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THE HURON SIGNAL FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1E90.
SAM PATCH.
waw Jumped tem Deets W AMIat rams
Pawtucket Falb are etiued to • place
i• kiKwy other then by mama of the
early mandataries whisk began by their
side, or the peat variety of waaulao-
tures now earned e. &mood them in the
thriving city whisk been their noise.
At these talk began what may be tolled
the p.bltc career ot • man whose fame
extends all over the country, and who
•van DOW has humble imitator* It suss
at these fails that Sam Patch fleet lesru-
eke bin, sad his Wises stippled. H.
said oat le tie best 'dominos and wait
to Naw Jemmy ie the of betenititg
his .•.dile•. Wail. dire, midden'
bt bi shoat meth.m.vereat1Dn is
wfii he tWM et the bights fames which
he bad jammed at Pawt.eket Fella
His atatawnt was devoted, sed the re -
silt was k. seeds two oe tbree jsaps
these From this pots& data has real
jumpiest carer.
Jas. Marsh Parker, in the history of
Rocbater, gives a sketch of Saes, the
"authority fur which is closely that of
Jusepb Cochrane, who was • clear
beaded lad iu 1629, mud knew Sam Patch
better than any body,else in these parts."
ed how to jump from Brest heights into Sae say. :
the water. "The date ut his arrival at Peterson,
The true scoosat of Sees Patch has N.J., is unknown, but it is said he emu+
sever been written. The sketches of his in oompsny with .0 Eoglisbman named
goats of jumping is New Jersey. at Nis- Entwistle, and became • cotters spinner
gar. Falls,a.d (tsetses Falb teayibe sub- st the Hamilton mills. It was about
•tsntially correct, but uoly the merest 1829 that he wee seized with the jump -
mention hoe been made of his early life. ing mania A bridge had been built at
Some of the cvclopedta say he was burn Paterson. He made he first wonderful
in Rhode Island in 1807, which es true jump from the foot of the bridge on the
neither as to place nor date. Some of southwestern side of the chasm. After
the sketches have oalkd him a sailor, a that he jumped • •sound time tram the
"wharf rat," and such like pet names, bridge, s distance ut eighty ur ninety
and have conveyed the impression that feet, sod rose from the waters of the
be wee anything but what he was. The Passaic hero of the day. He then weut
sketches of his early life have all been about the country jumping from yard
misleading, es well as meatre, and have arms, and bowsprits, diving from the
been allowed to go without coutradic- dizzy heights of topcoats mmol •t:nctsd
tion. to Niagara Falls in 1829 with the cooed
Miss Emily Junes, who, with her sir- who went there to see tbe 1
ter, Mary Junes, (now deed), for year i brig Michigan and its Drew of living ani -
taught school in .bat was ksowo as the ! mals ego over the cataract. Hs jumped
'.0.d Jones school house,' is • Deice of from a shelving rock midway between
Sam Patch and thoroughly conversant the highest point of Gat island and the
with his history up to the time to left water, more than half the height of the
home. She ie highly respected by all who falls, • distance of feet.
knew her, and very many of the present He name rang through the land. Sam
residents of Pawtucket of middle age, as then went to Rochester and give hie
well as many former residents elsewhere, friends • fright by jumping from Fitz
remember with • good Seal (of pleasure begh street bridge, and swimming under
and gratitude the days they passed in water to a biding place.
childhood and youth at the Jones "At daybreak the neat morning Sant
school. The following story of Sam made • raft below the falls, and •soer-
l'atch, so far as it relates to his lite tained with • pole how much water there
then, is in the main as told by her : was in the spot where he intended to
Sam Patch was born in South Reed- jump. Ira seemed perfectly satisfied
ing, Mass. The date of his birth is un- with his , and the next
known, but it must have hare been be- morning early he made • trip to the falls
fon 1807, as be was more than twenty- lone before the town was astir. He was
two years of age at the time of his death accompanied by Joe Cochrane. This
in 1829. He father, Greenleaf Patch, time Sam led the way to the spot from
was • farmer at that place. Sam had which the jump was to be made,. and
two brothers, Greenleaf Patch, jr., who began taking off his clothes in the mo}a
was a lawyer at Salem, Mass., and one I manner, handing his bult e
who went west and became a farmer in eye watch to the boy for safe keeping.
Illinois, near the present city of Chicago. He was going to practice a bit. -Wait
Sam also had two sister, one of whom until I get where I can see you," said the
married Mr Jones and blame the moth- boy. He bad badly time to get into posh-
er of bliss Emtly Jones. Sam's father tion when Sam shot down the height and
died while Sem was a boy. end his moth- disappeared. Theboystood paralyzed with
er moved to Pawtucket. Mrs Patch was far, believing himself to be the eelitary
. I as a little woman, but a spectator of the day -dawn suicide. Then
wcrnan of sterling qualities, a member Sam's voice rang out above the roar of
of the first Baptist church, and • woman the Falls, as the boy was running away,
te be relied upon always. 'Say, boy, where are you going with my
When • boy Sam worked in the mill watch And there the daring man was
on the east side of the river, just above fr.Iicing like a dulphin in the water.
the falls, which was run by Samuel When he emerged from the water he
Slater add others. Like his companions was welcomed by • crowd which had
in this mill and other mills be was fond gathered. and he was earriel up the
of the water, and bathing was an amuse- steep bank.'
ment often practised. The raver at the The story of Sam's last teat was racily
foot of the Falls is of very arrest depth, told fifty year afterwards by a pnuter
especially on the tut side, and it. coin- who saw his fatal jump. He says:
mut amusement not only sixty years "The success of the leaps at Niagara
ago, bnt until very recently, for boys, gave Sam • sporting notoriety, and he
and men, too, for that matter, to jump was invited by that fraternity to Rocbes-
frtm the top rail of the bridge into the ter, who tock charge of him. The Gene -
river. But the boys could not long be see Fall, at Rcchester, is nanety-live feet
content with the jump. After making in hetgh:, and it was announced that he
it • few time* they figuratively turned would leap from the precipice into the
up their noses at it and sought some- river below. A large crowd assembled,
thing higher. In the days of Sam and Patch appeared, leading his bear.
Patch the old Yellow mill, now the paper Hata were passed around to collect mein•
mill at the east end of the bridge, was ey for 'tbe poor fellow.' About one o'•
two stories lower than at the present clock on the llth of November Sam step -
time. A few of the more venturesome ped to the edge of a ruck overhanging
jumped from the peak of the roof of this the river,and dragging the bear after him
mill, a distance of nearly one hundred soddenly jerked it from the rock. The
feet, but their Bomber was not so great poor animal whirled in the sir, and,
as that of these who jumped from the reachining the water, sank, but soon
bridge. Jenks Maxwell and Gardner swam ashore, and was aught fir further
liucklin were among the first to jump, torture. Then Sam Patch, with a gay
and many others, including Sam Patch, handkerchief twisted about his heed, and
followed their daring example, and in shirt and trousers, bowed all
even after the mill was raised up one •roped to the spectators, leaped
story this same Mr iluckiin made the clear of the rock, spread his arms,
jump. Next to the Yellow mull was holding his feet together, and bending
the old stone mill, which in its early backward, he fell rapidly to the water,
days had a flat roof. This roof was which he struck feet foremost, having
somewhat higher than the roof of suddenly thrown his arms down close to
the Yellow mill, and the jump hie body. He reappeared on the sur -
from there was more perilous, as it was face of the river some rods below, and he
necessary to make a running jump in gayly pushed away the bet chat was
order to reach deep water, this mill be- ready to take him in and swam ashore
ing further down the river. As Sams This fest was so successful that the
ambition grew upon him la* was not sporting fraternity decided upon another
satisfied with jumping from the Yellow exhibition. They built $ scaffold upon
mill but climbed to the roof of the stone the rock twenty-five feet high, so that
mill and jumped from there. This the leap would he 120 feet. The day
jump was made by Samuel and Columbia was • week later Nov. 13), and a stall
Toone and others, but only a few. larger crowd assembled. Sam I'atch
h hen the pitched roof was put on the climbed to his perch and threw off the
stone mill that put a stop to this sort of bear, which happily escaped from the
fun. river as before, and again poor Patch.
Steve Brodie, envious of the fame of bowing to the crowd, sprang nun the sir,
Sam Patch, went there Iasi summer for but his body went to the right and struck
the purpose of making the same jump the water below with a Inod poise. Sam
which bum did. itut he found the cir- Patch disappeared. and nothing more
changed. The old mill was was seen of him until the next March,
higher, the old stone mill had been re- when his body was found by a fishing
placed by the new mill et D. Groff e[ party at the mouth of the river, seven
Sons, which 1. much higher then the males below."
stone mtti, and besides these dihicultaes It was stated in effect that Sam was
he discovered that he would not be al- under the influence of b.1eor, and being
lowed to mske the attempt. However, unable to keep his balaaoe fell and struck
he consoled bimaelt se best he might, upon his side, instead of entering the
and the next wining went to Prove- water in his usual way. and thus was
deuce. and reported that he got up early killed, On the rnntrary Joe Cochrane
in the morning and jumped (nom the ' stoutly denies the stories to this effect.
bridge into the,river before many were • He says Sam drank one glass of brandy,
stirring. He may have done s•, it was which Sam thanked bine for and tossed
nn great fat if he did - noshing to !'tam's off en his easy going way. He said vary
jomp—But if he did there were very few little on his way to tbe Fall, but that
whn saw him. little was in • light-hearted fashion.
!oto fu as is known. thee, 'ism Patch "It is animated that some 2,000 per -
while there made n'. greater jumper than sons were present when Ram climbed the
did any "f has fellows, and very likely pole to his platform, hand Dyer hand,
thought little of the testa— be certainly The multitude were shivering in the
did not think of ever jumping for money chilly sir and undergoing • severe ner-
or for fame. He was a daring young woos strain. which developed Itself in
man, and wee proud of it, but no ,nein various ways when the jump was made,
daring then s few -if hie fellows. When t ne well known citizen biting off the end
he grew to manhood, hawing hem ,me of his thumb, and an old lady calling net
•coltaisted with the mysteries of the cot in a shrill, querulous yoke . •If there's
ton manufacture, he entered into Wert- anything is dreams that man is dead.'
nership with a toontehman need Ken- Sam ade • little •peseh which wss lost
toady, tender the firm name of Keonedy to the crowd of semeent of the roar of
.1 Patch, and went into the business ..f the water, hut was as follows
cotton manufacture i■ Central Falls, in " Napoleon w&s a grand man and a
• mill whieb stood where new stands the ares! general. He conquered armies
mill of late years rnn by Thurber. If to and he eongered nations, but be
ton and Wond. This arrangement did eoaldi't jump the Genesee Falls. Wel-
not prove • gond thing for Bass, Whether liegtos wee a great an and • great
or sot the trainee. wes..sessafel is not soldier. He conquered armies and he
kmeu., but in a short time Keened eorriwec d nstine, .ad he eengoered
'.kipped out. taking with is, it 1.I Gessoes
bet he on.ld.'t jump the
midi, whet fonds be in.ld get. Poor .s. Falls. That was left for me to
Oho wss new in bad shape. He foundfie, had I ma do It sad .i11,'
Wadi caMn
!bible far debts seawsd i, I Tia saNWis. W s masa dgw.e-
.Mg sleet as the crowd. is less than
five agnates almost everyone had 8.4
from the legality, silent, sober, and
mel
Bet Sem Patch's few .till lives, and
his ammo is familiar to peewee who
never heard of Y•wttstk*t Taloa, or the
Genese. illi* Elam Pate► was slew eo-
eheissd in verse. Ia the Provid.pee
Journal of Nov. 26, len, ass the fol.
over the.legata�tsu�re of D�1lsgeper :
G A dad es wftb iateZnl brow ~
It 0s hha�ve ear uses es shed
ham 1M. 1. oema. � laaaees an.
We shall ase moss ;
He mad to wear s• LNat
b.
Waft rem all tore
Hialeah.. wee of teen gray.
Hie heart wee full elder,
The! ear he's killed by jumping tor
The falls ot Ge.....
Yuli six more test Amoy he lumped,
Aad struck upon hisatiltreerhig
lowt
ie Andth sth lim Park hedkrf,
The following copy of kir poster, an-
noseciag 8mm'• last jump" will be cf in-
terest , 1t was neat to this paper by a
friend in Chicago, who secured it at Buf-
falo, when he was at the time of his fat-
al leap: It was deemed in the highest
style of the art typographic, and was
headed with • big spread eagle ;
'Higher yet Sena.* last jump '—
Some'biome can be done as well as others!
—Tberds no mistake in Sam Patch ' Of
the troth of this he will endeavor t000n-
vince the good people of Rochester and
its vicinity Dell Friday, Nos. 13, at 2
o'clock, p.m. Having determined to
&stoned the natives of the world before
he returns to the Jerseys, he will have •
scaffold twenty-five feat high erected on
the banks of the Genesee F■1'., int he
village, from which he will fearlessly
leap into the abyss below, a distance of
123 feet. At 3 p.m. precisely Sam'.
bear will stake the same jump, and fol-
low he master; thus showing that some
things can be done as well as others.'
Moreover, Sam hopes that all the good
pecple will contribute something towards
remunerstine him for the seemingly
hazardous experiment."
it will be seen that the
"Some things can be done as well as
others," appears twice in this announce-
ment, and this expression [oust have
been a favorite with Saw, "as well as
others.
The historian above mentioned says
that Sam Patch lies buried in • nameless
1 on the east side of the
Charlotte boulevard, near Rochester—
s suneen hillock, almost hidden by
rwbous myrtle and pine needles.
ODDS AND ENDS.
A 41(1, Xe■sew.e, '..w sed Ikea, 1..e-
Ilshed k, eke sia.e.a .1 ore.
The deg with an appetite for trousers
is Itab;e at a..) time to 'o on a tear.
Abuse is one of the tew things a man
can get without earning or deserving at.
A turn or cut will heal luickly and
leave leas scar if Victoria Carbolic calve
is applied at once.
It is carioca that when carpenters
"strike, nut the stoma .,f a hammer is
heard.
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Malarial fever and chills are best Orel/ -
en up and prevented by using Milburn's
Aromatic Quinine Wine. lm
The. C' ar has issued a ukase freeing
Sebastepod of all taxation on real pro-
perty in honor of the defence of that
stronghold by the Russians in the Cri-
mean war, which event is shortly to be
celebrated um an imposing sale.
The inestimable value of Ayer a Sarsa-
parilla as a bl,e•d-purifier should be
known to every wife and mother. It
corrects irregularities, gives tone and
strength to the vital organs, and (cleanses
the system of all impurities. The best
family medicine.
"I wonder," said a department clerk
to Willie Washington, "why aro many of
the inscriptions on the t. .. are in
Latin '"
''Perhaps,' acid Willie, after sone
the:nght, "it's bemuse Latin's a dead
language, you know
A 10 cent piece was found on the main
street the other day. That was just
enough to boy a packet of Wilson's Fly
Poison Pads, and could not be put to
better use. For exterminating flles,anta,
, etc., nothing womb' Wil-
son's Pada Sold by all druggists. Take
no imitations. 1m
Darnley (to landlady) --Did you say,
Yrs Hendricks, that this is a canvas-
back dock i
Mrs Heneit ick•—So the dealer told
me.
Domley--Then it most be en But I
think, Mn Hendricks, that you here 1
siren me a piece of the canvas.
What nay Titer f
In popularity "ing. In reliabil-
ity the standard. In merit the first.
In fact, the beet remedy for all summer
lots, dmrrhe ca, dysentery, cm pe.
oolie, choler& infantom, etc., is Dr Fow-
ler'. Extract of Wild Strawberry. All
medicine dealers all it, 2
"I say, friend, your horse is • little
contrary. is he not 1
"No, sir."
"What makes him stop, then r'
"1lh, he's afraid , 11 say
'Who.' and he won't hear it."
Mtrw.Sf■I Peeper.
Make en exception in favor of Dr
Fowlers Extract of Wild Strawberry.
its known virtues as a curator diarrhtei,
dysentery, cholera morbus and
all bowel complaints cause all who use it
to regard it as the most reliable and
effectual remedy obtainable. 2
An old leases -sandy woman Deed to
ask her juvenile customers whether they
wanted "sticks or gobs." One day her
niece took her place. and put the toms -
lion in this way . "Will you have along-
ated pieces or eoedesaed moltasee 7' And
the youngsters agreed that she wustock -
tip.
Destroy the worms ne they may dm. -
trey the children. Heenan'• Worm
Powder, destroy sad expel .11 kinds of I
1/01711 1.
CHOOSING A BUSINESS.
A ieiMM ft.seea.. ref Alt lessee owe se
l ..seder.
"The quattoo ut ceuueiog • beeriness
is a .emus. oast. As • rale, • yooaw meet
should adopt the wiling 1or which he
Las • pr.feratce. 1f he has &o parties
lar Whom*, it would be well fur him to
try diff•reut occupations, soul be fab
me that suits him. I do not eoaanl
obaagaug about to gratify a spirit of use
eeaineae, for mare+• youug man is Hotel
led is the baseness that he is meted to,
he ought to s ick to it," writes Russell
Sege to the Ne. York Herold. "1 have
koowo Fauna area who emoted employ-
ments reluctantly and, after • trial be-
came fond of them. A young man must
bed to succeed. Afore all,
then i• one great lever, and that is will-
power. Without If very few men sec-
oatl,
"It depends on the
whether failures betray incapacity in •
man. If • failure is due to • cause nut
general, then it may he attributed to •
lack of torestght and understanding. A
shrewd merchant well oat stock up with
u nsalable things ; • shrewd farmer will
not not plant hie grouud to raise unsala-
ble crops. Both the merchant and the
farmer must fined out what is most sal-
able and act . Then are
exigencies, to be sure, like ,
disasters, combinations, strikes and boy-
ootts, that can not be foresee.. Tba
prudent man of business has prepared
himself to stand lessee from such
eamies, and when the troubles have
passed the rapt of his having weathered
them makes ire financial position in the
community stronger than ever. The
present condition of the coal trade well
illustrates the uncert•ioty of things.
The mild open winter cold not be fore-
seen, and bas caused great dulness and
lass in the trade. Then then is the
march of t, and it requires
energy and . to meet at. It
used to take 90 days to find out the
contents of the tea crop in Japan ur the
coffee crop in Brazil. Now an inquiry
can be sent and an answer returned in
• single day.
"The young mac should start out in
the world by the time he is 21. If be is
qualified to begin life for himself et en
earlier age he should do it. 1 began as
a clerk when I was 12 At 18 I was in
business for myself. and I have kept my
sign op ever since. I sh-hold say that
the average boy could take a clerkship
at the age of lel or- 18. A wr,.ag start
need not mean • permanent failure.
Many of the most successful men bare
started wrong and afterward righted
themselves. Thereinto many instaaces
where men educated fur the pulpit have
gone to the bar sod been c,napicious
surceases. Then, attain, men educated
for the bar hare gone to the pulpit and
achieved success "
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
When you doubt, do not act.
Mind unemployed is mind unenj:yed.
He who believes the trutn should him -
elf os true.
The best de•ctors are Dr Diet, Dr
Quiet and Dr Merryman.
Beware of the man whn seems io
doubt your married happiness.
N man who m wretched in his own
heart and feeble in his own work, can
help others.
Every man should bear his own griev-
ances rather than detract fro.n the
conforts of other.
Mat of our misfortunes are more sup-
portable than the comments of onr
friends upon them.
Serving riches, instead of making
riches serve you, is the mist piteous "f
all poverty. It is slavery.
People wha'boaat that they never del
any harm are generally those whe haven't
done much good.
National Pills are sugar coated, mild
but thorough, and are the best Stomach
•od Liver Pills in use. Ise,
We must teach more by our example
than by our advice. or else we shall be
poor pleaders for the right,
Every man feels instinctively that all
the beautiful sentiments in the world
weigh lees than a single lovely action.
Frugality, diligence, punctuality, vera-
city—these are the grand fouatains from
which money,and all real values and
valor*, spring for men.
Let us take are how we speak of those
who have fallen en life. field. Help
them up—don't heap some upon them.
Ws did not as the conflict ; we do not
know the Roar*
C. C. lett HARD. & CO.
Grata,—I sprained my leg eo badly
that I had to be driven home in a car-
riage. I immediately applied Minaret's
Liniment freely and in 48 hours oould
w m leg again as well's ever.
Bridgewater, N. S.
Joe lliA WY:*t .nT.
Fifteen members of our house of Com-
tttiosas have died sines the last general
else ion., that is to say, within • period
of three years and • quarter. The f :oo-
dpan Hrnflf. ,), orrenf points ant that
this is at the rate of 21.15 per thotta•nd
per annum, nr about throe times the
&mirage mortality of persons whose lives
ere insured, ot pioneers, or of other per-
sons between the ogee of thirty or sixty
years with regard to whom statistics are
procurable. Although . the Commons
•ember is "opposed to be an unhealthy
plate, our thinks it im-
probahle that this tact Inas any &mesc-
tdes with the large death rete anima
members. Tke eltef cause, it considers,
is the irregular habits n( living daring
the session --late hnoes, want of oat -door
eternise and of esoderate can na the
part of members for their physical well-
being.
Asm.oe. M a Nn.
As i..id..l is related abet the aide.
brawl writer, Cwot Tolstoi, whieb &ear-
ly suet hies his lite. He went ons w a
bear knot with some .f his feieeds, and
atter selecting a spat whisk emam&wded •
mud view of the eerrweadi.g geoaede,
saesli of the mune expeeiem ed heaters
suggested that the meow W better be
crimpled down su tier it wield be easier
for these to wove about and get oat of
Bran's way and have time though to
take • .bot at him if be sbs,W geese
e pos them n■eapeosedly.
The count, however, altbo.gb op to
big waist in scow, objected to this and
amid it was Mainly unne--scary, moos
- the whu:e Hoag cousieted of shoot -
the bear and not wrestling with him.
They did sot bees to wait loot, for
the bear, which had just risco from its
- lair, was walking along to get out of the
way of the bunion when it suddenly
stepped out emu the open space directly
in front of Tolstoi.
He very cooly took aim and find, but
for coma reason or other, went wide of
hislark. Taking aim agaiu he find,
this time bittiog the bear in the bead
and the bullet lodged in the lower jaw
and of course only made • very irritating
wound, which made the bear so savage
that, taking a few jumps, he was epos
Tolstoi before he wsa able to realise it.
Just as the bear came close enough to
him he dropped down and of course the
bear went right over his body. Tolima *
.hole body sunk into the deep snow,
and the only part that remained exposed
was be head, which the bear tackled as
soon as he bad recovered from tau sur-
prise in seeing Tolstoi disappear so sud-
denly.
Tolstoi did hie beet to push his bead
head down as low as possible, and ele-
vate he fur cap for the bear to bite.
Twice the savage animal snapped, and
then, discoaering his mistake, made •
bite deeper down, this time taking a
piece ut flesh Iran the count's right •,
cheek,
Just at this moment his comrades re-
turned, and by their loud yells.ucx.ded
in driving away the beer, wl.o very slow-
ly turned his back upon the hunters and
walked into the woods, truster of the
situation.
sive veer fyepess,
A sheet of sticky fly paper will do
more damage to carpet and furnitcre than
anything ever invented. No careful
housewife would have one about. Wal -
en's Fly Poison Pads will clear the
hoarse of flies more quickly and surely
than any other means. If placed near
the light where the dies are thsckest,
Wilson's Pads will kill pints every day,
sod clear the house in short order. Sold
by all druggists. lm
M awl be nlsewoavN.
On a certain occasion Marie Antoin-
ette asked her Prime -Minister whetjter
or not • project which she contemplated
oould be 1, and his rep'y was,
"Madame, if impossible, it shall be
done.
Of course the impassible cannot be
achieved ; but "imp,sssoitity" would not
seem to have had any place in the vocab-
ulary of theta who have attained the
highest distinction. "Experience is the
best of teachers,' and we learn—from the
of others, if we have as yet
not learned from our own
that tireless exertion and steadfetaess
of purpose will remove whatever eb-
stactes bar one's way to the proudest
eminence.
Andersen, the popular Danish author,
was the son of • cobbler, and an Inc
earlier years worked "on the bench"
most industriously. doing his stint liter-
ary wurk on .craps of paper kept beside
hint, in the moments when he rested
! from his regular duties.
Aruces, who founded the Parthian
' Empire, against which the mighty hosts
of Rome long contended in vain, was a
mechanic of obscure origin.
Bellinger, the celebrated French poet,
wandered about Paris in • state of
pitiable destitution until he obtained •
situation as pot-b,y--that is, to carry
pote of beer in public -houses and res-
taurants.
Burns was the son of • .mall farmer,
and at an early age displayed an appetite
for learning which hs had few oppor-
tunities for gratifying, as is shows in the
most brilliant of his poems.
Carrera, beginning life se • dreamer -
boy and driver of cattle, rose to the
Presidency of the republic of (.patemals.
Catharine, Empress of Russe, in some
respects one of the most remarkable wo-
men that ever lived, was a peasant girl
of Loomis and a assn vria.ff.•,
Demosthenes, the Grecian crater and
"prince of eloquence,'• was the Nin of a
blacksmith. In his first attempt at pub-
lic speskinz he displayed such • weak-
ness of voice, imperfect articulation, sod
awkwardness that he withdrew from the
speaker's platform amidst the hooting and
laughter of his hearers.
(Ieolt°, noted as • painter, sculptor,
architect, worker in mosaic. and really
the founder of modern Italian art, was •
shepherd boy oboe' Cimabue discovered
drawing sheep on the sand with a pot0t-
ed stone, with an accuracy that indicated
• natural artietic ability, and so he took
him as a student- -
Handel was neerly fifty years cf age
when he published the first of three
musical which have im-
mortalized his name.
Sir Isaac Newton while attending
sobool was considered by his teachers
bat little better than an idiot; and Sheri-
dan, the celebrated plsywriter, we. pre-
sented by his mother to • tutor se •
"blockhead. "
The foregoing examples prove con-
clusively that an humble origin, poverty,
natural defects, ago, or physical ailments
need not prevent the attainment of dis-
tinction, and they should be encouraging
especially to the young—iferpet'e
'i pang People.
4 dsem•voe
er.
mama ama of erne. fruits and swmsher 1
e
drinks r the timwhen the worst tonne
of *bolero "sorbet, di•rrb.e•, sad bowel
template prevail. Asa eefergtmld Dr
Fowler'str
Exact d Wild BMaaberre •
Amid he kept is the bents, Per s31Imreye N het beau the mm•40411.et reliable m
sdy.
Sorely t wr.
To ma Einem . -.- Pleas inform your
readers that i hews a positive remedy
Inc the above named diets.. By its
timely use Ibenemnds ofNethWeld
have been oerm•nently , I shall be
Mind glad to two bm
rake of my reedy
rasa to any of readers who have
enesemptiton if seed law their
Express end P.O.ent
Respeett.11y, Da T. A. RIoerst,
11 1$4 , W. Ade/Mb sl., Tomlin Oat
THE DYING sOLO*R'S REQUEST.
As tzu•Nwab tied s.eea.-s w w
rra«. Pewees.•• War,
"1 bad jest .old my aa.mtssios ea
lieateaent is the KIWI& army whoa the
Freaso-Freelsa war opened," said
an s Esglirhmaa some dale ago to s
few Moeda "I bad mill some
&tfope baakevimm she% se. .edge
safer, sad, as I bad hexa d
is the bub...a project that had
me to redisgsiuk the hops of seethe 1.,.
ther service with the red oast., I joked
the foreign legion of the !stash arta,
sod the following half year say maw*
I myths have had for fighting was amply
gratified. I had many adv.■t.iell
DOM. of them startling enough, but eels,
to which no personala,langer was'attadsd,
stands out at times with unpleesa.t
distinctness ism memory
••A few weeks Won all Frsso► hopes
of final success were buried at Sedan a
portion of my corp wee detached til
*adage a party of Prussians that hod
been hamming some villages near Meta.
We found the enemy readily, euosgh,
out they had /been strongly reinforced,
and though we drove then' back after
several hours of hard 6ghting,we suffered
severely.
"Night had fallen before the Brine
ceased, and leas sent with an order to
an uflioer on • distant part of the field.
Theamen was shining se 1 returned and
I was walking my horse as the animal
was very tared, whim 1 reined hies
quickly, because • feeble voice was
yelling to me.
"tier,' it said in veru good Engliah,'I
r.cogsiae you seen officer of the foreign
legion. You are ■m Englishman, 1 think.
Nall you do me a very greet slid a ,set
favor?,
"I dismoaited and found • young
French officer lying at my feet. His
. word and pistols were gone and be was
d wounded. His eyes wets
almost cloned, the death damp lay cold
and heavy on his forehead, and hide
,pecks of foam and blood were on hi.
laps. one bullet had passed completety
through his body tearing his lungs in its
passage, and he was gashed and
perforated , in half a dozen different
plas
"ceN'hst an I do for your I asked.
"I em suffering horribly,' he gasped
" and I may live for an hour yet. Will
you have the great kindness to blow oat
my brains and sod my agony.'
"I loosed closely at the poor fellow.
I knew something about gunshot wounds
and it erases clear to me as the a.a at
noon that be had no earthly sbuaM if
living until the dawn.
"I cannot take your life,' �aeld,'b.t
if you desire it I will lend yea my pistol
and torn my bead away '
"Thank yin.'be muttered gratefully,
"that will do just as will. I have still
enough strength left tc pull the trigger.
• You wall find a flak eau do vie and a
bundle of cigars in the pocket of my
cloak. They are your*, mon ami. Take
them, I entreat you. Adieu'
"Silently I handed him the weapon
and turned away. A sharp report rang
out. :When I looked again at the French-
man he had ceased to suffer. I took the
pier4 from he band and rod. away
oluackly
"1 hays been 1 for the part
I hare played in this tragedy, bet I have
never blamed myself.
WIh. s Hy risme rade
Have an enurntota sale throughout
Canada, and are kept by all druggists.
Nothing kills house flies, ants or cock-
roaches like Watson's Pads. One pack-
et last. • long tame and kills dies by the
quart. lm
A Mertens Woman.
The London paper* tend in Emile 8.11e,
an American girl, • fruitful subject for
comment. She hes been giving peform-
ances in the metre polio which have &s•on-
ehed the habitues of the Music Hall,
where she is the chest attraction, and so
wide is the interest in her feats of oouter-
tlon that the illustrated prow prints pec -
tures of her in all sorts of shapes and
attitudes. Tt is one of her tricks to
turn her back to the audience and thole
without moving her feet sod with se
mon apparent effort than a slight wriggle
of the *holders, to tuns her face rtraigbt
to the spectators. She says that the
majority of are so constituted
that they are comeQeelledto adopt a class
of exhibits jbaused'tpon their ability to
bend either backward or forward, and
but 2 per Gent. have their backbones e.0
flexible as to enable them to work both
wave, as she herself dose. She says the
nntioo that o(ntortiooste make them-
selves supple by anointing with "snake
oil" is sheer a inence. She says that so
far eh* has 1 no ill effects
from her exacting efforts. She very
seldom sustains even • sprain.
Cold, c ugh, coffin is what philnsoph-
ere tum "a logical e.q.enoe, ' One is
very liable to follow the other ; by ,
euring the cold with a dose of Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral, the cough will be
stopped and the coffin not needed—just
at present.
The following sentiments uttered by a
member of the Ronan Catholic hierarchy
are ss genuinely catholic and Christi•s
in tone, and in etch centrist to those of
the `;..ciih Carolina Episonp•1 ('•ooven-
lion recently, that we commend them to
the on ,f tbat body. Ws
quote the following from a recent speech
of Archbishop Ireland. of St fatal :—
"My solution of the Negro problem is
to declare that there is no problem to ire
solved, since we are all equal, as broth-
ers should be, and we .ill en eonsletency
with our American and, Christian prigs.
ciples treat alike bleak and whits. I
know no Dolor lane, 1 will acknnwl.dge
n one. 1 am not unaware that this
solemn deel•ratien of mine shall he
deemed by many. upon wbnee opinions
I set high value, as rah and untimely.
Yet I fear not to make it, for I believe I
nes right. Ay, untimely tod$y,my woods
eri11 be t :morrow timet , My fault, if
there were fault, we> be that I res
ahead of my day. The dem 1. not dis-
tant phen Amortises end Christioae will
wonder that there ewer was a rase pre-
serves,
"' As the Idapeitdrwf well oh•
serves, j�m� .
Aceb
themes
t'aeierAN
e at. ChrigMlbgelV by hIs ttebM tll6llh
mews, and meant sed that the MOW
problem the beet and white Is
Wag tet*Us w make/Na
eases gad pill B.I Iia,"
immor. Y.nt&e.1 l.eshit__u'. ilmend.
THE DOMINION IN BRIE
i AIWam le making incorporative' •
thus -
the the A. K. 1R Psterence is la make
` �amMsn.
TMwli.ow el lbs kat. lea Joseph H
_
diad �esda7.
8.11.111• has a Preget• of being sups
with ■.tad pa
The Dominion labor Coeval meet
Oseawa e■ sept. fed.
Iie■tr+s,r, recently ■eguuatel Woo
SS aUtIper VIM
Jobs Daps bad hie right leg taken
at the O. T. IL depot Belleville.
• A laborer named Patrick Bary wee de
ed at HamUtua on Bmturd.y night
Many American tourists are %reveling
the (;...thea Facia° W tis. Pacific curt.
! A company of Toronto cepttalida will
baba" omearesot an ebdric street rallwa,
tQmaws.
Three Wracks are reported W have t
plow at the recent pilgrimage to cite.
de Beaupra
A girl ueasd Charlotte Hallam in 1
mur, was struck by lightning •od is no
ported W live.
The Kingston Waterworks Comm
intend placing free water talc in va
poor localities.
Frank Rivers, a shanty roan, was dre
at Ragged Falk, near Bridg.:water,
breaking
Canavan, the young eau of
Canavan, of Toronto, was drowsed at d
ben Hsturlay.
Canada has applied for *0.000 cubk
of space at the coming lutertati.nsl e:
tion in Jamaica.
Ward Francis, a young Fngliebman
drowned wialle bathing in tbe Niagara
pear Queenstown.
1 John Johnston and H. Hpangen
Bellevil:r, were thrown from • runes{
and badly injured.
A lad named Haul, 10 years of age. gar
Fag frogs on the Napane. River for a m
ter, slipped to a bole and was drowned.
, A young lad. egad eight years, eon c
Dutr,ene, laborer, Quebec, was draws
the River Ht Charles, while picking up
The body of Frank George, one of d
fortunate sailors an the schemer Jeanie I
1 on the lake shore live
above Kingston.
• Th. Grand Lodge of Memos will he
to lay the of the Nir1r,1 w
tar Kingston hospital during ice .
Daseutg this month
The Niagara River PtW1-Oreweve.,A
idle■ report that apples, phone. mad p
.are very light; berries, cherries, cursat
grapes tair to average.
I, Two bone., owned by Lien. Gifford,
by iigbtping duds
stoma. t)r a was killed and the other it
The driver en'•pd unhurt
The body of the stray child Sc,i
Iwas found in the busk aver ber parent
L Rawdos township. The child had e
11y perished from hunger and ezpseire
Edward Valois, Quebec, aged 1
drowned while bathing. lie was r
only a few weeks ago, and was drat
the presence of his wife, who is but 1
oke.
Arthur Burne, a man of 40, fell i
street subway, Toronto. and tr
hyo receiving seven inter
Re was taken to the General
wiser, be died -
Kr. Charier McCarron, president
Quebec branch d tete frisk !callosal
bas re shed • portion of wedding est
to him by Mr. Wm. O'Brien, the Ira
bar of Parliament
B■t'tbobmew Fowler, • Toronto
whom conjugal rehtlone have • nr
b appy, attempted suicide with st
els Saturday. Doctors took hem I
aid he still lives.
The Q . are doing away v
ph lime between Qu'Appt
Albert, the operators having
to quit os August 31st. The
wised for telephoto. purposes.
An English lad weed Webb, a
`taken lam some institution in Tore
' living with a farmer mimed Quinn
Township. attempted to take his life '
lag. He cannot live, however.
Reggae lie Cowles, who was sb
brotherl■-law, C. C. hale, in cro
1 with the kidnapping of little Fiore
ss f� recovered to leave the
Hameral Hospital, and has left for tree
dodos
A little girl seined D•wwa. L
age, wee killed at Romney, Out., oar
tramway. gee jumped from a tar
'twee r motion and fell under it.
twbteb was loaded with logs, pm
her body.
A laborer named John Brown,
hdlsri.g an the edge of the Quem
;get at Otewa, fell over e0 bet to
'below and died in the bospitaL
tillarbsight d man, which account t
aithnfal fait
i Wad has been received at Winn.
Wawamese to the effect that a neve
of wind, rata and hell occurred bar
damp was done to the crop. 1 t a
sod that from 13,000 to 1b,000 ac,ce
or wholly destroyed.
ng boy about nine years of
rank Bush, of Lindasy, wr
ironed Domes mill when by cloth
way caught in the shelties. The s
was immediately stopped and the
body Messed. but death mos seem
Anmu+ and Mrs. Pettersos, re
Grand Trunk avenues, Tomato. weir
charged with feloniously wound:
Thow.thy, who Uwe at 21 Gras
avems& Thom/thee face was bad
Ids removal to the boupital was nee
fti
Three o.s.ud men, soapriing
UP corps of the Quebec Military d
mnetmed at Levy toe their sant
pill. The camp 1s ander :he coo
°flew( I>orbeaay, the Adjute•
with 1Jwt-Col. Forst as Quem
Th• win of the late Lieutenant
oarless, of Novo Scot* bequest
come of oo►fosrth of hie .dateto
aid the remshider is divided egar
his three cbtldees, Mary B., G
Thomas. At the widow's death
goes to the Witless.
At the Ostawa Polar Court, J. 1
L6iimellluseit dime 01 the Dive
Wort" was Guth Fl for
plies homes Mda Arel tbald, w
nett der neighbor soil Misted a
la a wan of bar bums
Mr. Ar.oMI'. prdea
, I lido rhea M (stem. MMdlstee's
me neem of the eraser, .l Pe
ledsmedUdm vith the iter bean is
waw, w >rsftla G emles retie .b
b.iii the pubis Areas
ea Mayo. fused—whe ed M
tseteswrd eros be elbowed to go M
Two maslme, *ward Dream
thea, ..I Robert 1Nm.., aged
wens drowned at Mahesleh, ,lilt
a plats he em GM him, whin ink
Three others Sebe were wets the
pet ware as pi= with her
d
Al se give the airs still! sus