Exeter Times, 1899-4-13, Page 6T
Love and Wareee.
A $TORY OP SLAVERY OAYS.
15y MARY J. liOLME'S.
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CHAPTER ,—eetinuedlausbared, whiela. cost; Me a great efferie
of.
whieh hid for a time out' soldiers frore
cl4n 44". I HEALS 13111318 AND EMS
obeeured by a thick,
view, then a deadly fire of Musketry
from the opposite bank of the Rapp),
hariaoek was opened upon. them, till
they fled to the elielter tuo adjac-
ent hills, where, forming into line,
they agaie went beck to 'the
the pontoon bridges, while tne rOar of
the eannoe slioOlt the hale and, told to
U. listeners miles aWair that
battle a Frederieksburg was
XX.1.1Cc, begen, '
jimnaie did not particularly care for for a widow is not the beau ideal 1
suelt comforting then, and, his face, used to OhertSbk Of MY filtUrO wife. Total
when he reaebect• home, wore so dark You don't care for Anuie 40 you?" he
and, aorry a look that ROSe keew continued., in startled eon% as some -
once that something was wrong; but thing in Tone's face stettighted him.
she refrairied from aeking any ques- Tore would not deceive him then, and
tion St then—feeling intuitively that he replied,
both Annie and her brother would Pre- "I have—that is—yes, I 40 care for
fer to have, her do so, her, and I had eorameaaced. aletter,
It was a very grave, silent party hut---"
whicb met at the breakfast table aext "Don't finish it, Tom. Do this for
morning, and only Annie -was at 41 me—don't finish it V' Jimmie e:eclaimed,
inclined to talk. See tried to be cheer- eagerly, knowing new how the Lope
ful and appear as usual to the silent that Annie might relent had buoyed
young mart who never looked at het' him up, and kept him from utter de -
as She sat opposite him, with her sPondeuey. . "Don't semi it, Tom;
smooth bands of hair SO becomingly ate leave her to me, if I can win her yet.
ranged., and her eyes so fun of pity She neey feel differently by and by; her
for hoe She could not revoke her husband is orey One year (lead. Let
decision, but she was sorry to send me have Annie, Tom," and Jimmie
;him from her with that look upon his grew more vehement as he saw plainlY
face; and when, after breakfast, she the etruggle in Tom's mind. "You've
met him for a few moments alone in bad your day with Mary. Think ef
the library, she laid her hand timidly your years of married life, when You
upon his arm:, and said, "Jimmie, don't Were SO happy, and leave Annie to me;
be angry with me. Try to think of At least don't try to get her from me
LX e as •emir sister— your best friend, —not yet—wait a year. Will you,
if you like. It grieves roe that L have Tone?'
made you so unhappy." "Few could resist Jimmie Carleteree
She had never called him Sinamie be- Pleadings when they were so earnest
fore, in his hearing, and as she did as now', and generous Torn' yielded to
Lt now, the dark, handsome face into the ewe whom he had scolded., and
wbich she was looking, flushed with a wbipped, and disciplined, and loved.,
sudden joy, as if be thought she was and grieved. over, ever since the day
relenting. But she was not; she their father died and. left him the
eould only be his friend—his best head of the family.
friend, she repeated, and her face was "I will wait a year and see what that
very pale, as she told hira how she brings to as, and you, Jimmie, must
should remember him, aad work for do the sap" teen Annie shall de -
thine and pray for him, when he was cide,'. he said at last, and his voice was
gone. And then she gave him her so steady in its tone, and his manner
band, saying to him, "It is nearly time so kind, that Jimmie never guessed
far you to go. I would rather eay how ranch it cost the man who had
good-bye here." had his day," to unlock the little desk
And Jimmie took her hend, and, and take from it the letter intended
pressing it between his own, said to for Annie Graham and commit it to the
her : flames.
"You have hurt nee cruelly, Annie They watched it together as it crisp -
Graham, for I believed you cared for ed and blackened on the coals, neith-
me; but I cannot hate you for it, er saying a word or stirring until the
though I tried to do so all night long. last thin flake had disappeared, when
I love you just the same as ever, and Tom bent to pick up something which
always shall. /Remember your prom- had dropped from the desk, when he
ise to come to me -when I• am sick, and took out the letter. It was Mary's
let me kiss you once for the sake of picture, and in her lap the baby which
what I hoped might be." had died. when six months old,
She did not refuse his request; and "Yes, I have had my day," Tom
when at last he had left her there was thought, as he gazed upon the fair,
a red. spot on her cheek where Jimmie sweet face of her whose bright head
Carlton's lips had been. From her led once lain where he had thought to
window she watched him going down •aye Annie's lie. I have had me
the walk; and while with widow day, and though it closed before it was
Simms he waited at the depot for the noon, I -will not interfere with Jim -
coming of the train, she on her knees
was praying for him and his safety,
just as, eighteen months before, she
prayed for George when he was going
from her.
CHAPTER XXIII.
jiro.naie's journey was performed in
safety, and he won golden opinions
from his traveling emnpanion, for see
whom he had eared as kindly as it it eee a whira uf his. "She Aught bave
had been his mother instead of the refused too, and then again
"crabbed widow" in her eternal lee-
she might not; at all events he
horn, with the had a right to try his luck," Jimmie veil of faded green. Ile reasoned, until at last his sense of
had left her at one of the hospitals
in, Washington, where she was to be-
gin her work as nurse, and hastened on
to join his regiment. Captain Carle-
ton was glad to welcome back the bro-
ther whom he had missed so much, but
.be saw that something was wrong; and bear the thought of his winning what
that night, as they sat around the I had lost, and. so like a coward' look -
tent fire, he asked what it was, and ed on een.d felt a thrill of satisfaction
evlay the face, usually so bright and when 1 saw his letter crisping on the
cheerful, seemed so sober and sad. Tom coals. But as proof that I have re -
bad made minute inquiries concerning panted of that selfish act, I ask you
his mother, and Rose, and Susan
Simms, and even poor old Mrs. Baker.
But not a word of Annie. He could
not speak of her, with that unfinished
letter lying. in his little traveling
writing-case—that letter commencing
"My dear Mrs. Graham," and over the
wording of which Tone had spent more
time by far than he did over the first
epistle sent to Mary Williams. That
had been dashed off in all the heat
of a young man's first ardent passion,
just as Jimmie two weeks ago would
have written to Annie. But Tom was
eight years older than Jimmie. His
first love had met its full fruition, and
nate."
And BO the compact was sealed be-
tween them, and Jimmie slept sounder
on his soldier bed that night than he
had slept before slime Annie's refusal.
Tiramie was not selfish, and as the days
went by and he reflected more and
more upon Tom's generosity, his con-
ecience smote him for having allowed
his brother to saerificie his happiness
CH.A.PTER XXIV,
The streete of Rooklartdwere furl of
excited people when the news first
reaehed the town of the terrible bat-
tle which had left so many slain upon
the fields, and. desolated so many
hearth3 both North and Soetle Rose
Nether was nearly frantic, for Will
she how was in the battle, together
with her two brothers, and it was not
probable that all three would eseaPe
unbarmed; Eagerlyshe evasped the
paper to see who was killed, wounded,
or missing, but neither a the three
narnes.was there, and she began to
Lope again, and found time to comfort
peor Swan Simms, whose husband was
also in tee fight, and who had gone al-
most mad with the fear lest he should
lee killed. e
Two days passed, and then there
came a telegram from Tom, and Mrs.
Carleton, who read. it first, gave alow,
moaning cry, while Rose, who read it
next, uttered a piercing shriek, and
felt sobbing into Annie's arms. -
"Oh, ee'de—oh, 1,Villl—my husband,"
was what she said, while Mrs. Carleten
uttered Jimmie's name, and then Annie
knew that herin had come to him, and
placing Rose upon the sofa, she took
the paper from Mrs. Carleton's hand,
and read:
"Will was badly wounded, -- lay on
the field all night;—Jimmie missing,—
eupposed to be a prisoner. I sin well.
. "T, CARLETON." -
"Poor Jimmiet" Annie whispered,
sadly, her heart throbbing with pity
for the young man who had gone back
in time to meet so sad a fate.
Never had so dark a day dawned up-
on Rate Mather as that which follow-
ed the arrival of Tom's telegram,
but ere its close there came a message
of hope to her. Will had been taken
to Washington, where he had provid-
entially fallen into the hands of Mrs.
Simms, who sent the joyful news that
'no bones were broken, and he was do-
ing well."
"Oh, Annie, God is so emelt better to
me than I deserve; I must love Him
now, and I will, if He will only send
Jimmie back," Rose said, while Aarde's
heart went up in a prayer of thanks-
gidng for Mr. Mather's comparative
safety, and then went out after the
poor prisoner, whose destination was
as yet unknown.
That night Rose started for 'Wash-
ington, and three days after there
came to Annie a. soiled, queer-looerng
missive, directed to "Miss aVidder Army for help. Davis responded. He took
Graara, At eiries Martherses," the name the cheer:Mug child in his arms, breath -
written at the top of the letter, and ed upon 'the raw flesh of her wounds
the superscription spreading over so and nauttered guttural words In an
justice triumphed and he wrote to
Annie an account of the whole trans-
action.
"It was mean in me to let Tom burn
the letter " he said, "but I could not
plainly,'Would you hrive replied favor-
ably to that letter, had it been sent?'
If so, tell me truly, and without ever
betraying the fact that I have writ-
ten to you on the subject, Twill man-
age to have Tom write again, and if
the fates shell so decree I will try to
forget that gap in the stone wall
where we sat that night when I told
you of my love."
His letter found Annie sick in bed
froun the effects of a severe cold which
kept her so long in her room that it
was not till just on the eve of the
battle of Fredericksburg that Jimmie
received her answer, "I should say No
'atizt.,rtale-objeet was dead, Tom had to your brother just as I did to you."
always been old for his years. He This was what Jimmie read, and with
looked, and seemed, and felt, full forty a feeling of relief as far as Tom was
now, save when he thought of Annie, concerned, he crushed the few lines into
who was only twenty-one. Then he ; his pocket and went on with his pre -
went back to thirty-two, glad that he parations for the contest at Fredericks -
bad numbered no more birth -days. He ; burg, which seemed inevitable, with°.
had made up his mind to write to her. ;kind of recklessness which characteriz-
A friendly letter the first should be, !ed many of our soldiers. Jimmie had
he said—a letter merely asking if she heretofore felt no fears Of a battle.
would correspond with him;, and hint- "The bullet which might strike down
ing at the interest he had felt in her :another would not harm him, and he
ever since he saw how much she was to ; charged his preeervation mostly to
Rose, and how constant were her lab-lAnnie's prayers for his safety; but in
ors for the suffering soldiers. If her this, her last brief note, she had not
answer was favorable, he should are 'said so much as "God bless you," and
tong ask her to be his wife, and this ;Jimmie's heart beat faster as he
is the way he took to win the woman I thought of the impending danger.
whose name he would not mention to , Jimmie seldom prayed, but if Annie
his brother. He had been a little un-; had failed him he must try what he
easy when Jimmie first went home, ;could do for himself, and when the
for he knew how popular the wayward 'night came down upon that vast array
youth was with 'ell the ladies; but as 'camping in the woods and on the hill -
Rose had. never written a word to :side, it looked on one young face up -
strengthen him in his fears, he had turned to the wintrY sky, and the
thrown them aside ana commenced the . moaning winds carried up to heaven
tetter which tonight, after Jinande ;the few words of prayer which Jimmie
was gone, he was intending to finish 'Carleton said.
for the morrow's mail. He changed '
his nand, however, as the night wore Oppressed with a strange feeling of
he prayed earnestly that
on, for in reply to his question as to ',foreel'oaina
blot out all his manifold
what was the matter, Jimmie had ;Leue, would. .1
' 'th ; transgressions, and he diec ,—grant
XIBAOULOUS POWER ATTRIBUTE")
TO A FIREMAN.
Exoecleed In Saving the $4,1e.,4 a vented
:*,t
-Ie Pa,eo4
;1 '
An. occult Power is attributed to
"Whitney."Davis, one of the members
of the Columbus, Ohio,. Fire .3,1epart-
meat. By the use of a Mitsteriene
oharm, which let claims is of 1ndiau
origin, he is able 'to stop the flow of
blood from woundand to absolutely
cure pain, even that resulting from
severe burns. Davis's mysterious pow-
ers have been thoroughly tested-, Kerd
offer
nnevereixp.at
yaentfiaoinlo
etli themanner
iu
will
f
whieh he worksthe wonders attributed
tlinT,o
HIS RECENT ACCOIVIPLISHMENT.
The latest example of Davis's power
occurred on Thursday evening of last
•
week. Little Edna Walls, the fouryear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Walls, of 520 West Second avenue
in Columbus, was playing about the
open grate while her mother was pre -7
paring the bed for her reception,10
some manner little Edea got too close
to the fire, and the skirts of her dress
caught. In a moment she was envel-
oped in flames, The body of her dress
was of flannielr, and did not burn rap-
idly. To that fact she owes her life.
But her collarette arid apron were Of
light, inflammable cottin, and the
flames curled high above her head.
Whera Mrs. Walls had extinguished
tbe flames she found her darling's face
had been burned in such horrible fash-
ion Neat it was almost unrecognizable.
Tbe eyes had been spared, happily, but
from her forehead to her collar bone
the cruel flames had fairly baked. the
tender flesh. EcInars agony was in-
describable. The honae-made remedies
-which were applied had no effect
whatever, and in the absence of a phy-
sician it was feared th-at the child
would die simply from the pain of the
wounds,
BREATII HEALED BURNS.
,The Walls home is near the house
of the North Columbus Fire Company,
and there the distracted mother sent
much surface, that, had there been
another word, it must, from necessity, undertone- Little Edna's pain seem -
have been written on the other side of ed to be lessened, and, though she
the letter. It was from Bill Baker, still suffered, it was noticeably abated.
and it read as follows: Davis repeated the performance, pass -
"Army of Potomac, and about as lick-
ed out an army as you ever seen, To ing his bands „gently over the charred
all it may concern, and 'specially letiss surface and muttering las charm. In
Anny Gemara. I send you nay regrets fiveminutes the child was asleep and.
greetin', and hopin' this will fincl you breathing calmly, her pain and suf-
enjoying the same great blessire. Burn-
side has made the thunderinest blun-
tering forgotten.
der, arid more'n a million of our boys At this point the physician who had
is dead before Fredericksburgh. Mr. been called arrived, but declined to
Mathers was about riddled through, I do anything for the child. "She's doe.
guess, and the Corporal, — svall, may ing well enough," he declared, and be-
es well take il easy,—I fit for him like yond applying a few simple lotions he
a tiger, lilt they flocked me endways, left no medicines. Mrs. Walls's hands
and I played dead to save my life. But had been burned in extinguishing the
the Corporal's a goner,—took prisoner Dames upon the child, however, and
with an awful . cut, on his neck; and them he treated. To -day the child's
now what I'm going to tell you is this: wounds are safely healing, and she
the night before the battle I came up- has never suffered a recurrence c>f
on him prayin' like a priest, leneelin' in pain. On the other hand, her mother
an awful mud -puddle, and what he is constanity suffering from the heal -
said was somethin' about Heaven, and ing burns. Davis has never tried the
A.nny whitch, begin' your pardon, I magic of his healing art upon them.
think means you, and. -,e0 1 ast him in This is by AO means an isolated in-
caee of bad luck, if I should write and stance of Davis's powers. As a mem-
tell you. I don't thinle he could have bar of re fire company lee frequently
ben in a vary sperritual frame ef has opportunity to heal burns and cuts
mind, for he told me to mind my bis-
iness, but I don't lay it up agin
and when them too tall, lantern-jaw-
ed sons of Balam grabbed him as he
was tryin' to skedaddle with the blood
a spirtin' from his neck, I pitched in-
ter 'em, and give 'em hale columby for
a spell, till they flocked me flat and I
made Weave dead as I was tellen' you.
Don't feel bad, Miss Graam. Trust
luck and keep your powder, dry, and
mabby he'll come back sometime.
Yours to command,
"BILL BAKER."
ever, the Phesiolaas' Assoolation 0
CQI•unalbu$ bAs boon informed of lite
ability; and MaY asit litn). to submit: to
a test; in tip now. future, 111s doubt-
ful, however, whether be will do se,
as he has it all times been eliarY of
doing anything which might eause hire
te be regarded as a freak. Publicity
he 'floes not orave. •
COMPARED CITIES.,
„
Ageteuiterall tem Verities Groot
itilltep-Anelent igenke's ropuItltIen.
London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna are
so centrally sitnated that railroads and
also highways thronged with market.
wagons enter them from 41 sides. The
result is tiara their population bas
spread out along these lines of corn-
munioation• Single streets may ex-
tend for miles beyond the main bode
of tee city. The frontage on the
street may be solidly built up, but of-
ten tee open; country spreads away on
either side of them. The outline of
these cities is therefore roughly cir-
outer or square, with many legs or
arms extending in 'all directions from
the Main oity. Often these extensions
are wide, several streets running par-
allel with the main highway, and fre-
quently there is a decided bulge in the
narrow line .of settlement where the
once isolated villages stood on the
highway. They have now been unit-
ed with the city by continuous lines of
houses.
It is by drawing a tine around the
Miter limits of these narrow extensions
that Englishmen circumscribe the
total area they call Greater London,
which means London and its suburbs,
adding a population of nearly two mil-
lions to that of London county and
extending the metropolis fax into Hert-
ford and Essex on the north and into
Burry and Kent on the south. Thus
Greater London had a population in
1897 of 6,292,000, and was one of the
greatest cities in the world in area as
well as the
GREATEST IN POPULATION.
Such arms of the city extend along
fifteen of the goads leading into Vien-
na, and they have had the effect to
nearly double the. axea, now includ.ecl
witbin the city 'Units. In 1891 the
second enlargement of the limits oc-
curred, and it was high time, for the
eitY had spread far beyond the borders
urS .
"It is ale over with me and the wid-
hint an entrance into heaven where
ow. 1 weint in Strong for her, 'Torn, e Annie was Sate to go. Close beside rife. with rumors of the sufferings en- retiring in nature, '
told ilea all my badness, eonfessed
everything 1 eould, and then she said
it tould not be. I tell you, Tom, 1 did
not know a man could, be so sore about
a woman," And with. a great ehoking
stile Jimmie Carleton laid lila head up_
on. TOM'S lap, arid moaned like some
wounded animal.
"Tell the old woman l'm well, but
pretty well tuckered out."
"God soften the hearts of his cap-
tors. God keep him in safety!" Annie
whiepered, and than, as Mrs. Carleton
came in, she passed the note to her,
and tried to comfort the poor mother,
who, in Rose's absence, leaned on her
as on a daughter.
Annie seemed very near the sorrow-
ing woman, who wept bitterly for her
poor boy, and in the first hours of her
sorrow she spoke oue what was in her
mind.
"I believe Jimmie lovece you, Annie,
for axis companions. He has never
failed. A cut from -which blood flows
in streams yields to his'soft breathing
and muttered charm. The blood dries
up, and though the wound remains
open, it heals as if by soine magic in-
fluence. The man ,himeelf is appar-
ently impervious to pain. At the re-
cent, fire 10 Columbus, at which $1,-
000,000 worth of property .was sacri-
ficed to the demon of the flames, Davis
fell from the seat of the wagon on
.wilich he was going to the fire. The
rear wheel of the heavy engine passed
over his body, but the victim
SPRANG TO HIS FEET,
dashed after the wagon and managed
to regain his seat. The machine
weighed 4,500 pounds, and the wheel
had passed over the small of his back.
But it did_ not phase tee plucky little
fireman, whose weight might be 125
pounds after a hearty meal.
Davis. is small of stature, being 5 1e2
feet tall, and weiglaing about 125
pounds. His black eyes and hair lend
credence to the tales of his compan-
ions, who assert that he is of Indian
anceStry, This belief is ianfounded,
and that makes you very dear to me. however, as he comes from the purest
We can mourn for him together, and, Welsh blood. His mysterious powers
Annie, yoa will pray for him night and have caused him to be regarded with
day, that God will bring hen back to an almost superetitious veneratiOn
us," • , by those. a his friends who know of
Annie could only reply by pressing them. Esse' do know, however, as he
the hand which sought hers, for het makes no boast ,of his powers, and'only
heartewas too full to speak. Hadjireie uses them when called upon to do so,
mie been dead she evpuld scarcely have to relieve the pain and. suffering a
mourned for him more deeply than she other,s. Be makes no charge for his
dicl now. The country was already services in this direction. Quiet and
DOMINION PARLIAIENT.
What the Legislators or the Country
are Doing at Ottawa.
piLES INTDDIYUCED.
To cooftrui the 'agreement between
the Canadian Pacific Reilway Com-
Pany tient the Hull i$1leetrie Company
,Poupore •
exnenst thecharter of Inc Huron
, ,
and -elrie Savings arid Loan Soeiety—
Mr' Beattie,
. ,
Respecting the Columbia and. West-
ern asiphiv:oanYieC.otnpany, a London, Ont.
Respecting the Richelieu. end Ontario
Navigation Company—Mr. 1,)refoue
°'ILInee'specting the British Columbia
Svortitotihern Railway Company,— Mr.
To incorporate the Northern Colon-
isation
Igev ;thy --e eVAlet-ijevoitin, y_mr.
To amend the Winding -up Ar{, R.
5, C., chap. 12a—Mr. Fortin.
To amend the Act rospsoting the sale
of railway paseenger Liekets—Mr.I3eal-
Lie. Mr. Beattie explained that the
bill introduced by him was intended to
stop the praotice of scalping tiokets
CIX the ferry between Windsor and De-
troit.
thel:11:ecfonliCt"tiiiMigeP;--rk'nle were-
3"th
Respecting the Canada Aceident AS-
suxanoe Company—Mr. Munk.
To ineorporate the Canada Plate
Glass Co.—Mr. Monk.
To incorporate the Alaika-.Yukon
Railway -00.—Mr. LOgan.
allv‘esppieeeftoinngtaiLnae. Banque du Peuple —
To incorporate the Northern Tele-
graph Co.—Mr. Bostock.
Respeeting the Atlantic. and Norte -
West Railway Co..—Mr. Macpherson.
_mteerspeBertiiintgont.he Calvin Co., ;Limited.
Respecting the Nesbit Academy, of
Prince Albert—Mr. Davis.
To confer on the Commissioner of
Patents certain powers for the relief
of Tht•raas Robertson.—Mr. Robertson.
To confer on the Commissioner of
Paterits certain powers for the relief
Of George L. eVilliarns.—Mr. McCarthy.
Respecting the- Home Life Associa-
tion Of Ca nada.—Mr. Cowan.
R esp Pc lug t he Quebec SI eamship CO.
—Mr. Malouin.
Respecting the Ottawa and Gatineau
Railway Ca—Mr. Champagne.
Re.speeting the. Ottawa Electric Reil -
way Co. --Mr. Belcourt.
fixed in 1858. The authorities d.ecided
to give the city ample room to g,row
within her own domain for many years
to come, and so they ran the new boirn-
dare beyond the furthest extension of
these settled streets. So it happens
that Vienna, as well as Greater Lon-
don, is able, to carry on market gar-
dening and other rural pursuits on a
large scale svithin her own limits.
These extensions of the settled area
give the four leading elites of Europe
a far more irregular outline than that
of any other of the great cities. Among
the Large cities of the world Pekin has
the least irregulatity of outline, and
the fact that it remains cramped with-
in the rectalinear city walls is suffi-
cient proof of the stagnation of busi-
ness and the lack of enterprise in the
Chinese capital, which has scarcely half
the population of a century ago, and
displays every symptom of decay.
A few years ago the authorities of
Vienna put a lot of surveyors at work
making surveys and measurements,
from which have been deduced some
statistics that are particularly in-
teresting, because they show the ex-
act uses to which all the ground with-
in the limits of a great city has been
devoted. In view of the large addi-
tion to the city's area nine years ago
it is riot surprising to learn that al-
most exactly one-half of the entire
surface is devoted to agriculture, pas-
turage, fruit and
VEGETABLE GARDENS.
him crouched NIL svho lieteued with (lured by our priSonerS4 and death it- most valuedmembers,
wonder to the 'Coreerale a feeling of :el :e. med alnaoet. preferable tom 'nibs PartMent, Seemingly kno.wing no
terror beginriing to creep into his owe end ye ire Of privatirms and pain in the fear, he will lead where any dare to
heart az) he detected the fteeents of Southern prisons. follottr, while his occult power of reliev-
fear in his companion, "Sent to Richmond, and peobably Mg paha keeps him constantly in de -
"I say, Corp'ral," he began, when froni thenee further South, probably mend at the fire.5 which his Oonapanions
Jirrirale's devotions were ended, "be to Georgia," are celled. upon to attend in the lite Of
strati 'fraid of eoreethin's happenin' to This tvas all intelligeace they eould theie duty. A.ssistant Chief jenleine
• D t ti one
Torn, Who had been as a father to Yen when they set US to erossire that procure from him, until spring, when ante s,
01 this yaung brother, was touched to his darned riVer and if 'there does, I -here came news direct that he IliaS at of his closest friends, and film be -
hear 'et dore, and felt as if by having
that arifiniehed letter in his possession
he Was in some way guilty, and as a
pitying WOrnan would have dose, he
sirtoothed the dark eurly hair, and
tried. to speak words of coneforti
"What had Annie said? Perhaps
she might relent, Would Jimmie tell
hint about it?"
Then Iiertale lifted tip his head, and
looking straight Tom's eyes, said,
"Forgive me, old Toni. r was inclin-
ed to he jealeus of you. nose said
you Ware Mere saleable, and I know
yott are L but, Toter, did love Anriie so
much, after 1 had swalloWed the firet
write to the folio; and the gal you Sabsbary, and there for a time tin liever in bbs powet2.'
naerationea rind tell 'eta you prayed like curtain dropped., leaving hie face A. peculiar thing about Davis's pow -
a parsort the night before?" shrouded in darknems, while in his sr is that it has no apparent depend -
Jimmie was terrible' annoYed with Northern home tears were shed like ence upon the subject. Whether the
tiles Impertinence, and for a man who rain, and, prayers went up to heaveri one who asks that Jais paint be relieved
had just been Praying dirt not exercise from the quivering lips ota mother believes in Davis's power or not Makes
as intteit Cbristian forebee ranee as whe was just learning to pray es she no differenea A few muttered wards,
might have been expeeted, A heree ought, and into Aunts Greham's laetiet st at breath arid a gentle caress of
"Mind yoar bus/nes:0" was bbs only there graatially crept a wish that the Davie's halide arid he wreak is doers,
reply,swhich Rill eeeeived, with a good
humered, "Guess you'll have to try
agin, Corp'raI before you, get into the
right frame;" and then there wee ell -
Mice betvveen them, and the night
poor', weayy prisoner neighb knovv how
inneh arid how kindly she thoitglit of
feelirig at litne8 half sotry that
she had not given him. some little hive
as it solace tor the wearty hours of his
orelet en aPeata, and the early iriOl'fling prieOn lite
began to break and the wititry raky To be Continited,
°IS fIa'in ntoPPed and the blood
ceases to flow,
Daitie's powers have beeli well knoWn
in his eirole of friends in the pest, but
have never beer" brought to the titten-
Lion of the public befeve. A,s a te,sult
of his most reeelit riehieverient, hoW-
GARRISON AT ESQUIIIALT,
FIVE THOUSAND TO RE STATIONED
AT WORK POINT.
Esquimikit, is,c., go lee Abide an Intillengn
Depot. lkilleilkilitlng iltattedes la equine ,,
40. Colistenctfon.
A large garrison, eonsisting of 4,000
or 5,000 men, ad representing every
item of the eerviee exoepti.ng that of
,
the cavalry—a system oe fortification,
submarine mines, and oiler engineer -
Mg works sufficient to mak a .elsca e —
malt one of the very etrongdet ''•
in 'the world-wide system a 13e
‘\.
military stations—and a depot of
plies in every fray equal to the str
ous derriends upon it whioh a war
Eastern waters and Oriental lai,
would involve --these are wrong the
velopments which those in a position t
Prognosticate predict will be the restu •
within three Or four years of arrange
remits now being perfectedin the War
Office at London, says the Victoria,
a, Times.
Five Years ago an arrangeme
made will' the Admiralty by tl
Office whereby they provided, ter
AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT.
' .
Before proceeding with the orders of
the. day Mr. N.C. Wallace directed the
attention of -the Prime Minister to. a
fact to whieh Sir Charles Tupper had
previously called attention, viz., the
fact that the Auditor -General's report
had not been presented lei the House
within one week of the commencement
or the session, as required by the act,
Parliament had now been in session
nineteen or twenty days and the. House
was'not in possession of the repoi•t.
'The Premier repeated the explanation
which he gave the House a few days
•ago, wlien the leader of the Opposition
called att'ention to fhe same matter,
from which it appeared that, the Audi-
tor -General had reported that he had
forwarded copy to the, Queen's Printer
on the 23rd of February, and that 41
the copy was now in the hands of the
printer, and that the; report, with the
excepticin of tbe Mounted. Police and
Trade and Commeree branches, would
be brought down on Thureday. The
Queen's Printer, bosvever, chatlenges
the accuracy of the statement by the
Auditor -General, and there is a conflict
as to who is at fault in the case,
Hon. Mr. Wallace read the clause of
the act requiring the presentation of
the report within a specified time, and
complained that the law had not been
dbeerved.
The Preraier—The keeping of the not
of •Parliament is in the halide of the
Auditor -General.
In addition to this, about an eighth.
of Veinnaes area is timber land under
private ownership. •
All -the buildings of Vienna; with
tlaeir door-yarde and backyards, if they
have any, 'occupy an, area not quite so
large as that of the timber lands, or
a little less than an eighth of the
whole surface. This means that if we
eliminate the sparsely peopled part
of Vienna about one-quarter of the
surface of the main city is occupied by
buildings and the inclosed spaces
around them. Streets and alleys are
large consumers of. space, and occupy
exactly one -twelfth of tlae whole city.
To the parks ,and public grounds of
Vienna jest about one -nineteenth of
the area. is devoted, a larger proportion
than is given to these poputar resorts
in most cities. About one -thirtieth of
the entire area is given to wine gar-
dens, which is just double the space de-
voted to ehurchyaeds.
When we compare a map of Constan-
tinople with IntipS on the same scale
of other large eities we do not need
to be told that the capital of ',eurkey
is wretchedly overcrowded. Cott-
etahtinople has a popula lion of e00,010.
As a rule, Oriental allies are erowded
into much smaller areas than Western
cities, with results t are not bene-
ficiat to the health and well being of
their inhabitants. We are led to be-
lieve that the cOmulon people of aria-
ent Rome were herded too ;closely to-
gether for comfort, from the fact, that
the old city is supposed to have bad
about twice tlae population of modern
Rome, tbotigh the city of to -day, with
400,000 people, is rather a fourth larg-
er in extent than the Rome of the
Caesars.
LAN.0 OF HOTELS.
to proportion to its size Switzerland
has more inns than any other oountry
in the world. The entertainment of
Muriel:8 hall become the chief industry
of the land, No fewer than 1,700 hos-
tel/lea stationed for the Most part en
mountain tops or near glaciers, are on
the list, and the recipe') of the hotel
keepers amodiat to abont $25 000 000 a
year.
CRINESE TASTE.
The fine,st shops in a Chinese city are
those deveted to the 840 of coffins,
Every Chinaman likes to provide for a
swell titne itt hie funeral.
garrison at Work Point a Vfachur
acalTttahtneegellfirymnait11::Mixtapeyilia,nerdee Aounratdmi el liae.:10,11.0:ti;
opposed to a-renewai of the arrango-
nieni
e
otlaer dispositions will have to be
made for the proper manning Of the ,
forts by the authorities at home, and 1.
there seems little reason to doubt that
a regular detachment a garrison artil-
lery will shortly be 'On the way to
supply the place vacated by the Marine
Artillery, who shortly return to Eng-
land.
TRANSFER THIS MONTH.
This large force will not at ouce be
dispatched here, and it is unlikely that
when • the transfer is made that a
larger detachment than one or two
officers aed a handful of men will
march into quarters al Work Point.
But if the onleions of military men
are to be relied upon, the force -will be
steadily augniented. until the station
assumes the proportions of a great
naval depot, with arms and Munitions
of war sufficient to equip the forces,
which may have to be. supplied from
here.
One reason why the contemplated
change will not take place at once is
because the acconamodation at the
Point is at present so extren:rely limit-
ed that a larger force than the present
one cannot be quartered there. But
the principal reason, perhaps, is that
England is just now paying particular
attention to strengthening her position
at Wei -Hai -Wei, and is concentrating
her energies upon making that point
equal in strength -to those of her other
Asiatic' military stations. But the for-
bidding asset of her foreign relations
in that quarter only emeahasizes the
imRortance of. Esquimalt as a tactical
basis, and as a depot of supplies for
the fleet and land forces which it may
cibeuatroteunrd necessary to employ in that
BATTALION OF INFANTRY.
In addition ' to the Engineers and
Garrison Artillery, it is coasiderea
probable that st6'battalion of infantry
as well will, in two or three years. ,
contribute part of the garzi,son. here
Such a step would invelve the con-
struction of a small WWII of barrack
TO0111S, hospitals, store rooms, eta., and -
would
make things exceedingly lively
Work is being steadily prosecuted
al. the Point, and quick -firing batteries
are now in course of constraction on
both sides of the harbour. These will
be mou.nted as soon as the guns arrive
from the ordnance departure a'
headquarters.
Whatever course may be adopted a
present by the hom.e authorities . the
impression is well defined among the
force here that this point will shortly
be placed on the seine fighting basis
as Halifax, and will lee manned and
equipped in a manner coneietent with ,•••
its great inaportance to Imperial inter- ,
ests in the North Pacific and the far
ease.
SPECULATION IN DAIRYPRODUCTS
Last session Mr. Parnaalee, of Slief-
ford introduced a bill "to prevent
speculation in 'butter and cheese."
It was referred to the Standing
Oonatnittee of the House on Agri-
culture, with the reeult that it was
decided to send copies of the bill to all
persons interested in the sale and man-
ufacture of those products, with a re-
quest that replies be returned stating
whether thepersons addressed were in
favour of such a measure .01' not, Dur-
ing the teriess IVIr. Macleod, the secre-
tary to the ennemittee, sent out 2,591
of these °treaters to cheese and butter
dealers and manufacturers throughout
Ontario and Quebec:, and the Maritime
Provi Imes.
Replies tvere received from 400, or
about 16 per cent. From Ontario 218
replies were received, 158 being for the
bill and 55 against. Of 175 replies re-
ceived from Quebec', 150 were in favour
of and 25 against lee bill. Of 21 re-
plies from the Maritime Provinces, 18
were for and a against the bill. Tweney
cheese and butter boards or associa-
tions were heard from, 13 of them lay-
ouring and 7 oppoeing he proposed
uteri sure. .
Several of the replies advocate the
rippointenent of Government inspectors
of cheese, and at hers urge the esleb-
lishment of as official Board. of Arbi-
tration to ;decide disputes between
cheeeee makers and buyers. It is 0001-
plained by cheese -makers ,the,t the buy-
s.freque nil y' refuse to accept eh eerie
itt til'e price colettraCted, for, a ilegiog.
• dereel i ye cierility asan exeuee, when,
'as the. 'manufnetnrers ifainsu, 410 Sltell
,C1Bree(a 'eariet. ' • '
NOTES, .
Col: ,Gibson, of Motile:On saye, that
ha ha heard there is every likelihood
of the Government proposing to in-
crease the militin ttppropriations for
tim Gaming yeas by half a
late making it $2 000 000
Prof. Prince and the members of the
Lobster Comission, who have been
holeting :tessera:is bn •the M.aelthne Pro-
vince; for several weeks, liaVe retteh-
ed Ottawa, and will iminediately pep-
ceiecl to draw up theit, reeenemendee
tions, •
Mn. Taylor will move for several re-
tU,Mts in COnneCtiOn With the St. Law-
ronce canals deiltratts. '
Mr: Matenee gives notiee be a reS0-
litt1011 favouring the establishment of
a mint 5Cauada,
A NEW LIGHT.
-
A phenomenon, the cause of which,
has not yet been satisfactorily ex-
plained, was described at it recent
meeting of the scientists. Disks ot
loaf sugar were mounted on 'a lathe -
and rapidly rotated while a hanamee •
played lightly against them. -An al-
most contitmous radiation of light wet
thus produced trona the sugar. It was
shotvri that the light did nol arise
from heating of the sugnr, and it is
believed to be caused by some change
taking place en the sugar crystals, The
act of crystallization is known to be
sometimes riccompenied by flashes of •
light. The practical bea ring of these
experinlentS is on the cometion of the !
poesi ty of obtaining ar t ifiela I, light
by methods as yet uetried.
IRISH LOVE -MAKING.
A writer in Maceallean'e Magazine
treating uf "Love -Making M Ireland
relates the following amacdote:
A. bashful lover wished. to make a Prt
posal of marriage, but his courage fat,
ead hem, and he induced his sister le
henome, an 1%termediery, 5 rernain
ing outeide the half-elosed door, hidden
but within erieellot, to leatn the re-
sult
11 was not feveemble. The fair one
saueily tossed her head, mild replied;
I'm ,
Ihdeed, now it i m good enough to
be married, f'm good enough to be ax -
as! 1"
Hearing i•his, the an.x.totw smon
theuet his heed inside the door, arid
said, beseechingly :
Norale darlitil, will ye do who t
gm axed ye ?
A TUTCRE POSSWILITt
In a resent da.M4e case the (Jaen-
tlaut, a railroad corporation, asks ti new
trial 'because the fair plaintiff flirted
with the Itteylf, this sort of thing
keepsthete will have to be twelvo
blind men in the jury box, ,
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