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LOST FOR HALF CENTURY VESSEL SENT IN SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. Strange Story of the Investigator â€" She Has Been Found and is Seaworthy. A story of the greatest interest is told by The London Daily 'l'elegranh COl'lCCI‘IIIIIlg the reappearance of the tong-lost II. M. S. hivestigalor. “In the autumn of 1851 her Majesly‘s ship In- vestigator was frozen 'in the ice in "The Bay of God's Mercy,’ in the far north, while cndoavoring to find traces of Sir John Franklin and his courageous com- panions," says The Telegraph. “Now all the memories of those anxious,_ he- roic times have been once more. revrved 'Cy the report that whalers have found the abandi’mcd Ship. and hope it. may be possible to free her from. the ice- grip after the lapse of fiftyusux years. Our New York correspondent has sug- gested that the old man-oi-war may even be sufficiently sound to be. naVigat- cl across the Atlantic to her old home country. PACKED IN THE FROZEN NORTH. “Packed away .in the frozen north, she has been practically in a refriger- ator. maintaining her youth and the stout heart of her vcnera‘ble timbers, while in loss frigid zones the world has been getting older and older; sails have been superseded by steam; wood has been replaced by steel; the old salt of Captain Marryat's novels has-had to make way for the modern sailor-me- chanic. In the lore of the sea every- thing has changed since her Majestys ship Investigator began her long rest in the ice. If she is really rescued she will be the Rip Van Winkle of the world’s fleets. She will need to be re- fitted, of course, at some Canadian or other British port on. the other side-of the Atlantic. and then, under sail, With the White Ensign and the Union Jack battling with the breeze, she should make her furrow once more across the water to her longâ€"lost home. “Practically all who sailed in her have gone, though Admiral Sir Vesey Hamilton, who was the mate of the companion ship Assistance, is still alive to tell the story of the struggle with tit-’- elemenls over fifty years ago. The investigator was commanded by one of the heroes of Arctic exploration â€"â€" the late Vice-Admiral Sir Robert John" Le iMcsurier McClure, who was born at Wexford fifteen months after the bat- tle of Trafalgar. IN SEARCH OF FRANKLIN. “In 18% he was offered and accept- ed an appointment as first lieutenant in her Majesty's ship Investigator â€"â€" the. Rip Van Winkle of the British fleet. She had been purchased t'rom the merchant service, and was about to leave England to make the first of many efforts to pierce the veil which bid from the world‘s view all traces of Sir John Franklin and his compan- ions. England at the moment was in a fever of nervous excitement; all eyes were on the pathetic but courageous , figure of Lady Franklin, hoping against hope and prepared to risk her all on the faint. chance of rescuing her hus- ‘band and his daring party “from death, or at least. finding some traces of them. Sir James Clark Ross was the captain of her Majesty’u ship Investigator. This ofiiccr, his first icutenant and Admiral Si" Leopold McClintock, one of his most daring assistants, have all passed away. The Investigator, in company with the EnterpriSc, went out 'by way Cf Lancaster Sound, and. w-intercd _at Leopold Island, near the northeast. point of North Devon. The two ships made a fruitless search, and in the fol- lowing year came back. LAST VOYAGE TO THE NORTH. "By this tune the Government and the whole nation were in a Condition of reckless determination to solve the mystery; it had to be solved. Plans for a, renewed effort were immediately settled. Captain Collinson was given the command. with the Enterprise as the senior officer’s ship, and McClure, who had shown himself well fitted for the post by his resourcefulness and en- ergy. was given the command of the companion vessel, the old Investigator. The expedition also included the As- sistance. in which Admiral Ilan‘rilton served. and the Resolute; but the lat- te" ships had a more or less indepen- dent commission, under Captain Aus- tin; they were to search the Barrow Strait. Our concern is with McClure, and the. Investigator and Enterprise. The vessels sailed from Plymouth on January 20, 1850, and since that event- ful day no one in England has cast eyes on the former little man-of-warâ€" ~ Because your ¢ ¢ 0 l l ¢¢¢¢¢0¢¢¢¢9¢¢¢¢¢¢@¢9¢ That hacking cough continues your powers of resistance weakened. Take Scott' It builds up and strengthens your entire system.‘ ‘ It contains de Liver Oil and Hypophosphites so prepared that it is easy to take and easy to digest. ' ALL DRUGGISTS: 50c. AND $1.00 ¢¢§©6¢0¢¢¢¢Q©fififiéfi©fififiéé she is only of 500 or 600 tons displace- ment. BAY OF GOD'S MERCY. “Ultimately the Investigator was forc- ed. into what provedto be half a con- tury's banishment in an inlet on the northern shore of Bamks" Land. Mc- Clu-rc had been So buffeted about that he accepted this fate with some amount of satisfaction. because his lot might have been worse. In the feeling of re- lief he named the inlet ‘tho Bay of God's Mercy,’ and there the Investigator has lain, absolutely frozen up, undergoing a process of refrigeration for upwards ef half a century. “From September, 1351, until the fol- lowing summer the frozenâ€"up ship was McClure-"s hcadi‘juarlcrs. At laSt the situation began to assume. a grave as- pect. Food was running short,' and the crew were suffering from illness. There was no prospect of relief. MC. Clurc at length decided that he had no course but; to abandon the little vessel lo'her fate, and seek safety for himself and his companions, if such were to be found anywhere in these si- lcnt wilds. TI 1 E CRE\V It BSCUED. “He had come to this determination when Lieutenant Redford Pan appeared on the scene by chance. He had come across from the Resolute, which by this time had got into Melville Sound. McClure found all his doubts come to life once more. ills hopes were cen- tred on waiting to save the Investiga- tor, and he thought of getting stores fnom the Resolute, and seeing the in- cident out to a finish. Before coming to a final decision. he went across to the Resolute, where he conferred with Captain Kclfett. 13y thT's time the ill- ness ani-ong his men had increased, and he had no «alternative. but to leave the Investigator to her fate, and con- “?i’ his men across the ice to t Re- solute. “Thus it came about that the Investi- gator was left in the ice pack, while her captain and crew look passage in the Resolute. They were afterwards transferred to the North Star, and reached England on September 28, 1851-. after an absence of four years and eight months. It was an eventful voy- age. and now the homeâ€"cmning of the Ii'ivcsligalm‘, after half a century, will [move an appropriate sequel to the dis- covery of the Northwest Passage." â€"r£< IIOVV RINK-KILLERS ARE KILLED. L nu “v 'I'hc Dreadful Fate Which Some of Them Undergo. Those amongst the assassins of the late King of Portugal and his son who fell victims to the s:lbrcs and bullets of the soldiiei‘y and police were lucky. For even in these hununanitarian days the lot of the rcgicide, when caught, is not usually a very enviable one. To be hanged is the least he can expect. Perpetual solitary imprisonment is a far more dieadful fate. it drove Bresci, to suicide; tlll'ld it has transformed I .uc- chini, who murdered the. Empress of Austria, into a hopeless imbecile. Amongst the plotters implicated in the murder of the late Shah of Persia, one was tortured to death in. prison, while another was focused in wet plas< [tor-of-paris, which, on setting, slowly crushed the life out of him. Three of the assasins of a previous Shah were boiled alive in huge copper cauld'rons. So late as the year 1831, the two .Mavroinichaelis, who slew Count Capo dlstria, the first president of Greece, were immured with close ‘brick walls, built round them up to theirchins, and supplied with salted food (but no drink) until they died. Damiens, who attempted the life of King Louis X\'., was first barbarously tortured, and then torn to pieces by wild horses. This awful punishment was publicly carried out. in one of the principal squares of Paris no longer ago than March 28th, 1757. Ravailac, who assassinated Henry IV'. of France, suffered a similar fate. The murder of Selim III. of Turkey was publicly impaled. lingering five and a half days in dreadful torment. Those who did to death his immediate suc- tccssor, Itiusta-pha IV.. were tortured and starved on alternate days, and dc- prived of steep by night, until death came to their relief. .__..._.!._'_.__._ THE WAY WITH HER. 'l‘here's just no use in talking, \thn a woman starts to cry She can have Iii-est any bauble That a pile of gold can buy, if she desired the ocean And it melted into tears Some chap would try to scoop it up If it look a million years! Make a. noise like a dollar bill and the world will give. you the glad hand. .__._ A woman seldom laughs at a man’s jokes unless she has an axe to- grind. l system is exhausted and “finfl'éfl'éd' J‘ EmaIJion. @ޢ$@@ the assassin of King Humbert of Italy,‘ MW .. .â€"-&L.’1‘. ...::_â€";-w.~wm«.m iAuxsuenwumwna iN THE REALMS OF ANTIQUITY. (By A. Banker)» - To those to whom the. mighty past [presents greater attractions than the less refined. and class'c utilitarianism of- the present day, Athens, the cradle of aesthetic architecture, and the birth- place of chaste and graceful statuary and ornate design. far surpass-es any other capital of Europe in interest and in real fascination. Here the visitor is in the midst. of the. sublimcst creations of man which the world has ever seen â€"-not massive and vast. as the stupend- ous pyramids of Egypt; not gorgeoust embellished with all manner of prod"- ous stones and overlaid with solid gold as S-ijdomon‘s temple at Jerusalem; not. in en deCorated with elaborate mosaics a= some of the old Roman masterpieces of structural art, but erections of the supremcst and the most exquisite re< t’mcmcnt and elegance of design. , First ascending to the summit of the Acropolis, a Conical hill near the cen- tre oi the city, the visitor is at once transferred into the. realms of anti- ijuity. Ilere the picturesque minatu-re temple, the Ercchtheum, with its portico of the Caryatides. known the WOl‘id ever, and when imitated in modern buildings giving a distinctive grace and artistic charm; here the handsome lem- plo of Victory; and here, its superb and lofty marble columns towering up- wards and standing in bold relief against the wonderful azure of the Grecian sky. the magnilmcnt temple of Minerva, doubtlessâ€"with possibly the one exception of the great temple of Diana of the Ephesians-the sublimcst specimen of the purest classic art ever erected on this earth. Iut alas! the dc- scendants of those vulgar barbarians who stripped the Pyramids of their marble casing to 'build their palaces, with an cqual savage vandalism direct- ed their cannon against this priceless monuman of the past, and unhappin achieved the disgrace of irrelrivably damaging it, the cruel rents made by their projectiles still bearing witness to their lasting dishonor. And at various points in the city are other fine relics of Grecian art; the splendid Temple of 'l'hescus, still hap- rpily in perfect r‘pair, built immedi- ately after the great victory of Mara- thon. which it. comiii-cinoratcs; the Temple of the winds: the amphitheatre. the names of the stallholdrrs inscribed on the marble seals still legible; with many another witcworlhy and hand- some erection. llut to some, surpass ing them all in interest, is the Aren- pagus, or Mar's Illll. For on this rock- pulpit at the foot of the Acropolis the great Apostle to the Gentiles preached. xiiihrist. crucified, showing the old Greeks the folly of worshipping an “unknown God,” and convincing many of them that. by suffering that ignomtnious death Ile, the the punishment due by us in our stead. Rcdeemer, was bea rin g And that Atonement still avails for all who will. gm BABY’S TEETHIIIG TIME IS A TRUUBLUUS TIME \V’hen baby is teething the household is upset. The tender gum-s are inflamed and swollen, the poor little child suffers and often Cries day and night, wearing the mother out and keeping the rest of the family on edge. In the homes where Baby’s Own 'I‘ablcls are used there is no such wor- ry. Tho Tablets allay the inflamma- tion. sooth the irritation and- bring the teeth through painlessly. Mrs. S. \Vil- liams, St. Joseph, Ont., says: “My first baby suffered terribly when cutting her teeth and the doctor could do nothing for her. I got a box of Baby's Own Tablets and they did her so much good that I cannot say enough in their favor. You may be sure. that. I always keep the Tablets in the house now." Sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 250. per box from The Dr. Williams’ Medicine (10.. Brockville, Ont. __..___.rX¢.__...___ HOUSE RENT IN PERU. A Traveller’s Experience Willi Too Many Landlords. In a village on the upper Maranon, in Peru, Mr. C. some weeks in a thatched- adoblc house on the bank of the river. In “The An- des' and the Amazon" he recalls certain amusing facts regarding his stay. I hired the place, writes Mr. Enock, at the not exorbitant rental of twenty cean .per week, which amount I hand. ed to the owner on receiving the key. I had just had it well swept out, my baggage installed and travelling cot put up, and was enjoying full posses sion of the premises, when a wrathful scnora appeared and asked my servant by what right I was there. It transpired that she laid claim to the ownership of the place. saying that the person to whom I .paid the rent was an imposilor, who had absolutely no right to the house at all. Weary, at length, of tho volublc argu- ments of the woman. who went back into the remote history of the village to prove her claim. I hit upon the simple method of getting rid of her by paying her the amount of the rent. the disput- ed twenty cents. in full; but I took the -1'u'ecaution to obtain a‘rcccipt this time. The dame having departed. I again ’lay back in my Cut. and was just fal- ling into a siesta when more \vralhful voices aroused me. Behold! three other wmncn and a man were laying claim in 112-" house. and its rent. and were only prevented from entering by the know- ledge that the patron was asleep with- W ._._... ..__.._._ ~___.._ .. ilil as my men iufvuuned them. and Isl-cop is much respected among these , .p-‘-o.pli-. f This was really too much, and I sent whole little R. Enock stayed for - l a Fire, Liéhtniné . W Rust and StormProof Durable and Or :1 amental let us know the size of any reef you are thinking of covering and we will make you an interesting otter. Metallic Beating tie. Limltod LIANUFACTUBERS LVWVt‘fiL'IBÂ¥W;’)hVFdfi; ‘ -ii'...'\'x(|31.5 -. huntnmmrsimwvmawm 35‘ my boy for the Gobcrnador. After much sitting of evidence, it appeared that the last claimants, the man and his three cousins, held probably the most likely right to title; and to get rid of the whole affair, I again produced a twentyâ€"cent coin, and deposited it, tem- porarily in the keeping of the Guberna- dor. until such time as a judicial de- cision on his part should he arrived at. This particular house afforded me yet another incident. Wishing to encourage habits of cleanliness and decency among my men. I had, upon leaving, given orders that the place should be thoroughly swept out and cleared of the litter of departure of my men and bag- gage. and went. on ahead. When the arricro and my servant joined. me I in- quired if my instructions had been car- ried out. and saw by their answers that such had not been the case. Forth- wilh I ordered a right-about-lurn, and the village was shortly astonished at our re-arrival. I set the men to work. and bad the place left in thorough or- der. whilst the villagers crmvded round wonderingly. “lx’i’imvf' I said, grandiloqucntly. “that an Englishman always leaves a house cleaner when he goes away than when he entered it.1 â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€",x‘.__â€"_ \\'II.\'I' SAVED 'I‘IIIZ MISSIONARIES Had to Make Soap in Order to Stay in Madagascar. The introduction of Christianity into heathen countries has been more or less closely connected with trade and Ihl.“ arts of civilization. The government has often been keenly alive to the ad- vantage of science but hostile to relig- ious teaching. Such was the case in Madagascar fifty years ago, as is told in the pages of Rev. \V. E. CAIIISIH'S brok. “Madagascar of 'l‘o-day.” Queen Ranavalona was beginning to ftel uneasy about the growing influence at foreign ideas, and wished to get rid of the missionaries. She sent some of- ficers to carry her message. The mis- sonaries were gathered together to meet the. queen's messengers. and were told that they had been a long time in the country and had taught much. but that it was now time for them to think of returning to their native land. The missionaires, alarmed at this n‘iessage. answered that they had only begin) to teach srme of the elements of knowledge. and that much remained to be imparted. They mentioned sundry branches of education, among which were the Grch and Hebrew languages. which had already been partially taught t) some. The messengers returned to the queen, and soon came back with this answer: “The queen does not care much for Greek and Ilcbrew. Can you teach something more useful? Can you. for example, teach how to make soap?" This was an awkward question to ad- dress lo theologians, but after a mo- ment’s .pausc Mr. Griffiths turned to Mr. Cameron and asked him whether he could answer it. “Give me a week," said Mr. Cameron, and the week was given. At its close the queen‘s messengers again met the missionaries, and Mr. Cameron was able to present to them a bar of tOIOI‘dvbly good white. soap. made entirely from n‘iatcrials found in the country. This was an eminently satisfactory answer. and the manufacture of soap was forth- with introduced. and is still continued to the present day. although no 0110' would new venture to call the soap “white.” As a, result. of making this bar of Soap the mission gained a respite of about. five years, during which time the queen still tolerated the presence and teaching of the missionaries for the sake of the material advantages derived from the work of the artisans: and it. was during these years that the first church- es were further]. and the Christian rc- ligion began to take deep root among the people. _.,!‘ BEST SURI’I‘I'I‘U’I‘E. “Tmnmy Tuffl' cried the teacher. vrrely. “why did you chalk your name on this new desk?" “I had for," replied 'l‘on'uny. “I ain't got no ,pcnknife tor carve it wid.’ Earning money is one thing and ac- quiring itis quite another. The man with a boil on the back of Its neck derives no pleasure from scanâ€" ring the heavens for alisbij‘s. l. {rise to power would seem originally l to have been due. ? fus’t against the creamy compositiop with which the rest of her face has been coated. A huge mirror is then rolled to the couch upon which the source of PEN SKETCH OF EMPRESS INFORMATION ABOUT CHINA'S GREAT LEADER... a i‘. The Dowager Empress is Physical \Vrt‘rk. But Retains Brightness of Mind. .Ic-day the Dowager Empress of [.hma IS a physical wreck, but her .-mind retains “not only its 'wc-nted subb lcty, but sprightliness" which she still puts into her niuclradmired clugics. 'l’lic Dowager Empress is descended Eu unbroken succassion from the founâ€" der of the oldest Manchu family known to genealogists. Ilcr features were al- ways chaiaactei-istically 'l‘artar. - Iler beauty is a tradition loâ€"day. but. au- ihcnlic accounts of it. show that in her youth the Empress Dmvager was tall, black-haired, largeeycd, finely formed. Such traits made her available as a third-class wife for the son of heaven, in disténction she shared with eighty other women of about her own age. Tel 11311 became the mother of a fine toy and thus earned promotion to the status of a more or less lawful wife. The reigning Empress failed to present her lord with a son. Ills Majesty died, tie son of Tsi [1311 was the only avail- able heir, a regency undertook the gov- ernment, and at; last, by a flat defiance of tradition that set all Chinese experi- once at naught, Tsi IIsu herself un- dertook to rule the country. SPANKED SON OF HEAVEN. She has done it ever since. She had married her meek little son to a meek- er girl of twelve. But when her own power seemed assured, the source of all of it, her Son, died suddenly. In the emergency she set up Kwang-Ilsu, then lhrc-o years old. 'l‘si I~Isu had to snatch the tiny creature. from his sleep and hurry with him into the Council- rhamber. . Every timc the nominal Sovereign v_.ulgrew his docilin he was soundly spanked. To this very day, it is hint- co. he is liable to corp-oral punishment whenever the slate of her Imperial Mil- jcsty's health warrants so much excr- lion. Indeed, the wife of the son if heaven said to have been slapped into meekness by the Empress l)0w~ ager, whose authority both in and out of the domestic circie has always been based upon the theory that to spare the rod is to spoil the dynasty. llOUGlSD EVERY MORNING Tsi fish has always been extremely din of the good looks to which her The cosmetical ta- cilitics of her palace to-day afford an louilzxt for the beautifying energies of no less ll'ltl'll nine young ladies of the lune-rial suite. llcr Majesty roughed nery morning regularly after break- until her cheeks flame delicately i all power in China rcclines. 'l‘si Ilsu studies the effect of the labors of her ycung ladies so critically that it. is said to be necessary occasionally to nouge her twice or thrice before the technique of the operation quite realizes the im- icrial ideal. The monotony is made less tedious by song. the narration of court gossip, and not infrequent appli- cation of her Majesty‘s rattan cane to sensitive surfaces. The pen-cilling of the eyebrows and eyelashes has had to be abandoned, if we may trust French sources of infor- mation, owing to the growing weak- ness of the old lady’s sight. But the lips continue to be earmincd. The {slightly stubborn growth of hair my chin and upper lip is dealt with after the fashion of those western artists who obliterate blaCk eyes by the application of heavy paint. LONG FINGERNAIIS. No attack of illness could be too sc- vcre to justify the slightcd. omission of cosmetical dealil by ill? several inn.- (5 concerned with the Empress Dow- agcr’s tollict. Though 'l'si llsu be so I” that her day must lte spent in bed, She. is rougcd,‘penc'.'llml and massaged on the. flat of her back. She emerges fiom her toilet looking “perfectly na- tural." Iler appearance, even in the severe stage of the recent. paralytic spell, was that of the “bloon'iing mat- ron" in “an autumnal glory of enchantâ€" ing womanhood." To a critical western eye, the complexion of T-si Ilsu would f-CCtlil “greenish.” But. that coloration renders a fc-n‘ilnine cuticle all the more seductive to the Manchu eye, 'l‘si llsu being Manchu herself to the lips of her extremely long finger-nails. Iler Ma- jrsly wears pcculiarly-contrived gloves in bed. not, as has been inferred, for the ibsautification of her supple, delicate hands, but for the preservation of that unparal’lel’e: length to which her fin- ger-nails have attained. The nail-s \Vi‘l break at times, the phenomenon per- in her Majesty‘s opinion, a cata- tond'ing, _ the country.-â€"Curr-ent Litera- mity to lure. _.~â€"-â€"â€" ~>1a “Bridget,” said the mistress of the house. “some of the ’bcd-lincn is misâ€" \Vns any of it left on the. line?" sing. I “.\Iolh.cr." cried her little daughter, “I know whore it is. Father‘s got it." “\\'hat do you mean. child?" “I heard some of the neighbors say this morn- ing that they saw fullicr last night with three hllicls in the wind!" ' A man in'vcr bz’irl'mvs the scab-.4. of justice for the purpose of weighing the slit.~r'.comings of hs ne‘glnmr.