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BARABBAS
WAS A ROBBER.
The Heal Iteeeed Why the seetrate's either
"Was Hosed.
"I elven have greet dfflicult in makin
ends meet on to hundred and fifty," sat
Mr. 44 ilby, sadly.
"I never give more," Said the rector
"It's anile for to yonng bechelor,"
"1 should like to thinle it over."
"Very good," replied the rector. "
have to vieit to pear woman, and you. me
give me your answer when I return—i
half an hour. Make yourself corrifortelel
in that armointir,"
The rector withdrew, and Mr, Wilby sa
down and considered whether it were
were not worth his while to accept th
ouracer. A hundred and fifty/ pounds era
not much, and then he had no privete re
sourceo, and he shifted uneasily in the arm
chair.
Something --a lump of some kind--eva
pressing Mee the small of his back. H
rose and reached his hand between th
back of the chaiMand the leather cushion.
Yes, there was something. He "drew ou
a roll of paper ; it was a printed dooement.
Further examination revealed the fee
that it was to sermon,
Mr. Wilby smiled when he saw the words
"Sermon Supply Association" at, the foot
of the outside wrapper. Inside followed
the text, "Now, Bitrabbas was a robber,"
and then came an excellent discourse.
"0, he does, does he? exelaimed Mr.
Wilby. And he told me he was pertiaular
about to high level of preaching being main-
tainedin los pulpit."
Putting the document back in Mt hiding
place Mr. Wilby strolled over to the rector's
writing table and began to look idly at
the things on it. A very smart .sertnon
case of bleak velvet, ornamented with a
cross of gold, lay on the blotting pad.
" To-merr'
ow's sermon I suppose," ob-
served Mr. Wilby, and he took it up.
"Now, Barabbas was to robber." The
words figured at the head of the rector's
discourse. Mr. Wilby read them with a
sad smile, and proceeded to read on.
Presently he went and fetched the hid-
den document from the armchair, and read
that and the rector's discourse (which was
very neatly written and tied together with
a piece of blue ribbon) alternately.
" Really, you know," said Mr. Wilber.
"bit's copied it all out, word for weed, in
his own handwriting."
At this moment a step was heard out-
side. Mr. Wilby hastily put down the
rector's sermon and laid it where he had
found it. The other document he slid into
his coat tail pocket.
The rector entered.
" Well, Mr. Wilby, have you reached a
decision ?" he said. -
" I've,decided to accept the charge, sir.
Money is not the only thing to be consid-
ered."
" Excellent. I preach in the morning.
Perhaps you would take the Mission Hall
service, then, and preach in the church in
the evening ?"
The parishioners always admired the
rector's sermons very much, but he had
seldom given more satisfaction than by his
stirring discourse on the text, " Now,
Bare.bbas was a robber."
It was listened to with breathless in-
terest, and on his way home the rector was
forced to promise the loan of tho manu—
script to no less than four ladies, each of
whom was anxious to read and copy it.
The congregation was larger than usual
that evening, owing to the interest excited
by the new curate's first appearance. The
rector himself leaned forward with an ex-
preszion of amiable though somewhat pat-
ronizing attention.
Mr. Wilby, whose bearing showed a self-
possessed modesty, gave out his text, in to
clear votce, repeating it twice lest any one
should fail to catch itt. " Now, Baro.bbas
was to robber."
The rector started; so did his wife and
many among the congregation. The coin-
cldence was remarkable.
However, as Mr. Wilby continued, the
coincidence became very much more re-
markable; so remarkable, indeed, as to be
entirely incredible.
Some tittered, some stared, some whis-
pered. The rector's wife fixed a stony
glare on the preacher; for Mr. Wilby
preached the very same sermon, identically
the same in the slightest word, which his
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ector had preached in the morning !
At last the ordeal—for the rector it was
n ordeal --ended, and lie and Mr. Wilby
toed together in the vestry. Silence was
nbroken until Mr. Wilby observed in an
nnocent voice. --
"I hope you are not dissatisfied with 1
ny first attempt, rector. I ought to tell
ou-- "
/
The rector was gone! The ohurclowar-
dt eonasamto
.elookedanapa
tpt:e eouarahteis with hp
h a e a"a stsf
el
horror.
Before the service he had been invited
several groups of members of the congre-
gation ; they .were talking with much ex-
citement. •
' " Master's in the study, sir," said the
maid when She opened the door.
" I will find him for myself," said Mr.
Wilby. As he approached the door he
heard voices.
1 " I will find Min for myself," 1. "I'll thank you to tell me, Algernon,"
said a voice. Mr. Wilby knocked loudly
and opened the door. The rector's wife
still in her bonnet, stood in the middle of
1 the room.
l The rec or was etanding by the arm-
, chair, withe ono hand resting on the top
0 ' of the cushion ; he looked aa if he were
W ' prepared to defend the armchair with the
, last drop of his blood.
"I-1--" began Mr. Wilby. "Oh, 1
• beg pardon, I didn't see that Mrs. Morrett
was here."
".Don't mind me, ,Pray proceed," saki
the lady, ioiiy.
"1—I've just hearcl such a dreaciful--1
reallycan't speak in Mrs. Morrett's pees-
eneed,
"Jane, dear, hadn't you-hetter lettere ue?"
Airs. Morrett stood her grefund.
The rector's hand was sliding stealthily
down the back of the armchair. Suddenly
he gasped out to loud "0."
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RilikilF•miasuthoftri:giort.
I 41r 1/1' " 4in
" ?" cried Mem. Motrett.
"1 an explain," began Mr, Wilby
again. But the rector, signing to hint to
stop, went up to his wife and took her by
the arm.
"You shall hear it all beer on," he said,
act he led her from the room.
The two mtffi were left, Memo together.
The reeter seek into the fittefol ateneliair
end mopped his brow. Mr Wilby smiled
kindly upon him.
An awkward coitmiclenee, waon'e it ?'
be seed.
You—You've etthied rote I meet leate
the parish, I °atilt face my people."
0, obiter tire" and Mr. Willey get am the
writing table and took tip a pee. abAte
you parieh Magazine here ?" he ask.
ed.
T B
es yeede
The °orate teolt a sheet of paper and
wrote. In five mintites he threw down his
jmn and read what he had written aloeid to
the rector.
I feel bound to explain to the eougroga,
tien the occurence of 1114 Sunday,
Not littering been long in orders, 1 enoer
greatly from nervationese, and, although as
a rule I trot entirely to 111V oWu reedlArge°
in the pulpit, I felt convinced that if I en-
deavored to dfliver an origineleellecouree
on my first appearance before a oonerregae
time of etrangers I should certainly breek
down.
I therefore applied to the head of JAY
oollege for aseistance, end he assured me
that, under the peculiar eiteurtistancee of
the case'he coneiciered that .1 should b°
jQastificeodminopirtn,
eioacm
bing a sermon not of me'
wrAp
He was further kind enough to offer me
what he described as a model discourse,
then in his possession, the work, as he
stated, of it most eminent preacher, who
had given hirn permission to make useeof
Unfottunately, I omitted to inform him
of the name of my new cure, so that he
wasnotaware of any reason why the
rectorOrsermon shoeld not be need by me.
Thee the unfortunate oeeurrence happen-
ed, and I hewn to take all the blame upon
myself, pleading only for that indulgence
which a young man it; to trying position has
a right to claim. Jolter WItore.
"1 thirik do," sada the curete.
"Anyhow, we can try how Mrs. Morrett
takes ia"
The rectorrose and held out his hand
for the paper.
" The magazine comes out on Tuesday,"
he observed. Mr. Wilby put the paper be-
hind his back.
"I've been thinking again, rector," said
he, that it will be extremely difficult to
live as a gentleman should live on to hundred
"dihfief rYee2'
tor frowned.
"In fact, impossible," said the curate ;
and he moved the sheet of paper toward the
candle.
" You'd be in luxury on a hundred and
sixty," said the reoter reflectively.
"But 1 should have no margin for char-
ity."
" I—I will makeit a, hundred and even-
ty:"
" I think," said the curate, persuasively
"that you won't stand erne 'on a matter of
10 mounds. You might make it to hundted
and. eighty."
The rector sighed deeply:
'VICTORIA CROSS •
FOR BB,AVE
A Bare Decoration for British P.61-
diers or aiors for an
Act of Conspictio-u.s
Valor.
Among the many valuable collectiont of
coins and badges owned by New York mil-
lionaires, there is said to be but one Victoria
Cross. That was bought abroad some years
ago by Mr. John Aspinwall Hadden to
grace his eollectinn of original war medals.
It now lies in a glass case in the Metropola
tan Museum of Are, having been presented
by Mrs. Redden something over two years
ago. As to bit of red ribbon is still attach-
ecl to it, those vented in the history of the
Victoria uross know it formerly belonged to
a soldier.
The highest price ever paid for this decoration by any collector was £2,500, by
Private William Griffiths, at a sale at the
famous Christie's, in London. Strange to
say,one was sold one (ley last week in Cork,
Ireland. It was in a collection belonging
to the late J.,T. Mahoney,Esq., and brought
a fair price. The creee is made from cap-
tured gun metal, and is supposed to be 'eery
rare, although the London Gazette has
published the names of 407 men who have
been decorated with this cross.
The late Prince Consort is credited with
having created and designed the insignia
for this new order for distinguished bravery -
in 1856. All ranks of the British Army
and Navy can aspire to this honor, regard-
less of rank or social standing.
It consists of a Maltese cross of brcrize,
attached by the letter V to a bar �u which
a sprig of laurel is embciesed. On the ob-
verse, in the centre is the British Lion and
Crown. Beneath ft is to scroll bearing the
inscription, "For Valour." The reverse is
plain, the name and corp e of the recipient
being engraved on the bar to which the rib.
ben is attached. The date of the act of
bravery is in the centre of the cross.
This decoration recognizes neither rank,
long service, wounds, nor any other cir-
cumstances tvhatever save the one of great:
and conspicuous bravery. That is the Only
claim to this honor, and it is, therefore,
highly prized. The names of reeipieuts
are published in the London Gezette and a
registry carefully kept in the office of the
Secretary of State. The cross is suspended
from the leftbreast by a, blue ribbon for the
navy and a red one for the army.
The recipient receives a life pension of
RIO, and an additional pension of £5 • for
each additional act of bravery. Any per-
son selected for this honor may be decent -
ed on the field or at the spot where the aot
of bravery took place in the presence of the
naval or military force to which he belongs.
This has often been done, and is still fond-
ly spoken of by many of these brave men.
A Brilliant and Woonaly Sootohwomatb
Readers of English magazines mustebave
toticed brilliant articles bearing the sig-
nature of Madame Blaze de Bury. This
remarkable woman died a few days ago,
and was buried in Paris. She was of Scottish
parentage and birth, having been born at
Oban 80 years ago. Her father, also a
Septchman, was an officer in the English
army, and her mother an Edinburgh lady.
She married a well-known critic of The
Revue des Deux Mondee, who, however,
predeceased her, but he brought her into
association with all the cultivated Minds of
France. Her correspondence extended to
most of the great men of Europe, statesmen
like Bismarck as well as savants. In her
brilliant salon assembled from time to time
all the genius of France. Her broad sym.
pathies enabled her to agree with the most
diverse mental and moral neeveraente, and
her equal knowledge of the chief European
latiguages was the merk of her interest in
the intellectual phenomena of het tittle.
The obly matt in history that was lionize
ed Without having hits head swelled was th.,
Biblical Daniel. '
e
David AdoLareti, who diect the other day
itt Saugmen, had an eventful Iifefe eti-
teted the setvice of the Hudson's 13ay
Company at the age of 16, and Iaboared in
Lebrador toost a his life. Elie tornotiesion
at nutjor ef Militia Was signed "by Sir Ed-
mund Head. He Wes 80 years elago etr
the tithe ef his death,
EXET.B110
TINNE3.
cOVLD MANY A TUE UNFOLD.
eoPor Weletty Seeeeter
Enceleriers 14reatest I' *1t Lawyer—fn.
eerestleg interview With Zile (emerge
Lewis—oh rola case.
I have had the privilege of meiting Sir
George Lewis tianirlet eurroundings of a ells-
tincely different charaoter—at his charming
little eottage at Walton on 'Malmo, at his
house in Portland pittee, and in his private
room ae his businese, abode, in Ely place,
guys to writer in en English exchange.
Bet Sir George Lewis ie. always the Immo
kindly, genial man, whose very appear-
anee wins your immediate confidence. He
it of a medium height, strongly beilt, with
white hair end whiskers. Ile is deliberate
in every action and every word, and at
once impresses one es au Individual who
can take his stend and keep his footing.
• He has the most wonderful penetrating
eyes I have ever seen, Penetrating !
never takes them off you. I have seen Sir
Geerge take in the beauties of to Burne.
Jones with one eye, and with the other look
et you.
Tee loves work—it is his recreation. He
alwaysappears to be thinking, and yet he
assures you be does not know what it is to
have a night's rest dtsturbe,d, o,nd ean wel-
come sleep et any time,
It is probable that no professional man
has received se many gifts from hie clients
as Sir George Lewis. So great is Sir
George's opinion as to hoporable seorecy in
all matters between solicitor and client,
that in sorae cases he al, ma knows the dona-
tion of many a, magnificent gift as a. token of
help rendered
AT A ORIVIOAL MOMEST.
1 saw some of these gifts in his drawing-
roem—though there is a cellar packed with
them below. They are of the greatest value
and most exquisite workmanship—grand
vases, snuffeboxes, Oriental daggers, cigar -
cases, silver.gilt cabiziets and many more.
Ely piece has quite a little history of ite
own. So 1 learned from Sir George as we
drove through the gates, which are shut
every night at 9 o'clock. It is a very old
bit of London,and is governed by a separate
act of Parliament.
It is the only place in the metropolis
where the old-time custom of crying out the
hours of the night by the porter is still kept
up, end Sir George,00nsiders it one of the
best -guarded spots in London.
, It would require a more than average en-
terprising cracksman to successfullyply his
jimmy and drilla upbn the bars and bolts of
the door which leads to the strong room at
Ely place.
It was the first room I +went into as soon
as we arrived at the lausiiiess house of the
solicitor.
While driving down Sir George said:
"One branch of my profession is that
which never becomes publio, that is, the
secrets of -London. I have not kept a
diary for over twenty years! When I
found that my business was becoming so
confidential I determined that I would
never chronicle another thing —so when I
die the confidences of London society die
with tne.
"At one time I thought the feet of my
not keeping a diary — for reference sake —
might lemi to some severe observations in
court, di all lawyers are expected
TO KEEP SUCH A BOOK
"But a Lord Justice told me he was per-
fectly certain that no judge, under such
pecular circumstances as these, would ever
blame me. Let me tell you," and Sir
George spoke very calmly, without a tinge
of egotism in his tone, "that no novel was
ever written, or play ever produced, that
has or could contain such incidents and
situations as at the present moment• are
securely locked up in the archives of my
memory which no mao will ever discover.
"What was your first case, Sir George?"
I asked.
"It occurred during the absence of my
father. I was about nineteen at the time.
A hansom drove up here, and a woman
rushed into the office in a terrible state of
mind. She told me that her son was in
custody at Westminster police court on a
charge of robbing a till ie a public: house. I
rushed away with her in a cab„ fooght the
case, and won it ; though 'I will admit to
you that while I was questioning the wit-
nesses I didn't k.BOW whether I was on my
head or my heels.
"The mother was a big muscular woman,
and waited for me outside. I was made
very , happy by the wonls which accom-
panied her little too enthusiastic smack on
the back: 'Well done, young 'ant But
her enthusiasm hurt."
At the termination of his articles he went
,into partnership with his father and uncle.
"There was the 13alhani mystery," said
Sir George, as he remembered some of these
"sensations." " I represented the family
of the late Mr. Bravo; Sir Henry James,
Mrs. Bravo ; Sergeant Parry, Dr. Gully ;
while Mr. Murphy was for Mrs. Cox. A
verdict had beep obtained that. Mr. Bravo
had committed suicide and .
NOT BEEN POISONED,
but the friends of Mr. Bravo not beide
satisfied, the Court of Queen% Bench did a
most unusual thing and ordered a fresh in-
quest. The jury found a new verdict of
wilful murder agratist some person or per-
son2Ntionwknl
°iswtenn.. It is much to be regretted
that at an inquest the advocateris not allow-
ed to ma,ke a, speech to the jury. Had I
been able to do so, I could and should at
once have relieved both Dr. Gully and Mrs.
Bravo frometny suggestion that they in any
way participated in the crime. You are at
liberty to say—and I am publicly express-
ing this for the first time --that I then and
still do believe them—Not guilty
"Then who poisoned Mr. Bravo ?" I ex-
claimed.
" Who ?" repeated Sir George—and be
told me the name.
The Hattori Gardeti diamond robbery."
Sir George went on. "was certainly one
of the most ingerdouo. 'I acted for the Al-
liance Marine Insurance Company, but
possibly the smartest of modern times was
the famous gold robbery. 1 will tell it in
a feve words. Some beim of bat gold were
in transit from London to Paris.
"The boxes were Weighed at London
Bridge, put into the locker in the guard's
von, and locked up. The paoltages were
weighed again at Dover, again at Calais, a
fourth ttme et the atatiort at Paris, and
the weight was found to be exactly correct
tie the Minim:if a seal°. When the boxes
Were delivered to the owners hi Parie and
were opened, they
ooNammeros Nontilie eter—serar 1
The,guard was in the tobbery. Falee keys
were obtained, and duringthe tratteie frrim
i
London confederates rot nto the guard's
van, 61Ied the borate With shot to the totact
Weight, got Ott at Dover, took tickets baok
tb town, and the idea were id Lonclei with
the -gold before the beams *ere opened ie
Parte I The robbery remained undiscover.
ea for two years, when one of the Mee
tamed Queen's evidenee. The guard 41.1(3.
lilt acceMplieet Were tried and conyicted.
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorloi
00"113ceotie9tilhidiuerattyha(bliltyitro gsrieract°10)ttraitY4eutoeioLf
BY eelleMon coneeot he is admitted by elto
professiott to be the etrorigeet Ser'edvocatewithin Ipgat
jeant Ballentyne and Serjeant Parry when
m:ysorpy„knew both ractIwng
AT TUE oree lie tette',
"Ballantyne tvas fattiette fpr his powers
aeaf 000toasegy,rkauTiprulzionallifdphPettyrrywofoorhisiabe
suceeesfal to.doer. 1 have employed. Sir
iCohratrits !slits 243011y1 enairPre7abliod,f 130.)1Yth01111711311flentlle:
PerferManee of his tiuty be is unrelenting,
yet I kuovir no kinder mail et heart.
The baebarat 00.80 was 110 forgotten, and
Sir George timid that perhaps whoa he would
must remember aboot that ease were the
lase impreeeive words of Lord Ooleridge's
mourning up to the jury: ',Gentlemen, in
considering the e honor of Sir William
Gordon -Cumming, do not forget yonr own.'
GOLD AT *RAINY arysit.
Americans Who are Excited Over the Re
cent Discoveries—Rainy Lake elty
Likely to Room.
A Port Arthur special says :—Thorries
Weigand, of Fort William, has juat returned
from the Rainy River distriale He went
up with Surveyor Lougheed, to compiete
some surveys for gold lands around
hoal Leke, which is about 35 miles east of
Fort Francis. He reports meeting a party
of surveyors who mune in from Fort Francis
end surveyed the laud all around the loca-
tions his party had taken up. He has it bag
cif gold rock with him, nearly every pieue
of which show % native gold. The Americans
have simply gone wild over the gold and coal
They are flocking in, overland by teams,
using the old McKenzie water etretches to
get from Tower and the Duluth & Iron
Range and Mesaba Railways into what
they belieirl to be a new Eldorado. Gold
has been peened out from dirt alongside
of the gold reef,. The most important
as yet is Black By, situated about six
miles across country' from Fort Francis
easterly, and 'about twelve miles by ice.
This is on American territory. Here is where
the gold was washed out. About five miles
across the water boundary on the Canadian
side, Charlie Moore, the well-known Eat
Portage explorer, took up some gold lands,
the samples of which are just as rich as
irate the American gold reefs. Rainy Lake
City, the American Fort Francis, already
boasts of a saw -mill, brought in overland
from Tower, through 63 miles of wilderneos.
If the gold washings turn out as well next
summer as the samples picked and thawed
have done this winter it is expected that
Rainy Lake City will have 15,000 inhabi-
tantby fall.
"News" From Honolulu.
Next to Rio Janeiro, the last piece on
earth at the present time from which the
tenth is likely to be filtered through Am-
erican newspaper despatches, is Houolulu.
The agents of the Provisional Government
there are busier than ever trying to pro-
mote the came of annexation to the United
States, and they have the press of that
country largely with them. Under these
circumstances no abuse is considered suf-
ficient to heap upon the Queen and her
adherents, and no canards, however ill -
manufactured, are refused publication in
America. The story which The New Yolk
Tribune makes a sensation out of is certain-
ly the silliest on record. The one fact
which it makes plain enough is this'that
Mr. Dole is keeping the military exclusive-
ly engaged in protecting his own pre-
cious person teem the possibility of dan-
ger, whilst crime is increasing on all
hands around him and. the residents are
li‘ingin terror. Such a state of things
cannot continue. Mr. Dole may be able to
maintain his present position a little longer
by drawing upon his ingenuity in other
ways than by seeking allies in the United
States. The action of Congress has left
him to bear a load of responsibility upoa
which he had not counted. He alreaely finds
it too much for him. If he is President for
the time being, he must protect the rights
and interests of foreign residents. He
reeds all his armed force for service as a
body guard, or he thinks he does. If the
people are so confiding as to take any stock
in cock and bull dynamite stories they may
permit him to keep his soldiers for another
week or two. But then they will probably
grow tired of it and demand some Govern-
ment meter which they can carry on their
business without fear or interruption onoe
more. Mr. Dule is coming to the end of his
tether.
GILEWSORE WELSH SUPERSTITIO N
A Red -Rot Pitchfork Plinosiell into ihe
Corpse or a Supposed With.
An old woman in a village near Snesbarg
recently died, says the Cardiff (Wales)
Mail., Her death gave great satisfaction to
the other villagers, for she was leaked upon
as a witch and feared accordingly. After
the funeral severarof the chief inhabitants
repaired to the Wirthelnat to celebrate
suitably the relief experienced at getting
this dangerous person safely underground;
but while they were drinking pleasantly in
mune a messenger to say that the cow of one
of those presen t,a neighbor of the deceased,
had died suddenly without any apparent
cause. The meeting, horromstrieken, ad-
journed in a body to exatnine the cow, and
unanimously agreed Una the animal had
been bewitched. No doubts were enter-
tained as to the perpetrator of the deed.
Evidently burying was not enough to stop
this dangerous old lady, mid it was decided,
atter earnest discussion, to adopt the old
plan of making a horse jump over the
witch's grave, and thus put an end to her
powers. A horse was accordingly fetched,
but, strange to say, nothing would induce
him to jump over the grave. The incontets-
able proof of the unholy influence emanating
from the spot caused the public excitement
taincrease. The mayor of the village de
eided to use a somewhat drastic means,
much in favor in the middle ages, viz., to
stab the witch's body with a red-hot pitch
fork. The body was exhumed, the fork
heated, and the whole ceremony carried
out. By the thee the cotnpomy bad finished
their work and gone back to refresh them-
selves at the WIrthchaft, the authorities of
the town had heard of what evae going on.
A party of :flaunted police were emit to the
village, arid all those who had been concern,
ed in the affair were taken into Custody.
Queen Vietoria's conservattve fondness
for the things she it used to ia ehowa la the
fact that the little ivory paper -knife with
which t� this day she cuts the pages of her
bew books wits in her poteteseion when she
Was it little princeeo. The cabins of the
Royal yacht, are still brightened with the
cootie old faabioned rosebud chititzovhich her
leSitch
ollt—L'aIlldi
cionil'ktetd1itilt George Waethings
on was to awful smart." Father -1' Whet
Lo you Mean I?" Son —" I'll bet ten cents
its couldn't ride a bicycle,"
YOUNG POLES.
amine Ixulist.n Games aad Oporto..
aWt e the ine troesevereiretpla'yswa idQ hyl:: ?neer;
Areoeg theta were throwing wende and
snowearrows. In winter we eoasted nauelt,
We had no "double-rippere" nee tobeggaus,
but six °remit of the long ribs of o hue410,
fastened together at the larger end, answer.
ed all prat:Meal purposes. Sernetitnee
strip of baoswooti hark, four feet It ine and
half Afoot wide, was used with reach skill*
We stood on one end mid held the other,
using the i detebaorho ou
Ithus
remalabioas.
Sometimes we played "Medicine
to1.8 onugswysianetztelanihousatrwehne. '0"palarypienogpcieli8ueroonilf.'
ed to think it. an ea of irreverence to
imitate thee° dances, Inie we ebildren
thought otherwise; therefore we quite free
queutly enjoyed in aortae _one of these
performances. We used to observe all the
important ceremonies and custom attend-
ing it, and it required something of an
actor to reproduce the dramatic features of
the deuce. The real dances usually oc-
cupied a day and a nigh t,and the programme
was long and varied, so that it was not
easy- to execete all the details perfectly
but the Indian children are born imitators.
I was often selected as choirmaster on
these occasions, for 1 had happened to learn
many of the medigine songs, and was
quite an apt mimic. My grandmother,
who WAfr a noted medicine woman,
on hearing of these sacrilegious
acts (as she called them), warned
me that if any of the medicine men. should
Levan of my conduct they would punish me
terribly of shriveling my limbs with slow
disease.
Occasionally we also played "white man."
Our kr owlecige of the pale -face was litnited
but we had learned that he brought goods
whenever he came, and that our people ex-
nhanged furs for his merchandise. We alto
knew, somehow, that his complexion was
white, that he wore short hair on his head
and long hair on his face, and that he had
coat, trousers, and hat, and did not pat-
ronize blankets in the daytime. This was
the picture we had formed of the white
man. So we painted two or three of our
number with white clay, and put on them
birchen hats, which we sewed up for ehe
occasion, fastened a piece of fur to their chins
for a beard, and altered their costume as
much as lay within our power. The
white of the biroh-bark was made to an-
swer for their white shirts. Their mer-
chandise consisted of sand for sugar, wild
beans for coffee, dried leaves for tea, pul-
verized earth for gunpowder, pebbles for
bullets, and clear water for dangerous "fire-
water." We traded for these goods with
skits of squirrels, rabbit's, and small birds.
--fDr. Charles A. Eastman, in St. Nicho-
las.
St. Bernard Dogs.
As we stand around the window looking
out, at the beautiful snow -clad earth, little
Robert claps his hands and screams with
delight as Menthou—a handsome St. Ber-
nard dog—dashes around sniffing the snow
and then rollizag over and over again, shak-
ing his shaggy coat, only to bound or, mak-
ing the suow fly in every direction. For a
short time little Robert watches him with
delight, and then with a, wise loot on his
wee face says:
"Mamma, why do they call him a St.
Bernard?"
So mamma told how the noble dogs de-
rived their name from the Hospice of Se
Bernard. The Hospice of St. Bernard is
the highest habitation in Europe and is a
famous mountain pass in the Pennine Alps,
eetween Piedmont and the Valais. The
pass attains an elevation of more than 8000
feet above the sea level, and almost on its
very crest, on the edge of a small lake,
which is frozen over nine months out of the
twelve, stands the hosptce, founded in 962
by Bernard de Menthou, Savoyard noble-
man, for the beneet of pilgrims to Rome,
and now largely taken advantage of by
travellers across the Alps.
The hospice is occupied by St. Augustine
monks who with their noble dogs of St.
Bernard breed have rescued neany hundred
travellers from death by exposure to cold
or burial in the snow, which in winter
ranges from 10 'to 40 feet in depth. The
St. Bernard dog is remarkable for great
size, strength a,nd sagacity. The dogs not
only accompany the monks and servants of
the hospice in the benevolent excursions
which they regularly take through the most
dangerous parts of the pass, but are sent
out by themselves to search for travellers
who may have wandered, and this their ex-
tremely acute scent, enables them to do.
They soon learn what places are most pro.
per to be searched and when the weather
assumes a threatening aspect some of them
show great alertness, as if desirous to be at
work. They carry a small flask of wine or
brandy attached to their necks, of which
the traveller may avail himself. When
they find a traveller is too mneh exhausted
to proceed by their guidance to the hospice,
or if they cannot by their own efforts dig
peaty the snow which has covered him,
they run and give the alarm by signs that
are at once un ierstood. One famous dog,
Barry, was said to be instrumental in sav-
ing the lives of forty human beings. His
moot memorable achievement was the res-
cue of a little boy whose mother had been
destroyed by an avalanche, and whom be
induced to mount his back, and so carried
him safely to the hospice. The origin of
this valuable race of dogs is not Well ascer-
tained, although they are supposed to have
sprung from a progeny of a Danish dog left
at the hespice bya tremeller, and of the
Alpine shepherds, dogs. Another account
represents an English mastiff as one of
their progenitors. There are two sub -varie-
ties however, one with rough hair like that
of the Newfoundland, the other with close
short hair.
Water Over Five Milos Das p.
In many respects the North Pacific: ocean
resembles the North Atlantic:, A. great
watm current, much like the gulf etreoon
and of equal magnitude, called the black
stream or Japan current, runs northward
along the eastern' shore of Asia. Close to
the east, coast of Japan it flows through a
maribe valley which holcls the deepest
water in the world. Ib was sounded at a
depth of five ttad a quarter mike by the
United States steamer Tuseerora, irt 1875
while surveying for a projected cable route
between the Cuffed Stelae and Japan.
Tho heavy souuding weight took more than
an hoer to &nit to the bottom, But trial
was made of it these!, yet, more profound,
where the teed did not fetch it up all. It
Is the ouly depth of. meta that yet re-
mains unfathomed, •
The widower about to retnerry is the
moot unselfieli of mortals. He seldoult
thinks of Number One.
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" Why not " Because he isn't that kind
of it bird."
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