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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1889-08-14, Page 2She plop; gt$0.-gerovg I. B443HP Eifel" Wenslinescle.y Aftorning VN.vs &ft: AT Timm POWER PRESS PRINTING HOUSE, Ontario Street, Clinton. f1.'50 a Yesti—$11.05 in Advance. The preprietersof Tat Goo semi Nitwit, having purchased the business and plant of THE HURON RECORD, will in lu.ure ublish the amalgamated papers in Milton, ander the title of "'PRE HUiON NEws- RECORD," Clinton. is the most prosperotm towntin Western Ontario, is the seat of considerabie manufacturing, and the centre of the finest grictiltural section in Ontario. The combined circulation ofTuaNiws ttE004.0 exceeds that of any paper pub. lished in the Clunty of Huron: It isi therefore, unsitepassed as an advertising medium. al -Hates of advertising liberal, and furnished on applieation. terParties making contracts for a speci- fied time, who discontinue their adveitiset ment, before the erpiry of the sante, will be chutzeil full rates. • • Advertisements, without ipstruetionses to space and time, will be lull to the julg- ment orithe compositor in the pisplay, in- serted ' until forbidden; measured by a scale of solid nonpareil 02 lines to the inchWand charged,1.0 cents a line.for that insertion, ayo. 3, centq.a line for each FRU- leqtierit insertion. Orders to. diScontinue adVertigements kook, he in writintt: Sirf/sTetices set- as imantrici ittiverEit, (metteuredby a Scale of solid Notipariel, 12 lines to,the inch) chargelt at the rate of Meents a line for each insertion. JOB, WORK. . We have one of the best appointed Job Offices west of Toronto.; ,Par facilities in this departmettt enable us to do all kinds of wor1:—from a callin.,o'card:tba mammothpostel, pOster, in the best Styie known to • the 3raft, and at the lowest • posiiible .rates Ordere by mail promptly.attended to. Address The News -Record, Clinton. Ont • The Huron News -Record itl.b0 Year—$1.25 in Advance. trON" The man do ,• not do juaice to hie business who .,pe • ; 1.• ."4 ' tverr than- he does in reat. -A. T. STitWAI', the lit:Vttatere merchant of Ne,e Wednesdays Aug-. 1411i. 1889 THE CItGPS. Mr. ,Weir, a former resident of Burford, has returned to Woodstock from forming near Emerson, Man. Ho &aye that wheat iu that section and over in Dakota will only aver - .age about two bushes to the acre, and that -potatoes is the only crop that will give a fair yield. .The Farmer's Reciew says :—The oat crop of the preseut season will be the largest ever harvested iu the United' States, but the yield will sun ho as large 'as was at first anti- clisated, owines to the excessively wet weather and wind storms that have lodged and rusted the straw on many lietdo. The estimate is that the crop will exceed last, yeaes by 61,425,000 bushels. The wheat crop of Ontario has not realized the promise ofo,a few few weeks bask. The mat seems t. boo affected It to gotno xleut, and in Many cases one third less than was anticipated will be the result. In this section (Huron) where straw and ears at one time justified the expectations of forty bush. Is to the acre, in many cues 25 bushels is now all that is counted ou. A SUIT AGAINST A CORPSE. John Soderberg was a patriotic shoemaker. He stood in the door of his little shop at 142 Wells street on the Fourth and gleefullyfired off a revolver in honor of his adopt- ed country's birthday. The shot from the revolver hit Mrs. Beck as she sat in her cigar store across the way. The wound was not a seri- ous' one. Soderberg was not arrest• ed and continued on the most friendly terms with his neighbors across the street. His grief at hav- ing been the cause of the accident 'was great. He loaded the wounded woman with delicacies. She had 'o cheer him up each day when he called. But his remorse became so great that, standing by her bedside one day, he said ho could bear up under it no longer, aud, drawing the' revolver which was tha cause of alt. the trouble, he took his own life. All thi's grieved the Becks greatly. Their grief was made spe- cially poignant because Soderberg had pto:uised to pay the doctor'e bill, and bad told them to • order anything that was wanted and he would pay for it. They • wanted that money, and they wanted it badly. So suit was brought for personal demands, the amount be- ing set at $5,000. Bringing suit against a dead man is an unusual proceeding, but O'Donnell, Bary & Coghlan, the attorneys, thought that under the circumstances this pro- ceeding was the right one. 'We found. a precedent for such a proceeding,' said Mr. Bary, 'but this is the second suit of the kind ever brought. We will later have Soderberg's death suggested on the recerd and nek that /be admillietees tare be made, derendant.' A, deputy Amin' wee sent out with; thet summoue yeaterdaye but the plitintiff woe Qut Of the jttriedio- tion of 'the Circuit Court and the summons was endorsed 'not there.' The funeral of the dead man was to have taken place last week, if the police conclude to arreet him Qt 0Q1110 other legal interference stop it, • tit— - C AN ADIAN CANNIBALS. An agent of the.Dominion Gov- erument, who has been exploring in the northern part ef British Col- umbia, reports the discovery of a tribe of Indians who have for years indulged in cannibalism as one of their sacred ordinances during 'what is known as their winter dances. They are the Tempsheans, or Kwo- gutis, and believe that the hainadtei is a spirit living entirely upon hu- man flesh on the mountains. lany years ago a number of the tribe went into the mountaius, and, hav- ing encouutered the mythical ham- adtei, .became ghouls or hamadtsis themselves. Their familiesalone possese the right of becoming initi- ated by going away, fasting in the 'woods, to tneet the .hatuadtsi. The sole purpose is to show the tribe that they are differentfrom ordin •ary men, and do not caro what they eat or what they suffer. Formerly a captive or a slave was killed and presented to the initiated, and the old harnadtsis would eat the body iu the presence of a general assembly of'the people. More recently, although slavery is not wholly extinct, the Indiana have become afraid to kill, so they aro reduced to the stealingof a body. After eating, the hamadtei do not taste food for some days, but drink Avartn water. Up to the time of eating a body in public, the initiate, whenever he appears from the woods, bites indiscriminately ; wo- men being, however, generally ex- etnpt. Formerly the faces were bitten, noses and ears especially, but now the initiate merely lifts the flesh of a man's arm with his teeth, which is sliced off with a knife by a bystander, and probably spat out in secret. The father of the, initiate pays everybody who has been bitten from two to ten blankets. There are few men in the Kwogutl tribes unscarred by this practice. A GOOD SNAKE STORY. The Guelph Mercury 'tolls the followings Perhaps ono of the most peculiar centests, between a•rooster and a snake, was witnessed on the frrm of Mr. John Laing, Puslinch, on Thursday afternoon, which is too good to be lost. ki old Brahma rooster, the boss of the ,barn yard, was leisurely walking around his domaine with the rest of his family when he spied a garter snake, about 15 inches long, crossing his path. He at once attacked it by picking it up and chewing its tail. The snake did not appear to like this proced- ure and protested occasionally, strik- ing the rooster over the head and body. The roaster:then quit chew. ing the tail and tackled the head, when the snake reversed tacties. This sort of thing was continued for a While, when Mr, Brahma got about two inches of the snake down his throat, the other thirteen inches hanging pendulum fashion. Give up the battle he would not, and thus it continued until about one half the snake was inside the roos- ter, the other half out. Now came the struggle, the rooster wouldn't give up and the snake couldn't. Finally it coiled itself around the head of the bird and endeavored to smother or choke it, but it was soon shaken out again and the last half 80011 followed the first—tail first, head last. As soon as the rooster had eaten his victim he jumped un the fence, and. like all, other roosters do under like circumstances, crbwed over his success. The scene was witnessed by four persons, and one amusing feature of it was that while the old fellow bad lots of help around him he preferred to finish the job himself and did so. An hour after he was sleeping it off. CO MMUN ENG WITH NATURE. Close by the sparkling brook whose silvery waters danced iu the sunlight and rippled joyously over the golden sande they sat in silence —George and Laura—drinking in the glorious beauty of the rustic scene and communing with nature in one of he; chosen shrines. Afar in the west the sun seemed to linger at the horizon's brim as if unwilling to shut out from his gaze the lovely landscape t•hat glowed with a soften- ed and even melancholy radiance in bis departing beatns. A thrilling cry burst front the lips of the beautiful girl, "George ! George I" she almost shrieked. "What is it, darling ?" he asked, placing his arm tenderly around het, waist. "Has the romantic yet op- pressive loveliness of scenery sad- dened your spirits—" "No, George I" she screamed, waving her hands wildly and mak- ing a frantic jab at the small of her back. I think it's some kind of a bug !" TJU FARgER8' PO$ITTON, TE4 MAW° OOYERPIENIETS oFFIOIAL FiGURES SUPPLY GRATIFYING INTELLI- GENCE. The statistics of agriculture emu piled by the Ontario Government Bureau of Industries for the year 1889, have beedelayed in their publication and have .only eecently been 'diittributed, Probably the cause of the delay is to found In the time taken up by the gutty° exer- tions of the accomplished head of the bureau, Mr. A. 13lue, in con- nection with the important com- mission on the •mineral wealth of this province. One naturally turns to the tables 'relating to the values of agricultural lauds, etc., possessing enduring im- portance. Of these we have now seven years tabulation, and cae, therefore, note the fluctuations in value that have taken place and ascertain whether, on the whole, thelarmers of Ontario, during seven eventful yeate in the history of agliculture the world over, have lost ground, have held their own or have advanced, Undoubtedlide farmers of Great Britain have lost ground. Sir James Caird, the highest authority ie England; stated before the depress- ion commission that the total loss in spendable income to the landed interest (farmers, tenants and labor- ers) iu 1885, was equal to $514,000,- 000 (X42 800,000). Another au- thority estimated that tenants' capital in ten years had been re- duced by $405,000,000 (X81,000.- 000. What the deplorable condition of the farmers of the United States is, after seven years, we know from. a variety of concurrent testimony that cannot be...confuted. Some of this evidence we have, published from time to time. One of the latest, as. well as weightiest, witnesses is the special correspondent of the London Economist, whose statements pub- lished recently by the •‘L'coss. Wst is that agriculture in the UnitsdStst•-s is going through a period of depress- ion (in some respects similar to that undergone in England), the end of which is neither clear nor enconrag- ing." ",-,ur Western farmers," the correspondent says "are over -bur- dened with debt, their farms have depreciated in value, profits have almost disappeared, and new sources of supply are increasing. It is only too plaiu. therefore, that they can not long support families, pay taxes, interest, etc., under present adverse conditions." Again, he 'says, "the farm mortgage companies are piling up a load on the overstrained American. farmer, which may even- tually break him down." What we should expect ie that Ontario farmers would not be able to escape the evil fortune that has befallen the farmers of other coun- tries; that they, too, would, e to report greitAhrinkage iu sp ndable income, great filmes in mortgagee, greist, decrease iu value of land and buildings, and &sett distress in many directious, indicating that the industry is in a precarious condition ip Ontario as Well as ip Other coun- tries. \\That, with reason, might have been expected, is not howerer to be found in the statistics of the bureau. On the contrary these corroborate the evidence of prosperity supplied from other and independent sources. Last year the total value of farm property in Ontario is given at $981,368,094. This is the highest total of any year of the seven with the exception of 1886, when the live stock on the farms had a value of° over $4,000,000 more than last year. The advance that has been made in Ontario is seen at a glance from the following statement : In 1885 the farm lands were valued M3632,342,500, and in 1888 at $640,480,801. In 1882 the farm buildings were valued at $132,711,- 575, and in 1888 at $188,293,226. In 1882 implements were valued at $37,029,815, and in 1888 at $46,- 754,832. In 1882 live stock 'as valued at $80,540,720, and in 1888 at $102,839,235. In all, these values were, in 1882, $882,624,614, and in 1888, $981,- 368,094, showing an advance in the value of each kind of property, aggregating the large increase of $98,700,000, or eleven per cent, in seven years. While other lands have been experiencing lean years, Canada has'been a laud of Goshen. This large aggregated increase has taken place notwithstanding the fact that the past seven years cover a period during which the exports of live stock and of meats from Cana- dian fame amounted to close upon $60,000,000, the greater proportion of which came from Ontario farms. — — It may be objected that the area of the farm lands has been increas- ed, and that the increased value at the sand of seven years represents the increase of area. and may be ac- companied with an actual decrease • in the value per acro. This sugges- tion, however, does not tally with the facts presented in the tables. Taking the whole province over, the suttee per acre occupied in 1888 Wag E4.7.4; aptinat s3t.31 vor aoe in 108% 4P AICTOPM o 43* epr cent. ivUerythyeeavr:14° chiebr47bya re4 u r I.Ono.?n atehne- us of authorities, the (amen, of the United Staten have experienced shrinkage in values. If we take the average value per acre during the period 1832437 and cotpare n itb the volue in 1888, we .find egein that,our ferment not Only h:IVO 1101, been brought to tab "rag. ged edge of despair," but have been placed, in a position calling for. deep thankfilluess on their part. Their farm Lauda, which averaged during six years a value of $29.67 per acre, average last year a value per tune of $44.75. Taken either way, we find that there has been a substantial rise in the value of the land. itself; that, iu spite of fluctuations in value, the land has nut only maintained its value, but, at the end of the seventh year, is higher than ever. It has been affirmed thet the farm buildings have been allowed to go to decay because our farmers were unable to spend the money requisite to keep them up. This hos uh- douhtedly been the experience in the United States, where competent authorities agree in the conclusion that there has been great deteriora- tion through abandonment of farms by the thouetinds,:the central and western portions of Kansas.alone showing nearly 5,000 deserted farms last year. They also agree in stating that the deterioration mani- fest in farms not yet deaerted. Here again the statistics of the Ontario Goverement Bureau show enhanced value of• farm buildings, which in 1888 were worth $8,58 per acre, against $6.57 per acre in 1882 and $8 per acre the average of the period 1882-87. With respect to farm implements the advance has been very marked —taking the test of' their value per acre as the guide. .In 1882 the value per acre was $1.83. For the period 1882 8; the average value per acre was $2.15. For the year 1888 it was $2.27 per acre. This is an advance of 24 per cent.—$24 on every hundred. We have stated the extent to hich the export u!' live stock has bee-) surf. the 'Average per annum Buri t't. , atj, six years ex- tU. t 1 by over • Noti loi iat,.;o a drain upon 114, 8 s t;i't . arms, the statisties 1 , tar:s. Covernment show ‘4it.1..,..e poet to live stock that the farmers have not only kept it well „ up to the standard of 1882, but have made a. apereciable ad- vance •beyoud. In 1882 the value of live stock op the farms was $4 per acre, For the period 1882-87 it was $4.62 per acre, and. for 1888 it was $4.69. s The advance of '1882, after $60,090,000 nab' ,of live stock and meats bad been exported and all the home demand supplied, is equal to 17 per cent. • Tho country has reason to con- gratulate itself en the position the fartnere of Ontario have tnaiutained during, the past seven years of great trial fur agriculturethe world over. G. J. . Otte YOUTH RESTORED TO AGE, DR. IIAMMOND CONFIRMS DR. BROWN- SEQUARD'S DISCOVERY. THE ELIXIR OF LIFE— ONE LAMB FURNISHRS VITALITY ENOUGH TO RENEW THE STRENGTH OF A DOZEN DECREPIT PA- TIENTS. Dr. William A. Hammond of Washington is experimenting with the elixir of life recently discovered by Dr. Brown-Sequard of Paris, and thus far Ile sa.,s the tes me fully equal to the protnises given out by the great Paris physician. Dr. Hammond was sitting on the veranda of the fine uew hospitl, which he has just built outside the city when a correspondent called on him to -night. "It is true„' said the doctor, "that When Dr. Brown-Sequard's discov- ery was first reported I was rather dubious and inclined more or lees to think as others had hinted, that either the report was a French joke or that Dr. Brown-Sequard was 'an- other good man gone wrong.' The first report did not give a complete idea of the treatment. It indicated, rather, that the elixir was a com- pound made from various glands of various ultimate, and on that ahow- ing I was willing to say the thing was impossible. But when I ob- tained further and more accurate details I was willing to believe that there might be soniething in it. "1 was willing at all events to ; ut it to the test, and about a week ago I started to experiment. Dr. Brown-Sequard used only selected portions of the rabbit or Guinea pig, simply because, I suppose, these are the animals upon which ex- periteente are usually made in the French laboratories, but. I have adopted the lamb, which I think is better. The lamb, you know, is an animal that is good to eat, but we don't eat Guinea pigs. The pre- paration of the medicine and the treatment of the patient are very simple. I take the selected pot - it. •••,..r,,,.t;,,,tt,-,,et4....a,t,.,..r,tii ,:::.,-. ?:...;t:L.,,,,,,;...altat..,.....% .,,,, ,„..,,,,. t 4 ;.' •• . . t . • .., - ,:111,te44 " : .1 i; 44ii5iiiihas4issse •1,••• •...Z:i• - Aintosonstaittatowt,,,,,,,,sooatesnoastwasesanmetwoml,, 40.4.011. 'I'rebly ki11et.and' 'pound It into....4 pulp in a mortar Oleeepoonfdoe two Of water Amtl sthe result 1 filter) through Otte 444 filtering paper The Attid,. alightly thickev thsii Wittef. comes through perfectly pure tool limpid. The filtering must . be carefully done, for if any abred any part of the pulp were injected under a p.attept'e eltIL it would form abceseefel eta do harm. "The extract from a single Iamb will bp suffleient for a dozen tnjac- tioe. It does nut matter to what part of the body the application is wade, but the most conienient place is under the skin of the forearm where the skin ie comparatively slack —It, would hardly be safe to inject the fluid derived Penn a body twenty-four hours after the killiug of the animal. The iujectiou of blood and of the juice of beef inbo. wasted patients hae been °mom for many years, and it is well knowu that to inject the essence of dewed beet' would kill the than. "As soon es the lamb is slaugh- tered by the butcher no time is wasted iu pounding and filtering, and, within au hour of the killing of the lamb the juice is eireelating tbrougb the patient's veins au. d miogliug with ids blood. I began my experiments first on myself to assure myself that it was not denger- pus to the, patient. Since then I have applied the elixir to several old gentlemen without their know• leg what it Was,, One man, about 60 pare of age, had had his arm po nearly paralyzed with rheuma- tism that for neatly a year bo could nut raise bis elan to his head. Semi niter the elixir was 'injected into the arm he was able to wield it iu auy direction and almost us vigorously as he had ever done. "Up to the present my experi7 meuts have been made without the patieuts' kuowledge, but to-inorrew I am going to begin treating a man in this way at his own request. Of coulee, it is too early yet to .draw any sweeping conclusions from. the result obtained, but as far as I have gone the results are certainla remarkable. When I have con- tinued my experiments longer I shall be able draw conclusicns with more confidence. Dr. Brown- Sequard's calculation is that an in- jectiol than he really is." o_... n..a..ce a monthsuffice will to keep a man twenty or thirty years younger JUST PUT A DOLLAR IN THE , MAN'S SHOES. In one of our colleges the profes- sor, who makes himself very friend- ly with the students, was walking out with an intelligent scholar, when they saw an old man hoeing.. in acorn field. He was adethicing slowly with his work toward the road, by the side of which lay his shoes. As it was near sunset, the student proposed to play the old man a joke. "I will hide his shoes ; we will conceal ourselves behind the bushes, and see what he will do." "No," said the professor, "It would not be right. You have money enough ; juet put a dollar in the man's shoes ; then we will hide behind the bushes, and see what he will do." The student agreed to the pro- posal, and•they concealed themselves accordingly. When the laborer had finished Itis row of corn, he came out of the field to go home.. He put on one shoe, felt something hard, took it off and found the dollar. He look- ed round him, but saw no one, and looked up gratefully toward Hea- ven. He then put on the other shoe, and found another dollar. He looked at it, and looked all around, but saw no One. He then knelt upon the ground and returned tha ke to God for the blessinge that had been conferred upon him. The listeners learned from the prayer that the old man's wife and ono of his childred were sick, and that the/ were very poor; so that the two dollars were a great relief sent to them from Heaven. "There," said the professor, bow much better this is than to have, hidden rho old mauls shoes." —Uncle Sam has $771,500,000 in cash and securities in his strong bex. Wonder if the "English syndi- cate" would not likely buy up the treasury 1 But then, Uncle Sam owes $1,646,777,300. —The constitutional convention of Montana will not have a woman suffrage clause in the constitution, it being defeated by a tie vote. Idaho will not relieve Mormons from military duty, nor allow the Bible in public schools. —England is negotiating a new commercial treaty with*Japan by the terms of which she surrenders the present judicial privileges of her subjects in Japan, and in return the whole interior will be opened up to the British trade. —The Constitutional Convention of the new State of Idaho has closed its labors. 'The Constitution wee properly signed by all the members except Pefley, who refused to sign because the document recognized AlmightY God. Ile refused pay for his labors. FOR 011/7-6kranr4wAnaht, te.....-0,,,,,,,,,t'le`tettrte...0 , •,.. II • A 1AFlQF RQUI.Titri. 4 8l1t10$9 f1441'iE,41: KEW 1'01W 4,11R (Co, w %Ace, Oat _4' 5, a. 4olmert) CHAPTUR tlatOK HOTS 4. RUFF. My. Nogetitl wha baesat piirtebtly• pasStv.e. throughout Strangee rather. Iornately delivered story,, showed m soe sign of iuterriat' when the closing seutencu wee reeched. "A. document !signed iby a dead man moist be something of ii,euriesity,"' he said giiiiity, "I was waiting ,for that," replied' Strange. "Smith, RS I may con- tinue to call him, was nut dead when the murderer threw Ins body. jute the teatime. .4. shock. revived him and he crawled d 10 %V il 801118 I111108 until he reached, a placer mining cant p. Here he was found by the man I referred to, who took his dying deposition, had it witnesse4t by two •nt'ners, who aro now teed- ieg eit leans of 'Frisete As he died he (Heated to his resell- r a course of action which he has carefully follewed. Purse:ohtu that he ia DOW in Now Irak 111111 has diluted'. Rio as hid aw•DI tocall oil lile Hall' the David Nu;.4enl, untier of the. happ Ns. named ‘..L.Itely :31isrt .furnterly knew 44 .1:awes Horton,. but who I4$14•14 141811 liie uamo by which John Uuustuu, nicknamed Dandy 1) 1'), chose" td .be known. by when lo ,t,uti— lied in. Cali (nt Ws a. paw‘eaud then Nu-. gent, as Ito may continue to be called said' simply and without "a trice of emotion: "1-1 live you any inssufa 1" "Would 1 have spoken trulese I had ? More than enough fur holict- ment anyway, and that is all that is necessary fur my 'purpose." "Which purpose, to give it a plain mune is blackmail " "Gill it'so if yo'i will." "What does your mysterious. principal want 1" ".Nothing for himself. He will. not appear in the matter. "Why not 1" "That I can't tell you. believe he ha e scruples." "Oh—a blackmailer with scruples? That's something new. Well Mr, Strange, I accept. your tonne." Lemuel could not keep the look of ,grati fleet ion out tof his eyes. "But I 'w is vecel"• t14t 4,- t g_ Cas ..irtrreIm -cause I do not care to for ono thing, and I think it altogether to my interest not to for another I have alviaye thought well ,of you, Strange, but only as one thinks of a servant. Now that by your own skill and audacity Sou have raised yourself to my level I respect you: We are both of us rascals, Strange, and I think you are the bigger scoundrel of the two. Now that this is all set- tled, let us say no more about it. Matters here of course, will go oit in their usual way, only you will, instead of a salary, draw a sixth of the yearly profits," and Mr. Nugent ross ea if he had Concluded one ef the least important business transactions of his buy life. At this moment there was a tap at the - door and the junior clerk entered: and laid e card ;Wore Mr. Nugent.. "Tell Mr\ Houston I will see him in a InoMsnt," said he, and the, clerk vartished: "There is one, thing morel have to say to you,. Strange." Nugent continued ; "I will go so far as to tell my daugter that I won't allow her to . marry Houston, of whom I think she is gloving fond. That I should have done, as you may imagine, under anyeircuinstarrees, and I may poo sib), tell her that I shall be pleaeedt Hale marries you '; but beyond this I hall not go. Now go and tell yotpg Houston to eorne in," and 6tange went, for habits growing calla the old relationship of master ant servant, which had exist -ed for so many years, could not be laid. asifes in an instant; 'Good morning, Mr. Houston.'' Bah Nugent blandly when slack,. loping somewhat embereassed, was. uslered in. "What can I do foe yo?" H you can (Tare me a few. mutesof your time, Mr. Nugent," stmtnered Jack, "I shall be obliged a matter of importance tdalk to you about." "Certainly, Mr. Houston. I can• gfe you," taking out his watch, 'bet eleven, minutes. Will that be efficient 1". "Oh, yes -yes -s-" said poor Jack, Smple, Mr, Nugent, ample. Tho. Pt is—I—I—that is to say—Miee taco and I—" and he came to a ill stop and looked appealingly at te coarsesfeatnred man of business ho sat their impassively waiting ir him to continue. "'Well you to, Mr. Nugent," began Jack again oith thecourage born of desperation I've admired your daughter Grace or a long time—ever since I can member, in fact—and I think— foot, I knew—she's fond of me,", ad he paused again.