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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1892-08-24, Page 3*4v TTheHuron Mews Racordf s t 1rA t 1 o THE EARTH 1:,69+a-Xe4X•4141$ IA AdY9r140. *,edIiesdity August f 4th. 1S994 3ND 'Q4' A SAD STORY, • Springfield, Ohio, Aug. 11.—A SPeei.ai, from Tiffin, Ohio, says The last act in the downward earner 0£ a cites lovely end innocent young 'Canadian. girl took place in this its this morning. Hattie Davis, tc.11 is said to be an aesumei me, fallenw o u whob ae been ;banging about the city for the past dour months, committed suicide this min by the worphiue route in an upper room over a lute dive kept , by William Kuhn on Market street. A scrawled note requested that her Mother, Mrs. R. Allen, Dundee, ,Ont., Canada, be notified that "it was all for love." The mother is expected to arrive here within a few days to take the remains home for burial. The woman had been the mistress of ,Kuhn since last March, and committed suicide be• cause they quarrelled. She was about 25 years of age, and gave evidence of rare beauty before dis- sipation scarred her features.. The room shot a the saloon, whore the body was found, presented a moat . horrible appearance. The body lay in one corner of the room, half naked, surrounded by dtunkon men and women, who were drinking and 'dancing over the remainP of the unfortunate woman, Kuhn's saloon is the lowest in the city, and its ex- istence will no longer be tolerated. It is said that the girl comes of an excellent family in Canada, and that alio got stage-struck in her rural horse, and desired to go ou the stage. She finally drifted to the United States, where she learn- ed ballet and skirt dancing. She drifted round in various variety theatres, and had quite a long en- gagement in Fort- Wayne, Ind. Her virtue was not proof against the many temptations of the life she led, and it was not long before she was seduced. WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE. It requires a distinct effort to pass a pin lying on the sidewalk, hecause of that absurdly bad rhyme : See a pin and pick it up, • All the day you'll have good luck. Prof. Black tells of a singular superstition existing in England, which insists that if the youngest daughter of a family marries first her sisters must dance at the wed- ding withJut shoes, so as to insure h,gsbands for themselves. e Indian hunter will cut the a out of stone, animal of an sh'e have it blessed by the medicine man, and believes that it gives him good ,fortune in the chase of the beast re- presented.• When he kills oue ho dips the fetich in the blood. The Scandinavian race think that spirits can be driven away and witches kept at bay by a knife stuck in the house or nails driven up. These races have held from time immemorial the idea that it was lucky to find a piece of iron. , A Yorkshire man will spit, on his right shoe before putting it on, when going out ou important busi- ness, to bring luck, and many an English girl has been known to hang'her boots outside the window on St. Valentine's night for love luck. In the Isle of Man an old shoe is always thrown after the bride as well as the groom when leaving their homes, and in the south the oldest person on the plantation, white or black, always throws a shoe after any . one starting on a long journey. The Irish hero, Fingal, had the felicity to be under his own thumb, that member serving him as a danger signal, aching in a peculiar Way whenever trouble impended, when he had only to put it in his ;i mouth to become immediately in- structed how to overcome the diffi- ,;w � t4 -t4:" `e":..t..a hour. So, by the �,. pricking of her thumbs telling her "something wicked this way comes," did the weird sister know of Macbetli's approach before her ears caught his footfall. A strang story of superstition is reported from Homoliez, in Hun- gary. Several bodies of men had recently been found there with their heads cut off. An investiga- tion was made by the police, and it turned out that these mutilations had in every instance been com- tted by young men who were srothed to the widows of the . imitated persons. The husbands ad died a natural death, and their widows believed that in case they married a second time their hus- bands would reappear and destroy their wedded happiness. Hence they had persuaded their new bride- grooms to decapitate their deceased partners. ___.....+....-- - - THE CHILDREN'S FRIEND. GENTLEDIEN.—Last summer our child- ren were very bad with summer com- plaint, and the only remedy that did them any good was Dr. Flowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry. Se e used twelve bottles during the warm weaber atd would not be without it at five times the cost. JAS. HEALEY, New Edinburgh, Ont. T THE MEN QF MARS SALUTE. THE MEN OF EARTH. Astrouowers behold Three Lights Form- ing a Triangle on Oar Nearest Neighbor in the Sky—The 3loons of Mars are Small —Compared to Ours They are like Cart, er's Little Liver MO alongside an Orange. On Thursdaymorning,(to be precise at 1:21 a.m.) Auust 4 last, he planetaMars was closer to the earth than it had been at any time since the summer of 1877. At least fifteen years will elapse before Mars again cones so near to the earth as it. will be this week. This event is called an opposition of Mars because that planet, travelling around the sun in a more remote orbit than that of the earth, comes, at the time mentioned, in such a position that, as seen from the earth, it is at a point in the sky exactly opposite to the eun. It is an occurrence of the very highest interest to astronomers, because Mars has of late years come to be regarded as in many respects the most interesting of all the members of the solar family beyond the earth. At the Iast previous close approach of Mars, in 1877, the discovery of its two strange moons was made, and it may be expected that these moons will now again be seen under favorable circumstances; and that we shall loarn something worth know- ing about the magnitude and the motions of these singular little bodies. But the most interesting results to be obtained by the observations now to be made upon Mars, relate rather to the planet itself and the condition and peculiarities of its atmos- phere and its surface. About a dozen years ago the announcement was made of Schiap- aneogleeeted with the planet, They there= OL» TDIE O.A.KE1-WALL, fore, with true eetreut m;loei mitten,. wait, much thpught to the lights, un the seoeu5 COLORED 6OCtETYiNTORONTO CELE - night, however, which was even mere clear GRATE EMAI�IOIPATIQN DAY. and brilliant than the first, the lights were seen to be there when the grrat polished lens was turned upon the orb which had stepped to its place in the sky. Fpr two succeeding eveninga after that these lights were obsorved,byrn).ng steadily, brilliantly and effulgently, as if from throe mountain tope. It wee evident that, the lights were placed upon either mountains in Mars or artificial projections or elevations of some kind. The appearance of three brilliant lights in a triangle upon one of the planets in a man- ner they are enable to explain raises a pre- sumption at which their minds recoil. A scientist would, when thoroughly convinced of the exiatellee of these lights muter such conditions as are known to prevail in Mars, easily glide to the almost irresistable con- clusion that they were the work of the men on Mars. Observed at any other time, there would bo apparently no other means of explaining those lights in a way to satisfy common sense. Observed at the present time, when eminent men in science have reached the conclusion that the people on Mars would seize the opportunity to try again to attract the attention of the people on the earth, the three lights of Mars are as significant as the moving lights in the distance were to Colum- bus on his caravel. But the three strange lights which have looked down the 36 -inch tube of the Lick telescope for four successive nights and as- tounded the astronomers at the other end are not the only unusual appearances upon the surface of the planet which the great piece of flint glass has revealed. That glass, which cost over $50,000 and took years to select, grind and polish until perfection was attained, has revealed things which other observatories have not noticed during the present opposition. One huge projection upon the surface of the planet was long ago observed. It was not a mountain, and could not be explained by the astronomers in any ordinaty manner and so they called it Foils Juvintutia, or Fountain of Youth, although ifggy they could see a fountain at a distance o'f 35,000,- 000 miles they did not state. Now, how- ever, as observed through the great .Lick telescope, there are on Mars close together two Fountains of Youth. The astronomers have not offered any explanation of this, and they are evidently puzzled, for Ono Fountain of Youth of the size described by them would be qnite enough for that part of the conntry. The scientific mind has, however, taken h,ppt� this phenomenon in conjimction with the does not seem probable that the Fountain AS SEEN TIIROrGIi THE TELESCOPE. of Youth may itself he a signal to the people three straight lights and aslts whether it arelli's discovery of what had been called of the earth. The people of Mars being able the canals of Mars. Although every as- to bring this globe which we call Earth so tronomer armed with a great telescope who close to them that they can sec forests, has looked for these so-called canals has not -fields and cities if, indeed, they cannot au - succeeded in seeing all of them, yet enough tually see people walking in the streets, has been observed with the great Lick tele- would bo eager to establish communication scope, and with other powerful instruments, , with us. They may have tried to do this fully to confirm the Italian astronomer's for centuries at each recurring opposition of discovery that Mars really possesses a net- Mars, or opposition of the Earth, as they work of straight lines, covering the whole would call it, and repeated failures would surface between the polar circles, and which only stir them to greater efforts. are apparently water courses. The name canals was probably attached to them chief- Lyndon in the Fast. ly on account of their straightness, and the When the Romans first sailed np the idea that they arc actually artificial canals Thames they found along the northern stile has probably never been entertained by any almost continuous marshes, withs flesh astronomer. Their great magnitude alone spring water, and with no convenient access seems sufficient t to dispel it. They are hen- to the higher land beyond. Arriving at a dreds, andd sometimes thousandsof miles in point beyond which the river, owing to its length, and their average width is not less numerous branches, became shallow, ford - than seventy-five toa hundred miles. It able indeed at Westminster, so that sea - can hardly be conceived that the most gi- gantic inhabitants with which the imagina- tion night people the planet Mars would be able to construct canals of such a size. Then, too, Schiaparelli's singular observa- tion of the periodical doubling of the canals seems to indicate that. they are natural phenomena, although their real nature is yet a mystery. At about the time of th ed until the follawing,night before (leveti* Prize Calces of Two Storeys and Others With a Mansard Itoor—Style v. Speed in Walking—An Eloquent Orator—Only Painted Irishmen. MANOIPATION day was Monday last. The event was cele- brated d t it r Toronto with more than usual . enthusiasm. A good old fashioned cake- walk in Victoria Hall weuud .up the pro - (=dings of a long and hilarious holiday. What a great evening Torouto's colored so - piety had that night ! Chloes were there rived out fore and aft in colors of the rainbow ; Stonewall Jacksons wore a pro- fusion of white ties, Gladstonian collars and cut -a -way coats ; an Italian band furnished dreamy, waltzing music, a couple of score of Caucasian youths gazed delight- edly upon the spectacle and at least two hundred of the sons and daughters of ancient Cush spent hours of the most,. solid kind of enjoyment. On the table at the top of the stairs were the prizes. These were a two-storey cake, a one -storey and mansard roof cake, a cot- tage cake and a bun. Hence the expression "You take the cake," and "He takes the bun." THE ORATOR ORATES. It was hard work getting started. But when Rev. Edward Gillam arose at half past nine o'clock to say "a few words," in the language of Prof. Hunt, floor -walker, general manager, and west end barber on week days„„"the show went on." Rev. Ed- ward said'more than a few words. He said several words and some others, and ho said them well. He is a good speaker, and de- fended the Peter Ogden Lodge of Oddfel- lows in grand style. Then he warmed up a trifle on the history of his race generally. Speaking of his people he said: gave a very fair deeisiorr, ' `.file first cake tell to Mr. Charles Clay and Miss York, and the second to Mr. Joe )sorrow and Miss Jdoke, "You 800;” said Master of Ceremonies Hunt, "there ain't no innetrtiality ! It's a square Ileal all through!" KICKERS PROM AWAY nAo1 . But some of the couples were kickers. Ono burly son of Hain walked around saying: "1 kin beat them people walking for all tho money you kin raise 1" In fact the talk waxed so loud that Prof. Hunt ascended the platform and said : "Yo all remember what I said. Now thorn has been words said right hero on. this here floor that musn't be said no mo'. If they are said remember out yo go anti Hunt's the man to appear again you in the morning." Then followed another cake walk, "dude style," and after that the dancing away past midnight. How the feet did hit the floor, and how the many colored stockings Clashed ! All to the center ! Seven hands round ! Jig 5o t arounyour d Hue down ! Hoe down, darkies, 'hoe down I Eveningof Emancipation Day ! Hi !Hi ! Hoe down! Anil they did hoe it down, as only color- ed people can. And to 'some of the old people looking on there came memories of evenings in Dixie Land, when bright eyes !lashed in the twilight, when the banjo sent forth its cheerful notes and the little dark - es danced and sang before old Massa and old Mlssus that was long "befo' de wah" ted a new generation is now on deck. One old man who was present was most outspoken in his views of the present gen, ,[tion, declaring they were not negroes at all. "These fellows," said he, "don't know nothin' of the old slave days. They're all too tine for us. I don't call 'em niggers, the're just painted Irienmen." He declared that he was an old plantation nigger, but was somewhat rudely contradicted by a comrade who declared he would bring wit- nesses to prove that the old fellow had been born on Centre street and had never seen the States. WALKING FOP. THE CAKE. "I am a negro ; 1 don't want to be called a colored man. `Colored' means dyed, tint - going ships would be immediately obstruct- ed on. painted. Now, I ain't dyed, tinted ed, all this changed. Here was a bold or painted. I am a negro, (cheers)—and I projecting hill of clay, with gravel and am proud of it. There is not a single thing brick earth abounding on the surface. This in the history of our race that Pin ashamed bluff headla,nl was divided by the valley of of. • But Pm ashamed of sonic -things in the the Walbrook into two chief elevations ; history of another race I know of. and on one of these the Roman fort was They say there are Judases among our built, between the Walbrook and the little members. Well, all I've got to say is, they vernal equinox in Mars, according to the port the l;gextended no gravellyhwara nposit the should follow the example set by the first Italian astronomer, rows of faint spots be- clay I Judas and go out and hang themselves. valla of the Lea and formed a sound well - gin to make their appearance alongside drained foundation for the lower way toYork UNEASY FOR THE QUICK -STEP. of tl 1 l ft many the canals, ant these, after a few and Lincoln. On this crust of sand and gravel "I just want six minutes more to touch days, become getter defined and blend tof• there was, even in the citadel itself, a por- on half a dozen points," said Mr, Gillam and tether, making lines resemblingtion of brick earth, so that the materials for the people became very restless. It was ten the canals. Finally theeyybecome images of me as sharp forts and walls wero easily procured ; the o'clock and their feet became uneasy for the and definite as the originals. brick earth, sand and gravel on the spot, quick -step and the hoe-down. accountAllsortsfor theoriesthave beenrp advanced the lime along the river, and the rag stone Sixteen minutes instead of six were re - butte nothing these beennnular phenomena,. from the now quarries on the Medway, in quired to finish the oration, and now the ahas yet offered whish direct communication with the Thames. cake walk was in order. But first Prof. seems an adequate explanation. Evident- But, besides, the gravel beds were a col. Hunt ascended the platform and talked. ly Mars,ewhich in many respects strik- lectins ground for water, which sank down Brer• Hunt said : "Now, ladies and gentle- annglyhaon to the underlying clay, and then ran out atmosphere, water, snow and ice, clouds, abundantly in springs and wells andseasons, and other familiar terrestial streams. The place was a great spring field. nomena, is in some respects a far different Walbrook, the Langbourne, Skinner's Well, globe from ours. The distribution of land Holywell, and Clerkenwell, Lamb's Conduit and water upon Mars is entirely unlike and White Conduit indicate a few only of that upon the earth. Instead of havingothe many springs and water courses that is thely one-quartercasewith of lrlt:planace dry land, as arose and ritn, at first on pebbly beds and is with our planet, Mars has its surface about equally divided between land and water. Its oceans and its continents are proportionately far less extensive than those of the earth Most of its seas are then on clay, down to the Thames. The hill itself continued northward by the ridge of Pentonviile, across the "Stonyfield" of Islington, affording a hard road for local long and narrow, and the curious uetworli traffic up to the Highgate range beyond. of water courses called canals divides up And thus, by its peculiar advantages of the continents into still smaller portions, situation, and of earth and water, this small making of them so many archipelagos. Since 1877 very great advances have been hill became the nucleus of the greatest city in the history of the world. \made in our means of studying the surface London, to employ at once its later name, conditions of such a planet as Mars. We being at the head of the marine navigation of the largest river in the island, became the chief emporium for inland trade. It could be well protected, since, on every side but one, it was surrounded by deep water or by marsh ; and, to the north, the moor for half the year would scarcely have been passable, the vicinity of the earth. It is altogether save near the edge of some convenient slope probable, then, that the present opposition for drainage. Eventually Maiden Lane, the will result in some most interesting and way on the "great hill" along the water - "possibly startling discoveries concerning shed, between theValley of the Fleet and this marvellous neighbor of ours in the sky. the much wider Valley of the Lea, became It is not to be expected, of course, that we the King's "high," elevated "wav," the shall be able to obtain direct evidence that great upper road, all undefined and open to Mars is au inhabited world. The power of the north.—The Quarterly Review. our instruments would need to be in- creased hundreds and, indeed, thousands Sox In Education, of times in order to accomplish that. But Sir James Crichton Browne protests it is not too much to expect that we shall against overwork for women, which as he obtain evidence which will enable ns, rea- maintained, is much more likely and more soning upon analogies, to say with a hi h,dangerous than overwork for men. He says degree of probability whether Mars simPlY the female brains weigh less in the propor- miunics the earth in the possession of an at- tion to the weight of the body ; that the nnosphere and water while yet remaining specific gravity of the gray matter of the lifeless, or whether, along with those great female brain is less than that of the male requisites for the support of life, it is also ),rain ; and that the blood supply, which is adorned by the presence of living and intel- directed in the male brain toward the or- ]igent beings. gans of volition and c tition, is directed in A few facts have already been made pub- the female brain snore ward the organs lic by the astronomers at the Lick Observa- controlling the sensory system. tory who have busied themselves during the All this may be true, and it is no doubt past week watching the planet. The re- true that young women show the had re- rater day and more austere climate. Gradn- sults thug far obtained have already been sults of hard brain work much more visibly s•py the less ambitions couples leave the so extraordinary- RS to have made a pro- then young men of the same age, .and that procession and in a short time only about a found impression upon the practical minds tbgy want more holding back from over- dozen pairs remain upon the floor. These of the astronomers there nssembled. Three exertion. But it does not follow that they great lights forming a triangle have been are the candidates. The event is announced have not immensely benefited by the hi h• b Brother Dorsey. They had never been seen before in any Ob- 1 1 AFTERNOON STYLE DOWN BROADWAY." have telescopes of far greater Mower than any that existed at that time. The spectro- scope has also been improved, and the won- derful art of astronomical photography may almost be said to have been invented and perfected since Mars last paid a visit to men, everybody has come here to enjoy themselves, Go in and have a good time. But reinemher this : If anybody while or black, I speak plain, gets upon this floor the worse of liquor tonight he won't enjoy himself. I'll attend to that." (Here Mr. •Hunt made a suggestive movement towards his shoe) ``Ile' I h toy himself if out have enlo nurse . doors, and I'm the man to put him out. If he kicks, Hunt's the man to appear agin him before Denison in the morning. See ! The promenade is now in order !" "I klased'her in the kit3hen and I kissed her in the hall, Children, children, follow me. `Golly,' says the rook, 'he'se gwine to kiss us all.' Children, children, follow me." So the nmusic. Olt yo' partners! Ladies to the right, gents to the left! Ili, dor ! READY FOR THIF, WALK'. So the floor managers, as they got the couples out for the promenade. The promen- ade always precedes the cake walk, as there is a difficulty at first in getting volun- teers for the latter. Around the hall they go, swell barbers and ordinary calsominers, each with a lady, dres�dU in all the colors of the rainbow, real Queens of Sheba of a THT\'T:S HE WILL CUT A DASH. Sahara of North America. The Great American desert was alnico ,, better known a generation ago than it is to- day. Then thousands of the hardy Argo- nauts on their way to California had travers- ed that fearful waste on foot with their dawdling ox teams, and hundreds of them left their bones to bleach in that thirsty land. The survivors of those deadly jour- neys had a very vivid idea of what that desert was, but, according to St. Nicholas, now that we roll across in less than a day in Pullman palace cats, its real—and still existing ---horrors arc largely forgot- ten. Now every transcontinental railroad crosses the great desert which stretches up and down the continent, west of the Rocky mountains, for nearly 2,000 miles. The northern routes cut its least terrible parts ; but the two railroads which traverse its southern half—the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific ---pierce some of its grimmest recesses. The first scientific exploration of this re- gion was Lieutenant Wheeler's United States survey about 18,10, and he was first to give scientificassurances that we had here a desert as absolute as the Sahara. If its parched sands could speak their record what a story they might tell of sufferings and death ; of slow -plodding caravans, whose patient oxen lifted their feet cease- lessly from the blistering gravel ; of drawn human faces that peered at some image of a placid lake and toiled frantically on to sink at last ; hopeless and strengthless, in the hot dust which the mirage had painted with the hues and very waves of water. No one will ever know how many have yielded to the long sleep in that inhospita- ble land. Not a year passes, even now, without record. of many dying upon that desert. and of many more who wander back in delirium of thirst. Even people at the railroad station sometimes rove off, lured by the strange fascination of the desert, and never come back ; and of the venturesome miners who seek to probe the golden secrets of those barren and strange -hued ranges, there are countless victims. A desert is not necessarily an endless, level waste of burning sand. The Great American desert is full of strange, burned, ragged mountain ranges, with deceptive, slowping broad valleys between—though as we near its southern end the mountains be- come somewhat less numerous and the sandy wastes• more prominent. There are many extinct volcanoes upon it, and hun- dreds of square miles of black, bristling lava flows. A large part of it is sparsely clothed with the hardy greesewood ; but in places not a plant of any sort breaks the surface as far as the eye can reach. seen in the sontl'wee)urn lint's of the planet. school work --benefited physically as well as y mentally rather than suflered. 'Fhe truth Frons the Wild West. The story comes of a thrilling adventure recently occurring to William .Johnson, a prospector. On a trip from Alamo to the broken country north of Trinidad Pass his horse was picking its trail through a dark canon when he was stunned and almost thrown from his horse by a mountain hon that droppedupon him from an overhanging tree. The frightened horseplo nged down the canon, and Johnson, twisting in his saddle, managed to wrench the murderous claws of the lion from his shoulder. At this moment the horse saw a Sonora lynx in his pathway, and swerving suddenly aside hurled the lion from his back directly upon the lynx. the two beasts locked throats, and as the horse emerged from the canon Johnson be- come faint and .light-headed from loss of blood, and did not recover his senses until found by his partner two days later on the desert. After he had partially recovered the two men visited the spot, but only a few blood -bespattered bowlders marked the scene of the fray. The wounded man has a wobbly shoulder to prove his participation in the event.—Lower Californian. , Tins Was n Knowing Dog. Billy Campbell, of Rockaway, is the owner of a very knowing dog called Tim. Campbell had occasion to take a train to Hammel's. Tim went with him. The dog began to doze on the train, and when his 'master alighted he was fast asleep. The train started up and began to move faster and faster, but Tim slept on. When the train reached a momentum of fifteen miles an been the dog awoke. He looked around and, failing to find his master, ran to the plat- form of the car and perched on the lower step where he remained until the train reached the trestle over Jamaica bay. He then gave a great leap, clearing telegraph wires and landing safely in the water. He swam ashore and started on a trot hack to Hammel's station where he located Camp- bell who was just sending a message over servation. s th;Lt to generations hack they have keen. "You mush't walk lock -armed," says Mr. doe wire the Commercial n to I aunt iserfor the There ons n0 mir'nke ab,ant thea,• lights. tt„,li rcdnncated, and, though the modern Dorsey and Mr Hunt adds Anybody kin g They uere sec^.1 fur 1'++:n• ni;'•t t i11 0"eces ;telt !a the opposite directin,, their brains, walk, white or black. There ain't no color Gorilla Language. Sion. se that it was iutpes ill•• thn.t. the} ire not. les active, indeed per}t.'Lps more linehere n mor i• mild hay,. been 'tr.. 1Grr•l Ln c,• . I:tions ,,t ,;-11re, though possibly not so energetic And it is here recorded that those colored. Prof. Garner (in the gorilla dialect)—Is the Jinr�i.ut n; a• ,.;fen• .+r i'''',''!•,•,•n oi,u ,ii1 s•, c:.rad ble of sustained wnrlt as those cnnples can walk—walk gracefully, elegant• this hot ennngh for — Elderly (:Drilla (to cal dc,,,•:+,n-: +•f a::. 1<••..I. \ ;Ie.- ' ,-.1 s-... 1 tri+•n. ' .lir. 1 alton showed that even ly and in a very dignilird manner. The juvenile gorillas) ---floes Its come 10,DM)miles at, the L H t; (11 • •.,. '' • I• .n,t • io a teen the most active brains are very heat of order was kept during the walk to work ',Iron us, upon our native soil, that 11-!.11 :'. . • ,•' n nu• : s t It.nLn t and each can ile did their level best. Five weary ell oonnnlrun ? ('hew him up ! c 'let `cent in the lar.; s( n.•_ .. - - f..e 1 1 eller: , 1 1 1,t j' white men were selected as iii 1'es ad. `=:w'',1:,v e'.o hie, un 1_ Chicova T,•iL_:,a -._.. n: o1-. i 0 B OMBrrioN”, VIRETMlf I IAEltOE, 1ft:AitJ1 SY TIit I19Y41. Ot,MM1S8l01 4' 41, JOHN'S St, Juhu's N. B, Aug. 10.—Tho Royal Conunission on the liquor truffle held hie final sitting here to- day. Several leading citizens and olorgywon were examined. Chipman Smith, director of Pub- lic Works of this city, and the former Mayor, testified that the granting of licensee was entirely under his control when toi ho office of Mayor. No petitions were re- garded, and when applications were made be granted them if the per- ms end places. ere suitable.. Ha issued 200 licenses, as he believed it moat wise to have all places where liqour was sold licensed. Tho licensees were a good class and the system worked satisfactorily. Temperance advocates are doing a good work and the people are Bober and peaceable. He had no trouble with drunken men, He consider- ed the Scott Act are well as the Maine law failures. H. L. Sturdee, barrister, and formerly Mayor of Portland, de- clared the Scott Act wee not en- forced in Portland becauseit was not supported by the public senti- ment, and owing to the fear of the City Council becoming involved in expensive litigation. Dr. G. Crawford thought abstain- ers had a better chance of long life, but the whole question. rested on the definitiou of moderate drinking. If small quantities at comparatively long intervals,wero taken no harm resulted. The quantity must be sufficient to impair digestion. Of course abstainers often suffer from dyspepsia. Chief of Police Clark testified that there were 83 retail and 20 wholesale licenses in force. The houses were well conducted, though there were some selling after hcura. The police force made every effort to enforce the law, and °with suc- cess, generally. Rev. Canon Iltigstock said that when the Scott Act was under con- sideration he fully considered the prohibition question, and decided it would not bo for the good of the community. • Moral suasion and re- ligious education wets powerful moans of inculcating true temper- ance. General prohibition might be enforced by the Dominion offi- cials. The Church of England had always taken a prominent part in temperance work, and was prepared to support all these Measures. Deputy Sheriff Rankine gave a history of prohibition legislation in 1888, and accused the temperance people of not giving adequate sup. port to the measure then adopted. Rev. J. C. Titcombe declared. the Scott Act was a thorough failure, and injured tho temperance cause, increasing drinking and setting neighbor against neighbor. He gave strong evidence against the prohibition methods of prohibition- ists. James Ilannay, associate editor of the Daily Telegraph, did not be- lieve prohibition could be enforced, and had seen several small counties where the law was persistently vio- lated. He was in favor of the en- couragement of temperance senti- ment. Had large journalistic ex- perience, and did not believe pro- hibition could be enforced unless public sentiment is at its back. Mayor Peters stated that, St. John's was a sober city, considering the of sailors and other ,opulation. Did not be - 'l eve pro 'bition could be enforced. Had seen c• .ties `tvhere tho Scott Act was in operation and not en- forced. a no THE iOUI: CARDINAL POINTS. The four cardinal points of health are the stomach. liver, bowels and blo)d. Wrong action in any of these produces disease. Burdock Blood Bitters acts upon the four -cardinal points of health at one and the same time, to regulate, strengthen and purify, thus preserving health and removing disease. —A death of awful suddenees oc- cuired last Sunday evening about -hi1f•pas;"_ _•o'clock in the yard of the Ontario House, London, Richard Perkins,. aged about 30 years, had gust taken a drink of cold water when he sank to the ground. Two or three people who witnessed the fall ran up to him, and were horrified on raising him up to discover that all signs of life had disappeared. Medical aid was summoned, and Dr. Campbell, who saw the body before it was removed, decided that an inquest was not necessary, One bystander, whose name was not learned, hoard the de- ceased say, "that was a glorious drink," as he turned away from tho tap. Those were the only words he was heard to utter. It was less than a minute after taking the drink that he fell forward on his face. The doctor said it was a ease of a system weakened by strong drink, and the cold water caused a chill, from which death resulted. THE WORST FORM. DEAR files.,— About three years ago I was troubled with dyspepsia in its worst forin.neither food nor medicine would stay on my stomach, and it seem- ed impossible to get relief. Finally I took one bottle of B. B. B. and ono box of Burdock Pills,and they cured me com- pletely. Mas. S. B. SMITH, Emsdale, Ont. es