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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-1-12, Page 6fr LOVE AND WARN A STORY OP SLAVERY DAYS. By MARY .1, ItiOUVIES. CHAPTER X111.—Contbatted. "Annie, had I lived, I never could lax° toiled foss you as I on.ce did, for where the right arms which has ad4 your light form so often used to be, there is nothing now but a scarrea stump, and this is why I have not written, Does it make yoa sick and shrink away from me? Don't, Annie. Your crippled husband's heart Ls as full of tendeeness now as ever. I was too prond of my figure, Annie, and the thought that you roight love. me less when you knew how maimed I was, hurt more than the, cold, sharp steel, cutting iato ray throbbing fleeh. "And. now, dear Annie, I come to the hardest part af all. I know just how you'll start and shudder at what you deem so cruel, a ,suggestion,—knovr jest how- keen the pang will be, for I have felt the same and nay spirit well ana laugh so raerrily that you will nigh fainted as I thought of the time never guess how the hunger pain is when another's caresses than mine gnawing at my heart, I've felt it eye, and kindle the soft blushes on your ten Like.aoe) my darling. I know just what `Twee an that terrible day would call the sweet love light to your cheek. Listen to sne, Annie. You.'11 when our brave boys met the foe, way be glad one day to remember that 1 up there at Manassas. There were and beautiful, and though you do not nor drank, and the ;filly sun peered when we neither ate told you what 1 did.. You are young hours, end hours, believe it now, the time will surelY dawn. so Italy, drying the perspiration come when my grave will not be vis- which dropped. from my hair like rain. ere you will plant above. n. .-hen next awful. day, fighting for the Union. Did very life I sweat away that ited as often as at first, „eel the flow- 1 'Twas nay spring's sun is shining will wither for you.. hear the battle, Annie—hear the want of care, and the rank grass grow- cannon's bellowing thunder as it echo- ing there will not be trodden down. by ed through the Virginia woods? Wasn't your deer little feet, for they will be it grand the yell the Highlanders waiting by another fireside than ours gave, as, with the 69th, they bore down in th.e Hollow, and my Annie, will bear battery after battery, and plunged in - another name than mine. Do you to the enemy's midst! How bravely discredit me, darling? It will surely our company played their part, fight - be, and 1 ani willing that it should, ing their way through shot and shell, but you will never know the anguish and blood and brains, wading ankle - it cost me to b.e wining. It is the bit- deep in human gore! Hurrah for the terest drop in all the bitter cup, but Stars and. Stripes, my boys 1 Titres I drank it with tears and prayers, and cheers for the Federal Flag I Yes, now I can calmly say to you. what I give us teeree times three; and when am saying—can even from my death- it floats again over all the land, re - bed. give you to another, whoever he member the, soldiers who helped de - may be. You can never forget me, fend it. Hurrah, hurrah!" I know; never forget your soldier hus- Mr. Mather shuddered as the wild. band, who fell in his country's cause, shout rang through the room. It but by and. by thoughts of him will seemed so like a mockery, that dying cease. to give you pain, and our short soldier shouting for liberty, and try - married life will seera like some far- ing in vain to wave alof t his scarred off dream. stump. Anon, however, the patriotic, "I cannot say how it vaould be with mood was claanged, and the voice was me were you taken and. I left, but I very sad which whispered: am much like other men, and judging "But hush 1 what sounds ere these, from their example I should do just mingling in the glad notes of victory? as they do, so if in after years another 'Tis the widow, the orphaaa, the mother, asks you, as I once did, to be his guia- weeping over the etain 1 There's ing star, don't refuse for me. Think that inane my low grave I bless you in your new relations, and will wel- come you to Heaven all the same, though you come fettered and bound with other links than those nay love has thrown around you. i "I am almost done now, Annie. There is a. gathering film. before my eyes, and I feel the death chill creep- ing through my veins. It would be sweet to, have you here, as I go down the brink up which no traveler has ever come; but it cannot be, and I will not repine. There is One with me whose presence is dearer far than yours could. be; One whose everlast- ing arm will be beneath me as I pass over 'Tertian. Leaning on Him I need no other stay, but shall go fearlessly down to death. There is another with me, too—an. earthly friend, who has and the South determined, and both been kinder than a. brother, and my win fight like fiends. But right must heart clings to him more. fondly than conquer at last, and the Star Spangled he can. ever guess. Always respect Banner shall wave again even over William Mather, Annie, for what he misguided Charleston, whose sons and has been. to me. Pray that prosperity daughters shell weep for joy as they may attend him all his days, and that greet the joyful sight. God speed the at the last he may find a place in Hea- happy day 1" yens He is thinking of these things, Mr. Mather could onay press the hand I know, and from, the dreary hours which lay again in his. Ere could not spent with me there may yet spring s- peak, for he knew there was a third up plants of everlastin.g growth. presence now in the sick-room—that "My mind begins to wander, dart- its dark form was shading the bed ing. There's a rushing' sound in mY whereon he sat, and with that feeling ears, while, thoughts Of you and of awe death always inspires, he sat thoughts of that terrible Sabbath bat- silently watching its progress, and tie are blended together. Good-bye,. thinking, it may be, of the future time my precious one. Don"t ery too much when William Mather would be the dy- when you read. this. It is not good- ing one instead of George Graham. bye forever. A few more years of slowly the marble pallor and the earth to you, a moment of heavenly , I strange chill crept en, pinching the bliss to me and then we meet again, nose, contracting the lips, touching where golden harps are ringing. lean 1 the forehead and moistening the soft almost hear them now—almost see the brown hair which William smoothed. shining throngs sent out to meet me, caressingly, as he bent down to catch _just as I once vainly dreamed. the the last faint whisperings of a spirit Rockland people would come to wel- n.early gone. oome me home from war. In fancy I "We fought the battle bravely. Tell put my arms around your neck just them not to be discouraged because of as 1 used to do; in. fancy hold you to one, defeat. Our cause is just. 'Twill my bosom; in fancy kiss your girlish triumph at the last. Don't be too bit - Lips, and. smooth your pale brown hair. ter toward the South; there are kind ''I don't know how you'll live with- hearts there as well as here, and its out me; don't know who will earn daughters weep as sadly as any at the your bread, bat the God of the widow North. God. help and pity them all. and fatherless will surely care for ray Annie darling, I am almost home; so darling and keep her heart from break- near that I can see the pearly gates Frig. With him I leaire, you., knowing which stand open night and clay. It you are saaer there than elsewhere. it not hard to die—no pain, no anguish "Good-bye, good-bye," now—nothing but joy and gladness There were great tear blots upon. and everlasting. rest, rest—perfect rest this Letter, for Mr. Mather, as he pen- for the redeemed,e ned it, ha,d wept like e child, forming S -401t night shall find her htusgry, no win- ter moaning cold. Oh, Annie, Annie, thet you should ever mane to ibis 1" It was a bitter, wailing cry, em- bodying all the mighty lave the sick man bad ever felt for his young wife. George had thought himself resigned, but weak human nature, whicth °tinge so tenaciously to life, was making one last effort for the mastery, and the worn. epirit fainted for a time in the fierce struggle which ensued. The mind began to wander, and wae in fancy back again at the cottage in the Hollow, where the soldier clasped his Amite to his bosom, begging of her in piteous tones not to love him less be- cause he was a cripple. "I have only one armto work with now, but I won't let you starve, for when there's but one orust left, give it all to you, TBE tlie war, The drums beat jeist the eagle—the bands played just as enerri- lee mid the busy tide went on es if the quiet chamber in --street held nes etiffened form, once as full of life and hope as the gay troops maz'oli- iteg by, But away to the Northward. there was bitter mourning, and. neany a. bright eye wept as the sad news ran along the streets, that Rockland'e young heutenant, of whom the people were justly peoucl, lay dead in Wesh- ington, and. many a heart beat with sympathy, for the young wife, wile, ever since Itearing the fatal news, had lain upon, her bed, more dead than alive, with a look upon her white face which told better than words of the anguish she was endusine, Nolbing oould induce Rose to leave her foe a moment. "Will had stead by George," she said, "and she should stay by Annie." With her sitting by, Annie grew stronger, and could at last talk caLm- ly at what was expected on the mor- row, "It will be terrible," she said, "to hear the tramp of feet coming up the walk, and know they are bringing George! Oh, Mrs. Mather, you'll stay by me, even if your husband. is among the umber?"il Annus did not mean to be selftsh. She was too much benumbed to realize anything fully, and she never thought what it would cost Rose to stay there, knowing her husband would seek her at home, and be so disappointed at not finding her there. Rose could not re - rim a request so touchingly macle, but just as the morning broke she went home for a few moments to pee that all necessary preparations were made for Will's comfort ; then, penning him a note to tell why she was not there to meet him, she returned again* to the cottage, where Widow Simms was bus- ily at work setting things to rights for the expected arrival, her tears falling upon the furniture she was dusting, and her chest heaving with sobs as she heard in the distance the sound of a gathering crowd, and thought, "It may be my boy they'll go up next to meet." Poor Annie, too, shuddered and moaned as she oaught the ominous sounds, and knew what they portend- ed. "It would be better to bring him back quietly," she said. "It seems al- . most like mockery, this parade, which he can never know. I may he glad, by and by that they honored him thus, but it's so hard. now," and covering her head with her pillow, Annie wept silently as she heard the moul nett' beat of the muffled drum, and knew the march to the depot had commenced. How Rose wanted to be in the street and see her husband when he came; but with heroic self-denial she forced down every longing. to be away, and sitting down by A.nnie, busied herself with counting off the minutes and wonder - mourning East and West; there's ing if the clock would ever point to half -past ten,- or the train ever ar- weeping North and South, for the dead who will return no more! A crushed rebellion. is hardly wortla the fearful price. Oh. Annie, pray for the poor soldier_everybody pray. wh Honor our memory—forget our faults en he came back again was,, more us when we are gone! than realized. There were men and —speak kindly of We gave our life for freedom! mi. of 1 carriages upon the street, and groups all that we can do. Speak kindly of i the soldiers slain!" little boys ran up and. dovvn. But in women at the corners, while the Reason was struggling back again; ' the beat of the muffled drum there was arid bending lower, Mr. Mather said: a tone which made the hearts of those "George, we will honor the soldiers who heard it overflow with tears, as dead, and care for the ,soldiers living." they remembered whet tint dirge -like g,int- music meant. Around the jammed "Yes, yes!" Geora answered, fa white hat of the man who played the ly. "They need it so much— more than. the people guess who fife there was a badge of mourning, stay at home and read about the and in the notes he trilled a mournful war. It will be . long, and the cadence far different from the patriotic strains he played as a farewell to contest terrible. The North is strong, Rockland soldiers, going forth to bat - rive, There was a great crowd out that morning to meet the returning soldier, and George's dream of what might be , 4X1111"41t, TI1VERS FEMININE SOLDIERS. In view of the meat account' in the English aewspapers, of the remark - eine adventures of Datad James 14n- ooln Gartield Mete:inlay, otherwise Mies Amelia Vella, who, served two voyages as a "boy" among a saip's company before diselosing Dee eex, it may be jut teeeetiag to recall several such notable inetances of women serving as seamen. Viral. of all, in regard to Miss Vella, it may he reMerked that she is only sixteen years of eige, and was born in America: With her dark cemplexion and Week hair and. eyes, and, manner of walking, she has all the appearance of being a rather slightly formed boy when dressed in jacket and trousers. Only last year there was a plucky instance given of a woman perfaime Mg the duties of a, seaman without being suspected. The good ship Haw- kesdale was about to sail for Australia from an English provincial port, when two young men were ehipped as ordin- ary seamen. On arrival at the Anti- podes they asked for and received their discharge and disappeared., the cap- tain being then unaware that one of Che two was a woman, It appeared that the woman's name was Nancy Clifford, and that her com- panion was her deceased. sister's hus- band. They were both in love with each other, but not being permitted to marry ba England they had resolved to go to the other side of the world. Be- ing unfortunately short of the neces- sary cash to pay their passage, how- ever, they had taken the bold eourse of jo.ning a slate's crew, but how they managed to keep their great secret Lor eix months in A crowded ship's to - G. -sae is a mystery. Cartously erough, in the year 1800, the gallant crew of His Majesty's ship Aetaeon were laughing over a some- what similar ease to that of Miss Vella's. It was discoserecl that one of the bee's, who had begged to be taken on bated seven weeks before, and had in the meantime performed the duties of his station like othm boys, was really a fine girl of eighteen, who had taken the daring step in order to es- cape from the tyranny of her father. No one had in the least suspected the true facts of the case, but when the discovery was made, the crew came up to the mark Like jolly British, tars. \then the "boy'• went ashore she Look with her a hendsome sum—the am.ount of a collection by the officers and men. Another case last year was that of a woman, Hannah Webber by name, who worked her passage from New York to Liverpool on the ;Johnston ' liner Templemore disguised as a cat- tleman. For some years ili America she had appeared on the stage as a "male impersonator," and being dis- cia rgecl nom hospital practically des- ' thews., had. signed articles for the, trip amass to'join her relatives in Shef- field: ehe would probably have made the voyage undiscovered, but for an un- fortunate accident. As the vessel was nearing Lieerpoal, she injured herself by lifting a 2ewt. bale of hay, and the seeret came out, The own- ers of the liner paid dee plucky wo- man's fare to the cutlery town. Perhaps the pjuckiest of these in - instances to record is the account of how a woman brought an under- manned ship safely through a .gale. • In 1896 the ship F. Oakes left Hong Kong for New York, and after a lapse of 259 days without being heard of was generally given up fof lost. She eventually turned u.p, however, at New York in tow of the British steamer Kusbck and a most remarkable story was told. Soon Elam' the F. Oakes had passed the Equator in. the Pacific the men sickened frotn scurvy and five were dead before the Eforn was round- ed, _while others weee so ill that they were unabla to properly navigate the vessel. Their provisions, too, ran short. When the Kasbek fell in, with her the only able mariner abroad was Mrs. Reed, the captain's wife, whohacl been at the helm eight hours without Coed or drink, keeping the ship before the gale. a resolution. whioh he avvondered had Drearily th • not suggested itself before. Kneeling , sweeping down the street, end the sob - by the dying George, he said, "God will bing, ram beat against the window eare for year darling, and I shall Ise His instrareent. So long as 1 have a vehilet the misty daylight came strug- Rotes gling faintly into the, silent room home, Annie shall not suffer. which held the living ani tbe dead; love has been given Iter long ago and mine will follow some She shall be the one coIcl, and white, and still, his features wearing a smile of peace as if ti, sister to us both." he had indeed entered int o everlasting The glazed eyes lighted up with joy, rest—the other kneeling by his side, and the white, lip a whispered the thanks and with his face buried in the pillows, which ended in a prayer for blessings praying that when his time shotild on one who heel proved himself so kind °erne, he, too, might die the death of la th.e poor soldier. the righteous, and go where George •"Come closer,to me," the said "take had gone. my band ila yoiere and keep it there while / thank you, for what yolieve been. to me. You'll forgive me, I know, that I ever thought you proud, for I did, and sometimea there was a bitter feeling in my heart when I saw your Roee latteourceed with every luxury, trid thought of Annie, as highly edu- weed, ea she, takieg a far lower plates In liocklarid, beeause her tineband was et Meoliatlie. Theta Is mare of that •feeling itteenet the • working dosses titan yosa imagines, and you doett know how Much good at tawnier word or a e November wind went tittle notice frere eueh 48 YOU- tleee 10 • lose wile fill the huMbler waling ot • alasamsa, lee' Ole more then • nen, atid again 1 Mese eon for the sate promised my Arnde 1 do Dot aek that you allotted take her to your home • yott ettsgest,. Yott'll think differ- snlay of that bye and by but See that De dms not want; See tital isaevinter • CHAPTER XIV. With gaivering lip Mr.. Mather told the Members o Compane R, that their lieutenant was dead; and strong men as they were they did tot deem thenas selves unmenly that they wiped the big tears awayeraid crowding around their informer anxiously asked for particle - lees ot their departed oottirade, all epeaking kindly of him, and each, thinking ef the sweet girt -wife at ineue on whore the news Weald fall So crusaingly. A soldier's dying was no novel thing in Washington, and tie aside frets. Conipaey It, there were few Who kneW or cared that another soul had gone to the Gael wha gave ft—that another •vietim wee added to the list whit% ellen arm day come up with tear - tut blaeltense before the provokers of tle, with bopes so sanguine of success. One of that youthful band was coming back; not full of life and fiery ambi- tion as when he went away, dreaming brighl dreams of the glory he would win, and the laurels he would wear, when once again he trod the streets at home. Not as a conquering hero, with the crown of fame on his brow, though the crown indeed was won, and where the golden light of Heaven . . shines from the evermstuag hills, De was wearing it in glory. But his ear was deaf to all earthly sounds, and the tribute of respect his friends fain would. bestow upon him, awakened no thrill in his cold, -pulseless heart. Still they felt that all honor was due to the dead, and so they bed come up to meet him, a greater throng than any of which he had dreamed when ambition burned within his bosom. There was a carriage waiting, too, just as he hoped there might be.' a carriage sent expressly for him, butthe children on the sidewalk shrank away and ceased their noisy clamor as it went by, its sombre appearance somewhat relieved by the gay coloring of the Stars and Stripes laid reverently upon it. Slowly up the street the long proces- sion passed, unmindful of the rain which mirigIed with the snow and sleet beat upon the pavements, and •dashed against the window -panes, from which many a tear -stained face looked out upon the gloomy scene, made ten times gloomier by the sighing of the wind and the rifts of leaden clouds veiling the November sky. Over the eastern hills tisere was a rising wreath of smoke, and a shrill, discordant scream told that: the train was coming, just as the carriage sent for George drew up to ite appointed place. Gently, carefully, tenderly they lift- ed. him out, andiset him down in their midst; but no loud cheering rent the air, no acclamations of applause, no- thing save that dreadful muffled beat, and the soft notes of the fife, telling to the passengers leaning from the windows, that the, dead, as well as the living, had been their fellow -traveller, The banner upon the hearse told the rest of the sadstory, arelevieh a sigh,to the memory of the unkown soldier', the passengers reeiimed theit seats, and the train sped an its veay, leaving the Rockland people alone with their dead. To Be Continued, • TttE EMPRESS IS PRIVILF,GED, It is perhaps not generally known thee the German Emperor has e paper published aha printed exe,luaively for hireeelf and for the Empress. It in the imperial Gazatte, of Berlin, containing e agar arid cotteise daily summary of the world's nevvs. The edition df this paper corisists of two copies doubtlees the anntilest edittea of any 'levee pub- lished.. Testiporizing•—Callei, by way of itt- treclactiort, briskly—I am a bill tolleots ore -Mr. Ten Weeklyboricsi—Ah Is -is it a mania, Witli you, Or merely a Ode , e A LAKE PILOT'S LEG. mem. Mew It SolVed the Mystery (settle Wreck et the St0S1111 terepetter Susan is. Peek. "We are never amazed when vessels go agneued and, are, wreaked. on Lake h'rie during the gales that are contmon on that treacherous water, for we ex- pect such things then," said. a lake skipper, "but when one is grounded o11 a olear day and wreoleed, on a course as elear as the day, and, in the hands of a pilot that knows the ground like e book, we naturally wonder a little and want to know the, whys and tvliere- fores, Sach was the case of the pro- peller Susan E, Peck that went aground near Bar Point, and was lost with a $20,000 cargo. "The Captain of the Susan E„ had sailed successfully hundreds of times between Point Pelee and Bar Point and in all kinds of weather, and this time he had a wheelinan who was known frotn one end of the lake to the other as one of the most expert navigators in the lake business. He had been lying up a long time for the very good rea- son that owing to an accident to one of his legs that leg had to be amputat- ed to save his life. The lost.merober was replaced by an artificial leg and then the pilot was ready to take his post at the wheel again. His first ser- vice after his misfortune was this trip of the Susan E. Peek, and he ran her aground. "The puzzle to everybody was how • HOW DONE IN SLAVONIA. The mangle used in 'S'alvonia is a stout plank, about 7 feet long raised tot a height of 2 feet upon rough- hewn legs. The middle of the plank is gripped by a framework rising from _the floor to a height of 5 feet, with three great beams running across it, the 'whole fastened together with 'pegs. Upori the plank are laid two rollers and on these rests a half log of wood, just fitting between the sides of the frame. This weight is smooth on its under surface, round -hewn wood above, and is provided at each end with three pegs, which serve as Dandies. The ironer, when ready to begin, takes a sheet for instance, wirids it tightly around one of the rollers, and outs an old ironoxig cloth around the °Melds. Then lifting One end of the Jog and planing the roller under it; she works the weight to and fro; un- til the wrinkIea axe all presumably smoothed away, Then the rest is re- moved, faded, and put away and the next "ironing"—perhaps another sheet or three or four towele, or half a, doz- en handkerchiefn—substitutecl. The second roller acts merely to balance the log, although two irotters can work the meehines one at eaeh end. The woman Who irons is as piettireS- qae as her tools when she wears the peasant et:et:unite Iler slates are flat and heelless; she has stockings, but winds Helen about her anklets and legs, and bind it in plaoe Willa thongs, leav- ing a space of two inches or 80 bare be- low the edge of her kilted skirt of eoarse andyed ikeri. Her yellow sheep. skin jiteket is ornamented with patehes o rad and perple leather, appliqued ivetalat, eseseteet Dat' bee cl is, noverea with a gaudy handkerchief, A Dtvistion Collet has been estab- • lished at Chelmsford, East Algoecle, tee; ei•ea-7-'eSS, it was possible for the propeller, hand- led, by a man of sueh skill and experi- ence, on a straight course, only forty miles long and with every sailing con- dition favorable, to leave her course. The pilot was the most puzzled and ae- tounded person of all. He eoon got an- other vessel, and this one he ran in such an erratic manner, but, fortun- ately, wall no disastrous result, that he was compelled to give her up and his usefulness as a pilot was gone. He and others went to investigating to see if they could discover what was wrong with his seamanship. After a while they discovered what they believ- ed was the trouble. In the pilot's arti- ficial leg a great deal of steel had. been used in the joints and other places. Sit- ting close to the binnacle, as he did while steering, this steel deranged the compass so that it threw the wheelman way off hi a reckoning and led to the wrong piloting that had wrecked the Susan E. Peck and endangered the oth- er veesel that the wheelman had navi- gated subsequently. • This was what they argued., and. to demonstrate the correctness of the theory, the pilot took charge of a vessel without wear- ing his false- leg. Everything worked to a charm. The mystery of the Susan E. Peek wee solved and the pilot was restored to' his old place in the confid- ence of Lake Erie skippers and vessel owners." • THE PRAISES OF WALKING. Mr, Nobbilby, Just In From a Spin Illmself Adds a Verse or Two to tbe Song. "I have sung before," said Mr. Nob- bleby, "the praises of walking, and, when I come to think of it, I am but one of many that have chanted the same measure; but I wish I might be permitted to sing one more verse. "To restore the mental equilibrium there is nothing like walking. If one is tired vvith work, atd, if not just des- pondent, at least doubtful and depres- sed, let him drop his work right where it is and gat out and walk. Fifteen or twenty minutes of itewill do, will bring in a jolly, joyous, rushing tide of good spirits that will make the mental shores to smile. And when you go back and take up that same work that EYES OF THE GREAT. Sir Walter Scott said that the eye3 of Robert Burns were the finest he ever saw, and all accounts agree thee they formedthe most remarkable fea- ture of a striking ,face. Seott's son and biographer Lockhart renearks that Burns' eye was large aitid dark "and glowed, I say literally glowed, when he epolte with feeling or interest. never eaw Such another eye in a human head though I have seen the most dis tinguished DISII in nay, time." Other writers bear similar teistithony. Scott's tewn eyes were noticeable, Carlyle wheci a youth, as he watehed hina hob bling along Use streete of Edinburgh neted • the pale, . shad rikeeir Mid; t he "fiete. deefebrowed grey- eyes of he great poet and novelist. Loolthert says that his father -in -le -We eyes were "clear open end well set, with 0 eharigeful, radiance." PURELY CAIIADIAN NEW. 1NTEIR.ESTING ITEMS ABOUT .OUR OWN COUNTRY. -nee gathered from various Points from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Stratford has a. cordwood famine. Gott is to have anew G. T. It- Sta- tion, Caebade City, 8.0., has a Board of Trade. Carnbrooke B. C., may be made a port of entry. Bratford event 6145,000 in • street and sewers. Appin creamery produces 400 pounds ot butter a day. Wood has been selling at 47 a cord at Sault Ste IVIarie. The new San Life building at Ottawa WkiS opened on Monday. Tohn Fisher, a well-known citizen of Woodstock, N. B., is dead. Mica is reported 16 be plentiful in; Cardiff township, Haliburton. A branoh of the Bank of Halifax has been opeued at Grand Forks, B. C. Dr. Hanna, formerly of Sarnia, is now practicing at Kingston, Cal. Niagara, B.C., is to have a telephone system and an electric light plant. Seveni hundred operators are em- ployed at the Montmorency Cotton Mills. The Ingersoll Packing Company killed and dressed 19,465 hogs in No- vemebr. Roseland's aldermen have, voted down a motion to give themselves a salary. There are 1,303 Knights of Pythias in Beitish Columbia, and the order is growing. In Victoria country there are tsvo Public schooltteachers who have taught 21 years. e American sportsmen left $5,000 in license, fees with the Province of New Brunswick. • The only hospital in the Slocan dis- trict, British Columbia. is located at New Denber, Ralph Willard, one of the pioneers of British Columbia, died at Ashcroft, B. C., rece,titly. Alfred Hales, of Guelph, owns two bears, which- were captured in the north this fall. Cascade City • and Cranbrook, new towns in British Columbia, are to have. water -works systems. Harry L. Grey, of Toronto, has the dentract for the electric wiring of the St. Thomas City Hall. Fifty-nine thousand head. of cattle were exported from 'Manitoba and the Territories this season. Mrs. C. E. Groves has been appoint- ed court reporter for the Roseland and Nelson division, B. C. After six years' residence in ,Nelson, B. C., F. X. Farley sold met his inter- ests and cleared $21,000. Mars. Berney, relict of the late Fran- cis Reilley, of Wirdsville, died at Ottertail, B. C., recently. D. H. Wright, son of Rev. Peter Wright, Portage la Prairie, Man., died in California recently. Mr. Lewis Moir, of Stratford, has accepted the position of secretary of the Y. M. C. A.. of that city. The Lindsay, Bobcaygeon and Popty- pool Railway will ask the Dominion Parliament to annul its charter. - The steamer Empress of China sailed from Vancouver for the Orient last week, with 409 Celestials on board. Fridai night an I. C. R. train while running along at a rapid. clip north. of Rogersville, N. -B., killed three moose. Brooklyn, the famous Kootenay town opposite Deer Park, has had its day, and another two months will find the' place practically deserted. The mer- chants are selling out their stocks at low cost and are leaving town.' Geo. H. Adams of Teterboro,' will be a, delegate to the Railroad Trainmen's convention at New Orleans, in May seext. The Peterboro' Board of Health arges the Board of Education of that town to have the school children vac- cinated. J. H. Brown, Indian River,shipped 6,500 turkeys, 2,000 geese, 1,000 chick- ens Said 700 ducks to the North-west recently. ' • The stage running between the Re- gina mine and Rat Portage went theough the ice five times One day • lest, week. F. A.. Bilann, on his removal- from the Hesp,eler branch of the Merchants' Bank to Watford, was banquetted by the citizens of Hespeler. Vernon Smith, son of Town Treas- urer Smith, Port Hope, is a member of the Sixth United. States Regiment, detailed for duty in the Philippines. • smelled cheese, who came to British Colurabla in the gold rush of 1859, died at the Royal Columbia. Hospital, West- minster, on Tueeday. He was_78 years of age. had seenaed so dull and hard before you see it clearly and grapple it with the confidence born et strength. All due to fifteen or twenty minutes' walk. Perhaps, indeed, the crowd helps to divert the mind. Bue the main thing, the great thing, is to ease up on the tension a little. We get to holding down the spring and hanging on to it so hard that we numb both body and brain. We let up on the spring, let it go entirely, and take a little turn in tha air and there's never a fibre in the body, nor a drop of blood, but what oomes up and smiles at us and says: "'Ho! Ho 1 old. man! It's a fine "They were tired, every one, and thus wanted a. little rest; and now they're ready to go at it again. And. with these in this mood to back you the work is easy. You see it with a clear brain and you tackle it with a sure and, steady hand. "This for a strength renewer 10, working hours. Valo does not know the, delight of the first turn of the day in the open air, after a night pent up in a room indoors, when, as he steps off briskly, his blood einiles in every vein with the fresh, bright air of the morning! And think of walking just for pleasure, under lovely skies and by stream and forest 1 "For rest and refreshrhent of body and. mind, try walking!" YOU CAN HEAR HEAT AND COLD. eneenteita Apparatus, to leeternalue One romper:ours by Selena. It is now poasible to hear heat and. cold. Dr. George C. *Whipple has in- ventea an electrical inatrument lay xneans of whieh the various ranged Of •• tempe.ratare may be heard in an ora dinary telephone receiver. Exployer Peary owns one of these instruments, and he will take it with him to the North Tole to taiten to the very in- tense cold which is supposed to pre- vail there. The apparatus is very simple in con- struction. In external appearance, Ac- cording to e writer in the Golden Pen- ny, it is like an ordinary eleetrio bat- tery box, such as is used iu sick rooms. Frons one side et the box extends a very Long insulated wire, carrying a small coil of bare wire ou the end of it, From the other side of the box extend wires whieh hold a telephone receiver. The latter is to be held to the ear, so that the temperature into which the bare coil is thrust may be heard. The clerk who prevented the robbery in the Bank of British North America at Vancouver, BC., has been promot- ed, as well as presented with a gift The Scott Act, is being Vigorously enforced in Nova Seotire Pert y Sircims, of Itiglateteed, was committed to jail for a violation a the ace. Michael Mo - Fadden, a Canning:, had to pay fines and casts amounting to e2:35. Ori Saturaay hest, the final Olio:tient of pressett hope was Made from the Coidetrestin ranch, near Vernon, BC. This seesen's otitput from Lord Aber- . 'deeteS'eatate erensiStede eevere oars, emounting in all to about 46 tons, Of these two ears were eeet to the Eng- lieh market, the rennander being die - penal of in Toronto and Montreal, It; may seem strange that heal and cold may be heard as well as felt. To be accurate, it ie the presence of heat, be accurate, it is the presence of heat or cold acting on the bare coil of wire which causes ah electric current to set • up a buzzing in the telephone,. Wben the instrument is used, the telephone is heal to the ear, while the listener looks at a diet on the battery box men- tioned above. This dial, which in ap- pearance is like the face of an ordin- ary me,chanical thermometer, is mark- ed with figures representing degrees of temperature above and below zero. EIOW TEMPERATURE IS DETER- MINED. Let us suppose, for instance, that we are to listen to the temperature of a pail of water. The coil of bare wire is thrust inta the water and the ob- server plaee,s the telephone to his ear. There is a hand or pointer pivoted in the middle of the dial face. The observ- er proceeds to bare the pointer from figure to figure on the dial. When the telephone is placed. first to the ear, a loud buzzing sound is heard. This is because the pointer does iaot happen to be at the figure representing the bteumropeoroaif lininepoifuntohdwater in which the As the pointer nears the figure that indicates the correct temperature, the buzzing sound isa the telephone be- comes fainter until, when it comes op- posite, it stops altogether. As soon as the buzzing stops the observer knows tleant tfhoeuntedmperature of the water has b Dr. Whipeele tried the instrument the other day in a room the temper- ature of which was about '70 degrees, An experimenter placed the telephone to his ear and heard a loud buzzing. Dr. Whippele moved the pointer to- ward the figure 70. The moment '70 was reached the buzzing stopped. This was because the temperature of the room _ surrounding the coil had teen found. - Dr. Whippet° then held the bare coil of wire 'between both hands. The buzz- ing in the telephone began again, be- cause the warmth of his hands had raised. the temperature of the coil. The experimentor moved the pointer around until it reached 98 degrees. The buzz- ing stopped again, showing th.at the ftoemuupderature of the hands had been Then Dr. Whippet° lighted a snatch and held the flame against the coil. The buzzing began again, and the pointer had to be moved forward until the temperature of the lighted match was found. The coil was thrust into a basin of water. The buzzing com- mencecl and did not stop until the point- er was moved down to 60 degrees, show- ing that to be the temperature in the basin. When the coil was held against a piece of ice the pointer had to he turned back 15 degrees above zero. IN COLD STORAGE WAREHOUSES. The instrument is now being used in cold storage warehouses to ascer- tain the temperature of the various rooms without opening them. I t B old days of cold storage work it was/ necessary to keep the refrigerating pleat operating under high pressure all the time because it was not possible to tell the temperature of any individ- ual room without opening it, and it was not always advisable to do that. So to make sure all of the rooms they were kept as cold as possibree Now, however, each individual room in the werehouse has in it one of these new electric thermometers, Several times a day an official goes to a, series of push buttons upon the office' wall . and throws into circuit one after an- other the thermometers in the various rooms of the warehouse. By placing the telephone to his ear and manipulat- ing the dial he is able accuratelyto determine the temperature of every room in the building. , The new thermometer will doubtless be of much value in factories where furnaces and ovens are used. It can be made to ring an alarm, and -hence would be useful in the powder magazinet of a War ship. Isa fact, it will beeans valuable in any situation where ine :treaosneo. soof beat or cold must be known; LONGEVITY OF BALLET DANCERS. A statistician has been devoting himself to a study cat the +amine& in this particular art, and his investiga- tions seem to establish the feet that they are, an unueuelly long • lived lot. The famous Carlotta Griti IS living now at the age of eeventy-seven, mad one Of the ballet dancere at the Opera, in Paris seveety; but he ism, Man, Amelia Verreris is Still teaching at the age of sevente-eight in Paris, and seems likely to coetinue thee work for some time, to Conte. FatIny Feeler was tieV- enty-fone when, else died, and Taglioni Das passed her eightieth year. Rosita affauri, the Popular preiniere at the ' Opera in Paris, is over fifty and haS began to talk of retiring. OF LIQUOR. Ragged. ReabeeeWats Ler he, Willie, if yee Watsn't a Mae? . MreaeY. Willie. -One of dose rare in) sects Wok de ecientilete preserveS isa alcohol.