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The Brussels Post, 1892-7-22, Page 3JULY 22, 1892. THE BRUSSELS POST. LATE BRITISH NEWS, The manager of a largo constituency in rural if nglana writes to the London agent of one of the great parties, that if he walla ed to sorry his seat, "be sure tool eend down a good cyclist as your candidate." In Cape Colony the negroes aro owning into oltizenehip so hot thet the people have raised the property qualification tor votes from 0.125 to 27e, and the voter must bo aide to write Ids name and address clearly, The Vicar of Berking has invited his pa• rithioners to Siinfley afternoon ooncerts 10 his garden. He has engaged a military band, nod they will discourse aftered music, while his parishionere sit around, smoke, and chat. On Sunday, et lalaudmagee, North of Ire. land, James Herr, aged 10, &scowled the Gobbin Cliffs and leaned over to throw a lump of text at a seagull, which alighted on a ledge, when he overbalanced himself and fell from a height of 200 feet to the teaks below. Death wasinstantaneoue, Deocased's father (Captain Devil Kerr) and mother are in aladagescar. A. terrible quadruple meeder bas been committed at Odessa by a woman who had been deserted by her husband. In an excess of meatless the wretched woman got posses. sion of en axe, end going tato the room where her four childree were quietly sleep- ing despatched them one after the other. She then gave herself up to Um police. a. Paris telegram sap:it-Three working men employed at a 'Amster quarry at Argent. toil, near Paris, have met, their death from a very unnetna eause-drinking too much esater. They made a bet as to who could swallow the largest quantity. The first imbibed 12 quarts, the secoed 0, and the third 7. All three died in a fetv hours. Mr. Chafes Edward Newcombe, a large landowner of Belt:hemp, St. Essex., .eommitted suicide on Wednesday morning by shooting himself with a revolver in his breakfast room. It is believed that ids mind was affected through agricultural de- pression, On Monday afternoon, at, Chorely, four boatmen were remanded on a charge of high. way robbery. On Saturday several lads 301 00 a canal boat. The prisoners then de- manded money from them, and being refus- ed, they tied a rope round the bodies of two lads and ducked them in the canal until something was given them. In 000 0(500 the Ind escaped to tile bank, where they sat on his cheat until he had given them a shill- ing. The Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire po• tato (Jeep, the chief potato -growing distreet of the country, has neen mown down and blackened in enormous breadths, extending •over hundreds of acres, by the severe frosts of the past few nights. It is stated thet it is eighteen years &nee anything of a similar kind occurred. Two boys named Dent and Dares, aged 10 years were, charged at Grimsby Police :Court on Monday with setting tire to prem. ises in Grimsby Docks on May 31 last, causing damages estimated at 34000, Prim oners, who have just undergone a month's imprisonment for setting fire to a stack at Cleethdrpe, were each sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment, to be follotved by three years in a reformatory. An alatentng aocadent occurred on Tues. day at Fernhill Colliery, Rhondda Valley, whereby two men were killed and several injured. Nearly a hundred miners had been lowered to ehe bottom 01 1110 shaft, and another cage, in which ten men were seatail, was being lowered when it was by sore means obstructed and upset. Two men were killea outright, and eight others al- though escaping instant deaths, were badly maimed. A shocking occurrence is reported from RhydWymyn, Flintshire. Catherine Parry, married woman, was croseing some fielas on the way to the station, when she saw a bull and ram away. She 11105 15 woman nam- ed Harriet Hughes as she ran and seized her, evidently in an alarmed and ex-hausted condition. She then sat down on the grass, fell hack, and expired in lees then five minutes. A special Court of Petty Sessions was held on Monday in Newtonards, when a tnan named John Magennis, described as a "tramp " front Waterford, was charged with burning a copy of the Bible in tinder: room of Newtonards Workhouse an Sante - clay. Mr, Finlay, master of the workhouse, gave evidence, and the moused was seinen°. ed to two months' imprisonment with hard labour. On Thursday night a man named Chip- pendale threw his two children out of a tram between Menston and Utley. On the eerie - al of the train at Otley he was placed in the welting -room, where he attempted to hang himself, almost achieving his object. One child was severely cut on the back of the head, but the other escaped with severe sheking, Chipponaale was brought before the Utley Magistrates on Weclnescle,y morning, and minended. Edwin Pugh'a collier, was oharged at Ponty-priddonWednesday with threatening to inurder Dr. Lloyd Edvrards, of Ynystrire Rhondda Valley. The evidence showed that the amused had been on the olub, and that being suspected of malingering, Dr, Ed- wards caused his club pay to he stopped. Prisoner thereupob threetened bo murder him, The defenoe was thabruga had been really, very ill, and bad been affected with pains in the head. ffe was committed for trial at the Assizes, hail being refused. The Great Northern Express, whioh leaves King's Cross, London, at 9.45,, atid runs to Greet:ham, a distance of over 100 miles, without stopping, had tO be pulled up a few miles out a Peterborough on Monday, smoke issuing from one of the first-class carriages,. The train was taken on at a elow pace to Helm& and it was there found that an axle box wee on fire. The passengers alighted considerably alarmed, and the damaged carriage was disconnected. Three men wore tendered uticonsaious on Tuesday by the Mince of gas while °leaning out & stove connected with e bleat furnace at South Bank Stuideeland, Da Glen was sent for, and he, in the most plucky manner mit:ended to where the men were at work at the top of the stove, which is sixty feet high, He then lathed himself with a rope to ptevent his falling, and for fully an hour applied artifieial reepiration to the men, his efforts being finally °roamed wibh success. A Paris correspondent says :--A series of extraorditutty thefts, extending over two yeaes, has been discovered at the Ecole des MIMS, The offiprie, who is in holy orders, anti Mitts frn ptofessor in one of the leading oollegee at Pavia, has confessed that When is stuclent at, the mottling tichegil he conceived the idea of forming a eolleetion of tainentle of hie own, Dad in order to do so More rapid- ly he helpea himeelf to the speesienents be. Wiling to the State exhibited in the &vele dee Matte& The authorniee 011 Saturday paid a vial, to the pm/Nese:1 domicile, where they tonna an 101m1rithie eolleet ion of ns Morals medulla dimwitted, emaidued in a cabinet exactly similar to therm in use at the teeming eohnol. Forty simmers, with thiee 2,500 spealmone, wore Weed, The propert y thee eh:strained reaohml a total vain° of some .22,000, and onetime:oil several pi ecioua atotiee and pieces of metal. The medical correspontlente of the Lanai forward n19re 0000 011Is of more (Meths under aniesthotice, 'rim first is that of a welleleveloped and healthy women, 35 yews old, who was era:ring from abscess. She failed to recovee from the atiteethetie (A.C. E. mixture), and it wee judo 1 thea the stete of her niind, and the fact of her being a chronic alcoholic, togetlitr with the state of the heart and per/oar:limn, amount. ed for the patient's death. The other case that of a boy, 12 years old, also suffering front abscess, who died wider chloroform, A desperate engagement, which Was fought between two women in a low part of Paris, was Corsican in its intensity. The two furies had quarrelled about a man, who incited thein cynically to fight, promising to bestow his abalone on the one who should emerge victor. bus from the fray. Hair.tearing, eye -goug- ing, and face ecrataltieg then began with a veegeenee, and one of the women seeing - and, moreover, feeling -that she was getting tho worst of the fight, took a alaseekeife out of a pooket in her dross and stabbed her rival all over the body. The injured female is now clangerouely wounded in hospital, and her rival and the men are under arrest. In Case of Sunstroke. The fleet thing to be done for a sunstruok man is to take him to the coolest spot that can be found near by -a well ventilated cellar or basement, under a shade tree, or even in the shadow of a building. Then loosen his clothes and apply cold water to his head and spine -preferably not ice Iota ter -while the arms, logs and chest inay be bathed with tepid water containing ammo. ilia or carbonate of soda, The best post - Lion for Um patient while this teeettnent is being earn cd out is lying on his left aide, for in that position the blood will more easily flow from the head tu the heart. Tim ad- ministration of auy alcoholic:stir:20mA is of doubtful safety, and drinks of ice weber are likely to kill iestead a cure. Cold tea or coffee is recommended, as is also lemon juice end water: Blisters along the spine are often followed by good effects. An endoscope-whith is a small electric light -was recently made use of at the San Francisco City and County Hospital for il huninating the thoracic cavity of a patient, in which an incision had been made. The action of the heart and lungs was rendered visible to the surgeons,so that the operation intended we- successtully performed. The experiments of Prof. Elihu Thomson on oil as an insulator seem to prove that with veryhigh voltagee and high periods the insulting qualities of oil are all that can be desired. It appears tItat momentary contacts are not suffioiene to break down the insulation, but that if the alternating wettes are kept ott for periods from a few seconds to half a minute, tho all may break down at last. Under certain oircumetances, it was forted that potentials which perfor. atect oil et a distanoe of eths of an inch, failed to do so at a distance of 1-32ed of an inch. A. merehant in Wilmington has hit upon a curious way of advertising. In his show window there is a glass case in which is a pivoted Crocker -Wheeler motor with a fan, and aboue two pounds of feathers. When the motor is in operation it revolvee com- pletely [wound a ciente, throwing 0 strong current of air and ceasing the feathers to Sy around in all directions. The crowd about the window is so great that it requires two policemen to keep them away, and as a natural result the dealer is geowing rich from his sales of motors. It is shown by Professor Langley that our best seems of light are surpassed hy nature in one very important respeet ; namely, the production of light accompan- ied by heat. Thus'of the energy supplied by gas and oil for lighting purposes, mull more than ninety-nine per cent. is given out in heat -while even in the electric arc light ninetyrnine per cent. is waste, and in the iucandesceutlamp ninety-five per cont. The ineect world is much more economical; the most careful measurements mcle with the deheate bolometer fail to show any seesible heat in the light of the firefly ; and it is argued that there is no meson why nature shout(' nob be successfully imitated in this reepeet. It is stated that Ptofessor Hertz hopes to devise a method of obtaining bet. ter reetas than e4 present aro produced by ordinary 11108118, in getting electrical Mons similar in every respect to those of light, but of greater wave length. By modi- fying his original apparatus, he had some prospect of produoing waves so much short- er that all of them will be luminous -in other words, of developing a new soutee of light wahout heat, -a reault wbich, if suc- cessful, will be an entirely new mod e of ill minatien, Maeganese and silicon have been found to have different effeete on the way in which carbon binds itself with iron in a chilled casting. Silicon prevents, up to a certain point, the binding of the carbon during the 000ling of the iron, and 0(58500 10 to separate itself in scales of graphite. Manganese, on the other hand, neutealizes part of the effect of the silicon and furthers the formation of white iron. Begins at Home. The master of the house was writing a sermon on charity when a knock at the door interrupted him. At his bidding the hired girl pun her head in. " There'S a tramp outside," she seed ; "hs wante sotnething to eat" " Bid him begone," said the master, angrily ; "tall hun there is plenty of work for the deserving poor, but nothing for beg- gars." " Yes, Me "And, Mary, fete that he doesn't steal anything. Is the doormat drained dewn ?" "Ole Mee with welcome ' on it is sir." " Where is the dog, Mary ?" " In the collar, sic," " You may let him out. He needs exer- cise." " Yes, sir." Then the good man returned to his sem mon, and as he wrote in glowing oheriteters of the charity that thinketh no evil, he im- agined he heard the applause of an wimp, Mired audience. But it was only the dog getting away With the tramp, --tDetroit Free press. Soma observations recently mtblished monstrate the fromient °eidetic° of °Metric earth currents euffieiently etrobg, lit some instances, to operate telegraphic testae. meets. One ittetemob was mentioned of a negative coma with E. M, F. of about, 13 volts, as sheten on the voltaneter. Itt an- other inetanoe a negative enema of 15 von% heeksve4x,isted with little iittotuation for fivo y IN STONE DANS. --- Picturesque ineigetos in the ilthrlary Per i I MU r it la ry 65 81'flon/4. It 14 5 long Wiry, that at En dash Paella. mentery eleatimes, 5, eerly as 1234 is rep. resentathe Parliament sit 0140 Knights float evet y ithire was hintnanni, 4; the ."Minl l'aeliamenta cense together til 1251; and in 1265 the Commons Ilast !net 00)11 )5 wen tie O "confirmed representation," Borough representation began in 1204, and in 1308 Parliament immune is legislative I ewer, whose assent was nuceasery to the enact., meta of 'awe. In these days the Corrupt Practiees act prevents much use of money in Brittsh 0050 ror legitimate purposee, llta years ago profligacy ean riot, and the ceet of carrying an eleotion was measured only by the depth of the cruolidetob puree, The corrupt use of money in electoral oontests began as long 1140 50 1571, when one Thom. as Long Was elected to the Hotwe of C'ont. mons by Ore borough of Westbury,Wilts,ancl afterward confessed that he paid the Mayor 24 for the honor. He waif thereupon ex- pelled from the House but the Mayor was compelled to return the 34 to him, :ma a fine ol 020 was assessed upon the borough, From this very incident, it is said, arciee the familiar saying, "aloney makes the Mayor go." Thenceforward there wits not much actual yen:tiny until the days of the S tuarts, when bribery and other forme of corruption, both in the conatituenoies and in the House, be- ettme the rule. Under Charles 1 such prac- tices were common, though they were not often carried to an extravagant degree. Under tho Commonwealth they wore con. Untied, in a lather stingy fashion. In lea, for example, John Harrington was elected at Bath, to succeed his father, and he only spent iM in food, drink and tobacco. With the accession of the alerry Monarch, nor- reption great ly increated, Thu King him. self levied bleoltmail tmon numerous com- munities, threatening to teke away their charters, and often actually doings°, unless they woul'l return alembees subservient to his will. That brilliant blackguard, the Earl of Rochester, thus described the House of that tittle aed the King's manner of deal- ing with it ; A Partimnent of knaves end sole- Membere by name you mutant mention - Re keeps in pay, and buys their votes, Here with 01)11508, there with a pension. James II went further still in the degree dation of the ballot, bribing the corporations to eleet his creetures by a restoration of thew charters. Thue, in 1685, as Evelyn relates, Lord Beth carried down into ('0515. wall at one time no less than fifteen charters, so that some called him the Prince Bloater. Ten years later a law ageiust bribery and "treating" was enacted, in hope of check- ing the rising tide of venality. 13u5 in vain. Each new Parliament, was chosen more corruptly than its predecessor, and there sprang up a race of correptionists, great political leaders who devoted their chiefest and best athention to " finanuial electioneering," and s; eut fortunes in the work. Such were the Walpoles, Pelhams, Marlhoroughs, Whartons and Graftons. One of the first and perhaps the greatest of tame was Thomas, Marquis of Wharton, who hae been called the patriarch of the fine art of electioneering. His policy was "10 forward the designs of an oligarch by the attractions of a demagogue." He was eminently successful in this policy, and also in the half dozen duels which it brought upon him. Nearly thirty Members were elected through his efaorts, at a cost to Isis own pocket of fully 380,000, a much larger sum in those days than is note the 540.000 it nominally represents. But if he was the founder of the system, Walpole carried it to completion. He was the author of the prineiple that " every man has his price,' and he organized a vote -market just as openly as avy moat -market was ever con. ducted. Single votes were so much apieee. At wholesale they were so much the dozen or the huudrad. Constituencies, taken en bloc, had prices fixed upon thorn. A poet of those thnes taus pastured an election scene which might be witnessed in any eon- stitucney in the Kingdom : Ilere's a minion sent down to 0. corporate town. In hopes 10 15 newly elected Ily his prodigal thow you now ottstly know To the Court he ie truly aftbeted' Ole has a knave by the hand, who has power to command An the votes In the corporation: S110V1:11TerocSettinj, in hie pocket, the D-1 cries 'Tie miller the goo6 of the mitten I" The general elections of 1801a which con - animal Addington in powee as Pitt's sucees- sor, MA marked with extreme teickerv and venality. Writing of the struggle in Rent, the Rev. Samuel Denne said ; " What shall we say of a gentlemen tented of thirty, who shall sell his paternal' estate, some say for 218,000, avowedly for the purpose of equan- fleeing the greater part of his purchase - money in a county comest, though not six years before the tWO winsiisg cendiclates had paid above 330,000 for the honor of being humble servants to the men of Kent 1 Mr. Honeywood acknowledged that the last straggle cost hitti 318,000. The amount of Sir E. Knatehbull's expenses canuot be as- certained, because it now appears that there are long bills in arrear in divers parts of the tenuary, Had the late Sir Patriots Geary left hie estate at Pelmet= in Surrey in the hands of trustees, 11 would have been naor- tunate circumstance for his seta As I am told, the theee cancialates have appeared in caricature at the 11,08t end of the town ; one of the baronets being exhibited in a poorhouse, the other in a madhouse and the squire in his coffin; but whether the pot, traits bear any resemblance to the originals my informant was not apprised. So pre- vailing is Ministerial influence in Kent that if the two candidates named in it really join votes are thrown away upon a third mem" The actual cost of a contest there in 1802 was fully 335,900. Another °emus contest in that eleetion occurred in Middlesex, where the °anat. Wee were Mr, Mainwaring, Mr. Byng and Sir Francis Burdett. According to "The Picture of Parliament" (a little work pith. netted at the time), on the fiest day .11ar. Byeg wee at the head of the poll with 1,303 votes, while Mr. Mainwaring with 1,097 had & majority 01 308 over Sir Fennel& who polled 699 votes. This majority was maintained and increasesi trittil the tenth day, when the poll stood: Byng, 2,925 ; Mainwaring, 2,534; Burdett, 2,032. In addressing the electors after the close of of this day's poll, Sir Francis Burdett called attention to the ease of a girl of thirteen years of ago, who had accidentally kickea some mortar off the roof of it heath, widish had fallen mien Mr. Mainsvaring's carriage. A party of Bovast, officers im- mediately rushed into the liou80, dragged the poor (Mild out and took her to Bow-st, where, after an examination, she was or. demi to be commieted, and, bite tor the humanity deem gentleman who belled her, would have been sent to jail. lut Ole strain Sir Emote peocieeded ht scare length, and aucceecled i.n tuening the tide tvhieh seemesi to be,ve set in against him. For On the fifteeoth day the poll was clotted, fowl the result deolated to be : Byng, 8(848) dell, l207 ; Main waving, 2,1186-a major! to of 271 for 81r Francis Burdett, Two famous conteets ocourrea in Hemp - in 1700 and 1800, whiell are reptile, 110tafieumental examples of the use of money emeli :4 them cent the Menai:0nel candidate upward of $125,000. 13Itt they fade into imperious ineiguiticanee when compared with tbe tripartite battle in Northamptim 17114, Then the three Earls of Halifax Northampton and.Spencer, wece the lenders of the fray, their candidates being respec. tively Sir (Merge Gsberee, Sir George Red imy end the Hen, a homes Howe. Accord Mg to try. Ureauti " History of Parliament ary Elections,' the Melina eanditlates were of mall mamma in tile 0011iliel aisle pat ronalmre the brunt of the battle. The van vnesieg began long before the polling ; thin lea4 extended twee fourteen days. . According to the roll:book the legitimate number of electors, some Min, was exceeded by 288,but confusion of trfione ie account ed foe by the 1110111180110114 hospitalities of three noble mansions being at the mercy of the crowd tor weeks, . . . During the six weeks the scrutiny lasted sixty covers wore daily spread et lipereer 1101180 for those concerned in the case. The results W055 110 less eccentric.: ; the number of votes being finalty found equal, the election was referred to ellanee and decided by a toss, width Lord Spencer won, and noininated a man out of India. The 051 01 this escapade then had to be cottuted. It is said Lord Spencer expended 11500,000, aud his antag- onists are credited with having wasted 5730,000 each. . , E'arl Spencer eame off lightest, and appears to have been in no Ivey involved ; Lord Halifax was ruined ; Lord Northampton eut down his trees, sold Ms furniture, went abroad for the rest of his days, and died. in Switzerland. Campaign literature in England lie.s al- ways been conspicuous for violent personal. ity, In MI6, tor 01:0111ple, Sheri11011 was up for re•eleetion. The late Parliament had been the first under the Union with Trekked, and Sheridan had taken office, to the great displeasure of many of his party. 80 the country was eapered with placards bearing such inscriptions as this : 51115 SOLD BY An'Ttozr, Go Tuesday, the Iltb Nov., 1806, At the Hustings in Covent Garden, IOIE 11511,E05111150 e5,5400E0 I/8 The Rt. Hon. It. Brumley Sheridan, Treas- urer of the Navy, 40. Pawned previous to his coming into Power, 40., 40. And in 1812, when Canntng was 0 midi. date for Liverpool, his Radieal foes publish- ed this elegant sereed : TWO P18-05110, George Dykes is a Pauper. Why ?-Be- cause he has been pensioned by his Parish. George Dykes has lost his vote. Why? Bemuse he is a Pariah Peeper. George Canning is also a Pauper. Why? Bemuse he is pensioned by his Country. George Canning shall lose his election. Wt y 9 -Because he is a State Pamper. Amen. "Stump speaking" is commonly suppos- ed to be em American institution. Yet for centuries English plaint:ern orators have in- dulged in antics that wculd take prizes in any backwoods canapaigu. Thus wrote a poet in the early days ot William III: When on the Rostra., 11.4 upon 0 sterna The candidates: their partisans engage, You'd think the fate an Amphitheatre, And these the furious Gladiators woro. As for the emenities Mau English political demonstrittion,witness th is f rom Dean Swift's journal, written in the days of good Queen Aisne: " We met the electon for parliament - men, and the tethble came talent our coach, A Colt 1' A Stanhope ' ole. We were ahead of a dead cat, or having our ffiasses broken, mid ao were always of their side. Nor have eleetion.agents been over -nice regarding the meths employed for winning votes. Bubb Dodington gives a graphic at:mount, in his diary, ot his own experience 10 11118 respect. In April, 1734, for example, he went to Eastbury, electioneering, and spent three days "115 infamous and dime greeable compliance with the the low habits of venal wretches." He spent nearly 34,- 000, and in the end lost the election by a few votes, " by the injustice of the return- ing officer." John Wilkes was one of the most VIC/lent Gala unserapulous ot politicians, and when, after his defeat for London, he offered hios. self as :candidate for Middlesex, in 1768, his campaign WM one long debauch. rhe partisans of Wilkes resolved themselves into a mob. Every coach on the streets was stopped, emit if its occupants 414 1501 hurrah for Wilkes the windows were broken; and in any event the number "45" was deeply &watched on the varnished sides'that being the number of the issue of "The North Briton" for which Wilkes had been arrested for seditious libel. The carriage of the Austrian Ambassador WI1S stopped, and that distinguished diplomat Ives held by the mob with his legs in the air while a man chalked "45" on the soles of his shoes. A famous election wits that of West- miester in 1784, when the great Whig, Charles James Fox, was a oandidate. Has mese active and effective canvasser was the beautiful Georgians Spencer, Deohess of Devonshire who drove about, polling list in hand, to the house of every voter. En- treaties, ridioule, eivilities, influence of all kinds, were lavished upon even the roughest and most illiterate with marvellous effect. In vain the Tories brought forwerd Lady Salisbury to onnyaes on their side. She was thirty-four years old, and the Dubose of Devonshire was only twenty•six 1 The incident of the Duehese purchasing the vote of an obdurate butcher by means of a kies is said to be true beyond question ; as that other: of a rough Irish mechanic, on whom she smiled, saying, "Ah, lady, I could light my pipe at your brighe eyes Times have changed since then 1 but net greatly, The Dames of bhe Pritnrote League and the members of the Women's Lib. eral Federation will this summer be, ninety of them, almost as active in political work as was Her Grace of Devonshire ; and inn. didates will resort teen those &Mks to gain populariey which have boon elements of eleatcral campaigns since the days of Aris- totle, It was only a week or two ago that a fashionable young man, arrayed in the most approved London style, went to woo the voters of one of the "rural fleestricks," He asked the 6min-flan Of the petty com- mittee in that conetituency a lot of questions as to how the canvass would best be pro - :mead with, and ae to the topics most worth touching on, Answers having been given, the chairmen asked in his turn. "Now that you have heard all this, than I offer you ti peso of advice?" "Yes," said the candidate. "%Yell," said he, "Go off to your tailor% at once and provide youreelf with knembreeches mid gaiters ad a white Mr.:Land whipstock, mid for goodness' sake don't go round the villages Damped as you 11010 are," The eandidate thought a moment, smiled and said, "'Pon ray word, think you're right. rn do ito at once." And now the fashionable young stooll is in outward appearence the mature of a eoun. try squire, and the interest he is telthig in agriottiture 10 501041011144. AN AVERTED TRAIN WREOE. Lightning Eitrueit (00 514is44,440 il)elobOr 50 1110 Telegraph teen The Washington atm. Mlle this remark. able story as having occurred at Medicine 1 Hat on the Canadiati Pacific Real way. There 1 550 several geographieal inaceuracies, US well as other parts of the yarn that may be hard to beiteve but the reader can overlook these in the interest of the story :- AB the following anwationel tale tame aireet from the lips of is weeterv telegraph - I:5, 15110 made one of the groupoffstory tellers, I he 1,1(571114 1051 important tart In the incident, I anti hie verainty has never beets tinesition• oil, the tale intuit be uccepteil at the proper value of itudiluted truth, and so pass into I tho record et tithes undoubted from the wild end woolly West. " in my earlyexperience with the tele- graph businesea, fetid he, "0 was located at a place called eledielue Hat, a emelt group of shanties on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, as operator, tioket agent and ex. press agent. Medicine Hat eould be Waseca among the towns 00 1101114 thirty miles away front nowhere. What little businese was d011e WAS on account of a mining village some thirty miles back in the numetains, The entire population of Medicine Hat could have been easily crowded into the little village station, "erns night, after a day 01 104 most sal - try weedier that 1 had experteneed for months, I was detelned at my officio on ac- count of delayed trains. A continuous roll of thunder, aceompenied by sharp flashes of lightning in the distance, warned me of an approaching etorm. I lotted and stormed, as I wanted to get to my boarcling shanty, about a quarter of a mile up the country road, before the storm broke. I was leen- ing back 101 5115 chair !rinsing over the eventa that had brought Me WeSt, when endclenly a voice broke upon my ears : " Hold up your 111111liS liniek "Glancing up I baNY a huge revolver pointed through the little window in the wall through welch I sold tickets and behind it a weird meals with terrible shining eyes. In endeavoring to comply with the com- mand, especially the latter injunction, my chair swung around, my head struck oms the edge of the table and unconscious I roll- ed to the floor. "When I regained my wits I found my- self lying on the floor of the outer waiting. room bound hand and foot with a bad, ungainly looking fellow standing guard over me with a Winchester. The storm had broken over us and the wind, ram, light- ning and thunder were soinothing terrific. "3.11 at ouce my trained ear caught the sound of the telegraph sounder, and turning my head I perceived a man at my desk working away at my key. He wore a mask, but that did not disguise the feet that he wee a young man. As the characters were ticked off and came to my ears I knew he was feeling his way ea to the location ot the delayed trains. 1 ale,, noticed that he fre- quently arose and made use of the ground wire from the switchboard, which out off the :nein office in which was located the train reinter of the division. At frequent intervals sharp cracks of lightning would reecho through the room as they struck the arrester on che switch, But the man worked on totally oblivious of his sur- roundings, " Suddenly I cauget a drift of whet he was sending oat over the wire, and was hor. rifted to learn that bosons trying to manipn. We the train orders so as to cause a wreck. Trains 47 anti 48 passed eaeh other about five ntiles op the road from my station, and' he was sending out orders with a cool steady hand to train 47 to take a siding about ton miles east of Medicine Hat and to train 43 to pass 47 at the regular place. These orders would have thrown the two trains, whieh were heavily laden with passengers and ex- press matter, together very near my station, "0 could easily hear the sounder, and from his orders knew the would.be se reek - or was an expert telegrapher and thorough• ly feaniline with traid running. Every now and then the wrecker would raise his hand from the key as a more eevere stroke of lightning would come in over the wire, but he was too intent on his deadly work to desist. The tramp of heavy boots on the platform outside tola me that the content- platedwreak was an organized scheme ofrob- bing the express oompeny and passengere. Muttered awns frequently came from the man at the key, as his plans for wrooking the train would meet with obstaelas in the shape of pertinent questions from operaters up the line, who wouldn't follow the new order of things without fully understencling their import. "My mind was in a horrible whirl anal fre• quently strained at my binding to get my hands loose, but a savage curse from my guard warned me to be careful or my life would not be worth much. On account of the tratna being behind time I knew they Would be pushed to their utmost speed by the engineer, and if they came together the wreck would be a horrible one. " The atone CM Linued to increase in force and peal after peal of thunder re-echoed over and above the little station. Still the wrecker at the key kept steadily at work weaving hie web of destruction, Suddenly he called oub in a voice of mingled satisfac. Hon and devilish glee: ''Ah, that fixes the matter all right. Forty-seven has signed the orders at the water tauk and in ten minutes they'll go together. Tell the men to spread out up--' " He never finished the sentence. A blinding flash at the switchboard, a shriek from the wreaker ancl the office appeared to be one mass of flame, My gutted rushed frogs the building, and with a mighey effort I wrenched my hands free and pulled myself through the door. The little station was as dry as tinder, the oil from the train, men's lamps added to the combustible ma tore of its make up, and ha a momentsflames were breaking out in every part, "With loud cities several of the wreeker'e confederates &abed towarda the little room to pull their leader out, but the beat drove them beak, and as voices were heard up the country road corning towerds the station they all disappeared in the darkness. "A man named 'Hamplty' Logan entied my legs, as my hands were toeless on ac- count of the great numbnese ocernsioned by the tightness of the thongs, and. 0 quickly explained the situation to Men. He hunted up a lamp 8,nd dashed down the track and around the entree in one direction, while I swung the lantern upon the train miming down the etraight piece of track to the sta. Hoe in the other direetion. My lantern wag not eeeu by the engineer, but the burning station acted as a clanger signal and the train drew up at the station, the engineer totally igarant of the danger they were es- caping and ouly inteat upon helping to sub. due the flames. Twenty-five words ex - pleated the situation to the engineer and a grotip of passengers that gathered around, end tie train 47 elowly rounded the 005513 from the east, substantiating vay etory, the orgenization of a privet meeting there and then would 110.V0 been an easy matter. " The engineers of both Mains with their ofteductors head a consultetion &act 48 finally backed to the flan biding, followed by 47, mid the tante wee etteightened out 7 " The next day the rounders of the would - he wreoker wore Mond in the ruins of the eat. . Hon, and the railroad emnpanp physielen„ Idler hotdinlg ir autopsy, lice red tii‘at the hal111(511 i 1 and while uneoneeious had been smothere and then burned to a Meta " In all trly experience wall ligatnin that was the lucakest bolt that over Flagg() a wire," said the narrator as he finished hie tale," and the 'itchiest stare of the people on those two trams were tueloula (Idly el title ascendant on that terrible eight. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The grape loves sunshine. Wee -candles 0010 first lama in the twelfth, °eatery, Among the members of the German Par- liament are six 01gal:quaker:a Rose. }Mahour haa reftwea 312,000 for "The Threshing Floor," liar new painting. Eighteen of the London theatres are 004. cupied for Divine service on Suuday even- iO4& A clock 25 feet square Find 40 feet high, will be one of the Australian exhibits ln the Worla's Fair. 1Vidle Mr. Gladstone's stature bas dee creased, ibis curious thee his head ham largely grown even after his middle age. Some tinsmiths use leaden -headed naila for roofing purposes, The last strokea flat- ten the head over the hole made in the tin, and leaking is time prevented. The Gulf Stream flows at an average faseed of three miles an hour. At some Places, notably in the Straits of Bernina the cure:tot attains a velocity of lifty-four miles an hour. The biggest university M. the world is at Cairo, Egypt -a country which is not men - timed at all in the statistics -and a halt 11,000 students. Jay Gould, the American always carries a email silver coin, value ria. in his puree, He says that he vividly remembers the time when it represented. all the money he hail in the world. The Emperor of Austria't silver -wedding gift to the Czar is spoken of as the moat magnificent present ever received. by &Eur- opean sovereign. It congests of a dinner. service of solid silver, richly wrought, de- signed for twenty-four persons, and num- bering 280 pieem. The longest cataleptic sleep known to medical science bait been attn.:sting atten- tion in Germany. The latest report dates that the man -a miner at Sileste-had been unconscious for four and a half months, with no unnatural appearance except absolute rigidity of the limbs. During this time the patient's hair has grown, but his beard has remained stationary. Food is given by tube. The diffieulty of a foreigner learning the Chinese language may be inferresl from the statement of an English traveller. He and his companion, previous to starting for China, had supplied themselves with the Chinese grammar. In a day or two he discovery was made that the single letter 1 had one hundred and forty-five ways of being pronounced, and that each pronunciation had an entirely different meaning. Then it dawned upon them that there was no poetry about the Chinese language, that it was not worth learning, and their grammar 1VeS secretly consigned. to the river mud by being dropped over- board. Summer Oookug. Ti s ory of the housewife new is, -Its too hot to cook or even to eat. But the eating goes on and the question is how to prepare the food in these scorching July days with as little fire as possible. Very =my valuable hints are given below. With the coming emitter the average housewife dreads the daily cooking of the meals perhaps more theca any part of housework, for it is impossible to take this to a cool place as may be done with near- ly all other kinds of work. True the prep- aration of vegetables and much other pee- per:story work may be done on a shady porch or other cool place, but the actual cookiug cannot, and she whose business it is to prepare the daily meals, finds often - Hines that the heat from the stove, together with that of the season, forms a dreadful combination. To the dwellers in rural homes especially do our sympathies go oat, and while we know that in the average fanner's fami- ly, cold breakfasts ancl dinners would not be pet:calm:14e, is is possible by exercising a little oars and forethought to prepare palatable, nutritious suppers for weeks at a time, without making a fire especially for them. If one plans for it, ibis just: as easy to do a little extra cookine while getting dinner as to do only the usual amount ;and herein Hee the secret of cozy suppers. In the way of meats, what Da more palatable than a yonng chicken split open on the back, baked while getting dinner, and eaten cold for supper? Roast chicken, boiled ham, awned beef, or even fried or stewed chicken is as acceptable eaten sold as when served fresh from the firs; and, for a change, nothing is nicer than cold, hard.boiled eggs cut in hO o and served on a platter which has first been :veered with parsley or lettuce loaves, Many vegetables are just: as good after having been kept warm for a time as when freshly cooked. Among these are cabbage, summer turnips, peas, beans, either green or dried, onions, squash, succotash, and al- most everything excepting potatoes. One or two of these may be cooked while dinner is beteg preparea, and if closely ecivered in the vessel in which they were cooked and set in the sun on the west side of a build- ing, where they will receive the reflected as well as the direct heat from the son, they cam easily be kept warm for supper. If there be much wind, it would be a wise pre- caution to wrap the vessel in paper and eover with a heavy blanket. Add to these a pot of boiling coffee wrapped in littnnel and paper, and a pan of water to heat for dish - muffling, and you can easily and quickly serve a good supper for even hardworking harvesters without heating yourself or the house to prepare it, To this list add fresh or cooked fruits, ripe tomatoes liced in vinegar, sliced cuctithbers, sliced 011101184 slava beee and cucumber pickles, radishes, lettuce, clabber cheese, poteto, egg or illeat salads, eusteatife cornstarch, Sago, or tapio- ca puddings, ioed tea and milk, making a bill of tare 0.5 varied as for any other meal, and with so much loss heat and worry, for after a few Mats it will bo found to be jtise as easy to do the neoessary cooking for sup. per while getting (limier ea to wail, till sups per time; and One can thus seve from one to two hours' work every Afternoon to be devoted to rest, reereation, or other work °fleetly es important as cooking, This is no mere theny, Mita Well -tried plan, Which may successfully be adopted by any house. keeper, --- Getting Motley is riot all it MA'S b11$111088; to OnitiV4140 kind11088 is a veattable part Of the Innsinesa Of life.-alohusell,