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The Exeter Advocate, 1889-12-26, Page 2W. JORNSTOWN TRAGEDY, nenethee Particulars of the Terrible Theatre Calamity. A PATED PBORLD. A johnetewn, Pa, despatch gives %befel- l:ming further particulars a the theatre terror there t George Horner, aged 11, nomped from the eop gallery thirty feet to -the piequette, twine broken; and Mu. aohn W. Nestor, aged 26, of tine city, and, Wale Blugler, aged 9, Cooemangb, were also nilled. There were 800 people in ehe bonen Two hundred and forty ot these occupied chairs in the perquette. Possibly two itundred more were in tbe circle and nialee of the parquette. In the first gallery ennui seata were ocoupied Ann the sides. packed. In the seoona or top gallery all ehe benches were ominpield end many were standing. The filinSe of death 14 every 5xistance was the rushing at the doorway leading to the street in the frantic Minds et the people to get out of the building. The ory of Fir ' was sounded. from the top gallery wiaentbe last act of the play, 4' Uncle Tom's Cabin," was within it dew minutes of completion. Instautly upon the cry being raieed the audience =Ade A 'break and a plunge for the narrow exit. These in front were thrown forward and upon them the whole mess ot people knobbed heiteliongn climbing over them rtglIt at the street door. "Mle Beene at the tinta was teerrililte A /Fut orewd eet OW4 gathered In the etude end puebed up go -closely egeinet the thattee entrance that the police could not keep them back. To drive them away it wos found neeinfaery to turn * dream of wader On ibeM freak A fine been All this gnu the yelle and *dee Of loth thou int "rtite Ana out of the theatre were terrible to bear stud were hoed for nearest. The canoe of the fire Alarm Wagt AMPhe intik% from ibe chimney of A kitchen in the rear entEthe realdenee of Dr. Tifokofirldw dental sperm sweet. The buildiug in widen the theatre waa nituated, wee conderaned Bowe years ago. The morgue where the dead were laid was Visited bynhousands of peopletenday. The accident ta an illustretion of the highly nervous =edition of A large number of the people of the city. There Ina been a die- postIon to draw morbid coneludoue from She Conemaugh calamity, and it bee Sunned Intl* upon the Wernant year% folk and ;aany excitable middle -egad people. Solna ot these went through ter. xible experiences on May 31st. it has been no uneOnsmon thing to hear such re- =Inksas. "Well, 1 weeder evlid will bap. pen next." " You can expect anent -non now " "4 We've bad flood, now look out for " 4nhastown IS teuder oaree." There has boon teem or den disponi= to go to the theatre whenever there 'WAS a chance, in order to try to forget the horrors Of text spring. Other amusements haVe elett been eagerly 40141111t faa the alma pinpoint. These Were loom at the ransom for the large 'oakum ett the theatre lest violin Those who Arst started out of their homes went from curi. malty to see where the tire wae, bot they did go excitedly, and the instant aired watt penic. The bell which struck the ;aura wets so close to the theatre Out it seemed to be sounding in the building itself. The two crowds fouglat against oath other at `en duet doors; strong men spring upon the backs of those in front "Athena without regard to sex, and jumped on heeds and *boulder& as though they were hallway planks or atairst. The ferocity of the straggle by some of the foreign mill work. en was as revolting as it was disastrous. What began as an attempt to get out to the street changed into a riot. A lernisen deli - Deter woman rays sin flaw two men stop to eight when both had an opportunity to issupe. One *eaten:awn with an oath, "It's nay life or enure," and he knocked hie antagonist down in a foxione manner. The theatre will not re -open. The city officiate era severely oritiolued for permitting the -nets of the building ea a theatre. The alleged clubbing by the pollee awing the petulowill be investigated, AMMON RANGED. MZettle Jack's Gaut of Thieves and Cut - Throats Broken up In 'Wyoming. A Cheyenne, Wy., despatch nye: " Rattle Jack'e" gang of thieves and cut- throats is broken up. A report came yes- terday from the Big Horn region of the hanging of eleven of the and the driving ont of the country of the others. "Kettle jack" and four companions first sppeared in the country equipped for a prospecting tour. They eetablized a ren. dezvous in an isolated valley high up on the mountains and lived like barbarians Finally they were reinforced and began to plunder the settlere. At first they only slaughtered beef and stole food, but becom- ing bolder, ran horses into Utah and Montana. A farmer named Benjamin, with his two sons, followed the gang, but were shot down and killed. The thieves became so strong that they ran things to suit themselves. The 500 settlers who dived in the t &sin were in raortel fear of 'the gang. Some time ago a hot battle occurred, when Kettle Jack forced the handeome daughter of a leading citizen into marriage. The father headed a rescu- ing party, but the citizens were repulsed with two killed and a number wounded. The outlaws retired to the mountains for s protracted debauch. A month ago Jack startled the neighoorhood by iseuing a motiee that he intended to establish a mon- archy, with himself as king. The determ. heed settlers organized themselves to fight this move to the death. A troop of 200 xnen was organized at a central point and a forced march was made to the stronghold of the outlaws. Jack and his men were in waiting and intended to let the party get in close range before firing. The settlers had made a rude cannon and from it fired chigoe and lead into the outlaws' camp. The sur- prieed gang iled,leaving behind them a lot of plunder and four dead and several wounded. A running fight of three days ensued, in -which one settler and two robbers were killed. The citizens had the better horses and were fitted for a chase, while the des- peradoee were unprepared. The cones ,quence was that they were overtaken and eleven of their number hanged, and the reet driven out of the country with orders not tb return. Remarkable Coincidence. Brown -I saw you eyeing that divorced wile of mine with evident admiration last evening. I wondered what you could see in her. Buff -Well, now, that's queer. I was wondering what she could have seen in you. Among the Media. Johnson -Newspapers are believers in spiritualism, sure enough. Ponson-Not many, I geese. Johnson -Oh, yes; they all claim to be Suranclass advertising mediums. In order to appreciate being kissed a nnirl should be old enough to know better. TUB • UPIMME .014130.0X fltettletles of the Truffle. BetWeei Brittsh colpmbid and the States. An officer ot the Canedian Centime, at presient in the laity; ben been investigating the extent of the opium traffic in 'British Columbia, and as theresult of his investiga- tion it is shown that the 'United States revenue is loin at the rate of from ane. halt to three-quortere of a millioo of dollars annually„ in the clean on °Own smuggled into the United States from that ErAVI400. There are,be say nthirteen refining factories at present in operation in Victoria, each of whion pays a municipal beeps° of e500 neatly,. The feet that the quantity et crude optumunporten for refining pezposesinto Britian Oolumbie increased from 5,000 pounds in MO to 1,000.989 Pounda laat year, shows how pfodtable the trade has been: It is estimated that a cptaotity of prude opium imported last year would pro- duces 60,000 pounds of the refined article. The officer in question says that 6,000 pound's of the refined product woold sup. ply all demands for home consumption and the balance of 645,00 pounds, the surplus product of the liritieb, Columbia redneriee would have to be disposed of inn foreign market. .Investigation show that tbis was disposed of in the United States. The feet that no return of any refined, opiem baying been exported was reported to the Canadian custom e officials clearly indicates that it was smuggled out of the oountry. United States returns he says, only thew that seventy-seven patinas of refined opium was imported into that country last year from Canada. It ie therefore Clear that the ddiOdOpettaels,„ the eurplue product of the British Oolutultio resinerfee wea sup. plied alma tbe border, the duly on wiala, would have amounted to ,S460,000, paying at the rate of $1.0 per pound. In making tble calculation, be says that only the quantity of crude opium which actually paid duty, and was reported to the Canaillan customs OA bolug im- ported, was taken into coneiderdion. The quantity am:logien into British Columbia, be believe, Weeld reach 100.009 pounds more, whioll when refined would mousse the quantity of redned opium, for vthich I foreign market had to be toned, to about 100,.000 pounds. The Dominion Got. even:lent, is a matter ot gen-preservation in obecking thereptalyincreaseng opinneleabit which is reported to be Ogg on in the country, and with a MOW to assieting the United StitteseGoverrizoont in putting down the erauggliog treffloaa ter as it lies within their power,..ie tudeasoriog to impose re, strietion winch the hneinese oouldmot pro. fitably bear. The idea of impesteg an ex. else duty on en tbe opium refined in Canada of say from ea to 06 per pound, bas been suggested.** the most likely remedy Lor tint exulting evil. The refineries, as in thentosse of distilleries, would In under the survilltutoe excise °Mora'and by this Mena, it is oontended, WO if it aid not mooed in curtail- ing the manufacture, it would eoutribute In the Way Of exclee duty in the vicinity of half a million dollen JO the Dominion Xelfertge annually. A DBBADPUZ END. An Beene suel Three Nan Plunge Read - long Into a Elves, A Itackenesok, N. J., despatch says In a blinding abovntotra at noon on Saran day a heavily laden out train on the Susqueleanza road, bound east. Oadla rumbling along towerd the drawbridge at Little Ferry. The engineer, Vitra. Nixon, who was on the lookout, could see but a few rode diced of bits engine on =mutt of the storm. The tracke are usuelinclear at this point, and tbe train was moving -at moderate speed. Tbe draw of the bridge, *which had been opened to permit the passage of a schooner, had not yet been closed. The engineer and fireman could not see thia, and no attempt was made to bring the train to a halt. The telegraph operator at the bridge beard the train coming and sprang to his instrument and began sending sigmas 'up the traok to warn the mon ot the approaching train of the appearenco of danger. The wires connoted with the alum bells situated at some diets= up the the track, and he kept them ringing until he sew the loco. motive stick its nue through the storm. Then he realized that any efforts he might make would be useless. As the treatment by the operator looked at the engine cab and saw three men therein. They wore Engineer James Nixon, Firemen Harring- ton, and the boss brakeman, Wm. Seeley. In an instant the locomotive reached tbe opened draw, and the forward end divan downward and disappeared, taking the oab and tender with it. The coupling pin petted, and the first car remained on the brink of the bridge. No trace of the three men could be found. Bubbles canoed by the escaping steam and not seine arose to to the surface, but not a sign of life. The oars were transferred to the West Shore tracks, and the relatives of the dead men, who lived in the West End, were notified of the end occurrence. A. THRILLING SITUATION. Loaded C. P. R. Coaches, Derailed, Hanging Between Heaven and Earth. A gentleman just arrived at Winnipeg from the mountains tells of a thrilling accident which befell the Canadian Pacific Railway express from the coast on Satur- day. He says then at a point where the tracks run away up the mountain side,near Columbia river, a quantity of falling rook either struck the train or had previoasly carried away the track. However this may be, a couple of the oars, including the pas- senger coach, swung about and toppled over. The bank was very perpendicular, and the airs would have tumbled several hundred feet below into the flowing river had it not been thet the coupling twisted around and held the tremendous weight, There were two cars, one with its load of passengers, suspended between heaven and earth. The weight of the engine and the remainder of the train prevented the sus. nended cars drawing the whole train down. The suspense was said to be something &wolfed. The frightened passengers were compelled to remain in their perilous con. dition until train hands built a platform around and underneath the suspended oars, thus enabling all hands to make their escape. A Crazed Inebriate's Work. A Conticook, N. H., despatch of Monday says: The barn of Moses E. Dodge at Hopkinton, wae burned this morning. idr. Dodge peddled in the flames. Two bloody axes and fresh blood have been found in a neighboring shed, A neighbor was at the Dodge's place in the evening, crazy drunk. Mr. Dodge sent him home, but the drunken man is said to have escaped from his house about the time of the fire. Over seventeen head of cattle were burned. Two bodies have been found in the ruins of Dodge's barn. They are those of Mr. Dodge and AlphonSo Paige, , the neighbor, who was suspected of having mime connection with the fire. Paige was on a protracted drunk, and it is thought he aet fire to the barn and then committed [suicide, as his throat wag out. Dodge was suffocated, probably in trying to Nave his utile. L TAUXIIMY DI 'MEXICO* Row; the:4Iiiehe.r Causes Spend Their A PEOPLE WHO SPEND elORHY Pitn1X. OTT or Waxen Nov. 23, 1889. --The growth at a tate for luxury is very mini - feet here. The countryie enjoying a see- r= of unparalleled, prosperity. Money is made none, now fortnnee are being made and old ones are growing larger. The rich tamale's, owning houses anti shops, find that their tenants can afford to pay heavier rents, 0,nd Bo np go _prices. The great Pachuca mines are Meng heavily, and the lucky holden of Bents Ointrudie pla Ben Rafael, and other bonanza propertienlanild new houses, clothe their Wellies elegantly, bn.kineretrihose finu feasotort furniture from Then, too, the crops leave been excellent over nearly the entire republio, and tbe great laud owners residing -here have fat opeci to -day. Its. The seen of greet and golden prosperity is shining on the Mexico The Mexicans are naturally a very Inner - ions people; they can take bad luck, revo- lutione, 'neve ot invasion, pilleee and dias- ter like philosophers; but when the wheel of fortune turns, they come up like true Latins, and demand the best there is itog,CdAgx And are ready to pay for their luxury- Lots of people here are _untying money Ant At the mines out of. :mineral concessione or greats. frora the Government; °there oot of the now railwar, and Wide from preepereell PAW lines of manufacture, The City of bleak* is the Pavia of the the Mobilo ; everybody who makes a for. tune manes here to spend it WA lime a State of metropolitan society. Tbere is nothing penunoue about the Mexicans; when they hove money, out it goes over merchants' °motors I A, nohow lady, wheels husband is now rich, seta to me the ether amyl "'When my hunbend, through politico' troubles, become poor, be did not complain; be was patient and faid *hat luck, would teem. Vben he became again tbe possessor of a fortune he bought a greet house ana WWI= emulates ON rens:sun% IT to hie somewbat extravagant bone; and, Omuta we be poor tOanorrow, he would not complain. it is the way we Mexicans have. When the puree is full, dinners, opera, theatre, line clothes; when it is empty, A little ossa, beans And tortillas, a cigarette AMI contentment 1" The petit until aleope in every line of trade are crowded with ooetlygoods. There are no finer stooks of Adidas at petrels:miry anywhere in the Steles than here. Bronzea outing 111,000, 12,500, teen np to $8,000. And buyers. Mirrors at $2,000 finds Steady Vine porcelain, costly vases up to $3,000 a pair, are sold continually. From $1,000 to IMAM for a dumber set ie not en uncommon prioe to be paid by wealthy oustmaare. I went into a Jewellery store the other day where the stook is valued at belt a million, and that only oue of BOVeral, great eitope. The proprietor had east Bold a casual cuatomer, a rich lady, * 02,000 peed necklace, se a mere matter of paining fancy ou her pert. 1 silted him: "Do you give meth credit?" "We never have less than 4100,000 charged on oar books in our retail deportment." “Do you have any trouble in your collection° ?" *Rarely; we rune an annual Average lois of only 1 per cont. for bad debts." I went into another sbop, wbene, up. ataireeis carried a superb stook of furni- ture, enoluding inlaid cabinets ranging as high as MOOD. Tin clerks taia that they sold a great deal of this sett of luxu- rious furniture, and tbat customers did not " mind the price" so long as their fano), was suited. Next 1 investigated Ma furnishing goods stores, and a clerk in the largest one, who had lived in New York, said: "We aell more silk underclothing here than can be disposed of in the States. We sell, in our ladies' department, for exempla, more silk hose than thread. Complete suits of ailk underclothing for both men and women we sell a great quantity of." " What about *oast ?" I silken pointing to some dainty novelties in et elbow - cane. "Now, there is a class of geode not readily eatable in the States. The cheeped, is 015, the highest 575, and the average about 450." In the windows of the modistes are to be seen elegant geode for ladies' wear -the richest bibelots of Paris, the gayest and costliest bonnets, everything betraying French taste, and a love of luxury among tbe rich women of Mexico. The owner of a shop, where ladies are "outfitted," said : " We are doing a rushing business. I only complain bemuse of lack of room. Society ie going to be very gay this season, and the demand for party and ball dresses is large. We are making up some exquisite things, prices from 5150 to $850. Many ladies will only wear a ball dress once, and then they give it away or turn it over to relatives. Do the Mexican ladies love pretty things? Well, I should say so 1 I have customers who spend 1$10,000 a year with me, and they all pay their bills. I bring epeeist fabrics from Paris for my select customers, and no other lady tan have the same. Now here are some dainty bandkerohiefs, no laoe, but only ordinary affairs, 590 a dozen, and plenty of elastomers." Other outfitters for women add the same -a rushing trade, good pay. The main question from among and senoritas is, "Is this s novelty ? " not, "What does it cost ?" These shops are THRONGED WITH YMIt 021MOIMBO, and clerks are kept busy enough. The stocks carried are large and complete, and the capita invested is very heavy, At a carpet store they showed rugs at $1,000, teapots at $7 and $8& yard, and curtains and tapestries of Wantons price. "Taste is improving here every year,' the owner said; our rich people ran over to Paris, and when they come back they aek for the Most elegant goods. They are reedy to pay our big prices, prices necessi- tated by the enormous duties. We hews to put mere and more money into our busi- nesses to keep up with the growing taste for -the finest geode. Don't you wenn thief rug (a [small one, say 3 by 8 feet) ; it's only 0250 and a bargain"? I went, then, to a great crockery store, where they carry a dock of enormone value. They had pet received some dainty dinner Bets, not at all extravagent, only MO. You can have sets at any price above that, and not at all dear. Oh, dear, no! This shop was full of pretty, charm- ing things, and trifles whioh one could oerry away in a small pocket were ticketed 075, $100, etc. Porcelain sets from 040 to $200 abounded. Larrips from 015 to $500. This is e sample shop of this mass. These " pointers "will serve to convince discerning readers that this is a country it will pay to try trade with, despite that re- markable trade -obstructor, Secretary Win- dom. People who believe that there is "no money in Mexican trade," would do well to investigate the sales of costly European merchandise here. There is as ranch luxury in this capital as in Boston, a freer [mending of money, richer dreeeing among the Mien more elegance in febrion finer tate in millinery. The new hotness going U p all over the city ere &trendy in the hands (of tbe .great furnishing 'concerns, who often resolve orders to go ahead re. garelese of cost, and make the houses as elegant as money can do it. " 1 think," elan one customer in a greet furniture ea. tabilebrneet, " I think my wife's el:neither [should be prettier than those of her friends. You can spend $5,000 on it and more if needed.1 I milled the other day at a fine house in the suburbs. Tone of thoneands of dollars had gone into the furniture. The garden was fit for a Sybarite. The provisions for bathing at the bathhouse in the garden were luxurious; one could have, at plea- sure, a Turkish Russian, common not or .cold plunge bath. One amid swim or take a shower, and wind up by a nak in the sunny room, where, onded op on rich divans, and covered with mettle' ruga, cigarette and e novel could be enjoyed. 1 congratulated the owner on his good teens and love of 'solid comfort. He mid: "1 think I have learned how to live, and thoroughly enjoy my home." This gen. Haman, hes o city house, furnietted with even greater luxury. And what a climate to be luxurious in No cold winters, no stormy, blustering spriege. The Weber -like air invites to out -of -doer spode. One one ride or drive 'every day in the year. A love for flowers and trees can be indulged from December &round to December !gam. The air is in- vigorating, and exercise gives a good appe. tite. esowrge mu FOR ME doliede observable. Coaches and pairs worth altogether $4.000 and more are common. 'Orden for line carriage bones keep a group at American debut busy between Zen - tuck), and Mexico. X cen imagine no clinute superior to that of Mexico for a ride man desirous of out, of -door life. All ranges of climate, tonere at hie command. He may =joy A brisk canter in the crisp air of the table lend, and take the train down into the region of Oranges and oeffee trees in time for 4 late Omer, rich man is A 1001 if be works hereafter etegeiring a fortune, The Loci znae Natio° one of His pleasure places; tbe do consists in rejecting This great gift. Few rith men Imo the °ninny. They are kept here by the subtle therm of the tropism. The eternal servant problem does not exist. A race has been born forservice to the white men. Mexico le the paradise or men from colder climes i• it is bubbling over with attractions; Ise climates chum men from over the gess; its cbildren, wherever they wander, come baok *gain. Whet a pity the Pilgrims am not land at Vera Cruz 1 Fs R. Guenesen German Advenusing Edwina, A novel soheme is reported from Ger, =tiny by which to *alumnae to tbe wide world the different kinds; and qualities of German products. It ie to lit up a nun ing exbibition palace, stocked with all descriptions of (3orrnau productions, tote itent on a voyage around the globe, calling at all the prininpal porta. An enormous Mesmer -the Kamer William -is now bairn fitted for this purpose. The intention le not only to carry geode, but ale° to take wellepa-ying passengers who may with to accompany the expedition.' Another in- tention le, not only to exbibit the geode for tbe enlightenment of the world, but &loth solicit and take orders for the same. So the whole exhibition will constitute the biggeat lot of 16 semples " that ever was 'sent from " our boom " and eltogether it will be thogreated " drummer" expedition on record. The commerdal traveller le now an acknowledged business neceadty, but this expedition seems to be carrying tie idea to an extreme. Still it may pay, and that is the sole tonollstone of business enterprise. Tbere is one atep farther, bowever, wbich it would seem easy for the Germane to take, and that is to have a few ship loads of general German merchandise to accompany tbe exhibition. By this means &prompt filling of all orders taken might be securedniad the Garonne win the distinguishing title of the "Imperial in- ternational pedigree" Their Beliglous Beliefs. Lord Salisbury, Earl Granville. Mr. Gladstone and Earl Kimberley are High Churchmen. Low Churchmen comprise Lord Gross, Lord George Hamilton, Mr. Stanhope. Lord Cranbrook is a High Churchman, the Duke of Northumberland ie an Irvingite, the Duke of Richmond is a High Churchmen likewise the Earl of Carnet -cm. Sir Michael Hicks -Beach and Mr. W. H. Smith are Low Churchmen; Sir William Haroond is a Low Church- man, and so are Earl Spencer, Mr. Childers, the Marquis of Hartington end the Earle! Northbrook. LordLytton lea Low Church- man. The Marquis of Ripon is a Roman Catholic convert; Mr. Chamberlain is s Unitarian. Never. The Young Man (bitterly) -If that is your final answer, Miss Cabiff, be it so There is one refuge for the desperste soul -one last resting place for the broken heert 1 Farewell! The Young Woman (alermed)-In merey's name, Mr. Radio°, what are you about to do ? "1 am going to offer myself to Victoria Polhemne 1 " (With a seream)-" What! Throw your- eelf away on that vinegar -faced old -stay, Charles! I -I--" Not That Hind of a Pearl. Chaff: Fred (at Kirmess)-Dencenpretty waiter girl, eh, old chap? °holly (assuming monoole)-Yaas, I sup - posse I shall have to mash her. Here she comes. What is your name, my doer? Deuced Pretty Kirmess Girl -Pearl, if you please, sir. Cholly (with unotion)-0b, I see, Pearl of great price, eh? D. P. K. G. (demurely) -No, eir ; Pearl before swine, if you please, sir. Capital Punishment. Teacher (describing experiences of the day to s friend) -In order to punish Johnny Hanson I ceased him to sit beeide Mies Fresh, the prettiest girl in the school. Friend -How did it work? "Judge for youraelf. The girl did not seem a whit disconcerted, and smiled ao sweetly on Johnny that he lost his head completely." " Why, that wee capital punishment," Married by Her Mother. The Ohio papers were not long since commenting on the uniqueness of a ward - age ceremony performed by a woman. Within a few days Joseph Guise and Miss Ids Boren were united in marriage in Mil- ton, Indians, by the groom's mother, she being a minister of the Society of Friends. Dignity is becoming; but beware of sticking your stomach out in the effort to keep equare eboulders, lest you become an object of derision. At this] time of the year the liveryman, like Uncle Sam and the bloated bondholder, one mitten in aeonmuleting hie revenue. 'MINISTERS AND TOBA000. A Clerical Symposium on the Use of the Wee. WIDELY DIFFERING OPINIONS. Ministers who Smoke-othees Who De- nounce it -Clerical Example -Ought a a Minister to Deny Himself Hie Pet Vices ?-Preaching and Practice. The use of tobacco has times without nunaber been outdo the alibied. of adverse ortticism by opponents of the habit on 00, melons wtthout number and yet the num- bers of those who nee it do not apparently diminieh. Physioiana have shown again awl spin that it eXeroieee a deleterious effect on the brain, mucous membranee, and the digestion, ond have held up terrible examples of its' effects; yet hundreds of physunans are slaves of the tobacco habit, and many defend it as having a particular specific, effect on certain constitutions. Clergymen lieu denounced it as an rm. necessary, eeldsla, dominating vice, nithy, health.destroying, sinful, yet many a min- ister is an excellent judge of oigars and not & few exeroise their jaws chewing the weed almost continuously. The writer, et few years ago, at a "Fifth Sunday fleet&,in the South, saw three preachers in one pulpit, two of whom smoked during the third one's address, and the third occasionally paused to pureituete hie demmoistion of youthful follies! by %vim expectoretiona over the aide of the pollati. while his worde would have been raore plant), ertimatiten had be chewed on a smaller quid." But the feet diet these men were eleven to the habit did ll(lt detract from their vocal con- dsmnation of human error; juet mg we occeeionally find exemplee of grossly in- temperate and uncharitable sayings and doings on the part en people who think themselves fealties!, in their efforts to reform others, Reoently an Araerion journal witched from a number of pro- minent clergymen ot various denomina- tiontheir opinions on the queetion of rainieters smoking. Condensed severely their lettere indicate the following expe- riences and views: Dr. Talmage Smoked beevily =soy years; quit suddenly, and would not renew the habis fax all the treaeury supine be. neves1± injurioue to beat); and that many "Died in tbe Lord" on premium' tontbatones ought to read, "Ktlled by Tobacco." Rev. Geo, R. /lepworth Smokes and does not see why a preacher ought not if be vents to, as it "soothes chronic ingot- bilt7;7 Rei11. Collyer Smokes and Intends to do so as long ea bepleasee ethinks the (motion of ministerial emolung depends entirely on the quality of the tobacco they use, and le not one thet the Church or somety hag any business with. Rev. Dr. Farms: Smokes at the age of 88, and has smoked from early youth denten that smoking leads to drinking, and believes it takes the ?taco of stimulants; stouts the idea of doing things for exam. PleRevsake." 11ther Newton; Thinks he is prejudiced; moot endure tobacco,arid believes it phydoelly injurious:," a poison. cue luxury." Can't fancy himself seeking sphitual consolation from a tobacco reek - lig parson. Rev. Dr. Copier • Enver smoked; don not think it r goon'exemple to be set by a pester, and fears the preacher's cigar does not strengthen tbe gospel be preaches. Rev. Dr. Frothilighem (Boston) : Does not smoke, but wishes be aia ; thinks, bowever, preachers ought not to set bid example. Rev. Joseph Cook :Thinks nothing tends to perpetuate a filthy habit go muoh as the example of smoking ministers. Bev. Wm. Hayes Ward: Believes the babit illtby, sensual, degrading. Rev. Dr. Storm: Smokes and enjoys it; views it as a matter of Ude and eon - science. Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbot: Never smoked; ooneitiere it a moral and physical evil. As a minister'a life has at least as math effect as his preaching he should avoid bad example. Rev. Dr. Armitage: Thinks it is no worse for a minister to use tobacco than for any other man •, but he can't imagine Christ amoking and chewing tobacco. He looks on a smoking milliliter as a slave to a bad habit which 220 excuse will palliate. Rev. Dr. Burchard (of the three Bs): Knows no law specially regulating the con- duct of dergyreen and views it as a metier of expediency un which the pleasure it §ives and its effect on health areto be considered. Has smoked for fifty years. Rev. Dr. MoCosh : Looks for a needed reform when young ladies will reject smok- ing suitors and congregetions refuse smok- ing ministers. Bev. Dr. Bartel: Clergymen ought to be treated as anybody else, and bad ex- ample is hurtful. Archdeacon Farrar: Never emoked ; never felt any desire to do so. Can't say whether the habit is generallyinjurious to mature men, but believes it injures youths. Views it as a habit acquired and which is really an additional artificial want with little to be said in its favor. Bishop Coxe &nein it a wasteful, un- natural and often unhealthful habit; strongly condemns ministerial example in tobacco using. Rev. Thos. K. Beecher "Don't." Says it hae done him good and harm -an mese of the latter; advisee against ac- quiring the habit. Rev. Edward Beecher: Denounces ministerial smokers. "0! what avail is it for them to preach to men to deny ungodll. nese and every wordly lust ?" Bishop Potter: Doesn't see that clergy- men are under any obligation to smoke. Suggests asking Spurgeon's opinion. Chaplain Milburn (Congress): Views it as purely an individual matter and doesn't think its use by ministers is much in way of examine. If every minister quit, the number 'of smokers would not be lessened save by their count. Ministerial influence doesn't amount to mach. Chaplain McCabe (New York): Clergy. men should not smoke. He in glad the U. S. Methodist Church is going to shut out [smoking ministers, oonsidering their example bad. Rev. Washington Gladden, who usually hes a good deal to say when other classes are under consideration, has "no wisdom to impart" on the question of press:there smoking. Does not smoke sac/Ion not judge his fellow preachere. Bev. Dr. S. F. Smith (Newton Centre, Masse: Strongly opposed to the minister- ial tobacco habit. Rev. Austin Phelps (Andover) : Minna to clergymen being expeoted,to refrain from habits common to others, but generally condemns the tobacco habit as "against nature," and is glad Christian people are turning against it. Dr. Alger (Boston) talks bluntly : It is the duty of a clergyman by precept and example to teach other men their defiers. Therefore no clergyman ought to smoke, because molting is a vice. It is * ViOe ,beaange it is & wader of labor, time, Aden - tion and health. I believe that intoxioat- ing liquor and tobacco are the two chief enemies of the human race. It seems, therefore. as •olear as the stun in heaven the no clergyman can be heldguiltless who. does not set a personal example in opposi- tion to them both. After all, whatever view the reader takes. of the question, Dr. Alger's opinion as to, the duty of the minister to set ft good ' example, will stick. Some of those quoted. wonderfully belittle this phase of the matter. On the whole, the opinions Mee - trete that parsons are but hunaen, end poor humanity has a good deal of selfish- nees stored away in its make-up, and ire very touchy about its pet Unite or follies. A geed, many en them feel whet Hoses Bigelow expressed go neatly I'm a men should go tollable strong Agin' wrong ,in the abstract, for that kind o'. wrong Is always onpopier an' never gets pitied, Because 1*83 an ne Qii enr committed; But be mustn't be hard on pertieser sins, 'Caere thou he'll be Melon' the people's owa. shins. But there are the views of the great. pulpit lights. They are marked by a good. deal of diversity; but -well -e you pays your money and you takes your choice." A OANADIAN MIDLIONAIIM Too Busy Mainz Money to Stay at Home. HIS WIPE GETS A DIVORCE. The New York Herald .of last nigh says: Mr. and Mrs. Wileon Waddinghenn having agreed to dieagree, the services of a New York lawyer were oiled in, Chicago was selected as the proper meeting jaw. and now the lady enjoye an income of 525,000: each Of her tour children bee 510,0003 year for pocket money, and Mr. Waddingham, with 060,000 deducted from, hie yearly revenues, will now be allowed to. attend to bedlam without the interposi. non of family urea end troubles to distinct, his mind. M. Waddingham, however,. onties, irrigat. doesn't Mina a trifle like $65.,000, for be wne gold mines and silver uiv ing ditobee and railroads, enough land to make up & principality, cattle by. the tens, of thousands, and other odd beelines in - tante, each as betels, mule teams end general merchandise stores. It is not to, be wondered at withal! these interests than Mr. Waddingham waft found derelict binds family duties. He was a kind father and a generous provider; bis family could ORM on him for anything tbet money would buy; his wife had the choice of residues, - anywhere from Gilead, (10M2., to Borneo, but be belated that be abould be allowed to devote all hie time to Ida mins, iina cattle ranch. Herein lay the comae of the breach. Mr. Waddiughem was not alwaye - ride In fact, his strugglee to keep the wolf from olinebiug over his back. yard ce . fence were ordnanwas messed in 1867 at Fangston, ()amide, the officiating clergyman receiving a keg of cider for the job. The couple continued poor for loony yeast, and four children were born to them during thie time. otueur TIM num BILLS FEVEll. Finally the Black Hills excitement brolts • out, twelve years ago. Mr. Waddingbam converted his available assets into 4 pick ana shovel and started for the new gold g fields to seek his fortune. His family remained behind. The goddess of fortune • smiled on him from the outset, for in an abort time he had accumulated 0100,000. and then he concluded to try bis luck farther Booth. He was not a man of canoe - tion, but what he lacked in classical know. ledge wee Made up for by A litOolt .01, com- mon sense and by his ability to drive a bargain. Be concluded to go to Mexico, and there he became assoonded with Major Z. E. enee Barrow, whose adventurous career wae described in last Sunday's Herald. The Mexican Government needed money end Waddingham and Barrow advanced it, . taking land grants for security. This land soon passed into their possession. Some valuable mineral deposits) were found on it, worked and they paid from the grass roots. - waaaingliam's share in this immolation is • said to have been $2,000,000. New Mexico was the next field of operation. Here Mr. Waddingham acquired a vast treat of land, - comprising 0150,000 acres, and started in raising cattle. Like the °there this enter- prise was extremely profitable, and before long it was Mr. Waddingham's proud bout that he "owned more cattle and bad bigger cow pasture than any man in the - worlhaein MADE MONET IN EVEN:MUM ext enterprise was an irrigating T ditch and then a hotel, and finally anything and everything Mut offered in the way of n making money, until his acoredited fortune was upward of 55,000,000. During this time Mrs. Waddingham lived at New Haven, Conn. Her wants were lavishly supplied and the children were sent to e Europe to complete their education. A few years since, when on a visit to his family, Mr. Waddingham planned the ereotion of a private dwelling at West Haven that would eclipse anything in the • country. The dwelling when completed will cost nearly 5500,000. Mrs. Wadding - ham, however, was not setiefied with this. She wanted her husband's sooiety, but this he was not willing to give, as he was com- - pletely wrapped up in his businees. He allowed her $25,000 a year and 010,000 a year to each of his children. His eldest e daughter, who married ex -Senator W. B. Mills, received a cheque for $50,000 es a wedding present. Mrs. Waddingham noti- fied her nusband that unless he eettled down she would sue him for divorce. This - did not seem to disturb him, and BO 101 aline she filed her complaint for divorce - with Lawyer Williams H. Buttner on the grounds of desertion. TO GET THE SAME, ALLOWANCE. Mr. Waddingham had meanwhile ale - posed of his West Haven residence to Major Barrow and taken up hid residence in Chicago. Mr. Buttner went to Chicago, , and the result was the granting of an abso- lute divorce to the plaintiff on Saturday,. without alimony. Neither party to the action appears to bave borne any ill -will in the matter. It had been agreed between them that the wife and children were to continue to receive the same allOWanee. Mrs. Waddingham is said to be in this, oity and Mr. Waddinglinm was here yester. day on hie way to New Mexico. Canadian Cattle in England. - A London cable says:.At the Smith- field cattle show,which doted to -day, very. few points of Canadian interest have arisen. In several quarters, however' heard comments. on the marked growthin, the past season of the trade in Canadian store cattle. That success has attended the introduction of these stores into -the Midland counties- is generally admitted. I believe plans are being considered fax the possible extension of trade next year. in this direotion. The apathy of the Canadian Government in regard to emigra- tion work, and the 1'1111 in. the issue of emigration propaganda at thopresentItime, have also evoked commentJ -People alyneye long fdrononeyewhen. they're thorn - 1