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The Exeter Advocate, 1894-7-26, Page 6eenaisseeeen., niffSubsolibers who do not reeetve taw paper Promptly will please notify as et ouce Advertising rates on applicatiou .TIIE EXETER ADVOCATE. THURSDA.Y, JULY 26, 1894, Week's COmMereial Suinniary. The ;Nue report of the Egyptian cotton crop shows the cottou to be healthy wad well forward everywhere, The platinum mines of the Ural Moun- tains, whioli constitute thetworld's chief source of supply, are being worked to their fullest eapacity with orders two year ahead. It is the opinion of the New York Journal of Commerce, after a careful in- vestigation, that vial gas in the larger eastern cities can be made at a profit with a price to consumers fixed as low as '75 cents per thousand feet, The President of the British Board of Trade has finally announced in the House of Commons in answer to a ques- tion that there was no prospect at present of relaxing the rule that Canadian cattle must be killed at their port of landing.. The business failures in the Dominion in the second quarter of 1894 were 380, -with liabilities aggregating $8,526,306, or ai average of 89,186. In the COITOS- ponding quarter of 1893 there were 474 failures with liabilities amounting to $4,664.319, being an average of $9.842. This shows a most encouraging improve- ment. The number of cattle exported. from the port. of Montreal in the week ended. Slily 4th is 2,866, and the number of sheep 3.187. The number of cattle exported from Montreal in the week ended July 12, 1894. was 4,151, as compared with 2.866 in the aveek before. The number of sheep was 4.742, against 3,187 in the preceding -week. The returns of the 'Western Cattle Market, Toronto. for the first half of the year show an increase in the hog and sheep trade, but the receipts of cattle have fallen off about 11 per cent. The returns give the number of cattle as 41,781, and in the corresponding period of 1893 42.814. The number of sheep is 20.617, against 9.286 last year, and the number of hogs 55,874, as compared with 82,782 in the first half year of 1893. While the value of cattle alone shipped from the port of Montreal this season is only 82,155.9-13. as against $2.225,330 in the corresponding period. of 1898, with the advantage of an earlier opening this year. The value of cattle and sheep to- gether shows a slight increase over that of a year ago, the figures being $2,272,- 877 so far this year, and $2 226,670 to the same date a year ago. The increase is. therefore, wholly due to the movement in sheep, and it is evident that the embargo on Canadian cattle affects our export trade more seriously this year than last. The London, Eng., seed trade; accord- ing to latest advices, report quiet markets with little business doing. Extended en- quiries throughout the clover districts of North America indicate that the new crop will pia bably average two-thirds of last year's. Nearly all kinds of seeds are cheaper, especially rape seed. and mustard, which are low. Canary seed. keeps going up, with Liverpool leading the market upwards. The United States Government report on the crops issued this week shows that the condition at the close of last month was 68. against 88 at the end of May, and 741n July, 1893. The dron of nearly twenty points in a month is almost sen- sational. The average condition of the spring and winter wheat is 79.3. The area of corn is estimated at 76,000,000 acres. against 72,000,000 last year, but the Condition of the corn crop has im- proved from 93 2 in June, 1893. to 85 this year. This indicates an unusually heavy crop of corn. Our exports to Great Britain are in- creasing far beyond general exports. In the first half of the year the increase, as estimated by the British Board of Trade. is £694.065, or about 40 per cent. as com- pared with the first six months of 1898. The chief increases are sheep £18,000. bacon £57.000. hams5,000. butter n3,000, cheese £88.000, eggs £11,500, fish £278,- 000, wood £260.000. Imports to Canada, however. decreased in the same period. by 28 per cent. For June alone the imports decreased 87 per cent.. but exports to Great Britain increased 25 per cent. The usual monthly report of the To- ronto Custom House shows a material reduction in imports for June, which, however. is characteristic of the whole Dominion, and for that matter the whole continent. The greatest reduction is in dry goods. which fell off from $417,148 in June, 1898, to $222,008 last month, being only a little more than half. Metal goods aggregated $182,244 in. June of 1893, but last month the total was only $128,569. The total imports last month reached $1,167.918. as compared. with $1,741,771, the reduction being no less in free than in clutiablensoods. Exports on the other hand increased from $216,485 in June, 1888. to $285,024 last month, but 816,060 of this represented American produce, against $17,977 a year ago. Our manu- factured exports, however, are very small. A petition itt equity was filed. in the United. States Circuit, Court at Los Angeles, on the 16th inst., which is of a startling character. The petition is in- stigated by Attorney -General Olney, and is directed against the Southern Pacific Railway Company and thirty other rail- road companies, besides many noted rail- road people. If the suit is successhal it will affect every railroad in. the United States. It is stated that the effect will be to make every eorporation now a part of the Southern Pacific Company o-perate under a separate management, and make void all monopoly of freight and passen- ger traffic. The petitiozt is in the name of the United States, and the defendants are charged with con-nal/ling and conspir- ing together, and with other persons and corporations, whose names are unknown, to restrain trade and commerce between and among several states of the United States, and between and among states end territories of the United States and foreign countries. The petition questions the eorporate existenee of the eompanies affected, and asks them to produce ter- tain contracts and show cause why they should not be annulled, The °ammo of true politeness consists in the habitual observance of the Golden Rule.. Do to others as you would have them do to yett. Seek to make others comfortable and happy, and you will rarely be deemed. impolite. It is impolite to speak of persone, with whom you ere but slightly acquainted, by their firat name, • litaniteha Cren Beilletina The Usual crop bulletin issued by the Manitoba, Government relating to the growing orops of that Provinee shows that the acreage of wheat, oats, barley; flax and petatoes is steadily Wet:easing. It is estimated that the to(al area under crepe this year is 1,59'2,89,1 cacaos as com- pared with 1,553,262 last year, being an iacreese of nearly 40,000 acres. Follow- ing is a comparison of the crop acreage for this year and the past two years : 1552 1s5:1 sthk .4":,rea " woltitesat— 575,59,) 009,090 °Sklattli 1,2141 barley .. 137 0; n1,7s2 smasa a potateee, lona 12,351 ranee roots 17,408 20,113.0 netts The crops appear promising throughout the most of the Dominion and the news from the North West, in spite of a scar- city of rain lately, is on the whole en- couraging. Favorable weather between now andharvest cannot fail to add con- siderably to present estimates of the ex- pected yield. To 7310ab parts of our coun- try the good craps have always been re- garded as most essential to prosperity, as other reso roes are limited, but of late another element, fully as much beyond our control as the natural elements, has entered the eitnation, and that is the question of supply from India and the Argeatie e Republic. Few realize the phenomenal increase in the wheat ex- ported from Argentina. There is now more exported from that great country than from the whole of the North Ameri- eau Continent. Their exports increased in February last by 18 per cent., in March they more than doubled and in April the gain was 86 per cent, The United. Kingdom alone has beeu recently taking about 8,000,000 bushels a month from a country which about a year ago sent out only 4,400,000 bushels, and which a few years ago sent abroad no wheat at all. 'When to these portentious facts it is added that, notwithstanding the large quantity already shipped, Argentina has left of this year's crop alone about 40,- 000,000 bushels for export, we begin to get some idea of the meaning where our farmers, and. all of us, are inthis competi- tion. The proepeets are that Argentine exports are likely to increase still morein the near future. This would, now be ex- pected under normal conditions, but they will be specially stimulated by the pres- ent peculiar situation in that conntry The appreciation of gold, as compared with their currency, has risen to 800, and the consequent decline itt the pur- chasing power of their currency tends both to check imports and to increase the volume of exports. The business of this country, while restricted in volume, is steady, and there has been a fairly good demand for sorting parcels of dry goods, orders by mail and. from buyers who came to the city showed a slight decrease in some lines. Wheat has not decreased in value this week and. prices generally are steady. The natural conclusion from this is that in the main the business of the couriti7 is in a healthy condition and that real good has been done by the weeding out of weak, mismanaged and inflated enterprises, as shown. by the in- crease in the number of failures and other data recently publishell in the Bulletin. Some such, doubtless, there are still, but legitimate enterprises are, so far, better for the weeding out of those who are ex- tremists. There is reported. as having a favorable tendency of a returning feeling abroad frorable to Canadian securities. Here and. There. A life-saver in NOW York; after a series of observations extending over a period of twenty years, says that the superstition that a drowning person rises to the sur- face three times is entirely unfounded. An agricultural writer figures that the loss to the farmers of the country by the use of narrow waggon tires, through the wear and tear of horseflesh and the loss of time. amounts to $800,000 a year. The Supreme Court of South Carolina has decided that absolute prohibition of the liquor traffic prevails itt that state since the overthrow of the State Dram - shop Act, and. that intoxicants can neither be sold, given away nor drunk without incurring severe penalties. The New York Advertiser says it is ratifying to know that at least one merican girl cannot be bought with a title. There are others, no doubt, but 1VIiss Maude Alice Burke, in refusing Prince Ponaitowski, has set an example that many of her countrywomen -will do well to follow. The days when a king, or any of his royal descendants, can win a woman by merely shaking his hand- kerchief at her are over, for republican America at least. A new series of postage stamps is in process of engraving by the Mexican Gov - anent, and will make its appearance for sale in September. This is the first issue of pictorial postage stamps ever issued in Mexico. They will be in the usual de- nominations—one cent, two cent, four cent, five cent and ten e,ent—and will represent, by cleverly executed drawings, the various stages of Mexican mail trans- portation, showing the motive power of man, burro, stage and steam train. A new style of anniversary celebration. will be inaugurated this year when Gen. Booth, the chief and founder of the Salvation Army, will celebrate the an- niversary of his conversion. It will be a notable anniversary, too, for it will commemorate the beginning of a work that, has been world-wide in its influence for good. The Salvationists may be de- rided for their outer garb and their un- usual methods of work, but it cannot be denied that they have accomplished great good in bringing a knowledge of the truths of religion to the poor and forsaken sons and daeghters of men.. The annals of the Pasteur Institute in Paris for 1808 have just been published. They show that last year 1,648 persons were treated for hydrophobia, and that only six of them died of the disease. Of •the nember mentioned there were 1,470 French people and 178 foreigners, Since M. Pasteur began to practice his innocula- Mons against, hydrophobia 14,480 persons have boon treated by his method, of whom only seventy-two died. of the disease. What proportion of the others would have suffered from thei disease if they had not been treated it is impossible to say, but the showing is a, good one. Not Worthy of She—"It cannot be—I am not worthy of you." Ne—"Nousense I" It is true, too trae." "Impossible. Yott are an angel." "No, no ; you are wrong, I am en. idle silly girl, utterly Unfit to become your oompamon through life." "This is madness, What sort of a wife do yon think I ought to have?" ".4. cereful, ealociating, prantical am- nion, who can live on vitae smallselary," When in eompeny, do not try to attract the attention of softie one by signals, a cb cough, a poke, or a nudge. HUMAN STRIKE ENDED ptILI,111A2 1:9PL0Y)!IS GIVIS UP. The announeement that the strikers a Pullman were on the point of surrender nig and asking for employment irs th Pelee° Car Works at the reduced wage is confirmed, Thomas Heathcote, leade of the Pullman strikers, admits that al his ialluence and that of the other labo leaders was required to prevent a genera stampede of the workmen, and. officials o tbe Pullman Company say they expec orners from headquarters any day t open the oar shops, which have bee dosed more than eight weeks. It was i anguished tones that Mr. Heathcote mad the announcement: I don't know wha these men would do if the shop's door were thrown open to -morrow," he said "It haabeen hard to keep many of the from going back to work, and after the do," /le continued, sadly, "I suppos there will be nothing left for me. Th railroad companies will not be likely t give employment to the men who led thi strike and held the men out against on of the greatest corporations in th world." Pullman officials say a week would b required to get ready for opening th works. They expect the announceraen of the opening to be made this week, an expect to begin operations with all th men needed to get out the contracts no on hand. Mr. Heathcote stated that the A, R. U had never donated a dollar to the hungr Pullman strikers, and that the only wa Debts had shown his sympathy for th strikers had been by calling out railwa men right and left. Heathcote adde that he did not expeet the Railway Unio to furnish any funds, although a numb of strikers thought that would be an a propriate manner for him to show h sympathy. Debs was informed last night that was the intention of the workmen • Pullman to return to their duties at th earliest possible opportunity, removin the original. cause of the railway strik conducted by the A. R. U. Debs said h could not give the report credence. H said: "If it be true that the Pullma operators are about to go back to the con ditions of servitude again from whic they revolted on May 11, without single wrong redressed, it is perhaps th best proof to the world. that they hay been so subjugated and enslaved. by th methods of the Pullman Company tha they are unable to continue their sob assertion in spite of all we have ende vored to do for them. However, the return to work can never help nor har us in our general strike, The Pullma question necessarily became a seconder one when the General Managers' Assoc ation took its cudgels to drive the Amer can Railway Union out of existence, an its recent refusal to consider any prop sition emanating from us leaves us -wit no possible retreat. We have fought th cause of these people until we are s embroiled that -we must continue th fight without them." Reports fro= several points in Ohi and Minneapolis state that all trouble ended and that trains are running regu larly. Advices from Wyoming and Wi consin, however, are of an uneasy natur The members of the A.R.U. at Cheyenn Wyo. and at Laramie have voted almo unanimously not to return to work. Th men of the Lake Superior Terminal an Transfer Company went out Monde tieing up all the switchmen at the hea of the lake. They went out because th company handled Northern Pacific an Omaha cars. A.PTERMATII OP TILE STRIKE. Advices received by Attorney-Gener Olney at Washington from United Stat Marshals and Deputy Sheriffs say b tween 50 and 60 strike leaders itt diffe ent States are under arrest or indictraen and before the week is ended it is e peeted that this number will be larg,e1 increased. E. V. Debs, the president o the A.R.U., is already indicted in nlino and temporarily released in $1,000 bail He and his aides, Vice -President Hower Secretary Heliher and Dr. S. Roger have also been indicted in. Indiana, an it is said indictments will be presente against them in other States for ove acts committed by them since the Pres dent's proclamation of July 8 and 9. R. Sovereign, Grand Master of the K. L., it is understood, has brought himse within the terms of the law and is liab to be indicted and arrested any day. is said that the officers of the Departmen of Justice in everyState affected by th i strike have been. nstructed to enfor the laws with the utmost rigor. EXPLOSION OP A CANNON KILLS FIV SOLD1oRS. Exploding shot and shell wrought sicle ening carnage among soldiers, civilian and horses 1VIonday evening on Gran boulevard, one of Chicago's finest driv ways. The bodies of four United State soldiers were pierced by projectiles an torn apart, so that they died instantly being blown far from the scene o slaughter. TWO of the wounded soldier are not expected to live. Eight mor were burned. and struck with leaden an wooden missiles, and half a dozen or mor eivilians were injured. At least $25,000 worth of damage wa done to the property of the residents o both sides of Grand boulevard for half block north of Oakwood boulevard Houses in adjoining streets were als damaged. The ill-fated body of troops was pro ceeding south from the lake front cern along Grand boulevard at a trot. Ravin no rioters to quell or raileoan property protean the soldiers were out for dril and exercise. Capt. Dodd, of Troop F Third Cavalry, from Fort Riley, was in command of the mounted column, an was riding in advance. Lieut. Lyon o the same troop, rode beside him, ()apt Varnum, of Troop B, Seventh Cavalry probably owes his life to the fact that h had left his command tenaporarily, a,nc was riding abreast with 0apt. Todd whoa the terrible cannonade shook the groun like an earthquake, Next to the thre officers came Lieut. Tate, in command Troop Ft Third Cavalry, from Fort Riley comprising forty men, Tho Port Rile cavalrymen were immediately followe by Troop H, of the Sixth Cavalry, from Fort Niobrara, Neb., Lieut. Ryer an forty men. The third detaehraerit in th colurnn was the ill-starred section of Bat tery F, Second Light Artillery, fromFor Riley, Lieut. Gayle and fourteen men bearing.two Hotchkiss field pieces an four L'eaaesons, filled with shrapnel, corn mon shell and bags of powder trailin atter the guns. The rear was larought u by Troop 13, Seventh Cavalry, frorn For Sheridan, in con -mead of Lieut. Thorap kin, When within, one hundred, feet of Oak wood boulenara there crashed on the eara of soldiers and civilians a tear like mighty burst of thunder, followed in an instant, by a suecession of sharp explos- ions, The half -dazed soldiers in the rear of the first oaissous saw smoke and flames beloh from the receptacle for the death - dealing missiles. The exploding powder and shot inclined to the rear, whieh ac- counts for the mare of the Third and Sixth Cavalry. The artillerymen re- ceived the brunt of the exploeion, being directly in, the rear of the caisson, '• Donovan, ann Doyle were sitting on the caison which exploded. Donovan was blown through the air, over the trees, fifty feet high, a distance of 500 feet, 'aoross a vacant lot, dropping on the Union Stock. Yards railroad track. His companion, Doyle, was hurled 300 feet across the interseetion. of Oakwood boule- vard, on the opposise side of Gran d. boule- vard. Both bodies were terribly m Angled. Geller, the farrier of the Seventh Cavaly troop, was riding in the second column, behind theartillery. The shot and shell which hurled him to the ground a bleed- ing corpse, entered his head, over the heads of the troopers in the front ranks. Part of the leaden load which tore through Galler's head. took off half of Kaa0 s ear. All the eight artillery horses are dead. The four which pulled the first gun were hurled in front of the ex- ploding powder and shells to a grassy part of the boulevard 100 feet away. Three were killed outright, being shot through and through. The fourth soon had to be put out of his misery. The four horses drawing the second. gun were hurled to one side of the boulevard on the grass and all instantly killed. Galler's horse was shot tinder him, Every soldier stood. at his post under the fire of the artillery, and those who were unhurt came quickly to succor those who were not beyond earthly aid before the re-echo of the last explosion had died away. Civilian surgeons, hear- ing the deafening roar, Mimed to the scene with appliances, and. the wounds of the living were soon roughly dressed. Military surgeons followed when the news of the disaster to the troops reathed Camp Miles. Waggon loads of police came flying to the scene to restoa e order and keep the thousands of civilians from encroaching on the scene of carnage. The remains of Donovan, Doyle and Geller were picked up and removed in the police ambulance to Hyde Park morgue. VI.owS OP A CRICAO0 EDITOR ON TEE GREAT STRIKE. Joseph Medlin editor of The Chicago Tribune, thus gives his views as to the results of the great strike: "I believe the result of this strike will be of great benefit to the country. It is like a thunderstorm that suddenly sweeps up, purifying the atmosphere and results in a better supply of health -giving ozone. It will result in Congress devising laws whereby disputes between railroads and their employes will be harmoniously ad- justed. I have great faith in the Anglo- Saxon race to govern themselvee. The people have been asleep until awakened by this great economic earthquake. I believe that in twelve months -we will have laws on the statute books of every State that will provide for peacefully set- tling all future labor discords. I think the contract system can be applied suc- cessfully by the railroads. Employes should be engaged -under contract, and should hold their positions so long as they abide by the rules of the company and perform their duties faithfully. No man should be discharged without due notice, and no man should leave the em- ploy of the company without serving no- tice. I heartily endorse the scheme wrought by the great brain of Bismarck in. the German Empire. I believe that Congress should pass a law reserving a pension fund for the employes of the great railroad corporations. This fund should consist of say 2 per cent, of the men's earnings and 1 per cent. of the gross earnings of the railroad companies. It should() he controlled by a financial agent of he Uovernment and should be invested irt sound railroad 'bonds, not stocks. Th.e bill should provide that any man who hall faithtully discharged his duties for a certain number of years could retire for life on half pay. 11 a man was killed his family should be en- titled to the pension. There should also be a clause providing for the payment of a certain sum when employes are ill. In fact, the fund should be disbursed on the plan in vogue in the better class of the benevolent societies. When this fund is established the men will take more in- terest in the railroad and its earnings. Strikes will not be known, for the penal- ties of striking should be dishonorable discharge and a loss of all interest in the pension fund. This fund would be a bond to hold them in. unity. Mischiev- ous agitators would find their occupa- tions gone, and the unions necessarily would. be unions of a purely benevolent character. This scheme would not be confined solely to railroads. I believe that its success on the railroads would result itt its spread to all great industrial corporations. When Bismarck first in- troduced it, in the German Empire there was some grumbling, but since then they have discovered its great value and ben- efit. Now it could not be repealed. A. man could retire say at 50 or 55 years. Many men are not workecl out at this age and could occupy some subsidiary position with the corporation and con- tinue to prnvi dp for his family. I have the fullest iaah ue such a law. Either that or a State Socialism, which is noth- ing less than creating a great State poor- house, and the rameracan people are not rawly for that syetem yet.' How He Got the Robber. Spec;ial Officer George H. Labolt, of the Readir g Railroad's police force, tells a thrilling and veracious tale of an adven- ture of his while working up a case near Gettysburg. Ile was walking through a deep wood. one day when he was startled by the appearance of a rough -looking fel- low, who presented a revolver at his head an Ma emand oci. all his valuables. said Labolt, "all the money I've got is $35 and a watch my father gave me.'' "Hand all over," said the highway- man. The officer complied with as good grace as the circamstances allowed. Then he said to the highwayman : "I work for a fanner near by, who gave me that money to buy a cow av'th. Ho won't believe I've been robbed, Can't you shoot a few holes theough my coat ?" said the robber, hold up your coat," and in a jiffy four hales were shot through it. Seeing that there was still one bullet left in the revolver, Labolt took of his hat and rersuacled the felloav to fire a bullet through the crown. Then he pulled has own pistol and lodged the robber in the jail at Carlisle, where he received a ten years' sentence, If you say to a child "1 will give you something," keep yotar promise, other- wise you teeth it to lie. The rightetius peotaise little and do much. NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS. THE *MS' RAPPENINGS. Interesting Items and Incidents, Import- ant and Instructive, Gathered frota, the Various Provinces, Joseph Co( k, a Pcrta ge 1a Prairie fann- er, was drowned Monday Millie bathing. Mr, T. P. Gorman, editor of The Ottawa Fre e Press, then Tuesd a y night from heart disease. Henry Annstroi g, postmaster of Bath, died on Sunday morning, aged seventy- five years. Last -vt eek Mr. Ma.d d en, of Kingston, shipped 1,500 boxes of cheese to Montreal for the old ccuni ry market. The steamship passenger agents in Montreal have cut don n the steerage rate to Britain to $15. John Cox, one of the oldest engineers on the Grand Trunk, was killed in the yard at Londen on Saturday. Gaudaur offers to row Stanbury, the Australian, in England or .America, but says he will not go to Australia. Bishop Hawkins of the B.M.E. Church of Canada died Monday evening at Chat- ham from a paralytic stroke. He was 86 years old, sA. Detroit despatch says Frank L. Gil- ohrist, of Toronto, has been arrested there with 110 pounds of smuggled opium in his possession. Tourist travel to St. John and other points in New Biansavick is very large just now. .All the hctels in St. John are overcrowded, • Cyrus Hicks, of North Gower Township was killed Tuesday by a team which he was clriying running away and upsetting a hay rack upon him. Lena Doyle, a ten -year-old girl, died in Kingston Monday from injuries sus- tained through her clothes catching fire from a cigarette stub. It is rumored that the Canadian Cotton Company's mills at Oornavall are to close down shortly. This will throw 2,000 hands out of employment. —Major William Brown, of the 84th Bat- talion, Ives accidentally shot through the heart with his own rifle on Saturday at his home near Columbus, Ont. A triab order for printing paper has been received by a Canadian manufactur- er from Melbourne, Anstralia. A sample order of woodenware is to be sent at the same time. Thomas Freel, a young farmer of Fc,r- est, was run over by a mower and killed. Later in the day a neighbor's child drank a cupful of embalming fluid at deceased's home, and nearly succumbed to the poison. The office of the Drummond. County Railway et Drummondville, Que., was robbed of $2,000 on Friday night. The safe was blown open with dynamite after the nightavatcbman had been lacked. itt a boa car by the burglars. Mr. George W. Kiely. one of the oldest, and most respected residents of Toronto, was found dead ir bed Tuesday. For the past two years Mr. Kiely had been troubled with weakness of the beart. De- ceased was in the sixty-fourth year of his age. In the Township of T'ittsburg, near Kingston, a pest has appeared in the shape of an oat fly, and so voracious is its appetite tbat most of the late oats and a great deal of the early will be destroyed if the plsgue continues its ravages. The fly is so small as to be hardly visible to the naked eye, but when placed under a microscope it is seen to be armed with a pair of "pincers," with which it pierces the oat. A poison contained in the nip- pers of the insect works its destructive Yours e, turning the straw a reddish color, One bite is sufficient to blast a stalk of grain. With the parent are associated several of a brood, each of which does its share in the work of destruction. It is twenty-five years since such a pest has teen noticed in. that lc °edify. SHOT THROUGH T1TR =ARM A. fatal and shocking accident occurred just north of Columbus, near Whitby, on the 16th, through which Major William Brown, of the 34th Battalion, met his death by a ball from his own rifle. He was going, out to help with some hay on his farm sn Reach Township, and being bothered with groundhogs be proposed taking his gun to get rid of some of them. His gun being at a neighbor's at the time be went to tho armory, taking an Enfield rifle instead. A few days ago he receiv- ed frora Ottawa a box of cartridges, three packages of which were found underiaeath his bucknoard. The occurrence happen- ed in the driving shed adjoining the house, and the position in which the body was found indicates that he was sitting on a box when the rifle was dis- charged. The ball entered the left breast, taking an upward course; passing through the heart, eomine out near h'is left shoulder blade ancflourying itself in some of the compartments of the shed. James. Otto of the sons, who was cleaning the horse for his father, on hearing the report ran to the shed and was horrified at the sight. Life was found to be extinct. Many rumors are afloat and theories ad- vanced to the effect of its being a case of suicide, but no cause for such an act can be assigned. The circumstances, how- ever, show that the affair was purely ac- cideutan He was a man widely and favorably known throughout the Pro- vince. and the most:profound ss napathy is expressed by the whele ecmanunity to the sorrowing family. He leaves a wife and four grown-up sons. A GAY DECEIVER. On Juno 29 a woman called on. Chief Wills, of Windsoa, and introduced her- eelf as Mrs. Thackery, of Detroit., for- merly Mrs. Renaud. She burst into teas as she attempted to talk, and after a time managed to relate a story of love and desertion, which was something of a novelty. She said she had arrived in Windsor the evening previous with her husband and bad stopped with hint at the Crawford. house. Seine tinici during the night he had stolen $850 from under the pillow where she had scorned it, re- moved her rings, watch and chain from the dresser and had departed, leaving her without even enough money to buy it ferry ticket. She telsted in detail the story of having met the man a few months 'before at the house of a mutual friend in Detroit, and as Thackery won her heart and she was a widow, free to marry, an engagement followed. Actiag on the advice of Thackory she accom- panied him to Toledo, where they were married quietly and returned to spend a few days with her Detroit friends. Thaek- ery wanted her to dispose of her property in Detroit and move with him to Toronto, Where he said. he had an eiteellent oppor- tunity to enter business, and the bilde- sold part of her mperty, taking the pro- eeede aeross the river with thein. They arrived, too lake to take the train for To-. ronto, and at the suggestion of 'Thackery they remained all night in Windsor. •Chief Wills at once began an investigas. tion, and it is said, found the story was. true. Be made inquiry in Detroit, and succeeded in getting what be believed to , be eneugh evidence to send Thackery to, prison for a long term. He then began, to gather the net an all parts of Canada,. and sent photographs and offers of reilard, broadcast. Tuesday morning Private Detective James Anderson, frcm Detroit, reported to Chief Wills that he knew Thackery personally, and thought he could locate him. Ile was sent at once to Toronto. where it was thought Tha,ck- en, was living under an assented name. Shakesten, was located at 81. University street, Toronto, on Fiiday afternoon, where he was living with a wcman who, he says, is not his wife, • The prisoner' was taken back to 'Windsor. He waa. arraigned in the police court as, d remand- eti for eight days. She is a Woman, Atter All. This is one of the most deliciously feta-- inine expressions with as hieh I have ever mot. A friend of mine took his •wile to the opera the other night, and after the. second act the lady became suddenly ilk --so ill, in fact, as to make it necessary for her husband to take her into the air, find a drug stare and apply restoratives, She felt too baclly to go back for the rest of the performance, ald they went home and had soraetbidg to eat. Then madame. felt better. In, fact she felt so much.. better that she wondered how it was she. had. been ill at all. After a long silence she said to her husband: "1 have a confession to make. I want to get it off my mind, and I hope you wont think I am silly. But do you know- -why I didn't faint in the opera house,. and haven't done so since ?" "Why, my dear," said he gently, "1 suppose it was because you had strength of mind enough to resist tho "Well, I dfd resist it," said the lady,. laughing. "But the real reason was that, I knew there was a hole in the toe of my black sills. stocking." Her husband chuckled as he told me - this story, and said that he couldn't imagine why the mere fact thet his wife might have fainted justified her in think- ing that anybody would take her shoes, off, particularly when he was on the spot.. I don't tell this story as an encourage- ment to young married women to avoid tlae habit of knitting stockings, but really the longer you consider this incident the funnier it seems. And this particular woman, mark you,is a well-known nov- elist, an accomplished musician and, ea progressive ""nu - generally. ;Character ln thoFace. it Have you ever noticed how certain callings in life seem to impress themselves on tile faces as well as the gates af those who follow them?" asked John H. Smalley, of Providence RI "Wo can understand how the sailor cannot discard his milling walk when on shore, and a peculiarity of gait is noticeable in the - jockey, the cowboy and. the trainmen f or the same reason. But how can the facial characteristics observable itt some crafts- man be accounted for ? The tailor has a distinctive rype of face. I think it is due to the fact that he works his jaws itt time with his shears. Watch one cutting a. piece of cloth, and. you will see that the jaws and shears keep exact time. Nearly all jockeys and grooms have a peculiar - set of the mouth and chin, which gives to the physiognomist an unfailing index to their calling. The drill sergeant shows. command m the mouth and eye; the horseman shows it in the eye. The brakeman has a visage of his own, so has. the locomotive engineer, the machinist, the cobbler, the molder, almost all crafts- men, in short. The professional gambler has a marked face, The crook can be told by his facial characteristics on sight by a skilled detective, and some expert thief -takers can come nearly telling what particular lay he works, whether he is a sneak -thief, highwayman, pickpocket, burglar or confidence man." The Wrong Person. An acquaintance said to me the other day: "My husband has been worrying a. great deal about business of late, and has had several mysterious meetings in the, parlor with closed doors. "Last night he was particularly ner- vous, and kept saying during dinner: " I shall be glad when 7 o'clock comes, for I expect a most important party here then. I think he can make everything all right I' Just about thett the girl came in and said that she had shown a gentleman into the parlor. "'That's he,' said nay husband, jump- ing : Now I must go in and introduce, myself. • I've never met him.' 'Well, take your coffee first,' I cried, but he wouldn't. "Eo dashed downstairs, and I followed him unseen, for I was anxious, ton, "1 listened itt the back parlor, and this. is what I heard : "'Mr.--,' in my husband's voice. eirn was the stranger's reply. " 'Well, at least you come frora him ?' was the question in an agitated tone. "'Well, no,' was the response. called to see if you had any old clothes you'd like to sell.' "I didn't wait for an outbreak, but fled upstairs." A Western Railroad. A. man was one day making a trip on the "flyer" of a Wyoming railroad. Pas- sage on these trains is never taken except for journeys of considerable length;. walking is as easy and much safer for short distances. On this occasion the movement was even more deliberate than -usual, and the passenger called the con-. chador to his seat and said : "Isn't this motion pretty slow ?" " we ain't flying, 1 admit." "May I ask what is the trouble, then?' "Certainly. We found a fine two- year-old eteor stuck in a trestle back here &la Stopped and helped it out. You know, the rules of the road are in such cases the animalbelongs to the company.' "But I don't see why that should make yeti run so slow." " Why, we're taking that steer to headquarters; got it tied behind, and it ain't used to leadin' and don't walk up very well. Pro doin' all I can—got the brakemen proddin' it up with an um- lovel', and an ear of corn tied to the end of the bellrope. If you thinkI'm going to start up and, go howlin' along, and yank the horns off as pod a steer as there is in Ibis state, why, you're mistaken, that' all." She—Do you think that lightning ever strikes twice in the same place? He—I'm sure of it; Vire been rejected; four times.