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A STORY OP sLAvERy pAys.
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Vrif . By MARY J. OOLMEs. ib
CHAPTER XXV.
• Rose. Mather had brought her hus-
band home as soon as it was safe to
move lane anti with the geod nuraing,
of Mrs. Carleton' and Annie, he grew
•earwig enough to rejoin his regiment
in May end the last whieb Rose heard
from him directly was a few words
hastily written and sent of to Wash-
ington just as the erten, of the Pote-
mac was moving on to Gettysburgh.
Then came the terrible battle, when
the summer air was full of MOW, and
-dust, and flying splinters, with clouds
of torn -up mirth whieh blinded the
horror-stricken men, wbo vainly
sough l for shelter behind the trees and
• the headstones of the .eraveyead, where
the dead must almost have heard the
fieree commotiou around them as wail
• filter wail of human anguish, mingled
with the awful shrieks of dying horses,
went up to the blackened heavens and
than died away in silence. Where the
battle was the hottest, and the carn-
age the most terrible, 'Will Mather fol-
lowed, or rather led, and when the
•fight had ceased he Iay u.pon his face,
unconscious of the pitiless xain beat-
ing on his head, or the two savage-
• looking Texans bending over him, and
turning him to the -light.
Among the list of killed,. the. Rocks
land, Chronicle of jute 10th, had the
name of Williaranetather, wiaile in an-
• other column, designated by Ione lines
of black, was a eulogy upon the de-
oeased, who was known to have fought
so bravely. Then every blind of ,the
Mather mansion was closed, and knots
of crape straitened froze the door -knob,
and the villagers missed the roll of the
carriage wheels which were wont to
ea,rry so reach comfort ond sunshine to
the hearts of the poor soldiers; and
the little, airy, dancing creature,
whose bright smile and rare beauty
had done quite as good service •as her
generous gifts, lay in her darkened
room, never weeping, never speaking,
except to moan so piteously, "Oh, Will
my darling, ray poor, poor hose
hand."
They could not comfort her, for she
did not seent to hear, or at least to
understand one word they said, and.
the soft, dark eyes had in them a wild,
feared look, which troubled the tvatch-
ars at her side, earl made them tremble
for her safety.
Tho knots of crane were taken from
the doors, and the blinds were opened
at lest, and the light of heaven let
• into the dreary house; but there Game
to change to poor little Rose, whose
white face grew so • thin, that Tom,
• when in September he came home to
• sae her,
would scarcely have known
the little sister, of whose beauty he
bed beeirso proud. As if the sight of
him in Ins uniform had brougbt babk
the .horror of the paste she uttered a
piercing shriek, and hid her face for
a moment in her pillows; ihen, with
a .sudden movement, lifted her heed,
and shedding back her tangled curls
front her pale forehead, she stretched
ber arms toward hien and whispered:
• "Take me, Tom; hold Ole ypu used
to do; let me be a Ifttk girl again in
rhe old hoine in Boston, for Will, you
know, is dead."
And Tom took 'her in his. strong,
brotheely arms, and laid her head
against his breast, and caressed and
smoothed her tumbled hair, and petted
and loved ber just as he did %viten she
was a little child, with no shadow
around her like that which enfolded
her novo Ancl then he spoke of \Yin,
and the dark eyes fastened eagerly up-
on his as he told Ite,r how the very;
night before the battle, Will knelt
down with him and prayed that wheth-
• er he lived or died, all might.be well
with him.
• "And Rose," he continued, "he bade,
me tell you, in case he was killed; that
all was well, and you must think of
him as in Heaven, not far, as some
suppose, but neer to you—with you,—
he said, and you muse meet him there.
You must bear bravely what God.
chooses to send; not give up like this
' when there is so much tube done. Will
• my darling little sister heed whet.• '
Poor Will said? Will she. try to rally ,
• and: be a brave woman?" 1
"Yes, Tom, I'll try," came gaspingly
from the white; lips, and Rose's voles
• woe, broken with sobs, as the first
tears she had shed since she beard the
fatal news, ran in torrithts down her
face.
Tom only staid a week, but lie did
them a world of good, and Annie felt
she had. never known one half how
noble a man he was until she saw how
tender he was with Rose, end how
kind to his mother, whose heart was
aching to its very core for her young-
est son. He had been removed from
Salisbury, to Andersonville when they
last heard from him, and was dead,
perhaps, by this thne. Poor Jimmie!
The year he had asked Tom to wait
wooed be upbefore very long,,but Tom
would still keep faith with him. An -
hie was sacred to Jimmie's memory,
and once, when talking with her of the
captive, he alluded to wbat would pro-
bably he virleen jimmie eame home
• again. And Annie did not turn from
'him now, as she would once have done
had such a thing been suggested.
"God onle knows how I might teel,"
• steid, and by the look in her blue
3 eyes, and the tone of her voice, Tom
-khavvthere was no hope for him,
•With many kisses and loving words
ICHAPTER XXVI.
With a howl of despair, Mrs. Baker
(mime rushing into the kitchen ef, the
Mather mansion, oae morning in nov-
ember, startling Annie with her
reheat:tenet] as she tbrust into ber baud
a dirty, half-worti envelope, which the
said was from 13111, who had been miss-
ing since August, and wbo, it now ap-
peared was at Andersonsille.
"Might better be dead," bis mothet
said, and then she explatned that the
letter she brought Annie had come in
ane to herself received that morning
from Bill.
How he ever got it through the lines
was a mystery which ha did not ex-
plain; nor did Annie care, inasmuch as
it brought news direet from Jimmie.
Ile bad written to leer with the pencil
and on the sheet of paper Bill had
brought him, for Bill was employed
outside the prison walls, and allowed
many privileges which wore denied to
the poor wretches who crowded that
swarapy pea. 1 slaort, Bill had taken
the Confederate oeth,—"had done some
tali swearine" as he wrote to Mune,
giving as an excuse for the treasonable
act, "that he couldn't eta& the racket"
in• that horrible place, where twenty
thousand human beings were crowded
together in a seetee of twenty-tve
acres, and • part of that a marshy
swamp,teeming with filth and scum,
and hideous things. Another reason,
too, Bill gave, and that was pity for
the "Coreeral," to whom he could occa-
sionally take little extras, and whom
ha would have scarcely reoognized, he
said, so worn and. changed. had he be-
come from his long imprisonment.
"1 mistrusted he was there," Bill
tvrotb ; "and, so when me and and some
other fellow -travellers was safely land-
ed in purgatory, I went on an ex-
Plorin' tower to find. him. But you bet
it want so easy gettin through that
crowd. Why, the camp-meetin. thee'
had in the Fair Grounds in Rockland,
when Marra Freeman bust her biler hol-
lerine was nothing to the piles of
ragged, dirty hungry-lookin' dogs;
some standin' up, some lyin' down, and
all lookin as if they were on their last
legs. Right on a little sand -bank, and
so near the dead line that I wonder
he didn't get shot, I found the Core
teral, with his traumas tore to tatters,
and lookin' like the old gal's rag -bag
that hangs in the suller-way. Didn't
he cry, though, when I hit him &kelp
cointn.an
ixe boaeek, am
ad want there some tall
yi
by both of us as we sat
there flat on the sand, with the hot
sun gouda' down on us, and the sweat
ana the tears runnin' down his face, as
he told me all he'd suffered. It made
niy blood bile. I've had a little taste
of Libby and 13e11 Isle, too; but they
can't hold a candle to this place. Miss
Graam, •yon are the good sort, kinder
pius like; but I'll be hanged if I
don't blee.ve you'll justify inc in the
thumpin' lies I told the Corpwal that
1 hay to keep his spirits up. Says he
Have you ever been to Rockland
sitme Fredericksburg?' and then I
tho't in a minute of the nen in the
woods when lee prayed about Anny;
and ses 1 to myself, 'The piusest lie
you ever told will be that you have
been home and seen lease Graam, with.
any other triflin' additions you may
think best;' so I told him I had ben
hum on a. furbelow, as the old gal,
meanito my mother, calls it, And
seen her too, says I, Miss Graam, and
she talked an awful sight about you,
I said, when you orto have seen him
shiver all over as be got up closer to
me, and asked, 'What did she say?'
Then I went on roma,ncin' and told him
how you spent a whole evenixe at the
ole hut, talkin' about him, and how
sorry you was for him, and couldn't
git your natural sleep for thinkin' of
him, and how, when I came away, you
said. to me on the sly, 'William if you
ever happen to meet Mr. Carleton, give
bum Anny Graam's love, and tell him
she means it." Great Peter 1 I could
almost see the flesh cone back to his
bones, and his eyes had the old look
in 'em, as he liked to of hugged.me
to death. I'd done him a world of
good, he said, and for some days he
seemed as -chipper as you please; but
nobody can stan' a diet of raw meal
and the nastiest water that over run;
and set I to myself, Corleral will die
as sure as thunder if somethin' don't
turn up; and. so, when 1 got the hang
of thin.gs a little, and. sees how the
maeheen was worked, sez I, 'I'll turn
Secede though I hate 'em as I do in-
sane They was glad enuff to have me,
bein' I'm a kind of carpenter and jin-
er, and. they let me nut, and I went
to work for the Corp'rel. I'll bet I
told a hundred lies, fust and last, if
I did. one. I said he was at heart
Seoes'h, that he was in the rebel army,
and. I took him prisoner to Manassas,
which', you know was true. Then I
said hie sweetheart, meanin' you, beg-
ging your pardon, got tip a row, and
made him jin.e the Federels, and prom-
ise never to go agin the flag, and
that's how he came to be nabbed up
at Fredericksburg. I said 'twang: no
use to try to make him swear, for he
thought more of his gal's good opin-
ion than he did of liberty, and I set
you up till I swam if I bleeve You'd
a knowed yourself, and everyone of
the.na fellers was ready to St'an' by you,
and two of 'em drinked your helth
with the wust whiskey I ever tasted.
One of 'era asked me if 1 woe a fair spe-
cimen of the Northern Army, and, I'll
he darned if 1 didn't tell him ho, for
was ashamed to have 'era think the
entlerals was all like me. 1 guese,
thotigh, they liked me some: anyway,
they let 'me carry something to the
Corneal every now and then, and /
Wove he'd die if t aian't, .sraug-
glecl him in some paper and a pencil,
and he Is going to wright to you, and
shall send it, no matter how, The
robe won't see it. and 1 gums it's
petty sure to cm safe. 1 must stop
now, Mid wright to the old woman.
`Y.Otire to command,
William Baker, F,square."
It Was with great difficulty that An-
nie cotild decipher the badly-writtee
,ectrawl; but ehe made it out at last,
and then took Sinuniete letter heat,
shuddering as she saw un it marks of
the honeore vvilich Bill had described
but faintly, and whittle Were fulla core
roboratte by Meanie hireteelt
of SympathY, he bade his sister good-
bye when his leave hacl expixed, and
then in the hall stood a moment
while his mother whispered eametiting
to bire tvhish made hin stern and turn
pale as be said!
"Poor Win 1 he would have been so
glad!"
Then, as if the news had brought
Rose, nearer to him, and made her
mere the object of Ids speeial care, he
woni back to her a. seeond time, and
wetted his ante about her lovingly, as
he enid, "Poor Intle wounded dove!
God's preedises are for the widow and
fatherless, and He, will care for you;"
• and Rose guessed to what he referred,
but there was no answering joy upon
• her fare, and her hands were pressed
• Operi her heart as she wa tolled Jahn
• evert the window, going from he's just
tee -Will had gotte, and whispered to
• herself, "it would hove been too much
imppineee if had lived ; but now
tannot be glad."'
'Is HE 1112CTITili, Tr111118
"My dear Antile," Ise Wrote, "i
not Icnow that this letter will ever
retteh you, 1 leave hut little hope that
it will. Still it is worth trying for,
and se here in this terxible Owe,
wOoee horrom AO pot or tongise can
adequately describe, / am writing to
you, who I know thinks sometimes of
the poor wretca starving end, dying
by inehes in es.ndereonville..011, Anuie
you den ?lever icoow whet 1 nave suf-
fered from huoger end, thirst, and ex-
posure and telth, which Makes my very
blood curdle and oreep, and front that
weary homesiclatees, which more than
aught else knits the poor boys around.
roe, When I first. (same beret thought
1 could, rot endure it, and though I
knew' I was not prepared, 1 wied to
wish that I' might die; bat a little
&rummer boy from Michigan, who Look
to me from the first, said. his prayers
one night beside me, and the listening
to him carried me back to you, who, I
felt sure, prayed, for me each day. A.nd
SO hope came back again, with a desire
Lo live and see your dear face once
more. My little drummer boy, John-
ny, was all the world to me, and when
he grew too sick to sit or stand, 1
held las poor head, in my lap, aud
gave up my rations to him, for he
was alraost famished, and at eager-
ly whatever was brought to us. We
used to say the Lord's Prayer togeth-
er every night when a certain star ap-
peared, which he playfully called his
'mother,' saying it vvee har eye watch-
ing over hire. It was a childish fancy,
but we grow childish Mire, and 1, too,
have given that star a name. 1 call
it 'Annie,' and I watth its coming as
eagerly as did the. little boy, who died
just as the star Teethed the zenith
and was shining down upon hime His
head wee in my lap, and all there was
left of my coaL I made into a pillow
for him, ancl'heldnhim till he died. His
mother's address is, _.__, Michigan,
Write to her Annie, and tell her how
Johnny died in the firm hope of Meet-
ing her again in heaven. Tell her he
did not suffer much pain, ---only a
weakness, which wasted his life away.
Tell her the keepers were kind. to him,
and brought him ice -water several
tames. thT.ell • her, too, oe the sox
which he gazed so long as he had
str
'It was all the companion I had.
after he WAS gone until Bill Baker
came. I shall never forget that day.
had crawled np to my sand bank,
and drawn my rags around me, and
Waa beginning to wisb again that I
could. die, when a broad hand was
laid upon my shoulder, and a voioe
which was MUSIC to ms then, if it
never had been before, seed to nee
theerily, 'Hallo, old Corp'ral 1 Suth
are the chances of war I Give us your
fist l' But when he saw what a sorry
• jaded wretch I was, his chin began to
quiver, and we eried together like two
great babies as we were.
"Oh, Annie, was it a lte Bill Baker
told me, or did you really send me
your love, and say that you meant it?
He told me such a story, and I grew
better in a moment. Have you relent-
ed, and if I could ask you again the
question 1 asked. a year ago, when we
sat together beneath the moonlight,
would you tell nee yes? Darling Annie,
Andersonaille is not: so terrible since
I aan kept: up by that liope. I do not
mind now if my shoes and stockings
are tell gone, ancl my trowsers near-
ly so, and I watch for that star so
eagerly, and make believe that it is
you, and when the cleak clouds obscure
it, and the rain is falling upon my un-
sheltered head, I say that it is Annie's
tears, and do not mind that either. I
pray, too, Annia—pray with my heart,
I hope, though my prayers have more
to do with you than myself.
"Bill Baker saicl. he should write and
tell you about his taking the oath,
which I believe he. did almost solely
for my sake, and greatly have I been
benelited by it. Rougb as he is, and
disgusting at times, he seems to have
gained friends outside, and he does us
inannFy a kindness, confining his atten-
tiomostly to me, who am his espe-
cial care. It is a strange Providence
that he who took me a prisoner at
Bull Run, and annoyed me so terribly
Should now be caring for me here at
Andersonville, and literally keeping
the h
e within me, for I should. die
w
•
"/ have not written half I want to
say, but my paper is nearly used un,
and notOne word have I said to moth-
er or Rose. Tell them, they would not
know me now, and tell them. too, that
in my dreams, when I am not with
you, encl. Isvith them, and mother's face
is like an angel's, while Rose's spark-
ling beauty makes my heart beat just
as it wed. to beat when I first began
to realize what a darling sister lhad.
Dear Annie, you did send thee message
by Bill Baker, I will believe, and thus
believing, shall 'gain strength maybe
to bear up until the day of release.
'Good-bye, my darling. From my
oroweted, filthy, terrible prison,1 send
you a loving good-bye."
Notwithstanding the sickening de-
tails of this letter the day succeeding
its receipt was a brighter one at the
Mather house than the inmates had
known foe' a long time. Jimmie was
still alive and with Bill Baker's care
he might survive the horrors of An-
aersonville and come back to them
again. Annie showed both letters to
Mrs. Carleton, who, when she read
them, wound her arms nrourtd Annie's
neck and whispered, "Is it wrong for
me to be glad that Bill Baker told
that lie, when by the means our weis-
oner boy is so greatly benefited."
(To 13e Continued.)
. ,
NOT INDEBTED TO FORTUNE.
From what 3' little we knew of his
erly life and inheritance Shakespeare
seems to have been less entitled to
foeturte than any of the world's great
men. The son of probably almost il-
literate parents, and brought up m
the unintellectual and prosaic atmos-
phere of an insignieicant agricultural
village, fortune seems to have done
nothing to excite and develop his im-
3agination, and very little to inerease
his knowledge of mankind. leis very
modest -success in Lorldon seems to have
been in spite of fortune's frowns and
he seems to have, eecaped the cold: wel-
come of the Metropolis as soon as he
could, There was neither example tier
rivalry* to stimulate his efforts, nor
foreign travel to inature his anow-
tedge.
11 may stress as a comfort to us in all
our calamititer and afflictiohs, that he
war loses anything and gots wisdom
13y it is e gainer by the losa—L'Es-
trangia , t.
DOMINION PARLIMENT,
WhAt the LegiSlatOrS at the Country
are Doing it Ottawa,,
ens
•. A SENSIBLE KOTe•°'
ION3
Mr. John Oherlton bas given notice
of the following Motioxl!
That the prevailimg practice of de-
livering in the Canadian House of
Commons, speeches of great length;
embra.oing voluminous and. often ir-
relevant extracts, has introduced a
discursive arid diffuse, rather taan, a
concise and incisive etyle of public
speaking; is destroottve of pertinent
debate upon public questions; is a
Waste of valuable time, unreasonably
lengEhenxi the sessions of Parliament;
is in a marked contrast to the practice
that prevails with regard to debate in,
the British Houee of Commons, and
tends to repe,t the public from, a care-
ful and intelligent consideration of
the proceedings of Parliament.
alhat it is expedient that: rules be
adopted limiting the length of speeches
and regulating the general conduct of
debate in that regard. Meat a special
csommittee should be formed to eon-
sider the question of parliamentary
d.ebate, length of • speeches, geleesal
conduct of debate, and proper methods
Lor securing the greatest prompti-
tude in the despatoh•! of business con-
sistent with theeparliamentary rights
of -the minority, and the general in-
terests of the publioe and report' its
recomMendaeions, to this •House.
• RAILROAD TO DAWSON, CITY,
The standing Orders Conatnittee
coosidered the petition of Wit -
Haste Mackenzie, D. D. Mann and
R. J, Macketneie, praying for power to
construct and operate a line of rail-
way front a paint on the Stikine river
in British Columbia, thence by a prac-
ticable route to Toslin Lake or there-
abouts, thence by a practicable route
to Dawson City, also a line from a
point on or near the Stikine river by
a southerly route to a point in Bri-
tish Colu.rabia capable of being made
an ocean. port; also a line from &point
on or near the Lynn canal, vitt Fort
Selkirk, to Dawson City, and branch
• lines along the Greeks. The lines are
to be known as the Canadian Yukon
Railway. There is a rule of the com-
mittee that all bills applying to this
section of the country must be adver-
tised in Dawson City papers. It was
pointed out that though several COM -
goalies applying for charters haee con-
formed to this rule at a very great ex-
pense, this company had not. The peti-
tioners by their solieitor, stated that
they had mailed their application from
Ottawa on Decembex 3rd, bot that ow-
ing to the delays with th.e mails no
paper lead came out later then De-
cember ILh. The Clerk of the Council,
in rebuttal, produced a copy of the
Yukon Sun for February 14. The bill
was reponced, no motion to waive the
rule being submitted.
AFTER. THE C. P. R.
Robert L. Richardson, M.P., has
moved for the appointment of a com-
mission of the House to ascertain the
amount of capitai expended in the
construeLion of. the C. P. R. ; Ills ob-
ject is to try to abolish what is known
as the ten per cent clause. This c3lause
enacts that until the C. P. R., eaens10
per cent. on the capital a.otually ex-
pended on the road the Government
is not permitted to control the rates.
What Richardson wants to know is
how the subsidies voted by the coun-
try to the road are to be considered
in estimating the cost of construction.
The motion reads thus: — That the
Parliament of Canada has provided aid
in cash, land, constructed railway, and
he others forms, to a very large amount,
ordee 'that the Canadian Pacifie
Railway Company might be able to
fu nish transportation to ths western
settlers at rates whiell need, be cal-
culated to 'produce little beyond the
oast of pperation and maintenance, and
that the 101 per cent, provision is i
em-
bodied in the act incorporating the
C. P. R.; Company.;
That there seem.sto be no well de-
fined understanding as to whether the
gifts and grants aforeinentioned were
not to be considered as a part of the
"capital expended on the construction
of the road," and that there seems not
to have been any method or process
'provided or indicated by the Charter
Act; for determining the actual amount
of the "capital expended on the con-
struction of the road," and
It is re.soLved, therefore, thee this
House aapoint a commission for the
proposed enquiring into and (1) deter-
mining the originet cost of the C.P.R.
Cernpa,ny's main line and the equipment
thereof; (2) tbe original cost of all the
branch eines constructed and at pres-
ent owned. and operated bythe Com-
pany in Canada; (13) the original cost
of all lines acquired by purchase and
at present ownen by the eorapany in
Canada; (4) the original cost ot all the
lines at present owned and operated
by tbe colmpany in the United States
of America; (5) the rentals or other
consideration paid for all lines leased
and operated by the moupany in
Canada; (6) the rental or other eon -
sideration paid by the company for all
lines operated by il cer operated,
subject' to its °oar& in the onitea
States of, America; 7 the revenues
and expenditures of each of these
railways 45 afmementioned in sopa-
rate form in so far as Buell separation,.
of Accounts is feasible, that this eon, -
mission be given full, power to examine
witnesses under oath, to demand pro-
duction of books of aceount or cor-
respondence and of all documents re-
lating to the subject matter of this
resolution,.
NEW 'LINE 01' 8TEAMERS,
Application has been made to the
Dominion Parliament for the hecorpor-
ation of the Canadian 'Inland 'ere/teller-
'ration Coronany, those interested being
Messrs. Wm. Christie, 3 FL Oeborne,
Geo. IL, Bertram', AL le, of Toronto;
Alex. leuttioden, M. P. *1 and ;.fohn Me,,
Rae, of Ottawa, and Hon. Semler Fore
get, of Montreal, The conepany peos
poses to have' a fleet of ten solid steel
•
Parries, 276 feet in lengtli1 by 43
figet beam, with e capacity' of 78,990
buthele of wheat, with a foorteenefoot
depth in the canals. I The promoters
tbrik tbey olio carry eargoes to Neon-
treel from Lake Superior cheaper than
tae,present 6 -cent rate to New York,
and in return do a profitable business
in return cargooe. The carrying of
ore fronr Lake Saporito to the blast
furnace at Hauellton, and to the pro-
posed one at Toronto, is also content-
p•lated. The capital. stock of the cone-
pane- will be If e,000,009. '
TO SPAN PACIFIC OCEAN.
tbe long -talked -of Pacific ceble will
shortly, according to present appear-
ances, lie an aecomplisbed fact. The
co-operation of the Australian and the
Imperial authorities is already pestered,
and within a fortnight it is expected
the Dominion Government will intro-
duce a bill which will declare evitat
nafuodr gdian gis ePgarreaink
dt odo in itthesh famr
perial .Federation scheme.
The Government's bill wilt provide
tor supplying funds equivalent to five -
eighteenths of the cost of the con-
struction of the proposed cable, et]
soon as Great! Britaia signifies its
readiness to provide a like sum, and
the Australasian colonies formally
01i:o 1"egt000sot.ontribute •eight -eighteenths
The control of th,e cable is to be
vested in a commission to be ale -
pointed by the torpeetal Government,
eaoh contributing colony nominating
representatives on the commission in
proportion to the amount, contributed.
Thus will be secured the priticiple of
government control of rates and mane
agement, a desideratum seoond only
to that of having the cable entirely
under British Management.
The Canadian termetial pcient wili
likely be Val:motives', although this
has not been finally decided u.pon.
Thence the. cable win run to Iran-
ning Island, on to Fiji, thence to Nor-
folk Island, where connections will
be made with Australia and New
Zealand. The knell of the cable will
• be about 7,150 miles.
r1 is expected that within three
years after its oompletion the cable
wall be successfully operated as to
• yield a substantial income so sub-
stantiai that dividends will be paid
on the several contributions of the
various states interested. The estima-
ted cost will not be more than ielep
500,000, and at the outset only a per,
centage of this will be called up. The
Government. believes that it can be
made entirely self-supporting. ,
Lord Strathccina and Hon. A. G.
Jones have reported on the financial
aspect of the project. Their report
showthat after the first year the
cable would pay expenses, and that
from time to tme as bu.siness in-
• creased, rates could be lowered. Thuri
the cable will become an intego.al fac-
tor in the prosperity of the countries
which will be its part proprietors.
Sir Charles Tupper said: I would
like to take the opportunity of con-
gratulating my right hon. friend who
leads the Government upon the an-
nouncement made in the press with re-
gard to the arrangement' which has
been arrived at concerning the con-
struction of the Pacific cable. 'I eegard
thatt as a moat important matter, and
I think the Government ansi the coun-
try are very much to be congratulat-
• ed upon the matter having been fin-
ally, as I elope it is, a.nd satisfac-
torily arranged. I leave long since
satisfied myself that the construction
of the cable will involve no obliga-
tion upon this country whatever, and
I am satisfied the time, is n far
distant when it will be a source of
revenue.
Sir .Wilfrid 'Laurier—I must express
t.he gratitude of the Government to
my eight hon. friend. Of course I
might have expected it, for 1 know
what his views have been. I hupe that
in future when we bring in as good
measures we will receive the same sup-
port from my lien, friend.
Sir Charles Tupper—Hear, hear.
• tal reesoo for it whieh we ought to
repeat, I
"From the above roles nervous peo-
ple are exempt. Some of them abso-
lutely refuse to find rest until all le
quiet and dark about them, 1 leave
found that in cases of megrim, a nee"
Pelee pain in one sidis of the bead,
nothing would do but to place the pa-
tiept in an absolutely dark and still
room, if Possible at tbe top of the
house. I advise that people suffering
from sick heedethe should interrupt
their dey's work and Lake themeelves
for a quarter of an hour to a dark-
ened, room proof against noises. Na-
ture has pot tvvo great remedies in
our hen as—light and darkne,ss. Suffer -
ere should feint out for themselves which
best agrees with them."
NATURE'S OWN MEDICINES,
ONIONS CURE ALL SORTS OF NERV-
'OUS DISORDERS.
celery and Pleplant GOOd For Rheumatic
People—Cranberries and Flo If8041 Whir
Effect Against Blood Complaints—Pea-
nuts for illabetes.
Cin41 aroPert
!runs, etc., which they serve, and aot
upon the knowledge thus gained, there
would be far less n.eed to sunnnon the
physician on every slight indisposition
of some member of the family. • Of
course, this only applies to ailmentsin
the incipient form, when, by prompt
•action, disease mae•be warded 'off. The
ounce of prevention in this, as in other
cases, is far better than ,the pound of
cure. When disease has fastened up-
on .the system l±e only proper course
Said an eneinent physician: "If house-
wives would make a study of the' medn
les of the • vegetables,
is to employ the best physician pro-
curable."
FRUIT PRESCRI.PIIONS.
Those inclined to or suffering front
rheumatie troubles, says a writer in
the Dietetic Magazine, should use
celery, pieplant, all tart fruits, aspect -
ally lemons -and sour oranges.
One troubled with nervous disorders
will be greatly benefited by using on-
ions, turnips and celery. Onions are
said to be almost Llie besi nervine
known. Nothing will so quickly
relieve nervous prostration and totae
up a worn-out system.
For kidney troubles use graPen
spinach anti common dandelion, making
a tea of the roots of the two letter, end
taking tablespoonful doses several'
times a day, when the plants are not
procurable for a relish. Buttermilk
as a beverage is also beneficial. For
disorders of the liver use tomatoes,
onions, lemons and salt.
Insomnia is often cured by the use
ot either lettuce or onions. Use all
kinds of fresh, rips fruits to purify the
blood and tone up the system. krilaok-
berries and raspberries are tonic.
Bananas are an excellent food for those
suffering from digestive irregulari-
ties.
• FOR, 13LOOD DISEASES.
Carnberries are used externally EIS
well as internally for erysipelas, and
figs—a most valuable remedy for those
suffering with cancer—are used in the
same way.
Garlic, olives, actions, peanuts and
tome toes promote digestion. The
beaten yo/k of an egg, with meter
enough added to make it palatable, will
be beneficial in cases of jaundice.Wake
morning and night. Also the beaten
yolk with sugar is good to clear and
strengthen the voice, and the beaten
whites with lemon Jame end sugar will
relieve hoanseness.
Elderberries are said to be a speci-
fic for dropsy. Spinach and onions
• will relieve;those suffering with grav-
el. Carrots are good for asthmatic
troubles. Turnips, onions and salt for
scurvy. Those who are troubled with
diabetes should use foods devoid of
sugar and staroh. Peanuts are speci-
ally recommended for corpulent dia-
betes.
THE LEMON INVALUABLE.
A chapter might be written on lem-
ons, the free use of which often saves
a big doctor's bill. • They are a sov-
ereign remedy for cold, if taken in
time. 'When a severe cold is felt
coming on the patient should take a
hot lemonade, made by squeezing and
cutting one lemon into a half pint ef
boiling water. Add a very little
sugar, to make it palatable, drink and
go to bed, covering up warmly to in-
duce a gentle parenivetlent. For
feverish thirst. in sickness, biliousness,
low fevers, rheumatism, liver troubles,
etc., they are almost Invaluable. .
ENDURING PAIN.
it Is Easier io Bear in the light Thou in
the Dark.
All who ever suffered from a tooth-
ache know to their sorrow that the
pains increase as the night grows old-
er. A toothsehe, whirl during the day
interfered but little with our enjoy-
ment of life is likely to develop during
thtehours of darkness into a veritable
terror, that makes us curse the acci-
dent of our birth.- It is the same with
an earache, asthmatic troubles, etc.,
Asthma is most likely to develop into
a smothering nightmare between the
hours of 10 p.m., and 6 a.m.
At the Vienna University Dr. Gold-
scheider has told the reason in ape- .
per read before his class. Ile thinks
the darkness prevailing in the average AN OLD WARNING.
bedroom is at fault. Light, he Says,
pleys a greater part in the pathology
of aches than most people imagine.
Those are, generally speaking, the
healthiest members of the human
family who live in sunlit, well -aired
rooms, and who move about in the sun
as much as practicable.
If in daytime we axe etackeu with
pain, our sufferings are certainly less,
relatively speaking, than they would
be if the malady had seized us at night,
for Iigbt ane sunehine soothe our feet -
Inge and do not allow us to abandon
OutSelVeS to the feeling of pain.
When night comes the painful setsa,-
110/1S increase; they are bearable 48
long as we are in the gas or bonen
light, but bettome ittenee the moment
we stretch out in bed, enveloped by
stillness and darkness. A leeeenlng af
the pain is observable only atter sun-
rise,
" What does it mean?" asks the doc-
tor. " That darknese and stilabase Ate
not conducive to the comfort of sick
people. Therefore, 1 ,itty, if you hove
pains in the evening, do not rob Your-
selve,s pot the soothing effects of a
lamp. In ninety-nine out ot a hun-
dred eases the presents of a ]ight in
the sick room alleviates pain,
For the same reesons ao not let
your childrett sleep in the dark if
limy prefer' a light, The dental of a
night lamp has made many a child ill
with heart disease. If children refuse
to sleep in the dark it maybe iteettme
ed that there Is some physical or men -
Ile oldest Egyptian papyrus, which
contains a series of moral aphorisms of
the fifth Egyptien dynasty, 8566-3333
B. C., is said to afferd the earliest in-
stance of the moral treatment of in-
toxication, and the first warning in
writing against drinking in wine shops.
"My sop," runs the injunction, "do not
linger in tbe wine shop or drink too
m'uch wine. Thou fallast upon the
ground; thy limbs become weak as
th-ose of a child. One cometh to do
trade with thee., and findeth thee so.
Then sey they, 'Take away tbe fellow,
for he is drunk.' "
• ARAB MUSIC.
Arab tawncr has been described as the
einging of A pl'inacl donna who has rup-
tured her vone in trying to sing a
duel with herself. Emit note starts
fawn soniestatere between a ehattp and
a elat, but does not glop evert there'
and splits up into four or more polo
Liow3 of wheal no peewit can be ex-
pecteil to catch more than one at a
time.
TEA Amr.,,O1PrE.P.
An eminent pliyeltlete. says that no
parson sbould be petted to dritik
tea or eoffee inti 01'he 'has at -
tattled the agao 113 yetern,' In the
young those beverages unditly excite
the tetvotia syetem, and haVaaxi the
Janette eft0e1 uPen the- digestive:prom
• WHIT ONCLE SIM 1 111
ITEN$S OP INTEREST ABOUT Ttlii
litisY YANKEE.
Neighbor!), Interest in His aoings—teatters
of Moment 3114 Mirth Gathered from His
Deily Recert.
The net funded debt of tbe city et
New York, on. Januitr,y 31, -1899, waa
$247 016 820.80.
Denver has e death rate of 948, Los
Angeles, of 13.16, San Franeiaeo ot
17.
• Every day brings new reports of an
inerease in wages in manufacturing in-
dustries. • -
The Salvation. AiTetien to,:kbe inoore
porated under tile' j of' the State
of. New York.
Two-thirds of the United States
have abolished days of grace on cone-
mercial paper.
Gold worth almost ;06,000,000 hen
been taken out of the mines In Lite
Cripple Creek district in the last eight
years.
A coloured woman, a native oe
.Haylo, who died recently in Baltimore,
left an estate of 4$25,000 to chari-
ties.
The International Air Power Com-
pany has ratroliaeed the Rhode Island
Locomotive Works, at Providenee.
Miss Caroline Hazard, the new -preen -
dent of Wellesley college,' is herself
not a college graduate. -• She is 42 '
yeara old. ,
Since Senator Allison • became a
widower, over fifteen years, ago, his ,
wife's mother has been the manager
of bie household.
President McKinley frequently does
his afternoon's work in the White
House library, which is now used on
Mrs. McKinley's sitting roora.
In a family in Kirwin, Ks., one son
is a. doctor, another an undertaker,
and a third a tombstone maker, whose •
wife is a registered pharmacist.
In 300 New York sweat -shops the
highesb wages earned, according te
the Board of Health report, is 45 telexes
Lan eighteen hours' work a day.
The statistical tabulation of church
membership in the United States for
1891 has a. grand total of 27,714,523,
with a net gain of 802.e00 for the
year.
Gen Elwell Otis, was at one time
one of the best amateur raarksmen in
the east, arid is said still to retain
much of his former skill in this
line.
During 1898 the Labour Commis-
sioner of Seattle, found employment
Lan 18,154 people, in addition to a
large number sent to the hop fields to
pick hops.
The table in the beusehold of Ruse s
sell Sage is said to be one of thet beet
furnished in New York, both as to
meals and the manner in which they
are served.
Edward Gray, the principal of tb.e
Davenport echool, Fall River, who has
just died, was one of the oldest edu-
cators in Massaohussets, having
taught eon tinuously f or fifty-sevea
years
The promoters of the Admiral Dewey
gold mine on Puget Sound have sent
a certificate for 5,000 shares to "Mrs.
Dewey,"- apparently ignorant that 'the
edtniral has been a widower for 26
years
An oId landmark of San Franoisoo
will soon be removed. to give plaoe to
a modern business building. This is
the Isthmus House, which In 1849 and
1850 stood on the shore of the bay at
Firs( and Jessie streets.
It is estimated- that it will take six
years to complete the New York har-
bour improvements, altbough in lees
than that time the aCNV obannel vilL
have reached a depth sufficient to ad-
mit the largest steezners.
The Lalande prime of the French
Academe- of Science has 'been confer-
red upon Prof. A. C. Chandler, of Cam-
bridge, Mass, in reeognition of "the
splendour, Lhe importance, and the
variety of his astronomical work."
Ex -President Harrison will leave for
Paris on May 17, and after arguing
the Venezuelan ease before the board
of arbitration will probably give some
months to travel through Europe and
the Holy Land, in company with ars.
lia.rrisen.
It is repoitea that Englishmen re-
presenting a large amount of wealth
havn secured an option on 100,000 acres
in the new op, fields in the Cherokee,
Natton, and it is proposed wheel the
syndicate completes its plans to com-
pete with the Standard Oil.
James E. With, of Berlin, Worcester
County, Md., :meander received a hand-
some ebony sane with a gold knob
which bore the following inseription:
"Preseuted to James E. Wise, of Ber-
lin, Md.'the oldest undertaker in the
United State, by the Sunnyside, the
oldest undertaking journal in the
world, on his 82nd birthday." Not-
withstanding his great age, Mr, Wiee
ie still actively engaged in the under-
taking business, and only a short
time ago drove tweutyefive miles and
conducted two funerals the same
day
Alered von Bruening, Beee,eta.ry of
the German Embassy at Constantin-
ople and formerly an attaehe of the
embassy in Wiestilegtori, is Lo marry
Nese Gordou McKay of that city. The
alIiitnoe is not approved by Ambassa-
dor von Bollaben, and it is seta
Bruening asked ter e change of post
on tine accouttle Mee, McRae, who is
an exceedingly beepletenit womita, ua
ale divonted wire, of a Boeton
tont has iin enema allowanee of
$25,000, Von Bruerting ie a clever man
of. about 30, ,a, trteraber of an old and
aristooratio tunny. Tee is pepularerad
mink- mteit f cyt eignere Wilt7 tAarvy Ara.
eleven women, possesses 11ounfortahle
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