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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-5-18, Page 6S. • a Love and War:. A STORY OF SLAVERY DAY. Ey MARY J. 1101 -IVIES. aseeieeeeeeseeete.***33.:.?83)3R HE TI T:IYIES idle were naer some strong (incite- ment. . e Between heteele and Arthur there .1 had been a long Ooneereatioe coneeria- ing Captain Teta Carleton, and other e menses of greater interest to Mamie. I The "John Camp" ruse had suceedied well, and. .\1au.c1 had a fanoy for mak- ieg it do ail/ name, by taking her pat- ent in safety as far as her Iniole Hav- erill'n She had received several let- tere from her uncle, urging her to CHAPTER X'XIX.—Goutinued. There was uothina in his personal ape peaeance to awaken sympathy on the soore o ill-treatment, and yet Mande felt herself straegely &ram), toward him, guessing with a woman's gutter pereeption that he was somewhat above many whom it had been her privilege to befriead. And Maude, being hie - man, did not like him less for that. On the coetrary, she the more read- ily bruelsed away the flies which were aligeting upon hie "face'and with her own eandeerthien wiped, the moisture from his brow, met then felt his rapid pulse. "He ought not to stay in this place," she said, and, she was revolving the propriety a boldly asking Squire Tun- bridge if he might be removed to the house, when Tom awoke and turned wonderingly toward. her. He knew it was Maude De Vere, and sometbeng in her faze riveted his at- tention, making him wonder where he had seen somebody very like her. "You. are sick," she said to hire kind - In as he attempted, to rise ,on his el- bow, and fell back again upon the squalid bed. "I am afraid you are YY sick, but yoia are safe here,—that is,—yes,.-I know you are safe. one but fiends would. betray a side man." She spoke rapidly, end Tom -sew the bright color deepen in hat' theek, and her eyes flash with excitement. She was very beautiful, and Tom telt the influence:, of her beauty, and tried to draw the ragged. quilt over him, so as to hide the coarse grey shirt Betty had given him, and which was as un- like the imenaculate linen Tom 0a1 ton. was aceustomed to weer as it svas Possible to be. " You are Miss De Vern I'm sure," he said, and you are very kind. I seen not tax your hospitality long. I hope to go on to -night. Don't stay here, eiris De Vere you must be un. comfortable. It's hotter here than iu Massachusetts." "You are from New England, then?" Maude asked and Tom replied. lute us raost of all I believe," anti people "From Boston—yes,--your Toni tried to smile, while Meade an- swered him, " It makes no difference to me -wheth- er you are from Maine or Oregon. You are sick: and hive come to us for suc- cor. do what I can to help you." With: the last words she was gone, her tall, lithe figare bending grace- fully under the low doorway, and the rustle of her fresh, clean garments leaving a pleasant sound in Tom Car- leton's ears. . ea sick Yankee down in Efetty's cab- in,—a Boston one at that, with his Wendell Phillips notions, and you want me to let him be brought up to this house, the house of a Southern gentleman, who, if he hates one of the dogs worse than another, hates the Massachusetts kind, whose women _have nothing to do but to write abol- ition books about our niggers. No, in- deed, he shalt not come an inch, and by the Efarry I'll send for the author- ities and have him bundled off to jail before night, with his camp fever, and his Boston airs. Needn't talk. See if I don't do it, and have Hetty strung up and whipped for harboring tne villain. Treason under my very nose, and a Yankee, too 1 Go away,— go away, I tell you. I won't hear you. I hate 'em all for the cussedn.ess there is in 'sm." Teis was Squire Tunbridge's reply to Maude De Vera who had. told. him of Tom Carleton, and asked permis- sion to have hire moved up to the house. Nothing daunted Maude went close up to him, a.nd her beautiful eyes looked straight into his as she said: " Think if it was Arthur sick am- ong his enemies. They were kind to him, he says, and. remember Nettie, too. Had she lived she would have married a Northern men. You liked Robert, and Nettie loved. him. For her sake let this raan be brought to Ike house. He will die there,- where it so dose. "Serve him right for coming down here to fight as; wish they were all dead. How are you going to get the rascal u.p that confounded hill? Can he walk ?" Maadeened gamed her point, and with Mrs. Tunbridge, weo had a soft, kine heart, she hastenea to make ready a large, airy chamber, some- weat remote from the rooms occupicsd by the family- and their frequent guests. It was not the best room in the house, but he would be safer there than elsewhere, and Maude made it as inviting as possible, by pulling the bed out from the corner to the San- tre of the room, covering the plain mend with a dean, white towel, and the table with a gaily -colored shawl of her own. Theta with Reny and one of Hefty's sons, she started for the eabin, followed by the Squire himself. , Since the War began he had. not seen1 a Yankee, and curiosity as well as; anything took him to Tom Carleton, whem be assailed with a string of epi -i thets, telling hira "to see what he'd.' got by making war on people so much better than hinaself. Good enough for you," he continued, as, assisted by 1 lietty and Claib, Tom tried to walk up the winding path, with Maude, in front and the Squire in the rear. "Yes, good enough for you, if you die like a dog, mid I dare say you vein Fey - era go hard with you Bunker Hill °hens. Clain yoa villain, you are let- ting him fall. Don't you see he has- na strength to walk ? Carry him you faecal!" And thus changing the na- t are of his tirade the Squire thrust hie sane against TOWS back by way of assisting him up the lull He was Unman if he was not (tante consistent, and his fedi was Very red, tine lie was very emelt out of breath when the hotise was reache& at lest, and 'Com vvae comfortably dieposed in bed. For tliuntler's sake, Hatter, take thee grey, neggere thing off froni lane" the Squire said, pointing to the coarse thirt. Tom. Lad thought so nice, when he exchanged it or his dirty ueifornit, If you women are going to do a teeing do it decentkrthur's shirts won't fit him, I recknii, for Arthur MObigger than a, pint of eider, hut Mine willentailben ofie, did for gradous ealm mote aim firet in the bath -tab. fc needs it bad, for the= prison pens ain't none the neatest 84" (ending to the tell," In spite of his aversion to the Bos- ton Yankees, the Judge ben taken the ordering of this one into eis own hands and it was to him that Tom owed the refreshing bath whioh dtd hiea 150 muse good, and abated tbe force of ibe ligh froerveratanayvhdiathys, ndeuerweeg.thwelheelosh dire'ane Maude nursed him as carefully as if 48 had been her brother. Arthur was absent when the roving' °marred, but ween ha found that it was done, and. the Yankee was adually ene. of Isis father's house, he concluded to make teeremark- ing best of it, merely inmate hag that " they would be in a.praerttyitersinsgap if therslonryern....ot out of thcar hare b The Judge knew that, and in fancy he saw his house burned down, and himself, perhaps, ridden on a rail he his justly ineertsed neighbors. The fear idea occurred to him. Maude, as ev- erybody upon kilon terribly, until a new new, had long been talking of going hawk to Tennessee, and what more natural than for Paul Haverill to send an escort for her in the per - Son of some cousin or other, who was foolish enough to fall sick immediate- ly after his arrival. This was a smart thought; and. as that very day at least a dozen people called at the Cedare, as the eudge called his place, so the dozen were told of "John Camp," sick abed up stairs, "kind of cousin to Maerlicittee' calelldPsaeunit,"te see jaler home, by "Right smart chap," the. Judge said, feeling amazed at the facility with which he invented falsehoods when once he began, "Been a guerrilla tb.ere in the mountains, and done some tall fightine I reckon." This was the judge's story, which his auditors believed, wondering some of teem, why the visitor should occupy that back chamber in preference to the laandsome rooms in front. Still they had no suspicion of the truth. "John Camp," was accepted as a real- ity and kind inquiries were made af- ter his welfare, as, day after day, the fever ran its course, and Maude De Vere bent over him, bathing his fore- head, smoothing his pillows, and brush- ing his lutir, her white fingers insinu- ating queer fancies into his brain, as half unconscious, he felt their touch aubopovne hhisimface, and saw the soft eyes At first Arthur had kept aloof from Tom, but as the latter grew better, he yielded. to Mande's entreaties and. went: be to see elm, feeling intuitively . that he Wall in the presence of a gen- tleman as well as of a superior. He could not dislike him, for there was something about TO331 Carleton which disarmed him, of all prejudice, and many a quiet, friendly talk the two hail together on the all -absorbing top- ic of the day. "He is a splendid fellow, if he is a Yankee," was Arthur's mental ver- dict, "and fine-looking, too—finer a hundred times than 1," and then there crept into his heart a fear least Maude should think as he did, and ere he was aware of it, he found himself fiercely jealous of one who was at his mercy, and whom, if he chose, he imiglat have removed so easily. CHAPTER XXX. Tom Carleton was able to start on his journey westward. _Twice he had eft hie room and joined the family be- low, making himself so agreeable, and adapting himself so- nicely to all the Judge's crotchets that the old man confessed to a genuine liking for the Yankee rascal, and expressed himself as unwilling to part with him. He had inquired into his family history, and, to his infinite delight, foued that the elder Carlton, Tom's father, was the very lawyer whose speech years ago, had been instrumental in sending back to bondage the judge's runaway negro, Hetty's husband, whose grave was out by the garden wall, arid whose. wife and sons had rendered so differ- ent a service to the lawyer's son. Tom's face, was scarlet when he thought of the difference, and remem- bered how his father had worked to prove that the master was entitled to his property wherever it was found. The Judge suspeoted the nature of his thoughts, and with a forced laugh, said, good humoredly: "You ars more of an abolitionist than your father was, I see. Well, well, young Man,- times change, and we change with them. Old alya Carleton did me a good turn, for Seth was. worth two thousand dollars. I never abused him, nor gave him a blow when got him back, 1 only askecl him how he liked freedom as far as he had gone, and he dale t answer. He seemed broke down like, and in less than a year he died. He was the best hand J. ever had, marten half white. I died when he died. I'll be hanged if I didn't. I told him to live and rd set hira free, and avhen 1 se.e how his eyes lighted up I made out the papers on the spot, and brought 'ern to him, and he died with 'em in his hand, held so tight we could scarcely get 'em out, and. I had. am buried with hixa in hes coffin. "'Thank you, mars"; God bless you for letting me die tree, but it's come too late. I would worked for you, naars.r, all the same, ie you'd done this before. I wanted to be a man and not been thing, a brute. You have man, kind to *me marse.; thank you, thank you for liberty.' 'These are Seth's very words. I got .em by heart, and 1 said them so much that I began to wonder if freedom wasn't better than slavery. But, bless you, my tuggers Was about all I had. I eoulda t give eta up, though I used to go oat to Seth's grave and think how he hugged the papers to the last, and wonder if the clause 'all men are born free and equal,. didn't mean the blacks. But the pesky war. broke out, and. drove all this from my head. I hate the ratilteee—X hate Lincoln I hate the whole `Onion amity, though I'll be blamed if 1 oan hate you. Got wife, hey He turned abruptly to his guest, who had listened with SO bThathlOSS inter- est to the dory of poor Seth, that he did not, see Maude DO Vere, her eyes shining, Ana her cheeks flushed, ae if oorma home, and in a week at most she was going. As otte who had been ex- PreSsly seat as her escort, Mr. Carle-, on would. of course eu with her, and U order to make the journey with Pee- led safety she would bays Arthur go too, end it was of this that she had spoken to him that morning when she found. him in a little suearaer-eouse at the rear of the long garden. There was a dark shadow on Arthur's face, as he listened to /Ylaud's proposition, and. when she had finished speaking, he replied: "1 intend to go with you, provided I am not ordered bath to the army, but Maude, I will not have that Yankee soldier hanging on to us. We have done that for him which imperils our lives, and now that he is able to go on, let him take his chance alone. If he is one half as keen as Yankees think themselves to be, he will get trraouignhouurnhwaranya.ehd. No, I won't have "But think of the dangers to be en- countered, the hordes of guerrillas welch infest the mountains," Maude pleaded, and in her earnestness she laid both lier hands on Arthur's shoul- ders, and stood leaning over him. "Maude De Vere," aad Arthur spoke very deoidediy, "why are you so much interested in this mart? Tell me, tied tell me truly, too—have you learn- ed to care for him more than you would for a coinnioa soldier, had such a taus come to you as a runaway Yan- kee? If you have, Maude," and Arth- ur's face was white with determina- tion, "if you have by the heavens above us, fel put a bullet throughhim myself, or worse than that, send him back to wbere he came from." "That would be an act worthy of a Tunbridge end a Southern gentleman.," Mande Said, bitterly., and something in her tone warned Arthur that he had gone too far, so changing his tidies, he said more gently: Sit here beside me, Maud, and lis- ten to weat I have to say. You know that I have loved you ever deco I knew the meaning of the word, and it is not in ray nature to give up what my heart is set upon. You have re- fused me, but that does not matter. I want you for ray wife; I must have you. for my wife. I know you are my superior, and I am willing it should be, so. You can, fasthion me into any- thing you hke. I have sereened, and hidden, and lied for that Yankee Carle- ton, just to gratify you. And when I first Consentede traitor's part, supposed he was most likely some coarse, ignorant boor, but he is not. Returning health shows him to be a well-bred gentleman, and decidedly good-looking, so much so that I have been jealous of him. Maude. not knowing to what your strange opine ions might lead you." You know of course he has a wife," dropped scornfully from Mande's lips, and Arthur' started quickly. ''No, Maude, I did not know it. How came you by the knowledge? Did he tell you so ?.' "Not dIrectly, but when he was out, of his head, d asleep, he talked of ese, and Annie, and Mary, and he called the latter his wife. That is the way I know, Maude said, and Arthur's face cleared at °nen "Forgive me, latiude. I was a fool to be jealous of him. And now let us coine to a final understanding, You have laugbed at, and browbeaten, and 1 queened it over me for years, but I have never despaired of winning you at the last. Once for alt, then, will you be my wife? I must have you. I wend be denied," Arthur was in earnest now, and his pleadengs were eloquent with the love he felt for the girl, who listened in silence, and then said to him: "Arthur, it cannot be. I should I make you very unhappy. We do not I agree in any one point." "But we will agree I promise to conform to your opinions in everything. t I'll guide this man to Tennessee, and give myself in future to the work of saving and helping the entire Yankee army. be a second Dan Ellis if you like. rn do anything but take the oath to the Ifraon. I've sworn to stand by t/ie other side. I cannot break my word, even for you, Maude." Maude did not like him less for that last. There was Southern fire in her heart, as well assets, and. Southern blood in her veins, and though she clung to the old flag, there were mom- ents when she felt a flush of pride in her misguided brothers, who fought so like heroes and believed so heartily in their cause. "Seen Maude," Arthur continued, will you be my wife if 1 will do all this. Think how many lives Imight save, and how much suffering relieve; there are so many chances where I could do good, for no one would sus- pect me. Give me some hope, Maude. Speak to nae." She was sitting with her face buried in her hands, as many another maiden has sat, counting the cost." All her life long, Arthur Tunbridge had fol- s lowed her with his love, till she was tired of the c.ontest. Nothing she had ever said disheartened him. No re - bluff, however severe, had availed to keep him quiet. She knew he lovecl her, and perhaps she might in time love him. It would make the old Judge and his wife so happy-, while Charlie liked Arthur so much. Other people liked him, too. He was very popular, and she well knew that she was envied. by many a proud maiden for, the atten- tions of the agreeable Lieut. Ten - bridge. Besides, if Arthur pledged himeet to help the escepe of prison- ers, he would keep his word, and so through her much good might be done, and hearts made happy perhaps. Oth- ers had. willingly saerificed their lives for their country, anti why should she shrink from sacrificing leer happiness, if by it so many lives couldbe saved? Was it not her duty to east self aside and think only of the suffering she eoulti relieve with Arthur as her ally, Meade Was selling herself for her country, and with one great throb bf bitter pain, she said at last: (To Ile .Continuetle HEIR lOnnorfr, I woteler if that girl next door play by ear ? No, by the hour, DOMINION PARLIANENT, What the LegielatOeS 01 the COUlltan" are Doing at Ottawa, • DatreeMOND COUNTY RAILWAY. Mr' Blair, the Mieister of Rail - wee% /neared n,reeolation for the Per - these of the Drummond, County Rail - wee. Tae motion to go into commit- tee oia the resolution was °pleased for ex hours, when a divisien finally set- tled the matter by a vote of 80 to 38. Sit Charles Tupper asked whether the Meister of Railways had tarnished to the elouse the specifies statement re- garding the amount of the expendi- ture, and receipts of what is called the railway extension from Chaucliera to Me,ntreal of the Intercolonial Itailwaee Without this information it would be haspossible to discuss the Drummond County Railway resolutioes intelbi- geintly. Mr. Blair said be had not furnished the House with the statement asked for by the leader of the Opposition, for the very good reason that no such statem.ent could be procured which would be of the slightest value to the Reuse. He land assurance of the De- puty Minister and the General Man- ager of the Goverament railway that it is impossible to furnisa such a state- ment which would be of any value .with reseed to the running and. oper- ating of any seotion of the Intercol- ortial. The accounts are not kept in sections, but of tee railway as a whole, and any statement welch he might precure from the offieers of the de - Pertinent would be a mere estimate, and, therefore, of little value! , QUESTIONS ANSWERED. Mr. Clarke, West Toronto, called at- tention to a statement in a Toronto evening newspaper, that 75 Italians hid been brought over from Buffalo to Toronto to engage in labouring work. The Premier replied that he was not aware weether the Government offioer in Toronto had called attention to the statements made by the newspaper. The Government will expect informa- tion erom its ofricer before it takes any action. Sir Charles Tupper asked if tete Gov- ernment had any information in re- gard to the rumour from Washington that the Anglo-American Joint High Commission will not meet in August according to agreero:ent. The Prentier—I have not yet heard aeything in. regard: to the rumout, to which the hou. gentleradi alludes. So far as ray information goes, there is no foundation for it. Mr. Clarke Wallace asked whether the report published in the Montreal Witness that the old lista were to be ruesceid. in the Winnipeg election was cor- . The Premier replied that an officer had been sent,to Winnipeg to make a new list. Mr. Wallace-eWill he make it on the basis of theold lists? Ths Premier—He will make it accord- ing toahe Lew of Manitoba. Mr. Bergeron asked for information in regard to the fisheries question as between the Dominion and the pro- vinces. Sir Louis Davies replied that under the Privy Council judgment the Do- minion had sole power to make regu- lations concerning the fisheries, but 'so far as the inland fisheries were con- cerned, the Dominion had no authority whatever to license. Hence Ontario and Quebec were issuing licenses for fisheries entirely within the boundar- ies of those provinces. By agreement with the Governments of Nova Scotia end New Brunswick, the Dominion was administering the fisheries in those provinces this year pending the sub- mission of a ease to the Supreme Court to determine the relative powers of the provincial and Dominion authorities in the waters adjacent to the sett coasts. Mr. Charlton's bill to amend the Criminal Code by raising the age of consent from 16 to 18 years was read the third time on a division of 68 to 20. When the third reading of the Col- umbia and Western railway bill was reached, Mr. Oliver made an attempt to have it sent back.te committee with a yiew to striking out the clause in- creasing the company s bonding pow- ers. On a division the motion to send it back was voted down by 61 to le, and. the third reading was then agreed to. Mr. Davis was informed by Mr. Sif- ton that 234 miles of the Manitoba and North-Western railway have been built, of which 55 miles are in the North-West Territories. The company- s has earned as subsidy 1,501,376 acres of le land, of which a part has hen located and the patents taken out. Sir Hibbert Tupper was told by Sir Wilfrid Laurier that it is not the in- tention of the Government this ses- ,e Inn to ask Parliament to provide for •" the representation of the Yukon terra ory in the House of Commons a from Buffalo to tee Se. Lawrence vitae pawn 'elm capital stook was reduced, from. 6'4,000,000 to $2,000,000. POWER COMPANIES., The Canadian POWO1Companybill Was oonsidered by the Miseellaneoue Bills Oonuninee. The name was chane - ed from the Dominion. Power Company to tee Ontario Niagera rails Power Compony. A clause eves adopted pro- hibiting the works being condruoted within the limits of Niagara Falls parle willunit the dement of the Govere- Meet of Ontario. The question of bor- rowing powers was postponed, Tee Welland Power and. Supply Company's bill w 1 reported with an amended clause limiting the bond is- sue to 75 per oent, of the paid-up, stook. The name was changed to the Welland-Niagars. Power Co. . STRANGE ENGLISH INDUSTRY. Recovery or the illissaies That are Paired ot Naval. ertitieey Praetiee. Mr. Seppings Wright has some across, many curious trades and peculiar methods of earning a living in his wanderings through all corner e of the globe, but the business of shotting he discovered at home, for it is daily pur- sued under the eyes of thousands of holiday folks and landsmen generally, who neither know mar care what the longshoremen are about in their fish- ing boats a few miles from land. But these busy workers are engaged upon the business ot "allotting," and the na- luxe of that peculiar occupation we will now decribe. . All royal navy men training for the rank of seaman -gunner have to undert- take a more or less lengthy term of regular practice in firing, and for these men 'during their period of training some, two or three of the old -pattern gunboats are set aside, These vessels are connected with every dookyard, and, while obsolete for battle purposes, make eecellent training -ships. They are, of course, fitted with approved modern weapons, and daily during the season they carry squads of embryo gunners to the seaward ranges that lie outside the Spithead forts. Tee bearinge of these practice grounds die pend on the particular conjunction of certain objects ashore, and the targets are generally placed in shoots where a itaraiiifirca.nge can be commanded free of After a busy and noisy period so much solid metal has been blazed away into the sea, and it is this metal that the shotters set forth to recover when the gunboats have done their task and return to the dockyard. The ranges and the area in which the carmen bans most probab- ly lie submerged are, of eourse; well known to the searchers. Armed with experience ,and a long, ironshotgpole, they sail. over the ranges and probe the shallow bottom carefully. Familiar- ity with their task renders thein an expert knows in an instant when his pole touches the bidden pro- jectile beneath. The shell found, a pair of huge tongs is lowered into the sea, and it is grip- ped and. carefully lifted. abetted. Tee price of the metal shells is slight, and rarely exceeds one penny half -penny a pound, but the brass studs on the shot possess considerably more value, and these are usually cui out toted. Both studs and the main iron of the recov- ered shells are sold to the royal navy, and the prices offered appear sufficient to set many men at steady work on the task of recovering them. FRANCE'S LEAD FOLLOWED. gi.mmala The Britiah sewroundiand aintedron to be strengtheued Beyond Precedent. The 'British squadron. in Newfound- land waters is to be strengthened - an exeent never 'known there before. The composition of the squadron com- missioned for the next three years' service has been finally decided upon. Owing to the recent action of the French Admiralty in replacing vessels of old types in Newfoundland waters with raodern swift cruisers, the British Admiralty has selected half a dozen of the flyers of its navy to head the new squadron. H.M.S. Blenhiein, • which is to be Admiral Bedford's flagship, has a speed of twenty-two knots, She: isnot altogether a strangd on his side of the Atlantic, having been sent here a few years ago to bring home to Canada the body of her late Premier. Sir john Thompson, who died suddenly while dining with Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle. The Blenhiem is a first-class cruiser of 9,000 tons and a coraplem.ent of 672 men. All the vessels of the quadron are equipped with the very ated armanent. The majority of hem have been selected in consequent, their great speed, and five or six of hem have a guaranteed speed of wenty knots. The first-class cruiser uropa has it crew of 710 men and a speed of twenty-one knots, and is of 11,000 tons burden. The- twenty -knot cruisers are tbe Ta Lime of 5,600 tons and 450 men; the Indefatigable, of 5,- 600 tons and 278 meur the Tribune of 8,600 tons and 273 mem the, Psyche; 2,- 185 tons and 225 ea.en; the Proserpina of 2,135 tons and 225 men, and the Pearl, of the same tonnage and wine size of crew. r The scpiadron will also contain the battleship Hotspur, fourteen knots, 4,- 610 bus and 400 men; the torpedo- boat destroyer's Quail and Rocket, each of 300 tons, with a crew of 60 m.eri and a speed of not less than thirty knots; the ottneer Comus, 2,308 tons; the guardship Terror, the cruders Buz.- zard and Alert, besides two terperio boats at Halifax and three at Ber- muda. Si: Hibbert Tupper was told by Mr, Border, that prior to the departure of the Government freight for Fort Sel- kirk from Seattle he was not aayisea that the Boston and Seattle Steamelatp Company, was bankrupt, that he did eatisfy himself by careful enquiries that the company tould perforni its contract, that he took no security for such performance, and that no money was paid to the company on behalf of the Goverettneet on account of that contract. Mr. Davie was told by Mr. Sifton that the Government had not yet made up its mind what tegislation, it any, it; would introduee this session with regard to the seed great question in the West. Mr. Morrisoe was told by Sir Wilfrid Leurier that no claim for damages has beer made imbn the, Goverement by or on behalt of the British Yukon Min- ing 'raiding, and Transportation Company, ,. T R A NS P 0 le TAT EON COMPANY. The bill to inadeporate the Canadian enlartd Ttreesportation Company, for the eterpese 4:1f enygbeg in the grain f nide between Lake Superior and Monte reala road to ad:tempt to divert trade •••••••aomal,.11110....** PERPETUAL MOTION. Here is the philosophy of perpetual motion, as eolved by an up.to-riato phil- osopher, Rags make paper, Paper makes money. Money makes banks, Banks make loans. Loans make povd-te, revery makes rags, Itxi gs make—well, just keep on r, pealing the above. • VIIIAT ABOUT YOU TEETH? OPINION OF A PROMINENT DENTIST ON TEL SUDJEC'r. ler. Ben *Announces That we ere eattimety Nearinga e Toothless Age," tied Tells 'why It is mid law to evert at. That a "toothless ago" is near at hand foe tele conatry, if not, indeed, fox the entire civilized world, is the theory of a New Yore dentist d pro- minence, Dr. Victor C. Bell. "We are becoming a 'toothless people,' andthat very fast," says the Motor. Dr. Bell first brought these views of his before the publio i,n a lecture under the tuaatagement of the New -rink Board of Eclueetion, and he illustrated his statement witheraagio lantera pic- tures, "To begin with," said Dr. Bell, in his leeture, "I must make this bold statement, 'We aan becoming a tooth- less people' For otherwise haw oati we account for the fact: that thous- ands of people to day are wearing arta tidal teeth, and there are as many thousands who would wear there if they could afford to buy them? Look at our little children at the age of two, their little teeth are already decayed. Our girls at the age of four- teen and sixteen have beautiful teeth ineeed, nue do not be deceived; in many instence.s they are artificial. Our mothers and fathers at the age of forty and fifty cannot boast of having many sound teeth. MEANT FOR, PERMANENT USE. ' Now when you coesider how much acute suffering ancl pain these people go through, how many sleepless nights and restless days they pass before they arrive at that happy moment when they have gotten rid of their own teeth and can wear artifieial ones in- stead, you will naturally ask yourself the question, 'Has the Creator given us these organs for temporary use and with the intention of inflicting suf- fering upon us?' No, they were giv- en us to last us through life. If we do Mee them prematurely and if we do suffer excruciating pain 'while we have tb.em, it is due to our own care- lessness, negligence and. ignorance of the first priciples of hygiene which govern the preservation of the teeth and mouth." "I can add more to those state - merits," said Dr. Bell, the day after his lecture. "It is not realized how the teethare going in this generation. It is due to the food we eat to the artifi- cal conditions of the uin of to -day, to the lack of care and attention people give to their mouths. "Now here is a ease in point The toothpick is nett considered proper in fashionable society after a meal, and floss silk is almost never used. Yet both of these, if people would °Illy rea- lize it, are good things. After eating particles of food are entrapped between the teeth. The toothpick or floss silk will carry them away. But they re main, the particles of food decompose and an acid is formed which attacks the. enamel and. finally combines with the salts of the teeth to destroy them. TEETH LIFE SHORTER. Teeth do not last ..as bong as they used to. My experience has taught me that of men and women from fifty to sixty years of .age from sixty to seventy-five per cent now have arti- ficial teeth. This statement seems as- tounding, but it, is nevertheless true. There is • dental science enough to preserve them, but people will not give dentistry a chance. They let them go, and a minute vegetable organism collects upon them. The enamel goes away, and the dentine, the inside coat- ing, is laid bare; the dentine is attack - ea, an.d the nerves and the blood ves- sels are exposed, the nerves are de- vitalized and the teeth die." It is Dr. 13ell's theory that ane greet reason of the country's progress to- ward a "toothless age" is d.ue to tee lack of ode of the temporary teeth of children. If these' temporary teeth are bad, he says,' the permanent teeth will be weakened. And yet very little attention is paid to a child's first teeth. "Thumb and. finger sucking is a bad habit for children," said the Doctor, "By this habit the lower teeth are forced inward, and the upper outward. neouth breathing also produces irregu- larity of the teeth. The most ef- fective way of breaking this habit is that employed by the Indian mother, who bandages the mouth of the child, and in that way forces it to breathe through the nostrils, or not at all." - SMALLER, LOWER JAWS. einother important tendency the Doctor says he has frequently observ- ed is that the lower jaw is becoming more and more contracted. It is nova he says, frequently necessary to re- move some or the maiden teeth. The modern jaw, brought about through modern coesiderations of living, can- not accommodate all the teeth nature give to 'us. Hence the teeth, besides being poorer year by year, are gradu- ally and steadily getting to it point where they will be feavet. "Wherever there is decomposition of organic matter," Dr. Bell declared, "innumerable colonies of microbes, the germs of disease, are generated. Through a mouth thus infected fresh i food s daily token, and during the process of mastication it is naturally mingled, with the. decayed matter in the mouth and then is passed into the stomach for digestion. IS it astonish- ing- then why one suffers from indi- gestion or other disettses? "Good health demands thorough di- gestion, thorough digestion demands thorough mastication, thorough masta cation demands seised and Itealtby teeth" , TROUBLE UPON TROUBLE. Those folks who borrow trouble Never fail—alas! alack 1— To promptly take advantage Of a chance to pay- it back. A TALC STORY, The Giraffe—For it moment my heart was in my Mouth and— The El limo-Tea:1On tue; before you continue may 1 ttelt how you managed to ti 11 911 tha t way back again? SMOKING IN EARLY TIMES, ans, niateractitie exist Beide the eineeeeee (4 There las soraeT:l'eane:t o:to thbek that people smoltea before tobateio was trodeoed. In several old books of housewifery certaio herbs named are itioapbse, in"lasmocintigk,edae; wah evsihollouraldeasnasp ;; teur the other signification is by no means impossible. A vast punaber of olay pipes has been found under °wealth -me whith seem to prove that they were deposited long before Raleigh's birth; and a pipe of early date' is so utterly unlike the modern forn:i that these could not have been dropped by labor- ers of the present day, At an anti- quarian meeting many years ago an old gentleman told how his grand- father used to give him coppers for wading into the pool. 'dam at New- castle-under-Lyme to gather "buck - bane," which the veteran smoked to relieve asthma. That reminiscence oarries us back a century and a half, and it is probable. that buck -bane had been used fon este= tim.e out of mind." - If people were already familiar with , Ilia practice of sraoking herbs we should have an explanation of the ase tontshing rapidity with which they toek to tolsacco. It may be noted that Carter found the Indians of Ho- chelega, on the Si, Lawrence, smoking a.n herb which we recognize from his dessaription as lobelia, as well es tobac- co. His sailors did not care for the lat- ter, but the former met with their ap- proval from the first; for it was "as good as drink'. to them. The medicine men, smoked lobelia before prophesy- ing, and under its effect they raved. Ras this property of the wed been tested by the savants? NOVEL WAYS OF MAKING MONEY. Every day &me woman is trying some 'USW avenue toward the S.001110.11-• latiaa of a bank account, or at leaet a. little extra inn mousy. A French vvlaneen, who -has a most artistic little home, round herself with raore time on her hands than she knew what to do with. All of her friends admired the artistic arrangement et her hones, and one day one of them ask- ed if she would object to going over to the friend's home and rearranging the furniture, for everythiag looked so stiff, although she had "plenty of pretty things. Such, a success was made by the young' French, woman that she con- cluded it would not be a bad idea to see what she could do for strangere in thee way and melte a little' extra money. She advertised to do dusting and as Usti° arrangement "by ihe hour." She had several answers, and. her customers were so pleased that they xecoramended her to their friends, until now she has all she can do. Another young woman of refinement does mending, reading,. writing age shopping by the, hour for an invited, and finds. herself 'most congenially em- ployed.* Persons who do not care to employ a companion ponstantly find this a pleasant plan. This young 1' woman finds she can serve three or four customers every day and still bare her evenings at her disposal. She is free to coro.e and go, And the change of employers she finds mast interest- ing. • Another young woman, thorthighly instructed le the art of china paint - tag, finding that it has 'grown old fashioned, discovered- a new way' in which to apply her art. She, makes a business of replacing broken pieces in fin,e sets of china. All she needs is One of the other pieces, and she can match it so that no cam can tea the difference between the fine imported china and the hand painted copy unless his attention, is especially called to it. Still another young woman has found a wayto fill the slender purse without leaving her own home. She was left an orphan, but with a house- ful oe-farniture. She managed to fill up the bedroonts with 'roomers," but still she twine the rent a burden. She had three large parlors running th.afull extent of the house, with arch- ways and folding doers, so that the filet floor could be thrown together. These were handsomely fureislied, but she never entertained, and she con- oeived the idea of allowing other peo- ple to entertain in her parlors. Her friends were told of her plan, and they were maly too glad to avail themselves of the opportunity. She now has to figure pretty closely to ar- range for all the 'card. parties, club meetings, danoing classes and afters noon teas whioh demand the ASO of her pretty rooms. She has a small dais iu the back parlor for the use of a' lecturer or for amateur theatricals, while the otehestea for dances is sta- tioned in the large hall, This, young women soon found that everybody demanded refreshment of eome kind, and so she added catering Lo bee other business, and now sdvee anything erom tea and wafers to a full course dinner. Persons who live ink. apartments, poorly hrranged houses at hotels find this a most'con- venient arrangement, and they escape all the trouble of getting ready for company and the disagreeable task of "cleaning up" afterward. IT CRAWI,S. • Schoolmaster—en them the reptile le a creature, which • does no stsrtd 00' feet and moves along *by orawlieg or' Ili' endue]: Catl any one of ,you boe• tome Lue euch a creature? johneye-Plettse, sir, ray baby bran?: er, CALLING HIM DOWN. Papa Ileopeck was showing littln Daisy the now book of animals. That is the lion, my dear, ho sait The, lion hl the ruler oft all the other beasts. They tremble whenever he opens his meuth. Not a bead darer face him. How ebout the lionese, papab celled little Daisy, Who is a chip of the moth. er block.