HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-12-29, Page 6JAMES &PIN NB
hocutti at Cornwall This Morning for
Shooting a Policeman.
AuntED 110 CLERGYMAN NEAR RIX,
Iteatie Instantaneous—Ile Wee Braved
Interview With elis nather--" Well,
Good-bye. c enaction " were Illis loss
words—lianginan Radcliffe Severely
Criticised.
The doomed man's father paid him his
lasb visit on Wednesday. The unfortunate
on bore up wonderfully well during the
conversation, maintaining the Same marked
indifference that he has shown since his
incarceration. The conversation between
the two was very brief, and when the
broken-hearted parent was being taken
away the son said ; "Goodbye, my poor
.old father." Slavin sent for several of his
old friends to bid them a hot good-bye.
During his conversation with one he very
'frequently referred to the shooting of
Davey, saying : " I am, sorry I shot poor
:Sleek, but had I shot Lefevre and Lafess I
would have died with le good heart. How-
ever, I was worked up to such a pitch that
&act been my beat friend that tried to
orligot my arrest the consequence would have
been the same."
Slavin talked very freely during the
i
,night with the guards and carried on n a
loud manner. He arose about 5:30 and
partook of a light breakfast. At 7.35
lIangman Radcliffe, who, by the way made
a public exhibition of himeelf on the day
of his arrival, by promenading the streets,
,as one of the most reepeotable ()Weeps re-
marked, "with a chip on his shoulder, look.:
-ing for some one to knock it off," entered
the cell. At the hotel, where Sadoliffe
put up, it required the services of the
police to keep the sidewalk clear for pedes-
trians while the object. of curiosity, ,was
inside puffiing away on a cheap cigar. He
remarked that should he build a wire cage
and 'dace himself in it the revenue derived
therefrom would amount to more than the
money he was to receive for sending Slavin
into eternity. Radcliffe claims he has been
lately appointed public executioner for the
Dominion. If his statement iscorrect the
appointment reflecta much credit upon those
placing him in the position. One of the
most brutal acts this lugh.paid life destroyer
has done since his unwelcome appearance in
town was to visit the prisoner 'leveret days
prior to the execution and introduce him-
eelf to the unfortunate man as the man that
was to relieve him of the troubles of this
world. Slavin informed him his introduc-
tion was unnecessary and that he knew it.
Slavin made no resistance, as was at first
expected. His hands were pinioned at 7.40
and the march to the scaffold was begun at
7.42. Slavin was very weak. When the
noose was placed over his head he said,
"Well, good-bye, gentlemen." The signal
was given and the unfortunate men's body
'bounded from the earth at exactly 7,45.
Death was instantaneous. The body was
cut down about ten minutes 'after and
interred in the Court House yard in a rough
casket. Slavin maintained his wonderful
nerve to the last, and refused admission to
any spiritual adviser.
THE collffeeifier, MURDERER.
:Prayers Offered 'Up for Him in the Corn.
wall Churches.
The Rev. Mr. Mateo pastor of Knox
'Church, who had an interview with Slavin
eome days ago, during his sermon on Sm-
ileyreferred in feeling terms to him.
Slavin had informed bit that had he re-
mained in,Cornwall and abandoned the use
af liquor he might now instead of wearing
the convict's clothes, have occupied a
prominent position among the People of his
mative town. He would not relate the con-
versation that took place between the con-
demned man and himself further than One
point, which professing Christiaos should
take to mind. Slavin said he Brat lost faith
in professing Christians from observation
of their outward life'and having thus lost
faith in them he lostfaith in the Bible, and,
ea a natural result, lost faith in a personal
God. He urged upon all Christians to live
a life pleasing to God and by their conduct
bear out the divine tee,cleings.
Radclive the hangman, arrived here this
morning and is creating more excitement
than did Barnum's show, which visited
'Cornwall some ten years ago.
MURDERESS •WITII A PULI,'
That Saved Iller Keck Although Site Slew
a Hundred Babes.
A St Peterabueg cable says : The mid-
wife, Bodwarska, in Loez, tried for having
murdered more them 100 babies, has been
.sentenced to one year's imprisonment.
Great indignation has been caused in Lodz
by the lightness of the sentence. The
Woman Waa shown to be guilty of Ruffin
'eating Ill children, whose bodies were
Lound buried in her cellar. As she had
been at work at this kind of thing for
nearly 20 years, there iri little doubt that
her victims number in the hundreds She
was saved from the full penalty of her
orime by the powerful influence of some of
her former patron's.
Pipe -Smoking Swells.
If you see a well-dressed young man
riding in a hansom and smoking a pipe in
the daytime it does not necessarily follow
that he is imported ; for it is not unusual
noveadays, in public places where men
arnoke, to see Americans, who appear to be
able to buy cigars if they wanted to sands-
ing pipes ---Nem Yoric Sun.
Mrs. Mannerly (to her daughter,who has
just returned from tea with friends)—I
hope you mid, "No, thank you," oftener
than you did " Yes thank you." Mabel—
Yes, I did. hadn't been eating more'n
half an hour before they began seeing'
41 Dont you think suedve eaten enough ?"
Aren't you afraid you'll make yourself
sick es and I said, No, thank you,"
every tithe."
A watch hairspring a mile long would
weigh leas than half a pound ; yet men
have been known who had sawed their way
through jail bats with such delicate steel
,springs.
The ractohine for making eguarebottorned.
paper bags Was inVerti.ed by Margaret L.
Knight), who hes hillee then invented a
Miaohlue for folding these begs.
" Etave you finished that address of mine
on Modern Progrees' " asked the great
Man of his private secretary. "Yes, sir,"
deplied the brainy hireling. "Have you
put in everything you could think of re-
lating to the subject?' Yee, sir; I have
made ib very exhaustive; I don't think any-
thing further Could be said." "Very' well ;
lett say at the beginning that I repot that,
°Wing to the brief time allotted tome, 1 will
be unable to go as fully into the subjectias
Ould wish, and let me have it."
1.^•^1
THE WIGAN HORROR.
Twenty of the Entombed Miners Brought
Up Alive.
GALLANT EFFORTS AT BESOUB.
A London cable gives the following ad,
detioeal pertioulaes of the Bamfurlong col-
liery explosion at Wigan: .4t neall pwenty
miners were brought up by tbe rescuers.
The rescued men were in an exhaueted con-
dition when brought to the top. The men
who are still below are imprisoned in e seam
that is under %here the fire is raging.
Strong hopes are entertained that many of
them will be rescued alive. ,
• Despite the efforts to extinguish the
flamer', the tire spread to the engine -house
at the head of the air tenuel. This stopped
the pumping of air into the Intim and added
greatly to the peril of the men in the pit.
The. fire was not subdued until 5 o'clock
this'afternoon. Some time Deter the bodies
of twenty of tbe miners, who had been
suffocated by the noxious gases generated
in the mine after the explosion, were
brought to the surface by the rescuing pa rtiee.
Though the work is extremely dangerous
the exploration of the workbags is continued
in the hope that seine of bhe miners iu the
pit at the tune of the explosion have reached
places of safety, where they are awaiting
the approach of the rescuers. ,
In the main roads the bodies lie in twos
and threes, as the men fell. Large sections
of roof galleries have collapsed. Amid the
ruins were found mangled bodies and half
'burned limbs. The ruins have blocked
many parts of the mine, and therefore the
men 'marching for bodies are unable to give
any definite idea of the number lost.
Several miners who were just alive when
found died on their way to the eurface or
shortly after being taken from the car. One
ethane . party reached the surface half auf-
coated by the heat and Smoke caused by the
• fresh outbreaks of the fire. The rescued min-
ers believe tha the explosion was caused by
sparks from the engine -house, which is said.
to have caught fire a few minutes before the
explosion. Men were sent through the
mine warning the laborers, and many of
those nearest the shaft escaped. The minors
who worked further from the shaft tried to
rush through fire and smoke and yreresuffo-
cited in the effort. The wotk of rescue will
be continued through the night, although
there is little hope that more men will be
taken out alive.
Manager Hutchinson, of the Bamfurlong
mine, went down into the pit with one of
the last rescue parties. In hie anxiety to
make a thorough search for the men he re-
mained below too long, and was overcome
by smoke. He was brought up apparently
lifeless, and was revived. with much diffi-
culty.
PRAYER AND SHIPWRECK.
The statement telegraphed from Boston
the other dee, that several Christian
ministers had denied the propriety of Mr.
D. L. Moody's claim that the steamship
Spree and its 700 passengers had been saved
from destruction by prayer, and that one of
them had said Mr. Moody represented
"the worst and crudest form elf old-tme
" religion," will set a good many people
thinking. Of course ib is impossible to
prove, by any course of argument, that the
Spree and its passengers would have gone
to the bottom of the ocean it Mr. Moody
and his associates on board had refrained
from praying ; but for religious teachers to
express doubt of the efficacy of prayer in
such circumstances strikes a blow to deep-
seated and widespread beliefs. Herbert
wrote in his " Jambe Prudentum " : "He
"that will learn to pray, let him go to
"sea," and Byron in "Childs) Harold'
refers to the ocean sending man shivering in
its playful spray "and howling to his gods,
where haply lies his petty hope." Men
who were safe and comfortable on land
have made their jokes about the
prayers of those in danger of
drowning, such as the story
of the Irishman who called. to his companion
to quit praying because he could touch
bottom, and that of the man who proposed
to take up a collection when it was found
that no one in the boat knew how to offer a
prayer '• but it is more than probable that
these jokers would be the first to fell upon
their knees if the peril was their own. We
cannot understand how any man who
&ocelot') the Neit Testament as a truthful
book can pomade himself that prayer is ot
no avail to avert death by drowning. What
-
does thispassage mean?
.And when he was entered into a ship his dis-
ciples followed him. -
And, behold. there arose a great tempest in
the sea, insomuch thiit the ship was covered
with the waves; but he we" asleep.
And his disciples came to him, and awoke
him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish.
And he scdth unto them Why are ye fearful,
o ye of little faith? Then he arose, area rebuked
the winds and the sea; and there was a great
calm.
But the men marvelled, saying, What nianner
of man is this, that even the winds and the sea
obey him "
Here is the record of direct interposition
to make the wind cease blowing, and it was
done in answer to prayer for the preserva-
tion of life. This is to be distinguished
from prayer for the happiness off the soul in
one, as appears probable, death by
drowning shall occur. One of the most
curious things in literature is the epigram
by the pious Sir Thomas More, who event to
the scaffold cheerfully rather than renounce
the Catholic faith, but wrote the following:
A squall arose; the vessel's tossed
'Jsailors fear their lives are lost:
Our sins 1 our sins ! dismayed they cry,
Have wrought this fatal destiny.
A monk it chi, need was of the crew,
And round him to confess they drew;
Yet still the restless ship is tossed,
And still they fear their lives are lost!
,One sailor (keener than the rest)
Cries, "With our sins she's still oppressed!
}leave out that moult, who bears them all,
And then full well she'll ride the squall,'
So said, so done; with One accord
They threw the °radii' overboard;
Arid now the bark before tho g de
Scuds with light Mil and easy sail.
Nobody expects rational human beings to
forsake the pump% or drop the rudder,
when threatened by shipwreck, ia order
that they may give their undivided atten-
tion to prayer. They have to work as well
as pray to get (heir daily bread. tut WO
shall be greatly surprised if any consider
able humber of our recognized teachers of
religion and interpreters of Scripture en -
dome the position taken by the clergymen
of Boston.
A Dainty Pocket Knife.
In the poeicee of a teiloomade gown the
swell girl carrice her knife. Anyboby who
think e this ie an ordinary enife such as cao
be gotten atetny shop is mistaken ; it is in.
variably made of gold, and, in addition, is
decorated with nom speoial design. .A
very original one has a heart of lapis-
luztu framed in diamondset in one corner
of the hendle, and the owner's' name ahd
a curious cipher earved on the other. A
very general fancy eiciste for having the
name engraved upon the knife in an eicaot
copy of the way one would write one's own
initials,
Some important inVentions have 130eta die:
devoted by Intel**.
A FIENDISH PLOT.
The TeteMeetead Poisoning ,Cases Before
the Pennsylvania (hurts.
.NATIONAL TESTIMONY GIVEN.,
A Pittsburg despatch says: The hearing
In the ewe of Robert Beatty, charged with
having been a party to a plot to poision none
uuion men employed in the Cat•negie Steel
Works at Homestead, was held at the office
of Ald. MoMestera yesterday afternoon.
Patrick. Gallagher, the informer, was not
present.
J. M. Davidson, a steamboat 000k, was
the first witness, ' He abated that in
August, in company with Gallagher, they
met Beatty in Pittsburg. "It was under-
stood," he peed, "that we were to go to
Homestead as cooks, and were to take some-
thing with tie and pub it into tho food
given the non-union men, in order
to make thorn sick and render them
utifib for work. Beatty took us to the office
of the Knights of Labor'where we met
Master Workman Hugh Dempsey. Gal-
lagher and Dempsey did, most of the talking.
Beatty suggested dosing the men with
croban oil. I said no. Dempsey' said he
knew a powder which would do better. Ho
said he had used them powders in Chicago,'
They would guarantee us $50 each and our
expenses. We gob' no powder that day.
Wethen left the hall together. Beatty said
we were each to get $50 and a gold watch
and chain if we went. Gallagher went to
Homestead twodays after that. 1,weneop
on Sept. 22nd. Beatty gave me some
powders to take to Gallagher. There were
nine powders in the package, and ,I pee
them to Gallagher. I don't knew whethei
they were used. Before that Gallagher
had been given a smell Package
from Dempsey. One powder was enough
to put en thirty gallons of tea or
coffee. This was in the K. , of L.
hall and Beatty was present Later, when
Gallagher, Beatty and I went to the K. of
L. hall, Dempsey coked haw the powders
worked. Beatty said, Successfully,' and
wanted more. Dempsey said he would get
more. On December 1st' I asked Beatty
what was in the powders He saidrhubarb,
snuff and other things. He did not 'say
who furnished them. While we were talk.
ing he mentioned Lynch, Crawford and Dr.
Putman." Mr. Brennan gave him a severe
cross-examination, but did not shake his
story in any particular. . He insisted that
he had not administered any powders to the
men. He said he was arrested late in
November. and taken into St. Nicholas
buildiug and was sworn, and tpld the story
he had just told, and was released.
Detective J. H. Ford testified to hearing
Beatty deaoribe the powders and Gallagher
say "Tom 13Iady suggested using croten
oil.
Louis Wolfer% steward of the Home-
stead MAI restaurant, testified to the
serious and rapid increase of Illness among
the men after Gallagher's employment;
that himself and wife were yet suffering
from its effects. His wife, he thought, would
die.
W. E. Bullocks and Jos. Leslie, pay -roll
clerks, also suffered from the drug, and tes-
tified to its effect upon them. .
Mr. Brennan then endeavoredto secure
the release of his client, but the alderman
held bin.' for court in, ,$5,000 bail. Mr.
Brennen thought this amount excessive, and
was directed by the alderman to go into the
enurt on Monday and ask the court to fix
the amount. ' •
SPRATINO BLOSSOMS.
The Ontario oegiei .‚ p .s Forbids It for YerY
GoodiReasonse
An Ace was passed at the last session of
the (Marie L4g1e ature which forbids the
spraying or sprinkling of fruit trees while
theyare in bloom with any mixture con-
taining Paris green or other substances
poisonous or injurious to bees.' The legiala-
'tion is based on the belief that bees are im-
portant factors in the production of fruit
by helping on the procese of fertilization,
and that spraying thefruit trees while they
are in blossom will work injury to the fruit
growers as well as the bee keepers, sinoe it
has been observed that fence the introduc-
tion of the practice of spraying during.the
time that orchards are in bloom large quan-
tities of bees have perished, presumably
of poison. Ie is held, too'lier some men,
that honey produced from blossoms which
have been sprayed witb insecticides is a
dangerous article of food. It hi' also argued
that it is a wait° of material and labor as
well as of fruit to spray the trees while
they are in blossom, since the plane curoulio
is not likely to be present to any extent
until the fruit is set, and the coddling moth
also deposits its eggs in the biennial end of
the young apple just after the fruit is wet
That portion of the pistil upon which the
pollen falls is exceedingly tender and sensi-
tive, and it is held by some authorities that
the applioation of such substances as Paris
green injures it to so great an extent that
the process of fertilization is affected and
the development of the fruit checked, A
bulletin just issued by Prof. Penton, of the
Ontario Agricultural College, upholds the
law as in accordance with the teaching of
science, and hopes that efforts will be made
to have it thoroughly enforced.—Garden
and Forest.
How to Give the Present.
Says Miss Thoughtful: "How shall I
give my Christmas gift 1" writes Ruth
Ashmore in the Christmae number of the
Ladies' Home Journal. I answer : "Do
not give it, my dear ; send it; or if you are
in the same house with those for whom you
have prepared something, put it where it
may be found when you arenot about. Of
course, you are going to make every gift
have a holiday air. That is, some of the
pennies will go to buy sheets of white,
yellow, brown,pinkand blue tissue paper,
and more pennies will go to buy some emcee
of Toni Thumb ribbon to tie them up with.
The yellow ribbon on the brown, White on
the yellow, blue on the pink, pink on the
blue, and if you should get a. scarlet paper,
though I do not think it is So very pretty,
make it gorgeous with gold thread."
Christman? PiniMi.
Christmas week makes weak pocket-
books.
It is sad to note that the average Christ.
men stocking is longer than mord, purses
If you mutt give the boy a drum, give
him a drum of Jigs, he Will make a hole in
it quicker. ,
Tho oht saying that "hanging is ton
good for there " ie never underetond to ap.
ply to the Christmes atookings, —Good
Housekeeping.
wile Marrying Age.
A woman is seed to have tutted the fireit
()other when she 'has ooncittatid her 25th
year, but in 1891 there were 278 Womeh
betweeri the ages ef 25 mid 30 marriel
Massachusetts!, to 103 between 20 and 26,
and 23 under 20.—Detroit Free Press.
The Veiled at Niagera Valls has been
s. s
completed Mut the power plae t will be in
opeimbioo ley next Mareh. It is expected
thettt ctirrerit of 411,5,000 41)tri o lieran.povver
will Ile trattentitteil 'rem there to lieffalo
and 30,000 toother points
THE REJUVENATED MONARCH,
Queen ,Victoria Displays Rio.Iran-Winirlish
Tendencies and l3ecomes 'Quite Skittish,
High Jinics at Dull Old Windsor—Ord
P'se/Re'rYlo 1,v41 a Revel princess —Triie
Character of Sergius of ittisSia—Margarei
of Prussia's TrouSseou—Gay old Time
at a Funeral—Row they Cussed O'Cuss.
LONDON, .veCellimer.
T is now finally settled
Shat Her Majesty Queen
Victoria goes to Florence
about the nticldbi of
.March next. The Dowa,.
ger Countess of Cram ford
owns a lovely villa there,
the villa Palmieri, situe
ated almost at the foot of
thehill leading toriesole,
which itself is within
ettey walkingof the oity.
QueenViotoria has stayed
at the ;villa before, cense-,
quently briows it well.,
Her Majesty WES loth
again to accept the hos,
pitality of the venerable
Countess; every effort had been made to
secure a suitable) residence, but none could
be found.
As is well-known, the sanitary arrange -
meats of the city on the Arno are not
everything that could be desired, and
pieces whichen ppint of (size and importance
were suitable enough for the Queen, were
promptly •condemned immediately they
were overhauled by the British Royal
Investor; wile) is reeponsible for every-
thing ae regards sanitation in any bowie
where Queen Victoria may resther Imperial
head. Amerithns who purpose making a
winter stay in Italy might well take this
legion to heart, and in the eeleotion of their
quarters avoid the gilt and tawdre residence
for the ixtore opassiiming but ,sanitary one,
a few of which of modern construction are
by the exercise of ecane patience to be
'found.
PERIOD OF SACKCLOTH AND ASHES.
'For More than thirty' years it has been
the proper thing for everybody about the
Netball court to pull the longest of fame
during the firet three weeks of December,
and to Maintain. a chastened deportment
till past Chrietraastide. The ever late
lamented Prince Consort died on the 14th
of Deceraber, and strangest of all ooincie
denims, his daughter, Princess Alice of
Hesse, departed this life on the same day
some years later: The double day of
mourning has been a perfect scourge to the
whole court) for years past. Not only did
it last throughout the day itself, which,
compared with Jom Kipper, the Jewish
sPeoial favorite With the Czar and the
Czarina,
Surging himself is a brute. Ho, like all
the members of the Romanoff falhilVt is
bard and cruet to a degree. It is he who is
respongble for the atrocities perpetrated on
theenisereble Jews who have been driven
out of Russia and in particular from the
district of Moriopw where he rules supreme.
Ib is not stated in court' circles whetherhe
beats his wife or has taken initiatory leesqnt
in his modeles upon her person before
putting them in force upon his unfortunate
.fellow creatures, but a look at the uurelent-
ing lunacies of hie otherwise favorable face
is eufficiene to conviath moat men that his
room would be preferable o his company
when in his uncivilized domains at home.
UOSEDERY'S GARTER AND PRoSPEOTivE win!.
The Earl of leosebery has always been a
great favorite with Her Majesty. The
politics of the lelinister for Foreign Affairs
may% be of the "Old Red Republicen
Color," and theoretically, he may desire
the 'abolition of the order to which he
belongs. At heart, however, he is an
accomplished eourtier, and is immensely
popular with all the Royalties. Nothing
bee oiven the Qaeen greater pleasure than
the conferring of the Order of the Garter
on Lord Rosebery. A hard working peer,
who is an extreme Radical in politics and a
perboria grata at court, must be posseesecl of
rare qualities.
It is whispered that Mrs. Victoria has
euggested that e marriage between Lord
Rosebery and one of the Prince of
Waled daughters would not by any
means be bad busineets for the family.
One of the objections, and the principal
one, is that bis lordship is the father of
four children by his late wite, the amiable
Hannah Rothschild—two girls and two
boys ---and, of course, if Lord Rosebery's
wife should come to the throne, the position
of these children of the husband of the
Queen by a Jewish wife would be peculiar
and awkward indeed. Whether it will be
permieted him by the gods to become the
brother-in-law and perhaps the husband of
a sovereign remains to be seen. It is high
time the Wales girls were married, and the
British nation would infinitely prefer to see
them married to well-to-do noblemen than
O parcel of impecunious petty German
princelings, for ever on the cadge.
HOW HUNTLY MET HIS MARCHIONESS.
The Marquis of Huntly is another lucky
and yet, to some extent, an unlucky noble-
man. He has met with several accidents in
O eomewhat adventurous career, but never
had such a narrow squeak as in the Thirsk
disaster. The Marquis is an especial
favorite with Queen Victoria, who, besides
enquiries by telegram, has written him an
autograph letter of sympathy. At one time
it was thought the Marquis might make
O Royal match, for he was a personal friend
of the Prince of Wales and accompanied
II. R. H. in hunting expeditions before he
blackfest, was nothing to it, but every one I became engaged in a metrimomal one. How
fetters is quite a little romance in itself.
e It happened in this way. The young
Marquis succeeded to an ancestral eseate
on Deeside, which naade him a neighbor of
Her Majesty in the Balmoral district. This
was Aboyne Castle, one of the most pictur-
esque and romantic of the stately castles of
Scotland. When Lord Huntly wanted to
go out to India to shoot tiger and big game,
and not beipgthe wealthiest of Scotoh
seers, he conceived the idea, of letting his
shooting; and Sir Cuncliffe Brooks,
.baronet and banker, conceived the idea, of
'renting at least a portion of the Aboyne
estate. Sir William, therefore, went to the
castle accompanied by a couple of pretty
daughters and the pretence of beautiful
Miss Brooks the elder, faciliated baldness
matters immensely. It was a case of love at
•first sight, and apparently on both sides;
SQ directly the Marquis was tired of tigers
and the genial companionship of the Prince
of Wales, be returned to Aboyne and mar-
ried Miss Brooks, Lord Cecil espousing the
younger daughter of the banker.
THEY CUSSED HOKUS POHL'S O'CUSS.
Here is a story that reads stranger than
fiction. Some tirae ago one Edward
O'Case, a penniless pauper, lay very ill of
consumption at one of the London hospitals
A charitable lady and her daughter while
visiting the hospitalpaid him some atten-
tion. He professed to be profoundly grate-
ful and asked the lady's perinission to will
$3,000 life ineuranee and what personal
property he had to the daughter. The
request was granted, and the ladies took a
deep interest in his welfare and had hint
removed to a privete hospital, where he
could have better attention. He had not
been there long when he altered his will
so as to leave half his property to the kind
sisters, who thereupon nursed him with the
utmost tenderness. He died and there
shortly rose a dispute about the will
between the ladies and the sisters. It bid
fair to be an ugly affair until the lawyer
discovered that O'Cuse was not insured and
pommeled no property of any kind.
" GAT '' OLD TIME AT A PtairERAL.
It is no doubt, very unpleasant to find
oneself in an open grave intended for an-
other occupant ; but, in them hard times,
not a few would be glad to caul $500
by such a situation, even with a sprained
ankle and hock to the system thrown in.
This sum has just been awarded by a sem.
pathetic jury to a Mrs. Gay under the fol-
lowing circumstanoth :
Mr. and Mrs. Gay had the misfortune
to lose a mother and E5 mother.in.
law respectively last . January, and
dutifully they attended the old lady's
funeral in a London cemetery. As they
were moving away from the side of the
grave, after tho conclusion of the service,
both fell into an open grave behind them.
Mro ' Gay sprained her ankle and
herr lord and. master is said , to
have impaired hie eyesight and developed
wit)
heart dimin consequence of his prema-
ture burial. Doctors, however, disagreed
as to the possibility of such a cause produc-
ing such an effect.
It looks very much like a case of blind
leading the blind and both of them falling
into a ditch. Perhaps it was this considera-
tion which induced the sophist jury to
award $500 only for the, damaged eye and
the palpitating heart, while Mrs. Gay's
spritined ankle wen her four tixnes that
amount.
was expected to go into training on Deem- the Marquis became enmeshed in love's
ber 1st, and gradually work up an expres-
sion of sadness during the thirteen anterior
days of purgatory and sadness. So much
misery could not be expect,edto vanish
immediately, the process lasting up to
within a few days of Chriettnae.
THE TRANSFORMATION SCENE.
What possesses Her Mejesty this year no
one seems to understand. Instead of the
usual misery the month of December has
been ushered in with high Puke and general
rejoicing. The Royal Italian 05.16145 Com-
pany was carted bodily down to Windsor on
Saturday, Deo. 3rd, and a gala performance
of "Canon" Was there given, which made
the walls of the old .fortress resound with
sweet melody. Age Only makes Her
Majesty mere sprightly, and the torthoom.
;fig season will probably see her dancing a
minuet with Henry of Batteuburg end-
playing kiss in the ring with all the mein -
bees of her vast family and a few Scotch
ghillies thrown in to give it a flavor. The
British nation is not; cavilling at this sud-
den change in the itate of things. The
cheerful surprise has come as a sort of
earthquake. that's all, and people can't
quite understand at first what ib.
all means. Aa a Regent street
storekeeper said the other day : "It was
not before it, was wanted, . for the state of
binakrupthy and misery into which trade
has fallen through Her Majesty's remissness
will be 'the everlasting disgrace of an other-
wise glorious reign."
MARGARET PRUSSIA'S TRoussEAII,
The Empress Frederick, so say the WO/116D
of her adopted country, has remained too
English to become as popular in Germany
as the might have been. However that
may be, Her Majesty has certainly become
as German in one respect as Schiller's ideal
housewife, who, according to Lord Lytton's
not altogether delightful translation ,
Locks the chest and tho wardrobe, with
lavender smelling,
And the hum of the spindle goes quick through
the dwelling;
And she hordes in the presses, well polished
and full,
The snow of the linen, the shine of the wool.
These housewifely qualitiee have appeared
again and again whenone of Her Majesty's
daughters was about to be married, and
now, when the trousseau' of her youngest
daughter. fair Princess Margaret, is being
made, all Germany or at lead the female
population of iaIl Germany is agreed that
the Empress' Motherly solicitude, where
the personal equipment of her daughter is
concerned, ould not be surpassed. It
appears that every article of the trouseeau
is perfectly simple, though of the finest
quality e all tho linen is embroidered with
the bride% initials only, and everything is
made by hand.
The bridal dress is naturally the object of
much curiosity, As the wedding is
definitely fixed for January 25th, the finish-
ing touches are even now being put to it by
the clever artists of the needle to whom the
work hae been entrusted. The dress itself
is very simple, of white satin; but it has a
magnificent border of myrtle branches in
raised silver embroidery. The jewellers and
gold and diver smiths of Berlin are also
hard at work with the wedding presents,
which her august relations will present to
the young Princes% who, with all her quiet
•ways and grave facie, hes always been the
favorite among the four Imperial German
granddaughters of Queen Victoria.
sniteaus oe RUSSIA A REGULAR 'TARTAR.
Queen Victoria's granddaughter, who has
itort paid a virile to Windsor—the Grand
Duchess Elizebeth Feoclorovna—al the wife
of the Grand Duke Saline is generally
known in St. Petersburg society—has not
played any very conspicuous role et the
&IMMO COUTt. She Is pretty, graceful and
amiable, with a smile for everyone, and a
manner that has eutheeded in winning the
hearts of all brought into contract with
her. She is generally regarded by thew
accustomed to the darker beauty of the
slay race as posseseleg the typical " Jing
lish " face, to • Which her air of melancholy
further add a touch of sentiment. There
has beer any amount of genie) Often very
unkind, in Si. Petersburg circles over the
eubject of her relationa with her husband,
but these boot informed pay no heed to
such, and so often malevolent, chatter.
The Grand Duke Sergiue is certainly no
favorite in Russian society and go has many
enemies. His young wife, on the other
hand, has Wort the sympathy and respect of
all Who have come to know her and the is a
The PkoOf Reader's rault.
Caller—Why did the city editor leave so
hurriedly thia meriting? No bad neves, I
hope? ,
Editor—Well, ye 5; the nuindolin club
sererteded him last night, and this morning
the paper came out with a wthe up of the
young ladies' mattdliti club,--Chicave Inter -
°dean. '
"1 know I'm a regular bear, Marjorie,"
said the young man hesitatingly. " Oh, to,
you're not, Tom. Nothing of the kind.
Why, you have never offered to hug me,
mom." ,
" What would you like for a Chricitnies
gift ?" atiked Skalds of his best girl. " Are
engagement rings very expensive ?" the re,
1116'1h:hi:Ind cn which the °hider Opera
;al oa; 01,1:91) t.it'(;130 s?ittoe tr,e7dwb,sa,,s ears
tilow 6Ztoigc e nki ngnecom. WI) beho
London,
•
WillArr CUBED HEIL
The lemply Cradle Appealed to the Auction
There was a ret:trinsgUiel'pa'1:17 with the auo
tioneer, nod the reporter standing by his
box Woken/ at him. • '
GOE50 1" inquired the reporter, as the
auctiormer eat eown, tired.
Well, e've boa going all the morning,
and I ought to be," responded the macs
tAilia‘eTir.
°c4°an1118iiihnttobeioriseE''fO1,14" liYenomemthainn'g Yofgtritereatt
suggested the reporter.
"Josh Billings was one, and he got hie
start at the block," said the auctioneer, re-
fitetively, "and some auctioneers are given
to that sort of thing yet. I was that way
myself when I first began, but I had an ex-
perience that cured me of that habit before
it had fixed iteeif permanently."
The reporter turned a face full df interro-
gation points on the auctioneer, and he
kept on.
1 was called on came to sell byauction
a lot of household furniture belonging to a
man and hie wife who had been married
four or five years. All I knew aboutit was
that a death somewhere necessitated 'their
removal irOM My town, and, as they had no
money, they were compelled to sell their
effeots to get enough to move on. Well, I
Was having a picnic in my young and fool-
ish way, guying and bantering, and making
brilliaut and witty side remarks on the
articles as they mine under the hammer, so
to speak, though 1 don't remember ever
having used a hammer oe seeing any other
auctioneer use one. After I had dispoped of
-
a lot of atuff, a cradle was put up, There
were several young men of my acquaint -
0000 in the crowd, and I smiled et
them as I turned the cradle, round
and began to rock it, humming a
lullaby as I did so. • Empty is the iCradle,
Baby's Gone,' I mid, and was goings -04.i
say something else to get a laugh.; when I
happened to look down into the face of a
woman close to the platform I was standing ,
on. She WWI dressed in faded black,
evidently given her by some woman larger
than the was and there WWI a look in her
eyes and a tension of the lines soros her
forehead and a pitiful weakness about her
quivei ing lips that naade me stop. She
stood close to the platform, and the crowd
was all at her back, so they had not notified
her. She didn't *peak, but as I stopped,.
she looked up at me with the tears starting,
and Iiithig herbands in a mute appeal of
remonstrance no words could desoribe, the
gave a great sob of agony and turned away.
" didn't know' was all I could
stammer in apology. And I didn't know
that it was her baby's cradle I was selling,
and because the cradle was empty her heart,.
was broken and she could no longer live in
the house that the baby had left."
The auctioneer was feeling his story
viei1bIYO
"N, my boy," he went on, "1 didn't •
know, nor did the crowd, but they all did
pretty 30011, and I told them a story that
had no fun in it for any heart there but it
took just the same, and I got $150 there,
that
cradle before I was done with it, and then
•
gave it back to the poor young mother in
the faded black dress."
The auctioneer remounted the block, and
the reporter, blowing his nose viciously,
ambled off after some news.--Detrott Free.
Press.
Meals on Christmas Day.
Let your breakfast table show forth the
brightest silver, china and glass mike
snowiest linen, writes Frances E. Lanigan in
O timely paper on "The Table on Christmes.
Day" in the Christmas number of The
Ladies' Horne Journal. .1:44y. e_tc.r your
centre piece a long bo Of holly, ander:erg, .
the bright, glistening rd and green to them
ga,shered about it. Fruit, either ,white
grapes, oranges, or beet of all, shedelodlue -
served with powdered sugar, make a grind
foundation for all the sweets and goodieo.
that this feast day sends into the stomachs.
of roost of us. ' Oatmeal or pearl hominy
eerved with cream should come next, and
lastly, French chops served with peas and
ti
l,1
creamed potatoes, accompanieciby hot roller
and steaming, fragrant coffee. Hot cake's.
14
are best avoided on holidays, I ink, and .
simplify matters in the kitchen. 'ee,
For luncheon, let bouillon in onees be •
served, se your first course, follow it Witlo
thin slices of cold roast beef, ham or tongulk,
served with brown hashed potatoes, a distr.-t.
of sardines served with sliced lemon, and
another of chopped celery with mayonseakiee
dressing. A dish of fruie is your most sue-
oessfal delnert, and coffee. chocolate or tea,
as the tastes of the family dictate, the best
-
liquid accompaniment As most of the
-
dishes of thie luncheon can be prepared
easily, and as it may be easily served, and
even more easily "cleared upafter," it has
e
somhiug more than its hygienic qualition
to recummend it.
Christmas Crinkles
It reqairee no outlay of money to wil/i
people a, merry Christmas.
Don't give yourself to more than me gir
as a Christmas present.
Don't speed in gifts the money you owe
your washerwoman.
Presents are not numerate in homee
where the parents carefully teach the3ege4
year-olds that Sante. Claus ie riengisedeg
personage. y
Price merits on Christmas gifts are not t
be regarded as emblems of veracity.
The woman who can circulate numb
through the stores the first three weeks a
December can approximate most closely thet
value of the presents her friends receive.
" One wallow does not make a summer,"
but it may have occurred to you that one
g,rasshopper make e more than a deem/.
springs.
First boy (dropping in for a can)—Woe
are you dein' with your hat an' coat and,
gum bode cio in th' house' Second boy—
Manama is house c'eanin' an' I want to keep
these where I can find 'em.
The speed of if wild duck is 90 miles a
hour.
Te contented roan can get mote corn e
fort mit of a cob pipe than the dyspeptic
can from the finest, imported cigar.
The Czaa's personal expenses are. $9,000,-
000 a yean which is e6,200,000 more than
Roasts.‘e annual appropriation for common
schools,
Jamul Wills, of Mount Sterling, Ky.
has been truck by lightning four times toad
is still alive.
The estate of 10,000 acres en vshiele Mt.
George Vertaerbilt, is erecting his beroniah
()Mole, in North Ow ohne, was puroleteed ab
a toes], cost of $600,000.
A trange eircumetance happened in '
Neshvill Term., a few days egO. An
alerm of fire nog out erel the engines ro-
spondee 'rho driver of No 4 was a second -
behind time in urepieg for hie seal). The '
inpatient horee dashed off at a break --
molt speed without him. Across 8 bridge
they went strtaehing buggiee 00(1running .
over people all aloes the wee. A fireman
was fatally and marl people kotiously in.
Oared, void the engine tureed over 'and corn '
nletely demolished. Stich oceurrence
d iye pluood beyond a possibility
ow 18 it with Pfamil