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.50 a Year -41.25 In Advance
Wednesday, August 24th, 1592
SCANDAL AT PORT ARTHUR
ARREST OF A PROMINENT BANKER
AND MILITARY MAN ON A
SERIOUS CHARGE.
The arrest of Col. Ray, a promi-
nent backer and military man, of
Port Arthur, has cr4ted a treumen.
dous sensation in society circles,
Col. Ray met on the street Mre.
Bathurst, wife of Dr. Bathurst, a
well-known physician, and engaged
her in conversation. They 'walked
toward the Bathurst residence, and
when it was reached the colonel
asked permission to enter. A few
few minutes later he made an inde-
cent proposition to the lady, which
so startled her that she swooned.
While in a fainting condition Mrs.
Bathurst says the colonel accom.
plished his purpose. When the
lady recovered she at once alarmed
the household. Col. Ray, hearing
that proceedings were to be taken,
sent a friend with a cheque for
$5,000 to suppress matters. This
she indignantly refused, and at once
swore out a warrant for the man's
arrest. Dr. Bathurst, who was out
of the city, did not return until the
following day. He is furlv e.over
the outrage, and swears t ailitoii
Ray if he escapes justice in the
courts.
Col. Ray was brought before the
magistrates' court for preliminary
examination. He pleaded not guil-
ty, but the evidence appeared direct
and the magistrate committed him
to jail to await Ilia trial at the Fall
Assizes. Ray was admitted to bail
of $20,000.
HE THREATENS TO GO BACK.
AN IMMIGRANT WHO APPRECIATES 1515
VALUE TO THE CO3INUNITI.
New York Herald : A greasy -
looking tramp who has lived in
City Hall Park for three years and
whose feet have become as hard as
rocks from the frequent rappings
upon them from the clubs of the
sparrow policemen, took four 5
cent whiskies the other day and
mustered up courage enough to
march to the Mayor's office. He
had a paper in his hand. The door-
keeper nabbed him and asked him
what he wanted.
"1 wish to see Mayor Grant," he
said, loftily.
"\Vhat about ?"
"'i' hat's my businosa."
"Well, if its your business it isn't
public business ; git 1"
"I desire to enrich the commun•
ity to the amount,rof $500."
"All right, hand No a check for
it."
"No, that won't do. I want to
give the community $1,000 and get
$.500 change."
"What's your scheme?"
"Read what it says in the paper."
And he pointed to the following
paragraph :
' Reliable statisticians have calcul-
ated that every adult immigrant
who comes into the country is
worth $1,000 to the community.
"Well?"
"I'm an adult immigrant, ain't
I V'
"I suppose so. What of it ?"
"Well, I'm worth $1,000 to the
community, and I propose to have
' some of it, or I'll get hunk."
"How 1"
"Well, if the community doesn't
pay me $500 I'll go back. There's
a clear gain of $500 in this deal for
the community. It's a plain busi-
ness proposition. Here am I bene-
fiting the city to the extent of
$1,000, duly certified to by official
statisticians, and I don't get a
penny out of it for myself."
"Move on 1"
HQUN•�DpAA TO MAT
wrotatitos
The patholi of the suioi
Judge Nerntile in St. Thais
day moiuing is deepened a
facts and oircumstancee pre
it b000megf3better known,
only does the general pre
that city speak of him
tender respect and hon
regard, but the paper Ili
charges with hounding hi
death is able to justify its
assults upon him no farthur
to declare that he was the victim
of rascale. A proud, highly -sen.
sitive man, bh had a peculiar con.
cern for the dignity of the office he
occupied, and felt that the judicial
bench was entitled to the respect of
editors as well as of the community
at large.
de of
Toes -
e the
ceding
Not
ss of
with
orable
WILL CARRY VESSELS
THE PLANS OF THE ONTARIO SHIT
RAILWAY COMPANY.
No Doubt of the reuslbilitf+ pf Mt
Sobetue—It 1■ Ctatuod That the Neu
Kettle)) of Transportation Will Save 30C
at he Miles or Tortuous Navigation,
to to
bitter
.At the last session of the Ontario Legisla•
tare an act was passed incorporating the
than Ontario Ship Railway Company. The pro.
ject of this company is to build a three -track
railway from Toronto on Lake Ontario to
Collingwood on Georgian Bay in Lake Harem
for the purpose of hauling lake vessels be.
tweet' those two points. E. L. Corthell,
of Chicago, is the consulting engineer of the
enterprise. He said to a reporter for the
Tribune that there was no doubt about the
feasibility and practicability of the scheme
if the money for it can be raised. The plans
are substantially the same as' those pre-
pared for the Tehuantepec Ship Railway,,,
projected by the late Capt. James B. Lads,
and of which Mr. Corthell is now time en-
gineer.
To such a nature attacks that
were maliciously unjust could be
no other than torturing, and the
letter he left bdhind was the cry or
of despair. "For more than a year
the atrocious libelers of the Post
Dispatch have had me on the rack.
They have almost unfitted mo for
performing my judicial duties, and
made life little else than a torture.
* * * I crave for rest which,
alas 1 I must seek in the grave, upon
whose brink I pen these closing
lines." He contemplated the kill-
ing of his traduciirs, but shrank
fr•oio taking human Life, especially
while serving as a judge. The law's
slow delay, to which ho had ap-
pealed, offered him no immediate
remedy, and his defamers grew
more bitter against him. Self-in-
flicted death seemed to him the
only relief from his vindictive
assailant befcre persistent detrac-
tion should rob him of men's es-
teem. -
There is a lesson to consider in
this effect of merciless journalism.
Newspapers are too often unmindful
of the rights and interests of the
persona aginet whom they direct
their criticism. There is no weap-
on so formidable as the columns of
the daily preas. They are a
terrible power for good or evil, and
they should not be employed with-
out mercy, without charity, even in
the punishment of manifest guilt.
In cases where there is the possi-
bility of injuring the innocent
there should be the spirit of fair-
ness that known not malice
and that will not permit zeal for
the right to degenerate into vin-
dictiveness. A newspaper has no
rights superior to the right of an
individual, and should not presume
upon its privilege to grow tyrann-
ous.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
CHINESE WOMEN.
TREY ABSTAIN FROM EATING MEAT IN
TIIE HOPE OF BECOMING MEN.
A. • )&rge.number of these un.
fortunate married women belong to
a .sect, the cardinal principle of
which is total abstinence from
animal food. By embraciug veges
tarianism these women believe that
they will become men when they
again come to earth on the day of
regeneration. They also institute
several pilgrimages annually.
A Chinese author said : "A young
wife should be an echo and shadow
to us at home." The celebated
Pan -Hui -Pan endeavored to dis-
parage her own sex by writing :
"Woman ahould always be remind-
ed of the low position which she
occupied at the creation of the
world. When a son is born he may
sleep in bed, is clad in beautiful
garments and plays with pearls.
Everybody obeys him. But
n a girl is born she sleeps upon
ground, is enwrapped in a sim•
loth, and may only play with
She must only think of pre•
ng wine and food, and of not
ng her parents." The same
or relates that it was customary
ncient times to place new-born
hters for three days upon a
heap of reps, if they were not
Bated immediately after birth,
she praises the "wisdom and
riety of this custom," which
'so well adapted to give woman
mel y impression of her in-
rity."
is very difficult to obtain
mation in regard to the aver -
of Chinese parents to female
ing. Many of the stories told
this disaffection are, however,
e. It is true that a boy is never
o death in China and that many
e babies are (the govermnent
liege, homes for female infants
e large cities point to this),
he number of murders in com-
n to the enormous population
ost insignificant. The crime
erally committed in consequ
f want and only in poor fami..
who
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ence o
lies.
A Chinaman has reason to pre-
fer sons. When parents die their
sons render them all honor, and
pay homage to their "tablets of an.
cestors," things that cannot be done
by daughters.
—Isaac Stenebaugh drove into a
shed in Scotland, Ont., on Thursday
night, and in jumping from bis rig
caught his on a tneat hook fastened
to the side of the shed. He was
able to lift himself off, but after
being in a precarious condition
died.
OCEAN STEAMER IN TRANSIT.
Simlpy stated the plans provide for basins
or docks at the terminals, which can bo
emptied and filled at will, and where the
vessels can be floated on and oil the enor-
mous car designed to transport them. On
the car the vessels will rest securely on
cradles. The car itself will be drawn by
six or more powerful locomotives. The ac-
companying illustration will give a .clearer
idea of the ship railway than can be convey-
ed in a description.
From Toronto to Collingwood the pro-
posed route is practically a straight line,
but on the Tehuantepec route there are
several deflections which give rise to the
necessity of building water turn -tables, it
being impossible to haul the long car around
curves. At the turn -table the vessel is
floated, turned in accordance with the
direction of the connecting line, reloaded
and sent on its way.
Mr. ' Corthell said the completion of the
Ontario line would save 300 miles of tor-
tuous navigation through the St. Clair
River, Lake Erie and Niagara Falls. It
would take directly from Lake Huron into
Lake Ontario traffic which now stops at
Buffalo. Vessels from Chicago to Duluth
could go to Ogdensburg and down the St.
Lawrence, nearly 200 miles farther east than
they can go now.
"Ten important ports on Lake Ontario
and the whole Atlantic seaboard," said Mr.
Corthell, "would be vastly' benefitted, to
say nothing of the West and Northwest,
because loads could be carried so much
farther before breaking bulk.
The length of the proposed line is sixty-
six miles through a comparatively level
country, where no rock is encountered.
Mr. Corthell's estimate of the cost is $15,-
500,000.
In the act incorporating the company
David Blain of Toronto was made manager.
Mr. Blain sailed for London July 5, after
consulting several New York bankers, for
the purpose of interesting English capital-
ists in the scheme. He was accompanied
to New York by President Brickmau of the
Rochester Board of Trade, who subsequent-
ly said the project was favorably reccivec
on Wall street. Speaking of the capitalists
Mr. Brickman said :
"They saw, as all trust see, that with
such a work completed there would be an
entire revolution in the whole lake carrying
trade, beneficially affecting Canada, the
SECTION Or THE GREAT CAR.
United States, and the markets of the world.
The magnitude and importance of the work
can be seen at once. Of course, like all new
enterprises, the obstacles to be overcome
look to the unprofessional eye as formidable,
if not insurmountable. Fortunately in this
case the most eminent engineers, both east
and west of the Atlantic, have pronounced
the work entirely practicable, and these
facts had their (Inc weight with the gentle-
men we interviewed."
"Don't you think, then, the capital will
be forthcoming for the project ?"
"I have no doubt it will. The financial
houses in New York entertained the opinion
that as the work was' to be carried on in
Canada, where property and rights are as
safe as in any part of the world, and mime),
was as easy in London as in New York, it
would be best to place it in London. They
have therefore furnished Mr. Blain with in-
troductions and recommendations to their
European houses, and, as he originally in-
tended, he starts at once with ample nih-
terial to lay favorable the subject before the
European houses of the Wall street firms
we interviewed."
"Then you think the project looks well
at present ?"
"I don't think there is any doubt the
work will be constructed and the City of
Rochester greatly benefited by it. I may
say I have discussed the subject with several
of the leading railway men and others in-
terested in the carrying trade, and they en-
tertain time same opinion, that the entem•prirea
to the carrying trade is second in importance
to none that is now before the public for
consideration."
The Length of the route is sixty-six miles.
There were to be three railway tracks of
the standard gauge, 4 feot 8i inches, with
rails 110 pounds per lineal yard. 1t was
intended to transport vessels of 1,000 tons
register, or, say, 2,000 tons displacement
weight and 14 feet draft. The estimated
cost was; 112,000,000.
Respectably Joined.
I once had a curate who got greatly ob-
fuscated by the number of the bans he was
called upon to publish one Sunday Pnorning.
So, when at last he got through his task, he
wound up by saying : "If any of you know
any just cause or impediment why all these
persons may not respectably be joined to-
gether in holy matrinmony ye are to declare
it." Of course he meant respectively, hut
his mistake caused nn audible titter from
certain of the y-een,yrnmemnhers of the con-
- The Coin! ;11 11r oxine.
BQWegli AND THE MQWEFt.
It Wes en Vulucky,z , - Wnen He Wo
the 91aoblue,
WOULD. like "to k
if that lawn in
Carne up ticis
noon V' asked Mr, 1
ser, as he came hem
hour ahead of time
other evening,
"Was that a 1
mower ?" queried
Bowser in re
!;•?,,; ' ` o
sassed you to buy
a"WWt earth
"For two very
reasons, Mrs. Bo'
I propose to save
fifteen dollars on lawn mowing this s
mer, and I want the exercise. I could h
got a health lift, but I thought I w
combine business with pleasure, Al
kill two birds with one stone when ch
offers. I'll work up a muscle in a coupl
weeks to astonish you. The doctor
it's exactly what I need."
"But I wish you hadn't bought it."
"That's you to a dot I Always in op
sitiou to everything I do. That's why
take so much comfort as a family 1
only thing you wouldn't oppose is my
ing 1"
Mrs. Bowser had nothing more to 8
and after dinner Mr. Bowser made re
for his exercise. He got into an old sui
clothes, dragged the lawn mower into
back yard and oiled it up, and was prese
ly ready to make a start. He looked
at the back windows, and seeing noth
of Mrs. Bowser, he spat on hie hands
said :
"Ha 1 This is what'll give a man muse
Only costs $9, and I'll get $100 ben
out of it. I suppose I might as well ma
a start"
He made one. He had gone about
feet when the machine stopped sudden
So did Mr. Bowser. He stopped so sudd
ly that his feet Left the round and the h
dle of the mower just missed his chin on
upper cut.
"Stuck to a post, eh?" he muttered,
hincites out of the earth. "That's
e investigated and found one rising ago
six
right, however. I didn't expect to m
down poste as well as grass. Seems as
my muscle was working up a little alreac
He dodged the post and headed for t
back fence, and his countenance had ju
begun to beam again when there was
great clattering and the machine stoppe
"Oyster cans!" he growled, as he kick
two or three out of the grass. "She's pro
ably watching me, and she's probab
tickled half to death, but I'd mow this ya
if it was full of deadly torpedoes."
He reached the fence without furth
mishap, leaving a trail behind him
crooked as a serpent's but at the first da
he made on his return journey somethi
append again. The machine stopped wi
bump, and Mr. Bowser pitched forty
'er the handle and brought up in a he
n the ground.
"Now, I hope to never draw anoth
breath if I don't slaughter somebody f
this 1" he yelled as soon as he could get h
breath.
He was going to jump up and kick soul or something, but it occurred to hi
that Mrs. Bowser might be looking, and h
eat up and looked around and pretended
resNt.
othing could be seen of Mrs. Rowse
wever, and after a couple of minutes h
t up and moistened his hands for a fres
rt. Everything went as smooth as greas
the next twenty feet. Then the move
ked up a hundred feet of stovepipe wir
d waited for results.
"That woman's hand again !" hoarsel
ispered Mr. °Bowser, as he saw wha
as the matter ; "but I wouldn't give i
w if I knew that death wasn't two rod
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It tools him ten minutes to clear awa
the wire. When this had been accomplish
ed he pulled off Ids coat and vest, glance
up at all the back windows, and there was
a dangerous light in his eye as he gripped
the handle, drew a long breath, and wen
ahead. At the -fifth h step Mr. Bowser'
right foot found a post hole, and followed i
up until he fell forward on his stomach and
ploughed along the grass. His first thought
was to get up and kick both line fences
down and make a bonfire of the splinters,
but as he slowly reached his feet a better
idea occurred to him. He picked up the
mower by the handle and raised it over his
head and pounded the earth with it until
nothing but the handle was left. Then he
gathered up wheels, cogs, ratchets, flues,
pulleys, cylinder heads, and low-water in-
dicators, and tossed them over the back
fence and walked into the house. Mrs.
Bowser sat reading, and looking very in-
nocent and humble, but he was not to be
deceived. Standing before her in his
sternest attitude lie said ;
"Mrs. Bowser, there is an easier way !"
"Why, what do you mean ?"
"Kill me off If you a'rc so bent and de-
termined to get rid of me, why don't you
poison my food or carat my throat when I'm
asleep ? No explanation, not a word ! I
understand the situation perfectly, and no-
thing you can say will c::cu me your dastard-
ly machinations."
"lint didn't I say I was—"
`Never ! Never said a word ! That
will do, Mrs. Bowser ! We will not dismiss
the subject further. Lm the` morning we
will seek an amicable adjustment of diffi-
culties, and I will go with you to the train.
There are two trains a day by which you
can reach your mother, and I will telegraph
her of your coming. Omar child will, of
course, remain with me. Good night, Mrs.
Bowser. Any suggestion you have to make
had best be put in meriting and submitted
the first thing in the morning."
The Great Spread.
Briggs—I did not know that yon were
living in Chicago proper. I thought the
hoitse you built was in the suburbs.
Griggs—It was when I began building it.
—Judge,
Revenge is Sweet,
St. Peter—A man who used to write
jokes about me for the New York papers
came up to -day.
Michael—What did you do with him?
St. Peter—I first sent him down by the
toboggan. Then I had him brought bark
and sent him down by the elevator; brought
him back again and told him to "slide." I
used all the methods he used to credit me
with.—Town Topics.
Iu the Same Boat.
A clerk in a Detroit jewellery house, on
his vacation down by the sea, met a young
fellow of his acquaintance who was contem-
plating matrimony.
Been having a good time old boy?"
asked the clerk,
"Fine. More pretty girls down here than
you can throw a pebble at. Kind of stuck
myself on a daisy. By the way, what's the
latest thing in engagement rings?"
The clerk blushed a bit.
"Well," he replied feebly, "the very
latest is my girl's finger."
"Shake, old man," said the ether one,
and a fellow.fee]ing made them wondrous
kind.—Detroit Free Press.
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Dodgers,
Circulars,
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Letter Heads,
Note Heads,
Statements,
Blank Forms,
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superior Work, Low Prices.
.
GEOGRAPHY IS NOT IRISH HOME LIFE. u�
AGAINST US.
Nothing could be wore utterly
untrue than this parrot -like cry that
geography is against the creation of
a Canadian nation, The Dominion
is not a mere fringe along the
northern frontier of the adjoining
Republic, nar does it hear evidence
of being design ed for a tier of
Northern States.
Certainly Canada is broader from
east to west than it is in depth from
north to south. But because this is
so the assumption is not necessarily
warranted that our natural destiny
is to form the complement of the
United States.
Take each province singly and it
is seen at a glance how fallacious
this "fringe -tier" argmmnent is.
There is not a single member of
Confederation that is not as large
and compact as the average nation
of Europe. Even Nova Scotia has
an area six thousand miles greater
then Denmark; British Columbia
exceeds Aust: -Hungary by forty-
two thousand miles, and Ontario, as
compact as any any state in Europe
in proportion to aize, exceeds
France by fifteen thousand square
wiles. Surely all these mighty
provinces—each a nation ir, itself—
ere not weakened by being united
in one confederation, and if they are
not then the truth of the declaration
with which this article begins must
be admitted—that geography and
nature are not at war with the ups
building of a Cadadian nation-
-Yews.
.-
''EFFECT OF TOBACCO SMOKE
ON MEAT,
FROM TUECANADAIIEALTH JOURNAL,
Cases of poisoning, duo to mert
which seemed throughly wholesome
have sometimes occurred, and have
remained unexplained. In the
Renee d'IIr/ryien',' DI, Bourrier, in-
spector of meat for Paris, describes
his experiment/I with meat im-
pregnated with tobacco smoke.
Some thin slices of beef were
exposed for a considerable time
to the fumes of tobacco, and
afterwards offered to a dog
which had been deprived of food
for 12 hours. The dog, after smell-
ing the meat refused to eat it.
Some of' the meat was then cut into
small pieces and concealed within
bread. This the dog ate with avid-
ity, but in 20minutes commenced
to displaythe most distressing symp-
toms, and soon died in great agony.
All eorts of meat., both raw and
cooked some grilled, roasted and
boiled, were exposed to tobacco
smoke and then given to animals,
and in all cases producted symp-
toms of aerate paisoning. Even the
process of boiling could not extract
from the meat the nicotine. Grease
and similar subetances have facilities
of absorption in proportion with
their fineness and fluidity. Fresh
killed meat is more readily im-
pregnated, and stands in order of
susceptibility as follows; Pork,
veal, rabbit, poultry, beef, mutton,
horse. The effect also varies con-
siderably according to the quality
of tobacc.o All thee° experiments
would seem to denote that great caro
should be taken not to allow smok-
ing where foods, especially moist
foods, such as meats, fats and cer-
tain fruits, are exposed.
ITS SIMPLICITY AND HOSPITALITY A
TAING OF THE PAST,
All simple enjoymente of Irish
life have now become enviable
memories, says a native writer in
an English review. Irish hosts .
have ceased to welcome their guests
with boisterous mirth and flattering
delight. I think they have grown
colder than the English. The
peasants are dull and dejected, the
girls uninteresting and stupid. The
keenest ear migh ttraverse a village
street on a fair day and never hear
a single smart or witty saying. The
cast of features has become heavy
and unintelligent, and the eyes.,
onee so handsome, are lusterl s,
with an expression between a a-1
indifference and sadness. The ook
is particularily noticable in the woe
wen's eyes.
An old politician, to whom I
lately deplored this great obange
and the decline of Irish wit and
humor, attributes the fact to pre..
sent politics. The Young Ire.
landers, he contends, appealed to
every instinct that kept alive these
national characteristics. They fan,
ned a literary flame, and if it were
but feeble and crude, it still had the
glow which warms the heart and
fires the blood. Soul was not
absent, either, and above all poised
the spirit of romance, inextricably
dear to the Irish peasant.
But the Parnell movement, what.
eyer else it may have accomplished
or left undone, has undoubtedly
achieved the destruction of wit and
humor and romance. The dream of
liberty was no longer a dark -eyed
princess, with chains struck oft by
gallant poetic worshipers and tuned
to song, but legal parchments signed,
in dull courts and the personal
acquirement of so many acres of
land. Liberty in the latter furca
may be more feasible, but the strife
for it has blunted all the sensibilities
of the race, and time disasters that
have come in its train have con..
siilerably modified the brightness of
its promises:
Ireland may now be described as
the most melancholy land on the
face of the earth, and the Irish pee•
ple as one of the dullest and dreari-
est of races. Fun has departed ;
latter day politics has driven wit
and humor from its shores. The
towns and villages are depopulated.
and the stamp of physical, mental,
and moral decay lies upon the coun-
try in unvarying gloom. Hope it-
self is so listless and unimpassioned
as to be hardly discernible from dull
despair. As for Irish laughter
that has definitely taken refuge ink
America
23, 1887 "ItgneSis, with s Toronto,
net that'
certify to •the fact of my mother hav-
ing been cured of a bad case of rheu-
matism by the use of St. Jacobs Oil, and
this after having tried other prepara-
tions without avail."VV At. 11. MoCoN.
NELL.
—Last week while Thos Wil-
son and his two sons, who live on
the Base line, south of Picker-
ing Ont,,were loading hay, his eldest
son who was loading, slipped and fell
behind the horses' heels, causing
them to run away. Benjamin,
a younger son, 13 years of age, who
was working some distance ahead,
attempted to stop the team, and in
so doing was knocked down, stepped
do and the wheels passed over hie
body. He died next morning.