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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-6-28, Page 3'Ter, mLove and War***. i‘ f‘ A A STORY OF SLAVERY DAYS. kr, By MARY J. DOLMES. piEt.thit,Etetiffeacegeocaemotet “citezetettettezetheeetemaehae, eided that Antite should, have the sat- isfaction of teUpg heel, and, thus Rose was still in ignorance with re- gard. to Annie's identity with the Pe - allot. But Anille told her that night, demly: and Rose's eyes were lake stars, as she "Maude, if a man kills another and smothered Annie with kisses, and de- didn't mean to, ia it mttrdera, elared tt was all like some strange "No, it is manslauglater. Why do story she had readyou tole?' Maude said; and Charlie continoedi CHAPTER. XXXIX. "Don't hate me, Maude, nor tell any Charlie did not irapeove as sister and body, for I killed Arthur, myself. I uncle hoped he tnaght ; and as the cold shot him right through the head, and weather inereesed, they began to —Maude, he thought it was you!" talk of taking him to a warnaer cline- "Ohl Charlie! , Charlie!" and. Maude ate, but Charlie said: Shrieked, aloud as she bent over ber "I am as well here as I could be any- brother, who continued: where. I don't want to be moved Not -when he died, but at first, about. Let me stay here in quiet." when he lay there on the grass moan - So they ramie him as comfortable as ing and. looking at you so sorry and possible at the hotel, and Rose and grieved like, don't you remember?" Annte came every clay to see him and "Yes!" Yawl& gasped; and Charlie he learned to watch and listen for went on: their coming, especially that of Annie, You know that one of the ruffians to whom he took the ktridliestlehe fired at Captain Carletoii and hitt you, knew just how to nurse Jaime and as and than I could not help paying him she once oared for the poor prisoners, back, He was taller than Arthur, so she now oared for the Southern ••,vbo stood. behind hina, and knocked boy, who, while acknowledging the idm clown in time to take the ball him - kindness of the Northern people, was self. Re knew you had. a revolver, and still as thorough a Secessionist as he he thoug‘ht it was you, though an ac - had ever been. Arixtously he waited eident, of course, and it made him so for daily news of the progress of sorry that you should be the one to Grant's army, refusing to believe that kill him. But I told him different; Lee was so closely shut up in Rich- when I whispered to him, you know. I mood that escape was impossiblesaid ie was I, and his eyes put on sixth Blindly, like many of his older breth- a bappy look I know he forgave me, ren, e elung to the hope, that under- for he said so; but my heart has ached lying the whole, was some hidden mo- ever since with thinkingt about it. I tive which would in time appear and could not forget it; and I've asked work good. to his oause. • Maud never God to forgive me so many times. I opposed or disputecl with him now, but think he has; arid that when I die„ read him every little item of good for shall go where Isaah Simms has gone. the Sou.th. But when, in the spring, I like him, Maude, if he was a Yankee, the fighting at Petersburg commenced and. fought against as; and 1 like,Mrs. there were no suoh items to read, ancl Graham so nauch; and Mr. .Tames Charlie asked no longer for news. Carleton, and the Mathers, and Mrs. Then there came a never-to-be-forgote Simms, some; beat I can't like that ten day, when through the length and dreadful Bill Baker, with his slang breadth of the land, the glad tidings words and vulgar ways; he makes me ran that Richmond had fallen; that so sick, and I feel so ashamed that we Lee with his army was flying from should be beaten by such! as he." the city, with Grant in hot pursuit. "You were not beaten by such as het The war was virtually over; andfrom You are mistaken, Charlie! The North - Maine to Oregon the air was filled ern army was composed of many of the CHAPTER XXXVIII.e-Continued, "What would, you do II you knew?" Annie asked, and Jimmie rePlied; "1 believe I weuld. go miles to see her, just to know what kind a a wo, Beau she has developed into. 1 trust Me is not like her aunt. I could not endure her. She struck ine as a hard, zelfish, ambitious woman, terribly efraid. lest the would generally should etet thank Mrs. Scott Belknap all which Mrs. Scott Belknap thought herself to Annite's cheeks were very red by this time and imputing her heighten- ed color 'to a cause widely different trona the real one, Jimmie drew her face down to his, and kissing the burn- ing olaeeks, said: "Of course I should take you with me, vehen I went after little Lu." "You would hardly find. her if you did not," Annie paid, while Jimmie looked. Lneeniringly at her - Annie had only been waiting for Jimmie to speak of the littte Pequot, before making her own confession, and she now said, to him' abruptly: "Did Lulu look any like Me?" "Way, yes. I've always thought so, only she was younger, and had short hair, you know, and short dresses, too. Annie, Annie, tell me—was she—do you. —are you"—Janitnie began, raising hitaself upright upon the couch, as something in Annie's expression began to puzzle and mystify him. "Am I whet" Annie asked. "Am I little Lulu of the Pequot House '? My name was Anale Louise Howard, be- fore I married George. My aunt call- ed me Louise. You never inquired my helaiden name, 1 believe. 1 suppose yoa thought I had always been a mar- ried woman, but I was a girl of four- teen once, and went with my Aunt Belknap to New London, and met a boy who called. hianself Dick Lee, and who was so kind Lo the orphau that she began to think ot him all day, and watch for his coming after lits school hours. He was a saucy, teasing boy, but Lulu liked him, and when one day she waited for his prom - teed coming till it grew dark upon the beach, and the great hotel was lighted with jubilant notes of victory. For up for the evening festivity, and when three long hours the bells of Rockland other days and neghts passed, and he neither came nor sent her any word, and she heard at last from one of his comrades that he had gone herae 10 Boston—I say, when, all this came about she began to think that she had loved the boy who deceived her so, for eci, when all was ready. And Charlie answered, "Let eae, please, Surely I may light the firel" And he did light it, and, then, with the rest, looked on while the smoke and the Venue curled, npi toward the starry heavens where the boy retie° had, gone, and where Charlie in his dreams that niglet saw him tio distinee- end grasped, his friendly hand. After that night, Charlie felled rapidly, and often in his sleep, talked to e()Eae one who seemed tol be Arthur, and said it was "a mistake, a dread.- ful mistake," At last, as Maude sat by him one day the fifty after tale bonfire on the grass -plat, he said, to her etud- rang out their merry peals, and at night they kindled bonfires in the streets ; and on the grass -plot by the well in Widow Simms' yard, they burned the box, which, four years be- fore, poor Isaac had put away for just sueh an occasion as this. e dui decelve her in more points than All the morning of that memorable one, as she afterwa.rd learned. His Monday, while the bells were ringing, name was not Diolc Lee" --- "But, Annie," Jimmie began, and Annie stopped him, saying: "wait, Jimmie, till 1 am through. This Ie ray hour now. I have. delayed telling, you ill this, 'for various rea- sons. Tour, mother knew veleo.-I.waa before I went to Wa..shetigton, and she atelatego ,exettised you as fat as .was possible. That I have premised to be your wife and the crowds were shouteng in the streets, Charlie De Vere had lain with his white face to the wall, and his lips quivering vvith the grief and mortifi- teation he felt; that it slaould have ended thus. Oceaelonalty as the .shouts grew louder, he stoppetithis ears, soe as to shut out what seemed to him like exultations over the death of so many hopes; but when Annie came in, and told Maude is proof that I have forgiven the pangs a the bonfire they were. to have that of disappointment I endured; for, Jimmie, I did stiffer for a time. There night in, Mrs. Simms' yard, and asked her to come for the sake of the boy was so little in the world to make me whose box was to be burned, Charlie happy,: and you had been so kind, that I fully believed in and trusted began to listen. And as he. listened, he grew interested in Isaac Simms and you; and when I found I was deceived as the grass -plat by the well, and the my heart ached as hard, perhaps, box hidden in the barn, and he ex, the heart of a girl of fourteen can ache from such a cause." ' pressed a wish to be present when it "Poor Annie 1 ' poor little Lulu l,, was burned. Maude, too, had heard of Isaac Simms before. She knew that Janet/lie' said, as he clasped one of he had been captured by. Arthur Tun - Annie's hands in his own, and his voice expressed all the sorrow and tender- bridge, but she did not know • the par- ness he felt for Annie who continued: ticulars of his prison life, or how gen- erously Tom had sacrificed his chance "Such childish loves are usually short-lived, you know, but mine was of liberty for the sake of the poor, the first pleasant dream I had known sick boy, until Annie told the story, to since my parents died, and I went to which she listened with swimming eyes and a heart throbbing with love and my Aunt Belknap, in New Haven. She meant to he kind, I suppose, and in a respect for ber lover, who had been so certain way she was. She gave me a noble and unselfish. She would go to the bonfire on the grass -plat, she good education, and every , advantage wit.hin her means. She took me to said; and Charlie should go too. Ile Newport and Saratoga., and the New had. Wept passionately at the recital of York hotels, and she turned her back Isaac's sufferings in Libby, but still on George Graham, whom we met at found some excuse for the South gen- Long Branch, where he was making erallY• some repairs upon an engine. A me- 'it was not the better' class of peo- .eftentriewae .nota her idea of a husband' he said, "who did- these things; fee leer nieaeat She preterred ttliet .. I it was the lower, ignorant ones, whose should metal. ' a man .9f sixty ,-- tom; instincts were enaturally brutal," had already the portraits of three t danei their Maude nor Annie contra - wives in his handsome house at Meri- dieted 'him, though the eyes of the den; but then, for eaoh poetratt he fermer flashed indignantly, and her wanted two hundred thousand dollars, nostrils quivered as they • always did sued half a million covers a multitude when the sufferings of our prisoners of defeats and a great many wives. I were 'mentioned in her presence. would not marry that man, and as the That night, when the stars came out result of my persistent refusal, mY over Rockland, a party of twelve or Life with zny aunt beeame so unbear- more was, congregated at the house of able that, when Providence again the widows Simms, where, but for the threw George in my way, and he asked sad memory of Isaac, whose soldier - me to be his wife, I consented, and I coat hung on the wall, with the knap- never regretted the sten; He twee sack carried into battle, all would have very kind to me, and loved him so been -joy and hilarity at the prospect of much, that when he died, I thought certain peace. But death had, been alp, in that household, just as it had crept my heart dried too, for he was my Annie was very beautiful in her ex- across many and raany other threshold; citencient. as she paid this tribute to and mingled with the rejoicings were her deceneeci husbancle.a.nd Sammie saw, tears and sad regrets for the dead of that she was beautiful, but felt re- our land, whose graves were every - Lived when she left Genege Graham, *here, from the shadowy forests of and spoke of Rose, who had coine to Maine, and the vast prairies of the ' her like an angel. of light, and made West, to the sonny plains of the South, the burden easier to bear. where tlaey fought and died. There were twenty-five buried in the Rock - "I had no susptipion that she was the land graveyard; and others than tbe soi-disant Dick Lee'e sister, or that my boy -hero eves not Dick Lee, until just party- assetubled at Mrs, Simms, thought of the vacant chairs. at home, before you came home for the fiast and the sleeping dead whose ears were time, and then ,I thought I must go deaf to the notesi of peace floatieg so away, for 1 did not care to• meet you. musically over the land. Charlie's But Rose prevented me, and I am glad now that she did." face was very white, and there were "And I am. glad, too, Jimmie .said. tears in his eyes as he laid his thin, "Your staying has been the .means a white hands revereotly upon the box, untold, good to me, darling—it was the examining its make, and bending close meniorY Of year sweet; holy life and to the name, and, date, and. words out character winch Led, me a wretch at 1-113un Siratte, Rockland, Anclersonv-ille, ' to seek" the saviour April 25th, 1861. This box to be barn - whom you have loved so long. . Goa ed---" There was a blank which the has lea us both in. etre/age paths. We lios, who had. cut the words with his haVe eutfered a great deal—you men.- jack-knife, could not supply. Re did not know when the box would be burn - telly, I physically, an only what I deserved; but let us hope that the ed Then it was April, 1861; now it eight is passed, and the morning of was April, 1865. Flour years of strife aux happy future davvnang upon Us. and bloodshe.d, thousande and thoue We are both young yet—yoa twenty., sands ot desolate hearth -stones, and three, and I only teventy-six. We broken hearts, and litcless aorms both have a loag life to leek forward to, North and South, and the end had and I thank God for it ; but mot of etnile at last, But the boy Isaac was not there to see it, • It Was not for him all, 1 thank Ham for giving me my darling Almit —my dear little Lulut to fill up that baulk; but for the South- DOeS nose know that you are tuitt ern boy, Charlie De Vera, who took his alre, Carleton had thought it better penall trorn his pocket, and, wrote, "April 3d, 1866, to telebrate the fall not to add to Itoee'e excatement by telling her who Annie was, while Jim- of Riehmond, and the' end of the Oen- eittae fate Wee earooded in so much edel'acY'' Charles Vete.° eloorn ; thole, after has retutn, she de- "Wile shall the Pile?" 'rola tt$it- DOMINION PARLIAMENT, „ What the eg'ielfttOrs of the Omar)/ are Doing' at (Wawa, IN COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. The HouSe Proceeded beto Commit- tee of SUMO, taking the Marine ettpleleetentarieil for the current year. Sir Louis ffaeVies set himself right in connection with an attack whieh had been directed against Lite prices of supplies to his department. The fa,ct seems to have been that the items bad been misstated in the auditor -gener- al's report. In one plaee a pair of and dilated upon what lee considered as the result of this eystena upon tae public purse, Mr, Tarte, Minister of Ptiblic Works, replied in Justification of the course which he had pursued, and frankly Stated that what he had i done be had dene in the public interests. Theecases reaerred to were oa a nature that he had fouled. it imposeible to cell fon tenders. En the ?nee of the &edging work it was impossible to say hew mucir work was required to he.d,one. leis experience of three years in the Public Works De- partment had taught him. that minia- ters should 13,0,70 more latitude than they new possess in regard 'to Palling for tenders. The contract system, after all, was one of day labor, and it was open to question whether the gov- ernment ceuld not have the work done shears for cutting sheet iron was set as Yvell ahd as cheaply by Incidentally Mr. Tarte referedeady lo abtoare down as at "pair of ticiwz k or s ." In anoth- English system of accepting tenders er place bricks were interpreted as only from firms of reliable standing meaning fire bricks. Sir Louis Davies and pointing to the differenee between lead been bitterly attacked fot• the .th-iS Practiee allal the Practice' in vague purthase of a buolcet at $1.80. Thie A posalapEEICE BILL ,Tbe Postrae ster-G eneral inteodueed a bill to amend the post -office act, whose provisions are of some consider-, able interest. Tte • provisions were briefly explained. by Mr. Mulock, ile saidet—Undee the Post -office act, the publishers may enclose in newspapers sent to subscribers certain matter, Buell as accounts, circulars. invitations fer subeeriPtions and so on, but are not allowed to do this in the case of sample copies, that is, PaPee's sent to father than subscribers. The first see - tion of this bill proposes to extend, the same privilege to sample copies as is next 3,000 lights. Six thousand lamps now given in the case of copies sent are in uee altogether. The Opposition to regular subscribers. The second section proposes to make eligible for thought that there were a great many the position of superintendents of turned out, however, to be a bucket of pickle On an item of 30,992 for rents, re- pairs, fart:aurae, heating, ventilation and lighting of the Dominion, public buildings at Ottawa, the Opposition de- sired till information as 0- the ex- pellees of electrio lighting throughout the buildings. The information was forthcoming that the Ottawa Elec- tric Light Company charges $2.25 per light:04e to 3,000 lamps, and $2 on the more lights in the building than are railway mail service, clerks who have being used. 1 The chamber itself is been in the x•ailway mail service even though they may not have been con - lighted by nine hundred ten candle- twat:Hwy . railway mail clerks. At power lamps, which represents six hun- present superintend.ents mut be chos- dred lamps of sixteen candle power. en from those who have been for ten years railway mail clerks, and that The Minister of Finanee thought that rather ts the choice The third there were various rates being charged section provides for the. fixing of a in Ottawa. The present contract was rate for mailable matter mailed after for one year. It had been renewed the regular hour for closing the mails. and is now in its second year. The item to The object is to enable. the Post-offi e forward to the trains matter thact flually passed. would ordinarily have to wait till the Lieut. -Colonel Tyrwhitt asked whe- next outgoing train, and for this ser - thee the Minister of Militia had adopt- vice to prescribe a late fee. This sys- tem is in use in England., and possibly ed a policy of annual training. elsewhere, ; The last provision is to The Minister of Militia replied that enabla. the department to provide in - noblest men in the world. There are he certainly favored. annual drill, and demnity for the loss of registered Bill Bakers everywhere, as many South that the policy had been followed to a mailable matter to the extent of .$25, as North. It is foolish to think other- great ex eat since he had. taken of- or whatever less sum is sufficient to wise." t i ' Maude was growing hot and elo- quent in her defense of the Northern array, but Charlicos gentle, low -spoken reply, stopped her: "Perhaps it is. I got terribly per- plexed thinking it all over, and how it has turned aut. I think—yes, I know who did; and if slavery is a Divine in- stitution, as we are taught to believe, I am glad the negroes are free. We never abused them. TJacle Paul never abused. them. But there were those it was a broken down and badly eon - ducted institution, and not at all as -God meant it to be managed." Ohhe spoke again it was of Tom, who had' been so kind to him. ' vestment at St. Vincent de Paul, Where the convicts had wilfully' de- stock. Mr. Gilbert gave some inter- Wyandottes, and Brahmas over scrub "Re is like a beother, to me, Maude, stioyed or carried away sixty per cent. estina details of experiments in arli- andIam And Maude, don't vv-ait after I am make up the actual loss, and to charge fice. This training should be made an fees as an insurance fund to make annual one to get the full benefit of good the loss to the department un the money expended. der such eircumstames. • In reply to a question by Mr. Ber- 131ST POULTRY TO BREED. geron, the Solicitor -General stated that Kr. A. G. Gilbert, poultry expert the cost of the commission to•investi- :t the Experimental farm, delivered n interesting address before the gate matters appertaining to St, Vin- Agricultural Committee on the de- cent de Paul penitentiary has been vetopment of the poultry trade. He $18,076. Being asked whether the ser- contrasted the winter laying. of old . hens and pullets The latter laid the vices of convicts were availed of in • • most eggs, but the prod.uct of the these institutions to make repairs, etc., former were larger. Fattening ex - the Solicitor -General replied that it had periments showed the great superior - erne paused a moment, and when been found a very unprofitable in ity of thoroughbred Plymouth Rocks, g you, are to be hie wife. of the stone required for anew wall. dead, but marry Captain Carleton at eee e,„ TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION. once. You will be happier then." '' 'ant' who ha.s charge, of the re - (To Be Continued.) • solution passed by the sub -committee The bill to legalize the union label of the Dominion Alliance, praying. for ae a trade mark was shelved by the icai incubation. His testimony when published cannot fail to be of great benefit to the farming community, NOT A TRADE MARK. NEW CURE FOR INSOMNIA. the extension of the Scottact prin- ciple in such a way as to allow of its Senate Banking Committee. Mr. D. O'Donoghue was again present, and being taken advantage of by the peov- 'J. Dr. argued that, according to English pre- raa.1111111, of Turin, Claims to Rave lames favorable theretocedent the bill should become, law , proposed that Found the Remedy. the government name a day upon Mr. Josias B. Jackson, Federal Be - The successful practitioner nowadays which the matter may be taken up by 1 t ttie House. The matter was one of . gistrar of copyrights and. trade marks, seams • to be he who watches nature more than ordinary interest and it was , and the leading authority oat the sub - most closely and imitates her methods aesirable that the discussion should be ' jad ect i invite- n Cana, was py resenetb in his treatment of nervous troublesas full as possible.' The Prime Min -1 tion, and asked to address the commit-- Dr. Pardini, of Turin, for instance, ister, in reply, observed that he was . tee- He held that the union label could per aware that if this matter was not be construed to be a trade mark, claim.s that he has discovered that the left to take its chince the state of the; as it lacked the essential qualification. best method of treating obstinate in- order paper was such that it would not He clairae-d that the labour organize. - likely be fully discussed this session,1 tions, not being manufacturing con - Therefore he had no objection to meet- cerns, could not attach the union label in 1VIr. Flint's suggestion, but was ' to their product as a trade mark. The sorry that it was not possible even ap- union label could not be classified as a proximately- tofix the date at this trade mark. He advieed tile commit - juncture. As soon as the debate on tee that any counterfeit of .the unioa. ably been emused by the neck- dislo- the Redistribution bill had. been een..! label was an offencle under the com- of sleep.. If the observer hes given aateng nods winch herald the approach , eluded: the House would. be able to I men, law, and a Persen guilty of COUn- take. the subjeet up immediately, terfeiting could be propeeded againat ag ins . subee,et at all he ALASKAN 'BOTJNIOARY.' AND PAC1- any thought to the Mr. Creighton, law clerk of the Sen - has probably decided that the cantor- at , who had. been asked at the pre - FIC CABLE. vious meeting to report on the. legal tions are due to the sleeper's uncon- Suscious efforts to preserve his balance. Charles Tupper regoested that aspect of the -question, said the English the government inform the House as statutes *did not contain any leeisla- Dr. Pardini says that balance has to tate nothing to do with it. He declares that present condition of negotia- bon soon as was asked for in Can - bons in connection with the Alaskan ada. the nodding is pathologic, that it is boundary and the. Pacific cable. nature's method of inducing sleep. Tbe Prime Minister's reply was to In addition to this, Dr. Pardini says the effect that the question of esta.b. that a. careful simulation of the deer) lishing a tem.porary boundary on the respiration, which is always present in Dalton Trail, is still in course of nego- TALKS .ABOUT DETECTIVES normal sleep is of great therapeutic tiation. The matter of establishing a value in curing insomniapermanent boundary stood just where When one of Dr. Pardini's patients it stood when the last statem.ent con - finds himself unable to sleep he is in- earning it was given to, the House. structed to sit up in bed. Extending With regard to the Pacific cable the his neck and elevating his • chin he Prime Minister was sorry to observe the slowly brings his head, forward that the imperial authorities had not until the position of balance is ap- seen fit to ratify the agreement of the proached.. As that point is reached the Imperial committee of 1896. The 13ri- patient is to relax the muscles of tish Government had instead taken If a detective be asked how he is the neck so as to allow the head to another view, and he felt at liberty able to spot " a criminal lee. has nev- fall forward from its own weightto say that this government had not er seen before, he will very likely an- aVeten the lowest point is reached the seen its way to accept that view, and swer that he does not know. If the body is to be slightly inclined toward had made representations to that ef- the right, so as to impart a rolling feet. Arrangements had now been a erage person were asked. to explain motion to the untontrolled headcompleted for a further conference be the Peculiar fascination that a "tee - This, if properly carried out, brings 'tvveen the Imperial and colonial au- tive exercises over a certain portion of the head of the patient almost under thorities, interested in this conttec- the public b t th his right shoalder. The body is then to • somnia is to make bis patients imitate the drowsy rioddings of a tired man while sitting in a chair. Every one who has ever watched a sleepy man in a street car has prob- THE REAL THINGS ARE NOT A BIT LIKE FAIRY STORIES. should a Detective Deceive a Crintlitalt— A. QueIV stion Illt Two Sides -Story of a Burglar. be inclined to the left and the head allowed to roll in that direction, still uneontrollect by the muscles. As soon as the head has reached, the left shoul- der nal/scalar control is to be resumed and the head raised slowly until it is in the same position as at the begin- ning of the exeroise. Then the whole method is to be repeated a,s long as needful. HER AGE, IVLiss Passe—Choly seems to think that I'm keeping my age retentrkably well. Miss Curt—Yes; he told me that he never heard of it single instance where you gave it away, Iva() RIMS IT, Ph:emit-is says his wife doesn't run his house. I suppose he insists upon doing it himself? Oh, no ; they have a cook and it hired irl tom. Canada would be represented , ou e same answer would be heard. Doubtless the Old on that conference by the Minister 01 Public Works, tlae Canadian Hila Com- Sleuths and Sherlock Hotness' of int" agiziation are accountable for a geed deal of it, and yet there are more sub- eta/Alai reasone. The act of being came to crime withont being a part of it is in itself morbidly interesting to many, Then, too, between the orim- inal "substance " and the 'shadow" there is a eonstant race of intellect— a gambling of brains. The stakes are high, for losing means imprisonment -and perhaps death. The detective USW. ally wins, and hero worship of the vi tor is inborn in the Inman race. But the (lie of it detective isn't as much like a fairy tale as some persons imagine, The training of the French detective policemen--a.e expert as any th the world—is very SeVere, Often, they Vollentarily serve a terra it ri- Stott to get eloae to the life sI the cop- missioner, and Sir Sanford Fleming, whose advice as an expert shoeid be of great avail. Sir Sanford week' pro- bably sail in the. course of next week, CON/TRACTS WITHOUT TENDER, Mr. N. F, Davin, West Assiniboia, proposed s a address for copies of orders - in -council which have been passedsince June 23, 1896, respeeting the letting of contracts without tooter. In speak- ing thereto he referred tee the repairs to the western departmental buildings aggregatiag ninety thousand dollars which had been executed by day labor; to the work of extending' the govern- ment telegraph line along the north shore Of the Si, Lawrettee, the dredg- ings of Toronto d and Coteau Lending harbors, the supplies of the Indian De- partment the purchase and. transpor- tation of supplies intended for the military Contingent in Yukon, the construction of the Edmonton bridge. the Upper Traverse light -411e forego- ing arneng many other leeeter itistat1006 vict; again they go to live erciong thievee in Order to learo their ways, They seldom are /teen at police head- quarters, and receive their orders by letters, written in cipher, or by cou- fideutial messenger, The Freneh Ie- letjy5 mixes in 'society and, his occu- pation is seldom known. In fact, two detectives may know each other per- sonally very well, end yet uover find out tbat their occupations are identi- cal. In Prance, the details of it detece tieeat work are never published and if •ofteo happeos that persons who have been robbed soon find themselves Pos- sessed of their valuablee through the EFFORTS OF THE POLICE, SUN FOR HEATING IIOUSES THE INVENTION OF WM, OALVER WILL SUPERSEDE COAL. hues:: vo.eqotoilie4:111: il81441 iatutt; eT:110914:04001stil,s1: Ile iteueeforth Bottled rio unit Math! to A machine for ettrizing the light of' the sten for heating aod this eartb. during Lae cold or night, has been invented by a resident of Washe ington, William Calver, whose elaime are that the maelyttne will do away with the use of all present illeminauts cootaim theenaeLe,ssite for heating by artifi- and yet are never told anything about Mr. Ceiver's machine utillthe ,tlet the zaethods by which they were found, heat and Light id the anti in sueh away Of course deteetives do not advert' that the portion of thesolar rays f Item st e al ru °I it lit 1; °d7 a Si f f i cb t 7 an r du ego ue inVi; the Persuas they are after' AS °uwuhrethei:seiPooulletasde dwoev.a'llthoenr anatiyveerke ssPtatecr! them said: "We know all of these 116 ()f ed up for the future and, taken advent - plain clothes officers ; they try to look age of on dark or cold daye. He de - like other folks, but it's no use. We ela,ree that he can turn out power in can tell 'em es well as aif they wore suell quantetie,s that machinery, which helmell nd blue coats." flow far a detective is jastified must raow be run by steam geuerated deceiving a criminal. is considerable uf in by a fire, can be used. by the adoption a queetion--" the end justifying the 01 this stored lent, which will aceom- -means "requiring delicate decision at--- Lines.every purpose to which the fire times. A detective, for instance, call under a boiler is now put. steal a letter from a arirain.al beeause his batent is not to do an unlawful THE SUN'S LIGEIT. act. On the other hand, he would The light of the sun is tlee stron,g- have no eight to induce another per- est known in d,egree of brightness. son to steal in order to arrest him, Though ninety-five millions miles The man who knows that the object in view is pot theft, is not demoralized away, Its radiatte.e is far ebove any steal is injured by the process. bY it, blit the person who steals to thing ever accooiplished in the way of artificial light, and is Mor titan equal A much discussed ease of quibbling to fifteen hundred and seventy-five with a criminal once happened inLon- elcaSpaintingsome mse,eoruen dsxe•enlst a (It vo e rtthi se emd a:hiaerht oohnfilel;scgintistteoenffurt;iiisol ihfoendas pbooyfu nao ad snpidnelremwPe joeient; —1 e, they quickly sold for their own bene - loan and as a result many valuable candle power measure be,i,ng the degree, pened into the roora of the man who fit. About that time, a detective hall - That the vast energy of the sun is sworn raescehiveinfogunthde that tlehne gwoaoed sd. i s e 0Av ...s usiratillaytibaneinogf iwt aisatemd,ac,haasn faricsIs :puny- ered the man "peached" and offered to take the detective to the thieves, earned, is a fact that has been long Bteuot waafstela•rdreosintegd.so, he found that he acknotv-ledged, and though many have sought for ages to construct some ma- , "I thought you were going to let chine which could be penetical—some me go free ?" said he, in much sure invention which vvouLd use this heat prisein doing the work of the world— " When. did I say so ?" -n . o advanee has ever been made in that He had n.eglected to get the detec- direction which led. to any usefulre- suit. On August 8, 1882, there was an experinaent made in France, by which Abel Pifre successfully printed a paper by machine run by solar heat, but the work seeras to have been dropped at that stage. TlttR NEW MACHINES. tive's promise. THE INGENUITY OF DETECTIVES. is often sarprising. For instance, at one time during a burglary, one of the offenders was caugat, and the other escaped, though wounded. A. detective argued that some one would be at the trial to convey the earliest informa- tion to the escaped criminal, and so, stationing himself conveniently, he watched, the faces in the court room. Finally he decided- that one woman looked more anxious than the rest, and following her home, be found the oth- er burglar stretelaed on te couch with a bullet in -Ws leg. " Speaking of burglars," said a de- tective, "you. know they have a great many ways of disposing of their goeds. Fine stones are usually reset, and the old. gold melted. Watches are taken out of their cases, the number and name scratched off, and then the works are put into new cases. Oftentimes jewelry is sent to another country and sold. An English woman once had a queer experience in Melbourne, Aus- tralia., She went into a. jewelry store there to buy a bracelet, and they handed her one that had been stolen from her houee in London a few months before." Detectives often stumble on to a clue through lack of nerve. in the crim- inal.. An instance once happened in a little town in Michigan which was torn up by time roots over the fact that the postoffice had been robbed. The assistant postmaster was an ex- emplary young man especially renown- ed for piety, and owing to his position in the department, the detecive on. Lhe case quizzed. him thoroughly, now and then suggesting a possible sone - tion of the mystery. But he noticed that every one of his suggestions the pious official was greedily ready to believe. In short it soon became evi- dent that he was nervously anxious that the blame should be attached to somebody or ,something—from his in- nocent gra ndmether to the town clock —anywhere, in fact, so that it would- n'e fly up and hit hire in the face. Of course that was clue stiffidient for the detective, who, a few hours lat- er, arrested the official himself, in whose posseesioti THE MONEY WAS FOUND. A case was once reported to the po- lice, in which a poor mechanic had been robbed of tools and money. He noti- fied the detectives, who looked at the window and decided it had been open- ed with a chisel. In a few moments they , arrested the ma,n for robbing himself, and incidentally his creditors, for they said to him: ' The marks on the window sill were all made from the inside." Jealousy is sometimes used as lev- erage in opening the way to discovery, His maoktinte consisted of a large horn -like dile, nearly twelve feet in diameter, this throwing the rays down into a mirror, by which they were con- centrated beneath a hotter in which enough water was heated to generate good. steam: This boiler was connected with a Marconi press, which raa by thismeans all the afternoon, printing five hundred copies of a paper •whieh was called the Journal of the Sun. Mr. Calver, who has taken out many patents for his invention, says his ma- chine will store up therailioad energy from the sun, which is delivered in such, vast quantities in bright weather, and release it in any desired' quantities on dark nights and cool days. This bot- tled sunshine, which is ea.ught by the m,eshes of sctience, in the summer, can be put away in the storeroom, just as canned goods are now kept, and it wilt be on tap in January. • The details of the machine are fully given in the speoifications of the patent, but are too technical to be of popular interest. THE SUN UTILIZED. The possibilities of a mai:thine that will successfully utilize the rays of the sun, transform .eat to power, are al- most beyond th,e imagination. Instead of gas bills and electric ligJet bills to worry the householder, all he would hare to do would be to see that the sunshine machine had taken advant- age of the rays that, warmed the deers of June. From the store of feaushin.e thus acaumulated he could supply his kitchen range and his parlor stove with heat. He c.ould apply the power derived from the stored rays to xnn- ning a motor that would, accomplish wonders in household duties. He couldeifluminate his house as brilliant- ly as he pleased every night in the week vete.hout the dread thought that the never tiring meter in the cellar was eating up his ineorae. GREAT ADVA1NTAGES. Applied to transportation, the sun- shine machine offers, too, a wondrous horde of advantages. Heretofore the great problera of the aerial naviga- tor --all inventors are potentially aerial navigators—has been to find a motor the weight of which will not keep his ship from sailing on the breez- es. Electric motors and the lightness of aluminum have held out glowing promises, but how remelt more could be accomplished with stored sun- shlerinaeillroads, with no coal to buy, could declare larger dividends. Farmers, able to dispense with horses, could drive a strange case once happened their ploughs andthreshing raaohines an in England. A ybUng man abscoraled with stored sunshine and could go to leaving his employers considerably the market on week days and to church on Sundays evath old Sol safely hitched worse for it, and his wife refused to e anything about him, But in hit to the farm conveyances. e, the detectives . found LE the invention of Mr. Calvet' proves offic coat pocket, which he had. left at the the pie_ la do all he alaims for it, the art of tare of it pretty twatyearteia child. war raay well be revolutionized. No Armed with that and letters from the longer will it be necessary for the mother, the detectives visited the maritime powers to have coaling sta.- wife. She dicovered that the child be - tions, and no longer will wars be longed to her husband, and that the fought over the possession of small is - letters were from its mother. Enrage leads valuable only for such purPese eofd hweirtJahjuTbiaonled$Y,aushde atucolndoeadlledsh :swn' el'heekintiatV-aohrilicaonntsvsititilgeathretrirarilss ing him arrested. Not long afthrevard poriao s aveteesiseeelSadays,allrttvel emabiawarurifdtrfletnd she went to 1.ontion, and while there days, or a ym ear tor that atter, as found a little ohild that had become long as provisions last, cruisiog about separated arena its nurse. After a the ehethyie coasts, it necessary, ne wane, thottgli the nurse found them., longer trOubleci with the preseet groat cud through het the woman discover- drawbaCk to foreion naval warfare, ed that the child was the subject of the diffictilty ot obtaining a supply of ittihaeoopilottofixt•aupehoiTheautturtohetosidghttootifohthecie coal. her, and entirely changed hermood, go that instead of ptosecuting the fa- thet she 131.6ntiod with the etiurt and saved hina from punishment. If Noah held lei the building- iof tha ark to- a goverenient eolattneter tlae itteed would have been postponed inde The invalid realieee that he is on the high road to teeeVerer when he aeba thA, doctor's bill. HYGIENE VS. MEDIO.ENE, The learned, eelentific Pittieldian Maybe ke.own by the moult anteane of medicine he prescribes, and by ibo large =Iowa ot iestructiori he gives relative to the nature of the disease, , and abotit the foods drinks tea:liners* lure, heat, cold, air, water, dress, }alto and eternise required.