HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-4-20, Page 7A POET AT THE EYI11J€E,
Si Edsvin Arnold's. Story'. of . a .Night
•at Liek .01)sovatory„...
THE 'GREAT EYE` oF SCIENCE.
Something About the observatory, the
eareat Tens and ite Dostor—The Wades
of Orlon—Worlds on Vihre—Sheil We
Itiarie or Ercezo ?-14hotography and
Spectroscopy — Tim Terminations or
Astronomy.
T was my privilege,
the poet, Sir
Edwin Amok', when
crossing the inintin.
ent of America last
year, ley wey of New
Orleans and the Texas
route, to pats a happy
and memorable night
in the femoue Lick
observatory, neer Sen
Francisco. There, as
everybody knows, is
established that gigan.
tit: telescope, which,
for the preeent et least,
is the largest and Most
powerful in all the world • and I had full
command and enjoyment of tho magnificent
hustrument duriog misty hours of darkness,
under circumstances of Et Very favorable
kind, and with the estietawie of the (lour-
teoua and acconapliehed astronomers who
keepwatoh iu that lofty and lonely temple
of menace•
WHERE THE GREAT GLASS STANDS.
The great glass stands in a massive domed
observatory on the summit of Mount Ham-
ilton, at a neight above the sea of 4,030
feet. This naountain is one of the chief
eminences �n that inner sierra called Mount
Diablo, lying between the bays of San
Francisco and Monterey, and its cresb rises
about thirteen miles due east to the town of
San Jose, as the crow thee. San Jose, a
pretty Spanish -looking place, lies about
fifty miles by train south of the Golden
Gate city, and from •this to the observatory
'summit is a drive along a winding road of
• about twenty-six miles. A pair of stout0ali-
• fornitt horses easily accomplish the die -
twice, steep as the asoent sometimes
• becomes, in four and a half hours. The
road leaves the town by avenues of tall
agaves and forest trees, and passes for
some while in a straight line tower& the
• foothills through farmsteads, vineyards and
• orchards which tessify to the rioh fertility
• of California. Then it begins to wind by
zig-zag course up the aides of the green
range, on the far top of which the metal
•dome on the observatory is dimly seen like
Rome rounded boulder. This long approach
was made by the State at a cost of $20,000,
and, once amidst the hilts, its course is full
of wild beauty and °biotite of natural in.
• WINE CHEAPER TERN WATER.
We dined well but temperately, as
philosophers should, economizing the more
costly water by drinking pleasaab Cranes
Blanca froxn the California vineyards and
excellent Zinfandel claret—after which the
silent and beautiful night fell upon the
rth and covered our mountain top with
a vault of purple a glorious night for
astronomy, with no moon, not one cloud
afloat in the sky, and nature so still that
she seemed listening on the peak to what
the "Katy-dids' were whispering down in
the valleys.
A TRIUMPH OF OPTICAL SNILL.
Then I catered the wonderful temple of
faience where the great telescope reclines
an its solid pedestal of steel, panting
• through the opening in the dome towards
the spangled heaven. Masiive as an
ironclall's biggest gun, its monstrous
length of nearly Bixby feet sits so easily
upon the delicate balance of its pivot that
yon iney wield it like an opera glass.
Weighing indeed, nevey tons, with a
focal tube of fifty-six feet), two inches,
and an object glees three feeb in diameter, I
-could yet, atter a minute's praotice, bring
the immense instrument to boar upon a
ester, as I sat in the observing chair, by
one Bageatouch on • this or that little
wheel. If it were desired to shift the
entire dome round to a new quarter of
the heavens, an extremely ingenious ar-
rangement of wheels •working upon oil
permitted me to turn the whole floor, to.•
witlithe telescope, the dome, and
the astronomers, towards the wished -for
point. Arrived there, and still seated in
• the oleserver's chair, which moves up or
down almost at a touch, handy wheels for
latitude and longitude enable you to bring
•the ponderous piece,
WITH THE PRECISION OF A RIFLE,
upon the necessary spot. Never was
serene° more nobly equipped for her g'ori-
MIS duty. And all this splendid astro-
emmieal endownment to be the gift of a
rude Califoralan miner 1 Under my °heir,
as I sate there with the giganbio " optick "
In hand, I saw the tomb ot the plain,
Alliterate man who had enriched his age
with so splendid and serviceable a benefec-
tion—a sarcophagus of white marble below
the centre of the revolvitig pletform, and
• upon its side the inscription, HERE Tans
—Tun BODY OF JAMES LIOK."
THE ECCENTRICJ DONOR.
From what I gathered, James Lick
;amassed his fortune chiefly by lucky
• mining speculations, and was led to dedi-
cate a large portion of it, $700,000 to this
noble purpose, rather by vague, dreamy,
trenecendent ideas than upon etrictly
scientific grounds. Ile had come RUM
• some " spiritualietio " books, • full of
theories about life upon tho moon and the
• .planets, and the possibility of •some day
and somehow communicating with planetary
r people, or at least • of demonstrating
the exhitence of "other races in other
world." The bigger the ghee the better
• the chance of this, he thought. • Come-
r, qtzently that vast instrument was ordered
of Alvan Clarke and the Lick Trust Was
'formed. Be would be disappointed, prob-
ably, if he could gaze through his own
.wonderful tube and note how little it can
•do with stars Dad Suns and far-off depth
of "'pace, beyond the ordinery powers of any
,six-inch reflector.
tents ancaims OF ORION.
We had boon talking muck of In Plaoe's
famous nebular theory (now widely au-
eepted, though largely modified and ex.
winded elude hie day), and Professor
• Campbell deftly swung the vast telescope
• Upon tho noble% in orion and 'bride am °Hint
again into the observing &air. Theb mars
nellouo °bleat of the Ireeveus eetne full in
eight defined with exquisite precidoe, as ib
could be in no other platie and with no other
inetrument I eaw, i the -welloknown ro.
glee of 4‘Beta, Oriente," the vast sepersite
system of an outlying univeree cleerly
mapped, a ileeey, irregular, rnyetotiotne
windy shape to the eye ite calgee whirled
• atta curled. lilt° those tilt atom cloud, with
• stare and star clutters et eliding ferth ageittet
the milky -white haelsgtousid of the uobulii,
dianionde Were lying upon silver ("loth,
erThe central ober, which, to the leaked eye
OF to 4 telesoope of low petrel', loohli
eingle and et no great brilliancy, re.
solved Waif, under the potent oomnaand
of the Lick glass, into a eplendid tra.
pozium of
wenn olarenlitien SUNS,
errenged very much like those of • the
southern erose. At the lower right hand
herder of the beautiful cosmie titbit, there
opens a hlaok allele of darkness, width has
usually the appearance of an inky cloud
about to mallow up the silvery filagree of
the nebula, yet, the great glase filled this
up with unsuspected worlds. When the
Photographing 4ppantUS is fitted to it these
ail become clearly pictured. It was necea.
eary front time to time to raise the eliding
Beat on the ladder in order to keep this
glorious prospect of Orion's nebula in the
field, lint the lateral motion was eaailn
governed by the vvlaeel moving the dome.
understood Professor Holden's view to be
that we were beholding, in that almost im-
measurably remote silvery haze, an entirely
special system of worlds and clusters, apart
from all others, as our own system is, but)
inconceivably grander, larger and more
populous, with suns and planets and their
starry allies.
SIRIUS A MERE mow.
Next, we lightly turned the far-sighted
giant of Mr. James Lick to Sirius, and held
that superb star fast in ita field—a white
jewel of the darknees, incredibly deer,
burning and brillianb. Yet those almost
blinding rays by whit& ib thus flashed its
glory to our eyes had left the stern' surface
many years ago, and what we saw MB but
the light of sirius emitted somewhere about
1874, so that, for all our feeble senses could
tell, the orb might be extinguished long
after we shall still continue to Bann to be-
hold it. Of course, even to the clear
Cyclopean eye of James Lick's telescope,the
fixed stars still remained what they always
remain—inere points of light. No more
could be made of them, even .with such a
prodigious power, than if they had been
pm -holes pricked in the mantle of the night.
It has been computed that our sun, whioh
looms so large lor us'would be for an ob-
server on the nearest fixed star no plainer
to behold than to our own eyes an eagle
soaring at an altitude three times as great
as the distance of Japan from New York 1
How little we are—and how great!
A WORLD ABLAZE.
We turned the massive telesoope fame
region to region of that "bine pacific of
infinity." At eaoh new star -scope I heard,
with an advantage and delight never to be
forgotten, the elucidatione and conclusions
of the learned and courteous seventh who
took so much kindly interest in my "intel-
ligent ignorance." Quite a long and lively
discussion arose when the huge refleotor
was levelled at the new and astonishing star
lately appearing in Auriga which has blazed
up so quickly and flickered into dimness
again. They were watching and carefully
measuring its variations ot lustre at Lick,
comparing it night after night with Polare,
by exposures ranging from two seconds to
one hundred seconds. 12 was Prof. Holden'a
opinion that we were gazing there, amid the
jewelled labyrinths of the Chariotter, upon
a world in fiery ruin, flaring to its utter
destrucbion ; all its elemente melting with
heat unspeakable; all its live things, if it
posseseed any; soorched to a white anni-
hiliationMy most erudite end kindly
friend was inclined to be pesaimiabio at the
spectacle.
THE FATE OF PLANETS.
"See 1" he add, "ib is to this that all
stars and systems—let alone planetii and
asteroids --must come at last. Can you
find muoh ground for your optimism in such
a sight ?" a however, was obstinate in my
faitia—that destruction is reconstructed and
that all endings are only new beginnings.
" Let the great mother,"I answered, "cast
her condemned or discharged materials into
the crucible of change, and work them up
again to fresh miracles of beauty and evolu-
tion. • Flame, fury of liquefaction, and ele-
ments bubbling in the furnace of stellar col-
lision are only terrible to us because we
think of them from the point of view of a
burned finger'or the boiling range of
Fahrenheit. To angelic intelligence the
process may be gentle and pleasant to wit-
ness as the weaving of white satin. We
talk of angels as ascending and descending
in inberplanetary epsce, where, neverthe-
less, the temperature musb be 500 degrees
below zero ! Who thinks of them as wear-
ing overcoats and blankets? I am not dis-
concerted by your world on fire ?"
Whereupon astronomy smiled indulgently
upon poetry.
PIEOTOGRAPHY AND SPECTROSCOPY.
It was drawing near the dawn when we
retired from the astronomical banquet. I
still desired, before getting a odd
sleep, to witness the making of SOMe star
photographs, but at the door of the
special building devoted to this stood a
lighted lantern. It was a sign, not to be
disregarded, that one of the profession's1
daft wee busy within taking stellar pic-
tures. Like an African chief who loaves
his slippers and his spear outside the hut
where he has sought the society of his
mistress, one of the Magi" of Liok sat
closeted there with Urania, and even Mr.
Holden did not dare to enter. Deep is the
debt, truly, of America first, and next of
all the civilized world, to these accom-
plished and devoted men, who,
on the MM.
reit of that lonely mountain toil patiently
through every clear suitable night, noting
and recording all that is moving in the
heavens.
THE FASCINATION OF ASTRONOMY.
The director told me that when any of
his professors took leave of absence they
almost always returned long before the ex-
piration of their term, unable to keep away
from their peaceful and exalted temple of
science. He himself had not left his learned
eyrie for two months before accompanyingme
in my downward ride to San Jose. Sleeping
that night amid the deep tranquil of the
mountain crest, 4,000 feet above railways
and politics, I, Aldo felt thab "It is good to
be here," and half Wished that 1, too, might
have a little tabernacle buildod to dwell
therein with the wise men of lick.
Days of Reckoning.
Wife—When we go anywhere now We
have to walk. Before marriage you always
called n carriage.
Hushaud—That's why we have to walk
what sae neat !antes.
Borel—What's your idea of hell—per-
petual fire?
Soaque—No ; water 1
Mr. Goldrocke—You haven't done a licit
of work since you married my daughter.
Mn Softenitp-1 know it, sir; bat I worked
hard for two yeara befene 1 got her.
• "What do you think of nay 'llitteter hat,
John 2 " Well, it weal) I'd call huge
• and elegant. But when teeter meets a ,
nor'eastee I shell be very sorry for it.
Margaret—You intadn't point that gun
at me, Carrie. You know mamma told
you never to point an empty gun at any
one. Carrie—Bat this one isn'b empty; it?e
,
Does thee lazy boy of Jimeoe's rio Any.
then; for hinineif now ?" " Ob, yen Be dote
ell his Own breathing."
A QUEBEC MIRACLE.
A Oalle that haB ,A8toniehed the Ancient
Oapital.
Thomas Crottea Remarkable Recovery
—
Helpless, Tortured •and Deformed by
aanammatory Itheumatismearaken te
Els HOMO KPOUI e llospitat to Die When
Reiter Comes — The Particulate Of the
Case as investigated by a Welegvapb
Iteborter.
• (The Tolograpb, Quebec.)
It is admitted on all sides that this is
an age of wonders, and there is no reason
why wonders should not be accomplished in
medleal as well as in other branches of
scientific reeearch. Of late scarcely a week
passes but what we read ia Canadian and
American newspapers of remarkable cures
accomplished through the use Of Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People. We eon -
fess that we have not paid much atten tion
to their worth until lately, when more than
one marvellous cure in our midst has been
brought to our attention, convincing us,
as• well as others, of the priceless value
of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Among the
cases thus brought to our notice is one which
we consider it our bounden duty to
chronicle. The case is that of Mr. Thomas
Crotty, a young man well known in the
City of Quebec, who has been brought back
from the very brink of the grave ito re-
atored health. The subject of this sketch
is the son of Mr, Thomas Crotty, who re-
sides at No. 63 at Patrick street. Thos.
Crotty, jun., is 29 years of age and for the
past eight years has been a martyr to in-
flammatory rheumatism, in fact SO much to
thab for the past year he bas been a de-
formed oripple. Last winter he was re-
moved to the Hotel Dieu Hospital for
treatment. Every day he gradually grew
worse, and his sufferings, according to the
good sisters in charge, were excruciating.
The very flesh left his body; and from his
chest downward became paralyzed. His
arms and legs were twisted into it mis-
shapen condition, and the poor fellow
was an object of pity to look upon. During
the month of May last he became blind and
deaf, and was unable to move even his head
without muskeg intense pain. Hie digestive
organs refusal to aot, andthe only nourish-
ment he could partake was milk and that
had to be given him with a spoon, and at
one time hie mouth had to be forced open
while the poor fellow was being spoon-fed.
Finally hie life was despaired of by the
attending physicians, Drs. Vallee, Catania
and Turcotte who admitted that they
oould do nothing for him, and said that his
death was only a matter of time. When
Crotty's mother heard this she deter-
mined on bringing her son home to die.
Consequently on the 24th of May last
the patient was wrapped up in flannels
and taken to his parents' home by
means of the city ambulance. After an
elapse of two weeks his sight returned,
but otherwise his condition was appar-
ently growing worse. It WAS at this junc-
ture that the members of the family had
their attention arrested by one of the re-
markable cures published in the Telegraph.,
resulting from the use of Dr. Williams'Pink
Pine. Crotty Baked his mother to procure
some. The good woman never for a
moment thought they would be of any use,
but determined to gratify him. By. the
time the second box was used it was seen
that there was a very slight ehenge for the
better, and this gave hope to peraust in the
use oethe Pink kills, and Crotty continued
taking them until he was brought so often
to the attention of the Telegraph that we
determined to investigate the matter for
°amines, and one of our reporters was
despatched to see Crotty, who we Anew
very well for years, as he was one of the
•first boys, when the Telegraph was started
twenty years ago, to sell the paper, and we
have known him ever since and watched
his euterprisina career, end the majority of
the citizens of Quebec will recegnize in him
Thomas Crotty, the book agent.
MR. CROTTY'S STATEMENT.
When it was found that Crotty was get-
ting better it was decided to remove hirn
again to the Hotel Dieu Hospital, and there
our reporter found him reading a newspaper
and looking quite cheerful, and apparently
very far from the grave. In the course of a
long interview Mr. Crotty corroborated
what the reporter had already heard adding
that he never expected to be alive at pre-
sent, and his friends who saw him alive last
May entertained the same opinion. Seed
Crotty. "1 owe my life to Dr. Williams'
wonderful Pink Pills. • It is well-known in
this city that I have suffered with inflam-
matory rheumatiem for the least eight years,
but no one hub myself can know the agony
I suffered, because it is indescribable. I
often prayed to be relieved by death. On
• tho 24th of May last when the doctors gave
me up I was taken home and I
was • resigned to meet death as
a• pleasure'but kind Providence
had willed it otherwise. It was then that
I oame across one of there wonderful cures
through Dr. William& Pink Pills and deter-
mined to try them. At my solicitation my
mother got some, and strange to say before
I had been taking them very long I felt a
difference ia my condition. This encour-
aged me, and continuing their use I could
feel that the blood which had left off
coursing through my veins was once more
circulating. As time went on the tortible
pains began to ease and my appetite began
to return, and I found that ,L was being
brought back from the grave to a new life.
My legs and arms, which had been para-
lyzed, began to show life and I now beoenee
sensitive to the least draught ofair. I then
thought) that I would be better in the hos-
pital and was again brought back, and am
improving in health andstrength every day.
The doctors have not interfered with my
taking Pink l'illFi, though they first exam-
ined them very curiously."
Crotty showed the reporter how his once
deformed limbs were regaining their proper
shape. There is a stiffness still in the
joints of hie lames And wrists, which is
only to be expeeted after his yaws of
suffering, but xii other respecte he is a
heelther team eating well and sleeping well.
The good sisters in charge of the hospital
agree that he is cured through the agency
of Die Williams' vvonderful Pink Pills, and
every day they bring visitors to see the
patient and the wonderful euro which has
been accomplished by this remarkeble
remedy, whioh is bo -day acknowledged to he
one of the greatest achievements of modern
a alexia).
' The reporter called at the residence of
Mr. Crotty'e parents, and his dory was
fully corroborates' by Mrs. Crotty, an in,
tolligent women, who- expreesed in warm
terms the gratitude she felt at her son's
restoration from a life of agony, from, in
feet, a living death.
• Dr. Willienv& Pink Pille are a perfect,
blood builder and uerve restorer, ouring
rata &settees Eke rheumatism, neuralgia,
partial patalysid, loonnotor ataxia,
Vitus' dance, nervous headache, neevone
preetratien and the tired feeling therefrom,
the after elute Of In grippe, influenza
and severe Wei% diseaeal depending on
hereon•in the blood, etioh as isoroftda,
elitonic erstaieelee, etre Pink Pills give a
• hteathy glen" to little arid sallow oomplen-
iene, and are a specifics for tile trOubliti
peoallar to the fern* ayetem, ana bitOm
case of men they effeet a radical cure 1,u al
cases isidaing from mental worry„ overwork
or eimeasea of any attture.
These Pille are manufactured by the Dr.
Williams' Medicine Company, Brookaille,
Ont., and Selieneetady, N. .v„ and are sold
only in boxes bearing the flrm'a trade mark
and wrapper, at 50 'route a box, Or Piz berme
for $2.5O. Bear ie mina theft Dr. Williams'
Pink Palle are never sold in bulk, or by the
dozen er bundsed, and any dealer who
offere substitutes in this' form is trying to
defraud you and should be avoided. The
public are Alas cautionea against all other
so-called blood buildere and nerve tonics,
no metter what name may be given them.
They are all imitations, whose mediate
hope to reap a pecuniary advantage from
the wonderful reputation achieved by Da
William& Pink Pine. Axik your denier for
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peonle,
and refuse all iinitations and subetitatee.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pith may he had of
all druggists or direct by mail from Dr.
Williams' Medicine Company from either
address. The price et which theism pills
are sokl makes a course of treatment com.
paratively inexpensive as compared with
other remedies or medical treatment.
A WORD AllOVIC- ROTS,
"Boys Will lie Boys "—Dried Itontlas Halos
• a Happy World.
The manly, energetic boy is the one who
atteerte hie rights to be in the world, and
who promises to be of still greater service
when maturity has ripened his faculties to
their fulness, and strengthened his mental
and physical powers. •&oh a boy is the
hope of the future, and he justifies that
hope. He may not be an immature Intel.
leotual marvel, and it is far better that he
is not, for these youthful phenomena are
usually a diseppointmenb as they grow
older, failing to realize the high anticipa-
tions they have &raised, and often, like too
early ripening fruit, as quickly and un-
aeitaonably going to decay, says Donoshoe's
Monthly.
There is a place in the world for the
good, healthy, industrious boy, who is fond
of recreation in its season, and who ie
healthful, courteous and obedient at all
times. Suck a boy enters with as cheery a
inane into the performance of the home
chores as he does into the boyish games and
pastimes, and his bright, cheerful dispoen
Von ie like a gleam of sunshine to all who
know him. • There is a jocund ring in be
voice and an honest sincerity in face aud
word. He is a natural, healthy boy, brim-
ful of youthful spirit • and enthu-
siasm, and ot the buoyant, san-
guine temperament that becomes hie
year& He is not a self-sufficient miniature
old man who knows more than bis parents.
The latter is not a boy ab all, however leis
years may classify him,aor he leas developed
into a sort of nondescript, neither boy nor
man, and a nuisance generally. AU honor
to the bright, helpful, spirited boy, the joy
of the present and the hope of the fatare 1
He is the one who is properly fitting him-
self to take up the serious businese of life
when comes Wee time that we have to retire
and resign it into his younger and more vig-
orous hands.
A Secret.
While a woman does not need as much
muscular energy as a man, she deep need a
great deal of endurance, good digestion,
good lungs, a good heart and a nervous, sys-
tem equal to every demand upon ib. Why
so many women have not this endurance,
and why stomach, lungs, hearb and nerves
are not always in the best condition, is
answered by the Herald of Health, in the
following practical manner. They do not
go out of doors into the fresh air enough
and drink it in in large quantities as they
ought to do. There are other reasons, no
douba but I wish to dwell on this one just
now. We laugh sometimes at small eaters,
and say they seem to "live on air." We
use this expression as s. term of reproach,
but the truth is we live on air quite as
much as on food. Pettenkoffer, in
some lecture he gave • to women a
few years ago, told them that an
adult person on an average required that
every twenty-four hours 360 oubio feet of
air should be taken into the lungs. This
would equal about 2,000 •gelloest Now,
both the solid and the liquid food of the
same person for each day would not bo
more than threaquarters of a gallon, so
when we laugh about one's livingon air,
we simply show that we do not know how
muoh more we live on air than on food and
drink. We do not always live in propor-
tion to the amount of food we eat, bat we
do live in proportion to the air we breathe.
I believe if every woman who reads this
would make up her mind the coming year
•to consume more pure air, she would lea to
much maps headaohes, depression of spirit,
hysterical troubles, physical weakness and
a hundred other evils, and be a great deal
happier and spread happiness in her path,
when often she carries gloom and winery.
Dora.
Da nob wear a hat or bonnet out of pro-
portion to the heal, no matter whab the
prevailiag mode maybe.
Do not wear a wide or heavy trinandMg 11
yen possess a small face.
Do not wear a severely plain hounst if
you have no bangs.
Do not wear ties if the throat is full and
large. Stout ladies ehould evoid the how
at the throat. Heavy ribbons and lace ilea
should be tabooed with large collars.
Do not, wear a navy bine veil on a cold
day.
Do not wear it red veil on it hot after-
noon. •
Do not wear a veil Mont the nose if the
face Di long. •
• Do nob wear a hat of leeway materials.
Use only it few—the day for Joseph's coat
is paste
Rob a hat of everything possible, hut do
not give it a poverty.stricken
• Do not wear large hats at the theatre,
as they are only a burden to remade end a
nuisance to many.
Do not wear a mournieg veil with as
toque. A small bonnet is the only proper
thing and may be made to rest upon the
top of the head, but the back should be
cut out Do not purchase a het ;amply be.
cause ib is pretby, but itecortein if it is
becoming and appropriate, and then aeoure
It for its " eternal fitrielle."—lir. Y. Herald.
Employment Agent—Whet was the mat-
ter with your last) place ?" Dotnesble—The
couple had only been married a month, au'
I otidn'b stand the lovernakin." • Agent—
Well, here's a chance in it house where the
quiet."an
tric oeuptile—Inivheabb'ese nt eine alerrnige.fl ten
1371 keeasr r32pe'a ce
The cosmopolitan nature of the tiopula
don of Chicago is shown by the published
statemeat that at the lent election 131,335
votes were polled by nativeiborn citizens
and 128,212 by foreigners. The Germane
aro credited with 45,000, the Irish with
23,578, end the Sein,ndinaviane, English,
Pelee, Bohemiebs, Scotch, &Israelis, Cana -
dime and Vreneh folloWin the order named,
the last detibribeting but 643.
Colored and bejeweled table gleee us push
ing to the ftoot rank of fever/tiein.
SRO FROM THE TIMONE.
Third Sion of the Seventh Mario
Legislature
WINED IN TIIE NEW BUILDINGS.
4. Erma nastorleall Event—The Travelling
Dairy—Aarlealturel Colicao Classes—
/orison, Commissio18 lloport--Friendly
ifSeleUeS' Act—The Loather ‘'rade—A.
National Tork—Draltlegei Rehothlhir,
Ine. TEE efreurnms Trimmer.
The following P'e- among °there
were present: 1VIessre. Mowat, Bferder,
, Harcourt, Fraser, Harty, Dryden, Gihson,
Ross, Waters, Mack, Doak, Tooley, Me -
Mahon, Campbell (Algoma), Ryerson, Smith
(Peet), Guthrie. Fell, Marian, E R. Fraser,
Ballantyne, Conine°, Meredith, Davis,
Kerns, Magwood, Clarke, Gilmour, Bishop,
Mackay, Stratton, Garrow, Caldwoll, Mis-
campbell, Cleary, RaysidelBaxter, Smith
(Pork), Field, Biggar, MeLenaghare Wood,
Bp'ifh°euri
Tudiciary were represented by Judges
Osier, Hagerty, Galt, Barton, Maclennan,
Rose, Ferguson, Robertson and lila Thos.
Hodgins, Q. C., Master -in -Ordinary.
The House Opened.
Promptly at 3 o'clock the mace was placed
on the table by the Sergeant -at Arma, and
the Speaker, having ascended the throne,
read the prayers. Then the Clerk of the
'rouse and the Deputy-Cierk stepped for-
ward and read the writs teemed to fill the
vacancies orea.ted in the constituencies of
Peel, and Toronto, also the certificate of
the election of Mr. John Smith for Peel
and Dr. George Sterling Ryerson for To-
ronto.
• The Howse was then adjourned during
pleasure.
At. 3,07 o'clock His Honor Liana -Gover-
nor Kirkpatrick entered the chamber and
read the usual address.
• It gives nee great pleseure to meet you as
&Legislative Assembly for the first tirae since
ney appointnaeat as Lieutenant -Governor;
and it Is peoutharly gratifying that I am
privileged to do so in these beautiful build-
ing now so nearly completed and so well
adapted for your accommodation and the
convenience of the public service. 1 regret
that the condition of the work did not admit
ef my caning you together at an •earlier
day.
It is a source of historicist 'interest to
remember that I am addressing the 'Legis-
lative Assembly of this Province in the first
year of the second century of the existence
of representative govereussent in Canada.
The progress ofevents from the first Parlia-
ment opened by His Excellency Governor
Simcce at Niagara in. 1732 to the opening of
this Parliament to -day shows what great
atrides luxe been made towards the devel-
opment of the country and the enlargement
of the privileges of eitizenehip under the
constitution given be us by the Imperial
Parliament.As a native of Ontario and
for many years connected with the public
life of Carada, 1 rejoice to believe that
under our pree,ent relations with the Empire
we can enjoy every right and 'privilege
necessary to the fullest exercise of self-
government.
It afford.s me *were to state that the
harvest of the past year, while not to
abundant as tb.at of 1891, was still a coatis -
factory one. The general awakening of
agriculturiste lit the Province to the im-
portance of the dairy industry and of its
more extended development is apparent
from the increasing number of creameries
and cheese factories eetehliehed during the
east yaw. The instruction given by means
of the travelling dairy bas been attended
with gratifying results, and is still eagerly
sought for. The appreciation of practical
information and advanced -methods in all
branchea of b.uabandry continual to be very
marked. Ab 180 previonsperiod has the de-
mand for publications in connection with
agrieulture been ito great as at present.
Much activity prevails among farmers' in-
stitutes and other kindred associations, all
of which are enlarging their spheres of
ueefulneste and becoming more than ever
the mama of diseeininating valuable infer-
ationt with respect to agriculture.
Yon will he pleased to learn that the
Agricalturel College ia now taxed to ite
tttmosb capacity, so greet has the desire of
farmers' sons become to qualify themselves
thoroughly for the profession of agricul-
turists. The special dairy course in con-
net:time with the college has proved so
satisfactory that, notwithstanding ' the
liberal provision made for this department,
more that, half the applicants for admission
to the coarse are unable to find accommoda-
tion. Yon will learn with pleasure that by
a course of lectures ot the college during
the summer holidays an opportunity is to be
attarded teachers to qualify in presenting
the rudiments of agriculture in our public
soltoole. I have no doubt thab the effect of
Shia will he to render the pursuits of rural
life more eittraotive to the young, and that
this and the other measures adopted tend to
make the position of the agriculturieW as
much to be desired for its pleasures and
rewards ea that of any other calliog or
profession.
The report of the Commissioners on the
prison and reformatory system of the
Province boa for mare than a year been be-
fore the public. Ib affords a 'valuable con.
• tribution bo the stock of information
regardieg the various methods of dealing
• with the criminal classee in this and other.
• oreentrice end recommends, as the most
• effective mode of reducing crime, the with-
drawal of abet:idol:ma end neglected chil-
dren from criminal and dangerous nese-
'legions. With thio view a measure will
be introduced for the better protection of
children, the provisions of whioh I com-
mend to your meat careful consideration.
The salutary effsicts of the Ineurance
C irporations Aot of the het session have
alreeely !leen distinetly seen. A firm ad.
ministrereon of the Act has excluded from
Oaterio aturiereas fraudulent or speculative
scoietiee which profeseed to iseoure to
penman of small mania large eurns in the
• fornt of endowment or life insurance. The
Province) has thus been belied from the lose
end (heiress which, during ehe past few
months, the aellepee of swat societies has
occasioned in the neighboring States of the
t• InPamm. glint to he able to congre.tulateyou
upon the marleed impeovement in the stens
of the lumber trade, the prospetity of which
is of so much mporteeme to the reventie and
other publie intoteete of the Province., This
Moreeted ectivity during the laeb year
afforded a favorable opportunity to sell ors
pablic auction tho right to out the pine
thriber upon a limited area in the southern
pare of the district) of Nipiesitig, and on
novae exposed berthe on the north shore of
Georgian Bay, and of some eeattered berth's
he the Western districts held. over from the
sale of 1890, containing in all ahaut 633
equate Mike. I ant pleaeed to state that
the prides obtained Were high beyond pres
<Fedora, aveteateg $3,657 per utbc, said title
although the dues to be paid on the timber
When dub wove ioexeatted b onesfeurth, As
compared with the dues payable on haat
formerly sold in the Nipleelug and Algona*
dietricts. in addition to the annual ;natal
and timber due e which will be pad lath
the Provineial treasury upon the timber
When cut, a tura of over p,250,000 'RA
realleed by way of beaus.
The commiseionere appointed to consider
the &noes of certain territory in the dia
trait of Nipiesing, south of the River
Mattewa, for the purpose of it forest aware,
vation and national perk, have completed.
the (Intim' assigned to them. They have
collected much useful heformation, touching
the objects of the oommiesion, and have
Made their report, which will be laid be
fore yea. A Bill to establieh a national
park will be submitted for your ooneiderae
tion.
The extensive system of drainage whick
many municipalitiee had undertaken fa
order to render their ewanap leas fit for
tillage, led to difficulties in adjuating
private and municipal right. Thee° clathera-
ties could not be aatiefeattorily settled withe
out the fullest posaible information on all the
issues hivolved; and to procure ouch infor-
mation my predeeessoe caused a commission
to be issued on the whole question of draha
• age. The report) of the commissioners will.
be laid before you, and a bill (aiding with
the subject will be submitted for your con-
sideration.
The reports of the oommiosionere on tbre
clehorning of cattle and on assessment lama
will be laid before you and will, I trust, ha
found useful.
A bill consolidating and amending the
various acts respecting the University of
Toronto, a bill consolidating and amending
the Registry Acts' a bill reepeeting labor
liens and a bill withregard to voters' lids
in cities will, with other bills, be submitted
for your consideration. •
The estimates for the current year will,
at an early date, be submitted for your
approval. They will be found to have been.
prepared with all the economy cowl:dent
with the efficiency of the public service.
I am glad to feel assured that your legia-
lative labors during the present session will
be characterized by the same earnest care
and thoughtful attention which have here-
tofore marked the work of the Legialative
Assembly of my native province.
The Lieubenant-Governor then left the
chamber, accompanied by the offioers of the
city corps who had received him, and the
Speaker reascended the throne.
After the introduction of the new mem-
hers,
Mr. Mowat introduced a Bill to provide
for the administration of oattim of offiee,
and for pereone appointed as justices of the
peace.
The Bill was read a first time.
Mr. Mowat moved that the epee& of Ma
Honor, the Lieutenant -Governor, be taken
into consideration to -morrow. • If the de-
bate closed to -morrow, as it had done for
several sessions, the public accounts would.
be laid on the table immediately after, anct
the estimates also. The Treasurer would
make his statement on the following day.
The motion was carried.
Mr. Mowat moved that select standing'
committees of the House for the present
session be appointed on the following
business: Privileges and elections, railways,
private bills, standing orders, pablicr
accounts, printing and municipal law.
The motion was carried.
• Tbe House adjourned ab 3,35 p. in.
• Mr: Mertes gave notice of motion that he
will on Thursday move for leave to intro-
duce a bill entitled, "Au Act to amend
the Liquor License Acts by prohibiting the
sale by retail of intoxicating liquore."
THE GUBERNATORIAL RECEPTION.
• A few minutes after the formal closing of
„
the House, His Honor the Lieut. -Governor
and Mrs. Kirkpatrick returned to the
chamber and took up their station on the
dais in front of the throne. They were
supported by Sir Oliver Mowat, and forming
a cordon in froet were the officers of the
• local corps, resplendent in their varietal.
uniforms. The cards were read by Com -
mender Law, R. N., and Capt. Greville
Harston. • The following is a hob of these
from Hamilton who had the honor of being
presented: Mr. and Mrs. Nicholaa Awrey,
Mr. and Mrs. John Crerar, Mr. and larta
13. E. Charlton Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Clrerar,
Miss Dunlop, kra H. F. Gardiner, Mrs:
John A. Orr, Hon. Mr. Gibson and Mrs.
• Gibson, Mies Hendrie, Mr. Hendrie, Mr.
• and Mrs. Wm. Hendrie, Mr. and Mrs.
Amines Jarvis, Miss Lovell, Mrs. and Miss
Leggat, Mr. F. MacKelean, Miss Macdon-
ald, Dr. McMahon (Dundee), Mr. and Afre.
Stuart, Mr. Bidwell Way, Mr. and Mrs. A.
T. Wood and Mrs. John B. Young,
• At the olose of the reception Sir Oliver
was presented with his portrait. This mate
ter is referred to in another column.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE DINNER.
The gubernatorial proceedings of the day
were wound up by an official dinner at
Government House. The affair was very.
successful. The following were among the
guests: Sir Oliver Mowat, Hon. A. R.
• Hardy, Hon. C. F. Fraser, Hon. J. M.
Gibson'Hon. R. Harcourt, Hon. G. W.
Ross, Hon. John Dryden, Hon. E, H.
Bronson'Chief Justice Hagerty, Chief
justice Armour, Chancellor Boyd, Chief
justice Galt, Ion. Thomas Ballantyne,
LieutoCol, Clark, Mr. Meredith, M. I'. P.
Alr TIM BAR OF JUSTICE.
The Prisoner Was Ashamed but for a Wt.
•Scrota BORSOBe
The prisoner et the bae Wee charged witk
assaulb and battery by his wife. She was ei
little woman, but wiry and energetic, sEga
• the Detroit Free Pre88. He was a strapping
big fellow and on hirn the Judge frowned,
fiercely.
"So," said the court, "you have been
assaulting your wife ?''
" Yes, Ver Honor," admitted the pr./ir-
oner doggedly.
• "Well, you ought to be ashamed of
yourself."
" I am, Ver Honor."
"The very idea, sir, of a great big fellow -
like you are whipping a little woman like
that'
The littie woman flushed up, but kept
still, with her eyes fixed on her huslxsnd
expo° tautly.
"1 didn't whip her, Yet. Honor."
" Didn't whip her ?" exclaimed tlie judge,
" Meat lie to me inn You did whip her."
• Again the libtbo woman turned. her eyes
on her hueband.
"Beg yer pardon, Ver Honor, but I didn't
whip her. She liked me in aboub three
minutee, and thathi why I'm ashamed of
myself, Yer Honor,"
The Judge fairly gaped.
"That's right, Yer Honor," put in the
little woman ; Horny get' ugly somew
tieries, hut he won't lie when 1 am watching
him."
The Judge took a good long look at both
a them and dientiesed the case.
• A Bicrepeitee.
Manager (to popular loading inan)—Whate
salary do you expect?
Leading man—X must have a DeStrgftet trOF
$700 itweek.
Mem:ger—That's understood, but how
nmeh at:m.4 cash do you want for Vase
senate:a '
Leading roan—Thirty dollars it Week.