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«f’i . Elites ii LINDSAY. MEDICINE SENT ANYWHERE BY MAIL. Conquers NY-AS-SAN {I} all Skin “Mention this Paper when W'riting." dire Gaussian gust. FRIDAY, FEB. 4t. , â€"# To CLARENCE. 1998. 8 may be the years are all somber and dark, But the clohdo will, sometime. drift away, mime eunli ht of glsdnm o out fro the blue For you, brother, sometime, some day. t the thorns are not somewhere about it. And into each life some shadow must como. 13o life is oomplote without it. Then keep a brave been as the bottle goes on. Remembering ever, alway, fiat for every night or . and blight '3 be given a bright. glad day. .igrrht Wcrceotor in Good Housekeeping. 1 ,f TRIAL BY FIRE. There are colonels and majors and generals and some old captains who i hold that Isabel Hampden was the most attractive woman who ever graced the frontier, and in their time most women uemed attractive because of their scarci- ty. She was handsome and accomplish- I ed and clover and something more than all t‘se which was inexplicable, but very potent. She had been brought up in garrisons and large cities, and by the time she was two and twenty she knew, the world rather well. Moreover, she knew menâ€"not girls and women, but men. Because she had been allowed to live in posts during most of what should have been her boarding school days and because she was pleasant to look upon and to converse with at an age when most girls are impossible, men had fall~ en in love with her pretty much ever since she could remember. It was said that she had refused all the bachelors in all the frontier re imente. This was not far from the trut . A woman who had married one of the rejected ones said that refusing was a habit Miss flampaen had formed, and that it be 3: $9101? :5 if she mi htnever brak horse 0 it. In the store 0% things this Was re steel to the girl. temper we one of her charms. so much better a habit than accepting them all,” she argued sweetly. Never- theless, she wondered if there were not some truth mingled with the malice. But Lieutenant Loring was the last victim of her practice. He proposed to her, unfortunately for himself, just after she had met young Ardsloy. “I thought this morning that maybe I would marry you, ” said Miss Hamp- den. “But I’ve changed my mind some way.” Loring was accustomed to a great deal of frankness from her, but it clashed with his notions of feminine modesty for a woman to have entertained thoughts of marriage before the odor thereof. “ Weren’t you just a trifle prompt in determining my intentions?” he asked. “Has the event proved me wrong?” she returned. He lost his temper. spoiled, ” he said. “If you knew how often I have heard that! Yet I do not think I am. I am simply sincere, and you are a little too vain, all of you, to grasp the difl‘erence. I like you awfully wellâ€"no, now, don’t I misunderstand me. I don‘t love you, and you are too nice r. married to a girl who is}; l“~'- you. No,” she repeated, “1 do not this; I’m spoiled. I am not agitated and tearful as I ought to be, perhaps, under the circumstances. I used to be, but I’ve passed that. I have been so placed that men were making love to me at an age when other girls were pinyin} with dolls. It’s partly because I am pretty and partly, lgrgoly, because there are so few I was ' A The ilyassan Medicine Co. Tmro, 18.1 I “You are Th is never a rose so fragrant and fair, ; x fellow to be women ' t here. When I have been in the east, _ havgn‘t made much of, a son- sation. I’Ve grewn a bit hardened, per- “ git? has dulled the ed o-â€" _ (gully keen and outtin ' at g; _. told that I am breaking a heat;- ut‘though I am only 22 I’ve lived o dozens of you marry and be happ . ou'll do the same. ” ' “ h, no, I shall not!” moaned Lor- ing. “Oh, yes, you will, Jack, and I shan’t mind! Now I've promised to dance this with the now Mr. Ardsley, and if we stay out here any longer every one will guess what has happened. ” “They’ll know when they see me.” “Don’t be a goose, Jack. It’s only the heart that is trying to take itself sori- ' ously that exhibits the pain.” “Don’t discuss a subject you know 1 nothing about. You have no heart. ” He left her with an exaggerated bow as you? Ardsley came up. ' As in Hampdon waltzed of! with Ardsley she know that Loring was wrong; that this tall boy, fresh from West Point, as new in experience of the l world as the brass buttons on his blouse, was the man she was going ‘to love. He would love her, of course. It is to be feared that it did not enter her head that he might not. She liked his strong, rouh out face, and his jolly, stone ' Biliousnes 13 caused by torpld liver, which prevents digop- Lion and permits food to ferment and puts!!! in the stomach. Then follow dizziness, headache, oodb; lnsomina, nervousness, and, . ‘ if not relieved, bilious fever or blood poisoning. Hood’s I s Pills stimulate the stomach, ma “9° carcassme ' e . Thecmg'rlllstotakewithfiooegs ‘ gray eyes, and his dra'wling, heavy voice, and his waltzing, and the way he held her. After the dance she deter- mined that she liked his hands, and when she looked at them she saw a ring. “In that your class ring?” she said. “Yes,” he told her. “May I see it?” He gave it to her, and while she ex amined it beast and admired her. On his part he liked the women who car- ‘ ried themselves haughtily; he liked tall women; he liked straight black hair and olive skin and dark eyes and large features and a neck of statuesque pro- portions. In short, he liked exactly the things he had never fancied up to then. Miss Hampdon raised her eyes and met his. She -iled, but it was like no smile she had ever bestowed on a man before. He looked at her very gravely, and her hand closed tightly over the ring. In a moment she was studying it again “I like this. It’s unusual,” she said. “I am glad you think so, as I con- ceived the design.” He expected to be told that he Was clever. "Indeedi” was all she said, and that indifferently. PHow cool! I rather thought you'd express surprise m give mp some cred- it. You are not addicted to flattery, it would seem. ” “I am not. But I don’t think it would have been flattering to be sur- prised that you have done it. It struck me as being quite the thing you would naturally do. ” “That is very pretty.” ”It is perfectly true.” ' It happened oddly enough that Ardso ley chanced not to have heard 'of Mi, Hampden’s reputation by the next night. 3o was rudely awakened to a knowledge it. There were private theatricals 1n the hoproom, and Miss Hampden Was the leading lady. Now the suitor was quite recovered, and he meant to play a joke on those in the audience who were notâ€"and these were some eight or ten, three of them married. He proposed to the heroine in nicely read lines (1 was rejected by her with a perfectio that s oke her ractice. So the agdience thougEt, and it laughed. Whhn the Ian It had subsided, the hero arcs, grep hisinees. He walked to the footlights and sighed. "Ah, well,” he said, “I have 0 crumb of comfgrtâ€"J an: not the chi man in this place who is in the sam‘e fix!” The astounded Ardsley locked about him, and he picked out the entire num- her by their faces. Miss Hampdcn dropped her head in her hands and laughed with the rest. Between the acts Ardsley in do in- quiries and learned the truth. e was bitten with a desire to obtain the unfit. tainable, and he was not one to dally. He went behind the scenes. “Whom are you going home with, Miss Hampden?” hp asked. “I fear no one will take 9 after the light Mr. Graves has put e in.’ “May I do so?” She 230““, and Ardsley went back to his s 1:. “So you have refined the entire army?” he asked as ‘ey walked home. “Not quite.” “$9 entire department?” “ ell, a fair percentage of it,” she knitted- “I”! you going to refuse me?” " can’t say until you are ofiered. ” ”I bier myself now.” “And I accept you ow. " “Good enough. ill you announce our engagement tonight at supper?” “At the risk of being adjudged in- saneg-yes. ” “Put on this ring until I can get you gothor. Your hands are not all. It will fit your middle finger. ow I am in earnest.” “So am I,” she sgid. They were very much in earnest, the event proved, and the garrison derived unmixed leasure from the total, un- conditione , obvious surrender of Miss Hampden. She was as open in her in- fatuation as she had always been in ev- erything else. And Ardsley was equally infatuated. He took back the class ring and gave her a diamond which cost him three months' pay. They were altogeth- gr happy. So, just a fo ' ht before the day nrran 9d for thoir w . ding, the g" dyna- ed the first paym'eht on th leap. Ard 6 was ordered of! on a scout. ‘ 53!)an ins the sort of g l w on ht bpve been expected to take this ‘ fiebly. But she did not. She clung to A eley ens cried 1‘ o any n:- t e girl an did n’ot belt 6o ' giggles-t like aonn who bi sé'eh .. £5: scouts. An she let him go to the ‘ the: "adingwnh he: ant: _ e all and her end it her arm, sobbin as if her heirt w u‘tter- ly broh . e himself was moV'fi and stern. Lorigg would h. e m to re. mind he: that hearts, ‘0 _rogl_ly g duct enema risers. Hehad not lathe.” a, Attica: did not come back from Mt Was in a fight on bet” sh hue beehiswedding dfi. tho-ow killed and their bodies were «do: . and buried, but Ardsloy’s «es soy. or found. Therewasatgle ' a had been seen on the :ttlefield _ night after the once“ , in 'e midst of the fire a tFeowi-go fk which might have been that of a min against it. There werepaghus grouped around it. Miss Ham never heard the story. She never even guessed at what had happened until 80 years after- ward. She was the superb and spiritloee wife of a mighty general, and she was ac- companying her husband on a tour of inspection in the west. Thoyworost an agency one day and were visiting the tepees. It was the agencyof the Indians that young Ardsley had fought twa decades before, and the general’s wife was nerving herself not to show that she remembered this. The general was examining the trim hots that hung on a string around the neck of a half blind squaw. “Hero is a West Point class ring!” he exclaimed His wife repeated her words of 20 years past. “May I see it?” she asked coolly. She took it in her hands and turned it about. She could make out the de- sign. though it seemed to have passed through some heat that had melted it. There was no doubt in how mifd. Nev- ortheless she looked in ' e. be hgat had not afiected itth , and the ini- tials were quite plain ev yet. “D. A,” she said. “ t was David Ardsley’s ring. The fire did not touch the letters. I understand now why they never could tell me which was his ”7..” e string Ed mm o The general books risked up the ole-arias 'trolley wires and by V streugt scattered baubles. The new waim tering and whining and c wing around on the earth. The general hold the ring out to his wife. She raised the dark eyes that had been so bright and happy the last time it had been held out to her. “Can I have it?” she asked. The general put it in her hand, and the hand closed over it. “Thank you, " she said.â€"Gwendolen Over-ton in San Francisco Argomut SHERIFF AND DEPUTIES Charged With Shooting and Killing 22 Miners at Wilkesbarre, Wilkesbnrre, Pa., Feb. 2.â€"..\’ot since the trials of the Molly Maguims has a case excited so much interest in the coal regions as that of Sherifl Martin and his 82 deputies, which began in the Luzerne County Court yesterday. ~ Sherifi‘ Martin and his 8:? deputies are charged with shooting and killing 22 striking miners and wounding over 50 more at Lattimer, this county, on Sept. :mber 10)h, 1897. Railroad Tramc Blocked-Hundreds of Dead Horses Lying in the Streets of Boston. Worcester, Mass, Feb. 8.â€"At seven minutes to 12 yesterday communication with Boston was established by telephone with the Gazette office in this city, via Fitchburg. Boston is completely blocknded. Only two or three street cars are running on Washington street and railroad commu~ nicotion is practically cut 03. Over two hundred horses were killed by falling exhaustion last night, and their carcasses arelying in the streets. most of them being on Tremont and Washington streets, and in East Bos- ton. No fatalities or accidents to people have been reported up to noon. The rail- roads nre blockaded and the trains which left the city last night are stalled. Re- ports from all points heard from unite in telling of the deep snowfall and high winds. The Boston streets, with the exception of Washington and Tremont, which are partially cleared, are impassable for per destinns and barges have been put in service to accommodate traffic. MRS: ORR’S MURDERER Suffers the Extreme Penalty of the Law for His Crime of the Morning of June 9 Last. Berlin, Feb. 4.â€"Jamcs Allison, who four weeks ago today confessed that be murdered Mrs. Emma Orr on the farm of her husband nczir Gult on the 9th of June last, died a felon's death at 8 o’clock this morning. The hanging was what is called a closed hanging. The scaffold was com- pletely boarded in. the platform on which the condemned boy stood being about ten feet from the ground. He ascended a flight of stops to the platfrom and disap- peared from view. The black cap was put on and the noose arranged outside. Then as he stepped on the platform the bolt was shot, the trap fell and Allison dropped through. The only persons admitted to the exe- cution were the representatives of the press and members of the clergy and medical profession. Shcrifl Springer was ill at his residence and was not present, ‘ but Jailor Cook represented the law in his place. At- ten minutes t08 o‘clock the jail doors were closed, and Radcliffe pro- ceeded to the prisoner’s cell and bound his arms to his sides. Then the long cor~ rider was traversed before the jail yard was reached. These who entered inside the boarded scaffold with A1 ison were the bangman, Radcliffe Jailor ook, Thomas Tracey, tho turnkey; Otto Gashmeyer, the death watch; Rev. Mr. Atkinson and Dr. G. H. Bowlby, the jail surgeon. Before the execution a statement was read from him by Jailor Cook, in which the doomed boy expressed his repentance for his crime and hoped that his family will not suffer through it. He made no further confession of his guilt other than the one he previously authorized. A jury was impaneled and hold an in- quest aftor the hanging. returning the usual verdict. At midnight last night, with only eight hours to live, he sat in his con~ demned cell, his spiritual adviser, Rev. Mr. Atkinson, beside him, and if outward appearances go for anything Allison was prepared to die. Rather he might be said to almost welcome death, cu careless and cheerful and buoyant was he. 0f the in- mates of the jail last night, his friends and the officials who watched him, James Allison was by far the most apparently unconcerned. He has shown absolume no feeling since his condemnation and sent- ence. Yesterday Radcliffe, the hangman, visited Allison in his cell and looked him over. When he left Allison remarked, unconcernedly, ‘ ‘ That's Rndcliffefibe man who is going to hang me.” He had dis- cussed all the details of the tragedy with Jailer Cook, and had the operation min- utely described to him, and, when it was done, jokingly referred to the length he would have to drop. His spiritual adviser, Rev. Mr. Atkinson, has been with him at all hours of the day and night, and has no doubt taken from Allison much of the bitterness of expected death. He remained with Allison until lo o'clock last night, but was with the condemned boy the first thing in the morning. 0 A man in the darkness of ho less dis- ease is of all men most misernb c. When doctors and medicines innumerable have been tried and found wanting, and loving friends vainly urge upon him the food he cannot eat and which brings him no nour- ishment or strength, what is to be done ? Men and women who have sunken so far into weakness and disease that the whole body seems to be rmeated and poisoned by it have and health, h and vigor through the transform- ing, electrifying power of that wonderful “Golden Medical Discovery” which Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y.,flprofi‘ered, thirty years ago, to sick and so ering hu- manity. During all the years since then this mar- velous ‘ Disc0very ” has been building up weak and debilitated constitutions by its extraordinary influence upon the human, nutritive system. It gives the digestive or- ganism keen wer and capacity to appro- riste every ifs-giving element from the ood taken into the stomach and trans- forms it into rich, highly vitalizcd blood gobs: healthy flesh, bone, siuew and nerve Consumption in all its earlier 3 is arrested and counteracted by the tissue- build'tnésfiesh-making, life-promoting pow- er of grand medicine and there is no darkness of bodily ailment so dense but it will shed upon the sufi'eser the light of re. sewed hope. Dr. Pieroe’s Pellets cure constipation. I l I SALISBURY BACKS DOWN IN Tl-IIEN-WlN.i l A Storm of lndignation Aroused in England. THE EXPLANATION OF THE TIMEs' An Important Bargain May be Makingâ€" A Half-Hearted Denialâ€"Combina- tion of Russian and German Bankers-Gen. Lockhu‘t to Remain in India- Cnblc News. London, Feb. 3.â€"A wave of indigna- llon has swept over the press throughout the country at Lord Sallsbury's alleged backdown at Tn-Lien-Wan. Conservatives no less than Liberals bcwail the supposed reheat from an unaamilablo position, on the ground that Great Britain, supported by the United States and Japan, might have safely defied Russia. ltis understood that the Government is angry with the Times for revealing the position. The Standard this morning, in the course of an editorial expressing its regret, mamas that since there is no official information to the contrary. the Times' version of the situation is correct. It says: “This will be painfully felt in the course of the pending bye-elections, especially as the story suggests suspicions of a larger and wider surrender." The editorial concludes by advising the Government to let the country know as speedily as possible ex- actly where it stands. The Pokin correspondent of the Times says: Col. Woronofl. the new Russian military adviser to China, has com- menced his duties, and the German mili- tary instructors have been notified of the non-renewal of their contracts. ' Berlin, Feb. 3.â€"Au article in the St. Petersburg Novoc \‘rcmyn. which has attracted the attention of Europe, declares that France and Germany supported Russia‘s determination and opposed Eng- land with rcfcrcuce to Tn~Licn-\\'an, and hence Lord Salisbury, it is claimed. is obliged to consult with his colleagues before the meeting of Parliament (is to the best way to boat a retreat if Great Britain wishes to avoid an open conflict with Russia. BRITAIN’S HUMILIATION. London Papers Comlemu the Government for \Vitlulratving the Demand for Opening of Ta-LIcn-‘Van. London, Feb. 3.â€"'h‘he afternoon news- papers yesterday comment in the most severe terms upon the alleged withdrawal of Great Britain’s demand for the open- ing of the port of 'l‘a-Llcu-Wan. Some of them refuse to credit the report. . The Globe says: “No wonder if the op- ponents of the Ministry regard it as a national humiliation when its supporters are unable to find a reasonable excuse for it. The public was led to believe that Sir Michael Hicks-Beach and other Cabinet Ministers meant what they said, so the Ministers have only themselves to thank if they lose prestige at home and abroad through the withdrawal of the Ta-Lion- Wan demand. England, with her vast naval strength and enormous resources, has the game in her own hands if the Ministers will only play it with the necessary spirit." An official statement on the subject, just issued, is as follows: "No communi- mtion can at present be published con- cerning the Timcs’ Ta-LicmWan report, or the negotiations as a whole. The nego- tiations thus far are absolutely confiden- tial. Many telegrams from China contain statements not only going far beyond the Government's information, but, in some instances, quite at variance with known facts.” The Times‘ Ta-Lien-Wan announce- ment created much surprise and excite. ment among politicians and was eagerly discussed at the clubs. The Liberals vigorously denounced the reported back- down of the British Government, while the Conservative members of the House of Commons did not conceal their bitter disappointment Many declined to credit the report until it is officially confirmed, and a prominent Conservative in the afternoon offered a Liberal opponent to play a substantial sum to a public charity the backdowu was confirmed. The Lib- erals declare it would be a humiliating surmndcr to Russia, and a severe blow to British interests and prestige. The members of the late Cabinet are already communicating with each other with the view of using the matter as a point of an attack upon the Government during the debate upon the Queen's speech at the reassembling of Parliament. TIMES' COMMENTS- ".I'ho Greatest of All Our Trade Interests Is Peace." Says the Thunderer. Discussing editorially the despatcb which was printed in its columns yester- frorn Pekln. stating that England had donfiitely withdrawn her conditions requiring the opening of Ta-Licn-Wan, the Times says: “The fact of such withdrawal is, of course, consistent with the adoption of entirely difierent policies upon our part. It might be on one hand an unworthy and humiliating surrender by a stator man, who, having promulgated a great policy and defended it with brave words, had to run away from it on the first show of the opposition it was certain to pro- voko. 0n the other hand, itmayboa judicious example of the old and tried diplomatic method of adding. in the first instance, tothotnrmsofa bargain some particular object which it was not really desired or expected to attain and after- wards sacrificing this superfluous article in order to secure the real ends in view. "But while it is IOglcally compatible with either of these alternatives we are entitled to assume that the second policy is that which is being followed by Lord Salisbury. “On this assumption the withdrawal of the condition is no more than a graceful concession effected on the principal of do at dos. thegifton our part being that of the privilege of access to a not particu- larly dosh-able port, and the consideration we receive the acceptance of the m9" essential terms of our ofler. This is what has approximately taken place. The Gov- ernment will have deserved the congratu- lations of the notion upon its successful gouduct of the delicate and momentous negotiations. Rusln’s objections to a free port at Ts-Lien-Won are not unintelli- gible. and if she has omnod some reason- able compromise on this point, and also discontinued her opposition at Pekin to the remaining conditions of the British loan, sensible persons in this country will see no reason to cry out at the deference shown her susceptibilities. “If, on the other hand, our Ministers could be supposed to have deferred to her in this matter without having secured on adequate equivalent in return, they would unquestionably have to answer for their conduct to public opinion; but it ‘ Salisbury and 80! thoovidwoe one wouldbounjnsseo hiscollesguoetoen tlouofthokindon us." - o ‘-â€"..... . icon no: “It is, of course, story is not without foun not much doubt that Russia can procure if she can induce China to enter more deeply into her books. She is well versed in the habits of Chinese omclals and has an almost intuitive por- tion of tho motives determining their acts. It is quite possible that timely and judicious appeals to these might result in some such diplomatic trim in as is ru~ morod in St. Potorsburg. I so, our pool» tion is clear. We are committed to our treaty rights, and both parties of the state, with (be whole country at their back, are pledged to enforce them. Upon that subject run-cut or vncillation ls im- possible. We are not going to be either forced or jockeyod out of our trade with one of the most lucrative markets of Asia. “While we believe, however. that the successful conclusion of a British loan to China upon the terms prepoeed. even without the opening of Ta-Lieu-Wan, would confer a great ndvant both on that country and the nations c the world, we do not see why a failure of the negos tiatlons should be immediately followed by the grave consequences anticipated in some quarters. It is neither to the inter- ests of Russia nor any other power to provoke a contest with this country, and unless we are provoked by some deliber- ate attack on our rights it isqulte certain that we shall do nothing to disturb the tranquility of the world. Our trade has many interests, it is true, for which we are prepared. in case of need, to fight; but the greatest of all our trade interests is peace." GERMANY SHUTS OUT U- 5. FRUIT. Thousands of Barrels of Apples Not Allow- ed to be Unleadedâ€"Vigorous Proton. Berlin, Fob. 3.â€"Thc Prussian Minister of Finance, Dr. Miguel. issued a decree yesterday, which goes into cfloct immedi- ntcly. prohibiting the importation of every kind of American fresh fruit. Mr. White. the United States Ambass- ador, sent a strong rcmonstrance to the Foreign Office. calling attention to the evident violation of the treaty. At the Forclgn Ofiico it was learned that the Prussian Government prohibits the entry of American fruit on a sanitary pretext. claiming that Californian and ‘ other vermin threaten to infect German trot-s and fruit. Washington, Feb. 3. â€" The United Hugh States Consul at Hamburg, Dr. Pitcniu, tclegmphs that 16.000 barrels of American apples have been forbidden to be unloaded. and that two truinsful of American fruit have also been forbidden to cross the frontier at Emmerich. which, aside from Hamburg, is the principal place for entry. LOCKHART WILL REMAIN And Try to Recover What Has Been Lost in the Diameter in Indies. Bombay, Feb. 8.â€"-It is now announced that Gem-ml Sir William Lockhart, who commanded the 'l‘imh expedition, and who, it is understood, had been relieved of his command by General Sir Arthur Power Palmer. has decided to remain in India withnvicw to recovering the ground lost by the disaster of the fourth brigade of the British troops near Shlnkamar on Saturday last. General L0ckhnrt will attempt to recover thearms captured from the Yorkshire regiment and punish the tribosmcn. A RATE WAR ON. Canada's Blg Railways Have Started to Reduce Faros East and Westâ€"Big Fight Expected. Toronto, Feb. 3.â€"A rate war, which romises to be a big one, has commenced tween the Grand Trunk Railway and . . , and the fight is for the western business. The Grand Trunk has issued a new tariff, meeting all C.P.B. rates from Ontario "and Quebec points into Winnipeg, and has instructed all agents to discontinue the sale of tickets and issue of baggage checks in connection with the Canadian Pacific to all points West via Sault Ste. Marie and Port Arthur. All passengers are in future to be ticketed via Chicago and over the Northern Pacific Railway into Winnipeg. The Grand Trunk has made a working arrangement with this road, and it is ex- wlll shortly have an agreement also with the Great Northern. There is no doubt that there will be a lively war for the business into Alaska, and all the American roads will be against the C.P.B., which has the best route. It is definitely announced that the Can- adian Pacific wiil not be represented at the meeting of western roads to be held today at Chicago for the purpose of con- sidering rates for Alaska business. The substantial reduction made by the G. TR. oqualiws the rates between the two Canadian companies. and if the GP. B. wishes to retain its western diffoion- tinl it looks as if the only thing for it to do is to further reduce its rates. This would not surprise anyone very much. MANAGERS TALK. Sir William Van Horne and Mr. Hays Say Why the War Was Bogus. Montreal, Feb. 3.â€"Sir William Van Horne, on being asked to state the cause of the recent failure of negotiations with the Grand Trunk Railway for a service between Toronto and North Bay, replied as follows: “It is a very simple matter. On the completion of our main line eleven years ago, we contemplated the building of a line from Sudbury to Toronto totakooare of our Ontario traffic. The Grand Trunk had acquired the Northern Railway, with its extension to North Bay, on Lobe Nlpissing, and wished us to make use of that instead of building a line of our own. Although the use of the Grand Trunk involved a loss of seventy miles in distance, as compared with the Sudbury line, we finally agreed to thoarrangement proposed by the Grand Trunk, and the rates allotted to the Grand Trunk were fixed by a mutual railway friend. We thought theme rates too high at that time, but we have continued to pay them all these years, notwithstanding the great no- duction that hasoocurrod in railway rates generally. To our surprise the Grand Trunk recently notified us of the stem tion of the arrangement, and it came to an end on Sunday last. and we are now handling our Ontario traffic via Smith's Falls. “The reason? 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John LINDSAY FOUNDRY Ontario is put up in one-size bottles only. It is not sold in bulk. Don't allow anyone to sell you anything else on the plea or promise that it is “just as good" and “will answer every _.-. WI" eo-see em you get cos-roam. The fee- d:‘.le :5 cc signature é 2; zg-zt cur: cf ' ‘ 173;" Mums. 7 JOHN MAKINS, Brass an Iron Founder is prepared to do 8;. Es- ; Casting and Foundry Work. Repairing :1 inc-c me and Machinery etc., Setting-up Steam E:;._ a d Boilers. JOHN . MARINE William-8t. Nor: -. # Sloan’s Indian Tonic The Sloan Medicine 00., Hamilton. Dru: Sins :â€" (ii um, Nov. For years I was troubled with periodical sick headaches, bei:._ affected usually every Sunday, and used all the remedies that were advertise. as cores, and was treated by almost ev ery doctor in Guelph, but without an} relief. was hereditary and incurable. Ismas Tonic, and am happy to say I did on. One doctor told me it was caused by a weak stomach, another said 2: I was induced by a neighbor to try SLOA) A few doses gave immediau: relief and one bottle and a half mode a complete cure. This was three years ago and the headaches have never returned. I was also troubled with asthma and nothing helped me like your 51.0.5“ , I SWAN Toxic. I can he Artily recommend it to all and will be glad to 2'7.“ -. any particulars to any cne slil‘cted as l was. W. C. KEOGH. For Sale by all dealers or address the Sloan Medicine Commny of Hamilton. Limited. 81.00 pcr Bottle: 6' for 85 00. N satisfactory arbitration. to a third disin tor-mud party. The (‘nnudiun Pacific Company have declined to meet all our advances in the nmltcr. the some as exists at all other junctions with our different connections. The mat- ter of rates, of mono. will now be gov- erned by Collin-Lilian, and where there is sufficient revenue involved‘ to wan-ant a Induction of rates. you may be sure such a reduction is likely to be made.” Death of C. C. Flo-Id. lix-MJ’J’. Cobourg, Feb. 3.â€"Shortly after mid- night yesterday morning Mr. C. C. Field, ex-M.P.P. for West Northumberland, died from heart failure, the culmination of an attack of apoplcxy two weeks ago, followed by two attacks subsequently. He was 64 years old, and bad represented the riding since 1886. Another Boat for the Yukon. Toronto. Feb. 3.â€"Thc Poison Irom Works Company have muted the contract from an English syndicate for the build- ing of a smamer to be used on the Yu- kon River. She will be a stem-wheeler dimensions 45 feet long and 9 foot beam, and will draw only 16 inches of water. ' The Government Gets Yukon Gold. Ottawa, Fob. 8.â€"The Department of Customs yesterday received a remittance from Collector Davis, from Dawson, to the amount of “7,000 which had accrued from customs duties. This makes it 885 - 000 in all. ’ Now It’s Against Hos-sea. Berlin Feb. 5.â€"Baron von Hammer- steinâ€"Loxten, the Minister of Agriculture at yesterday's session of the Prussian Diet. declared that American horses devel , influenza afra- importation. He adds- “If the importations increased we 51).“. certainly!» forced to adopt asuihhlo quarantine in order to protect ourselves. " A Scotch Railway Collision. CW. Feb. 5.â€"A mall m gnd freight train have beenin collision on th: Glasgow a: Southwestern Railroad, neu- Tsoon. The driver and flxomanofthe freight train and five workmen who we“, onboardthomailtralnwere killed. In addition four persons wen injuna, The Bubonlo Plague. Bombay, Feb. 5.â€"The number deaths from the bubonic plague for the: lastsevendaysism, againstsssfortho previous corresponding period. Blame It Oil Sprite“ Petrolea, Ont, Fob. 5.â€"Fine afternoon broke out in the telephone once at 011 Spring and destroyed the whole block. containing the following: -D°'u. drug-tore: H. A. Crites -. general store and dwelling, and “d W shop and dwell- Gateo woreineused. thonwecdorodtosubmlttbemfcI -‘ .- ~ 1 Therefore, we p: have “welded to the usual interchange, .4; l CLINTON'SI CALAMITY. hire-m Sympathy for Mr. Doberty-l 3.0 .‘16 Lost Tholr Tools and Occupation. Clinton. Feb. 3.â€"The disastrn-z» rsv fiagration that took place hl'rl‘ you his} morning and totally consumed m. mm Doherty Organ Company‘s \vnr;;~ and also the fine residence of Mr, \\'.‘...:.m Doberty. has struck this town an .‘ blow. Over 150 men, besides lu~'.l.;‘ their tools. are thrown out of Wurh and the men are at a loss to know “'1' :r. is do. The Dohcrty Company‘s work~ has been practically the mainstay .1 :be town, and Mr. W. Dohcrty. the (ounce! of the institution. is one of fllv most popular citizens of the town one. 12x mm“ Sympathy 52088 out to him; 1:: t.’ big loss from everybody here. Bll<;lll‘,~§ .. almost suspended here and nothing is talked of but the fire and what fliv (13' pany will do to rebuild. The Town (‘\v1.5’ (:11 held a special meeting yesterday 1.115 oflcrcd a loan of $25,000 for z-I-vmm which Mr. Dphgny will likely amp... NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. Another case of smallpox has dw 11 v at Montreal. ‘ k k M Mrs. Stuart. wife of the city of Hamilton, is dead. The election of Mr. H. Leduc. MP. for Nicolet, has been connected, the nude sary deposit having been made. All the evidence is now in in the Lot-iv gert trial at Chicago, and the lawyer! will continue talking for a weal: John Bickell of Hamilton was struck in the stomach by an iron bar at the Canada Screw Works. and died from the elects of the blow. Gold has been discovered in large quanâ€" titles on the Hay. Buflalo and other rivers tributary to the Mackenzie river. near Great Slave lake. Two hundred and eighty-five dollar! and sixty cents after all expenses were paid were realized for the poor of Km;- stou from the Grant-Lucas prohibition debate. Thomas L. Thompson, States MiniStor 00 Brazil, oxfon' groosman and editor, committed sui- oide at Santa Rosa, Cal, by cutting his mt. “Virginia Bill" Friloy, an old citizen of Elliott county, Kentucky. Heidi 5° yoars,and his wife, about 75 years of :50. were murdered last night at their horn. and robbed of 81,200. No clue. The schooner Charles A. Briggs. hand for Philadelphia from Portland. sL'ECk on a rock at Nahant. Mass., durm;z a” storm, and is fast going to pieces. The crew of five men were all lost. The lid! of one unknown man was washed who!“ At Niagara Falls, N.Y., W. G. Cat‘s general agent of the New York Nahum 3““de Loan Association, and 31:” muse! of the Niagara Falls Met-u Suzi Company. was walking on the truck's on bed stepped aside to allow a freight train 0° pass, when the Lohigh express st him and hurled him 25 feet, breaking m and ribs. fn'usul'dl' cx-lfnited Amcriuiz. : " Gibb AIL-‘3‘ probfilflv l... j mg to t‘m- 2-. England. Anrttlivr 51p»: Akilhr': \\~~' ‘3 .4: 1. , . podium; 21.; tom/tn: 'trn,w;.~ \\ In. In the Zilli’fiwl‘ or. mind which “up having had sun, Fenmn bum; }, .. con balm: at. v' ; ', m3 winh Assay firm-l. . he svn' » : the rut- Illil:.e'~ I‘y.un| Mnd'm . 'hcat vr -; ‘ The 61112:; mt mo: '9 ad 03' 3:1: I Immen e. -. j: '. Amer-run. ~ ' further r. ' " , " i .i' I'. n. mpierm-zlt... clergy 4.» mm .y . Mme Inf/ov- 4.3. 1 'hicl: \.v\\~ 5 tr: Steward lim .. .- m for BIBS. .._,‘ “16L Chung; .‘ ago, he foumz- i Guild, llisl' j S'ny. l’,‘ dared it. GERVL: Inn Jose >.-;.:. Skins on fire or 1