The Advocate, 1887-09-29, Page 2THE QUEEN'S SEEE011.
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Burnuth, Egypt, Ireland, the Colonies, the
Fisheries, Commercial Dein-138810n and
the Jubilee Touched Upou.
A last (Friday) night's London cable
gives the remainder of the Queen's Speech
as follows : The treaty between Great
Britain and China, with reference to the
relations between China and Bunnell, has
been ratified. The confident hope I ex-
pressed that a general pacification of Bur-
mah would be effected during the present
year has been fully realized. A settled
government is beinggradually introduced
in its remoter districts. The convention
which was concluded between Turkey and
myself for the purpose of defining the con-
ditiona under which it would be possible
for me to undertake the withdrawal of my
troops from Egypt at a fixed date has • not
been ratified by the Sultan. The course of
action imposed upon me by my obliga-
tions to the ruler of the people of Egypt
remains unchanged. The presence of my
forces has secured to Egypt the blessing
of tranquility, and has enabled me to
effectually support the Khedive's efforts to
promote good government and the pros-
perity of his people. I have agreed with
the President of the United States to
refer to a joint COMmission the
difficult questions respecting the North
American fisheries which have recently
been discussed by the two nations.
With singular satisfaxtion I mention the
assemblage of the first conference of repre-
aentatives of my colonies ever held in Lon-
don. Their deliberations, directed to many
matters of deep practical interest to their
respeCtive communities and conducted in a
spirit of hearty co-operation, will, I doubt
not, add strength to the affection by which
the various parts of my Empire are bound
together. The Queen thanks the House of
Commons for the liberal provision for the
pnblio services, and continues, there is
some ground for hoping that the grave
depression under which all commercial and
industrial interests have so long suffered is
assuming a less severe character. I
deeply grieve to add that there is no miti-
gation of the suffering under which large
portions of the agricultural com-
munity continue to labor. The wants
and difficulties of Ireland have
occupied your close attention during a
protracted session.. I trust the remedies
your wisdom has provided will gradually
effect a complete restoration of order in
Ireland and give renewed encourage-
ment to peaceful industry. In
order to pass them it has been
necessary to postpone many - important
measures affecting other parts of the king-
dom, which, doubtless, you will be able to
resume witholit hindrance at the coming
session. After reference to allotments,
coal mines, merchandise marks and crimi-
nal procedure in Scotland Act, the Queen
concludes : This year, the 50th anniversary
of my reign, has been the occasion of the
expression of fervent loyalty, which has
deeply touched me. I am indeed truly
thankful for. the warm, hearty proofs of
affection which have reached me from all
classes. In thanking God for the blessings
He has vouchsafed me and my country, I
trust I may be spared to continue to reign
over a loving, faithful and united people.
The Queen's speech in January last
specified fifteen measures, the passing of
which was deemed necessary to the pros-
perity of the country. Out of the fifteen
six have passed and become law, viz., the
Irish Crimes Bill, the Irish Land Bill, the
Allotment Bill, and three other measures
peculiar to Scotland. Nothing particular
bas been done for England, and everybody
seems very glad to have been let alone so
severely. Parliament has sat for a period
of thirty-three weeks and has lost by death
five members, and by elevation or succes-
sion to the peerage, eight, while twenty-five
new members were -introduced during the
session.
A. FATAL SALUTE.
Tragedy at the Ste. AnneBeaupre Festivi-
ties by the Bursting of an Old Cannon.
A Quebec despatch says: The news of
a terrible accident, through an explosion
of a cannon, has just reached the city from
St. Anne, growing out of the ceremonies
at the coronation and blessing of the
statue of St. Anne. His Eminence Cardi-
nal Taschereau, nearly all the bishops of
the Province, 300 clergy and about 10,000
people assisted at the ceremony, The
little village was en fete, and to add to
the success of the demonslration three
casanons, which had been ornaments in the
at,Beauport Asylum for years, were
shipped to St. Anne for the purpose of
firing a salute on the arrival and departure
of the 'Prince of the Church. Everything
went well until the boat conveying His
Eminence was leaving the wharf, when the
villagers again went to fire off the guns.
One of them exploded and large pieces of
metal were blown in all directions. Orie
report stated that three men were killed
outright, while a second report says that
only two men named Bilodes.0 and Sylvain
were probably fatally injured, and a boy,
name unknown, was picked up in alt
unconscious state and has remained so
ever since. It is saidthe cause of the
explosion was the age and used -up condi-
tion of the guns, and the fact that they
had not been sponged although used in
firing volley after volley all day. As there
is no telegraphic connection with St. Anne,
the exact details of the injuries to the
victims cannot be learned until to -morrow.
A Muscular Christian.
Wednesday forenoon as Rev, Mr. Shorey,
of the Sherbourne Street Methodist Church,
Toronto, was walking from his residence on
Carlton towards Sherboornestteets a horse
and buggy minus a driyer dashed past him,
going west. In a moment the keVgentle-
man was running after the runaway, which
he overtook. He seized hold of the top of
the buggy, which Was down, And while
ranning and holding On to the buggy passed
along to the tide and seized the reins and
Stepped the horse, got into the buggy and
turned to go eastward, meeting, On Bleeker
street the coachman from whom the horse
had escaped on 13lee er street.
William Hamilton.' recently arrived from
England, was robbedof .ft gold watch and
chain, worth about $125, while in a hotel
on Chaboillez square, Montreal, on Thurcis
day evening. Dolphus (Jelin and Felix
Verest were sent tip for trial on the charge
of having geminated the theft:
VS. MOONLIWITERS.
Fartinulars Or the Affray In Which consta-
ble Whelehan Lost His Life.
4 Dublin cable .says: Details •of the
murder of Coiastable Whelehan by moon-
lighters at Lisdoonvarne on Sunday night
have reached the city. The police, having
learned that a party of moonlighters would
visit the house of a farmer named Sexton,
made arrangements for their capture. Con-
stable Whelehan, accompanied by a dozen
other officers, went to the place designated.
Five of the force were placed in Sexton's
house and the others in a shed nearby,
while Whelehan himself acted as sentinel
in front of the house.
When the moonlighters appeared on the
scene the door of the house was opened and
three of them rushed in with loaded rifles
in their hands. They were in the act of
searching Sexton when the police secreted
in an adjoining room rushed out and a
fierce encounter ensued. Two moonlighters
who, among others, had been left outside
now tried to make their escape, but the
police placed in the shed prevented this
and drove them into the house.
While the tight was proceeding in the
house two other outlaws attacked Constable
Whelehan on the outside. Policenaan
Connell ran to Whelehan's assistance, but
was immediately knocked down by a blow
from a clubbed rifle and rendered in-
sensible. WhelehanWaS quickly despatched,
and the body, witla a loaded revolver lying
alongside, was afterwards found some dis-
tance from the scene of the murder and
removed to Sexton's house. Connell was
also carried to the house, and at last
accounts was recovering.
Whelehan was a highly esteemed officer.
He had been twenty-two years in the
service. He was detailed to attend the
Prince of Wales during the latter's visit to
Ireland'. The Prince at the time presented
him with a souvenir in the shape of a gold
pencil case.
Two of the moonlighters taken into cus-
tody are sons of well-to-do farmers, and
the others are laborers. All of them—ten
in number—were taken to Galway and
placed in jail to -night. A crowd had
assembled on their arrival, but no
sympathy was manifested for them.
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It s stated that the leader in the attack
on Whelehan has turned Queen's evidence.
SNOWSTORM IN THE ALPS.
The Empress of Austria Almost Lost Dur-
ing a Mountain Ascent.
A London cable says: The Empress of
Austria had a somewhat unpleasant experi-
ence recently. The Empress is almost as
ardent a mountaineer as she was a horse-
woman, and during her stay at Ischl went
in for a great deal of mountain climbing.
One day she made the assent of the Geth-
feld, and, according to her usual custom,
took with her but a small posse 'of attend-
ants. When half way up a snowstorm
came on, and the Empress and her party
were at that moment going along a narrow
path a little better than a mere ledge,
which wound round the face of the moun-
tain. To advance was impossible and to
•return was equally dangerous. So the
Empress had to cling to the face of the
precipice in the blinding snowstorm, for
the space of more than an hour. At the
expiration of that time the storm abated,
and an attempt was made to descend. A
relief party, which had been sent up from
Ischl, when once the position of affairs
became known, finally rescued the Im-
perial party, and the Empress met with an
ovation on her return to her villa after
her dangerous experience of Alpine moun-
taineering
A New Explosive.
A London cable says: It is reported
that the Russian Minister of War has just
concluded a series of experiments with a
new explosive compound which bids fair
to outdo the mialities of melinite, robusite
and all other explosives whatever in its
application to , present uses . of gun-
powder. This new composition is destined,
say many persons, to revolutionize the
existing system of ammunitions! It is the
discovery of a Russion engineer, and has
been christened Sleetova. Its strength is,
equal to that of' proxyline, and it has the
immense advantage of being ten times
cheaper than the ordinary villainous salt-
petre. Another great superiority which it
possesses over all known motives of the
dynamite clasa, is that when fired its force
does not strike downward, but entirely in
a forward direction, so that it can be used
for all purposes of cannon and musket
charges to which ordinary gunpowder is
now applied without any damage whatever
to the weapon from which it is 'discharged.
It is stated, in fact, that ball cartridges
loaded with it have been fired out of card-
board gun barrels, as a test, without the
least injury to the latter. So satisfactory,
indeed, have been experiments that it is
reported that the Minister df War is about
to have a special factory built for its
manufacture. The composition of the new
compound is a, profound secret.
His First Wife Has Her Revenge.
An Erie, Pa., dispatch says: Wililam
Wettrne, of Penzance, Cornwall, came to
America fifteen years age, leaving a young
wife and three children in the old country.
He located in Erie three years ago, went
into the marble business and made money.
He was married last Christmas eve to an
accomplished young lady several years his
junior. He was influential in the society of
the*Sons of St. George, and his public wed-
ding was brilliantly celebrated. Last June
the English wife and daughter arrived in
this city and Wettrne was arrested. His
trial occurred to -clay on a charge of bigamy.
The defendant swore the English woman
was neverlie wife. She was in court and
fainted at the declaration. The jury was
out drily fifteen minutes and returned a
verdict of guilty. One thousand people at-
tended the trial, and the result was cabled
td Mrs. Wearne'a friends in England. The
defendant will go to the penitentiary.
Edward Carbefry, while working in the
Don River' improvement works, Toronto,
last night, was seriously, if not fatally,
=pared by a mails of earth at least two tong
in weight falling upon him. His condition
is critical.
,The total loss of the San Francisco
wheat cornererg is now put down at about
$7,500,000.
A heavy frost occurred throughout the
Mohawk 'Valley, New York, on Friday
night, levelling all kinds of vegetation.
LOST IN THE ABOTIO SEA.
Terrible Tale of Suffering by the Solitary
Survivor of a Wreaked Crew.
A. Victoria, B. C., deanat.ell says: Capt.
Warren, of the 80)190/len Owner, arrived
from Sidra yesterday. He stated that by
the cutter Rush there strived a sailor in
Sake who is the only survivor of the
svhaling schooner Napoleon, which was
wrecked in the Arctic two years ago. He
tells a terrible tale of suffering. The vessel
got crushed in the lee, the crew haying to
take to their boats, and the man who
arrived in Sitka was one of the eighteen
who were on the ice for thirty days.
During this time his seventeen companions
died from starvation. He was picked up
by some Esquiraaux, and lived among
them until the trip of the Bear into the
Arctic, when he was found among his pro-
tectors. The cutter brought him down
and connected with the Rush in the Beh-
ring Sea, the latter bringing him to Sitka.
Latest from the Northwest.
Messrs. Trow and Paterson, Liberal
M.P.'s, left Victoria for the east on Friday.
They will stop off at a number of places
along the line on their return journey.
The roof of the Immaculate Conception
Church blew off with the high winds pre-
vailing last night.
The funeral of the late Archdeacon
Cowley took place this morning to St.
John's Cathedral and was largely attended.
The Bishop of Rupert's Land delivered
the sermon, after which the remains were
taken to Dynevor for interment.
It appears the reduction announced in
wheat rates by the C. P. R. yesterday does
not apply to Manitoba, but is a similar re-
duction in the grain tariff east of Port
Arthur to that made on the western divi-
sion last week, viz., three cents per bushel
or about five cents a clundred.
A correspondent, writing frora Banff on
the 12th inst., says: "Lady 'Macdonald,
accompanied by Miss Macpherson'arrived
here on Thursday morning. Most of
Thursday she spent with her daughter,
whom she was very much grati-
fied to find very much improved in
health from the sojourn at the springs.
On Friday morning she went on
a handcar to Anthracite, and on her return
rode to Devil's Lake, where she was
charmed with the scenery. On Saturday,
accompanied by her daughter and Miss
Cox, Miss Macdonald's companion, and
Miss Macpherson, Lady Macdonald started
for the Pacific coast with her car attached
to a freight train, as she wished to travel
through the mountains in daylight."
The fall race meeting is now taking
place. The horses entered are mostly local.
Bishop Latleche, of Three Rivers, an old
Northwest missionary, and a large party of
Quebec priests, arrived to -day tosattend the
consecration of St. Boniface Cathedral on
Sunday. They are the guests of St. Boni-
face citizens. The visit of the clergy will
have much weight, it is hoped, in inducing
French Canadians to settle in this country
instead of going to the United States.
Nothing of importance was adduced at
to-day'assitting of the Court on the Brown-
ing injunction. Mr. Munson, for the con-
tractors, will enter upon his argument to-
morrow morning.
Latest from Ireland.
Profeasor Baldwin a well-known. autho-
rity on agriculture, died on the 31st ult. in
Dublin.
The Gordon Highlanders have arrived at
Belfast to relieve the 71st Highland Light
Infantry, Who have been stationed there
since 1885. „
One hundred and twenty-one members of
the House of Lords own land in Ireland,
which is valued, according to the Poor Law
valuation, at £1,842,633 per annum.
John Reilly has been sentenced at Gran-
ard Petty Sessions, under the Crimes Act,
to three months' hard labor for throwing
lime on a bailiff anda policeman at Cool-
doneydsd
"'file self-styled Rev. Dr. Keating, who
was sentenced in Dublin to eighteen
months' imprisonment for obtaining money
under false pretences, wasliberated on the
1st inst.civing to ill -health. He goes to
Australia..
An extraordinarY fatality , occurred" on
the lat inst. at Kilkee; on the west coast of
County Clare. Three young ladies were
on the rocks reading, when a huge tidal
*aye suddenlybroke overthem and washed
them away. One young lady saved herself
by clinging to the rocks, and another was
rescued, but the third was swept out to sea
and drowned.
In Ireland during the present year 1,562,-
164 acres were planted with cereal crops,
being a:decrease, as compared with last
year, of 28,000 acres. On the other hand,
there has been an increase of 7,434 acres
under green crops and 2,312 under flax,
making the net acreage under tillage 18,794.
In meadow and clover under cultivation
there has been an increase of 49,329: Thus,
in the extent of land sinder crops of all
kinds, there has been since last year an in-
crease of 30,535 acres.
Advises from Zanzibar have been receiv-
ed to the effect that the messengers sent by
the conauls to apprise Emin Bey that the
expedition under Henry M. Stanley had
been sent to his relief have returned. They
state that they reached Lake Albert
Nyanza', where they met Eosin Bey return-
ing fro@ an expedition to the Usungora
country. Brain Bey was greatly surprised
at the aear approach of the expedition, and
warnedl his troops occupying posts on the
westeni shores of the lake of the approach
of Stanley. Emin Bey then returned to
Adelai to await the arrival of the expedition.
The messengerg report that a fierce war
has been waged between the King Of Ugan-
da and the people ofitinyoro, in which the
forrnei was defeated. The country between
take Albert Nyanza and Lake Maritanzige
has been devastated by the belligerents,
and /Image is difficult.
Hon. Joseph Cilbcy, the oldest United
StatesiSenittOr and veteran of the war Of
1812, died at Nottingham, N.H., on Friday,
aged. 0.
Mak Skinner, of Chicago, whirs, as Pre.
sided of the Sanitary Commission, cola
lectedjand distributed 6500,000 to sick and
wounded soldiers during the civil war, died
on Friday night at Manchester, 'Vermont,
aged /6. Ete had been in feeble health for
some time. An estate of $1,000,000 is left
by hina JO his daughters.
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How to Do Ever Sa Many /19110Pwl4!Y.
Patios -
Grape -water Ice.—Grape-water ice is in
season, and is delicious. Take the itlieS Of
1011r heinous, half a pint of water, one pint
of sugar, two glasses of grape juice; mix
these well, strain and freeze.
French Mustard. ---Slice an onion in a
bowl and cover with good vinegar; after
two days pour off the vinegar, add to it a
teaspoonful of cayenne pepper, it teaspoon-
ful of salt, a tablespoonful of sugar, and
mustard enough to thicken; set on a stove
until it boils. When cold it is fit for use,
PuddingSauce,—Arrow-root sauce for
bread or rice =tidings is made of two tea-
spoonfuls of -arrow-root, the juice of one
lemon, a little grated nutmeg, half a pint
of water, and sugar to the taste. Wet the
arrow -root with the water, eta it until it is
smooth, add the other ingredients and let
it all come to a boil.
Peach Cake. — Bake three sheets of
sponge cake as for jelly cake; cut nice ripe
peaches in thin slices ; prepare cream by
whipping, sweetening and adding flavor of
vanilla, if desired ; put layers of peaches
between the sheets of cake; pour cream
over each layer and over the top. To be
eaten SOOLI after it is prepared.
Pickled Cucumbers. ---Make choice of
those vshicla are small and not too old; put
them into jars and pour over them a brine
made of two-thirds of water and one of
vinegar, with salt in the proportion of a
pound to three pints of liquid. Put the
brine on the fire till the salt is melted, let
it stand to settle, and before using pour it
off clear. When it is wished to use the
cucumbers take off the rinds and dress
them like fresh cucumbera.
Peach Fritters.—Make a batter of two
well -beaten eggs, half a pint of milk and a
little salt; beat very smooth and light, ahd
then pour in the remainder of the milk and
eggs, to which is added a tablespoonful of
butter or olive oil. Peel and cut the
peaches in halves ; dip them in the batter
and fry them in boiling fat until they are a
delicate brown. Serve on a hot dish and
sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Gold Cake.—One and one-half cups of
auger, two-thirds of a cup of butter, one
cup of sweet milk, three cups of sifted flour,
yolks of six eggs, one even teaspoonful of
soda and three scant teaspoonfuls of cream
tartar. Stir the sugar and butter to a"
cream, add the yolks after beating them
thoroughly, then the cup of sweet milk and
the flour, through ivhich the soda and
cream tartar should previously have been
sifted.
To Can Peaches.—Rub the peaches hard
with a piece of flannel or coarse crash to
remove the rough surface, but do not peel
them. Make a syrup of one cupful of
sugar to one quart of water. When it is
boiling put in the peaches and cook slowly
until they are tender ; then put them into
the cans' and pour over them the hot syrup
and screw on the covers. The flavorof the
peach is retained in a greater degree than
when the skin is removed wholly.
Pickled Peaches.—Make a syrup of two
pounds of sugar to one quart of good vine-
gar. Put into a little muslin bag one table-
spoonful of each kind of spice, tie tightly
and put it into the yinegar and sugar. Pre-
pare the pet‘ches as for canning and cook
them in the syrup until they are tender,
but not too soft; then place them in the
jar and pour over them the hot syrup. ,Put
the spice -bag into the jar with the peaches.
Peach Shortcake.—The cake is made of
one pint of flour, one teaspoonful of baking
powder, one galtspoonful of salt, and two
tablespoonfulssaf sugar passed through a
sieve, and then mixed with four tablespoon-
fuls of butter. When thoroughly mixed
moisten with one teacupful of milk. Bake
in two deep pie plates in a quick oven.
Have the peaches peeled and cut in slices.
As soon, as the cakes are done cut them in
halves, butter them, and arrange the slices
of peaches between the pieces, sprinkling
with sugar. Serve warm with cream.
How to Restore the Rubber Rings of
Cans.—The rubber rings by the use of
which fruit cans are made air -tight, after
being used, become hard and unyielding, so
much so that fruit seldom keeps as well
when they are used tho second time.
Though new ones cost but little, it is not
always convenient to get them. Every one
should know that the elasticity of the old
ones can be restored, and that they can be
made as good as new by baking them a
half hour in a mixture of ammonia and
water --two-thirds emmonia and one-third
water. Try it.
How to Prevent the Breakage of Glass
Jars in Canning.—Now, in fruit -canning
season, the women of the household, to
whom we are so deeply indebted for the
good things we eat, should be told that the
trouble so many of them take in warming
glass oans before putting hot fruit into
them to prevent breaking is ahl needless ;
that, in fact, it results in breaking more
than it saves. By placing the cold can on
a wet rag taken from a dish of cold water
it may be filled with fruit boiling hot with-
out the least danger of breakage. The
only requisite is that the cloth be fully
saturated—and with cold water.
Prepared Pears.—At this time of the
year a good many families have such quan-
tities of ripened pears that they can neither
eat nor profitably dispose of them. A lady
svhb has tried it finds this an excellent use
to make of them : Cut them in thick slices,
stew them, and then, in an open oven, dry
them thoroughly, if it take two days. They
come out all honeyed over with their own
sweetness, and figdike in their substance
and consistency, at once suggesting both
raisins and figs. And they are excellent
eating, far finer than any one would believe
without trying. They will keep, it is said,
a year or two.
The t'renefer (if the St. Maftin & UPhana
Railway to the Central Railway Company,
of New Brunswick, has been sanctioned by
the GoVernor-in-Connoil.
orty-eight colored :men wore arraigned
at Jefferson Market Court, New' York, on
Saturday for gambling.. They, Were all
arrested at the Criterion and daterera'
Club reoins. jtistioe Gorman discharged
thenl, Baying thet they had ag much right
to gainble in their own olidi rooms as the
members of the 'Union League or Matthias
tali ChibEi had in their robing.
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A USEFUL BURGLAR.
It was gt the end of April. The Gor-
hams had gone qut to their country seat at
Penn-Rhyn inueh earlier in the season
than usual, and, as it was intolerably dull
with nothing in the world to do, they ha
asked a dozen people out to spend a week
in all sorts of unconventional frolics. Sally
had three or four charming buds for her
guests, among thilin Madge Palliser; her
brother Jack had brought several willing
victims from the club, and the old Van
Cooyers came to amusespapa and mamma
Gorham and keep the* out of mischief
with an innocent rubber' of whist in the
chimney corner °alights.
Madge was the blithest of the blithe. Alt
the men adored her openly, save and except
Thomas Fotterall, Esq., who never wor-
shipped publicly at her shrine, though he
often watohed her furtively from afar off
with something more than ordinary interest
in his half.shut eyes.
One night Mr. Fotterall had been sitting
beside Madge in the group around the fire,
but only Sally's quick eyes had detectel
the glances they had not infrequently
exchanged. In the bustle attendant upon
separation for the night nobody noticed
how long the gallant Tommy was in handd
ing his charming neighbor her bed -room
candle stick, nor how the rich crimson
flushed not only her cheek, but her throat
and brows, as her fingers lay not unwillingly
in his strong grasp.
Sally flew into the room they occupied
together and was already nestled among
the pillows, when Madge sauntered slowly
in, her eyes dancing and a now expression
on her face that caused Sally to look again
with surprise, and wonder if she were
really growing pretty, after all.
"Come to bed—pray do I" said Miss
Gorham, in it sleepy tone.
"I'm coming," responded Madge, in an
absent way.
But she proceeded, nevertheless, to put
on a wrapper and let down her beautiful
hair, preparatory tobrushing it out and
putting it up for the night.
At last she looked up. Sally was sleep-
ing the sleep of the just, with one dimpled
hand under her cheek, the other lying on
the coverlet. The old Dutch clock on the
landing of the stairs below chimed out a
melodious midnight, and Madge began to
think seriously of bed.
As she glanced up, however, her eyes be-
held a sight which caused every drop of
blood to stand still in her vehas.
In the mirror opposite her she saw the
door of a closet on the other side of the bod.
open slowly and the face of a man peep
slyly out—a bad, brutal, scar -seamed face,
with bloodshot eyes that scanned the scene
with evil accuracy.
They saw the slumbering and unconscious
Sally, the motionless figure of Madge, evi-
dently about to follow her friend's exam-
ple and retire for the night, and the little
heap of rings and pins that glittered on a
table near by. With a grin of hideous sat-
isfaction the face was noiselessly withdrawu.
and the door shut softly to again, while
poor Madge laid a hand upon her heart and
tried to still its wild beating.
What could she do? Wake Sally, who
would be certain to cry ont in a frenzy of
fright and give the wretch a chance to
annihilate them beforcr they could escape?
Fly downstairs to the smoking -room, where
she could hear some of the men, still talk-
ing over their cigars, and abanion Sally to
her fate? She raised her head once more
in despair when, lo! an ideal
Lightly, tremblingly, she rose to herfeet,
lightly crossed the room, and suddenly—
heavens, how the floor creaked !—suddenly
she turned the key in the lock and had her
prisoner safe.
How he swore, and stormed, and beat
against the door, while Sally woke scream-
ing, and the entire household, in a state of
dire alarm, appeared upon the scene. The
men rushed up from the smoking -room and
proceeded to extract the offender from his
impromptu dungeon and to deliver him uver
to the officers of the peace, who were SUM -
mooed by a watchman's rattle, wielded
vigorously out of the window by Mrs. Van
Coover, in a paroxysm of fear.
There was an immense amount of gabble
and explanation going on, unstinted praise
of Madge's courage and presence of mind,
and then a general rendezvous in the hall
below, for sleep was felt to be impossible
after all that had occurred. But on the
way downstairs, on the dusky landing
where the old Dutch clock had stood for
years and told no tales, Mr. Tom Fotterall
and Miss Madge Palliser were detained a
moment or two behind the rest, quite by
chance, of course, and unnoticed by the
others.
The red -brown locks were in a sad state
of tumble; but the pretty pink wrapper
was very becoming, nevertheless, and for
once in her life its wearer was really lovely,
with happy tears in her eyes and the dearest
blush in the world mantling her cheek as
somebody's tender arms went about her
and somebody said, softly:
" At Trinity, the last of May! "
And that WaS all. A very brief moment
of bliss; but the next Sunday a paragraph
appeared in several gossipy journals which
electrified society at large. It sail!:
The engagement is announced of Mr.
Thomas Erquhart Fottera,I1, who is the
only scion of the oldest and moat aristo-
cratic family in Virginia, and Miss Mar-
garet Euphrosyne Palliser, the reigning
belle of the season."
It is surely no wonder that a man who
is on a bender seldom is able to walk
straight.
Henry Riedel, a weaver, murdered his
wife and 9 -year-old son at Wilmington, 4
Del., on Saturday morning and then made
an unsuccessful attempt to take his own
life. Riedel awoke about 1.30 &clock and
said be was seized with a desire to die, and
as he did not want to leave his wife and
°him unprotected ho took up it pistol and
Stele Stealthily into an adjoining room
where they werQ in bed. ° Both were soun&
asleep and he Elliot them through the head,
death resulting instantaneously. Ile then
aimed a bullet at his own head, but it
glanced and made a deep but not dangerous
wOuncl. Riedel is in custody.
At it conference Of Scottish Home Rulers
held yesterday Mrs Findlater, Preaident of
the Scottish Farmers' Alliance, advocated
Home Rule. for Seotland. He openly
declared that the Northern Acommittee
dEmasittee
etn
r
countieg were ripe for ,
was appointed to congicler the question and
bring the matter before Parliament.
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