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Home My WebLink AboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1892-01-14, Page 6deepeeseamMe.--- -e ithheemme - 11111MB4.11.1111111111.11101110111.11011.6.' AN AWEVE MOXENV. The Swilehmait's Story. More than a dozen ;people spoke to me yeeterday about three chapters of accidents related in this column on Friday afternoon. Eveny ouentaidik wax:tight, in cnilern4 ofneciden nantr- ed tc furthen talk uRenithe sates. sub- tnand ftonel-kedini min. I ipt. dahe foleewing nitel* of afacctifinteenti grwu as deaden aet, I can in his ovrn words : " A hundred yards away from ihe tat - side tracks which filleciewith,a neeworke ef iron a railroad switchingyardestoed %smell cabin, the home of one of the switohmen employed by the cempany. The iee lived with his young wife and a pretty little gold- en haired girL Tbe switchman eyaiked hard from morning nntil night, glad onthe °benne to earn food for his family, food and cloth- ing, in the latter being an occasional pair a little shoes for the little nue that always stood at the window watching:ileitis return from his work in the yard. ; eay the switchman worked hard tipping eat-Ada/019e- ment from the company Midi& theincieene' of pay that would furnish luxury FOR HIS LOVED. 0 iv Where now they could oniy w --theneressia ties of life. One Saturday eight' after pay- day they went to the city, and among othee things bought his little girl a pair of pretty red shoes. Wasn't she a hippy child on Sunday morning When her eyes fairly -bulged out with the excess ofeher delight, her fath- er and mother Were beth made happy in the little one's _pleasure. 'Oh, butthat was a joyouseday, - and Melida.y morning broke bright, beautiful and sunshine, as lovely a spring morning as one ever could wish to with all her strength held her down to the ground and threwherself abrioss the little one's head. One glance otily she caught of the little red shoe. The huge monster was on them. A black film came over her _eyes and she was nneomploes. " Is this a fable you are giving me ?" "A f a Vend.* ; fable My dap& riman, I weitha,t evhitehrigit; andlthat little .eluld was my Marx, Aid happened. ten yerS age; she inflow neChe well;tidippineende she..-has a Cork fan* it ittetratnittlet mother has a little reel shoe laid away arnong her treasures." - ow. _ A Dishonest Govertnatent. The 'United States is themostboastful country in the weal. True, it has some cause to Boast. It hs made marvelous pro - gess intim hundred years of ita existence as a nation, and may justly feel a pride in ,her,achie ements in science, art, and liter* nate. But it must be humiliating to this braeging nation to be told that it is dise honest. And this has actually happened. A writer in Belford's Monthly says that the United States gpveenmentdia disharest be - cense it eloeshttepay itstdeladiedAiirian whe doesn't pay his debts, espeeially when he is amilyableetiadd sonis promptly and justly stigmatized as dishonest. A case is cited from the records in which the learnedjudge is constreined tosay: "The legal redress given to 'aideithzen of the -laniteW-Stlites against the United States dina lend thin he can have against almost any other govern- ment in Christendom; and the United States holds itself, of nearly all governments, the least amenable to the law." A damag- ing statement, truly, and one which will doubtless be received with indignation by many citizensaf the republic -But -the writer says that the statement is undoubtedly true, and refers to the case of the Choctaw Indians. This trLb� "for faithful services and -good nonducteme to receive fair, just and liberal consideration." The just and liberal chnsidetationa which Congres e afterwards- decided -- aon was to pay the Cheetaws twelve and a half cents an acre (not one tenth their market value) for their lands, and to allow them the pro- ceeds of the sales of theirlatidsalready dis- posed of. The secretary of the interior re- ported that the amount due the Choctaws on this basinwas over two million &liars. Did this rich Government proceed to pay this amount to these faithful Indians? No. They pursued the glorious pelicy of delay for thirty years and, then Congress recinded the first award. and appropriated about one sixth of the amount --$500i000, one half of which they paid. Again and again the Choctaws sent their brightest representa- tives to Washington to, plead for at least theother $250,000 oTtlie appropriation. But to no a,vaiL In 1881 a law was passed by which the court of claims was authorized to again review the question. After acknow- ledgment of the honest debt again and again, a scaling down and small payment, the Whole action is repudiated and the case thrown into court of law, iiecessitating more delay and more costs. The decision could but be in their favor, but now, "in the year of: Oace, 1891,1 the solemn obli- Wien to the Choetevea, secured by two treaties, the action of both houses of Con- gress, and by a United States court, the debt sixty years old is still unpaid. The question may well be asked, "Is the Uni- ta States Government honest?" The essay- ist refers also to the treatment of the Chero- kee Indiana which is scarcely more credit- able than that. accorded the Choctaws. The debt for the cotton seized by government ,iofficers is another instance noted. The supreme court teas passed upon it, and id is should be paid. The probed& of: the sa,re of the property, some $24,724,022" were turned • into the treasury of the United States and the greater 'portion of it is there yet. These are by no means all the- points in evidence to prove that the United States government is dis- honest. In the face of this indictment the government of the great republic should hang its head in humiliation and proceed to discharge its legitimate obligations. Away the father went to the yard, work, whistling and happy as only a poor man can be. The mother made preparations for the washing and little 5 -year skipped about inerrilyeeirdtchingihe'glitit of the sun- shine upon her new redieltoese iSingingand working, the mother rubbed and wrung un- til her clothes were ready for the line, when suddenly she thought of the little girL So busy had she been the child- had for a few -moments been forgotten, and the mother called softly, "Mary, Mary; whereare you, child ?" No answer came, and the mother, with an undefined fear she could not ac- count for, ren from the small kitchen into the yard, and seeing nothing of her, ran oat in front, the fear tugging harder at her heart at every step. .1 The first thiagshe sew was the front door standing wide open, and that bat t INCREASED THE ALARM. 'Inetently she looked out over the expanse of tracks, and for a raiment there was adult in the throbbing pain that filled her soul with anguish. Nothing could she see of the child. The relief wasbut momentary only, - for the next look revealed a moving object away out on the main tracks and. partly screened, bYaetarget. There was no need to look again. She knew it was the child, and she fairly flew across the network of rails and ties. When but half way there she heard a sound* receignieed only too well, and she clutched her throat in he ageliy as she sped along. It was the shrieking whistle of the west -bound express train that hardly slackens its pace, even going through these yards. A few frantic bounds brought her to the little girL Even then she could hear the _._ muffled rumble on therails on which her child appeared to be sitting. It was the one rail the very one, on which that west- bound train would pass. e‘ Mary," she cried, "get up, Mary quick 1" and the voice of the mother told of her intense excitement. "I can't naa.manti". -replied he i child, frightened at heriediotber'seivOicedend looks. "I can't get up, ' mamma; Iny feet hi Caught." The mother knew it wasethe deadly -frog and in a frenzy of terror vele graspedidthe chileltind tried to lift her up. "Ob, Inanima, don't you hurt me," cried the little one, and- then came that shrieking whistle like the Yoked a fiend in delight. Not a word coald that mother say; het -throat was burning and her heart was bursting; hastily she grasped the foot, covered ivith thettedelmeend'tugged with all her might. It would not come. She tried to tear the sime in pieces but the new, leatherWasnino strong for her poor fingers. She Iiiekeerip the4rack and saw the black demon rushing toieriffar: rAh l she saw; something more. !Even at the distance she re - -1 . her huaband, Mei Whitt of her little Mary, lyirg there doomed to a terrible death before her eyes, and she saw that he steed at the swItch that could 'shunt that :bliinwr&troling :train to , another traeke How he hearn did beat; 'it Oiliest burst with,* intense pain as she made him a frantic signal and held the ohild-up, that he might see and guess if he naiad; the dift culty, He didba ape e 4 e knew it Ares his Iii tA , unclgruit.trfigsvas etiniklie hitid,e1 ' elef fieleht "Carel an so near Ilent signalling would have done no good in any ease. The wifeelhought, of cosine,. the father wouldShunt -the train; she theight basfif her Ail& But the father knew there, were hundreds ef people ei. that train that Might he killed; for switch:: big it meant throwing it bite ,a stationery train Of freight ears on -a -nide track. On the other hand, it was hislittle Should he save her and sacrifice hundreds'? Yes, Le would. What were the whole world of people to him compared to his little geldeneheire4.,heby `,0; and he graseied. the rod to mote the rails so the expreiewith its HY- - kw freight, would rush to its destruction. But Iielere he had moved it, Another the -right' tame to him; -perhaps he -might 'swathe child's,. life And the train as well. Thought 18 very rapid you knew, and action 'had to be as rapid in a' crisis like this. He .lad never taken his eyes off his two loved e nes while the ,theeghts, were ,fl4tht like trightningt Mr-nue/. Ms brain. . The moth- er was still making 1123 FRANTIC G145URES, to Iiin), which he hilly understood, but in resPoriselinernatte her a signal.- He •stood - over the rail and reached waif to grasp some- thing, and then he Pullin' it over forcibly, . and eppareattly Judd it down firmly on the -- outside of , the raft,. , Qincle, as a fie* the mother- ' caught 'Whet he = Meant' and her first -iinettese-, wits - to ',. sacrifice her. self with her child, ail& throw her- self in front of ehe., coming train. - -The " kettiei-eitele:elf at the:twitch where her Ints•,:' FISIILNG IN THE WATERS. OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST. A Remarkable Industry, Already the value of the fish caught in the British Columbian waters is estimated at five million dollars a year, and yet the in- dustry is rather at its birth than in its in- fancy. M1 the waters in and near the pro- vince fairly swarm with fish. The rivers teem with them the straits and fiords and gulfs abound with them, the ocean beyond is freighted with an incalculable weight of living food, which must soon be distributed among the homes of the civilized world. The principal vat ieties of fish are the salmon, cod, shad, whitefish, bass, flounder, skate, sole, halibut, sturgeon, oolachan, herring, trout, haddock, smelts, anchovies, dogfish, perch, sardines, oysters, crayfish, shrimps, crabs, and mussels. Of other denizens of the water, the whale, sea -otter, and seal prove rich prey for those who search for them. The main salmon rivers are the Fraser, Skeena, and Nesse rivers, but the fish also swarm in the inlets into which smaller streams empty. The Nimkish, on Vancouver Island, is also a saLuaon stream. Settmg aside the stories of water so thick with salmon that a man might walk upon their backs' as well as that tale of the stage -co ch whichwas upset by salmon banking them- selves against it when it was crossing a fording -place, there still exist absolutely trustworthy accounts of swarms which at their height cause the largest rivers to seem alive with these fish. In such cases the rieple of their back fins frets the entire sur- face of the stream. I have seen photographs that show the fish in incredible numbers, side 'by side, like logs in a raft, and I have the word of a responsible man for the state- ment that he has gotten all the salmon need- ed for a small camp, day after day, by walk- ing to the edge of a river and jerking the fish out with a common poker. There are about sixteen canneries on the Fraser, six on the Skeen, three on the Nesse, and three scattered in other waters— Rivers Inlet and Alert Bay. The total canning in 1889 was 414,294 cases, each of 48 one -pound tins. The fish are sold to Europe, Australia, and eastern Canada. The American market takes the Columbia Bever Salmon. A round million of dollara is invested in the vessels, nets, trawls, canneries, oil factories, and freezing and salting stations used in this industry in British Columbia, and about 5500 men are employed; "There is no difficulty in catch- ing the fish," says a local historian, "in some streams they are so crowded that they can readily be picked out of the water by band." However, gill -nets are found to be prefer- able, and fish are caught in these, which are stretched across the streams'and hand- led by men in flat-bottomed boats. The fish are loaded into scows and transported to the canneries, usually frame structures built upon piles close to the shores of the rivers. In the canneries the tins are made, and, as a rule, saw -mills near by produce the wood for the manufac- ture of the ipacking-cases. Thi fish are cleaned; rid .taf their heed& and tails, and then chopped up a.nff loaded into the tins by Chinamen and Indian women. The tins are then boiled, soldered, tested, packed, and shipped away. The industry is rapidly eid tended, and fresh saktion are now. being shipped, frozeneto the Markets of eastern America and 'i England. Myfiguresfor1889 (obtitineddOm the Victoria.Tinieslede in all likellhoodienderthOmark gintediette son of 1890- The coast is made ragged by inlets, and into nearly every one a water- course empties. All the larger streams are the haven of salmon in the spawning season, and in time the principal ones will be the bases of canning operations. The dominion government has founded a salmon hatchery on the Fraser, above New Westminster. It is under the spervisiond Thomas Mowat, Impeder hit hiherleeid- And millions of small fry are -new" annuldriiturner into the great river. Whether the unexam- pled run of 1889 was in any part due to this process cannot be said, but certainly the salmon are not diminishing in numbers. It was feared that the refuse from the canneries would injure the "runs" of live fish, but it is now believed that there is a profit to be derived from treating the refuse for oil and guano, so that it is more likely to be saved than thrown back into the streams in the near future. The oolachan, or candle -fish, is a valuable product of these waters, chiefly of the Fraser and Nesse rivers. They are said to be de- licious when fresh, smoked, or salted, and I have it on the authority of the little pamph- let "British Columbia," hended me by a government official, that "their oil is con- sidered superior to cod-liver oil, or any other fish oil known." It is said that this oil is whitish, and of the consistency of thin lard. It is used as food by the natives, and is an article of barter between the coast Indians and the tribes of the interior. There is so much of it in a candle -fish of ordinary size that when one of them is dried, it will burn like a, candle. It is the custom of the natives on the meet to catch the fish in immense numbers in purse -nets. They then boil them in iron -bottomed bins, strain. ing the product in willow baskets, and run- ning the oil into cedar boxes holding fifteen giants each. The Nesse River candle -fish are the best. They begin running in March, and continue to come by the million for a period of several weeks. Codfish are supposed to be very plentiful, and to frequent extensive banks at sea, but these shoals have not been explored or charted by the government, and private enterprise will not attempt the work. Similar banks off the Alaska coast are al- ready the resortaf California.fishernuen who drive a prosperous trade in salting large catches there. The skil, or black cod, formerly known as the "coal -fish." is a splendid deep -water product. These cod weigh from eight to twenty pounds, and used to be caught by the Indians with hook and line. Already white men are driving the Indians out by superior methods. Trawls of three hundred hooks are used, and the fish are found to be plentiful, especially off the west coast of the Queen Charlotte- Islands.—{From "Canada's El Dorado," in Harper's Magazine. eteciditobWerind le -WAS -Ana late forhinito • change his mind, if he wanted to. The 'Mahe saw.the enkiiii.CerielepAit him: The engineer had only caught sight of the child Meteealebefeee heenacked4he switch. A Wive hi, theaved and sender freight cars had before that obscured the view. At that short distikeee brakes were of no earthly use, but the whistled them down. For all thatnn rushed the huge, black fiend. was a few yards iiirety and the wife make' rd. ,,altiltilung 1441441 she suaiggING, TREMBLING CHILD 47431S. aila:pulled her away over as far cou ea thfs outside of the rail, and A PERSIAN PRINCE' IN EXILE. - The Head ora Religions Sect he Lives in .. Style at Bembaye ,A. Pereien ,prince lives in Bombay, of Whom neryilitele is heard, though he is a petwpr in the _oriental world. He wields more authorities many oriental poten- tates. He is at the head of the Maulai sect cife.Mohammedans who are widely scatter- ed over northern India. -Vieermettaiackehard this Persian pritlieseitaitheii spiritual "Made or pope: -Ooli Tanner, who has de- scribed the inhabitants of the Himalayas recently; says that were this prince to re- turn to Persia he would speedily lose his .lipat1), though be exercises eleepluteised ;pal i eilpfer 'Oxus estiasi,:in"-' KEA dirt in f ' hodityeened, a lest 4uMber on Wers Burmah,andeven in China. The constitut- edrulers'of these countries do not influence those of their people who are members of this religious soot so powerfully ala di:seethe feraway-Prieces- The lowliest Malai who wanders over the --icy plateau of the Pemir feels it his duty to subscribe from his Seidl -I tneairdi every year Oward' a tribute to his spiritual lord. Across the snowy passes which lie between central As& and India his tribute is carried and delivered, regardless of the difficulties which for many stages beset the embassies on their journeys. The prince, who; by the way, is addicted to horse -racing, and is one of the most lib- eral patrons of the Indian turf, is one of the descendants Of the original saints- se com- monly regarded in olden times by the Per- sians as persons of the greatest sanctity. He lives in the greatest luxury. His very large income, wholly derived from the an- nual contributions of the faithful, enables him to occupy *fine palace. Hehttee. large reehane of servants, a stable of fine horses, and all the outward teappings of a very im- portant and wealthy personage._ - He leder more fortunate than the princes of the upper Oxus States, who; within a few years have heeneiaseing ttnder the repacioue rule of'thie tyrant of Afghanistan.' Under t one ketext' :or another thieleiding,and moat im' - flaential of the upper Oxus princes have been made way with by the eineer,-- and the rest are apparently destined to-jrneet the same fate at the hands of the Afghan ally of Great Britain, whose hands are steeped in the blood_ of every man of note in, his deMittinitit-Wheitelonstithiidetti teteriiiiinical to his rule. THELSEOF OIL AT IV A• How Vessels can Safely beTaken Through Stormy Seas. The recent terrible gales on the English coast, daring which a large number of ves- sels and many lives were lost, and the ap- proaching season of heavy weather off our own coast and upon the North Atlantic ocean, bring forcibly to mind the strenuous efforts that are constantly being made Ly the hinygdroong.raphic office to induce all vessels to provide themselves with appliances for eject - The belief in the efficiency of this method of calming the waves has so firmly estab- lished itself in 'many cases thet a number of vessels are now especially provided with oil disturbing apparatus, and seldom a storm passes without one or more reports being submitted on the subject The general con - elusions being that had the precaution not been resorted to, fatal results would have followed. To substantiate this opinion one need only refer to the marine repor m of dis- aster that follow any one of the severe storms on our coast. When scudding before a gale the rules say that the oil should be distributed from the bow by means of oil -bags, or through waste pipes. It will thus spread aft as the ship continues on her course, and give pro- tection from both quartering and following seas. The effect is almost miraculous the foaming seas as they come tearing along, looking for all the world as though they would swallow up the vessels, masts and all, stop when they reach the " slick," over which their combers can not pass, and ex- pend their energies in futile efforts to reach their prey. If drifting in •the trough of a heavy sea use the oil from the forward waste -pipes, and put the bags over on the weather side. Lying to, to tack or wear ship, the oil can also be used from the same places. It seems woriderful that a film of oil too thin for the most delicate instrement to measure can have such an Asta,nteous e iect. even when there is a lashing and diabolical play of the water that no pen can describe. Everybody knows how much easier machinery runs when it is oiled, or, in other worde, when the friction is reduced. It is the same thing in this case—the wind can not catch a good hold on the water, as it is prevented from so doing by the oil on its surface. A vessel hove te for a pilot should dis- tribute oil from the weather side and lee quarter. The pilot -boat runs up to wind- ward and lowers a boat, which pulls down to leewerd and around the vessel's stern. The pilot -boat after sending off her boat then runs down to leeward, gets out off -bags to windward and on her lee quarter, and the boat pulls back around her stern, pro- tected by the oil. The vessels drift to lee. ward and leave an oil -slick to windward be- tween the two. Towing another vessel in a heavy sea is frequently a very dangerous operation, and again and again has the attempt been given up until wind and sea have abated, where- as in many instances it could readily have been accomplished had theoilileags been at ,hand, or, rather, had they been in service. They are very easy tainake;as they consist of nothing but a conical canvas bag stuffed with oakum, on which oil is plentifully poured, and having large sail needles thrust thiongle,andahrough the mama so that the teil,caet:have dichance , ooze out. Again and again �ouhl tliteadwing 'limiters have been kept efrem teaapping had ...this' simple remedy been:awn-a& ' The above instances are but samples of the many cases in which oil can be used. Lowering and hoistingboats, riding to a sea - anchor, crossing rollers or surf on a bar and from life -boats and stranded vessels are cases in which its utility is very marked. Min • eral tits are not so effective as animal or vegetable oils. Raw petroleum has been experimented with and has given favorable reattItnibutldnot al satisfactory as the re- fined' entifity.a Certain oils, like cocoanut and some kinds of fish oil, congeal in cold weather, and are therefore useless, but may be mixed with mineral oil to advan- tage. • wily She Was halous ofthe Garden.. She (weepingly) : "1 b -believe th-that you love your o -old garden hetterin you do me.' !Re (impatiently): "Whaili'foolish idea! What put fthat silly:, riptide 'ewer hiaid ? She (angrily): "Sdli, is it, when the hese you buy for me cost only one shilling e pair—and yotekick at that --and hem you have just spent two. peen& for hose for your garden." - AN AFRICAN MYSTERY* What Dalin Pasha Has Done Since He Was 66 Rescued " by Stanley. • The' late st kfrican mystery is Em in Pasha. Ever since th time when he so energetical ly protested against being found and rescued, he had been invested with romance and shrouded in uncertainty. When Mr. Stanley brought him out to Zaazibar the world was at a loss whether to reckon him a peevish ingrate Or an ill-used hero, and its doubts regarding him having only been intensified by the course of subsequent events. When he turned his back on eiviliza,tion again most people thought him moved by anger or chagrin, if not by actual unsoundness of mind. Yet, remembering his former high aehievements, there were those whosaw much method in his madness, and confidently looked for doings worthy of his fame. Since the forest shadows closed behind him we have had some definite news of him, and much more that is indefinite. What he is known to have done is a great work. What rumor attributes to hina is colossaL And while it may not be safe to accept as yet those rumors as facts, the weight of evi- dence is so far in their favor, and no ex- plicit denials of them or significant argu- ments against their truth have been adduced. Indeed, the recapture of Wadelai and a march on Khartoum itself would only be a natural sequel to what Emin has already certainly achieved. It was April 25, 1890, that having been landed at Bagamoyo by Mr. Stanley, Emin Pasha set out on his present expedition. With him were Lieut. Baogheld, Jr. &ilia - mann, Father Schynse, 100 soldiers (neg- roes) and 400 porters. Aug. 4 following he occupied Tabora, the headquarters of the Arabs in Central Africa and raised the Ger- man flag. Sept. 27th found him at Bukum- bi, the southern shore of Victoria Lake. Thence he proceeded up the west shore and Oct. 32 founded. the station of Buie:she at the mouth of the River Kagera, the stream which divides the German and British terri- tories . There he spent the winter, build- ing a town and forming extensive planta- tions, founding the neighboring -stations of Riliagwe and Moana and making treaties with the native tribes. A copy of the Ang- lo German treaty was sent to him there and also en official letter of recall. Possibly he did not get them. If he did he ignored them --to put it mildly. Instead of being recalled, in February, 1891, he moved for- ward, and m defiance of the treaty, march- ed into British territory. As soon as this was known Germany repudiated all respon- sibility for him. Of that fact he is not aware and if he were it probably would not worry him. In March and April he and Dr. Stulhrnan explored Mount Mfumbrio, and May 13 were at the southern end of -Albert Edward lake. Since that date we have bad no definite news of his doings. There was a report that he was going to Ruanda, which seemed reasonable, and another that he was going to march across the continent to the (lamer- oons, which seemed absurd. Then we were told that he had reached Wadelai and reoc- cupied all his old province, and, though a denial came next day, it was far weaker than the report, and the impression remain- ed that the news was probably true. Now it is repeated with renewed assurances of its truth. Why not? The whole province was garrisoned by only 250 mahdists, whose fort- ress and capital was the old Bordeen steam- er, now for many years stranded in the river ; while Selina Bey and 500 of Emin's former followers were at Kavalli's, on Albert lake, only waiting for Emin's return to redeem the province. With them Emin could easily have re-established his government, especi- ally since the mass of the people remained loyal to him. There has also come a vague report that he is preparing to march on Khartoum. This too seems not unlikely. It is not a far cry thither from Wadelai. And matters have been going very badly with the rnahdists. The once powerful city is now a defenseless ruin inhabited by a mere handful of people. Most of the mah- dist army has been called elsewhere, to support Osman Digna at Tokar, or to op- pose the Senoussi in the west. Thom who remained have been decimated by disease, and now a few hundred resolute soldiers could scatter them to the sandsof the desert - That Emin will do this is not of course cer. beim But it is neither impossible nor im- probable. And for Gordon's fall to be avenged by Gordon's friend and lieutenant would only be the most fitting conclusion possible to the dark drama of Khartoum. However that may be, When the mystery that now envelops Ellen's doings is all swept away we shall doubtless see that he has written by his deeds, from first to last, one of the most heroic and altogether ad- mirable chapters of the whole history of the dark continent. That Boy. The young rector tin evident embarrass- inent)—" My dear Miss Clara, I"—trying to leave his chair—" I believe I have form- ed an—attachment, and—" Miss C'ara blushing furiously)—" Oh, Arthur—I mean Mr. Green—this is so umnpected. I must—" The young rector (frantically) —" Beg pardon, Miss Clara, but I was about to say I have formed an attach- ment for this chair dueto the presence of a bit of cobbler's wax placed here by that un- regenerate brother of yours." [Intense de- light of the small boy in ambush.] • Time never wrote lines of beauty on a face that carried behind it a double impulse of action, one for theworldand one forprivat e life. Tbe face tells the story of the double life and the lines contradict each other. The wayfarer is rever tempted to stop them for aid and comfort on Ins journey. Comptitieon the Death of Trade. One by one the old saws and proverbs which have been venerated by the world for ages are being dethroned and prod adduced that the truth which they were supposed to express has in reality not been truth at all. How many times has the proverb, "competition is the life of trade," been quoted, and always with the belief that it could not be gainsaid. A writer in the December Forum, however, declares that competition as we now have it is the death of trade rather than the life. The essayist takes the ground that the competition which the larger and more wealthy concerns in all branches of trades exercise is £0 destructive to the smaller con. cerns that they are compelled to cease busi- ness and thus capital is cost, competition is reduced, and individuals suffer. Special reference is made to the railway system of America, which Is described as being built up under " unregulated competition. But closer examination will prove tint the competition is not altogether unregulated. It is regulat ed by self-interest and certain established forces. Nowhere in the world has the railr oad respouded as promptly to the Public de mends as on this continent, it has even gone beyond these demands and opened new p athways of commerce. Un- doubtedly the result of this has been to de- prive some lines of the monopoly of special branches of business, or of a portion of their trade in a certain territory. It injures that railroad and the stockholder in it, but it isiof vast good to the country. The abuses of which complaint is so often made come chiefly from this compe- tition, but time cures even these abuses, or at any rate it to a great extent mitigates them. The chief trouble arises when the attempt is made to regulate competition. This puts a stop to the natural development of the country, discourages investment of money in new lines, and checks for the time being our industrial progress and commer- cial growth. ' The great sources of competi- tion with the railways of Canada and the States are the water routes. Above and be- yond any rule of law, river rates regulate railroad rates. It !night hea good -thing for themailroads to have this competition regu- lated or abolished, but it would not be a good thing for the community. It is not necessary to denounce competi- tion as a ruinous influence hi order to justify the voluntary organizations of railroads or their associations. There are abuses that arise in Competition for-hu:si, nets that may, for a time anieast, be elimiii- ated by agreement, but the history of the railroads has been this: Competition makes manifest the necessity for anagreement as to rates and the methods of securing business ; this agreement proving profitable - to the roads concerned, calls attention to the value of such investments, with the re- sult that capital begins again the construc- tion of new lima These new lines being out of the organization, have to get -bush ness upon the best terms possible, With the result that the organization collapses and competition again has free and unregulated itntrani .RISSIAN °NUM& Dit. Cruelties Perpetreted by Government OBI cers on Peasants and Exiles. Reports of the cruelties whichetovern- ment officers practice on the common peo- ple since the ukase was issued permitting thein to "inflict chastisement on the free- dom" are coming in from all parts of the Russian empire, says the New York Sun. Some of those administrators of law and order seem to have waited fee that ukase to manifest the deviltry which had been pent np in their souls since, by the benign legis- lation of Alexander II the common people had been granted ghe rights of men." Here are two examples of the kind. Polo - shin, the starshina or forman of the dis- trict of Oboyansk, government of Koorsk, made it a practice to extort government taxes from the peasants by torture. A pea- sant who was behind with his taxes was tied half naked to the wall of the village office with his boots hanging on his neck by a rope as a mark of disgrace. In order that he should stand erect nails were put in the wall behind him so that his nude body was severely pricked whenever he got tired and attempted to lean on the wall. Poloshin submitted an aged peasant named Tarassov to this torture, and kept him standing there fully eight hours. That embittered the villagers, and they complained before tile natchalnik of the district. The latter told the starshina that he should not do it again but did not inflict any punishment on him for what he had done. Here is another instance, reported in Vostotehuoye Obosrenie. The assistant of the natenalnik of a populous town in lekootsk is a sworn enemy to Siberian settlers, i e., exiles who are at liberty to choose their own dwelling place in Siberia. According to his own statement he has no appetite for dinner on any day that he does not inflict the rod on two or three settlers. When he orders such chastisement he is invariably present at the execution, and gloats over the pain and humiliation of his victim. One morning as he sat at his writing desk a man wrapped in a heavy cloak came in. He looked at him furtively and mistook him for the deacon of the church. "Sit down, father deacon, I shall be at your Lien ice in a minute," he said politely. " Y have not the honor to be the father deacon : I am the settler M—, your honor," the man said nervously. The assistant jumped up in a fury and exclaimed "Who in the devil's name admitted this dog here? Guard, take him out and give him thirty-five hot ones! Mind you, hot ones of the best kind t' The poor fellow, who had come on business, received the unexpected and unmerited chastisement and left the place more dead than alive, without having an opportunity even to tell what his business was. RAILWAIINDOINGS. YNIDENTIFIED PHILOSOPHY. Keep what "his folks say" out of the domestic counsels. Isla% it. strange how a little bile in the husband will keep the whcle family in hot water? Perhaps some people feel a little alarmed about the year 1892 beeause it begins on Friday. Warm affections and then cold criticism turned onto the child alternately are apt to crack its temper. Some State laws give the wife two-thirds Berlin's railroad depot will cost $4,000,- 000. London has ten main railroad lines. Railway traveling in India is the cheap est in the world. A locomotive's strength equals 900 horses. China has forty miles of railroad. The Southeln Pacific is compelling tele- graphers to take oath that they are not union men. The pennsylvania Railroad has sent a train of three cars and an engine from Jer- sey City to Washington, 228 miles, in four hours' actual running time. The fastest regular train in the world is run between Hamburg and Berlin,Gennany, making fifty-two and one-third miles per hour, including stops. The longest and heaviest train ever car, ried over any railroad in this country con- sisted of 225 loaded four-wheel coal cars ou the Lehigh Valley railroad. A good many locomotive engines are be- ing compoanded, and all railroad managers expect to have to use the compounded en- gine. The Reading Company has ordered twenty-one. If all the locomotives in the United States were coupled together they would make a train 200 miles tong. Add the passenger cars and we would have a train 7,000 miles long, carrying 1,500,000 passengers. The Interstate Commerce Commissioaers report that during the year 6,320 persons were kille 1 and 29,034 were injured on the railroads of the United States. Of the kil- led 2,451 were employes. An Italian engineer has originated a sys- tem by which he proposes to utilize the power of trains running down grade; that is, he has devised a machine for compressing air as the train goes down, which can be used to actuate a motor at the will of the engineer, and to assist the locomotive up grades. Compressed air is used in the Union Pa. cific Company's shed at Portland for remov- ing dust on railway cars. It is delivered from a flexible hose with a smail nozzle at a peessure of fifty pounds to the square inch. It is very effective in_ cleaning plush cush- ions. of the husband's estate, but all of them give the whole estat to the lawyers. The influenza is playing a return engage- ment. There is, however, a realism about its performances that few people appreciate. Adjectives are words used to qualify bon- nets, babies and beaux. They are superla- tive, supersuperlative and superlatively sil- ly. Time flies so fast that little girl babies . ng women and arc put into no sooner put oat of long dresses than theyare you athreemn One of the greatest mistakes a man can -himself:sick over business and then call a mdaayk,oe wisortok. sit down at a desk and worry it It isn't the girl who can earn her own liv- ing, but the one who can earn two livings, who is being anxiously looked for by some rung men. So much attention and praise is given the worthle(stazanhis whenbest he dies that it is very discouraging to the hard-working fellow whois There is hurdly a man on earth who has St°hirktho himselfOralluhpeinctilumeafkefine weather bdyoesn't tak- ing his umbrella along, and by leaving it at home can bting down a deluge. As atiellestration that there is often more pleasure in the pursuit of a thing than in its anduiiition. The Boston Transcript re- marks that you couldn't make a boy more joyfully beg of /iota jiist ahe s is starting out tiotirapYtAshenesb,y presenting him with a nice nutting More Enterprise. A Jewish tailor was charged with remov- ing a goblet from the hand of a statue which adorned a drinking fountain, and with sub- stituting a placard advertising his shop. His defence, delivered with a sweet, ingra- tiating smile, was—" Well, shudge, of course I vents to get along in peesness. That vas yhy I put up the placard about the new stcck of padent shoes and hair oil, and that vas viler I put a hat and a collar on the statue." -- "What !" exclaimed the judge; "did you dare to dress up the statue in a collar and hat? I hadn't heard of that." "Veit, but those plack hats is sheep at four shillings, shudge," pleaded the defend- ant. "Moses Levy ctarge,s five and a hold vor dem same kind. I beats dose fellers efery dimes. But bitch irto me, aff you blease, shudge. Speak loudt, so don noos- paper Yellers can hear you," and he smiled benignantly upon the reporter!. "Great Heavens 1" thundered the Court, as a frightful idea, struck him. "Is it pos- sible you have the audacity to use the ma- chinery of this court as an advertising dodge ? ' "Dot's it, shudge," exclaimed the Cheap John, rubbing his hands, exultingly. "1 -took out der shummons myself 1" Editorial Resignati on. If all goes well, Old King Christian IX. of Denmark and his amiable consort will cele- brate their golden wedding in May next. Their subjects will celebrate and heartily rejoice with them, for the roved • couple are very popular except, it mayloe, in Iceland, where the King's opposition to the demanda of the people has led to some emigration and much disrespectful language. On the whole, the lives of King Christiar and Queen Louise have been peaceful and bappy, and their family circle has had tie . distinction of supplying a Czarina to Ruseia, a Prnmess of Wales to .England, and a nog to Greece. 711.11.11mImminnalm. WILD W A ISTQRct OF THE IN Not to hava seen al City would, so recent ego, have been looked ous defect in a Weste: tion. Never to have would at one* have • • a 1:tenderfoot.. Wild Will, fheit. Hi J. B. Hickock ; at th forgotten, and his fa stuck to him more c shirt. His reputation seont in the West -wa wide; but Western se{ Ity of mountain guide to much. They are sonal reminiscence w deeply with impunity, who invites them b pecta they are genet" deseribed as fraucle. ever, was one of the overshadow their wor eourage and eteeie -endeared him to the 11 cowboys, who regar. 'ro, and rendered his terror to every red - great Missouri_ Custer City lies region of the famous is pleasantly situate hemmed in on all si rising hills, rock -rib with dark towering time of which I writ - regularly laid out; chiefly constructed boards taken from ests, might be roug about one thousand looked like a promis to come; but the gr of Deadwood nippe and, from a mining into a centre for su Life in the wild B1 real and earnest tha the schools and bank, try, as many a for or sometimes daepe covered; while its nese somewhat com not infrequent brevit are apt to develop bracing atmosphere clerical friend of the pursues his duty at ta, notwithstanding ate predecessor was street by a drunken he kimself weekly fi and cartridges figur tion plate. This la only the way of the hesitate to play pra the man for whom t gentle is he with th 'accidents' which ar curring in a mining The God of Custer his temples in the s were be every stree one of these was ken Moriarty, an Irish red -armed, and red -h had assembled at mining hours in ord see the fun. There wa large bar -room. A s of not more than eig years of age, was st vice -like grasp of a looking miner of twi was plainly only a q rites when the burl trush his youthful before the older man self from his delicate - antagonist, the youn nasty blow, drawing trom his opponent's f laughed at this. Stu BI mockery, the irri, ;pick as lightning, dr his -belt and levelled it eemed certain. At tone stepped swiftly -1J 's open door, laid his I brawny desperado's Without apparent e reelinw, to the farther 'Wild Will!' The w pered admiration r The miners clustered ether; the more ti more prudent, of Mo ers withdrew. There be some free shootin occurred, and both puted handy with the 'The new -corner sto two inches in height. ingly powerfully buil open and highly inte en hair fell in long t on his broad shoulde and laughing in expr straight in the face and his thin, closely were partly covered b moustache. He seem women and children ively cling to in the ger. This hero, strangely out of Dia bar -room, ware a co -a curious combinatio a prairie ranger wit Ionable dandy. Fro skirts of his elabora buckskin coat gleam pair of sllyer-mounte were his inseparable The bully speedily elf. Staggering to h -back toward his assa coil with dismay fro de of a revolver. an chievous eye which gl cruelly behind it. in' iron at once, sir The pistol fell with floor. 'Curse, you, Will!' tow, as his hand mo Wards his belt. 'Wha for? iTisn't no bus' 'Hands up, Jack 'Will means busines T say, mate, that 1 'Send 1 mav die but In old Colorado Jack' red cent.' Suck were some Whit* the miners ad other. Clearly Wild Will orite in Custer City. 'The quarrelsome r -been called 'Colorado (-and knew that he s friendless and dlione -shifted tmeasily, first tliea on the other, an ed,44_I?luster' out : ; Ton homa, • 11 11