Huron Record, 1880-12-17, Page 7LONG
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The Story of the Yacht "Miiersohaume
roue -Steroid Yam.
STRAND 1.
The" Meerschaum," of Lakeside, was eon.
Ordered by her owner to be the lovelieet piece
of manhe erohimoture ever constructed.
Speedy ate was, undoubtedly., for in this, her
first season, she had defeated ell the flyers of
Lake'
side and everybody know the reputation
of the latkeside fleet As yet her owner had
but little opportunity to test her in limy
weather or Against the yachts .of other oities.
But for all thie, he knew that, as hie old sail-
ing -master told him." she is as fast a boat as
ever e spike was &iv in." • But he did not
know, or perhaes did not care diet old Mike
often thought "she might a had o little more
beam, but he wouldn't listen to that."
Many were the oomments and great the ade
miration of the members of the Lakeside
Yacht Club when one day, in the early
summer:the stately white yacht dropped her
anoleor for the that time in front of the (hub
House, just front theieuelder who had brought
her to Lelteside himeelf. ,Ana the opinion of
those whose opinions were worth the milting,
was generally that of old Mike.
Alt through that Eauhmer she raced at
;story opportunity and won every raoe. • It be-
came so monotonous that old Mike °erne to
be almost hated by the seilingaustereof the
other yactlete of Lakeside, with whom be had
been before aboarty favorite.. For Mike was
-older than meet of thfie and had, giteff'heline
a ..hint and berg a hand when
most -needed. Indeed; . • it • was ,Said that
when he was on the "Flyirig, Fish" he had
voluntarily gone out one afternoon on the
" Vixen," and had . them concealed from the
t • owner that his sailing Master, was. up town
• carousing with an old shipmate, =dutiable
to go if he bed thought el it, which he didoit.
There were other storiee of the "kindlydie-'
position:of old Mike, but in spite of this they
disliked to eee their yechtbeaten so regularly,
even by Mike. And he in turn came to relish
his joko if it could be .turned on theta, and
used to tell With glee hew ono day, after h
lively sail, whiele, as usual, was a victory for
the " Meerschaum," the dingy of the 'As-
tarte" passing close by going Ashore with.:
crew, be hoard the comment on his darling,
She have a pretty bow, but a mighty ogle
stern." "It's you time knot* it, too," said
' Mike, "for you've seen it often." So the
season went on till the summer was rapidly
dying, and•the fall regatta at Beachtille was
at hand. The " Meerreshaum " was soon
ready, and one bright afternoon sailed away
out . of the harbor for Boachville, with old
Mike, her owner and four yachting friends on
board. ' Some extra hands were to be taken
on at Beachvillo. . .
The dee Was bright and surely, a glorious
'
day in the Canadian autumn, mad the reamed
yellow leaves fell in the streets . of Lakeside:.
The harbor was hill of vessels, for it was, the
grain season, and the port of Lakeside did a
elarge-gainebusin-ess:-SucheveseeleWbefethete
_1
as can be seen nowhere, except on the 'great
lakes; coalectboners, With dirty, 'blackened
'canvas, except here aeul there' ono with sails
covers, great three and four -masted Schooners,
huge propellors, standing so hitile Mit of
the water that they Min to be
. ready to topple over at • agymoment, and
with deep dark holds thatone Would think
the slender elevator-spouts.Would never fill.:
Stone -hookers built on some farm up the take
shore, whose crews spoke of "coiling up the
sails" ad" haling =peerd
and
excursion steamers, yeedels'light and vessels
loaded, some dowo by the head and some
down by the stern, and snorting tugs rushing
about in every direction.' ,Picking her way
past them all the dainty yacht swept proudly
out of the harbor and rounded op in the
wind for a moment with fluttering sails, like
a hesitating bird. Then her head,seils filled
and with a graceful bow she stood away lor
Beachville. Friends watehed her, glees in
hand aha appreciated as 'realer eghtsraen ean,.
the feelings of her owner as the yacht dashed
the spray from her hot* and answered
the slightest motion of his hand on the, tiller,
and he looked aloft at the swelling canvas,
with the knowledge that ho had • raade the
riuIs-his--seivaut-s-'---dangerous-sesvant
though, and very apt to over -power their
master. By and by the small white speck
disappeared in the broad blue lake; and the
"Meerschaum " • tied up no neore toher
moorings in front of the LakesideYacht
Club.
That night was cold and dark, opel it blew,
a gale on the lake the "Meerschaum" never:
Vetuehed..
STRAND LI. .
Yes, me an' Jim madeono trip together:
That was Onthe" jolly Toper," and We saw
sunathin' then as I often tell when I'm •axed
to spin a yarn. Oh I no I 17 don't Mind
. telling you.
Well, you see rao an' Jim hed shipped on
the "Jolly Toper" at Belloggin, *here she
had come in for a feW extry hands as shewere
goin' down to Quebec, an' Kingston youknow
generally the last port on the down trip for
seilin' vessels. It were gettin' ''well on into
the Fall an' blows was to bo expected, but we
Only got into one that did us' anydamege. A
couple o' days after -that we
ooked to be a vessel floatin' bows down, ah'
everything gene by the board. But When we
gat nearer we seedit wait a -yecht.witle het
mast cut away. Then the old 'Man he Oho
out to lower away the yawl -boat, an' Me an'.
Jim was ordered in with the mate an'' two
more. When we come along eicle.the yacht,
I seen she was a beauty; though her white
paint war adretched and her hull •battered
from the pounding of the mad that layelo.ng.
aide. On her stern We could See her name,
" Meersohaum"-a queer nariaetoci, ithotteht
until I geed it meant" Stia-Forttmle 'Long
afore wo reached her, we could see a man sit -
tin' in the cockpit, for she were only 'about
20 tong, an' Win' pretty low in the water.
He hadn't made no whale, didn't pay no
'tention to us even when we laid Simard. The
mate wero the first iuto elm cockpit an'. when
I.heerd 'im holler " Good God I boys, ho'a
mad." I rata aft, and saw an old mats eitein'
in the cockpit With his /mean hand on the
tiller, an'. a deed man layin' at Whet. Wee
he mad? Of course he was : I icriowed it as
goon as he give me one look from them' eyes
o' his. Well, we took hold of him to put 'ina
in the yawl, an' ho juneps acrose the cockpit
an' says " Take . hint first:" • poitatin'
to the dead Man. We lifted up the dead
man an' put him in the yawl en' then the old
Man wont quiet enough. Then we an! the
mate went below to look atound. Therevere
about two foot o',water in the cabin which
must ha' bin e little Wade afore the storm
caught her; but now the lane, lamedwas
smaehed, the bunks Wag filled with Water,
Elclocket doors were shore, tho red (=Mine
fore, an' Jingo imam Sails an' newspapers
waidin' *Mad the centre -board Isiah with every
,pitch o' the memo "Which were OP Mein*"
pretty Melo A look around the deck au' at
the mast lapin' ,eloimside, satisfied us that
the top-ne'st hed earried away first, an' Isefore
they could takeen the maine'l, they turned
over, an' righted her again by euttins away
the meet.
By this time the yawl COMO bask again
after puttin' the two men aboard the
schooner, which by this time hed. worked up
pretty doee onto the yacht. We cat the
canvass oft the dick an' out the stick adrift.
After malcin! a line fast we went, aboard the
" Toper" an' towed the yacht astern accord -
in' to the cuten's orders. When we got aboard
the old man was asleep and the dead man
lyin' on the fleor in the capOn's cabin with
a oar° sail throwed over him. The mate
side the old man paid nothin' to anybody, but
kep' mutterio' somethin'o to himself, ' except
once when tho gook was roakin' some hot
coffee, the oap'n offered him mune brandy,
he dashed the cup from his hand an'
glared savagely at bine, an' lookin'
like through tho caphi at sotnebody
behind 'him, heemye; sort o' tremblin', " No 1
No! Gimme ne hither, gimme no likker."
"An mark you, Archibald," saes the 'mate
whete he waS tellin' me,' "Twasn't so
much.the blow as the likker that . turned that
boat over," 'which same I don't believe.'
When we went into Wayport the next day,
the caphe found that the yacht had started
from Lakeside four days before with elm on
board, so that hunger en' •eold, had killed the
others, an' drove the old man, crazy.. When
they we reported raispiaLeheir friends tele-
graphed alt round the lake for news o' them.
This was the news they got:
Picked up yacht' "Meerschaum" about
twenty-five railes S. E: of Peter's Reef, mast
out away, old man crazy, young man deed, no
others on board.".
Then we wont on an' left them in charge of
the harbor master; , 1 heerd afterwards how
the yadlit was ordered to be destroyed, an!.
she were towed out into the lake an' scuttled.
At Qaebect I shipped on a harkfrom Hamil-
ton witha &sego:for Norway, aud Jim wont back
on a sohoouer for Death's Dome It was two
year afore I come back to the lakes, an' I
ain't seeneJim since. Yes, I will, thankee,
you can make mine pretty strong. Oh l No 1
I,ain't like the old mah yet ; good Bicker
hurts nobody.
-STRAND III,
In a Oanadian mad -house is .an old man
who attracts little atteOtime from the
corious visitors to ' the place. He is
very quiet and seldom sPealtio but now and
than he may be hoard seyiug to himself -so' a
little more beam, a little more beam." . And
at long intervals and always in the winter
(mines a tall, sailor -like men to see him -his
only visitor. When he ie present the old man
egg; to recover in some degree his lost rea-
son.; when he is gone old lilikebecoinee Oho
setae silent, harmless, uncomplaining mad -
STRAND IV.
Many days after the: Meerschaum"
started on her fatel.tripOthewintrypithereset:
ireitioarneekthuraiehy agoodslnp,shattened
by, tho wind and with eigging and cantata; so
iced as to peciorent her navigation, Wasdrawn
ashore to go to pieceson an iron -bound
coast.. But it is not only an the .Bahadian
phore diet steamers are left to fretted and
die. • One day aligned granger, whose farm
bordered on • the .lake, (tame dotsee to the
shom." He went back thinking God .that his
lot had beet cast on shore; for there on the
beach; with the icy water. washing the sea-
weed over him, lesy a yetung man with b. nigid,
swelled ige medal starineeeyes earned up-
ward to the City. Aridon the remnant othis
blue shirt were the white letters of the word,
Meerischauna.:" • ' •
LITERARY NOTES.: • .
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-After 1.03 sessions, eittingin a11407 days,
the revisers of the authorized edition of the
New Testament completed'theie work inIeezi-
clim about two iveOka ago. - •
-ithe Collected .Sotinete,of the late
Charles. Teemyson - Turner, , publighea by
Kogan, Paul as Co., a short meneerial poem
by his brother Alfred, the Poet Laureate,' aps
peeve It is given in -full below o
--,,o--lerthe-hiCteptthlishocl-listsof-appointmenti
and promotions Irene the Beitish War Office;
Colohel Dickens, of the Twenty-eighth foot,
hasebeeh placed on half pay, and Captain
Thaelteray, -of the same regiment, is to be
promoted to be major. ;"
THE HEAL ON PROFILE MOUNTAIN.
.01der that Egypt's soulptund Hugs, • •
Thine are the aateless years;
Thy gaze uplifted o'er living things
'Mid the lofty peaks, thy -peers,
. Tlibu swat the -slopes of a thousandhill, '
' -In the vales a thousand streams ;•
Througlrthy cloud -girt eat' tho thunder thrills,
. .0a thy oasque the lightning gleams,
-The late 'Mrs. Cliche, am it girl, was so
strong and highomirited that she was called'
"the empress." She rode without a Kiddie
and Went mit on the sea in a fishernean'a boat
alone with her sister. She made a kind of
runaway match with the- historian, . After
being engaged to him for two years she grew
tired of waiting for her father's consent, and
one March morning she slipped away to te
neighboring church, got married without any
one knoweng, and came baok to breakfast as if
nothing had happened. Sydney Smith thus
eleverly described Mrs. Grote and her hue -
and ; "1 do like them both so much, for he
s so lady -like and sew is such a perfect gen-
leman,'
, ermistoox, itnin'80th, e879.
effeteghte-in no midamainer tono
The breakers lash tho shoroS
Tho ottekoo of it joyless Juno
• Is calling out of doors
And thou haat vanished from thine own
.. To that which looks like rest,
True brOther, only to be known . • •-•
By those who lovo thee best, '
kidnight-and joyless Juno gone,
• A.nd from the deluged park
Tbe OUCk00 of a worse July
Is calling through the dark:
But though art silent undorgrdund
And o'er the streams the rain,
True poet, stirely to be foiled
Whon truth is found again.
'And now to these unsuinther'd skies
The eummer bird is stile
Par og a phantom' cuckoo ories
rreraout a; phantom hill; -
And thio' this midnight 'breaks the sun.
Of sixty years away,
Tho light of days when lifo begun,
Tho days that -seem to -day,
When all my griefs were eliaroa with thee,
And all lay hopes wore thine -
As all thou wort was ono with me,
May all thou art be mine I
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-It is against the la'w to catch . trout with
nets in 'Cayuga and &nom Lakes'hut 'the
interior cities of this Straw having long been
bountifully supplied from these sources, a
game celesta -bid lately made a trip cm etealce
Cayuga in a small steamboat to discover and
pull up gill net o .Ho fonna e largo number,
coeds while destroyme, o Shot at from the
gm. '
' LOST IN THE (11.140IEES.
High up among the mountains there etood
a chalet which' was often frequented by visit.
tors. It was built jutting out upon a broad
road which lead to the glaciers, and in sum-
mer time tomists on their way to the heights
wore very glad to stop and have some re-
freshment. The chalet was kept' by two
young girls, mo needy dressed, so blithe in
movement and manners, so gentle and retir-
ing, that they became part of the attraction
of the place. Women espeoially were attract-
ed by the winning manners of the two sisters,
and sometimes a grand dame, who was mis
tress of big castles, somewhere' down in the
swarming world below, would end by a friend
a pretty token, to show that in all her fash-
ionable life there wee a fibre which reaohocl
up to the chalet hid melt the mountains.
One ,day, at neon, a party of travelers
poured into the cottage and fouled everythiug
ready to receive them. There WAS along table
in the middle of the room, spread with bread,
butter, end cheese, and an appetieing odour
assured that hot soup end meat wore close at
hand. Though the room was small and
roughly built, there were bright' prints
on the wall to make it look cheerful, and the
eurtains of the window were as „spotless and
crisp as the meow towering in peaksuuder the
sunshine,
. The, younger sister, Annette, was in the
room arranging entire round the table. She
was dressed hes dark skirt which stood out
stiff, and was short enough to eliow_ two well.
shod feet and neat ankles. Her white
Morelli:deer rope from a low bodice of scarlet;
there were heavy earrings in her ears, and -a
soft, white cap on her head. There was in-
ceseant chatter among the Visitors, for even
cold English people, who seem to move about
with it Meat round them, threw aside their
reserve when they have clinthed <tot Of eon
ventional air.
Annette saw everyone in their places; clod
then went to her sister, who was cooking in
the next room, ' Preeenely both Of them came
out, not too quickly, to he sure, in Switzer-
land, Annette carrying the imp tureen and
her sister Louise the plates. There was a
positive difference between the' sisters. An-
nette was pretty and sparkling, but the grave,.
sweet niouth of Louise; and mingled eatnest-
noes and repose of her glance, excited interest
as well as admiration.
. One young English lady, whrate nothing,
rooked at Louise with evident pleasure, and
called her husband's attention to the beautiful
grave taco. The party roe° from the table
When the meal was over, and prophred to fol.
lost their guide to the glacier. T la '
tucked their skirts up higher, and the gentle-
men handled theiralpenstocks as if . they
meant business. The young ;English lady,
however, after talking severalminuteWith
her husband, said she would rather retnath
behind. She said. she was euffering•from•
dizziness; rind begged to stele, in the chalet
until her husband and the rest of the party
retnniedooSheturoedeto_tonise, and saidin
Fretielfealinost-porelr aceeneedoe— .
o May I Stay with you? I am tired and do
not wish to go further, My husband will661310
back for me as he retails. ' • ' 4
Louise heartily aseenthd, and the - gentle-
man, Mr. Bailey by .natne, confided his wife
to her care. She mid she Would .itoon: cure
madame of.. the dizzinees or slight vertigo
from, which • she was enffering, with some
wonderful herb that a certain doctor bathe
valley had told her hew to procure and pro.
•
•
The party set out, and atter making the
room comfortable; Loniee and Annette oat
down with their oisitor, They told her their
history, how they were °poly left orphans, and
how a kind friend had helped tlsone to obtain
thirsiehalet, where they gained euffiCient monoy
in the summer to live ecenfoitably down in'
tbe valley in the whiter. , •
"And who- is that kited friend ?"' asked
Mrs. Baubey.. •
• Lettiee bent down: herhead, and _Apeteeete
leughingly:aoswered for her :
ft is Dr. llaldy,. medame. Ho ie young
and not oich yet, but he is getting' •on -eh,
Louise? And I tell. Leuiee, madame, that
some line stiniraet- she will let me come op
here alone. .Do you understand, Madame ?"
e "-Quite," saut-Mge-Balley, smillog. • I
think that the doctor will soon.' medee
reputation if his medicines. are as ellefethel
as the herbs you brewed the; Mederneieelle
Louise.' Already that ' frightful .vertigo., is
1360;eitisehere:1,'atohde liadltaairaried wKell
that she. was also an
she- was very,
young. She'. said her husband was ell the.
world to her, for, 'indeed, he was all she had
in the world; she had novet known thebleso
ings of parents or :near relations,' Talking
thee, -the time slipped away (thickly, and
Louise Was astenished to find that more than
two hours had loosed, and yet the patty had
riot returned. • Mrs. Bailee suddenly looked
uneasy, the more oci as a snowstorm came on.
She took up her Aga at the door, and Louise
was glad to hear her utter a joyful cry, as ehe
exclointed that she could _see some persons'
co -thing down the teeth. Louise went beside
her, and wondered what was the, matter with
Jean•Catbot the guide, -• .
He wail not naturally a merry man,' butole
had not soon his face so supertetturally grate
before, He was ha advanee of till the rest, and
coming up to Louie() he Eaid in French,
thinking the English ledy would not under-
statIrkOher. within; her husband i killed."
'A piercing scream undeceived him. Mrs.
Bailey said in French to the shocked guide,
as she iliac:tiered herself with a great eilort-
'"NoW tell me the truth -he can be recov-
ered ; he oats' be brought te life. It is not
the first time--" ' • ' •
. She ;stopped there. The guide's face an-
swered Mr doubts. The met Of the party
came up and fuming to them 'she gad, in
sheep, dear acootits, and with darkening
705-
"1 should have saved him. You aro
cowards. You let him' die
A ghastly change mone Over her face, and
Atm Oarbot boro the fainting woman to
Antette's bed, Theo there was nigh discus,
sion among tho travelers. Nothing could be
done to help' the dead The pen man had
been thrown, by a email avalanche, clown a
steep precipice, where death was certainly in-
stantabeouto He had climbed higher etlinie
the rest, to a yearns point from . which the
guide had *meted him in vain. 3rate Jean
had descondedfar enough to distinguieh the
body in the awful depths below,but there was
no °hence oE reeovering the body until next
day, when men could be summoned from , the
valley to help in the imarch. Until, theft no-
thing COUla bo done, except to Booth the poor
lady, Who WOO flasSirig from oats fainting fit
to Another. Everybody Was willing to ho
of serviceettiol yet found go «Omaha of rein-
aming it , Louise spoke with pietatical good
."11"selhositturs and leteedamett, I would advise
you all to go to your :hotel, as we JUWO net
any accommedation for vteitclo here. MO
caster anal wlil take care of the lady. In
the morning some gentleinen vrill perhaps
come with the guides to help both this lady
and thethe gentleman who is dead. Mean-
while mansigur the doctor went far up the
mountain this morning to attend to a family
that ie ill, and he will, be returning about
'seven o'olook. We will get him to attend
to the lady, and he ehall bring you weed
at the hotel of how progresses. Jean
Omelet, you will come bask' as soon as TOO
can "
Different plans were mooted, but this one
which Louise mentioned seemed the beet of
all. At length the party -left the ollItlet fol.
.lowing their guide, and the two fastens were
alone with their unconscious guest. They
mimed her very tenderiy, and by many de-
vices they eueceeded in restoring her to life
end sense, Mercifully, she seemed uhalele to
malice the last event of her conscious mo-
esents, and, lulled' with wenn /academe she
turned wearily on her pillovr to 'deep, That
sleep was calm- end profound, and. after a
while Louiee and Atinette shut the door and
made their little room comfortable,and home-
libe once again. They were not &Went long,
arid yet when Louise went to look at her pa.
tient shepave cry which quickly brong4
Amid*. They shoed at the bed with unbitt
liming eyes, for the clothes were thrown off,
the window eva,sewide open, and . tho room
empty.
• • Now theheisto were descending feet, and,
though the snowstorm was overethee Mr was
chill and Weak.. r40111.40 and Annette loelted
at each oeleer with horror-Arida* eyes; then
looking further through:the open window and
up those dim steeps beyond, one thOoght ap
palled them. both. Athlete° 'hid her face, in,
her hands and sobbed.; Louisestood quiet and
pixie, paralysed into inaction.'
Net for many ' minutes, 'however. She
soon wrapped it long cloak around her,: and
throwa covering over her 'head. Annette,
besought:her hot to leave her, bot Louise
commanded her to'keep warna evatek : boiling,
and be in readiness to receiver the .eick .wo-
man.. Then she trod out firmly up themouo-
tain path, for she guessed by instinct the
wife had sought in, ddliriurn to rejoin her lost
Intsbitud:. Mournfully Logise ;effected that
she might -indeed haveloined him beforenew.
She toiled on through etho Melte snow, her
keen eyes glancing everywhere. Joy and stir
pricie.throbbed -in her heart when she dieo
cern ure coming towards her, bearing a
b en en In .arms.
It was the Mote:who strode anxiously to..
wards the clo ked women that seine preset-
ament seeme , to tellhim:was Louise. He was:
soon by her ei e and was telling her bis-story
as they Walked to tho elndet together, while
she helped to suppetit her ounassey and now
senielees patient.. . ,
He had got away from a hick. family seoner.
than he waded,' and wee- doming cheerily
honeewards, when he,sawe net fer boyood the
-tietfitalidelieutsi,iiietehiinelievecinitmelyinge
in the snow. She was -quite unconscious,
mid evidently. it foreiggro and he was ;golly
puzzled to Make -out the, reason for her being
theist... Lohise explained, and related all the
sad cirguinstancee oe. the day. She blamed.
herself bitterly for heviog left the Testy
singlo instant, aucl the doetor not being
pleased . that the culprit should be Louise,
blamed Sean Cabot for not hureyieg'back; as
he had promised te doe* the deters. . Joao
was there When the trioarrived at the chalet,
and:Mee...Bailey was mule more .'in
Annettes bed. The young doctor stayed with
her all night, watching. the, elternatione be..
tWeeu life and cleatlohrith earnest skills ' Jean
kept hp a big fire, and the sistei•s were ordered
to sleep and gain strength for the Morrow:.
It came; ena with it came many inquiries
and brave reedy meia. But the body was be-
yond all Hut:tart reach, .and for many days it-
eeemed.that the Young widow was beyond it
also. For :Leahy days-ebut skill andpatiehee
conquered. Those three Who nursed Mrs.
Baiboyback-£6711fe had -*tete love she; with
the devotion of Pity, and fee her Owe sake,
too. She slowly reached health again, 'bot
with nerves forever shattered by the • sudden
shock, and the desperate rush hp Ake 'moun-
tain. whieli5.remeietbered a. dream
admit with horror. She ocnild .not bear to
be separated froni her new:friends, and, being
still oonaparatively rich; she begged that she
might Make a home in the telleY,:•where the
doctor's Wife would liye withoher„ and with
them Annette, whose sparkling'heirtla brought
emilee to the. Widow's bad face. ' • .
• So .a quiet marriage Was celebrated; in the
Protestant °immix, and a quiet • company as-
sembled there in • honor of Louise and the
doctor. Ancl the brides. etreet smile -was not
less encletaing•for its gravity, for she rement.
bored sorrow in the Midst of joy ; and -with
that mingled gladness •and compassion she
houud. up the , broken. heart of her friend
through meny years,rintil the sunehine ever, -
mine the elladoee; eincl litths children grevoup.
to find a second mother, tately iced and Moe)
joyouo•he their Rood aunt,taileye .
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CHARGES AGAINST CANADA.
The Government " Accused ot
• Official State e prOoneinerce-How if
. Has Sougw. on zhe 'quite&
States.. ,
'
(]3y t
Herm; N. ki„ 1 e rieriOeir Hind, of
Windsor, who was • , .te the Halifax
Fishery Cominissioe au., Lee e :nenthe ego
=Ade charges that the statistics used in the
British SIRBO were false, heti had printed in
pamphlet form a lettai.addreesea.to the Gev-
ernor-Gerieralpf Canada, in•which ho makes
oliarges-ef.a broader ohatacter. He says not
only w,ere the stathities presented' to tho cora-
iitissien false, but thee the official blue beolis
of Canadeohearing on the fish trade -with the
United States were systematically felsitied for
for.a !melee of edare to produce results Abet
wools), suit ilia purpose in view. :Repro of
I the Deified Stateitewereehade to appear much
less than they really were, forth° purpose of
making out•that the previa° benefited little
bee the free admission of fish into the States.
Pletitiotte items of inmate tofOreign cotintriee
were introduced:to make it appear that the
provinces were lees dependent that they real-
ist were on • the 'Atnerman market. Other
fietitious glee wore Wanted to makep appear
that the Americans foga a large market foe
fit* in the proVincee. The letter is lengthy
and yery elaborate and giyeamany compari-
sons and celeelatione leading to the conclu-
aione already dated. It is alleged that these
ilalsifitatione began 110011 after the Treaty of
Waiiiiing ton Wee Ulna. The correct returns
appeer to have been Cent from the vedette
provinces to Ottawa %na: there to have teen
Manipulated irt the maiiter above stated.
Prof, Ilind claims to be fully able to prove all
he says beftto it toteeittee of the IIMUle
Cettemenser
SOME USES OF .A.
Charges of Ortiete Against a Man Who
• Styles Himself a Lord.
On Aug. 10 a tall Englishman, calling Woes
self Manus Le Bette Beresford, and °lairs!
ing to be a member of that noble Englia
family, got the London Bank of Utah to caeh
ler him it draft on Reopen, Bouverie & Co,,
of London, for Z1e0, Three hundred dollare
were paid to him in cash, and a draft on Moro
ton, Bliss 4e Co., of this city, for $470, pay-
able to the order of Marcus La P. Beresford,
was given in: payment of the Wage. Beres.
ford immediately quitted Salt Lake for the
East. At Indianapolis he met Capt. Med,
burst, who had known him in Utah. Med-
hurat identified him at the Fleet Betional
Bank of that city, where ho 'get his draft on
Morton, Bliss a Co. cashed. When the Salt
Lake bank discovered the forgery they heti-
fied Morton, Blies' & Co, who -put the case in
the hands of Inspector Byrnes. Correspond-
ewe with the London pollee discovered that
Beresford was an expert swinaler, who, under
the name of Hugh reslie Courtney, and ad the e
reported son of -Lord Devon, had
swindled people in , Eogland and on
the ',Continent Of large sOthe of •
money. A photograph of the . windier,
attired en the undress onfforra of the Queen's
(hoods, was sent to this country to identify
him by. T,he Jac simile of the photograph,
all but the uniform, in the shape of a well-
dreseed man; Detectives Radford end Dusen-
berry saw with: a- lady in Tenth street west of -
Broadway; yesterday. At University place .
Radford touched him oh the' shoulder, and,
told him he wae "'wanted." Ile was brought
to the Police Central Moe, where he was. ,
locked op. It is believed that that the man,
whose real neme is not known, has been Ag- •
uring in good society on the score of his
Alleged aristocratic position in Engltsh society.
fIts has a very plausible taken, Ins manners
are god, antl he seems conigrativety well
educated. It is stated of him that soon after
reaching this" couutre he Stevie mi satchel fromo
the wife of Col. Flbyd of PhiladolMaie, con-
taining a large sum of money, on the wharf ••
et which the steamer Wyoming, liAa jose
landed. Dateetives Dunn and JEtadford re-
covered the .spoils, and also . diheivered
the thief to have registered himself at the
Clarendon Hotel as the Hon. Hegh-Leslie
Courtney, So -sone Queen's Guards, London," :
s-Corirtney, however, bet that time was 'itt
The West, and escaped. arrest. It is also '
alleged that he paseed'a forged draft for $100
on the banker Alberti. 'Stevens, wider the
name of: Q. Pollee*, Clintome-New York Sue,
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SAVING AN HOUR'S SLEEP. ,
, .
A Bloomfield Man's Invention -Which her
Thinks Might Prevent Some, Divorces.
• man living neer Illoonineld, N. j., has • -
contrivedan arrangement by the .use of 'which .
he 15 enabled to get an hour •or More of extra
sleep ire the morning, and in other ways he
Andse:1..teh.i'fgest'tePe..Ate-e:"IntallAheY414111-siteee
ifike-etleidace-of-a-donrestie iiiervaist. This -
gentleman has thought out and put into .
practical working an idea that ocoured to hint
about mi .year ego. He is awakened in the
morning hy a -shrill ewhistle. •Ple 'at once '
gets out el 'bed; for .he knows what that
whittle xneans.: It tells him thet•all is reedy
for him to get to breakfaet, . He dresser) and .
ghee into the kitchen, and there he fiteds mi
bright, 'fresh fire," a teakettle hill of boiling
water, and other eonveniencee fat. •preparing
his moroinghneal, All ...this is accomplished
by Means bf sin alarm eleek • Withweightse a
piececif wire, a sheet of sandpaper, and sionw.
matches. -Priper, 'Weed and gal ate put into
the grate of his cooking stove, and a teakettle -•
filled with water, and lieving.a tiny whistle
fitted into the nozzle of the kettle,. 'is
placed on the stove. • By- setting . the
alion in the clock -he can have.a fire at any
time)* wishes. When the -alarm in the clock
goes off, a weight faille mid hits the wire; tho.
sire.moves' and scrapes' the matches fastened. •
to it on the sandpaper; the matches light the -
Paper itt thostete, the paper-hres-the woo
andcoel, and coon a fire is 'under way. In a
little while the water in the tocokettle 'boils,'
.and thole the tiny whistle gives the note of
warning that everything is toady and it is
'
"Simple thing, and yet what7i.Wit77
im?' the wentor saes, "There'iatio getting
up for me now an gm before breakfast, los-
'mg that amount of -sleep, and, then waiting
around for breakfast. The arrengementeosts
next te "nothing, and it is as trustworthy as •
anything ha this uorld. . nave met had it
patented yet. Some persons advise me
and perhaps I may. ,1 haven't any for sale;
got it up entirely for nay own oomfOrt and
convenienee, and it has more than repaid.me
already. But just think, .if it were 1.0 general
'use it would save -many ' hard words and do
away with considerable di:gestic nnhappioess
aiming peer people. Doubtlessietnight have
a tendency to make a betterfeeling between.
soiee men "and their Wives, by settling the
'taxing question- as to who 'should got up in
tho morning' and build tho fire. Out of this ,
question alone many altered. stilts grow,' and
this arrangement weleld prevent them." ••
- - THE CODE.' •
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' A Duel Which Did Not Come Off
Pitospeoe Hoge, NuaAILt FAr4,4,,:•6en, 2.
--Our little village. was threwn into exuite-
Mont by the. nem having leaked : out that
there was a duel to he fought here by two. ,
Southerners, Yeeterdayeenoon train brought
here Me. Lawrence Thompson and Mr U. N. ,
Wed°, of Covington, Ky.. Their blueness was
not to see Niagara in all- her glory, but they
came fully prepared to fight a duel. • Themp-
son is the principal and Wade was to act as
his second, to fight -another student of that •
place, to settle an affair of honer. The duel was
to have Wei fought tide morning at day-
break; back of Chippewa village, two Miles,
lifetime from here. The ohalleoginge
party, who -3e name could not at this writing
be ascertained, agreed: to haeet the Thompson
party hero this Monifog. Thompson and
his second seemedenraged to learn thtongle
a telegram received from Toledo, at one ,
o'clock to -day, that everything was pablithed, '
and to come atthne to Toledbfoe whieh'placo
they started this evening, .expressing their
regret at returiiing without . the'reatter being
edged. Ilere they had their ,pictures token
with the falls in the back ground, to show
their opponent and friends they had been
here tit fulfil their contract.
-To keep apples frora spoiling -pot them
hi a dry cellar, of easy two -Nieto a largolamily
of children,
.-WhexiMrs. Pearson undertook to cut her
throat at Springfield, Maga, her Tittle hoy
caught hee hand and bit it until she dropped
the weapon. But the lad's interferehee aia
net finally env° her, for she suksemiently
hanged harself.
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