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The .Attorney -General's bill enabling
(Boards of Trade in cities to appoint
atenerati arbitrators for. certain purposes.
Vain read a third time -nd linseed.
Mr. Reid asked wbetessr Reny arrange-
{ enta hadbeen made by the Govern-
Anent for protecting the Bocawood asy-
Sam from lightning, and if ea, with.
'Whom and at what cost.
Mr. Gibson answered that no arrange -
*mots had been made.
'The Boum went into committee on Mr.
Maw's bill to regulate the sale of goods
erutrusted to agents.
:Mr. Cleland wanted the clause neves-
feasting a written authority in order
!that tan
as transaction ries out
sa Ion ear
y by
agent should be binding on his principal
Mrncac out: He did not think such a
Provision fair to the innocent purchaser,
and thought the manufacturer of the ar-
;tlole .should bear the risk. He moved
;flint the provision be struek out of the
• *louse.
1r. Meredith agreed with this view of
;the matter. He thought the House
?would stultify itself by including such
et, .proviso.
.Mr. Gibson thought the object of the
aim was to make transactions b'f the
Mature affected by it as safe as possible.
Be /suggested that the bill should be al-
lowed to stand, as he was not prepared
Ito agree to the amendment proposed,
And would like to see if these different
!;news might not be reconciled by the
addition of a sub -section to the clause
las it now stood.
Mr. Fraser suggested that it would be
lordly fair to take the step proposed
,without giving the manufacturers a
'chance to express their views. He
thought it would be well to leave the
+'bill over until next session, as it was
• ow too late to take up such a proposal
properly.
.Alter some further discussion the bill
:was referred back to the Legal Com-
,auittee.
Mr. 'Glendenning moved the second
:reading of his bill to amend the Insur-
ance Corporations Act by enacting that
*he registration fee of insurance pol-
icies be reduced from $2 to 25c.
Gibson opposed the bill. He said
:Oat no complaints had been 'heard from
fs single insurance agent, the people who
?would be most affected by the bill, and
ahat the present fee only just covered
lexpenses connected with making out and
:registering policies.
The bill was withdrawn.
The House then went into committee
lion Mr. Gibson's bill to secure the prompt
punishment of personators at elections.
Mr. Gibson alluded to the previous de -
late which had taken palce on the bill,
axis in continuation said he was satis-
efied that the application of the bill was
general enough, without extending its
;powers to rural districts.
Mr -Meredith did not see why the power
to deal with cases which would come
tinder the proposed Act could not be
eilispeeed of by an ordinary magistrate
yea well as by police magistrates.
.After some further discussion the bill
;was reported with slight amendments.
The following bills were read a third time:
Itsapecting the city of London -Mr. Mer-
adith.
Reepsoting mortgages and sales of per-
sonal property—Mr. Gibson '(Hamilton).
.Mr. Rose moved that the House ratify the
order -in -Council providing that the follow -
leg rams be paid out of the permanent
fund of the University of Toronto for the
below mentioned purposes, namely : (1)
Rgnipment of chemical laboratory, twenty
thousand dollars ($20,000) ; (2) completion of
;igy'ninaaium building, eight thousand dollars
'f$8,000) ; t3) glass and iron oases for mu-
seum, twelve thousand dollars ($12,000).
Aftor a brief discussion, the motion was
allowed to stand to allow of some additional
Information being laid before the House on
the matter.
Mr. Hardy'e bill relating to mines and
wincing lands and Mr. Gibson's bill to amend
the Registry Act palmed through their com-
mittee stages, and were reported, with
slight amendments.
The House went into Committee of Supply.
Mr. Gibson opened the debate on the es-
timates for public institutions maintenance.
Me said that in deference to the oritioiem
poi "hon. gentlemen last year, the estimates
3or the current year showed all allowances
ler rent, and what particular officers would
receive such altowanoes.
Mr. Meredith asked why the Toronto Aey-
jnm Por the Insane, with 710 patients, was
to remise 09,473, and the London Asylum,
w ith 1,008 patients, would receive only
li189,3b4-
Mr. Gibson replied that the yearly amount
=fleeted for the maintenance of patients
st the Toronto Asylum was three times as
large as that collected by the London in-
srtitution.
Mr. Meredith called attention to the enor-
mous increase in the poet of maintenance
.ef asylums, which this year would amount
to, $800,000. He thought that the time had
H ome when in the interests of the country
,a thorough examination of the question
abenld be made with a view to lessen the
,enorsoone expenditure. He asked whether
'the Government had not departed from the
imaginal plan with regard to these institu-
tions, which was that the relatives of in -
raster should contribute, if not fu whole,
at least to come extent, to the cost of
maintenance.
Mr. Gibson made a somewhat lengthy ex-
planation of the polioy of the Government
In connection with these Institutions. Ho
agreed that the amount of this grant was
becomingvery large. He, for his part,
would be glad to see some system adopted
Which would throw a portion of the cost
on the munlolpalitlea. The innovation
would, however, be a serious one, and the
Government were not prepared to announce
may but would tdclaim thatarture in i thr eir adminiscat tration
of this ;branch of the Government had been
economies' and efficient. The condition of
the Institutions themselves, and a com-
parison of the cost of maintenance with
that prevailing in other provinces, were
evidence of this.
The House took up routine work, and for
an hour occupied itself with committee
work en
public and private blue, and with
various unimportant second readings. The
boil in reepe°t of the Queen Victoria Nia-
gara Fails park was passed through oom-
siaitteo.
Sir Oliver Mowat moved the second read-
ing of his bill to faoilitate the local ad-
ministration of justice In certain cases. He
explained the provisions of the bill, which
was to apply to London and Ottawa, and
would provide for weekly /fittings of the
Riga Court
g in these cities. He hoped the
Hones would concur in the measure.
IVIr.. Meredith expressed himself- ae being
in swoord with the principle of the bill, bot
wished it was more extended in its opera -
Moo. He was afraid the results aimed at
would• not be reached while the judges were
Su xnnot overworked as at present. Any-
thing whioh would facilitate the adminie-
I:ration of justice was to be favored.
Mr. Whitney approved of the bill, and
thought it Would be well received by the
people at large.
The Blouse went Into Committee of Sup-
ply., and took up the estimates for public
3nstitatlons. The debate was very far from
ea:citieg, consisting of a mild criticism of
.the ensnarement of blind asylums by the
leerier of tine Opposition and explanations
ay the lion. Provincial Secretary.
lesering the dleouselon Mr. Hardy said
that the chief aim of the management of
t he Aayiupi for the Blind was to matte the
pazpims self -.reliant, to koop them from roam-
ing the country, and to encourage the idea
of thrift among them, The success so far
was very gratifying.
when the House went into committee on
iNTr. Ilaroonrt's bill respecting the voters'
Ilea
]kir, Meredith said he thought it a great
b►ardsblp that a man compelled to leayo
the distrlet In which he lived just before
en election should become disfranohisod. He
:thought the bill should be no amended an
to allow, t toter to ezerolee his franchise
without residing in a new district for any
lisagth of time.
Mr. Rom mouldered that the propo.sl of
the hon. gentleman would lead to whet the
Govenunent were trying to avoid—namely,
corruption. He thought tbwt any P01090
twitting the Iruuobiee should bo willing to
put up with come inconvenience when mov-
ing into a new district.
Gibson'e s
b ll to ase mend the Division nto committee Cou Tie.
Aob.
Mr. White. moved an amendment to pro-
vide for the payment of witness fees to
defeudents who might be called' upon to
testify in their own camp, Ile aim moved
an amendment to abolish imprisonment for
oontempt of court by the non-payment of
a judgment debt, by incorporating in the•
bill the following obtuse ; " In no case,
however., shall the judge have or exercise
any greater or other power than that in
similar oases a judge of the High Court
may have or exeroiso." He spoke briefly
on the latter amendment.
Both
amendments were defeated.
Tho House
went
into oommittee on the
Attorney -General's bili to faoilitate the.
local administration of justice in °Gratin
05000.
Mr. Ryerson asked was a license
granted to premises known as the Dor-
set House, Dorset, Muskoka, Why was it
done against the wishes ofa majority
of the ratepayers, and why were sub-
poenas not served upon Amos Turnbull
and John White in connection with a
breach of the License Act in which they
were stated to be material witnesses ?
Mr. Harcourt replied that no license
had been granted for the Dorset House,
and there was no evidence in the de-
partment to show why subpoenas should
be issued.
Mr. Baxter asked whether it was the
intention of the Government, during the
present "session, to introduce any legis-
lation to provide for the lessening of
expenses in connection with the settle-
ment of small estates under wills of de-
ceased persons.
Sir Oliver Mowat replied that the
Legal Committee were to report a Bill
with certain provisions to diminish the
expenses in the direction named by the
hon. geutleman.
The House went into committee and
reported Mr. Balfour's Bill to amend
the Street Railway Act (with slight
amendment) ; Mr. Wood's (Brant) Bill
to amend the General Road Companies
Act; jlfr. Sharpe's Bill to extend the
Workman's Lien for Wages Act ; and
Mr. Godwin's Bill to amend the High
Schools Act (with amendments).
When the second reading of Mr. Tait's
Bill to limit the hours of work on Sat-
urdays was reached,
Mr. Tait asked that the Bill be dis-
charged. Tho Bill, he said, had been
printed for distribution ; deputations
had waited upon and petitions had been
received by the Government in its
favor, but ho thought the matter could
be better dealt with at a future time
when the question had been discussed
from all sides.
The House went into committee on
the Georgian 'Bay Ship Canal and
Power Aqueduct Company's Bill. It
excited considerable opposition.
Mr. Fraser said that the powers given
the company were such as had never
been given to a company of this kind
before in Ontario, especially in the
matter of expropriation. He thought
the company would have gigantic power
and ho was afraid of the Bill in its pres-
ent ebape.
Mr. Clarke agreed with the hon. mem-
ber, saying that he was not at all sat-
isfied with the Bill as it stood.
Mr. Gibson also spoke briefly, saying
that he had done his best in committee
to provide every possible safeguard in
connection with the Bill.
Mr. Gilmour spoke strongly in favor
of the Bill, and while admitting that
the route was somewhat indefinite, said
that the company were willing to con-
sent to any additional safeguards which
the Legislature might think wise to put
in the Bill.
The discussion proceeded, however, and
clause by clause the Bill passed through
the committee stage.
This carried, and the Bill was then re-
ported with amendments.
Mr. Gibson's Bill to incorporate the
Hamilton Radial Electric Railway passed
through committee, and was reported
with slight amendments. There was no
opposition to it.
The'House adjourned at 10.50 p. m.
A PURE INVENTION.
Bozeman People Satisfied "Dutton" Never
Bad an Existence.
Last week the Chronlole made but a brief
mention of the faot that W. J. Stevenson,
of thin city, while burning the midnight
oil one night recently in pursuit of the
deewas con-
fronted by. a mysteries anger, who touched his arm
and maid, " I am the man who killed Mr.
and Mrs. Williams, an aged couple living
near Toronto. Canada." The thoroughly
astounded barrister without a word re-
sponded to the request, and placing the sig-
nature of Robert Dutton to the paper the
apparition, for euoh it now seems to have
been, disappeared. The Chronicle scoffed at
this story and was inclined to believe that
" Steve ' had put up one of his practical
jokes.
We are now satisfied that " Steve," who
seems to have been the only one in Bozo -
man who knew anything about the murder,
the accounts of which were elaborately de-
tailed in his home papers,where it occurred,
had become the victim of an hallucination ;
that he possessed an undefined mental fac-
ulty which can receive sensations from
events occurring at a distance (when they
concern persona in whom the subject is
deeply interested or in magnetio rapport),
as the eeneee receive impressions from ob-
jects within their roach. The nature and
limitations
of this faculty are but !roper -
featly known, but the detective is .atisfiod
that " Steve " has been made a victim of
them.
The whole town is now of the opinion
that " Steve " Is the victim of the super-
natural, and that his interest in the case
from the constant perusal of the papera
conjured up a fictitious person by the
name of Johnny Dugan, but by a slip pt
the pon the affidavit wan made to read
Robert Dutton.—Bozeman (Mont.) Chronicle.
JAP. DOCTORS AND THE RAILROADS.
The mother-in-law of the Mikado of
Japan bas recently been ill. She was
attended by 423 physicians, but in spite
of that she pulled through. The Bud-
dhist priests claim that her illness was
caused by the introduction of railroads
into the kingdom. Their argument was
a very powerful and convincing one, too,
since it showed conclusively that when
there were no railroads in the kingdom
the Empress was in good health, and
after the introduction of railroads she
became ill.—Providence journal
MEN LESS VALUED THAN RABBITS.
In the days of William the Conqueror
it was more dangerous to kill a rabbit
than a man. A murderer could ,'escape
with payment
oiafierabbit
n a slayer
was put to death. Y
THE ACCORDION.
Accordions were invented in 1829 by
Mr. Damian of 'Vienna and .a single Ger-
man
e -
man firm now manufactures over
a year.
Bradstreet's reports 81 business !ail-
ureer this week against 88 last week, and
81 in the corresponding week last year.
A great Parisian forgery scandal. is
being diseuosed; it is said to involve
high officials.
Sincere and durable friondahips be-
tween women have to be cemented by
email crimes.•aIBafzac
eaatat
WALLED IN BY FIEND.
Thrilling Story yf Mexico
S o o
Love and Rate.
One of the quietest and most practical
citizens' of St. Louis has a queer story
to toll in connection with hie recent stay
in Durango, Mexico, where he. has
spent several months looking after the
mining interests of a firm, in Chicago
with which he has been connected. He
has mentioned his experience to a friend
with h whom he is quite intimate, and
a Republic reporter caned on him and
urged him to give the story to the press.
" To tell the truth, I have been trying
to keep the matter secret," ho said,
frankly. " There is something about it
that puzzles me very much—something
that I don't at all understand, and I feel
reluctant to speak about it."
After some urging, however, and a
promise to withhold his name from the
public, he told his story :
"I want to toll you first," he said,
" that I don't understand what• they call
psychological phenomena, and I don't be-
lieve in them." Such a thing cel supersti-
tion is absolutely impossible for me. I
would scarcely believe in a ghost if I
were to see it. I would consider that I
was being deceived by somebody or
something, and that the apparition could
be explained on perfectly natural
grounds. This will show you that the
occurrences I am going to describe nat-
urally gave me a great deal of trouble
and that I am worried about them be-
cause I don't understand them.
" I went down into the Province of
Durango, as you know, about three
months ago. The place in which I was
located during that time was a very old
and very picturesque town, scattered
over the slope of a mountain near the
mines with which my business was con-
nected, and a long way from any rail-
road. Knowing that I would be detained
there some time, I looked around for
comfortable quarters, and after ;a day
or two I found, away at the upper end
of the town, a house that was plesided
over by an old Mexican woman, the only
inmate, who rented me one room and
charged a price that, would have mane
a St. Louis landlord green with envy.
The house had been quite a large and
prosperous one at some time, I should
judge, for there were ruinous walls in-
dicating that it had once inclosed a
handsome court, with flowers and foun-
tains in it ; but now nothing was left
but the front of the house, consisting of
three or four rooms strung along in a
row. My room was at the end of the
string, and there was no door of com-
munication between that and the next
room, in which the old woman slept. To
get into that part of the house one had
to go outside and walk to the door along
a little path through the tangled shrub-
bery. I have told you this particularly,
because it was necessary for you to un-
derstand what happened.
"I was so tired the first night I slept
like a log ,yet I did not feel refreshed
when awakened. I felt as though some
trouble had been weighing, me down all
night, and I caught myself twenty times
trying to think what it was. The impres-
sion had not really worn away when
night came again, and I settled myself
to sleep once more, hoping that I would
have a fine night's rest.
" But in the night I .was awakened
with a start. The sound that I heard—
it could not have been that that waked
me, for it was low and faint—but there
I was, wide awake in an instant and
thrilled with a curious sensation of fear.
What I heard was the crying and sob-
bing of a woman, mingled with tones
of pleading and sometimes a word or two
of something that sounded like a prayer.
It was evident that some woman was in
grievous trouble. My first thought was
that the old woman from whom I had
rented was being murdered in the next
room. Snatching my revolver I dashed
out of my room around to the door of
hers.
"' Here ! Mother i Mother ! Gano !' I
cried, beating on the door of her room,
and presently she opened the door a little
way, grumbling and cross at having been
disturbed.
" What is the matter ?' she retorted
in choice Mexican. ' Nothing is the mat-
ter—nothing at all. I am no fool to lie
awake when I ,might be asleep. And,
after taking an hour or two to convince
myself that this was true, I went to
sleep also and slept till morning.
" I must admit that when night came
around agate I was not so thoroughly
convinced. I had been debating the
question with myself all day, and was
more undecided than ever. It was late
before I gave up the problem and closed
my eyes, and I had scarcely lost con-
sciousness of myself, I think, when I was
suddenly broad awake again sitting up
in.. -bed. You must acknowledge that I
had good reason for being startled—for,
through the intense silence of the night
came .the low and exquisitely sweet
tones of a woman's Voice, singing in
English, ' Do They Miss Me at Home ?'
The voice
was low, as it would naturally
be coming through that thick. wall. I
'sprang out of bed, with one ear to the
wall I listened eagerly. But scarcely had
I taken that position when the song
ceased and the sound of sobbing began,
and that, in turn, wont off into a wild
peal of maniac laughter. Then every-
thing was still, and, though I waited in'
agony, no other sound came.
" I knew by this time that the voice
was not that of the old Woman, for hers
was harsh and cracked enough, while
this was eweet, .cultivated and Ameri-
can. I began to feel sure that some un-
fortunate girl was now confined in that
room, or perhaps shut up in some closet
between the two rooms. I determined
not to rest until I had investigated, how-
ever rude I knight seem. Perhaps a
human life might depend on my scrut-
iny;, I toad to myself.
" The next dry, on pretense of finding
the old woman and buying some matches
from her, I went into the house through
the kitchen, passed on into the next
room and finally into her room. She was
out, and I looked around me in amaze-
ment. Nowhere was there a closet or
any other place in whichit would be
possible to hide any one away. The wall
evbich separated her room from mine
was ad
dead, blank wall, with not a
break to mar its smooth surface.
" While I stood there the old woman
camp in. T had meant to ask her for
matches, but a bolder spirit took pos-
session of me as I mot her simpletons
oyes.
"' What have yon done with the young
girl you had in this room last night l'
'Something asked her. wrong is going
on in this house, and I mean to know
what it is 1'
She drew away from me and hastily
crossed herself.
"' There is no young girl in the house !'
/She cried, with a look of horror and
alarm. ' Do' you sec any place to hide a
young girl ?
And she hurried away into one of the
other roma and shut herself up, leaving
me to take myself oft at: my leisure.
I went out and was walking' along
the little patehto the door of my room
when it suddenly occurred to me that the
distance .between the .t ,doors °lathe
outside seemed very ,wggli'tgreaterr,tray,
the same 'distance seemed on ,the inside.
In an idle spirit of investigation. I topica. tape -measure from " my pocket.:and.
measured the distanceofrone door to,
door. Then I went into,Mother canoes
room and measured' froin the wall tel the
door ; thou into my own 'room, wtiere"I
pleasured tlzo' same ..diatapce. 1 stood
astonished at. the r,e ui$.:�'b0 wall was
14 feet 'thick'.
I stood for a few mo,nentspondering
the matter, wondering curioualyhew any
human voice could have found its way
throughsuch e and
cl a thickness o stop
T
mortar. While I stood there,.,jny eyes„
fell upon an 'outline in, the wall bearing
Home resemblance to a doorway. .A lit-
tle investigation allowed me that it had
been a doorway once, and .l tad been
walled up.
"Driven by sudden impulse, I went
around to the back of the house and ex-
amined the wall. There had been an
arched window once, but it, tea, had
been walled up, and there was scarcely
an outline of it left.
" Notwithstanding all that I had seen
and heard I was dull enough about it.
I wondered curiously why, they had
made a wall 14 feet thick between the
two rooms, and why they had closed up
a door and a window to do it, but at
that time I_was very far from suspeeting
the truth. I worked with feverish en-
ergy that night, writing until near mid-
night in the hope of tiring myself down
so that I could sleep, but onto more
scarcely had I fallen into my, first sound
slumber when I was startled wide awake
in an instant. This time my blood ran
cold, for the sound that had startled me,
coming from beyond that• wall, was a
long, wild scream. I never in all my
life heard a sound of such horror and
fear'. I was half way across the room
before I was fairly awake. 'I shook and
trembled all over like one in an „ague.
For the first time in my life I had.com-
pletely lost my self-control and abject
fear had complete possession of me. Be-
fore I could move the scream came
again, and then all at once it burst upon
me that this was not a 14 -foot wall but
a room, with every door and window
closely sealed.
" Like a maniac I ran to the old
woman's room and beat upon the door
until she same. ' The room, the room,
the walled -in room !' I cried, uncon-
seriously shaking her until her teeth
chattered. ' Somebody is in there—a
woman, I 'tell you 1 I can hear her cry-
ing and screaming 1'
" And then the old woman, her dark
face taking on a look like a demon's,
broke away from me and shook her
clinched fist at the wall, crying
"'Let her scream, curse her 1 Who
cares for that ? She was my son's wife
—my . son's, do you hear ?—and lbs wan
false to him !—a curse upon the evil
hour when he first looked at her white
,face 1—and I told him what to do and
we did it. I helped him with my own
hands. Now let her scream! I have
heard it many a night, but what do I
caro ?'
" The look of demoniac rage on the face
of the old crone, coupled with her hor-
rible words, was too much for me. , I
tried to get out of the room, but fell
on the doorstone, and swooned away for
the first time in my lite.
" When I recovered consciousness and
crawled back into my room I felt myself
a total wreck, mentally and physically.
My mind was in a whirl, and I could
fix it upon nothing, and so I passed
the night. As morning came, however, 1
was able to form somekind of resolution
to open that room, no matter what it
might cost.
" My resolution was seconded in a
strange way. The first one Who entered
Mother Gano's apartments the next
morning found her lying on the floor
quite dead.. I had always believed that
her paroxysm of rage killed her, and
that she was already dead that night
before I had gone to her room. However
that may be, it transpired that she
had no heirs, her only son having com-
mitted suicide some years before, and
that her property would go to the State,
This beingthe ease; I went to the proper
authorities and, by dint of a little judi-
cious bribery I managed to buy the house
without any preliminaries. Within two
days after the old woman's death the
house was, mine and' I was there with a
workman whom I had brought over
from the mines—a white man that I
could trust—and we were ready to open
the walled -in room.
" I made the workman begin on that
part of the wall where the door had been
closed up. Piece by piece he chipped
out the mortar and the small, uneven
stones. As the work proceeded I became
like one possessed. I pushed the man
away, and, seizing his pick, I sing and
tore at the wall, showering down the
stones and mortar on the floor. After
a while a hole was broken through,
and we were face to face with that inner
darkness.
" A horrible odor rushed out at that
opening and assailed us, driving us
both back from the wall and turning me
deathly sick. But in a few moments
I rallied and began tearing at the wall
feverishly, and after a while the opening
was large enough so that we could take
a lamp and
1 go into that horrible room.
" Nothing moved,except where the un-
accustomed breeze from the outer world
stirred a silken curtain. The room had
once been a lady's boudoir, it seemed.
A soft carpet was underfoot, and the
drapery was of the finest. Two long
pp
mirrors hung opposite one another on the
walls, and a beautiful dresser of •some
dark native wood, elaborately carved,
was covered with the dainty appliances
of the toilet, as though the mistress had
just left it. A wardrobe like the dresser
stood in the corner, and, opening the
door curiously, I found it hung with
algn
e a t dresses some of them `'trimmed
with the finest, of filmy lace. On the
upper shelf stood a pair of tinysli ers
still
wearing the impressionofppthe
dainty feet that had worn them. Upon
the wall, near one of the mirrors, was
a picture of a beautiful girl, her hair
a mass of gold—oh, the face haunts me
yet! I cannot talk of it, for when we
went nearer to look at jt and the work-
man held the lamp up to get a better
light, he suddenly recoiled and pulled
me back. There at our feet lay an awful
thing—a skeleton, with the remnants of
a silken dress still upon it, and with
masses of golden hair wrapped and
twined about the bones and tangled in
the fingers. Oh i it was horrible ! I
never will forget it 1 I staggered out
of there and fell upon my bed and was
sick for two weeks, so ill that I knew
nothing of what passed. The workman
took matters in his own hands. When
I recovered consciousness he had Closed
up that door again and sin"bothed it
over and I let it remain so. 1.•wouldn't
have looked into that room again for all
the money in the universe. '•I sold the
place to that workman when 1 came
away, and he promised me that he would
guard its secret.
"As to the bounds I heard, who knows ?
I don't. The whole affair has puzzled
me beyond endurance, and my health
gave way, so under it that I had to tome
home. Everybody thought that it was
the climate, but it •was not, It wart, the.
walled -up room. There was no life in
that room—there betd not been for yearti.
and yet I know that tat) fair yopug
wife ;of a jea:leue eleixioan, • sit up' in
that: Lliving tomb, bad wept ' and pleaded
for hole, ana had . gone. maid. anA1,.•'lie.d.
.at last with sereaiiie and maniac laugh
ter on her lips," '
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Water Wailer 'Prersure "aft. ii ' 6oureeeof
Energy.
`hydro -electric plant of -co'nsiderable
interest is now in course �f xonstrucxtxon
at' 4Atwerpp., ,Belgium, says. the Engineer-
ingEsoord. The p;im of the works is to
avoid the u;bi' cost of the' continuous
current
whin aur the high tehs'o of
h
Wiring x in
g
the alternatiug current, watch eh
a
P
ar-
pty
is disturbing to theaelgian mind.
ale plant aims to overcome these alleg-
ed objections by using water under pres-
sure as a source of energy, which is
distributed through street pipes to .a
number of small stations. In these
stations are a number of hydraulic mo-
tors driving dynamos which deliver a
continuous, current over an area of.
about 1640 radius around each sub-
station. • The plant now building has
a main station containing two horizon-
tal compound condensing Sulzer engines,.
with cylinders of 29.9 and 43.3 inches
diameter and 4L4 finches stroke run-
ning at a spend of from 30 to 76 re-
volutions a minute. They are directly
conueeted to the pumps, which deliver
about 161-2 gallons of water per re-
volution each, under a pressure of
about 760 pounds. The water is then
piped through steel mains to the sub-
stations, about seven and a half miles
of these mains being required.
6EEAr EN41NEE1ft1NG eomiEessi.
A Canal Pretest W rich Overate Ws ewe and
Uancbester.
The canal that is to unite the North
Sea with the Baltic—a, work conceived
and begun by Bismarck—is said to
excel, from an engineering view, the
Suez, Corinth and Manchester Canals,
says the Marine Record, while its com-
mercial and strategic importance fairly
entitles it to rank as " the Suez Canal
of Europe." The canal *ill extend from.
Holtenau, on the Kieler Fjord, to Bruns-
buttel, on the River Elbe, a distance of
60 miles. At Grunthal, the watershed
between the Elbe and Eider is passed
and over the gigantic cutting, at a
height of 130 feet above the water sur-
face, has been built a railway bridge
with a span of 470 feet. At normal
water level the canal will be nine
fathoms deep, and it will have a width
of 22 yards at the bottom and of 36
yards on the surface at lowest tide.
It will be free from locks and sluices
along its entire course, but at each ens
a double gate will guard against danger'
ons tides. The work will be completed
in a few months, the construction time
to be seven years, and the cost will be
about $4Q,000,000.
NAPOLEON IN POVERTY.
A very characteristic letter from Napo-
leon to the celebrated actor Talma has
just been brought to light at Naples.
" I have fought like a lion for the Re-
public, my good Talma," writes the con-
querer of Marengo and Austerlitz, " and
now she rewards me by letting me starve.
I am at the end of my resources. That
wretched Aubrey leaves me in the streets,
when he could very well do something
for me. I feel capable of accomplishing
more than the Generals Santerre and
Rossignol, and there is not a soul 'to em-
ploy me.' You are fortunate I Your
fame does not depend upon any one. Two
hours passed on the stage puts you in
presence of the public, who rewards you
with glory. We military must strive for
it on a larger stage, on which .we are
not always allowed to appear. Do not
complain of your position. Remain at
your theatre; u°bo knows'if I shall ever
appear at mine again. I saw Monvel yes-
terday ; he is a true friend. Barras pro-
mises me much ; will he keep his word ?
I doubt it. Meanwhile I have arrived
at my last sou'1 Can you favor me with
a few crowns ? They would be very use-
ful to me, and I•jgive you my word to
return them to you from the first king-
dom that I conquer with my sword."
THE REASON.
" So you have discharged your dress-
maker. I thought she did beautiful
work."
Mrs, Growler—That's just it. There was
never an opportunity to find fault with
anything.
A LITTLE LATE.
It is noteworthy that electric light
carbons are now being made in England,
says the Lohdon Electrical Engineer.
San Francisco has the greatest propor-
tion of divorces to marriages of any city
in the world. For every 10,000 marriages
there are 2,223 divorces.
It
is jusi Decb
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A RETROSPECT.
In tho old days long ago,
In the sweet .Tune weather,
You were Hattie, I was Tom,
As we strolled together.
Strolled where laughing strenmlets ran
Into cool recesses,
Out into the silver sun,
With its warm caresses.
Junes have come and gone again,
Time has scarcely tarried ;
You're no longer maiden, and
I—I, too, am married.
Time may shake its roses down,
Thorns will always follow ;
Hattie infra.—Pardon me !
All the world is hollow.
You are married, so am I—
If we had another
Chance to marry, do you think
Wo would wed each other ?
" KNIGHT OF TAF: GARTER."
" Not by bargain, trade or barter
Came I by that golden garter,"
Said he as he sought digestion
Smoking answering my question.
" Indian Springs was my location
When I rested in vacation ;
And I met a gray -eyed maiden, "
Fair as seraphim of Aidenn.
" I was musing and half reading,
While the restful hours were speeding
In my open book she laid it,
Saying : , This is one ; I made it ;
"' And I have another new one,
But different far it is—a blue one.
To thy care I now allot it,
And please tell them how you got it 1'
" That ie all of this true story,
For it is no allegory,
And the knot that deftly bound it
Has entwined my heart strings 'round it !"
TO THE DANDELION.
My childhood's earliest thoughts are linked
with thee; ,
The eight of thoe calls back the robin's
song,
Who, from the dark old tree
Beside the door sang clearly all day long,
And I, secure in early piety,
Listened as if I heard an angel sing
With news from Heaven, which he did
bring
Fresh every day to my untainted ears,
When birds and flowers and I were ha$•p'
peers.
How like) a prodigal doth nature seem,
When thou, fur all thy gold, so common
art !
Thou teachest me to deem
More eaeredly of every human heart
Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam
Of Heaven, and could some wondrous se-
cret show.
Did we but pay the love we owe,
And with a child's undoubting wisdom look
On all the living pages of God's book.
James Russell Lowell.
HER MATRIMONIAL VIEWS.
I will not wed a widower, to have my happy,
life
Tormented by the virtues of Me " lal6
lamented wife."
I will not wed a bachelor, with heart of
solid stone,
To spend his evenings at the club and leave
me all alone.
I will not wed a millionaire, to be accused
of crime,
If he should chance to pass away a bili
before his time.
A poor man's wife I'll never be, to bake
and stew and broil,
With half a dozen little ones to add to 812
my toil.
I will not wed a handsome man, a "sport"
would not suit me—
They're bound to have another wife, and
sometimes two or three.
A homely man is not nzy style—a "dude" I
would detest—
,
I could not love a solemn man, or one who•e
prone to jest.
I will not wed the man who seeks fol years
my love to gain ;
The very slowness of his suit would always
bring me pain.
I will not wed the man who ciaime to love
me at first glance--
In
lance—In feet' I will not wed at all, until I get
a chance.
A COMPLIMENT.
Hie fattier and mother were both away,
And baby and/ I had been friends all day—
Many and gay wore the games we played I
Baby ordered and I obeyed-
We cared not at all foxt the rainy sky,
Wo built us a block house three feet high
We throw pine knots on the nursery fire
And watched the flames mount higher and
higher.
We hid in the most improbable nooks,
We looked at the pictures in all of hia
books •, •
We ran In " tag " till his cheeks were red
And hie curls were tangled about his head•
So when the twilight was closing down
Over the fields and the woodlands brown
And nurse deolared we must say gond night,
Ile clung to mo still in the firelight—
Ito trampled my gown with his rough ilttlrl
feet.
Ho Climbed on my lap and kibeed me sweet,
And, as he scrambled from off my knee,
" You'd make a good mother," said baby,
to me.
I have had compliments now and then,
From grown-up woman and grown-up mens
Some were commonpiace, some Were new,
'Never was one of them rung se true,
Never was one seomad half'. se roar,
Baby Compared me to his Ideal
A youth popularly known as "Baba
Bliss, of Bloomington, /11, Weighs 453
pounds wears a 19 1-2 collate a 7 5-8 bfl
and a No. 12 shoe. And yet he ie 'a good
foot racer nudes graceful walker.