The Wingham Times, 1904-01-28, Page 22
THE WINGIIAM TIMES, JANUARY 28, 1904.
TO ADVERTISERS
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to noon Wednesday of each week.
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H. R, ELLIOTT, re names's AND PROPRIETOR
THURSDAY, JAN. 23, 1904.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The farmer who is out of debt and
has his cora crop in the crib, his stock
well housed and larder supplied with
buckwheat flhur and fresh sausage is in
a position of greater independence than
Pierpont Morgan, Chauncey Depew,
John D. Rockefeller, or any other feller.
There may be times when the lot of the
farmer is full of care and anxiety, but
most of them are content and very inde-
pendent these cool days. -Logansport
Pharos.
Dr. Bryce, registrar of births, deaths
and marriages for Ontario, is preparing
his report for the perusal and edification
of the legislature. The births in 1902
were 47,706, an increase of 1736 over the
previous year. There were 18,072
marriages and 27,864 deaths an increase
of 27 in the former and a decrease
of nearly 2,000 in the latter. This
is a lower death rate than in any part of
the United Kingdom or Europe. Cancer
caused the death of 1,048, while tuber-
culosis claimed 2,69.4 victims.
The Hamilton Herald, speaking of the
hitch in the transcontinental railway
bargain, says: -"No doubt the Opposi-
tion will criticize the Government for
negotiating an unworkable bargain.
But the Government will have the bet-
ter of the argument, for throughout
the session of last year the Opposition
orators thundered against the railway
contract as one which would prove ruin
ous to the country and designed mainly
in the interests of the Grand Trunk and
G. T. P. promotore. That line of attack
will have to be dropped now."
The Pt stoffice Department has iced
a notice declaring that no letter, pa' &et,
parcel, newspaper, book or other thing
sent or sought to be sent through
the postoffice by or on be-
half of any person engaged in the busi-
ness of printing boqks or pictures of an
immoral or seditious or scurrilous char-
acter, or the business of an illegal lot-
tery or so called gift concern or other
similar enterprise offering prizes or con-
cerning schemes devised or intended to
deceive and defraud the public for the
purpose of obtaining money under false
pretences, or in business of selling or in
any ot,:er wise disposing of counterfeit
money, or "green goods," or of drugs,
medicines, instruments, books, papers,
pamphlets, receipts, prescriptions pur-
porting to bring about a criminal opera-
tion, or to show how such au operation
may be accomplished, will be deemed
mailable matter.
Michigan Telephone Co.
Some months ago the Michigan Tele-
phone Company was sold under fore-
closing proceedings taken by the bond-
holders, the sale price being $4,100,000,
-considerably less then' the amount of
the Company's bonds. The stockholders
who thus saw their investment complete-
ly wiped out, though they had received
no dividends for years, undertook to
save something from the wreck and ap-
plied to the courts to bave the sale set
aside, but in a decision handed out on
December 24th, the sale is confirmed.
There are quite a number of Canadians
interested financially in this matter.
Detroit has had three unsuccessful op-
position telephone companies. The first
of these was boomed through Canada
and even in Great Britain as a perfect
gold mine and a considerable amount of
bonds and stock disposed of in this coun-
try on the glowing representatives of
professionial promotors. The investors
after looking long for their interest have
lately seen their holdings wiped out.
The Detroit "Free Press" of December
Lumbago and
Pains in the Back
!'.telly disabled ibis Merebaut-Physa•
dans felled, but Dr. Chase's Kidney.
liver Pills Cared,
Ma. THOMAS A. EMEREE, general merchant,
Springhill, N.S., writes:-
"As the result of a Severe cold settling on
the kidneys, I contracted kidney disease, which
lingered for years, causing me much suffering
from terrible pains in
the hack. For some
time I was entirely un-
able to Work, and though
I tried several physi-
cians I could only obtain
slight temporary relief,
"Having heard of the
merits of 1)r. Chase's
Kidney ,Liver Pills in
many similar cases, I
began to use them, and
alder using seven boxes
was completely cured.
The cure is due entirely
flit, kiK81ti111 to the use of this grand
medicine, which has since cured several per•
sons to whom I recommended them."
1k. Chase's Kidney Liver Pills, one pill a
dope, as c emit a hex, all deelers, or Vaunters
?Isles and Co., Toronto. To protect y'oe
imitations the portrait arid signature of
et. W. Cheer, t *slot' receipt hook
see est Veil like 011ie Seletidiet.
26th c mimeuts ou the situation as
follows:
There are seven ages of man, bur only
five ages of the modern public service
corporation. First, there is the corpora-
tion itself, performing its fnuotions in-
differently, and with due regard for the
public's rights. Then there is the com-
petitive stage, in which two corporations
undertake to share with greater or less
hostility a natural monopoly. Then
comes the consolidation, with the inevit-
able over -capitalization and the destruc-
tion of a great amount of property.
After this the Company passes into the
hands of a receiver, and is sold for the
benefit of the bondholders, the minority
shareholders lusiug their investment.
Then comes the stage of re -organization
in which ties corporation uuderta'tes to
parterre us functions normally for the
time boing, the speculative elements
havius been elimivated.
The Michigan Telephone Company
has now passed through four stages atm
it is in the fifth. Tue minority stock-
hoidt.rs are left in the lurch,
The people of Detroit and Michigan
are tired of having their telephone ser-
vice made a football for speculators
The are williug to pay for a reasonable
sera ale. They are desirous that the hives
tors obtain fair returns ou their money:
but they have no further yearnings in
the direction of being "financed." They
have had enough of that. They would
like to see the ti I 'phone business man
aged like any other legitimate business,
and not on the ancient principle that
the public is a new mulch cow.
HiS RECREATIONS.
Sir William van Horne One of the Most
Enthusiastic Botanists and
Admirers of Art
Few people outside of his own im-
mediate circle know that Sir Wil-
liam Van Horne, Chairman of the
Canadian Pacific, Director of the
Postal Telegraph and Commercial
Cable, and President of the Cuba
Company, is one of the most enthu-
siastic botanists on the continent,
and also one of the most ardent ad-
mirers of art.
Sir William, though he wears with
grace a British title, was born in
the United States. He sold books on
the Chicago and Alton Railway many
years ago, rose in time to the dig-
nity of selling oranges on the Illi-
nois Central, and later in life as-
sumed the many high positions he
now holds. Iiis title he won for em-
inent service to the British Empire
in the building of the Canadian Pa-
cific.
As a boy he worshiped nature.
When on the Illinois Central Road he
was the butt of his companions be-
cause he was always armed with a
hammer for the breaking of any
queer rocks that happened in his
way, and carried a book for the dis-
covery of the identity of those un-
known rocks and flowers he encoun-
tered.
In later life he established at Mon-
treal a splendid conservatory and an
excellent art gallery. He is himself
an artist with the brush and of no
mean reputation. He has at all
times three or four botanists in his
employ in the far-off corners of the
world, whose business it is to find
and bring to his TTontreal conserva-
tory all the new flowers that they
can find. IIe hears of a new orchid
in South America. Immediately his
men are sent in search of it. Ho
hears of a now lily in Central Afri-
ca, and never rests easy until he has
captured it.
These things are his dissipations.
His offices are no mere honorary af-
fairs. He is the practical working
head of the Cuba Company, a very
active participant in all the affairs
of the Canadian Pacifier -in fact, ono
of the most busy of the big men of
the continent. -New York Times.
Above Their Business.
Educated women of gentle birth,
says The London Daily Mail, instead
of devoting themselves to the ill -paid
work of governesses, are now embrac-
ing the calling of cooks. Many mis-
tresses have lately specially asked at
the registry offices for lady cooks.
The secretary of the Central Bureau
for the Employment of Women in
Southampton street, Holborn, says
there is a demand for cooks who are
gentlewomen by birth and education.
But there are difficulties in the way
unless mistresses are able to pro-
mise certain privileges which the or-
dinary cook, much as she may ap-
preciate them, does not stipulate
for. Some lady cooks, for instance,
object to mix on terms of equality
with domestics who are possibly
grades beneath them educationally
and by birth. Hence, as a rule, lady
cooks accept situations only in
houses where there are lady parlor -
maids and housemaids. There arc,
however, a few cases in very large
establishments where the cook is a
lady and the rest of the Servants are
of the usual domestic class. A very
desirable situation was refused by
one Iady cook recently because her
employer stipulated that she should
take the head of the table in the
servants' hall.
'A. 'Benevolent Hen.
In The Illustrated Sportings News
a writer says: A naturalist friend of
mine tells this story: "I recently saw
a curious thing in my poultry yard.
The cat was playing with a live
mouse which she had caught, when a
broody hen, taken off her nest, was
put into the yard. She stretched her-
self and had a good shake, then she
caught sight of the cat. With out-
spread wings the hen dashed at poor
puss, knocked her over, tweaked the
mouse from her mouth, and then at-
tacked her with the utmost fury. Tile
cat was so frightened and demoraliz-
ed by this sudden and unexpected at-
tack that she bolted, and meanwhile
'the mouse had made its escape. Whe-
ther it was maternal instinct which
prompted the hen to rescue Deer
?donee or whether it teas antipathy
to the eat is doubtful, but I favor
the first eat. iodinit.,".
Copyright, 18M, by T. C. McClure
The G. P. A. put his bend into the
general superintendent's doorway and
said:
"Old Tympan's out there again, I
see, Palmer."
"No use," replied the general super-
intendent. "His name came in two
hours ago. I told him to report here
next time be got drunk. This finishes
him."
Five minutes later old Tympan, aft-
er forty years of service for the A. and
B., went tumbling down the stairs be-
cause he was drunk at the Hancock
street switch the day the directors
went up the line. Palmer had given
him a pass home, eighty miles up the
road, and then fired him with ten of
the words Palmer wasn't accustomed
to using on ordinary jobs.
Train No. 8 pulled in while Tympan
fumbled the pass on the platform, and
be climbed in and found a double seat
in the smoker. He knew only that he
was out of a job, with a full pint in
his coat and Palmer's transportation
to take him up home, where he could
camp down for the winter with the
boys. He bad threatened that many
times. They deserved it for letting
him work for a living,
"Taking vacation, Tympan?" asked
Hennessy of No. 8 when he came
through for tickets. Tympan admitted
he was off for a bit of time up the
road.
"Guess you ain't coming back right
off," taunted Hennessy. "The return
check on your pass don't seem to be in
sight. Long lay off, eh, Tympan!"
Tympan sat up, pulling his hat over
his eyes.
"Dick Hennessy," he said, "you go
slow on yer kiddin' 'r I'll roast you one
o' these days f'r bein' so smart. They've
fired me, you c'n bet -yes, they have;
fired me good, but I'm next to Palmer
yet. An' I heard what Palmer told
the G. P. A. this mornin' about your
tannin' over orders twice last week. I
know somethin', an' don't you kid me
no more!"
Train No. 8's conductor ignored the
challenge, partly because he dared do
no more. He knew the whole operat-
ing department had been knocking ev-
erybody in sight because old Tympan,
invariably drunk and disorderly, held
his job while better and younger and
sober men were overhauled in Palmer's
office for nothing more than leaving
stations half a minute ahead of or-
ders or falling to vise the annual of
some of the spying directors who went
up and down. R. H. Palmer got a
master tongue lashing those days from
the rank and file, and now that the
dismissal had really come Hennessy
was no more skeptical than any of the
others concerning the general superin-
tendent's honest intention of keeping
Tympan out of service.
Hennessy tried to conciliate Tympan
on his next trip through. but the old
man lay with his hat over his face,
steaming with rage, too angry even to
curse. No. 8 was making beautiful
work, and Hennessy felt better than
usual. H.e had eight cars with a big
load of women and kids and wanted to
be on time anyway because it was his
lay off that Saturday and there was an
all night game in the "club" at home.
At Inehburg Hennessy get his usual
orders, everything all straight, and left
on time. The rear brakeman found him
just afterward and said:
"Hear about the wild freight went
up ahead of us? She's a big one, and
it wouldn't surprise me if she got
stuck on the Long Misery and held us
at Lyshon."
Hennessy knew his man was right
Lyshon station is at the foot of a
thirteen mile grade known for good
reasons as "the Long Misery." If a
freight get hung there ahead of No. 8,
it meant everything balled up, for the
A. and B. is a single line, and the di-
rectors won't stand for a siding be-
tween Lyshon and Oldtown, the sta-
tion at the crest of the Long Misery.
Hennessy took the platform at Ly-
shon before No. 8's brakes held her and
sought the dispatcher in the dingy sta-
tion.
"Wild freight?" echoed the telegra-
pher. "Yes, went up an hour ago. Big
train? Yes, big train, but she's got a
good rail, and I don't believe she'll
hold you a minute."
Hennessy went out and looked in the
book by the station door. Xi found
where the wild freight kid reported
and We With datIlif*ctfen that the Wit
in charge of Bitters, one of the ring
and sure to de his best to get that
heavytrain out
of the way los
before
Hennessy came along.
Lyshon was on the card fer only
thirty seconds, but Hennessy risked a
trilling delay sad front Mack to the op-
erator:
"Can't you ask Oldtown, just for a
chance, if that freight's showed up
yet!" he asked.
• • • • e is •
Wild freight !!4a started over the
tong Misery in good order' that Satur-
day and made e5rcellent time for eight
miles or more. then she Was stepped
by a shaky injector in the mogul, 1'ItE-
ters left his caboose and ran up ahead
is Km* to see his redheaded engineer
grab up the wrenches and start from
kis seat.
"Go ahead lively as you can, Mike,"
be shouted.
Mike gave the megn1 send and steam'.
ftihe strained for a moment while het
driven raced and then Shot ahead so
hard that Mike bounced out of his soat
the trail had broken apart seven earl
110%14 lea'rlt* thit`tx-threi dletaebel
Before the mogul, could gather herself
to hack tip and catch the breakaway
the fugitive section was slowly moving
off, very slowly, down the head end of
the Long Misery.
"Back up, Irish! Baca up and catch
'em!' screeched Bitters.
"Yon can't do it!" yelled a breathless
brakeman who came up from the rear,
"because the gear's• just completely out
o' the head o' that section and there
wouldn't be ttothlhhA to make a coupllta
to if you caught 'em, which it ain't
likely you'll do anyway."
Bitters was thinking of Hennessy
and No. 8. If No. 8 were on time, she
was just leaving Lyshon. Chances
were she was late. He knew Hennes-
sy. It was for him to reach Oldtown
in time to stop No. 8 at Lyshon. Bit-
ters sickened at the thought of the
Saturday night rush of women and
Children which bad given Hennessy''
train the name of 'the "nursery ex-
pressl,
They worked quickly then. In thirty
seconds Bitters was in the cab, and his
Irish engineer was giving the mogul
steam enough and some to carry. Bit-
ters figured it was four, miles to the
goal, and • the way thepaced it off
made it impossible for him to say he
was disappointed when he jumped off
at Oldtown.
"No. 8, hold her at Lyshon. My
freight's bu'sted, an' thirty-three of
'em are on the grade, goin' to beat
thunder!"
"No. 8!" The dispatcher's face was
pie crust. "She left Lyshon six min-
utes ago, late." $e went back to his
instrument and sent "Seventeen," the
clear out signal, to warn the road
south of him, but as he did so he knew
that No. 8 was coming up Long Misery
ten minutes late, straight into the
teeth of the worst runaway the A. and
B. had known.
• • • • • • •
Hennessy was fuming ;at Lyshon,
for he couldn't afford another second,
yet Oldtown had seen nothing of the
Ivild freight
"Better wait for another•report from
Oldtown," said the operator. But
Hennessy was six minutes late then
and resolved to go on up the grade.
He signaled his engineer -and jumped
on the rear. The braken;an was there
and grinned when the conductor cursed
Ms luck.
Hennessy, half way through the
door, wheeled. There, away back by
the station platform, only a fading bit
of dismal detail in the familiar view,
was old Tympan standing in the mid-
dle of the track and waving crossed
arms.
"Left and signaling -us to. come back
for him," said the rear brakeman.
Hennessy spoke eloquently, looking
at his watch. The time frightened
him. "I'll not go back for him," be
cried. "I can't be" --
There was that in the rear brake -
man's eyes which stopped Hennessy.
Suppose he should leave Tympan at
Lyshon over Sunday, with no trains
either way, and suppose the old man's
pull with R. H. P. were still working,
and suppose the young husband of het
who was Nell Tympan, he who worked
in the G. P. A.'s office, should -
And there was old Tympan himself
standing in the middle of the track
and signaling, "Back up, back Up,
back up." Could he afford to ignore
the old fellow? Thopgh it hurt him to
do it, he said:
"No, I believe I'll go back for the
old guy, Bill," .
The rear brakeman pulled the cord,
and Hennessy went in to reckon just
how much over thirty minutes late
he would be Into Oldtown.
There was no delving that old Tym-
pan was exceeding. drunk. Renneasy
smothered his wrath with difficulty as
No. 8 backed intb Lyshon, for he
hadn't relished what he had heard go.
fag through the day coaches. He leaned'
out toward the dirty figure reeling
across the platform and heard Tym-
pan's idiotic laugh as he boasted of
having called back the biggest train
on the road. "I jus' went out there-
ri' out there -and signaled, 'Back up,*
and yer backed up, Elkin' yer? I tell
yer, gents, there ain't er man o' the
ro'd darst ter dis-disobey my orders."
There was a scramble en the plat-
form behind them, and the dispatcher
came shrieking like a. plow train at a
blind crossing.
' "Back up, Hennessy, for all you're
iworth!" he shouted. "Runaway freight
-thirty something cars off the wild
train coming down the grade -be here
in less than a minute. Oldtown wired.
Oh, Hennessy, look up the line!"
It was a cloud of sand and dust at
the first curve in the Long Misery,
three miles away.
Hennessy's knees wavered. The dis-
patcher struck him with his list be•
tween the shoulders, crying: "Quick,
• man! • Run her heels -into the siding and
let the freight go by:" -
The passengers knew only enough
to complhln that they were horribly
shaken up that afternoon near Lyshon.
It was Hennessy himself who switched
1 No. 8 into the siding and who thanked
heaven with all sincerity that it was
just long enough to take his train and
leave the main line open. As he threw
the switch his head wheat dizzy with
the whirl of the freight. When the
threatening thirty-three banged past.
Hennessy gave not one look after, but
fainted over the lever and hung like
a uniformed scarecrow until they gath-
ered him up.
Tits Great Ot portinsits.
"Ah, mel" sighed the nervous au-
thor as he trimmed the Midnight lamp.
"I've jest been reading an article
whisk says the sun's light will be ex.
tingillsbed in a million years from new.
Ain't that terrible to eeateatplateT'
"It certainly is," replied the wife.
ii'Yt you won't take my advice.
"'What do you tatenl"
"About Sating ttl(pney'. Now le the
time to lay' by', With a flow to taking
Meek 111 the+ gas-censnaides."--A tlatit*
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:, . ' sees, 1.4,8.
.care U1rr1 OIe• it. la • ettioarhtiterYlct,e
at 11 a in and 7 :• , u - audits School at
3:30 p tie . eeuc u,' every aion-
day evening. • ;o'etr:tl .'sayer uteetil,g
on Wednesday e'veninlra. Rev. J R.
Gandy, D.D , pa -tor. ' ) Towler, S. S.
Superintendent
PRESBYTERIAN Omtuftou-Sabbath der -
vices at 11 a m and 7 p m. Sunday
School at 2:30 p ni. General prayer
meeting on Wednesday evenings, Rev.
D. Porde, pastor and S S. Superinten-
dent, P. S. Lieklater and L. Harold,
assistant S. S, Sap'+rintwu'ieuts.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, EPISCOPAL -Sab-
bath services at 11 a in and 7 p m. Sun-
day School at 2:30p m,: General prayer
meeting on Wednesday evening. Rev.
Wm. Lowe, Rector. F. Shore and Ed,
assistant S. S. Superintendents.
SALVATION AR31Y-St:Tvu0e at 7 and 11
a m and 3 and 8 p in on Sunday, and
every evening during the week at 8
o'clock at the barracks.
POST OFFICE -In Mandunald Block.
Office hours from 8 a m to 6:30 p in.
Peter Fisher, postmaster.
PUBLIC LIBRA\RY-Library and free
reading room in the Town Hall, will
be open every afternoon from 2 to
5:30 o'clock, and every evening from 7
to 9:30 o'clock. Miss Millie Robertson,
librarian.
TOWN COUNCIL -R. Vaasa me, Mayor;
Thos. Bell, Win. H"l,ue•s, W J (lre„•r,
Thos. Armstrong. W `H C. Millikiu.
David E•'11, Council ora; J. .B. Fer-
guson, Clerk and Tredsurer; William
Clegg, Assessor, Will. Robertson, Col-
lector. Board meets fi;st Monday even-
ing in each month at, 8 1'el:xsk.
SCHOOL BOARD. -,T .Z ilomuth,(chatir•
man), Tilos. Abraaham,R A.1),,uglns, H.
Kerr, WIn. Moore, A E Lloyd. Dr A.
-T. Ir' iu, C. N. S'ee:r:etary. Win.
Robertson; Treasurer, J. B Ferguson.
Meetings second Tuesday evening in each
month.
PUBLIC; SC1I01)1.. 1'RACuERS.-A. H.
Musgrove, Prim'ipa.l, Miss Brock,
Miss Reynolds, Miss Farquharson, Miss
Cornyn, Miss M:•Lea'h, Miss Mathesrm
Miss Reid, and NU se 0n lhltniief�N.
BOARD OF HEALTH -Mayor Vanstone,
(chairman), C. J. Reading, Thos Greg-
ory, Dr. Agnew, J. B. Ferguson. Sec-
retary; Dr. J. R Macdonald, Medical
Health Oire'r
Shamrock II>.'s H6raacupe.
An astrologer in th4• new English
journal of occultism, Anubis, has
been casting the horoscope of Sham-
rock III. Shamrock III. took the
water at 1.20 p.m. on St. Patrick's
day, but apparently all the saints in
the cal •ndar would be unable to
avert the sinister aspect of the
heavens; "The moon," who gov-
erns everything 'aquatic, "was then
in the middle of Scorpio, in conjunc-
tion with the evil south scale," ab-
solutely the worst 'position in the
rodiac she could occhpy. Already a
serious accident to +the yacht sus-
tains and comforts the astrologer.
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we'll give
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/HE STRANGE WARNING CHIMED
FROM STRASSBURG CATHEDRAL.
Peculiarities of the Timepiece In Ike
British House of Lords -The Mad-
ness of Mechlin's Clock -"When
Clocks Go Crazy,'rhinks Go Daft."
There is an old saw which declares
that "when clocks go crazy, things go
daft."
At 2 a. m. on Sept. 27, 1869, the
world famous clock in the great cathe-
dral at Strassburg commenced to chime
without rhyme or reason. It sounded
1,870 peals, then stopped, and after an
interval slowly began to toll as if for
a great one dead.
The political atmosphere of Europe
at that time was indicative of pro-
found peace. Nothing of danger or dis-
grace could by any possibility be ec'n-
ceived of as threatening Strassburg or
its inhabitants. Yet less than a year
afterward the German armies had en-
circled the city with a ring of steel and
fire. The German shells were falling
thickly in her streets and squares and
exploding even within the precincts
of the stately cathedral itself. And
precisely at 2 a. m. Sept. 27, 1870, Gen-
eral Uhrich signed the capitulation
which was to deliver Strassburg into
the hands of the invaders.
In the house of lords is a certain his-
torical timepiece which is said to in-
variably suffer from temporary aber-
ration whenever a member of the royal
family of Britain passes away. The
peculiarity was first noticed when WiI-
liam IV. died. Very early in the morn-
ing the clock began to emit a series of
peculiar gurgling noises, as though
gasping for breath, went suddenly
slow and finally stopped altogether.
All efforts to start it failed, and on the
evening of the day of the funeral it
restarted of its own accord, nor did it
give any further trouble whatever for
many years afterward.
It has over and over again been no-
ticed that clocks, especially those sit-
uated in the turrets of high buildings
having unusually deep foundations, are
liable to go wrong in sympathy with
seismic disturbances happening in dis-
tricts sometimes very far away.
On Nov. 1, 1755, for instance, fully
half the timepieces in Edinburgh were
affected. Many stopped altogether.
Others went slow or fast or started
striking wrongly. In this the supersti-
tious saw some calamity impending,
and it was not until news arrived of
the great Lisbon earthquake that the
alarm was allayed. It was then discov-
ered, by comparing times and dates,
that the first shock must have traveled
from Pez in Morocco to Cape Wrath
in less than eight seconds.
A curious coincident was then recall-
ed. On the evening of April 7, exactly
five years previously, several thou-
sands of persons, particularly those of
rank and fortune, had camped out In
Hyde park and had thus passed the
hours from dusk till daylight.
'i'his was to avoid an earthquake
shock which had been predicted for
the early morning of the 8th by an al-
leged "madman." The threatened
quake, however, failed to materialize.
and the scared ones got heartily laugh-
ed at for their pains. Nevertheless, it
was noted at the time that several of
the public and private clocks of the
metropolis stopped at precisely the
same moment on the morning in ques-
tion. and this fact at once took on a
new and sinister significance.
"Was it possible," people began to
ask, "that the so called `madman' was
not so very 'mad' after all and that
Lo>idon had providentially escaped
what might possibly have -been a hid-
eous and unparalleled catastrophe?"
The so called "madness" of Blech-
lin's clock constitutes one of the most
mysterious incidents of the Napoleonic
wars. It happened in 1800. Two
years previously the Corsican usurper
had razed a portion of the,city to the
ground, and the place had also suffered
severely in other ways. But the mag-
nificent cathedral had been spared, and
then, as now, its massive tower rising
tour square to a height of more than
800 feet and bearing four dials, each -
forty -eight feet in diameter, was one
of the most striking landmarks for
miles and miles around.
Inside the tower was the gigantic
clock, the biggest in the _world. It had
boomed the hours for longer than the
oldest burgher could remember and
had never gone wrong. When, there-
fore, in the early dawn of one summer
day the great bell began clanging furI-
ously small wonder that not only the
City, but the whole countryside,* was -
roused. Mechlin itself was like a dis-
turbed hive, men rushing from their
houses half dressed, but all armed.
while from every town and village-
within
illagewithin a radius of twenty miles angry
peasants poured cityward.
It was a false alarm, however, after
all. No assault followed. No column
of dust on the horizon heralded the ad-
vance of the enemy, although anxious
eyes watched all day. But when to -
'Ward evening one more curious than
his fellows bethought him to examine
the interior of the clock tower in order
to discover It possible the reason for
the clock's strange behavior a grew -
some sight met his view.
Entangled in the massive works of
the lunge timepiece, torn, gashed, every
bone broken, was the body of a Frereh
officer, He had evidently climbed into
the tower unobserved and had been
caught by the machinery while en-
gaged in tampering with it. What his
object was hi fio doing none ever knew.
That it was something sinister tiler
could be no doubt. Probably he I
intended to so arrange the int
mechanism of the clock as to
to sound a signal later in the d
all events, whatever his plan,
carried. And be himself tell a
to his own temerity and want of