The Montreal herald, 25 janvier 1890, samedi 25 janvier 1890

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Political Union of the Iberian Peninsula, JUSTICE VS.INFLUENCE.Pepular Feeling in the Parke Case.Lowpox, Jan.24\u2014The Suburban Radical Club has elected as its president Editor Parke, of the North London Pre:s.who was recently sentenced to a years imprisonment for the charge of having libelled the Earl of Euston.The bestowal of this honor upon Mr.Parke is designed to accentuate the belief of the club in the innocence of Mr.Parke, and its conviction that he is unjustly imprisoned in order to shield a guilty nobleman.= PORTUGAL'S RIGHTS IN AFRICA.An Unexpeeted Literary Champien.LoNpon, Jan.24\u2014Professor Jas.Brice has contributed an article to the Sp:aker, treating of the dispute between England and Portugal, in which he compares the present difficulty to the disputa between England and the U.8.concerning Oregon, which after several years of joint occupation of that territory, was settled in 1846 by a treaty, whereby the U.8S.gained sole possessson.The article has attracted considerable attention as admitting that Portugal has rights in the disputed territory in southeast Africa, which England is bound to regard as worthy of serious consideration before commiting the country to a war of conquest.A SANGUINE POLITICIAN, Proposes Union of Spain and Portugal.Lisgox, Jan.4\u2014A despatch from Madrid to the Seculoux says that Senor Lalero, a Republican member of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies, has announced his intention to offer a motion to consider the question of an Iberian union.The Seculour, commenting on the telegrams, says the idea of such a union will find no supporters among the Republicans of Portugal, though it believes that the two countries ought to unite in an offensive and defensive alliance without disturbing the autonomy of either.THE PREACHER AND TBE POLI TICIAN.Men of Note and Notoriety.LoxpoN, Jan.24.\u2014Rev.Dr.Talmage, of Brooklyn, took luncheon and spent the evening with Mr, Gladstone at Hawarden Castle to-day.To his guest, Mr.Gladstone expressed himself freely on religious and political topics, asserting his belief that the next general election would return a large Home Rule major!- ty, and charged him with messages of regard for President Harrison and sympathy with Mr.Blaine in his affliction.GRATEFUL PASSENGERS.Thankful for Escape from Their Perils.LoNLox, Jan.24\u2014Pessengers arrivinz .n the belated steamers, which have within the past few days emerged from the late storms and reached their various destinations, vie with each other in relating tales of distress and privation and expressing thanks for their deliverance from their penis.They are unanimous in extolling the bravery and devotion to duty of the officers of their vessels, through whose efforts alone the ships were saved.The passengers of each ship have united in passing a series of resolutions complimentary to the captains and thier officers and crew, and expressing recognition of their services and admiration of their heorism and marvellous seamanship.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 RUSSIA'S HAND IN SERVIA.A Friendly \u201c Tip' to the Regents.Brun, Jan.24\u2014It is etated that the Servian regents have received from St.Petersburg a hint that the expulsion of ex-Queen Natalie from Servia, which it is alleged the regents had planned, would be uuwise.It is surmised that this \u201c friendly tip\u201d will be headed and that all danger of Natalie\u2019s expulsion is removed.\u2014_\u2014__._ FROM THE ANCIENT CAPITAL.Sudden Death\u2014Loss at the Beauport Lhureb Fire\u2014Funeral of Mgr.Lugare, Quesec, January 24.\u2014A man named Etienne Michon died suddenly at the St.Thomas, Montmagny, post office to-day.The total loss by the fire at the Beau- port Church is $300,000.It was one of the prettiest churches in the district of Quebec, and had just been aicely finished.The parishioners are deeply affected with the loss of their temple.The remains of Monsignor Lagare were transferred from the Cardinal's palace to the Basilica at 5 o'clock this afternoon.The cortege was composed of several eminent prelates and a great coacorirse of prominent citizens.The funeral will take place to-morrow, \u2014\u2014\u2014 FROM THE PRAIRIE CITY.The Local Legisiature\u2014A Preity Close Contest\u2014Hudsous Bay Railway\u2014 Lady Missionary te China.WINNIPEG, Jan.24\u2014A careful canvass of the members of the Legislature, mst of whom are now here, leads to the cou- clusion that the opposition will number sixteen at least in a House of thirty: eight.Several of the Government supporters among them L.M.Jones, of Brantford, Ont, and Isaac Campbell, wiv is now east, are not expected to be present.; ; \"he new evening daily will make its appearance next Tuesday.The agitation for the construction of tbe Hudsons Bay railway is becoming general all over the country, and members of the local Cabinet are in consiant receipt of letters urging the importance of the road.Lieut.-Governor Schultz will hold a State dinner and reception on Saturday, February 4th.Campbell's bardware store at Moose- jaw was burned out yesterday.Loss, £6,000.Miss Powers, lady missionary to China, who was taken ill here, was able to leave the hospital to-day.She will remain here until February 13th, when she will join another party of lady missionaries, which leaves Toronto on February 9th.Nominations for Kildonan constituency take place to-morrow.There is a rumor that the Government may at the last moment put a candidate in the elder Portuguese Trouble Calming Down.LonpoN, Jan.24\u2014Mr.Glynn Petre, British Minister to Portugal, has telegraphed to the admiralty that the presence of the British warship Eachantress is no longer required at Lisbon.se No Arbitration Allowed.Loxpon, Jan, 24\u2014Sir Jas.Fergusson, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in a speech at Kilmarnock to-night,declared that Portugal's claim that the dispute between her and England shoald be submitted to arbitration was baseless and absurd._\u2014\u2014, A Clumsy Sheriff.MoNTGOMERY, Ala, Jan 24\u2014Green Braxton, colored, was hanged here today for the murder of Lewis Pugh, an aged white farmer of this county, last May.The drop fell prematurely, and Deputy Bheriff Chas.Parker fell with Braxton and was painfully hurt by ton- tact with the iron flooring.Braxton died of strangulation.Fire in Rail way Shops.HuxriNeDON, Pa., Jan, 24\u2014The erecting and repairing shops of the Hunting- don & Broad Top Railroad, located at Saxton, Bedford county, were totally destroyed by fire this morning.together with a new engine and three coal cara.The building destroyed comprised the paint shops, storage, building for supplies and machine shop and contents.The fire is believed to have originated through spontaneous combustion in the paint department.Total loss, $50,000.The shops will be rebuilt at once.\u2014\u2014_\u2014 Cable Brevities.BERLIN, Jan.24.\u2014A prominent physician of Lanstehul Rhenish, Bavaria, named Keine, has been sentenced to prison for three years, on the charge of assaulting a young girl who was one of his patients.Loxpon, Jan.24\u2014The fund of the Tenants Defence League has reached the sum of33,000 pounds, and there is no diminution of the volume of contributions.Lisson, Jan.24\u2014A large meeting of citizens was held to-day at which a nam- ber of speeches were delivered bitterly denouncing England lauding France and Spain.Subscriptions were started with a view of raising a national defense fund.A committee consisting of leading citizens and prominent naval and military officers was appointed to receive subscriptions, Brrurx, Jan.24\u2014Emperor William presided at a conference of the Ministers to-day called to discuss the Socialist bill.Maprip, Jan.24\u2014By a vote of 41 to 31 the Chamber of Deputies passed a bill to-day granting the right of suffrage to all male persons of Spanish birth of and above the age of 25 years.ZANZIBAR, Jan.24\u2014It is reported that Dr.Peters has arrived at Subaki.LoxpoN, Jan.24\u2014Lord Hartington will shortly make a trip to India to recruit his health.\u2019ABSCONDING DRY GOODS MANA Winnipeg Tradesman Hakes Default.WinniPEa, Man, Jan.24\u2014W.Draper, a leading dry goods merchant, has absconded, leaving creditors here for large amounts.He sold his stock a few days ago at a rate on the dollar and took all the proceeds with him.His liabilities will run away up into the thousands.He was driven to the United States boundary during last night and teok the train from Pembina, Dakota, for Minneapolis.FREE\u2014-BUT NOT TOO FREE.U.8.Law Won\u2019t Tolerate Anarchist Harangues.New York, Jan.24\u2014By a decision of the General Term to-day in the case of tbe People vs, Jno.Most, the conviction gud sentence is affirmed.Most was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and $500 fine for his fiery utterances in a speech about the time of the hanging of the Chicago anarchists, He appealed the case and was reieased on bail.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 WEATHER REPORT.MONTREAL, Jan.24, 1890.Temperature in the shade by standard thermometer, observed by Hearn & Har- risop, opticians and mathematical instrument makers, 1640 and 1642 Notre Dame street : 8 a.m., 8, 1 pm.15; 6p.m., 14; Max., 16; min., 4; mean.10.By standard barometer: 8 a.m., 30.20; 1 p.m., 30.28; 6 p.m., 30.34.METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE, Toronto, Ont., Jan.24, 11 p.m.Fair weather, high pressure aud cold weather are general in Ontario and Eastern Canada.An important depression is now over the Northwest, where higher temperatures aud strong winds prevail, Minimum temperatures\u2014Calgary, 162 below ; Qu\u2019Appelle, 14° below; Min- pedosa, 20° below; Winnipeg, 207 below; Port Arthur, 12= below; Toronto, 22© ; Kingston, 4° ; Montreal, zero; Quebec, 2 below ; Halifax, 147.Probabilities.Lakes and Upperst.Lawrence\u2014Strong winds and gales from the south and west, cloudy weather, with light local falls of snow or sleet, rising temperature.Lower St.Lawrence\u2014Increasing winds and cloudiness, with light local falls of snow, higher temperature Maritime\u2014Fair to-day, fillowed by increasing south~ast to southwest winds snpw or rain, rising temperatures.\u2014\u2014\u2014 After the St.Louis Elevators.Sr.Louis, Jan.23\u20141t lias been rumored for several days that New York parties have secured an option nn tne properties of the United Elevator Cownany, bat 8) many people lost money on the stock manipulation made on the strensth vf the option given the English syndicat that it was not generally believed.From the indications now there may be an option soon.Capt.D.P.Slattery said to-day that a representative of the syndicate will be here this week.The gentleman, he says, represents tive New York banks.pb \u201cWhen Baby was sick, we save her Castorla, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, \u2018When she became Miss, she clang to Castoria, When a\u201910 had Children, she gare them Castoria, to SUBSCRIPTION $6.00 PER ANNUM.A SCENE OF TERROR Two Explosions and a Runaway Cause Death and Havoc.MR, BUITERWORTES RECIPROCITY BILL, Herr Most, Anarchist Editor, has his Sentence Confirmed.SINGULAR DOUBLE EXPLOSION.willed and Wounded by a Strange Series of Casualties.CoLuMEus, Ohio, Jan.24\u2014A terrible explosion occurred about five o'clock tonight at the double residence of Massra.Michael Bowers and John Marriott, at tke corner of Wall and Noble alleys.It was caused by an accumulation of patural gas in the cellar.The gas became ignited in some unknown manner and exploded with terrific force, wrecking the building and illing the air with debris.Mrs Marriott was blown out of the house and a man named Goulding, who was standing near the structure, was blown across jhe street.Mrs.Marriott was carried across the street and into the residencas of Willsam James.A physician was called tu attend ber injuries.The house where the injured lady lay was soon crowded with people, attracted by the accident, and it was soon necessary to close the doora that no more might enter.Little knew thcse ccores of spectators*huddied around the sufferer that they were STANDING ON A DEATH TRAP, which was then on the verge of carrying them into eternity.Suddenly the air was rent by a thunderous explosion, which made the earth quake, and filled the air with flying timbers, bricks and debris of all kinds.Darkness ensued, and then a death-like stillness reigned for a fow moments.It was broken by shrieks and death groans.The house in which lay the powerless form of Mrs.Marriott bad been blown to atoms, and its occupants buried beneath the wreck.Hundreds of spectators who lined the sidewalk were knocked violently down by the shock and laid powerless.Then, to cap the climax, a team of spirited horses attached to one of the fire department Jadder's trucks became frenzied by the explosion and DASHED INTO THE CROWD.They ran over and injured scores of people.A little babe was knocked from its mother\u2019s arms, and falling beneath the wheels of the vehicle, was crushed to death.As soon as the maddened steeds had disappeared in the darkness, many of the spectators and firemen, who had been uninjured by either of the explosions, tura- ed their attention to digging ont the persons buried beneath the rulns of the hoase.Guided by the cries and moans of the wounded and the dying, men groped in the darkness, pulling out a dead body here, a mangled yet living form there, and conveying them to resting places.Groops of men, wumen and children gathered around the prostrate forms, and blood-curdling shrieks made the awful scene stiil more terrible as friends recognized friends injured or dead.Parents found their mutilated children or children their parents.It required several hours to remove all the dead and injured from the ruins, and it is not yet known who or how many are the victims, Following is a list of killed and wounded so far as ascertained , Killed\u2014Charles Becht, Mrs.Jno.Marriott, infant son of Charles Berry, James Seymour, colored boy, an unknown white man, an unknown babe Injured\u2014Dr.T.K.Wissinger, badly and probably fatally burned and bruisad; Herman Baker, badly burned; Daniel Cherry, burned painfully; Charles Woodruff, cut and bruised, serious; Mrs.Fully, burned and injured internally, probably fatally; Patrick Sniskie, cut on the ;head; Aaron Beenze, cut on the face and head; Benjamin Morgan, gashes on the head and internal injuries; Chas.Lowrey, burned and bruised; Albert Ticklider, bruiged and cut; Brady, burned and cut, Edward Veimer, cut and burned; Wolf, burned; Miss Belle Smith, badly hurt; Mrs.Corn, badly burned; Peter Marriott, terribly burned about the shoulders and neck; Tom Doyle, bands burned partly off; Emma Bowers, probably fatally burned; Marshal Kilbourne, horrible injuries on the neck and head; Wm, Brady, probably fatally suffocated; Wm.James bands and face roasted, will die; Mrs.Wm.James, badly cat and bruised; Biankinger, horribly burned and cut.Many others were badly injured, but were carried away by friends and their names cannot be learned to-night.The houses for several blocks around the scene of the explosion have been made into hospitals, where many are being cared for.Miss Belle Smith, who was badly injured, had gone into the doomed house just prior to the explosion.Her face wes badly bruised aod her body cut.It is thought she will recover.Elmer Gates, leg broken; Meshlider, ceverely burned and scorched; Pet Morrill, a 16 year old girl, seriously burned about the body; Benjamin Morgan, badly injured internally by being knocked down by the bose cart.He is a delegate to the Miners\u2019 Convention from Shawnee, Ill Theo.Shouting, leg broken by the hose cart; Tom Doyle, hands terribly burned; Police Officer Lynsky, badiy injured by tbe falling of the house.MR.BUTTERWORTHS RECIPROCITY BILL, Mr.Ritchie Speaks in Its Favor.WasHINGTON, Jan.24\u2014Representative Butterworth, of Ohio, addressed the \u2018Ways and Means Committee to-day on his bill for reciprocity with Canada.Explaining the measare he said that i's object was to bring about uurestricted trade between Canada and the United States.Incidentally it aimed at setiling ail disputes growing out of the Atlantic fishery questions.Canada, he held, had power as ample as the United States t) make the proposed arranvement, whicn was to enlarge the trade and commerce of the United States.Before Mr.Butterworth made his address, 8, J.Ritchie, of Ontario, spoke to the committee in favor of unrestricted reciprocity with the Dominion.Mr.Ritchie was questioned by members of the committee ou the subject of reciprocity, and he answered that there was considerable sentiment in Canada in favor of reciprocity with the United States.One-third of the Canadian popn- Jatiop, composing the Opposition party, had adopted the Butterworth bill as its platform.THY CONSERVATIVE CAUCUS.Sir John Gets a Room Out of Our Reach \u2014But\u2014* Hark, the \u2018Herald\u2019 Angels sing\u2014-Wonder How He Likes the Tane.[FROM OUR UBIQUITOUS CORRESPONDENT.] According to announcement the members of the Conservative party held a caucus at ten o'clock this morning inthe room which was formerly occupied by the staff of reporters.Sir John was of course the first speaker, and opened the proceedings by calling the attention of of bis colleagues to the desirable room for the use of the Government, and the frequent meetings which the party would hold therein.Hitherto they had been at a disadvantage.Their supporters were so numerous, and their numbers were go increasing, that the able whips of the party had found the mecessity of baving a room or their exclusive use.Under these circumstances he had brought the matter before his colleagues and more especially before the notice of Sir Hector Langevin, the chairman of Public Works, upon whom he looked as the leader of an heroic race who have devotedly and for a long time sustained him in his present position as Premier and during his past successful career.If his friends would look over the room he was sure they would appreciate the efforts which had been made for their safety, comfort and security, and absolute freedom from any attempts of those prying press men to ascertain what took place in private caucus.He warned them to keep perfect silence and secrecy as to what took place.It was absolutely necessary.He impressed upon them the absolute necessity of keeping the secrets of the party, as discussed within the walls of the caucus room, absolutely to themselves.In former sessions the HEeraLD had always managed to obtain a correct report of what had taken place, and be suggested that extreme precautions be taken to prevent such a thing again occurring.The room afforded them every accommodation and comfort, and was for the use of the party of which he was the leader.This formed the gist of Sir John\u2019s remarks, but, of course, he had to touch upon the subject of the dynamite bomb, in the shape of McCarthy\u2019s bill, which bad been exploded on \u2018Vednesday afternoon.He thought the bill, which was for the suppression of the French language in the proceedings of the parliament of the Northwest, was a difficult and trying subject for him to deal with.It was not alone of interest to the party, as a whole, but to every individual member of it.He counselled his friends against making known their decision on the question until the proper time came.As for himself he would reserve his opinion until the bill was printed and laid before the house, when he would again call his friends and colleagues together.& l'his was in effect the whole substance of Sir Jobn\u2019s remarks, and by confining himself to jokes about the room and the comforts and advantages provided, be impressed upon the caucus that his object was to emphasize the importance of his remarks about Mr.McCartby\u2019s bill.In again referring to the room, he said it was exclusively tor the use of Tory members, a nd that no one else was to be admitted, but he allowed that it was a difficult task to exclude the HERALD.Sir Hecter Langevin spoke in the same strain as Sir John.He called attention to the room and took some credit unto himself for having been the medium for arranging and preparing it.Mr.Hesson, wno never misses an opportunity of making a speech and of posing as an orator, congratulated Sir John and Sir Hector on the place of meeting which they had prepared and in which he felt they could be free from any outside interference.Mr.J.F.Wood, the able and talented Deputy Speaker, an appointment which met the hearty approval of the HkRain, in fact this paper proposed Mr.Wood for the position, said that he saw in the room for the first time as a representative, a gentleman who was his especial friend.He now begged to introduce Mr.Earle.The introduction was received with applause and evident satisfaction.One member remarked in sotto voce that he hoped the new representative would be more obedient and less restive than the gentleman who preceded him.Mr.Earle thanked them for their warm appreciation.Though elected as an Independent, he was satisfied with what he saw since he had entered the room.This practically concluded the business, and it was evident when Sir John caught the eye of Mr.Davin, who stood solemnly with an opera crush hat pressed uncer his arm, that they were in for a round of speeches if he did not take instant action.He observed that now the Parliament of Canada was the firat legislature of the world.The English bad always held that position and were striving to do so still.His friends, however, would notice the utterance of Lord Rosebery in relation to federation, when he said that the House of Lords and the House of Commons would be one; but Canada was ahead, tor now she had an Farle sitting in a seat in Parliament.(Rounds of applause.) The graat caucus ; the first of the fourth session of sixth Parhament, then dispersed, It might be remarked that both doors leading to the caucus room were double tied, yet when Tme HERALD man approached, the doors were thrown wide open and be took his seat.The absence of Mr.McCarthy was generally commented upon, although most of the members present understood that Sir Jobn and Mr.McCarthy bad a thorough underatanding and his presence was not necessary.Immediately after the meeting Sir John and bis chief whip, Wee Jobnnie, were in close and earnest conversation.se PIRATES AND DESPERADOES A Ship\u2019s Crew Pat Into Irons.PrILADELPHIA, Pa., January 24\u2014The United States tug which went down the river to meet the bark Jennie Hardness, found her at New Castle.The leputy marshalls at once boarded the bark and took into custcdy ten sailors.The meu are charged with setting fire to a number of vessels in the harbor of Manilla, The accused sailors are Oster Hobston, Hen- ique Gonsales, Wm.Shea, John Hanson, John Skaland, Peter Indebugston ,Wm.Hale, L.Carisson, D.J, Johnson and Charles Lax.Hobston is reparted to be a desperado and was put in irons.LEGISLATURE.> THE (QUEBEC Sixth Parliament\u2014Fourth Session.LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.\u2014_\u2014rte\u2014\u2014\u2014 {SPECIAL TO THE HERALD] AFTERNOON SESSION, QUEBEC, January 24, 1890.The Speaker took the chair at 3.15, Several reports of committees were introduced and several bills passed their first reading.BILLS READ A FIRST TIME.Bill intituled \u201c An act to amend the act respecting bazaars and lotteries in the Province\u201d\u2014Mr.David.Bill intituled \u201cAn act to amend the code of civil procedure relating to the revision and execution of judgments\u201d\u2014 Mr.Robidoux.Bill intituled an act to am end the code of civil procedure so as to admit of taking evidence by stenographers in cause ex parte\u2014Mr.Robidoux.Bill entitled an act to secure uni formity in the execution of certain deed in the Province of Quebec, and to amend their code in this respect\u2014Mr, Gladu.Bill entitled an act to amend articles 948 and 953 of tho civil code of Lower Canada\u2014Mr.Gladu, Bill entitled an act to amend articles 305, 691, 693 and 698 of the civil code of Lower Canada, and article 925 of the code of civil procedure\u2014Mr.Gladu.Bill entitled an act to amend article 91 of the civil code of Lower Canada\u2014Mr, Gladu, Bill entitled an act to amend articles 298 and 299 of the civil code of Lower Canada\u2014Mr.Gladu.READ A THIRD TIME AND PASSED.Bill to amend the law of public instruction.Hon, Mr.Gagnon ordered to be printed.To amend the law respecting the insane.Hon.Mr.Gagnon.Several bills relating to the amendments to the Municipal Code were referred to a special committee of fifteen members, QUESTIONS PUT BY MEMBERS.Mr.Faucher De Saint Maurice\u2014Is it the intention of the Government to exact for the future from the telegraph, telephone and electric light companies the regulation of the use of electricity, as is the case with steam, and to prohibit the companies from using currents of such intensity as to be dangerous to human life ?Hon.Mr.Mercier\u2014No representations have yet been made to that effect.Hon.Mr.Taillon\u2014What amount has beengranted and paid to Messrs.P.E Normandeau and Isaacson respectively for baving sat as Justice of the Peace in certain cases instituted by the Provincial Board of Health during the smallpox epidemic which raged in 1885?Has any amount been paid to them for having sat in the cases constituted by any local board ?If Bo, what amount.Answered by Hon.Mr.Turcotte.They received altogether $120.Mr.Nantel\u2014Has the Government purchased a certain number of copies of the work called \u201cCanada; a Memorial Volume,\u201d C.B.Bigger publisher, Montreal, 1889?If so, how many and at what price for each copy ?Answer by Hon.Mr.Gagnon\u2014 Yes, ope hundred copies, at $2 each.Mr.Nantel\u20141Is it the intention of the Government to increase the salary of the Montreal police magistrate ?Answer by Hon.Mr.Mercier\u2014No.Mr.Picard\u2014(1.) Has the subsidy of $300 granted last summer to repair the Disraeli colonization road to the Gosford road in the township of Wolf and Strom been expended during last session on the road in question?If not, why not?(Q) Is it true that instruc ions to cause the work to be performed on this road bave been given to one Louis Bernier, of Richardville parish, St.Adrien county, of Megantic?If so, why were not these instructions given to the former superintendent, Mr.Honore Moran, Disraille, or another person of the locality ?Answer by Hon.Mr.Rhodes\u2014(1).No, Mr.Tourigny\u2014 What amount has been paid to Napoleon Bureau, Esq., advocate, representing the Crown in the suits of the Queen vs.Beaulieux, Beland & Ayotte, and what sums has Charles Fitzpatrick, advocate, of Quebec, received for the same suit ?Answer by Hon.Mr.Tuarcotte\u2014Mr.Bureau was only paid as substitute to to the attorney-general, and Mr.Fitzpatrick, in the case of Regina and Ayotte, received $2,320.Mr.Lapointe\u2014(1) Has Mr.©.Aime Dugas, police magistrate of Montreal, been employed as commissioner in 1887, 1888 and 1889 ?(2) What enquiries has he held and how long did they last ?(3) Has he received pay in addition to his regularsalary for holding such enquiries?(4) What is the amount of his expenditures apart from his fees, and has he made any report ?Hon.Mr.Turcotte asked Mr.Lapointe to put his question as a notice of motion.Mr.Lapointe\u2014(1) Has Mr.Dandurand acted as Police Magistrate?(2) If so, tor what length of time?(3) What amounts bave been paid to him ?Answer by Hon, Mr.Tazcotte\u2014He received $198.30, Bills read a second time and referred to Private Bills Committee :\u2014 Bill to amend the Act 14, 15 Victoria, chapter 176, concerning the temporalties of the United Church of England and Ireland in the Diocese of Montreal\u2014Mr, all.Bill respecting the dismembered portion of the Parish of St.Jean Baptiste, of Montreal\u2014Mr.Champagne, Bill to authorize the Municipal Council of the Parish of St.Raphael de L\u2019Ile Bizard to build an iron bridge\u2014Mr.Boyer.The House adjourned at 5.15 until Monday.NOTE, The Committee of Industries and Railways met this evening and elected their chairmen, Messrs.Pilon and Cameron, respectively.The House adjourned to-day early on invitation of Hon.Mr.Mercier, for the members of the House to attend the translation of the body of Mgr.Legare from the Cardinal's palace to the Basilica.His Honor, the \"Governor, gives an off cial dinner to-morrow at Spencer Wood.Very few members were present in the House to-day.Taken after dinner, Ayers Pills promote easy digestion.Have you seen Ayer's Almanac ? 2 TRADE AND COMMERCE.FINANCIAL.THE HeRarp OFFICE, Friday Evening, Jan.24th, 1890.Montreal Stock Market.There was no life in the market, apart from Montreal Telegraph, and the feeling generally was easier.Telegraph showed decided signs of a reaction from its strength of the past week, as if it were principally a \u201croom trader's\u201d market, and figures may now settle down a little, but at the close the feeling was firm at the decline, The opening sales were } lower at 993, and there was a gradoal decline to 98% at the close; there were still buyers at this figure, sellers asking 99; 616 shares changed hands.Street Railway apd Gas were steady bu.inactive.Richelieu closed a fraction better than yesterday, but there was no trading.Canadian Pacific was ex-dividend to-day, a fraction lower at 755.Bank stocks were dull but firm, small transactions in B.of M.at 229%, beiug i better than yesterday.Commerce was dealt in at 124 and closed strong.Other banks were totally neglected.Tc-day's sales amounted to 711 shares, compared with 1,863 yesterday, 2,180 on Wednesday, 284 on l'uesday and 1,602 on Monday.The following are to-day\u2019s sales: MORNING BOARD.5 Bauk of Montreal.c.at 30 Bank of Commerce.100 Montreal Telegraph Co.œt 994 50 \u201c Cee at 993 50 \u201c \u201c \u2026at 994 125 \u2018 « al 99% 25 \u201c \u2018\u201c A at 99 100 \u201c TT at 99% 25 Canadian Pacific Railway.at 73; AFTERNOON BOARD, 25 Bank of Commerce at 124 141 Montreal Telegraph Co\u2026\u2026.\u2026.at 99 25 \u201c \u201c \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026at 98 The closing ngures are as foilows, compiled by Messrs.D.L.McDougall & Co., No.11 St.Sacrament street :\u2014 , æ Seb El: = [82% & @ 2 (fes à 2 o tga | 7 8TOCKS = [27 5 = 5 I scape.Cuarrer Vi.\u2014Describes the manner of escape of Quatermain with the witch doctor and Tota, the child.Indaba said \u201cGo north,\u201d prophesying that friends would be found there.Quatermain obeyed, though against his judgment.They crossed a broad desert, where there was no wa ter, and at its end they became unconscious.\u2018When they recovered, they were being cared for by Stella Carson, whose life Quatermain saved when a child, and who was now a beautiful young woman.Since early childhood she had lived in the wilds of Africa with her father, never having seen but one other Englishman.Craprer VIL\u2014Stella was accompanied by a woman called Hendrika, who was captured by baboons when a child and rescued by Stella's father.Hendrika and Indaba quarreled, and Hendrika objected to Quatermain\u2019s g taken to Stella\u2019s home, but was overruled.The home of Mr.Carson, who was sick at this time, was a marvel of white marble buildings, built like Zulu huts, only much larger.No oue knew who built them; Carson found them ready to his haud when he settled there.\u2014\u2014 CHAPTER VIII T LENGTH the Jast platform, or terrace, was Breached, and we 7 pulled up outside the wall surrounding the central group of marble huts\u2014for so I must call them, for want of a better name, Our ap- | proach had been observed by a ; i crowd of natives, ; 5 {i whose race I have \"1 \\ never been able to determine accurately; they belonged to the Basutu and peaceful section of the Bantu peoples rather than to the Zulu and warlike.Several of these ran up to take the horses, gazing on us with astonishment, not unmixed with awe.We dismounted\u2014speaking for myself, not without difficulty\u2014indeed, had it not been for Stella's support I should have fallen, \u201cNow you must come and see my father,\u201d she said.\u2018I wonder what he will think of it, it isall sostrange.Hendrika, take the child to my hut and give her milk, then put her into my bed; I will come presently.\u201d Hendrika went off with a somewhat ugly grin to do her mistress\u2019 bidding, and Stella led the way through the narrow gateway in the marble wall, which may have inclosefl nearly half an \u201cerf,\u201d or three-quarters of an acre of ground in all It was beautifully planted as a garden, many European vegetables and flowers were growing in it, besides others with which I was not acquainted.Presently we came to the center hut, and it wag then that I noticed the extraordinary beauty and finish of the marble masonry.In the hut and facing the gateway wasa modern door, rather rudely fashioned of Bucken pont, a beautiful reddish wood that has the appearance of having been sedulously pricked with a pin.Stella opened it, and we entered.The interior ef the hut was the size of a large and lofty room, the walls being formed of Plain polished marble, It was lighted Somewhat dimly, but quite effectively, by peculiar openings in the roof, from which the rain was excluded by over- anging eaves.The marble Boor was strewn with native mats and skins of animals.Bookcases filled with books were placed against the walls, there was à table in the center, chairs scated with Timpi or strips of hide stood about, and yond the table was a couch on which man was lying reading, \u201cIs that you, Stella?\u201d said a voice, that even after so many years seemed fawmil- arto me, \u201cWhere Lave You been, my dear?Ibegan to think that you had OSE yourself again,\u201d \u2018No, father, dear.I have not lost my- 8lf, but I have found somebody else,\u201d At that moment I stepped forward so at the light fell on me, The oll gen- th bean on the couch rose with some culty and bowed with much court- wh © Was a fine-looking old man, à deep-set dark eyes, a pale face, that sui, Many traces of physical and mental ring, and a long white beard.; welcome, sir,\u201d le said.ON since we hav these wi] en, is hag be \u201cIt is 2 seen a white face in ds, and yours, if T am not mis- that of an Englishman.There en no Englishman here for ten rar and he, I grieve to say, was an ast flying from justice,\u201d and he THE MONTREAL HERALD AND DAILY COMME vowed again and stretched out his huad.I looked at him, and then of a sudden his name flashed back into my mind.I took his hand.\u2018How do you do, Mr.Carson?\u201d I said.He started back as though he had been stung.\u201cWho told you that name?he cried.\u201cIt is a dead name.Stella, is it you?I forbade you to let it pass your lips.\u201d \u201cI did not speak it, father.I have never spoken it,\u201d she answered, \u201cSir,\u201d I broke in, \u201cif you will allow me, I will show you how I came to know your name.Do you remember many years ago coming into the study of a clergyman in Oxfordshire and telling him that you were going to Jeave England for ever?\u201d He bowed his head.\u201cAnd do you remember a little boy who sat upon the hearthrug writing with a pencil?\u201d \u201cI do,\u201d he said.\u201cSir, I was that boy, and my name is Allan Quatermain.Those children who lay sick are all dead, their mother is dead, and my father, your old friend, is dead also.Like you he emigrated, and last year he died in the Cape.But this is not all the story.After many adventures I, one Kafir, and a little girl, lay senseless and dying in the bad lands, where we had wandered for days without water, and there we should have perished, but your daughter Miss\u201d \u2014\u2014 \u201cCall her Stella,\u201d he broke in, hastily.\u201cI cannot bear to hear that name.I have forsworn it.\u201d \u201cMiss Stella found us by chance and saved our lives.\u201d \u201c\u201cBy chance, did you say, Allan Quater- main?\u2019 he answered.\u201cThere is little chance in this; such chances spring from another will than ours.Welcome, Allan, sou of my old friend.Here we live asit were in a hermitage, with Nature for our only friend, but such as we have is yours, and for as long as you will take it.But you must be starving, talk no more.Stella, it is time for food.Tomorrow we will talk.\u201d To tell the truth I can recall very little more of the events of that evening.A kind of dizzy weariness overmastered me.Iremember sitting at a table next to Stella, and eating heartily, and then I remember nothing more.I awoke to find myself lying on a comfortable bed in a hut built and fashioned on the same model as the center one.\u2018While I was wondering what time it was, a native came bringing some clean clothes on his arm, and, luxury of luxuries, produced a bath hollowed from wood.I rose feeling a very different man; my strength had come back again to me.I dressed and, following a covered passage, found myself in the center hut.Here the table was set for breakfast with all manner of good things, such as Thad not seen for many a month, which I contemplated with healthy satisfaction.Presently I looked up, and there before me was a more delightful sight, for standing in one of the door ways which led to the sleeping huts wag Stella, leading little Tota by the hand.She was very simply dressed in a loose blue dress, with wide collar, and girdled in at the waist by a little leather belt.In the bosom of her robe was a bunch of orange blooms, and her rippling hair was tied in a single knot behind her shapely head.She greeted me with a smile, asking me how I had slept, and then held Tota up for me to kiss.Under her loving care the child had been quite transformed.She was neatly dressed in a garment of the same stuff that Stella wore, her fair hair was brushed; indeed, had it not been for the sun blisters on her face and hands, one would scarcely have believed that this was the same child that Indaba-zimbi and I had dragged for hour after hour through the burning, waterless desert.\u201cWe must breakfast alone, Mr.Allan,\u201d she said; \u201cmy father is so upset by your arrival that he will not get up yet.Oh, you cgnnot tell how thankful I am that you have come.I have ben 80 anxious about him of late.He grows weaker and weaker; it seems to me as though the strength were ebbing away from him.Now he scarcely leaves the kraal; I have to manage everything about the farm, and he does nothing but read and think.\u201d Just then Hendrika entered, bearing a jug of coffee in one hand and of milk in the other, which she sat down upon the table, casting a look of little love at me as she did so.\u201cBe careful, Hendrika; you are spilling the coffee,\u201d said Stella.\u201cDon\u2019t you wonder how we come to have coffee here, Mr.Allan?I will tell you\u2014we grow dt.That was my idea.Oh, I have lots of things to show you.You don\u2019t know what we have managed te doin the time that we have been here.You see, wa have plenty of labor, for the people about look upon my father as their chief.\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d I said, \u201cbut how do you get all of these luxuries of civilization?\u201d and I pointed to the books, the crockery, and the knives and forks.\u201cVery simply.pouf of the books my father brought with him when he first trekked into the wilds; there was nearly a wagon load of them.But every three years we have sent an expedition of these wagons right down to Port Natal.The wagons are loaded with ivory and other goods, and come back with all kinds of things that have been sent out from England for us.You eee, although we live in this wild place, we are not altogether cut off.We can send runners to Natal and back in three months, and the wagons get there and back in a year.\u201d \u201cHave you ever been with the wagons?\u201d 1 asked.\u201cSince I was a child I have never been more than thirty miles from Babyan\u2019s Peck.\u201d she answered.\u201cDo you know, Mr.Allan, that you are, with one exception, the first Englishman that I have known out of a book.I suppose that I must seem very wild and savage to you, but T have had one advantage\u2014 a good education.My father has taught me everything, and perhaps I know some things that you don\u2019t.I can read French and German for instance.I think that my father\u2019s first idea was to let me run wild altogether, but he gave it up.\u201d \u201cAnd don\u2019t you wish to go into the world?\u201d I asked.\u201cSometimes,\u201d she said, \u2018when I get lonely.But perhaps my father is right \u2014perhaps it would frighten and bewilder me.At any rate, he would never return to civilization.It is his idea, you know, though I am sure I do not know where he got it from, nor why he cannot bear that our name should be spoken, In short, Mr.Quatermain, we do not make our lives; we must take them as Xe TNA them.lave you done your breakfast?Let us go out and I will show you our domain.\u201d I rose and went to my sleepine lace to fetch my hat, When I retarnad.Mr.Carson\u2014for, after all, that was his name, though he would never allow it to be spoken\u2014had come into the hut.He felt better now, he said, and would accompany us on our walk if Stella would give him an arm.So we started, and after us came Hendrika with Tota and old Indaba- zimbi, whom I found sitting outside as fresh as paint, Nothing could tire that old man, The view from the platform was almost as beautitul as that from the lower ground looking up te the peak.The marble kraals, as I have said, faced west, consequently all the upper terrace lay in the shadow of the great peak till nearly 11 o'clock in the morning, which was a great advantage in that warm latitude, First we walked through the garden, which ! was beautifully cultivated, and one of the most productive that I ever saw.There were three or four natives work- | ing in it, and they all saluted my host as \u201cBaba,\u201d or father.Then we visited the | other two groups of marble huts.One ! of these was used for stables and out- ! buildings, the other as storehouses, the | center hut having been, however, turned.; into a chapel.Mr.Carson was not or | dained, but he earnestly tried to convert | the natives, most of whom were refugees who had come to him for shelter, and he had practiced the more elementary rites of the church for so long that I think he began to believe that he really was a clergyman.For instance, he always married those of his people who would consent to a monogamous existence, and baptized their children.\u2018When we had examined these wonderful remains of antiquity, the marble huts, and admired the orange trees, the vines and fruits which thrive like weeds in this | marvelous soil and climate, we descended to the next platform and saw the farming operations in full swing.I think that it was the best farm I have ever seen in Africa.There was ample water for purposes of irrigation, the grass lands below gave pasturage for hundreds of head of cattle and horses, and, for natives, the people were most industrious.Moreover, the whole place was managed by Mr.Carson on the co-operative system; he only took a tithe of the produce\u2014in- deed, in this land of teeming plenty, what was he to do with more?Conse- | quently the tribemen, who, by the way, | called themselves the \u2018Children of! Thomas,\u201d were able to accumulate con- ! siderable wealth.All their disputes were ; referred to their \u201cfather,\u201d and he also was judge of offenses and crimes.Some were punished by imprisonment, whipping and loss of goods, other and graver transgressions by expulsion from the community, a fiat which to one of these : favored natives must have seemed as! heavy as the decree that drove Adam from the Garden où Eden.Old Mr.Carson leaned upon his daughter's arm and contemplated the scene with pride.\u201cI have done all this, Allan Quater- main,\u201d he said.\u2018\u201cWhen renouncing civilization first, I wandered here by chance; seeking a home in the remotest places in the world, 1 found this lonely spot a wilderness.Nothing was to be seen except the site, the domes of the marble huts and the waterfalls.I took posses sion of the huts.I cleared the patch of garden land and planted the orange grove, I had only six natives then, but by degrees others joined me; now my tribe is a thousand strong.Here we live in profound peace and plenty.1 have all I need, and I ask no more.Heaven has prospered me so far\u2014may it be so to the end, which for me draws nigh.And now I amtired and will go back.If you wish to see the old quarry and the moutb of the ancient mines, Stella will show them to you.No, my love, you need not trouble to come.1 can manage alone.Look, some of the head men are waiting to see me.\u201d So he went, but still followed by Hen- drika and Indaba-zimbi we turned, and, walking along the bank of one of the rivers, passed up behind the marble kraals, and came to the quarry, whence the material had been cut in some remote age.The pit opened up a very thick seam of the whitest and most beautiful marble.I know another like it in Natal.But by whom it had been worked J cannot say.Not by natives, that is certain, though the builders of the kraals had condescended to borrow the shape of native huts for their model.The only relic of those builders that I ever saw was a highly finished bronze pick axe which Stella found one day in the quarry.After we had examined the quarry we climbed the slope of the hill till we came to the mouth of the ancient mines situated in a kind of gorge.I believe them to have been silver mines.The gorge was long and narrow, and the moment we entered it there rose from every side a sound of groaning and barking that was almost enough to deafen one.I knew what it was at once; the whole place was filled with baboons, which clambered down the rocks towards us from every direction, in a manner that struck me as being unnaturally fearless, Stella clung to my arm.\u201cIt is very silly of me,\u201d she whispered.\u201cTam not at all nervous, but I cannot bear the sight of those animals ever since they killed Hendrik.I always think that there is something human about them.\u201d ! Meanwhile the baboons came nearer, talking to each other as they came, Tota began to cry, and clung to Stella.Stella clung to me, while I and Indaba-zimbi put as bold a front on the matter as we could.Only Liendrika stood looking at the brutes with an unconcerned smile on her monkey face.When the great apes were quite near, she suddenly called out aloud.Instantly they stopped their hideous clamor as though at a word of command.Then Hendrika addressed them.From the mouth of Hendrika came a | succession of grunts, groans, squeaks, elick and every other abominable noise that can be conceived.To my mind the | whole conveyed an idea of expostulation.At any rate the baboons listened.\u2018 One of them grunted back some answer, and then th: whole mob drew off to the rocks.I stood astonished, and without a word we turned back: to the kraal, for Hen- drika was too close for me to speak.\u2018When we reached the dining hut Stella went in, followed by Hendrika.But Indaba-zimbi plucked me by the sleeve, and I stopped outside.\u201cMacumazabn,\u201d he said.\u201cBaboon woman \u2014 devil woman, Be careful., Msicumazann.She loves that Star (the natives aptly enough called Stella the Star), and is jealous.Be careful, Macu- mazahn, or the Star will set\u201d CHAPTER IX.Py TIS very difficult tween my arrival at Babyan\u2019s Peak and my marriage with Stella.When I look back on it it seems sweet as with the odor of flowers, and dim as with the happy dusk RCIAL GAZETTE, SATURDA for me to describe ; the period of time which elapsed be- of summer eves, while through the sweet- ; Nees rome + soind of Stella\u2019s voice, and through the gloom shines the stare light of her eyes, I think that we loved each other from the first, though for a while we said no word of love.Day by day I went about the place with her, ac | companied by little Tota and Hendriks only, while she attended to the thousand and one matters which her father\u2019s ever growing weakness had laid upon her; or, rather, as time drew on, I attended to the business and she accompanied me.All day through we were together.Then - watching Miss Stella and myself in the after supper, when the night had fallen, .we would walk together in the garden and come in at length to hear her father read aloud, sometimes from the works of a poet, sometimes from history, or, if he did not feel well, Stella wouid read, and when this was done Mr.Carson would celebrate a short form of prayer, and we would separate till the mornin g once more brought our happy hour of meeting.So the weeks went by, and with every week I grew to know my darling better, Often I wonder now if my fond fancy deceives me, or if indeed there are women as sweet and dear as she.Wasit solitude that had given such depth and gentleness to her?Was it the long years of communing with nature that had endowed her with such peculiar grace, tha grace we find in opening flowers and budding trees?Had she caught that murmuring voice from the sound of the streams that fall continually about her rocky home?was it the tenderness of the evening sky beneath which she loved to walk, that lay like a shadow on her face, and the light of the evening stars that shone in her quiet eyes?At the least, to me she was the realization of the dream which haunts the sleep of sin stained men; so my memory paints her, so I hope to find her when at last the sleep has rolled away and the fevered dreams are done.At last there came a day\u2014the most blessed of my life\u2014when we told our love.We had been together all the morning, but after dinner Mr.Carson was so unwell that Stella stopped in with him, At supper we met again, and after supper, when she had put little, Tota, to whom she had grown much attached, to bed, we went out, leaving Mr.Carson dozing on the couch.The night was warm and lovely, and speaks in everything, but till wo hear Ely] voice we understand nothing.But when we hear then the riddle is answered and the gates of our heart are opened, and, Allan, we see the way that wends through death to heaven, and is lost in the glory of which our love is but a shadow.\u201cLet us goin, Allan.Letus go before the spell breaks, so that whatever comes to us, sorrow, death or separation.we may always have this perfect memory to save us.\u201d I rose like a man in a dream, still holding her by the hand.But as I rose my eyes fell upon something that gleamed white among the foliage of the orange bush at my side.I said nothing, but looked, The breeze stirred the orange leaves, the moonlight struck for a moment full upon the white object.It was the face of Hendrika, the babyan woman, as Indaba-zimbi had calied her, and on it was a glare of hate that made me shudder.I said nothing; the face vanished, and just then I heard a baboon bark in the rocks behind.Then we went down the garden, and Stella passed into the center hut.Isaw , Hendrika standing in the shadow near the door and went up to her.\u201cHendrika,\u201d I said, \u201cwhy were you ; garden?\u201d She drew her lips up till her teeth gleamed in the moonlight.\u201cHave I not watched her these many years, Macumazahn?Shall I cease to watch her because a wandering white ' man comes to steal her?Why were you .kissing het in the garden, Macumazahn?without speaking we walked up the gar- - den to the orange grove and sat down breeze which shook the petals of the orange bloom over us in showers, and bore their delicate fragrance far and wide, Silence reigned around, broken only by the sound of the falling waterfalls that now died to a faint murmur, and now, as the wavering breeze turned, boomed loudly in our gars.The moon was not yet visible, but,already the dark clouds that floated through the sky above us\u2014for there had been rain\u2014 showed a glow of silver, telling us that she shone brightly behind the peak.Stella began to talk in her low, gentle voice, telling me of her life in the wilderness, how she had grown to love it, how her mind had gone on from idea to idea, and how she pictured the great rushing world that she had never seen as it was reflected to her from the books which she had read.It was a curious vision of life that she had; things were out of proportion in it; it was more like a dream than a reality\u2014a mirage than the actual face of things.The idea of i in the scale of humanity the more read- great cities, and especially of London, : had a kind of fascination for her; she could scarcely realize the rush, the roar ! , seemed to combine the cunning of the * exists in strength when the object loved and hurry, the hard crowds of men and women, strangers each to each, fever.; ishly seekiug for wealth and pleasure beneath a murky sky, and treading one : another down in the fury of competition.\u201cWhat is it all for?she asked, earnestly.\u201cWhat do they seek?Having se few years to live, why do they waste them thus?\u201d I told her that in the majority of in stances it was actual hard necessity that drove them on, but she could scarcely realize it.Living as she had done, in the midst of the teeming plenty of the fruitful earth, she did not seem to understand that there are millions who from day to day know not how to stay their hunger.\u201cI never want to go there,\u201d she went on.\u201cI should be bewildered and frightened to death.It is not natural to live like that.God put Adam and Evein a garden, and that is how he meant their children to live\u2014in peace, and looking always on beautiful things.This is my idea of perfect life.I want no other.\u201d \u201cI thought that you once told me that you found it lonely,\u201d I said.\u201cSo I did,\u201d she answered innocently, \u201cbut that was before you came, am not lonely any more, and it is per- fect\u2014perfect as the night.\u201d Just then the full moon rose above the | ! | | Now 1 elbow of the peak, and her rays stole far and wide down the misty valley, gleaming on the water, brooding on the plain, \u2018 searching out the hidden places.of the rocks, wrapping the fair form of nature as in a silver bridal veil through which her beauty shone mysteriously.Stella looked down the terraced valley; she turned®and looked up at the scarred face of the golden moon, and then she looked at me.The beauty of the night was about her face, the scent of the night was on her hair, the mystery of the night shone in her shadowed eyes.She looked at me, I looked at her, and all our hearts\u2019 love blossomed within us.We spoke no word\u2014we had no words to speak, but slowly we drew near, till lips were pressed to lips as we kissed our eternal troth.It was she who brokethat holy silence, speaking in a changed voice, in soft deep notes that thrilled me like the lowest chords of a smitten harp.\u201cAh, now I understand,\u201d she said, \u201cnow I know why we are lonely, and how we can lose our loneliness.Now I know what it is that stirs usin the beauty of the sky, in the sound of water and in .the scent of flowers, It is love that Huliuntere- nes oer a mate i that I was doing her a bitter wrong, tbat How dare you kiss her who is a star?\u201d \u201cI kissed her because I love her, and because she loves me,\u201d I answered.\u201cWhat has that to do with you, Hen- drika?\u201d \u201cBecause you love her,\u201d she hissed in, answer, \u2018\u2018and do I not love her also, who saved me from the babyans?I am a' woman as she is, and you are a man, and \u2018 they say in the kraals that men love | women better than women love women.But it is a lie, though this is true, that if a woman loves a man she forgets all other love.Have I not seen it?I gather her flowers\u2014beautiful flowers; I climb the rocks where you would never dare to go to find them; you pluck a piece of orange bloom in the garden and give it her.What does she do?She takes the orange bloom, she puts it in her breast, and lets my flowers die.1 call to her\u2014 she does not bear me\u2014she is thinking, You whisper to some one far away, and she hears and smiles.She used to kiss me sometimes: now she kisses that white brat you brought, because you brought it.Oh, Isee it all\u2014all; I have seen it from the first; you are stealing her from | us, stealing her to yourself, and those who loved her before you came are for- { gotten.Be careful, Macumazahn, be careful, lest I am revenged upon you.You, you hate me; you think me half a monkey; that servant of yours calls me baboon woman.Well, I have lived with | baboons, and they are clever\u2014yes, they : can play tricks and know things you don\u2019t, apd I am cleverer than they, for I i have learnt the wisdom of white people there upon a rock.There was a little | also, and I say to you, \u2018Walk softly, | Macumazahn, or you will fall into a pit,\u201d\u201d and with one more look of malice she was gone.1 stood for a moment reflecting.1 was afraid of this strange creature who great apes that had reared her with the passion and skill of human kind.I foreboded evilat her hands.And yet there was something almost touching in the fierceness of her jealousy.It is generally supposed that this passion only is of another sex from the lover, but I confess that, both in this instance and in some others that I have met with, this has not been my experience.I have known men, and especially uncivilized men, who were as jealous of the affee- tion of their friend or master as any lover could be of that of his mistress; and who has not seen cases of the same thing where parents and their children were concerned?But the lower one gets ily this passion thrives; indeed, it may be said to come to its intensest perfection in brutes.Women are more jealous than men, small hearted men are more jealous than those of larger mind and wider sympathy, and animals are the most jealous of all.Now Hendrika was in some ways not far removed from animal, which may perhaps account for the ferocity of her jealousy of her mistress\u2019 affection.Shaking off my presentiments of evil, I entered the center hut.Mr.Carson was resting on the sofa, and by him knelt Stella bolding his hand, aud her head resting on his breast.I saw at once that she had been telling him of what had come about between us; nor was I sorry, for it is a task that a would- be son-in-law is generally glad to do by deputy.\u201cCome here, Allan Quatermain,\u201d he said, almost sternly, and my heart gave a jump, for I feared lest he might be about to require me to go about my business.But I came.\u201cStella tells me,\u201d he went on, \u201cthat you two have entered into a marriage engagement.She tells me also that she loves you, and that you say that you love her.\u201d *I do indeed, sir,\u201d I broke in; \u201cI love her truly; if ever a woman was loved in this world Ilove her.\u201d \u201cI thank heaven for it,\u201d said the old man.\u201cListen, my children.Many years ago a great shame and sorrow fell upon me, 80 great a sorrow that, as I sometimes think, it affected my brain, At any rate, I determined to do what most men would have considered the act of a madman, to go far away into the wilderness with my only child, there to live remote from civilization and its evils.I did so; I found this place, and here we have lived for many years, happily enough, and perhaps not without doing good in our generation, but still in a way unnatural to our race and status.At first I thought that I would let my daughter grow up in a state of complete ignorance, that she should be nature's child.But as time went on, I saw the folly and the wickedness of my plan.Ihad no right to degrade her to the level of the savages around me, for if the fruit of the tree of knowledge is a bitter fruit, still it teaches good from evil.So I educated her as well as 1 was; able, till in the end I knew that in mind,\u2019 as in body, she was in no way inferior to her sisters, the children of the civil: ized world.She grew up and entered into woman- heod, and then it came into my mind Y.JANUARY 25 L was separating her from her kind an keeping her in a wilderness where she could find neither mate noc exwipanion, But though I knew this, I could not yet make up my mind to return to active life; I had grown to love this place.I dreaded to return into the world 1 had abjured.Again and again 1 put my resolutions aside.Then at the commencement of this year I fell ili.Fora while I waited, hoping that 1 might get better, but at last 1 realized that I should never get better, that the hand of death was upon me.\u201d \u201cAh, no, father, not that!\u201d Stella said, with a cry.\u201cYes, love, that, and it is true.Now you will be able to forget our separation in the happiness of a new meeting,\u201d and he glanced at me and smiled.\u201cWell, when this knowledge came home to me, I determined to abandon this place and trek for the coast, though I well knew that the journey would kill me, I should never live to reach it.But Stella would, and it would be better than leaving her here alone with savages in the wilderness.On the very day that 1 had made up my mind to take this step Stella found you dying in the bad lands, Allan Quatermain, and brought you here.She brought you, of all men in the world, you, whose father had been my dearest friend, and who once with your baby bands had saved her life from fre, that she might live to save yours from thirst.At the time I said little, but I saw the hand of Providence in this, and I deter mined to wait and see what came about between you.At the worst, if nothing came about, I soon learned that I could ; trust you to see her safely to the coast after I was gone.But many days ago I knew how it stood between you, and now things have come about as I prayed they might.God bless you both, my children; may you be happy in your love; may it endure till death and beyond it.God bless you both,\u201d and he stretched out his hand toward me.I took it, and Stella kissed him.Presently he spoke again: \u201cIt is my intention,\u201d he said, \u201cif you two consent, to marry you next Sunday.I wish to do so soon, for I do not know how much longer will be allowed to me, I believe that such a ceremony, solemnly celebrated and entered into before wit nesses, will, under the circumstances, be perfectly legal; but of course you will repeat it with every formality the first moment it lies in your power to do so.And now, there is one more thing: when I left England my fortunes were in a shattered condition; in the course of years they have recovered themselves, the ace cumulated rents, as I heard put recently, when the wagons last refurned from Port Natal, have sufficed to pay off all charges, and there is a considerable balance over.Consequently you will not marry on nothing, for of course you, Stella, are my heiress, and I wish to make a stipulation, Itis this.That so soon as my death occurs you shall leave this place and take the first opportunity of returning to England.do not ask you to live there always; it might prove too much for people reared in tha wilds, as both of you have been; but I do ask you to make it your permanent home.Do you consent and promise this?\u201d \u201cI do,J I answered.\u201cAndfso do 1,\u201d said Stella.\u201cVery well,\u201d he answered; \u201cand now Iam tired out.Again God bless you both, and good night.\u201d (TO BE CONTINUED NEXT SATURDAY.) Smoke Hand-Made Cigar, Nectar, 5 Cents A NEW USE FOR THE PHONOGHAPH.An interesting physiological experiment was made at the Edison House, the headquarters of Edison\u2019s Phonograph Company in Europe, on Monday.Dr.L.White, of Harley street, has a patient who has a defect in his speech of a most singular character.The patient, a lad of ten, and English by birth, is unable to speak his native language, but a jargon which cannot be understood; many doc- ors bave examined him, but could not -xactly diagnose the cause of the henomenon, and it was questionable wbetber the lad spoke the same thing twice in the same way, and the only way to discover whether he did so or not was to get him to speak to the phonograph.The lad, in the presence of several gentlemen, was asked to speak the Lord\u2019s prayer and the alphabet.Several cylinders were made in this way, and when a comparison was instituted between the various phonograms it was found that there was no variation in the spoken words and that it was quite pos- gible for the language which the boy speaks to be understood by simply learning the various sounds.The phonovrams will be exhibited before various societies in tbis country, and it is just possible a new disease has been discovered.\u2014 Pall Mall Gazette.KINDNESS THAT WAS MISDIRECTED.It was on the New York, Ontario and Western accommodation.She was a good-natured, slightly deaf, motherly old lady who was sure she knew her own way and not quite sure other people krew theirs.When the train reached Tappan a feeble old man was assisted into the car and took a seat directly in tront of her.When the conductor appeared the new comer held some conversation with him, and asked to be told when to get off.He then fell asieep.The train sped on, and the old lady began to wonder where her neighbour was goirg.\u201cWas it Nyack, or Haverstraw, or West Point,\u201d she said to herself, \u201cIt would be too bad for the poor old man to be carried by.I do hope that conductor won't forget.If I only knew for sare which he said.Itsounded like Nyack, It muet bave been that.\u201d The, train drew near Nyack.The old lady worried aud wiggled and seemed finally to have settled on Nyack as the stranger's destination.He was still quietly sleeping.So wiren Nyark was reached and the conductor did not come, she resolved in her kind heart to help him.She leaned over, awoke him, and said; * Excuse me, sir, but vou have reacted your tation,\u201d The old man was all gratitude, and, with a bow and a smile, ke \u2014Lastily left the car Just as the train was starting she noticed a arge package in his seat, so she grabbed tbat and passed it ont the window to ber absent-minded charge.The train moved on, and soon the conductor again appeared.He looked at the vacant teat ard said: \u201cI wonder where my old man has gone who wanted o be left at Newburg?\u201d A young man followed bim from the smoker, who looked in the seat and then around the car, with the query: \u201cWho gone off with my bundle?\u201d Then the whole car smiled, except the old lady, Ske got off at Baverstraw.\u2014New York Tribune. 10 THE MONTREAL HERALD AND DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTE SATURDAY, JA ROBERT BURNS BIRTHDAY.WHY THE POET'S FAME GROWS , WITH THE LAPSE OF TIME.Lens Lives This Day in Fond Remembrance Now?Whence Its Wide Spell E That Lights the Weary Brow?'\u2019\u2014Jan 25 the Anniversary of His Birth.I see amid the fields of Ayr A plowman who in foul or fair Sings at his task, So clear we know not if it is The laverock's song we hear, or his, Nor care to ask; For now he haunts his native land As an immortal youth; his hand Guides every plow.He sits beside each ingle nook; His voice is in each rushing brook, .Each rustling bough./ Such is the sentiment of every true Scot in regard to the poet, for Robert Burns is the poet of Scotland to a degree and in a sense that no other one man is the poet of any other | one land.If there is another it is Homer, | 'whose great epic has in the popular mind over- \u2018shadowed the productions of all other Greek pe ROBERT BURNS, poets.Yet Homer was not a Greek, unlessin the sense that the white people of America are European, while Burns was thoroughly Scotch\u2014in birth, feeling, sentiment and all the events of his life.It does not appear that be was ever out of Scotland, and, save very brief intervals, his whole life was spent in so small an area that the traveler may {easily visit all the scenes associated with his ;name in a single day.t Moore is sometimes called Ireland\u2019s poet, \u2018yet if everything distinetively Irish were stricken from his works what à mass would be left! Strike the distinctively and emphatically Scotch from Burns, and there is ino poet left.AllantRamsay may be named jas his nearest rival in the peculiarly local and national line, while Walter Scott is con- i fessedly more classical, but it is Burns that is always Scotch, Burns that makes the {world acquainted with Scotland, Burns that \u2018in his poems seems to breathe forth the very \u2018essence of Scotch feeling, whether of patriot- lism or superstition, local attachment or the itender passion.It almost seems that with a jvolume of his poems in hand one might find this way about the vicinity of Ayr without a guide and recognize at sight the \u2018\u2018auld kirk,\u201d the bridges and every striking scene upon (tbe Doon.On the 25th of January, 1759, he was born; on the 21st of July, 1798, he died\u2014only thirty- :soven years of life, and nearly all of that \u2018spent in rugged toil.In the summer of 1786 ithe first volume of his poems issued from the obscure press of Kilmarnock, and sprang at once intosuch popularity that shrewd critics .predicted a reaction; for it is a painful fact that, as a rule, the greatest works have grown slowly into public favor, while sudden and ;universal popularity is often a proof that the production is suited only to the time in which iit appears, that its sparkle and humor please because of their apt reference to passing events or harmony with the atmosphere of the day, and will evaporate as that atmosphere is changed.Not thus has it been with Burns.His genius was for all time, A contemporary, Robert Heron, of the same locality, testifies that \u201cold and young, high and low, learned and ignorant, were \u2018alike transported with the poems, and plow- {men and maid servants gladly bestowed their jhard earnings to procure the works of | Burns.\u201d As the first edition was limited to 600 copies it was soon exhausted, and before a second could be issued, so great was the ' \u2018anxiety to obtain it that copies of many of the poems were made in manuscript and handed around from family to family.The ; volume, indeed, contained matter for all minds\u2014for the lively and sarcastic, for the gay and the thoughtful, for the enthusiast and, above all, for the proper gratification of Jocal pride.It must be admitted, however, that for this sudden popularity the poems were somewhat indebted to peculiarly favoring circumstan- \u2018ces.There had long been a complete dearth of really Scotch writers, while of local lyrics there had practically been none, unless we \u2018except the works of Ferguson which appeared in a collected form in 1773.In Edinburgh theology and critical and metaphysical works _ THE BRIG O' DOON.prevailed to.an excess.\"The leading minds of ' \u2018Scotlaud seemed utterly absorbed in the ab- lstruse, not to speak of the infinitely awful.heology, if that be the proper name for in- iterminable disputes on the natureand destiny jof the soul and God\u2019s dealing with man, had pparently dried up all the springs of poetry, d as to eschatology, one can but shudder ¢ the mass of writings and their truly heart~ breaking logic.It must be borne is mind also that this first ition of Burns did not contain those bitter ections on the polemic clergy or those mi-political reflections which later made him so many enemies.In the capital (and that set the fashion) the Scottish intellect .had been for a century engaged in hammer- ng out an awful creed, and attacking or de- ending it.One who has made a careful tudy of that era estimates that some ten ' thousand volumes, pamphlets and printed mons appeared on such questions as whether the elect were but a handful or more out bt many billions; whether illumination was f special divine grace or wight be sought and induced by personal endeavor; whether God foreknew only because he had foreor- ined or because foreknowledge was inherent in infinite knowledge, and & score of other complicated conundrums in supralagr sarian theology.In the country, however, the Doric muse was struggling for expression through a thousand unlettered peasants.We have abundant proof\u2014and 1t is one of the most curious fadts in the natiou\u2019s development\u2014 that about this time the mass of the lower and middle class Scotch had grown weary of disquisitions and had waked apparently tho beauly of thaix the ! with his brother, and lost the little he had \u2018 have been à legal, as it wes a moral, obliga- , tion in any event.! the French revolution deprived him of the Of their common life Inaumerable songs and ballads appeared among the peasantry, rude, it is true, but valuable indices of a poetic dawn, of a popular lopging.To all this feeling Robert Burns suddenly gave voice\u2014he put in tuneful lines what nearly all were vaguely feeling\u2014and wus hailed with a wild enthusiasm.Even so it sometimes happens in America that a speaker succeeds in putting into words what the people have begun to feel but have not yet learned to express, and is at once hailed as a great orator, because he has \u2018\u2018spoken the people's mind.\u201d A second edition soon appeared (April, 1787), and such was the enthusiasm that 2,800 copies were subscribed for in a few days by 1,500 individuals.Burns had given melodious form to a popular longing; middle class and rural Scotland had found a voice.To understand what followed it is necessary to briefly review the poet's life.Robert Burns was boru at Alloway, near Ayr, Jan.25, 1759, his father being a poor farmer, but à man of sterling worth and intelligence, eager to give his son as good an education as he could afford.It was purely English, except that he studied French for two weeks and took a short course in land surveying; but it was extremely thorough and practical in English.At the early age of eleven he was an acute critic in questions of grammar, and his earliest letters attest his proficiency.As soon as boyish strength was sufficient he was put to hard farm work.The most generous estimate does not credit the Burns family library with more than a dozen miscellaneous books, among which were Pope's and Allan Ramsay's works, The Spectator, a volume of English songs and some rather tedious.histories.With these were some theological works one would think calculated to frighten a boy, but Robert read every one of them and apparently understood them.It was not till he was 23 years old that he had access to anything that might be called a general library, but \u201cA poet was born and no Medusa could strike him dumb.\u201d Poetry was in the air about him as well as struggling in his heart; love came and supplied the lacking element.At the age of 16 he composed the first poetry that he allowed any one else to read\u2014a plaintive expression of a toiling farm boy's feelings towards a maiden \u2014of which he afterwards wrote: \u201cI was not so presumptuous as to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones composed by men who had Latin and Greek; but my girl sang a song which was said to be composed by a small country laird\u2019s son on one of his father\u2019s maids with whom he was in love, and Isaw no reason why 1 might not rhyme as well as he; for, excepting that he could smear sheep and cast peats, his father living in the moorlands, he had no more scholar- craft than myself.\u201d BURNS\u2019 BIRTHPLACE, From this time forward the lad enjoyed quite a local reputation, but his father was broken in health, Robert was the youngest of seven children, and life for him seemed to grow harder every year.Nevertheless he embraced every opportunity to store his mind with information, and was partieularly eager to hear of the old Scottish heroes, but delighted most of all in the old women\u2019s stories of witches and warlocks, haunted glens and crags, and mysterious appearances around the old cburchyards.A little later he produced some lengthy pieces in the local dialect which attracted wide attention and caused his society to be greatly sought by some persons of means and culture\u2014a result which was highly beneficial in developing his conversational powers, but induced habits of conviviality and consequent trouble.In 1781-83 he was in the depths of despondency.He took a small farm in conjunction invested.He cast about for methods of im- provirg his fortunes, but failed in all.He was in love and could not marry.The parents of his loved one sternly forbade the union; the lovers met often, however, and the results were evil.Completely cast down, he resolved to leave Lis native land for Jamaica, and some of his sweetest, saddest poems were writteu while that intention remained.To procure the means of paying his passage he published the first edition.of his poems\u2014that of 1786, previously referred to\u2014and its success changed the whole current of his life.He was on the point of embarking when he was invited to Edinburgh to attend to the issue of a second edition.In the capital he was *\u2018the lion of the hour.\u201d He associated with all who were eminent in letters, and with many eminent in rank, wealth and fashion, his conversation exciting s&s much admiration as his poetry.Unspoiled by flattery, be retained his independence of mind and love of rural life.The profits of his publication are reported to have reached £600, and with this he took and stocked the farm of Ellisland, near Dumfries, where he located in 1788, having publicly ratified his marriage with Jean Armour.Her father was still obdurate, but the marriage would Again be failed as a farmer, and in less than four years located in Dumfries.Hehad been appointed an exciseman, and, though the salary never exceeded £70 per year, it was his sole support.About this time he wrote those political effusions and some other productions in which some bitterness of feeling is shown.Hisexpressed sympathy with good will of the wealthy and powerful, and revented his receiving promotion in the ex cise, Indeed, only the intercession of a few persistent friends prevented his losing office entirely.There was such a dread of innovation that he and those who agreed with him were stigmatized as \u201cJacobins.\u201d This embittered him still more, and in such company as was left to him he often fell into dissipation.His last years were clouded with gloom, and he died in Dumfri- July 21, 1796.At least a hundred differen editions of Burns\u2019 works have appeared, and rarely have such manliness, tenderness and passion been united.His fame has grown rather than diminished, and for bis sake Ayr sud Allo- way, Démfries and the banks of the Doon are places of classic renown and fond pilgrimage.In 1859, the centenary of his birth was celebrated with unparalleled enthusiasm not only in every city and village of Scotland, but in the chief cities of England, India, America and Australia\u2014indeed, every- will appear again this vear.And though wi\" Crazy eud £'m Sair foriorn, I'll be a brig when ye're a shapeless cairn, The new bridge indeed proved to have been badly built, and had fo be demolished, while the old one seems like a natural rock TAM O' SHANTER, thrown across the stream.About three miles from Ayr is the cottage in which Burns was born, and not far away are the old Alloway Kirk and the poetically famous bridge over the Doon.In its center the witches succeeded | in tearing off the tail of Tam o\u2019 Shanter's mare, but be escaped, for A runnin\u2019 stream they dare not cross.The Burns cottage is a sort of wayside inn, but well preserved and containing several relics.The kirk yard, and once witch haunted kirk of Alloway, is within a few minutes\u2019 walk-a roofless and overgrown ruin, but with walls still firm.The stones at the graves of the poet's father, mother and youngest sister still stand with legible inscriptions.Burns was buried at Dumfries, where he died.All the region is redolent of poetry.It is wildly beautiful in itself, and dear to the sentimental for its associations.Over the poet\u2019s remains rises a small but beautiful mausoleum, and on the tablet are his striking and appropriate words, written on his first appearance as an author: \u201cThe poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me.\u201d Smoke Hand-Made Cigar, Nectar, 5 Cents.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.Dr.McGlynn says that he would rather be burned at the stake than retract one word he has ever uttered.Surgeon-General John B.Hamilton says that not one-third of our population of a military age can pass the examination of a recruit.The Emperor William's 32nd birthday, Japuary 27, will be signalized by an in- terz:.uhlon for twenty-four hours of the court zourning for the dead Empress.Mr.Edward Everett Hale says we are becoming better and better because we are becoming richer, and because God reigns ; and that there are more guud people than bad people.Miss Chloe Lankton, who died a few days ago at Hariford, Conn.aged 78, \u2018had spent sixty-two years in bed, during all of which time she retained a cheerful and untomplaining disposition.Martin Costin, a well-to-do and highly respected farmer near Martinsville, Iad., is the father of twenty-one children by his present wife, although he is but 50 years of age.Nearly all of the children are living.Mrs.Kate Chase, presiding over her little family of young girls at Edgehill, near Washington, may not appear 80 brilliant, but she is certainly more interesting than when she was the gayest and must fascinating leader of Washington society.The King of Portugal is a fine-looking young man, about 30 years of age, decidedly blonde, of medium height, well built, and with a graceful carriage.The Queen, who is a daughter of the Comte de Paris, is corsidered beautiful, but if she were not a Queen would probably be called simply a pretty woman.Kate Field has two able assistants in the conduct of her new journal in the persons of Miss Caroline Lingle as editor and Migs Ella Leonard as business man- ager\u2014those two brave and brilliant Vassar girls who won a National reputation a year or two ago by making a distinguished success of a country newspaper at Atlantic Heights, N.J,, with their own fair hands.Prof.Pickering of Harvard believes that no reputable astronomer at Vienna was the author of the statement cabled the other day from that city to the effect that the \u201cStar of Bethlehem\u201d was expected to reappear this year ; nor does be believe the star (the \u201cTycho Brahe\u2019) Calcb Loengood, a wealthy resident of Pottstown, Pa,, possesses an abnormal appetite for peanuts.They form his favourite article of diet, and he often eats six quarts ata time.He says he cats them scientifically, whatever this may mean, and could eat nine quarts on a wager.He wants some prominent peanut-eater to challenge him.The Empress Augusta was extremely fcnd of hand-organ music, and not only frequently encouraged orgau-grinders to play before the palace, but also had several broken-down street musicians on her pension list.It is said that she left a bequest for the erection of a house of refuge for incapacitated itinerant performers.Nasr-ed-Din, Shan of Persia and King of Kings, has about sixty wives.By these the Shah bas had a family of forty children, of whom nineteen are still liv- ing\u2014eevon sons and twelve daughters.The heir apparent is not the eldest surviving son, but the eldest son by a Princess of royal blood.He is ow 30 years of age and has a large family.John Ernest McCann, late private sec- Epoch : \u201cI suppose that Mr.Gould is richer than Mr.Sage, because all those who know nothing about it say that he is.But if they both were to die tomorrow, and I had a choice, I would chocse Mr.Sages savings, Mr.Sage makes money almost as fast as Mr.Gould, and doesn\u2019t spend it nalf so fast.1hat\u2019s my argument.\u201d \u2014- \u2014 \u2014- Syracuse Bniversity ih Luek.Syracuse N.Y., Jap.22.~Syracuse University is rapidly becoming one of the leading educational institutions in the land.The benefactions and endowments last year reached $400,000, thus where that Scotchmen have located.His family is extinct, two maiden ladies of the name of Begg having been the last survivors; but the vicinity is classic ground and every summer thousands of tourists visit the \u201cLand of Burns,\u201d and look upon Ayr and Dumfries, the \u2018\u2018Brigs 0 Doon,\u201d and \u2018\u201cAllo- way\u2019s Auld Haunted Kirk.\u201d © Ayr is an important seaport, in which the tavern depicted in Tam o\u2019 Shanter still stands unchanged; and oddly enough, the present landlord is himself a poet in a small way.Of the \u201cTwa Brigs\u201d the oldest still stands\u2014a remarkable fulfillment of prophecy, for in the poem the older brig thus addresses the other: Conceited gowk! puifed up wi\u2019 windy pride! This mony a year lve stood the flood gud fides wrros Ss - re giving it easy first place among the other , colleges in the amount and value of the i gifts received during the twelve months just closed.The principal of these, it ; will be remembered, were the Von { Rapke library, worth $35,600, and the new Crouse College, valued at over $300,000.Now it has just been given one | of the finest collections in the world of engravings and portraits of scientists, philosophers and distinguishedg{men of i gll ages and countries.The collection | could not be duplicated for $50,000.It is the Wolff collection, and was presented by Mrs.Harriet L.Levenworth as a memorial to her late husband, Gen.L.W.| Well, be beat me easily, vou | man who lost to set Up tho wine.A SHARP DRUMMER.\u201cThe last time I stopped in this city I made a good sale to a merchant whom I had never been able to catch before,\u201d remarked one travelling man to another in the biliiard-room of the Hotel Cadillac vesterday afternoon, says the Datroit Tribune.\u201cHow was that?\u2019 asked the second travelling man, as he made a four- cushion shot.\u201cI learned that his hobby was billiards, and that he fancied himself à good piaver.1 met him socially 5ne evening and persuaded him to play me a game.may I proposed another gams, the This game, too, I lost.We played all the evening.He pranced around the table, imagine, \" sbowing me fancy shots and giving me .points, slapped me on the back, and thought 1 was a fine fellow.Then I * took him up to tbe room and sold him ' $1,000 worth of goods.\u201d \u201cPretty good,\u201d said the second drummer, ccunting twenty-five points.\u201cThe next evening he came down to the hotel, eager to pursue his favorite game.1 had sold him the goods and I felt in a condition to resent the lessons he had given me.I proposed that we piay for wine for all the boys\u2014there were about ten of them\u2014and he agreed.He had first shot and miesed.Then I bunched the balls in a corner and ran out the game in a manner that made his bead spin.Then 1 discounted him aad double discounted, and he stood no chance.His bill for wine was about $30, and ever since then he has been a good customer of mine.He is a man who appreciates tact, you see.\u201d KINDNESS THAT WAS MISDIRECTED.It was on the New York, Ontario & Western accommodation, says the New York Zibune.She was a good-natured, slightly deaf, motherly old lady, who was sure she knew her own way and not quite sure other people knew theirs When the train reached Tappan a feeble old man was assisted into the car and took a seat directly in front of her.When the conductor appeared, the new comer heid some conversation with him and asked to be told wheuto get off.He then fell asleep.The train sped on and the old lady began to wonder where her neighbour was going.\u201cWas it Nyack, or Haverstraw, or West Point ?\u201d she said to herself.\u2018It would be too bad for the poor old man to be carried by.I do hops the conductor won't forget.If I only knew for sure which he said! It sounded like Nyack.It must have been that.\u201d The train drew near Nyack.The old lady worried and wiggled and seemed finally to have settled on Nvack as the stranger\u2019s destination.He was still quietly sleeping.So when Nyack was reached, and the conductor did not come, she resolved in her kind heart to help him.She leaned over, awoke him, and said : \u201cExcuse me, sir, but you have reached your station.\u201d The old man was all gratitude, and with a bow and a smile he hastily left the car.Just as the train was starting she noticed a large package in his seat, so she grabbed that and passed it out of the window to her absent-minded charge.The train moved on, and soon the conductor again appeared.Ke looked at the vacant seat and said : \u201cI wonder where my old man has gone who wanted to be left at Newburg ?\u201d A young man followed him from the smoker, who looked in the seat and then around the car with the query : \u201cWho's gone off with my bundle ?\u2019 Then ine whole car smiled except the old lady.She got off at Haverstraw.\u2014_- _ fmoke Hand-Made Cigar, Nectar, 5 Cents.\u2014\u2014\u2014 A MODERR MIRACLE.When the modern Rip Van Winkle awoke from his long slumber in the ravine just back of the big Catskill hotel and found that his beard had grown three or four feet and that his gun fell apart when he touched it, he uttered no exclamation of surprise, but started peacefuily off in quest of a cocktail.\u201cWell,\u201d he remarked, as he lifted his beard in order to cross a small stream, \u2018this air is more bracing than the advertisements led me to believe, and as for that cheap parlor rifle it's a wonder there's anything left of it at all.\u201d The guests on the long piazza stared at him ag if he were a wild beast, and he locked vainly among them for the familiar faces of his friends of the day before.\u201cI see they\u2019ve all gone,\u201d he murmured, \u201cand to tell the truth I'm not surprised.I can\u2019t see how any man short of a Crœsns can afford to stop more than a minute in this house.Why, even in the bowling alley where we played last night they charged us so much for every game and each round of drinks that I haven\u2019 got more than a quarter left in my pockets.Well, I can get a cocktail with it, anyhow.\u201d \u201cWhere's old Lije Simonds ?\u201d asked Rip, as he leaned against the bar and watebed the cocktail materializing under the deft touches of the drink-mixer.\u201cDon\u2019t know him,\u201d was the reply.\u201cDo you know if Bill Avery's about ?\u201d asked Rip, after a moment's reflection.\u201cBill Avery!\u201d exclaimed one of the guests; \u201cwhy, he\u2019s been dead these ten Years.Dead! Why, we were playing in the bowling-alley only last nigbt,\u201d gasped Rip, rubbing his eyes like one in a dream, \u201cDon\u2019t any one know me around here ?\u2019 \u201cNo, nobody knew him, and the poor, 3 : ; | old man stood staring about him in dis- retary of Russell Sage, writes in the ¢ may and confusion.A copy of a New York paper was lying on the bar.He picked it up and glanced at the headlines.\u201cBy Jove !\u201d cried one of the guests, \u201cI'll tell you who it is.It's Rip Van Winkle come back from his twenty years\u2019 sleep.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s my name,\u201d cried the old man eagerly ; \u201cbut I've only been asleep one night.\u201d A shout of laughter tempered by a genuine pity\" for the old stranger, brought half a dozen more of the guests into the bar-room to see what was the matter.\u201cJust look at that paper there and see bow far bebind you are in the news,\u201d said one of the merry-makers.\u201c Not s0 very far behind, I reckon,\u201d he retorted as he read aloud: \u201c The site committee of the world\u2019s fair held a meeling in the Zimes building to decide upon a site for the great exposition.A memorial from the property owners of Hohokus was read, and an invitation to visit that historic town was accepted by a unanimous vote.\u201d \u201c There!\u201d exclaimed old Rip, triumphantly, \u201c that\u2019s just what they\u2019ve been doing for the last two months.I guess I\u2019m not more than a day bebind.What's the next article?\u2018Skipped with a Hired Man,\u2019 hey?Well, that's about what you find something new,\u201d said one of his new acquaintances, \u201cAll right\u201d said Rip, contideutly.\u201cNow we'll see.\u2018Josiah Lilderberry, of Beanville, Conn., came to New York à few days ago in reply to a letter be had received offering him $1,000 in counterfeit bills for £400.At the Grand Central depot yesterday Le opened his bag to get a bill with whieh to pay for his ticket, and discovered that a package of sawdust had been substituted for the counterfeit money.He made a complaint to the police, and was gent to the house of detention as a witness against Sawdust Peter, who swindled him, and who was released under bail.Mr.Elderberry ie a trustee of Beanville church, and is said to have used some of the chureu funds to buy the counterteits with.\u2019 \u201cI guess that fellow's been asleep twenty years instead of me,\u201d said Rip, briekly, a8 he finished the paragraph.\u201c No, gentlemen, you can\u2019t fool me as easy as you think.What's this?\u2018Sucked in at Niagara.The Awful Fate of a Stranger from the Country.\u201d Why, that's just what happened to me when I was there a week ago, and it's what happens to everybody those fellers can lay their hands on.You can bet it\u2019s an awful fate when one of those hack-drivers or photographers get hold of you.I guess the world\u2019s been moving pretty slow if it basn\u2019t got ahead any more than that in twenty years.\u201d \u201cBut I teli you it's a fact,\u201d chimed in anotber of the company.\u201cThere was a man vawed Rip Van Winkle who disap- reared from here just twentv years azo and never was heard from.Here comes the lundlord; bell jell vou the same thing.Just ask him.\u201d \u201cLandlord,\u201d said the old man, \u201cthese gentlemen say that I disappeared from bere twenty years ago, and have heen asleep down in the ravine ever since.Now, my recollection isthat [ came up here last night with a basket of sassafras to sell at this very hotel to make into tea for the boarders, and I want to know whether l\u2019m right or whether they are ?\u201d \u201cWe don't make our tea out of sassafras,\u201d retorted the landlord, \u201cand there was a man of your name who disappeared from here about twenty years ago\u2014in 1869 1 think it was.I guess you must be the man.\u201d Rip Van Winkle communed with himself far a few moments, and then murmured softly : \u201cl\u2019Il try him once more.\u201d \u201cLandlord,\u201d Le said, putting his hand in his trousers pocket, \u201cI\u2019ve been sleeping out in your ravine for the last twenty years.How much do I owe you ?\u201d \u201c Nothing,\u201d replied the boniface.\u201cWhat! you let a man sleep twenty years in a Catskill ravine and don\u2019t charge him a cent the next morning ?Then, gentlemen, I guess you're right.This place has changed so\u2019s don\u2019t know it any more.Well, I guess l\u2019Il start off for the village and try to square things with the old woman.\u201d And, shouldering the remains of his rifle, he started off down the steep mountain road and was soon lost to sighi.\u2014New Orleans Times.Democrat.-\u2014 Smoke Hand-Made Cigar, Nectar, 5 Cents gs VOORHEES OUTWITTED.The late Major Jonathan W.Gordon and Senator Voorhees were engaged on opposite sides in the trial of an important breach of promise suit at Paris, Ill, says the Indianapolis Journal\u2014Gordon representing the defendant and Voor- hees the plaintiff.They stopped at the same hotel and had adjoining rooms, and were often together during the evenings.A local attorney was assisting Voorhees in the prosecution of the case, and the evidence tended strongly against Gordon\u2019s client from the first, and he had Little hopes of a verdict in his favour.The evidence closed late one evening, and that night Voorhees entered Gordon\u2019s room at the hotel and the two engaged in conversation.The time that each would require in the argument was referred to, and Gordon asked: \u201cVoor- bees, what are you going to say to-mor- row?\u201d The plaintifPs attorney did not answer the question directly, but rising from his chair and bending over its back, as he looked Gordon in the eye, he entered upon a discussion on the case.As he proceeded he seemed to forget where he was and made the speech that he had mapped out in his mind to deliver to the jury the next day.His denunciations of the defendant, as Gordon afterward described them, were simply terrific, his appeals in behalf of the fair plaintiff touching in the extreme, and his review of the evidence of the case strong and convincing.Gordon afterward declared that he felt at the time that if thatspeech ever went to the jury his client would be mulcted in heavy damages, and he set about to devise some means to offset it.When the court convened the next morning tne judge asked if there had been any agreement as to the argument, and Gordon responded, apparently as if little concerned, that he supposed the prosecution was entitled to the opening and the close, and it was hardly necessary to limit tbe argument.With this urderstanding the argument was opensd by the local atforney.Hc presented the case for the plaintiff in a very fair manner and left to Voorhees, as he supposed, the work of embellishment and appeal to the feelings of the jury.When he sat down Gordon rose and, addressing the court, Said that the plaintiff\u2019s attorney had made a very fair presentation of the case, and he would submit it without argument.Voorhees saw the point in a moment, but bis side having had the opening and the close, he could not claim more, and he contented himself with turning upon Gordon and vowing that he would get even with him if he had to follow him around the world.The jury returned a verdict for nominal damages against the defendant, and Gordon always contended that but for his sharp practice his client would bave been ruined.~~ Smoke Hand-Made Cigar, Nectar, 5 Cents.\u201c0 IMPROVEMENT OF U.S.CANALS.Greater Draught and Smaller Charges.New Yorx, Jan.23\u2014The Northern Boatsmen\u2019s Association met to-night at No.10 South street and decided to attend the canal and harbor protection mass meeting in Cooper Union to-morrow evening.The Hon.Henry Burleigh, of \u2018Whitehall, N, Y., made an address, in which he urged his hearers to endeavor to secure a reduction in towing and terminal charges at Canadian and New York ports, and also to secure a greater draught of water so that freight may 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Work resumed in CITY FOUNDRY and LONGUEUIL WORKS.CASTING TWICE DAILY.I.R.IVES & CO., QUEEN STRLET, MONTREAL.TO LET, Building, No.528 St.James St.Cor.Cathedral, near G.T.R.Depot.At present occupied by the Pullman Palace Car Company and C.P.R.Land Office.Offices neatly furnished and heated by hot water.Also, three Comfortable Houses at Lachine, close to Upper Station.Apply to DAWES & CO., 521 St.James street.VALUABLE PROPERTY For sale, to let or exchange for City Pro periy.Situated on the shore of Lake Mem) phremagog, within ten minutes of Depot an risir town of Me .)g.Buildings, House Stabling, &c., all in erfect order.Large gar den, Ice House, Pon:try House, &e.Water in house and stables.Drainage perfect.Every convenience.Property known as Lakesl ¥ beaut; fully surrounded by shrubberies an shady groves; 2 acres in extent.Terms easy.Good fishing.Apply to JAMES STEWART & CO, Reel Estate and General Auctioneers.204 St.James street.STORE TO LET i {ld= AL No.4 Beaver Hall Hill (HERALD Bu ing).° Possession can be had immediately.Apply to THE HERALD CO.Lid, 20 tf St, Phils Bay 2% 6 Boayer Hall HUE The Ameri trade : to a k their r across act whi rtine Pre \u20ac high w trade.a song.have b nay, tb to us n: upon a pay, al simply they sa the col {Americ the way as the laborer from D Wages These the alle just as Americ the cas tionism But v and \u2018fl then ra: of the v ica first wages continc: to a p known , GREAT Mr, G careful the pub which ¢ of 1883 cipal b.miners, shire (w district In the \u2018Bradfor mentati other h \u2018even to \u2018domesti and mas \u2018and Ma r cent poco, owest v twenty- shillings shillings which w writer a dread th I furthe: wages of lasgow centage from the law int cent., in (for diffe [per cent.69 per ce and com case of facts ar there ha checked, distress), place at of io.of ti leces at fo upo: nd that incremen d towa © Within pain art; certainly except fo las a who) a better | uch Jess ent he f his m gain.\u201d I à insuffic Frise, this but prote For the w Blagnatio and daily tionable : GR Interna arbitrary Ihe uneq 8lons of à Pnodities 1 Sustenanc lite, TO a nd 18\u20ac, ar gt ery de an Trt TIIE MONTRE \" i oo nome pEoaiicer 10 equal 15 per cent., but the protective duty to be 30.But cheapness requires minute care, economy and dispatch at a all the stages through which production has The Great Issue Discussed by Blaine and Gladstone.A BATTLE OF THE GIANTS.que North American Review Presonts the views of the Two Statesmen on Free Trade and Protecticn\u2014Keen Encounter of Two Great Intellects.The North American Review for January resents two papers that have attracted the attention of the civilized world.With extraordinary and most commendable enter- rise Gen.Bryce, the editor, secured from Mr.Gladstone an expression of his views on the jong debated issue of Protection vs.Free qrade.Impressed by its ability, he then sé cured a reply by Secretary Blaine: and Mr.Gladstone most courteously consented to their simultaneous publication, the secretary to have the privilege of examining the Brit- 3h statesman\u2019s paper.As will readily be soon, this gives Mr.Blaine some advantage, but the argument on both sides is indeed able.The following extracts give only the gost salient points, MR.GLADSTONE\u2019S VIEWS.The existing difference of practice between America and Britain with respect to free trade and protection of necessity gives rise to a kind of international controversy on thoir respective merits.To interfere from across the water in such a controversy is an act which may wear the appearance of im- rtinence.The constant tenor of the argument is this: high wages by protection, low wages by free grade.It is even as the recurring burden of asong.And I can state with truth that I have heard this very same melody before; nay, that I am familiar with it.It comes £0 us now with a pleasant novelty; but once upon a time we British folk were surfeited, pay, almost bored to death, with it.It is simply the old song of our squires, which they sang with perfect assurance to defend the corn laws.Protectionists terrify the {American workman by threatening him with the wages of his British comrade, precisely the English landlord coaxed our rural {aborers, when we used to get our best wheats trom Dautzig, by exhibiting the starvation wages of the Polish peasant.These arguments were made among us, in the allezed interest of labor and of capital, just as they are now employed by you; for America may at present be said to diet on the cast off reasonings of English protectionism.But we broke down every protective wall and \u2018\u2018flooded the country\u201d (so the phrase then ran) with the corn and the commodities \u2018of the whole world; with the corn of Amer- ca first and foremost.But did our rate of wages thereupon sink to the level of the continent?No; it rose steadily and rapidly to a point higher than it had been ever inown before.; GREAT GAINS OF THE BRITISH WORKMAN.Mr, Giffen, of the board of trade, whose careful disquisitions are known to command the public confidence, supplies us with tables, which compare the wages of 1833 with those of 1383 in such a way as to speak for the principal branches of indusury.The wages of miners, we learn, have increased in Stafford- shire (which almost certainly is the mining district of lowest increment) by 50 per cent.In the great exportable manufactures of Bradford and Huddersfield the lowest augmentations are 20 and 30 per cent., and in other branches they rise to 59, 83, 100, and \u2018even to 130 and 160 per cent.The quasi- domestic trades of carpenters, bricklayers and masons in the great marts of Glasgow \u2018and Manchester show a mean increase of G3 per cent.for the first, 65 per cent.for the ond, and 47 per cent.for the third.The owest weekly wage named for an adult is twenty-two shillings (as against seventeen shillings in 1833), and the highest thirty-six shillings.But it is the relative rate with which we have to do; and, as the American writer appears to contemplate with a peculiar dread the effect of free trade upon shipping, I further quote Mr.Giffen on the monthly wages of seamen in 1833 and 1883 in Bristol, lasgpow, Liverpool and London.The percentage of increase, since we have passed from the protective system of the navigation law into free trade, is in Bristol 66 per cent., in Glasgow 55 per cent., in Liverpool (for different classes) from 25 per cent.to 70 fper cent., and in London from 45 per cent.to 69 per cent.No such return, at once exact and comprehensive, can be supplied in the case of the rural workman.But here the facts are notorious.We are assured that there has been an universal rise (somewhat checked, 1 fear, by the recent agricultural distress), which Caird and other authorities place at 60 per cent.Tdgether with this in- of pay there has been a general diminu- i0a of the hours of work, which Mr.Giffen for at one-fifth.If we make this correction upon the comparative table, we shall fad that the cases are very few in which the Increment does not range as high as from 50 pod towards 100 per cent.* Within the same period the prices of the puain articles of popular consumption have certainly declined.The laborer\u2019s charges, except for his abode, haveactually diminished sa whole.For his larger house rent he has a better house.To the government he pays uch less than he did, and from the govern- ent he gets much more, and \u2018\u2018the increase f his money wages corresponds to a real gain.\u201d If it be said that the tale I have told 3 insufficient, and that wages ought still to rise, this may be so, and rise I hope they will, but protection had no such tale to tell at ail For the working population at large it meant Blagnation, depression, in many cases actual end daily hunger and thirst, in some unquestionable and even gross degradation.GREAT WASTE OF PROTECTION, International commeras is based, not upon arbitrary or fanciful considerations, but upon \u2018the unequal distribution among men and re- slousof aptitudes to produce the several com- fnodities which are necessary or useful for the Tie tenance, comfort and advantage of human fe, | The argument of the free trader is that the .æegislator ought never to interfere, or only to Juterfere so far as imperative fiscal necessity \u2018DAY require it, with this natural law of dis- pibation.| All interference with it by a government Ç order to encourage some dearer method of Toduction at home, in preference to a cheap- \u20ac method of production abroad, may fairly 1e termed artificial.And every such inter- once means simply a diminution of the na- woe wealth, If region A grows corn at oe for fifty shillings which region B can bh poly at forty, and region B manufactures A bat twenty shillings with which region iy Po supply at fifteen, the national wealth or 0ach is diminished by the ten and five Hill gS respectively.© much for th waste unavoidably attach.\u20ac to dearness of vroduction.But there are id and yet worse descriptions of waste, as ich 1 know not whether America suf | = greatly from them, but I know that in gly Bry we suffered from them griev- ox under the sway of protection.When © high ler erected by a protective duty is 8 that no foreigner can overleap it, Rot om) enables the home manufacturer the J to charge a high price, but to force M rue a bad article.Thus, with had for vagant duty on foreign corks,.we Europe, Can ys 2 the worst .corks «in et again, protection : causes ot another kind in large class of cases m >> the natural disadvantages of_the : the American revolution, to pass.This minute care and thrift depend mainly on the pressure of competition.There were among us, and there may be elsewhere, many producers whom indolence tempts to neglect; who are not sufficiently drawn to resist this inertia by the attraction of raising profit to a maximum, for whom the prospect of advantage is not enough without the sense of necessity, and whom nothing can spur to à due nimbleness of movement except the fear of not being able to sell their articles.In the case I have supposed, the second 15 per cent.is a free margin whereupon this indolence may disport itself: the home producer is not only covered for what he wastes through necessity, but for what he wastes from negligence or choice; and his fellow countrymen have to pay alike for both.We suffered grievously from this in England, for oftentimes the rule of the producer is, or was, to produce not as well as he can, but as well only as he mu :.And happy are you if, through keener e:.-rgy or more troublesome conscience in production, you bave no similar suffering in Anierica.There is yc.another point which I cannot pass witho t notice.I have not admitted that protection keeps at home any capital which would otherwise go abroad.But I now for the moment accept and reason upon the assumption that this is effucted.And I ask\u2014Indeed, by the force of argument I may almost require\u2014you to make an admission to me which is of the most serious character, namely, this: that there is a great deal of capital undoubtedly kept at home by protection, not for the purpose of dear production, which is partial waste, but for another kind of waste, whic is sheer and absolute and totally uncompensated.This is the waste incurred in the great work of distributing commodities.If the price of iron or of cotton cloth is increased 50 per cent.by protection, then the capital required by every wholesale and every retail distributor must be increased in the sane proportion.The distributor is not and cannot be, in his auxiliary and essentially domestic work, protected by an import duty, any more than can the scavenger or the chimney sweep.The import duty adds to the price he pays, and consequently to the circulating capital which he requires in order to carry on this traffic; but it adds nothing to the rate of profit which he receivesr and nothing whatever to the employment which he gives.This forced increment of capital sets in motion no labor, and is compelled to work in the uncovered field of open trade.It has not the prima facie apology (such as that apology may be) which the iron maker or the mill owner may make, that he is employing American labor which would not otherwise beemployed.If the waste under a protective duty of 50 per cent.be a waste of 50 per cent., tle waste of the extra capital required in distribution is a waste of 100 per gent.on the cost of the operation; for it accomplishes absolutely nothing on behalf of the community which would not be accomplished equally if the commodity were 50 per cent.less in price; just as the postman distributing letters at a shilling performs no bettor or other service than the postman distributing letters at a penny.But of distributors the name is legion; they constitute the vast army of the wholesale and retail tradesmen of a country, with ail the wants appertaining to them.As consumers, they are taxed on all protected commodities; as the allies of producers in the business of distributing, they are forced to do with more capital what could be done as well with less, PROTECTION CANNOT WORK IMPARTIALLY.But the view of the genuine protectionist I understand to be that protection is a mine of wealth; that a greater aggregate profit results from what you would call keeping labor and capital at home than {rom letting them seek employment wherever in the whole world they can find it most economically.But if there be this inboim fertility in the principle itsell, why are the several states of the Unicn precluded from applying it within their own respective borders?If the aggregate would be made richer by this internal application of protection to the parts, why ia it not so applied?On the other hand, if the country, as a whole, would by this device be made not richer, but poorer, through the interference with the natural laws of production, then how is it that by similar interference the aggregate of the states, the great commonwealth of America, can be made, in its general balance sheet, not poorer, but richer?But, in America, besides the jealously pali- saded field of dear production, there is a vast open expanse of cheap production, namely, in the whole mass (to speak roughly) of the agricultural products of the country, not to mention such gifts of the earth as its mineral oils, In raising these the American capitalist will find the demand of the world unexhaust- ed, however he may increase the supply.Why, then, is he to carry his capital abroad when there is profitable employment for it at home} If protection is necessary to keep American capital at home why is not the vast capital now sustaining your domestic agriculture, and raising commodities for sale at free trade Prices, exported to other countries?Or, conversely, since vast capitals find an unlimited field for employment in cheap domestic production without protection, why is it demonstrated that protection is not required in or« der to keep your capital at home?No adversary will, I think, venture upon answering this by saying that the profits are larger in protected than in unprotected industries, because the best opinions seem to testify that in your protected trades profits are hard pressed by wages.My claim is this: A country cannot possibly raise its aggregate wage fund by protection, but must inevitably reduoe it.It is a contrivance for producing dear and for selling dear, under cover of a wall or fence which shuts out the cheaper foreign article, or handicaps it on admission by the imposition of a heavy fine.Yet I may for the moment allow it to be possible that, in some particular trade or trades, wages may be raised (at the expense of the community) in consequence of protection.There was a time when America built ships for Great Britain; namely, before She now imposes heavy duties to prevent our building ships for her.Even my own recollection goes back to the period, between sixty and seventy years ago, when by far the most, and also , the best, part of trade between us was carried * in American bottoms.IT MAY RAISE WAGES IN ONE TRADE.If the labor market, although open to the world, is insufficiently supplied, then the wage earner may possibly, in a given case, come in for a share of the monopoly price of ships.If the hand work be one requiring a long apprenticeship (so to call it), and thereby impeding the access of domestic competitors, this will augment his share.Then why not the Like, some one will ask, in all cases?Because the community in the given case pays the price of tbe monopoly\u2014that is to say, throws the price to waste, and because, while a trader in a multitude of commodities may Jose upon one of them, and yet may have a good balance sheet upon the whole, he must not and cannot lose upon them all without ceasing to be a trader; and à nation, with respect to its aggregate of production, is as à- single trader.Without, then, absolutely denying it to be possible that in some isolated and exceptional cases there may be a relation between protection (and all protection, so far as it goes, is monopoly) aud bigh wages, I contend that to refer ally the high rate of wages in the United States to this cause would be nothing less than preposterous.\u201cHow, then, is it that America, which, as you say, makes enormous waste by protection, nevertheless outstrips all other countries in the rapid accumulation of her wealth?\u2019 My general answer is that the case is like that of an individual who, with wasteful expenditure, has a vast £ortune, such as AL HERALD AND w leave him a large excess of receipts.Let me observe, first, that America produces an enormous mass of cotton, cereals, meat and other commodities, which is sold in tho unsheltered market of the world at : such prices as it will yield.The producers are fined for the benefit of the protected interests, and receive nothing in return; but they obtain for their country, as well as for the world, the whole advantage of a vast natural trade\u2014that is to say, a trade in which production is carried on at a minimum cost in capital and labor as compared with what the rest of the world can do.America invites and obtains in a remarkable degres from all tae world one of the great elements of production, without tax of any kind\u2014 namely, capital Whilo securing to the capitalist producer a monopoly in the protected trades, she allows all the world to do its best, by a free immigration, to prevent any corresponding monopoly in the class of workmen.She draws upon a bank of natural resources so vast that it easily bears those deductions of iimprovidence which simply prevent the results from being vaster still.WILY AMERICA IS PROSPEROTS.Let me now mention some at least among those elements of the unrivalled national strength of America which explain to us why she is not ruined by the huge waste of the protective system.And first of these I place the immense extent aud vastness of her territory.She carries on the business of domestic exchanges on a scale such as mankind has never seen.Of all the staple products of hu: man industry and care, how few are there which, in one or another of her countless regions, the soil of America would refuse to yield.| Apart from this wide variety, I suppose ! there is no other country of the whole earth in which, if we combine together the surface and that which is below the surface, nature has been so bountiful to man.Now, this vast aggregate superiority of purely natural wealth is simply equivalent to the gift, say, of a queen in a game of chess, with this dif- ference\u2014that America could hold her own against all comers without the queen.By protection sho makes a bad move, which helps.us to make fight, and ties a heavy clog upon her feet, so that the most timid among us need not now to greatly dread her competi tion in the international trade of the world.Again, the International position of America may, in à certain light, be illustrated by comparing together the economical conditions under which coal has been produced in the different districts of this island.The royalty upon coal represents that surplus over and above estimated trading profit from a mine which the lessee can afford to pay the landlord.In England, generally, royalties have varied from about sixpeuce a ton to ninepence in a few cases; scarcely ever higher.But in Staffordshire, owing to the existence of a remarkable coal mgasure, called the ten- yard coal, and to the presence of ironstone abundantly interstratified with the coal, the royalty has often amounted to no less than three shillings.This excess has real analogy to the surplus bounty of Mother Earth in America.And when I see her abating somewhat of her vast advantages through the trick of protection, I am reminded of the curious fact that this unusual abundance of the mineral made the getting of it in Staf- fordshire singularly wasteful, and that fractions, and no small fractions, of the tenyard coal are now irrecoverably buried in the earth, like the tribute which America has been paying to her protected interests.BRITISH FREEDOM HELPS AMERICA, Trade is, in one respect at least, like morcy.It cannot be carried on without conferring a double benefit.Again, trade cannot be increased without increasing this benefit, and increasing it (in the long run) on both sides alike, Freedom has enormously extended our trade with the countries of the world, and, | above all others, with the United States.It follows that they have derived immense benefit, that their waste has been greatly repair- od, their accumulations largely augmented, through British legislation.Wo legislated for our own advantage, and are satisfled with the benefit we Lave received.But it is a fact, and a fact of no small dimensions, which, in estimating the material development of America, cannot be lost sight of.In no country, I suppose, has there been so careful a cultivation of the inventive faculty, and in America the scarcity of labor has, in truth, supplied the great republic with an essential element of severe and salutary discipline, Thus it bas come about that a race endued with consummate ability for labor has also become the richest of all races in instruments for dispensing with labor.ft is thus obvious enough that a remarkable faculty and habit of invention, which goes direct to cheapness, helps to fill up that gap in vour productive results which is created by the wastefulness of protection, The Je:ikage in the national cistern is more than -onpensated by the efficiency of the pumps that supply it.America makes no scruples, then, tocheapen everything, in which labor is concerned, because this is the road to national wealth, Therefore, she has no mercy upon labor, but displaces it right and left.Yet when we come to the case where capital is most in question, she enables her ship builders, her iron masters and her mill owners to charge double or semi-double prices; which, if her practice as to labor saving be right, must be the road to national poverty.I converso, if she be right in shutting out foreign ships and goods to raise the receipts of the American capitalist, why does she not tax the reaping machine to raise the receipts of the American laborer?.ENGLAND NOT YET FREE ENOUGH.I have still tonotice one remaining point.I do pot doubt that production is much cheapened in America by the absence of all kinds of class legislation except that which is termed protection; an instance alike vicious and gigantic, but still an instance only.In our British legislation, the interest of tbe individual or the classstill rather largely prevails against that of the public.In America, as I understand tbe matter, the public obtains full and equal justice.I take for example the case of the railroads; that vast creation, one of almost universal good to mankind, how approaching to one-tenth or one-twelfth of our entire national possessions.It is believed that in unnecessary parliamentary expenditure, and in abnormal prices paid Tor land, the railways of thus country were taxed to between fifty and hamdred millions sterling beyond the natural eost of their creation.Thus does the spirit of protection, only shifting its form, still go ravening about among us.Nothing is so common here as to receive compensation, and we get it not ouly for injuries, but for benefits.But while thegreat nation of the Union rightly rejoices in her freedom from our superstitions, why should she desire, create and worship new superstitions of her own?THE MORAL ASPECT OF THE SUBJECT.I urge, also, that all protection is morally as well as economically bad.\u2018This is a very different thing {rom saying that aif protectionists are bad.I have seen and known, and had the opportunity of cemparing, the temper and frame of mind engendered first by our protectionism, which we now look back upon as servitude, and then by the commercial freedom and equality which we have enjoyed for the last thirty or forty years.Theone tended to harden into positive selfishness; the other has done much to foster a more liberal tone of mind.The American love of freedom will, beyond all doubt, be to some extent qualified, per- baps in some cases impaired, by the subtle influence of gold, aggregated by many handsin waster masses than have yet been known, How will the majestic figure, about to become the most powerful on the stage of the world\u2019s history, make use of Lis power?Will it be instinct with moral life in proportion to its material strength! May Heaven avert every darker omen, and grant that the latest and largest growth.of DIRS Aisle ambiimeiindiiiclen DAILY COMMERCIAL GAZETTY, wegreat Christian civilization shall also de the brightest and the best! W.E.GLADSTONE.MR.BLAINE REPLIES.There can be no doubt that Mr.Gladstone is the most distinguished representative of the free trade school of political economists, He apolgizes for his apparent interference with our affairs.He may be assured that apology is superfluous.Americans of all classes hold him in honor.Free trade he believes advantageous for England; therefore, without the allowance of any modifying condition, great or small, the English economist declares it to bs advantageous for the United States, for Brazil, for Australia; in short, for all countries with which England can establish trade relations, It would be difficult, if not impossible, for Mr.Gladstone to find any principle of administration or any measuse of finance so exactly fitted to the varying needs of all countries as he assuines the policy of free trade to be.The American protectionist, let it not be discourteous to urge, is broader in his views than the English free trader.No intelligent protectionist in the United States pretends that every country would alike realize advantage from the adoption of the protective system.Great Britain and the United \u2018States certainly resemble one another in more Ways than either can be said to resemble any other nation in the world; yet, when We compare the two on the question at issue, the differences are so marked that we almost lese sight of the resemblance.- THE TWO NATIONS CONTRASTED.Great Britain is an island less than ninety thousand square miles iu extent.Its life depends upon its connection with other countries.Its prosperity rests upon its commerce with the world, On the other hand, a single state of the Union is nearly three times as large as Great Britain.Several other states are each quite equal to it in area.The whole Union is well nigh forty times as large.With these fundamental points of difference between the two countries, I assume that varied financial and industrial systems, wrought by the experience of each, would be the natural and logic result, Henco I do not join issue with Mr, Gladstone on both of his propositions.Britain.He assails protection in the United States.The first proposition I neither deny nor affirm, On many points and in many respects it was far different with Great Britain a hundred years ago.She did not then feel assured that she could bear the competition of Continental nations.She was, therefore, aggressively, even cruelly, protective.She manufactured for herself and for her network of colonies reaching around the globe.Into those colonies mo other nation could carry anything.There was no scale of duty upon which other nations could enter a colonial port, What the colonies needed outside of British products could be furnished to them only in British ships, \u20ac WAS GREAT BRITAIN MERELY SELFISH?During the last thirty years of her protective system, and especially during the twenty years from 1826 to 1846, Great Britain increased her material wealth beyond all precedent in the commercial history of the world.Finally, with a vast capital accumulated, with a low rate of interest establish- : ed, and with a manufacturing power unequaled, the British merchants were ready to underbid all rivals in seeking for the trade of the world.At that moment Great Britain had reason to feel supremely content.The traffic of the world seemed prospectively in her control Could this condition of trade have continued, no estimate of the growth of England's wealth would be possible, But England was dealing with an intelligence equal to her own.The American people had, by repeated experience, learned that the periods of depression in home manufactures were those in which England most prospered in her commercial relations with the United States, and that these periods of depression had, with a single exception, easily explained, followed the enactment by congress of a free trade tariff, as certainly as effect follows cause, One of the most suggestive experiments of that kind had its origin in the tarif to which I have just referred, passed in 1848 iu apparent harmony with Bugis newly declared financial policy.At that moment a southern president (Mr.Polk) and a southern secretary of the treasury (Mr.Robert J.Walker) were far more interested in expanding the area of slave territory than in advancing home manufactures, and were especially eager to make commercial exchanges with Europe on the somewhat difficult basis of cotton at high prices and returning fabrics at low prices.TUuder ordinary circumstances the free trade tariff of 1846 would have promptly fallen under popular reprobation and been doomed to speedy repeal.But it had a singular history and for a time was generally acquiesced in, even attaining in many sections a certain degree of popularity.Never did any other tariff meet with so many and so great aids of an adventitious character to sustain it as did this enactment of 1846: California\u2019s gold, our war with Mexico and the Crimean war.The export of manufactures from England and France was checked; the breadstufls of Russia were blockaded and could not reach | the markets of the world.An extraordinary stimulus was thus given to all forms of trade in the United States, For ten years\u20141846 to 1356\u2014these adventitious aids came in regular succession and exerted their powerful influ- eace upon the prosperity of the country.The withdrawal or termination of these influences, by a treaty of peace in Europe \u2018and by the surcease of gold from California, \u2018brought a widespread financial panic, which \u2018igvolved the ruin of thousands, including proportionately as many In Tae SOUL as in {he north.AMERICA HAS HAD AMPLE EXPERIENCE.The American people had twice before d through a similar experience.On the eve of the war of 1812, congress guarded the national strength by enacting a highly protective tariff.By its own terms this tariff must end with the war.When the new tariff was to be formed, a popular cry arose against \u2018war duties,\u201d though the country had prospered under them despite the exhausting effect of the struggle with Great Britain.But the prayer of the people was answered, and the war duties were dropped from the tariff of 1816.The business of the country was speedily prostrated.The people were soon reduced to as great distress as in that melancholy period between the close of the Bevolutionary war and the organization of the national government\u20141783 to 1789, Relief came at last with the enactment of the protective tariff of 1524, to the support of which leading men of both parties patriotically united for the common good.That act, supplemented by the act of 1828, brought genuine prosperity to the country.Sectional jealousy and partisan zeal could not endure the great development of manufactures in the north and east which followed the apparently firm establishment of the protective policy.Out of this strange complication came the sacrifice of the protective tariff of 1824-28 and the substitution of the compromise tariff of 1833, which established an ad valorem duty of 20 per cent, on all imports, and reduced the excess over that by a 10 per cent.annual sliding scale for the ensuing ten years.The apprehension of evil soon became general, public confidence was shaken, the panic of 1837 ensued, and business reversals were rapid, general and devastating, There was no relief to the people until the protective tariff of 1842 was enacted; and then the beneficent experience of 1824 was repeated on even a more extensive scale.Prosperity, wide and general, was at once restored.During this long period free trade tariffs were thrice followed by industrial stagnation, by financial embarrassment, by distress SATURDAY, JANUARY 25 among all classes dependent for subsistence upon their own labor.Thrice were these burdens removed by the enactment of a protective tariff.Thrice the protective tariff .promptly led to industrial activity, to financial ease, \u20180 prosperity among the people.It is true that a financial panic occurred in 1873, and its existence would blunt the force of my argument if there were not an imperatively truthful way of accounting for it asa distinct result from entirely distinct causes.The civil war, which closed in 1865, had sacrificed on both sides a vast amount of property.Reckoning the money directly expended, the value of property destroyed and the production arrested and prevented, vhe total is estimated at $9,000,000,000.AMERICA'S GROWTH SINCE 1800.Notwithstanding the evil prophecies on both sides, the panic did not come until eight and a half years after the firing of the last gun in the civil war.Nor did it come until after two great calamities in the years immediately preceding bad caused the expenditure of more than $200,000,000, suddenly withdrawn from the ordinary channels of business.The rapid and extensive rebuilding in Chicago and Boston after the destructive fires of 1571 and 1872 had a closer connection with the panic of 1873 than is commonly thought.Still further, the six years\u2019 depression, from 1873 to 1879, involved individual suffering rather than general distress.The country as a whole never advanced in wealth more rapidly than during that period.Viewing the country from 155! to 1889\u2014 full twenty-eight years\u2014the longest undisturbed period in which either protection or free trade has been tried in this country, I ask Mr.Gladstone if a parallel can be found to the materdal advancement of the United In 1860 the Population of the United States was in round numbers $1,000,000.At the same time the population of the United Kingdom was in round numbers $23,000,000, At the end of twenty years (1830), it appeared that the United States added nearly $30,000, | 000,000 to her wealth, while the United King- He defends free trade in Great ' | without disguise.dom had added nearly $15,000,000,000, or about one-half.The United Kingdom had added 6,000,000 to her population during the period of twenty years, while the addition to the United States exceeded 18,000,000.In 1860 the average wealth, per capita, of the United Kingdom was $1,000, while in the United States it was but $450.In 1580 the United Kingdom had increased her per capita wealth to §1,250, while the United States had increased her per capita wealth to $370.\u2018The \u2018 United Kingdom had in twenty years increased her per capita wealth 23 per cent, while the United States had increased her per capita wealth more than 93 per cent.If allowance should be made for war losses, thy ratio of gain in the United States would far exceed 100 per cent.* HOW PROTECTION HAS LOWERED PRICES.John Edgar Thompson, late president of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, purchased 100 tons oË steel rails in 1862 at a price (freight paid to New York; duty of 45 per cent.unpaid) of $103.44 gold coin.(By way of illustrating Mr.Gladstone's claim to superior quality of manufactures under free : trade, the railroad company states that many ' of the rails broke during the first winter's trial.) In 1870 congress laid a specific duty of $28 per ton on steel rails, From that time the home market has been held by our own manufacturers, with a steady annual fall in price, as the facilities of production increased, until the past summer and autumn, when steel rails were selling in Pittsburg, Chicago and London at substantially the same prices, Does auy free trader on either side of the ocean honestiy believe that American rails could ever have been furnished as cheaply as English rails, except by the sturdy competition which the highly protective duty of 1370 enabled the American manufacturers to maintain against the foreign manufacturers in the first place, and among American manufacturers themselves in the second place?English steel for locomotive tires imported in 1863, duty paid, was thirty-four cents per pound in gold.At the present time (1859) American steel for locomotive tires, of as good quality as the English steel formerly imported, is furnished at four and three- quarter cents per pound and delivered free of cost at the point where the locou:10tives are manufactured, Theso illustrations might be indefinitely multiplied.In woolens, in cotton, in leather fabrics, in glass, in products of lead, of brass, of copper; indeed, in the whole round of manufactures, it will be found that protection has brought down the price from the rate charged by the importers before protection : bad built up the competing manufacture in \u2018 America.For many articles we pay less than | is paid in Europe.If we pay highe: for other things than is paid across the sea today, figures plainly indicate that we pay less than we should have been compelled to pay if the protective system had not been adopted; and I beg Mr.Gladstone\u2019s attention to the fact that the American people bave inuch more wherewith to pay than they ever had or could have under free trade.UNPARALLELED RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION.Mr.Gladstone boldly contends that \u2018\u2018keeping capital at home by protection is dear production, and is a delusion from top to bottom.\u201d I take direct issue with him on that proposition.Between 1870 and the present The CONSIGEraTly more Than 100,000 mies or railroad have been built in the United States.Thestecl rail and other metal connected therewith involved so vust à sni.1 of money that it could not have bgen raised to send out of the country in gold coin.The total cost could not have been less than $5,000,000,000.We had alarge interest to pay abroad on the public debt, and for nine years after 1870 gold was at a premium in the United States.During these years nearly 40,000 miles of railway were constructed, and to import English rail and pay for it with gold bought at a large premium would have been impossible.A very large proportion of the railway enterprises would of necessity have bxn abandoned if the export of gold to pay for the rails had been the condition precedent to their construction.But the manufacture of steel rails at home gave an immense stimulus to business.Tens of thousands of men were paid good wages, and great investments and great enrichments followed the line of the new road and opened to the American people large fields for enterprise not theretofore accessible, The grain growers of the west and the cotton growers of the south will observe that Mr.Gladstone holds out to them a cheerful prospect! They \u2018\u2018should produce more cereals and more cotton at low prices\u201d! Mr, Gladstone evidently considers the present prices of ceredls and cotton as \u2018\u2018high prices.\u201d Protectionists owe many thanks to Mr.Gladstone for his outspoken mode of dealing with this question of free trade.He gives us his conclusions without qualification and The American free trader is not so sincere.He is ever presenting half truths and holding back the other half, thus creating false impressions and leading to false conclusions, The western farmer\u2019s instinct - is wiser than Mr.Gladstone's philosophy.The farmer knows that the larger the home market the better are his prices, and that as the home market is narrowed his prices fall.Mr.Gladstone makes another statement of great frankness and of great value.Comparing the pursuits in the United States which require no protection with those that are protected, he says: \u2018\u2018No adversary will, I think, venture upon saying that the profits are larger in protected than in unprotected industries.\u201d This is very true, and Mr, Glad- : stone may be surprised to hear that the con stant objection made by American free traders agaiust the \u2018\u2018protected industries,\u201d ag he terms them, is that the profits derived from them are illegitimately large.Mr.Gladstone makes another contention, in which, from the American point of view, he leaves out of sight a controlling factor, and hence refers an effect to the wrong cause, Regarding the advance of wages in England, ' he says: \u201cWages which have been partially and relatively higher under protection have : Cc i I _ vecome both generally and absolutely higher, and greatly higher, under free trade.\u201d Ido not doubt the fact, but I veufture to suggest that such advance in wages as there has beon in England is referable to another and a palpable cause\u2014namely, the higher wages in the United States, which have constantly tempted British mechanics to emigrate, and which would have tempted many more if the inducement of an advance in wages at home had not been interposed.ENGLAND EMPLOYS PROTECTION WHERE NEEDED.The zeal of Mr.Gladstone for free trade reaches its highest point in the declaration that \u2018\u2018all protection is morally as well as economically bad.\u201d There is protection on sea as well as on land.Mr.Gladstone, while chancellor of the exchequer, carried through parliament a bounty of £180,000 to a line of steamers running between England and the United States\u2014a protection that began six years before free trade was proclaimed in English manufactures, and continued nearly twenty years after.In the whole period of twenty-five ycars an aggregate of many millions of dollars was paid out to protect the English line against all competition.Does not this justify the opinion that the English policy of free trade is urged where England can hold the field against rivals, and that when competition leaves her behind she repudiates free trade and substitutes the most prouounced fora of protection?It will not escape Mr.Gladstone's keen observation that British interests in navigation flourish with less rivalry and have increased in greater proportion than any other of the great interests of the United Kingdom.I ask his candid admission that it is the one interest which England bas protected steadily and determinedly, regardless of consistency and regardless of expense.Nor will Mr.Gladstone fail to note that navigation is the weakest of the greatest interests in the United States, because it is the one which the national government has constantly refused to protect.We really feel as much afraid of protection at sea as Mr.Gladstone is of protection on land.The positions of the American congress and the English parliament on this subject are precisely reversed.England has never been affrighted by the word subsidy, and, while we have stood still in impotent fear, she has taken possession of the seas by the judicious, and even the lavish, interposition of pecuniary aid.FARMER AND LABORER GET THE BENEFIT.Mr.Gladstone feels sure that, though the protected manufacturers in the United States may flourish and prosper, they do se at the cxpense of the farmer.Both Mr.Gladstone and the American free trader have, then, the duty of explaining why the agricultural states of the west have grown in wealtn during the long period of protection at a more rapid rate than the manufacturing states of the east.In 1860 eight manufacturing states of the east returned an aggregate wealth of $5,123,- 000,000.Twenty years afterwards, by the census of 1880, the same states returned an aggregate wealth of $16,228,000,000, The rate of increase for the twenty years was slightly niore than 216 per cent.In 1460 eight agricultural states of the west (Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minue- sota, Nebraska and Wisconsin) returned an aggregate wealth of $2,271,000,000.Twenty years afterwards, by the census of 1880 (protection all the while in full force), these same states returned an aggregate wealth of $11,268,000,000.The rate of increase for the twenty years was 396 per cent.The case wiil be equally striking if we take the fifteen southern states.The rate of increase for the twenty years was 80 per cent.Consider that during this period eleven states of the south were impoverished by civil war.And yet, at the end of twenty years, tha southern wes had repaired all their enormous losses and possessed nearly double the wealth they had ever known before, It may perhaps surprise Mr.Gladstone to be told that out of the fifty largest fortunes in the United States\u2014those that have arrested public attention within the last ten years\u2014certainly not more than one has been derived from protected manufacturing; and this was amassed by a gentleman of the :same Scotch blood with Mr.Gladstone himself.In no event can the growth of large fortunes be laid to the charge of the pro- \u2018tective policy.\u201cThe benefit of protection goes first and last to the men who earn their \u2018bread in the sweat of their faces.The aus- !picious and momentous result is that never {before in the history of the world has com- |fort been enjoyed, education acquired, and jindependence secured by so large a propor- 'tion of the total population as in the United States of America.JAMES G.BLAINE.-\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 | A very sad tale was related by a littla girl at a Boston police station, Monday It was thought to be without foundation but on enquiry, the Journal says, an officer found her state ments correct.The child said she had three sisters, and that ber mother having through sickness got behind in the rent ($2.75 per month), the landlady ordered two constables to eject the family from the house.The constables removed nearly all the furniture Monday afternoon, it is said, and also took the sashes out of the windows and poured a bucket of cold water on the fire, at which the oldest girl was at the time preparing some medicine for her mother.The only thing left in the room was the bed on which the mother lay.About 8 o'clock the poor woman died from the effects of the exposure.The officer sent to investigate replaced the windows and built another fire and the children stayed with their dead mother until Tuesday morning, when they were provided for by the police.The husband was killed a few years ago in a railroad disaster.Smoke Hand-Made Cigar, Nectar, 5 Cents.A Brakeman\u2019s lot not a happy one\u2014 The Lewiston (Me,) Journal, remarks : \u201cWhen the mercury shrinks below zero and everything exposed to the weather is coated with ice, people are apt to thick of the sailors, but there is another class of men almost equally exposed whose sufferings are overlooked.Thess are the brakemen on the railroad trains especially those on mountain roads.During a late ice storm the tops of the cars were as slippery as glass, and on the White Mountain division of the Maine Central it was impossible to stan,dand all the men could do was to crawl along the running board.A brakeman who went on a train of 37 cars said that in passing from car to car he tried to retain a bit of standing room on the car he was about to quit, even while reaching out for the other.The chance of drawing back in safety wasn\u2019t much, he was will- irg to admit, but, small as it was, he felt like baving it in reserve.Many of the Western cars, too, were sadly out of repair, and when the brake was set off it would fly again.The swaying of the cars coming down the mountain sometimes makes timid passengers nervous when safely inside a car.Think of going across the tops when they are covered with ice and the sleet is blowing and reezing in one\u2019s face.\u201d \u2014 DO NOT THINK FOR A MOMENT that catarrh will in time wear out.The theory is false.Men try to believe it because it would be pleasant if true, but it 18 not, as all know.Do not let an acute attack of cold in the head remain unsubdued.It is 1iable to develop into catarrb.You can rid yourself of the cold and avoid all chance of catarrh bv , using Dr.Sage\u2019s Catarrh Remedy.If already afflicted rid yourself of this troublesome disease speedily by the same means.At all druggists, 12 INTERESTING ITEMS.\u2014 A watchmaker belongs to the sell-tic- Tace.Chicago is the All-ham-bra of \\the West.Cloud Rainwater is the name of a student in a Southern university.Contributor\u2014How much ought I to 2et for that pcem ?Editor\u2014You ought to get filteen years, The total number of letters and telegrams received by Gladstone on his SUtL birthday anniversary was 3,000.The Wellesley girls are said to want a college cry.Very natural; thero is nothing a woman enjoys more than a good cry._ Perhaps the youngest couple ever married in North Carviina have Just been united in Davis county.The groom is 13 and his bride two years younger.William Benner, a workman, fell head- foremost 90 feet from the Merchants\u2019 bridge, in St.Louis, but he escaped in- jnry, and returned to work à day or two ) à Near Virginia City, Nev., the other night an unlucky yearling colt floundered into à snow drift and stuck fast.Then some lucky coyotes came along and had supper.The widow of 8 New York man lately deceased is trying to collect from a cole- brated physician $1,000 for her husband\u2019s brain, which is now in the doctor\u2019s cabinet.From this we infor that trains among New York men are exceedingly rare.A foolbardy fellow Saturday at Cin- cionati jumped from a bridge 247 foet high.He did it on a wager of $200.He was unconscious when picked up, but after 20 minutes\u2019 rabbing near à hot fire he came too, and a little later he boasted that he felt a8 well aseyer Minñe Kendall, thé Ausonvillé (Ga.) miss of 19 Who, a few days ago, rescued a little girl from drowning, and after reaching shore, started with the child for the nearest farm house, but fainted en the way, is reported likely to die.The child is not much the worse for the ducking she received.It was a good point made in the discussion of corporal puni.nment, at the large meeting of primary teachers, last night, by the sensible young woman who said that if half the present number of children were seated in a schoolroom, and better ventilation secured, the necessity fur punishment would be almost done away with.Fresh air and elbow room make good morals with children in the Frimary schools, as well as with those of larger growth, \u201cWhat should be the age of a bride,\u201d a question that is being discussed in the New York World, was recently asked Mrs.Harrison, and she replied: \u2018\u201c\u2018I think the proper age to marry should be 25.As a rule, à woman is married two- thirds of her life, and she can easily lend two or three out of those years to what ought to a happy period with every girl, the years between school days and marriage.I married when 20, but in those days a girl's education was finished at 16 or 17, and there was so little for her to do as compared with the present.\u201d Neliie Patterson, said to be Connecticut\u2019s only female machinist, is described a8 a handsome gir], bright eyed, quick in action and very popular.\u201cShe is employed by the Mount Carmel Belt Company, and is a full fledged machinist, baving served her full time at the trade end mastered it in all its details.Miss Patterson can block up a piece of work on a planer or turn up an an arbor or any other product of a lathe as well as any man in the ewploy of the company.She earns a man's wages and 18 in love with her work.At first she met with jealousy from her fellow-workers, but her pleasant ways soon made her a general favourite.\u201d Physicians at Springfield, 0.recently examined, with great interest, a young man whoss beart is on the right side, but who nevertheless enjoys good health.A despatch gives his name as Broslin, and quotes him as saying that * when be was a little boy be was thrown from a farm wagon, and two wheels passed obliquely acrcss his chest.He was ill for some time from the injury, and believes that the heart was shoved over to its present position by the wheels.[he only trouble be has experienced since was two years ago, when he had pneumonia, and thers was a constant cramped or stuffy sensation about the new heart location.\u201d A curious loss in the mails is told of in tbe Advertiser of Boston: \u201cAt Christmas time some person out of town inclosed a gold ring in a letter as a gift to a friend in this city.When the letter was delivered the ring was found to be missing, and a clean-cut circular hole through the envelope showed how it had escaped.it was found that the letter cortaining the ring bad been placed in the package, beside a packet containing quite a large sum of money in greenbacks.The weight of mail matter upon the bag containing these letters had forced the ring through the envelope in which it was contained and nearly through the package of greenbacks, in which it was found embedded.When the money packet was opened the ring dropped out, together with a large number of circular fragments of greenbacks of the exact size of the ring, which had been cut out as neatly as with a die.\u201d Smoke Hand-Made Cigar, Nectar, 5 Cents.STRANGE PAINTINGS, THESE.A Great Indian Battle Scene Depicted on Rocks.Dora ANA, N.M, Jan, 19\u2014There bas recently been discovered near here, on the banks of the Rio Grande, a stone bearing the record in a series of pictures of an Indian fight between two tribes.The pictures, ¥ hich are painted in bright red on tbe face of the rock, which is nearly flat, show them to be the work of a more skilful hand than was common among the Indiais, and betray even a slight perception of perspective which is entirely unique.The lasting qualities of the paint manufactured by the Indians, the secret of which bas never been discovered, are well known, weather and tin.e producing no perceptible effect upon ir, Lint actually seeming to deepen aud intensify it.The exact date of the inscription is, of course, not to be arrived at, but frow the balt buried condition of the stone and other marks it is safe to suppose that it is at least three hundred years oid, if not of much more remote antiquity.Its great age is proven further by there being no knowledge of such a tremendous fight es is here represented since the coming of the white man to this region.On being questioned on the subject, however, an old Indian called Bobby One-eye, who is well-known in these parts, and who claims to be one hundred and ten years old; declared that he had teasrd of a great battle that occured \u201clonga, longa ago,\u201d far to the west.So vague was be though that it was easy to gee that he merely repeated an old tradition.The pictures are eight in number A search was iustitated, and\u201c and divided from each other by lines into chapters of the history of the event.Bobby One-eye seemed perfectly familiar with this style of writing and readily translated the inscription.The first picture represents the figure of an Indian brave, decorated with feathers and armed with tomahawk, bow and quiver.Beneath the warrior are 500 minute strokes, which tell the number of fighting men in the tribe.The second picture is that of a bird fiying towards the setting sun.This, Bobby said, shows that their journey was to the westward.In smaller figures are the pew moon and a buck, which gives the time as being in the first quarter of the buck moon, answering to July.The third picture cousists of seven suns and ss many stars, which indicate that they were seven days and nights on the way.The next picture is that of the sun rising over a number of wigwams and à band pointing with three fingers to a crouching pantber.According to the ia- terpretation of the Indian, this signifies that they arrived at the habitations of their enemies at sunrise and then lay in wait three days.Tne fifth picture shows where their enemies, numbering eight hundred, were surprised while asleep.This 18 told by the wigwams, near which lies a man sleeping and beneath him that number of strokes.They killed with the tomahawk two hundred of the foe and took prisoners fifty.The sixth picture shows this by a head cloven by a tomahawk with two hundred lines beneath, and a man with his hands and feet bound and fifty lines.That their own loss was one hundred and seventy- eight is represented in the seventh picture by a bead so numbered, and inclosed 1n a bow, which was the emblem of honor.The eighth picture shows their triumphal march back towards the rising sum, their enemies in full flight, which 18 represented by a flight of broken arrows in the opposite direction and the huts of the vanquished in flames.The stone is a large upright one, worn smooth by the action of water in some past age, and is fully twenty-five feet in height by sixteen wide.The pictures begin near the top extending to within four feet of the base.It is a subject for speculation how the artist suspended or elevated himself so as to be able to paint the first four or five of his sketches.The stone was nearly buried under the sand and earth and its inscription was only accidentally discovered by a Mexican ranchmen of the neighbourhood, who, catching a glimpse of the red paint, scraped away enough of the soil to see that it was the work of a man, Smoke Hand-Made Cigar, Nectar, 5 Cents \u2018MEXICAN COUNTERFEIT COIN.A Startling but Not Improbabie Story That is Afloat in New York.During the last few days rumours have been afloat on Wall street of a startling nature.Within the last few months it has been noticed by bankers and other men who have to do with money in the portions of the United States contiguous to Mexico that there bas been an unwontedly large number of United States silver dollars in circulation.As soon as attention was called to it the bankers naturally began to speculate as to the cause of it, and to attempt to trace back payments made in silver dollars.Certain it was that these coins could not have been shipped from the United States coinage mints without the knowle.ge of the local banks in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.It was found that many of the coins could be traced to Mexicans living across the border who had given them in exchange for commodities purchased in this country.Then began a regular investigation which led to the disclosure of many suspicious circam- stances, too small to be noticed by themselves, but forming significant links in a chain of evidence pointing to one of the mest remarkable international crimes, if such it may be termed, that the world has ever known.The conclusion which the bankers in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona have arrived at as a result of their investigations is that a band of Mexicans, calling themselves a \u201cprivate bank,\u201d have been coining United States silver dollars and uttering the same to Mexicans, who gave them in return for goods purchased on this side of the border.Perhaps there is more chan one of these institutions ; perhaps a half dozen.The gentlemen who are investigating the matter are of the opinion, deduced from many minor details,that this wholesale counterfeiting has been going on for over two years, and that at least 5,000,000 counterfeit United States dollars have | thus been foisted upon the citizens of ! this country by the keen-witted Mexi- | cans.How the dollars are uttered the investigators do not know.It is possible that the \u201cprivate banks,\u201d or Mexican coiners of United States money, utter the coins directly through their own employees to the people across the border in the United States.In that way they would secure to themselves the whole of the profit of about 28 cents on each coin.Or\u2014and this idea seems much the more plausible\u2014they utter the coins to Mexicans at a compromise value, something between 72 cents and $1.The Mexicans who tbus assume a risk in connection with passing the dollars, although it is a small risk, get their coin for less than $1 in consequence of the risk.Then they pass tbe coin in exchange for one gold dollar's worth of United States goods bought on our sie of the border.The whole thing is as simple as ABC.It seems almost strange that it has never been done before.pee Smoke Hand-Made Cigar, Nectar, 5 Cents.FIGHTING FOR A COUNTY SEAT.Johnson City\u2019s Victery Followed by a General Fasillade.AtsriN, Texas, Jan.23-Tne protracted fight between Blanco, in Bianco County, and Johnson City for the possession of the county seat, has resulted in a victory, through an election, for Johnson City, and was followed by a general row with pistols, in which several persons were wounded.Ben Cage, a prominent busizess man of Blanco, shot Zack Lloyd, iu Johnson City, through the right lung, an l the lat- ver will die.The shooting between the two factions then became guneral an.Deputy Sheriff Crosby was shot in the thigh.Several others ars repor:ed wounded, but are keeping shady.Cage was arrested and hurried out o town and conveyed to Blanco to prevent bis being lynched.He claims that a man named Ballinger, of the Johnson City crowd, commenced the shootin.He shows a bullet hole through his énat which be claims was male by Balliu ger\u2019s bullet.A gentleman just down from Johnson says intense excitement prevails in the county and he believes that many ui will be killed before the affair nada.Best iodides and vegetable aiterativa make Ayers Sargaparilla the best blood medicine.! HOW THE JUDGE LOOKED AT IT, Speaking of Judge Mallory's retirement from the bench at the end of the week, gays the Milwaukee Sentinel, a number of city detectives recalled reminiscences of daysin court.\u201cHe was the quickest man at seeing a point I ever knew,\u201d said Detective Han- pifin.\u201clI remember one day [ had an assault and battery case in bis court, One Polack had struck another with a hammer.Imade out a very strong case, and I didn\u2019t see how the prisoner could get out of it.Just as the witnesses for the defence were about to be examined, the man who had been as- sanlted showed me a machinists\u2019 hammer he had brought along, informing me that that was the hammer he had been struck with.To make conviction doubly sure I sent the man up to the stand again to show the murderous-looking weapon to the judge._ \"\u2018And you say the prisoner struck you in the forehead with that hammer?\u2019 asked the judge.\u201cYes, sir \u201cThat will do\u2014the prisoner is discharged.\u2019 \u201cAs you may suppose, I was thunderstruck.I didn't know what to make of it, but as I thought it over it came to me.The man had been lying, for if he hadi ever heen struck on the forehead with such a hammer as he exhibited his skull would have been crushed in.I learned subsequently that he had not been struck in the had with the hammer at all,\u201d EE.Smoke Hand-Made Cigar, Nectar, 5 Cents.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 LA DONE FOR FIFTY.A well-dressed stranger was sitting in a Woodward avenue saloon the other day, says the Detroit Free Press, when a trampieh-looking fellow came in and \u201cstruck\u201d the place fora quarter.His request was coldly received by all except the stranger, who went down into his pockets, found nothing, and finally opened his wallet to pull out a bill and says \u2014 \u201cT have no change.Here's a $50 bill which you can take to the bank and get busted and I'll give you a quarter.\u201d When the tramp had gone with it the half-dozen men in the place expressed their wonder and amazemeat that a man could be found green enough to take such a risk.\u201cWhy, he looked honest,\u201d protested the greenhorn, \u201cYes, but he's in Canada by this time,\u201d laughed the crowd.\u201cDon\u2019t you think he\u2019ll come back ?\u201d \u201c Why, of course not.Never heard of such a thing before.\u201d After being guyed for a quarter of an hour the stranger seemed to get nettled, and when they kept piling it on he replied : * Well, I may be mistaken, but here\u2019s fifty that says I'm not.We'll give him fifteen minutes more, and if he does not return I'll lose an even hundred or win your money.\u201d : It was quickly covered, and all sat down to wait.Not for long, however.In about five minutes the tramp made his appearance, said alame leg had bothered him about getting around, and counted down $50 in small bills and silver.The stranger gave him his quarter, raked in his het, and leaving half a dollar on the bar for drinks he said good-by and walked out.Then the men looked at each other in a sheepish way for a long time before one of them heaved a deep sigh and said: \u201cGentlemen, they are partmers, and we have been done up for fifty 1\u201d \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014p\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014___ MR.LEE\u2019S RETENIIVE MEMORY.The imitative and retentive powers of the Chinese mind have long been proverbial, and they are but rarely questioned, says the Philadelphia Record, but a kind-hearted lady who undertook to base her efforts to educate a young Chinaman upon those faculties had her long-established belief badly shattered.There are a score or more of ladies of means and leisure in this city who are greatly devoted to the cause of the Chinese, and they devote a large share of their time to efforts to educate aad Christianize the heathen sons ef the Celestial Empire who find their way to this city.A Mrs, Brownlie, who lives in West Philadelphia, is one of the latest additions to this corps of philanthropic ladies, and her firs} effort was an experiment in teaching the English language by a method of her own devising.Her pupil was a bright-looking young China- man named Ying Shuen Lee.To carry out ber p an of teaching Kag- lish in object lessons Mrs.Browalie took young Lee out to the zoological garden, thinking that his interest in the animals would be sufficient to fasten in his memory what she might desire to say about them.This is the way she proceeded: \u201cYing, this is an elepuaat, the larzsst land animal,\u201d \u201cYes, Lelephant.He heap big.\u201d \u201cThis is a cael from Arabia.He can go many days without water.\u201d \u201cYes.Camel can go long \u2019thout water.\u201d \u201cHere is a monkey.The monkey lives in a tree, and swings by his tail.\u201d \u201cMonkey heap tail and lib in tree.\u201d \u201cNow.Ying, that animal in the water is a seal.His skin makes a nice cloak.\u201d \u201cUm.He sleal.Him make belly good coat.*And this isa cow.She is tame and gives milk; and this is a hen.Tue hea lays eggs.\u201d This kind of antiphonal service was conducted by Mrs.Brownlie until she bad gone the rounds of the garden.Meeting Head-Keeper Byrne on the way, she introduced Ying Les to him, and told the Chinaman that he watched all the animals and saw that they were properly fed and cared for.Then she sat down and endeavoured to draw from her pupil the information she had imparted to him.\u201cNow, Ying,\u201d she began, \u201ccan you tell me what an elephant is ?\u201d After 2 moment of reflection Ying replied, with a thoughtful air: * Lelephant \u2014he little animal\u2014beap long tail; climb trees, I guess.\u201d Mrs, Brownlie kindly corrected Ying\u2019s erroneous impressions about the elephant, and started anew with her catechism.\u201cYou know what a cow is, don\u2019t you, Yinx 7?\u201cHe-be-he gif ezgs and swim water 2\u201d Was the halting query of the Chinaman.\u201cNo, no, no !\u201d impatiently interrupte} his instructor, and then she sifted out of bis head bis mixed idea of the seal,hen, and cow.Then, with some misgiving, she proceeded : \u201cDo you remember Mr.Byrne ?\u201d \u201cOh, yes.We know him.He com from \u2019Rabis, and dliok belly water.\u201d The Chinaman gave this answer with a look of supreme trinmph, bat poor Mrs.Brownlie hesitated between laughing and crying.Finally, concluding to do nr ither, she wearily restored Mr.Byrne\u2019s character in Ying\u2019s mind and with all the courage she could muster she tried over again, \u201cThe hen, Ying.De you remember what I told you about the hen ?\u201d Ying did not answer at once,but buried himself in thought for two minutes and then began : \u201cI know him hen.He heap big, of milk.He halt one tail front, one tail back.3 \u201d But Mrs.Brownlie did not wait for any further revelations concerning the hen.She led Ying away from the garden, and ag they passed out through the gate the ticket-seller heard the Chinaman innocently ask : \u201cHim monkey libe in water or lay eggs, Miss Blownlee 7\" » e\u2014\u2014 Smoke Eand-Made Cigar, Nectar, 5 Cents WOOED ON THE WATER.It was a few weeks after Jack Pomeroy had spent a pleagant afternoon at Mises Forsythe\u2019's Venice home that this dashing young lady started on a perilous adventure, Bribing Petronelo, the family gondolier, for the use of his boat, she was soon paddling in the Grand canal.Suddenly a miniature whirlpool spins in the course\u2014an area of small billows and churning foam, and upon them in half a second Miss Forsythe\u2019s unwieldly bark dances like a cork.She struggles hard to change its course, but the boat is beyond control.The paddles whirl out of reach, a strong arm seems to drag her out to sea, the wash from the departing ship helps the mischief, and with a scream of horror Constance realizes the peril of Petronelo\u2019s \u201chidden currenis,\u201d as her tiny ship races madly into the open lagoon.At this moment Mr.Pomeroy stands on the deck of his yacht Gerlina.Pre- gently he shades his eyes with his hand, whistles softly, and peers intently at a stracge object whirling rapidly on in the wayward tides.* Hang me if I can make it out\u201d ; and he leans far over the rails in his efforts to see.eu an instant, as if shot out of à aannon, Mr.Pomeroy propels himself across the deck, gives a wild shout of alarm, and swings himself over the side by the overhanging chains.In obedience to the instinct of self preservation, Constance, a8 her vessel rusbreg out into the tossing waves, throws herselt face downward on the seat, and clutches tightly the boat's sides.Every instant Increased her peril; with a moan of anguish she faces death.Then, at the very climax of her danger and alarm, à friendly band stays her frail cockleshell, a friendly voiee encourages her, and a stalwart arm lifts her from despair to the yacht's deck.\u201cI'hank God, my darling!\u201d cries Mr.Pomeroy, reckless of the few brief weeks since he and Constance have met, and totally regardless of the astonished faces of the sailors who gather about them.The secret is out; the whole city may know it for aught Jack cares.\u2018While this last adventure of the madcap Constance is running briskly along, the unconscious Mrs.Forsythe and her own davghter, the wall-regulated and only blossom of the lady\u2019s second marriage, sit in their private box at the opera.Mrs.Forsythe settles her flounces and secretly wonders why Constance is so late, as she hears the call-boy\u2019s shrill treble shouting: \u201cOverture on, ladies\u2014 ovsrture on.\u201d Where she might be Mrs.Forsythe did not speculate.She had made it à rule that her step-daughter should not remain out after sunset, but whether it was obey:d was a matter best left uninvestigated ; and the lady gianced smilingly over the sea of faces.till Mrs.F.is uneasy\u2014quite nervous, ia fact, though not for a gold mine would she betray emotion.Campanini sings; consequently the patrician world of Venice has turned out in force.From pit to dome the house is crowded.The prompter\u2019s bell jingles, the curtain roils lingeringly up, tne director's batou waves, as a Shaking hand is laid on Mrs, Forsythe\u2019s shoulder pnd wretched Pe- tronelo siaw mers out this terrible tale: \u201cThe signorina\u2014the Lady Constance\u2014 is missing; has been missing for hours.\u201d And he turns for confirmation to the whimpering fisher lad behind him.Screams, smelling-salts, and a jargon of English, German and Italian follow this announcement; then a crowd of sympathizing friends and a frantic race to the Hotel Damilli.\u2018With all ber faults, Mrs.Foraythe is a tender-hearted woman, and traly mourns over this cruel blow.Ghastly visions of a dead girlish face rise in the rippling waters.She weeps and drives poor Petronelo wild with reproaches.Through the fleet of boats and gondolas that throng the Grand Canal they fly like a whirlwind under the Bridge of Sighs to the botel entrance.Limp with woe, Mrs.Forsythe, supported by Petronelo, totters up the stairs, goes sorrowfully to her room and stops, transfixed and dumb, on the threshold of the open door.\u201c Here I am, mother mine,\u201d says Constance, in unruffied tones.\u201cIt was car- tainly a narrow squeeze, but Mr.Pome- roy\u2019s acrobaticability saved me.\u201d And with her provoking indifferent air she wats for the gentleman to explain.Judging from the warmth of her stepmother\u2019s kiss, some time later, it is clear that he dues this satisfactorily.Ample mears, irreproachable son-in-law, and no wonder that Mrs.Forsythe\u2019s wrath melts like snow under an August sun.Yes\u2019 she tells a confidential friend, when discussing the coming marriage, \u201cI have always said that Constance would secure a suitable establishment.\u201d This is precisely the reverse of what Mrs.Forsythe has either said or thought.As they listened to this change Jf opinion Jack and Constarce exchanged glances, but are too genuinely happy and 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