The Exeter Advocate, 1893-5-25, Page 71
BRITAIN.
I'ROX
Stagnation of Trade Due to Royalties'
l Metropolis.
Neglect of the top l_
An Historical Na i ;hty Duelioes-Wales
Enjoys Heing a Grass widower—Some-
thing About
idower—Something-About the Derby saucily—A Hireg
Crowned With an old Hat—'rhe Duke
and the captain -Royal eynnpathize
Vrith the euti,erlands.
ER Effulgenoy is bank
again from her eon•.
thiental trip, and not
before her presence was
_needed. During the
rr . few weeks she has been
away business has been
nib a complete standstill.
,E' jry ow Storekeepers aro oom-
--• plaining bitterly of the
alaoknees of trade and dullness of the times.
For many years past each an utter stagna-
tion of business amongst the west end Lon-
don shops has not been known. The
Royalties have thought more of
their own pleasures than of their duty
in endeavoring to ameliorate this
condition of things, and univereal murmurs
of indignation are the result. One store-
keeper in Regent street alone has over
$50,000 worth of one particular olase of
season's goods on hand, of which he has nob
sold a fiftieth part, Usually at this time of
the year he is sending in repeat orders.
With all the others the same state of things
prevails. London, which is usually full in
the spring, is comparatively epeaking,
empty. When Victoria Regina is away
from her kingdom it is nob considered by
the toadies the correct thing to be seen in
town, consequently the storekeeper suffers.
With the old lady at Windsor or even Os-
borne a more cheerful aspect is observable.
It ie to be hoped that now she has returned
to her dutiful and long-suffering aubjeote a
prompt move will be made to glose over
past deficiencies.
One of the first of Victoria's domestic
functions will bo making arrangements for
christening the pickaninny " Fifoleb." The
string of names the unfortunate infant is
destined to bear has not yet been made
known, but above all others ib will be a
" Victoria," in ease accidents should happen
in the dim hereafter and the child be ever
called upon to wield the sceptre and wear
the Imperial crown.
WALES ENJOYS BEING A GRASS WIDOWER.
The Prince has been having quite a spell
,of bachelor housekeeping ; is accustomed
now to the charge of the keys, pours out his
own tea as to the manner born, and has
managed nicely so far without a Princess to
bear him company- The presence of a
sister or a niece might have entailed the
society of her husband, papa, or brothers
as well ; and the heir apparent resembles
his revered mother in nob liking too many
ot one sorbin the house. To say that His
Royal Highness has been having a good
time would be a mild definition of that
glorious feeling of baohelor freedom whioh
comes at times to all good benedfcta Rho
knew how to wait, and who also know how
to console themselves for the enforced absence
of a faithful and loving spouse.
TEE 'OVAL SISTEYS•IN-LAW.
When brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law
leave to be taken into account, is is jusb as
well not to see too much of one another.
'The Princess of Wales and the Duchene of
Edinburgh keep on good terms because
they have never been " too thick to last "
to use a plebeian expression. Alexandra
•feels uneasy at Marie's cleverness and
ppowers of sarcasm, and Marie thinks Alex-
andra rather a poor creature, though very
isweet, of course. The Grand Duchess is
atom akin to gifted, eccentric Princess
Louise, Marohionese of Lorne, with whom
she shares several tastes ; and the late
Prince Leopold's society was also very ac-
ceptable to her Russian Highness. Still,
there is not much clubbing together, or feel-
ing low, if long away from one another,
among the British First Ones—that is when
they come to be compared with the deeply -
affectionate Royal Danes.
A FAMILY PECIULIAR/TY.
Duke of Saxe -Coburg, the ever -lamented
Albert's own brother, and head of the
family, though he has no family of his own,
scarcely ever meets his relatives, and has
very little to do with them, save when his
consent to some marriage is required
officially. Queen Victoria, too, has not
worn her comical Saxe -Coburg Order so
,much of late ; yet she once doted on ib. As
Battenbergs have waxed,Saxee have waned,
eo to say ; though the protean has been a
gradual one.
HAPPY DEVOTED DANES.
On the other hand the Danish royalties
,are devotedly fond of one another, and
count it their greatest happiness to pay one
another long visite with as many relatives
as possible ataoked in the same palace.
Nothing ,else can possibly equal this, and
tthe remedy for every grief is to meet papa,
• mamma, brothers and sister. and talk
everything over. Queen Victoria's de-
soendante, though very united and friendly
on the whole, are not quite up to this mark.
They meet at state ceremonials, private
luncheons and dinners, but prefer returning
to their homes to Bleep. As for living
together for months at a time, this is rare
indeed. A Saturday till Monday stay is
about the limit of their mutual hospitality.
AATROIIDINTS OR DERBYS.
As the late Earl of Derby has no family,
the title devolves upon his brother, Lord
`Stanley of Preston, Governor•tteneral of
Canada. Although " Burke " states that
the second Earl of Derby was also " Vise
count Kynton " no ouch distinction has
• aver been recognized, and the first Earl in
1 28th 1504 merely
will dated July , ,
describes shim as "" Earl Derby, Lord
.,l3tanley, Lord of fan, and Great Constable
-of England." The Stanley. are the deeend-
ants, paternally, of a certain Adam of
Aldithley, a Norman, whom Dame over to
_England in the Conqueror's horde of adven-
turere and thieves, and obtained property
in Staffordshire, to which he gave the name
of his Norman birthplace, since known as
Audley. Hie eldest grandson was the
-ancestor of the Lords Audley i and rico of
William de Audley, who married a kings -
woman, Joan de Stoneleigh, and aseamed
her name, having first obtained by exchange
with hie cousin, Audley, the maternal pro-
iperty of Staneleigh, now Stanley, in
eaSpondon, county Derby.
CSOWNED WITH' Ax OLD HAT.
The second Lord Stanleyearned the ever-
Ie./wising
verI1 rating gratitude of Henry VII. by crown-
ing him (with a crest coronet, torn for that
rrpoeo from an empty helmet) King of
ngland upon the field of Bosworth, and
thus ho obtained his earldom. Upon the
.death of the fifth Earl of Derby, whoa)
•grandmother was Mary, the Queen•Dowager
of France, and daughter of Henry VII., the
Baronies of Stanley and Strange went into
abeyance [among his three daughters, and
the earldom was inherited by hie brother.
The present Barony of Stanley of Bicker
iestaffe was created in favor of the thirteenth
lar1, 22ad of Ootobor, 1832. The .original
Barony of Stanley is atilt in abeyance be.
tween Lord Huntingdon and others.
ROYAL sxn1PATIIIES WITII,9IIT11111nLAND
Tho day following the committal to
prison of the Dowager Duchess of Sather.
land the Prinoe of Wales dined with the
new Duke and Duchess. This amply suffices
to show on whioh side of the quarrel the
sympathy of tho royal family is placed. All
through the dispute, the existence of whioh
prevents the Duke from occupying his real
London home, Stafford House, the feelinga
of society generally have been against the
Dowager, and this ex -Mrs. Blair has fele,.
This may be paid to largely explain her
defiant conduct.
now BLAIR DIED.
An on die hap been gaining ground the
Captain Blair, the first husband of the
Dowager Duches, was shot by the late
Duke. This was not so. Tho captain was
a guest of the Duke at Duurobin Castle, and
he certainly did die by a bullet wound, but
the enquiry at the time revealed the faob
that the shooting was accidental and the
wound self-inflicted. The late Duke had
the credit of having committed the murder
in order to possess the widow, but there
was not a foundation of truth upon which
such a charge could be laid. The only
murder the Duke ever committed was
social murder, when he married the lady.
ANOTHER WICKED DUCHESS.
The Dowager of Sunderland is not the
only British Duchess who has done time in
jail. The notorious Duchees of Kingston
was in 1770 arraigned on the charge of
bigamy and felony. The trial was heard in
Westminster Hail, before a commission
formed of Members of the House of Lords,
in full costume, peers, biebope, the two
archbishops, the lord high steward, the
judges in their robes, the masters in
chancery, clerks of the council, garter king
of arms, and a hod of other court and legal
functionaries.
HER GRACE FOUND GUILTY.
The Duchess appeared in black, with
black gloves and fan, and answered to
the charge : " Elizabeth, Ducheas of
Kingston, come forth and save yourself and
your bail, or forfeit your reoognizanoea."
The trial, whioh was one of the most famous
causes celebres of the reign of George the
Third, lasted five days. The wibneasee'
evidence was, in almoeb every case, moat
condemnatory, and after the court had
adjourned to the House of Lords to
deliberate, Lord Mansfield asked each peer
in enccesslon whether the prisoner was or
was not guilty, and all replied, " Guilty,
upon my honor," except the Duke of New-
castle, who added, " Erroneously, but not
intentionally."
SENTENCED TO BRANDING IN THE HAND.
On the sentence being given, Her Grace
artfully exclaimed " the benefit of the peer-
age applicable to the statute," and her coun-
ael fully established her right nob to undergo
the penalby which then conelsted of being
branded in the hand. In delivering sentence
the Lord High Steward thus declared him-
self : " Madam, the Lords have considered
your plea and admit it, but ehould you ever
be guilty of felony again it will be deemed
capital. At present I discharge you 'with
no other punishment than the stings of your
own coneoience and that is punishment suf-
ficient on such crimes. You are to be dia-
charged on paying your fees."
TURNS COCOTTE AND DIES.
The subsequent career of the convicted
but released Duchies ie a tale that might
tempt the pen of a dramatist. She left
England and went to St. Petersburg, where
sheenjoyed a certain aocial notoriety, the
Empress treated her with marked favor,
though the British Ambassador could not
recognize her. Thence she journeyed to
Paris, where eventually she died, the
memory of her many escapades now kept
alive only in the pages of the memoir writer
of the close of the last century.
Prospective Groom.
The duties of the "beat man" at a wed
ding consist in relieving the groom as much
as possible from all anxiety concerning the
details. He should accompany the groom
to the church, stand ab his right hand
at the altar (the groom standing at the
clergyman's Ieft), and should see that
the ring and the wedding fee have nob
been forgotten. He 'should see that ar-
rangements have been made for the carriage
whioh is to take the newly -married couple
from the church to the house after the
ceremony, and from the house to the train
after the reception, and nob consider his
work done until he has sent the wedding
notice (accompanied by the money to pay
for it) to the newspapers in which he may
wish it to appear. The society editors of
the daily newspapers make their own reports
for the society columna, and to those
columna money cannot secure admission ;
but the announcement in the advertising
columns will not be inserted unless the
money shall accompany ib. "Do as yon
would be done by" is a good rale for a beat
men.—Philadelphia Record.
Lien -Tamer Torn to Pieces.
Maximin, a Frenoh lion -tamer, who re-
cently left the Paris Winter Circus for Lia -
bon, taking with him five of his animals, has
been mortally injured by one of the wild
beasts. He had been giving a performance
in the lions' nage before a considerable num-
ber of spectators in the Lisbon Circus, when,
as he was preparing to step out, a lioness
called Nellie flew ab him and nearly tore
him to pieces. Maximin struggled for nearly
ten minutes with' the brute, twice seizing
its tongue, but he became faint through loss
of blood. The 'leucite was shot through the
heart by one of the circus clowns, and
another French tamer succeeded in keeping
in check the other animals in the cage.
Maximin, fearfully mangled and lacerated,
was carried in a dying state to the hospital.
The affair caused a panic in the circus, and
the programme of the afternoon was prema-
turely concluded by the ghastly scene.
A Chicago Side -Show.
Barker—Here you are, sir ! The greatest
wonder ab the fair; sir 1 ' Within this tent
site Terence Callakan, the only living man
who has drunk ' buttermilk made from a
churning of cream skimmed from the milk
given by O'Leary'e cow, that kinked over
the lamp that set Chicago on fire. Here yon
are ! Dakota only five dimes, two quarters;
80 Dents or half a dollar.
Rad a Eines Tao.
Mr. Rieke -What nonsense the papers do
print 1 Here is a story about a prize fight
headed, " The Best Man Won."
Hicks—Well, what about it !
Mrs Hioks—The ida of having a "beet'
man" at a prize fight 1
Unnecessary Evidence.
Smith—You neodn'b boll me that doge
don't know as much as human beings. I
took Ponto to church with me last Sunday..
Jones—Yes.
Smith --Well; sir, he slept through the
whole sermon. 'et
" In the bright complexion of my, youth
I'll have sic .00h word aele," and she
reached for the rouge box with the com-
plexion of an angel..
ONTARIO LEGISLATURE.
The following Bill* were read a third
time :
Ii,espcabin g the debenture debt of the city
of Brantford—Mr. Wood, (Brant).
To enable the corporation of the county of
Ontario to items certain debentures—Mr.
Dryden.
The following Bills were paseed in com-
mittee :
To consolidate the debt of the town of
Ingersoll—Mr. McKay (Oxford).
To incorporate Grace Hospital (homeeo-
pathic)—Mr. Clarke.
The following Bills were read a second
time :
Respecting . the city of London—Mr,
Meredith.
Respecting the city; of Toronto—Mr.
Clarke.
Mr. Dryden, in answer to Mr. McCleary,
said that in 1889 a resolution was passed by
part of the teaching etaif of the Agricultu-
ral College requesting the President to take
immediate steps to investigate certain
breaohes of discipline that had taken place
in his absence. The resolution was signed
by Prof. Robertson, Shaw and Mr. Hunt.
The complaint was enquired into by the
thole Minister of Agriculture, and the
Preeident's explanation was deemed reason-
able and eatisfaotory and the breaohes of
discipline on the part of the atudenta were
'investigated and fully dealt with by the
President.
Mr. Dryden, in answer to Mr. McColl,
said that in 1891 there were imported for
educational purposes at the 0. A. 0. four
Oxford -Down ewes from Mr. J. B. Ellie, one
of the foremost breeders of this plass of
sheep in England. They were considered
good specimens of the breed, and had pre-
viouely won first prizes in their class at the
'show in Norfolk county, England, the sec-
tion of country where these sheep were
specially bred.
Mr. Wood (Brant) moved or a return
showing the number of applications since
the first day of January, 1890, for loans.
which have bean made under the Tile, Stone
and Timber Drainage Act.
Mr. Wood (Hastings) moved for a return
*owing the names of alt persona, firms, or
companies 'indebted to the -Province on the
first day of January, 1893, on account of
timber dues, ground rent, or bonuses for
timber limits, and the total amount of auoh
indebtedness on the first day of January,
1893.
Mr. Meredith moved the aecond reading
of a Bill respecting married women. The
object of the Bill was to declare that all
disability with regard to the holding and
disposing of real property that had hitherto
affected married women should pease.
They should have the same right to enter
into contracts, to sue and be sued, as their
lees fortunate spinster sister could do now.
Sir Oliver Mowat thought there was an
objection to the bill. The bill would con-
fer upon women no substantial right which
they had not now. The bill would make all
married women liable whether they held
property in their own right when married
or not. It was only a email minority of
married women that held separate property
from their husbands. The effect of the bill
would be that the majority of married
women in the country would derive no
benefit at all, and would be subject to in-
creased liability. The effect would be in
many cases injnrioua. He would like his
hon. friend not to proceed with the bill.
Mr. Meredith had heard nothing in the
hon. gentleman's remarks that in bis judg-
ment was an objection to the bill. The bill
only pat married women on the came
footing as unmarried women. The hon.
gentleman had been preaching fosell Tory-
ism. (Laughter.) Seventy-fiveont of every
100 lawyers that knew anything about the
subject favored the bill. Ib was right in
prinoiple and oaloulated to reduce much
useless litigation. Married women became
liable for contracts only upon entering into
them of their own free will. He thought
the bill might well go before the legal com-
mittee.
Sir Oliver Mowat moved in amendment
that the bill be given the three months'
hoist.
The amendment was carried on the fol-
lowing division: Year, 22 ; nays. 17.
Mr. Gibson, in moving the House into
committee on his bill for the prevention of
cruelty to and the better protection of
children, said he had considered some of
the amendments suggested by the member
for London, and wished to make some
amendments to meet the hon. member's
views. First, he introduced a clause defin-
ing the moaning of Children's Aid Soeietlee.
Other amendments were introduced narrow-
ing the definitions of some other clauses.
Mr. Clancy pointed out that some pro-
visions of the bill gave officers of Children's
Aid Societies greater power over children
than was possessed by their parents.
The bill was passed.
Mr. Harcourt moved the House into
committee on bis bill to amend the Public
Health Act.
Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) moved the second
reading of a bili to amend the Registry Act
which he proposed to include in the con-
solidated Act The bill provides that no
registrar, 'deputy-reglatrar, or clerk under
the Ate:* practice as a physician.
surgeon or lawyer in office hours, nor shall
they take proceedings under the power of
sale in any mortgage or other instrument
affecting land as agent, atborney or solidi -
tor, either personally or as a member of a
firm. The discharge of mortgages paid off
shall be registered within six months of the
payment. Every registrar shall present
under oath to the Lieutenant -Governor, not
later than January 15th of each year, a
statement of business transacted for the
year previous, ending December 31st, of
which a eahedule is attached.
Mr. Whitney said the provisions re.triot-
ing regietrars or clerks from practfaing a
profession in ethos hours did nob go far
enough.
Mr. Hardy moved the second reading of
a bill to establish the 'Algonquin National
Park of Ontario. The park will be located
in the territory lying near and enclosing the
head waters of the Muskoka, Madawaska,
Arnaldo' do Fond; Petawawa and South
Rivers. The desirability of the park was
generally admitted. • Shooting would not be
permitted, except of wild animals. The
pine was under license and would be out and
removed: Superintendents would be ap-
pointed, and from 15 to 20 log houses
erected on the territory for rangers.
Mr. Wood (Hastings) admitted that suoh
reservations were desirable. He would
oritioize the bill in detail when the proper
time came
The House went into Committee of
Supply.
On the item of Ontario Schooled Pedagogy,
$6,750,
Mr. Clancy thoiiglit there was no neons=
sity for the increased grant of $2,000 for
lecturers on methods.
Mr. Ross said the grant was not at all
exoesetve, and he only regretted that he
could not increase the efiioiehoyof theechool
by enlarging' the staff. In New York,
whore the only other eohool of pedagogy in
America wait located, the college had fifteen
professore.''
On the atom of details for the Toronto
Insane Asylum, $99,961,
Mr. Clancy thought there should be
aniformitly of salary for (dnakle at these
instibutioes, and a fixed maximal whioh
*mild not be exceeded. The eyiitenz was
bad.
Mr. Gibeon'(Hanif lion) said It would be
an lmpoeition if suoh b thing as his hon.
friend suggested should be 'done. Some
inatibutione had residences and some had
nob, and again some offioials were married
and others were pot, in which case the
living allowance should not be the same.
IIS had no objection to make known the
rent allowances of each officer, and would
place ib in the accounts next year if de-
eirThed.
e following Bills were read a third
"Teo authorize the city of Ottawa to issue
debentures in aid of the Kingston,
Smith's Fails & Ottawa Railway Company
—Mr, Bronson•
Roapeot nag tbo erection of a new Pro-
vincial lunatic
ro-vinciallunatic asylum ab Brockville -Mr.
Fraser.
Rolabing tothe erection of the new Pee-
vfnpial buildings—Mr. Fraser.
Mr. Gibson (Huron) moved for a return
showing the number of votes polled for and
against the Soott Act by-laws when carried
in the different counties and also when the
Aot was repealed.
Mr. Clarke asked that "the motion be
amended by showing also the votes polled
in counties 'in which the act was not
carried.
The following bills were' read a second
time•:
To authorize the sale of pertain lands by
the congregation of the Church of England
in the pariah of St. Thomas—Mr. McColl.
Respecting the city of Toronto—Mr.
Clarke.
Tao confirm pertain municipal by-laws
granting aid to the Cobourg,'Northumber-
land & Pacific Railway—Mr. Field.
To ratify and confirm by-law No. 468 0
Brantford, and by-law No. 638 of Hamilton
—Mr. Gibson (Hamilton).
Respecting Hamilton Beach—Mr. Kerne.
Mr. Waters moved the second reading of
a bill to enable married women to vote for
members of municipal councils and upon
by-lawe requiring the aeaent of the elec-
tors. The bill provides that married women
who are rated as owners, leaseholders or
for income may vote for members of muni-
cipal councils or upon by-laws as above
stated. The bill did not prevent huabands
from voting. ,He did nob desire to say
much in view of the fate of a somewhat
similar measure in the afternoon. He hoped
the House would seriously consider the
measure.
The bill was lost on division.
Mr. Meacham moved°the second reading
of a bill to amend the Ontario Medical Act.
The bill was somewhat like .a previous
measure he had introduced.
Dr. McKay said he was very glad that the
hon. member for Lennox had omitted some
of the clauses of the bill as it stood last ses-
sion, one particularly being that relating to
the abolition of a fee,
Mr. Bishop read a resolution passed by a
number of medical men in Western Ontario,
asking for a number of radical amendmonta
to the Medioal Act. He hoped the hon.
gentleman would press his bill.
The Bill was read a second time and 're-
ferred to a special committee.
Mr. Garrow moved the second reading of
his Bill to amend the Municipal Act. One
of the clauses of thia Bill gives municipal
corporations the power of giving telephone
companies a monopoly of the privilege of
using its streets.
Mr. Balfour said the Bill was outrage:Me,
and was a violation of one of the time-
honored prinoiples of the Municipal Act.
He said during the past year the Bell Tele-
phone Company had been going about the
Province getting municipal corporations to
pass by-laws giving them exclusive
privileges. Now they come to the House
and ask for legislation to confirm these by-
laws. The reason was that the company
dreaded competition as its patents were ex-
piring.
Mr. Wood said he was eurprieed at the
attempt of the hon. member to bring in
each legislation. Ib was highly objection-
able.
Mr. Hardy said that the Bill might go
before the Municipal Committee, but it waa
extremely doubtful if it would be advisable
to give new life to the expiring patents by
legislation.
Mr. White said the Bill was highly
objectionable.
Mr. Gibson said that whilst the Bill was
objectionable in some reapeots still it might
as well go to a committee. He considered
that aeveral telephone companies doing
business all over the country would he a
nuisance.
The Bill was read a second time.
The following Bills were read, a third
time :
Respecting the debenture debt of the city
of Hamilton -Mr. Gibson (Hamilton).
To consolidate the debt of the town of
'Tilsonburg—Mr.McKay (Oxford).
Mr. Harcourt Moved the Horse Into com-
mittee on a resolution authorizing the
Lieutenanb•Govsrnor;in-Counoil to accept
debentures of the town of Sault Ste. Marie
for the sum of $21,562 doe the Province,
being part payment for certain parcels 'ef
land purchased by the Ontario Sault Ste.
Marie, Water, Gas & Power Co. in 1889.
The resolution was reported withoutamend-
ment.
The House . went into committee and
parsed Mr. Gibeion's (Hamilton) Billa re-
specting the law of insurance.
Mr. Hardy moved the House into com-
mittee on the Bill to establish the Algonquin
National Park of Ontario. The idea of die
roatriotions as to shooting and fishing in the
enclosed territory was to restore it if possi-
ble to its original state. He proposed to
ark Mr. Wileon, of Niagara Fails Park, toe
visit the park and prepare a pamphlet se ret'
result of his observations.
Sir Oliver Mowat moved the aecond read.
ing of the Bill to further facilitate the en-
forcements of the just rights of wage-earners
and sub -contractors. The first clause
renders null and void every device by any
'owner and contractor to defeat priority of
wage-earners under the several Acta relat-
ing to mechanics' liens. He explained that
the reason of this was that wage-earner: com-
plained that the jhdges didnot Interpret the
laws favorably to them. This clams
was planed in this act to show the judges
what the intent of the Legislature was. The
second clause gives owners the privilege of
making the payments direct to the wage-
earners, or other perilous, provided notice is
given to the contractor, hut the owner inset
bake the responsibility of not paying beyond
the percentage limit.
Sir Oliver Mowat rnovd the second read-
ing of a Bill to make furtber provision,
reepeoting the registration of land under the;
Land Titles Aot. The Bill provides that'
land subject to mortgageat time of reglstra-.
tion shall have the mortgagee entered.
Sir Dineen. Mowat moved the second read-
ing of a bill as to costa in appeala en prose-
cutions The Bill provides that then
defendant shall not be liable to pay coats on'
appeals., ,
Mr. BIfour introduced a Bill to provide
for the payment of wages,which was reed a
first time.
ANTER fE(iAg.
The House went into Committee of.
Supply.
$95,g50�
On the item of 'Colonization troade,
Mr. Wfaod' (Hastings); said there were
men filling the positions of overseers be the
department who had beenreevesand deputy
reeves in their town ebips and had been dine
charged on amount of inogmpetenoy. Over-
seen were sure of their apliointmente year
after year and thus had no iudeoemenb be
perform efficient work. He had nothing bo
eay against the amounts of money that had
been expended on oolonizabion roads in the
county of Peterborough, but he desired to
complain of the lank of aid given to his own
county for roads and bridges. The reason.
was not hard to account for, but it hardly
seemed fair that Hastings county should
suffer because it happened to send a repre-
sentative opposed to the Government.
" Mr, Hardy eaid the hon. gentleman could
hardly expect a wealthy county which could
afford to keep a large staff of men at work
on their roads to receive the same aid as a
newer and poorer county. In reference to
the charges of incompetent overseers he had
made diligent inquiry, and found that the
men wore highly capable and well able to
superintend the construction of a road.
Mr. Mader found fault with thesystem
and the way in which money was laid out.
There were too many advisers in the
matter of recommendations for eppotnt-
menta. Men were named nob because of
Utak fitness but because of their party
qualifications. He did nob know of any man
in the service of the Government who could
render greater service than road overseers,
and thea was an important consideration.
Mr. Hardy desired to state that the hon;
gentleman had misquoted his words, and he
ventured to say had done so purposely. He
had nob said that appointments were alto-
gether made on bile advice of the impactor,
so that the statement of the hon. gentleman
only bore out what he said. Was it to be
supposed because a man took an active part
in polities that ho wee a bad man? He did
not hold that view.
Mr. Marler said the hon. gentleman had
as metal directed his remarka at something
he had nob said. He had not said anything
about the money that was expended', bub
upon the way it was expended.
Mr. Clancy thought the hon. gentleman
had net treated the member for Muskoka
(bar: Matter) fairly in accueing him of base
ingratitude because he had applied for aid
for bridges in hie constituency.
Mr. Whitney quoted figures from the
some expended on colonization roads to
show bleat the overseers received as much or
more money out of the work than the
laborers employed.
Mr. Fraser said that the 'same clamor
had been heard from the Opposition side of
the House for a generation. The hon.
gentleman quoted figures, and left the infer-
ence that the overseers received this money
dishonestly. Why did he nob make a
specific charge ? It was not honorable, in
fact, decent, to make these vague chargee
against men who had' not the privilege
of coining into the House bo defend them-
selves.
A number of other items were passed, and
the estimates cleared off, with the exception
of agriculture, immigration, hospitals and
charities.
ENGLAND'S POET LAUREATE.
Giadatene Selects John Ruskin as Succes-
sor to Lord Tennyson.
The announcement that the honor of
being Poet Laureate of England has been
offered to John Ruskin has been received
with surprise and incredulity in literary
and art circles. The selection le not easily
explainable. Ruskin has never been cheesed
among England's poets and his name does
nob figure as such in the dictionaries and
encyclopedias.
John Raskin was born in London in
1819. He was graduated at Christ Church
College, Oxford, in 1842. His university
career was marked by his winning, in 1839,
the Newdigate prize for Eaglish poetry.
His writings in verse seem to have been
mainly confined to his youth. At the age of
14 he penned the following little gem :
I weary for the fountain foaming,
For shady holm and hill ;
My mind is on the mountain roaming,
My spirit's voice is still.
I weary for the woodland brook
That wanders through the vale ;
I weary for the heights that look
Adown upon the dale.
There is athrill of strange delight
That passes quivering o'er me
When blue hills rise upon the sight
Like summer clouds before me.
Ha continued in his boyhood to express
himself in rhyme and metre. Among his
works wen a poem in four Hooke, the
"Iterad." Some of hie poems of rather a
later date were reprinted in his little
volume of privately printed " Collected
Poems," one of the rarest of modern books
—a copy of which was sold at a sale in
New York for $2110.
The individuality of Raskin is hardly less
serihing than that of Milton. There is
nowhere to be found in the English or in
ally other tongue—cave,' possibly, the Greek
--a compass of work so varied, accurate,
seerohing and inspiriugas the prose easaye
of dile lifetoug student and expounder of
moral and artistic beauty. In intellectual
method, in clarity of exposition, in
breadth of menta grasp and in the ex-
gniette nicety of expression he equals the
mestere of past and contemporary English
literature.
Bab while all this, is merely the reitera-
tion of the cribbed judgment, it turnishea
no clue to the selection of this great man
teethe honor of being classed among the
poets of his country. That his prose has an
absolute poetical quality is recognized by
all—poetical at times to the extent of
rhapeody, and of him ib might he said, to
nee an erpreseioo of Emerson's, that he
' has all the more poetry in him that he has
not sang it. Srill he has not attempted
to enrich the literature of his time with
poetry.
Raskin west stricken some years ago with
a meatal adaotion whioh gained for him the
sympathy of the world. Ib has just been
reported that his condition has been bet-
tered and the menta} incapacity which fell
npon him has almost divaPPoared,—Bu - alo
N ff
5805.
The Might of Politeness.
In s pnblio park
Policeman—Would you oblige me, sir, by
„ending me your lead pencil f
Pedestrian—By all means. Here iii fe.
Policeman—I only wish bo write down.
your name and address, because E see you've
ren picking eonte flowers.
assailed.
Fair advertiser—Do you classify your ad-
vertisemente ?
Clerk -We do.
Fair adverttaer-Where would you pub
this advertisement for a husband t
Clerk—In the 'Flats Wanted" column.
`Visitor—Who is that heavy, gleamy.
looking building over there 1 Resident—
That le a theatre and pleasure resort.
Visitor—And what is the graceful, airy
Gothic 'Armature to the right Residenb
That's is the jail.
A forty -day husband, on whom the
memory of the honeymoon already seems to
have become powerless, wants to know why
his wife is like email pie t Do youygive
it tip 1 Answer "13ooaiiee," says he ne
feeling wretch, 'efehe little"barb !"
HE IL&CI WAllzw VI11L[t
Martie' Prescott Spofford Oars a Wuryld dirt
Mothers,.
There is many a mother who feel/ .dim
tuebed and anxious because her child either`
exhibits small interest in wheel, or else fa
unable to shine among the other children:
there, or perhaps oven to keep page with
them. She is haunted by a horded apecbre
of duneeehip and backwardness, and of her
darling outstripped and left behind in all
the other struggles of life as well. Bub do.
not let her be too soon discouraged. If her,
child has an aptitude for learning exactly
what the othere are learning, perhaps there
is an aptitude for something else quite
different and apart, and of lust as much
value. Let her scrutinize and discover anti
help the child accordingly in the ways where
nature directs.
Our system of graded schools is, indeed.
lifting all children to a broad tableland of
esneral information, but, however excellent
in mental discipline, it allows no space for
individual growth in individual ways.
Every child is being rnn'in the same mould,;,
there is no place for idiosyncrasy nor for
development upon original lines, and there
is an ever present danger of crystallization,,
of becoming fixed at a given point or cease
ing all development.
If her child has a rooted diellke for a
certain thing, or a positive inability in the
direction of another, the mother would be
wiser to make an effort to have these atudiea
set aside and let him give himself to those
which he does like, and where, if hi cannot
possibly distinguish himself, he can at any
rate expand what power he has. Surely if
bis strength and time are dissipated on.
those studies concerning which he is hope-
less, there is no strength or time left for
those where he might do muoh.
It is probable that the great men of the
past developed themselves as their tastes
and inclinations led ; they did not learn all
they learned, because someone else had
learned it, even if certain branches were a.
foregone conclusion ; and that which they
did learn they learned because they felt the
impulse and the need.
It is not the man who is just like every
other man who helps the world along the
moat, but the man whose different training
and growbh makes him individual and gives
him a coign of vantage that he would miss,
if he went slipping along like everyone else.
Give the " backward boy" his chance
then at that which suits him best, and be
sure no harm can happen.—FearrieePrescott
Spofford.
MERMAID OF ORKNEY.
She Slay be a Seel, but the Natives Think
Differently.
News has recched Kirkwall (says the
Scotsman) that the mermaid has again made.
her appearance at Deernes,, Orkney. The
creature has arrived at the same place now
many years in anccession, where it remains:
all summer, disappearing in the winter, and
returning again with fine weather. Last:
year a large sum of money was offered for
its capture, and sportsmen tried to kill ib..
As it struck out to sea immediately it was
flred,at and was never seen again till now,it:
was thought it had been wounded or killed.
Naturalists who have got a fall description
of the "mermaid" think it is an ocean seal,:
but the people of Deerness, who have
watched it closely for years, say it has few
if any of the seal's habits, and maintain it
swims like a human being. At the present
time it may be observed daily, being very
partial to bright sunshine, bub it rarely
appears on dull days.
Nursing malarial Fever.
This begins, ae many acute diseases der
with a chill followed by fever, which sub-
sides after a time and is followed by a sec-
ond chill, writes Elizabeth Robinson Scovil
in the second of her valuable articles on
" Life in the Invalids'a Room " in the May
" Ladies' Home Journal-" These recur ab
regular intervals and give the fever one of.
its names, intermittent or remittent. The
doctor usually prescribes large doses of
quinine, or smaller doses often repeated.
The nurse must try to promote a reaction
during the chill, by hot bottles or hot water
bags at the feet and under the arms, coveting
the patient with warm flannels and giving
warm drinks, warm lemonade, hot milk, etc.,
but no stimulant withoub the doctor's per-
mission. When the fever comes on, ice and
cold water may be given. A cooling la=a.-
tive is usually ordered, ae citrate of mag
nesia. The body may be sponged if the
temperature ie very high. A cloth wet in
alcohol and bound on the forehead will
help to relieve the headache, wetting it
without removing it when it becomes dry:
When the fever decreases the invalid
begins to perspire profusely. The whole
person should be gently dried from time
to time, a flannel night-dress put °teethe
room darkened and the sufferer allowed
to sleep. The doctor should be consulted,
as proper treatment is necessary to pre-
vent, if possible, a recurrence of the
attack. In all forms of fever the efforts
of both nurse and physician are directed, to
reducing the temperature and sustaining the
strength of the patient.
The Satin Cease.
It can be said withoub exaggeration,
nine of every ten costumes one meets ab
wedding, funeral, country or christening
are stamped with the seal of satin. Ruffian
of satin ribbon and shell plaitin,ge of the
same, scattered with blind lavishness on the
available portions of a gown, aro the ac-
cepted aigne of supreme might. Oee of
these costumes is of heliotrope, gray and
dark grim green. The skirt, of gray striped
with heliotrope Bilk, folie straight to ,bio
knees. There ib is cub off and a aroaewfse
piece ie plaited deeply and sewed on under
the first of three rows of shell ruching in',
green satin ribbon. Around the botbont oft
the plaiting 18 another band. The round
waiet is belted with it, and a deep V comes
low on the bust end reared itself over the
shoulders. The dollar is of ruching and the
double puff sleeves carries ib, too. A minor
consideration is a pair of laoe brebellee.
tuoked'into the belt —Buffalo Nessa.
Chinese Tea -Making.
The following pontic dlreotions for ten
making are painted oµ many of the teapot
used in the celestial empire :
" On a slow fire set a tripod fill . 11 with
clear rain water. Boil it so tong as it would.
be needed to torn fish white and lobeberred;
throw thio upon the delicate leavesof choice
tea ; let it remain as long as the vapor risme
in a cloud.
" At your ergo drink the . pare liquore
whioh will (shaleaway the five canoes
trouble.1°
A gentleman fond of using high.fiowss..
language sometimes makes very laughatife+
mistakes. He had the honor of presiding
at a Sunday -school celebration, and after
one of the speeohee he addrossed the audi-
ence*
utience, , telling them that they would newt
have " some vooal music by the brae*'
band." ti
'Brown reads : The peace of Bmuselrt
cost the French Alsace, Lorraine and Melee
and five milliarde,of money." " Aliewbatb
an expenelve „carpet! , exclaims Airs.
Brown ; however much could lb he
yard 1"