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The neby tad gone te Biwa; ah.rae I
Whet will the mother do.
With never a can to button or pen1
Or tie a little shoe?
Row Pan elm keep nereelf busy ail day
with the little landering tang away?
Another bsaket to111171th lunela,
another "good.bye to 00.9.
And the mother etande at the door to goo
flee beby march away,
Ana earns with a sign that is heir fella
And ban a something akin to greet
nhe tenting of a possible future morn,
when the children, one by One
Will go from their home cut in the Weal
To battle with life alone.
And, not even the baby be left to lancer
The deaolate nomof tuat future year
She picks up garments here and there
Thrown down in. careless halite.
And trios to thinic how it wony.i seem
X f nothing were displaced.
If the house were alwaye as etIll as this,
Flow could she bear the lonelinese ?
A Frenth PeteCti.we Story.
Between ()enrollee and Naeilly, On a hot
Illaht WI August, two sportsmen, returning
homefrom' a day's hunt, found a woman
• lying in the middle of the rea& be appear-
ed to be ineeniible. They transported her to
• a wayside hostelry,' where they- dimovered
'her to be a young portion of decicledly charm -
Ing exterior,. elegantly .attired in the newest
Mode. When the combined efforts of every-
body about the ,place had restored her to
=nub:lumen, she exhibited great embarrass..
ment, and pleaded piteouely to be permitted
to depart,
"Bat•you are not well enctigh,''..exOstu-
lated one of ehe .gallant dimities Of I\ Panro0.
- I am, indeed; I assure you I am " per.
,sieted the fait pleaner, • .
" Where do you want to got,'
To Paris,"
"But why nol wait till morning ?"
, . . ,
1' Because I dare not."
o You dare not I ' And Why ?
"If my huebtind discovers that I have
been one al night withoin any exonse he will
.murder me. Ale; m,onsieur, •wen little know
the torture of a mind chained to a jealous
sonnwhieh neither appreciators it himself nor
permits othera tol ". • . .
This eeteled it. Mons. ,jacquard' was a
married man. He was .also a moarrespeeted
eine, well known on the Bourse.
" COMO to my hounne he said: "11 is
really imPoesible for you to return to Paris
alone at this t1010 -Of night. Yon sball opend
the evening as mine and my wife's guest.
Toenorrove she shall ainompany you and ex.
_plain all. 13y, the•bye, what is it all ? What
brought you. into the road as we found you?"
There was some emberrasement, father
•• Ineitation, additibna Bobbing, and then t10.
unfortunate lady unfolded her tale of horror:.
• She was the wife ef a prosperous lawyer.
Her husbanO, an ogre of entty, hated yet was
nodienely jealous of -her. It had been a mar•
• ntege of convenience. She had rabid baron to•
• the golden calf, only to learn That that
• mitiferoue animal on kitelt as hard as any
•tquadrupen of vulgar hide and hair. In the
three years which had elapsed ohne she
assumed thorn bonds, which hadbeen paying
• nen noh heavy -dividends. let Misery ever
Pince. he had not known a happy hour.
The nearest inniciaolito it had been Ito-
• cured tor heiny. a Wanda, her nuebendn, a
young 3o.nenaliee. Monsieur 0ribeau • (hen/
eppropriateoname eor flush a .monster 1) was;
counsel Met& newspaper on whieh Victor
eee . Janet ever eeditor. • Business -'• brought
et-Ittionn. kitten- frequently'neto nthenlaWyens-
hotmen'Ineehad put "Mena, Grebes% He
...bad loved ler, at leant allebled, thought se.
AO for herself, she haa experienbed an interest
• in him.. was not love: It was rather.
• gratitude that he -brought a. little light into
• her mournful existence. She trusted him,
elm confided her trouble g to him.' In return
be sought to • Oomfort her, Strange as it
• might Bean, bee huebend was not jeaMuti of
him, go hewn able.to take her about among.
ecenee, 'which, in a raiment°, distracted her
• tmind from lls raorbid brooding/in . • • - '
This morning _he had propondto her a
• visit to !tome ladylriende of his at Coureelles.
The journey hadbeen made in•an open oar,
riage. They hatedby the'way at the Brazen
Inien to dine, and dusk came On... He made.
• proposals to her atwhich-her tient melted.
-She leaped Mona the carriage and fell intone
• able: The misereanedrove on, leaving ber to
the terror of thitelarknese. The retialonSiOUr
eleccmcird knew.. • • • , • •
• - These effecting confidences melted
Itpneieur leentiard'a naturally eympathethe
• soul. He Mingled- hie pityinet tears :with'
theeend the unfortunate lady. We then took
her table nous° in a conveyance and Mme.
• -.Jacquard listened te her tale with sobs of
• .commiseration. , It wail determined •that
'Men." Jetatettard - Binned- accompany time
Gribeau horn next day and' sive Manisa-
••Gribena a Pieen ref liar. .
But thorigh one woman propoiss, another
.. frequently disperses, When • the •Bervent
• rapped at Mme."Gribean's door next morning
there woe no answer.. The room was tenant.
• less. Tho bed had not been slept en. In
• point of fact, poor Mme. Gabes:at hied disap-
peared. " The first ineerenee Was that, &ended.
• to dopier by the poignancy a her misery, ehe
had committed [inlaid& , Bat a more plausi-
• ble explanation• offeted. Haste, when Mme.
Jaecetund droned to go to the, magistrate to'
• make a deposition. •• Her Pinola were gone.
•.13o was all the money in the house. BO also
• teas-• illoneieur Inquardn 3,000 franc °bro.
=meter.. , To be,brief, poor Mme. Gellman
• was no longer.. 13he had literally cleaned out
the'hOuse.. • •
There was hardly the price; 102Palable
• prOperty, of a cocktail- left, • ne the first
• ?lone the detective .from Pairdeolared the
en the work of one of the moislexpert thieves
inthe Intainese. •
, The next thing was to find that thief -or
• ratifier thievee-nor lit wain evident that a
woman unaided coula• never have madeno
.
clean a often. This( proved to be a' quern
worthy of rank with Diogenes' search for 'a
nay different gat of a person. The Blume
of Paritinvore scoured, the jails Investigated,
-all of the out•of-the-way, 'racemes of the
• (Orange World of Mime tenet ;eaterstinder
the current of life in the greet pity, lined bare
by the minium glareof the law. - In vain.
Unease Men. Griboaineengre. had devoured
e her; she lomat lireve. Vanished into ataoke
hin. as her tale of . • • .
• The' investigations' were dropped, sled
• . Monsieur Intel:nerd scored a tinny. entry 'to
• -.the account of profit and lehts. • e
• -Late in Septa:Aber Mme. nacquardlited
minion to visit Paris in a 'hurry and alai&
:Hastening into it carriage at tne railway
depot, ate Wag followed by an elegantly.
Arena Young man, who Vistaed to ha' her '
handkerchief which oho had dropped; • The
young Men offend her farther attention,.
Which she :accepted. They drifted into eon.-
•Vagation; • Etiddenly oho :enticed on hie ,
"ander hand ening a 0faneilla ninon It
was a canneye, the very duplicate of one of
Which had termed part of her vanished jewels.
"That is .a ardour) riliA you have, raone
den," ehe oheerved.
11 le, indeed. A. Valueble ; net one
would'not pat with fOr the treiteures of the
• Great Maple' , •
"Indeed? A:tinnily NA% X euptioae."
, " A gift trOna a dead skater,"
Ann the young, man Blued a °Ilene tear.
Mnie, jacquard torit a lea hem her -note• .
Wok and wrote On it, "Cali an offieene
When the End pageea oho slipped it in his
•
hand. The young man, aboorbed in mournful
• reverie, failed to notice *heat, It was not
until he WO misting Mine. Jacquard out of
• Mao mintage, reampeneing himself for the
trouble by Pieking her pocket, that he became
aware ot the fat that an inscratable mann.
wentof incorruptible justice elood beside
him. The young man proved 10 10 an Eng-
' 1404 pickpocket who had been compelled 10
leave London between daye, end who had
been living 10Pah model retirement in Paris
that the pollee had not yet got on his track.
He Was as •obstinately llent In regard to
himself aa a sphynx. The cat's.eye ring
proved really to be More. jacquard% 101 110
mystery of his posseesion 01 11 and of his
connection wIth Mom Gribeau remained
unexplained. No one seemed to know hint.
110 104 no eommintancee, and his lodeings
could not in traced,
Richmond Carter, ail /recalled himself, Was
tried and sentenced. Some days later the
porteress of a house in Roe Delmoor oPlaisd
to the police to investigate the estrange absence
of one of her lodgers. A young lady, who
seemed to be an entrees, had rented an algid -
meat from her, sent her two large trunk's in,
and, after remainbag same menthe, ocoaeion.
ally visited by ayoring man of elegant aspect,
had vanished. Her doer Was looked. The
porteress feared suicide or Worse. The forcing
of the door revealed a Tome tenanted only by
two trunks and the usual furniture. The
trunks were crammed with h moat extensive
female wardrobe. • From garters to blonde .
wigs and false eyebrows, the assortment was
complete and vast; There was a well -stocked
malte•up hoz filled with cosmetics, grease,
paints, bruehes, and the like. And among
Mao lot Mine. Jacquard recoghized the Identi-
cal dreg: worn on the 0000SiOn of her visit by
poor Mnio. Gribeau,
The police again went to work, assured of
the tangible existence of the missing woman.
• It wan eupposed that upon her lover's arrest
she had gone to England, and She authorities
there had been pat on the alert, Still without
reoult.
At 130 a dOteatIVO with a little of the
argumentative in his lynx brain began to put
this and that together.. He found that Mine.
Gribeatna elegant Visitor was never seen in
her company. He called and left alone. Ho
also !Quad that Mme. Gribeau frequently
went out while her visitor was in the house• .
These feats arrived at, it did not tate long to
deacie that edam. Getbeau. and etiotimond
Carta were one and the came pereon. And
ecethey were, • •• '
"
.a. rentelnieepenn aiRAG.E. •
•
A Colored Cadet Assaulted by Blaihed.
• inlen-lcouud la his genolu• ground
• Hand stud . Mier, his Heed Bruised.
. and COvered with Wood, nud his gran.
Cut.
Ponianompezn, Aprli '.-There was much
eieitenielat in West Point to -day over an
outrage oh nolnred Cadet Johnson '0. Whit-
taker. This morning at six' onteck, when
reveille war( eciondea, Cadee Whittaker did
not make his -appearance, 'and the °feeler ot
Mao day gent one of the Rimed to his room
in the barracks to. ascertain the' cause.
-When the guard entered -the room every.
*thing was in confusion, andeadet Whittaker
was lying, nearly unconscious and 'covered
with blood,.. on the fleaywith his feet
tied to bia, iron bedstead, btes hands bound,
and his heed reining on a pillow. The 'pillow
-was-saturated-with-blued, there were puoltinctf-
bleodon thefloor, and the night clothing of
• the cadet Was also covered with blood. The
guard gave 'an alatm Which summoned the
, define pi tbe , den to the more, and Us'
wounded cadet wail ranged from his easten•
-Inge -and-laid nupen. -thee bed:- tHietialked_
incoherently and was much frightened and .in
consederablenein. he hospital'eurgooki Was
sent for, Gene 'Babofield (Superintendent , of
the Deportment) and Commandant Lazelle of
the corps were notified, and in a shore time
• thereafter the news spread ithroughimt tine
poste. Gan. Schofield and 'Commandant
Laielle 'wont to.Cadet ,Whittaker's room
and took- a hasy view of the auriound•
-Inge, and. 'heard a base statethent from ens
cadet, and .in thirtyminutes afterward began
e thorough examination of tbe affair. He told
ra plain, straightiorviard story. in the following
words: "Last night,' immediately after
'tattoo, I -retired, and had been asleep' some-
time when I was awakened, I think, soon after
2 a.m., by the moving a theeaten on the
dame! my„roore. The,door is never looked.
At first I thought the noise might have been
onapioned by the Windingainst the hall win-
doein 1 listened fore moment and' then. fell
into. a .doze, when I was. again euddenly
awakened by ono one jumping right on me.
*I looked Alain and th, re ware tbreemen in
all. Two of thern 'Were attired in dark.
clothing, and the tbird had • on a light
grey guit all were • black ranks, -
.drew back my arm to Build the man who liad
jumped on me, and I peaking" raised.in the
Wen the (struggle: .Then was seized ny
the thrbot and oinked until I was almostemf.
Moaned, i4id I Was also Attu& on the left,
temple and on the nose with something hard,.
Mao Man who cleat the ,blovinaieuting tome:
'If you don't be -still youivillbetirdeedetnienn
don't yen I was bonipletely over,
posvered. One of the manned:: 'Let's mirk
him likethief •do hogs dciWn South.' And
then,.with what 1 think was a knife, they out
oR the lower end of inn left ear and elit the
• lobe of my right ear once or twin. Next they
began to' tie my feet. I Molted as hard,a I
could, and one of thennezelaimed: :seon't
'you kick, or I will 'ont yeti; nettill-he did stick
my lest twin. Anthie timetheemail man
'dressed in a grey sulk said to „one of the
others: &Look out; don't hurt him ; •ant
, howhe bleeds;; take My handkerchief and'
put it around his wieundee The handkerchief
wen singled netfalgeested, Ma -afterward taken
away. They then tied my feet and my handd
with stays of White cross bate anci, laid -me -on
Mao ilea With my feet toward the bed en the
little aloove you ode there, and my head to•
ward the Wall. Next.they tied my feet tO the
iron bedstead. I asked them it, they wouidn'e,
place a pillow under my headeatid they did.'
Again they told Me ten to holler, anti- one.
,Baid • Now leen:leave ' and they paned
lteleely out of the room. , 'After they -left 1
, tried hard to gnaw the straps froth my . Mande
with my teeth, withait swans. I oned, but.
not very loud: "Help 1 leelplt but
got no amnia. I did not dare to shout loud.
for fear of more harm from them. I think. I
mint have lain there three houra before
reveille, and° wag: in a stupor.' from blown
renewed. I don't know Whine:meld have done
this thing. I. didn't knowthee r had an
enemy. I think I could raeognize at eleasb.
one of the Inn liy•hie clothing. I tried to
pull biti Mask off, bunhe jerked back. About
a year ego I got a note on winces Was written
"Leek out 1" 1 don't know where it came
-fret& - Last Ohnday. I, found a sealed
envelope in my room and, opening it, faired
.4 note inside, which reed as follows t
'oek. ‘ookc.itt ikeen Awake. 7°a will 1)e
fiz
A Vaughn,"
"1 paid no attention to toe firth note of a
year ago, nor did I pay any 'attention to Mao
waning of Sunday. 1felt bad thle morning,
bat am better now. 141108* I will CoMe Out
all right."' • •
°Cadet Whittaker is abiene 28 yore a ago,
with a complexion ea light that ho could -non
be identified as a conned Man While parading,
With the corps. Ho is Very retiring,In hio
manner, and is reported, as toderdeetion loas
than any other cadet In the corns.
Ron. eneeph Cook -none Nagata a " dateletirs
*mane Ile might cal Me ettney 0 dateline
newer, t.)04
THE rifiTrp RAILWAY.
AMMO Id 011 of lino langliseer-enCleget
etynopete of ON Cootefflil+-Eirpilo.
liftious Iff fi2O British. 410111130104
Face Myer, reolfio and Woodland
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COIndruellan. -
OTTAWA., April 9. -The report ot Mr. Send -
ford Fleming, Eugineer-M.Ohief of the
Canadian Faille Railway, .addrensed to the
Minister of Railways and. Oanele,, hae been
printed, The fellowmg is 0 eynopoi ot ite
contents;
rixepenersoris rei Nommen want actonagra
.41IDTO. rE1404 'AMA man:4.
• Opening he devotes onelderahle epee
to a hietory 01 the efforts in the past to die.
cover a practicable route through the Rocky
Idountains, to the Paoiflo meet for the trawl,
continental railway, and to a definition of
' hie position in relation to the adorn mina,
on Ite being discovered that a southern route
was only practicable at an enormone outlay.
Then the question of a northern route,
although she territory WOO rehtote
from the populated districts, became
one of mat importana. In April
laot he WAS notified that the Government
had, deeided, previous to the determination of
ithy torte, to Make additional examination of
the northernpessee and of the country *bleb
flanks hOth ado of the mountains. The
extent of territory embraced was the country
between the longitude of Edianton 'east of
the Rooky Mountainand Pork Simpson on
Mao Pacific. The objects of the examination
were to discover the -moat favorable Route
from the Mast of the Peace River 4104011
on the eaotern Ade of the Mountains, and
thence, to. Mao line already . located neer
Edmonton ; to 'gain full .information with
regard to Port 'Shama, it
toga and disadvantages. as it harbor;
to verify 1he reporte as to Work Inlet being
navigable by mean sailing ; to amettain
haw fite the country lying between the head
01 that Sheet 02 Water and the river Skeen
and the valley of the Skeene itself were 8U116 -
10e for a .railway lino, and to obtain eueht
definite informatien reopeoting the native of
a portion of the line smoothie to steamers
from the mean as would admit of a contract
-for construction. being otonceietehrtheevenn •
Of 4 nOrthern routebeing lahoebn. The ex.
amination really involved the deterraination
• of the problem Whether the. °holm, of the
Bperant inlet- route, ahold be . sustained
or abandoned, and if .• construtition
should be • immediately • Commenced en
Mao southern or on:a northern line. Ati time
wage an element in the problem, it was ar.
.ranged 'that the examinations shoued he
energetically carried out and that pa soon es
Mao information wag obtained a synopsis a it
amend be went by telegraph from Edmonton.
to Ottawa. Before the end of Septemben the
information Was received and laid before the
Government: On . She 4t1i October an Order
in Council was peened ratifying the adoption
of the rade via Yellowheod Pass to Barrer&
Inlet anOthe notions .f.rom Yale to Savenine
Ferry placed ,ender °entreat. The examine.
• done made . during the put season have
established that nort nimpson is a ooransiodie
ous, well sheltered harbor. It: has a large
area a smooth -writer anahorage. : It. is 46
sonie. (intent •exposed to menthe/est winters
nien11
t-the-ro11-0-thenoceanteigebroleareonntlelr
reign *Inch here form' a natural breakwater.
It has gond aPpronhes, and isnaoy of mama
at all •oonditions of the tide.. A rafter can
be caned !rem' Port •Simpion • by way of
Warn Inlet th the -Meer Snena, and Vince
eten tem valley of .that deer to a .distanoe Of
189 nellesehtenlizelton, at the Fake. Atrial
location:Oa:sty miles of ehe line • hnit been
.naade from Mao navigable 'evinets oi Wark
Inlet, ' plans • and profiles -premed and.
appioxineste quantities computed; With the
view of placing a section . under contraist
had a easerthern route been 'adopted. • Thee
distenciefronfLake Superior to Port Moody,
Burrard inlet, lo 1945,miles emeasured from
leskenionaiot to "Port Bitzipsen by Mute No.
I, 2,170 miles-; .ernimated No. 2 route, 2,200
miles; No. 3 routine 2,135 miles. The
shormet ef the three routes to Porn/Simpson
he OW by.Peace River, Beating by n common
point each as FpreeSaskatoliewanosiast oe the
mountains.. All exceed in lengththe line to
13cirrarellp1a. To Port Simpson via Peace -
.1tiver pass in 190 miles longer., via Yellowliend
Pass • is 225. ° miles longer, and via
Pine River Pass is- 265 miles longer., • As for.'
the extent of fertile land there is no differ-
enat of opinion: Ent Of the niountain
chairitheTene River plateau is maned by
great fertility of Soil over a wide area. • The
rivers whioh drain the platein run in deeply
eroded channel& sortietimes Erman to seven
hundred feet below the general tlev,e1. The
-iertile pletaiu is an elevation a two thousand
feet above the- level of the Bea. West of
Snionyeleiven both -te thenouth andelorth of.
Pent) Mien there. "are exteneiveareal of
prairie: oduntrein either perfectly open and
coveted with More or leas luxuriant gran 'or
dotted :with patentee of copse Anil etiees.
•Thee remainder--onthe-imana- is -generally
• cot:tinted by , 'Oeamid growth . timber,
more . or len; dense. Solna pinches of
'Mao original emote 'remain; 'particularly
in the river ealetayst • They are coMpond 01
mil,* largest trete,chiefly ooniferoue, among
which tbe black apron le most abeindant.
Handsome groin of old • and large banana
pciplareareetneo to be found in oome of the
valleys, Though a large -proportion, of the
'prairie land, hi einneediately availablennenion
'agrioultural point of view, *north a the region
now Covered with tonna' growth end, 'forget
will gventually be eqaally valuable. 'East On
Mao • Smoky . River second, grbeythenivend
.prevaile. The Oran land is that
bordering on the Valley of the Arena.
bale& , The huntriance of the paturaii
vegetation on the prairiee is degoribed as truly
• Wonderful; and indicates not onln the fer•
tilily of the (soil, but the °ammonia of euffi-
'Olen Waal, The' whole region'. is Well.
adapted Me .etpek. raising,. bun'the explorere
do not eetablitah,beyond q,nestion Its admits-
bffily for the eentematio growth of: the higher"
• cereal& Dr. Dawson, a the Geological pun
Vey; id of opinion that the length and.
• wapinth • of the neason ie ouffiaient .to
ripen • wheat, oats and • barley, and
alt'otdirlary root. crops and vegetable:0.-
4e adtinetion acliondee andeirainagareliev,es
the land of apporabandant Water, 11 10 he.
lieved thenlientte be' modined. Beane of
coal of a workebleeheraater; etnis believed,.
non In different parts of the Peace River
• region, 'The 100011011 01 the: railway being
.fixed, thereis no need of odainued excitation
'teen in the' northern; distriete. lineevert
(should it be clearable to construct a brancet
to Pone Riveae from some point on the main
linteeerst or tenant)! Edmonton, the late on•
aminationg have established, that etioh 4 line
inperfeetly enable(
• . neenefeereene zenetne ninantes etecninn
Thoeolcaminatione of tne • prairie regions(
dating the paet year were divided into five
neonate, Mid • the .whotof the novae are
that the land in generally good, with bon.
elonal eineritirebeite. The country lying to
Mao anith of 'the 52n4. parallel 18 devoid of
timber. Tbill alettatontagoapplin to the
• whole dietriek from the -Tozeohwoed Hills to
'the knot Hills et the Reeky Maintain, a
dietanoe of hilly 500 Milo& lidueh fine timber
le Mend along the flanke of the Itooleye
Motentatiel Whence ie tny be fleeted down
Matey of the lager rivet?. Coal ie cif freqtiont
occurrence, Brown Medina iren stone le
reported 10 variong McMillen bat not 05 net
lo workeleha quantitiee.
Vag =MUT *eon atitH 0 BE mug,
By Order.in-bounisil passed on jimmy
02n41as1 the Government decided .that the
road would follow the general course of set-
tlement along the weitern elope of the Aiding
Mountain, and northwesterly to the Little
Saskatchewan, Daring the pat liatiela Ur.
Masa traced a route whieli will materially
16Seen the work and the cost of the line
between Battleford and Yellowhead Pam, by
which the dill:natio of construction at
White kind. Buffalo and Grizzly Bear Weems
will be avoided, and the Big Saelcateliewan
oroeeed with greater eitee than was previously
expected. The new, projected line will follow
a northerly aurae west of Battleford to Fort
Saelmtehewan, and then papaing up thevalley
ef Sturgeon. Slyer, finally interpeet the old
line near the River' Pembina.
MOOING TEM RID DIVER.
Ile again reecinunende Selkirk as the point'
for owning the Red River, basun it will
-aVold the contingeney of interruption to
traffic by inundations and the possible coat
of reconetruotion of works owept away by
itoode.
wommaxia Emote,
• In the woodland region surveys have been
natively prosecuted. On the completion of
the. Thuuder Bay branch is recommended
that the construction of the Sault Ste, Marie
branch be undertaken. The arguments in
favor of the latter ahem°, so well known, are
advanced.
• CONSTRUCTION.
Under thie head he presehts a eynopais of'
tho history of the construction of the road
and contract letting. The length of line now
under contract consists of the following sec.
time: Fort William to Selkirk, main line,
410. milis ; Emerson to. Selkirk...Pembina
branch, 85 mules; west of Reid River, main'
line, and Winnipeg 'branch, 100 miles; Bri-
tish Columbia, main line, 127 miles ; total,
722 miles. The location on Seetion 41, on
the lino from Fort William to Selkirk, is being
eo amended that the distanee it is believed
will be redacted .from three to four .'nellee.
There is ,notlalng in the remainftr of Mr.
Fleming'it report that' has not already ob.
brined publicity. '
ems Wu V ISBANTa.
. •
Wurinx, April .-T10, trial of ,Thomao
Cooper tor the murder of hie wife, Mary Jane
()eloper, was oommenoed this afternoon. The
prieoner ia an •Engliehman, and an ex.
Wernher of the London Felice form. Mr.
Hodalne, in stating the case for the. Crown,.
mid the prieoner and his wife were married
in. England, and. came to this country eome-
time ago. They 1104 10 Beach, in the County
of Ontario. Sometime in °debar last, they
hada difficulty as to picking beans, and from
an answer which hie wife made prisoner, and
whittle wad not onethak called for .violenee,
either in •anger, or from bad
temper, amok her on the cheek: She then
cried out, andthe attempted to ohoke her in• a
way to cause marks around her neck, and he
inflicted a blow upon her by a kick froth a
beau boot, the Waite of which was-ehe
being pregnant at thelime-to eantle death.
She a:neared from "that time until. the day
after Chriamae, when ehe was prematurely
delivered of a child,. which was dead. The
child had been dead in the womb, it would
appear, for sometime. He would firet in
order, take pp She evidence, at the birth of
tire child and the :statements made by the
demand at Vie time of the death, and would'
then go Mick to the °cession of the kicking in
October, and !Reny take up the medical teat!-
' Hie Lordship reeked where was the Oedema
Of the Marko of the blow, and ruled that therewak nothipg to ehow, beyondthe opinion cf
the deceased, that death' was canoed by a kiek
or blow, that there, in find, was no evidence
to °maned the blow with the death, that tine
was a missing link, and that ,the blood
poisoning might be the result of natural
causes. A verdiot of nett guilty was
ordered to be recorded.. 'The prigoner
remains in atestady to answer' A charge of
mann on a woman he Pregnancy. •
JUSTLY P1111f1Sl1iilD..
A Cowardly Wite•beater Horsewhipped
by Determined Women. .
ALL/amnia, Ont., April 13 -Our usually
quiet village was thoroughly aroused last
evening by abontle dozen women turning out
to horsewhip A man named Santee who has'
neen in the habit of abusing and beating his
wife,who is „partially insane. The women
wailed Moe° if her relations or the MW venni
punish him for his brutal ' treatment to his
wife before they took this untumal way of
giving him whateheliellnedeservide JIM cries
brought Mr. James Upper, hotel keeper, who
pleaded for them to design as they hail
punished him quite enough, "Sant 'pronain.
ing never ta do so any more. ..
. . . .
A. And ISlukt—ill *Miler and Mother
• low rive (lhildren. to the Grave '
• .
' 'One. Day.
(01eV61and Leader.)
•MItivarside cemetery' yesterday afternoon.
was witnessed a seene the like a which; hap..
pily, few are -called to look upon during a Kee
time. Five innonnt children, Plucked in the
epringtime of thein youth, were. followed- to
their last earthly resting place by the Moken:
hearted fath _neer mother ancl two brother&
The little—ones* • were . the ohilaren
ofe Charles • An and Mary R. Popp,e
No. 831 • Scranton avenue,: and have
all been • ' swept away by than dread
anurgen-diphtheria. Mamie, e bright (Mild
o!3 year and 8 menthe, . wee the first to
succumb to the deetrOyer, breathing her last
as the month of February' wig ushered • in.
She was earned to.a vault in the cemetery to
await burial; but little -wars it then thought
that in a rileo.rt time four others would Bleep
beside, Mar. ' The' mother, grienetrialtai eat.
the lose 61 0110 ehe loved, Mien • eaen pan, ttif •
the diens& and was Woad to her bad the,
'day after thenuneral. Two days 'later .little
Willieea lad of nearly six 'summers, died, and
Within five dap 13 year-old Bobbicifollowed 10
hie footsteps. They were oared for by kind
friends and neighbore, and one by one were
laid in the oold, dale vault. The mother was
eo 'low that the sad intelligence of the death
of the latter three was kept away from her
for many days. .0n Manila 3rd the lest of the
sufferers bade- feitetell te Carth,-and passed
quietly. to thaVunknown hotels. .The mother
and two remaining children in time recovered,
and are now considered out of danger. The
funeral servion were held yesterday, the Itter.
if. Lenechati, of the First tiertaan church;
officiating. The five little coffin weto
brolight from the ',melt and placed dile by
Bide near the large grave deg topeeive them.
Ur. Matellar owns the actual. Cape of
Good Hope and Minh land adeeinitin,
whereon he hag a largo °atrial fain. • A kick
from an ostrich le well knowtt to be vete(
dangerdue. Mr. Matellar Said tbat the only
thing to do when attacked withotzt moans- oe
defence was tdlie fiat dewn and let the bird -
walk on yoneintil he is tired. The businese
is profftable. From ten palre of full gMwn
birdie wialale one man may look lifter, ma
income of 010,000 or 015,000 may be
reckoned on. .
TIM butcher Who gent" tender lintel to Ms
etveetheart 15 now disoonsolate boom° the
Maidenhair rejected hie amt. -Lowell Ciourict.
lin tough tq sleek one's all and neat guoh
treannerrt,
itgE BIMINI ELECTION!.
Re.00,41
dlessibere Elected Iteeterdois -- A Net
lathered Oahe oil, 109 Senna
-LONDON, April 13. -The following addl.
Wool Ouachita for Parliament, among
°there, have been returned; Burnaby, Ool.
E, 13,, and the Right Hon. Lord john Man.
nem, Postmaster General, Coneervativa, for
Leicestershire North, the latter re-elected.
Power, John O'Connor, and ()has. Stewart
Parnell, HOMO Ruler., for qounty Mayo,: the
former re.eleoted, a Home Rule gain. j.
O'Oonnor Power received 1,320 votee and
Parnell 1 WS.
The total number of membere elected
thus far i 030, divided as follows: 340
,Llberate ; 230 Conservative*, and 57 Blaine
Rulers. Th15 &Iva' the Liberate a olear
Onjority of 62. .
The net Liberal gain is now 109. mate.
The correspondent of the Times at
Dablin eays that there are three
compact 'portico, Conservative, Par-
nellitee and pure Liberals, and moderate
Homo Riders, or an intermediate party, who
will be allies somotimee of one party and
sometimes.of another, but it is confide:ay
expected that they will most freuttently go on
a division In the lobby with the Liberal
Government. There ere alto a few free
lama, such as Patrick J. Smyth, just oleo ted
for Tipperary, who is as uncorepromieing 00
O Repealer.
John Daly, 'of . the city of Oork, whose
views do not quite agree with those of Par-
nell, though he hag been returned with him,
and Philip Callan just eleeted for Louth,
will fight all roundin their turn,
/Execution of. Otero for Attempt -
trig to AssaselMatet the
King of "Spraita. '
Melanin, April 14, -Otero, who attempted
Mao Apeaseination of the king over a year aga
was mooted thie morning; age, 19. Yeeter.
day morning he was led in irons, bare headed,
clad in the same clothing be wore the day
be attempted to take the life of the
king, to the hall where the condemned
prisoners hear their antenoes 10 110 presence
of the judge. Otero was pale, but cemposed,
and signed the copy Of his sentence with a
,firm band. The. judge delivered him into
the onetody of the Brothers, and sent orders
to Pan' y Caridad, who led the prisoner to the
ohapel, which was &Sly lighted. Otero
expreesed repentance, but refused advice or
consolation from the priate.
tLI o Pt& MI, ATMS:19 i1zjr
srAseet,
•
and End of a mem ot President Van
A sad eine of death by opium eating comes
from New York. The victim was a niece of
President' Van Baron.Six weeks ago Dr.
Miller was called tome las. Deutsch at East
Twenty-third street, by a stranger who mid
• that his name was Newitell,,and that he was a
friend of the ladyrunximie for her recovery.
He found a woman about 35 years old, of cub
titre and refinement, but with plain tram of
opium eating in her Mee and form, The phy-
sician warned her of her danger, but in vain.
On Monday evening Dr. Miller found her
half timenecions frorathe nee of opium. She
refused pettishly to answer his vitiations, and.
after eatisfyinelaiinself by a search that no
more of the poigon was within her reef% he
went away. An hour later a boarder•in the
house found Mrs. Dente% dead. A seacitid
*March revealed a two ounce bottle that had
contained laudanum, and a larger one' in
Winch haft been chloral. Tho labels hod been.
carefully removed/a Newhall. turnecl,out to be -
her divorced htusband. Deutsch. They had
married in '76 and rived miserably together
until divorced. The unfortunate woman Was
Harriet Van Baran, daughter of Dr. Pater.
Van 'Buren,-youngeet 'brother Of the presi-
dent. Her only Wang relettive is General
Thomas Van Buren, consul.general to Japan.
Miss an Boren .was beautiful, wealthy and
O great favorite in society, yet ehe died
minrably, a victim to oPium.
' . Hints lid swlienuers. •
Pion MargtilseBibberenef the London Pan -
technic Inetitate, gain 'an exbibition of fancy
and useful owitnraing, in the Central Park
Bathe, New York, on Friday afternoon.
"How to save a person trona deowning," and -
"how to break :way from the - vie ole
• drowning person," Were 'two of the, mint t1001,
fnl,narta of Mao exhibition. Using his atten-
dant for a drowning Persson, he ehowed;. that
a single laser of tha neadwas euffitsient to
draw Vie fleeting linety_aehoze-witin-lintben
person retained sufficient presence of mind
to keep quiet. If the person etreiggles, aa is
tunny the case, ho awned be approaohed
Irene behind, his head' hold on the ranee
breast, and both go inshore on their backs.
Tae 'drowning pereohe frequently gram; hie
reamer, and enelangers both their live& In
thie case, if hie heed can be got teedgr the
Burton skein fan few moiatinto it will confine
hire, Sinn beaking away le • comparatively
easy.--13hou1d It gratmehteranarern by, the-
' wide a gulch wrench of the errata will break
hie hoed. Should. hegrain hirefrOm behind,
' hie held rant be looeened by vrotahing back
his Angers!, as idrdin0ry 'oaths. When the
drowningepereon gent hie antis firmly elaeped
around ties reso r's nook or around WS
waist, or gets any her 'denoting bold, the
rescuer inoy instant' free himeelf by putting
two of his fingers t nheelrowning person e
nodal:Nand thus lasing his 110041 111011. his
will make a znat loosen any hold, In the
Water or out of , Even a Jersey/fling man
• cannot keep hie grip when thin plan ie resort:
• The tenoning • are the' .receipts for an
gchemes ' the Preahyterian Chorine in
Canada up to Apri1.5 elome Minion -1
Redeipte from all Boerne, 940,684 65; receipts
no aamedato lasnyean 922,965,07 ; incense,
/7409 sai• • Poroign bliesiinaReceipts from
.all Bourne, e10,387 71 ; recapta to SaMO date
last year, 916,485.11 ;decrease''047,40.
College Fund -Bodine up to dikefrotanal-
leotions, 97,807.43 ; rennin( up . to date
last year, . 07,011.14 ; • increase, 9796.29.
Widowientund-Normeeial collection thie year,
Amonnt of contributions, • donations), etc.,
01,000.75 amount last year, 92,022.05;
clearean. 9e,016.80: Aged and infirm
ministers' fume -Antonin remind from cone
lectione and rates, 94 867 55 ; aracautt re -
coifed Met Oen:01,01G 20 ; »arena 9341,35,
B. -In collections there ie a acreage of
916.30, but an enact -lee in ran of $350.85.
lekencli Evaugelizationen-Amount roc:sliced in
Torontio to date, 93,529.01; amount rtneived
in Toiontoneet you, 93,422.51 ; Merman;
9206.44, Asierably ituid,Amouni eront
congregationetto den), 14,656 03 ; nest near;
92878.90; deerene, e223 27, Total thereaso,
919.,003 66; total aocramee, 9,2,185 07
enorearse, 916,816 59.
• Thirty pare ago the Fianna tepubliosate
were oftener poor than rieih. At the ‚present
day in the Chitrabor of Deputies end in the
Senate there aro in the ranks of the roan
llenn pne.tiated more millionaires then
there aro in the rants of the reactionaries.
'4111 hen is that P' asked re Otieheee of the
noble fauborg ; treat" whom lient they' Me,
halted their fortune?' YriSo labor, the
most inexhanatible ot aticestoree was the
reply of the denmeran
" My club,' sad efr. Sleek, when he was
heated to join one; hay dub is at home,'
4
Yeo,' reeponded ono of the boys MA the
tildlady generally has it ready fer'you when
you go there.'
AN OINTIniltettirrilOct AVCOTINV..eitir
IPUIt iftt7I1ittll'et Vitatite TO
DAII4intifiestittr.:
rilarbstage to the Tomb et the
c
Lawn, April 37.111T4shr1010eiimeet Oorreepone
dent at Daunted$$e16aPbed kat night MO
following intereeting acoohnt ef the gears%
Visit to that city The proverbiar sunphine,
which the Queen of Englend le supposed to
take ,with her wherever she goee brut not
belled the popular belief. To.dity the weather
was as beautiful and radiant es could possibly
Marc WO Wished for to promote the nooses
of a ceremony which her raajeaty hap
journeyed hither to vibrato. But not this
Alonehas brought the Qneen go far from
home. It the dead .cannot bo reglaimed
from the temb, it le at least. 0012101,01200htti011
for the mourners to revisit those pewee which
are inseparable from the memory of tire de.
petted, and though to witnees the eeremony
of the confirmation of 'her grandchildren may
have been a enffielent reason in Built for her
majesty's preeent YiSit to the Cella of Dann-
stadt, it would eoarcely be doubted that, a
atilt (stronger inoelatiVe existed in the shape
of a duke to Doke a pious pilgrimage to
the grave of . dearly beloved daughter. .
The Nene of tceday's confirmation wao
grand•dueal .chapel an the old castle, . a place
of worship in which ehe English colony here •
Have had the advantage of aellerabling On.
litlpday•--4a BIWA° Whitewashed edifice of
thoderate size, with an organ loft above the
altar, and lateral zoloranades supporting a
couple of .galleries.• This court Chapel Seems
well isuitee to supply the aanty ritualism
iv wants of n.sovereigti family who adhere
to the Lutheran form of worship, On the
altar stood,the cross and communion res.
alio while oo each ads wern:tanged a
prolueion of verdant palms and tropical
• plants. Directly in front, about *our paces
off, were placed a couple of mate for the
young princeseeei and which were enclosed,
by two hormehoe rows of Maim allotted to
the most illustrione participators in the core.
mony. Receiving word that alt Vas mady to
begin, the granet-dmal family, with their
illustrious relativa • and vote, whohad all
in the meentimeassembled in the bander
hall Of the mode, began to file into the chapel,
preceded and fotlewed by the high court
officersandladiee--in.-waitinge--First-
came the. Q aeon, leadiegin her granddaughter
Pal:toms Victoria, and supported by the Grand
Dake Loon, In her bands and edging of
white elle took her seat by the gide of her
son -in law at the end of . the first horses1300
row before referred to,' on the right of the
altar. Next to thoQuen tat the Prince of
Wales, in fall field marenaln uniform, with
all his orders on, in charge . o! Mao Grand;
Dubose of Baden, while oppeeite them was
the Prineess of Wales with int) German
Crown Prince in the light blue •uniformof a
general of the Preasian ;Dragoon Guards.
Farther off from the altar op the left ado
was Princess Beatrioe, with the Grand Duke
of Baden, and next to them 1110 hereditary
pnchesa of Saxellainingen, .with Feinoe
Hansa Hosea:.
The arm° began as a confirmation ;re. -
Many, which, though performed in a German •
Lutheran'ohuroh, doss no: materially differ '
from the English ritual, and need not be •
described in detail. ' The .tivo yobieg ladies
had to listen to frequent mention of their
departed .mother. and her numerous exe • .
• plary virtues. The Queen in particular was
deeply affected by the words of the' preacher.
After:We a prayer, 'Praise the Load, eh nak_
soul,' was. sung by the elver, and with the,
blueing the eimjeleand aft to ling °Mammy was •
over• .• The' Queen, who was deeply' :Wiled,.
immediately arose and left the ' chinch. So
deeply affected wise the Queen by tnenideas '
naturally •asisociatedwittethe eeremonn of the
-forenoon that it was deemed doulniul.by.
her attendepteWhether she would have the
. courage to carry out the other parr 'of her
purpom in coming" herb; but tomorrow '
being fixed for the return of the° royal com-
pany. to Baden, her majesty . summoned • up
• foviitude enough fnr the bitter -Oise in store..
• Aocompanied only by Primes Beatries and
the • Grand Duke'nbell eon -in-law,. the
,Queen drew. • l• 'an *. open carriage
'and four, preceded by two • out -riders,.
• to the • Rosenholm summer residence
of Prinoe.Charies, in a corner of the grounds.
. of whigh 8101148 110 Matuioleum, the neeurn.
fid object ef hee inajestyea pilgrimage. .Natne.
rally dielikleg to encounter Inquisitive eyes
Mao eeneen took the mint unfrequented route
'to this eorrawfal Hill of Roses. Beyond the
rammer of tne 'town, below, enough within • ,
-eight of, the quaint end pointed gothie gables •
elesteringeround.the moated old castle of 'the
• Heseirin duke, la the gently aging knoll
crowned . by . the ' • Mausoleum, wherein
:repose' the Mhos of Prin68011. Mita 'and two
oftherehildren. Wendetiog about the neatly
trimmed flower note thanfront.:tbe 'tomb .oe
the panne& the yisitor itnegiheeMao
Mausoleum to be 'nothing 'Minna than 0. , •
sheltering garden house; and. ventures, in, to• • t
fied, however, the floor °coupled by. three.
' sarcophagi; (shrouded, with .crimson peered.-
• velvet palls; and tenured with -fiaal crones, •
nen/wing. palnrebrainberinand 'Wreaths of -
vioiet, white :and yellow imraorteltes; 'A •
mark of taidereot love and effecstiOn from
her beacon hearted mother, Victoria ' ; A., .
Mak of affectionate love from Louise'
'A mak of love and affection from Alexe
marine; ' • 'In • affectionate: . remembrenee
from Maria;' A mark of tetidefest devotion
from Reattice,' are but a few of the Engliele
insoriptionappended: to these flora em.
Mem of inirnortality, *bile cendpiciuoue
among Ahem, at the head of the' largest • .
mobilo a maesive wreath of purple
Grampian heetner,• being a token a love
from Balmoral, brought away by • the grand:
dais° itt Otnober, 1879, after 1110
. sor-
rowikig;eojoniz at her . majesty's 'High-
land/tom& • Into thie sunny npulehre tho
nail,. went her oneetanione, entered' and
ageOtiOnatsly placed two mere wreaths and' a ' . •
fl °ern arose neon the already Moped em central
bier;• that kneeling, hei mejeene remained. '
t�r roveramininee by the -side of hr departed -
daughter in deep :devotion. Her raajesty's,
viiit eci the Maneoleum lastedin all about a -
quartet of an hour. The hoepical he which
Mao grand Onohese took such a sniped:Wog_
• iteterocirerttle.
i1,1 probably be vitdied. bytne Qlsen
ozitov
. •
Trnatent)irn 'Mons 44 GlIOSSAD 4.4 BY MAO -
pia. -.The Jourizal of the •Melbourne
graph ..Pectrical Eocioty' •repotte a oarioug
. end of interruption whiehnecourre'd inanely
on two of the Western lines, Atietralia. An
intermietent " erne " (ono of the moat tram. ,
bleeome Melte to detect) • tinted 'lot Some
little timeron these lines, and a clom inspect -
Soo was IOUnd tit he nceoestary. ,This
reaulted in the ilinovery that OM° Magpiee
(Anstralim) had actually built a nest on one
of the telegraph polea, and, among other
materials used in ite conettuotion, bad taken
all the:odd pieces 0111e -wire which they
mold find within goatee (Intones of the Eliot;
scraps whiela had been *Menne nide bee the •
line repairerWan twleted tip togethee in the
moot angular manner, coneldering that they
had no pliers to weak with (indenting their
beak& Some of thee° pieces of Who touched
on line, and tome occasionally the other,
causing the " erns " complained an 11,
appears that lately eevoral attempts at net
•blending on the pert of naegpies on the tele.
graph poles on the plains in the Viteetern
Diettiet have boon disooveree.
Seinebedyneho 10 etipposed to bane kept the
mord hinacelf, or by praise asserts that '
nte whittle of 1879 80 len been the
Mildea known within a period ol 01 you.