was to "stay only a few minutes, ' as he had come " just to see how they all were,' to carelessly pat her cheek, tell her she looked as if her head ached, kiss her lightly and go. Still she belived in him. Finally hie anxiety for the family welfare seemed to die out entirely, and one morning Tim, the gardener, stopped at the lodge on leis way to the greenhouses. "Hey, John 1 John Grant !" he called lustily. " Hells), Tim ! How goes it r asked John, coming around the house. "How are the wife and little one T' " All rosy, John, thanks be to God 1 But have you heard the news from the great house? Master Frederic will be aeon taking to himself a wife. Miss Humphrey, of the plaee—you remember, the tall one with the lack hair, that was at the holies last sum. mer. She "-- ,alp• "Hush 1" whispered John, suddenly, for Lou stood in the doorway. • Had she heard? Surely not, for she came • down the steps smiling. "Good morning, Tim, All well at home ? How is May's croup ?" And presently, as Tirn picked ep his watering pot preparatory to leaving: UWCII, ietnember me to your • wife, and tell her 1 will send that recipe for lemon pie this very afternoon, sure 1" with a nod and a smile as the two men walked off together. But when they were out of sight—ah I knew she had heard! She grasped my trunk for support, and sinking her head on her amen cried passionately, but with a tinge of despair. . "Oh, I don't believe it I don't believe it I don't 1 He could note He would not 1 Why, didn't he say only yesterday •that he "-- She smiled at the recollection and whis- • pered contritely: "Oh, my dearest, forgive me ! It was cruel of roe to doubt you for one instant. There is a mistake somewhere. He will make •everything right." Lifting her head with renewed hope and trust she went in, and pretontly I Saw her atealing off in the direction of the woods, probably to think it out." That afternoon a party of young men cameto the lodge # bringing her with thena. "We were shooting in the avoode,"- one explained, "and the young lady has ortuight a stray shot in her arm. It is Very unfor- tunate, but I assure you it was en actident, • and the wound is very :Afghan more scratch • in the flesh, nothing niore," And with pro- fuse apologies from the whole patty they left her to her mother. -Trne it was only a scratch, but Lou eeemed to have lest her old light-hearted smile, and went around the house looking like the ghost of the girl who used to welt for her lover uoder the sbadow of my big:memos. • This went, on for a week or two until , one night Lou caned out in the moonlight alone, and, after digging a little hole by my roots, droplied into it a peckage of noters and a cluster of withered honeysuckle bloesome. Her mother, etepping oue on tile porch,was alarmed at finding her standing thei me n the chill night air, She called to her softly : "Lon, dear 1" At that the girl's heart overflowed, and in a low, subdued voice that I could scarcely hear, she told the sad little story of the afternoon in title woo& She had wandered on for about an hour, she thought, when a rustling in the thicket startled ber, and turning she saW a familiar figure emerge into the path. The first thought that came to her was of the doubts of the morning, aud that now he would ex- plain everything satisfactorily. he had cried "Fred 1" and ran towards him when sbe heerd a report and felt a sharp twinge in her arm. She felt stunned, more from fright than anything else, and lay there with closed yea for a moment, trying to collect her scattered onus. There was a confused murmur in her ears, and what was evi- dently the remainder of a shooting party hurried up Presently one voice saiddis- tinctly : "Why, Fred, do you know her? She called your name. One of your flames ? Awfully sorry 1 shot her. Fine girl !" Then another, with a laugh: "Been at your old tricks I see. Whet will the divine Miss Humphrey say to her Don Juan " And he had answered indifferently: "Oh, nothing serious, I assure you. My dear Guise, do give me credit, for better taste than that 1 Good enough girl; her father's the lodge -keeper on the place here; honest people, you understand. She's a nice little thing for one of her class. Rather pretty, too, eh ?" He joined in the laughter. Then she had fainted. "He shall never know I heard," she finished softly. "It might worry him." And, covering up the little grave of her treasures, she went in. Tbat was many years ago. Now she comes, a sweet, peaceful woman, with gray threads in her hair, and site dlown in the shade of my waving branches; and the liliesplanted around my roots are always wbispering the story of the secret they hide;• and I whisper it back again to them and to her. We aro great friends, she and I and the lilies. —.Exchange. Bow to Cook Fish. Judge of the freshness of fish by the brightness of the eyes, redness of the gills, stiffness of the fina and firmness of the flesh. Have on hand a fish -turner. It is one of the most useful kitchen utensils, as it is exceedingly difficult to turn a fish without mutilating it. Use olive oil, cottolene, lard or pork scraps for fried fish. Some cooks use a dredging of flour, others beaten eggs and crackers or bread crumbs. Season with salt and pepper and fry a delicate brown. In boiling a large fish wrap in a cloth which has been well floured to prevent sticking, tie with string and cover with three inches of,cold water well salted. Time, five to ten minutes per pound. When done draM on a sieve. If broiled, cleanse and dry; split the fish open so that the backbone will be flat in the middle; when seasoned, butter gridiron and brown fish with the =aide towards the •coals. Butter lavishly and serve on hot platter. Garnish with parsley. The fish to be baked must be thoroughly washed and wiped dry; when stuffed sew together, season with salt and pepper and sufficient water to baste with. Many housekeepers fill in the spaces about the sides of the pan with raw potatoes. One hour is sufficient for a large fish. The Doctor Dumfounded. Agood story is told of a very reverend and very dignified master of an English college. Although "the doctor" was a serious man, he was also a kindly one, and when a young man of his college fell ill, did all in his power to procure him good care and the best medical advice. Finally the invalid's slater arrived, and as she was young and inexperienced the worthy doctor en- deavored, by conetant attention, to lighten her load of anxiety. She was moat grate- ful and confided to her betrothed, who was at a distance, her desire that only " the drar doctor," the master of the college, should perform their wedding ceremony. The student recovered and was now to accompany into his sister home, there to be nurse vigor again. The doztor was present to say good-bye and the lady was full of gratitude. Doctor," says she, grasping both his hands, "you have been so good to me !" "1 have found great pleasure in your acquaintance," said the gentleman in his most dignified awl courteous manner. "You have dale so much for me, but I am going to ask eve more favor! Will you promise to marry me?" Tbe doctor, amiable as he was; dropped her hands and Started back in horror. "My dear young lady," he stam- mered, "1-1'm afraid we,shouldn't get on together !"—San Francisco Argonaut. The Next Total Solar Eclipse. Though the next total solar eclipse does not take place till April 15, 1893, astrono- mers are already astir making plans for ob- serving it. .Mattere says it will probably be "very widely obeerved, not only be- cause the shadow of the moon passes over such e. great stretch of land, but because the phenomenon occurs at the period when a sun spot maximum is approaching, at which time, of course, the dieturbed part of the atmosphere of the sun is on the in- arease." The centre of the shadow traverses Chili passes to the north of the .Argentine Reptiblic, skirts the provinces of Bolivia and Paraguay and cuts through the heart of Brazil, finally crossing the Atlantic Ocean and entering the African coast be- tween Cape Verde and Bathurst. It is not too early for American and European astronomers to make preparations for ob- iferving theephenomenon. The opportunity should be improved to the utmost by ropie- sentatives of all nations. Did You Ever Try A mixture of alum, glycerine, vinegar and water for monquito bites? Salt or ashes for removing discolorationa •from coffee cups or other dishes? Cleaning the lint from a clothes wringer with a cloth saturated in kerosene? Alcohol to remove gram] stains from the children's white aprons, skirts, ole.? Pulverized chalk and ammonia for re- moving and= from marble begins and closet bowie? • To clean a gilt picture frame by using a sponge wet with hot spirits of ovine or oil of torpenthie, then leaving it to dry 2—Good Housekeeping. Au In the Family. Jeanette—Does Miss Boardman get her lovely complexion from her father or her mothet ? (gado (sweetly) --Froin her fether. He's in the drug business. During a thunderstorm at London on Monday afternoon Mae. Guno, of Elmwood avenue,was strineit by lightning, rearitairtieg severe injuries. KILLED AT A BLIND CROSSINO,1 Bad End of a Pionio Party of New • Yorkers. OUT DOWN WITHOUT WARNINGo And• this was the ending of aij merry a pionie as ever made the leafy arches of Shady Side Grove ring with joyousness. Shady Side is a few Rules beyond Wurtz- boro' ana a vary pleasant epot, The par- ticular picnic width went there yesterday was composed for the most part of New York city summer boarders around Bloom- ingburg. • They went in half a dozen vehicles, but the one which contained the gayest party was that driven by Frank Dineen. They all figure in the list as killed or injured. The picnic at Shady Side came to an end late. The music ceased and the lights went out in the pavilion about midnight. The party drove up to the mountains and stopped for a while at Riley's Hotel in Wurtzboro. Time passed quickly on the pleasant front porch, and it was twenty-five minutes to 3 this morning before they took their departure. They had apleasant drive of several miles over the mountain to Bloomingburg, and no one was in a particular hurry to get to bed, The waggon which Frank Dineen drove took the lead. It was a wide, three seated concern. On the front seat were Dineen, Miss Case and Miss Brown. On the second seat wore Mrs. Tappin, Mr. Fuller andMr. Walsh, Miss Teems McCoy and Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Frank occupied the back seat. Their road ran down from Riley's Hotel crossing the railroad track at Wurtzboro' dation. ° What Conductor Babcock, of No. 33, and his crew were doing when Dineen ancl his party reached the crossing, is in railroad parlance called "making a flying switch." This can easily be done on a deecending grade mobas exists on the railroad at this point. A oar had to be dropped at Wurtzboro. It was detached from the rest of the train, hurried along by the engine and left on the siding, while the remainder of the train thundered along under its own momentum and brakes. This was being done when Dineen reached the crossing and pulled in his homes to listen for a train. He heard it. Then the engine of train No. 33 shot past through the gloom. It had no train attached, but what of that? Locomotives do not always run " loaded." Dineen spoke to his horses and they started across the track. Suddenly from one of the girls a shriek went up: "A ear! A car There, right on them, was a train rushing down the grade at furious speed. Dineen gave a yell, lashed his horses, swept one arm around the shoulders of Pearl Case and pushed her over the dash- board. Then there was a crashing of timbers and a shrieking of men and women as the train swept the picnic party along the track with great velocity and left them ground to piece on the rails or maimed beside them. They said afterward that the brakes of the freight train refused to work. It is certain that it was going at tremendous speed and that a hundred feet below the scene of death the forward car juotied the track and plunged half way down the mountain side. But the scene there in the moonlight for the eyes of the picnickers was one for grief. Mr. and Mrs. Frank had been frightfully mangled; so had Mr. Walsh. They, as well as Miss McCoy, had been mercifully killed outright. How the five others escaped the same fate not even they can tell. The horses had crossed the track just as the car struck and were uniniured. They ran as far as Blooming - burg. The members of the picnic crowd who were in the carriage following carried the wounded back to the hotel. There Drs. T. D. Mills and C. W. Piperattencled them. It was at first thought that Duneen would die before daylight, as he had been hurt in- ternally, but he may recover. The Automatic Car Drake. In the old horse car days a car leaving the track was quite a common occurrence, especially on these portions of the track which were in sections of the country bub slightly built up, and consequeutly kept in poor repair. When an accident of this kind happened the male passengers were ex- pected to get out and help lift or push the car back on the track, and, although there was a good deal of grumbling, this was generally done. Rapid transit has, how- ever, introduced so much heavier cars that it is no small matter to lift one of them even if fifty men unite in the effort, and hence jumping the track is a more :serious matter. On one rapid transit road so many cam have bit the track lately on curves that an order has been issued by the presi- dent to the superintendent to dis- charge the conductor and motor man of every train thus delayed,and quite a number of railroad men are looking out for positions in consequence. A European genius has in- vented a contrivance which is prcatically an automatic brake, which applies itself on curves and prevents a car from travelling at more than a started epeed, generally five miles an hour. It is attached to the Wheels of the motor car, whether the motive power is steam or electricity, and it is out of the power of the en,gineer or the motorman to run any risks by rapid driving around curves. Nervous passengers would derive much comfort from the introduction of this device here, and in the long run it would prove profitable to corporations introducing it by reducing the risks of accidents and suits for damages, and also the delay caused to the entire servibe by care leaving the track on awkward ourves.—Sa. Louis Globe - Democrat. Papa Willing. He—I want to maary you. She—Mamma was right after all; but Eapa will be perfectly willing to pay the Trade Brisk. "1 love you. Shall we consider ourselves engaged ?" Yes. From 3 this afternoon until 9 next Saturday. That's the only time I have vett now, The Roumanian crown is made of metal from cannon captured in war. The eye is subjeot to no less than forty distinct &mama Kingston City Council has decided to grant total exemptien from taxation to new industries and partial exemption to Old °nee. 'ere realer TO IIE wISE. Ho said to bintself as he looked down the tube, I know that this gun isn't loaded,- ' To trove my assertion the trigger I'll pull, He ptilled—and the gut.' then exploded. Now he has gone where all the good petiole go Viro knew just as much at What he There are between 40,000 and 50,000 rag - pickers in Paris. Fifty-eight thousand women belong terthe trade unions of England. 1 ' . • renliSBWERIAil NISSION AT IDINIDAD Liberal Views Xxpreastell by a Roman Catholic Mayor. The July etiOnber of the Presbyterian Mora Pahl/thee aa address recently delive ered by Mr. J. R. Llatees, Mayor of Ammo Trinidad, the moat prosperous and active of the Islands of the British West Indies. The occasion was the celebration of the jubilee of the Presbyterian Church in Arouca. Nearly all the missionaries, Rev. E. A, McCurdy and others, were present, The mayor—a Roman Cetholio--preeided, end a scene seldom witnessed, and worths not often heard, were enjoyed by a goodly gathering. , The Mayor's address, showing at once the impression whioh the mission in Trinidad is ma,king on those outside, and the broad and liberal spirit of the gentle- man who made iO was as follows: "1 greatly feel the honor done to me in asking me to take the chair on this °CGS' sion, the jubilee of the Arouca Presbyterian Church. It must not be expected that, on this occasion, I will attempt to go deeply into the history of Presbyterianism, Suffice it for me to say that I know the good that it has done to humanityin general. In every clime the self-sacrificing Presbyterian missionary is to be seen disinterestedly laboring for the alleviation of suffering and unhappy humanity. In the wilds of Australia and in the deserts of Africa he fears no danger, but, submissively to the *ill of his Maker, he fulfils the duties of his noble and divine calling. As good men, true to themselves and to humanity, I respect them, and among them I am proud and happy to reckon some personal friends. Without, however, touching on any points of difference of doctrines, or say- ing. anything as to the merits of the Presby- terian Church, in its comparison with other churches, there is one topic which offers fair ground for epeaking—a topic in which the members of every church are in- etrested,:and which, therefore, may engage our common attention on Ine present happy occasibn—I mean the well-being ot the human race. Now 1 can confidently say that no Church in this Island of Trinidad has achieved greater resulte on this head in proportion to the number of its clergy than has the PreabyterianeChurch. I leave out ,of sight just now its work among the Creole part of the population—although Ilea, in- deed, is considerable, as the very satisfac- tory condition of the congregation attending the church of the pastor in whose district we have met to -night proves. But I will just point to the excellent work that has been done among the Indian part of our population. This is a field that has been but slightly touched by the other denomina- tions. Who that is acquainted with the state of the East Indian when he lands, a heathen from heathen lands in this island, can be too loud in the praise of a Church that has given itself heart and soul to the amelioration, moral and religious, of this section of our population? Con- trast, the coolie when he arrives on our shores, a votary of his degrading superstition, with the coolie brought under the blessed and humanizing influences of Christianity, and then I adr, how shall we overestimate the good that is being done by this Missionary Church in our midst? The coolie comes here dressed in a state of half • nudity, treating his woman and children as mere chattels and articles of merchandise— valuing human life cheaply, insomuch that it takes but little to make him commit murder. See the same man when he yields • himself to the teaching of his missionary. We may now say of him that he is clothed and in his right mind.' He now sees that his wife, whombefore he looked ones a mere chattel, as only born to minister to man's selfish needs—while no rights of her own were to be considered—is a child of the same Almighty Father with himself, having an imrnortal soul, possessing equal privi- leges with himself as a citizen of that city, whose foundations both he and she look for, and towards whose gates both he and she are wending their way in their daily pil- grimage. The girls of his family he now sees were born for other things than merely to be nurtured as common animals and sold as wives—namely, to be reared to take their places on equal terms with their husbands as responsible heads of households. In short, he now sees that true happiness consists as much in a due consideration for the com- forts of others as of himself, and that it is only by being withdrawn from the deluding influence of self-love that a man can really consult his highest and best intermit." Orange Ice. A very nice orange ice is made in this way: Put a quart of water and three- fourths of a pound of sugar in a porcelain - lined sancepan over a moderately hot fire. When it has boiled ten minutes remove it from the fire and let it stand until it is per- fectly cool. Squeeze the juice from a dozen oranges and four lemons. Rasp the rind of an orange with a lump of sugar, and after the juice of the lemons and oranges has been strained add it, together with thelurap of sugar, to the boiled sugar and water, and, after stirring all thoroughly together, freeze the same as ice cream. Not iTsed to Gas. Uncle Treetop—I've got an achin' old snag, I've been waitin' six weeks taw git it jerked out. . Dr. Browneyes—Will you take gas? Uncle Treetop—I hain't much used ter gas. Can't ye use kerosene? A Ilusiness Basis. She—Chicago society is very exclusive, sn't it? He—Yes. When I was there I called at a friend's house, but the footman declined to take in my card until I was identified. Concentrated Wisdom. " Who is it that possesses all know- ledge ?" asked the Sunday,. school teacher. " My brother James," replied a diminutive pupil. "He's just home from college." • Positive Proof. Merritt—Did Johnnie have a geed time on the Fourth? Brown—He must have had. The doctor says he won't be able to leave his bed for a week. Setter Than Nothing. "Am 1 the man of your choice ?" he whispered. "Well, no," was her hesitating reply, "not exactly but / guess voila' do.' Since the Franeo-Prussion war Germany has spent $2,200,000,000 on her army and navy. A gentleman lately dismissed a clever but diehonest gardener. For the take of his wife and family, hoviever, he gave the man a character, and this is how he worded it : "1 hereby certify that A. 13. hair been my gardener for over two years, and daringthe.t thrie he hall got more out of my garden than any man I ever employed." Paol Hoffnian, a leather factor, doing busi- nese in the Marianatrasse, Berlin, committed suicide yesterday under peculiar oil- monstancets, Ile set fire to his factory,took a Beat upon a deek in his offiee, and whim the flames had nearly reached hint shot him. self through theitead with a revolter. APP,pCATIONSiTLIOROUGHLY. REMOVES DANDRUFF t.rinie Cataltar. l'agoatro, Travalling:Paaloagot gent, l p. a., sole aratreasnantaiieritiareieersterialen eaereasnatea410'iiaavoliOttaaa my mg. pia iOn skolleatioas not 944' PhorglighV XaMaYal eicalisive dandeaff acceutieettleo'bet atotool reliele of tea tair.ariacli tett 04(.1. Pliable sae prompted a *ibis areach. Restores Fading luta to original color. Stops falling of hair. Keeps the Scalp clean. 414. Makes hair Soft and Pliable Promotes Growth, a'n't • WORLD'S NAIR MIMIC. It Wlull:riy. be MG e Mutat Which Talent, ood Judgment and Money Combined SSD s The fact that Theodore Thomas is musi- cal director of the World's Columbian Ex- position, paid that associated with him are William L. Tetanus and George H. Wilson, is assurance sufficient that music of the highest order and an excellent programme will be provided, The best mosical talent of the world will be drawn upon; fine halls will be provided ; and something like half a million utters will be expended to make the musical features of the Exposition FilICCSS8. WO of the halls or euditories will cost each $100,000, and $175,000 has been set apart for an orchestra of 120 Wiled musicians, who will be drilled by Theodore Thomas. This orchestra veM be the nucleus about which will be formed the grand chor- uses. The appointed commissioner to Europe who was sent to tender the invitation of the Exposition to the most dietinguished composers has returned with an encouraging report which assures a series of international concerts unprecedented in point of scope and character. The • musical director assumes that thousands of singers and music lovers will visit the exposition in any case, and that they will prefer to appear as ocntributors, thus conferring an importance upon their societies and their homes not poseible under any other circumstances. These forces being, directed and guided, as they must be, in combined effort, the necessary prepara- tion for their appearance at the Exposition will afford intelligent direction to efforts that in some parts of the country are now being wasted for want of a commanding object of work. The entire range of the performance pro posed may be seen frcra the following tents tive claesification : First ----Semi-weekly high grade orchestral concerts in Music Hall. Second—Semimonthly high grade choral concerts in Music Hall. Third—Six series of international con- certs, choral and orcieestral, each consisting °Mom four to six in Festival Hall and in Music Hall. Fourth—Three sides of three concerts each of oratorical festivals by I.Tnited Ameri- can choral societies in Festival Hall. Fifth—Concerts in Festival Hall under the auspices of German singing societies. Sixth, --Concerts in Festival Hall under the auspices of Swedish singing societies. Seventh—Six series of popular miscellane- ous festival concerts by, American singers. Eighth—Twelve children's concerts by Sunday school, public school and especially organized children's choruses. Ninth—Chamber munaconcerts and organ recitals. Tenth—Popular conterts of orchestral music, to be given daily in Choral Hall during the six months of the Exposition. To successfully carry on such a series of performances as are outlined above a large corps of musicians will be needed, some of whom will be engaged for the entire period of the Exposition; others for single and series performances. The Cures for Rheumatism. He came into the car on crutches, and soon a sympathizing crowd gathered about him. "Been in an accident ?" asked one man. " Nope ; nothin' but rheumatiz," answered the traveller. "1 see you wear one of them metal rings," remarked another. "Yep. Paid $2 for it, an' ain't had it off my finger yet. Helps some, spose. Si ,Ie hearn tell of them rings," said a Missouri man, in a drawling tone, "bat I tell ye what, stranger, there ain't ennythin' kin Compare with a common or'nary p'tater carried in the pocket. I've tried it, and cured myself of rheumatics, ez you kin, see." "Here it is," said the man with the crutches, bringing outt a shrunken substance , from his pocket, ' an' I'm free to say I had faith in it—fur a spell." Then a little man with a !peaky voice spoke up—" If you had carried a horse chestnut in your pocket, mister, 'stead of a 'tater, you'd a been cured afore this." "Here's your chest- nut," said the sufferer, as he dug into his other pocket. "1 hevn't left any stone unturned," and he produced the product in question. "Well' sir," interrupted a quiet - looking man who had not spoken before, "11 you had only tried angle -worm oil, you wouldn't be going on °retches now. My wife's mother—" "I've a supply in my satchel, and I've used a de :en bottles, and they haven't done me a mite of good." "If you had my doctor," suggested a commer- cial traveller, when the sufferer struck in— " Don't talk to me about doctors. They can't even tell you whether the rheumatism is a blood disease or a nerve malady. ru stake any old woman against the doctors in rheumatics—ouch !" andheproceeded to rub a complaining limb. "Gentleman," said the conductor, as he punched their tickets, "you're all wrong. The way to cure rheu- ma.tism is to take hot baths at the Blank Springs. It's a sure cure every time." "I've just come from the springs," groaned the sufferer, "and If I live to get home, and my old woman can get a chance to clap on a home-made mustard plaster, and give me some of her opodeldoc bitters, I reckon I may be of amme use in the world yet. But I'll brain the next man that offers me a cure for rheumatism. Yes, sir, I will, by hokey I" A SymPtonu Hicks—I'm going to get some quinine for the baby; he's got the malaria. Mrs. Hicks—What makes you think so ? Hieks—When I try to talk to hint all he says is "a -goo." It is stated that Sir Charles Russell is convinced by new evidence laid before him that Mrs. Maybrick was improperly con- victed of the murder of her husband. A cable says, as Sir Charles is sure to be a member, poesibly Home Secretary, of the Gladstone Cabinet, he can hardly avoid recommending for pardon the unfortunate woman, who is serving a life eentence. On lOt 14, concession 11, of Harwich, has lived for many years a farmer named Duncan McCallum with his large. family. Yesterday morning the husband and father wan found hanging by the neck to a rope in the beim, and lived only a few Minetes after being cut down. The case was orte ef suieide. For some months Mr, McCallum has suffered from a weakening of the intel- lect. The cause is hereditary predisposi- tion, intermified by grief at the death of a favorite daughter a short time ago. • Bight farm delegates from Connectfeat, Masaachusetts, and New Hampshire, passed tarough Montreal yesterday on their way to inepeet and report upon the fanning Tandti of Manitoba, Alberta, and Assiniboia. BEATE SEAMAN DAM. Fittingly Rewarded by the Britisb noll eanadian elovernments. For months the British Government, through its consuls and other repreaenta- tives, hat been endeavorieg to locate Thos. Barr, a humble mechanic, formerly an able seaman on the British steamship Cyprus, to reward him for heoriem and bravery at Sea. Recently Capt. Robert Clipperton, the British Coneul in Philadelphia, succeeded in finding Barr working at Cramps' shipyard, having tired of the sea,, and his bravery will now be fittingly recognized. During the terrible storm of Sept. 30th, 1891, when the violent gale of days' duration scattered the North Atlantic Ocean with wrecks of many staunch and noble vessels, the Cyprus of Newcastle-upon-I'yne, coin - mewled by Capt. Edward Guild, bound from Philadelphia, narrowly escaped foun- derin g. In the midst of this roaring gale a sink- ing, water-logged find unmanageable sailing vessel was sighted, laboring and straining in the trough of the een Immediate relief seemed out of the question, as the Cyprus herself was hove to and endeavoring to weather the gaie with the seas breaking over her bulwarks with terrific force, not- withstanding the skill displayed by the officers in charge of her. A call for volun- teem from the Cyprus' crew was made, and the first to respond was Barr. He was soon followed by John Hartley, Edwin Hicks and James Embley, all able seamen, and Chief Officer Sandholm ordered the small boat lauohed,,, with himself in command. The sea was rimming to the height of the main yard, and Mae orests of the waves vvere white with foam. By the tattered and torn oode signals, as they hung to what remained of the vessel's upper rigging, it was learned that the vessel was the Canadian brigatine (Mara, of Yar- mouth, Nova Scotia. The crew were tied fast in the rigging, as at every • larch she made it was feared she would turn bottom up and throw all hands in the sea. Chief Officer Sandholm was soon near the vessel, • but to get too close meant destruction of the small boat and death to all. Orders were given for the men to jump overboard on the lee side of the ship. They obeyed, and as they came up were grabbed by Barr and others and taken on theCyprus, nearly famished and half-dead from coldand exposure. The Canadian Government has forwarded to the British Board of Trade substantial rewards for the crew that raade the rescue, together with Capt. 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