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4" mum..- -.-. . v. v” mesons-meme. _ nudblcbd ', ;she, meekandloil ,gbut, . Vi: ‘5’ x withal,and were circle Behring " sea adamant? 0'“ “I l " ’ m . , m. a; «.3‘ V m'onld. on... m â€" herspirit dowmpoar. thing. ~~ Where Fur-Bearers Rule . old bulls occupy their reemption‘for the weeks without go' into e water, await- ing the arrival of e females, slee ' 0n the ground and neither eating nor ' g from week to week. 1This, however,dist but re" wthe on vi" an ast. ghmua for ee rill)an after the arrival of the females. When they de- part they are weak and lean.” Pribylov a Great Place for Mammal After 7 the Breeding Season in Warmer Waters. Mfume azd Warllke late the Pre- teeser eta Score or flare Sleek and Demure Wives. The coutrove on the Behring Sea ques- tion sti'} wageamOur sealers go out to the fisheries and do ing Yankee cruisers sentto protect the Alas a company, they take the valuable mammals right under the noses of the 11 boats, and clapping on all sail speed for ictoria where they land their valuable ca oes. eanwhile we have appealed to the United States Supreme court. At this there is much wrath, but Salisbury lau he and in- quires, with much feeling, “ hat’s the matter, Jonathan 2 Can’t you trust your own Supreme Court, if we are willin to!” “ But,” rejoins the sapient B ' e, “ will you agree to abide by the finding of the court whose decision you invoke 2” “ Well,” says Salisbury, “let’s try it and see. We can keep up the diplomatic con- tention, and if your court decides wrong, then will be time enough to inquire about the next step, don’t you know 2” For twenty years the exclusive: right to kill seals has been vested in the Alaska Commercial company, but last year a new company came to the front and made a better offer for the privilege, which was accepted by Secretary VVindom. The agent some AWAY mm A LOCOMO- rive An Incident at The Social: Railway Strike During the late strike, when engines could be just abOut got for the askin , one was loaned to work the traffic of gin Robert Young, coalmaster, Greenhill, and the quarry traffic of Mr. John Scott. On Sun- day the engine was taken to do some shunt- ing, and when the work was finished, it was put away near Greenhill Pit, and left in ch 8 of a mannamed A. Anderson, who had nworking as brakesman for the t few days. About half-past four in the ter- noon four men came up, and Anderson said, he would give them a ” birl" along the line, and the result showed that he was as good as his word. He filled the boiler and got steam properly up, and then. RAN ALONG. THE SIDING to the Drumdowie Branch of the Caledoniau Railwa . On getting on to this branch he made or Montcow, some 49, miles distant. Anderson then put on full steam , and was running at from thirty to forty miles per hour. Those on the engine expostulated with him, and said he was going far too fast. Anderson’s repl was , “ Leave that to me , 1 know the res h and I have to be fireman of the overnment is Charles J. Golf, and he , n ’ - “no 6 the no y I .11 only 23“ to morrow. He, however, put a little 000 seals, on the plea t t if it killed 100,000 check on the steam value, but as they were oin down hill it did not much slackenspeed. firmghv’ the “8‘13 w°uld 50°11 be ex' nefif the ssengers” while keepinga “ But as n° females are ever lookout ahead:a saw the runaway points at kiued’ 9nd “'3 the sgrgfmg males 3” Montcow standing open , but by this time P01? 83mm“ to an “atoms "‘8 “tent, an as they were within 50 yards or so of them. He more competent experts than Goff declare shouted to his companions to jump, and at that “9'13 “'6 rapidly increasing’ the once suited his action to the word. 'Other opinion and the reason given for reducin two jumped or tumbled out; and fortunately the harvest must be taken with a good dea lighted on soft spongy ground. one of of salt. them . . Most of the seals are killed on the Priby- lov islands, but the winter farther south and spend much of t e year going and com- ing on the surface of the great intervening ocean. So it is easy for poaching _vessels to intercept them and slay them by wholesale, and if all who Wish are permitted to club the silky mammals while swimmin in Behring sea to and from their uort ern TURNED SOMERSAULT and li bted on his head, with his feet in the air ; is heels fell back on the engine, but did not get among the wheels, and as soon as it passed his legs fell back on the rail. Two of them, Wilson and Anderson did not get time to leave the engine, and so went with it right over the small bank- After " r ofhé-own. \- " humerus _. as 0mm etsballba. Aaif thepsalunst‘ . - .nr ‘y‘An anthems snubs 3! " n.6- uarko. ‘y- yteniof ’ Doubtless tbsth state of spiri ‘ ftyatâ€" _ .. withme in daysgmie by, so itshall tained by the"Jewish prophets and poets indayatooomemnl “muchmoreabundautl . was gently duster the l'iReanly habits for T1,“. good band tba' has withme whi that people‘mre‘pr‘e-eminenh-Moses never fail me. The springs, the eternal was the first grapplawr-giver who combined spun , the springs that are in the everlaste the fundamental principles of hygiene with mg his litical institutes, and commanded his .and mercy shall follow me ; follow me as so sets to keep clean, and to from close as my shadow, never-for one moment unwholesome food. The strict enforcement parting company with me. This hope isnot of laws pertaining to physical, no less than a dream. It is based upon the soundest logic moral uncleanness, madeof the Jews‘a se of all the events of the past. This hope is ate and chosen peopleâ€"Without this there the only conclusion to which a man can could have been no healthy root for that pe- me who, looking backward through the culiar mental and spiritual develo ment germs, sees everywhere the marks of mercy, which afterwards blossomed in the suoIimest and mercy alone. Following fast upon the characters and mightiest inspirations of mug of hope, comes the grand vow of the time. » . grateful soul. ‘ I will dwell in the house of God not only visits the sins but the the Lord forever. Here was aJewish mode virtues of the. fathers upon the child- of professing life-long consecration and men of subsequent generations. A clean gratitude. Over and over again in this diet’auda clean skinare absolutely essential sacred psalter of the ancient church comer to the perfect growth of body and soul, and this kind of high, sacred, solemn resolution: the civilization or the religion which has not “ I will pay my vows now in the Lord’s learned this truth has yet to acquire the house in the presence of all His people.” “ first law of nature.” All the various True gratitude is not an act or a series of races and tribes which for thousands of acts, but a life, a disposition. Nota mood, years have merelyexisted, but have not as evanescentas fitful, but a life. The: livedâ€"for to live is to growâ€"have, with- truly grateful man does not . say “ thank out exception, been filthy in their habits. you 1” and there end. But he takes the cup The inde ndence and the elevation of of salvation and binds his very being to that Ireland ' never be realized till the Irish great altar of God, which sacrifices the gives people learn that their priests and their re- and the gift. Binds himself for all the days ligion are powerless to save the souls whose of life. Happy he who so sings and vows. temples are daily damned with dirt, and bad diet, and vile stimulants, and narcotics. And P tea mm d l 1 The Coming Minister. ro tan ' ten om isscarce y ess u - criminal than Catholic in this r t. It In the first place he Will be amen called is doubtful if one regenerate person in ten of God. 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Victims of tion Y Let Jeremiah himself respond : quack medlcmes- , When I spake thus, God’s Word was in We have yet somethin to learn of the mine heart as a burning fire, and I was Jews and of the old .Gree s. Christianity we”. - - a . . . . . . ry With my forbearmg. ‘ Asfiie burns ‘3 P339139 converted to Chmsma‘n “1901193, itself out of its imprisonment, so God’s mes- but 1'3th 391113 °f,th° W01“ of P“ sages burned themselves out into ublic customs! mv°lvm b°d11y filth’ and the eat' utterance. As a bird when filled wit song in? of unale‘m 9:“ acmfula'bree‘fing meats' is compelled for its own relief to our its 1’ ’5 true We lgnore the fine Phy51°91°u1' carol into the air, so the God-ca ed and tum 0f the fluent Greeks! because 1” ms spirit-filled minister is pressed by the very associated with heathen cerfmonies’ but 7° necessity of the comfort toutter the message feasli “PM! the flab °f almsfd “3d 'lls‘ of eternal life to dying men.”â€"-Rcv. David gusting swme, because the animal is sup- Gregg, D_ D. . , . q posed to have been included in Saint Peter’s drgam o): tlie great white:1 sheet. ' (it t eo ogy has muc to say of sins com- ‘ mitted by our first' parents six thousand A MEMORABLE JOURNBY' years ago, but it sheds little or no light upon yetshall be." , Willnotrun dry. Surely goodness V breeding-grounds, the whole of the interest- ' race will soon be exterminated. elf of the sealskin sacques in the world come from these Pribylov islands, lying in Behring sea 200 miles from the main land. The two princi al ones are mere isletsâ€"St. Paul and St. eorgeâ€"each ten or twelve miles long and half as broad. For two months in the summer of each year the Aleuts, or natives, kill seals and skin them; the other ten they lie around in the twi- light, never goin to bed or taking off their clothes night or ay, gossi ing, eating, and getting drunk on quass. 1They eat raven- ously, averaging two pounds of seal meat per day for every man, woman, and child, in addition to vast quantities of other food. Up to last year they took about 100,000 skins a ear, and the United States treasury receive $3 for each skin. In the beneficent or malevolent economy of nature and commerce there are twice as many females as males in the seal commun. ity, so polygamy flourishes In the spring the adult seals come swim- ming back from their mysterious tropical visit, accompanied by a million of the young pu s of the previous summer, and the Pry- y ov islands are very lively once moreâ€" lively and reverberent with roars of anger and of a friendly greeting. Mostly roars of anger, for every male seal is the foreordained enemy of all other male seals, and must defend with his strength and often with his life the position he has assumed on the rocks as his particular se- raglio. Here he gathers his harem, one by one, and here, ina few weeks, the young are born. Some of these bulls exhibit the same desperate courage and insensibility to pain as is shown b the Indian brave who is hamstrung an hauled up to a tree top by (fivering sinews. One was pointed out to t e overment agent who had survived forty or ii ty pitched battles with as many an- tagonists and still held his place, covered with scars and frightfully gushed, raw, fes- tering, and bloody, one eye gorged out, and a fore-flipper torn to ribbons, and yet lord- ing it stubbornly over his harem of fifteen or twenty females huddled admiringly around him. The fighting is mostly done with the mouth. They seize each other with their canine teeth, always leaving ugly, and sometimes fatal, wounds The male seals arrive from the south first, and are followed by the pretty little females some weeks thereafter. The Hon. George lVardmau, the treasury agent at the Priby- lov islands, expresses no 0 inion about the question of more clausum, caving that tobe settled by the secretary of state and the British premier, but he describes this polyga- my in a very lively manner: “The matured male seal when he draws up out of the ocean after a six or eight months’ cruise in waterstous unknown is a ma ificeut sn- imal. Bold, bad, and beautif , he takes a position in May among the basaltic rocks which are washed by the surf in storms, braces his broad cheat upon hisfore-flippers, stretches his heavily maned, glossy, undu- lating neck, throwslhis ' to flie lIvorld. dillpficloses with a hm grow tatsoun 'etwoquartso es rattlin in his throat, while down cor- here 0 his threatening mouth, stockaded with ivory fangs, droop the l u 8"? lines of his aristocratic mustache. are he takes his stand, and here he will meethis expected family or death." In June comes his multitudinous bride. The male for seal is a huge but symmetrical brownish bulk of 600 to 800 pounds. The female is a meek, modest, submissivelook- ing little creature, avaraging about a hun- dred ' ht. She creeps up out of the water wig: a demure, .downcsst counte~ hence, the shining hair neatly brushed back from her pretty little head, and-«u» toyed m a brown sscque. think you 3 Not at all. She 'u a Quakerish looking matron in an un rounding steclgray. but sleek and tidy, wit outa wrinkle in herdress. head aloft, Ind rum forth a hoarse bellow of defiance ttural 5 gettingaway from the railsthe en ' e lou h- ed a track fully 10ft in depth, andgdlfteli)‘ goigng some distance it apparently got on to stony ground, and it again come to the surface, and finished up by getting on the top of the tender, which by this time was minus a wheel or two, and both now lie like a bee. of scrap-iron at a point 30 yards past the em of the rails. During the eregrinations of the engine, after getting c ear of the rails, the two men got pitched right over and quite clear of both engine and tender. » How any of them managed to ESCAPE WITH THEIR LI was is something astonishing. They were all considerably shaken, and Anderson had four teeth knocked out. The police were soon on the spot makin inquiries into the matter. Anderson ho. disap cared, but the others were easily at hol of, and on Monday were brought efore the Procure- tor-Fiscal at Hamilton. He went carefully into the matter, but from the statements made he failed to see any malicious intent in anything that was done, and in conse- quence the three were liberated. \Vilson’s injuries were such that he was unable to be to their sickl offspring, and to those natural laws in the o servance of which we can se- cure _ ysical purity and righteousness. Our schoo s inform us minutely Concerning the heavenly bodies and the sources of rivers, but keep silent about the care of our eaithly bodies, and seldom hint at the sources of health and of disease. printing-press reproduce a. million-fold of every good and bad human thought; we sub- the relations which our “ last ” parents hold The strange Advenmres or " Mimonme' Mr. Alexander De Vieune, a well-known millionaire of Napa. City, California, has re- turned from a European journey which he is not likely soon to forget. Mr. De Vieune came as a passenger in the steerage‘ of the steamship Burgundia, from Naples and Marseilles; in the company of 485 Italian emigrants. His story is a most extraordinary Tl’uI , We M88131?“ people- W6 build one. Itappears that Mr. De Vieune left magni cent cities, tunnel mountains, and Naps. City in September for the purpose of cross continents With railroads ; we bid the makinga trip to Europe, intendin to visit Italy and spend the winter at ice and Monte Carlo. He took with him a few ingots time With lightnin ; We uncOVBI‘, ex' thousand dollars and a letter of credit for an plore and measure thep ets.‘ But with all these vast material achievements, our amount sufficient to cover his expenses while absent. He proceeded to New York, and civilization has not yet risen above the lane sailed of pork and sourkrout-eating, drug-ta ing, tobacco-consuming, whiskey and beer drink- ing. It has not yet comprehended what Moses understood three thousand years ago -â€"that a clean skin and a sweet stomach are the beginning of health and virtue, and that good health is the rock upon which to build up a. humanity sound in mind and morals. Welfare is the outcome of wellness. If we would secure strong, consistent taken to Hamilton. Before the engine can fill-meters: We mu“ im’igomlfe ‘the BhYSica-l be lifted 30 yards of a railway will require ‘ 1'00“? 0f Character: Healthy“ behmd the to be made, or the engine will have to 1,0 beatitudes, and Without it Virtue is aslender taken to pieces. The damage done will be‘ £700 at least. _+__ Pointing To The Road- Though my early home was very plain and my father and mother were plain eople they lived close up to God, and nobo y ever doubted where they went when they died. Oh, I had a glorious starting, and when I think of the opportunities I have had for usefulness, I am amazed that I have done so little ! It is with no feeling of can’t that I express it, but with deep and unfeigned emo- tion before-God. Oh, it is a tremendous thing to stand in a pulpit, or write in such a paper as this Journal said know that a great many people will be influenced by what you say‘or write concerning God, or the soul, or the great future 1 Suppose a man asks of you the direction to acertain lace, and on, through careless- ness, thong tlessly te him the way, and you hear after awhile that he got lost on the mountains, and went over the rocks and perished. “ Oh,” you will say, “ I will never forgive myself that I didn’t take more time with that man ! It was my fault. If I had given him the right direction he would have gone the right way.” And, oh, the greater responsibility of standing in a pul it, or sittin in an editorial chair, and to ' people w ich is the road to Heaven ! Alas, if we tell them wrong! The temptation is so mighty in this do to smooth down the truth, and bush up 6 alarms of the Gospel, and t men on the shoulder, and sing them on own toward the last plunge, and tell them they are all right. Or, as the poet has at itâ€" 0 th down the stubborn textto ears polite, An snugly keep damnation out of sight.” â€"â€"__._.__â€". “ To Live Simply as children of God is to become aware of our higher nature, and to be persuaded that we are not made of perishable studâ€"that we are something quite different from a com- bination of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon. Creation widens into a larger home, as a cheery voice calls out, ‘ In my Father's “ He This little « house are many mansions? . world brightens as one of the countlesse stars ; the horizon expands to infinity ; the svmbolism of boundless time and space lead mind and heart and faith and hope into a la episoe,asifa clear-seem Guide held uargby the hand and invi stock, and heaven on earth the shadow of a dream. The SEngI-ofsees an Austrian physician, formed the subject of a pa or read some time ago at a meeting of the rench Entomological society. He as- serts that a person stung by bees is for a time exempt from the effect of further stinging, and is protected in the same sense that vac- cination gives immunity with regard to small-pox. This protection lasts for six months or less, according to the number of stings received. Songs of the Heart. The song of hope: the vow of gratitude. “ Surely goodness and mercy shall allow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever,”-â€"-Paslm xxiii'., 6. ‘ There are many millions of tolerany well educated people in the world toâ€"day who could not quote a single sentence of the great masters of philosophy of the ancient world, of whom so much is made by certain scholars and teachers. Plato and Socrates, Epictetus and Seneca are after all merely names to g thousands upon thousands who associate with those names the est ideas of won- derful wisdom. But the vast majority of these same millions are perfectly familiar with many songs of Israel’s royal poet. The psalms of David have a firm and prominent place in the world, because the have touch- ed the world's great heart. is Twenty- third Psalm for example is as common as the li ht, or as the air we breathe. All the worl that knows anything, knows the sweet music of that refrain, “ The Lord is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want," Eyes of the minds of men, eyes least accustomed to the imaginative and the artistic 'have seen with that inner eye “ serenely bright" the futures of this song of . grateful praise of 'ving ho . There is soothing to the soulpfn the ve flow of the words. eth me to lie own in_green pas- tures ; He leadcth me beside the still waters.“ What Worlds of rest and peace and silent quiet these aim le words contain! Buttbelastverseis rapsinaome re- ts the sweetest an most musical of all. tie the sum of the whole matter.- The us forth to moral of the song. The crowning gem of share that Presence which is of joy ehs’mred ‘9 Surely and and pleasure forevermore. longer coincern‘ourselves how long live, but how well. And then we know how the «lis‘iples felt when they mulled the weal-mi ta; (rear. Forerunner. ‘ Where I am, then; .u -i.all be also: if “2 my Father “ There could not." says Mr. “'ardman. and your lime: in‘.‘ l'iodand l-nur God. '” Then we no mere ' shall follow me all the we shall l and will dwell in the house of the L0 for- I ye ofm life ever." Here ho stands with flaming torch, lighted at the that all along the path have burned And from that torch castes lendoron' all coming What are all gas THENCE IN A STEAMEB. for Genoa, his trip being as much for his health as for pleasure, and not wishing to visit the northern and colder climates. Ar- Thing in Genoa in October he remained there some days, and made a journey through Italy, visiting Naples, Rome, Venice, 810. After two months of enjoyment of this kind ' he took a. steamer for the south of France, and proceeded to Monte Carlo. Here he settled down for the winter, but one night, soon after'his arrival, while on his way home from the Cosmo, where he had won a consid- 'l‘heDying Words mi. It is Another Tale of Row the Course :3? menu hired Io managesâ€"no- rnech Intensity Eas .Yo Exclusive Territoryâ€"Incidents of mono and Toronto Life. ’ ‘ i A despatch from Toronto says:â€"-The death of Andrew N. Merriam, ' which took place suddenly at 66 Isabella-street on the 2th inst, has brought to light some very startlin‘ g revelation's. This gentleman a peered in Toronto for the first time about our years ago, am‘ has been living in the city on and off ever since. For a time he acted as m or for E. ! Strachan Cox, and subsequently e entered . the firm of Tilt & Co., stockbrokers. whose 1 offices until recent! were in the Imperial i Bank buildings. erriam was a smut, I hearty, handsome man, a ban vivant of the i first order, and a jolly good fellow *euerally. He became acquainted with a goor many of the city’s “bloods,” spent money lavishly on the theatre, cabs, dinners and enjoying all the luxuries of high living. According to the entries in the firm’s books he must have kept up his and pretty well. About, 18 months ago he went to Port Huron and returned with a woman whom he claimed to have made his wife in that cit . The couple took furnished apartments at Isabella~street, and lived sumptuoust up to the/time of his death. ' On the 4th instant be was seized with a fainting fit while on his way to the office. He was confined to his home for a few (la and was evidently recovering, but on t 6 morning of the 12th instant he took a sud- den relapse. A neighboring physician was summoned, but before his arrival Merriam, stretching out his hand as though in great despair, exclaimed : “ God bless my Wife 1" and immediately expired. It is impossible to say whether the woman with whom he was living knew her true position or whether she was deceived. She appears to have acted her part as a wife lovingly and faithfully. She took the bod to Port Huron, where her peo le live, an ‘ laid. it to rest in the family urial plot. There was not the slightest suspicion that any developments would» follow Merriamfa death, but the importance that can be at- tached to his dying words, “ God bless my wife.” On Tuesday a fashionably-dressed lady of prepossessing appearance arrived in town from Chicago and re istered at the St. J auies' Hotel as “ Mrs. A. Merriam, Chicago, Ill.” Yesterday she said that Merriam was born in Lynn., Mass, where his father con- ducts a big boot and shoe factory. He was a shrewd business man and was attracted to Chicago by the excitement and possibilities of a life anion the brokers in that city. He fi ured as the eadin spirit in the firm of F eming, Loring It h erriam, whose business methods attracted the attention of the police, with the result that the firm was given an informal call and Loriug arrested and sen- tenced to one year’s im risonment in the county jails. Fleming an Merriam skipped the town and succeeded in escaping the o ut- ches of the law. Merriam was also connected with the no torious “Fund W,” by which hundreds of Canadians were swindled out of their little ile. P During his stay in Chicago he fell in love with Miss Mary J. Casey, who in spite of her troubles and and experiences, still possesses many of the charms which attracted the young broker. They were married in Chicago May 3, 1882, and the Mrs. Merriam who registered at the St. James’ on Tuesday claims to be none other than the woman who was made his lawful wife. They lived to- gether for a numberof years with all possible domestic felicity, and their home was the scene of many brilliant social gatherings. A few years ago Merriam became acquaint. erable sum, he was waylaid by some ruflians ed with one of the belles of Port Huron, but who had watched his good luck. They rob- the loving wife never suspected that from bed him not only of his winnings but of his that time her husband’s affections were not jewellery, his letter of credit, and other wholly bestowed on her. ‘ A curious observation made by Dr. Terc, Papera' They Stripped him and left him BLEEDING AND IN SE N SIBLE About three years ago Merriam left his cheerful home at the usual hourin the mom- by the roadside where he was found by the 1 ing and started for his office. He did not 3 police some time after. He was taken to a I return m the evemng police station, where his injuries were dress- ed, but as he claimed to have been robbed, which the police refused to believe, he was quickly turned out to find his way back to his lodgings as best he could. Being abso-I lately Without a penny, and being quitlezwas living in Toronto. She came to the l city and found Merriam living with the Port ignorant of the languageâ€"notwithstanding: his French originâ€"Mr. De. Vieune received little sympathy. His landlady kept his wardrobe as security for his bill, but would not allow him to remain in . the house, and - the unfortunate man resolved therefore to go 5 to Nice, where he had some friends. He: started to walk, and en route stopped' several persons, hoping to find SOMEONE SPEAKING ENGLISH, to whom he could tell his story. But his clothes being torn, his face bruised, and his I general appearance most suspicious, he was I regarded as a drunken beggar by those who ' understood him, and all assistance was re- fused. Arriving at Nice he found hisfricuds gone, and he could not get any one to listen to his story, much less believe it. Finally the Nice police arrested him as a tramp, and as his explanations were unsatisfactory, l and he was without letter or paper roving his identity, he was not believed? The judge lau had at his story of the robbery and gave im a month's imprisonment for alleged begging and having no means of ; support. e served his term, and, having been liberamd, trumped to Marseilles where l he called upon the American Consul, who! l month up and upon inquiry it was learned that he had left the city. For two years and a half his wife could not get the slightest trace of his whereabouts. Abouts six months-ago, by the merest acci- dent, she learned that her runaway husband Huron lady. She cousequently ut her case I in the hands of J. G. Holmes, 0 the firm of Best & Holmes, barristers, Victoria-street. Mr. Holmes succeeded in getting $350 from Merriam, for his client, together with an agreement to the effect that $22.50 should be paid to the wife. monthly. Merriam car- ried out the agreement strictly up to the time of his death, as the following letter will show : Mrs. ill. J. Merriam, 42 East Harrison street, Chicago, 111.: DEA?- MADAM.-â€"We herewith enclose you sight draft on New York for $22.50 being monthly payment from A. N. Merriam. (Signed) BEST & Hlpiinss. h The a cuts were sent re r see p wile the time of his dflth. yMrs. Merriam has been living very quiety at the above address and when she heard of her husband’s death all her womanly tenderness and powers of forgiveness were aroused, and she came back to the city to claim the body of the man who had so cruelly wronged her. She found that the body had already been taken to Port Huron and buried and that not a dollar’s worth of real or personal pro- shipped him home in the steersge of the'perty was left for her. Burgundia. Patriotic Canadian Song- Thou h other skies may be as bright, And other lands as fair ; Though charms of other cliines invite My wandering footsteps there, Yet there isone, the peer of all Beneath bright heaven’sdome ; Of thee I ' , 0 ha y laud, My ownmguadiaflome. Did kindly heaven aflord to me The choice where I would dwell, Fair Canada that choice should be, Thelandllovei‘liowell. d ‘ “ Iloveth hillsau valley-xvi e, Thy wiser-3’ flash and cam ; May God in love o’er thee preside, Mr "V W home. a. Mrs. Merriam is very anxious that a truthful statement of the affair should be made public, and that her social position in Chicago, where she has a host of friends, may not be affected by her husband's faith- lessness. She says that when she heard of Merriam's dying benediction. “ God bless my wife 1" she immediately forgave the wrong he did her, and she had the greatest sympathy for the poor woman who was livin with him at the time of his death and w o no doubt was the victim of cruelrdcccption. Ho Invidious Distinctions. “ Do you consider this piano any more re- liable than the others because it's upright?” inquired the caller. “ No, sir,” answered the dealer. “ These other! are per’ectly square.’ ” ._ t- « . “Mum m.» , ... 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