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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-6-8, Page 6KILL1N'G THE INNOCENT. --- 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. uatantilattantatfriegalerftliatidatetryiriokry.7.0;;WarmarK177111=1.8ANotqf 111 4 STUB isn't what you want, if yew stom- ach and bowela are irregular. That's about ell you get, though, with the ordinary pill. It may re- liseee you for the moment, but. you're usually in a worse state af- terward Wein before. 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