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Wednesday, April. 3rd. 1359
SOMETHING ABOUT BARLEY.
Hamilton Spectator.
If the duty on barley were abolish-
ed our farmers'wo,uld find the grow-
ing of this cereal's profitable branch
of husbandry. Although it is other-
wise asserted by those who try to
mislead the, publii'c, eleven millions
and a +gnlr-ter; `buiihets of barley,
valued at about seven and three-
quarter million dollars, were export-
ed to the United States during the
past year. There is no other mar-
ket for our barley, and if we had
reciprocity with our neighbors the
d.enand for thin as well as other
cereals would inreasil immensely.
—Stratford Beacon.
If there` is'iio'other`'Market 'than
the United States for Canadian bar-
ley, the Canadian Farmers had bet-
ter quit growing harloy, for there is
no market for it in the United
States. Once upon a time there
was a big demand for Canadian
barley among the brewers of the
United States, for the reason that
Canadian barley is brighter than
any grown south of the boundary
line, and made brighter beer. But
American brewers now use rice and
other cheap material to brighten up
their beer, and will not buy Canad-
ian barley. I-Iolders of Canadian
barley in Toronto cannot get quota-
tions from American dealers ; there
is absolutely no demand in the
United States for Cana4liau barley,
unlese it be sold at the same price
as low grade American barley.
There was some barley exported to
the United Statile during the Last
Canadian fiscal year ; but the re-
turns for the present year will show
a tremendous falling off. If Canad-
ian farmers will grow the two rowed
variety they will he able to find a
good market in England ; but the
barley ,trade with the United States
is entirley gone. The Beacon has
not been keeping track of the bar-
ley trade.
DEVILISH DOINGS
—A young woman named Tonrg-
nian, at Buckingham, Ont., during
sleep, drove a hair -pin into her
skull by some means, and in a few
days death ensued,
—A. well dressed young woman,
about seventeen years of age, who
claims iiamilion as her home, took
a dose of strychnine in a Brampton
hotel on Saturday night. The
hearty meal which she had eaten
shortly before, combined with
prompt medical attendance, saved
her life She declines to give her
name, but says a cruel stepmother
and a persistant lover are at the bot-
tom of her troubles.
—Mr. Stratford Tree, of East
Zurrn, laid au informatiou on Fri-
day against a lad in his employ
named Aaron Farmworth, charging
him with an unmentionable crime.
The offence wits committed uu a
little, six-year-old son of Mr. Tree's.
'iVhen Farmworth was first charged
with the crime he denied it, but
afterwards confessed. Mr. Tree i
then gave him a thorough horse •1
whipping, after which 'ire placed the
fellow iu charge of another man and
drove to town to Secure his •arrear.
He was remanded for examination.
—The two children of Taylor
Cook, a Kansas farmer, found their
father and mother miseing, the fur-
niture broken and everything in
confusion. Finally they discovered
the dead body of their mother lying
between two feather beds. The
head was beaten into a jelly. A
club tae lying on the floor, stained
with blood and hair. Cook had
committed the murder and fled. He
had frequently threatened to kill
his wife. There is great excitement,
and a vigilance orginazation will as-
sist in pursuing the murderer.
—George Fielding, as English
man, swho has described himself
throughout Toronto as an evangelist
and has preached at street corners,
torts out to be anything but what
he has re.preseuted himself to be.
While claiming .acquaintance with
some of the most active Christian
workers in the city and giving
them as references, he has been
quietly using the confidence placed
in him to be a thief. He was arres-
ted Tuesday charged with stealing a
quantity of wearing apparel from a
lady who keeps a very respectable
boarding house in the city, and
there are other charges of theft
pending against him. • His mode of
working was to pick up some loose
woman, and, representing her to be
his wife, stay a few days at respect-
able boarding houses and take what-
ever he could.
—In Kentucky a dispute arose
last week over a pig. A fight en-
sued, and the friends of the two fam-
ilies flocked to their assistance.
For several days early in the week
the mountaineers in the vicinity
were armed to the teeth. A pitched
battle was fonght, in which it is
said more than 500 ahots were fired
and a number ' of . persons were
-wounded. A sheriff's posse was
sent to arrest the rioters, but it was
driven back. It was then that!
Judge Cull headed a posse and
made for the mountains. Another
pitched battle resulted, but the
judge's party got the best of it. The
sher'iff's posse is still in the moun-
tains after the outlaws, and before
the month ends it is likely a dozen
more lives will be sacrificed. Last
night word was received by courier
that in a fight near Salt Race Trace
on Saturday night four men were
killed and a dozen wounded.
—Toronto Nems i—The publicity
given the particulars of the elope-
ment of Builder Musson with the
young girl. Milly Spanner has
brought to light another scandal
that is agitating Methodist church
circles. Strong efforts have been
made to keep the case from reaching
the ears of the congregation, but the
Sunday school teachers have spread
the -story pretty well over the church
membership, and a writ, it is said,
will be issued immediately. It is'
stented that the parties principally iu-
terested are ttPo Sunday school"
teachers, the young man being well
off in this world's goods, and the
girl being very highly connected in
the city. It is understood that the
young man has offered to settle the
affair by a monetary paymentoa'$1,-
200, and negotiations are now pend-
ing, but should these fall through,
fa suit for adduction will be tried at
the next Court of Civil Assize.
=Marshall Barr, a young man em-
ployed as bartender in the village of
Castlemore, has been lodged in jail
at Brampton charged with shooting
the daughter of Mr. Thomas Byrne,
a farmer, who resides in the Gore of
Toronto. Young Barr was visiting at
the Byrnes', and finding a gun stand-
ing in a corner, pointed it at Annie
Byrne to scare her. Sho cried,
"Don't shoot," and ran around the
corner of the house, Barr following.
Miss Byrne begged her tormentor
riot to point the gun at her, but he
chased her some distance with the
rifle aimed straight at her and then
pulled the trigger. The ball enter-
ed the unfortunate girl's left breast,
passed through her lung and carne
out close to the spinal column.
There are hopes of saving Mise
Byrne's life. L'arr denies any fel-
onious intent, as he supposed the
gun was not loaded. He has been
committed for ,trial.
—Two man, well dressed and of
plausible address, have been play-
ing a sharp trick ou the farmers of
West Nisseiri and Dorchester
Township. They represent them-
selves as agents of varioue jewelry
houses in Toronto and other cities,
and offer what appear to be genuine
gold watcht•s ;i1 prices ranging from
$10 to 5)0. If questioned as to
the reason of their ability to sell at
such a low ,figure, the reply is that
the firm they represented had failed,
and that the proprietor had allowed
thein to retain their samples in lieu
of back salary. The game worked
nicely, and among the victims
and A1ies Phipps, of the 5th
concession ; Joseph Uren, of the 3rd
concession, and many others. A
local jeweler placed the va:ue of the
watches at $1.50, the cases being of
aluminum instead of gold. Tho
farmers will consult their own in-
terests by giving such fellows a wide
beith.
—fit. Thomas Timex.—John
Eustace, tho miserable scoundrel
who is morally responsible for all
the misery and woe created by the
smallpox in this county, has been
regarded as a contemptible ruffian
for years past, having figured in
numerous troubles and lute appeared
before the magistrate in this city on
more than one occasion for fighting
and rowdyism. He came straight
from Buffalo on November 23rd
last, having but one or two, days
previously been released from a
house quarantined because of the
presence of smallpox patients there-
in. When the disease broke out in
his house he denied to the doctor
that he had been exposed to small-
pox. After perceiving the effect
of his work, the scoundrel stepped
out and is now believed to be in
Detroit. Should he ever return
to the infected district there are
those who prophesy that his body
will dangle from the nearest tele-
graph pole within twenty-four hours
of his arrival. He cannot with
the professional men, plead ignor-
ance of the nature of the disease,
and of the 27 cases, nine are direct-
ly attributable to the dance which
he held in his house while the
children wore down with the dis-
ease.
—A school teacher named John
Archibald Watsonwho trains the
young idea out at Maple village in
York County, was arrested by the
county constables under a capias
issued against him in connection
the suit of Kirby v. Watson, which
will be heard at the Civil Assize
Court in a few days. The facts of
the case, in which heavy damages
are claimed for seduction and breach
of promise of marriage, are as fol-
lows : The plaintiff is Miss Alice
Kirby, daughter of a Vaughan farm-
er. Sho and the defendant in the
suit, Watson, wore schoolmates, and
knew one another from childhood.
About six years ago the defendant
Watson began to pay attentions to
Miss Kirby, and frequently went
to the home of her parents. He al-
so carried on a correspondence with
her when she was away at college.
Some four years ago he proposed,
and the two entered into an agree-
ment to marry. Tho defendant
neglected and finally refused to
marry her. About the month of
April last Watson is alleged to have
seduced the girl, who is now about
to become a mother. She claims
$5,000 damages. Watson denies
that he is guilty of seduction, and
says that if there was an understand-
ing of marriage between them he
was exonerated before any breach
took place. A verdict for $7,000
was given against him, but the
Judge ruled that no more than
the $5,000 claimed could be allow-
ed.
—One' day towards the close of
last week Wm. Findlay, and. Frank,
bailiffs of Elora and Fergus, started
out in their war paint and feathers
to make an assault on the goods and
chattels of a Garafraxa farther, who
had-failed—to pay his debts. Very
stealthily did they approach the re-
sidence of their victim, and succeed-
ed in getting to the house unnoticed
except by a young man who was do-
ing chores about the yard. They
managed to gain ndmittauce to the
house by a good deal of pluck and
manoeuvering, and were shown seats
by a prepossessing domestic. This
lady appeared to show every consid-
eration for the guests, while they a-
waited the return of the master of
the house, who was said to be away.
The lady spoken of was cooking
something upon the stove, and go—
ing into another room she brought
out what the officers of law supposed
to be spice of some kind for the
dish that was cooking. Whether
by accident or otherwise the spice
fell upon the stove, and the domes-
tic at once got on the other side of
the door which she bolted, locking
the men in. The spice having he -
gun to dance around by aid of the
heat, tufned out to bo red pepper,
and two bailiffs could lie heard snort-
ing for several rods, poles or perches
arouud. After some little time,
every minute of which seemed *an
age, the men managed to pry open
the door and got outside, where two
of the young men of the family,
with upturned sleeves, wanted to
engage in a not very friendly com-
bat with them. Tho noble bailiffs,
after making a gallant struggle a-
gainst such fearful odds, hail to ro•
tire at last without any reward for
their labor, save the immense a-
mount of fun they experienced and
the grim visages they were obliged
to wear for twenty-four houas after-
wards.
— Edward Honor, a Malden,
Essex county farmer, sowed spring
wheat ou Friday 22.
—Manitoba farmers have this
spring bought over $200,000 worth
of seeding implements. '
— Judgment has been given that
Indians on Reserves cannot vote on
petitions for the repeal of the Scatt
A et.
—Five Hundred people from
Quebec Province left Montreal in
one day last week to settle in the
North west. These will be followed
shortly by 200 more,
— Mr. David Stilton, Postmaster
of Guelph, is in receipt of a letter
from Mr. Kenneth McKenzie, AL
P. 1'., B.urnsirlo, Portage la Prairie,
formerly of Puatinch, in which the
writer states that he' sowed twenty
bushels of wheat on the nth of
March,
BLOWN FROM A GUN.
During the Sepoy rebellion of
1857-'58 many of the mutineers
were blown away from the guns. It
was a terrible punishment, one
which had been inflicted a century
before at the first mutiny of the
Bengal army in 1764.. A battalion
of Seyoye had eeized and imprisoned
its Euglisb officers, and vowed it
would serve no more. A strong
hand arrested the mutiny at its be-
ginning. Twenty-four Seyoys were
tried by a drum -head court martial,
found guilty, and sentenced to be
blown away from the cannon.
On the.day of the execution the
troops were drawn up, English and
Seyoys, the guns were loaded, and
the prisonere4d forth to suffer the
terrible penalty.
The wind of command was given
for the first four criminals to be
tied up to the muzzles of the guns.
As the meu were being bound, four
tall, stately grenadier's stepped for-
ward from among the condemned
Soyuys, saluted the commander,
Major Hector Munro, chief of the
Bengal army, and asked that as they
had always held the post of honor
in life, they might be given the
precedence in death, as it was their
due. The request was •granted.
The grenadiers were tied to the
guns and blown to pieces.
A murmur ran through the Seyoy
battalions, who greatly outnumber-
ed the Euglieh troops, and it seem-
ed as if they were about to rescue
their companions—the twenty con -
dowelled men.
The officers of the native regi-
ments approached Munro, and told
him that their men wore not to be
trusted, as they had determined not
to permit the execution -to proceed.
The chief knew that on the, issue of
that' parade for excution depended
the fate of the Bengal army.
The English troops were few, and
there was scarcely a man among
then not moved to tears by the
fearful death of the four grenadiers.
But the commander knew they could
be trusted to defend the guns, which,
turned upon the Seyoys, would de-
feat any attempt to rescue their
coin rades.
Major Munro closed the English
on to the battery—the grenadiers
on the other—and loaded the pieces
with grape. Then he sent the Se-
yoy officers back to their battalion.
and gave the native regiments the
lyord of command, "Ground arms !"
They knew it would be madness
to disobey in the presence of the
loaded guns, and laid down their
arms.
•
" Right about face ! Forward—
March !" was the next command.
The Seyoys marched a distance
from•their grounded arms, and the
English soldiers, with guns, took
ground on the intervening space.
Tho danger had passed away.
The native troops were at Munro's
mercy, and the execution went
on to its dreadful close. The sacri-
fice of a few lives saved thousands.—
Hayx s History of the Sepoy War.
HOW THE PIANO _GREW.
The piano as we see it to -day, is
the growth of centuries of invention.
Iu its infancy it was a harp with
two or three strings. Froin time to
time more strings wore added, and
after a while the cithara was born.
The cithara was in the shape of the
letterJP, and had ten strings.. •
It took many centuriea for music-
ians to get the idea of stretching the
strings across an open box, but
somewhere about the year 1200 this
was.thought of, and the dulcimer
made its appearance, the strings be-
ing•struck with hammers.
For another hundred years these
hammers were held in the hands of
the player, and then a genius in-
vented a keyboard, which, being
struck by the fingers, moved the
hammers. .
This instrument was called a
clavicythorium, or keyed cithara.
This underwent some modifications
and improvements from time to time.
In Queen Elizabeth's time it was
called a virginal. Then it was call-
ed a spine, because the hammers
were covered with spines of quills,
which struck or caught the strings
of wires and produced the sound,
From 1700 to 1800 it was much
enlarged and improved, and called a
harpsichord, and this was the instru-
ment that Lady Washington, Mrs.
idarnilton and the fine ladies of the
revolutionary times played on.
In 1710 I3artolorndq Cristofoli,
an Italian invented a key or key-
board, such as we have now substan-
tially, which causes hammers to
strike the wires from above, and
thus developed the piano.
In the past 150 years there is no
musical instrument which has so
completely absorbed the invontit)'#
faculty of plan as the piano. The
reason is obvious; it is the household
instrument par excellence. At the
present day the upright piano has
the field almost entirely to itself,
and in the evolutionary progress
has reached such a high grade of
perfection in shape, tone and beauty
of appearance that there would ap-
pear to he no possibility df future
improvement.
FOR OUR STORY -READERS.
P„ig, TRANSIENT GUEST.
A STORY IN FIVE OHAPTERS.
I.
Since the Koenig Wilhelm, of
the Dutch East India service, left
Batavia, the sky had been torpidly
blue, that suffocating indigo which
seems so neighborly that the
traveler fancies were he a trifle
taller he could touch it with the
ferule of his stick. When night
came, the stars would issue from
their ambush and stab it through
and through, but the glittering
cicatrices which they made left it
bluer even, more persistent than
before. And now, as the ship
entered the harbor, there was a
cruelty about it that exulted and
defied. The sun, too, seemed to
menace; on every bit of brass it
`placed a threat, and in the lap of
the loves there was au understand-
ing and a pact. Beyond, to the
right, was one long level stretch
of sand on which the breakers fawn-
ed with recurrent surge and swoon.
Behind it were the green ramparts
of a forest; to the left were the
bungalows and .booths of Siak ;
while in the distance, among the
hills and intervales, where but a
few years before natives lurked be-
neath the monstrous lilies and
clutched their krise in fierce surmise,
a locomotive had left a trail of
smoke.
"Sumatra, too, has gone the way
of the world," thought one who
lounged on deck.
He was a good-looking young
fellow, browner far than he had
been when he left New York, and
l7o was garbed in' a fashion that
would have attracted the notice of
the most apathetic habitue of Nar-
raganset Pier. Save for a waist-
band of yellow silk, he was clad
wholly in that dead white which is
known as frontage a la creme. Had
,his cork hat been decorated with a
canary bird's feather; you would
have said a prince stepped from a
fairy tale. At his heels was a fox
terrier, which 'he .had christened
Zut. When he wished to be empha-
tic, however, Zut was elongated into
Zut Alors.
"The general's compliments, sir,
and aro you ready 1"
It was tho polyglot steward
addressing him, with that deference
which is born of tips.
Tancred Ennever—the only son
of Furman Ennever, who, as every
one knows, is head and front of the
steadiest house in Wall street—turn•
ed and nodded. "Got my traps,
up 1" lie asked, and without wait-
ing for a reply sauntered 'across the
deck. He had met the general—
Petrus van Lier, Consul df the
Netherlands to Siak—at the Govern-
ment House at Batavia, and although
the trip .which ho had outlined for
himself consisted, for the moment
at least, in making direct for that
sultry, holo which is known as
Singapore, yet the general had so
represented the charms and pleas•
urea of Sumatra that he had consen-
ted to become his guest: In extend-
ing the invitation the general may
have had an ulterior motive, but in
that case he let no inkling of it
escape.
And now as Tancred crossed the
deck, the general stretched hi hand.
He was a man whose fiftieth 'birth
day would never bo feted agaiu.
He had the dormant eyes of his
race, those eyes in whish apathy is
a screen to vitiganee, find his chin
had the tenacity of a.rock. His
upper lip was furnished with a
cavalry moustache of the indistinct -
est gray, the ends upturned and
fierce. In stature ito was short and
slim. It should be added that he
was bald. •
Though the ship had barely halt-
ed, already it was surrounded by
pralius and sampans, the indigenous
varieties of skiffs, and among
them one there Ras so trim it might
have cornu from a man-of-war. In
the bow a fluttering pennon pro
claimed it a belonging of the Dutch.
The coxswain had already saluted,
and sat awaiting the orders of his
chief.
The general Motioned with a
finger, the coxswain touched his
forehead. and iu a moment the boat
was at the slantiug ladder. Tancrod
and the general descended, there
was a sullen comiiiancl, and the
oarsmen headed for the shore,
"Wo aro so late my people will
bo worried," confided the consul, as
the landing was reached. Usually
—" and es he ran on dilating on
the unpunctuality of the service,
Tancred remembered to have heard
that his host was about to be
married •to an English widow, who,
with her brother, was then stopping
at the consul's bungalow.
"Be still, Zut," ordered Tancred,
for the dog was yelping like mad at
afawn colored butterfly that floated,
tantplizingly, just out of roach. It
was as big asi a bird, sand its eyes
were ruby. ".lie still."
On the wharf a crowd of Malays
and Chinese impeded the way, the
Celestials garbed in baggy breeches
and black vests, the Malays, naked-
er, wickeder, darker and more com-
pact. Beyond was an open square,
a collection of whitewashed booths,
roofed with tilos of inottl•d rod, and
cottages of thatched palm. In the
air w the odor of epioes and
cachou
Guided by his host, Tancred
entered an open vehicle that waited
there. Then, after a brisk drive
through the town, a long sweep
through a quiet lane that was
bordered nowby rine-fields, now by
giant trees festooned by lianas and
rattans, and again by orchards of
fruit and betel -nut, at last, in a
grove of palms, a house was roached,
a one -storied dwelling, quaint,
roomy, oblong and still. Au hour
later the general and his guest were
waiting dinner in the bale -bale of
the bungalow.
Presently from the panoplied
stops came the tinkle of moving
feet. The general rose' from his
chair.
"My future wife," he announced
in an aside. "Mrs. Lyeth," he con-
tinued, "this is Mr. Ennever."
She was a woman such as the
midland counties alone produce,
one whom it would be proper to
describe as queenly, were it not
that queens are dowda. She just
lacked being tall. Her hair was
of that hue of citron which is
noticeable itt very young children,
and it was arranged in the' fashion
we have copied from the Greeks,
but her features were wholly Eng-
lish, features that the years would
remold with coarser thumb, but
which as yet preserved the fresh-
ness and the suavity of a pastel.
One divined thb►t her limbs were
strong and supple. Sho held her-
self with a grace of her own, on
her eneeka was a flush, her mouth
seemed to promise more than any
mortal mouth could give ; in short,
she was beautiful, a northern splen-
dor in a tropic frame.
Tancred, who had risen with the
general, stared for a second and
bowed.
"Muhammad's prophecy is rea-
lized," he murmured ; and as Mrs.
Lyeth eyed hits inquiringly, "At
sunset," he added, "I behold a
rising sun.''
And moving forward he took her
wrist and brushed it with his lips.
"One might fancy one's self at
Versailles," Mrs. Lyeth replied, and
sank into a wicker chair.
"Olympus, rather," Tancred cor-
reoted, and found a seat at her
side.
"Him" mused the lady, but evi-
dently nothing pertinent could have
occurred to her, for she hesitated a
moment and then graciously enough
remarked, "The general tells me he
knows your father."
"Yes, it ipayeven,-bo that .we are
connected; thereewas a Sdsinje Van
Lior, who married an Ennever, oh,
apes ago. The „general, however,
thinks she ' was not a relative of
his."
"I have forgotten," the general
interjected„ and glanced at his:
future bride. "Is Liance never
coming 1"
From without came the hum 'of
insects, a hum so insistent, so ener-
vating, and yet so Wagnerian in
intensity, that you would have said
a nation of them wero celebrating a
feast of love. Presently the mur-
murs were punctuated by the beat
of a wooden gong, and as the rever-
ations fainted in the night, a young
girl appeared.
The general left his chair again.
"My daughter," he announced ;
and as Tancred bowed, he reniem-
bored that the general had been a
widower before he bad became
engaged to the divinity that' sat at
his side.
You're tin American, aru't you 1"
the girl asked.
There was nothing forward in her
manner ; on the contrary, it was
languid and restrained, as though
the equatorial sky had warped her
nerves. But her eyes had in them
a flicker of smouldering firs ; they
seemed to project interior flames.
Her complexion was without color,
unless indeed olive inay be account-
ed ono. Her abundant hair was so
dark it seemed nearly blue. At
the corners of -her upper lip was
the faintest trace of down. Her
frock was like the night, brilliant
yet subdued ; it was black, but
glittering with little sparks ; about
her bare arms' were coils of silver,
and froru her waist hang cords of
platted steel. Sho looked as bar,
baric as Mrs. Lyeth looked divine.
"Yes," Tancred answered, smiling-
ly ; but before he could engage in
further speech, the general's "boy"
announced that dinner was served,
"What do you think of it hero 1"
aaked Mrs. Lyeth, whose arm he
found within his own.
And as they passed from tho
bale -hale, as an uninclosed pavilion
is called, to the dining room beyond,
Tancred answered :
"What does one think of the
Arabian Nights 1"
But there was nothing Arabesque
abcnt the meal of which he was
then called upon to partake. It
began with oysters, rather brackish
but good, and ended with cheese.
Save for some green pigeons with
their plumage undisturbed, and a
particularly fiery karri, it was just
such a dinar as the average diner -
oat enjoys on six nights out of seven.
There were three It imis ,of 4ench
wino at.d a variety of Dutch