HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-4-27, Page 2THE INMATE OF THE DUNGEON[
t:oNenselen,
" ARM' the wltrdon had ruacde good
man out of me Werke('feentfully, air ; 'I
did everything they told me todo ; 1 work -
en willingly and like a elavo, It did me
good to work, and I worked hard. I never
violated auy of the rube aftee 1 wee broken
in, And then the law was putted giving
oradits to the men for good oanduct. 114Y
term waa twenty year's, but t did oo avail
that any credits piled up, and after I had
been hem ten years 1 ooaicl begin to see my
Way
out. There were
yere left. And, air, 'teetered about
afaithfully
to make those yoare good, I knew that If
I did anything against the rules I should
loeo my ccadibe and have to stay nearly tern
yoare longer. T knew all about that, eir
1 neverforgot te, 1 wanted to be a free
man again, and I.planned to go away some•
where and make the fight all over,—to bo a
man in the world once rnor
"We know all about your mooed, in the
prison. Proceed."
Well, it wars Lida way. Y ou know they
were dofug some heavy work iu the quarries
and on the grades, and they wanted the
strongest mon in the prison. There weren't
very teeny: thereneverare very many strong
man in a prison, And I was one of 'em that
they strut on the heavy work, and
I did it faithfully. They used to
pay she man for extra work, not
pay .ant money, but the value of the money
in oandles, tobacco, extra clothes, and
things like that. I loved to work, and I
loved to work extra, and m did some of
the other men. Un Saturdays the men who
had done extra work would fall in and go
up to the eaptain of the guard,andhewould
give to each men what was coming to him.
He had it all down in a book, and when a
man would come up and call for what was
due hint the oaptaio would give it to him,
whatever he wanted that the rules allowed.
"One Saturday I fell in with the others.
A good many were ahead of me in the line,
and when they gob what they wanted they
fell into a new line, waiting to be marohed
to the cells. When my turn in rho line
came I went up to the captain and said I
would take mine in tobacco. He looked at
me pretty sharply, and said; "How did you
get back in that line?' I told him I belong.
ed there,—that I had come to get my extra.
Ile looked ab hia book,and he said, You've
had your extra ; you got tobaeoo,' And he
told me to fall into the new line. I told
him II hadn't received any tobacco ; I said
I hadn't got any extra, and hadn't been up
before. He sand, 'Don't spoil your reacted
by trying to steal a little tobacco. Fall in.'
It hurt me, sir. I hadn't been
up ; Ihadn'b got.my extra ; and I wasn't a
thief, and I never had beeo a thief, and no
livin man had a right to call mea thief.
not relied ," he asked, "that those officers
would not have stooped to rob yon ?Y -that
it was through seine mistake they withheld
yeller tobaeco, and thea to any event you
mall n oholoe of two things to lase,.—coo a
plug of tobeeoo, and the other coven years
of freedom?
" it they angered me and hart mo, one
by oiling me a thief, and they threw me in
the dungeon like a beast, , , I wan
standing for my righte, en 1 my rights were
nay mauhoad ; and that is something a men
leht
fond oan r free,ntthe
weekwer powerful, or
poor.
Well, after you refused to go to work
what did the warden do ?"
The convict, although tremondoue excite.
mens must have eurged and boiled within
him, slowly, deliberately, and weekly canto
to hie feet. He placed hie right foot on the
chair, and rested bis right elbow on the
raieed knee. Th e index tinger of his right
hand, pointing to the ohairman and moving
alightly to lend emphaaie to his narrative,
was the only thing hob modified the rigid
immobility of his figure. Witisout le aingle
change in the pfteh or modulation of hie
voice, never hurrying, but speaking with
the slow and dreary monotony with which
he had begun, he nevertheless—partly by
reason of these evidences of 1115 incredible
self-control—made a formidable picture as
he proceeded
" When l told him that, sir, he said,
he'd take me to the ladder and Bee if he
couldn't make me ohange my mind. ,
Yes, sir; he said he'd take me to the
ladder." (Here there was a long pause.)
"And I a human being, with flesh on my
home and the heart of a man in nay body,
'1'he other warden hadn't tried to break my
spirit on the ladder. I didn't believe the
warden when he said he would take me to
the ladder, I couldn't imagine myself alive
and put through at the ladder, and I
couldn't imagine any human being
who could find the heart to put me
through, If I had believed him I would
have strangled him then and there, and
got my body full of lead while doing it.
No, air; I meld not believe it.
"And then he told me to come on, I
went with him and the guards. He brought
me to the ladder. I had never seen it be-
fore. It was a heavy wooden ladder,
leaned against the wall, and the bottom
was bolted to the floor and the top to the
wall. A whip waa on the floor." (Again
there was a pause,) "The warden told me
to strip, eir, and I stripped. , . And
still I didn't believe he would whip me, I
thought he just wanted to scare me.
"Then he told me to fade up to the lad•
der, I did so, and reaohed my arms up to
the straps. They sbreppcd my arms to the
ladder, and stretched so hard that they
I sal to him, straight, 'I won't fall fn till pulled me up elear of the floor. Then they
I get my extra,and I'm not a thief, and no strapped my lege to the ladder. The war.
man cam call me one, and no man can rob den then picked up the whip. He said to
the of my jnet dues.' He turned pale, and me, ' I'll give you one more Malice : will
said, 'Fall in, there,' I said, 'I won't fall you go to work to -morrow?' I said, " 140 ;
n till I get my dues.' I I won't go to work till I get my dues.
With that he raised his band as a sig•
nal and the two guards behind him covered
me with their rifles, and a guard on the
west wall, and one on the north wall, and
one on the portico in front of the arsenal,
all covered me with rifles. The captain
turned to e. trusty and told him to call the
warden. The warden came out, and the
captain told him I was trying to run double
on my extra, and said I was impudent and
insubordinate and refused to fall in. The
warden said, 'Drop that and fall in,' I
old him I wouldn't fall in. I said I hadn't
ran double, that 1 hadn't got my extra, and
that I would stay there till I died before I
-would be robbed of it. He asked the cap-
tain if there wasn't some mistake, and the
captain looked at his book and said there
was no mistake ; he said he remembered me
when I name up and got the tobacco and he
saw me fall into the new line, but he didn't
see me get back in the old line. Tile war-
den didn't ask the other men if they saw
me get my tobhaco and slip back into the
old line. He just ordered me to fall in. I
told him I would die before I would do
that. I said I wanted my just dues and
no more, and I asked him to call on the
other men in line to prove that I hadn't
been up.
"Re said, ' That's enough of this.' He
sent all the othet men to the cells, and left
me standing there. Then he told two
guards to take me to the calls. They came
and took hold of me, and I threw them oil'
as if they were babies. Then more guards
came up, and one of them hit me over the
bead with a club, and I fell. And then,
sir,"—hors the convict's voioe fell to a
whisper,—"and then he told them to take
me to the dungeon."
The sharp, steady glitter of the convict's
eyes failed,and he hung his head and looked
despairingly at the floor.
" Clo on," mid the chairman.
They took me to the dungeon, sir. Did
you ever see the dungeon?"
'" Perhaps ; but you may tell us about
t„
"The cold, steady gleam returned to the
convict's eyes, as ho fixed them again upon
the chairman.
"There are several little rooms louse dun.
geon. Theone they put me in was about five
by eight. It has steel walls and oeiliug, and
a granite floor. The only light that comes
in passes through a slit in the door. The
alit is an inoh wide end five inches long. 11
doesn't give much light, because the door
is think. It's slioue four inches thiok,and
is made of oak and sheet steel, bolted
through. The slit runs this way,"—mak.
ing a horizontal motion in the air,—"and
itis four Inches above my eyes when I
stand on tiptoe. And I can't look out at
the factory web 'ruby feet away unless I'
book my flogerein the alit and pull myself
up."
He std
ed and regarded his hands, the
peculiar appearance of which we all had
observed. The ends of the fingers were un•
commonly thick ; they were red and swot,
len and the knuckles were oariously mark-
ed with deep white scars.
"Wall, air, there wasn't anything at all
in the dungson,but they gave mea blanket,
and they put me on bread and water.
That's allthey ever give you in the dungeon.
They bring the bread and water once a day,
and that is at night, because if they some
in the day time it lets in the light.
"The next night after they pus me in—
it was Sunday night—the warden come
with the guard and .eked me if I was all
right. I said I was. He said, ' Will you
behave yourself and go to work teener -
row ?' I said, 'No, an ;1 won't go to work
till I get what is due me.' Ile shrugged
hie shoulders, and said, 'Very well :maybe
you'll ohange your mind after you have
been in hero a week.'
" They kept me there a week. The next
Sunday night the warden came and mid,
'Are you ready to go to work tomorrow?'
and I said, 'No ; I will not go to work till
I
get what is due me.' He nailed me hard
names. I said it was a man's duty to de -
mend his rights, and that a man who would
stand to be treated like a dog was no man
If
The chairman iuterrepted. "Did you
'Very well,' said he, ' you'll get your dues
now.' And than he stepped back end raised
the whip, I turns:'. my head and looked at
him, and I could see it in his eyes that he
meant to strike. , . . And when I saw
that, air, I felt that something inside of me
wan about to burst."
The convict paused to gather up his
strength for the crisis of his story, yet not
in the least particular did he ohange his
position, Limelight movement of his point-
ing finger, the steady gleam of his eye, or
the slow monotony of his speech. I had
never witnessed any scene so dramatic as
this, and yet all was absolutely simple and
unintentional. Iharl been thrilled by the
greatest actors, as with matchless skill they
gave rein to their genius in tragio situa-
tions ; but how inconceivably tawdry and
cheap such pictures seemed its comparison
with this ! The claptrap of the music, the
lights, the posing, the wry fame, the gasps,
hinges, staggerings, rolling eyes,—how
flimsy and colorleae, how mocking and grot
esque, they all appeared beside this simple
uncouth, butge mane expression of immeas
urable agony '.
The stenographer held his pencil poised
above the paper, and wrote no more.
"And then the whip came down across
my book. The something inside of me
twisted hard and then broke wide open, and
went pouring all through me like melted,
iron. Is was a hard fight to keep nay head
clear, but I did it. And then I said to the
warden this s 'You've struck me with .whip
in cold blood. You've tied me up hand and
fool, to whip me like a dog. Well, whip
me, then, till you fill your belly with it.
You are s coward. You are lower, and
meaner, and cowardlier than the lowest
and meane01 dog that ever yelped when his
master kicked him. You were born a
coward, Cowards will lie and steal, and
you are the same as a thief and a liar. No
hound would own you for a friend. Whip
me hard and long, you coward. Whip me,
I say. See how good a coward feels when
he ties up a man and whips him like a dog.'
Whip me till the last breath quits my body;
if you leave me alive I will kill you for
this,'
"Efts face got white. He asked me if I
meant that, and I said. ' Yes; before God,
I do. Thea he took the whip in both hands
and came clown with all his might."
"That was nearly two yeara ago," paid
the chairmen. "You would not kill him
now. wouldyon?"
"Yes. I will kill him if I get a chance
and I feel it in me that the chance will
come."
" Well, proceed, "
"He kept on whipping me. He whipped
me with all the strength of both hands. I
could feel tate broken skin curl un on my
hank, and when my head got too heavy to
clown, and eaw
• h it nun to u I
bald {t stray G
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n dripping 'n off
1 end t t
the blood on my cgs pp g my
toes into a pool of tion the floor. Something
was straining and twisting inside of me
again. My beak didn't hurt much; ft was
the thing twisting inside of me that hurt.
I counted the taches, and when I eountetl
to twenty.eight the twisting got so hard
that it choked me and blinded me;
and when I wake up I was in the dungeon
again, and the doctor had my back all
plastered up, and he wee kneeling beside
me. feeling my pulse."
The prisoner had finiehed. He looked
around vaguely, as thougohewanted to go.
"And you have been its the dungeon ever
since?"
" Yes, sir; but I don't mind that. "
"How long?"
"Twenty-three menthe."
" On bread and water ?"
"Yes; but that was all I wanted,"
"Hage you reflected that so long es you
harbor a determination to kill the warden
you may he kept in the dungeon? You
can't live muoh longer there, and if you die
there you will never find the alienee yon
want. If you say you will not hill the
s mayreturn you to tho Cells,"
ardea 1 e
w
" But that wouhl be elle, sir ; I will VI:
a chance to kill him if I go to the cells. I
would rather die in the dungeon then be a
liar and sneak, If you send me to the
toUs I will kill him, But I will kill him,
witheet that, I will kill him, sir,, ,
And he knows it."
Without aaucenlmont, bat open, doll lar
ate, and implacable, thio to the 'wreaked
frame of a need, 00 oloae that we could
have touohad itatand, Mercier, —not boost•
fel, but relentless as death.
" Apart from tveakuoes, is your health
good?" caked the chairmen,
"Oh, it's good enough," wearily answer-
ed the convict, " Sometuno the twisting
00tnee on, bat when I we're up after It I'm
all right."
Thepriaon surgeon, under thechairmah'e
diroebion, put his ear to the oonviot'aohest,
and them- went over and whispered to the
ehairnan,
" I thought ac," said that gentleman.
"New take this man to the hospital. Put
him to bed where the sun will shine on
him, and give him the most nourishing
feed."
The convict, giving no heed to thio,
shambled out with a guard and the aur•
goon.
The warden eat alone in the prison office.
with No, 14,208. That he at last should
have been erought face to faoa, and alone,
with the man whom he had determined to
kill, perplexed the oonviot. He was not
manaoled ; the door wee looked, and the
key ley on the table between the two men.
Three weeks in the hospital hail proved
beueficfal, but a deathly pallor was still in
his face.
"Tire action of the directors three
weeka ago," said the warden, "made my
resignation necessary. I have awaited the
appointment of my successor, who is now in
Marge. I leave the prison today. In the
mean time, I have something to tall you
that will interest you. A few days apo a
man who was discharged from the prison
last year read what the papers have pub.
Belted recently about your ease, and he has
written to me conforming that it was he who
got yoar tobacco Erato the oeptain of the
guard. His name is Salter, and he looks
very much like you. He had got his own
extra, and when he oame up again and
nailed for yours the oaptain,thiuking it was
you, gave it to him. There waa no inten-
tion on the captain's part to rob you,"
The oonviob gasped and leaned forward
eagerly,
"Until the receipt of bhie letter," resum•
ed the warden, " I had opposed the move.
meat which had been started for your per
don; hue when this letter came I recent.
mended your pardon,andit hasbeengranted.
Besides, you have a serious heart trouble.
So you are now discharged from the prison."
The convict stared, and leaned bank
speechless. His eyes shone with a etrene0,
glassy expression, and his white teeth
glistened ominously between hia parted
lips, Yat a certain painful softness tem•
pered the iron in his face.
The stage will leave for the station in
four hours,' continued the warden. "You
have made certain threats against my
life." The warden panned r then, in a voice
that slightly wavered from emotion, be
continued s '1 shall not permit your in.
Motions in that regard—for I care nothing
about them—to prevent me from discharg•
a duty which, as from one man to another,
I owe you. I have treated you with a
cruelty the enormity ot which I now com-
prehend. I thought I was right. illy
fatal mistake was in not understanding
your nature. I misconstrued your conduct
from the beginning, and in doing so I
have laid upon my conscience a burden
which will embitter the remaining years of
my life. I would do anything in my power,
if it were not ton late, to atone for the
wrong I have done you, If, before
1 sent you to the dungeon, I could have
understood the wrong and foreseen its con-
sequences, I would cheerfully have taken
my own life rather than raised a hand
agamet you. The lives of both of us have
been wrecked, but your suffering is in the
past,—mine is present, and will cease only
with my life. For my life is a curse, and I
prefer not to keepit."
With that the warden, eery pole, but
with a clear purpose in his face, took a
loaded resolver from the drawer and laid it
before the convict,
"Now is your chance," he said, quietly:
"no one oan Binder you."
The oonvictgasped and 'shrank away from
the weapon as from a viper.
" Nor yet,—not yet," he whispered in
agony.
The two men sat and regarded each
other without the movement of 0 muscle.
" Are you afraid to do it?" asked the
warden.
Amomentary light flashed in the convict's
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PRINCESS 014010.
regard to e, matrimonial alliance between
Lord Rosebery and Princess Maud of Wales
—reports which are probably due to the
imaginative mind of some enterprising
London correspondent of an English pro.
vincial paper in search of copy, These
rumors areae frequently and so recurrent
that it may possibly be of interest to point
out once and for all to the readers
of the Tribune why a marriage between
the Earl and a Brittah princess of the blood
is pot only improbable, but also impossible
and entirely out of the question. Lord
Rosebery has been announced an engaged
to the widow of the late prince Leopold,
Duke of Albany ; to the daughter of
Priem Christian of Schleawig.Holatein, ot
Princess Victoria of Wales and, in foot, to
every unmarried prinoeeeof the reigning
family of England. For what reason tr. is
did'ioult to imagine, einoe even were there
not certain insuperable obstacles, Lord
Rosebery would be about the last noble•
man in Great Britain to perpetrate so gross
re blunder, it being nothing else when an
English peer marries a princess of the
blood. An alliance of that kind would
involve his political extinction, destroy
the great popularity he now posaesse
alike with the classes and the masses
would render him an objectof suspicion and of
jealousy to the aristocracy, and expose him
to the resentment of most of his wife's
royal relatives, who would look upon liim
as an intruder, and he forever in a state of
apprehension lest he should presume on the
strength of his marriage, to forget the de•
ferenoe due by him as a mere nobleman to
royalty, or to usurp privileges and pre.
rogativea that belnng by right of birth to
his wife, but oould never be his.
eyes.
No I" he gaeped ; " you know I am
not. But I can't—not yet,—not yet."
The oouviot, whose ghastly pallor, glassy
eyes, and gleaming teeth sat like a mask of
death upon his face, staggered to hie feet,
"You have done it at lanai you have
broken my spirit. A human word has done
what the dungeon and the whip could not
do. . It twists inside of me now
I could be your slave for that
human word." Tears streamed from
his eyes, "I oan't help crying. I'ns only
a baby, after all—and I thought I was n
men."
He reeled, and the warden caught him
'and seated hon in a chair. He took the
convict's hand in his and felt a firms, true
pressure there, The convent's eyes rolled
vacantly. A spasm of pain caused him co
raise his free hand to his chest; his thin,
gnarled fingers—made shapeless by long
use in the alit of the dungeon door—clutch.
ed automatically at hiashlrt, A faint, hard
amilo wrinkled his wan face, displaying the
gleaming teeth more freely.
"That human word," he whispered,—"if
you had spoken it long ego,—if—but it's
all—it's all right—now. !'il go—I'll go to
work- to -morrow."
There was a slightly firmer pressure of
the hand that held the warden'a ; then it
relaxed. The fingers which olutohed the
shirt slipped away, P
end the hand dropped
o
to his aide. The weary head sank book
and rested on the chair; the strange, hard
smile still sat upon the marble fare, and a
dead man's glassy eyes and gleaming teeth
were upturned toward the ceiling,
(inti. t:80.)
Dail the date of his marriage with
Process Louise of Wales, Lord Fife was
probably one of the most popular and uni•
vernally lilted peers of the realm, a favorite
alike with the aristocracy, with the reign.
ing family, and with the people. Having
wealth, preatige and much cleverness, he
had a brilliant career before him as is steles -
man. All his prospects, however, were
marred by his morrrage, and although ho
has become a duke, his political career is at
an end, and ho is today one of the most
unpopular men fn the kingdom. Another
instance is that of the Marquis of Lorne,
who has to ountend not alone with tine {ll•
will of the people, but also with the most
incredible snubs and slights to which he has
been subjected by his wife's brothers and
other relatives. there is a well authenti•
Bated story of one of the princes having
sant hia equerry to request him to leave the
royal tent at a garden party that its so-
use was restricted exclusively to royalty.
Poor Lord Lorne had fondly imagined
that he could follow his wife into it,
but found out his mistake just in the
same way as when, a little later at the
Court of Berlin, he was prevented by
the chamberlains on duty from acorn.
partying his wife into the salon re-
served for the princess and princesses
of the blood at a court ball, and was
forced to cool his heels in the outer hall
along with the rust of the nobility. Lord
Lorne's tameness in submitting to all this
hos earned for him a good deal of contempt,,
which is perhaps even more difficult to
hear chap the downright unpopularity of
tee Duke of Fife.
Lord Rosebery is indeed too shrewd and
too ambitious a man ever to expose himself
to such treatment, or to risk the certain
toes of all hia immense aooial preatigo, his
political influence and his great popularity.
His retention of the Premiership or even
his possession of e minor portfolio in the
C;obtnet would be out of the question were
he to beonmc the husband of a British Prin.
teas, and he would be relegated into obscurity
as far as the history of his country is con-
cerned, The Royal family of Great Britain
is debarred by the unwritten lawe of the
oonstitutioo f rom taking anypart in partisan
politics. Strict impartiality with regard to
the great palitital parties is expected from
all members thereof, and it is manifest,
ne that it would be
alar the ounumatan s
u ,
out of the question for a aon•in.lew of the
sovereign or even of the Heir Apparent to
hold Cabinet office as the member of a
Liberal or of a Tory Administration, A
royal marriage, therefore; would[nevitably
result in the termination of the political
career of Lord Rosebery, than whom there
Is no man in the Kingdom more coldly am•
bilious end more bent on making 0 groat
name for himself In tlse history of the
world,
of Albany, wee ranine es Prince of bho
Blood, It 1e ;Witten ba see Irow he could
onfoo i a alit
4a brought up a t ng of qu y
with Lord l3osebery'o oliildrgn by big flrat
wife, or whet modeler; the issue of re union
between the Marl and the Auoheee would
occupy with regard to Ode tial! brothel's orderod not to weor ssdo•arme when on duty
11 in the dynamo flats. Tole fs expected to
overcome the difficulty,
Cocain may be toted for thee; Add to
the solution to be examined it drop of a so.
lutfon at potassium 0iohromate, If cocain
be present a preoipitate will form whish
vanishes rapidly, and on warming, the li-
quid turns green and gives o0' tunes bevieg
a peculiar odor—that of benzoin Ito{d•
AI'llll, M7, 104
SCIENCE NAVES,
Pilo hayonolo of marinee en board licence],
ahipa•ol•war having froenently beeome high-
ly magnetised through proximity todynemos,
'and throe allbetad the ehlps' oompessaa when
the wearers peened them, eentriee have been
and sisters, bots royal and eewlah,
Poe word more conoorning Lord Bose -
bevy, who nae been betrothed by ptrblie
report to more women on bath sided of
the Atlantic Gltao any other modern
nobleman in Christendom, He is pos.
Bossed, as Prime it'iintatar, of a power
end preatdge enjoyed by none of his pro.
deoeasors in office. For he is known
to have at lila back cite practioally in-
exhaustible rosouroes of the groat bank.
ing house of Rothschild, which oontrols
the flnenoes of nearly every nation of
the O14 World to swill an extent as to
render the maintenance of the peace of
Europe far more dependent upon ito
will than upon that of many a great
Inonarch, Lord Rosebery is thoroughly
identified with filo dynaaty of Rothe.
Mild, so much an that ire tray be con-
sidered in the tight of one of its moat
important members. Whon his wife,
the sole heiress of Baron Meyer Roths-
child died, she bequeathed to him her
vast fortune, but it rema'ina,in the hands
of the Rothschild firm, and hence Lord
Rosebery may justly be considered as for.
ming part and parcel of this great house of
business, Having hia thumb on the puree.
strings not only of the great British Empire.
but also, through bile Howse of Rothschild
on those of nearly ovary Government of
Europe, and pruetioally controlling the
financial marlreta of the world, he will
wield, as long ae ho oan.manawe to maintain
his parliamentary majorily, a power which,
if properly taken advantage of, to destined
to prove greater than that of any statesman
or Minister in Europe. Lord Rosebery has
absolutely unique and unprecedented oppor-
tunnies of achieving a grand name in the
history of Great Britain and of the world,.
and he is not likely to sacrifice thorn by so
groes a blunder as a marriage with a royal
princess.
THE LAST SURVIVOR DEAD.
Advenlnres of an Old Satter—the Story or
the Famous Ernes hurling Recalled.
Mr.David Grant, the lest survivor of the
wracked steamer Foriershire, and thus
closely acsoniated with the story of {;rage
Darling, died a few days ago at Hilltown,
Dundee, at the age of eighty•throe years.
Ho was an able amnion on the Forfarslsire
and wen stationed at the wheel ♦when
the vessel became unmanageable, He
was dashed upon the rocks near the
Langstone lighthonee on the coast of Great
Britain. When the vesaal struck a terrible
panic seized tilts passengers. A rush was
spade for the boats'. Grant got into aboat
with eight others. Two or three passengers
who attempted to leap into the boat were.
Browned. Attar hottest
peril,
lit thenar
,
the boat and ins nine e.ssengens t0ro picked
up and landed safely. Grant went to sea
again fora time, then settled down to Dundee
and hen since lived in that district,
WHEAT IN THE PAR NORTH.
Xt Is Grown et nom Vermillion, 1100 Miles
North or Edmonton.
How far north wheat oan be grown on
this continent—that is, in Canada—is still
a matter of doubt. The preemie limit of
settlement is practically the North Sas-
katchewan river, or say as far as the fifty-
fourth parallel of latitude. In tine North
Saskatchewan country there appears to be vessel's downward career been painted on
no more climatic difecuities to contend as an advertieement. They had, however,
with in growing wheat than are encountered
in Manitoba, 300 miles further south.
Wheat has been auocessfully grown,
however, 300 miles north of the North
Saskatchewan, or a total of 000 miles north
of the famous wheat country of southern
Manitoba. A newel itern has recently been
published which directs attention to the
"According to Mr, Henry flonnatt, of else
United States Gaologioal Survey, who hail
juetpnblished the remits of hie oalculetlane
of the average elevation of the United
States, this average is 5,500 feat—a little
greater than the ostimated mean height of
the land of the globe, The lowest State ie
Delaware, which is only 00 feet above me
level, and the highest rs Colorado -090e
feet—though Wyoming la only 100 feet
lower. Florida and Louisiana come next to
Delaware, at the bottom of the list, being
only 100 feet above the aoa, on the aver-
age.
Through the anoients were not far behind
as in the art of dentistry, for several thous.
and years preceding modern times the en -
tiro aoience and art consisted in pulling
teeth. In the memory of living men, the
trebles tooth -puller waa a frequent offender
at village street -corners and is probably
still plying hia lucrative trade to soma
parts of the United States. It is but lately
that lire dentists beat known to Parisians
were called " arracheurs des dents," or
tooth -drawers, who bad ohaira on the
Champs Elysees, where they extracted
teeth nn the presence of largo crowds. The
arrival of the American dentists, forty
pare ago, gradually banished these worth -
tee from the public view, and gave dentis•
try the rank of profession. But dentistry
is still, in France, a great refuge of guaoka
and impostors, as there is no proper legal
control of the art, and no diploma le requir-
ed for the practice of it.
A curious case of the iovisible being pilo
tographed is noted by Engineering as have
ing occurred when a picture was token of
the Great Eastern prior to her being broken
up for good. When the photograph was
node the photographer was not o little
surprised to find great letters extending the
whole length of the ship advertising some
one's patent pills. 11 appears that these
letters had at one period of the ill-fated
been aubsequeo.tly patented ant with tar,
and, although they were invisible to the
eye, the camera had detected and recorded
them. This seems improbable, but it is
quite within bounds. When the letters
were painted on the vessels side they stood
above the surface ; any subsequent coat of
paint would oovr them and the ground
fact that wheat fs gown several Hundred beneath them equally, so that there would
miles north of the present limit of settle. be projections which would eatoh the light
ment, Past week the plant for a small and bo photographed.
flour mill arrived at Edmonton, iu Alberta -----
territory, which ie ie intended to take 300 Hoop•skirts flrst appeared in 1530. An
miles north of Edmonton, for the purpoaa
of establishing a mill at the Indian mission
station of Fort Vermillion, The plant
will be hauled in wagons areas the
country from Edmonton co the Atha-
baska river, and thence down the river to
Fort Vermillion when navigation opens.
Vermillion is about 350 miles north or
Edmonton, and about 550 miles north of
Winnipeg. It is near the fifty•ninth paral-
lel of latitude, or in nearly the same latitude
an Churchill, on Hudson Bay. There fano
regular settlement in this distant northern
region, and agriculture has been confined
to experiments at the misaion stationsamong
the Indians or at Indian trading posts, It
is claire ed that wheat has been snoeesafully
grown at some of these mission stations for
years, and the fact that a flour mill is to be
established at a station so far north aa
Vermillion, indicates that the mission Deo•
pie have faith in the capabilities of the
country. Small flour mills have previously
been established at some of theca mieaion
stations notch of the Saskatchewan, and
the Indians are being taught to cultivate
the soil ; but thin is the rnost northerly mill
yet undertaken. If wheat can be suooess-
fully grown as far north as Vermillion, til•
wheat area of Western Canada will he
shown to be even menet than has been cele
(related upon in the past.
A SHIP WITH A BANDAGED N05E.
•
Flow the "Stale or *Feor•zia" Protected
ileraelr to alt Ino Field.
The perils of the sea are well illustrated in
theatory of the steamship "S tate of Georgia,"
which lass just arrived at New York. She
left Aberdeen on March 3. When off the
Omand Banks, Newfoundland, an almost
limitless ice -field was encountered, among
dense foga, which made it impossible to see
the Iloea, until at dawn on March 14, the
ship wee in the midst of ice which extended
on all sides as far as could be seen. The
grinding together of the bergs and flocs of
all sizes and shapes crushed the hull of the
steamer in several places. The bow plates
were stove in, leaving a hole about four feet
long on one side and one almost as large on
the other. Through these the water poured
in.Ab this time the crew almost eavenpisripe,
Shields comets wore made,roughandstrong,
and lowered over the sides to protect the
plates. Canvas covers wore stretched over
she holes already pierced. After five days'
threading of the narrow openings of the
fieri, the ship found herself in clear water,
and reached port safely but in a dilapidated
condition.
Then, too, there is another obitaole—
Lrd Rosebery hes four ohildren by his
first wife, who wen Miss Hannah Roths.
Mild. What would be the position of a
royal Countess of Posebery toward these
children? And were she to give birth to
children the latter, although legitimate
granilohildren of the sovereign, would inev.
lushly be obliged to take up an inferior
positron, both as regards rank and wealth,
to that of the progeny of their father's
Hebrew wife, Thus the existence of these
four children alone ie sufficient to nonsti.
Lute an insurmountable obstacle to a mar.
reuse with either of the daughtete of the
Priem of
Wales, AYc •o Lord. Rombery to
marry the widowed Dachas of Albany,
matters would Isaoome still more cement.
Gated, as the Duchess hag already two
children, on.e of whom its tlso preemie Duke
iron oage was prepared and the skirts
were stretched over it. The cage was
tipped to one side, the lady crawled under-
neath and the cage was fastened to her
waist by a strong leather belt. The eco•
triv'ance often weighed as much as forty
pounds.
Flood's Cured
After
Others Failed
Scrofula In the Neck—Bunches All
Cone Now.
Sangerville, ➢tame.
" 0. I. Hood es Co., Lowell, Mass.;
"Gentlemen. l feel that I cannot say enough
In favor of Hood's Sarsaparilla. For live years
I have been troubled with smoAhla in my neck
end throat. Several kinds of medicines which
I tried did not do me any good, and when I com-
menced to take Hood's Sarsaparilla there were
large bunches on my neck so sore that I could
oodsqvi,E. Cures
not bear the slightest touch. When I had taken
ono bottle of this medicine, the soreness had
gone, and before I had finished the second tiro
bunches had entirely disappeared." BLANCHE
Axwoon, Sangerville, Maine.
N.13, If you decide to take Flood's Saraspa-
rilla do not be induced to buy any other.
Wood's Pills etire constipation by restive.
tog the peristaltic action of the alimentorycanel,
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