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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-2-2, Page 6IONDON'S LATEST GOSSIP, pea Victoria Don on SiothIy and will GN No More Drawing-Roms, IDIsseatn of Court to be Itiplield—Mappy Done mannians Dive Mario or Edinburgh aerecione Metals—Francis or Week to Marry a laritish lartrwer'e Daughter—A DinRit'a Flair Fred's nontrractor Dressers Esdest Girt—Who Dueness of Portland weilows Queen Wietorieet Lead aria elseliews Ilteenocratle Snobs. HE British IttYalt Family will be num- erouely represented at the French Riv- iera this seaso' n and the exodus of Eng. lish ens' tecrats beand for that baltiaier clime is now in full blast - The Prince and Prin- ces of Wales, with the ' Duke of •York and the Princesses Victoria, and Maud, will meettheir yacht, tins Osborne, at Mar- $• seilles and be con- veyed thence to Cannes. The lively little lanchess of Albany, accompanied byher Children, will spend the remaining winter entre at the Villa Nevada, Cannes. The Millie and Duchess of Teck and the Prixo ems May will be entertained by Lady Wol- verton near by; and the Duchess of Con- naught, whose health has not been good since her return from India, will atay with Madame de Falba at her sumptuous resi- dence, the Villa California. At the same time the Marchioness of Lorne will be the est of Miss Alice de Rotbschild at Grasse. heDuke of Cambridge has secured rooms at one of the leading hotels in Nice; while lifer Majesty Queen Victoria, with the Princess and Prince of Battenberg, will be established at Florence at the palazzo of Lady Crawford. VICTORIA'S ROYAL PONY CARRIAGE. Queen Victoria has deigned to accept a mewly-designed " donkey -pony" carriage. Maio new little vehicle is not to be used until Her Majesty gets to Florence, and a meat, little, zinc coach:house is to be erected at the Villa Palmeira for the reception of to new royal pony carriage, which travels du such a smooth, quiet manner that it will be necessary for the animals drawing the same to wear royal bells on the brow -bands a their bridles to prevent accidents. HOLY I HOLY ! ! HOLY ! ! ! NEW YEAR. Queen Victoria in the private chapel at Osborne, with those she likes best round her, attended divine eervices on New Year's Eve to pray while the old year was passing away, and as the clock struck twelve Her Ms:amity said "Glory, Glory, Glory I" On New Year's day the Queen and the ether members of the royal family received holy communion in the morning, and after- -wards spent a very quiet day at Osborne, there the weather was exceedingly cold and raw. It is expected that 1893 will be good one for the royal ones ; but there will be more changea in the coming twelve months in the royal family than have ever limier° taken place. HER MAJESTY A DEMON CHESS PLAYER. "Very few people are cognizant of the faot • that Queen Victoria is for a woman an ex- eeptionally fine chesi-player Quite three times a week during the winter months she indulges in this pastime. Her most doughty antagonist is her own daughter, Princess 'Christian, who, with all due deference be • head, wins the majority of games played. liter Majeaty'a Munshi, the Indian tutor of Mayalty, is a very fine player, as most Hindoos of the higher caste are. He in- • -variably gives His Royal Mistressthe odds Df the knight, at which odds she generally mine, but the Queen has a fatal love for the Milluzio Gambit, which, as all chess playera know, 'is an absolutely lost game for. the • attacking party. GOOD BYE TO. DRAWING -ROOMS. Iler Majesty has just deoided that no • =ore drawing -rooms are to be held. This ,decision is gall and wormwood to those who 'visit England in the hope of kissing the hand of royalty as well as to the immense numbers of toadies in the British domain • whose one object in life is to boast that they have been presented to their Queen—or her erapresentative. The last year's scandals leave settled the matter. It will be re- membered that disgraceful scenes then ,occurred and that ladies indulged in a free tight to gain access to the presence chamber and when they arrived there, many had their garments half torn from their backs. Mae Queen has decided that " Courts " •only hall be held for the future, which means that only those will be present who are invited by royal command. This move on Her Majesty's part will effectually wipe out • the plebeian element which of recent years has 'become predominant and tended tolower the dignity of the British court and :militate • against its prestige. The name of every debutante will be submitted to the Queen, .and now that Her Majesty • has taken the matter in hand there is little doubt that 'smith her determination of character she veil ruthlessly expunge the names of any pigeons who are not recommended to her by the very highest credentials. It will be Just about as difficult for the American girl ito kiss the roeal finger tips as it will for her lb:renter the kingdom of heaven by an ex - prase cat, and she had better not forget it MARIE'S SILVER TABLE Toe. The ladies of Bucharest seem in a very ge.nerotta mood toward the coming bride; • 'they are going to give Princess Marie of Edinburg • a table top in solid silver tot a further wedding present. Ibis to be a very 'handsome affair'with a design representing the Temple of Love engraved on it, and will 'weigh 100 pounds. There is a traditional custom in Roumania of presenting new arrivals with the hos- • pitable welcome of an offering of bread and, salt. This is simple, but the Reverend •'Fathers of Bucharest are not content with giving the British Princess bride such a cheap token of their delight at receiving her ; they have voted $4,000 to perches° a Olden tray, whence:: to offer the salt and bread. ROMANIAN ROYAL TOP-BNOT. Souniattiati taste in jewelry runs to 'large oolored stones set in plenty of metal, and a very good sample le the remarkable time which used to be worn by Queen Oer- men Sylva by way of pleasing her husband's aubleate, end Which might lutve been mire taken for a row of Moonlit' fairy lathp situideit, wrought in rithest keen set with reeplendent ream That model mother, the • thicherss of Edinburgh, haviag noted, thi•s -.penchant a Princes Marie's future people, the bonnet for the Isticleas Stet° entry into •Enoharest is a thing of beauty which ought to fetch the mob. .A white top -knot with lieit.rls and diamonds would, be alined unr observable in ghat an oceasion ; whereon •'t hat gold filagree and Violet satin toque, be, sleeked with amethyota of the richest ueliby obtaineble, intay airiest rage for the Crown of Roumania, itself out for an airing. IlltATIKI PROVO MAItUit9S A MtEWEll's peneevrea. Boer a deetined ere long to meet with the greatest dee it has Yoh experienced. Prime laranoie of Toole and Mies Nelly Bassi the daughter of Lord Burton, are very 8erum:31y thinking of taking the important step to- gether. • Francis of Teck is a very hand - mane young fellow and how plenty of braine, tad, of eaurise,can boast of very few blithe's. rife will be three -and -twenty the 9th of this month. Francis is the ainbitioas and "go- ahead " member of the Took fetidly, and, indeed, some of his views lwaye nether frightened hie father and mother, but be is yeuth who very plainly underatands that, hard as it is for any one to be short of cash, it is particularly hard for a Prince to be in that awkward condition, for it is almost out of the queetion for him to work for money, while DA the same time a levieh expenditure of that useful • commodity is almost invariably expected of him. Obviously, therefore, tile One way for the good-looking male specimen of the eben- burtig who has no cash is to acquire it by marrying it, and that, it appears, iswhat the handsome Francis of Teck now proposes doing. Nelly Bass irs a particularly nice girl, and the only child of Lord Burton, so that he. is not altogether a beggar. Should this marriage come off the bung megnates throughout the length and breadth of Great Britain will he proud indeed of the eleven don of one of their own brewing to s. place so near the Imperial purple. A BUDDING, DURE SPLICES A BRASSEY. Lord Settrington, eldest ant of the Eaal of March, and heir -presumptive to the Dukedom of Richmond, Gordon -Lennox and D'Aubigny, is engaged to Mies Hilda Braseey. When Lord aettrington's father married Miss Ricardo there was a th.rible outcry on the part of all the dowagers, and the marsh was stigmatised as mesa/fiance. • Members of the ducal family of Gordon - Lennox even theught fit to show the young Countess that they looked upon her as an intruder, and not by any means as one of themselves. The Beasseys mime over with the conqueror, so they say, but they "lay low" till railway timers, and the name is more indicative of plenty of cash than of blueness of blood. The Brasseys are cer- tainly getting on in the world when they marry into a house which is Royal de /a main gauche, and if this sort of thing goee on Britishers may expect to see the wealthy and haughty houses of east end dry goods men and weat end storekeepers de- scending to matrimonial alliances with the poor Sowards, Talbots and Percys. PORTLAND'S DUCHESS SHUTS OUT SHODDY. The Duke of Portland recently celebrated ab Welbeck his thirty-fifth birthday and the event gathered together quite a pleasant little family party, among whom Lady. Balsover, whose property eventually falls to the Duke, was a conspicuous feature, though the Duchess nominally presided. The Duchees of Portland is being watched by a large section of society with extreme interest, some of whom by no means quite relit& the determined attitude assumd1 by Her Grace as to the -unbridled looseness in respect to the motto of noblesse oblige which prevails nowadays in society. The Duebess has received warm commendation front those whose opinion is of value, at the stand she is taking in closing up the ranks oi tne patrician class, somewhat disarranged of late by the inrush of democratio snobbism and would-be Bohemian laxity. It is a brad step for so young a woman, but Her Grace is a Duchess, a British Duchess, and her huaband is wealthy, has held high office at court, and above all, she is pretty, so she carries with her a powerful clique. vans' THE Dunn BECAME A DUBE. • In 1879, when he was Mn W. J. A. C. J. Cavendsh-Bentinck, the Duke of Portland was serving as a subaltern officer in the Guards at the age of 22. On one bright morning, the overnight of which he was detailect for the duties of orderly officer of the day—it: was the custom of his batman when calling him to bring his master a brandy -and -soda from the mess—he did so, on this morning, but on going to the mese- man for the "8" and "B," he was told that his master, Mr. Cavendish, was the Duke of Portland, through the death of some outside cousin. He went to the bedside of his master and said, "It's time to get up Your Grace ; shall I put your soda -and -brandy on the chair? Up raised the head of the young Duke, and with his mouth wide open shouted to his servant., " Whet the devil do you mean by calling me Your Grace,' by George I'll report you to the Adjutant.' "You are Your Grace really sir—sir," said the man; "for some Duke's dead, as is your fourth cousin." "Is that so ?" says the young officer of the guards. "Yes, sir, Your Grace" said the batman. "Well then" said the Duke, "drink the soda and brandy yourself, and fetch me a bottle of champagne." Robespierre's Essay on Crime. A manuscript of Robespierre's bas just found its wayto the National Library under rather peculiar circumstances. A work- man, in the employ of a rag merchant, was packing up a parcel of old paper when his attention was drawn to some sheets covered with writing which had become quite yellow' through age. He sorte,d them carefully and took them t'o his patron who OU scru- tinising the manuseript discovered the signature of the notorious revolutionist,. The " copy " proved to be an essay on crime, written for the Andone Academy, which, in 1785, offered a prize for the boat production on the subject. It may he in- teresting to letsrn that Robespierre did not obtain the reward in this particular compe- tition though in studying his subject he no doubee.vailed hirosrli of information that was to serve him in good stead later on. temp wicks. For obstinate lamp wicks. So:menu:ea the lamp wick obstinately refuses to be turned up in the ordinary manner. It will seem firmly wedged at one side, while the other runs up in a ,point, causing weariness and vexation of apirit. To overcome this depravity, take a neve wick, draw out a thread near the selvedge, and the wick will be found quite tractable when introduced into the burner, the cogs will take it up properly, and it will appear in good form and give an even flame when lighted. Zany Market Gardenere. We note with pleaeure that the two young ladiee who aftet a year's study of horticulture at who, College" took the first and third diplomats of nue year, are intending to devote themeelves to growing grapes, tomatoes, etc., in the Channel Islands, This is an excellent open- ing for the energies of many women who Amid occupation,—Awitneter Gardening, London. "What's the 'matter, dear? asked Mr, justWed as he came into the house and found hie wife crying as if her heart would break. "1 am so discouraged," she sobbed. What has bothered my little with /" "1 writhed all the afternoon Makitig °attar(' pies, Iberians() 1 ktew you were so fond of thexn!aild—atid—." tfere elle began Weeping hysterically again, "And What, darling f " "And they turned out tei be Kiang mcd A /41108% 'VENGEANVE, Fiturions Finest and Hile "WSW mieteliored. A Bwtule beth cable says: The peasants near Hunyad! Trantsytvama, had threatened eine° last summer to lynch the orthodox Greek priest in Huuyeal, because by lending money et exorbitant pricee he hod acquired mortgages on halt the small farms in the neighborheod. Devitt) the faet that the severest suffering has been caused in Trate sylvania by the bitter weather, and the poorer ()lessee have been obliged to spend most of their money for fuel the prices* announced lest week that five little faiths mortgaged to him would be sold onlViouday, as the owners bad not paid their intereet He was warned on Sunday that thepeasante would lynch him in cape he carried out his announcement. Neverthelese, the sale was held and the five families were turned out. Two children and a woman died of expoeuro on Tuesday. On Wednesday afternoon fifty peasants armed with scythes and Pitchforks eurrounded the priest's house. Four men set fire to the house at the corners and guarded the doom and windows so that the priest and his wife and two small chil- dren could not leave before the handing was well ablaze, Eventually the four men retreated, and the priest and his family ran out The peasants at once struck them down, and pierced the bodies repeatedly with pitchforks, and threw the bodies into the flames. ISREA.D ititsTil IN AMSTERDAM Mobs Try to Loot Shops and Many Are InJured. An Amsterdam cable says To -day the unemployed workingmen formed a prone- sion and passed through a number of the principal streets, growing more noisy and demonstrative as it was found, that the police did not interfere, Finally the mob, for into such theprocession degenerated, stopped in front of a large bakery and attempted to take the place by storm. The police were on the alert, however, for anything of that sort, and a nuraber of them were quithly on the scene and prevented the looting of the shop. The police allowed two of the men to enter the bakery and ask for bread. These men demanded food from the pro- prietors and met with a prompt euddecided refusal. Then they returned to the street, and the mob marched on, yelling, shouting and threatening. Finally, they became so disorderly that 200 policemen attempted to disperse them. The mob resisted, and a desperate melee occurred, in which volleys of stones were thrown at the officers. Several of the gendarmes were quite badly injured. The police, with drawn swords, repeatedly charged the crowd, and inflicted many severe cuts on the rioterr. The procession was finally brat en up, but, even then, iso- lated batches of the rioters continued fight- iog for hours. The leaders of the mob were captured by the police. ' The Tart. The programme for the Ontario Jockey Club spring races has been announced. It is undoubtedly the best ever offered the Canadian public. To the usual recess is added the Woodbine Nursery Stake. A most important feature is the increase in the value of the Toronto Cup, the added money of which will be $2,000, of which tot00 mill go to seoond and $200 to third rae. the meeting opens on Tuesday, May 23rd, and extends over the following Saturday. The order of the raceb has been somewhat changed from last year, as the following will show: Tuesday's programme consists of the Trial Nurse, value $400, for all ague ia mile; the Woodbine Nursery Stake rst for 2 year- olds, $700 added, a mile; Woodbine Steeplechase, purse $500, about 2i miles; the Woodstock Plate, for 3 -year-olds, $700 added, la miles; the Walker Cup, for 3 - year -olds and upwards, property of Do- minion resident owners, value $500, la miles; Free Welter Handicap, for 3 -year- olds and upwards, purse $400, la miles. Wednesday—The Club House purse, for all ages, value $400, miles; Toronto Cup, for 3 -year-olds and upwards, $2,000 added, la miles ; Red Coat Race, $1,000 added, about 2i mules; The Queen's Plate, for all ages, provincial breds, probable value $1,000, la miles; Handicap Steeplechase, $400 added, 2a miles; The Hotel Plate, value $400, i* miles. Thursday—The Don puree, for alt ages, value $400, g mule; Ile Breeders' Stake, for 3 -year-old ,s $400 added, 1* miles ; The Royal Canadian Handicap purse, $500, la miles, over six hurdles; the Juvenile Scurry, for 2 -year-olds, $500 added, * mile; the El Padre Handicap, for all ages, value $1,000, lir miles; Helter Shelter Chase, purse $400, short steeplechase course. Friday—The Ladies' Parse, for all ages, value $400, 2 mule; the All Corners' Stake, for 3-year.olds, 1 miles (closed) ; Consola- tion race, value $500, 1 1-16 mules; the Flash Stakes, for all ages, $400 added, § mile ; Hunters' Flat Handicap, purse $400, I* miles ; 2 -year-old race, value $400, § mile. Saturday—The Norway Purse, for all ages, value $400, I mile; the Maple Stakes, for 3 -year-olds, Canadian -bred fillies owned in the Dominion at time of starting, $500 added, la miles ; the Dominion Handi- cap, purse $750, for Dominion -bred horses, la miles ; Redcoat Steeplecham, barring first and second horses ID that race the first day, $500 added, 2a miles, twice over the water lump ; the Tyro Purse Handicap, conditions announced On the morning of the day of the race, value $500 ; Consolation, selling race, purse $400, 1 mile. The stake races have already closed. The other everita close as follows : Queen's Plate, Mural bit.; Additions, May bit; Woodstock Plate, Red Coat Race, Handi- cap Steeplechase, Juvenile Scurry, El Padre Handicap, Dominion Handicap, May bit; Trial Purse, Woodbine Steeplechase, Walker Cup, Free Welter Handicap, To- roeto Cop, Rotel Canadian Handicap, Heller Skater and Hunters' Flat, May 20th ; Club Home Purse and Hotel Plate, May 24th ; Ladies' Purse, Open Race Purse $500 end Flash Stakes, May 25th ; Norway Purse, May 261h ; and Coneolation Purse, May 27th. Ingrowing Nails. An ingrown nail may be treated by cut ting a V-shaped hole in the centre of the nail, or paring the same place thin with a sharp bit of glass. Painting the aide of the nail with iodine has proved benefieial. hard corn may be removed by frequently soaking in hot water, or by rubbing with saltpetre, or by acetic acid carefullyapplied. A soft corn is a more gerioue matter, but will yield to tincture of iron. A plaster of lard and iodine is said to reduce the pain- fulteth d a bunion, The Prince of Wake visited Canada ia 1860. Now it ie proposed that the gee of the Prince of Wales shall visit the World's Fair at Chicago. Peinee George is 28 years old. He entated the Royal Navy as a Midst in 1877, was made midelsipirien on the Canada iti 1883 and promoted to be neatens, ant in 1885. He wais given command ef the Thrtieb, on the West ladia atation in 1890, and wail made commaticier In 1891., " Where hate you been,, TOinniy Otit in the stable giving thy geab drawing imenizili, I teethed him how te 'Oka* a waggins CRUD= AND WORLD* thio Clergy do Their Duty to the Missiles. (New Yerktauaday Herald.) It is not true that the ordinary oitizeti thinks lees of pure and undefiled. religion than his forefathere did, who deoreed that no men should vote unless he was a church menaber and that emend dogmatical ortho- doxy was nem:entry to social, ard financiel success. Neither its it tree that in the com- munity at large honesty and integrity have fallen into cleirepute, or that moral reck- lessness has taken the place of public and private virtue, TO 5114 the solution of our problem we must dig deeper than the cheap assertion thee greed and commeroiell piracy ere rampant, or that the devil ie mowing a wide swath and has become irresistible. ifiret—The churoh does not lead the pro- cession of program as it should do. The pitiable op:a:lade of the Briggs trial shows that 130111e Chrietiana are afraid to allow their echolei s to examine their creed lezt they may find weak spots in it. They would rather wear in manhood the trousers of their boyhood than make a new mut out of more comely material. A creed tbat =ant be guarded like a precious piece vf brie-a-bre° can't be used to eat the soup of daily life out of. When a churth puts its fingers on its lips and events its mernbere not to tell what they know we need not be surprised if the multitude entertain a sus- picion. Second—It might be unfair to say that the clergy do not believe what they preach, but they certainly preach as though they didn't expect to do much good anyway, and wished it was Monday morning instead of Sunday. When a mother watches over her sick child you see solicitude in her face and in every action. She bears herself with heroic earneetness and comfits the physi- cian with tearful eyes. When a clergyman discourses of the dreadful bereafter his air is listless, as though the fires were already half out and would soon be out altogether. In other words, the good orthodox Calvinist might easily be mistaken for a Universalist. Third—The Church is not interested in the welfare of the poor, and the poor resent this by not being interested in the Church. Some of our religious bodies are doing miraculoue work, and doing it as eagerly and hopefully as a fireman who faces a blaze, hose in hand, determined to put it out or die, but as a general thing the fashionable church is a select club, whose members recognize their duty to the unfortunate, but hire a substitute—a mission superintendent —to do it for them, as certain drafted men did in the old war times. There are thousands of hard pressed . women toilers in New York who are stitch- ing their lives out for bread, who wear the weary days away with breaking hearts, who are treadingon the slippery line between i eirtue and ice. They are being ground as corn is ground by the -upper and nether mill - atones, but might he saved if a helping hand were extended. •The same is true of certain classes of young men. Where is the helping band? The Church quietly ignores these struggling folk, and its members are looking forward to a snug little corner a Paradise, where they can pass eternity as at a summer resort. If religious folk were in marmot tbey could wash the face of the world and 'mike it clean. But why should the common people hurry to church on Sunday morn ing vvhen the Church lets them severely alone during six days in the week, and then tells them on the seventh that they are nothing but poor mieerable creatures at the beat? NOME SMARM Er. Dynalmite Dame Sensation—A Rattle With Peasants at Termini. A Rome cable says: Dynamite bombs exploded almost aimultaneously this after- noon before tlae Hotel d'Angleterre and in the garden of the proprietor's house in the Via San Claudio. The hotel was partly wrecked. Nobody was injured, although the hotel had more than 100 lodgers at the hour of the explosion. The proprietor mid this evening that the hotel and contents were almost a total loss. • The proprietor's house in the Via San Claudio was less damaged. Nobody was injured, as the family had left home for the afternoon. The proprietor of the hotel says that he is convinced that both explosions were caused by a man whom be discharged recently from his services. There was a serious conflict at Termini, a seaport town of Sicily, between gendarmes and peasants. About 600 peasants, men and womesa, proceeded deliberately to seize and squat upon lands belonging to the com- mune, claimmg the soil as their own. The authorities ordered the intruders to depart, but the latter paid no attention to the notice. Then gendarmes were called upon to eject the equatters. The peasants re- sisted, and a fierce struggle ensued. The gendarmes fired upon the peasants, killing eight of them and wounding twenty. A number of the peasisnts were takenprisoners and the others fied to the interior, swearing vengeance upon the gendarmes and the authorities. • Lord Roberts and the Riglilanders. General Lord Roberts recently paid a splendid tlibute to the heroism of the Highlanders. • Tbe General was entertained at a farewell (litre* r by the oificers of the Highland Brigade, at which, in a speech of a eirgularly pathetic Character, he tcok leave of them on his resignation of tbe Indian command. "As an Irishman," he maid, " and speaking on this occasion, and ID this company, 1 think I may 'venture to express my personaladmiration for the kilted warriors of the North. Never alien I forget the -93rd Highlanders ab Sikunder thigh, or the 72nd Highlanders at Peiwar Kotul, or the 92nd Highlanders at Canda- bar. Nor shall I forget the advance in line of the 42nd, 791h and 93rd Highlanders going straight for the enemy's battery at Cawnpore. It was a splendid sight—one of the most heart -Wiring military spectacles I have ever beheld." Then turning to mat- ters more immediately concerning himself, Lord Roberta sa.id: "The news received this morningthat / am to be succeeded as Commander -in -Chief in India by that dire tinguished offioer of a Highland regiment, Major-General Sir George White, will, 1 know, be as gratifying to you as it ie to me. Sir George White' appointirient warns me that my time for active service ia drawing to a close." Fashionable Mother (languidly) ---Well, Sarah, bow is baby to -day? .Maid—He cut two teeth this morning, nisaam, Fashion- able Mother (still more languidly)—That was very negligent of you, Sarah. You ought not to let a young baby play with a knife. The political etudente—Do you believe in annexation, adios Smithers ailse Smithers (somewhat sere)--,Really—ah—but this is so midden 1 A shoemaker has a card in hie window reading: "Any respectable maneeroman or kd elitIolTiontane6. hin this ave a fit is store."—Bang- Ilazel—I'm thinking of going inth part- nership . with my laundryman. Nutte— What for 1 Hozel—I went to get back my collars and cafe, A Woman min endure more than a man Imeautte the hag to. ROBERT BURNS. (Contribated by a follow.coeuitryzeana Our monarcine hindmost year but ane Was Ave and twenty dal abeam], 'Twits then a blast o' Januar win' .Blew helmet in, on teobina TIIESootchfolks ofHain- ilton are to have a "Nicht wit Burns" 00 the evening of Wednesday next,the anniversary of his birth. 1as3b3llbeW:t1and'70neSai; /)a; 1::ome:0undagaand it will be fittingly celebrated from end to end of the Old Olountry. Whyenot iu that good Scotch town of Hamilton, Ontario? That little country of Scotland has not been us productive of great and good nun. If it wanted to furnish a Valhalla or illuminate a calendar it should not fail for lack of saints or heroes, The Scotch yield to no people in reverence for the great names of their coun- try's hiatory and literature. They are proud of their Wallace and their Bruce, their John Knox and their Walter Soott, end of scoree and hundreds lase distin- guished, but perhaps not lees worthy to be remembered. Yet there is but one in all the bright list of Scotland's heaven -born whom they have calandareil, and whose memory the Scottish nation honor with something like ceremonial regularity and forms of worship, That one isnot the knightly Bruce or the reverend Knox, though the former gave them national, and the latter religiouo, freedom; and the two together may be said to have made Scotland a nation. It is the jovial ancl reckless ploughmar, the unsuccessful farmer, the broken-hearted exciaeman, the man whose lifo was, in a worldly sense, a failure, whom an eminent and well-known living fellow -countryman has called a moral bankrupt, who died at the ago of 37 an outcast from the good society of Dumfries. The Scottish nation does not cherish the memory of Burns because he was a than of many sins and greet sorrows; but the love that Sbotland bears him would not be the love it is had the sins and sorrows not been there.. Stern moralists me in his failings merely examples to be shunned, and yet sterner moralists would, on their account, shun not only his failings but his songs. Yeb it is the simple truth that the unique place that Barns holds, and will hold forever, in every 1 teal Scottish heart, is due to his errors and his misfortunes, hardly less than to his geniue and his manlinese. The worship of victorious virtue is rarely rapturous ; the worehip of sinless sorrow lifts man to the sphere of the divine; the worship of a heroic human being, struggling and overborne by sins and sorrows, occupies a middle position; it olaims its devotees from every rank and class of humanity. "To dwell too much on the weaknesees of Burns' nature," says ono, "18 only leas objectionable than the mini- mising or ignoring of them, which is indulged in by his more fervid and foolish worshippers.' If by " dwelling " on them too muck the writer means merely censuring them, he is right But who that loves Burns can forbear to dwell on his weak- nesses ? • It is because he was weak as well as strong, a man of noble nature, yet carried away by passion, a great sinner as well as a sweet singer, that his songs "fit into every fold of the human heart," and that hie manhood, as well as his writings, comes close to every one of us and wins from us our love and sympathy. • To say this boldly is not to say that the weaknesses of Burns are in themselves any- thing but reprehensible. • For his own sake they are to be deplored. He paid the penalty in his person. No man of whona there is any record suffered more fully in this life for his sins. Many far worse men than Burns contrive somehow, by a certain moral dexterity and social finesse, to escape, ID all appearance, the proper consequence of their vices. There are men less pious in ecclesiastical seats of honor. There are more immoral men honored in the best society. Mensa dissipated have often lived to old age. Many who have sown wild oath as reuklessly as Burns have repented and re- formed wben they were older than he was at his death, and bave enjoyed a happy and honored age. Barns had not the happy dexterity to evade the consequence of his failings. He seems never to have been able to etscame a single penalty. Nor bad he the faculty of concealment. If he sinned all the world knew, as all the world saw'hie shame and his woes. He kept back nothing in the confessimal : there was no mirtailment of his penance; he paid the uttermost farthing. Thus on his own ac- count his errors are deeply to be lamented; on their account they must he sternly blamed; but to us they are clear gain. The statement may shock not only severe moral- ists, but some who, though not severe, yet hold that Burns would not only have been a better man, but a greater poet, had he been gifted with more self control. He might; but he could not have moved our whole nature from top to bottom and been our brother in our lowest as in our highest experiences. And this is what Burns does and ie. Our mixed human nature finds complete sympathy and kinship in Burns. He goes down with us to the deepest valley of humiliation; he walks with us in the commonest paths of life, and he snatchers us up to the purest heights which mere human feeling can reach. The weakest and hum- blest is never made to feel that Burns is a superior being, claiming our admiration, but dwelling somewhere above us. , Burns always either comes down to our level or litts us up to his; or, retber, he comes down to our level and lifts us up to hie own. And if the truth were known, there ate very few wbo in their secret mule have not shaken hem& with Burns in the daakdepths of human experience. Tbe purest saints have had their truant time when in heart and insagination, if not in actual deed, they have given way to nameless seductions, and have known the gloom of remit:the. And so there are few who have not met with Burns ID the ehadee, and have 'sot felt that here is a mau vvbo knovra the worst and the best that they know, and has felt the worst and the best they have felt who is with them in the depths and on theleighte, end whom song, even in the depths, can save them by reminding them that even there man is not lost to all that is beautiful, pure and divine. It was for us thatBurns rejoiced emd ginned and sorrowed, and therefore sane. It is not, of course, by his weaknessee that Burns 'lays hold of us; it is a mean nature that takes pleasure in what are called his immorailitiee. It le bee:seise in the midst of bis weaknessee he is still not only a glorious genius but a great and manly matt. Above all, it 18 becauth in all our moods he sings ID us, and flings as if he sang from within um PIe makes Melody in every heart whether the strains be of joyor woe, of lofty aspiratiota of mad passion or of mournful abasement. There is no poet more completely human than Burns, and them he ie Scottish. The critaw who has bean Already quoted storoewhat depreciates the stymie* Scottish aide of Burns. "What le beet and most assured of iihmortality in' Barns 10 not," he Says,-" what is peculiarly &etch, but What is of universal interest,'" alai he goes on to make the statenieta good by reference to particular poems. Stitely proof of each an axiomatic statement was unnecessary, ft is true of every poet who ever sang, 01 Havid and a Shakepeare well as of 13urne. Genius ie of no netionality; it is bureau. One touch of Peter() make the whole werld T,he 'most ardent admirer of Burns among his eountranien will frankly admit that the best of him is the mailmen property of humanity. But it has tOe homely S.coteh accent. It its dearer to us bemuse it is in our mother toogum Curiously enough, the poems cited to prove that the moot immortal of his writings are theme that have a universal interest, are uot peeing Written in, English. They are " ale Jolly Beggars," " Tent Glen," and a few others. Sootemen ere juetifled ie putting a peculiar value OU thOSO poems, not becaure they are in the Sottish tongue, but because they are of universal intermit; and. in the Soottisla tongue. It is just cause for pride that our language has in ire songs that coznpel men of all countries to leant a - little of it. But if it ie true thah the best of Burns is not peculiarly Sottish, it is equally true that he has invested muck that is peculiarly Scottish with univereal interest. And he is not the less Scottish because, on his highest; wing, be soars above all dietinotions of nationality. He ill1f3 warm admirers and successful critics beyond the circle of his countrymen; but while Scotsmen freely acknowledge that all men have • an equal claim on Barns, the rnan of genius, they will not admit that the man of genius is the object of their own love; Nor will they copse:at to depreciate what in Burns is peculierly Scottish. • They will not insist on its being appreciated by outsiders. But to them Berne would nob be Burma and even the best of 13urns would not be so good as it is were it not for those characteristics which are peouliarly national. There is no Burns' Club 10 Hamilton— That is not as it eboald be. Slimly one might with advantsge be added to the thousand and one bastitutiens of the city before another year is over: There is no, lack of good material. lf the foregoing remarks can in any way aid in making Wedeesday's commemoration a emcees— conduce to an annual and fitting celebra- tion of tlse poet's birthday in Hamilton hereafter, and to a study of what is best and noblest in his tharacter and. writings, the object of the ' writer will have been gained. P. S.—Ib will be known to many that the Bible (in two parts) which Burns presented to Mary Campbell, bearing his holograph inscription, and now in his monument at Bridge of Doon, Ayrshire, Scotland, WU long years afterwards discovered in Canada. —Hamilton Times. A. *Bachelor's Reason. The people of Wyoming who permit women to vote are apparently not in sym- pathy with the Eogli-h bachelor of long ago, who got himselt into a controversy on the subject of women's rights with his vis- a vis at dinner. After proing and coning for a few minutes, the lady asked: "Can- didly, sir'why do you oppos.e giving the franchiseto women ?” "You will excuse me for saying it, madam," he replied, "but I have not suf- ficient confidence in their capacity th con- duct govenament affairs." "Bat what evidence of woman's mental inferiority to man can you advance ?" per- sisted the lady. The bachelor thought a moment and then answered, slowly " A simple fact is enough ID eathey my mind, aid that is the frightful way in wbich they do up their back hair." —Harper's Bazar. Electricity in Insanity. The &at systematic use of electricity in the treatment of diseases was made in France in 1895, when Bsnedict reported favorably of its use. Dr. Arudit, who has given special attention to the subject, as- serts that electricity is tan invaluable remedy in the treatment of insanity. In 1873, Dr. Williams, of Sussex Lunatic Asylum, reported favorably of its use in mental diseases. Dr. Barthelow states the - treatment of physical dieorders by electri- city had been productive of very striking, results. Drs Beard and Rockwell predicted that an important future is in store for the scientific, and foithful use of electricity in public and private asylums and hospitals. Generally the Other way. Great statesman—You weie in rather a sad condition when you left the banquet the other night. Reporter—Yes, I drank more than wait good for me. Great statesman—So I noticed. And ha showed in your report of my speech. Itt was terribly mixed up. Didn't the editor - raise a row about jt? Reporter—No. Ho didiat blame me any.. He thought you were drunk. More Nearly Correct. Larkin—Did you accept that situation - Barlow offered you, Spiggit ? Wpiggit—No, I thought better of it. Larkin—If you refused it you must: have thought worse of it. Tablecloths of shaded silk are new. Illinois legislators will investigate the " :sweating ' evil in Chicago. There's a machine to darn stockings. A black-and-tan terrier that belongs to a Hartford, Conn., your g lady is in luck. He not only wears ribbons galore, but his. neck is circled with a jewelled collar, and his ears are decorated with diamond pendants. Isn't that richt:sem ? Fair read- eas, don't you envy him his lot—and the pendants? There's a dog that fairly, wallows in luxury. He is probably fed on pate de foie grecs and has candied violets and chrysanthemum caramels between meals. He must have a governess and a trained nurse, and when he hung up hie stockings at Christmas he probably got an insert - went of embreidered pants in them. Most likely he is too high-toned to bark,, and coefinee himself to barcaroles, and he. sleeps at night on a bed of down under lamb's wool with an, amulet on his thorax to ward off bydrophobia end reduce the - resonance of his more. Bread is becoming a positive luxury to some of the poor of this country, and coal is so scarce in certain localities that they are tyittg heliotrope ribbons on it when found and placing it on exhibition among their other bric-a-brac. But this dog doesn't know anything about that sort of thing, The criee of the poor man never ring in big bars; the only ringe there are diamond earrings. HosteeCWill you have a plebe of pie, Georgie? Georgie--Yesan ; but plearse melte it double size, because me, told me not to ask for two pieces. Mr, NeWcome, kissing his beaten— There's one for marmite, and one for baby sister. Mite Ulm Ware, with apparent in- dignation—Why, Mr. Inowcoene, you forgeb aourgelf, Mr. Neweenne, delightedly—So I did. Well, here's one for myself. " What did the doctor tag, tell me ?" Mays the sick man, nervously. "Oh, he didn't say anything," replies his friend, encoueagingly, but there is no occasion for any alarm—he seems quite easy and Well satisfied," "Yes, eci would 111 1 WAS ID Lis plaee." "Thia is a Very agreeable occasion raid the stray horse. "I Went Off without a 11