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The Exeter Advocate, 1893-3-23, Page 6CREAT FIRE IN BOSTON, fearful Leaps for Life frem Six -Story Buildings, 'THRILLING MID-AIR SCENE. Miro Verevent Getting Lit Ladders, but a liele &wee a leife—leanic Among Giirl ilimployees—Many Mated and Injured. A Bostoo despatch says : One of the Most deetructive fires in the history of Bos- ton, next in magnitude to the famous coed glankagiving Day, 1889, and ha the seine district, broke out shortly after 4 o'clock this af' ternoon and before it was placed under control, three hours after, had burned rover more than a admire, had reduced to ashes several of the magnificent new build- ings recently completed on the territory burned over three and i half years ago, had consumed propertyvalued by a oonservative estimate at $4,500,000, had been attended by scenes of 'Jamie and distress never before equalled in the memory of citi- zens now living, and had destroyed ;several human lives, and maimed or burned at least thirty :persons, some of whom will die of tbeir injuries. At 4 25 the alarm was rung in from box 52, It was soon fol- lowed by a second, and then by a general dram. The flames broke out in the toy dm pertinent of Horace, Partridge & Co., who occupied the fifth and sixth floors of the even -story building, corner of Essex and Lincoln streets, owned by Fele Ames. The cause is at present unknown, but the start is described by thosenearest it as resembling the suosenee car A FIRE -CRACKER. The flames spread with intense rapidity, said in a very few moments the entire in- terior of the building was burning. There were many employees of the Partridge com- pany at work at the time,and the other floors of the building were sprinkled with human beings. The usual avenues of escape were at once cut off, and then began a scramble for life which sickened the beholders. The panic-stricken inmates fled to windows and sroof ; some escaped by shinning down tele- graph poles, others by leaping into blankets and nets. Several jumped to the pavement, aix or eight stories below, and were terribly mangled, and others—how many cannot now be told—fell back into the cauldron of flames, or were overcome by the dense lalack smoke, which suffoes.ted all who did not speedily escape. The entire fire de- partment of the city was speedily on the scene. The departments of Somerville, Cambridge, Newton, Quincy and Brockton arrived later by train, and aid was re- quested to be in readiness from more distant cities. THE WIRES SATE A LIFE. For the first time in Boston's fire history the overhead wire system has proved the means of saving a life. When the fire in the Drown-Durell building was at its 'height the form of a man- who subsequently proved to be District Chief Egan, of East Boston'was seen at the eighth story win- dow. He boldly seized one of the large in- sulated cables, which contaiu a number of electric wires, and proceeded to cross to the emposite side hand oner hand. He had only a few feet more to go when it became ap- parent that he could not last long, and greatly to the relief of the crowd he threw both legs over a half-inch cable, which 'slightly sagged, and slowly and tedionaly raade his way toward the building 119 Kingston street, to which the cable ran. A large number of life-saving note, can- vases and cloths were produced, and fire- men, police and bystanders vied with each other in holding them, while others hoarsely shouted to the imperilled man to drop. To 3/28.Ye done so seemed to court instant death. Nis white, agonized face could be aeen as he slowly made his way over the cable. A THRTLLING SCENE. Several times the voice of the vast crowd was hushed as it seemed that the poor being banging there was loat. All at once the crowd broke into a cheer, which seemed to infuse new life into the lagging spirit of the fireman. He reached midway between the two buildings and if he could only hang on a few minutes more he would be saved. Every inch of the street below was now covered with nets. At this point the cloud of smoke cleared away and the man was oecognized as Chief John F. Egan who had only been out of the house a ;herb time, where he was confined with a broken collar bone and other injuries received by falling on the ice. A squad of men ran up oia the building No. 119 Kingston street, and lowly lowered the cable to which Egan was banging. At the same time a hook and ladder company erected a ladder to meet the slowly descending man. The cable was played oub slowly and the exhausted man gradually came nearer terra firma. His body swung on close to the burning build- ing, from which issued dense clouds of smoke, when he was only two storys from the ground. In a few seconds he swung into the arms of his comrade, released his hold, and as weak as a child was carried from the ecene,truly snatched from the jaws of death. .A. shout and applause came forth from the throats of the vast assembly. JUMPING TO CERTAIN DEATH. William S. Rumrill, of Dean, Chase & Co., says: "1 first saw a man with his hair literally singed off his head rushing up the street to the nearest fire alarm box. I sprang to the door and saw a spectacle that appalled me. A torrent of flame was pour- ing out of the windows in the centre front of the second floor of the Ames building. The people inside were throwing books out of the windows, and men and boys from the stores were pioking them up. Very soon upon the parapet, way up above the street, saw four men and one woman olinging to the stonework. There was no such thing as setting a ladder up to them owing to the network of wires. This is the worst corner for wires in the city of Boston, and the Whole street is in peril from tkem. We Watched the quartette as they clungfor a few minutes only, while the crowd in the street stood in breathleas silence. Then the four, one after another, jumped off. Down they none, a height, of fully six stories, and etruole solidly on the frozen ground. Oh ! le wan horrible. You should have heard the ,groan then went up from that throng in the ettawei Every one of the four were uncon- nehana when reached, and all mese beterribly injured.• There oould hardly be a whole bone in their body. I taw two of them studied by on a shutter." There is one Way of telling the Speed of a tailway train which old travelers claim is almorte infallible. kite* titne the ear passes over a joint in the track there is a dit3tinot dick. Count the number of these dicks in feh temanclo and, it is said, yeti have the number of miles the train is going: per laden ele the length of the rail le Uniform. Its la Mid: thee yreing joetin McCarthy is about to merry Mitre Uilithdria, a young *nig, et who ha§ bailie istioceaehil iz Lerideen, Mader the halite of Aide eletiorito. DISASTER AT THE FALLS. h Avalanche Wrecks the U, S, Side hobo Railway Building, THE RUINS TAKE FIRE, The erfeket Agent Barlett in the lieeblele and Yaealle Ourned—leerrow Escape of a Party of 'tourists -A Tunnel Victim. A Niagara Falls, Ont., despatch says: Sudden, swift and terrible was the fall of tens upon tone of ice and enow this after, noon which rested= the roof ot the incline Railway building, in Proapeot Park, on the State reservation, on the American side, No warning was given, and the huge mass mope down on the reoeptton home at the foot of the Incline Reilway, crushing it ast though it was of paper instead of Bening Georgie pine, and burying in the wreak Mr. Edward G. Lane, the popular ticket taker, who always Btood at the loot of the railway, and whom every visitor to the Falls who has deseended by the railway has met. In a few moments fire broke out from the 'stove in the receptionwoom, and the wreck waa soon burning briskly. Supt Thine V. Welch, of the reservation, who was sitting in his office, heard the roaring, grinding noiee the ice and snow had made eliding down, and divined at once what had happened. He rushed for the nearest fire alarm box to summon the department Five reser- vation police, with ropes, pikes and SEW% went down to rescue Lane. Ae this time it was thought that Mr. Thomas Mullen, who assisted Mr. Lane, was also in the wreak with him. Repeated calls to the men elicited no response. When the fire started the work of rescuing was rnede much more difficult. The flames were hard to fight, as the firemen had to lay a hose for a quarter of a mile and run it down the incline, which was filled with smoke and steam. The terri' le fight to reach Lane was continued. Mr. Mullen was found to have been at dinner and °Escaped. After three•quarters of an hour spent in battling against flames, steam and falling ice, a hole was made a,nd the fire put under control. The men searched for Mr. Lane but could not find him. At last a heavy trap-door was lifted, and lying on the floor of the basement the man was discovered. He was fearfully burned about the head, face, back and legs. When taken out he was a raving maniac and cannot live. He was 45 years old ancisingle. The damage to the State property will probably amount to between $2,000 and $3,000, on which there is no insurance. Superintendent Welch stated that he had been afraid of an acci- dent here, and to -day cautioned the men to be on the look -out. Ruge masses of ice and anow have been crashing down the banks into the gorge all day, and not a few tourists braved the danger to descend into the gorge to see the grand spectacle. One party had just returned up the incline railway when the accident took place. The building de- stroyed contained a generatreceptionwoom for tourists, toilet rooms for gentlemen and ladies, and a tioket office for the eteamer Maid of the Mist. It had been completed this winter. Workmen will be immediately put to work and a temporary building will be erected. The incline railway witt be running again within two or three days. The great hydraulic tunnel on the Ameri- can side has claimed anon' er victien,and has added to its cost another life. Mr. Joseph Malcolm, a Scotchman, aged 24 years, who had charge of the hoistiug liimm over the wheel pit of the Niagara Fells Paper Com- pany, while working at his post at 10.30 o'clock lase night, fell headloog down the huge hole, a distance of 150 feet, atriking on the rocky bottom a mass of mashed flesh and bones, in which ooly a slight resemblance to the human funs was left. Mo Malcolm was employed by Contractor A. C. Douglas, and must have lost his bal- ance at the tip. The first the men knew of the accident was when they heard a cry, "Look out below there, Pin corning," and there was a flash of a body dartits through space and then the dull thud. Mr. MaMolm has no relatives or friends in this country that are known of, and the remains will be buried by the corporation. CRUSHED TO DEA.TU. A. Young Brakeman belied While Coupling Cars at Toronto. A Toronto report seys : Lest evening at 9.30 o'clock a young Dian named D. Brock, employed as a 1)1.8.11mi-tea in the Grand Trunk yard at the foot of Bat Most street, was accidentally killed while coupling cars. Exactly how the accident occuried, whether the man slipped on the ice and fell for- ward, is net known, but those who were about at the time acquit those in charge of the cars of carelessness. He ems crushed between the stakeholder end the buffer, and it iB a singular fact :hat no leorre., were fractured. The lung was (sneered, and the ?nen was held in the positron in which he was caught till he had certeret t. Imo. The ambulance was sent for as a oi, .is the acci- dent was discovered, bus wes nut needed. Undertaker Humphrey, if Chienu it eet, was notified, and took charge of the body, which is now at his uhop, veheece it will bo buried. Brock was unmarried, and was a steady and sober young fellow. His only relative in the city is a sister. He boarded on Tecumseth street. A. DIPPELPII Gsmene. Serious Stabbing Affray on the eremite of the Donnelly Trage',13.-• A London despatch says: Ms, Wm. Cesey has reported the Bkidulph etroMmg affeir to High Constable Schram, end Cone Able Ward, of London West, arrested .Alfred legreae on a charge of wounding Jeme s Rieer with a knife. Digtnan lives right on tis tete of the Donneny hoineeteed. The 'ermines ot the complainant and prisoner do net very much. They had words in regard to is home transaction, and on the evening in queetion Rider was passing the house, and Digman was either called or went down to speak to him. Digmem says that Ruler struck the first blow. Anyway he has a badly out hee,d to show for it. Then he knocked Rider down and took the knife away, and gave him a taste of his own weapon. A later report says Rider le very senouely wourlded, and his recovery eyin be tedinam Wheeler Habit, He—Whati did you do when yeti felt the first shook of the earthquake? She (of New York)—I resettled up for the IYIarnma (pathetically)—eVhet,wolele ray little girl do if I nkonla ain? Litun Pinallie—I don't know ; 1 auppone 1 should hare to spaiak myeelf. There rite in the 'United Metro Obote Vhan 14100 aistinet ithd separete rajlweee, Mte. Tara ee 'emi 'te the library at once. Charlie went e wreah eut everthe telepininee Minelieue f Is my hart on strait t SUING FOR $200,000, Rev,George Tomkins Takes Rev, Dr. MacArthur to Court. TALKS OF A CONSPIRACY. (New Yorle Recorden) Tise Rev. George Tomkins, a regularly ordained Beptiet ininister, Dow without a pulpit, has began a !suit for $200,000 dam- ages againee the Calvary Chureh corpora- tion, the Rev. Dr. Robert S. MaoArthur, pastor of the church and some members of ehe Advisory Board, co/mooted with the church. Elizabeth J. Tomkins'wife of the plaintiff, is also made a party to the suit. Mn..Tomkins maketwo dietinot charges againet the defendants in his com- plaint He alleges that on May 1.6th, 1888, he brought a suit agehase his wife in the Justice's Court of Ontario to recover the euetody of his child and ce riatin property, including a Canadian hotel valuecl at $50,- 000, winch he claims he had deeded to his wifo under a misapprehemion. Mr. Tom- kins married a woman living in Niagara Falls South in 1885. He was then study- iug for the ministry, but he was ordained in the following year by the great preacher Spurgeon, in the Monmouth Tabernacle in London. Having plenty of money, 114r. Tomkins never cared for a regular charge, but went around substituting for other ministere. When he returned from abroad he took up hie residence in New York, and became a member of Dr. MacArthur's church. For various reasons his married life was not happy, and his wife left him and went to live with her people in Canada. She claimed at the time that hor husband had treated her badly. A great effort was made by Dr. MacArthur and the advisory board of his church to bring about a reconcilia- tion and avoid a scandal. They were sum cesaful to the extent of keeping the reasons for Mrs. Tomkins' hasty exit from New York froue tho public. At the time that she went away, Mr. Torrikins did not object to her leaving, provided she did not carry away their child, together with the title deeds of all hie property. When he began his suit for his child in Canada, another effort was made to dis- suade him, but without success. The Cana- dian courta decided against him, and he took an appeal. To prevent further scandal, a committee of the church brought the litigating minister and his wife together and begged them to be reconciled. In Canada the time allowed for an appeal to run is sixty days from the date of the original judgment. According to the claim now made by Mr. Tomkins, the Advisory, Board in seeking to bring about a reconciliation, entered into a conspiracy with Mrs. Tom- kins, knowing at the time that if his appeal papers were not filed within the stipulatei time, he would be forever stopped from bringing another action, to secure either his child or his property, and consequently all chance of scandal would be at au end. He signed the papers of reconciliation and began married life over again with his wife and child. They came to New York and again attended service o.t the Calvary Church. Since his expulsion he has travelled nearly all over this county, vainly looking for a pulpit in which to preach. He says, further, that he has received calls from over a dozen churches, but that in every instance the Advisory Board pursued hien with its charges, and he was turned away. This comolaint was submitted yesterday to Judge McAdam, hitting in the Superior Court. Attorney Linus A. Gould, one of the defendants in the case, appeared a counsel for the defence and interposed a devourer denying that the statements al- leged in the complaint conatituted a sufficient eauhe for action. Judge McAdam took the papers and reserved his decision. In case no overrules the demurrer, counsel for the plaintiff will press the case against the church people to a speedy trial. AN ENGLIMI WIRE -WOE -ND GEN. British war Vessels To Re Equipped With a new Weapon. The English Admiralty has adopted a new quick -firing 6 -inch wire -wound gun for the naval vessels. The new weapon has been subjected to an exhaustive trial at the Government butts. It is a long gun about 40 calibres, ane its weight is seven tons. It carries an elongated shot of 100 pounds a dietance of 7,000 yards, and will strike an enemy's ship or fortification four miles dis- tant. It is so rapid that fired with cordite at a long range it has three or four shots in the air at one time. Forty of the new guns have been already manufactured in the royal gun factories at Woolwich and are being iesued to the various ships in the Roval Navy. Each weapon contains several miles of wire, it having been found that a gun made up of this wire is stronger than when manufactured of homogeneous metal.. Wire is also found to stand the first shock of I he elastic force of cordite or gunpowder better than iron or steel, while the long bore enables the whole of t he charge to be consumed. WIPING OCT A. IPA.MILE. The Mysterious Poisoning of a Whole Faultily With Arsenic, A Madinat!, Ind., despatch says : A mysterious case of poieoaing has developed in this city. Loot Tuesday Mies Eva Ross was taken violently 111, ancl died on Wednes- day from ttse effects of poison. It was sup- posed that she lied taken it with suicidal intent, as she had threatened to commit emickle. Oa Frirlay her mother, Mrs. James Clarkeon, etas taken similarly ull and died. A son, Junes, who left here on Tuesday for Ander son, Iod., was stricken in tbe earn» manner by the time he reached Anclersom arid is reported dead. Two other sons were attacked on Friday, and both their lives are clempaired of. The coroner's inveetigation in the ease of Eva developed the fe.et that death was calmed by arsenic, a large quantity of enrich was found in the sitranach. A post-mortem will he held upon the nineties ef the mother, and the matter fully itorestimeted. Not 'What De mentrat. Charlie (who is sentinriente.1)—Ah Alareinta, there is it word snub elways cheere m wornan's heat when she is weary or dieteauraged, tbat, brightens her fact when ibis overoamt, that— Aramintit—Oh, 1 know wbet you mean— theatre tiokets The officiel Spanish election vetting ithoW that the Opposition in Congreati will coneiee of 48 Coristirvativee under Sorer OilAettyis del CiEetiWO 15 Como rvuti'g under yi,,4,,y,r Silvela, 23 advanced Republicans awl 6 darlietyl. The Government has the eupport of 322 Deputies, Several changers in the Cabihet ere impending. et et, te st rly,y)itm o5141 one yeneg my., )1 y to silo' her, " s hat; 1.orn or, foreieriees weer I e he eneieos to sell themselves to. Americas) heireeses " " Yes. Thee are ty, geyeLl d( al like novels,' " Wee The hate de Fender largely me the title," FITZSIMMONS V ON EASILY. ANOTHER A Clean Knock -Out Blow Settled Ball in the Fourth Round, 6,000 PEOPLE WERE PRESENT The Ding. About 6,000 persons vvitneseed the minimal% The parangementa at the ringside were perfect The meting opacity was more them ample to accommodate twice as many people aa were expected to attend. The orowd was representative in character and thoroughly cosmopolitan. The bettiug juee before the fight was 9 to 10 on Hall end 95 te 100 on Fazahninons. in the Hall corner the men ohosento leek after his iriterests were the light -weight champion,McAuliffe, Charlie Mitchell, Squire Abington and John Kline bolding the watch. Fitzsimmons had Billy Fitz- eimmonie his brother, Martin Julian and Frank Bosworth, D F. O'Malley keeping time. The men entered the ring at 9 o'clock promptly, Hall leading the procession. Referee Duffy made is speech in which he asked the crowd to preserve order. The men then advanced to the center of the ring followed by their seconde, where Duffy cautioned them about fouls and the usual club rules. Captain Barrett weighed the gloves, finding them of lawful weight, handed them to Martin Julian, who took them over to Hall for his choice, and Mitchell selected his principal's gloves. Referee Duffy announced that the pivot blow was barred and the men stripped Time wets called and the great bettle was on. First round—The men shook halide at 9 o'clock in the orthodox, old-time fashion, both coming to the koratoh with a jaunti- ness which showed their seeming lack of care. They commenced work in a very easy manner, until Fitzsimmons finally led with his left and fell short. Hall's left on the counter barely touched his face. Fitz- simmons was the mere active of the two, and ho set a lively pace by doing all the leading and lauding frequently with his left on Hall's body. Bob was quick and judged his distances so admirably that he landed almost every blow he delivered with great accuracy. Hall received sortie stioging blows on the ribs, but he was so thor- oughly trained that they had but little or no effect. Second Round—letz still pursued his leading tactics and landed his right and left several times on Jim's body. He also got in is good right and leit on Hall's face. lb was not until Hall succeeded in working Fitz into a corner, where he got in several good stiff blowe, that he began to strike out freely. He showed up in such fine form toward the close of the round the majority of the spectators began to have their doubts as to Lanky Bob's ability to hold out againat so powerful an opponent, as Hall was by far the stronger of the two. Both men did some very hard hitting and their blows fell upon each other like hail. Honors were pretty evenly divided, and many rather thought Hall bad the best of the hitting. Third round—At the call to the centre, Hall stepped briskly forward and led off with his left and caught Fitz square on the nose. The blow dazed the lanky man, yet he fought gamely and returned the compli- ment by sending his left hand on Hall's stomach. Hall landed again lightly on the neck, then both clinched. By mutual oon- sent tbey separated, both laughing. Hall led right and left, reaching bis big antagon- ist's body and neck. Content for a moment with this, Hall walked around the ring, Fitzsimmons following. Fitzsimmons missed a swinging right-hander, but he planted his left on Hall's stomach. Hall got his left- hand jab in Fitzsimmons' face, making the champion's head bob back as if it was on springs. Hall followed the performance with a beautiful right and left-hand blow on Bob's head and side, but the big Austra- lian gotbaclx moat too far to have the blows do damage. Bob retreated apparently no worse for the blow. The round ended by Fitz mewing a swinging blow on Hall's stomach,. Fourth round—The men were both in excellent condition and full of fight vvhen the gong sounded for the fourth round. They responded to the call like two gladia- tors and went at each other as though they intended to find the wiemer in short order, but they had scarcely got warmed up to their work when Fitz landed that dangerous right of his on the point of the jew and Hall fell to the floor like a dead man. It was a hard fall and the back of Hall's head came to the floor with such is sickeniog thud that it could be heard 'all through the building. It was a clean knock -out, and it woo some minutes after he was counted out before his seconds succeeded in reaming him toconsciougness and then be had to be carried to his corner. The scene was the wildest that has been witnessed at a ring side for many years. Bob Fitzeimmoes caught up the Americen fleg and waved it over his head like an Indian, while the crowd cheered and yelled like Hottentots. Fitzsimmons was declared the victor and the winners wore happy smiles, Bud Renaud won 12000; Bea- nett'e pool room' s of Covington, Ky., $26 000; Pet Duffy, on commission, $20,000 '- Juba O'Neill, $8.000 ; Abe Lore, 86,000; Johnson. the owner of the horse G. W. Johnson, $5,000, and Hastings Alley- way. $2,000. The rapid reamer in which they fought and the victory of Fit mimmons bee cicala great excitement throughout the city. SENT HALF TO HIS MOTHER. Ed. Smith was paid the long end of the purse in the Goddard -Smith contest. He was handed a certified check for $8,500 on the Commercial Bank of New Orleans. He cashed the check as soon as he could cover the distance between the club and the bunk and then sent to his mother in Pittsburg $4,250, half of the sum he won. Iro Clean l'aint. There is a very simple methon to clean paint that has become dirty, and if house- wives would adopt) it it would save them a great deal of trouble. Provide a piste with some of the boa 'whiting to be had tared Immo ready some Mean warm wetter und piece of femme], which dip in the wanes' end squeeze nearly dry ; then take WI meth welting es will adhere to it.; apply it to the pawited surface, when a hetle rubbing *'ill nude/AV remove any dirt and grease, after which 'wash the pare with leat water, rubbing it dry with soft clientele. Peint thae cleaned looks tee well ae 'when firat lerid on, without any injury to the morel delioate colors. It is better then tieing romp, end does nob require more than half the time and labor Greae °mete:tent, was mooted in PAhrjyy ory , P.) 41nrony ev Minn, Cold 4'.S telitiffinnv tih Panama, trial. She emeteel enaphertieelly that elr Soirsoory been polity el ettemptee h jis Ty. el. Itourg, Fronce NI:tester of Jeetite, eis$ wisigtied his elfin..., flee utireher oadenee tomes hen thee bete, ineargii hit Md. LONDON MIRACLE. OclafoileiW Lodge rOilleeri a Aeoolut;'on of Theek% The Eatraorditiary Case of Mr. 10, P, Var. renters- Utterly Helpless for Three Wears—Pronounced Permanently Dis- abled by Ills Lodge Doetor—Itestored to Ilealth and kitrength and AgaillA WOrk. lng at Obis Trade—A. Story Fraught WW1 Dope for Others. (London Advortieere 1 CANADIAN ORDEE OF ODDVELLOWS, MANcHESTER UNITY, LOYAL PERSEVERANCE LODGE., No, 118. LONDON, Nov. 22ad, 1892. To the Pr. Williams' Medicine e ontpauy : Gentoimeiner,—I have much pleasure in forwarding you a vote of thanks passed by a resolution of the above lodge, thanking you for the good. your valuable medicine, Pink Pills, has done for our brother, E F. Carrothere, who for three years and a half was almost helpless from locomotor ataxia and given up by our doctor as incurable, and who is now we are happy to say, by the use of your Pink Pills, able to follow his employment. Trusting that your valuable medicine may be the means of curing many aufferers and be a blessing to them as it was to our brother, I am, yours truly, on behalf of the lodge, ED. GILLETT, Secretary, 521 Phillip street, London, Ont. This ia to certify that the above facts are a true statement. E. F. CARROTHERS, The above is self-explanatory, but in order to lay the facte of this extraordinary citee more fully before the public an Adver- tiser reporter proceeded to investigate it. It was his pleasure and duty some time since to record the remarkable cure of Mr. E. J. Powell, of South London, wrought by the medicine known as Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. It was is strik- ing story of release from life-long affliction, but it was even surpassed by the miracu- lous experience of Mr. E. F. Carrothers, of 103 William street. Mr. Carrothers is an uncle of Alderman R. A. Carru- thers, and by virtue of long reeidence and personal qualities is well and favor- ably known throughout the city. He is a carpenter and joiner by trade, and is good workman. His friends and acquaintances are aware that a healthier and more robust man never walked the streets of London until a fewyears ago, when he was suddenly stricken with what is generally eupposed to be paralysis. They heard with regret that he had been pronounced 'incurable, and as he was unabie to leave the house, only occasional callers saw him again during hie long spell of total disability. Within the last few months they have been agreeably surprised to see him around again plying his vocatien and apparently as vigorous as of yore. Inquiry and explanation naturally followed, and it is now widely known in the city to what agency Mr. Carrothees owes his magical restoration to health and strength. A TALK 'WITH MR. CARROTHERS. The other evening the reporter called upon Mr. Clarrothers and found him seated by the fireside in the bosom of hie family, looking hale, hearty and happy. Upon learning his visitor's errand be eaid he was only too happy out of the depths of his gratitude to relate the circumstances of his affliction and his wonderful cure. " I had always been a strong, healthy man," he said, "until this stroke laid me low. I hardly knew what sickness meant. It was three years ago last April when the attack came. I went to bed apparently in my usual health one night and awoke about 5 o'clock in the morning as my watch at the head of the bed told me. I dozed off again, and on waking the second time attempted to rime. 1 could not move. Every nerve and muscle of my body seemed to me paralyzed. I lay like a log. At first I was speechlese, bat managed after a time to articulate feebly, and not very audibly, my wish that a phyeician be sent for. Dr Moorehome came and placed a mustard plaster across my bowels, telling me to lie quiet for a few days. I did so because I could not do anything else. "As I was entitled to the services of the lodge physician, Dr. Pingel, I sent for him. He gave me some medicine that relieved the excruciating pain in my head. He brought another doctor with him (I don't know his name) and they eubjected me to a regular course of treatment, by which I was sus- pended from a support around my neck. I asked the doctor what the matter WWI but as he evidently wished to spare my feelings he did not tell me directly, nor did Mr. Gillett, the secretary of the lodge, whom I also asked. I inferred that there was some- thing they did not wish me to know. "1 had now been about a year in the same condition. Sometimes I was able to get out of bed, but never out of doors. At other times I was unable to feed my- self. I had absolutely no control over my muscles. If I attempted to touch or pick up anything, my arm would usually stray, apparently of its own volition, in an entirely different direction. I was more helpless than an infant, and I suffered a greet deal. The doctor commenced the in- jection of some compound into my arm and leg, but a kind of an abscees gathered in each and it had to be lanced. This was very painful. A quart of matter of a greenish color came out. I seemed to get stronger in general health, but my paralysis remained the same. In December. 1891, after two years and eight months of this helplessness, I was given up by the doctors as hopeless. The Grand Master of the Order, who had come to London to look into my case, ard the Secretary of Perseverance Lodge called to etre me and informed me of this. I had elven up all hope myself, so the blow fell lighter. The lodge had all this time been peyiug my weekly sick dues, and I under- stood that after the doctor's cerbiecate of my hopelessness had been banded in they made arrangements to continue giving me permanent aid. "Arid now as to the remedy which proved my earthly salvation : A next door neighbor one day sent me in e label off a Dr. Williams' Pink Pills box. I read it and e Acting on a whim, and net with any real ex- pectation of benefit, gave my little girl 50 +mute to buy E box. The very firet box made me more cheerful; it eeenried to brace me up and I began to feel a glimmer of hope. With the second and third box the improvement continued. and I felt more the.n delighted to find that I was commenc- ing to recover the 118e of my limbs. Through a friend I gob a dozen boxes and the lodge added half a dozen more. I kept on taking the Pink Pinto and I gained etearlily ; so that I am now whet you see me to -day. Yee, I am capehle of earning any living as before. I Eta 'ivorlaing ist rny trade in London Weise oti preemie and Welk over here (ie distance of xmarly two miles f, om I he eiresse) and retort+ every /lay." " You ere neturally thankful tor Dr. N'Elfte--41 5'00 100 hi+" Be timioti, why 'el/alio-nee Pink Pills. the ?" interrepolatea Can yon think of anything more eerreln_e" dones you merry Mee? Bleechon-SiMply the reporter... t big than the promise hat JEI blade 13704.11,1°1 IA' DO rietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Rem bromine 1 donee smelt or hoe, Miry levet " Trieriktui eoneen nerroterere. ft this: "If we caint oure yout Catarrh, defame tuned Otto re eightenare„ "1 oat% fetid Words tocespeessatygretitade. well ray, yoli $500 In whet You can imagine ilk Mall in my poeition),, clalowgt4h8etrerly,°wIltbletetftthiiCYbtlef;eren'ilese"bieuRic: him, and after giving ).ip all hope of beirtg anything but a melees imam, to be restored this way to +strength end happiness f—ambailvyenbI o'ol,x;earto be Ailiere was otol,a uli4tnadkrny ing the sincerity of the utteranee. " I believe Dm Williams' Pink Pills can cure anything that any medicine on earth eau," he eon- tinued. "1 know of other owe in this city where they have succeeded when doctors have failed. Well, good night" And the reporter left to call on Mr. Ed. Gillett, the Secretory of Pereeverance Lodge, who lives a couple of bloclie further south, at No. 521 Phillip street. MR. GILLETT'S STATEME1IT4 "There is nothing that cart give me greater pleasure," fwd.' Bro. Gillet, " than to say a good word for Dr. Wilhelm' Pink pate. tell you they saved the lodge a good deal of money in Bro. Carrothere' case, and there is not a member of Peneverature who won't say the same thieg. We had paid out over $400 to our sick biothert and of comae it was a, big drain on our heancee. We asked the lodge physician, Dr. Pingel, to examine him, so that we would know whether he was going to get better or nob. The doctor informed us teat he was in- curable, and gave us a certificate to that e ffec t •. " Mi.Gillett opened his aecretaire and ex- tracted the document referred to from the lodge records. It read as follows : Dr. Pingel, Office, 354 Dundee street, LONDoN, Dec. 2, 1891. Bro. Gillett : DEAR SIR,—At your request I carefully examined Bro. Carrothers, of Perseverance C. 0. 0.F., M. U., who has been unable to Rerform any labor for several years, and hnd him suffering from the results of cerebral hemorrhage (extravasation of blood into brain). As no improvement has taken place for some eighteen montbs, I have no dhesaleibtatid.on in pronounoing him permanently is Yoors fraternally, A. R. PINGED. " After that," mid Mr. GUlett, " we sent for Grand Master Collin++, to consider what we should do. We then learned than Bro. Carrothers had commenced taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and they were doing him good. So we decided to furnish him with a supply and await development,. You know the result. He's better now and at work again. The lodge unanimously moved a vote of thanks to the proprietors of Pink Pills, and it was forwarded to them. "1 have known Bro. Carrothers for years. He was always, until his last illness, a strong, healthy man, and it seemed strange that he should be stricken down so. He had a terrible siege of it. You see the knife (pointing to one on the table) ; well, if he tried to pick it up he couldn't do it to save his life. He eves completely paralyzed." Turning to the lodge records again Mr. Gillett produced a book and shoveed ;he IV. - porter the entries made week after week for three years and over of the payments made to Bro. Carrothers as sick benefits. The worthy secretary intimated that any other information desired he would cheerfully furnish, but the reporter had had enough to, convince him and left. DR. DINGEL. Dr. Pingel was next visited at his office' He remembered the case of Mr. Cr rothers well, and had heard that he was , better. "You considered him beyond help, doctor ?' " Yes ; any physician, under the circum- stances, would have pronounced the same opinion. His recovery is certainly remark- abl?'D"o you attribute it to Pink Pills ?" " I do not doubt that they were the means of his cure, since Mr. Cismothers says it was by using theni be became well again. Yes ; there seems to be virtue in. the medicine, judging by tiaie case." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a perfect blood builder and nerve restorer, curing such diseases as rheumatism, neuralgia, partial par aisle, locomotor ataxia,St Vitus' dance, nervous headactie, nervous pros- tration and the tired feeling therefrom, the after effects of la grippe, influenza and severe colds, diseases depending on humors. in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. Pink Pills give a healthy glow to pale and sallow cemplexions, and are a specific for the troubles peculiar to the female eystem and in the case of men they effect a radical cure in all oases arisingfrom mental worry, over -work or excesses of any nature. These Pills ere manufactured by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Brockville, Ont., and Schenectady, N. Y., end are Eold' only in boxes bearing the firm's trade mark and wrapper, at 50 cents is box, or 6 bciree for $2.50. Bear in mind that Dr. William re Pink Pills are never sold in bulk, or by the dozen or hundred, and any dealer who offers substitutes in this form is trying to defraud you and should be avoided. The public are also cautioned against all other so-called blood builders and nerve tonics,. no matter what name may be given them. They are all imitations, whose makere. hope to reap a pecuniary advantage from. the wonderful reputation achieved by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Ask your dealer for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills kr Pale People,. and venom all imitations and +substitutes. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr Williarns' Medicine Comptury from either address. The price at which these pills are sold makies a course of treatment corn- paratively nexpensive as compared with other remedies or medical treatment. The Wheel of Fate. An original idea at a recent church bazaar was a wheel of fate. It was presided over by a girl in gypsy garb and consisted of an old-fashioned spleningwelmel constructed to draw up by is pulley a little basket that contained the enveloped prophecies. These in " male " and female ' divisions were ready in a large box behind the curtain, in front of which the wheel stood, and were managed by an unseen confederate. onewenemoree TV hltilUlfi Ur zns tte'...4$,/ system after "La Clrippe," ee or. pneumonia, fevers„„and. nee n other prostrating acute' die- (I/I eases; to build up needed' flesh and strength, and to restore health and vigor when you feel "run-dovni" and used -up, the best thing In the world is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, It premo,s all the bodily functions, TOUSeS every or- gan into healthful action, purifies and enriches the blood, and through it cleanses, repairs, and twigs orates the entire system. For the most stubborn Berauleut, Skin or Scalp Diseases, Dyspep- ln Biliousriess, and kindred ailments the "Discovery" is the only remedy thitten guaranteed. If it doesn't benefit or mire, you have your money beck. pi;