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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1892-01-20, Page 7nto • in elluron News* fl000rd .I,1Qa Year -41-20 in notonnen Illiftelltap#Stbay Jan, 2001, 1,8924" $94 DITQUOg. REFOR51. "‘4104.$014. • .044ter A•ylo of South Dalsotan goo baak. to Waehingtou whit, istwo ,io Wes pookot which will ,PAOTO comment thau anything inntio41104 in 'Cengrestes in many tcntevionios fe a jOint resolution asking for ognendonent to the Constitution •sratdae United States, giving the regulate the laws segard- ntaryiage and divorce. :palter attracted the attention eat Ote, hew Seuator doring the stun- . • oat; when he visited Sioux Falls •santsk got an inside view of the "dikteotoe colony," the atoms which , :Weer out of it, and the laws which Kean ettolt abuse possible. The -,,Senantor looked into the situation in :os Sianons: Falls and in other places in 'Oroath Dakota, He found in Sioux Oldie some 200 inhabitants of other Iltastes who had come to secure a di- - , mrstene and who were willing to coin- , sonfit perjury and practice fraud of =my kind to secure their desired re- : biome. Ho found his State heralded • etili stager the country as an asylum fen the unhappily married, and he tfaeira begau to study the subject. 1%o result of hie investigation neillA. be the introduction of the reso- le:Won-referred to above. Referring to the matrimonial bp& of the several, States. • SENATOR KYLE SAID.: "Tite practical result of conflicting Wm is that divorces granted in one State are valid thew, tut invalid elsewhere. For example, in South Cswellina the courts refuse to recog- Mike A divorce granted by the courts of any other State even in cases ;ahem both parties resided, at the dose of the suit in the State grant- ing tb.e divorce, provided that the marriage contract was wide in &lath Carolina. The counts of Snoth.Carolina held that the second tresteriage .of parties so divorced is ftwlid,. and their children illegiti- mate. 'Eli New York the courts have keild that while a divorce may be weild in the State where it was granted, and while the second ma r• in ge may be valid in such State, it ascot recognized in New York, the rsesedt being, under the New York decisions that a man or woman may &golly have any number of wives ftesbands, thus practically estate ing a system of polygamy in the est State in, the Union atior other States the courts hold valid& divorce granted to a person wire was a citizen of another State by a State in which he has a citizen- selsip, but hold invalid a divorce wonted in a State whore simply a mob:lance and not an actual citizen - 'Alp is acquired. In some States fleaworts have held that . IVEIE DOMICILE OF A WIFE. ins that of ber husband, and that a dere granted to the wife in an. G1 er State, no matter as to the length of her bona fide residence, is interalid. "En Illinois I am personally ac• _seVotritatool 4. Case..11"ini at the Kingdon of Wurtembero "'-et• (Y. =sae to Illinois, married, resided &ate for thirty yea's, and accumu- toted property. He returned to Wsertemberg, ,leaving his wife in Ellinoie. He had always remained CA 'ciemen of Wurtemberg and a subject of the king. Reaching his old home he secured an annulment of deo marriage under an old law that orm citizen of Wurtemberg could in a foreign country without theKing's consent. He remained int Wurtemberg, and after his death thti. widows went into litigation for the property. The Supreme Court of Illinois decreed the property to tfae second wife, holding the first taneeniage invalid, and the Supreme °sod of tthe Milted States eustained eke :decision." Senator Kyle palls attention to eater matters in point. He says : 9ai New York and South Dakota 'Cabin a divorce iii grained for assissaltery the guilty party cannot tvesteaery, butle can step across the Ike into New Jersey or go to Min• reeleste, be remarried, end in both crone the States recognize the marri- es good. In some States it is Wel that a person getting a divorce be a foreign State, where personal ernovice can not be made, can marry ithe state where the divorce is tainted, and where the marriage is id, but is liable to prosecution for bigamy or adultery in the State witee he formerly resided. .,,.1104.41t; IS: ThOSQI'UY? arrest To Mornans. Are yen distnrbed at nifetia and broken of your rest by a sick child ding and crying vrith pain of Cutting Toth? ES as sena at once and get a bottls of "Mrs. Nrataskter's Soothing Syrup' for Children Teeth Its value lt nealcoloble. It will relieve Ateirtor little sufferer immediately. D.lettl n p.m S., otothers I there is no mistake abont it. It rotas Dysentery and Diarrhom' regulates the -eons& and baools, cures Windfloile, softens ftlm oases, reclaims infiattoriation, end gives tons tt&ftettergy to the tvhole system. "Mrs Winsl•svea t'Vottgaing Syrup" for children teethipe h plo•trent estion taste and is the prescrintion at one (.1 the IrVort 1.nd best female physicians and nnrset in UttItett States, via is for sale by alldrimeisi's amitadbeitt the woril. Pries 25 carts a bottle. 4.zet5 awl ask for "NItis. WINSLOW'a Sort1,1INO Eteltine.4and take no otherkind. 056y THEXOUgsTIoN A'r4WeggE) BY AN IN7 vgarlq:ATGR pF,THE.nO13,1ET. The Sotirees,,grAupseatessekell.4 the Espono• ent 1.y.i.ensg:4A 4iyoust torothsp. hood .of Ittiparitty-Withont. the Distinct- -c• non of nose° orOr" eSn. The nineteenth century of the Christian era epeecle ewiftly to its cloae, tiled the prog- ress of civilization during its flight has sur- passed all that history records. In intellectual development, in the expan- sion of knowledge, in ecientific discovery. and in the multiplied applications of the arts to the uses of man aul the betterment of material conditions, no preceding cen- tury can show such brilliant and far -reach - big tWhiovinents. Tho civilized world is girdled with tele- graph wires and gr4roned with railroads. The spread and play OLierritligenee are mar- vellous, communication is swift, incessant and universal. Tito world is better, doubt- less and a better place to live in than a hun- clreA years ago. But is the sum of human happitiess the greater? Pedlar's. Is the 0001 of hu10511 mir)Cry the Lee? Alas! Probably not. Disease and death, sorrow and suffering, sin and selfisitnesa still 3,ffl1et mankind, while the means of ameli- oraticm are in the main withheld. from the masses who cannot purchase 'them, We of this favored land, where is room for all, where harvests aro 'abundant, and a livelihood in earned with comparative ease, scarcely Man:60 the conditions iu the older nations. Increase of poiniletien and industries produces wealth, but to what extent, Ines the worker share it? Wealth means caste. Cuecentration means over- crowding, and overcrowding, misery and vice. The struggle for bare ex hitt:nee be- comes deeperate, and the ...seeker morally, intellectually and physically are trodden into the mud. London, the capital of the world, with its 4,000,0GO, mints its submerged tenth of the utterly destitute, the degraded and the dangerous, whose lives are crushed with hopelessness or detiant with despair, and their souls shrunken with famine; rut though the fair pyramid of civilization rearing its apex high and yet higher into clearer skies, but bears with the more merciless and in- tolerable oppression upon the writhing mass of human atoms at its base. Has statecruft thea no remecly—seligion no panacea? It wouldsewn net, since these conditions- exist and' are developed in the broad light of day, under enlightened rulers and in the very shadow of abounding, churches—in so-called Christian nations, that, disregarding the wretchedness at their doors, exhaust their revenues in covering thesearth with armies and whet their knives for one another's throats. All Christendom is building war ships and materials of war, while one among them in the faec of an appalling famine that may go nigh to dis- rupt the enipire, in the name of orthodox religion, is hunting the helpless and wretched offspring of its own soil as terriers hunt rats. To what extent does all this represent the teachings of the Founder of that reli- gion, who eighteen centuries ago claimed all mankind as .His brethren, whose tenderest sympathiea went out most of all to him who most needed them, and in whose name such cruelties are to -day at the close of this enlightened nineteenth century suffered and committed? • It would seem that these teachings .have been lost to the comprehension of a modern civilization, that, immersed in the pursuit of wealth and power, material in its aims and life, selfish and even brutal in its methods, practically ignores the misery at its door, and to the purblind vision of a petrified theology that substitutes iron -clad dogma for the simple doctrine of Human Brotherhood—contention for charity and logic for love. Haply comes iu the operation of a cyclic law, that towards the close of each century rouses anew the dormant spirituality of a material world and working in the secret fibers of being touches the soul of mankind with a sense of unrest and unsatisfied aspirations. The evidence of this is everywhere. In the impatience of earnest minds with the crackling of the dead husks of dogmas ; in the awakening of the broader spirits in the churches; in the election of Phillips Brooks to an episcopate ; in the declaration by Heber Newton of the universality of the chureh ; in Lyman Abbott's profound asser- tion of "belief in the power of the Amen soul to discern spiritual truth ;" in Edi - son's subtle suppositions that. atoms are -intoKigent,ancishumortal speculations an to the existence of other spheres of being and potency than the oneof whioh we are conscious, and yet. with which we may be in contact ; of Pref. Crooke's researches into the higher condi- tions of matter and his faith in the ex- istences of enormously greater natural forces than - those with which we are familiar ; in the thorough exploration the dangerous secrete of hypnotistn are receiving, and the general investigation by scientitic linen of the more recondite powers of nature; in the spread of a mistaken "spiritualism ;" in the wonderful sale of Bellamy's book, preaching statecraft founded on equality, simplicity and common obligation ; in the instant thrill of recognition of the sweet - nese and light of that exquisite poem, "The Light of Asia," an almost purely theo- sophical treatise; in the growth of the Sal- vation Army into a power that civilization has developed, showing itself equal to the task of reselling those beyond the pale, working through the instrumentalities of human sympathy and personal contact with the most debased. In short, in the general awakening of a de- sire for individual spiritual freedom and en. lightment and in especial of a conscious- ness of the Brotherhood of Humanity and. the urgent need and duty of all to partici- pate in the task of raising and encouraging mankind to emerge froni the slough and to attain a higher level in view of the common fate in which all are bound. Moot profound and searching of all, and destined to overspread the world with its elevating and potent influences conies the- osophy, the parent and source of all religion and the exponent of all science, from the simplest to the most recondite. Professing to he nothing new, claiming indeed an antiquity and universality far be- yond the utmost bounds of Minion history, theosophy, embraces every department of thought andknowledge, physical, psychic, men t al and spiritual, and constitutes in itself a complete philosophy on all planes of existence. It is in fact the ancient wis- dom—religion which has existed from the remotest antiquity arid contains in its se- cret archives the history of mankind and the origin and structure of the universe. Teaching that the Divine Spirit is all and in all, that nothing is eternal save :spirit, that all else is psszing manifeetation, transi- tory, impermanent a id illunory, it holds forth a destiny to r tan the grandest and newt ennobling that 0:10 et.hoeived. Animate:I 1,y a spark from the Divine, it is ke winMs dety and his peivilege to fan this sp ix% to n, ginw," the glow to Nvarnith, w to flame and rs,me to 5 ennallMillg t:;• • i nit 1.!1 1J1 shell utterly pu.'M his e.,11:3ks conetitution of every ele- ment that is gr01/4 owl' material, until finol. after, it mav be, long oeon e of develop, meat, pe splrituolity eta become toe heritoge,s (memo with the Divine hr re, rord. What scheme of destiny can surpass the splendor of this, what wariest ospiratioxte. potency ,of blies unftilfalledl Self muet he compered. Tho way is, long, the path thorny, trials and temptations will assail, the foot will be bruised, the heart will fal- ter, courage yield, fortitude fail; again .and egoist, maybap, the difficult anent must be retrodden aord the weary steps be driven forward by sheer force of will; but tho goal is secure, and though !successive heights tower rank on rook beyond each other there is the sustaining glory of conquering endeav- or, and the end Is immortality, onmiseies* and eternal participation in Lite Divine ex- istence. - - - • - - • TIIE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. The Theosophical Society was organized some fifteen years ago, and upreading rapidly in civilized countries, already has a large and influential membership in Aniesi- ea, Europe, Indict and other portions of the globe. Building no churches, founding no Beet, allying itself with no deneminatiom hostile to none, absolutely catholic in spirit and purpose, embracing all humanity in its scope, regardless of race or condition, tolerant of till faiths, exacting only that its adherents shall recognize the duty of unis, versa! charit-y, the Tneesophieal Society has for its purpose the study and propagation of Theosophical prinuip.les and teaehings. Adopting us its devices "There is no religion higher than truth," it sounds the key -note of Altruism, and disregarding all side issues makes declaration of three objects, to wit: 1. To form the nucleus of a universal brotherhood Of humanity without distinc- tion of race, creed, color or condition. 2. To promote the study of Aryan and other eastern literature, religion and sciences and demonstrate the importance of that study, 3. To investigate unexplained laws of na- ture and the psychical powers latent in man. The 'society addresses itself to allowho truly love their fellow -men and desire the eradication of the evils caused by human ig- norance and selfishness and by the barriers raised by race and creed which have so long impeded human progress ;•to all scholars,to all sincere lovers of truth wheresoever it !nay be found, and to all philosophers, alike in the cast or in the west, and lastly, to all who aspire to higher and better things than the mereepleasure and interests of a worldly life and are prepared to make the sacrifices by which alone a knowledge of them can bo obtained. The society, as such, is et tirely unsecta- Han and includes professors of all faiths. No person's religious belief is interfered with, and all that is exacted from eaeh member is the 55050 tolerance for the views of others that lie desires them to exhibit to- ward his own. As a condition precedent to membership, belief in and adherence to the first of tile above named objects is required; as to the other two, members may pursue them or not, as they see fit. The act of joining the society therefore carries with it no obligation whatever to profess belief in the practicability of immediately realizing, the 13rotherhood of Mankind, or in the su- perior value of Aryan over modern science or the existence of occult powers latent in man. It implies only intelligent and prac- tical aympatily in the attempt to disem- inate tolerant and brotherly feelings, to dis- cover so much of truth as can be discov- ered by diligent study and careful experi- mentation, and especially to essay the form- ation of a nucleus of a Universal .Brother- hood. What the society hopes and means to achieve is the bringing together of a large body of the inost reasonable and best edu- cated persons of all extant races and re- ligious groups, .rell of whom shall accept and put into practice the theory that by mutual help and a generous tolerance of each other's preconceptions mankind may be largely benefited, and the chances of discovering hidden truth greatly improved. The society sows the seed, leaving it to germinate in the fullness of time. It rep- resents all creeds, and every branch of science, believing true religion and true science to be one. It is the opponent of bigotry and the foe of vice, together with whatever tends to its propagation. At the same tinie a man whose past has been bad cannot be refused admittance if he has a sincere desire to improve himealf while he endeavors to benefit mankind. Nor in its members does it look for saint -like perfec- tion, insisting only that each shall, as near- ly as can, live up to his best ideal. The third of the Objects of the Society ap- peals to many persons, but notto the great- er °number. There are both exoteric and --taittcriS "AdriVitl es -or -circler-or-groups- ats work in the society, and some persons are desious of seeking, that they may obtain psychic powers. Those who thus seek should know that within themselves lies the key to unlock the door; that the very first step toward the place where the key may be found is the acquirement as a living verity of the feeling of Universal Brother- hood, and that the selfish desire to obtain psychic powers is a bar to such attainment. It suffices for the present to state that the society chargee but a nominal fee for admit- tance, and practically returns the small dues in literature. The services rendered by all connected with the society are prac- tically gratuitous on the theory that the largest beneficiary of good done to others is the person who does it. A Dainty Way to Fur/118n n Bedroom. There is no prettier, fresher, or daintier way of furnishinga bedroom than to have the walls hung with the same chintz as the covering for the furniture and the curtains. With a little brass bedstead trimmed with a flounce of the same chintz, a pink, blue, or white dressing -table and washstand, a couple of easy chairs and a lounge covered with the pretty cretonne, and a fevr other _accessories, such as atea-table,• book -shelf, a few favorite photos and pictures and pretty rugs, you have a _bedroom fit for a princess. There are some charming pat- terns shown this season in these lovely chintzes. Every color is represented. Tufts of yellow primroses on the lightest silver- gray grounds, garlands of wild roses on pale tnrquois blue, bunches of forget-ine- riots on a sort of yellowish cream -color, and natural -looking wood violets sprinkled over u background of a lighter shade of lilac— one and all they are lovely, and so are most difficult to choose from. The Whale Didn't Know What Ho Missed. A sperm whale forty feet long got over the bar at Ocean City during, the high 'tide several nights ago and was left high and dry on the beech by the receding water. All night long fiis struggles could be heard try the crew of the life-saving station near- by,. They sounded like the heavy beating of the surf. After thd leviathan was Arid the residents in the neighborhood gathered and cut away the blubber. In cutting open the monster's stomach there was found a number of of empty bottles and a five -gal- lon demijohn corked and sealed which con- tained exeellent rve whiskey. It is supposed flat the whale followed in the wake of the United Stales ship De- spatch, which was wrecked more than a ninnth r..,eo, am! ra•allowed the demijohn as it floated out of the wreck.—01obse4;:esno- °rat. 80ag 091) , BR VARIOUS PESORR 4211) WrIQ11$0 'BUT ALL PhRTIIIILirr. .11•••••••••••••• Thare is a deal of sound sense in the proverbs of a . AittiOns Earl Russell defined a proverb as being the wit of one man And the wisdom of many, and the aptness of this b. well ebown Z3 tbe following from lite Spanish.: 'Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we get. The thought is as old as the race of manitind, but ages pruned before 0/10 mon bit upon the- happy ex - presided of it. This Saying, from the Chinese, is a whole homily on pride in one. sentence : 'When a treela blown down it shows that the branehee are longer than the roots."' For a concise enpressiom of the lofty aepiratione of youth and the sober achievements of riper years take this sentence from Henry D. Thoreau ; 'Tho youth gets together his nsoteriels tq build a brige to the tho moon, or perchance a palace or temple on the earth, and at length' the middle aged man concludes to build a woodshed with thous.' 'ralleyrand : 'To succeed in the world it ia much more necessary to possese the penetration to discover who is efool thau to discover who is a clever man.' And Napoleon's charaetor is drawn full length in this senteut!ons remark of hie : 'I command, or I ani silent The usual gentle Emerson can be cynical sometimes; this sentence of his ie bitter enough for Tinton : 'Most men and most women are ;nerdy one couple more. Mark Twain but an old truth in an attractive dress when ho said : 'A lie well stuck to becomes hisitobiel .'wilfulness of women has taxed the pens of many writers, but few have surpessed these lines, taken from 'Ralph Royster Doyster,' the first English comedy : For one madde propertie these women have in fey, When ye will, they will not ; will not ye, then will they. The French furnish tie with some well cut diamonds : 'Patience is the art of hoping,' Vauvanar- gues;' Truth is the skeleton of ap- pearances,' De Mussett ; 'All bow to)viintsue—and then walk away,' iaurn From many eelections from Marcus Aurelius we choose this, as showing his keen insight into this weak human nature of ours : 'I have often woudored how it is that every man loves himself more than all tho rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.' And now, in conclusion, let me give one more (potation, this time from Sir Walter Raleigh, who wrote when men wrote more slowly and carefully than at present: 'Oh I eloquent, just and mightie Death 1 whoin none could advise, thou Bast persuaded; whom none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world bath flattered, thou only haat cast out.of the world and despised ; thou haat drawn together all the pride, cruelty and ambition of men, covered it all over with these two narrow words, 'here Beth.' 61RIGION OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS. seeress"' CIIMAPg VA.101,44,4r, Vlsalgtibe.ntOrl•-QP nOtIO WEVE/iTt Aft, 411,4,E1E1 0440'041M The translation by L. O. liop- kind of the' ow:aymow] Chinese pamphlet about which so muelt has been said, and which was distsibut. ed free during the autumn along the River ya,ugtz,), is being, quietly 'circulated in this City. It is en- titled Death to the. Devil's De. tins. On the title page the word-. ing runs no- follows "Let every- one carefully read and repeat to others. No metier how. numerous the devils, let them be anhihiluted. Printed and published by the Three Region% distributed everywhere within The .Niue , Regions (China), the four kindness, namely, those re- ceived from heaven, earth, sovorign, and parents, to be well pondered, and requital endeavored to be made by each, the devils to be guarded against and the families protected. Lot those, 'Onto fear harrn in the devils prim this iu large q,uan- tities." Tho pamphlet is made up of atrocious statements aud sentiments clothed in tho most abominable language. So vile is the work that it is impossible to do more than re- fer to its matter. From the story of the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary down to the • most ordinary features of present Chris tion missionary work iu China,. this obscene Pamphlet touches nothing but to defile. It was clearly writ- ten to excite the fanaticism of the most ignorant of .a roost totally de• based population, for to no other could it appeal. The writer; who declares that he is 75 years old, says: "Also they (the Christian devils) rate women more highly than men, and alike in the govern- ment of the state and in tho house hold, the control in most cases is exercised by the devil wonoan." • It is also set forth that when a convert dies the devil priests do not allow relatives to approach the body, but bury it themselveg, gougingsout the eyes, which they also self to be made into drugs. The above is a fair sample of the very meager portions of the pamph- let that will bear repetition. Sunday schools are probably as •old as Christianity. For Eusebius -ellYelh t- the -A pOnitl e Jat - u I aro' ly taught the scriptures and the doctrine of the church to young men and children on the Sabbath day. It is quite likely that, Lo a limited extent at least, Sunday in- struction of the children and youth was , kept up through the middle . ages ; but the greatest impulse given the Sunday school was by the fain- ous Cardinal Borromeo, who, in Milan in 1580, organized a system • of Sunday instruction and put num- erous schools in operation. About the middle of the next century Rev. Joseph Alleine established Sunday schools in England, and between the years 1760 and 1763 scores of Sunday schools were established in various parte of England and Scot- land by Rev. David Blair and Rev. Theophilus Lindsay. Robert Raikes, of Gloucester, has usually enjoyed tho credit of being the founder of Sunday schools, but it is a credit to which he is not entitled, for his schools were not established in Gloucester until the year 1780. In most of the'early English Sunday schools established by the gentle- man mentioned hired teachers were employed to give instructions in reading, writing and ciphering, while the catechism and religious training were considered as not more important than instruction in the elements of an English educa- tion. Sunday was chosen as being the most favorable day for those who attended, since the first pupils of the Sunday school were drawn from the children of working peo- ple and artisans, Wnsns King James the first wrote his "counterblast to tobacco" the royal pe- dant knew nothing of tho "Mytle Navy." If he had, instead of wasting his brains over his curious production, he would have filled his royal pipe with it, and would have taken a royal smoke, he would then been prepared to admit that with regard to the Injurious effecte of tobacao, it all depended on what tobacco you smoked. A PATRIARCHAL DAME. SHE HAD THREE SONS WHO HAD CELE- BRATED THEIR GOLDEN WED- DINGS, There was buried at Somersham, Eng., on Tuesday Mrs. Ann Dring, an old widow lady, who, had she lived until this mouth, would have Attained ger 104th year. She was in possession of all her faculties un- til the very last. Seven children -- five sons and two daughters—sar- vivo her, and three of the sons have celebrated their olden weddings. She had twenty-nine grandchildren, sixty great grand children, and one great great grandson. A good story is told Of the old lady. Her two sons, both over sixty, paid a visit to the old home together and stayed over Sunday. They were to sleep together in the room they had occupied as boys, and after supper prepared to stint upstairs. " Good night, mother," they. said. "GoOd-night, my bor. Call when you are in bed and I'll candle dOWfl:YOU needn't trouble, mother ; we'll put it out." "No, no," rejoined the motherly old soul. "I'll fetch it duwn, There is no knowing what mischief you boys'll be doing if I don't." They wore her baby's still. And so the gray -headed old men were sent to bed, and were duly tucked up and left safe for the night. Mrs, Thomas Littlehales, of Hamilton, Ont., was well acquaint. ed with the old lady, who had 'at- tained a good old ago long before Mre. Littlehales left England. PLUCKY MRS. BEMIS. BY A CLEVER AIME SHE CAHSED THE ARREST OP A WOULD-BE BURGLAR. "kitIOUTINO wog gypenOltIr Onkst/P Wt0.1"Etts JUMP ON veteTnent Tho train on ons,of tba Westerra railroads was climbing a long mut heavy -grade, and wag moving an slowly and making totlitIlo bang owl rattle that the remarks of two. ;paraniulaytbebackatudibre.o,nofthe catheeor was upIo was (Mug most of the lancing, and, when he grew animated in hio critic* of the cbaraeter of a per- son known to both as "Jim," he was led on to speak in title wine "You see, I'd /ant Jinx money, but so long art I had cask in toy clothes I never asked for it. r never do when a man is square, be- cause I know he'll- pay me when he eau. But one cln.y 1 waa a little. ehort, and I went into the bay, and I says to Jim : 'filnutd you lot me have a little of what you're owin' me 1' Ile was tight and ugly, and began to SWOSit and kik and jaw about bein' strup1 when he hadn't giogth.,saysotnlyl1. e rl ain't pnllin' no' man's leg when that'e int he's got. Sotue other titne'll do.' "But he kept on a-kienin' and a-swearin' -and sayin' I wasn't no'• friend of his, and fivaily he worked himself up to the fightin' pitch, and says he, with a Inner holler .s 'Yor rip -wheals, bliokety-blank, come outside and you up.' Well. I wasn't lookin' for a fight, and I didn't feel like tightin' that day anyhow. Had a kind of cold. So I told hint 1 wasn't:own' to have no quarrel, 'specially with him, for I thought he'd come out all right, when he'd got rid of his quart. But he says. again : "Pna goin' to hurt yor the first time I meet yer.' Then the boys thoy took him into the back room and I wont home. But after that I was bound to carry a gun, and I got my revolver out - that night. Next mornin' he was in Ned's roorst at the boardin' house. and Ned's door bein' open I looked in as I was on my way to the (Buie' room. 'Who are you lookin' at says Jim, still ugly. 'You,' says I. 'For what 1' says he. CALM I'm bound to, after you warnin' me that. I'm liable to get hurt,' says I. He eat down kind of careless, and I started on. By—, I'd only got my back turned and stepped into. the hall when he ups as quick as a. flash and hit me in the neck. soave him a good one on the jaw.. Then he closes in and begins to bite. At that I pulled out my gun and lets him have it. He broke away and cantered upstairs, squeal - in' 'MurderI, and I let him haves it again. "Then I didn't know what I'd 'done ad • did't much care, but was excited, and I meandered out- side to cool off. The bdya came out in a minute and said that there was no telling how much Jim was hurt; he was bleedin' and yellin' consid- erable; and so's to avoid any scenery' I'd better get over the border and hide till he felt bettor. So I work- ed along to Seattle and get a boat to Victoria, and I've been up in British Columbia for several months. He got through it alt. right, and I didn't have no need to skip, 'cause it was self•defense. You've a right to use a gun on any man that tries to make a meal of. you, I guess. Well, sir, you have no idea what a change. that scrap _made tojitot,, 1sIecticln'tget drunks no more, and be goes around -talk: in' decent, and he don't bluff and he's as steady and quiet as a sheep-. What's more, he paid what he owed: me. Shootin' did .him good." The barking of a dog awakened Mrs. Bemis at her home, No. 9 Hart street, Chicago, early Sunday morn- ing, and she discovered that some ono was trying to open the front door. Taking a revolver, she went into the hallway and asked what was waisted. The men said they wanted admission, but Mrs. Bemis assured them that she would shoot if they did not leave. This frightened them away, but in a short time they returned and commenced work at the back door. "If you go to tbe front door I shall let you in," said Mrs. Bemis with presence of mind. The men followed her suggestion, and as they went around the house Mts. Bernie slipped out by a rear door and wont to the Lincoln Street Engine House, whore the West Chicago avenue patrol wagon was telephoned for. When the officers arrived one of the burglars had escaped but the other was arrested. •• 414 PERSONS DROWNED. The steamer Meifoo has arrived at Hong Kong, bringing intelligence of the loss of the steamer Nanchow, off Cupchi point. The Meifoo re- - porta that the shaft of the Nanchow broke, supposedly at the point where it emerges from the hull. This allowed the water to rash into, the shaft hole and make its way ta the engine room, and then into the fire room. The steamer's fires were soon extinguished and she filled rapidly. The water continued to pour in, and in a short time the vessel foundered. The Nanchow was employed in trading locally in - the Chloe seas, and she had on board a very large number of Chinese passengers. She sank so rapidly that it was • impossible to launch her boats, even had she had. enough to carry all hands 013 board. When she went down she carried with her 414 persona, every one of whom was drowned. The steamer was officeresd by Europeans, and her crew also consisted of sailors, fire- men, etc., from different European. ' countries. They stood to their posts to the last and did everything possible to save their vessel. All of them went down with the steamer. CULLODEN CULLINOS. GENTLEMEN,—In 1858 I was severely afflicted with gravel of the kidneye front whirh I suffered great pain. I was re- i•ommended to take Bardook Blood Bit- ters, whioh I did, finding great relisf, and after taking 4 bottles can truly SAT I am cured and have not since been troubled. I highly recommend it. PETER WEST, Culloden P. 0., Ont.