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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1899-7-20, Page 6' Nally Byrnad eon• and Next Morning as the ttches weee that the murder wile supposee to beef, UT. / e hnMnedered, at TeI breaefast, neteetbor rushed in been committed, by the Ithlian sailor. breetelese: "afire. LYnelt, ma'am, did. KV. you hear tee Aewel Ola Neils Byrne's. When. Dolly egiterned homa aftex been marciereal" "The Lord preserve tioP. eried Kra. Lynch, "Murdered Do you, mean. to sityshe's deed?" 'Why, then, what would she be but dead; and her money, that she, kept bidden in the thatsh, all gone. Sure, %was a foolish thing, as L often told ear, to keep money by her in that way, ant see living ell alone. Couldn't she have given it to some one to keep for her? But she was always that sus- picious that she coulden; trust a hue man being." "She mightn't to base been living alone at all," said Mrs. Lyach. "Why didn't stie go and live with Jim? 115 asked her often enough, I know." "else didn't get on wide the daughter- in-law. She always thouget that she and Jam too, for the matter of tbat, were looktag• after the bit of money. Sure, 'Us she that's paid dear for her obstinaey." "Have they any notion who it was that done it' asked Michael Lynch. "Little Maggie, Jim's little girl was emaing to see the gramenother, and just as she got to the top of the hen, she saw a man in a red cap coming out of the cottage. He eame along the road towards her, and as he pass- ed, she saw that he was dressed like a sailor. Ile was very pale, she said, and seemed scared like. She thought that he had. gone into the cottage, as many a one does, just to ask for a drink of water or a light for his pipe; but she never once thought of any- thing being wrong with the grand- mother until she got to the cottage and found her stretched on the floor. Poor Maggie was so frightened that she set off at a run, and never once stopped until she reached home; and by the time Sim and the police got to the cottage, the sailor of course was miles away. However, the police are after him, and they say they'll have him yet." "1 hope they will," said Mrs. Lynch. —"Poor Nelly ; 'twas an awful end. for her surely. A decent hard-working woman like her." The neighbor went away, anxious to be tee first to impart such sensational news to as many as possible, while Mrs- Lynch went about her work mut- tering inarticulate sounds expressive, of six weeks absenee, she foundthe mur- der again the enief subject of iatereat. The trial was to take Ogee me the lot - tow Lag doey, and Miehael Lynch and his wife bacl been, suenineti to appear 55 witnesses. 'This entailed an entire day s absences from home, the assize town, being some* sixteen miler dis- tant ; and Mrs. •,Lyaels thought it necessory to make as many prepare - tions as if she bad been going to em-. grate. Dolly, who was to be left in charge, was scarcely as much inapress- ed as her aunt would have wished by the importtinoe of the trust commit- ted to her; bat he made many promis- es of steadiness and vigilance, and bade farewell to b.er aunt and. unele with becoming solemnity. Then, having de- spatched her light household duties, she sat down to make a dress for her- self taking advantage of her aunt s absence to secure a more fashionable rut than that lady would have at all approved. of. Absorbed in her work, she sat over it until past mid-day, when she was disturbed by two young raiste, the owners of a yacht whittle lay at anehor a little way off, coining to beg for a Eight for their agave. "How cool and comfortable it is /Sere,' said one of thena,—"May we sit down and rest a bit on this bench out- side the door, Miss Dolly? ' "To be eure, sir," said Dolly, resum- ing her OWil place at the windovv, while the two young men establish- ed themselves outside ana began a detultory conversation. For a time Dolly paid no eitteel Lon; at length, however, she founi that they were talking of the murder, and she began to listen. 'Carroll is defeading. him,' said one. *It will be a good thing for Car- roll if he gets hira off; bat. I am afraid the evidence is too strong.' "The evidence seems little to hang a man on." "They hanged. a man here last year on quite as little. Carroll means to maintain that it is impossible he could have walked from here to the foot of Kilforlane Hill, where the murder was committed, in three-quarters of an hour." 'What has the time it took him to walk there to do with the case?' "Don't you see? The clock in the pity and tonsternatton. old woman s cottage was pulled down Old Lyneet smoked In silence for some in the struggle, and stopped at a time; then he said.; "A. sailor in a epd quarter to throe, thus marking the ex - cap. I hope it wasn't that chap that, act time of the murder. Now Lynch was here yesterday. I liked the Woks , of him.' "So did I," said his wife. "He re- minded me of Tom. I'm afraid, though, it must have been. him." Later in. the day two policemen call - says the man did not leave this until two; so that ii it was impossible for him to walk the distance in the time, it is likewise impossible that be can have committed tlae murder.' eci at the cottage bringing a colored see. Perhaps the clocks were cotton handkerchief, marked with 1wroflg, though." Miehael Lynch's name, whieh had been "Not Lyneh s clock ;• it is infallible; never made a mistake in the whole found on the floor in poor Nelly's course of its existence, Lynchevotild cottage. Lynch and. his wife at once stake his own life,. or any one else son recognized it as the one given by the latter totes foreign. sailor. The man its infallibility. Seriously., though, it had not yet been arrested, the poneelmust have been right on. the day in said, but would soon be, no doubt. question, for Lynch remembers cora- Theserved Lynch with a l paring it with the gun that night and y summons the night before." "Ira afraid it's a bad lookout for Car- roll s client." And the young men, having finish- ed their cigars, nodded to Dolly and went away. Dolly had. listened with some amuse- mentto their assertions concerning the infa libility of the clock, remember- ing as she did the day on which she had cau.sed it to bear false witness in her behalf. Suddenly the thought flashed ed into her mind: Was not that the very day of the murder ? Her head turned giddy and her heart stopped beating as she remembered that it was, She put her hands be- fore her face, trying to collect her thoughts, but for some time she was too confused to undereta,nd in what manner the knowledge in hev posses- sion would bear on the facts of the case Next day, an Italian sailor, giving Being naturally alear-headed, however, his name as Antonio Tedesco, was ar- rested, and at Orlee identified by little Maggie as the mao who she had. seen leaveng her grand.mother's cottage, and by the Lynce.ee as the person to whom they had given the handker- chief. A curious old-fashioned thim- ble' known to have been among the oldwoman's treasures, was found in his pocket, and his clothes were slight - stained with blood. Another link in the theta of evidence was that same eurly black hair, exactly cerrespand- ing to that of his beard, was found in the murdered woman's grasp. That there had been a struggle was evi- dent from the condition of the cottage. The furniture was much displaced, and. a block which hung upon the wall had been pulled down, apparently by a frantic dutch at the weights. This elock had stopped at a quarter to three, thus showing the exact hour at which the murder had been committed. It was near four when Maggie Byrne had seem. the man leave the cottage; bat this diserepancy was easily ac- counted for on the supposition that the intervening time had been spent by the murderer in. a searah for the money which the old woman was well known to possess, Tedesco's own story was that he had gone to tete cottage to ask for assistance in securing the bandage on hie injttrea hand, it having beeome lobse, and had been horrified at find- ing the old woman stretched an the floor and eovered with blood. He had gone over tci her to tey if be could give tier any help; but finding else was quite dead, and fearing that suspicion might rest on himself, he left at once and made the best a his way onwards. The thimble he had pithed up on the road. This explanation was of course generally disbelieved; and the Verdict of the coroner's jury was one of wilful murder against Antonio Tedesco. Dolly meanwhile was Gut of reach of the etri.tisment caused by tine event. be the day following that of the mur- der, another * her aunts, Michael Lynee's sistisr, Isad take.n el, and Dolly had been sent for to help in nursing tear. She went very willingly, as she was fond of eters. Drisseil, ev'he had al- ways been kind to her; and in her an- xiety for her aunt's welfare she teased to take much interest in. the details of the tragedy whi h had been Ise -cited so close to her home. Moreover, ti Lynehes: Nvere bad correspondents, arid ne eake pers seldont found their way to Xecekeciennen Farm, so that Dolly knew 1tL1 beyettot the fad that old to appear next day at the inquest, and, as they were going away, one of them said: "You couldn't recollect, I suppose, sir, at what hour the roan left this?" "I can then, just," answered Lynch. "He turned round at the door, just for all the world as you are doing now, and began asking some question. I couldn't understand him, kis English was so queer, and while I was trying to come to his meaning, the clock struck two. The moment he heard it, he nodded andsmiled„ and made signs that that was what he wanted to know. He went away at once after that." "The clock was right, I suppose ?" "Quite right; 'twas with the gun. last niget and the night before. There's not a clock in the three king- doms that's more to be depended on." she soon perceived that as she had put back the clock a quarter of an hour, at the time her uncle believed it "to have been two o'clock, it must in reality have,been a quarter past; and that if it we're doubtful that the man could walk a certain distance in three- quarters of an hour, it was clearly im- possible that he could do so in two- thirds of the time. What was she to do, or to whom was she to apply for help Her first ime Pulse was to run after the two young men; but on looking out, she perceived that they were already half -way out to the yacht in their punt. Then she remembered Martin Delany. At an- other time, or for any more trifling cause she would have shrunk from ap- plying to tam; but now the mere thought of hina seemed to give her courage and confidence. Snatching, up hat and shciwl to put on as she went, she set off at her quickest pace to- wards Delany s farm, which was some half -mite distant. As she approached the farmhouse she caught sight of Martiri,,in a arge m:adow, giving a. ig- orous assistance to the labourers who were savingea late crop of hay, She ran over to him at once; but by the time she reached, him she was too breath- less to speak. Muth frightened, Mar- tin made her sit down upon a haycock and filling a cup from the can of milk left for the haymakers, he put it to her lips. In a few moments she had recovered breath to tell her story in short broken sentences. IVIarten was slower in taking in its full meaning than she hersehf had been; but once he did understand, hie aetion was prompt and decided. "We must go up to towa at once, Dolly," he said, "and see the prisoner's lawyer. He'll know what's beet to be done. tiorae into the house with me, and 1Vlargtiret will make you a cup of tea while I putthe horse in the car. We Miist drive straight to Marsh - port; it will be quicker than waiting for the next troin." "But how ean I leave the house to itself ? Theree not a soul in it, and the door wide open." ctek Margaret to go and mind the hottSe tvhile you're away, She will I know," 'Aunt will be so angry,' said poor Dolly.—"0 Martin, will she hear what I did to the clock?' na afraid ales must, Dolly.—flut never mind; she ean't be very angr,v. Anyway, it s c Matter of fife and Oath tie this poor Man, and, yeti, Meet tell all you know about the Matter, (wet what it may,' "I Yelper that, stied Dolly. "I'd have told loeg ago, if I'd uuderstood that it made any difference,' By this time tneY la re:seised the house ; and Margaret Delany, a pleat, ant-iookine, sensible youag woman, on a few words of explanation from her brother, readily consented to take Dolt ly s place for the 'day. In a few, Minu- tes Martin ead brought round the oar, drawli by his own riding -horse, au animal usually coneidered fats too valu- able to go in harness; and Dolly was soon established ell one eide of the ear, a. shawl around her feet, weile Martin, whip ix hand, =anted tee other, (To Be Continued,) TYPICAL BRITISH SOLDIER UREAT BRITAIN HONOURS THE HERO OF OMDURMAN. 'rite Gallant Scot Imo Routed the Ichaitra Thrittung Deeds or Perionat itravery—nesan as a Private and Rose by -rare Grit and Enetagy—A. Manna' Genius. and that was, it is said, the saddest Colonel Hector Macdonald, Macdone day in the whole of Colonel Macdon- ald of Omdurman, as he has been 0 -Pe cad's career. propriately nicknamed, is the hero of TWENTY YEARS OF EGYPT. private, he received bis eontatiesion. Than his regiment- was oraered, Immo from. India, and saw ser- vice Le South Afrisa oh e.cceaat of the trouble vvith, the 13oers. He was With • detachnseet of les regineeet vceich fotteht at Majulut Hill. 'e.here egalo he dietinguished himself, for when but - lets are flying he seems to be in his element, Ear seven hours ha and his Men held their position against tre- mendous odds, and amid a perteot ae- liegeof bullets. Weat the figetiag was pan be estimated, from the fact which one of the naen who took part in it stated that: "120 went into action, and only two dozen came' out unseath- ect, 88 bebeig killed and 63 wounaed, most of them seriously. Lieutenants Wright and Macdonald, of the Ninety- second Regiment, behaved with the greatest coolness and eourage, and to the last made every effort to turn the course of events.' ' In this engagement Macdonald eame near death. The sur- vivors were almost overpowered., Mac- donald himself was u.narmed, when two Boers ran at him, He hit out straight from the shouldez• with his fists and $ent them both reeling back. A third raised his rifle to kill the Mehl:leder. "No, no, don't do that," saii one of the men, "That's a brave man; let's spare him and take eine prisoner at all hazards." They took him prisoner, the hour throughout the length and breadth of Great Britain, for the Brit- Eeypt. which has nfalde Maedonhald item—, After Soath Af tea came 'gYie ish nation loves a soldic.i, and when that soldier by his own intrinsic ef- the ')foollias^,thtLes naitm isisasofals° officer under whoin he terved; Kitchener, of Khar- made famous forts rises from the ranks to one of the wt ennit,ontaotnsi,ii.niniyula,sasanballya, of Omdurman, proudest, positions in the service, all. are I u knit., He first things conspire to make him the idol wive the nu ts Nile expedition to re- line. A.leaost six feet, the breadth of country. It that te IhteishaEgypt, Loo,roel yIlvehfitoh that has a ed Gordon, and since of the people, He is a soldier in every his shoulders and the splendid depth of of chst combine to make him look a tthmerayehe-bore Distinguished.huService Order for h splendid figure of a raan. He is a s. htsheriaBnagtstilae is ehe of Tokar; wh.loe,in:a189586,1fatatt exeedition, when he had, been appointe typical Highlander at his best, with ed fa_Major8. he commanded his now tam- clearciat features and long, dropping oil dameas Brigade' mi nmstache. Although his face i:hotanoval, wanhIdijasattowasthhowever, thelest campaign a sealupon his greatness, Lt is yet so shaped that it what mast have made it even occasion, in the storm and stress of more gratifying as still v ill Npaaito h sothe faiLt thataat battle, grow sciaare, and bard, and the fitri set. bzr,stliperopufesbsliiacis a. , but by the men in h o Born in 1852, in a crofter cottage in Rosssher• e, theee was little in his earlY STRICT DISCIPLINA.RIAN. .. life • t eminer ce which, so far as Egypt is concerned, is cipline which has made the Egyptian probably second. only to that of the acmy what it is. It is this army Sirdar birnself. His father and moth-. the nwihokenliahma: wgiewichCwoliollnesltilickacdtoollhalimd or were simple people, whei saw little long, as that of Omdurman. "Fighting advancement for their son in following Mae' is the name he ,goes by, and when in their footstees, so with a view. to Tammy Atkins nicknames his Nom - bettering his prospects they put him mender there is no doubt about Thomas's affection, or that he will go into a small draper's shore when he ' of schooling. lera.1 h th ougehafr and water with the Gen - had had his modicum Fancy the fighter of Omdurman -- one I By .his long residence in the land of -Of the military geniusea of the world— • the Pharaohs Colonel Macdonald is I iitree of. an Egyptian than a Scotchman. selling a yard of ribbon or a reel of i is said that what he does not keow cotton to the casual caller in a village about Egept is hardly worth knowing, 1and. his knowledge of Arabic is of great slsop1 . that he almost speaks English with BEGAN AS A PRIVATE It eves Colonel Macdonald to whom id suggestto . largely due that strict attention to dis- an Arabic accent, Of his fearless °our - Whatever he may have done with hisage all the world knows, and it is books at sehool or with his hands over characteristic of him that on one m- dfeoehst 'hike to be in battle, he replied, "I efeesrs. Aitkenhea,d .&Co., of Toren - excellent casion when he was asked what it the counter, tradition declares he was with his fists, and, it is, • to, for oods supplied. therefore, not wonderful to find. that paraticulna°r7.. that you feel anything hi g DOMINION PARLIAMENT, What the LegielatbeS et the Country are Doing at Ottawa. THE PREMIER'S HOUSE. In tee House Commone the Prime Miuister made a brief peewits]. ex- phanetion with reeard oharge made by the Wee Cloaservaleve whip, Mr. George Taylor, the effect that the Meesre. Bate had bought and fur- nesitea a house in Ottawa for tithe eon- tainiag a I:eft:eat:on upon the honor of Sir Wilfrid as Ifolnaing a reaeon for the award to the Messrs. Bate of a °mitred; for Yukon supplies. Sir Wilfred said: "I may say at ones that I do not feel. called upoe to contradict anyteing,—tliat has been said by the honorable gentleman, but in order to show to what levity gentlemen en the other side of the House may descend and how they can. atter absolutely fouadationless accusations, I will ask the pardon of the Honse if I ask it to follow me into my privitte affairs. In the spring of 1897 .I. bought a. house in Ottawa from the Leslie estate for the pries, if I rightly remember, of 09,500. I wed e5,000 eaeb, and gave a mort- gage on the balance for e4,5UO. I bought the house in the name of my wife, beoe,use, being poor, and well knowing that if I died. I would have nothing to leave to her, I thought it, would be right to give her a home. The balance, I raised myself upon a note which has no yet been altogeth- er extinguieb,ed.. That is all there is about it. The house has nest]. furn- ished by myself with the exception of a few gifts Which were given, to my wife by some of her lady friends. That is all there is in this transaction. Per the accusation of the honorable gentlenzan there is net a shad.ow of toundation.. The Messrs. Bate have never furnished a, house for me nor bought it." Mr. Taylor—" I accept the honorable gentleman's statement, but I am sure he has not lived Ottawa without having heard what I have staled, and • I think he ought to be under a com- pliment to meter having brought them to his attention publitey, so that he might give it a flat denial, as he has done to -day. You cannot go down street and ask any merchant without hearing the same story I told last night." • The Prime Minister—" I beg to say one word more. The rumor that has been cu.rrent in. the streets of Otte- wa waSe that the house had been offer- ed ko me, but the truth is that I would t. not accept it." Mr. Bergeron was sorry the meiter hed occurred, and accepted fully the 'statement of the Prime Minister. ' Li OTHER CHARGES. Mr. George Taylor, followed this up 'by- e charge of gross fraud against To this the Minister of Militia he was attracted by the volunteer No answer could be more tharacteris per - movement which had come into being fht itlallit.ye as brBritishightiTahtea Tess) a, I e agar a st 01 d iSecrost _ plied that if gross frauds had been .the money recovered and he _would go petrated he would take steps to have re - when he was only about 7 years old. go. He ijust peeped with to some trouble to find out whether s 47, "Playing at soldiering," as the regular many years of 'active life before eke the prices were exorbitant. He did not metal in reputable. soldiers are apt to speak of, the volute for hi country and his Queen, who ;las know the firm. It had been recorn- teers, no doubt stimulated. the innate He may 80111.3 day prove his decent, honest, and honored hen 'in more ways than one. mended to him as tendency vshich existed. toward the countries far more mighty than Egypt IN THEI, YUKON. calling in which he was to excel, and against. foemen even Mere worthy of Mr. john Ross Robertson assured the his steel. government that it had acted. wisely in sending the militia force to Yukon. Its presence there had been of great value. Major Walsh, as an old Mounted Police °Meer, would =twenty' clesire to give all credit -to the police, but to his mind this governnient would do right to move slowly in the matter sif with- drawing the, force. Mr. Robertson also referred to the Associated. Press des- patch stating that a force of Mounted Police was to be placed in the Por- cupine district of Alaska and that if this was done the United. States wou.ld send) out a force to Pyramid Harbor. , Tee Premier made an explanation as to the topography of the country. It seems there is a Porcupine River and, a Porcupine creek, the latter a tribut- ary of the Lehinney river, which dis- °halves into the Chilcat about .fifteen miles above Pyramid -FLarbor. There has been a Mounted Police force of ten teen on the Lehinney for a couple of years. Pyramid Creek is in; that dir- ection, about five or six miles from the post. The government has no inten- tion of fortifying the poet. There are mining cam-ps in two forks whieh form the creek known a.s Bryan and Mc- Kinley. "For my part," concluded the Premier, "I will strongly object to the United States Government sending a force of military into that disputed territory as long as the question of the permanent boundary is not settled." PURCHASE OF SUPPLIE8. There was some discussion as to the methods of manufacture employed by Mr. Mark Workman, of Montreal, who has a contract for militia clothing. The minister held that the contractor's system of manufacture was not open to fault and. that sweating was not employed. AT ESQUI,MALT. Dr. Borden explained the arrange- ment with the Imperial Government for the defence of the Imperial gar- rieon at Esti:Wawa. iCarta,da, is te pay one-half the cost Of the garrison of 329 offieers and men or about twenty-one thou4and pounds, one-half the cost of barrack accornmodation, for the force, £125011, the Domielon paying, asat present the whole cost of the main- tentnce of the focal militia, £9,3'5. RAILWAY' ESTIMATES. The railway •e,stimates were takeh ujs wh'..n th:‘ Opporiticn discussed the questioh of the purchase from Messrs. Pugsley, Stockton and Judge McLeod of a property utilized in the itnproVe- meat of the haarbor accommodation at 51 Tohn. The property was offered for $100,000, but the value by compet- ent assessors was set down at 0118,- 000. Tie questioa at isste was as to whether the addtional $1.8,000 should be allowed. The full amount has not yet bean paid and the Minister of Fin- ance was inclined to think it should not be allowed. lu view of this feet the after a while he decided to enlist, as the result of a 'difference of under- standing between himself and his em- ployers. He took the Queen's shilling, and became a recruix in the Ninety- second Highlanders, the tamous Gordon Regiment which has furtashed so many heroes. Thus, in 1871, when he was only 19, the future hero of Omdurman began his career at the very bottom rung of the ladder as a simple pri- vate. A simple private, however, was the one thing wheel ho determined he would. not remain. He had. made up his mind to rise, and in three years he was made 'Color Sergeant. In 1878 he was out in India under Lord, then General, Roberts, and servect in the Afghan campaign, taking his part in the great march on Candahar. FIRST DEED OF DARING. It was in India he got histirstchance —India, which, by a curious coincid- enee„ he reached via Egypt, for the Gordon Highlanders were there when Lord. Roberts wanted them to help him in the Afghan campaign. Lord Rob- erts was raarching on Cabal to avenge the murder of Cavagnaxi, when rumor reached a hill fort that a large body of Afghans had cbetermined to waylay the stale. Hector Macdonald was in that fort with e3 Gordon Highlanders under his command. He sent out same Sikh soldiers to see if the news was true. Presently shots were heard. sufficient confirmation for a soldier. Macdonald did not hesitate, but, with the readiness andtdetermination which have been so characteristie of his movements all throu.gh life, he made up his mind what to do, and set about doing it, and, to his coolness, judgment and gallantry tribute was subsequent- ly bottle by Lord Roberts. ,The Afg- hans were 2,000 strong, in a command- ing position across the river on a steep hill. Two thousand to sixty-three were desperate odds, but what did that mallet to Macdonald when he knevy that he must tome out victorious? He attacke.d, and the Afghans were rout - id, General Roberts in hig dispatches declaring that "the energy and kill with whicb this party was handled reflected. the 'highest credit on Color Sergeant Hector Mecdonald, Ninety- second. Highlanders, and the officer, in charge of the Third Sikhs, But 'for their excellett services en this oecasion 'tt might probably have been impessible to carry out the programme of our march" • CAPTURED or THE BOERS. At the cease of the war he was given his choice of the Victoria Chose the siesple bronze medal for censpithous valor in the field, or n commission. "A commission," said. the, Colonel-totbe, and at the age oe 28, nine years titter be had entered the service as a simple AMUSING ERRORS OF SPEECH. • Instances Which Show That Bulls Are Not Confined to Ireland. Mr. 1VIacdonagh, who has colleoted many amusing bulls made by his omit- trymen, declares them to be a species of verbal error which indicate mental quickness,.rether than dullness. He once said to an Irishman, 'Well, Mick I hear some queer stories of your do- ings here." " Celt, don't believe teem, sir -r," was the reply. Sure, half the lies told about me by the neighbors isn't thruel" A man accuee.d of cruelty Was -de- fended by the assertion " that his heart was so tender it would be touch- ed by the bleatizs' of a bruised worm." The English reviewers a this book, to prove that bulls are riot confined to Ireland, have recalled many in- stances of similar amusing errors na speeches in Parliament. The London Mail declares that dur- ing his last term as premier, Mr. Glad - stelae accused a leader of the opposi- tion, of "shaking his head. defiantly in the teeth of his own words." ' During the same terra an excited member exclaimed., 'I see a vision float before my eyes 1 It is the oar of progress, rolling on in majesty, gnashing its teeth as it goee 1" Anoth- er fervid orator declared, " All along the untrodden paths of the past We see the footetepe of an unseen )aand." A Scotch member described recent el- actiotus as " a whole haystack of straws showing which way the vvied blows." Lord Curzon once aosnred the House that "we are not yet out of the woods in Sottth. Meisel, and to get out re- quires a good step and a good cap- tain!" The delivery of speeches in the House, of Commons is noticeably deliberate and tentative in manner compared to the more heated American, oratory. The Englishman ia public suggests his opinion rather than assert it, a method whieh, if not so convincitig, enablee him to avoid graver error teari bulls. CIDER FOR TYPROXD FEVER. Cider has been diseovered by a French investigator to be fatal to the typhoid fever batillus. 11 13 the inalic aced, he believes, that the bacillus cannot digest. ITSEFTJL INFORMATION. This book on swimming is very use- ful in sudden emergenetes. It is I should say so. if you are drown- ing, turn to page 103, and there you'll see how to save youreelf, debete seemed, able:set a waste of time. A proposttion was finally ag•reed to for paesage of all the °time railway eetimatee amoueting to §$,300,01.10. t, LAW OE USURY, in 'Lee &Mate, Sena,ter Danaurand, Moved the adoption of the amendments' to his bill respeeting usury made by the comnaittee to whom the bill was referred. eiehator Lougheed asked. that the bill be not proceeded with an - til bill with the amendlnents was rep-rinted. /Senator Dandarand. tend the 'amendments were printed in the minutes. The hill fixed the maximum rate of interest that eould, be charged at"20 per cent., and interest after yea- turityt at 6 pea: cent. It confined the action of the bill to seine under 01,- 000. This would cover the opera- tions of all usurers whom he wished to reach, those who loaned small, sums. NYanted to reinstate one clause whielt had been °knitted, and whicil made provision for the charging of a "retie of, 0 per cent. per annum on fu- ture judgments. Senator Lough,eed aelted if a more. gage, was Wade for 8 per cent„ and foreelosed after suet being brought, whether on, judgment the rate of in- terest 'would be reduced to 6 per cent. W,ere „solemn covenants to be set aside by this legislation? Senator Forget said it wae only in cases where the in - barest charged was 20 per cent,, that this reduction applied. AN ORIENTAL DESPOT. Lord Gamin's tlxperienee with the Attlee), or Argizarthotan. The English papers declare that the present Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, finds his duties relation to that oft - times troublesome neighbor, Afghanis- tan, much facilitated through his per- sonal friendship with the ameer. Their relations began some years ago when the viceroy—then plain Mr. George Curzon, --was visiting Cahill, and suc- ceeded in quite winning the Iteart of the soveleign, who aelorded him ev- ery opportuntty to see the sights of palace and capaal to the best advan- tage. One thing 'Only he did not see—a re- view of the royal troops. When be ventured to hint his desire to do so, his Oriental friend, with many apolo- gies, regretted that this was the one favor which he could. not grant. ' ton"iWshheyd.?" asiked Curzon, lathes.' as - The reply astonished him more—be- cause SOIlle one among the soldiers would be quite surre to take a shot, un- der such tempting circumstances, at either the aneeer his guest.. The man would probably miss, the °sneer explained., but so many executions would have to follow upon`such an at- tempt, that he, being a ruler mace - fully inclined, shrank from the pain- ful necetsisity of their infliction. Very cautiously and courteously Mr. Curzon, becoming curious, ventured thereupon to inquire how many exe- cutions—or " removals," as he polite- ly phrased. it—had his friend found ne- cessary, hitherto, on account of trea- son' or insabordinatipn. "About a thousand a year" replied the merciful arneer, serenely. And as he had then been reigning eleven years that meitnt eleven thousand executions since his accession, for two causes, only —a SIM total which, though it did not terminate their friendship, opened the eyes of the Englishmen in rather startling fashion to the thorough -go- ing Orientaliern of his' friend. PIIE VERY AIR INFESTED, DAILY WALKS OF LIFE FAIRLY DRIP WITH DISEASR4 Ilan Is Encompassed 10, roes He Cannot right, and rertoree 'l'akes Hctuzte In, „IileillieR`reilee Apathy -Symptoms or Dangerous Dal miles. It is outious what little fear we have of the onineraus diseases which are a14 ways lying in wait in hundreds 08 plaees ready to pounce on us at the first opportunity. If any one had to' traverse a wild country where every thicket might bide a tiger or a venom- ous snake, or a savage wile poisoned arrows, be would be in a state of con - apprehension, But typhoid fever. bronchitis, consumption and things of that sort give the average man 00 anxiety, although they slay a million every year. TYPHOID AND CONSUMPTION. Consumption --the greatest enemy of mankind—is awaiting for us every- wbere we set foot. In the, dust of tha streets there are millions of germs, and.when the counoils are—as they us- ually are — very saving of water, these germs are blown on to our clothing and bath our noses and. motzths. Most oe us are strong enough to resist their attack. Still, not a day passes without many people in every city inhaling a dose of street dust that, Ina few years. provestfatal. These germs lie hidden in carpets in almost aveiy house, on the floors of railway carrtages, buses and traps; we swallow them in the milk and eat them in the beef of tub- erculous cows; we get them on our hands when we fondle dogs and cats; tney come home to from the laun- dry oe our. linen, and when we buy new clothes we often get millions of them throWn in without extra, charge. Typhoid fever, another very destruc- tive disease, comea to us in a different way. These germs can't bear -to be dried, so that we generally draw them out of the watertap. Tne milkman also brings them around at five cents a quart, the ice cream vender sella millions of them at a cent a glass, and very often we get the dose that carries us to the other wort& in min- eral waters made from impure water. CHOLERA INFLUENZA. AND TE- TANTJS. RICE AT WEDDINGS. There are very few people who know that the custom of throwing rice at weddings is one borrowed from the Chinese, and fewer still who are cogni- zant of the superstitious legend that makes the throwing of rice at a wed- ding considered lucky by the Celestials. This is the story, as told by a China- man: "Long ago, in the days of the Shang dynasty, some 1,500 years before the birth of Christ, there lived in the Province of Shansi, in China, a most famous sorcerer called Chao. It hap- pened one day that a Mr. 1"ang came to consult the oracle, and Chao, hav- ing divined by.means of the oracle dia- gram, informed the trembling Pang that he had but six days to live. "But Pang was not satisfied and, in order that there should be no mistake. to the fair Peactiblossom he went, a young lady who had acquired. some re- putation as a sorceress, and. to the tender feminine heart unfolded the stozy of his woe. Her divinations yielded the same result as Chao's—in six days P'ang should die—unless by the exercise of her magical powers she could avert the catastrophe. "Her efforts were successful, and on the seventh day great was Chao's as- tonishment and still greater his mor- tification and rage when he met Pang taking his evening stroll and learned that there lived a greater inagielan than he. The story would soon get about, and uless he could put an end to his fair rival's existence his.reputation would be ruined. "And this is how Chao plotted against the life of Peachblossom. He sent a go-between to Pectchblossora's parents CI:totem conaea in the eame way as a rule. &Mae traveller from India are rives with billions of the germs, and they sooe find their way into the wellss and rivers, where they multiply as merrily as if they were still in ,their sative country. There is one thing to be said in favor of the claceera germs. . They would. be content to disport theytht ee mwsoeanItiveyesna titna irt hue waterh s sau s fee‘rveavsewr, a, Lewd Influenza conies in the air. When the breezes blow hither from foreign lands they come laden with influenza germs. That awful disease, tetanus, or ecek- jaw is popularly supposed to resu from cutting deep between. the finger and thumb. This notion is quite amis., taken. Lockjaw Ls caused by a tiny little gerat that lives in the earth, - especially in garden earth. It does not . matter where you have the cut, or whether it is an inch deep or 'only a scratch. Om* you break the skin, if . a tetanus germ is about he will get into your blood, and some time after, weeks or months perhaps, he will close your mouth so tightly that it will al- most need a jack-sceetv to open it, and he will make all the muscles of your body like steel ropes, GERMS IN. FRUIT AND VEGE- TABLES. FrOre vegetables and fruit we get many diseases. The germs alight on. apples, pears, strawberries, cautiflowe ers, turnips, peas, &c., in the garden, in the market, in the shops and in the peddlers' wagons. And so, as a mat- ter of fact, thousands of people die be- cause they have tried to nourish them- selves. Measles, scarlatina, diphtheria., llnd whooping cough attack us from many, standpoints. They come in nailk—even in condensed milk; they come up from the sewers bi gas, they jump from child to child in school, they go a.vound Inc nurses' heavy cloaks, they Goma home in the laundryman's cart, they come from tha cat,' the dog, the cock and the hen, and they even spring ob us from the wall paper in our rooms, elydrophobia, of course, we get off at hned dog's pomt edeetril,pourf powder -puffs f tgeiovsee ofutshe cat, pig, and sorae other aniraals, now and again. The barber's razors, brushes doses to. So do the cushions of rail- way carriages and cabs. Sometimes a horse sneezes in the street and gives us glanders. And if we happen to rub against the imported skin of an animal we may get a dose of deadly " anthrax. MANY SOURCES OF POISON. to inquire if their daughter was still From cold. and beat we also receive firaolasal Lhaettasculcias, aaptopiteixrnyes.frotaguanstizu•oilke.. unmarried, and receiving a reply in ish bath, fatal fainting from a hot the affirmative, he befooled the simple bath, pneumonia or heoischiti,s from an ity west,wind,. Cold and dampness gives us malarial fever, overexertion gives as heart disease, idleness gives us dyspepsia and diabetes, beer gives as dropsy, whisky gives us nutmeg liver, too much mental work, anxiety and sorrow makes us insane, Then we get 'poisoned, in ever so parents into believing that he had a son who was seeking a wife, and ul- timately he induced them to engage Pea.chblossom to hini in marriage. The marriage, cards were duly interchang- ed; but the crafty Chao had chosen the most uhlucky day he could select for the wedding --the day when the 'Golden Pheasant' was in the ascen.- many ways. If you have roast pork dant. Surely, as the bride entered for dinner, and keep it in the larder the red chair, the spirit bird would till next nights supper you may get a destroy her with his powerful beakl dose ot those terrible ptomailms that "But ehe wise Peachblossom kneW are as deadly as prussic acid, If .you all these things, and feared not, drink soft water out of lead pipes you will go,' she said; I will fight and de- may gradually lose color, grow listless, get colic in the stomach and finally die of lead poisoning. In the, gre,en or, the glossy white paper of your room there may be a quantity of arsenie feat him.' When the wedding morn- ing came, she gave directions to have rice thrown out at the deor, which the spirit bird seeing, made haste to de- vour, and while his attention was thus sufficient to slowly undermine yont occupl.r1Peachblo,ssom stepped into the health, Very often a mother tees bridal chair and passed on her way un- her children wither, away from tine harmed," cause. Many people gob poisoned And now the ingenuous reader knows Lora using hair dyes that contaie lee& why he throws rice after the bride; Eit And sometimes our very "staff Of life'' leai-e, that is how Chinese explain the contains the virulent poison ergot, eta tone which grows as a parasite on wheat. ,