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RaliumABLE SCENE AT THE MAC-
WHERRELLTRIAL.
The Wrisouer's Thrilleug Addrese to the
dodge and Jury—nrotests Ate lune-
eenoe—ereomen Sob and CrY la the
court Room,
" William Walter MadWherrell, the sen-
tence of this court upon you, for the murder
of demes Williams, is thet yon now be taken
to the place a your confinemeot, there to
remain until Friday, the 1st of June next,
when yoe, Shall be taken to the place of ex-
ecution and hanged by the neck until dead,
and may God have mercy on your soul."
These, the culminating words of the great
Williams merder trial at Brampton last
week, were delivered %mid the shrieks and
moans of hysterical women, the breathlesa
sighs of anxious men and the distraught
ravings of a convicted murderer.
And MacWherrell furnished an antis
climax such as has never before been heard
in a Canadian court room,
"AU right, your lordship, hang me, I'm
an innocent man, and L gums I'll have a
better chance of getting to Heaven than
some of you here. Pll be five teet higher
anyway."
With this brutal allusion to the form of
his death on the dawn of summer, one of the
most brutal morderers ever known made
his exit from the eourt room where he bad
been tried et such great length. He would
have said more had he not been silenced by
a mighty shout end 'a mighty clap on the
ahoulder from Censtable Hurst.
• MACWHERRELL COLLAPSED.
After the jury came in with the verdiob
of guilty MeoWherrell collapsed into the
corner of the prisoner's box. Hie face was
of ashen hue and when Walker was removed
from the court at Judge Ferguson's com-
mand, he seemed altogether limp, and,
crouching, awaited leis sentence.
The jury entered at 6.30 p.m., but 25
minutes, devoted to formalities, elapsed be-
fore County Oroven Attorney MeFedden
arose and moved the aentence of the convict-
ed prisoner. In achordance with the law
his lordship asked MacWherrell if he had
aught to say why sentence should not be
passed upon him. The delay had given the
prisoner time to collect his faculties, and he
at once arose with the words.:
"Yes, my lord, I have. I am an inno-
cent man. I can look anyone in the face in
this court roorn and say that. I couldn't
do that if I wasn't telling the truth. I'm
just going to tell you how it all was so that
everyone here will know that I am an in-
nocent man and speaking the truth, and
maybe MacWherrell won't hang yet."
The peroration which followed was prob-
ably planned, or at least suggested by Mr.
Robinette with the hope that the reiteration
of one of his former stories, under such
solemn circumstances, would lead to the
commutation of his sentence. In a case
where the conviction was on circumstantial
evidence, this was a good move, but the
prisoner, by his foolishness' his inability to
tell the troth, or to stickto one story,
shattered the hopes of those who would as-
sist him.. He started out with the view
evidently of demonstrating that
THERE HAD BEEN A VAST CONSPIRACY
among the 55 witnesses for the crown and
some of his own witnesses who helped the
crown catte to lie and to hang him.
He starte 1 off by saying that aftewhe left
Stableford's on Wednesday, December 13,
he went to Fitzgerald's hotel on York
Street. Therehe met John Cory. He gave
what he says are the exact words of Cory
to him. Cory sad:
"Are you looking for a job ? 1 know a
man named Williams, and he wants a
man."
MacWherrell maintained that Cory did
not tell him that he worked for Williams,
but that he ascertained the fact on passing
the place. This was the first lie told, he
thought. On that Wednesday night, he
told the court, Walker was in the bar, and
he offered Walker $4.50 for a set of
Dickens' works he had.
Thus,in the very stari, of a speech intend-
ed to establish his innocence he lied, for
Walker was in jail on that night, and the
set of Diokens' works had been in the
hands of the police for a week. These
statements were punctuated by commands
to judge, jury and publio to listen to an in-
nocent man who was telling the truth.
He admitted going to Credit, but said
that Pat Doherty lied in his statement that
he claimed to be Williams' nephew. He
said that on Doherty's asking the question
he said he might be.
"Mrs. McKay has not told the right story
yet," he said. "What 1 say is true, so help
me, God. I wish one of the Vktillilienses
was left to tell you so."
AT WILLIAMS' PLACE. •
He said he -went into Williams' yard and
met Mrs. Williams carrying a pail of water
or slop. Old man Williams was in the
barn. He walked upend said "Good even-
ing, sir, are yon wanting a hired man'
Williams replied: "I did want one, but I'
got one coming for hie board. I cart go
any amount of men for their board." 'Wit.
liams had on a bleak curly cap with a peak
on it, had a black coat, a black vest, a
white shirt and a black tie. He had a stick
in his -hand.
"I never went into that house, so help me
Ged," cried the speaker. He was only in
the red 'he— e•-• 'des, he said, and than
left, o the Lake Shore road
Fowl t ,oete, etie electric car. It was 20
minutee to 1, when he left the Williams'
Plaee. ng WAS NOT ABRAID.
"I am not saying this in the hope of get-
ing off. I know what's going to be read to
me. I'm not afraid," he cried again.. In the
electric car he said he zaw two men, one
with a black moustache, the other with -.a
steady moustaebe, who were on the car
when he got on firet, and got off at 1Vlimice.
It will be observed that thia description
is the same as that be gave in his &molts-
„gMPIRE statement of the two men who sold
him the horse at &holes' hotel. He was
still harping on the old string, and a curl.
ous thing it at brought out rit the trial,
although notallocled to by counsel, that
the nussiog peak cap and brown overcoat,
etolen on the night of the orime, are the
same ea those described by hint as having
been worn by one of the two inen. It would
go to show that Mat1Wherrel1 dole these
thieve, as the crown maintained, tenet he
Wag a:entre of their exietetoe and worked
them in on the fables he told. IVIaeWhere,
rell salel also in his smooch that there Was a
Immo) on the eleottie car. Ile said that he
never void Detective Davis the story of
perehasing the home on Thuretley nigh t, and
then went on to relate the old tale of his
going out on the stortnieet night known in
10 yeam to &holes' hotel, toit, he said, to
see the etthway, but to eet the eentiatiori of
goieg tinder it in & eteeet car, At Scholee'
he got his drink, ena the boreemen drove
rim ale lie related before. The lead& Wit -
led him, he old t "Rollo, old sport, you're
a horseman,” and they made the deal, 3E/c)
tlaid that eince being in jail, in thinking
over the matter he hed thought thu't the
men 'was one with whom he had worked on
the Exhibition grouods but before be de'parted from hie eubject, on which he dwelt
a considerable length tif time, he offered
another explanation of the inen'e identity
and
AnnzAvounn To exPX,WATe e, 0. (eLese
....
in the grime. He ettid that when Crom
came to the jail three weelea ago to idene
tify him he had remarked to the turnkey,
although quite oblivious of the fact thet
°roes vets one of the erown's chief witnese.
es: •" That leeks just like the man 1
bought the horse from." After driving
away from Scholes', the speaker said his
horse was frightened by the electric ears,
and be stated a pircuenetance of which the
street railway company is unaware, that
the oars were running all right on that
terrible night. There was no whip in the
cutter, moreover.
He then went en to relate in a tireaorne
mariner the whole history of his sale of the
horse to Lowrie, the Parliameut street
botcher, and his acoount did not differ from
that told in court.
He gave the following account of his vari-
ous abodes on the days succeeding the crime
On Sunday he slept at Tobin's, on York
Street; on Monday at Wilson's, corner
William and Queen streets; on Tuesday at
Dorsey's, on York street; on Wednesday
at Mr, Brown's house'Price street; on
Thursday he went to Stableford's at NVo-
burn,
In speaking of the knob found there he
protested that he left it on December 71
and it did not go out of the house until
Mrs. Stableford gave it to a reporter. As
to his trowters, which the crown said were
missing, he maintained that they were the
black pair found in his trunk at Woburn
and which:eters. Stableford swore were lying
in her house ever since Eovember 24 hest.
MR. ROBINETTE INTERRUPTS.
MateWherrellwas just entering on a fierce
denunciation of Mrs. Stableford when Mr.
Robinette got up and gave him a hint to
cut his address short. He had spoken for
an hour and all in the court room were
feeling drowsy. He looked around him,
and saw that he had made no impression,
that the people present looked on him as a
blatant boor' and *ere only weitin g beeause
they wantedto hear him aentenced. He
would 0
PRODAI3LY HAVE TALE= FOR HOITILS.
He was,as it were, wound up. Perhaps he
was postponing the dread moment when
the sentenbe of death should be passed
upon him.
His own words had given him confidence,
and he had grown less ashen as his speech
progressed. But when the general apathy
of the judge and all assembled dawned on
him he became enraged. He woke the
peeple up. He made wild accusations and
seemed to have lost his nerve completely.
"I've been in Gibraltar, Malta„Burmah,"
he cried. "I'vecrossed the Punjab, I've
been, in East Africa. I' vefought in Afghen-
istan. Yes, I carried despatches between
the lines in Afrthanistan with the bullets
whizzing around ears. No man can say
I am a cowaed. /never struck art old man
or an old woman. No man can say Pm a
coward, and the man who killed those old
Williarnsee was a dastardly coward. Teen
look anyone in the face and say with the
last breath 'MaeWherrell's innocent.' I
wasn't on the Williams place three MinDteS."
HE GROWS EXCITED.
The man's face had grown iivid ; his eyes
burned like coals ; his movements were wild
and hysterical. He ,turned around and
faced the gallery.
"Here's an innocent man before all of
you. Two months I've been in jail with a
charge of murder overdmy head. I've been
dragged through the country down at
Cookeville with the people shouting 'Lynch
him' behind me.''
• "Face his lordship," shouted Mr. Robin-
ette. The furious man turned; his wrath
took a different aspect. He was snapping
and snarling like a fox run to earth. He
commenced to drag in the names of other
people.
':Your lordship, there's something wrong
about that old man Moody. You want to
look after him. A perfect stranger couldn't
do that deed ,• it was some one who knew
the place. There's that old John Cory.
Ivlany's the time John Cory said to me in
jail "God --those old Williams, I wish
they was cut to pieces long ago.'
"1• say, and I will say, I am innocent.
Do I look like a man who would do a cow-
ardly thing? You and the jury are my mur-
derers."
He turned towards the jury, his voice,
which had been at a shrieleing pitch,chang-
ed. In what were evidently intended for
bogey tones he said, deep down in his
throat, pointing his finger at the jurymen:
" You are the murderers of MacWherrell I"
IN A LAST POSE
and posing has been always on this dandified
man's foibles, he raised a mock picture of
martyrdom.
It was a penny dreadful style of ma•tyr-
erti, but it was very dramatic. The audi.
elute was wdought to a high pitch as he
cried :
"1 forfeit my life for another man. I
have laced death in foreign lands; I've
heard the bullets whiz: I can force eleath ;
senteece me, your lordship I Don't make
any sympathizing speech about it; 1 jnst
want to be sentenced."
Judge Ferguson, in a very calm voice,
without donning the black cap seized the
opportunity for which he had evidently
been waiting and read the death sentence.
As has been said, there was much shriek-
ing and moaning of women, and Mao Wher-
rel is said to have cried on being taken from
the court room:
"Don't cry, ladies; I can face death;
I'm an innocent enan."
THE neuter OF HIS SPEECH
on the audience was varied. It was one of
those stupendottely dramatic moments that
come to us once in a lifetime. ' To matiy of
those present the speech had the effect of
confirming his guilt in their minds. The
early part of his epeech, with its slap at
Cross and its evident lack of veracity, had
disgusted them with the man, and his finel
exhibition of epleen, in whicili he charged
Moody and Cory with tho crime, showed
the quality of the man's mind so thorough..
ly that they lost, sympathy for him. The
mem who could hope to demonstrate his
innocence by such reekless and cowardly
eyeertie Seemed likely to have committed the
murder.
There were others to' veh ant hie sepulobral
words to the jury, "You are the murderers
of MaoWherrell," were convincing proof of
his immune°. They were in the minority.
Mr. Robiliefte was ihterviewed on the
Metter, and stied that althoogh he had
eontemplated making
Aet APriXAL IVA =ICY,
in the hope of securing a aornmatation el
the nenteime, he dotibtful of the effect
of thio lost epeech, and it Wee by no Omen
certain that he would melee
• ;fudge Ferginton 'Wee interviewed end
maid that aa appeal for merey mut come
through him, • It being a me of einem-
stantial evidence he had allowed the ex,
treme limit of the law as the time of hang,
ing —the term of tyro end a hill months.
He had A repore to make on the vaee and
he cold pot say yet what its tenor would
be, It wee it very peouliar tome, and he
would have to ponder it well before making
bis report. However, if the prisoner's
cotiosel started it petition it was bound 'to
be littera, It was the peoplehi privilege
that all petitions to the crown, be reepeet-
fully coneidered,
BRIEP AND INTERESTING.
Altura/mem does not rust or tarnish.
Glasgow barbers have denounced lady
shavers,
Dyn,amite is 'mod for killing fish in many
treame of California.
The diadem of the Russien empress .Anna
cont/41ns 2,536 large (Eamon& and a ruby
valued at $600,000.
Great Britain's seventeen battle ships of
the firet class cost sfio,000,000, and her en-
tire fleet about $175,000,000.
The early Egyptian paintings were em-
ployed as subordinate to sculpture, the
statues being painted in life colors,
Three-fourths of the earth's surface is
unfit for cultivation on account of moun-
tain ranges, desert, swamps, and barren
grAmuld.
Oowgill, Mo., man got despondent and
pleaded guilty when he was put on trial for
larceny. He was more aurprised than any-
one else when the jurymen acquitted hina
without leaving their seats. He had. been
stealing coal, and the local coal dealer was
unpopular.
The philosophical faculty of the Univer-
sity of Heidelberg has resolved that women
students can be adcnitted to the degree of
doctor there. In Gottingen also similar.
facilities are permitted, and two English
ladies, who have already studied mathem-
atics at Cambridge, are attending lectures
there.
Dew is the greatest respecter of colors.
To prove this take pieces of glass or boards
and paint them red, yellow, green and
black. Expose them at night, and you.will
find that the yellow will be covered with
moisture, that the green will be damp, but
that the red and the black will be left per-
fectly dry.
France will soon adopt an interesting in-
novation in the postal card system. The
cards Will be issued in the form of chec k
books, with stubs; 'the sender can make
memoranda of its contents on the stub, and
can have this stamped at the postoffice
before the card is detached, so that a veri-
fied record of the correspondence may be
kept.
• Florists say that the cyclamen, which
bears those marvelous winged blossoms that
sewn to hover over theplaat rather than to
be part of it, produces finer blossoms
when raised directly from the seed than
when the bulb is planted and allowed to
germinate. Amateurs, when they attempt
the cyclamen, usually buy the bulbs. and a
single bulb sometimes costa nearly as much
as a small blooming plant.
Some idea of the number of New• York
men who get their clothes in London may
be gathered from the fact that this week
there are twenty-three agents for English
tailoring houses in that town. Most of the
goods are brought into this country free of
duty and cost the wearer a little leas than
the same clothes made here. All the big
London houses have places in, New York
City where alterations are made free of
oharge.
The weight of different kinds of wood is
exceeding variable. White pine is the
lightest of the common woods, a cubic foot
of it weighing 34 pounds; willow wood
weighs 36, red pine 37, yellow pine 38 and
pitch pine 43. Poplar weighs 46 and hick.
ory 52. Logwood weighs 57, mahogany 66,
live oak 67, and lignum-vitte, the heaviest
of all, weighs 83 pounds to the cubic foot.
A block of lignum-vitm, thrown into the
water, will sink like a stone.
Little .Addie Cunningham, of Fall River,
haspassed through a remarkable experience.
On the 16th of last September she was eat-
ing watermelon when a seed lodged in her
windpipe. She was seized with a terrible
fit a coughing, and for Weeks her life was
diapered of. Physicians could do nothing
for her and she wasted away to a skeleton.
She was seized with a terrible -fit of -cough-
ing a few days ago and the melon seed was
thrown out. It Wee three times the re-
gular size of the ordinary seed and contain-
ed it long 'Trout, which was evidently
growing in her windpipe. She was imme-
diately relieved and can now breathe easily.
Cholera in Persia.
It is easy enough to understand why
Persia is a hotbed for cholera. The only
wonder is that it should ever be free from
that plague. Here is an extract from it
recent report of the British consul at
Resht, a town of 40,000 inhabitants "The
cesspools that exist in each house are mere
wells, more: or less deep, whieh have no
exit. Drinking -water is obtained from
wells sunk within ten to twenty yards of
these cesspools. There are no sewers, and
although gutters exist in some streets,they
are worse than useless, for they have no
means of carrying away the accumulated
water, and coneequently they are oftener
than tot full of a stagnant greendiquid.
The rubbish out of kitchens'and atuffthat
goes into the dust -bin at home, here is
thrown outin certain corners of streets and
open spaces, where it is allowed to aeon -
mutate. Ponds have been artificially made
where water out of the gutters accumu-
lates, and when in winter it freezes this
filthy muddy water is turned into ice and
collected in the ice-housee for consumption
the following summer ."
77ben Baby was sick, we ottve her 'Cutest!,
•
When she was a, Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Viss, she °Mug to Crusted/J.
When Mae had Children, she gam them Castorit;
Lord Reeebery hart become it milkniten,
one of the most extettaive in London but)
he doest not.have his name on his milk:wag-
0i15, Ohl Lord Raleigh doe ,s preferring to
cerry on the trade infeier the names of hie
menagerie Two other petal Who turn an
hooette penny in the same way are Lords
Londonderry, retailmoele end Portemouth,
fruit arid garden. truele.
Haile -tie) the eenaineey of all her Metall.
Lions. 's
Children Cry, foPitbhcj Oatorta
•
IN' A MANITOBA BLIZZARD,
A Wravelleer's Itleldwletter EXperteneet Oit
the teretirte.
It Was in the month of February, 1883,
that I Auld my first tilt with it fulietrown
Memitobe. blizzard. 1 Wes soneewhet of a
tenderfeet, at the tinie, hot still, in the
light of it resideuee in the Northweot of the
several years immediately following, I do
not reeollece Oily blizzard that *rite equal,
led Mile one.
At the time of which I write I was lia•
terested in some supply Contracts with
Langdon, Shepperd & 00., who were en-
gaged in pushing the Cemecliate Paeitic
Railway across the continent. We had
buyera plaeed et different pointe through-
out the country, to secure the produce
*Ida we needed—mainly oats—and es
there were no bauking fttoilities outeide ef
Winnipeg at tlae time, is was ueceesary to
tens these partiea from time to time, and
fernish them with the funds necessary to
carry on the busioess.
It was while on cite of these errends that
I found myself at the end of the 0. P. R.
eouth-western branch at 1 O'CIOCII On thae
bitterly cold Tuesday morning, with the
person I wished to see still five miles
further on. The trains ran on this branch
only twice a week during the winter, mid I
had the alternative of either walking that
five miles in time to get back again to the
train before 7 o'clock in the morning, et
which time she was due to leave for Wiunie
peg, or of spending the next four days in
the wilderness.
I chose the walk. So, between 3 and 4
&clink, I gave my moccasin striugs an ex-
tra tie, drew on my overcoat with the hood
well up over my head, and started out into
the darkness. I had been over the trail be-
fore, and as it was fairly well beaten, by
feeling the ridge of snow left in the middle
between the runners of the sleigh with my
feet, I had no difficulty in following it.
The blizzard, which had been getting worse
all night, was now in full swing with the
thermometer, as I found out later on, be-
tween 47 autl 50 below zero. As is usual
with such low ternperaturee, there was very
little wind, but the air was full of little par-
ticles of frost, which bit like needles where -
ever they tottohed the skin. I soon found
it advisable to cover my face with a ailk
handkerchief, and after that I had to go it
Before I had covered half the distance
I been to realize that it was nether a. 001 (1
morning, and I had no trouble in decidin g
just how far down my overcoat reached.
However, there was now no way out of it.
There was no settlement at the end of the
track at that time, nor were there any houses
between there and the point for which I was
making. So on I pushed, carefully follow.
ing the ridge in the centre of the trail, for
had I missed it by so much as five feet, the
chances are that this tale would never have
been written.
The last mile or two of the tramp are
somewhat hazy to me. I remember that I
seemed to get extremely cold, and that I
swung my arms and stamped my feet, and
did everything that 1 could think of to
warm myeelf. Towards the last it was a
question whether to lie down or push on a
little farther. However, at last I reached
the house, and by some means or other
found my way in.
The place which I had reached was.what
is known in the West as 0. "stopping
place"—half farm -house and half hotel, and
was kept by it man named Harmer. It was
a huge log structime, standing with the
kitchen, which was also the sitting -room,
towards the trial, and it was into this room
that 1 had found my way. The first thing
that I got my hands upon was a large square
bottle of gin, which had btett left standing
upon the table. I helped myself liberally
to this, and then proceeded to rouse the'
people of the house.
I had explained my errand to Harmer on
his first appearance, and his team was im-
mediately brought out to get me back in
time for the train. With the assistance of
the driver,I managed to reach the sleigh and
off we set, but the forepart, of the drive is
quite as hazy to me as the latter part of the
walk. The effects, however, were not
lasting, and long before we sighted the train
I was quite myself again.
On reaching the train a rather unpleasant
aurprise awaited me. Standing on the open
track for seven or eight hours in the teeth
of the blizzard had been too much for our
engine, and she had become what is tech-
nically known as "dead." It seems that
the intensely hot fire which is necessary to
keep up steam in such weather as we were
experiencing is very trying on boilers, the
•effect being to loosen the tubes, thus allow-
ing the water to escape and put out the fire.
Once the fire is extinguished the numerous
valves and pipes freeze up and the machine
is useless.
The news was wired to Winnipeg, and
word came back that an engine would be
sent out at once to bring us in, so we pre-
pared to wait with as good a grace at pos-
sible. The car we were in was not uncom-
fortable, if you did not get too far frem the
stove, and, as there were only a dozen of us
passengers, we each managed to get about
our share of the heat.
As the dining hours came round, we ad-
journed to a large havvies' boarding car
which atood close by, and which also served
as station. Here we were regaled with the
regulation lumber-eamp cookery, consisting
mainly of pork and beans, followed by pie,
all served up on tin. The term of asking us
whether we would have tea or coffee was
regularly gone through with, but, bless
your heart I yen couldn't tell the differ-
ence.
No engine arrived this day. -• •
. Just about bed -time one brilliant genius
made the discovery that the space between
the car seats was just the width of the
cushioes, so that, by removing the cushions
from unoccupied seats and placing them in
the spaces between others, we could make
a tontinuoue row of cushions, then, by tying
up the backs of the estate with the bell rope,
we could stretch out at full length and sleep
very comfortably.
Early in the'moruing we were out looking
for the train, and away off itt the distance
we could discern the smoke. We hurried
through our breakfasts, expecting that we
would soon be en our road for Winnipeg.
.8ut not so. The engine was in sight fully
three houre, making its way slowly over
the prairie, but when it had come within
half a mile otos, it atone to a dead stop,
disabled in the game wity as our own. It
wati &sad ditiappointment, but the walking
was not good obough to start out ou foot.
On the following efternoon at a o'clook
the third engine reached utt. It was badly
rcippled, but was still able to move. They
lost nehiirie, but coupled en to one of the
dead engines and the passenger coed, and
started hack. We dragged Moog slowly
the red of the afternoon and all nitride end
when We woke in the Morning wo had only
eovered it little over 30 mike. Then the
engineer fourid (het he would have to loam,
the engien and car on the twick and push
on to Morrie, the next station, light, as his
supply of weter Was failing.
Severe' of tie decided to go with the elle
may be inherited; not Consumption. Thin, n
chested children are the • ones to look out
Everybody with a tendexicy' toward Weak u
should take
cott's I3niulsion
of Cod-liver Oil, with hypophosphites of lime an4
soda. It builds up the system. Cures Coughs, Colds
and Wasting Diseases, Physicians, the world over,
endorse it.
Hereditary Weakness
and all Blood Diseases are cured by SCOTIPS EMtfl
SION. It is a food rich in nourishment, •
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gfne, sad we reached Morris about 10
la clock. Here we had our dinner while
waiting for the rest of the train. Then we
dragged on again at the same rate of speed,
arriving in Vv innipeg at 1 o' clock on Sotur-
deer Morning, having taken in all 34 houre
to cover 104 miles, making on my opinion
the slowest time on record in railroading.
On summing up damages the C. P. R.
Company found that out of 52 serviceable
engines which they had on that division at
the commencement of the blizzard,they had
only 13 which they could use when it was
over.
•
25,000 PERSONS FOOLED.
Thsylilssel the Blarney Stone on the
Midwase But it was only a Limestone
Paving Bieck.
A Washington despatch says:—Colkotor
of Customs Clark, et the port of Chicago,
has made an interesting report to the Tree.-
sury Department the other day,one chapter
of which concerns the Midway Plaisance of
the World's Fair. This part of the great
exposition was under the direct charge of
Deputy Collector J. E. Ralph, who makes
public some curious facts as to how the
the people were fooled by the so-called
"Blarney Stone," throws out a warning
about the growth of the haaheesh habit,
and incidentally refers to various tricks of
the foreign fakirs to draw out the money
of the gullible Americans. Mr. Ralph
says :
"At the openiug of the Irish village,
there was one essential thing lacking to
make the "Blarney Castle" a counterpart
of the original structure in Ireland, and
thatwas the "Blarney atone.' The mana-
ger, desirious of endowing the visitors
with an opportunity for becoming famous
spouters, took into his confidence James
Riley, a contractor, and requested that
he produce a "Blarney stone. Mr. Riley
secured the services of Charles Thompson,
an employee of the village and these two
men
ON.A DADE NIGHT
in June, repaired to the corner of Fifty-
seventh street and Portland avenue in the
city of Chicago, and there dug from the
street e limestone paving block about 18
inches by 8 inches by 10 inches in dimen-
sions. • They carried it to the village a.nd
placed it in a case which had been received
that day in bond—Case No 97, serial 4,029
—addressed to Thomas Baker, Irish Indus-
trial Village. This case contained a model
of "The Bells of Shandon." Invitations
were issued to the representatives of the
Chicago papers and to Mayor Harrison, the
latter accepting the invitation to officiate
at the opening of the case containing the
famous "Blarney stone,"
"On the day set aside for the ceremonies
Mayor Harrison could not be present and
Customs Inspector E. W. Matlock was sent
for to open the case. The inspector arrived
with the invoice for Case No. 97, serial
4,099, which stated that the case contained
a model of the Bells of Shandon,' valued
at $25. He opened the case and found it
checked 'ono stone over.' After properly
labelling both model and stone, he made his
return on the invoice : One stone over,
estimated value 3500.' This stone was then
placed in the walls of the castle, where it
remained during ehe balance of the Faiwand
was kissed by at least 25,000 people, a fee
of 10 cents apiece being charged. At the
close of the Fair,the manager of the village
desired to take the stone and exhibit it in
a store in the city of Chicago, but was in-
formed that be could not do so unless he
made a consumption entry on same and paid
the duty. Thie was done, and on Nov, 24,
1993, I delivered the stone on a. duty-paid
permit. Both the inspector in charge of the
village and myself remained in ignorance of
the history of the Blarney stone ' until
Ian. 23, 1894, believiog up to that time that
it was imported in "Case No. 97. serial
4,099." The invoice on which consumption
entry was paid read as follows: 'Ono piece
of stone from 131arney, county Cork,Irelane,
value $500.'
"I wish to call the attention of the de-
partment to the fact that large quantities
of hasheesh ' were bre-tight into this
country by the Egyptians, at least 300
pounds being coneemed and dietributed on
the Midway. I made a report ef this to
the special agents, but never heard the re -
stilt of their investigation:3. Hasheesh,'
which means herbs in Arabic,
• PuostisES TO strronewer OPTUAI,
and is it narcotic drug having the Mime ef-
feets as opium. It 10 made from an Wien
hemp which is cultivated in Aela Minor.
It is used very extensively in Asia and Tor -
key for the purpose of produoing a partici'.
bee kind of inebriety. Ite yahoo being high,
oely the • aristocratie olttes enjoy It. itt
otder to get an exact idea of the gteat con-
smnption of "hasheettle ' itt Egypt, if is
only net:0808,1,y to knew that the average
quattity titled per month by small cafes is
too to twelve pounds, one grain being
sufficientefor a dose or smoke. The Egypt.
iab Government hat absolutely prohibited
ehe introduction of thasheesla in Egypt,
but smugglers aro see clever and expert Celt
they suceeed in introducing immunize (Inane
tities of
Itt another put Of the report lir, ltalph
says: "There were consumed, in the Gere
man village and Old Vienna 5,000 oases of
imported wine and 6,000 kegs of beer, end
100 oases of merchandise, for alt of which
consumption entry was mede in the city.
Hence, you will see the Midway Pleasance
was a large source of revenue for the Treas-
ury Department. • Goods received and
accepted as exhibits in the Midway com-
prised every known variety of xnerchandiee,
comprising wild and domestic animate
antiquities, rugs, jewelry, fancyem
ibroider-
ies, bric-a-brac, works et art nstatuary
and paintings. In addition to concession-
aries there were 1,650 foreigners who took
part in the eancessione, as natives, sales- ;
men, or musicians. It has been estimated 11
by several of the moat important concession -
arms that over $7,000,000 was spent by the
public in the attractione of the Midway.
Nearly,if not all, the exhibitors in Midway
were loud in their condemnation of the
existing tariffs on woolen goods, rugs, and
manufactured glass. The largest commune '41
er of foreign goods was Robert Levy, r'
concessionary of the Turkish village, who
at the close of the fair received over $10,000
refund for goods re-exported. The eecond '
largest was the Irish lndustrialAssociation,
of which the Couutess of Aberdeen was
concessionary. This village has opened a,
large store in the city of Chicago, and
promises to be e.large factor in the importae
tion of Irish woolens, laces, and jewelry.
To some one connected with this village
should be credited one of the greatest jokes ,
ever perpetrated on the Customs force, if
not on the public,"
e.•
Two young ladies, Miss F. Marie Imancit
and Miss Bessie Maxwell, have recently
left Dundee en a journey round the world.
They are sent at the instance of the pro-
prietors of the Dundee Courier and Dundee 2,
Weekly News for the purpose of gleaning
information as to the condition of female
labour in various countries, They will also
enquire into the operations of women et
missions religious and ohari table,and study
social life, in which women are especially
interested.
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