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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1894-06-29, Page 1-g, -ed-nee. te, IE 22nd, 1894, L konth we will offer ins in :iDER WEAR ETS N.D GLOVES. 14ORED SILKS DERIES ONS INGS SOLS LINERY. ODS KS LINS LIES AINES. PETS AINS FURNISHINGS. RTH. red here as rector of beived every pressing conwegation. Should he likely will, Bay. arnest, faithful minis- rris andson, of Strat- r night last week, on nd. They had been or a couple of weeks, three months at the her places, camping, ved health.—Every- r that the sports at July 2nd, are worth e great event of the Mg at 10 o'cloek, the id only band of Razoo_ '; Wahanobosch, takes 11 match on the Square. tmous Credit= brass Fast procession to the torse races, foot races, natehes, jumping, and -eets will take piaee. L races on the river ling the great attrac- r party at the English e, served from 6 to 9 rat music and inetru- rediton brass band.— ne 29th, a strawberry pices of the Metho- Id in Mr. John Whid- :e vocal aml instru- -Jody welcome. klbert. Ice was held in the Gbath evening. Even - held once a, month. i came home from, ..:-he had been attend - Institute there.— le, was the guest of t week. Mrs. Platt , hie return to Platts- 5 remaining a week, [oral:Quaid and dlr. t.ted. for New Brans - tenter went to attend it St. ,John, and the :The English church e-ene el a lively etir r of the church men e meriting- and con - board. fence: Thn nt appearauce now. ; who, for the past n Principal of the this week. It is her a studies after hall- Ertglieh church peo- xaNtherry feetival on hared that one is to of July, but we fear cat- be small end far Miss Harriet Hayden : her uncle, Mr. II, ! road, work is just Most of the gravel nawn from the lake John Gardiner 'on Friday evening, ears and 17 days. e no surprise to his had been gradually • high respect and. held was shown by ends present at the dardiner was born ay 8th, 1824. In dies Margaret Gil- emoved to America,, ., but later in Cell - 26 years, or until lwa. Ten children enn five are dead. (-`4, and he married •is a hard -workings • the privations and life. He was an lember of the Pres- yed, as ruline elder e Road, Usbborne, a ; Unity Presby - (ninny, Iowa, and Morrison church. 10 great honor of rst, General Assem- lunch of Canada, csbyterian bodies.. er of Mr. Robert very warM wen - Everything has -A large number as at Brussehe on ar the men who dr. Gibson gave a vlilne was ill, and ; he would like to ovenloek 'was the farms. No stone let Mr. Gibsen if last picnic! snorne. ; tad a, lot more in ife left for- Mani - it to friends there. in very poor .t Janet Hood is few days. -Alex. barn on Monday. . to raise a new Thursday. J ohn krthur are away or ia on hand aft 6th Iine baseball picnic, on Friday Leafs is -the mune reful boys. eTaq 7 itot+ TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR._ WHOLE NUMBER, 1,385. SEA:FORTH, FRIDAY, RINE 29, 1894. McLEAN BROS., Publishers. t $1.50 a Year in Advance. A SUMMER-'• I -NECESSITY. Well take it for granted that you want a Straw Hat. Of course you do. What reasonable man would attempt to live through the summer heat with- out a light Straw Hat, that opol and comfortable article of headgear which is worn by everyone of taste. Having decided to buy a Straw Hat, you mill next look for the exact style that will suit , you best. Your selec- tion will be a raatter of no difficulty if you go to the famous establishment of Jackson & Greig, the leading hat- ters of the county. There you will find every style that can be worn with propriety—the latest novelties, and all g reasonable prices. FOR HOT DAYS Our zephyr weight Coats and Vests are in high feather this weather. Noth- ing so cool and comfortable, and noth- ing so good in Seaforth at our low prices. Silkaline Coats and Vests, Serge - Worsted Flannel White Duck Vests, Fancy Vests, Flannel Vests, &c. S C C It s I We are leaders in our line. Don't forget pur big June Hat Sale—Soft and Stiff Hats less than ever before. Jackson & Creig The Progressive Clothiers, SEAFORTH. A FESTIVAL PLAY AT GRIMMA. Herrig's " Luther Festival Play !" In the Hall of the schutzenhaus. of Grimm' ! This waa *hat stood in the Leipzig paper one January morning. Ever since the Wittenberg festival of ten years ago, the Luther Festival Plays, which were then, given there, have been occasion- ally repeated in other towns of Protestant Gelmany,. and I had so long wished to see one of them thet it was gratifying to find that this one of 1Tel-rig's was th be given. so near by. There was uo difficulty in -pers.uading deardittle friend, Fraulein Fanny, to go with me, and so, one bright, windy after- noon, we started. We knew Grimma al- ready, from a day apent there the suminer before. It is,a quaint little old towe pic- turesgaeiy placed on the river Mulde, and having an ancient, steep -gabled Rathhaas, _ whole streets full of -Tow two-storey houses, dating .back to the. sixteenth century, sev- eral more pretentious houses as old, and two- hoary churches. The walls formerly surrounding the old city have been razecf, and the moatgconverted into pretty gardens and promenades. A few miles away Ile the ivied rules of the convent where the nun Katherine von Bora, afterward Luther's wife, passed her girlhood. We reached Grimma .about 4 o'cloek, and new all we had to do was to follow the little processime of fellowopilgrims down the hill into, the town. Strolling leisurely " down the Long Street," as. en old man directed us, we found the book -store where the re- served seat tickets were on sale. The little shop was filled totthe door, ands to our sur- prise and dismay, we were ingretfally as- sured that there was not a seat left. We might possibly get- tickets at Kaufmann. Schlimpeds, across the Market Square, they told us. There it was the same thing— " Nothing left; but perhaps at . Herr Wostratzky'ad So we harried awey again end found Herr Wostratzky's tiny grocery, but only to meet with the same denial. This good,man and his wife and his four custerners, enpressed. such sympathy in our disappointment, and discussed so many ways of helping tha•t we were a little eacouraged. -At last Herr Wostratzky sug- gested. that we go down to the Schutzenhaus and wait for him ins the reathatrant there. Then, when he went down to open the tieket-office, he would see what he could do for us. " Mind," he said, " I don't promise anything, but if I can get you in, I At the restaurant the waiter took the same friendly interest in ns, in spite of the trouble he had to keep the crowd of thirsty customers supplied with coffee and beer. All the afternoon the people from all the country round hadbeen coming into town by traira and in their high green farm - wagons, tritl new most of these peasants were gathered here waiting for the doors of the hall to be opened. It was dearly a feetal occasion. The rich farmers were gorgeous in their brightly embroidered vests, Meek stocks, and long black coats of quaint cut, decorated with rows of big flat silver buttons. Of course the wives as well were dressed in their best—long, looie black velvet coats, bordered with broad bands of mink, They ail looked very comfortable, and, accordingto gaxon. farmer's ideals, evett elegant. Eden the less prosperous peasants, in their everyday clothes, had a gala -expression. The time of waiting was passed in neighborly chattering which grew louder as the clouds of smoke grew th•icker. Every time there was a sound in the ditectioe of the door there was a mo- ment of excitement and a pushing back' of ehaire, and at last, after a number of these felse alarms, the door really was opened, aml there was a staanpede up the stairs to the gallery. Guided by the waiter, we found. Herr Wostrattky at the ticket -office turning away disappointed people. " You see how it is " he satd ; but he looked so kind and smiling that we did not lose faith, and sud- denly we felt ourselves pushed along to an ushee, with some whispered words about " strange lathes from Leipzig," and there we were, smuggled into a seat before we - knew it ! There was still an hour before the play wae to begin, but it passed quicklys in watching • the gathering audience. There were fresh -looking young girls, with their simenli hair demurely parted in the middle ; there were fewer young men, .,for so many ; veneration for greet men. Little Grimina were to take part in the plet ; but there all agog over the Luther Festival Play can- not help being uplifted in her interests by these days of familiarity with a great heart and a fearless conscience. We ought to were plenty of fathers, wilDh -long gold watch -chains and seal -rings !On their first fin ers, and mothers in dresses that were fas ionable ten years ago. Fraelein Fanny's f strive to make the great deeds of the past, neighbor was a young man of cfrimma, who I more aline in the minds of the people ; we • obligingly told her all that slim wanted to do not realize such things enough. We ought to teach the youth again and again that most important lesson, that true great- ness and true bravery can spring only from a strong and noble character, and that such strength and nobility are to be wort through wrestling, often through suffering, always through tionest living. Every such lesson would be a step forward toward . a higher plane of living ; is not this Festival Play a suggestion of one of the ways in Which it may be taught ? Martin Luther is one of the world's great -ones, and Germany is fortunate in that he is, as well, her son, and so she can combine enthusiasm for the Fatherland with enthu- siasm for a world's reformer ; but the his- tory of our own land has many a grand and heroic page -which might be studied oftener than is now the case. Germany loses no opportunity of . teaching her children, the lessons of patriotism ; are we doing it often enough ? know—that the gentlemen the dress suits wearing blue and yellow posettes were the ushers, and that they tfere a school principal, a notary, a menthante and a photographer. He pointed ,* the cele- brities as they came in—the- Venerable Bur- gomaster, the officers from the'eavalry bar- s racks, the judge, and the pastor. These were the people in the reserved seats. At the sides, where we sat, *ere tihe mechanics and the like humble folk. The hall filled' rapidly. The aisles were hlocked with chairs, until the word came thiit there were no more chairs in the build*. The two firemen in their medimval-loo4ng uniforms only made one wonder *hat nfould happen if a fire should break out. The galleries, given up to the peasants, hatt long .been filled with rows of weather-Oeaten faces, bright now with anticipation, end a certain pride too ; for this man who hitel sodbravely and successfully defied Pope end noble.was their Luther, as much a son of t poverty and toil as they. Among the late:dorners was '4 picture4que figure, who passed just in front of as. Entering the hall where every One else did, - he walked with dignity to the #teps leading from the auditorium to the .loitage, and, mounting them, turned to add}iess the audi- ence. He , was dressed in it a gorgeous herald's costume of the sixteenth century, and in blank verse told us ir that Martin Luther was to be made to live kain before us. While he was speaking, tanother six- teenth -century gentleman joine4 him. The herald greeted this senator, in his black vel- vet robes, with grave respect, invited him to sit before the curtain iand see the living pictures. So the heritld and the senator seated themselves, ione upon each side of the steps, while the oreliestra began to play a choral. . Every One 'rose to his feet, and, led by a choir of' fifty boys, joined heartily in singing one of Luther's hymns, " All Praise to God Most High." Then the - curtain rose. There was no scenery, but there before us Was Brother Martin in his monk's cell at tlrfurt. The Government, has elected a clear majority. lawyer who played this part of -,Luther was Out of those 94 constituencies the Conserve - strikingly like the Crartach 'portraits in feature, and he spoke the noble' blank verse of the text with fi•ne expression; The writ- ing of the play is throughout of a high . or - A. B. C. • What the Big Papers Say. (FROM THE EMPIRE.) Never in the history of Ontario has a con- test been more vigorously fought than that which culminated yesterday ; never has there been one with so many new elements to disturb the ordinary caleulations of ,the politicians, and never has there been a con- test where at its olose victory could not be fairly claimed by any party.1 While we are free to admit that the result has not been so successful for Mr. Meredith and his follow- ers as we could have wished, yet the Op- position leader has good cause for enebur- agement in what has been accomplished, and certainly the Government, which has barely returned one-half of the House as its following, has no reason for expecting con- gratulations. (FROM THE GLOBE. ) Get of 94 members of the new Legislature thenLiberal party, excludhig all doubtfuls and some Patrons who are friendlY to the tive party has elected 23, less than one- foUrth of the Legislature. The party has suffered the collapse which was the natural consequence of its course in the campaign. der, and the aathor adhere0 closely tA3 • By leaving more than a third of the. con. words actually spoken or written by Luther, stituencies unprovided with regular Conser- oftemintrocIncing whole sentenees with only waive candidates, they confessed that its the slight alterations necessaty to make policy had not convinced the mind or touch - them confonn to the meter of the verse. ed the heart 'of the Country. It left the The first scene is nothing buf a soliloquy contest in many of theie constituencies ,to in which the monk gives enpreSsion to some the P.P.A. It, therefore, became associat- of the doubts that are beginning, to torment ed, in spite of occasional protests, with the him, but it forins a necessary introduction methods and aims of that association, and to what is to follOW. At thei end of the it is involved in its defeat. It is a melan- scene the herald and the sena* discuss the °holy ending for a politicar party, but one monk and his opinions. The warm admira- which, with ordinary sagacity, might have tion and enthusiasm of the heralds_ and the judicially critical attitude of the senator, are contrasted here and in the discussiond following the other scenes ; bet at the end of the play the senator's reason hat led him slowly to the seme position pf sympathy and approval held by the weemer-hearted herald. From this conversation we learned of the events which took Luther from his quiet Erfurt cloisters to the' stir of busy Ryerson has won by 1,533 ; Mr. Crawford little Wittenbeeg, and then the curtain rose annul. byt1,576 ; and Mr. Howland by 2.070. The been foreseen. • (FROM THE MAIL.) Except in the case of the cities end the nearer rural constituencies, the returns of yesterday's election are not perfect. In the cities remarkable results have been scored. Toronto, for example,- has recorded the., tre- mendous Conservative' majority of 6,026. Marter defeated Mr. Tait by 847 ; Dr. Throughout the play there N,i-S no scenery, great centre of intelligence, while pronounc- but it was not such a loss as orte :night suP- ing against the Administration, has spoken pose, and it was easy enough to imagine the still more strongly against the intolerance nerroW streets of the university town from of the Kingston ecclesiastics.. There is no the crowds of students, with grave, thin mistaking what Toronto means. This city Dr. Melanctlion, in his scholar's cap and is determined that we shall be ruled on lines gown, moving among them. They are of equality and justice, and that the people, busily discussing the last important matter instead of the prelate, shall reign. The that has come to their ears—a fortunate two. figures are the more extraordinary when it or three of their number have secured a won- derful indulgence from a certain monk, Tetzel, and, no matter how they may sin, hi borne in mind that two years ago To- ronte elected a Liberal by a handsome ma- jority. They are - more astoundine still their forgiveness is assured. But Dr. whee viewed in the light of the expecte- Luther suddenly appears among them. He, tionS entertained with reference to the last too, has heard "of these indulgences, and redistribution. The Conservative majority issue8 indignantly- from his cloister. With has been strongeSt in the constituencies in which it was expeeted that it would be al- together wiped out. South Toronto was supposed to be safe ; yet it has given an of their error, and then, drawing a writtert anti -Administration vote large enough to roll from the folds of his Augustinian habit, submerge ' the Ministerial majority in he tells them of the defiant remonstrance it twenty counties. - contains, and that he will nail it to the very the utmost love and tenderness, and yet with a burning wrath against the author of the wrone, he tries to convince the -students doors of the church itself. As he moves Canada. impetuously forward, the studente surging alaout him trying to dissuade him from his mad purpose, the curtain falls again. From now on the play deepens and grows more intense ae it bears us through the in - Ward tragedy and outward drama of Luther's life. The scenes that follow are : Lather's Farewell to Staupitz ; Luther Burning the Papal Bull before the Elster Gate at Wittenberg ; Luther in the Johan - niter House in Worms ; Luther on the Wartburg Translating the Bible e Luther and the Image-Beeakers ; and at - last, the storm at an end, Luther in the Midst of his Family. The connection between the scenes was given throeghout by the conversations be- tween the herald and the senator, and at the end of eaeh scene the boy choir sang a Luther hymn reflecting the impression made by that scene. After the scene in the Reichstag in Worms the whole audience rose again and sang " Eird feste Burg" as only a deeply moved German cempany can sing it. At the end of the play every one joined in singing a hymn of praise, of course one of Luther's. In this play at Grinsma manyof the same elements were present which haVe made the Passion Play at Oberammergau What it is, There was the same solemnity and devotion of audience, the same dignity and serious- ness of actor. There was no applause, and much intensity of feeling was manifest. At the end the people dispersed, quietly. It would have been easy to have made a failure of it ; a little less earnestness in the actors would have made itself fatally felt ; but as it was, their simplicity and sincerity kept them from exaggerated actiOn on the one hand, and lack of feeling and expression on the other. They were -evidently supported by the sympathy of the whole body of townspeople. As the programme stated, the play was " acted by one hundred and twenty citizens of Grimme." Of -the twenty leading parts, ten were filled by teachers from Grinuna's faun large schools, while the others were acted by lawyers and business Men. It was interesting to know that one of these last is a direct descendaut of Luther, through the mother's line. The only womards part in the whole play was that of Frau Katherine—Luther's beloved " Kathe "—and she appeared only in the last scene, when she and. the -children sang a vesper hymn after the evening meal, Dr. Luther accompanying them on his lute. All the way through the quaint moonlit streets we were busy with the new thoughts suggested by this object lesson. It is a good thing for hearts to be knit closer to- gether in the great. bonds of love and pride of country, enthusiasm for true nobility and - Thursday, 21st inst., was the 145th an- niver4ry of the founding of Halifax, and the da . was generally observed, r —R S. Hamilton, B. A., of Whitby Col- legiate Institute, has been lappeinted to a positiori in the Galt Collegiate, at a salary of $1,000 per annum. —A new variety -of strawberry called the German Vigor, grown near Picton, produc- ed berriee that measured over, five inches around. '. --While MagginPowrie, of Mount Forest, was chasing her hat, blown with the wind, she fell, fracturing both bones of the right arm. . —A fine rain felt steadily for ten hours on Saturday all over the Province of Manitoba, doing untold good to the crops, as it came at a very opportune time. —Mayor Kennedy, of Toronto, sent a cable to the Duke of York on Monday, con- gratulating him upon the birth of a eon, the future heir to the throne. —At Palmerston, Monday, Rev. J. R. Webb,,pastor of the Baptist church there, as married to Katie, the daughter of Mr. John Waldon. '---The funeral of Donald Morrison, the outlaw, took place at Winslow, Quebec, on Thursday 'afternoon of last week. Between 500 and 600 people attended. t =The con,gregation of the First Presby- terian Church, of Brantford, has extended a unanimous pall to the Rev. M. I. Hamilton, of Toronto. —The 42nd annual session of the ' Grand Lod,ge of Canada, Itidependent Order of Good Ternplars, was held in Par* last week, with about 80 delegates present. ! —Lightning struck the residence of J. II. Cryderman, in-Bowmathville, one Saturday, knocking the top off the chimney and tear-- ing a hole through the, brick wall. No one was hurt. — At a barn raising on the farm of Mrs. James Mitchell, near Whitby, on Saturday, a bent fell, and an old man named Walter , Mennen had three ribs broken. . — The contract for the statue of Sir John A. Macdoeald, to be erected in Kingston, has been let to Mr. Wade, the English sculptor. —The 15th annual meeting of the High Court of the Canadian Order of Foresters was held in Woodstock last week, H. C. R. Bro. C. E. Britton, of Gananoque, in the chair. He announced his appointments as follows : Hig:h Messenger, A. McPherson, Woodstock ; High Marshall, John Smith, Clinton ; Journal Secretary, II. II. Bailey, Ottawa ; High Senior Beadle, Rev. C. R. Little, Selkirk, Manitoba. The High Court degree wa,ssconferred on, a large number of delegates. The report'of the High Secre- , tary shows that the !membership has in- creased 2,346 during the year, and $70,000 added te the .Reserve Fund. The society has enjoyed a most prosperous year, the death rate having been much below the average. Some $88,000 has been paid out in death Claims, and notwithstanding this large amount paid for the support and as- sistanee of the widows and orphans of the deceased brethren, the suyplus has largely increased, and now stanch at the magnificent sum of $325,000. There were about 250 dele- gates in attendance. —John Corrigan, of Sault Ste. Marie, aged 93, was mistaken for a burglar in the house of his daughter at an early hour Fri- day morning, and shot dead by a boarder named W..p. Mix. —Miss Pettigrew, of Norwood, died at Peterboro' Thursday, last week, having been taken ill while on the way to Clifton Springs, New York, for the benefit of her health. —Donald Kennedy, the Toronto man who was arrested near Port Huron, charged with smuggling opium has been sentenced at De- troit to 14 month's in the House of Correc- tion and to pay a fine of $1,500, —The other day Mr. George Mair, of Mooresburg, was working with a stumping, machine, when a large stone that he had raised with the machine fell, striking him on the leg, badly bruising it. —A heavy storm passed over the vicinity of Forest last Friday night. The barns of John Miles, adjacent to the town, were struck by lightning and totally consumed, with their contents. —Mr. Ernest Humphries made a run on his wheel of 80 miles recently. Leaving Parkhill for Wyoming on Friday evening and returning Satarday evening. The time each way was three hours and forty-five minutes. —About 9 o'clock Friday morning, Wm. Doherty, a farmer of Keppel, near Owen Sound, was found lying in the road in an unconscious condition, and died almost im- mediately. It is supposed he wag trampled on by his horses. —Mr. Jesse Snowdon died ..suddenly on Monday afternoon, last week, 'while at we& in his ,garden. He was one of the old settlers in McGillivray, and moved into Parkhill a year or two ago. He was much respected and was 75 years of age. —At Windsor Friday, James Rogers, of Detreit, for picking a lady's pocket, was sentenced by Jud.ge Horne to Kingston Penitentiary for four years, and George T. Britton, ter stealing a buggy, got five years in -the same institution. -oGeorge Hanibly disappeared from Win- nipeg a short time ago,' and the other day a bottle was found in Red River which con- tained a letter from him saying he had drowned himself, being tired of life. He had weighted himself with iron. ---,Arrangements have been Completed by the Post Office Department of Canada for an exchange of money orders between Canada and Hawaii, and Hawaii and Australia, Victoria, B. C., being made the chief ex- change office. —Mr. Levi Boughton, of Paris, though now in his 91st year, says that if it were necessary for him to work, he could yet carry on his trade as a- stone mason. Mr. • Boughton has raised 16 children, and he has been a Constant subscriber to the Paris Star newspaper for 40 years. —Rev. Dr. Cochrane, pastor of Zion Church, Brantford, leaves shortly for a pleasure trip to Scotland and England. On Friday evening he was waited on by a num- ber of ladies of his congregation and pre7 sented with an address and a purse contain- ing $400. —The marriage has been registered at the City Hall, London, of Henry Keyes, aged 76, a widower, to Lucetta Hill, a widow of 60 summers and a resident of Westminster. Rev. Thomas Crews performed the cere- mony. The groom is the mail carrier be- tween East London and the city. —Wm. Murray, the oldest resident of West Zorra, passed peacefully to his rest on Monday morning, 18th inst., at the advanc- ed. age of 94 yeers. He was born in Creich, Sutherlandshire, Scotland, in 1800, and came to Zorra in 1832. He was an earnest Presbyterian. His faculties were bright to the last. —The health physicians, Drs. Oliver and .McGarry, of Niagara Falls, have pronounc- ed Thomas Sheehan, a tramp who was ar- rested there on Thursday of last week, to be suffering 'from leprosy. The authorities have the man housed on the outskirts of the town. —Seaman Laird, a barber, has been ar- rerted at Tiverton on suspicion of having killed Angus Matheson, of the village of Ripley, who disappeared last November, after having attended a dance at the Walk- er House, Kincardine. Laird is a young married man, with nothing against his char- t acter. He is out on $1,000 bail. —The Young People's Society of Chris- tian Endeavor, choir and Bible classes of the First Presbyterian Church, London, were royally entertained on Thursday after- noon of last week, by Rev, W. ,E Clark and his wife, at their residence on Wolf street. The evening passed with games and refresh- ment. —Mr. Henry Thompson, of Kinloss, one of the most successful and extensive farmers in that section, brought into Lucknow on Wednesday, last week, the largest load of wool that -has been marketed there by any individual farmer this season., It weighed 686 pounds and was of an'exceptionally fine quality from his flock of Oxford. Downs. —Huntsville, Muskoka, and vicinity,were visited last Sunday by a very heavy thunder- storm. Jane Martin, wife of Thomas. Mar- I tin, of the township of Chaffey, and their 13 -year-old son, were killed by a, flash of lightning which struck their dwelling. Three other children were still-med. but re- covered. —Two Galt young men went up the river swimming Sunday, and one of them came near meeting his death by drowning. He waded out and went down into a hole, from which position, after considerable difficulty, he was finally released_ by a young lad who was an expert swimmer. The young man 'Vows never again to desecrate the Sabbath by going swimming. —111r. R. M. Fullerfere President of the Brantford Plebiscite Association, had a very narrow escape from drowning on Saturday, at Wilkes' dam. He plunged in the water, that have been made. He is accompanied by Professer John Burwash, also a geologist and mineralogist. The Crown Lands De- partment has already sent a staff of survey- ors to Rainy . Lake, and the work of this body will prove of great service to Professor Coleman and his colleagues. Prof. Coleman will still hold his chair in the School of Science during teurn.,, —Mr. David S. Brown, Son of Mr. C. S. Brown, of Berlin, wes on Friday presented with $1,000 in gold on his reaching his 21st birthday. This is the second son of Mr. Brown's that has received such a magnifi- Gent gift. Dnvid, as well as his brother, has reached his manhood without tasting any spirituous liquors and without having used tobacco in any form. —The Presbyterian General Assembly will next yeardneet in London at St. An- drew's Church, on June 22. Sit the meet- ing -at St. John, New Brunswick, on motion of Prim:pal Grant, Principal Cavan, Dr. Cochrane, Rev. J. A. .Murray and Mr. John Cameron were appointed to forward the fraternal greetings of the General AsseMbly to the quadrennial conference of the Metho- dist Church of Canada, which meets in Lon- don, in September. —Says the Advocate,: " Mr. Rush, of the Seek, hits been busy this week locating new settlers in Algoma. He sold the Hudson farm, Echo Bay, 160 acres, to Mr. Cleft, of near Kingston, for $750 cash ; a 60 acre lot ird the same vicinity to Mr. Thomas; of Halton, for $550, part cash ; an 80 acre lot in the samelocality to a family from Huron county for_4400, part cash ; and t*o other deals are in a fair way of going through. —Last Saturday night Rev. A. D. Chand- ler, an ex -pastor of the A. M. E. chureh of Chatham, _but who recently left fon Detroit, wanarrested, charged under the Charlton Act with the seduction of a colored girl; aged 14 years, daughter of Mr. Nathan Murray, a respected resident of Chatham. The preacher is young man who gained the affections of the girl while pastor of the church. The scandal has been quite a shock to the community. —The annual temperance sermon under the auspices of the Women's Christian Temper- ance Union, Lucknow, was preached on Sun- day afternoon, 24th inst., in the Presby- terian church, by the pastor, the Rev." A. McKay. The reverend gentleman took for his text, Proverbs 23. 3. : " Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in a cup • when it moveth itself aright." Mr. McKay delivered an earnest and thoughtful discourse, which was listen- ed to with deep attention. —A happy event took place at the resi- dence of T. S. Seward, Corunna, near Sarnia on Wednesday evening, last week, when Ills sister, Mies Hattie Seward, be- came the wife of Mr. Alfred Needham. After the ceremony a pleasant repast was served, at the conclusion of which the happy couple accompanied by the guests, left for their new home on the 10th line, where a reception was held and a most enjoyable time spent. The bride received many handsome and costly tokens of esteem. —Mr. Reuben Tew, a farmer of Greens- ville, West Flarnboro', was drivina home from Dundas on Saturday night last, when a team driven by Frank Hancock and Charles Carter, two young men from Ham- ilton, ran into his rig. The shaft of the second buggy pierced Mr. Tew in the side, fatally injuring him. He was carried into an adjoining house, but nothing could be done for him, dad he died at one o'clock Sunday morning. Both filen have been ar- rested and are held for manslaughter. —During the very heavy thunderstorm last Sunday night, about 8:30, lightning struck a barn belonging to Mr. J. H. Boyle, about three miles west of Oxford Centre. The barn and other large outbuildings, com- prising large sheds and cow stables, to- gether vtith wagon, buggy, mower, reaper and other farming implements stored in the barn, were totally destroyed by fire. Mr. John Turner, living two miles south of the village, also lost two cows by lightning. The loss is covered byinsurance in the -Lon- don Mutual. —Archbishop Tache died at Winnipeg last Friday morning. Mgr. Tache was the youngest man ever consecrated a bishop in America, if not in the world, during the last century, he being only 27 when he was appointed to the Episcopacy. The late archbishop occupied the first rank among the Canadian clergy, both as a sacred writer, an eloquent speaker and an -accom- plished literateur. The most striking trait of his character was that his amiability made friends for him among all classes, and among the Protestants of Manitoba and the Northwest he counted many warm personal f riends. —The second annual picnic of the Blen- heim, Kent county, Sons of Scotland, was held at Erie Eau Lake the other day, and was a success in every particular—large crowd, charming weather and fellowship, and excellent music and dancing. Alex. Milne, of London, in McLean tartan, gave to the breeze the bonnie air, "Auld Scotia," and the dancing of Piper Milne, of London ; Mary and Flora McDonald, Pearl Leitch, and Ira Dagen, of Dutton, more than satisfied the critical eyes of the spectators. It is estimated that, in all, 3,000 people took part. —On Sabbath, 17th inst., a number of places in the vicinity of Chesley were struck by lightning. The barn of Mr. James Duff, 8th concession, Sullivan, together with all the outbuildings, was burned to the ground. The buildings were only partially insured. On the same day another Sullivan farmer, living near Williamsford, met with a simi- lar loss from the same cause. At Chesley lightning camein on the wires at the sta- tion and set fire to the paper near the desk of station master Williams. The fire was promptly put out before much damage was done. —On Tuesday afternoon, 19th inst. in the -Colborne Street Methodist Church, l'on- don, Miss Clara Waugh, of that city, was married to Rev. Thomas Meredith, of the Montreal Methodist Conference. The bride was charmingly dressed in crepon, trimmed .wit,h ferns and roses, and a bridal veil. The ceremony *as performed by Rev. Charles Smith, assisted by Rev. A. L. Beverly, of Essex Centre, Episcopalian, brother-in-law of the bride. The reverend gentleman and his bride left for their wedding trip east, and will spend a few days before leaving for and, after swimming Some distance, found his field of labor in Schreiber, on the north he had got caught by an under current, and 1 shore of Lake Superior. Rev. Mr. Mere - could not make the dam, His shouts were ; dith has been laboring with great ac - heard by several young inen in the vicinity, ceptance at Sudbury during the last two who swain out and rescued him. ' years. —Professor Coleman, of the School of —The residents of the Roman line in the Practical Science, has been appointed geo- : township of Biddulph were somewhat stir- logist and mineralogist to the Bureau. of red up by a shooting affray on Friday night, Mines. -It has been arranged that Professor which, though at first thought to be Coleman will spend three or four months of ! very serious, will not prove fatal. Edward each year in the field, pursuing his investi- Bowers a respected farmer about 50 yeans gations in such parts of the Province as may - of age, 'living just east of the Donnelly happen at the time to be chiefly attracting homestead, heard a row in front of his house the attention of prospectors and miners. He about 9:30 p. m., and found some men M- ims been instructed to employ his time this using one of their number. Bowers took season in making a survey of the north shore the man into his house, and the rest of the of Rainy Lake, where considerable excite- crowd started down the line. They did not ment prevails over the discoveries of gold go far, however, before they turned back, and on going to Borers' house, tried to take their companion away. Whether Bowers resisted the attem0 or not is unknown, but at any rate a revolver was brought into play, and Wm. Cain, on 4of the " arty, was shot such a fine dairy section existed and ',„thinks it has not its equal, on the whole,lin the Mr. Kellener, one of the mill s, was laitailwe=rla country." —On Wednesday morning eek in the back. Bow rs imme iately went for waiting for his turn. at the Trowbridge fac- e physician and Fathet Connolly, who ad- , tory, his horses ran away with a full load of ministered the sacrament to the wounded I milk, but, strange •to say, no serious defa- mer'. The injuries were at first considered age Wag done save ;the spilling Of one can of very serious, but Cain has recovered suffi- milk and the breaking of the wagon -tongue. ciently to pqrmit othis being removed home. Mr. Bowers gave hmiself up to the authori- ties, and is in the epunty jail. • P(.7ti-i-t Items. The Bornholm griet Mill is in again. —An immense cnantity of wool is coming into the Listowel v,loolen mills this season. --Mr. Win. Waddell has rented his farm of 183 acres, at Anderson, to Mr. R. White, of the 8th line. ---e-The first half ef June cheese which was not sold at the Listtnvel Fair, has all been sold since, the ruling price being about nine cents. —Adam, son of Mr. H. B. Bender, of Wallace township, received a kick in the face from a horse, breaking his jaw, one day operation lately. —Prospects are fevorable for an enormous fruit crop in the district around Atwood. There are also goodProspects of a big yield of small fruit. —The new Presbyterian church in Mit- chell is drawing near completion. The seats and the pipe organ have arrived, and are ready to be placed in position. —Incendiaries tried to burn down the shoe Store of Mr. S. Ready, St. Marys, on Tuesday night, larit week, but passers-by luckily saw the smgke and put out the fire. —Mr. and Mrs. W. J, McIntyre have re- turned from their wedding tour, and have been spending a few days with their rela- tives in St. Marys! end Blanshard previous to leaving for Revelstoke, British Columbia. —Mr. John S. Coppin and Mr. W. R. Davis have bargeined to exchange their residences in Mitchell. Mr. Davis gives Mr. Coppin $1,3o9 and his residence on the hill for Mr. Coppin's brick house and land. —Some one tried to fire the Dominion Hotel, Stratford; the other morning, by placing oil waste under the building and igniting it. Theblaze was discovered in time. —Mr. Fred Stuart, B. A., of Mitchell, who expects to pans bis final examination at the Ontario School, of'Pedagogy, has secured a situation as science master in the Bramp- ton Collegiate Inefitute at a salary of $800. —Miss Heal, daughter of Mr. Henry Heal, of Fullerton, receieed a gold medal at the closing exercises of the Whitby Ladies' College, for the highest standing in the M. L. A. cou6e. —Mr. Wm. Eochhead, B. A., son of Mr. Wm. Lochhead, of Atwood, has resigned his position of Science Master at the Galt Col- legiate Institute to attend Cornell Univer- sity. --About 300 farmers from the vicinity of St. Marys joined in an excursion to the Model Farm at Gnelph, on Thursday, last week. At the farm a very enjoyable day was spent in an atmosphere of instruction. —Miss E. J. Ifennedy, a former resident of St. Marys, died in Detroit, a few days The team got loose from the wagon or no doubt the damage would have been much greater. —Dr. J. II. C. Willoughby, ex -Mayor of Regina, _Northwest Territory, with his bride, paid a short visit to Listowel last week. He is the eldest son of Rev. Eke. Willoughby, of that town. His bride was Miss Helen Hilliard, a daughter of one of the oldest and most highly re pected famil- ies of Peterboro,. They wt..re married in New York on June 6th, and after a visit to Washington, D. C., are now on their way - home to Regina. =John McVaamel, M. As, University of Toronto, has been elected to a scholarship in the Sage School of Philosophy in Cornell University. He has also been named senior scholar in the department of psychology -in Clark University. Mr. McVannel took his R. A. in Toronto, in 1843 and his M. A. in 1894. He is a son of Mr. Peter McVannel, of St. Marys, and was a pupil, and for a time a teacher, in St. Marys Collegiate In- stitute. —On Friday morning, 15th inst., at his home in Listowel, after an illness -of about two years, Mr. James Richard Lockhert died in the 34th year of his age. He wis the son of MrS Joseph Lockhart, one of the earliest residents of the township of Wal- lace, where deceased was born. He was married in. March,4886, to Mary Mandel, and besides his wife. he leaves a family of one daughter and two MU. He removed to Listowel in March last, being then un- able to do his farm. work, but failed rapidly since. —A sad accident, which resulted fatally, - took place on Tuesday, 15th inst., in Blau - shard, near St. Marys. Road work was be- ing done, and Mr. Josiah Lane, of .Ander- son, was obtaining gravel front the pit on Mr. Robert McIntyre's farm, on the 8th line, when part of the embankment gave wey and a stone weighing over 100 pounds. descended on Mr. Lane's head. Half of his body was paralyzed, brit he retained e,on- sciousness up to the time of his death,which took place the following day. Mr. Lane was highly respected by all who knew him. - —Mr. George Fisher of Elma, had twelve sheep strayed away, and some unprincipled scoundrel put them in Mr. Robert Hawke's mill office, where they werepemied up with- out food or water for eight days. When Mr. Fisher got word of them, the poor ani- mals were nearly dead with starvation. Two of the twelve had in the meantime been let loose, but were subsequently' found. near by. The guilty party is shadowed, and, if sufficient proof can. be adduced to fasten the crime on himnlie will be made 'to smart for his inhumanly cruel act. • —A large family gathering took place at the house of Mr. Robert Birtch,near Embro, on Saturday, Idth inst. The occasion was the celebration of the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs, Birtch. About 53 years ago ago, of pleurisye The remains were brought back to Thorndale and interred in Clipper- he camento St. Marys and lived on the propert now occupied by Mr. Robert Guest, *here he brought his young bride three years afterwards. An address and a large number of useful and beautiful gifts were presented to the worthy couple. Be- sides the whole family and many grand- children there were a nurdber (if acquaint - lances present. A very happy day was spent. —The death occurred in South Easthope on Thursday, 14th inst., of Mrs. Elizabeth McEwen, relict of the late Hugh MeEwen. Mrs. MeEwen's maiden name was Elizabeth McPherson. She Was a native of Perthshire, Scotland, where she was born upwards of eighty years ago. She was married in 1834, and ten years later she and her family came to Canada: Mrs. McEwen was the mother of thirteen children, nine of whom are still living : Malcolm and John, in Ellice ; Hugh in Downie ; Daniel, on the homestead ; Alexander, in Calgary, Northwest Terri- tory ; James, in Qu'Appelle, Northwest Territory ; and Elizabeth and Christina at home. ton's cemetery. !, —Mr. A. C. )41ddy, a former student of St. Marys Collegiate Institute, and nephew of Mrs. ,T. B. Abbott, of St. Marlys, has ob- tained the degree uf B. A. at Victoria Uni- versity. He miters the Methodist ministry and is stationed at Otterville. --Mr. Daniel Waters, of New Brunswick, formerly of St.' Marys, spent a day in St. Marys recently, calling on former friends. His parents Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Watere, of Newark, New Jersey, are visiting their neice, Mrs. D. N. McLeod, of Parkhill. —my. R. Ratcliffe, of Anderson, lost one of his valuable horses the other day. The animal, while trying to rub its head, caught its foot in the halter, and when Mr. Rat- cliffe came out in the morning the horse was dead. —During a recent thunderstorm the barn of Mr. Wm. Houghton, near Topping, was struck by lightning and totally consumed. The stock was saved, but some of the im- plements were burned. There was a small amount of insurance. • --Mr. J. A:Johnson, contractor, has beea awarded the eontraet for the erection of a A Real Heroine. three storey residence for Mr. D. Maxwell, I Jane Henshaw, the trained nurse who died sr., on the t corner of Widder and Peel in Bellevue Hospital New York, the other streets, St. Marys. The work is to be com- pleted duringthe present year. —Rev. Gereld Willoughby, son of Rev. Dr. Willoughby, of Listowel, leaves his charge at Aberfoyle in agew days, where he has spent two years of t4ry earnest and suc- csssful pastoral work. He will go to Car- lingford as . assistant on the Fullerton circuit. ---The ma,ke of cheese at the Avondale factory is new about twenty large cheese per day. The May make has never been night, was a heroine. A member of the So- ciety of King's Daughters, she was the first to respond to the call for 'volunteers to do the nursing at Swinburne Island in the cholera panic two years ago. Dr. Jenkins told her that the risk -was great ; that the chances were she would not live to e,ome back from the island. He laid all the facts before her and made her see clearly just where . she was going—just what she was risking. But she listened to him calmly and • without any sign of fear, And when he had equalled in the history of this factory, the finished she said she had thought of amount being somewhat over ten tone, that. She said some one must go, she was which sold at an average price of ten cents a nurse, and her duty lay with those help - per pound. —Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Wallace, of the towaship of Collingwood, were visiting old less and smeared for sufferers. So she went to work at once, and week after week she was in the midst of the plague. She slept - friends in Listowel and in Wallace township, only about three hours out of the twenty- , last week. ,Mr. Wallace lived in Wallace four, for not many nurses had volunteered, township early in the fifties and was well and the pest house was full. She under - known by ti.te early settlers. It is 33 years stood the duties of a nurse thoroughly,. and carried out the instructions of the physicians since he moved into Greed'eounty. —Mr. John Whyte, of Mitchell, has a fearlessly and accurately. The result was great field of corn on the old Casey farm, that the percentage of mortality in the pest Logan road, It is several feet above the house where she slept—for she never left fence, andeome of it measures over eight feet the building—wae lower than had ever been high. Fall wheat considerably over six feet known either here or abroad. The health in height May also be seen on the farm of officer watched her with amazement, and Mr. Wm. Hodge, of Fullarton. ' again and again when he saw that her strength was getting less, and her clanger —Mr. and Mrs. Mahan, of Kirkton, and therefore greater, urged her to leave. But Mrs. John Copeland, Of Blanshard, went by she stayed on to the end. She inspired the the Northntest excursion on Tuesday, last doctors with admiration, the sick people week, on atrip to the Northwest and Da- kota, and Mr. and Mrs. James Hobbs, of with hope, and the other nurses -with reso- lution—Ex. St. Marys, and :Miss Lizzie Rosenbargo, of Elanshard, left the same day for Edmonton, Northwest Territory, on a -visit to relatives. —Mr. W. J. Mills, of the office of D. Maxwell & Sons, of St. Marys, has been ap- s pointed by:the firm to take charge of their important branch at Winnipeg, Manitoba, which was left without a manager by the death of Mr. E. GaMble. Mr. and Mrs. Mills left. for their new home on Monday, last weelC Their departure is Much re- gretted by the large circle of friends they have made during their stay in St. Marys. —Says the Listowel Banner " Mr. C. C. Wilson, manager of the well-known exten- sive dairy farm of J. L. Grant & Company, of Ingersoll, was in town last week at the cheese fair and, in company with Mr. A. F. McLaren, visited the principal cheese fac- tories in the townships. Mr. McLaren, who has not been.driving much through this sec- tion for a. conple of years, expressed himself much surprised at the great improvement shown in the farms and buildings, while Mr. Wileon was delighted with the appear- ance of the country, and says that beyond a doubt it is an ideal dairy land and the fmest altogether he has seen. He had no idea A Few Odds and Ends. Japanese, China and tussah or pongee ilk may be washed in luke-warra soap uds, quickly rinsed and dried in the shade. Do not rub soap on the silks. Iron these with a moderate iron over a piece of thin muslin. White Shetlatd or crocheted shawls can be eleaned in flour or White corn- meal. Let them be well covered with it over night, then shake it off, and if not clean repeat the process. Wash the best of stockinet or rubber dress -shields in warm soap -suds, pull in shape and pin down to dry. Soak genuine whalebone in warm water for half an hour, then iron straight with a hot iron. Wash silesia linings and keep for little folks, as they shrink too much to use again for the same person, and, like cambric skirt linings, are apt to pull out of shape, which renders them unfit for a perfect pattern, Wash a blue flannel dress in bran and water without any soap, with a handful of salt in the water to " set" the color. Use soft water, when possible, for any of these _receipts, or soften the water with a little borax or ammonia.