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teas sugars spices fruit crockery and glassware garden seeds woodbox stove polish sunset dyes all colors of these celebrated dyes kept constantly in stock price only five cents h j armstrong stcuffvule april 25 1388 iiumbef yard w dp haetney keeps constantly in stock a full supply of lumber lath shingles salt plaster coal water lime plaster of paris coaltar tar paper eire brick fireclay etc ac cash paid for hides woolsheep skins and all kinds of grain- warehouse opposite railwayslaliodslouffville harness the undersigned keeps on hand an excellent assortment of harness collars whips etc also a stock of splendid yack robes ah cheap for cash a von buseok main street stouffville an old family butler major dunda of duddingtton had an old errant a family piece namea william familiaily addressed as wull he was a characteristic specimen of the type which has become almost extinct combining the most respectful and affectionate regard for the family with a good deal of natural independence and frankness of expression on one occasion the major required to leave borne early and for protection in travelling meant to wear a heavy overcoat bnt the coat was nowhere to be found after search ing for same time without success the major was becoming not a little irritated his temper was not improved by teeing wull walking np the avenue from the lodge where he lived wearing the miming garment on reaching the house wull was greeted with a violent explosion from his master demand ing what he meant by currying eff his coat and keiping him searching for it every where wull stood it silently for a while t u at last gave vent to his tense of the mayors unreasonableness whats the sense o a this noise hoo could i ken that jewantit this coat if ye had telt me ye wantit it i could as easily hae taen anither ane it become necessary to add a third story to the house to meet the convenience of the family but the additional stair was a grievance to wull who could not help show- in it sometimes once when mrs dundas k as seated in the drawingroom the door was opened by wull who addressed aer in a tone of severe dignity gin ye hae ony orders mam ill tak them noo if ye please fo- im gaun awa up to the tap o the house the old songs yes she said in answer to something ho baid the old songs are beautiful bmitiful 1 he exolaimed enthusiastically beautiful hardly describes them they are they are well compared with them the songs of today are trash the veriest of trash i agree with you yet the old songs sometimes contain sentiments that one cannot wholly approve i think you are mistaken i will give ycu an illustration there is john howard paynes home sneet home for instance you sorely do not agree with all the sentiments it con tains why not he asked warmly why not because she said glanc ing at the clock which was marking the hour of eleven because there is a line in that song which says tjeres no place like home yet you do not believe that do yonj then he coughed a hollow cough and arose and went silently out into the night georges interruptions no george faltered the maiden i fear it cannot be i admire you as a gentle man i respect you as a friend but laura he exclaimed before you pass sentence hear mo out a recent lucky stroke in business has enabled me to buy a beauti ful home on prairie avenue which bball be in your name i will insure my life for 25 000 and george calmly inter posed the lovely girl you interrupted me i was about to say that the sentiments of respect and ebteem i feel for you though bo atrong are feeble in comparison with the deep love which hioh 1 which i have long- dont george dear i for george had interrupted her again bobbys bejoiner a gold story illustrating the rights of children to get in a question or two in re ply to interrogatories by their elders wab told by a prominent physician here to a lady patient a day or two ago whose boy are you said the doctor to a brightlooking youngster who was playing in the piticnts garden mr jim s whose be you was the unexpected rejoiner thiowine out bints jane and mr longwoo were in the parlor when tommy burst into the room and began to cry out top mop fop stop why whats the matter tommy inter rupted mr longwoo im only doing what sue told me to cried tommy she told me to come in here and call out a lot of words that rhyme with pop to see if it would not bring yon to your senses the beatitudes onr bright little nelly overheard some one speaking of tne beatitudes and on going to bed she said i know mamma what the beatitoes mean her mother asked her what and counting off her rosy dimpled toes she replied ainy merry mony ml kia a boy and make him ki wanted two bits- will you have a piece of this nioe mince pie tommy said tommys aunt with whom he was taking his dinner please maam replied the little fellow holding his plate but yon might put two pieces on now mamma has taught me never to pass my plate back for the second piece how she felt a hoaryheaded old gentleman the father of a grownup family was very fond of car essing young girls on one occasion he pnt his arm around an unusually bright and at tractive one and remarked how do yon feel today my dear she replied i feel old age creeping over me harness geo minns has constantly on hand light heavy harness collars saddles c all orders promptly attended to 2 repairing done cheap mai street stouffville in a womans prison strange experiences belated by the war den i was for several years assistant warden in a state prison where only male convict were confined and i left that 0 become warden of a prison where over 300 females were under jock and key tbe year round if forced to choose i would prefer to have charge of 50c- males rather than 100 females moat men enter piison feelinp that they have deserved their punishment and anxious to make all the good time possible no woman admits ber guilt and by the time she reaches prison she has convinced herself that she is a martyr one cot familiar with the workings of a female prison can have no idea of the trouble and annoyance an obstin ate inmate can cause a male convict who is obstinate malicious and sent on causing trouble can be punished and forced to give in but yon can only go so far in inflicting punishment on a woman and the limit scarcely compels obedience to routine or ders one of my first patient was a woman named mary noonan she was on a life sentence for the murder of her husband and had been in the pion five years a change of wardens always renews the hopes ot those looking for a pardon and it always causes a change in the conduct of cex tun prisoners i had not been in the new place a fortnight when 1 discovered that all the convicts except one were perfectly innocent of crime and had been sent up through mistake or malice the exception was a youngish wo man named haskins who had poisoned the man who betrayed her and was making ready to desert her she not only acknow ledged the crime but felt that she bad only done her duty in revenging herself the innocents were all agog for same change to benefit them wuileat least a hundred ex pected me to recommend them for pardon mrs noonan sought an interview with me for the purpose of stating that she had dis covered new evidence bearing on her case evidence which would conclusively prove her own innocence she had in a fit of anger as the records of the case bhowed stabbed her husband with a butcher knife at noontime and before her four ohildren it was the clearest case in the world but she contended that a great wrong had been done her and that the real murderer had escaped tne new evidence had come to her in a dream she had dreamed that a clerk in a certain grocery near her home had stabbed noonan before he entered the house and that the guilty man was now anxious to con fess the fact and obtain her release the idea was so absurd and silly that i could not promise her anything and from that hour she determined to make me all the trouble possible she first refuaed to work i gave her a day in which to think it over and as she remained obdurate she was locked up in a dark oell with only bread and water on the fourth day word was brought me that mrs noonan was dead i went with the prison doctor to the cell and we found the body growing rigid and cold bath ot ua had seen many cases of shamming and while convinced that this was another the counterfeit was starting the jaw dropped the halfshut eyes had the glaze of death and the flesh assumed that pallor which only death can bring and yet we both felt that the woman was alive indeed there was a flutter of the pulse and the heart to prove it it was a case of animation sus pended by will power perhaps not more than one person in ten thousand is able to control mind and muscle in this manner it is for a time next door to actual death it does not rt quire nerve as i understand it but simply the power to collapse as it were prisoners who have thus shammed on me have explainsd afterward that they heird every word spoken around them though no voice bounded natural they did not re alize any feeling except that of extreme lightness as if all solidity had gone out of the body it required no particular effort to hold the breath or keep the limbs rigid i ordered the body to be prepared and placed in a ceffin and the crffin placed in a bhed next to the laundry 1 supposed this was what mary wanted and had planned for all the other prisoners believed her dead and she bad two or three particular friends who wept over her loss the coffin was placed in the shed about sundown and two men aet to watch it at midnight mary rose np olimbed out and was work ing to loosen a board when accosted by the watohers she returned to her work next morning as usual and refused to answer any questions or make any explanations about once a week for the next five years she had some new scheme to annoy me and i was ever wondering what she would do next it is seldom that one bears of a woman es caping from a prison this is not for the reason that they do not long for liberty nor that some of them are not desperate enough at times to tako any risk one of the most deceptive of the inmates of the prison was a little woman of 30 all smiles and sunshine who had been tent up for a number of years for committing a robbery she was good- lookirg well educated and evidec of good birth every word and movement was ladylike and during the six montns she had terved before i took charge she had quite won the matrons heart sh was placed in charge of twelve sewing women in a room on the second floor fronting a side street these women made the clothing of the inmates this sewing room was lighted by two windows defended by bars of course off this room was a stock or store room and mrs newman as the little woman was called had the key to this and was in charge there was but one window in this room mrs newman was the last person i should have picked out as a plotter indeed i should cot have expected her to go out had the doors been left open one midafternoon it was reported that the little lady was missing and fifteen minutes later i had discovered that she had gone by the window whero she got a file i never could learn but the procured one somehow and filed off three bars she was engaged at this work for three months when she got ready to go she made a stout rope of cloth fastened one end to a remaining bar and then slid down to the earth in safety she had secretly made herself a cap and a oloak and sho walked off two blocks board ed a street oar and was soon out of the neighborhood a trifling circumstance led to her capture that same night if the had planned to meet friends they had not oomo on she had no money and though the conductor did not put her off on this account he was flurried by the situation she fot off at a street running out into the oountry and walked briskly away i happened to take this same car two hour later and over heard the conductor relating the circum stance i caught at the idea that it was mrs newman and at 10 oclock that eight i found her in a farm house ten mile away she laughed merrily and hoped i would bear her no ill will the assistant forewoman in the laundry was a mr williams who had been sentenced to seven yeais imprisonment for maiming a child she bad adopted she bad been in three year when i took charge she claim ed to be the victim of a conspiracy but seemed content to bide her time off the laundry was a large badlylighted room which bad been intended for refractory cells but which had never been finished up the room was now used as a catchall for the laundry there were eleven women in the laundry and in doing what she did mrr williams had to blind them all oue end of this room was toward the tide street and the wall was three feet deep and sunk tix or seven feet into the ground the flxr was of concrete a month before i came the forewoman was taken sick and mrs williams was promoted to her paoe she could now pass any a here about the laundry unquestioned and she at once began work- in on a plan to escape her tools were an old hatchet and a email fire shovel and she began digging from the room described to undermine the wall she was never absent from the laundry over a quarter ot an hour at a time and could not work at her digging over two hours per day the other women saw her go and come but it was not their cosiness to inquire into her movements in about seventy days mrs williams had gone down under the wall and was ready to break the surface of the ground on the other side she would not riak daylight as the other had done but waited nearly a weak until some extra wash gave her an excuse to remain in the laundry an hour later than usual she had been gone half an hour be fore bhe was missed and it was a fnll hour before the means of rxit was discovered the dirt had been carried to the rear end of the room and flung behind some old tubs and mangles and she had done her work as well as the craftieatman she had likewise got hold of bre d and meat and when she got into the street she only went two squares before hiding herself in a horse barn the owner had no horte and as it was summer time the woman could not ruffer lying on the hay up btaire there was water bolow and she economized her food to make it last as long as possible im mediately that ber escape was t iscovered i used every exertion to secure her recapture having depots watched and the country scoured in every direction a week past and i could not obtain the slightest due thenouenightabarn on thealley opposite the one she was hidden in was set on fire and before the engines got to work the roof of the other was abler i happened to be early on the spot and what was my as tonishment when mrs williams quietly opened the door and u alked plump into my arms she ehed tears of vexation when re turned to her old quarters having made up her mind that her escape was asssured another of the inmates who pulled the wool over my eyeb for the moment was a miss hutchins who was serving a sentence for pooket picking i give you her prison came but it was said that she was the wife of a notorious thief and bank sneak he had exausted the law in his endeavors to get her clear and had made hie boasts that she should not serve her time out when i took charge i was warned to be on the aler and i kept my eyes open as far as possible miss hutchins and two others were employed in making fancy baskets which were sold to procure books and papers for the prisoners they had a email room off the nail leading from the corridor to the laundry and were constant ly under some ones eyes i had been in in the place about three months when two young women called as visitors it so bap- penad that the matron was busy and i volunteered to escort them about until she should be at leisure we went to the bakery kitchen laundry and other places and would have passed by the basket room had they not particulary requested to enter it not a sign of recognition passed between the visitor and any of the three workers a few questions were asked some of the ficished work admired and we passed out as the door closed behind us one of the visitors exclaimed dear me but i have lost my gloves i must have left them on the table in the laun dry i of course volunteered to go after them and i found them on the table i did not stop to speak with any one and was not absent over seventy or eighty seconds the owner of the gloves thanked me complained of a sudden headache and remarked that they would trouble me no further i passed them through two wickets and the main hall and out of the front door and had just got seated in the offbe to write a letter when a metsanger from the matron taid i was want ed at once when i reached her she stood beside a sharp goodlooking young woman who was in dithaoile and a stranger she bid been discovered in one of the cells almost by accident what does this mean i asked failing to connect her presence with an absence i da not know she replied wringing her hands and looking in a helpless way oh sir where am i and won t yon take me home i own up that she befooled me neatly and delayed me a quarter of an honr it was a sut up job the two girlt had come in to 0 just what they did do when i started for the gloves miss hutchins came into the hall in tho minnte and a half she was clothed at the expense of one of the visitors and the latter found refugs in an open cell a carriage stood in front of the prison to carry them away and they had a long start there were two crooks in the job and the party felt so elated over bamboozling me that they got drunk as they pushed along the highway for a town twenty miles off fifteen miles away the carriage was upset and broken miss hutchins ir jurod and the other three arrested for brawling suspicion was arous ed and i wag telegraphed to and inside of twenty- four hour i had my prisoner back later on those who had helped her escape bad to serve out sentences for six months and the crooks were wanted for a job which gaye them five years apiece five weeks beneath an avalanche- a remarkable instance of three persona surviving an imprisonment of five weeks nnder an avalanche la recorded in narra tives of peril and suffering in the valley of the upper stura at the foot of the alps is the little hamlet of bcrgoletto in the winter of 1755 the falls of scow were uncom monly heavy on the nineteenth of march the parish priest who was on hi way to the church heard a noise from the mountains and catting np his eyes he saw two aval anche descending towards the village he gave the alarm to some villagers and then retreated into his own house the avalanches came and buried over thirty homes and twentytwo persons were found to be misung a dong them the palish priest who had given the alarm the amount of snow which lay over the ruined dwellings was about fortytwo feet deep two hundred and seventy feet long and sixty feet wide when the surviving peasants had ehik off the terror and depression which suchan event must necessarily cause they set about trying to save any life or property possible more than three hundred peasants from neighboring villages came to their assistance but they could do little the thickness of the snow mass was to great and the snow continued to full from the olouds in such amount that they were obliged to discon tinue their fruitless exertions and waii till the setting in of the warm april winds which would partly melt the gigantio piles on the eighteenth of april the villagers returned to their melancholy task it was with no hope of finding any humn being alive oae of them named boccia whose whole family woa beneath the avalanohe was most active in the tearch by the twenty fourth of april ho had advanced so far that after breaking through six feet of ice he could touch the ground with a long pole three friends worked with him the four worked vigorously and made their way at length into rocsias honso bat no one dead or living was there as it was probable that at the fatal moment the viotims had sought shelter in the stable whioh was about a hundred feet from the house roccia and his companions directed their efforts in that quarter after they bad burrowed for some time one of them thrust a pole through an aper ture and on withdrawing it heard a hoarse faint voice say help oh dear husband i help dearbro- tner i we are alive they now worked with redoubled activity and soon made a considerable opening and there under the snow rocia to his joy found bis wife daughter and a sister-in- law the three sufferers were incapable of mov ing and were shrunken almost to skeletons they were carefully remove from their place of imprisonment and conveyed to the house of a friend and proper measures adopt ed for their restoration in a few days they were fairly recovered their lives were preserved during these long five weeks in the following manner t they had taken refuge in the rack and manger which being strong had withstood the strain though the roof fell fortunate- 1 two goats were near them which supplied them with goats milk in quantity sufficient to sustain life to feed the goats was of prime importance immediately over the manger was a hole into the hoy loft through this hole one of the women wab able to pull down fodder into the rack and when she could no longer reach it the sagacious animals climbed upon her shoulders and helped themtelves through the whole of their imprisonment they were in total darkness after the first five or six days they suffered little from hunger though a quart of goats milk had to buffice for the three they suffered far more from the excessive coldness of the melt ed bnow water that trickled over them amabihebilwat the length of the mississippi river ha always been placed at 4100 miles but civil engineers familiar with the stream say that it ha shortened itself over 400 mile in twenty yean and will do a wall in the twenty to come one or canadas public works wtolest way tjreatly develop trade among the dominions public worksthe chignecto marine railway will not be the least important or the least interesting by means of this road ships of all sizes and sorts fully laden will be conveyed across the ncok of land that separates the gulf of st law rence from the bay o fundy the distance is seventeen and a i alf miles the vessel to be drawn from one body of water to the other is floated into a receiving dock at one end of the road the dimensions of ths dock are 500 feet long and 300 feet wide adjoining this is tho lifting dnok which it 250 feet long and 60 wide from the re ceiving basin the vessel is floated into the lifting dock there she is placed on a cradle to which bhe is securely fastened toe hydraulic lifts then raise the ship cradle ani all a height of forty feet on to the rails this cradle is really tho car on which the ship is conveyed across the isthmus the railway will be a double track of steel rails the rails are of course very heavy weighing 110 pounds to the yard so the cradle will run on four lines of rails instead of two a an ordinary car does it is expected that it will take two hours and a half to convey the ship from water to water this inoludes the hoisting and lowering at each terminus to vessels hound for the united states or anywhere south of the gulf this railway will save a long and at some seasons of the year a rather dangerous sail the contract ors are at work and when the spring comes their force of men will be greatly increased the marine railway when finished will it is estimated coat five and a half millions of dollars maoaulaj on british politics macaulay had not an exalted idea of brit ish politics in a newlypublished letter which he wrote to the late duncan moltren about the alienation of the scottish dissen ter from the whig government he taid i am familiar i am sorry to say and so are all men in office with the low selfishness of mankind one man give yon to under stand that unlet bis earldom is turned into a marquisato he cannot continue to rapport the government another stays away from the home ot commons on an important di vision because his father is not made lord- lieutenant your precious townsman but this is between ourselves tell me that he shall withdraw his support from ma because i have positively refused to ask lord melborno to make him a grand cros of the bath these things are pitiable but i am used to them i do hope however that the whole dissenting body of sootland i cot about to lower itself to the level of uch people a i have mentioned