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rlo. -A.nother gale has occasaioned a great 1 amount of damage along the English Channel and over Great Britain and Ireland. ~ "l"| , 7 , _._I_,. .E AL-I`_L.. `In DA-v|n - .I.l'Ol3I1(1o The gross value of thellate Mr. Parnell : property is sworn at 11,174 and the net val}1e at 6252. __2.`l__..`- 3- __.q-:-can Inn.- vauuu Illa zauauac v Alsmallpox epidemic is causing great ravages in Riazan, Russia. The mortali- ty is .25 per cent. .1, .2 .__LL...._'`-.. L-.. `stunts `J ..u.-V rurc --._-. A sharp shock of earthquake has been felt at Citta de Castello,lcaly. The harsh, drastic purgatives, once deemed so indispensable, have given place to milder -andmore skilfully prepared laxative;s hence the great and growing demand for Ayer s Pills; Physicians everywhere recommend them fpr costiveness, indigestion. and liver 4-_....1._-..a... LLUIJI IVS VIA } complaints, Kick Pessimlats Ont. `Young man, don't become a croaker, even if you happen to be a Grit. Don t disparage your own friends, your own business associations, your own country and its institutions. About the meanest and most uncomfortable person to have around in society is the fellow who doesn't believe there is any virtue in anybody, and who always is prophesying disaster and. trouble. Your conrmed pessimist wouldn't be happy in paradise. The Canadian Ben is all night. The shipments of eggs via the St. Law- rence during the season just closed amount- ed to 40,000 cases, on one million six hun- ' dred thousand dozen. Such a fact effectual- ly establishes that the British market is available for the surplus product of Canada and at protable rates. This year the trade began as an- e eriment; next year it will go on as an esta lished business and afford an outlet for a larger production. REID ll] znvvvgnv-vg The large ouring mills at Ottawa. are now operated entirely by `electricity. The 75 horse wer motor weighs seven tone and is of t e gramme ring type, and handles the mill with ease by means of an eighteen- 2_- -1. _`l_:..:..... LAIL This nnnrnnf. fnr electric the ml WIU_n ease Dy Xnll U1 an I7I5uv0vu- inch driving belt. This contract for electric power is the only instance In America where an electric company has furnished so large a motor to run continuously, and in addition this mill is the rst in the world to be oper- ated by electricity. It took six cords of wood er day to make steam enough to drive t e mill when it was operated by the --L--_. ___-an-nu tc. UJLVD Izuw unu- ` steam gngine. PRETTY ROUGHOASTV COTTAGE. I 132 Elizabeth St.. Barrie, having atone 4-..m.a.+.inn_ modoellnr. hall. 6 rooms, mgntry, Elizabeth st. Bu-1-1e.Vim1np;` ato:e cellar . hall. pantry, and soft water, amk, large `lawn, stables. etc. Anply t.9__ ___ closets. hard :tl:`1nB&l .'I vtzawi, Blilliolnxgv lu can-den IGW 6 . ' c. WPHAXTON, -- -- 1'-lg:-pi afar. Ran COOK. (1000. Wise; W`AN'l`ED.-First-Class . paid to competent Demon. Apply '01:` or before the 15th Doc. to D. B. LAFRANIER, Windsor Hotel. Gravenhnrat. ` 49-50. .l.-'-'~o|%- Sale or 19 Rent. Run by Electricity. -I1_ -1. I rt!` RI EIIIVEE III` II` I $I`(\h The Quickest, Eurest and Remedy for Rheumatism. Neural- oin Int-nhonn Rana Thnnaf and all nvuwu; Au: nu uuxauauxg neural` Lumhago, Sore Throat, and all :%ness, soreness and Lameness. It stops all pain. and cures sprains, Bruises Bums, Frost Bites, Chil- blains, beafness. Chang, etc. For Crou . Colds, Quinsy, ete., from 10 } to 8 drops on sugar taken inter- nally, gives quick relief. Price 25e._ 9, ed scarcely say that I accepted the invi- tation, making some plausible excuse to my uncle for my absence, as I1 well knew itwould" bealmost the death of him, the bare ideas! I W entering the house of his swornfoe. i - The old squire I found to be a most jovial . Ine :.__ ,m afraid I am too prejudiced a party to en- ;}: ,9, into a minute de cription; suice it Egg" {O say, that she was a most innocent, `;*- unaffected girl, and if possible exceeded in loveliness the ideal being that had haunted A _ me for the last few days. - 37 Both she and her father quite overpowered me with their thanks for the slight service It :3 and rendered on the morning of the Button escapade. As to the disagreeable occurrence of yes- I. terday morning, I think the least said, the i better, said the old gentleman. I.kno.w you will forgive me, and I have nothing to forgive you for. But there is one thing I am hm and the best of company; Lucy-well, I" " most anxious to know from you. and that. is the name of your father. There is some- ,bing in the way you sign your name that brings back to me a ood of sweet and bitter. memories. The R in your signature re- - minds me so of a dear, dear friend of mine who bore the same surname as you do-poor George Richmond 1 . . 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They cure all an pressions and irregularities, which inevitab}; entail sickness when neglected. _-..--_-g -n-nn ..1...--1,1L..I...4~`In.-nn.`Dn-ru Ionsoon PURE I streng_1, |J.M.30THWElL, The cheapest and choicest stock of Teas, Coffees, plain and fancy Groceries in town. QUALITY HIGH. Ue0I`ge Iucuunuuu 3 . Q George Richmond! I exclaxmed. Why, that was my father s name!" '17-..- n4LnnI van r`n1\,+ rnnnn +l\ IYIAV able Patents, m own invention, inTruss- es, 8 inal and lub Feet Instruments. tin-e-I wi guarantee to hold largest Rupture without touching your hip, no straps whatsoever, waterproof. Largest stock of general Trusses also the great Cluthe Spiral Trusses in stock. Reliable nvstem for ORDERING l_3\{_lI_IAll., ` _ E T 3 - V7 In - -- The last 25 years I have adjusted more Trusses than any man in America. Valu~ Ru giant Glutne spxrm 'J.'1'11Sses m cm... em BY MAIL. 373* . -. -mi o..|...IInnlrnnmnnichtilihewcxght 9 .51 system tor ORD]'.'1uuu u S I p nallnstrumentsg and more effective. Trusses in Truss- - 1-..-.. 1' ...a 1 nnnrnntnn mholdlarszest Rupture gunman: ` I} IIIIIIIIIUII uulvuu \ and more { we rt: 2;: ah-ni nrhtan horn Club 1 III Dru euvwuv-m u m I c I claim the on!_vme- I chanical system to straighten born Club Feet( Patented. 1 .3 Iwill prove to anybody that 0 eration - never did not can straigh en Club \ Feet. Send 6 cent stamps for Book. an A 1 l`I'.IT'I'IIIE- 1 I8 Kine` Sf. . Being lots 28to34 inclusive north` of town- llne between Inniel and Vespra. Lots 57 to 62 inclusive west of Thomson street. Lots63 to 68 inol south of Ross street. in the t... nf ndioininlr the village of Allan- 62 mo: town of . dale 12} cores very reasonable terms. An: 33'z?zi'nY. will be sold en bloc or in lots on Desirable Bulldlng Lots F o R s A L E % NEAR ALLANDALE! [at nu: 1u_y Luuuux a uuu:u5 Your father! You don t mean to tell mew that you are the son of George Richmond, who was the rector _ of Hazlewood? Mr. L Witherington. excitedly asked. ..w._ -.-.. 1 ...... as 1 ...~....1:.~.A Hkno 1' mm. hut i _ 1 ~ 1 PUREST, sraouuczgr, 3531'. t . 8001!. \ ao' '`` nf;v`3.`s2}?13`a`:?n?a`.?c`i'ng .n.f :'.u..ma other iuea. Acsneqnnlomponndaialsoda. :4: 1... All 41...... -ml Ih-nnplntn. cn+ETTs THE FINEST TEA IN THE WORLD FOR I110 UL yllvv \uvv9 gr!-as vva-,, -v THE 1112. WILLIAMS: 3fE-c5. Brockville, 011$. cIn8quIlIMl|lV|IlllIDDIIwvuuu sold by All Grooox-tuna D:-ugglsu. CC? 13: ? J? JETITIL mm` INDIAN T SOLE AGENT FOR BARBIE. .6 cent stamps Ior uoox. V3 ww . CLIITIIE, 118 King St. W.. Toronto. Pilrlty rli` Nlllu I shelf the weight of other make; I lLUUl'lu5LUu.DA\.uur:u.;_y uanuua Yes, sir, I am, I replied, but I was but an infant when he died, and except what friends have told me of him, I may say he in a stranger to me. _ u1'I`:.. ,.,...I Ilia cnnl ha rannnfnr` nfln 3 son: an muu or u: u n.!I1.B'A.A)<!:gAt.i)?.fl_`HY, Barrister. jand Flavor. KBE NOT a. Pur- an 53 run `[15:18- PRICES LOW. L" ti struugcx bu Luu. His son! His son! be repeated again and again, as if in a stupor. Oh! God! thy ways are wonderful," and be buried his face V inzhis hands for some minutes. Suddenly starting up he said, Boy, I must tell you. my story. Your father and I were at school together; we both went to Harrow the same `half, and from the first day were rm (riends. Our friendship ripened into a love more than brotherly, and we both felt: the time bitterly when our course at Oxford _ u..: 1...,1 ...,1 run In! fn cnnnrafn nn' ~ uulc l'u\c~u_y vvuuu uu. vvuauv ..... -_--_.. was finished, and we had to separate on` our respective paths in life. I had to come home here to take up the management of the estate from my father, who was getting into Tl10`sI`8 and yellow, while George started in that vocation for which, from his gentle, kind disposition, he was so eminently adapted -the (fhurch. L We did not meet for some time, till at last the was able to get a few weeks rest from. 1119 arduous duties which the curacy he held at `.\'ewminister entailed. \ I'I , ,1: 4..'___-_ L. L...` `ulna a~nI'n "Lucy i thank you. Q Bycuptaln Thomass B ,. ` ' l`kwoll iii - . . 1), in rescuing hl dear child fr W Emput danger In which she ya: ll: P08ition ,` gewenton to say that hehad D _ced_ .. gmgh md low to find out the jb11l`ooking_ W1 been of such service but3Ml_em`a.n_whoV gbejnga stranger he had not . W1ng tomy `.t1,9unfortux1.ate-.bm; fortune` Succeeded tin V;gfI0d3y1ucklly Dllt.m_e in pa *0. . coummce 5150 wished to nd out-,3 j * 011 of .. " "1 3'33 b9 1`t9. most; anxio H ...n YOU. and 1 8 tosee uestiolls 81i0ut, our a so to 38k 0 A Y me. Which is}; u {om \ , . '19 fee] $6: `A . ` forget and forgive ea.:h otzelratzre WQVW than pg can do We letter which i nferested mo m0St; interest in com I 6 and di ` . . ` I16, in ` with P911 and ink `J1 ' Tha P S W . ' - as the part 0 is positively dyin T 8 to .9, . \ yous BI .\8\`VIl1lIl15lUl' uuuuuuu. " It seemed like old times to have him again with me; but, alas! our friendship was not to be of long duration. Mr. Oswald, the ` rector of this parish at that time, had one daughter, Alice Oswald-a sweet, amiable, lovely girl. _ ul `/wIVl\ll 1.-.. A,-my.-.4-m-11u_.-nnacinnnfA1v-.'hnt lUV(.`l_\ gum I 10 ved. her devotedly-passiona.tely-but somehow she was always cold and reserved to me. IV unu. Your father was, of course, `soon intro- duced to her, as our families were on the most intimate terms, and I was not long in noticing the difference of her manner with him. My blood used to boil with jealous hate, as I would see the bright smile wel- come for George Richmond, and the bold in- datference for me. I could not stand it, so used generally make some excuse and absent myself whenever your family were going to the rectory, or theirs coming here. Your father b-came a daily visitor at the Oswalds , and one evening I was sitting in my own room reading, when he burst in, his face radiant with joy. `Ned, old fellow! I have something very particular to tell you, that I'm sure you will be delighted to hear. `Well, said I, very calmly, though a cold, indescribable feeling ` oi dread came over me, nearly choking me, what s the wonderful news! Have they made you the Archbishop of Canterbury? or are you persons going to cut the sombre at- tire, and take to the wearing of reasonable (`it tiles? . `wing: 11... ....Ina.`u-envy an 6" Vvbilv! _ ' . No humbug, Ned! I m 88h3PPY 33 1:1 l bad just been appointed to 8- 0 - Alice Oswald has promised to be my wife?" ' _ . . Q ,,,l_._ UUVIIS 586111311 DU uuvvn IIJUV Luv: - `Ned! he exclaimed, in amazement at the perfect tornado of rage I had given vent` A perfect hell seemed to take possession of me in a. moment. Mybraln seemed on tire and the sight left my eyes. My look startled him, for he asked in a voice of surprise `Why, what s the matter with you dear- \'n.l 2 _ Hem ,. `Aye! you dear Ned, you mean,aneak_lng interloperl with your twaddling cant, commg to rob me of the girl I love, and then glory- ing over it to me, Iscreamed, as u. hundred devils seemed to enter into me. .. :\v an L- .._...I..:.uuuI {nu nsvuhnninnnf. at DO Ian I _!,I ;Don t speak to me, I yelled, `as my fury increased, `with _your sort, hypopritical talk. ' II D._.-..!._. Ned ?` H`: tlltu `Ned, are you mad? he said. -`I forgive your harsh, undeserved words, and I am very sorry from my heart if-- " u cr ........4- ....:H.m- vnnr fnrorivmmdn nor vour ; !Ul'1'_y l.l'Ul-I-I Lu] uuuau As) `I want neither your forgiveness nor your ! pity, you snivelling hound! You are mean 7 . enough to forgive anythimg, but perhaps your groveling spirit would resent that-or ghabl and I dashed my clinched ats into his ace. V - - - c ,, ;u_- -u._.-.. -0 ....u AGUU. This must have been the climax of my mad passion, for the instant I struck him, a horror of what had done seized me. uxv 1- 1. ,,,-L |_:_v;._I_I- J--- cu-`lnltn VIIUF UL WUHII .I. uuu UULIU lvuawu. u-Iva Never can I forget hianoble face-white as marble-nor the look he gave me as he wiped away the blood and tears, and said `May God forgive you, Ned, as I do from the bottom of my heart. ` This nvas t';he lost time 6761` saw him- The morning saw me on my. way to London, and from there I went to the continent, where Itraveled about for over a year till my father : death obliged me to return home; _ fnlln I` Lkgln _--..- `AI-Lam and A "-v- n uvavu UIJIIEUIL HID IIU lvllulu 1` found that your father and hdbeen married about two months after! - 3. but what was my sorrow . ,.%";huon'n on your atoll goon; pug E g: "P1nd d assortment at F;uo_r,( mber 1: 1s*9i% MY FIRST TR0TIA6I%T;iV?& "Don't b d good: on `fgtige spleng dyaggrtgrnt Fpuer, 3 . Thomas s. Bljkwely, 1 `:*~`w I. I. ;`; , 1 rl 5 ` -' `.2 AN Ao'roi=vs" EARLYEXPERi"E|`iCE8l'N CANADIAN HALLS. nmy Crane : Storyeow 119 fr:-stained Wlth`the n'o1man's-an}: mm-`.4 er... Dol- lars a Week-Interest|ng Reminiscence: _ -A Kind of Falnlly Ifarty = "The conditions as t'Iiiia1`1ite on the road when` `I joined ;the_~Hol_nia'n Juvenile Opera Company were -essentially `different from what they are to-day. A company of the present tune .which, would com re with the Holman company _in point 0 the ability of the individual membersof it and V . thecostumes "viewed from a modern ;Mic1ieugcnoo1, and I hm alwaysthoiig since`. I knew more` `of the 'th`eatx*i cal pro- fession than I did then; that, under proper made a/-`great hit. _' As it was,` she retired fromrthe st:'e:'vety early, married in To- ronto, Can a I do not believe she is now - living. She was unquestionably the star of the company, although some ~ of the other played `a wide range of comedy parts, both singin and speaking, and attribute a great deal 0 the knowledge I have of my art to- day to the varied experience that I gained durin this early time. V So at as our productions were concerned point Of vinnr urnrn -nhI`nI1`\I>nr`l\-7 m.-.1- r"|-111 iftilreiffziiifi ` f ,8Ii at ' V whoanited to some`e_tent,thep char- A @ler1st,is.ot.hoth_ the Lotta . and `Maggie in management; she 'would` certainly have` people in it were cleverenough players. I ` St0Ify-ow? ne ....n.a e1:a:a.a his nei- Weelk-intere|tin 'BeVIn`lnlse'ences Kind of Fslnlly ' conlditions t'lie~5.ttricel `life whe_n""I `joined :the;Holmen i Opera" Company essentially they present` com Holman company 0 the. ability memberatof it and the company taken es 3. who_l,e,. and which would command the same kind `of audi- ences both with respect to character and nencial proportions`, would travel in a very different manner from the hep-hazard way in which the Holmensl travelled in `inns; `CD11! Anvvn T Inna!` nnnnnnicn _-.. LL4L win no .VVIllUIl UIlU'J&IllI-IJCIICV uunvcuuu -ul~ those earlydayn. I need scarcel say that they had no 'reproIentntive"in ew {York in I-nnlrn Rafa. `nu I-I-nun I-Luann}. II... n-..-. vuv nuu uv IDPIUIUIIUCUIVU Lu LVCW V .l.U1`K to make data for them throu h the coun- try wean. and months .in "vanes, and were not inrthe habit of _ treating with lithograph artists and `artistic `printers for icturen of all kinds and pictorial priming. n fact, New `Y`ork knew nothing about them and they knew nothing about New York. nn.-A,_,-_,1,,,_1' .1 1 up. 1 5 .I.UlBo They wandered, `or rather. drifted, from one town to another. The towns were generally: towns 20f large size, howfever, but their route for the seas'on,was_ only fixed a, few weeks, or, at. the most, a ..month -in ad,- vae, and was arranged `by correspondence, ` or, at the best,,by an advance agent. `If we found that business was bad through one section of the country we simply cut short our progress in thatdirection and turned our face to another` part of the compass. Where we were going or what we were going ` to do from week to week {was wholly un- known to us, and our existence was bohem- ian and uncertain to the last degree. The modern idea of xing dates for a year or so. ahead, and then printing theme for the guidance of the company` and ' for the con- - veuience ofcorrespondence, was something never dreamt of. `I'\_,,I_,,,, ___,_- L1,3._ _, __:.,_:1___ _._-_L- 4...--- LIUVUI UIUILIIIU UL: Perhaps something similar may be true to-day of obscure and irresponsible com- panies playing pirated. plays in. one-night towns, but here was a company which gave. effective performances, `even though they were somewhat crude at times, where some , of the individual members of the company had conspicuous talent. This was rticu- larlv true in the " case . of. Sallie olman. And we played standard operas and come- dies and achieved generous recognition at the hands of inuential newspapers.- How hap-hazard, however, and how irrespon- sible our routing was may perhaps be brilliantly illustrated .by an -experience which I` distinctly remember to have had with the company in Springfield, Ill. ' _ VVe hadplayed there for a week and had done exceedingly well. _ -That is to say, we probably played to $600. or $700 on the week. During the time of our stay there" Holman the elder became acquainted with one of the. leading citizens of the town, who was an enthusistic sportsman. Holman himself was given very much to the diver- sion of going` out with a shotgun and two dogs, and, e not only became very well acquainted with the prominent citizen re-' ferred to, but they became chummy. At the end of our week s engagement there Holman closed the season temporarily and with his new-found friend went off shoot- ing. The company stayed uietlv at the- hotel. The prime. donna an the tenor,,the ' comedian and the soubrette, the leading juvenile and, the first heavy, rested, to use the professional language of to-day. We amused ourselves as best we might dur- ing the time that the manager was off in the neighboring country shooting birds and bagging other game. V Exactly how he managed to make so leasant an arrangement all around I don t now. I presume that he wrote to the next town that he wasn t coming, and, as there were no [lawyers versed in theatrical lore at_ the time to bring him to a realizing sense of 3 the necessity of observing his contract, if 1 indeed he had one, the shooting pro ramme 1 was not at all interfered with. T en, of s course, Holman could shoot away without _- any uncomfortable consciousness of salaries ,- runningon. The biggest salary was noth- o ing a week and our salary list was ditto," 1-, Holman s` expenses for the week were ,9 summed up by the hotel bill, and, as board ,1. .was exceedingly cheap at those western d hotels at the time I speak of, the bill was not at all formidable. A _ 1:-.. 1.1.. ...I....:... ~T Lawn nlrnnv n}.n.ta ` not at an Iormxaame. V As for the salaries,` I have already stated that I joined the company for a -year as an apprentice and received_ no salary whatever. I I received was my clothes and a little spendin money. The cons uence was that I when olman came back mm the lawful pursuit ofgame he was -not confronted with V a clamoring chorus of-actors and actresses de- manding back pay. If the laying off of the company for an entire week meant more than $50 expenditure` I" should be very much surprised to hear it. When he did. come back he announced another week of I remember rightly, we played almost to as much money as we did on the original | week. ' comedy and opera by the company, and, if nu. _ L- -L -8 61...` umnbl-an in f.l'1n,f. flu; 'Fl'nIrma'n '` membered I was playing pretty fair parts-. Holman seated at the`i.pianlg :,.ii i- p1a;ce-.J*_o!::.. WEEK. . The fact of the matter is that the Holman Company was a kind of family party. Be- sides the father and mother there were Sallie and J ulian Holman and Ben and. Alfred. Then there was Johnny Chatter- . ~ ton-or Johnny Chatterton as he was known at rst-who afterwards became Perugiui. .We were simpl a lot of kids together, and Mr. and Mrs. olman treat- ed all in that way. ' ` J In the daytime the tenor, the basso, the comedian and the heavy man stuck printed clips on the dead walls and distributed handbills. After we returned from the theatre at ni ht we gathered together in the room of r. and "Mrs. Holman and `had a little supper and a little tall: before re- tiring for the ni ht. 1 was eighteen or nineteen years 0 age at the time, but no-J body ever thought of going out of the hotel after returning from the perform- ances. We would be-. together perhaps for an hour, .and would then kiss the old people and the girls good night `and go to our rooms. An at this time it" will `be re- I remember just before my first appearance in Utica, I was advertised to ap pm as Arnheim in The Bohemian. Gir , and the announcement was withdrawn because, I was reported to `be ill. Of course, the announcement was a- humbug from the first, and Ipfeigned illness so that the` scheme might becarried through. , ' Our repertory at thistime consisted cl 0 eras like .The Child , ofthe Re iment, ra Diavolo, -`,`Sonna'.mbulaf _ an pone -act` ieces like "` `The Little . Actress, in" which. llie Holman pla ed the leadingpart. Ol coursewe did` onnambul_a_ . _ with ,Mrs. orchestra;-"and some of`-the townr in ___I.:-I_ -..- coigmui 6]-in` niann was VGYV Ill UUIIIU VI Uuv uv na-- ._ which we visited the piano was very apt to be a cracked and broken-down affair, but tf Still "We had pretty fair performances; I `remember at least that the paper: in such towns as Utica, Rochester Cincinnati and Naehville used to say it, and occasionally we . secured very 1 enthusiastic recogni- tion. Sallie Holman was `a particularly bright little" girl. with a eyeet voice and I : Vgilvea, not furnished with the material for adver- wuss an In! VVIJLUII WU WULU PHD SUI UUSUILIJICB '95 .8-8 I remember them, now, exceedingly for making up that modern Thespians _en- one young man in our company not having with stage whiskers, was `compelled to take his chewing tobacco and a pot of Trnucilage : and make. good~th e deciency as `best he anybody in the audience ever `suspected it. It was `suspected afterward, however, that he chewed his whiskers. _ - . ' _ And so wevywent on from town to town, sin 1 , g our operas and playing our pieces best we` could, `andgaining ftlie, V respect, of our audiences and winning good-words from the local newspapers. I` have a number of scrap books containing the "notices" I re-V ceived at that time, and as Iread them now I can t help thinking that I must have worked pretty hard in order that my work on the stage should have secured them. We had to depend u on the newspapers almost altogether for a vertisement. As.I have al- ready stated, our biess department was tising which is common enough nowadays. A few printed hand bills for p the windows were about all we had and these simply stated the name of the company, and the pieces in which the com any . would ap- pear. Perha s the best advertisement that we hadwas t e arrival of the company in town, and if we didn t:arrive until late, and the people be an to suspect that we were not coming, t e audienceat ni ht was cor- res ondin ly aected in point 0 numbers. travel` ed in this way with the Holmans for three years, playing the leading comedy parts in the organization after the first season. I left them once during this time and joined C. D. Hess down in Washing- ton, but the attachment that I had formed I took the ver first opportunity of rejoin- ing them- hey pai when I rejoined them, and whenlbegan laying as _leadin comedian I received 15 a "week, (gust in currency and afterward in old. The Holman com- pany at the en of three years established themselves in Toronto and played there as astock company and at this place I remain- ed with them three years more. ` At 41.. ,v-nvrifn nf tlr-m theatrical 1-Ipnnilonll amusing, and,we did not have the facilities A " `icy. I recall particularly in one case, how . the crepe hair wherewith to furnish" himself ' could. . -He did pretty well, for I don t think wit anhonest desire, at least, `to do the ` for the Holman family was so strong that * me $10 a week` IIIIGIUUBIIIIIIIUE vnuwcu l.l`0l Ii lIl_0(18l` Olll of view were `undoubtedly .crude.o The wardrobetrunks which we carried around withrixs were` by no means numerous and by no means well appointed. In fact, some of shifts to which we were" put for costumes RFD` _I T rnrnnrnknr fknrvn Vnnin I\7l`II)nt;I'|f!`T7 ea Wlbn tnem 1:111:68 years uiuuz. Of course the = prots of the theatrical business at that time did not compare with what they are now, but I think the H01- man: must have made a. good deal of money. 1 It was no unusual thing for them to play to $1,000 on the week, and as I have already ointed out their expeneeewere triing. e were, of course, on the road all the time, winter and summer alike, and I shouldn't be en rised to know that the Holmans manage to save at least $10,000 or" $15,000 a. yea.r.-Wm. H. Crane, in Chi- -.. nuts W`-oi ls-nnn U1 qp1u,vvv w J cago Tribune. It Threatens to Extend Throughout the ` Entire Country. 6n the white shirt front of near] every man in San Francisco, young or 01 , who thinks he is in the fashion or wants to be, blazes a red necktie. And they are the reddest kind of red,` too. A subdued ma- roon or a dark wine.-colored scarf is not opular at all. It must be sanguine, bril- e `ant, glaring, brick-dust scarlet. It s astonishinghow red neckties and red handkerchief: have caught the town. They - arrived here about a week ago. Now everybody has one, and there is a rivalry between the beam: to see who can get one of the brightest hue totie around his throat. Up to date J esse Marks holds the palm. but there are several frequenters of cigar stores who are giving him a hard struggle for the su remacy. _ -. -_ . V , he rst thing a man does now when he gets in town from Milpitas or Los Banos is to buy a red necktie. After that he is sat- V ised for awhile. Then, while his favorite barkeeper mixes a seductive and insinuat- ing cocktail,` he admires his new purchase in the glass and asks the bartender what he . Athinksof it. Red neckties areirresistible. It doesn t make any difference whether a red necktie becomes a` man struck by the craze. 1 ' -He thinks it does, and that s enough. A_.J- LL-.. I-Ln ngnfhn-nnnlv IJQPII t `H8 UDIIIKB 1| : CIOGI, B110 lauilb B uuuugu. And j then the gentlemanly clerk at the furnishing goods store tells him how well he looks in it, and his barber atters him a little more, for it is every man s ambition to wear a red neckeie, no matter how badly it becomes him. Some have strength of character enough to resist the temptation whenthey know that they must appear particularly hideous; but with his own in- clination and the persuasion of" the haber- dasher against a man, what is he to do?- San Francisco Examiner. - The Sight of s. 1>.?.u.-so. Fire. Ye`s,`he continued, the sight of such ; e re is inte esting from the merely spec- tacular point of view. You have seen the. blaze of light which generally accompanies the presentation of the scene of the destruc- tion of Rome. That scene is nothing to a prairie fire in its brightness.. You stand at a `van point, above you the deep blue sky, or it is deep blue, especially at night, in the ortion of the Indian Territory of which am e eaking. All around is one mass of red me, now almost touching the ground, as it tears its way along as ercel as the waves of a sea; . now ris- ing, as' its fury had increased, as some new object` is caught in its destructive march. So it keeps - rising and fall- s... .11 -1--- L1... 1.... and Hm whnln nlnin in march. 80 lb Kepl rlllng unu mu- all along the hue, and the whole plain is y in as rillient as if it were lighted by electri- city. It is curious to notice the ' stinct displayed by the cattle and horses, upen- ed as it is by long experience of similar out- breaks. They get together in herds end seek out places of shelter with as much care. as would 0. men. Shelter is generally to be found in the bottoms or ,et_ the other side of some creek,` and thither they ock, with the result that very little stock is ever destroyed. The intelligence of these` prairie horses, especially, is remarkable. In 1 certain countries the are fr uently et- 3 jtecked,b wolves, en when t ere II no .ehence o igh.t._they form a. circle,-.with. their ;hi_nd, '-feet 3te-.,. the enemy. ;*They keeps` their position when esseiled, `end kick sway till the eyjij`-','(>lf`r;fap.il,;_'in the attempt.-815. Louis lobebemorge. ' . Bfcyolen hi the Russlmi Army. I In Russia. In order has been issued for the % gaudy organization of I bicycle corps. A THE RED NECKTIE CRAZE. Grgstlon no Iiotrrsnsmlt 'l.'hn-Gonlu 0- Iln..ng a-_.. . L . to their sons. * It is 'a humiliating fact that great men are not capable .of~ transmitting their zeniua to - their none. In fact, ` genius `never comes from the male parent. One the contrary, all the meaner traits of character aeem to be supplied to their son: by great men,. while the characteris- tics that have made. the father famous are entirel wanti ., ` . "Th- .....{.. ....nn......1........: .... A. at... er sides of a man's character; . age: can maul, nauuug. . The nerve cell developed up to the | point of producing something remarkable, something out of the rut `of. mediocrity, seems incapable of going farther and re- producing itself. Who can understand thedibrence between the brain of a man who makes his mark in the world and he who merely is born and` dies ! Whatever the difference may be .it goes no further. N at so the nerveoell controlling the mean- V- '4.`VV `'5 T IJICOI 3 VLIWLKUUWIU These are not only reproduced in `the .o'-spring but exaggerated; A moderate vice which in the` father is not known outside a few personal friends, often `becomes the leading trait . in, the charac- ter of the son. The son of a great men with a slight tendency to dishonesty, becomes an unmitigated. rascal. The sons of men of genius, V while not always tools,` were. splendid specimen of medio- crity. .. , I I ~. VIN.` ...-..._` 1-`: ..__.;.d `V4`\`1$A1 n'8` '38: remain :- T T1;eunmalaw seenjlt tb`.prev a'il in' man : moral"natu r.. Ttjnth, `honor, courage. are less frequently trunlmittedvfi-o'u1_the father to th`a,otn than the base : p: _L:a_`ion`s.. *n1.__:-_n_ 4.1.- --.`...`..'L1.:...... :- -...... IDIIIIUI; DU IIIID D_Uu yunu. _Iyuv _uuuv_5 lJQww_n\IpnIrs' Physically ._theesain'_e, `thing is -seen- Men" of splendid physique rarely bedet sons of equal. perfeotion.~ A man; will almost invariably transmit a disease or a tendency to it, but not a. well developed muscular system. Man is a lonely crea- ture. He stands by himself independent even `of the parents who begot him. Even they do not know, him. There are recesses in-the parents of every person into which. no. eye. ever; penetrates. There are traits in the character no glimpse of which is ever obtained. The Largest liewspaper. , ;V A The largest newspaper ever published in this country was the Illuminated . Quadruple Constellation,` New` York,` - July 4, I859, a'm9nster paper, lled. to overowing with useful and entertaining reading for everybody. .It was a _28,000 edition and was sold at fty cents a copy. E The size of this mastodon sheet was 70: 109 inches, 13 columns to the page, or a total of 104 columns, each 48 inches in length. It was illustrated with good por- traits of President James Buchanan, Ed- ward Everett. Henry Ward Beecher, N. 1 . Banks, Edwin L. Chapin, Horace Greeley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning.` Alexander Von Humboldt, James Gor- don Bennett and several others. The paper contained thirty-six different- poems entire, amongthem 'Braddock's Defeat. or the Battle of Monongahela, a poem of six-ty four eight line verses occupying one column and a fourth, or exactly ve feet of space. Among other articles of especial note pub1ishedin.that' leviathan sheetwas` the celebrated Moon Hoax, taken from a copy of the New York Sun, published in 1835. V The paper cost the publisher. a Mr. George Robin- sou, $60 a ream, and each ream weighed 300 pounds. It required the work of forty persons ten hours per" day for eight weeks to set up and publish this gigantic I edition.-St. Louis Republic. WIQLTI AND HIRIDITY. .{f)_M XI! 5 Invwu-guns Don't delay. Take Kemp s Balsam, the best cough cure. It will cure sore throat or a tickling in the throat. It will cure pains in the chest. It will cure inuenza. and bronchitis and all diseases pertaining to the lun 3. because it is a. pure balsam. Hold it to t e light and see how clear and thick it is. You see the excellent effect after taking the rst dose. Large bottles 50c, and $1. unuv\V\`l\ `uni-C-la `ran ~\l\IDUn 1a:1L1ple bottle Egg?` Shooting Passenger Through '.l'ubes._ A company has recently been formed in `Hamburg for the purpose of putting into practical working shape a novel plan for the transportation of passengers and_ freight in- pneumatic tubes. The `line consists of `a pneumatic tube large enough to take a car 40 inches in diameter and 6 feet long. This car is divided into three compartments, each of which will accommodate a passenger. Each com- partment is to contain an apparatus lled with compressed air, so that passengers can have an ample supply of fresh air as 1 ng as they remain boxed up. 1 u-....'. ..... 4. on ha -lmt thrnnah the tube 1 113 I! may Ilnllu puxuu. up. This car is to be shot through the tube at a high rate of epeed,pbut with a gentle, . sliding motion. One of theforeign papers, in referring to this rhilroad, remarks : "Travelers will be allowed a limited amount of bag- gage, but smoking will be strictly proo hibited. An experimental line is to be built on this principle between Hamburg and Buchen, a distance of about fteen miles. which .the` care are .-expected to traverse" in eleven minutes. I k ' -mi. shoemaker`: nut. - Here in the last of a shoemaker, beyond 3 which let no cobbler 20,, A lady complaining that the soles `of ' her` ahoeiwere too thick. the arttnl menu- 9 I . :5? madam 31" . T factnreraaid to her : ' t In that your only objection to them, `-[It in, the=1gly reliliedt I - . "~Wcll,. then, madam,` if you take them,` I think I can assure you that you will nd that objection gradually wear! new to Use the Telephone. Some practical hints as to how to use the telephone `have recently been pub- lished, and some of them` are well worth repeating. One man will get right up to the telephone and say` what he has to `say ' loud enough to be heard a square away. The next one stands away back and does the same thing, when a third will almost whisper into the instrument. There is only one way to talk through a telephone, and the_ " Central might be saved` a world of trouble and undeserved abuse if all users would carefully learn and follow it. That way is to stand a little back and talk in an ordinary tone, as if you ____ .n_n.:__ 4... - ....-.. - mu-unla nf hunt nun Bus 111 Ill uruuuury wuu, an an. ,..... were touring to a men a couple, of feet eweyintend of one, two or more miles away over a wire. Don't yell, don't whisper; simply speak in on ordinary tone and distinctly. The words are cer- riei by electricity, . not by the force of. your enuncietion. The instrument is not like -e deef men, but, on the other hand, it in extremely sensitive. _ V , Wu: nu`. ` any. i?` _To herald the dawn, an DUO BIIDIIUB UH IJIIU FGIIISHITW [0'u5y the cerementa Of her past folded away. . oya wonux. A queenin her beantitul garments, ' Qhn alumna`: nn I-Ln nnnnnu-dm am. An. She stands with the prophets and sages ; She speaks, and her ton e is a ame, ' Lea ing forth from res w `ch for ages ve smoldered in silence and shame. Her teet have come tip fromthe valleys ; They are climbin the mountains of light;` At her call the 1701' d rouses and rallies, `Inn:-{nu nu-Inn 31-: {than `-uni-#18-of winki- She trends on the se nt-, that struggles Andgrinds out its ' e neath her heel ; She grapples with sorrows that wrong her, Converting her woe into weal. ' Madestrong through her slaughtered a.'ec- . tions, . She comes with her sons by her side, Anangel of power and protection, . Thniv knnnnn link} `nation one` nu}:-In i .I-I nusul `II UL [111 IVJIIVV UIUII Their beac 3'"1ight, fade: a.nd.,guide. No longer 9. timorous being, To cringe and cry nea.th the rod, But quick to divine, and farseeing, She hastens the purpose of God. Australia : size. The size` of Australia is not generally appreciated. ` The seven colonies between 'them`occupya territorv Zrhater than that` of the United States, including Alaska. New South Wales alone is as large as the thirteen original States. Tasmania, the Rhodli Island of Australia, is as large as that -State, A with New Jersey, New Hampshire `and Massachusetts added`; V_i`ctoria, the smallest colony of the con- tuient, is equal in size to Great Britain. Queenland surpasses the united. areas of Austria, France and Germany, South -Australia, one-third greater than Queens- land, is nearly as large as Western Australia, which of itself has nearly four times the extent of Texas, while the two colonies together are larger than the` whole of Europe without Russia. The total population is about 4,000,000. The Supreme Court suit, Conmee & ` McLennan C. P. R. will probably last over the holidays. 0 1! no it n In ` 'i -la'1'1'a' ihelioyal Canadian Mounted 1 Ries barracks, at Winnipeg, are being prepared. `If 1 lI`I'nnl'\A `,j3_1 '---`.--- Chrie;i'na. McLeod, of Rat Portage died } of poison. It is now suspected that she was murdered. Aids to the Solution of the Bait Prob- lem, is the title of a bulletin issued by Hon. Mr. Tupper. I '-'1 Se: --_v-- ----- --rr_-- Minister Bowell has been msde a. party to a suit instituted in Montreal against a. Customs oicer. L garments, She stands on the ramgarts to-day '0 flan (`ninth an I-Inn nan-tuna-1 LII LIIJI. Dill} ULIV WULIKI IUUDVH QI.I\.I [D1113 Bearing arms in the bqtt1'of right. The prope1ie' Oregon is ashore near Brockville. J1, ____,L A ..__...LI- `nap...-g :5; guns: DIUUK V 11100 The Northwest Assembly began its ses- sion Thursday. "Kingston will next year secure the Pro- vincial Fair. 1 1n|,,:__ t1-___.|.__.LL.. ..........I -:.1nuv >1-pig Vlucuu rant. In Elgin County the grand jury this time had no work to do. 11 AI ,1. . _ _ _ . _ _ _ ..._ :l:_...:-.....I :wn `kn -`.1- r--J--a v--v -- ----a --- Much alarm is tell: in shipping and commercial circles because of the resigna- tions of 17 underwriters at Lloyd's owing to heavy losses. The value annually in- sured amounts to 40,000,000. II E11118 uziu LLU HULL |._U uu. Both charges were dismissed in the Ryan perjury case at Inge:-sol]. L `L 1.- _'I_-__:..... -....I wunvuu -.-v_._-.. -- .. -,- , I `Portions of the encient yfytotman walls enclosing the city of Chester have been so weakened by recent oods that they have subsided. I-IIUI V -us-v-u--.v-. Owing to the drought the crops have I been lost over large areas in the Madras Presidency which are devoted to the cultivation of various kinds of grain. Famine prices for cereals prevail in some ` districts. Cof~