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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-5-18, Page 2TEE B$iVEI$E S POST. MAY 18, 1804 SHE DEAN AND HIS DAUGHTER. CHAPTER III. Been after my Lather had fastened up the 6zont door, strewed down the windows and ensconced himself in the study for a couple of hours of whet he used to oallmeditatiou, I stole downstairs to take counsel with Mra. Goat and Compo rseea' and Baying y g what a this time that the forty laminae you ewe 11r. Thanker can wait, along with Vito three peewits tom and that he is to bo paid when you have married me to Su Henry Craven and got your Deanery. Idere say they aro talking abo•ntit now in the taproom at the lucky thing it is that everybody will be paid at lost without having to go to the County Court for their mousy." Aly father wined smartly, but recovered himself with great promptitude and marvel- lous solemnity. "Good news, my dear child," he said, "travels feet; and it may well be that in this little place, where 1 am known and respected, the visit of Sir Henry may be underetpod to have a Rigid limo of ate own. But I am anxious this morning In disause matters with you reasonably and in a pro. per spirit, and to lay my views before you as to your future, Lind, I may say, my own as well, fully and clearly." "Then you may neve yourself the trouble papa, I have considered the matter for myself, and have fully made up my own mind." My father turned purple, and evinced other strong symptoms of a sudden attack of apoplexy. You nennot possibly mean to tell me --" he burst out. "Pray do not get black in the face, papa. 1 say I have considered the matter for myself, and I have talked it over with Mrs. Peel, exactly as you have talked it over with Mr. Thacker, Mrs. 1?eel thinks--" Good heavens l -Airs. Peel 1 What can that ignaraut woman know of ouch a mat- ter I" "Mrs. Peel thinks that upon the whole I bed better marry Sir Henry, and I have told her only this morning that I shall do so." My father collapsed into hie favorite arm chair, and gasped for breath. "And so," I added with a laugh, " you may make your mind happy, papa, about the Deanery. I tun going down into the village to make some little purchases. I daresay our credit now is re.estabiished at Smoothy's, and before I go I will tell Mrs. Peel to bring you in the rum and some bot water. You look as if you needed a gentle stimulant." And 1 dropped him a ourtesy and ran mut of the room. I. need not say that we did not meet again for the remain- der of that day. Late in the afternoon my father went down into the village and, to use his own expression, "mixed with his parishioners," that is to say, he sat in the bar -parlor of the "Goat and Compasses," and drank hot spirits and water. I for my own part kuew that for some hours, at, any rate, I should have nothing to trouble me ; so, on my return from Smoothy's, I got through my household work, had my dinner in the kitchen with Urs. Peel, and then went out for a long stroll in the lames. When I returned, Mrs. Peel and I had tea together. "Your father's gone out to visit Mr. Thacker," said that lady, "and I reckon he won't be back till late. P'r'aps Thacker will have to see him home. If I was you, mise, I'd go to bed and have agood night of it," I took her advice and proceeded upstairs to my room, but I did not exactly have a good night of it,for I lay awake, sometimesread- ing and sometimes dreamily thinking mat- ters over,until long after the swallows had begun to twitter in their nests above my window; and 1 was not at all sorry when Mrs. Peel tame up in the morning with a cup 91 really strong tea and some ex- quisitely crisp toast, which she pressed upon me, and in fact insisted upon eceing me take. Then I walked out into the glorious morning air, and as I crossed our threshold resolved that, for the remainder of the day, at any rate, 1 would enjoy myself in my own way, and allow nothing whatever to disturb my peace of mind. Now dear old Mrs. Peel was very fond of me, But that evening she was in an ug. gravatingly prsetioat frame of mind and correspondingly imbued to leoture me very soundly, She did not the, she told me, what oo- oasionthere wan for 1110 to trouble anyeelf. It wasn't as if I cared for anybody else like the had cuss eared for Peel before he took to drink, when he was young and good- looking, and could thrash any Mail of his own inches at the Aliohaolmas goose fair. I might stop on pokiug about in thio little hole of a place, and perhaps never get married at all. Nobody could tell. My father could not live forever, and what was I to do when he died? As for being a governess, governetse0, she could tell me, had a far worse time of 19 than housemaids, and often worse wages into the bargain. Anything would be better for me than maundering away my life at home. If I married this old gentleman I should be well off and comfortable• Watson had told her that Sir Henry's house in London was like a palace, with one man sitting in a big chair to the !tall, in gold livery and a powdered head, who had nothio what- ever to do but to open the door. 1 should have as much money as ever I could want to buy whatever I pleased, and a lady's maid to look after my things, and no tradesmen's bills to worry me. If I had no children, 1 could busy my- self my own way. If I had any I could fuse over them all day long, though she had heard that some fine ladles never even saw their obildren from daylight to dusk ; " and," added the good woman emphatic. ally, ' if I were you 1'd be even with that old father of yours. 1 wouldn't Int him inside the house. I wouldn't give him not ao much as a price •of a glass of rum. If he Dame bothering about, I'd have him ordered off, and if he come trying to screw money out of my husband I'd put a pretty sharp stop to it. He's putting a gooe thing your way," she went on, just for his own sake. He wants you to pull the cbest• nuts out of the fire for him. Pull 'em, I say, and stick to 'em for yourself, and let km have the husks. That's more than he Seserves," concluded Mra. Peel. "It makes m e sick to hear him preaching it out about the Scripture moving us in sundry places, Pd move him in sundry places and myself too, if I bad the chance. And he knows it." And herewith irks, Peel tucked up her skirts for work with an air that said, "I have had enough of conversation an a die• tasteful subject." I tried to plead with her for my father, more out of long habits of respect than from a sense that he had been harshly judged, but Mrs. Peel was inexorable. When I pointed out that he was old, she returned that he was lazy, and old enough to know better. lVhen 1 urged that he required comforts, she replied with acerbity that he had better work for them like other people did. It was impossible to mitigate her wrath, and I ultimately had to abandon the task at hopeless, not without a very strong con. viction that upon the broad facts of the case her judgment was perfectly sound, and there was very little indeed to be urged with any plausibility in the Vicar's behalf ; and in this frame of mind I went to bed. I read for an hour or two until I was tired. Then I left ,ny caudle burning and turned Mrs. Peel's advice over in my mind. It did not upon mature reflection seem so distasteful as at first. It was like most home medicine for children, strong, nasty, and yet wholesome. Sir Henry beyond slldoubtwas a gentle- man. I had before mea life of entire free- dom, with every poseibse comfort. Certain• ly it would be far pleasanter to be mistress of Craven House than to drag on year after year ae domestic help, or as the ad. vertisements now call, "lady help" to my father. There was the promised Deanery, of course, but that haven of refuge had nn definite prospect for me, and besides, it was too evidently part of the stipulated price to he paid for my acquiescence. Had I not better boldly tell the old gentleman that I could not promise to love hint, but that I would do my best to try and make him happy and to follow out his wishes in every possible way, and so throw myself upon his kindness, and make an end of the matter? It really seemed the bast course under all the circumstances. And having ultimately resolved to adopt it, 1 fell asleep just as the sun was breaking and the noisy cry of the April cuckoo began to make itself heard in the orchard, a fav trite lomat of his, as the hedges were thick- ly tenanted by hie unhappy victim, the poor little hedge•eparrow, with its clumsy nest and ice tiny blue eggs, always at the mercy of the village schooll►ey. My parent meet have risen early that morning, for when I descended to prepare his breakfast he was walking up and down in the lane outside the house with more than his usual air of humility and self -den - sal, " Good morning, my child," he said, in hie moat patriarchial manner. "Good morning, papa." "It is a lovely morning this, almost Ital. ion in its freshness and brightness." I made no reply, and he went on : " 0 fortunate ntmium 1' he was a great poet, Virgil. Sir Henry mtstook him for Horace the a other day, but I thought it eds. er not to correct him. Virgil loved the errantry as fondly as I do myself, and, like myself, would have preferred to spend hie days in it among his flowers and hie books. But the Fates were too strong for him, and ordained that he should go to Rome and be the ornament of the moat brilliant Court the world has ever known. It is so always'. Man proposes, and Providence, which knows better than man, disposes for hien. We are but potter's clay." .And my father rubbed hie bands and thrust out hie right leg, contemplating it fondly, and evidently withblaok silkstock. Inge and buckled ehoee in hie mind's aye. I remarked that ft was a very fine morn. ingindeed, and that breakfast was ready for him, and with that we went indoors to our tea and toast. • When he had done justice to this repast, my father cleared his throat, arranged hia necktie, and took up his position, and with it his parable, upon the hearthrug. "I suppose, Miriam," he commenced, "that you have some idea of the nature of the important communication which I have U to make to you." "papa," ale anti ' esIre lied 9 0k Y, ,y P YI and to has Lha whole village by this time. You and Mr. Thacker were talking it all over in the lane last night at the top of your yokes. Every one in the village kif owe by CHAPTER IV. My father, I found, would prefer to nave his breakfast in his own room, and had I suggested dry tonal and a couple of red her- rings. Knowing perfectly well what this meant, I felt that should any encounter occur during the day, I was morally certain of victory. So I actually, out of what schoolboys term " devilment," prepared the herrinos and toast myself. When they were really 1 felt pretty confident that my father would to use Mr. Thacker'e elegant expression, " rinse hie throat out" with claret and water, shake up the pillow and bolster, turn round in bed and again resign himself 1,0 the sleep of the just. So of course it turned. Mare. Peel, when she brought down the tray, informed me, with a broad grin on her features, that the master did not seem at all himself, and had said that he would ring for his hot water when he wanted it. For my part I caught up my hat, and sallied out for an objeetlese walls. I atop• ped here and there in the village to chat with parishioners and, ae the phrase is, to take notice of their children. To take notice of a child in the country you meet first pat it on the head, and then shake hands. The child thereupon will hang its head down and thrust its left thumb into its mouth, This stolidity is more apparent than real, and is only due to shyness. Even a butcher, unless history he grossly inaccurate, becomes utterly shamefaced and sheepish if a Duchess takes him by the whiskers, tells him he is the bevt•toon` ng man she knows and kisses him then and there, under the very eyes of his wife, at the same time asking him to forego his strictly Tory principles, and to kindly oblige her by voting for the oppm site candidate. . Amongst others I went to see old Mrs Daher. This old lady was the widow of the late village carrier, whose eon, reeigued unto the heavenly will, as the quaint old epitaph runs, kept on the business still, and rot ered u fairly P on it. P P body know, nobody kncwt." And site lot iny hand drop again, remained staring at law. The old dame rooked herself backwards and forwardo With a distant, dreamy look in her eyes, and began attain t "1 knew your poor mother, my dear. I've talked to her about you many'a the ten° before you were horn, it it wasn't bes tore you were thoaght of, And yea havo't got her here new to go to, Well', you do what I say, Mise Miriam, Marry tide aid fossil. You're a child still,and he won't last, I dare say, Better that than poverty coming at the door and love flying out at the window. Marry him, and make his guineas spin. It will be a good thing for the reverend gentleman. Poor mao. 11e'e had a hard time of at.' My last visit was to Alre. Sabey, the wife of a tihermail and a naval reserve man.. She was a Plymouth woman, and people eald she had Spanish blood in her. She web tall and owartlty,with crisp blank hair, and dud not lock her age, whiob was con- tidorably over forty. Mrs. Sabey, like the rest of the village, knew all about my matrimonial news, and addressed herself to it at once, "We can t afford," she said, "to lose you yet, bliss Miriam ; and even if we could, the right man hasn't come to take you from as. if ho had, itmight have been another thing. Be true to yourself, my dear, and there are lots among us will be true to you for your own sweat sake, and for that of your dear mother its heaven, where she's past all trouble. Why, if she'd been alive, yoar father would never have dared to make a bargain over yon in this kind of way, just As is he were buying and selling in market. Put your foot down, my dear, and keep it down. And look here, the tea is waiting for Sabey. Jnet have a cep along with me. Saber will be glad of the eight of your dace, ' So I had a cup of very nice tea with Mrs. Sabey, who talked about everything except my troubles, until Sabey came in fresh from the pump, and bringing with him en invig- orating feagranoe of yellow soap. Sabey, who stood in wholesome dread of his wife, said as little as possible. I re- mained a short time longer chatting with the two about every detail of village gossip, except that which most closely con. cerned myself, and so at last departed homewards. One or two things, at any rate were toler. ably clear, and I could see them without any egotism. Everybody in the village syn:• patbized with myself however much opinion might be divided as to the most prudent course for me to adopt, and nobody what- ever sympathized in the slightest degree with my father, or believed for a moment that he was guided by anything except his own personal purposes and objects. On the whole then, I reached home in a happier and brighter frame of mind than that in which Thad set out. The publioopin- ion of eventhesmallestcircleis,lf you are only certain that you eau get at it truthfully, by no means the worst of the many possible guides to be selected in this bewildering world, Next day, somewhat late in the after- noon, Sir Henry returned, accompanied, of course, by the faithful Watson, who had charge once again of a multiplicity of pack. ages, the hulk of which were at once brought up to my little room. After the lapse of about half -an -hour, during which I presume it was supposed that I was inventorying this wonderful consignment,like Marguerite her jewele,my father came up and found me seated by the window placidly darning the heel of an old stocking. "Miriam,my dear," he said reproachfully, "Sir Henry bas returned." "Yea, papa, I an aware of it." My father ooughed,andin his own manner shifted his legs. "But, my clear Miriam, you have not even looked at the things he has brought you. Most beautifulthmge end chosen with consummate taste." "I did not know that you had looked at them, papa ; but I do not want them, and I am not going to look at thein myself." My father stamped hie , foot impatient- ly, mpatieut- lY "Miriam, I insist that you at once look at these things, and then come down and thank Sir Henry for them." "That will do, papa. I will come down and thank him at once. Perhaps while I em doing so, you would like to atop and look at the things yourself." And I stepped through the door and went straight downstairs. Mrs. Duller had the reputation of being a "wise woman," whin in the country means a great deal. Superstitious and ignorant people were afraid of offending her, and it waasometimee whispered that ahs knew more of the forbidden arta than did all the gypsies who passed through the village in the course of the year. She had heard the news—ae who had not? —and she laughed over it, catching up my hand and pretending to read the lines in its palm. "Look," she said, "the line of life is clear, A long life for you, my dear ; but there are many creases in it. See, there are more than Y or old oyes oan count. But there r n o e Y p is money, an d plenty of it, and people dying g o of love for u and heapsof friends. And that little cross just at he end is a thing 1 don't understand myself. Some people say it means, a aerontd husband—but there, no. 01d Sir Henry, who was in the parlor, roee at my entrance with a good deal of grate. ' You have brought me down a number of presents, Sir Henry, and I am extreme- ly obliged to you. I supose it would be angra^_ioue to refuse them." I hope, my dear Miss St. Aubyn, that you like the pearl necklace. I selected it myself, and I really believe that I am a judge of pearl°, although they are ladies' jewels ; not that Iwear jewelry, except in the chaps of a neckpin." " You are very kind, Sir Henry, but I have not as yet looked at any of the things." He laughed pleasantly. ".Time waits for her favorites, my dear Miss St. Aubyn, I am not in that happy number. Time, etch on Lhe rocks some 1,500 feet which in my fooiteh days I used to say was P meant for slaves, to now my stern warder, from the shore, it looks like the entrance to as inexorable aa Sir Hudson Lowe himself. But evidently my days are to end in sum chine." t am sure I hope eo, Sir Henry." " I understand," he went on, " from your father that I have everything to hope, and I need only ask for my own part that it will be my one object. to thew my devo• Lion to you in every uossihle manner. You will be, my dear Mize St. Aubyn, entirely your own'mietrese. You shall live—that willlive—where yen lease is teen Y+ we h P ' n pleaeure for me and how you please. his to know thatt shall always be able to gratify your wishes. If you like travel tom have only to say so, end I will immediately re. sign any engagements tbat might otherwise detun me. If you should prefer England you need only choose your own place, and if, when you have tried it, you find it to your mind, my lawyers shall the that it becomes yours absolutely, so that you oan deal with it improve it, or alter it according to your last°, without the idle formality of applying for my 001100nt." "You are very kind Sir Henry—are too kind," I abewared, "I am sure that 1 shall have everything which a woman needs to make me happy ; but I have no farcy of my own at present, and would sooner wait a, I mete under. these thin to consider a g stand your generosity, and shall not tax it. Sir Henry laughed pleasantly. " You will never tax any of my few Christian virtues, I am ease, so you need only remember that the cholas rests en• tlrely with yourself, Meantime, my old head was so full of ourselves that 1 had forgotten ltan to s eek about your dear father, whose immense abilities and energy have been too long ignored. He has been, I am happy to fay, a pointed to the Deanery of Southwick,. The :Alpena is not large• - a mere fifteen bemired a year—but there le a meet'cotnforteble Deanery with large grounds, 1n foot, the Dean of S0nthwiok te, if the clergy are to be believed, far more comfortably ell' than the Blekop himself. And your father will now have float leisure which he luta so long 'desired, and whloh will enable hint to finally complete the literary htbors to width hie life has up to now been devoted, with what I may be perhaps allayed to term most inadequate reooguitieu. I solemnly deolaro, ae I write these words, that I could hardly keep from. laughing out loud, Knowing my father ,Fut fond I knew exaetly whet hie literary labors had been, and what they were worth, and what they would be likely to enure 10 in the otinn, r ca' of a Deanery, But there was another side to the ques- tion, and 0 'VOLT praotioal 0140, Ouce safe in his Deanery, my fattier, having no an- noyances of his own, would cease to annoy me. Ho would ve as much upona com• fortable, well•aired, and well.ventliated shelf, as a 000nony iu the Delilah Museum. I had aro longer any affection for him, But I still retained the sense of duty, and I knew that when I had once seen the little. black rosette in the front of his hat, I should have performed the operation known to men of business as making up the balance and putting your pen through the pages. Thie was a real weight oft' ley mond. Be- sides, my father would make a capital Doan, inasmuch as he would say nothing, do noth- ing, live thoroughly up to his deeanal in- come, and look portentously oolemn. My father, at any rate, would be no longer a trouble to me. In fact, fn the cincture cares of hie now office, he would probably forget all about me. After all, there are certain advantages in marrying well, es- pecially if you marry a man who has both money and influence. Matters thus settled, we went in quest of my father, whom we found in the garden looking every inch a patriarch, and most patriarchally engaged. There was au immense shotvabout him of buckets, and watering pots, and shears, and ae he heard m,r steps approaching, he distraoted himself from his labors, and mopped hie forehead with a large handker- chief. "Adam," he observed sweetly, "was a tiller of the ground, and agriculture is the most ancient of honorable pursuits. It is the only form of business in which our canon law allows the clergy to weepy their few leisure moments. I am, as you see, toiling nn myvineyard, and rearing the familiar fruits of the earth for my humble table. 'Better is a dinner of herbs where love ie, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.'" I felt it incumbent upon myself to open the talk, knowing that, this achievement. once effected, I could immediately retire. " We have very good news to tell you, papa," I said. ' It is so good, that Sir Henry had better tell it to you himself." Sir Henry at ince assumed what has been termed " the deportment of a plenipoten- tiary," and in fact, his very first words were wonderfully diplomatic. "Among relations," he said, "as I sup- pose we may now consider ourselves, the customary and tedious formalities are a waste of time. You have my dear St. Aubyn, placed at your acceptance, the Deanery of Southwick. It hoe been filled by illustrious predecessors, and you will add a new lustre to the stall. In these days of Radicalism and haphazard, an appointment like your own, which is preeminently safe, will be received with an universal chorus of weloome- Nolo epieco- pari is a very pretty saying, but nolo de- canari will not, I am sure, be in your mind." "Nor ie it for a moment," replied my father. "How oan I thank you, my dear Craven ? To some men their reward comes late in life, and to others early. I should possibly never have reaped my reward at all, but for you. I have still," and he ran hie fingers through hie hair, "some few years left in which, to the best of my humble abilities, to serve my Queen, my Church, and my country. What more could a man desire?" and be smiled sweet- ly"You have still many years before you, my dear St. Aubyn," Sir Henry laughed hack, "and it is out of our Deana, as no one knows better than yourself, that Ministers pick our Bishops, unless some unusally gross favoritism should be exercised. You have had your foot on the first step of the ladder far too long, but Miriam and I will yet see you at its summit." "All things," said myfather, "are order- ed wisely and divinely." And I wonder, with Thackeray, that he did not also say, "Propria mite maribus," or "Mare, Bac- chus, Apollo, virorum," either of which re- marks would have been equally appropriate, Never, probably, was a mere matter of buying and selling more shamelebely and at the same time more decorously conducted. It began to dawn upon me at last, that an ambassador may, under oironmstanees, be occasionally worth the salary which he draws. (Ta nM COliTIND17D.) A Remarkable Natural Bridge. On the west side of the Lower Arrow Lake, on the Columbia River, West Kett. enay, about twenty miles north of Robson, passengers an the steamboateobeerve a dark a cave, and such it has been believed to be. But it was recently vieited by Mr. ,lames Hays, a much respected miner and prospec- tor, who merle hie way across the brush covered space, and found that the little dark patch grew ominously in size and at last resolved itself into an arch of perfect form and extraordinary dimensions, Mr. Hays produced a tape line and pro. ended to measure the dimensions of this natural structure and to consider ice rela- tions rounds it surroundings. s It is com oeed tions to r g r t sin ite • it rises granite allied o n of gray > abruptly from level grounds, though the mountains at the bank are of the same formations, and thee rears its whole height above the level of the adjacent ground. The piers on each side are20 feet high, when the arch begins to spring and rises in the centre to a height of 00 feet above the ground. The distance frompier to pier Of 264 feet, and this enormous span is covered by a roof of granite 80 feet wide, and vary• ing in thickness from 10 feet at the sides to 12 feet 1n the centre. Tha form of the arch is that of a rainbow, the ander side being smooth, but not waterworn, and without angles or bossea, It is cranked in radiating lines, which divide the mass into self- supporting keystones, but the joints are quite close, without fissure between them, The sides of the piers are ae smooth es the areh,and great firs and ceders grow beneath the arch, Dirt banns on each side of the monism piers form easy grades to the top of the arch, which is oleau, solid rook, and it is possible to drive a team under it or over it. This remarkable monolith dosenetappear to have been caused d bY the wearing away of rocks around its nor by -having fallen from a level, but eeeme to have either been elevated en moose or lett standing on the subsidence of the surrounding. land. PURELY GANANIAN NEW8, INTERESTING ITPMS ABOUT iOUR OWN COUNTRY. A4llntel (rem Yellows Isolate n She Atlantic to rho crackle, Lindoay hes about 100 families in want, Caterpillars and robin') abound in Guelph. Moieties are prevalent in Barrie and Allendale, Baden rejoioee in the advent of a family there. Wingham wants a post office and a oustem house. A now market•hcueo fd to be built at Orillia. Thedford has nine reeidentsover 80 years of age. The Orillia Methodist thumb is to be enlarged. Windoor !toe a women'e branch of the It P. A. The City Hotel of Stratford has been sold for $9.610, The hay market at Brookville is wel patronized. Galt is pestered with many of the tramp fraternity. A bank agency will be established at Albert, N. B. A bicycle corps has been formed in St. John, N. B. A Bachelor's Club has been organized at Gibraltar. A new I. 0. F. hal at Comber has been dedicated. British Columbia has double the revenue of Manitoba, Heath's flour mill, Wardsville, Ont., has been burned. The Winnipeg street cars (lorry 7,500 pat sengers daily, Windsor has to borrow 521,000 to pay our rent expenses. Nine lumber companies are at work in the bush at Berdey. A pair of 35. pound elk horns is owned by a Bradford man Winnipeg favorsa grant of $5,000 for its industrial show. The deaf and dumb institute at Winnipeg is to bo enlarged. Prince Edward Island is now a separate military district. Forty families from France are on their way to Manitoba. "Bob" Ingersoll has been invited to tem tura at Kingston. Essex -County has had five defaulting county treasurers. Cardinal Taschereau has just celebrated his 74th birthday. Renfrew county is extending its cheese making operations. The Severn Bridge people are in want of a good washerwoman. The fishing on lake Winnipeg thie season has been very heavy. The $10,000 residence of A. Schwaller Thorold,has been burned. Archbishop Cleary has established 14 Separate schools in his diocese. An Orillia paper finds fault with ladies kissingeaoh other in public. A society for the recovery of stolen horses exists in Middlesex county. Japanese Consul Shinizee has been ap- pointed for British Columbia. The Manitoba Sunday School Convention will meet at Winnipeg in June. They have had it 40 degrees below zero in Fredericton, N. B., this winter. A Lodge of the Daughters of Rebekah has been instituted at Amherstburg. Two hotels at White River, Ont., have been burned at a loss of $8,000. Tire W. C. T. U. of Collingwood, wants the council to pass a curfew bylaw. The East Lambton spring show of horses was held at Forest April 97th. Tenders have been asked for the erection of a new English church in Berlin. The Windsor Knighte of Pythias recently eommam orated their 30th anniversary. There were 184 persons in the insane asylum at Westminster during 1893. The 00 -year-old Jewett House,Frederick- ton, N.B., bas been destroyed, by fire. Wolves are creating havoc among the cattle ranches in the Calgary country. Chatham voters have defeated the high lioenee and free library repeal by-laws. Edmund Brown, of Paris, who died re cantly, left an estate worth $19,599 59. The Municipal affairs of Macdonald, Man., are being investigated by a commis- sion. The Ridgetowo school teachers are to be paid quarterly instead of monthly, ae here. totere. It is reported that a washing machine fac- tory is to be started at Horning's Mills shortly. Zenas Beam, for twenty years a business man in Seaforth, died recently in Alberta, N. W. T. It is reported that a body of exceedingly rich ore has lately been struck in the Copper Cliff mine. In Vancouver amen who wouldn't work when the city offered it was sent to jail for six mouths. The Leamington Gun Club has sent off $85 with which to purchase quail to re'etoek the township The ltobertehaw estate, valued at from $70,QQQ to$80,009, has been administered at Woodstock, An experimental shipment of ere from British Columbia to England is to bo made via Cape Ilorne, Wolves aro destroying tho red doer and moose in large numbers on the North there of LekeSeperior. An electric railway is to be built fret» Niagara ]!eila tillage to the boundary of Thorold townehip. St. Catharines has direct telephone com- munication with Detroit, 250 miles, the longest circuit in Canada. Of the 83 men drowned out of the Glou- cester tithing fleet last year, over 40 belong- ed to the lower provinces. A, W. McLeod,. of St. Joltn'eN. B., hats accepted tloe position of general aeorctary of the Y, Al, G. A, Vancouver. A lodge of "Retired Sons of Lazy Par - ants" has recently been organized in con- n00Gion with a barber shop in Brookville, Among the many tramps eholtered in the St, Catharines' leek -up one wet an ex- llethodiet minister and one a doctor. If the gold washings of Rainy River dies trios hold oat in the summer Rainy River City will have a population of 15,000. Hon. G, E. Fester has bought the $10,- 000 house at Ottawa formerly owned by Pattee, the millionaire lumberman. The Stratford Athletic Association will spend $8,600 on its now grounds. Next summer it will give $3,000 in premiums. Mr, Alex. Oe*rom, of Goderich township had a wood bee for half a day, five saws were going and ,the lade out about 20 cords of wood. The veterinary surgeons of Manitoba, in conclave assembled, have declared that no pleuropneumonia ever existed in that province: Captain Dunne, who traded between the old country and Miramichi, 5t. John and other lower province ports, died at Belfast recently, CANADA'S MINERAL OUT -PUT. A Decrease In Value -or a ftunrtei• or a ,Miction Dollatrs. An unrevised summary statement of the value of the mineral prodmotien of Canada, just issued,ohowa the value of the produc- tion for 1893 to have been 519,230,000, or $250,000 lean than that of 1892. Nickel heads the list of metallic products, the out- put having been 3,922,982 tons, valuer! at 52,070,351. The value of gold was$927,244; copper, $875,864 ; silver, $8821,423. Three mullion seven hundred tons of coal was mass ed, valued at $8,4911,249. The production quantity of iron ore mined is placed at 124- 702 tone, valued at $298,015. Of this quantity,. 124,043 tons were converted into pig iron, producing 55,947 tons, valued at the furnaces at $790,283. The production of petroleum is placed at 798,406 barrels, valued at $S34,334, An Agreeable G'arads:. Professor—"What is a paradox?" 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