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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-3-23, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES le1441,0".4.n..07 irotrA* Love aIidWar.*. .6(se s BAySin0Athalfy OJP limSLAVERY DAYS. ire ES. teanweeneta'netewenatnienc,&eareelehchnenoteetentonaneenwoanwenitententteettesse, •":11,0rOZWzWW:2;; had prompted them. 431,aitcrie- ered with Pain, whitielviteolUinnel soothed by a visit to George's grave. There, on the turf which covered. him, e hn had wept out many a grief, and she started for it now, the villagers watehing her as slie passed their doors, and curiously speculating, as people will, upon the tinae to cora° whea the long black dress and graceful, girlish form would net be so often seen among the Rockland dead. Already the gossips of the town, were coupling her name with the Carletons, the majority giving her to Tom, the elder, and more worthy of the two. A whisper of this gossip had been borne to Mrs. Carleton who, while Pretend" lag to ignore it, had felt troubled as she recalled all the incidents of Jim- mie's visit at home. Then, when the ausPicion came to her that the woman whom Rose had taken into her house- hold was possibly identical with the ogoitlaotnNo tater eLmoetoenr, moment greatly disturbed. There was Wshhesaferilatinfeorshae fierce struggle with her pride, a close reasoning with herself, and then her better nature triumphed, and her heart went out very kindly toward. poor Annie, at that moment standing by her husband's grans, and wonder- ing why her thoughts would keep straying away tn the wayward young man who had been a traitor to his country but was trying to atone by voluntarily bearing the haxdships •of a private's life when a better was on tenni him. He had asked if she would think he did right, and the question had shown that he cared for her good opinion. Yes, she did think he was right, and she resolved to send him a message to that effect when Rose wrote to him next, There was no wrong to the dead in the thought, and her, teardropped iust as fast upon the marble as she stooped to kiss the name ;ttera yeuypaernd.it awn then left the silent Meantlme Rose had visited her siok woman in the Hollow, --had fed the hungry children, and dropped upon the floor the air weeks' baby. which she tried to hold, then, gathering her shawl about her, and holding up her skirts just as she alweys did when in the homes of the poor, she re-entered her carriage and bade Juke drive her next to Widow Simms'. Everything there was neat and clean as Soap and sand and the widow's two hands could snake it, while SUSall nmde a very pretty picture, in her dark stuff govvn with the scarlet velvet rib- sbaounceito n Eoherbak hair. There was a glish violets on the round thinking of this, however, on the af- deal table, and their sweet perfume ternoont when she was alone with An- fillee tee ram into wane, Rose came UG , While Rose was away on her errand r earning, her eyes shining like 'stars, of m.erey. She was thinking rather of and her cheeks so brilliant a color that the suspition which had just found a ethe widow began directly to wonder "if • lodgment in her mind, and was dania- thexe wasn't some paint wheeew lag SOMe means of testing its reality, The widow was not in her best mood, To this end she at last made some for she was very tired, having done a us, remark but Rockland and its heavy washing in the morning before people asking if &Janie had always liv- Rose Mather had thought of ed t here.opening her bright eyes; then, after "t ely since I was tuarried," was the • ep,.,r And Mrs. Carleton continued, You seem more like Eastern peo- ple than like a New 'Yorker. Were you born in New England?" " Yes—in Connecticut," Annie said. And then Mrs. Carleton made a great blunder by asking nexh UHAP'TER XX.—Continued. It was a datietbter of one of the sob. diern• whose mother was siok and hed sent to Mrs. Blather for some little 'delicaoy. Such calls were frequent at the Mather house for the soldiers did -not receive their pay regularly, and there was much destitution among their tamilies, who, but for Rose's lib- erality would have suffered far more than they did. As freely as water, her money was used to relieve their wants, and now, forgetting ,Timmie and his Itequot, she entered at once into the little girl's story, and when told that the siok woman had expressed a wish to see her she said, "I'll go now; there's Jake just eorne in, I'll have hint herness the homes and take you hone. It must be a rails or more to your. house.'' Rose usually aoted upon her impulse, ttn.d was soon in her carriage with a huge basket at her feet and the Olt - tie girl opposite, enjoying her ride so muoh, aid enjoying it the more for the unmistakable signs of envy and wonder which she detected in the faces f her companions as she neared her u.mble home in the hollow. Rose had ked both her mother and Annie to ompany her, but they had declined, d for a time after Rose's departure, ey sat together in perfect silence, while a curious train of thought was passing through the minds of each. An- nie's agitation when Rose read " Pe - gaol:" for "paragon," had surprised Mee. Carleton while what she had said of the girl and her aunt had. awakened a feeling of disquiet and, suspioion. • Mrs Carleton was proud of her own and her husband's family—proud of her wealth, and proud of her position. Not offensively so' but in that quiet, as- sured kind ofway so natural to the highly bred Bostonian. It. was this pride which had prompted her to resort Lc' ao extreme measures with the boy Ximmie, when she found how munh he wanteneterestect in the little Pequot, and when, during Ihnmie's brief stay tti Itoceriancl, she, with a mother's (Nick antuition, detected in hire signs of int Anst in Annie Graham, her pride again took fright, and she was half glad, to have him go from the possible • tem.pta.tion., Something in the nobler part of the wcuna,n's nature told her e how wrong the feeling was, while each -le day some new development of Annie's 'gentle Cbristian character, matte the desolate young creature dearer totter. That she was superior to most people in her rank of life Mrs. Carleton knew, and she had more than once wondered • how one like her.hed ever beeonae the wife of a mechan. ic She was het e coarser, larger pieces were dried and ironed, she had tried to spin, a work to which she clung as tenaciously as if on every stream in New England there were not a cotton or woolezi fac- tory capable of doing the work so muoh easier and. better than herself. The widow was toad of spinning, and she Were you born in or near New Lon- had turned the ntheel with v. right: don? I have been there several times and may know your family," At mention of New London Annie's eyes flashed upon &Ire. Carleton with a startled look as if she felt that there was a deeper meaning in the question- ing to tvhich she was being subjected than appecteed on the surface and her voice trembled. a li ttle as , she replied, "1 was born in Hartford, and lived there till I was eight years old, when my parents both died of cholera in one day, and 1 went to live with my aunt in New Haven." " Yes," Mrs. Carleton answered slow- ly. - Thus far there tvas quite as math to prove as there was to disprove the correctness of her surmise and think- • ing to herself, —T. may as well go further now I have Oommenced with being rude," she continued, " Pardon me, Miss Graham, if I seem inquisitive, but I cannot help feeling interasted in one to whom Rose is so greatly attached and I do not • remember that T ever heard any of your history before your husband went to war. I do not even know your maid- en name." Annien heart beat almost audibly and her cbeeks were very red, as she replied, " My father was Dr. Howard, and I wan Annie Louise Howard. Excuse vete, Mrs. Carleton, if 1 cannot talk much of my girl -life after my par- ents died. It was not a happy one. I was wholly dependent upon my aunt, who, whilet giving me every advantage in the way of education, kept before •ME: so constantly the fact 1ha 1 was an objeet of charity t hat it embittered every moment, of my life, and when George offered me his 10Ve 1 accepted It gladly, finding in him the only real friend I had known since the clay 1 was an orphan." • Annje was (trying now, and excusing herself she left the parlor and repair- ed to her own room, where her excite,- ment apeat itself in tnars and sobs as 811.6 recalled ail the dreedful years • When the vvas sittiject to the caprices •cif the rtmet eitpricious of women, who had attempted, to force her into a marriage with a millionaire, of sixty and had driven her to accept the love which George Graham bad offered her. He had not. been her equitt iron an in- - telleotual point of view, , and none knew this faet better than Annie her- self. Rut he wan the kindest, tender - eel: of husbands, and she bnd loved hire devotedly for the innely virtues which • made him the noble, unselfish man he was. Capt. Carleton ithclSina- mit both could ay/Arial:bleb with her testes and inelinetions tar better than George had done ; but never onoe dur- ing- her brier married life had she n f- lowed herself to wonder what tier lot might have been had it, been oast with people like lhe therletons, And since her b when d's deal h any bine' which looker! Away front hat gray/0 by the chic rohya gets seemed et, ter ri blo br}r tint now, as ehe 1-00.0 lied attn. Cate lottoine questieniage, and guessed what good wall, until Isaac had complained that the continuous humming hurt his head, and made him think of the wind as it howled so dismally around the dreary prison in Richmond. Libby, they called it now, and Matto always shuddered when ha heard the name and thought of what he suffered there. Isaac was very weak and pale, and Ms face looked like that of some young girl as he lay arueng his pillows, in. the pretty chnseing-gown which Rose had bought and A.nnie had made for him. He was sleeping when Rose came in, and the wodow's "Hus-sh," earne warningly as a greeting, but came too late, foe Rose's bliteesome voice bad roused him, and. his glad, set:teaming smile more than counterbal- ance&j the frown which settled on the • widow's face when she saw her by disturbed. Ruse was accustomed to the Widow's ways, and throwing off her shawl and untying her hat, she set down on tbe foot of Isaac's bed, and drawing Jimmie's letter from her poc- ket began: "I've got such splendid news for you., Mrs. Simnas—at least, 1 think I have. Yes, 1 know it's sure to come true. EU is going to be a lieutenant, with twelve hundred dollars a year. Such a heap of money for him ; and it's all Xiramiets doings, too. He would not have the office because he did not think he deserved it. Listen to what he says" Both the Widow and Susan were close to Rose now the frown all gone from tee widow's brow, and the pucker from her mouth; but both came back in a thrice, as blundering Rose read on about "Hophtd," and "Phineas," and "Eli," till she came to the "crabbed," which the called "crab-apple," and then stopped short, her fade a perfect blaze, as she tried to apologize. "Tain't wall while te soap it over," the widow said, fiercely. "I be a trab- apple,Te'pose, and a gnarly one at that but 1 am as L was made, and f'd like to know if crabs wasn't as good as Secessioners." "Please eaother, gayer mind," Isaao said, pleadingly, end his voice always quieted the fiery woman, who listened while Rose read of Elit's good fortune, and. 'made another terrible mistake by stumbling upon Jinimie S Opinion of Isaitc'e siclettessn Slie only read, "He is not long for this world," but that was enough to bring a flush to his brow, and blanch his mother's cheek; while, with a gush of tears, ttose hid her feoe in Susan's lap, and sobbed: ''I wish I had aot come. I'm always doing W1'011* when 1 mean to do the hest. Oh. I wish the war had never bean, and 1 dont belie. 'auto i$ so eick. Jimmie has n to judge. He don't know." ilowns distress was loo genuine not to tomb the widow, who tried to atn pea r on Int and uusonce riled , an d even said 80016111i ng kind of ,finunie, trim had 80 genet -ready preferred Eli to him - teen nut them was 11 restreint over eYeryI.liing, and, ,1 the r a feW a Move rd tn. atteinnte at something like natural conversation„ Rnse bade a hasty good bye, end went out trona the house to whioh she 'had brought mere sorrow than joy. CHAPTER XXL ' 'The• sick boy whispered the words Maay times t;o himself, as with his tae Lo the wall where neither his mother uer Susan could see, be thought of what Rose had read, ancl wondered it ILwere true. He was not afraid. to die. Ine had been very near death onoe befere, and had not Shrill* from meeting it as death. It was only the dying trent home he dreaded SO much, asking to live till lie could see his niti- thee again, and the grass growing by the cottage door, and the violets by the well. And God had taken him at his word, He had lived to see his mother, to feel the touch of her rough hands apen his hair; to hear her voice, al- ways kind to him, calling him her "(kg boy ;" to see the green grass by the door, and the violets by the well, But this, alas I did net suffice), He want - led to live longer,—live to be a man, like Eli and. Jonn ; live to do good; live to take care of lis mother; live to hear the notes of victory borne on the north- ern brehze, as the Federal Flag floated again over land and sea. All this was worth living for, and Isaac was young to die—only nineteen, and looking three years younger. It was very hard, and the dark eyelashes closed tightly to ite,ep back the tears as tht3 white lips tried to pray, "Thy will be done." Tlaat evas what they meant to utter, but there came instead the fit'St words of the prayer the Saviour taught, "Our Father I" that was all; but the very name of father brought a deep peace into Isaac's heart. God was his tether, and he had noth- ing to fear; living or dying, it would be well with the bey who would not tell a lie even for promotion. • And sot while the mother whose heart aohed and throbbed with this new fear, and still found time to feel a thrill of pride in Lieutenant Eli moved softly around. the room, preparing the dainty sapper for her child, Inn slept peacefully, nor woke until the delicate repast was ready, and waiting for him on the little table by the bed. There was spiced oluxiolate to -night, and nice cream toast, with grape' jelly, and a bit of cold baked thicken, and highly -season- ed cucumber pickles Isaac had craved so much since his return, and which the physician said were good for him. And the best china cup was brought out, and the Silver spoons marked with the widow's maiden name, and a white napkin was on the tray; and.Isaac, who enjoyed such things, knew why it was al1 doae that particular night, just as the widow knew why, at bed -time, he asked Sasan to read from Revelation, V. 16, "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the. sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which' is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and. shall lead them unto living fountains of wa- ters, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.' He was thinking of his heavenly home, while the mother was thinking of the time when he, who Jimmie Coale - ton had said, "was not long for earth," would be gone, and she could no long- er do for him the little offices which gave her so much comfort. Since the dreadful days when she knew her boy was in prison, the widow had not felt so keen a pang as that which stirred her heart -strings now, when atone in her room she dropped in her quick, de- fiant way into the high-backed chair, and sitting stiff and straight, tried to face the future. It eould not be that Isaac had only come home to die—God would not deal thus laarshly with her. He had spared Eli and John. He ha& promoted them both, and He would not Lake Isaac from her. The boy was get- ting better, he , was mending every day, or, at least, she had thought so, until Rose Mather came with her message of evil. Why could not Rose have stayed at home? Why need she come there and leave,such a sting behind.? !the widow was growing very hard and wicked toward poor little thoughtless Rose. ctnil her heart lay like a stone in her bosom, as for an hour or more she sat in her high-back- ed chair, thinking of the boy whose low breathings she count hear from the next room. He was sleeping, she thought, and she would steal softly to his side and see if it was written on his face, that his days were numbered. But Isaac was not asleep, and he knew the moment his mother bent over him, and turning toward her, he whispered, 'I know why you are up so late, mother; and what you are here for. You are thinking of what Mrs. Carleton said, and wondering if it is true. I guess 'tis, mother, for I don't get nny stronger, and my cough hurts me so. But I'm net a bit afraid to die now, with you beside me up to the very last minute. In Itachmond it was differ- ent: and T prayed Si hard that God would let me come brick, if only to drink from the well and then die on the grass beside it. Ele did let inc come, and now we mustn't say any- thing if He does not tet me stay but a tittle bit of a while. I've been Chink- ing it over since Mrs. Mather went away, and. at first it seemed hard that Eli and John should. both have such good luck, and only 'Stub,' be the one to suffer." • (To Be C'ontinued.) DUMAS UNDONE. chitteee Novels Are $5141 SO Itratelit Limiter• Elsiberalien. It is 0, proof of. the high degree of elaboration to whin fiction literature in China has been carried that most of their novels are thiokly interspers- ed with poems eget( orders or .merit, No stronger evidenoe Could be af- forded of the face that Wbatevee they leek 11 18 not literary finish. If any- thing, they Lulea thie in eyeess. ' Theme poems are introducedin a variety of ways. The hero sends one in a billet &tux to the heroine, oS be overhears her singing one, or perhaps a poetic: contest is struck up, the fine oh defeat being generally the cent- pulsoty thinking of so many extre flagons of wine. Wine drilaking and versification al- most, invariably go together in Chinese novae though whether then do so in real lite 'We. ere unable td sey, • Above all thihgs, every/nen :who sets up CO be anything in the way Of a hero in Chinese fietion must be pre- pared to extemporize by the ream in inimitable poetry, RE FOR THERMO ANOTHER MARVELLOUS REEL FOR CONSUMPTION, Kr, Karl you itnek Began Where K telt Ont nun IN Sam to nave reedy 11`0444Y0 ture—Interesting Re4 Obtained Erent Its Est. A treatnteat for consumption will prove a complete and pernlai oltre has been the widt-ohthe-Wists science has vainly pursue(t for m years. Ever since the day when famous German scientist, Dr. K announced the (Recovery of the n of consuMptien to produce the deuce that satisfied the medical w that the disease was produced b living micro-organism, the efforts the greatest minds of the century h been centereii upon one object— • finding of some substance that wo completely destroy the living, dea producing germs without injury to body of the patient. The "White Fiend," however, laughed. to scorn the efforts of science, and the death rate of c,onsuraption has increased until to -day, it is estimated, more the,n 20 per cent of the perscins who die in the whole world are vial= of tuberculosis. Everywhere the dreadfui disease has gained its foot- hold. In England and. Wales alone more than 60,000 persous die every year, and in New Yerk, more „than per cent of the autopsies performed other diseases have shown the exist- ence of the unsuspected tuberculosis. 'The realization of these facts bas inspired ecientists and local health boards to make the greatest Wertz to cope with its -ravages. The discov- ery that much of the disease has been trartsmittent from cattle to man has led to a closer exambaation of beef and. milk. The knowledge that consump- tion was infectious has resulted in the enactment of many HEALTH :REGULATIONS that, it was thought, might retard L apread of the disease. In spite of a this, however, the "White Fiend" si stands supreme, and hundreds of thou ands of persons are dying every year this, the most dreaded of all huma ills. ,Tust at thin moment, however, wh evert Dr. Koch, who has tong been r cognized as one of the greatest of t authorities on germ diseases, has a mitted that he had been unsuecessf in his efforts to destroy the germs tuberculosis, and that his theory of th cure of consumption had failed of i purptne, the news has 0=8 out fro the south of a cure that is not on( a dietary but a positive fact.. It is no a new theory, the areaxn of a scientific mind gone mad in the vain search after the impossible, but a remedy that has been tried again and again upon hundreds of patients and under all conceivalole cirouinstances, before it has been given to the world. Dr, Karl von Ruck is the disoov-erer of this new remedy, and the proof of his success is based upon the record of the scores to SIS''?'AtaaclierIth.44t,trtaOV36;r•Utet--- • erole 13acilli," as the new remedy in called, is EDY for consumption as worthy of their at- tention. A POSITIVE CURE leezt phtfaiDeira.usVooni Itt4c4Irtellawdoubledenhadyritgeilott_. nut On thoaght to Ids stetemeat, hat his Patna as a baoteriologist, and the fact , thin he has loag been recognized as one that of the best specialists and. authorities hint in the treatment of dieeases of the hat lenge, stamps his assiertiene 'with a de' gine of credibility far nreater than anY that helviletilstvhearresbein6nthacr Als.cite.(1 Htoe saanidY taw that he has taken the theory of • Dr - ern Koch at the point where he has ad- . mitted his failure and has carried it "Le' on to a successful oulreination. He orld asserts that where "Taberculine" sue - y a coedit(' in curing but 35 per exit cif its th patients his cures have exeeeded 97 per cent,. and the medioal world, slrep- ave deal as lt always is in regard. to new the di,scoveries, inelined to admit that Inn the, remedy for the positive cure for a, consume -den has at last been found, bbs "ITVilaLrulyetEnxPtdritooftt"heisPore°ray"itaitQenre°eftitnhge- Dr, Von Ruck describes it as follows: has "The tubercle baeilli are filtered. out o the meetly growing and highly wale - lent culture. After washing with c is i le water for the removal of the remains of the culture fluid, they are dried in a „vacuum dessientor. Next they are powdered in an agate mortar and hen extracted with sulPhurte ether. This extraotion removes the fats. They are again dried and pow- dered as before, and their further ex- traption takes place in sterilized dis- tilled water over a tv-ater bath with a eo oteoreoleigratrieseoolyf eldeDiFo. the pretends be - for I distilled. Wa- ter, the thud le then decanted and filtered through porcelain, when fin- ally the amount of proteids is deterra- 'tinoeda oattltrdtatihaepperrepoaernatt.tton standardized Dr. Von Ruck's detailed desoription of the results obtained by the use of this "Watery Extract" is eq,ually as interesting. In the ca.se of 'patients in the early stages of the disease all who have been treated HAVE RECOVERED. In more advanced cases, out of thirty- seven, twenty-seven recovered, in ten the disease was arrested, and none grew worse. In oases in the seriously advanced stage of tbose treated only fftw000s htaoveprdoiyeed, tahartectohee-d atiheaoot yeeeriettaihnalys not overestimated the value of his remedy. Another marvelous result attained by the "Watery Extract" has been the he 11 til s- ofI complete cure of tuberculosis of the u heart. Up to this' time the cure of this disease has been regarded as lin- en possible by physicians, as no instance of its cure has ever been reported in e- the annals of medicine. The treat - he ment of this ease by Dr Von Rack was I a_ largely a matter of experiment, but it hi was entirely, saccessful, and. this es- _, lablithed the faet that the "Watery " Extract" may be used with success in L0 the. cure of tuberculosis in any part of Is Ithe body. Unlike nut/1y scientists who have sue- na oeeded in making great discoveries, Dr, Y I Von Ruck has made no secret of the 1. nature of his remedy. IVIarvelous as patients that have been teeated b im, for in airaost every, instance th isease has been conquered and th germs destroyed. To fully understand the na tura of Dr. Von Rucks discovery, it is neces- sary tie go back to Dr. Ketch. 'A -Viten this great German bacteriologist aston- ished the world by the announcement of the germ theory as applied to con- sumption, it was thought that it would • be a simple matter te tind some rem- edy that would overcome the disease. Dr. :Koch began his experiments along these lines, but it. was 1890 before he announced that. he had found ar remedy in wbat Le called his"Taberculinea Dr. Koch's theory was that the curative principle was transient:ea by the germs to the fluid upon which they had grown. That Dr, Kooli was • NOT ENTIR,EL et WRONG in his theory was shown by the, fact that 35 per cent of the patients who were treated, with "Tuiterculine" were cared.•A few years later Prof. Klebs .procluced his "Antipthisin and Tuber- eillocidine," and in 1897 Dr. Koch an- nounced that. he had found a more ef- ficacioue remedy which he called "Tab- erculine Re" "Tuberculine R" differ- ed from the crude "Tuberculine" in Ina I; it contained fragments and in many cases whole bodies. of the germs and. was finally withdrawn by the in-: venter on account of the danger from infection that might result from its use. All theseet years Dr. Von Ruck me at work, quietly but persistently carry- ing on his experiments upon the theor- ies that he himself has formed. • A student and great; admirer of Dr. Keeh he 'worked from a love of science, expending. the whole of the 'tamale from his practice in the cerrying out of his experiments. At first his at- tention was given whollyto animals, He inoculated guinea pigs with the germs of consumption, and those that he treated with hi n remedy .tvere cent- pletely. cured, while others died. In te97 he anneunced the diseevery of the remedy whia he called "Tutberoulinum Pueificatum," , • Like the discoveries that 'tad pre- ceded' it, the "Tuberculinum Thrift- ' °atone" WaS suCcesaful 10 a degree only, 43 per cent being eared, but Dr, Von. Ruck was not satistied. Ile had proved that the curative peoperties were contained in the culture but it was' just as evident that theft) was a limit to their power and it was this that suggested to him that in the bodies of the bacilli alone was contain- ed the remedy for the disease, Eve4 before he had announced the diseovery of his "Tuberoulinnin Punifittatum," Ott Itutik was making the expeelmette (tat he hoped Would eetablish the cote rectnese of his theory, For more then three years he has toed:need these lit.. and tile oar° the1 he has given to the matter has compelled, the it is, he has given it to the world for the benefit of humanity. Many phy- sicians of repute in various parts of the country have already made use of the "extract" with good results, and in his articles in the Therapeutic Gazette and other standard medical periodicals he gives full direotions for the use of the remedy so that it will not be his faun: if death from consump- tion, in this country at least, is not re- duced to a minimum. What makes tlia / =lady more valuable for general y use is that climatic eoaditions play no e part in the cure, which in itself takes • but three months. What this means to the world only those who have been placed in a posi- tion where they could judge of the widespread suffering caused by this terrible disease can realize, and if the future use of Lhis new remedy will but bear out the attested experiments of the past Dr. Von Ruck will be entitled to rank among the greatest discover - ere that the woald bas ever known. THE HLINGRY•SEA. Three English ConSt Tenws 8le1ng Cradia- Ally Sn nil wed Cp. Reports from Dunwich, A.Idborough and Southwold, three town e on the east coast of .Tengtand, state that dur- ing and since the reoent hurrioanes the sea has made alarming inroads up- on the shore. Dunwich has suffered more than any town on t be coast. This was al one tinae one ot the largest commercial cities ot England, though it is now but a small village. in the lust century it had a greal •number of chapels and raonast c institutions, all of which, exeept the JUiIis of All Saints Church, have been washed away hy Lha sea. And now a number of private residences have heen swept into the deep, and the remaiuder of the village is threat ened with destruc- tion by the waves. An old chronicle records that a wood, called Eastwood, of the King's Forest, extended several miles south- east of the town, but many years ago it was destroyed by the sea, In an irruption of the sea in 1730 the roots of a great number at trees were ex- posed. The sea has made, menaeing en- oroaohments on the town of A Id - borough. This place was also cionsid- etably larger in the last, century. AL Southwold, 81500 a recent survey, the sea has gained upon the coast more than a toilet Many thousands of pounds are being spept on defence work. (t.rtcxxiv TII,ACE133. Mee Blinite.re.--Who is that at the doot ? Arts, 13.—I don't knelt-, tie 18 &Lase. ed very well, bat he ,sraells—oh, ' I 4 Mr. Initikers---Probably been riding itt a smoking ear. ▪ OVEIt-EXIIRTION, Rind Lady-ellow did yoti become SO aine Pratap—Over-exertion, mutat, Lednaettideedl In what *ArttV Trarap—goviti' on evOry tit4fA a' pees icemen tole vud, flEThIJNJON PARLIANENT, Speech Of the Governor-Oenerai at the Opening. A despatch from Ottawa Saye Eaely einwitbarsdan morning the mem- bers began to gather in the House and to epeoulate on the prospeots of the sheesion. Deere was a very goad. gath- ering' et members on both sides of • the /rouse, and by the end of the itreek there will be a fairly full House. The weather was the calm atter the storm. _ ueautueu gunshine havieg smeeeded to the a:teat/storm of. last eveniug. Loag before three o'clock orowds had. aseembled on Parliament Hill to 005 the outside cerentoniee of the open- ing. Sharp on time the guns annoanced the approach of his Excellency, The guard of honor provided by the Gen..' ernor-General's Foot Guards stood to atteetion, and in a few minutes Lord Minna escorted by the Primess Louise Dragoon G-uo.rde and drawn in a car- riage and tour vvith outriders, drove up to tne naain entrance amidst the presenting of arms and the playing of "Gocl. Save the Queen" by the band. In the ohamber the scene was im- pressive and }sentient as his Excel- lency's procession swept ap the floor. Having taken his seat his Excellency read the • SPEECH FROM THE THRONE. Honourable Gentlemen of the Senate: Gentlemen of the House of Commons: In.• meeting you for the first time since entering upon my duties as the representative of her MajeSty in this Dominion, it affords nie great gleasure to be able to congratulate youz on the large degree of prosperity which the people of Canada at present enjoy, evi- denced by the expansion of trade and commune, the ftourishing condition a • the public revenues and the increaSed number of immigrants who have be- come permanent settlers amongst as. To the evidences may be added an- other, which is even more gratifying., the almost total cessation of the con- siderable exodus of our population, which at one time was a regrettable feature of our effete& •INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. The negotiations whieh were set on foot, during the recess, betweea her Majesty's Government and that of the United States in reference • to the settlement of certain questions in dis- pute between Canada and the latter country were, I grieve to say, greatly • delayed by the illness and subsequent death of two of the most eminent mem.- bers of. the commission appointed for that -purpose. Considerable progress has been made on several of the sub- jects submitted, but a serious dis- agreement. arose between her Majesty's commissioners and the commissioners of the United States' on the question of the delimitation of the boundary be- tween Canada and Alaska. The ques- tion was referred by the commissioners to their respeetive Governments. The commission has been 11.djourned to the second day of August next, in the hope that in the meantime the difficulty might he overeome. PROHIBIT] ON AND PENNY POST- • AGE. In compliance widi the act passed la.et tetsion, a plebiscite was held on the question 01 prohibition. The of - finial figures of the vote will be placed. before you. I observe with pleasure that the mother country, Canada and other Bra:nth pone sions have recently adopt- ed a penny postage letter rate. The satisfaction with which this action, has been received by the Cana.clian people is a further proof of the gene val. desire existing amongst our people, for closer relations with the moiher country ,and the rest of the Empire. I am also glade to be able to state that Lee satisfactory condition of the final:lees or the oountry permitted a reduce ion onthe ist of- January last of the Canadian domestic letter rate From three to two cents, and although sucth reduction involves' a temporary lots ot revenue, it, ie nevertheless von- Wide/v.1y expected that the cheapened rate will prove of much serviee in the promotion of trade and in the general interehange of correspondente, that within a reneonabee time the „revenue of the •Itost-office Department will be restored to its former figure. MINER All DEPOSITS. • Muth information has been obtained since you last tnet, relative to the ex- tent and value of the deposits of gold and valuable minerals in the Yukon and other' parts or Canada. The returns from the Yukon have so tar proved sufficient to meet the heavY expentlitute it was found necese.ary to hint for the purpose of preserving law and order, and it has been thought ex- pedient. in the public inteeest to auth- orize the construction it a line of tele- graph for tbe purpose et maliataining speed e communication with the people of those distant territories. . A measure will be. submitted 'to you for t he, better nerangement of the elect -ora districts th rou gh out the Dominion, as also :leveret enactments or lose intpcirtanee. THIS PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Gentlemen of the House of Commous: The public ancounle will be :laid be- fore you, and alsothe estimates for the cleating year, ,They Iowa been pre- pared, with a dee vegeta to efficienoy arid ectonotny, and the x.espensibilities arising front the vapid peogreas of the country, • Honourable Gentlemen of the Sreentte: Gentlemen of the House of Commons: 1 em confident the t the Important subjects I have mentioued to you will receive your consideration, and fleet it will be your eneneet endeavour to pro, /note ettblie intereete :hid prosper- ity ef Oneida, INTERPRETED. lone Brush,' T wonder whe Hargriet I always speake of his wire as a e f el) (nett veseelt in eximt elute, nearly, Mrs, Retie/J. I , seppose beeattse elle all etett eters, wil h a rentster ot 014,4 01W4878 if00$4. 14 enntratlea, 024 boas, BANK OF KNOLAND'S PROFIT. rowing Forty Veen "'Weeding 183R 11 (Ode ienseleetie pox OptstandinA "aper. It is a feet, that to niartY Winds, Ad doubt, must be very eurioas, that the Bank of England has always had Pretty steady soiree ef prefii: in the loos and destruction of he banknotes. What it has gained of late, years int this way we aro unable to (say, hut during a period et forty years pre. ceding 1832, the bank had Made et' elear profit of n.5,560,000 froni out- standing paper never likely to be Pre- sented for payment, says the Loudon News. When the destruction' or the irrecoverable loss of a note can be proved, as in the event of a fire ora wreck it can, the bank, c.f course, will always pay the Money, and even when there is doubt about it, the cash ie paid on security being given for in- demnifying the bank should(' the note ever be presented. The na00,000 veortle of paper — or $100,000, as 11 appeare to have been redacted. to — taken frOrA Parr's Bank, will therefore not repre- sent the loss unless the crisp little billets have some clan to be duly hon- oured at the Bunk of. England counter, In that case the cash paid. in exchange for them, will have to come out of the coffers of THE PLUNDERED BANK. , Many years ago a bank( dh.ector lost a note for $150,000. But being a man of credit, and, as there was no doubt about the loss of the bill, he gave the asual indemnity and got the money. Many years after, wheit the man had long been dead, the paper was presented. It was payable on de - mantle and had come from abroad hi the ordinary way of business, and the sum it repreeented had to be handed' over, and as the indemnity that had been given was repudiated by the heirs of the matt who had given it, and for some reason could. not be en- forced, the bank on that occasion had to put 0150,000 on the debit side of the account-. For once in a way they paid double honour to a bit of their own paper. There is another story of a sum of n100,000 which the bank in its early days for .a short time refused to hand over in exehange for its own notes. They were presented by a Jew, whose assertion thee he had bought them was not dieputed, and whose personal integrity was above suspicion. They had, however, andou.btedly been stolen and on that ground the bank refused to pay the money, The Jew went out into the city and began. to nPread it abroad that the bank was shayt and couldn't cash has notes, and, as he backed his assertion Iv displayiag his indisputable paper; the assertion I would. in all probability ,S0011 have caused a run on the bank, and in a. few minutes a messenger came to say, that the notes would be cashed if he would present them ttgain. CANADIAN NORTH LAND. important nestoyeeies Amounted by atn LW, or 1lie ileolotileal survey. Now in. • Laimmlim. . A very interesting report has been received by the Dorainion Government front Mr. Low of the Geological Sure vey staff, who is engaged in explora- tory work in Labrador. His letter is dated Dec. 30, and came, out by wan of Moose Factory, Abbitibbi Lake and Lake Temisearaingue. It . was in June last that. Mr. Low set out ou his' present expedition, taking vessel fro% Quetbec to • Rigolet, on the Dared= coast making couneetient with the Hudson's Bay Company's vessel "Erik" which makes an annual trip to the' oompany's posts on Hudson's Bay. The bi aletlr toatbir°11gwthoircthhlail's.toLohNilrs ea:pi-1110 rbat! tions in the region lying between Hudson's Bay, 'cm the west, and the, Atlantic, on the east, supplementing' what he has produced in his forme visits to the same country, should be of value in more ways than one, afe fording the basis on which to build e correct geographical idea • and cone firming or disposing of the vague rumors and reports which have been from time to time circulated as to the mineral wealth of the Labrador penint Buhl. In regard to the latter, his lett ter confirms the former statements ag to deposits of magnetic iron ore on tint shores of Hudson's Bay. He has come pleteel the survey of the coast trona Cape Wosten.holm to Great What t i river. Five hundred Miles of coils line have new been charted, the hal being entirely new work, and pear viously desoribed only in the roughes way. Mr. Low's repott confirms fore mer statements as to the existence ot cod in the 'waters of horth-eastern Hudson's Bay. As to the extent he does not pretend to be able to speekt Mr. Lbw's ietentionat this time C4 writing, in December last, was to prod ceed to an exploration al: the regioit surrounding Ungava Bay, wbenee he will devotes attention to lonking twee the islande in the northern part of Hudson's Bay. gr. Low speaks of the advanittges whieh he bas found in the use of ekies for travel in the snow. They are, to hie mind, far superior tot sumv-shoes for rnpid transit, end add, that the Itskitno aeound where he hap bee t+ hove become quite expert in their use, THE! SUBST CURE. Vary say that Nell C4adleigh has bro164 • en off her engagement with Herr., Hipple,son. Yes, she Saye lie, WAS soIbat affeeticteet, 11 wtheartit:tsevilasheatiei, why 414431: 664 just Inarry lunt end have done witb thee wenrieonie part of it rANK Tbeagli the first tank- Sieatrier built only 13 yeo,rA ego, there are note