HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-6-8, Page 6KILL1N'G THE INNOCENT.
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trtunistatitial Evidence Das Hanged
Many a Goad Man.
SONE STRIKINO CASES RECALLER,
Cwill long Serve an an ART, YLE HARRIS
ee example, of. the f..atal
power el, CCr011ethr..w,
7777 tial evidence. The
lewd erene ohuman being
tow committed, if
crime there waa in hie
wife's death, oan never
be proven. His guilb
will always be in
doubt, There have
been multitudes of
eimilar oases where
tho vengeance of the
law has been visited,
In doubt on maroons nearest to the
victim of a tragociy, and many times
the lemon has been brought home, by
absolute proof of innocence later, that
circumstantial evidence is a dangerous
thing to rely on where human life is ab
ethe. The recent references to Um. May -
brick's health, Bowe the Glasgow Aide
have renewed the die:melon upon the im-
portant part which is played by circum-
stantial evidence in murder trials. Almost
every mysterious ease of crime has to be
solvee by what is known as circumstantial
evidence. Especially es this true of
murder. A crime which no eye save that
of the criminal and his victim, has dem com-
mitted, how mem that besolved when the via: -
theta dead? Only byinference front ourround.
Ing and attendant oirounastances. But as
•/experience proves, accusing circumstances
often surroand and envelop an innocent
man.
HANGED NOT NoT REBOOTED.
There is the story of the two brothers
who traveled to a seaport town together.
An argument, vociferously concluded,
ensued after dinner. Later they retired to
a double -bedded room. One of the brothera,
seized with a violent fit of nose -bleeding,
lose at 3 o'clock in the morning and wan-
dered to a cliff. He was seized by smug-
glers whom he had unwibtingly detected itt
buying puncheons of spirits. They were
too amiable to murder him, and merely pub
Jim on board a vessel which was bound
for the West Indies. Meanwhile his
brother, who after his port wine and
altercation, had gone calmly to sleep,
awoke in the morning to flnd his brother's
pillow covered with blood and his brother
missing. He hastily rang the bell and sum-
moned the landlord. But all Ms protestm
tions of innocence were fruitless, and he
was soon in the hands of the law. Stains
of blood were traced frothe bed -room to
the edge of a cliff, where marks of a souffle
were round. The brother was tried, con-
victed and hanged. Left for dead on the
gallows, hie life was almost rainaculonely
saved by a wandering shepherd, who,
attracted by a low moan, cut down the
pendent, half -choked man, resuscitated
lira, and assisted his escape on board a
venni bound for the Barbadoes. The first
man he met in Roebuck street, Bridgetown,
was the brother for whose murder he had
been wholly convicted and half banged. .
nel eleilnee TO, WIT DIDN'T.
The ease of Jonathan Bradford ia another
favorite. He kept an Inn on the London
mad to Orford. One night a gentleman of
"fortune named Hayes stopped here and took
supper with two other wayfarers. Very in-
discreetly he mentioned that he had then
about him a large sum of money. After
retiring one of the travellers was awakened
by a groan in the room next to his. He
raised himself and listened. No; he was
not mistaken. Another green followed, and
still another. He woke his friend. Together
they made their way into the adjoining
zoom, where they found Hayes wel-
tering in hie gore. And standing over
the bed was a man with e. dark lantern
In one hand and a knife in the other.
Sent what was their consternation to recog-
nise in this MEM, caught red-handed almost
In the very act of murder, the owner of the
Inn, Jonathan Bradford himself. In vain
Bradford.probeated his innocence. At the
trial the pry speedily brought in a verdict)
of guilty. The night before the execution he
acknowledged that he had gone up tollayete
room to do the very deed which be had
found had been done by another when he
reacbed it. Eighteen months after the ex-
ecution the publio was startled to learn that
Noyes' valet had made a death -bed con -
"Maslen acknowledging that he Ware the real
murderer, that his object hadbeen robbery,
but that before he could rifle the portman-
teau he had been frightened by approaching
footsteps:- and had just time to escape to hie
own room before Bradford entered.
A PRIERSENT TO THE GALLEYS,
Pere Francais Candret was the cure of a
rural parish in France. Between his house
and the church was a small two -roomed
house known as the hospice, where it had
been his custom to provide food and shelter
for any wayfarer who might apply for
'charity. During a terrible snowstorm he
lodged here a young woman on her way to
her friends in a distant part of Prance. On
the fifth or sixth morning the housekeeper,
going to call her, found her murdered lather
bed. It Was evident that a, double crime
had been committed. Search was made.
Close to her bed was found a knife
that belonged to the priest. From
the priest's study window to the boapice a
man's footprints could be distinctly traced,
going and coming. A pair of ahoes which
were !found dirty in the priest's study, and
were known to be his, fitted exactly into
these prints. Moreover, a handkerchief of
his, which had evidently been used se a gag,
wars found 'in the victinea bed. He was
aerator:cod to the guillotine, but Charles X.
commuted the sentence to that oi Wave=
forme at the galleys. Ile was removed to
33rest, and he and his critne were forgotten
by the outekle world. Many yeara 'mooed
away, and he waa still serving his sen-
tence. Then a convicit at the galloye of
!Toulon, who had been sentenced to ten
years, was cut down by an accident. On
Me death bed he confessed that 26 years be.
fore he was the murderer. PM had entered
Idia oure's bedroom by the window, taken
his ohoes, his handkerchief and the Ooreican
knife he had found in his study, taken
atopecial paine to make hie footprints as
plain sas pormiblmand otherwise kad managed
to Aro* Suspicion on the print. The poet
prieetie body had been ao weakened ate hie
tervouti event% so completely shattered,
that he felt he could not reaume his fano-
*DS. An allowance of AO francs a mum
Was made him by the Gereerturtene and he
retired to a Small town where he died peace-
lully in 1886.
AE INNNIENT ROY CONFESSES.
Another French example of the ounces of
leloricated evidence is furnished by the
story of the old woman who kept a ams,11
shop near the Seine. She lieed in a stioall
room back of the shop. She *as generally
reputed to have hoarded, much Money. lit
the fourth Ntory Of Ont building slept her
shop -boy t who lope the key et the plum
One metwing the old woman WM WEI
dead In her iota. She had Won Webbed re'
peateely. A bloody keife lay ou tie floor
in the shoe. Thie WAS reeogeleed as the
pr+Verty of the bine boy. More thee this,
th one of the deae wemates hands was
clasped a look of hairn tee other a Peek.
Tbe necktie was undoubtedlythe boy%
and tbe hair looked looked like his. It Wee
Mural, vaoreover, that the front door had
not been broken open, bet quietleilleloehed:
Confronted with the evidence, the boy con -
toupee. the crime And was put to death; Not
long after a boy employed in a neighboring
shop fell U and died, but not Meter° con-
fessing that he had killed the old wernan
for her money. ele had been in tloe habit
of droning the heir of the other led, and
had not only pots:nosed himself of looks of
his hair, bet also of his knife and his cravat
WAS Bia7ia PENNING- GUILTY?
Britisb annals of crime the two moat
famous instances of eireumetantiel evidence
are the cane of Eliza Fenning, in London,
and of Madeline Smith, M Glasgow. Eliza
Fenning was a young sprl of 22, employed
ati a cook itt tb.e Madly et a Mr. Turner.
The household consisted of Turner and his
wife, two apprentices named Gadsden and
King, Sarah Peer, the housemaid, and Eliza
herself. One day Mr. Turner's father came
to dinner, and yeast dumplings were served
up for dessert. The three Turners bad
hardly tasted of the dish when they were
seized with agonizing pains. Gadsden and
Eliza had also partaken, and they suffered
the same symptoine. The maid and the
ether apprentice did not touch the dump -
Hugs. elhe physician headily summoned
declared the symptoms to be those of
arsenical poison. Suspicion fell on Eliza,
and she was arrested. Eliza declared that
the poison muat be in the milk and not in
the dumplings. Now the milk had been
fetched by Sarah Peer. This looked as if
she were seeking to divert suspicion irom
herself to her fellow -servant. The analysis
proved completely that the poison was in
the dumplings; and not ire the milk.
Then Eliza declared the poison was
in the yeast. Bub that, too, was
proved to be entirely pure. It will
naturally be asked what motive she could
have for so fiendish a deed. The evidence
showed that her mistress reproved her
severely for some levity of conduct on her
pare threatening to discharge her. But
this passed over, and no other ground of ill -
will against the family was suggested. The
motive surely seems inadequate. Never-
theless she was found guilty, and suffered
for it upon the scaffold. But the public), by
voice and deed, expressed dissent. Her
pall was borne to the grave by six young
women robed iu white.
A. FATIIER'S NEGLECT
Leads to the Death of Ills Two Children
• Who Were 111 ofFever.
An Atlantic City, N. J., despatch says:
Word has just reached here of the fatal con-
sequences attending a parent's negligence ab
Pleasantville. John Simpkins lives with
his family in a house on the outskirts of the
town, and though capable of earning con-
siderable money his family is in a state of
utter destitution. A short time ago his two
children fell ill of a fever that has been
prevalent in the neighborhood, and soon
afterwards Mrs. Simpkins was stricken. A
local physician, Dr. Sooy, was called in, and.
left a medicine containing morphine as one
of the ingredients, giving particular orders:
that it should be kept out of the children's
reach. Wedneaday last the father went
out and did not return during the day,
leaving his wife lying on a heap cf ragged
coverlets serving as a bed, and unable to
move. The children became thirsty, aud
after crying in vain for drink espied the
medicine bottle, and climbing upon a cheir
secured it and drank every drop of the
deadly stuff. When the father returned. he
found the children lying on the floor, one
unconscious, and the other struggling for
breath. Dr. Sooy was lauxwiedly summoned,
but before he arrived one of the children
died in terrible agony. The other died an
hour later.
Carlyle's Canadian Letters.
It seems that a large mese of Carlyle's
correspondence atUl awaits publication.
The world might well be tired of the pro-
digious quantity of letters poured from his
prolific pen were it not that everything
which throws light on his unique genius
and remarkable oharaoter is et universal
and lasting interest. It will be remembered
that his intense family clanniebneas, which
never left him, led to a constant stream of
confidential lettere from him to one or
other of hie relatives. Among these was
his youngest ;lister, Janet, or, as he called
her, Jeannie—who still lives, and resides
with her married daughter in western
Ontario, Canada. She married a Robert
Henning in 1836, and is now in her 81s1
year. It is Carlyle's lettere to this sister—
" dear Jeannie "—which still await publica-
tion. Very naturally, the old lady will
not pare with them, though many applies.
time have been made to her by Carlyle
societies for their loan. It is certainly
asking too much to require her to part with
her treasures; but why do not the admirere
of Carlyle aubsoribe a small sum to have a
copy of the lettere made, to which mho
would probably bave no objection ? The
profits from the publication would more
than repay them.
Served Rims Right.
A good story is told about a gentleman
who lives iu Brooklyn and crosses at Fulton
Ferry nearly every day. He ic muesli pee --
wonted by the bore who alWaye Reenate you
on a ferry -boat in midstream with the
stereetypecequestion "Alt 1 are eou.going
across 2"
The other day ono et those derame
hooked on to the Brooklyn man se 'meal
and said "Hello, old man Going to
York 2"
"No, sir," he replied promptly. "1 am
going to hit you on the noseet
And be did amid the °hem of ihs crowd
A Misunderstood sioann.
Theeminsavory and much misunderstood
creature, the skunk, le boldly *teepee by
the southern negro for his coat, end It is
whiapered, even for his mese, and a negro
lad -will without mishap haul a streak cenght
in a trap from hie hole, and mean come off
odorless after slaying the bent. At: the
same time it has been noted that es brass
candlestick oar -tied 'into a collar wham one
of the .creatturee had token refuge had a
distinct trace of the skunk about it In damp
weather for years after the incident.
To Mahe Beet Mi.
in making beef tea chop or eub kith egoill
pieces about a pound of lean beef—tee neck
is very good for this ptirpon. Pout over
le 0. scant phib of cold water an lot itstaed
for an hour or two, preterably on the Meek
part of the range. Then pub it over threes
timid let it boil for half an hour. Boman the
isettel, !shim off sl oil drops and then emeren
only With salt. Pour ie off isito a natio
odefteok through a toffee etrainem after
with& iti iti read' for nee,
Mrs, eltockyarchie-Latin, ifee Miry bad
term to eat tart itt a pilblic refitaurant.
latira,--Porhaite 00 t but itfavery good tate,
GOSSIP FRO GAY GAUL.
Lutetia in FullSwiug Drowns Past Sor-
rows in a Vortex of New Pleasures.
Story eir R Count's Jealousy and its Sequel
—The Lady, the Parrot and the Morse.
dealer—Mow a .Jew Got Nailed to tile
Cross—Do Joinville's Golden Weddhig
—A Cute Slind Man.,
ARTS, Mate—The
lovely weather with
which this city has
been Mewled for the
past six weeks has
been beyond precedent.
Inceesent sunshine has
worked wonders with
the Gallic temperamelndt
, • )and all Se gay and
eifapiritual in consequence.
weenft 4 Anarchism and Panama
have been long eine° forgotten and the
happy-go-lucky Frenchman now looks but
OD the Might aide of things. The
streets even present an appearance of
gaiety euch aa has not been loan seen for
Bowe years. The Mores are full of the
setteon'e novelties and everyone seems on the
buy, not only for oneself but for relatives
and friends, or even acquaintances. Where
all the money spent on frivolous plenums
cameo from is a mystery. From the highen
to the lowest the nimble frano is at
present certainly not conspicuous by its
abeence ; it is, metaphotioally apeaking,
tactually *inning along the boulevards,
and this, in spite of the fact that the
tourist season has not yet set in, and the
money spending race, Englith and Ameri.
can, is not yet in passeanon of the grand
hotels and other resorts that it delighta to
appropriate as its own.
SHE is VERY PRETT; ISN'T sus?
The Prince de Joinville and his amiable
wife have just celebrated their golden
wedding at Chantilly. It was on May 1st,
1843, that Hie Rossi Highnesa was married
to Dona Francois°, of Braganza, sister of
the late Emperor of Brazil. It was a love
matoh, and when the Prince returned home
with his bride he proudly presented her
to the seafaring population of Brest as la
femme du matelot ! -He was very ,popular,
and when their acclamations rene the skies
at this happily worded iptx4duction, he
added naively, 'She is very pretty, isn't
she? And ehe loves you all !" She really
was bien gentille and devoutly fond of her
husband, with whom the has passed half a
century of tranquil wedded life, happy in
spite of political chamois and revolutions.
ousToDIAN OP THE "LITTLE CORPORAL'S "
CORPSE. j
The Prince, who is a sonof KingPhilippe,
commanded the frigate welch brought the
remains of Napoleon from Se Helena to
France in 1840, and heroically threw some
cabin furniture into the sea on the voyage
in order to defend his ship against possible
attack by the English. Readers of Thaok-
eray's "Second Funeral of Napoleon" will
remember the good-humored irony with
which he narrates this incident, and also
his description of the now septuagenarian
prince as a tall, broad-ohested, slim -
waisted young prince with a, great beard."
As he strode into the Chapel of the kVA.
tides at the head of hia men he made no
email irapreesion upon the ladies assembled
to witness the ceremony, There is one son
of the marriage, the Due de Penthievre,who
is a bachelor of 48, and a daughter, who is
wife of her °mina the Duo de Chartres.
"
THE JEALOUS MINT.
A curious story of jealousy has just come
to light. The circumstances occurred early
in the present year, and go to show how
completely any scandal concerned with
those who can afford to pay for secrecy can
be hushed up in this country. Count de
Bernier, a young officer of the Chasseurs,
married a young and beautiful girl, liddlle.
de Quillard, a great friend of the Countes
sister. She was very lovely, and he was
violently ln love; but his whole previous
career had been one mune of succenes with
the beaw seze, he had yet to learn what the
word Jealousy might mean in so fiery a
nature as his. However, at first all WAS
couiem'de rose, the young couple adored each
other, and the Count who had given up
his commission in the twiny, furnished a
charming house in the Faubourg St. Ger-
main for his young wife, and asked her
father and his OWII sister to a petinidiner, to
celebrate the home -coming. On the very
day of thin festival, however he happened
th go into his wife's room with a gift (a
bracelet), with which he wished to surprise
her on her return, for she bad gone out
shopping, and he opened the drawer of her
secrete:ire, te place the trinket there until
madame should come in and find it among
her letters. Rummaging thus, he lit upon
a package of letters mysteriously sealed up.
POISONTOR TWO.
Of course, they were love lettere; they
told of a merriage broken off, and the dis-
honor of the lady to whom they were ad-
dressed. Count de Bernier was beside him-
self with rage and jealousy, and he resolved
to poison his wife and himself together, so
as to obtain vengeance without any scandal.
He wrote to put off the two relatives who
were invited to dinner, and with his own
hand dropped the poison into the glasses,
destined for hie wife and himself on the
dinner table. The Countese thought his
manner very strange and unkind on her
return, but he vouchsafed no explanation
until the fatal draught had been drunk by
them both, then, he led her away to
Madame's bedroom and told her what he
had done, and that they had only about;
three hours to live, adding a furious re-
proach for the dishonor she had broughb on
hint.
PATAL MISTAKE DISCOVERED TOO LAM
Then the truth came out, the young
Countess refused to die branded with a
false acclimation, and begged her husband to
acoept her statement that the letters had
been addreesed not to hereele but to an-
other lady, whose name the refused to
divulge. The Count insisted on knowing
the name, and reponeesed himself of the
letters in ;vitt: of her; and, as ohe lay dying
before his eyes, learned that the culprit WAS
not his poor young wife, but hie own sister,
who had entrusted the incriminating cor-
respondence to the Counteme care. Mlle.
de Bernier came on the mane •juob before
the haplete couple expired, and easily foune
out what had docurted to cause the dopier.
Ole tragedy. She took good care to pocket
the letters, and, as the COWIt had written a
letter saying he intended to conanit suicide
because of his wife's sudden death of heart
diens°, the matter WAS hushed up. eldlle.
de Bernier has now taken the veil.
PREAK OP A WEJEED rABBOT.
A few dart ago a beautiful moved parrot
flew into the apartment's ole lady living. at
52 Rue Dithesnie. The lady, not knowing
to whom the bird belonged, pub 11 inte a
cep beside a email peb parrot of her own.
Very soon, hoerever, the newborner killed
ito companion aed subsequently neatly Mt
oft the finger of We beneiactreas, The right
Ltd owner of the bird—a horreadentier—
having seen it at the window milled and
Maimed it, he lady refused to give it up
except upon piwineet of the Vette of her
ewe pet whice the stranger had killed.
This demand the owner refused tome:ode to,
and, after some diecuesiou, tried to taco the
bird by force. During the struggle the
parrot succeeded in laylug hold of ita master
by the nose and in bittireg him tieverele,
When releaoed, the horse-401er, in a fit of
rage, tires- it revolver end threatened to
shoot the lady. He wee, however, die -
armed and taken to the poliee nation,
where he was placed M a cell for carrying
emanated weapons. The parrot was takee
poeseesion of by tie° police periling the Set-
tlement of the diapete.
SOOIETT CHEATS SOCIETY.
Michel Ephrusse who bee just resigned
his memberehip of the fasitiottahle gelflhlleg
club at the corner of the bus Royale, is a
connection of the Rotheohiles by marriage,
bub he muse not be confused with bus
brother Maurice, who married one of the
Rothschild girls, and who has such e °harm-
ing residenee in the Avenue de Bois, with
an outlet on the Avenue Victor Hugo.
Michel, until the preeent catastrophe
occurred was a very gay, go-ahead gentle-
men, with hounds at Fontainebleau, shoot-
ing at Livry and a racing ratable to boot.
Formerly he was in partnership with his
brother Maurice in racing, but three or four
years ago the latter thought it beat to sever
the conneotior, and the brothers have Mime
run their hornet apart, to their mutual
Oatiofaotion,
VICTIM NAILED TO THE CROSS.
M. G. de 33reteuil, whp io mixed up in
the affair, is well known as one of the im-
pecunious members of the old French
nobility, who became rich by marriage.
He has travelled a good deal in Asia and
America, and since he returned home and
netted down, in a way has been on of the
leading figures in the turmoil of Parisian
life. -Whatever his difference may have
been with his former copatn, Michel Eph-
mei, whether it was flour, evade, woveon
or horses, there can be no doubt that he
agreed to obtIeib if the latter would give
8200,000 to the poor of Paris. This was
done. The money was played in the hands of
Prince Arenberg, one of the directore of
the Suez Canal Company, and the Duke de
a ffeemoille, who still beide it. So soon as
it was eafe, an enterprising Boulevard paper
published a lively paragraph on the subject,
and the following morning all the newspa-
pers; were teeming with the scandal. It was
something like the British Trauby Croft
card-sharping baccarat bueinese. The vic-
tim was persuaded th sign a paper and pay
his money, and, having done so, was then
nailed to the aroas.5
WORM THREATENS TO TURN.
The whole affair, se presented to the pub -
lie, iS a bad business, and reflects equally
badly on M. Michael Ephrussi and on the
degenerate scion of the noble Houae of
Breteuil, especially as the latter, after hav-
ing eenclu la meche, threatens, if the newa.
papers continue wubliehing information on
the subject, to print the aearet agreement
drawn up between him and his antagonist.
"All Paris" is, of course, thirsting for fur.
CLOSE OF THE SESS101
Text of Lieut.-0ov, Kirk ,atrieles
Speech From the Throne,
iriof Itererencesteolthe Now "'Legislative
Building, Algonquin Perlis Aid to
Railways. Um Piebisette and „Prohibb.
tion, the Protection of Children and
Other Matters.
The following Bills were then read 14 third
time;
Mr. Meacham—To atneud the Pharnutoy
Act,
Mr, Biehop—For the better prevention of
fraudulent otatements by joint stook com-
panies.
Mr. Meacham—To amend the Ontario
Medical Aot.
Mr, liaroeurb moved the House into
Committee of Supply to concur in the °ate
metes.
Mr. Clenay moved in amendment thatthe
report, be referred back with instructions to
strike out the item referring to Mr. Noxon's
salary. He teferred to the evidence taken
before Woe Public Accounts Corcenithee,
where Mr. Massie, in hie examina-
tion, stated that he could conduct
the work einoself. IM attacked the
manner in which the amounts of
the Grown Lands Department were kept
in the Department of Colonization Romeo.
He said it was rather strange that the
original entries for work made by the
ouperintendent, Smith, did not correspond
with the entries in the books of the depart
-
anent. The motion was then put and lost
on a straight party division.
Mr. Rearne—To reduce the amount of
the appropriation to foreign immigration
agencies.
Mr. Preston—To strike out the salary of
the Director of Teachers' Institutes.
• Mr. Whitney—To strike out $2,000 of
the salary to lecturers in the School of Peda-
gogy.
Mr. Marnr—To strike out $500, the
salary of lecturer in natural history and
librarian in the Ontario Agricultural Cel -
lege.
Mr. Clancy—To strike out $3,500 for
surveys of townships in new Mahican
Mr. Harcourt moved the Houee into Com
mittee of Ways and Means. The formal
Bill granting simply was introduced and
passed its three readings, and the House
clond its :session, Mr. Gibeon, of Huron,
leading firat in "Auld Tang Syne," and
then GodSave the Queen.°
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of thelLegisla
lative assembly :
In relieving. you from further attendance
upon your legislative duties, I am glad to
be able to oongratulete you upon the advan-
tages which have already been experienced
from the completion of the new Parliament
buildings. While they have greatly con-
tributed to your comfort and convenience
in the discharge of your legislative duties,
they have also proved, themselves to be per.
featly adapted to all the other requirements
ther details, and hopes be will do so. Baron
of the pubec oervice. It is very satisfare
de Hirsch, who is now the lendlord of the
tory to know thee buildings so substantial
Carole de la Rue Roy -ale, must think him -
and commodious have beeen erected at corn -
self lucky at having been blackballed there
paratively so low a cost
a few years ago.
CUTE TriouGEE BraND.
Blind people are notoriously astute, but
the dilated ones of that species in Paris are
speolally acute, seemingly, in dodges calcu-
lated to 'fetch" bhe commissention of the
public. A placard exhibited on the breast
of a blind man who sits daily on the step of
the Madeleine reeds as follows "1 am
blind from my birth, and am the only one
who oan distinguish by touch the pieces of
money which you will be kind enough to
bestow on me.'
It IS
IN A CRINESE ROTEL.
Cl•••••.•
a Sort of Combination of Rome Life
and Zoological Garden.
No one who has ever stayed at one o
these caravansaries is likely to forget his
experience. They are all built on the same
plan—a large court yard, around the four
sides of which are built rows of small rooms,
the restaurant and office being in front.
The buildings are built of sun-dried bricks,
and are usually in the last stagea of dilapi-
dation. Each small room contains a brick
bed in which a fire eau be lighted for
warmth in winter. There le no furniture
but a rough chair and perhaps a table,
while the windows are nothing but frames
covered with paper. The average Chinese
inn is usually a menagerie and zoological
garden combined.
In the yard can be seen and heard ranks
donkeys, doge, cats, fowls • of all
kinds, pigs and camels, while in the rooms
where the weary traveler is supposed to
rest there is aleo a rich variety. The
scorpion and ab times a small variety of the
centipede, often take stinging measures to
repel any attempts at friendship. The
chief glory, however, of the inn is the
waiter. The important functionary in
China has that pat onizatg air which dis-
tinguishes his confreres of the profession in
other countries. The inevitable napkin
always accompanies him. With it in sum-
mer he mops his sweeting brow or bare
shoulders while in winter, wrapped about
his head;it protects him from rain and
wind. At all seasons of the year it ist the
only article he hao with which to clean
table and plates and chopsticks. Chinese
landlords are reasonable in their charger,
which to some degree offset the unpleasant-
ness of living in their inns. —Million.
Clever:mars in Dressing.
The °levered woman in the matter of
dress is the plain woman who contrives
never to let you know ehe's claim. To be
onoceosful ill this respect one must have
natural good taste. It'a no use to put
oneself entirely in the hando of a good
dressmaker. Dressmakers need directing.
They can't be expected to know a
onsteneer's weak or strong points as well
as she should know them herself. All
women, except those with hopelessly bad
figures and no throats, pay for dressing.
A gown is nually becoming if it is the
same color as the wearer's eyes. A bright
bandeau under the brim of a Int is apt ;to
have an improving effect. Good twee is El
thing to be thankful for. Those who
possess it are inclined to value it too
lightly.
Enraffied.
"Excuse me," said the outspoken man
at the club, "1 understand that yoix lef4
London under a cloud."
" Yams " Was the reply, "1 believe so.
Deuced ago town that, you know."
A Profound Trellthill FrOill Mamas.
There is nothieg that so increases a tnetea
desire te work in the garden sie the diricom
saw that his wife hes Misplabed the robe. —
Atchison Globe.
There are twenty-eight ohne in the
United States that Ilan a population of
100,000 or taore,
Guy Bootlaby, the Australian treveler,
after having emempliehed his remarkable
feet ef oterolieg the &Marione of Australia,
hae retarneil ta London. gis SecroMry,
0. T. tenglepTaeler, wee his wily cone,
wave in his long mainey.
I desire to °sprees my appreciation of
the diligence and zeal witb which you
addreesed yourselves to the work of the
session. Although called together at a
sermon of the year when the demands of
private business are most urgent, you have
shown no desire either to hasten legislation
unduly, or to postpone the consideration of
measures Important th the Province.
I recognize with pleasure your prudence
and fozethought in providing for the estate,
liohnient of a large national park, about
12,000 square miles in area, in the northern
part of the Province, and in thereby seour-
log for all time a forest reservation of untold
value to the country, and Incident to it a
reserve for such aninoala as it is desirable to
protect. The name "Algonquin,
" by which
bhe park is to be known, will form a con-
noting link between its former and its
future compels, while, amongst other
advantages, its ample area of lake and
forest will furnish unbounded facilities to
coming generations for rest and recreation.
I heartily concur in the provisions of your
Act granting liberal aid to certain railways
to be constructed itt localities bitherto un-
provided with railway facilities, and which,
opening as they do to localities believed to
be rich in iron and ore deposits, must prove
to be of great advantage to the general
ormainunity.
I am plened that step are to be taken
immediately to ascertain whether, or to
what extent, a Provincial Legislature has
the power to deal with the prohibition of the
liquor traffic, and that in the meantime, in
response to numerous petitions front all
parts of the Province, a plebiscite is to be
taken on the advisability of prohibiting by
law the importation, manufacture and sale
of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. Ib is
but rearm:nal& that before legislating you
should procure the settlement of any con-
stitutional doubts as to the powers of the
Legislature, e,nd that you ehould Decade:la
whether there is such a substantial publie
opinion in favor of prohibition as would
ensure its enforcement in the cats of legisla-
tion beim adopted. I shall watch with in-
terest the course of events with reepect to
both these queations.
I have assented with great pleasure 10 110
Bill whioh you have passed for the preven-
tion of cruelty to and the better protection
of children, as a means of rescuing from a
possible or probable oeiminal career many
who would otherwise be hoineleas and un-
protected. I am confident that the measure
will be of great trerviee.
I have given my anent with pleasure to
the measures which you have adopted for
securing the better registration of voters in
chime for the further improvement of our
municipal laws, for the extension of the
juriediction of division courts, and for fur-
ther facilitating the enforcement of the just
rights Of wage earnersaud sub -contractors. I
notice with setisfaction that the laws re-
• specting the registration of instruments
relating to land, and the lawn for the pro-
tection of game home been improved and
Consolidated. The measures aloe concern:
Mg houses of refuge, respecting the public
health, and amending the liquor license
lam, are timely and important, and will
be found beneficial.
I thank you for the liberal appropriations
which you tome made for the public service.
The supplies which you have granted will
be expended with oath and in the public
haterest.
Menet Destroyers.
An exchange nye: Hot aluin water is
the ben inseeb destroyer known. Pub shun
Leto hot water` and boil until disoolved,
then apply the water with A brush to all
crackle Monte, steede Laid other plecee
weere Moots: may be found ; ants, ceek.
roechee, filen and other &coping things are
What is the use of bothering your beein
with thinicieg tabout anything ? Why think
at all? Why not tell yeur thinker to take
a month dr tyso off, and, for that wetter, to
'stay away front you entitely You will
bete: no more tie° for it in 0. few days.
Thought then will be aimply a handicap
ited o
ADAM MinitVIMIES IN RATTLE.
Rang Absolutely Destitute or rears They
Die righting.
thinb it Was Rii:the battle of El Teti
ern made the licellelotauce of the znebdt
dervishoo, The Fuzzy Wbzzy Ilatient
eovseh tribesmen is the brewed ot the brevet .
but the dervish la heorism run orezy. Theett
Flo -called "holy beggare " self -sw ern to •de.
vote themselves t 110 evoyheii's pause,
came at General Graham's ,settere of main.
era, Highlevelmen and stoke, Mennen as if
we had been ceildren to be frightened by a
cry. Clad in their patchwork rage, with
;shaved bare heads, meray enamel with no •
better weapona tiumi atielte, they charged
fall in front; of the fire -walled square.
Down they went by scores and
• hundreds, but others geleitly took up
tbe running towards um I pew
them that day—more than one of them --
pierced through and through with Martini -
Henry bullet wounds, nine fiercely on,
reeling like drunken men, their teeth
gleaming and eyes aflame with hatred.
Happy wore they if they could but creme
weapon with our bayonets, When
eel:mated nature failed them their last
act was generally to hurl the weapon they
carried—stick, lance or eword—toward our
ranks and about an Arab imprecation
against us, " Noarani 1" (Nazarene.) An
old grey-haired sheik actually charged the
oeuare reading the Koran aloud, which he
held in hia hands. Later on when Sir
Hethert (the coionee Stewart charged the
worsted Arab footmen with hia two regi-
ments of cavalry, their mounted dervishes
faced his whole force and boldly charged
thane in return, Again le Tamai, when .
the Aube broke into Again,
Devitt' square
where I was, and temporarily captured our
six machine guns, on which they
danced in fiendish glee, the derviehes.
were in the forefront of the attack.
A big marine who had bayoneted one
of them found his rifie caught and clutched
by the frantic savage, who etrove to reach
blo foeman with his sword. It was at that
moment tbab we were driven back, and
while the marine tugged and swore to get -
his weapon free the reeling dervish essayed
with his parting strength to elay or wound
our Tommy Atkins. In the desperate bat-
tle of Abu Klea similar Roma occurred. r
state it is a faet that during the melee in
which. Colonel Burnaby fell, a dervish who,
had struck that officer and was momplily
bayoneted through the beck twined about
while the steel was protruding and tried to
threat his lance into the Soldier. Even the
°rippled and wounded dervishes on the field
of battle lay in wait to atab the chance -
-
waning enemy. Asked to "surrender"
and put down their swords and spears, ths.
invariable answer of the sorely strickeu.
dervish was, "Christian (or infidel) dogs,.
never." Wben I SAW there last in the,
Soudan, a few years age, there was no -
abatement in their bloodthirety ferocity,
nor ehow of hesitation, whether they imam -
bored few or many, of a longing to get to,
close quarters with their enemy.—London
Telegraph.
STOOD SPONSOR TO LEMONS.
The Tart Fruit Was Iatroduced Into Eng, -
land by Anne Boleyn.
Who over thinks of committing such te
commonplace article of diet as the lemon,
with the romantic history of ill-fated Anne
13oleyn ? Yet, indirectly, elie was the
cause of its firm; introduction into Eoglande,e,
and so into popular notice. Henry VIII.,
who if he rid bimaelf of his wives like a
brute, certainly won them like a prince—
gave such splendid feasts and pageants in
honor of the coronation of Anne and of
their previous nuptials as had seldom been
accorded to queens of the royal blood.
These kingly entertainments were in turn
followed by the great civic feast of London,
for which the wide world was searched for
delicaoies to add to the splendor. At one
witch banquet, graced by the presence of the
royal pair, a lemon was introduced as an
elegant novelty. To an epicure such as -
Henry the acquisition of a castle in France
would have proved lees acceptable, and
such wag the importance attached to the,
diacovery—so says an old biograpber--that,
a special record was made of the fact that
the coat of this precious lemon was six silver
-
pennies l—Kate Field's Washington.
The Essence of the Offence.,
Moab people are &goosed to think that is
English genteel society courtesy and goo&
breeding are in all social intercourse power-
ful enough to auppreme offensive outbursts,
of political animosity. But this is not the-
ce,se. At the reeent Imperial Institute, in.
London, where the attendance was almon
wholly from the "better" Mama, Mr.
Gladstone was smiled by a storm of'
hooting and hissing. The Times, refer --
ring to the " lamentable face" stays
The event was regrettable, because,
after all, Mr. Gladstone was the guesb-
of the Prince of Wales. The demon-
stration was not organized, however, but
was a spontaneous breach of the conventions
of society." This half apology is eminently
suggestive. net Mr. Gladstone is vener-
able in yeare Prime 'Minister of England, a
gentleman of highest integrity, the most,
distinguished statesman of the age, who hate
taken his political Doeition conscientiously,
nem to count for little with the Time&
"After all," his 'being the guard of the
Prince of Wales should have prevented this.
"breach of the conventions of society." Its -
being " spontaneours " is pleaded in pallia-
tion of the attack. The Times writers as if
had he nob been the gent cf the Prince or
Wales, the thing would not have been open/
to muoll objection.—Oh,ristian Guardian.
Whatever is said to the oontrery, it isn'tr
always the women WhO want to take
trunk when they go off on a jaunt for a few'
days, and here is a case in point with proof"
positive thee it is a man who is determined
to take a trunk on the trip to Chicago and
the World's Fair, though his wife insists
that it is all nowsenee and a small grip,
apiece is all that is necessary to carry them
through the week of sightmeedug.
A dollar appetite with a twenbyefive cent --
purse is an unpleasant combittation.
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