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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Sentinel, 1880-10-08, Page 3S t „fLommoscemS==,..es DISTREMs lar KANSAN. Failure of the Crops -Aid Being Solicited for the Stitferers-7The Facts Suppress. rd for Fear ot Injuring the State. DES MOINES, Ia., Sept. 23.—A. gentleman is here soliciting aid for the people of Phillips, Sherman, Decatur, Sheridan, Rawlins and other counties in Kansas. In Norton county 1.800 people are. in absolute want of food, the wheat crop in the above counties having failed. In June the ground was ploughed up and planted to corn,which has been destroyed by the web worm. One family lived eleveu -weeks on wheat and bran and another three weeks on -cornmeal. The loeal papers, it is aaserted, suppress the facts, as they would -injure the state. A public moeting has been called here for this es -tiling to ,iirocure supplies. - That Russia is abonlinab13, governed. not aven. Mr.. Gladstone will. deny. All the - testimony we can obtain goes to show that the otticial world is fa'ul with corruption. From Gogorta Revisor" and Dead Souls down to the lateat book about Russia, the di -.honesty of officials Isand has been a pa‘matent mark for.' satire. The cellsor, - aktp. Whiali is. veryrigid about almost every other criticism i.)f the Government, seems - here to he disaritied .and to encourage, or tit- least not to disbeurage,-any amount Of tidletile. Certainly, _Russia is not the only - ',diary in which .there aredishonest-oil-1- '10 aaa; but, if. ad. aiecaunts are true, a.oui. -awn' WillitunaM. Tweed was but a clumsy appreatice by the aide ,of soine..a, the deacenalants Of Rurik, . Then as to the aeveritYer timaGoverpment; .it is. almOst i-mpoasiblefor tilt En 'lish; Frenchaor even Uerni pea Aso:a., tutwisdoin t si-re to ,ht join lish ejecta thosakdr • - s'aw, . social.- .b.tute, - exiveIly ut. • Cor- pro* son, to read of the hority witlibut a )etroleum - and ately, the Eng- :. tithe to tefute ,Taar feared they lahaa ready for vilizaatioo agaiost paternal, or erlyagovern- stathe results injustie at a paternal Pr GREaT NORTHWEST. fcstior Sheldon's Impressions of its Agricultural- Resources. - weeks ago Prof. Sheldon, of the d Hants Agricultural- College, at tation of the Dominion Government ,er from England for the purpose ng a brief tour of this country in rest of immigration from Great The institution to -which he be - yet in its infancy, but Mr. Sheldon alining it held the position of pro- of agriculture in the well-known •ter -Agricultural College, of which ts and Hants College is really an di - la the latter he is professor of dairy , and he is also the author of a large that subject published by Cassell, Cialpin. As Professor Sheldon's Of his Canadian trip will be- used by iuigration Department for the put-. diverting as Much as possible of of British emigration to Canada, • t regretted that Lis stay is neces- . brief one, niore especially as he b it a very short time. to spend in nit ba, and waspreventedfrom- going on -that _province into . the Northwest T. This has not prevented. him, r, from forming very decided no is on some important points, and in the complaints of some disap-, English. farmers,' it is, satisfactory that these opinions are favorable country. He does not assume- to ?Lauythipg except.what he saw, and rived at -Winnipeg in the middle of t, what he did see astonished and ed him. He fells of one. fiekl of which -he saw harvested onthe ‘:?.3rd ember; estimated to average twenty - leis of fine grainto the acre, and on prairie.sod .broken -up just before dwas sown in the -second week -of A field of pate sown in June was net. ie at thenome date; but was likely r pea - Intly; And - looked ,as. if a it. ult a,ield. foity bushels,• to the, acrea • Mt.". lel thinks, from • What". he saw and. that. the NoithWest. is .destinedte a the -atteat: -grain.; ...and-'• especially' gross ng region ,Of the world. He is s telear as to itsValue for dairv Pur - ses and i.nchnes to.•the OPhtiOn—though, d .a. net dogroatiae-athat.ip.thip.direba Ontario: - has a; ;decided . advantage7 f e W ts thq my ea e o of ak th int 13 tai lot ,s be re fe or Ci nc th sh ot. fa mi "k P ter re rt th li Pt) th it . ,. goveritInent - is' -when. it',' has everything its own way. may: be. seen by -'ehservar iion of the; p'resenti condition - Of Eiissia. 'Yet with this illustrafion &fore ug; in -the reaction frain efeessive faith in the people, - Et there are sonie who hink the millennium anreif We put all th , power in the handa.of - one Man. In'llussiti the position --"of, this one man la exceptionally favorable ; the' . avast mass of the-populatiou is blindly ilea- • voted. to hita and diatindly unable to conaa prehemt or to desire any change-; the libbility is closely-' dependent upon "him And his position dettily lesembles that of Zeus in 111&:Cfrock• mythology. Yet .here are few private eitizens Who would.- care to change places. with him. To give a. modorati-I3' full account of . the : wrongs inflicted. - . VI?, (I weratuenti ..W` Their N'tetit nrgy . . sa 11 VI to 10 li 01 11 ti "c 'in the people by nild -13.1 a -19ng- task. be conjectured. ' from the violence of the attack that :lie 1\ ihili.sts . are Makincs- upon society. If sae -could -lint ourselves for a few -minutes in the positton . a , . . of these -tanatica oar views-nuant ba chow,- ' ed. . Wesidaould probably perceive that ac- tionand --reaction were, not only 9pp0site 'hut equal, . and': that the:a bitterness of the assault ..,, is made - upon' oiety. . on tho .. Whole .: only counter- balances .the wronf„fg the 'people love _suffer -- ed. The Wholehistory of nihilism is one of the most. interestin,fr studies a the 'Pres, . etit times. Ilerzen- and Bakunin- loathe: revolt against the power of clespotiarn, Ona witliTheir-hatred of a Severe governMent they 0r/1W-he& all f that Was to. be learned; from the. seal -ails -1M . of v,-estern Europe. Bakunin .-Was -Moat:wild in his aatfa:. : . t , - , meets; . everything . was It? go . by the board; •. and mil- .- the : -ruins, after they were. re:lucid. to chao-s, was to be built a new social. gystem. - If he - could have procured a ' sufficient quantity of ,i dynamite,. he Won' haves brontht civiliza- tion to the conditi„nof a poWder-millafter an explosi9if.%Hciwas not a_ reformer, but - a. destroyer a madman, but, as events have . - shown,. ali:e:'. has found ,taany ;followers: • BublatierVanfouS book, !., Kraft noel Stoff,/. - is_looke.dst-fition.:by the.stuclerita as . the expression ofaillatrif la and, Sehoperthauer's ihv phitogophyis-raoi armiaaaduiired: There is something chi like itiathis thorough: , ao I belief that:Many .educated Russians . fee -orawhat the 7RPSt of -the world looks -at 11 legMavish ocIEetence... This quality . -- is bat iil'aatiter form of the same,' docility that tli;.:ilewertsrders.of the -Russians shoW foftheiptilei-E-f- otil'Y directed to new Ve =outlet for their •aSaiMilate a vast nums Mere contradictery v..a.Ala.ay• are not able to - ataany ORE' system 'idols. aRaceal energieS.Or'• r. bar., of Ilaaegles - they areathey . . give so litatin•gag, ,c_4 of. philosf)phr. ,ag-t-O',Walte or willing to adopt it for a religion: ia..,they are distracted' by a thau.sand cares dares and pleasures .s s- - But in Russia it was afferent: the curtain • Was- lifted , for a: monaeiata Buelmet -sad , Schopenlianer were standing in full view, ... and. the impresaidn was at. once Made, as - an a prepored . plate of a. photographer " Where the torper of Raaisititt life- gave no . chalice- of blurring and confusion. . Mo ^siver, the bripelesaness that the- .1,-iewe Mo of 'aelnier and Schopephatier encouraged . -clai ed in with the desandt, of . the op preiatsl Sla,i-s, and thek were -ready enough to applaud the men who, if they -had tried, • could not have flattered them more dexter- ously than by giving to their gloom th aatiction of a system ,pf. philosophy. Th Gernionalia.ve already sboWn us soraetlain , of tbe aa.me disposition t� be greatly move -. by theeries in the paucity of more actiV interestsanst its in our Own country we se • how esso- called practicallifeby itaintenen diminishes 'the chance for interest in intel a lectual matters:: ,'Howthofonghlythe Rus •- Bien' go`vernment his warped the minds 'JD the young by absurd. restrictions is nototi ...ous, awl°, it 'haS only: itself' to blame if -after,. so to apes:lap:7 digging its own grave, i hapnenate fall -info it. The theories of th young.RusaianS May be aaacrude as th wild notions with which, say, young col legions hall 'Appall and half' wearythei elders..in -their vabations,. for every genera . titan has to worship.for a 'season :the fals go4 in fashion in -its day, butthe Only cur - •- - forliach entlinsiastte narrowness is mor • _ light, not repression: Ropreasionbag mad • nihiliStri the expression Of political-deipair What would be at .healthy effervescence i - turned by -Subjection into a most v.larmin ' (lOoger.—Octebor ;Atlantic. - . , - . ; .. . • t • . , ti Tit ev nte ea he ak he ve •ea Se. e b y. ite Beer Drinking in England. BY .RICHARD (HUNT WHITE. • The Englishman, and particularly the Englishman of the laboring class, is wed- ded to his beer. He feels that it is the great comfort, and one of the very few en- joyments, of his life. - And not only is the chocolate-reom or any other like contriv- ance slow,' but there is 'about it an impli- cation that he is taken in hand and managed by his betters, like a -child, Which he not uonaturally resents. Rightly or wrongly, he feels more ashamed of being treated.in this way than he -does of . being drunk once a week—one, however, being here a word of wide signification. For in these cases the- same drunk' often extends from Saturday night to Monday and not unfrequently into Tuesday. The result of this habit-, which. may almoat. be called a custom, is deplbrable and- socially injurious to a degree of which we 111 America -have a very imperfect idea. The beer.of England. is not like the light Ger- man 'beer which has come so much into Vogue bete of late. years under the name of 'lager;' and 9f which a man of any stabil- ity of brain and knee might drink enough to swim in without feeling any other effect than that of unpleasant°distention ; it is heady; strongly - narcotic and -apparently not exhilarating, but depressing. Drunk in large quantities, after a short period of excite- ment it dulls the brain and fills the drink- er's whole -bulk witlrliquid stupefaction. Ile beConies not intoxicated, but besotted. Not only laboring men, and men who ought to labor -but do- not, give themselves up to this .debasing habit of b-eersdrunkenness throtgli two or three days of the week', but skilled artisans, men whose- work is of A kiud and of ea excellence which is worthy of reapect_ tincl: admiration. was. more than once fold, in regard to an artisan .of this class—a man whose work' was always in demand -•at the 'highest price, and wbo could. With .easellave kept himself .-and his family:ierfeet donifert. and haale iaid up money—filkat_.ha would not work for any., .Or: :at 'any price niore than four days in the :week. Blue. Monday is -a- reeog- . - - .nized., 'institution- in England, and as I :have .intirnitted, _the -blueneas-d- it ex-. tends not .unfrequently into Tueselay„,and. this among theVerybest of the. skilled arti-- sans.. One bookbinder' told nie.thatliiStwo. ar. CO lea er Whist as a Character Exp London Society says that .th game which reveals to us more th ter of a man than whist. ` the man of cunning and deep de • gu, who will always be in favor of over -fin tricky combinations which seld off, and whose play, if it misleads nents, is also successful in dee partner. There is the timid, fear who plays an essentially nervou who never leads trumps uuless amazing strength; who plays en his own hand; who is given to p his best cards second band for slit:arid lose the opportunity of eve them; who, -if he has a bad hand, ready to throw down his cards, never dreams of being of servic partner. There is the superstiti who is a fervent believer in- luck is the emotional man, the joy or g ..Whose face at once reveals that good or -bad cards, who is intoxicaand witL delight when lie wins and as gloo mourner when he loses. There i cessant grumbler, who, before he e, at his hand, growls about his lit wails like a Jeremiah about the r loses: who -is alwayacomraenting r. re is no ammo - here is shing, of m come iis oppo- sing his I man, game; he has rely for tting on fears,lie making alwa;3a- ud who to hie s man. There avity of e holds th ,it. .1Ie was.. very much struck best plena.' fioishers !••" to whom he gave his , . . - the l',: great - - difference . : between finest work in _perfect confidence that it e "bialitions: „tinder which --fartnipg would-be 'One unexeeptionalgy. both : in: 6r, ions-tife-tatried .on• in, the NOrthweat workmanship and in Style, never Made. any - al i l Eng -laud.: : In his opinion, lEngliph !tipie.,' that is, never got really.Otwork b& ig ants walla- do. better for themselves fora Wednesday, ' Like :storieswere told se...thug itaOptatio andletiaing. to Cana-- me of :Other.: equally. aacbo,n1Plislied - work - au accustomed to the. modes of-farining filen, This. is -not -only .ininotia, to the.:nien .tli 's older, prda ingeS the task- of pioneer- -and totheir- families, -but the aggregate:lu- g i- ,.tlie Northwest; ..:Tifo -conditions of-. .elustiffilloss to England must be great.' no 'tea here Tand the sS-Stenis .pursued • Aad; this: steady, besotted, alrunkeimeaS a6•Iiiin an exaellent :transition be-. .seenitto beat the bottoin- of mostof the -wee i tliaae -of -England and the • 'great distress and most ofthe eiiine of England; A . clergyman v.liese : work - lay _ much- arrieng ' the ' laboring . dosses - ...told: - me that he -felt Utterly -poWerlesS , before this Nike, Which:Wag- "a constant quantity in•the•pioblemathat he waS'ealled -upantai :salvo. .-.1.1enew alatly -..wheiwas a• district Visitor in asuburb Of Leaden; one those . . .. :. -... . • gunistering angels Who an England, mote., it. seen:m.0 Me, than in. ao othera ccitintry, in thewerld„.:giV-e . theriaselyea.. up : JO the work of lielpiiiad an.a-- bettering the racist wretched; and degradedof ;theirkind, -and who carry.Clitration lovo:. and: purity _-end grebe into ' dene otAlth atia-sin andatiffet,- lag :Which, if they dier-not :see.them„ wouldt •beheyaldtheir clia,steitattainations;.andl asked her bite 'day if :de met With' an enemiragetnent, a and .. if - elica. • though " She :hada-. been. ' able --- 'to :. a° -.- much real- ,7:.g6-0.3:-..1.7':* -Mith . : ..a. :."sad,.: siveet smile . :.eha. ...answered ' . '-Very . little. The.. coudition. a '- of. ... theSe • , People seems hone-less:a_ .and -tbey are hopolepg.- -All that we 'civi de is to heltitheta-ftoni id timete tinae; •-ilid.s We find-- thera always - where Wele.ft-thera,:orlf.posSible yetlower,- more:: degraded,- more wretched. AndI at the bottom of it all •iS..draikenneSe. -- he .nien-ate-alWayanioto Or less drunk, and the. women ate-off:poet -si:s bad. They earn a little money, ana they get IlUsband and. Wife get dinnktogether ;- they qiiorrel ; they.fight ; and the children -grow up ' tv4h this Were, thetia.:- The37-7 ere - never- really quite sober uhlesa they aro starving.sor 111.• What can be done for :zilch_ people? .,-H W i canthey or theii:atindition be Made -bate ?" -The -tears. gnahea .froni her eyes., as: spoke: I]kneW that it was so.. My ow n -Ob.ser'Vation, very small andof-little worth as. :'"-botapered with, hers, f had - : .: yet shoaati ;ale , fliia; ..-And. I was , struck with horror - at ' the -besotted condition .0f..so Many- of the women=wpmeo , ho were'hearing children every year end ..enek.- lingthera„ and ..who Seemed to me. 'little better . than foul human stills ' through .Which the a -merged. Minor 'aith which they were -soaked filte,ied drop by drop- the little ,. drunkards .a,t.- their -' breasts, To these .achildreo drunkentesi -comes • Una. consekinely, like their -- Maher' tongue. They -cannot' renietober ,. a ..time - when: it Was nevi:_tOthem.- They come out of the cloud -land of infancy with -the irriPresaioa . . y as a I:the in - en looks ;' who •berg ho pon the good fortune of others; who s and groans -when his partner leads, as were being drawn out of his head of a card outof his hand; who a those around for sympathy whe treated,,and who, even when Vieth sults his -luck by ironically remark last I have won r . , . The Prince and Ills Workt -A- Correspondent .. tells the I of "Prinde Bismarck : ' One day (" 1616, 'think) the Chancellor Went I1 ride along the boundary of. his V tate.. To his, great sutprise•he sp. it Was-Sunda,y, a numbeaof men in the fields. with hoe and spade: filen - ,ere - these?' he asked 1 -Op.:seer.- . :4' Our -.laborers, your b was the . replyar..- 'we eanno there. inathe six week days, .and .n -mast Fork their own fields on, The prince rode home, and.ther diately wrote a note to all the ove his estOtesto'the effect that -die tion of the laborers' fields :shoul precede that of his own, but that he would not permitany work to on .Sonday. • The result was that ters did- what 'wee' neCessary for t fields in two or three r --clays, and t cheerfully- tei. work on those of th so that the -head overseer was -Soo report that never before had the been done so quickly. . ' ' a tooth instea,d eats to_ cruelly ous, in - hg, • At t 1. 'I t. z t b g „. S b n. lowing vas i21t fair a in ea- theugh 'work What f.. his slime W - they und.ay.' lama: petsuitiv- of l'alWaYS futue ef done it. own weat- prinee, able -to lel. work en e refgionlichas been .visiting. I TOL lie1 pa and the other delegates are re- • tg from -the Hon, S. C Wood,, in his pt ity of lqiuister Of Agraculture, bvery in the prosecution of their au- inir es, and their report, 'allich .will be 'Jok 1 fOr withintereatacan hardly fail to rov instrumental in sending us the class f ir anigrants we- Most desire. Taxation of Church Propel:If. al ta agorous defence of the pripciple of pting ehurch-pkoperty front taxation de -by the:Rev:Dr .Pitzer in the North •ican Review for -October. The total. -.of this kind of property in the :United eareturnedby the census:- of • 1670, aa ?lin round numbers,: 6350,006,000. Of hiS araolint the Methodists- held- 670,000, 00; the Roniap Catholics 660,000,000, the re byteriams- 147;000,000; the Baptists 40, "lQ0,000; the Episcopaliona, 1536,000,000, he -"ongregationOliats 6253000,000, and the tit -wrens -614;000-„00.0. The rest wasdi, among smaller bodieS.. .The right nd. -ewer of -the State, to. exempt 'church ro art3r from taxation -cannot be denied. VIt le:there is raubla .difference - of opinion ,ito the policy 'of'. doing so the. ri ' r cited asserts that not cinly in this ou try has aneh property '.always.- beeii xe i'cir;t from taxation, hot that :.no nation; h paverits forma goverrollent bt religion, ei*er taxed property - held ;and used:for oses of -religious Worship. • The prin- ip 4 of exemption in this ease, he argues, s t le same -as in the. ease of property used for urPoses of education, reformation'.or cli:tity. The Church is at once an eduba-. tio ti, -a •reforniatory . and ia-choOtable ins tution: By repressing. crime, reform- ing men and making' society better, it re ces taxation to an extent pot Jess than of its °Wu exemption. In this -way it ectly beats -its part of public. burdens.. onsidering this Aspeet." of the ques- Dr. Pitaer admits that the Church in -its -met:abets aiid ministers, has "elied sotne - of rthe Most nOtorious ex les of criminality! But -the number; he Itsaureaus, is Small. Of 60,009 persons were tried and convietadof prig:le-re-St onlk 1 -57th -of I per. cent.: were isters- a the gosel. _The ,writer Of the. 09 ur in In tio bo fur .e 1211 th pr tio Ir pu be axetapt fro.m -----------toxaur-p'property- de `toted to bliainess, uses, held lot:specula-. tie :or Pot used directly -. for religious par- S,:ahotild be taxed -in the Setae manner th American article does not deny. that e is - mach room: fora Moire: in this. that drankennesa. -is .- one of -:tho _nor al. ter, •• In his -opifiroti the • amount'. of- sleep. of .-.man,a like hunger.- a Oke : sleep. . Punishment for -mere drunkenness, erty to be raid by: a; religious corpora- unabcOmpanita by ..Vielence, must SOeni. should bo?limited by law, and only. erty: actually and .exClusively used strange to :thorn, one , of th.e. enact:Manta which separates them 'front the superior a oses of public religious warship. should -claases, from WIIOM COME from- them,1 as from a aiirt of Providence both- good • and evil.—October Atlantic. •' - - - ' • ity's tomiorihigLit .A C: 11.1 lie -cc ircil er sont bet s to the ' conutry, and geftet a nxiety has.rcceived. this lette Vete' all right and I forgot to writ it is a very mice plece to have fun ler and :I Went mat in O boat and tipped ever and 4 man got me . o, was so full. of Water I didn't knp" for,alongwhile. The other boy I be buried after they find hiin. 11 coraeafrom.Chelsea and. she cri tittle, A hose kicked me oyer a gpt• to have some Money to. pay -t for fikin' thy head. We are going old barn on fire to night, and smile ifwedon't have :bully fp my watch- owl - am very sorry briiri home some nivatnrkles bring home a tame iv6O thlick if em ininy.trunka • -- THE CANADA PACIFIC. An Announcement by the Fire- . miter at Montreal. AL MONTRE, bept. 27.—This afternoon quite a large and excited gathering of Sir John Macdonald's followers assembled at Ildillielaga depot to welcome their chief - upon his way to Ottawa. There had. been placed on the track numerous' torpedoes, which were exploded as a sort of salute to Sir John, and upon his arrival Mr. A. A. Ogilvie called fer three cheers; which vvere given with a will. Mr. Clia,pleau accom- panied.Sir John, and after the formalities had been -indulged in, Mr. Natitel presented from the Club Cartier a; complimentary and congratolatory address, to which Sir John replied as follows: • GsuaraamEN,a--Allow me to return my most sincere thanks for this address. It is especially gratifying to me to receive this greeting from the younagraen of Canada.- I am an old rcia)a myself, and cannot hope to see the culmination and completion of thereat enterprise on which I have been engaged. Yoti, gentlemen, in cominon with - the rest of th p young men of Canada, can have that pleOsure; and I may say that pro- fit. I trust that I shall be able to look from another, and I hope a. , and see the young people of ub travelling atross the emi- rate �f twenty-five miles all ontreal to the Pacifie. (Ap down .on yo better, spher the Cartier tinent at th hout from planse and laughter.). I am also pleased to know that . the country has been BO d and interested in the out labors, and that such ults as have been pub - met with the approval ,because I have not been able closely the publid press of . I am 'also glad. to know men 'politically opposed to ho are Still patriots, and Will - lie with us in what isbest for . -The question Shadld be all b eek befm. A f! lie be t and nothi ts got naoth all t I ha ,doot o.sbt slien I sh; I s.11 4 can ay :of Ot• e; 31 - at n' to er he ve or 011 dd. )St all 531 get much plea, progress of of the re lithed bay of the public to follow vet the Domini that there a myself, but, ing to join is tile eountry. lifted far bearoad the .elenaents of party strife. I have great pleasure iu telling yon, gentleraen=;ghough . I cannot go into the Matter fullyt1 because- I em . merely the agent of th 's* Gevernbr-in-Comacil, sent to Great' Britani along with one or two of iny. Colleagqs, and must subrait the ar- rangOnent 0 have made . for the approval or rejectionfof the Parliament of the coun- try—at . thvo haye, made eta good arrange - went with ti.jouniber of capitalists, not alone. in l'England, ' but in Germany, -Ftionce, th4ATnitecl States and Canada. • Re I haveSide a combinationOf forces Whieb will i�t only be .quite sufficient to build the road, but.;will have additional in- fluence to ttirlathe great current of German emigration: 1.from the United States to Canada. - (41lieets.) We have . received se-' - purity in 40.1ey—satisfactoty security— Bak thepro - t construction and running of; ; the Food La: which will cheers.) fertile' disti not that th - I 4 . *Hoer part An English military writ The Germans carry one s all spade four men, and large spades in t tion of 25 per Oat, of the small sidea,10 per cent: of pickaxes. ttions paid Rut,sians late ..provi troops with tv .des in the pro ohe every- men: and th have •adopted the:principle of ca trenching tools, though we are certain of. the. proportion deci The question of carrying entrenc was referred to an English com ago„ but as it required somethan years for a conataittee to decide censtitutionof an English army May perhaps see q. huge Europe on uabefote the authorities ca their Mind upon this new but si4 ther property, a • ' 5. he faster a train is going the longer the once is in which it can he .lirought to it In experiments. made in England, • Westinghouse brake stopped a -train virig - at --the -.rate .of forty-one and fare- -4ths mile an hour ata point only,40 feet tont from _the Place where the brake was lied, but when the speed vas increased ixty-one milesenhout the distance tun af ,er the application of the brake was. 5 feet, and w -hen the speed of the train Is -increased to siXtyaseyen miles pit 'hour distance traversed alter the application Ithe brake waa. 2005 feet'. - Similar re- ts were Obtained when the -other brakes w e used. i - " . , North Carolina planned to hten his wife by a, sham attempt •at s cide. }leaves to very gently hang hisn- f, and it friend was to -cut him.d9Wo; _bat t friend was not prompt, and the plotter w s choked to death. 1, of fr our or five gentlemen from Buffeloiand fl at Queenston'on Saturday afternoon, is keOpiiig store in the same locality; . fton caught hearly eighteen hun red now a Pet:talkie:Ottawa Bo,' Became a r• . • -0, . In. the House of Commons, asked the, representativeofthe E Conn:I:as-shiners whether it w that on one of the commiasione • of 2,000 acres there 1911-14 :no co _that in this parish ten persona rooni. The answer showed th been se While -the Dean. and to every_ proper - plea; be he:Ans hag the# Maim of French ling et quite bd upon: ing tools ttee ogee like ten 'upon the; corps We war ups, pirillet*qeneusP; Ir: Mank lesiastical the l'.a4 .esfaei age, And ept a this had aPter. -of ,f.,eUyeers after ite completion, • e tWenty years hence. (Lona. - e have -made an arrangement, - bed: shall be built through :a tet, and left untouched in the but that it shall be con- btilieted av , ther through wilder -fertile district. (Aitlauee.)...We have maje an arratigemeOhy which the land willie put *poi:I.-the narket and soldatonce,by which: means thert shall be a continuance of sys7. teMatio eni&ation to the -Northwest: W� .tavk s6Cuita . the . running of it for -ten yearsaltert ill built, and When I tell you. • ; that • when the road is. finished it will hotl bosttli.? Country a bit more than the arrangemellt Would that I 'made with Sir Hugh-Allakin 1873, you will, I am certain, rejoice 'witfiii, Me. • (Loud, and prolonged. cheers). SU. Mackenzie said that Sir , Iiih couariot build the road for thirty mi ion dogars, but Lbelieve that when the ealeulatiOnfec,mes to be 'made of the cost - of ilie roadrit will be ' found to have been built even Olieeper than it Could have been ,a underthatiatrangement. We have Made . an arrangtiat by which the read is tele bnilt ; we li Ve caused ft, desire on the•part 'of settlersf 0,emigrate to Canada; and the road will be built without _coifing one cent - to the peoPle: Of Canada. - :(Cheers.) One - gentlemautii England,from the slinple desire to help CaiWiti,wiShes to secure 64,000 acres of liana- Wider the shadow -of. the Rocky Mountains, . saying, ' 'I will have :my _son _ settle upol that 'property.' That gentle - 'roan is Mr .Thonias .BraSsey; and I have accepted ItiO offer, subject, of course, to the apProvaldthe Governokin-Couneil. That is merely „ries simple example Of the fever inFrtglang now to settle in our country. 1 believe have dime Our work sude,ess- fay, and That the whole country must re- joice; but4 must tell you as it party man that we n17.0 with great opposition iir Eng- land. . I 411 not go into a houseoier dial. address rOself ta'a man who had not in his 'possegsion _Mr. Blake's speech in the. Parliament last session. in printed form. These weSe sent over to -them to defeat our ichenite.; They . were put 'under my wise w. hereVer I went; - but thanks' to - .- the strotik: ;,gooa..sense of the people of England; and to My persnasiveitess-- (laughter*We Were able; to . defeat all conabinatipha—I may say not Only combi7 natiens; kit Conspiracies -4o fight down all oppositioni :end to succeed. (Applause.) We have Made the arrangethent 'a contract .. firm.' The contract will be carried out,the railway will go on. whether Parliament • meets 'WI, 'November. or 'February. The railway Will go on all the same, and we will trust to Parliament and the country td sus-: _tam us iniour course.. The contractors are Men of means, Millionaires capable of building 14 dozen 'irailways. ' They are quitewilling to take the risk of going on at once, .andithey Will do so. . (Loud and pro: 'OTTAWA; Se.pt. 2a. --There is at *present Ottawa, 012 a visit to his mother, a. Man named Ryan, 'who. left . this city twelve 3 ears'ago a penniless boy, but who is" now worth over six' millions of: dollars He made his moiaey Mining .Utah, Yes- terday he purchased the residence of John. -Hill, at the ,Rideau -bank, $7,500, and when ; it is furnished present _ it to 'his Mother, .wha sides on Church street. Mr. Ryan's' tory reds like a romance: Hewes the son of a farmer near Pembroke, and when he left.for California it is 'said that his father had:to sell a cow for the purpose Of Bemir- ing the needful._ He -eggaged with a farmer in Utah, and took a portion of the latter's landinpayrnent, for his wages. When pros-- ings for a sumptuous ethtio tooting for a site op which to conimence building operations he is said to have dis- covered gold.. A company was formed and Mr.. Ryanbecarhejmnierisely wealthy. In Company with another brother he is now working two Mines, while a third brother • Norwich held the property, ithich had but recently come into the hafds Of the fic -commissioner.--- It was only a f it saMpre of dean and Chipters'eata.tes. one were ' m worae p i A ' . . rght ' - • ' : London Truth records the fol Owing rue si story as a Solemn, warning to ;Vera- ot en• itertainments: -, A. hostess SVRE ately sur- prised at the early helix. her , t 'onse, was cleared andtiresuddenness- of . er gwits' departures. It was ultirnatelAdiscoitired that the servants haamixed th5- dup,!,-not with soda or seltzer,but with se e mineral water of strong medicinal Hence the, extraordinary -sens :Which every . one was seize Several of the Men were laid u Mr for' will- rehis- - The Fiji Isranderi, who, -up afro, when England adopted cennibals, and indulged . in tradbra, with Cold paissionary tions proper iiett . for -days. o six years hem, were fridasSeed 'it the Side- board, have become so civilize that :they wear. clean Shirts on -Bunday,_:iing hyMns; aox Christian. What with , cocoanuts, andcat yams endbeefetteak littnny cocoanut -fibre i cotton Sugar, *id . coffee, to .e4ort, and a luxuriant poll R10- -greW all these pat:dila§ in, the colonYo ght to laaVo , a grand future. • - • 4 - - --Excavations for drainage in irencestor, England; opposite the old.-eluilieh, • aro :re, vealing large Masses and corgi 'of ancient walling, and a great amount o 'Roman and: inediieval relies -chiefly coins SirTrederiek Leighton has 'ode _draw - of George published 'ted Roniela,' which will hi' October. -1The ethtiox 19 thousand copies: It is a cause of complaint but one magistrate between and Erin millage,-in the count ton 0:distant° of thirteen m' • hat there is GeohetoWn Of Welling - es.' ledgea cheers') • • 1,11ere Mr. CoUrsol called out for three ems for Sir John, and these having been given, Firi Gault, M. P., thanked Sir Joh-. iii the name the whole -Dominion. lie sas pleti'sed beyond naeasure to heez.the -a suranct giVen of the success of the mis- , • larEnir J44;11 then' went on heard the -Irak and was accompanied by Mr. DeCosmos, Mr. Chableau and others, en, -route to Ottawa. Tearti&lers May 1)e interested in know- ing that an investigation by an analytical iemistAt Phicago, Of eighteen samples of tea,reituked in finding only two really for use: ja.i. The simples were procured from differenVAeading houses. Some were mixed, • With leaies,-:some were sanded and adul- terated a variety of mineral sub- - stances ; a B011te Were more or lfaikooui- ulotely n ": -4 a 4 "‘"ss,