Exeter Times, 1899-5-4, Page 9:e1iteito:443....;03$0a!,a0
Love and 'War*(4.
Wip A STORY OP SLAVERY DAYS. ir
cf, By MARY ,J, HOLMES. ,
CIHAPTER XXVIL-Continued, the ''"'way went Q/3 among the
mountains, 'tried, to entertain Will
"Ali right I" Was the peel -word by
which they metered, and Will oon
Mather by telling lare of his old leorcie
'sin North Carolina and how happy
stood in the,' wides, hall which, ran,
they wore there before the war came
throOgh the entire latilcling; and opens and took his father away.
ed in the rear upon a broad piagza.
"I don't aee it in the light TJnole
"Better take nine to Miss , IVIaude's Paul and sister do," Charlie said. "I
room," the woman Said, and Will fol- don't want them to catch and torment
lowed on to, an upper chamber, which, belong -the prisoners, or murder tolke who
he would have known at once don't think as they do; but I do want
,ed to a young lady. .. ' our side to sacceed, and when I hear -
It
was not as elegantly furnished as of a victery I say 'Hurrah for tlae 0011-
111s own sleeping apartment at home, federacy e I can't help it when I
but it bore unmistakable marks of think of father, who was killed by the
'taste and refinement ; while the aiNsof
Yankees and all the trouble the
pure, gentle womanhood, which pgit- war has 'brought. I'm willing, to work
vaded it, brought Rose very vividly be- like 'a dog for the refugees and iris -
fore hint, "This is my niec's room, Maude De oners, and I'd dte sooner than betray
e
one, but if I was a man I'd join
Vere,' Mr. Haverill explained, when Davis's army sure."
they were alone, and Will -was dry- The pale face elf the boy was flush-
ing himself before the fire, kindled ed all over, and hie dark eyes burn -
by the woman who had admitted them,
and who, Wilt aW, Was a mulatto.
ed. with Southern fire as he frankly
lik•-• s
avowed his sentiments, and Will Math -
"My niece is not at home now," lee or could not repress a smile, at this
continued. "She is in South Carolina; noble specimen of a Southern rebel.
has been gone several months on a "I like you, ray boy, for your frank -
visit. to old judge Tunbridge, her
05388," he said, "and when the war is
'mother's uncle, I'm her mother's bro-
o
ther, and she and the boy Charlie have ver, I shall have to send for .you to
come North and be cure.d of your
lived with Me since the first Year of treason."
the war. Their father was Captain De
"Ie is not treason," arid the, boy
*Pere, from North Carolina, a.nd was
killed at the first Bull Run. Nany, stamped his girlish foot. "It is not
theii mother, never held up her head treason any more than the views held
•afteit that. I was with her when she by the Revolutionary soldiers. Didn't
the colonies secede from England, and
;died. and brought the children home.
does anybody call Washington a
lVfaude is twenty now, and Charlie
traitor, now? I tell you it is success
fourteen. I am their guardian, 1V1a.ude
is Union, Charlie seeesh, but safe. which decides the nature of the thing.
They have a great deal of property If we sueeeed, future hietorians will
'
here and there, though licev it will speak of he as patriots, as a persecut-
ed people, who gave our lives in de -
Tome through the war, the Lord only
fence of our homes and firesides."
knows.? , "You won't succeed, my poor boy,
Will was glad to see that his host
The Confederacy is gasping its lastreath. You will be conquered at t
was inclined to talk on without wait- The
tug for answers, and he kept quiet,
while Mr. Haverill continued:-
last, and then what have you gaui-
"I dare say you wonder to find a ed ?"
"Nothing, -nothing but ruin!" end
.chap like me among people svho are
the tears poured over the white face
so bitter against you Yankees, a,ncl•
of this, def nder of South ra rights.1
sometimes wonder at myself. I am
Soon le:covering himself, however, he
•Soutli Carolina. born, and ought to be
foremost in -the rebellion; but hanged exclaimed, proudly:
'"We may be conquered, but not sub -
if I cart see that it is right. Why, I
jugated. You can't do that with all
might as well. set up a govern,rnent of
your countless hordes'. of men, and
Imy own, here on the Oak Plantation,
'
and refuse to come under any civilized your millions of motley. The North
laws. Mind, though, I don't think the can never subjugate the South. We
•South all wrong, -not a bit of it. ,The mar lay down our areas because we
have . no other alternative, but we
North slid bully us, and the election
shall still think the beene, and feel the
of Mr Lincoln was particularly obnox-
ious to the majority here, but we had same as we do now." -
Here was a curione study fax 'Will
no right to secede, ancl you did your
duty trying to drive us back. For Mather, who war eurprised to find
th- such maturity Of thought and so
et spell I kept quiet, -didn't take ei
strong determination in one so young
er siue;. or if I did, wanted. the
South to beat, as all my interests are and frail.
here. 13ut when our folks got. to "No wonder it is, hard to conquer a
abusing their prisoners se shamefully, people composed of such elements," he
thought, and he was about to continue
and told so many lies. by way of de -
the conversation When he was startled
calving us fellows who live among
by a loud blast fro
the horn among the
the hills and only get the news once
or twice' a week, I changed. my politics, hills, .
"They'ie caught some one. They el-
and after the day when I found one of
my neighbors, and the best man that ways do that as a kind of exulta-
tion,' the boy exclaimed, wringing his
ever breathed, too, hung to a tree like
a. dog, with the word 'Abolitionist' pin- hands, and evincing, as_peteph distress
d to his coat, I made a vow that
as he had heretofore shown' bateeitiess
ery energy I had. should be given to against: the opposing party.
ring for and helping just stich It was a poor refugee from a
retches as you, and if I've helped one neighboring county, whom, in spite of
ve helped a thousand. Why, at least Paul Haverill's precautions, they had
founci in a hollow tree, and whom they
a hundred have slept in this very room
-Moude's room; for, as I told you, she brought more dead than alive down to
the Oak Plantation, amid vociferous
is Union to the backbone, and led one
chap across the mountain herself. She cries of "Tar and feather him!" "Hang
is a regular Di Vernon, anti is not hinit to a sour -apple tree!" "Give him
afraid of the very deer When she a taste of the halter!" "Make him an
example to all other sneaking sym-
went away she bade me put thern in
here, as the room least liable to sus- nathizers I"
pieion. To the folks around me I am With his face as white as marble,
the roughest kind of a Secessionist:, and his lips set firmly together; Paul
me Haverill. stood in the midst of the
and. I suppose nobody can beat
swearing about the Yankees, just to nuoii.seyt.. group which he tried to
hoodwink 'em, you know. I suppose ci
"Let us try him by jury," he said.
that's wrong; my wife would say so s
shwas a saint when she was here,- and something in his voice reassured
e
the frightened, haggard wretch, who
she is an' angel now. She died five
years ago, -before the war broke out; had seen' his honse burned down and
his son shot before his very eyes, and
and Lois, the woman you saw, has been
my housekeeper since. I shouldn't of course expected no mercy.
like the North to take her from. me. The trial by jury proved popular,
They tried it once -when a squad of and then Paul Havartil suggested that
'em ransaeked my house--knd I was a judge be chosen in the person of
sick iu bed. Maude threatened to some one sv,ho .had lest 'a near friend
blow their ,brains out; and,. sir, she 1a Llee.w,ar; and was of course compen:
would have done ite too, it:the Scamps ent tp..taete out full justice to the
hadn't let Lois .alone." „' critinnaln"Charlic, for instance," and
"I don't agree with your folks on has eye fell on the, boy, who had join.
the ' nigger question, though none of ed the crowd and was ,standing close
mine has run away since tlaePteelanee: by .the prisoner. The boy caught his
Eiden, which I did not like. They uncle's moaning at once, and ex -
know, too, they aie free, or will be claimed: . •
when the Yankees come, for I took "Yes, let me be the judge. My fade.
pains, to tell them, and gave them CT was killed at Bull Run. My moth -
liberty to cut stick for the Federal er died of grief. Surely I, may de -
lines as soon as they pleased; but they oide."
staid, • and great help I find them in Charlie De Vere was a favorite with
the business I'm carrying on. They the men, who knew how etaunch a Con -
are constantly on the lookout for run- federate he was, and, .wateing the
aways or refugees, and are quite as trial for want of time, they said:
good as bloodhounds' to scent. one. "Charlie shall decide whether we
:They told me about you, and I watch- hang, drown, whipor tar and feather
ed and saw you go into that cave, the prisoner at the bar." .
s which is on my land, and which few Then, with far more energy and fire
know about, or if they do they think than had characterized his vindication
it a springhole, end never dream that of the South, Charlie De Vere Pleaded
anybody can hide in there. Somebody !for the criminal, that they would. let
else must have seen you, too, for word him go. " just this once, for father's
came that a maxi was hiding in the stake, and mute, and. Maude s, eind
'mountains, arid as the acknowledged and,at the mention of Maude, the
leader of as hard a set* as ever hunt- dark brows began to clear, and Inc
ed a 'Yankee, I went with 'em to fin5 scowling faces grew more lenient in
seyou and carried in _my pocket that their expression, for Maude De Vere
'bacor, and corn bread whieh 1 man- was worshipped by the rough men of
aged to drop into tha,cave when I sat the mountains, who, though they knew
with my back again el!' it. I knew you her sympathies were on the Union side,
must be hungry, and it might be some made an exception in her favor,, and
time before 1 could come to yeur aid, held her person and opinions sacred.
We didn't find the chap, but to -mor- For her sake, they would let their
roethey'll be at it again, and so, captive: go, giving him warning to
. while I help 'am hunt for a Dean about leave the .neighborbriod at once, nor
your bend, you will stay in the room let hiraself be seen again in their
in, LOWS charge, Meade has. a good niitist while the war lasted.
many gimcracks here, each as books And thua it chanced that Will
and things, ,which may amuse. you. Mather had • a companion Mine wan -
She is wining ,htene by and by, . The timings, which were rebewed the fol -
house is very diffetent then. You lowing day; the boy Charlie acting as
ought' to tette Mande. Wa are very guide through the most dangerous
proud of her, That's her picture, only part of ,the way, and at last bidding
not half so good-looking," and, he him good-bye., with great tears in his
pointed to a malt oil painting hang- cyOS, aO he. aid
hope. you won't be caught; but I
iug above the mantel.
It
was a splendid head, and the don't know, tbm woods n,re full of ,our
glossy bleak hair 'bound ebotit it in eoldters. - Travel et night, and hide
heavy braids gave it a still more regal through the day, Trust no one, but
look. The eyes, too, were black; but the n,egroes; and it you are taptured,
very soft and gentle in their expres.: ask for mercy in istet' name. hivery-
Flied,. though something iiheiut el hem body knows Maude De Vero."
gave the linpression that 1453r might
Heel' and blaze brilliantly under ,ux- co.,Arri'm
ailment. it was a beatitiful face, ri was the night of the third of
and Wilt did not wonder that ,14i1 ,l'uty, the anniversary: 00 she stippesed,
s hien wee proud of his rileceprottder of her -husband's, death and leose was
even than of the ,paleefeeed, deliente sitting tip nutlet:telly tete. She
'hey, wbo next doer, while the hunt. for could not sleep for thinking of one
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TIVIBS
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year agQ, and the White -Wed men Whe
lay upon the battlestield with. ;hii, rain
' It wets a clear starlight night, and
fsajalletn:anuepaonmhan,int;. t.imes, trom' ter .open
wiudow aed looked up at the kinclIY
eye Ireeplug wateh. above her. , ,lent
she did not etee the figiere coating
clown the street and up the walk et?
their own door; the eigore of it'worns
out soldier, who from the Prison at
,
Salisbury had eseaped. to tiennessee,
and had come] trona, thence straight
on until the naidnight. train drepPed
him at the Rockland. station. •
. The light Was behind tier, and. Will
saw her distinctly as he went up the,
aVenue, and he -stormed a moirieet to
look ather. She was veeY Pale., and
much thinner than when he saw her
last, but never, even on her bridal
day, lead she seerned.so beautiful • td
him as then, .when leaning' fronilsher
window, arid apparently listening , for
something. • ,
It Was the sound of his footsteps as
he came up the walk which had at-
trusted her attention, and When it
ceased so stiddenly as he stopped ander
• the trees, she felt a momentary pang
of fear, for burglars had been very
common in the town that summer,
Possibly this was one of the -robbers,
and Rose was thinking of alatrming the
house, when the figure emerged from
under the shadow of the trees, a.nd
caxne directly up beneath the window,
while a voice 'which made Rose's blood
"Rose, darling, is. it you?"
Had , the dead (some back to life?
Was that, her husband's•voiee, and that
his step in the lower hall? Rose had
supposed the front door bolted. She
had not .heard it open, and now, vvhen
the steps sounded upon- the stairs, her
heart gave onethrob of fear, as . all
the old superstitious •seories of New
England lore rushed, to her mind.
Perhaps on this anniversary of his
death he had come back to see her.
And perhaps.-- .
Rose did not finish the sentence,
for the opening of her own door di
---s-
closed the wasted. figure of • a man
wearing the army blue, his face very
pale, but. lighted up with perfect joy
as he stretched hie arin toward the
shrinking women by the window, and
said: ' ,
' "Come to me, darling; I am no
ghost."' .
Then she went to him, but uttered
no sound. Her heart was too full for
that, and seemed bursting f rom her
throat as aho laid her head upon the
bosom of her husband, and _felt his
arms around her waist and. neck. Her
stillness frightened him, it was so un-
like her, and lifting her from the floor,
he took her in his lap, and said to
her:,
"Speak to me, Rose. Let me hear90
your voice once more. You thought I
was dead, and you've been so sorry."
"Yes, killed at Gettysburg," came
gaspingly at last; and then a storm
of tears and kisses fell upon Will's
face, and Rose's arms were thrown
about his neck as she tried to tell him
how great was her joy to have him
bs.ek again. •
"I have been so lonely," she said,
"for everybody is gone. . Jimmie' and
Annie, and poor Toth too, is a prisoner
at last, so mother and I are all alone,
, .
except"--- .
Just: then it °centred to her that bus-
band had no suspicionof the great joy
in store ,for tura . •.
"How shalt I tell him?" sheehought,
and her eyes went from his face to the
basket and chair Where baby's clothes
were lying. -
The little white dress, with its shoul-
der knots of blue; the flannels and the
soft wool socks were 411 there in plain
sight, and Will saw them, too, ashis
eye followed Rose's.
"Rose, tell rae, what is that? What
does- it mean?" he asked, and then
without a word, Rose led hini into the
adjoining room, where in his crib slura-
bared her beautiful boy, -their beatiii-
fill boy rather. He was hers alone no
longer, for the father was there now,
and the happiest moment he had ever
known was that when he knelt by his
baby's cardle, and felt how much ,he
had. for which to thank his Maker. He
could not wait till morning before. he
heard the sound of his first-born's voice,
and he took him at °nee- iii his arms,
.every pulse thrilling with pride and
exquisite delight, as he felt the soft,
baby hands in his own, and looked into
the beautiful dark eyes which met his
,so wonderingly as - baby awoke and
gazed up into. his face. • It was not
afraid of hire, and Rose almost danced
.
lvith-joy as she saw iteethile in itsfath-
. e.
er's face, and then 'turn -slily away:
"It was so terrible ' till baby came
.
last Christmas," she said, ,beginning to
explain how they believed him dead,
an& how much the had suffered. "Even
baby did pot melte meats glad as it
ought," she continued, "for I coulditiot
forget how happy you would have been
to come home and find him here, now
you've come. God is very, very good;
I love hina now, .Will, better, I hope,
than I love you, or baby, or anything.
I've given baby • to Him and given my-
,self, too, but he had to prinish me so
,
hard before I would do it."
Then together the re -united couple
knelt and thanked the Father who had
remembered them so mercifully, and
asked that henceforth their, lives
'
might be dedicated to his service, and
all they had be subject to his will.
There was no more sleep in the Math-
er mansion that night, for by the time.
ML -8. Carleton and the servants had re -
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d d"'"
nevered from theIr surPrtse east,
the, early morningwas recl in the
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and the sun was just beginning to
show the returned soldier how pleas -
ant and beautiful his home was look-
.
' The people of Rockland had not in-
tended to have much of a eelebeation
on, thee. Fourth .of July. Tbeeeleurahe
yard was too full of soldier's graves,
and the warclouds were still too dark
over the land, While the ba.ttle•of the
Wilderness, where so Many had perish-
ad, was too trash' in their neinde to ad-
Mit of much festivity; but when it wes
Wbll 1, • ' '
known- that Neil lel, thee had eotne
home .the ' town was allon fire with
excitement: Every bell was rung, and
the cannon of Dili Bakes' reemoey, bel,
loved forth its welconie, while in the
evening impromptu firework8 . attest-
ed. to thepeople's delight,- .Then fel-
. .
loved many days of. clelicions ("met' in
tvhich Will told his wifts.and mother
the story of his wanderings, hitt said
. ,
very little of his life in Salisbury,
.
That Was soinethieg, he Could not men-
, . ,
ti.011 without a.slitirlder, ,and se he
passed it over in sxlericey choosing rath-
er to toll of his journey acroSa the
mtearitaiten %vitae Many. frlendis hands
had been Stretched Ott to lielpi him.
He had eVerY, name 'anon PaPere and
was only waiting for an Opportunity to,.
., , '
sheer Ws gratitUde, in•''tsereel tangible•
fte. na "gent:entity waehes grateful' to 1?aul
crittevareriritel.La,:citioxsea 1::ernel.)ebe;:riove, a 10:usueer-
hold wiard, ' together with. that a
Rose thought sso often, egshieg she
could see her, and reeolving Yellen the
wag wee over either t to, write at owes
or go all the way' to. the iqountailes a
TenneaSse to find her, :' - ,
• "Poor Toler she often agile& "If he
.
contd. ouly fell into. so friendly eareds."
RO everything , pertaining to Tom
Wes sheouded in gloom., . The lasttheY,
heard he was in- Columbia while jim-
' •
mie Still pined in Andersonetile if in
,
deed, he • had not .died amid horrors.
Exchanged.prieoners were coestantly
arrining at Annapolis, where both Mre.
Simms and Annie 'were, and every let-
ter from the latter Was eagerly torn
openby Rose in hopes that it might
eontain some news a her brothers.
But there was none, and the mourning
garments. which, with her husband's
return, were. exchanged ,for 'lighter,
airier ones, seemed only laid aside for
a' few weeks anti' word should come
that one or both or her brothers were
with the dead whose graves were far
away beneath a Southern sky. i ,
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To be Continued:
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' DOMINION PARLIAMENT
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w 'Iti'at-t'h-e Leo.i.sla't' ors o' f , ,
the Country
aro, Doing at OttalNA.
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Illustration, etations ate object' I a
' . ' e 3°114
tie the fermers in di bearithes ef
Roagrbioccutlfitourire iwmoduldnobte eeataairbolraht:ticl. Prof;
4040111e for the. ax,raying a 4,41.1; txV:s^,
but the deeartelent would. 0o -operate
. .
with the GoVeenment ,of Prinoe Ed-evaed
aud. shipping fleet. ' . '
'Xiat'liaitn,4thii1;;;;;e1P;a1118:ditextepetiouttosborf. 8g9r;u4n)gt:eg:
. ape. 1" il t M II 1
Medals for the Fenian raids ama Bed
River rehelitoe serviees , diretited. tlie
issue ei . met a e only te the surviving
officers, eue-oommissioned officers and
men; -con Hughee had wined if iiiii'
Medals would be given to the funnies
of those new deed wno eerved on. those
moutons. ' . , •
tehlVitaitr.thejlalaneironinnef°ear'filimad'onlYie;..pacierbgyeltlile
Li-tertian/tent, Lor ' tee conatraetiou a the
was §4,764,999 75: • ' f
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Sol/lenges Ganes up, to Mar) no,f18:0.
Mr. Fielding replied, to Mr.11/10/4111-
len that it was the -intention
Government to introdu'ee an amend-
ment to the Civil Serviee Aot, but
that he was not in a position to State
its 'nature - at present. , , • '
Mr. Stettin informed Mr. E. F.'431arke
that no arrangethents have been made
for a mineral exhibit from Canada
in the mining section of the Greater
. . .
Britain Exhibition ' to be held from
I -
May to October this year at Earl's
Court, London. ' •
Be'Snirntl/trItitaItd,'t'nl'eatiGrolveradnnatrtnrtnlia'sa giiiti:
sidering thn question of introducing
legislation to provide for the com-
pulsar).- retirement of County- Court
judges in Ontario who have attained
the age of 55 years. '
Replying to Mr. Sir. Louts
Davis stated that the 'question of •pro-
viding for the transport of fresh fish
in cal& storage from the Maritime
Provinces to the inland eonsuming cell-
ters of Quebec, Ontario and the North-
west was recognized by the Govern-
meet as important, and was now re-
ceiving consideration. "
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PIGEONS IN I NOVA
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N, gcEssARy A A mErncitn
OR .DRGICAL INSTR0/41
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THE ESTI:WIWI:ES,
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l'inance MiniSter '.rieiding brraight
down the mein. esti/elates 'for the year
, , -
1890.4890, 'To rim the affairs of . the,
,. . „ ,.,
eountrY be. asks '1"'2'8. 6455,°077; 9°):4'
Pared with $47,P00:487•18 lent year.'
• Who list le made 49 as tgligss-4, the
figures for the ' eeSeieee year':ening%
e ee., - - ' I''''''..."."' '''''-'
""s`-'' gilezn- . .
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Public works ' §r,39182-,97995. q':,93901,Q575
(Decrease, §190i i . '
Militia ....,.....e.„,..,„ 1,626,741 1,690,520
increase, $70,728.
CiVit government , 1,431,991 1,215,100
Inereasee ?g9,185. • '
Admin'n a justice101,501 93,755
Decrease, $7,746.
Penitentiaries • 0.7' . 500 410,900
Decrease, $900.
Dominion police 23,000. • 23,000
Legielation . , 619,629 399,675
illecrease, P49,954
Agriculture and sta, '
tisties 342,200 310,100
Decrease, P9,100.
Quarantine 119,000 199,000
Inimigration ... 258,500 358,500
Increase, $100,000. _
Railways and canale196,34:7 291,424
Increase 895 077
Mail ! is ' ' '
subsidies " ,... 628,333 426,669
Decrease $155 666
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Subsidies to ',Pros,- . s
1, nees • •-• 4,237,509 4;251,500
Increase, $14,000.
Indians 1,038,809 980,217
Decrease, 28,682. . - .
Mounted Police 353,750 353,750
Yukon Prov, Dist eemee 814,500
nerease, $ 70,550.
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Customs - ,972,280. 999,090
Increase, 1026,810. • • '
Excise 451,776 162,095
Increase, -$10,318.
Railways and canals,
coll. of revenue 4,710,200 • 1,741,100
Increase, $3,900. "
Trade and cons 21,100 21,100
FOR PUBLIC WORKS. : '
Araprior, Wel' building,' 3 460
, . p el). te $ „ re -
vote, Donunao.n public buildings, Ot-
tawa $14 000.
, .„ Ingersollpost-effice, 1010,re
000. Kingston Armouries 40 000 • 0 -
_ ,,. , ,, $ ,. , }'
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tawa able: buildin angevm block
, P gs, L
improvements 24 000 • Rat Portage
„ , $ , ,
Post -office, $14,000 ; Sarnia post-pffiee,
$10,00e; Toronto Dominion builleings,
improvements, to. '
e , $6,000 ; Woodstock
Post -office, , 00. . Ontario harbors,
$- 0
ete.-Bovemenville ' bar , , -,am
harbor $5 00) •
Bruce mines wharf, $1.0,000; Burling-
ton channel; repairs to piers, $40,000;
Collingwood barber, $60,000; Goderieh,
reconstruction of breakwater, $46,500;
Gederich dredging $20,000; Hawkes _
bury, dredging, $3,000; Kincardine, re-
Pates to pier and dredging, $1,500;
Kingston halter and dredging, $10,-
000 •.Little Bear Creek dredging $2-
, , , ,
00.1; North Bay, pile wharf, $8,C00; Oak-
villa, repairs to piers and. dredging,
.
$45,000; Oshawa, repairs to piers, pro-
viding harbor is transferred to punt-
apse corporation, Veho wilitmain Min it
in future, $8,000, revote ; Owen Sound,
dredging and pile work, $19,600; Pic-
ton, dredging, $5,000; Port .Burwell
harbor, 45,000;$Port Elgin, construe-
time of groyne, $5,000; Port Hope, 're-
Pairs to pier and dredging, $25,000.;
i Port Stanley, repairs to pier a.nd dre.dg-
ing, $13,000; Rainy River, improve-
menus to channel, $1,5001' Iliver Otte,-
wa, improvements stearnboat channel,
*7,200; Saugeen River, dredging, $2,-
1 000; Sydenham River, dredging, $5,000;
1 Thornbury, dredging, 2,000;10Toronto
harbor, works at eastern entrance,
etc., $75,000.
In the militia estimate the twelve
days' pay of the militia is placed at
$400,000. A further item, is §250,000 ,for
clothing, etc. A provision of $325,000
is made for the purchase, of field guns,.
fortress, armament, rifle ranges and
military equipment. The Dominion
Rifle Association, has its grant cut
down from •§15,000 to $10,000, while the
Artillery Association will have to be
eatisfied with $5,000 instead of r,000.
The grant to local and battalion asso-
,
ciatimes is reduce.d, 'sfrom $7,500 to
$6,500• • ' •
, s ., ,, . ,
To deepen. the Ne ellen& Canal - al).-
preachments at Port Colborne. $350,000
will beasked, and $354,000 will be 'ute-
Deed. in deepening the' River Se.' Law-.
rence ship channel. • e •
.. "The cost •of administering affairs in
Yukon is increased by.$27;550, due
.
to the erections of new ue rugs, ,-
,- • e) 'Id.- $25
000; transport, $80,000; traveling ex-
perms .of judges and other court: of-
ficia.ls, and. the sum of 4103,000 is set
aside for mail service for the district.
The eollection of customs will cost $25ze
000. For the, improvement of the nevi-
gable channels of the Lewes and Yukon
'Rivers $40,000 is set aside. '
Provision is made for the salaries of
fourteen Superior Count judges in the
3 .
. lrovincei of Quebese,et $5,000 each, an
increase of $10,000VIourteen at 41,000
each, also three jtidge,s of the Circuit
court, Montreal, al $3,000 each.
SONS OF .ENGLAND.
T:he Minister of 'Win:ince gives no -
tics of two imphitant Government,
bills. One is to implement th,e pro-
raise made jest year, when the sons of
England IneorPorated bill. was be-
lore Parliament, viz., that the Minis-
try at thee session would introduce a
bill effectin freternel societies in gen-
' ' ' 'g' 1." f '11 ' ' 'wereseemingly
eral The tit e ,o t e proposed men.-
sure is "Respecteng the ineoeportitiott
of Benevolent Societies."
TO AMEND THE INSURANCE, ACT.
.,, .
• The other hill, of which Mr. Field-
• t
ing gives hotice, is to atnend .b.e In-
surance Act.' It proposes to furnish a
Means whereby, companies. may he in-
corpora -led by letters patent, instead
of having to come to ParliaMent for in-
, •
corportition. ' ' '
, AN •EIGHT, HOUR DAY.
. Mr. Quinn gives .rootice of a resole-
_ . _
t' that alt i I'
ion • at en a, see i se works wider
cont,r61 of the Government eight hours
shalt constitute a full 'day's teak, and
that in all,publie ciontracte hereafter a
dense, be embodied , renognizing eight
, ,,.., ,, ..• , ,..., . , , ,,..
hours' as oorestetuting a reit day s e o),1s.
' .t Answers to Qn.estions, '
' ' ' '
me. Fisher eneeemeee Nee nuaae,-, het
an experimental sta Hon for the grow..
itia and euritie of tobatoo is to he ese
tablisbed al,. 'St, a*CoelllICSi,' Qtiebee. Re
replied to Mr.. Mortin that the Govern-
ment pronoses 15 establish several il,-
InStration stations for ' the; fattening
of 1)011E...vs, diunng (.me, seitson taaa,..stering
' ,.
- nehresIns Phy$11sessa, tends ,
A' Ar'illiA 1'41"Ni° hi' Dell4r:t. it "
"I/1'81 till t'""nuill' ut
' ' (' ', . S • ' .` ' i'
, iimPh. .
' A new field..of neefulnees
iscovered for pigeons, I-
last few years tbese intellig,
' ,_
/lave limn much fame' thrimi
celerity in bringing neeSsages
from•oeean steamers and thr<
:er ':.°411e8alrfteeartosi awhceicolituwreyraeguo:
that he fixide pigeon$ almost
.
la Li. IA ' the Practice of h
aiiiec:::Oaau.sngtiowNmebeld'a,:kinaelo:YesSitOioarn]
' • ,
.es1 thstr, litaeitt's•
. This PhYSiel'an is Dr. Frani
rig', and ha resides'at McCool,
,, .
isi a member' of tbe Amermar
. •• ' • •
A.ssociation and a the Date
- ' '
. . . . ,
Association of- Railway Sueg
.. .
has been practtsuag.. as a ph)
br co 1 for the last twel,Ve y
t•cNy'e°.li .h..noWn throughout If.
tr' Y. ' ' '
.
Some time ego the thengt
him that pigeons might be re
useful' to hira , in communicat
. . - .
h patients,and he at once (
--13 ,,,.. ,
ed to experienent in this
"The "'fact is," fie "says; "1 be
placed at some disadvantag
,or ie.
e Lee reason th
past years •
unabee to hear from my pat
often as I desired, but I kn
way that I could overcome tht
ty,. until it occurred to m
.might, use homing pigeons w.
•
ger, I' put the idea into p
few months ago, and I found i
•
act well that I have ever sine
a pigeon with me whenever I
,
long. trips. This pigeon I le
,patient's hoeise, with instruct
it be turnedlOose the next
or. at any time when the pa
not progressing- as • satisfaet
might be desired. .
• el
HEARS FROM HIS PATIJ
"The bird; of course, flies.
home with the message, an
I learn how the patient I
If I not .at home my wife
,
th •e message, ariSi in case of
notifies ma with the least poi
lay. This, however, is not
way en which I find pigeien
- For example, 'when I am 4.
able distance away.froita home
that I need anything in the
instruments or medicine free
.. . .
nee or drug store, I turn
loose with the message, and
as it reaches honie my wife
.
what I want and sends it. t
,,, .
my office boy.
According to Dr. Morris, p
who propose to use pigeons
kind of work should breed th
selves. At the same time h
that pigeons bred fromana
inay -become first-elass earriei
are confined for two or thre,
in the. loft which is to 'be t
moment home.
' "I began work with a single
he says, "but after I found
plan was entirely practiCeble
to use several others. ,I*in. n
about a dozen as carriere, an
many others that I am usuag
ers. . .
"The training of young bin
commence at about the age c
.
three months, or as soon as,
strong enough to fly a eon
dista,nce. First, they should t
ed to fly only a block or twc
loft, the trainer carrying, tb
distance and Permitting thel
pack again, and the distance
bt
increa,sed day by day until t ,
is complete, or in other w
til they will return -.hemtijrc
Lance of several miles.
HOW BIleDS ARE TREA
. . ., • .
' "Whele.I leave a bled at a
house after a long , journey I
. , .
structions that it is not to rite
fo.od, but I take eare that 11: ie
•th • ter if I have tetteon 1
WI wa , „
. that it will be absent from 1
loft .more„ehan twelve -hours.
particular about the food, I
, find that those bird e do the It
wheeh, are only led in thein ,
In order to separate the birds
vent them from breeding tot
I 1186 a bent -U. -made of neural.
some other teietal, with a
stamped upon. it. ' This hand i
upon 'the foot of the young
remain:: there permeneotly,
ct• - umber being kept 1.
pen mg n . • . , •
with the record and pedigre
bird opposite the number."
The Doctor's wife is of gre
ance to him in this work, and
.wholly upon er to see t
ti
inSiructions in' the messages
send e bye -pigeons When ahse
home aretaithfully earried o
Morrie, too, •giVes Much Pers
tention to, tbe feeding and ea
pigeons, and there -is not 5
the flock with whose hist ory
acity for travelling long dist
,
is no thoroughly aequainted
SMILING SAMOANS.
nut When They are emitted They ease Inglis
.1,11ce Fiends.
The m en are noble specimens, Oven
cally-tall, muscular, with the ereet
carriitge and elastic step of an Amen-
can n Lan. They, too are an
I d' • ' • ' d
e, „ ' '
kindly -in time of peace -and are clad
in mantles of• gay prints which they
have bought at the store; they greet
-
wa wave of the hand, and
you witha
curious e Aida." They tattoo the lags
from the waist to the knee, and as they
• stride along those members appear be-
ween the folds o eir drapery as
t : f th • d
"
if they were decently clothed in skin-
tight trousers. They are indolent and.
when not roused to hostility, as araiable
• • .
and fun -loving as children. They well;
.
as little as possible, and . why should
they? The forest abounds in wild ban-
anas bread -fruit and which may
' . • yams, .
be had for t hetaking; the sea is full
of fish, which they are expert in catch-
ing, and if Providence deigns to send
them a fattened. pig once or twice
a year they are blessed. Clothing they
do not require, nor fuel; their:taxes
are only nominal, and they are eon-
sequently exempt from the thief de-
mends of life, and which, but for the
expense and difficulty of getting bier-
ied, making it fax easier for the aver-
age white man to die than to lien
But these gentle creatures can fight,
and fight cruelly, although their meth-
od of warfare is peculiar; they eat and
drink between -rounds, When a sort of
truce is declared, then go at it again, •
shoot at sheet range'and shoot to kill.
Formerly, until the practice Was abo. i_
ished by Chief ,Tustie,e Ide, the killing
was followed by beheading, and' this
cereitionY• was net always deferred,
where the vMtim had been only wound-
ed, until life was extinot. The heads
were then collected and presented to
the, king as an especial proof of prow-
1 ess: This. barbarous practice thee chief
justice had the utmost difficulty ht.
dealing with, and it was not discone
tinned until the other representatives
of the triple protectorate, consented to
enact a law to Punish offenders by
fining them heavily, and adding to this
penalty a lengthy term of imprison-
must.
LIVELY SPORT.'
Sharp Encounter With an Thtennisy Crea-
ture In Alaskan Waters
-
,, If any one desires a dash of excite-
meet I Can recommend th,e fishing ot
'
Alaska," said a returned Klondiker.
"I had been fishing above Sitka, when
'
one day I found myself near a canals
.
of Indians. As I had some game, Idi-
„ . •
veiled with them, and forthwith was
invited to a feast of their own pro-
viding. ,
We sat around a big woodexi
dish,' h' h was th' that look -way
na w ic some trig
ed. like -frogs' legs, but frogs so gig-
antic that , I knew it was something
else. It required some courage to eat
e .•
In i s dish, but hunger gives ,sa men a
stamina' of a certain -kind, So .I shut,
my eyes and began the feast. The ar-
. .. -
tiele was not so bad as it appeared. ' It
. • , •. ,
tasted like crab, and -some of it had
e
the consistence of the rubber rings
. .
which babies chew on. ' Altogether it
e ed
was not to be despised, combinixag o
_
with exercise.
"11: was a sea spider, so the natives
tutu me, a member of the cuttlefith
feimily. As they were going out on
the following morning to fish for more
I persuaded them to take me with
them. We dropped anchor in the lee
of a little point of rocks, Where we be-
gan fishing.' It is a famous country
for fish, and it was nothing but pull
in for the natives, while i': did not have
a bite. es.
"My time was coming, however, I
had on a heavy sinker, so that every
time the boat lifted, I felt • a sharp
jerk, which deceived me. . But once,
when the boat rose on a big wave, my
line did not give and.- I shouted. to
the Indian next tome that I was
,oul. He took the line, gave a. tremens
fou jerk and received One in return;
then, bracing himself back, he began
to pull and sereara ; thee all hands
screamed, and I understood that a sea
spider had the line and also the -bot-
tone. I expected ever minute to 'see
'th' canoe go •over, ail the .men went
froro side to side, now forcing the rail
Siown • th t th• 1 'n now
,ottn eo a . e water pouret i ,
lifting, •
•s.
WITH A MIGHTY YELL,
• • - • • .. ' • •
thee slacking off, so suddenly that they
fell he a heap. • •
-" One raan armed hi/itself with ,a
knife, while a companion held a short-
. an e caseknife -between his teeth-
li dl d
:movements suggesting of the coniing
of an enemy, Suddenly one of the
crew seized a sharp boathook, which,
after another look, he jabbed into the
unknownwn and invIsible• In response a
long, slender tentacle shot into the ner
,
and formed a weird interrogation Pointi
then it grasped the pike; ,then three
more appea.red, creeping 'insidiously
over the edge of the canoe, at which
the natives street& etiiiily, some shout-
ing to sleek the lipe, others to haul
ia, - . -
e,
" In the' Midst cie, the confusithe the
,.
sea spider 0011CIMICa to come aboard.
Torn frone the boti,ont it bad come 1.11)
easily; then seeinethe canoe find pose.
sibly ,thinking it a Vantage ground., it
grasped it end slid over the side, a
mess of • 'living, sl imy, ' reddish -brown
aztakes. When they were raised. 1
could ee.erows of stickers, each of esbieh
was a .veritable air pumpe.Old as there
11 4 1 11 the
loosen se o them, .
sucking 'peeler eif this -spider of the
sea evas apparent. Bleeeseinere aimed,
at it whenever opportunity:offered, but
the weird' animal. fairly slid over the
reit ' winding one of ite 'nettle eround.
' ' ' ' ..• '', ' ' . ' ` i
an oar. Its heed or teddy hung or] toe
railti brown ixiess the size.of. a. man's
bond -from which, 0mo:1M:two g , 0 ov.
ish-yellow even 'This strange animal
' .. e''' " ' - ' e , ,-, .
changed etilor like.a chaineleon't.ellesileS
, . . . .. .
of red, brown and gray' telloseed, one
another over it, White filen ite loWer
Co • df. inkv v'hiel '
'par 1 ii 09ze a stream o I.1,I.
epleelted in out fetter; cie the -tentneles
flew about. ,It was fifteen minittes be-
fore Iheyaad the life haiiintereCOut
• •
of, the frightful e ' I I. e Al d then it
re.„ur ., , : ., •.•• •
• ,,.• .. • - • o - s oil
was a question wh. had Ni. - ' ''
"The canoe tv,ns now hell full Of
water, aS a hole 114 been )(Melted it
' ' " '' which ' . . '-L . '
the bide, Wile finally et.oppe,d,
's,vi i h tr pietist, ,of 'skin, 'It was five miles
to . catrip, btit'I preferred:, twelltieg, n iul
-bri s ' ' : ' • ' I. •
1'114 ' (118 III '' 1 tit me anhOie. T A° i 0
the eemp iti tinte.. t SI Med: thent end
ewe the sea siiitier taken Oat, It had rt
8P"ati. br' "rt./1.Y 'I'slii".11,Mve feel, ii.:611,
f pont theHp of, 'ow, mi.Apreatt
tentaeleS."' ,'
.
FAMOUS LANDMARKS.
• .j
wen Known English Plaees Demolishes'
to Make Way for Progress. '
The favorite^ retreats oi Diekens ale
. *
b Th ' of
soot to e no more. e envuons
old Westminster, the clusters of
quaint old-fashioned houses, that in,
their ,day contained more lewdness -and
. -
th th t of England c mbi -
° . n
me an e resing
ed, ars being rapidlyr demolished , to
Make way for the Government offices.
.The ' . d ' • d about th ' d
The ground in an . e gran
.
o ea e .,. .
.- Id th drel is valued at. fabulous'
'prices 'Strange to say, eyen, the Eng-.
lish can no longer find room in that
'vicinity for houses of pleasure. White,
hall, -as Boz and Thackerey. knee. it,
•the
11 If - d' ' d-
wi aye isappeaie within a year.
It was here, almost and r t -he shadow
of Westminster, that Cromwell lived
before he assumed the protectorate, it
was here that Milton walked, first in
the busy days of his active politics,
later in blindness and heavy heart.
Elizabeth and Jeimes I. had houses
here More notable still, a resort of
Samuel Johnson 'nestled Close to the
Cathedral wall. The famous October
' I d d t th
Club, and its linea escen an , e
March Club, met here for their talks
andsrevels. It hagheard motet laugh-
t 9 r and. seen 'more tears, has this same
old Whitehall, than any spot in glIT-
ope The blood that has been spilt
within its limits would float a ma.n.of
war; the dice that. have been thrown
have shifted millians. The last Jerrie
it came into Prominence Was through
the Whitehall murderer, jack, the
Ripper, it being one of the ironies of
fate that a district that sheltered
world heroes in its day, should come
n
t b chief). ktiovvn for the women
o e Y .. , its
done to death wethtn imi. s.
BUSINESS,
- .
IL ' L f' ' Friend f
w is e on. ing o
-- " ` ' ' •
Dealer's observine an eleg
' e '`), ert
peering man W..-,0 )911g.w. . 4't I:
We4.1t, out: Did you 7kno ,
had money to burn ,
,Atiti. the Cigar Dealer, tbegu
g e. . e is n y ) . .
li / W 1I h ' ' o 1 I tuning I
'cent tote,
•
---
• ' tl, • ' - P LIN'
.D.R.e.14 . NG III . e ,
Young Lady -,-Do you thinl
mot est -or a, ies o side lc (
I " f 1 d' 'th' •y
' ' ;* Ob I." .
These ist-- ,- tie siding 1$
1. ' • • ' d 'I' hi
enoug 1, but-er-1 i -I on . t
ought to take heedeee,
, ' • e -e-:-.1 •
..t' 'JOSE' GIPL8.
, ,,,
M:add----galYveeti. as,, ttel,ly, •i.•
Co ntIn coltiplittientS rallige e
n . ' t i ,
told Me the sight: 0 my .vati.
aetgaily -lhad.e . his 1:i):e.uth. Wu
EiliiitThe .41041,1qt sure. .,
40009; tOulg, 'ituite:,,,that...inue
leanoirl • .. '
,r BELMEN'
. POINT FOR, NS H. , . '. •
Wheelnien-I believe I'll give up. bi-
eyeling. , I am as careful. ascan be, but
eery now. and then someetccident hap-
pens. This is the secbita time I've been
arrested. and fined for running .into
,,,opie .
' ..
„ Businessman -I'll tell yeti how • to
xnkmage: Just you get a 'job as bill.
.
11 et r. Everybody will dodge You-
eo e. o . . .
.then. ,
_....,._
'
A GREAT' THUTI:L.'
' . .. . .
It doesn't require a profound study
of polities to learn, that it is one thing
tyour cendidate and anothe '
to eke „ , „ . . r,
thin • to tamed our ' rieveriees
, g ., , Y .Y g , ' •
•
NO DIFEERENCJH
,..., .. ,,
'reload' eggs ere not se good tie the
Ones. you sent last week•, ,.
They ought: to be, mini, They're'
oat .of tile &MI6 oeatti, .
ROLE
CligST
NTS.
"'Mein sit
ting ifith
'rote-
has been
ring (ha
nt birds
h their
to land
ugh oth-
dreamed
and now
tells us
as indis-
$ profess
is surgi-
. S. More
Neb..
Medical
'national
eons. He
stolen at
ars, and
at °owl -
t struck
a.de very,
bag with
etermin-
irection.
ve been
e during
at I was
tents as
w of no
o that I
Messen-
ractice in
t worked
e carried
went on
eve et a
ions that
morning,
tient is
orily as
NTS,
straight
in this
s faring.
receives
necessity
sible de -
the only
useful.
consider -
and find
way of
the of -
a pigeon `
as soon
discovers
o me by
hy,sicians
for this
in them-
e admits
ther loft
s if they
o months
heir, per -
pigeon,"
that the
1 began
ow using
d I have
as breed-
s should
f two or
they are
siderable
e requite
to thole.
era this
to fly
hould be
ir train-
ords, un-
ni a dis-
TEgiveD. patient's .
eive any
Envoi:led
o believe
he' home-
• I AM
ecause
est work
own loft.
and pre -
closely,
um, or
number
s slipped
bird and
a centres -
O a book,
e of the
at assiste
he relies
at the
whtelt ha
ut from
ut , M rs.
lanai at -
re of the
bird in
and cap -
noes she
the Cigar
a iitly
igar and
at party
sted: flee
1 in fives
think ILIS
rude. lie
iftit rle.o
ter.
o:tir ftwe
in like a