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THE CANADIAN STATESMAN 18 PUBLISHED AMARVELOUS STORY TOLD IN TWO OONSTANOE KENT. The Story of a Confessed Murderess Sai<l f ·· be Relat~d to the Queen, The other day the ca.hie brought an ite!'· of newa which revives the memory of one .,f the most remarkable crimes recorded in tbd "Gmtlernen' lliy father resides at Glover, .A.1' THE OFEICE · Vt. He has been a great sufferer from Scrothistory of English trials. The item ran ·H· "'o.tO.dlceBlock,KlngSt.,nowma.nvllle,Ont ula, a.nd the inclosed letter will tell you what the effect that Constance Kent, convicted a. marvelous eil'ect T E R NI: a ·: twenty-five years ·a go of the Roa.de mnrdor, SI,50perannum, o·· $I.001CpatcUn advance had received a ticket-of·leavl', The woman Payment strictly in advance required from thus briefly mentioned was at the time of the 1l!bscr1bera outside of the county. Ord~rs to commiaaiou of the crime a young girl of 15 has had In hls caao, I think his blood must ~aoontlnue the pa.per muRt be a.ccompa.med by have contained the humor for at least ten he amount dtte,or the paper will not be stopped. or thereabouts, and the victim was her 3subscribers are res.vonsibleuntil!ullpayment is ye:trs ; but it did not show, except in the form year-old half-brother, Arthur Kent. The ma.de. of a scrofulous sore on the wrist, until about event acquired unusual prorrinence owing to five yenrs ago, From a few spots which apRA.TES OF A.Dl'EltTISJNG; I~~~ peared at that time, it gradually sprelld so as the relationship all the parties immedfo.tely Whole Column one year ............. $50 00;;;:;:; ;;': io cover his entire body. I assure you he was " " Half yea.r ............ 30 00 ~:;; concerned bore to the q u.een, terribly afilicted, a.nd an object of pity, whon " Onequiuter ......... 2000 l"~ he begnn using your medicine, Now, there are Half Column one year ...... ...... .. . 30 00 - William Kent, the father of Constance . " Half year .. ............ 20 00 tew men of his age who enjoy as good health and the murdered child, was a gentleman of " " One qua.rter _ _. .. .. .. ·· 12 50 as he has. I could easily na.me tlfty persons Qtuu·ter Colmr.n one ye&r ........... 20 00 private fortune, living at a place called who would testify to the facts In his ca.Be. G ranting that there is an increased tenden· " " Half year ........... 12 50 .Yours truly, W.M. PRILIJPS." " One quarter...... . . 8 00 5 Roa.de. He ,w as said to be, and the statecy to celibacy, 11.11 civi!fa!l.tion becomee more Bh: lines and under, first insertion .. $0 50 ment was never contradicted, an illegitimate com1ilex the.u it was in provincial timea, sev· 0 Kach subsequent inae1:tion ... ... 0 25 : ~f:~~r~ ~~~ eon oi the duke of Kent, fou1th son of George eral ca.uses may be found which contribute rrom six to ten lines, first insertion, 0 75 ·Kach eubsequei:itins~rtion ..... .. 0 35_1o a duty for me to state to you the benefit I III. and father of Queen Victoria, and his to this result, It has been currently claimed aver ten linea,:flrst msert1on,per lme 0 10 have derived from the we of A Morbid Imagination Oured. Each subsequent insertion, " 0 03 _ priva.te fortune was supposed to ha.ve come that infidel ide11a are .in the ascendency a.nd In reference to the influence of the ima.· that marria.@'.e .bas been robbed of the ea.nctity The number o! lines to be reckoned by from his royal source. Mr. Kent was a he spa.ce occupied,.measured by a scale of gentleman of quiet and cultivated tastes, gination on the body a doctor tells the follow· which obtained in olden times. There a.re llOlid Nonpareil, Siit months ngo I waM completely (lOvered with enjoying a life of lettered ea.so. His first ing story: "A big hulking fellow about students who hold that the belief tha.t mono a terrible humor and scrofulous sores. The DB. TAIUBL~N, wife,mother of Constance, having died when ten miles from the town I wa.s practicing in gamy is distinctively a Bible institution has HYSICIAN, SURGEON and .AocouCHEUR. humor caused an incessant and intolerable she, the eldest of his children, was about 10 got the idea that he was going to die at much to do with its per petuity and health· itching, and tho akin cracked so aa to caase Ollice:- Silver SLreet, Bowmanvllle. 7 the blood to flow in many places whenever or 11 yea.rs of ..ge, he employed a lady of just 11 o'clock in the forenoon of a certa.in ful growth, However this may be, I believe Dr. A.. BEITR, I moved, My sutrerlngs wero great, and my education a.s governess and superintendent day. About 9 o'clcck a messenger came to that there are othe1· importa.nt f!l.Ctors In our life a burden, I commenced the use of the ,.-, RA.DU ATE OF THE TORONTO UNIV~R of his family. This lady he married, and me. I hurried ont. When I got there the civilization which must essentially regula.te S...l.RSAPARILLA in Ap-rll last, and have used LT SITY, Physician, Surgeon, &c. O!fice King Street, MORRIS' BLOCK, Bowmanv1lle. it regularly since that time, My condition by her had a son, you.ng Arthur. All seemed crank ha,d fifteen minutes to live, according the number of ma.rriages a.nd greatly deterbegan to improve at once, The sores have happy in the Kent family, though the eldest to his ca.lculations. He did look like a man mine what classes will marry. It would be .1. lllcl.1mgl1Un, Jtl. B., . all healed, and I feel perfectly well in every daughter, Constance, was occa.sionally sub- on the verge of eternity. His eyes were interesting t o have some clever disciple of ICENTI.ATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE respect-being now able to do a good day's of Physicio.ne and member of the Roya.I work, although 73 years ol age. Many inquire ject to fits of moodiness, for which she as· dim and sunken, his face ha.d that peculiar Buckle unfold the question in it~ fnllness; College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, what has wrought such a cure in my case, and pallor which heralds the near approach of but I will merely outline tho thought. Office: MORRIS' BLOCK King-st,,Bowman- I toll them, as I have here tried to tell you, signed no reason. llle. death, and his breathing was very labored. AYER's SAR8Al'ARILL.\, Glover, Vt., Oct. The question to which I refer is that of Early one Sunday morning in summer the 21, 1882. _ _ Yours gratefully, DR, J, (), MITCllELL, The family were gathered a.round and weep· the effect of stoa.m and this rapid transit civnurse girl, whose name is not recalled, a.larmc 11 "< HIRA.ll PHILLIPS. ing a.a thet took a final leave, Something ' MEMBER OF COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS ed the sleeping household with her outcries. ilization upon celibacy, I a.ccept, in great 11 and Surgeons, Ontario, Coroner, etc. h·d t o be done quick. There was 11 smartA.YEl!.'S SJ.l!.SAPARILLA cnroe Scrofula Olfloe and Residence, Enniskillon. 71. part, the proposition of Mr. Buckle, that She had awakened to find her young charge, ~ looking woman there, and I ca.lied her aside. and all Scrofulous Complaints, Eryelp.. little Arthur, who slept in a cot by her bedthe prim· <-f bread governs the number of elas, Eciema, lti11gworm, Blotches, John. Keltll Galbraith, Pointing to the clock on the mantlepleoe, m11rrfa.ges in a given country. There will side, lying dead, hie throa.t cut from. ear to Sores, Bolls, Tumors, and Eruptions of " A 'RR Is TE R, SOLICITOR, NOTARY which the patient was watching, I said: PUBLIC, &c. Oftice-Bounsall'a Bloc,k tl1e Skin, It clears the blood of all impuear. The horror-stricken parents at onco not be many marriages where the conditions '\Vhen I have his attention, turn that ahead. King Stroot, Bowmo.nville. Money to lend, rities, aids digestion, stimulates the action of sent for assistance. The police and the cor· of eucc.iss are difficult, and whatever renders The.n I crowded into the family group, the bowole, and thus restorea vltlllity and D. BlflUUl SIMt·sox, oner were promptly on the spot, a.nd inves· t o th o next room, Bilt d own greater the incompatibility between ma.ratrongthena the whole system. b ustled t h em in A.RRISTE"R., SOLICITOR, &c., MOPlUS tigations commenced, It wa.e t hen noticed riage aad moderate rnea.na must greatly <loon the edge of the bed and began telling BLOCK, up ate.ire, King Street, Bo'Vman ~~ l'REPABED BY that though t here were traces of blood on .ble murder crease the number of marriages. Hat steam 'l!ille, Solicitor for the Ontario Bank. t hat fe11ow one of tl1e mosth orn Dr.J.O.Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass. t he blanket on which the child lay, there Private llleneys loaned at the lowest rates, not enla.rged our ideals of good living? Hae stories you ever hea.rd, I located it right WM no sa.tiiration such as would have been · lol4 bJ' all Druatau; tt, a!J: bottlea for fG. m town wh ere h e k new every b od y, named .it notlengthenedthe catalogueofourneces &OBERT A.ltltl01TR, the c11.11e had the murder been committed · to bl d dlm·g sities and increased the difficulty ofobtaining t h e woman kille d , went in · oo ·cur .!l:GI8TRAR WES'l' DURHAM ISSUER while he lay sleeping. F orther examination details, and so completely interested the an adequate matrimonia.l status? A rapid ot Ma.rrla.ge Licenses, Barrister and Attor· flF at Law a.nd Solicitor in Ghe.ncery. l\'[oney reve ,Jed the fact tha.t the child had been man that h!l forgot his eleven o'clock ap- glaDce at a long list of the new accompanil).'&ned on Real Eeta.te. Office on King street, taken to a wa.ter·cloaet in the house, and Bowman ville. pointment. W hen I gave him a. chance to ments of culture, whioh could not have exInsure in the Confederation Life Asao· - -- - - - - - - -- - - - -- ciatton. It is cheaper than the Ca.nadian t hat there the butchery ha.d been performed, look again it was twenty minutes to twelve, isted previous to rail oa.ds, is sufficient to ~·· T, PHILLll'S .A carving-knife, sharpened almost to a. ICENSED AUCTIONEER !or the County Mutual Aid, A. 0. U. W. or any pe.qa aand he 'vas actually ma.d for a time, claim- convince a casual observer that the "prfca of Durham, Sales promptly e.ttended. raz<>r edge, :·was also found with tra.ces of round your hat institntiou, as the fellowing he had been tricked. He finally got to of bread "-rather the price of necessities, Address-Hamuton P.O. 59, ing examples will prove: Thoe. McClung blood upon It. la.ughing, and we all took d i11mir together. u.ctua.l or idea.I-in mnch higher than i t was :c. BUT<JlllSON. has been insured since 1872 for$2,000a.nci Of course, all these circutnlltances tended The next day he whipped t wo men a.ta fifty years a.go. .l';;risi11.n trouAseaux may ff ICENSED AUC'flONEER, CONVEY AN the last five y ears it only cost him $2.55 to fasten ~uspicion on the unfortunate nurse· barn-raising for twitting him about the pro· be ordered by ga.lva.nic speech and re~ch lLJ Cll.R vnd Commis·icner in B. J.l. !"ales at per annum on each $1,000 to insure. John their deetina.tion in some di&hnt Western, $nded to promt t ly end at reasonable rates. n.lcC!unrr insured at the same time for the girl, for who else conld have carried the child gramme · f d~a.th that miscarried," 0 ft.Address- Ei..niskiilen P.O. 74 to the scene of the murder without causing city more q uickly than the old fathers could same a.mount and it only cost him $1. ~-----·-----have sent their humble home-epun accoss a OH N EUGBES - Licf'nsed Auctioneer, , per annnm on ea.ch $1,000 to insure, he him to make ~ome outcry, At the time of Dissecting Elephant Albeit. Valuator and .Arbitrotor. Fire and Life being a little younger. few dozen counties. The11ters have Epruog the alarm being given It was shown that . nsnrance, Notes and Accounts Collected. Tl It will be remembered th1.1t a week or ten up at eve~y village vf a few thousand inMoney to Lf'nd on reaBone.ble ttJrms, .A~ d.ress · We certify the above to be correct. ios. every one else in the house was sleeping Cti.rtwriF:h·, Ont. 172 McClung, John McClung. pe..cefully, including Conata.nee, aga.inst days ago an elephant named Albert devel- habita.nts. Summer resorh and lcDg bridal GOOD \VIFE GUARANTEED TO THOS. BINGHAM, A gent. whom suPpiclon w~ not once directed, .An oped 11.n ugly a.nd pugnacious disposition at tours are the innovations of yesterday. ever:r man who buys his Licen~e from attempt was a.leo made to fasten ei.spicion Keene, N. H , where the menagerie with Costly house d~ corations and rare treasures B1£NHY SYLVESTER. Ennisklllen. on Mr. Kent, the unhappy father, a.nd the which he was travelling was locl!.ted, and of art a.re brought by lightning ex press. M r. , .... "" IHCKET, whole of Engl11nd took sides, one in favor killed his keeper. He had been ugly and Jones will not m11.rry, The man does not Has received her new stock of 'V ETERINARY SURGEON, graduat.e of the of this, the other in fa.vor of tha.t theory. treacherous on previous occa.elono, and it care to ignore the idea.I of hi· fellcwe, which Ontario Vt\terinary College. Office and Finally1 the testimony clearly exonerated was not considered ea.fe to permit him to h1IVe become the preva.iling fashion-en· Beaidence, N:J<w·roNVILLE, Ont. Will visit Orono every 'l' nesday. Office hours live longer. By order of Mr. B,.rnum th a arged into necessities by the increased and invites the Ladies of Bow- Kent, so there was nothing left but the con- 11uthorities t'rom 12 a. m. to 4 p . m .. at Conlter's llotel. of the Smithsonian Institute facilities of the age. He is now ready to clusion t hat the servant was the guilty party, Special attention paid to Surgery. 32·1Y* manville and vicinity to call , It is true tbatno motive could be ahown for wHe notified that the execution wa.s to take ·omplete the whole world, whose cosmoONEY ! MONEY !- The subscriber and see .her Pattern the deed ; tha.t she was of a most amiable place, and that they could have the ca.rcaas polit m customs have revolu.tionized old ways receives money on deposit for theOntario W...oa.n and Savings Company, and pays in~lJreet disposition and a great f..vorJte with all the if they desired it. Accordingly Messrs, of living and even made modern economy a t the rate of i and 5 per cent. No not1ce ot ohildren, but there were the facts. The con· Houlda.n and Lucas of the na.tiona.l museum more expellllive than the luxuries of his an· withdrawal r equired. Also loans money ,on and assortment ot 4 !Dortgagos at lowest rates. No comm1es1on ol usion was irresistible, and the poor girl were despatched to Keene. Through the cestors. cha.rged. W. F. ALLEN, Bowmanville. 8-ly, was arrested and thrown into prison to await aid of C ity Ma.rshal E. R. Locke and Chief l'UOF. '1". 'VILLSON, Engineer George Wheelock they secured the Tamin11; Wild Beasts. her trial. EACHER OF PIANO, ORGAN AND services of Mr. J . F. Kerwin, a we' l·known A planter in Louisiana a few years a.go Mea.ntime the Kent household was broken SINGING. Terms : Fm: beginners $6; for STOJlJI :-Seco:o.d Dour Wesi 01' Williams up, the berea.ved parents trying to seek ie· local knight of the butcher knife and cleaver, made a pet of a tiger-cub, which played advanced pupils, $10 for quarter of twelve Butcher Stall l esaons. Residence st Mr. Joseph Brlttaln's, lief from aorrow in travel, Constance was aud two other experts, and began the work about the house lika a. hme ca.t, until It was e orner Liberty o.nd Concession Street, Bow m e.nville. 51-tf, sel!t to a. aort of conventual achoo! at Brigh· of dissecting the enormoua pa.chyderm. The of nearly full size. Bis t heory we.a that by ton, on the south coast. This school waa an he11od and trunk were first removed, and then feeding it on milk, ite cruel nature could be Pianos Tunetl and Repaired. atbchment to a Pigh ritualistic .l!piacopal the hide was taken off in two pieces, being softened and changed, One da.y, however, HAS REMOV:D;D RER church, the rector to which ha.d established split on the back and belly. The hid e wa.e the creature sprang on a.nd killed a. sheep, ARTIES WISHING ·1:HEIR PIANOS the confessional as a part of his church dis· in manv pla.ces e.n inch aud a quarter thick, with a.a much ferocity as if it had been Tuned or repaired can haTe thorn attended 'II by leaving word a.t the DOMINION ORGAN cipline. The time ca.me Digh for the trial a.nd the work required nearly three hours. reared by ite mother in the junglea of CeyIDG's 0Jo'l!'IOE, llowmanville. A ftrst-clna man ~ow beinR in their mvlo '· of the imprisoned Durso-girl. Controversy In the afternoon the 11keleton was dillsected, Ion, It would have killed ite owner alse to buildings formerly occupied by waxed warmer and higher a.a the day set and every bone wassavedinta.ot. The firing had not a bullet put an end to it and hi11 exl§o Do? Gen11ernen oCFaliJh CODD & CO., ca.me nearer. \Vhen it arrived the papers pa.rty consisted of 29 men, 12 of whom fired perlment together. ien, uot so st. Mr. Blank, a well-known lawyer In New were full of correspondence on the aubject, at the heartand 17 at the hea.d. During the and all aorta of theories were broached to autopsy, so to speak, six bullets were found York, recently attempted to keep a rattle· sve written these tew lines A.n.dall I have to B&Ta.ccount for the deed without the interven- in the hea.rt, and they had all been flattened, 1nake at large in hla library, lta fangs havT hat yon can find me still at home , In the evening those of epicurean tastes iog been drawn. But the fangs grew a.ga.ln. tion of the accused. Various arrests were lam not gone e.way. S'o all my k ind old r riende may oome, . She has now in stock everything m ·de, but always without result. Finally dined on elephant ete11k at the Cheshire Mr. Blank was bitten by his ungrateful pet, .And all they oung ones, too, girl was tried and convicted, But the House, and it is reported that many whe> 11nd his life was saved only with difficulty, And get thetr garments nicely m11ode usually found in a well equipped the In fashions that a.re new: The same foolhardy love of useless r isk public was not satisfied, and the home sec· did not know what they were ea.ting pro· Vhere old and young, dE">artrlendl?J. may meet HARNESS SHOP. A. welcome P"reetlnll. bv R. PEA.'J:E retary was persuaded to grant a respite pend· nounced the steak unusually fine in flavor, led a la.dy in London, a year a.go, to keep but a bit tough, The hide weighed 1,043 two young lions as playmates a.t large in her ing fnrther investiga.tlon, The case seemed hopeless, however, until pounds, 11nd the skele'.on 1,455 pounds. house. They were very tame at first, but MRS. HUMPHREY one morning Constance Kent, accompa.nied T he beast alive weighed about 7,000pounds, thoirsavage instincts broke loose one day, by one of the Sisters of a convent school, wa.s supposed to be 30 years old, and was and they attacked their mistreu. These freaks wlll seem to all of our rationoa.lled on the r ector of the church above valued at $10,000. The preeerved portion spoken of, and the two asked e. private was shipped to Wa.shing ton and Messrs. al readers as incredibly 1illy. Not one sane a.udience. Conata.nee had come to confess. Houidan a.nd Lucas consider that they have man or woman in t en thousand would make She ha.d f;vidently already told h er story to secured a.n unusually perfect specimen for a pet of a lion or a rattlesna.ke. Yet many the Sister. She tben, calmly and lucidly, the national museum. About 500 Keenites young men and women srcretly nourish, as the clergyman r.fterwa.rds said, told the witnessed the dissection with g rea.t interest. not in their houses but in t heir b~ soms, WlTB TEETH, WITHOUT TEETH . whole story of the cri me, She had deeply .. · · · some vicious habit, or t emper , or thought, Is the best place in town to buy W atches, resented her fa.th er's second marriage, Pine Baths. which one dlliy, when full-grown, may overClocks a.nd J ewellery of all the newest PRA.()TI()A.L DENTIST, .At someofthewa.teringplaces in Germany come them, and rend their souls beyond designs. B efor e purchasi,ng give me a though ehe had given no ou.tward sign of ".>VER TWEN1'Y YEARS EXPll:RIENOB. eall and you will save money - we will not her resentment. H er anger was still more the very simple pres.:ription of the physician hope of help. liUrous OxtcleGu A.<lminlsterecl for Palnlcll b e undersold by any small firm. We heightened when her young half·brother is that the patient should spend several Would it not be better to die after a few Operatlon11. carry a large stock of s uch "oods as .are was born. She had studiously concealed hours a day, walking or riding, through the minutes of agony in the clutch of a tiger, OJ!'FJ()E lll()()J.IJNG'S JU.OUK, usually kept in a first·cla.ss j ewellery store. this feeling. But her jealous ha.te grew in pine wood. This simple treatment is said than to live to old age despised as a liar, intensity as he grew from infancy into to be sometimes supplemented by the taking a. slanderer, or 11 thief? Who would not laughing childhood. Gradually hate me.tur· of pine baths, and in the ce.ee of kidney dis- rather feel Jhe poison of a ena.ke sendand Eye Glasses we keep the best in t own, ed into design, and she determined to de· ease and for delic~te children this is claim- Ing swift dea.th through his veins, than to and ours is the only place in town where stroy the little felli>w. Providing herself ed to be highly beneficial. The bath is creep through the world during a long life a an Optom eter is kept for fitting the sight with the sha.rpened knife, shortly a.fter preparecl by pouring into the water about drnnka.rd or a libertine? properly. You cannot be too careful dawn she had slipped into the nursery bed half a tumbler of an ex tract made from the The snake or the tiger, t oo, could be kill· about your ey e sight. room. Stooping ovel." the cot she awoke needles of the pine; this extract is dark in ed before it could hurt ita owner. But who the child with a kiss, a.nd, wrapping him In color and closely resembles treacle in con· shall hurt 11 vile habit that we have nursed his blanket, carried him with her to the sistency, and when poured into the bath in our childhood, a.nd tha.t ha.s grown old C. HARNDEN, L · D. S ·J our stock is all n ew and of the la test closet. HertJ the knife wae used in such a gives the water a muddy appearenoe, with with ue ? · Gre.duateoftheRoyalCollegeofDental designs, a.nd will b e sold a.t low prices t o way that the flowing blood went down the a light foam on t he surface, .As an adjunct Then do not let us _Ia.ugh at these fool~sh Surgeons, Ontario; suit the times. pipe. When life was extinct and the blood to this daily bath this infusion of pine ex- people, but condder if we too a.re ma.kmg OFFICE OVER DICK80N'S STORE, had ceased to flow she gently r eturned to trac t ia said to induce a most agr eeabla pots of any creature. Look to thy soul and lOLD FILLING A SPECIALTY. the nursery, replaced t he little corpse in its sensation; it gives the skin a deliciously find what hides therein. ;lite Work executed in the la test and moEt Watches, Clocks and J ewellery and a ll cot, wiped 11nd restored the knife to its soft and silky feeling, and the effect on the · .... ,_ .. improved style or the Dental .A.rt. fine work we give the very beet satisfac. A man never finds out what a contemptible '®ETH E XTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN, tion. We do all our own work and d efy place In the kitchen, and then went to bed nerves is quieting . - -- - - ·· · - -- - - .man his wife has married until he begins'.to and to sleep. One can imagine the horror the u se of Nitrous Oxide Gas, without Injury competition. t o the patient. hint that a 75-cent straw hat for himself and and ex citement this awful confession created , .A healt hy body is good, but a soul in right Old Gold and S ilver taken in exchange. Partlcular.attont!on pa.id to the regulation ot Thousands refused to believe it, saying the health - it is a thing beyond a.11 others to be a $17 bonnet for her own nee har dly seems a CHILDREN' S TEETH, MAYNARD, The Jeweller girl was demented, and pointing to a sup· prayed for, the most blessed thing this earth fair way of dividing the money he had aaved _ ,..ALL WORK WARRANTED· .._, M orris' Block, Bowmanville towards the expenses of a summer vacation. · posed hereditary taint of insanity which receives of Heaven. -BY- EVERY FRIDAY 1'10RNING, r.m:irns. M. A.JAMES, FROM THE SON: ":03.~~~t.~b~:: Ayer's S'arsaparilla FROM THE FATHER: h11d come to her from her grandfather, George III., as an argument, She was, how· ever, tried and not only maint11ined the t ruth of her confession, but pointed out corroborating circumstances which had escaped t he notice of the polfoe, Of course, she was convicted, and the !other poor girl pardoned for the crime, she had never committed. Then Constance was · sentenced to death, but interests w·e re m_ade in ·favor of a commutation. Her youth !1-nd bea.uty pleaded strongly for her; so djd a certa.in feeling that, while confession was clearly proven not to have resulted from inherited insanity, the deed itself might have done. Her sentence wds commuted to penal servitude for life, and good behavior brought the t icket-of-leave mentioned. A niece in blood, though not by marrfage, of the queen, she has spent all the best years of her life in a convict prison. P11t such a story in a novel, and what critic would not scout at is too absurd for anyt hing? Marriage and Progress. A .keen~ observer of human nature and a man of world-wide experience was bee.rd to eay reoently: "There never was a time when marria.ge was more believed in than now. Never were wives treated better and loved more-never were children ha.ppier tha.n now. It is the a.mbition of the a.verage individual to have a good and happy home. Our towns are :filling up with pleasant and elegant homes. The fireside was never more popula.r than at present." It is unnecessary to say that many student of our civiliz11.tion have arrived at different conclusions. There le a respectable cl11.ss of observers who report different data, especial. ly from the great centers of population, where it is claimed that, marriage is becom· ing popufo.r. I Mother Was Good to Him. Ayer's Sarsaparilla. P ,Y. L "" B R R L 0 Cheap Life Insurance. J A \1J8 s 'MCTA vIsH GOODS., We ca.n all look back to our ohildhood days, e.nd recall t imes when we thought mother was not good to us, times when her mild restr11ints seemed irksome, 11ud even cruel, and when we woul d ha.ve put them aside in our wilfulness and anger. In 111ter yea.rs we understand better how good mother was to us, and in all true hearts there :iomes a feeling of sorrow in romembrance of the times when we wer e not always good to mother. The following beautiful incident will touch the hearts of many mothers and sons: "But, after all, she used to be good to us." It was a eon who said this of a mother whom some nervous m~lady had overtaken, and who WM certainly a very serious trial to her fa.mily. The young man's life, too, was a weary one. He was ha.rd-worked through the day, and it we.a depressing to go home at night to fault-finding and fretfulness. Harder still was it to sleep, as this son did, week after week, month after month, with all his senses half awake, that he might hear his mother's footsteps if t hey passed his door, and hurry after her to keep her from wandering out into the night alone, as her melancholy ha.If-madness often led her to try to do. Str11ngely enough, she had turned aga.inst her own husband and her daughters. Only this one son ha.d any power to persuade her for guod. His work by day and his vigil by n ight wore on him sorely, but he never complained. One da.y his sister asked him how he could bear it and alway~ be patient, when shemother though she was-was in the house only as a gloom and foreboding and unre1t. .And the answer came," But, after all, she used to be good to us." And then t he thoughts of all the group went back to the yea.rs before this-"°n ervous prostration c11me upon her, when she had nursed them in illness, and petted them in childhood-when she had been "good to them," one and all. "I know, " the boy said, thoughtfully, "that I was a nervous, uncomfortable child myself the first t hree years of my life. Father said he thought they'd never raise me, but mother said, 'Yes, she would,' e.nd she t ended me day and night for three yea.re, till I began to gr ow strong like the rest of you. I owe her those three yea.rs, any how, and ehe shall have them." And so he girded himself afresh for the struggle. It will not la.' t forever. There are signs whioh the doctors ca,n recognize that the cloud h lifting rnmewhat, and, no doubt, before long she will be her old self again, And then will come her son's r eward. He will feel tha.t ho has paid a little of the debt he owed to the love that wat ched over hie wea.k babyhood. To me.ny mothers, worn out by long cares, euch years of melancholy and nervous prostra.tion must come. .And the sons lllld daughters who find their homes saddened by such a sorrow should lovingly remember the d11y in which they were helplees, and mother wa.e " good to them." fugitive Wealth. There has never been, as far a.s we know, a more remarka.blo instance of a tangible and yet a fugitive weaHh t han of the fortune that evaded the gr11.sp of the relative of a friend of the writer. He was, many years ago, at school at Harrow, 11nd returning along the road by the ha.thing pla.ce-to Ha.rrovains " ducker"- politely went to the aaeleta.nce of a stout farmer on horseba,ok in difficulties with a gate lock. He opened the gate and held it back for the rider to pass, "Thank you, my boy," said the farmer, one of the wealthy Middlesex graziere who own large tracts of the !farrow e.n"d Pinner r ich meadow Jand1. "What may your name be?" " My name's Green," returned the boy, with an ill-timed burst of the imagination, ".And what is your father?" "Oh, my father's a. cheese-monger," said the smart scholar, ehnckling interna.lly at his ready wit, "and he livea in London in the Theobald's road, rather a small shop, two steps down out of the atreet." "I'm very much obliged to you," replied the farmer, by no me11ns-as it afterwa.rds ap· pea.red-a man of straw. "You're e. oe.plta.l young cha.p. I shan't forget you," " Don't!" was the acholar's fin·l t hrust . " Remember Green, and a Cheeeemonger in Theobald's ro11d." And up the hill _ h e went, almost as much pleased with himself as if he had b een asked to play a.p:ainst Eton e.t Lord's. What his feeling8 may ha.ve been when, 10 yea.rs later, a ~oung gentleman of t he name of Green was advertised for, whose father kept a chezsemonger'e shop in t he Theobald's road, and who, in return tor politely opening a gate at Harrow in the yea.r 183 - , wa.s left a large legacy by the wealthy farmer, recently deceasedwhat his feeliogs were then none of his rela.tivea cared t o inquire too closely, but it was observed by all that from t ha.t hour the unhappy young man n ever lost an opportunity of insisting on the incalcula.ble bless· ings of the most rigid adherence to truth; of the disasters invariably incident to eve n a momentary deviation from which virtue he himself wa.s a most ma.rked and melan · choly example. For neither was his name Green nor anything approaching it, nor had his fa.ther, a quiet country gentlema.n, ever, even in the remotest fashion, been interested in ch~se : indeed, as his eon he.a been heard pathetlca.Uy to remark, in the smallest fl.mounts it invariably disagreed with him, Spanish soldien1 are encouraged to play on the guitar. The government r eali:Gell th11t the boldest enemy would shrink from encounter ing an army with gultare. BeaideE 1 w bile practicing, the Spanish soldier forget how long it is since they received any M BONNETS, HATS TRIMMINGS T MRs. HUMPHREY first Door fast of RueaottomHouse, P HARNESS SHOP c... DENTISTRY Call at the new premises. The Jeweller's, J.M. BRIMACOllBE, In Spectacles In Silverware In Repairing r-f·