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by a native Christian. I learned later from Miss Codrington that the five ladies of the Zeaana Missiocnary Society, who lived in the lower of the two houses which formed the Kuâ€"Cheng sanatorium, after a futiic effort to essape, got out at the back, and wers mmediately surrounded with the Vegotarâ€" z;drijfton were. Presently Miss Hartiord arrived. Sbe had a masty cut under one ear, but had been to stanch the bleediag. She begged me not to wait, as she@thought Miss Topey Saunders was still alive. 1 then rushed up to the back of the house and found the bodies of Miss Topsy Saunders, Miss Stewâ€" art, Miss Gordon, and Miss Murshall. The latier was awfully cut, and her head was alz.ost severed ; bus beyond the wounds given in the struggle the bodies were not mutilated. Later I found Miss H. Newâ€" combe‘s body at the foot of thehill in front of the house, where is evidently had been thrown. â€" As 1 could then see no traces of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, Miss N. Saunders, and Lers, the nurse, we hoped some had escaped, and I returned to the house, where the children (four Suv_ur_t_o) *d Miss I thought it better to wait where I was, After a minute or two the retreat horn was soundedand the Vegetarians began to leave, but before they did so they set fire to the house. Ten minates aftor this every Vegeâ€" tarian had gone. _ I came down and looked about the front of the house, but could see nothing of any one, though I feared someâ€" thing dreadful had happened, as I heard the Vegetarians as they left saying repeatâ€" edly : *Now all the foreigners are killed !" I just then met one of the servants, who told me that the children were in the house in which Miss Hartford of the American Missicn wae staying. 1 found Mr.Stewart‘s eldest daughter, Mildred, there with & serious wound on the knee and another severe cut. â€" When I had washed these and used what old calico we had to stanch the bleeding, 1 turned to Herbert, Mr.Stewart‘s son, who was most fearfully hacked alimost everywhere. . Then Miss Codrington sent me & message that she, too, was in the house. I found her in & fearful condition, but with cold water and rags we managed â€" "*As I could still see no foreigners, I concluded they had escaped, and «s to go down was all. SUPERHUMAN EFFORTS, and, while the coolie wrestled with the man, her teacher almost dragged her along for miles ; they lay flat on their faces now aud then to recover breath, and then on again, . When they reached a safe distance she seot back the man to see what had happened to the others. He came back with the report that some were only wounded and needed help. She wert straight back with him and found Mr. Philips doing what he could for them and the native Christians looking on, not daring to give a piece of rag or any assistance whatever. Mr. Philips, hearing a noise (he was living in a little cottage not far off) wanted to go and see, but was held back by force by the natives, who ssid he would be killed if he went. He at length, howâ€" ever, got loose and ran up the hill behind the house, hiding behir4 some brushwood. From there he saw the houses being plundered, but seeing no foreigners, he imagined they had escaped, so did not go down, knowing that if he did he would be ki:led. He saw them set the houses on fire, and then the horns sourded for them to d?m. 1t was all over in halt an bour the rioters all gone. < The Rev. H. S. Pnilips writes : "About 6.30 s, m, on Aug 1, hearing shouts from the direction of the Rev. Mr. Stewart‘s house (I was s‘ceping in a house five minâ€" utes‘ walk off, though spending most of the day with the Stewarte), I went out, and at first thought it was a number of children playing, but I soon was convinced that the voices were those of excited men, and started off for the house. I was soon met by a native, who almost pulled me back, shouting that the Vegetarians had come. I said that I must go on, and soon got in sight of the bouse, and could see a number of men, say forty or fifty,carrying off loads of plunder. One man, who seemed to be the leader, was carrying a small red flag. I could see nothing of any Europeans, and as this was in full view of the rioters, I crept up & hill in the brushwood and got behind two trees from twenty to thirty yards from the house, Here I could see everything and appeared not to be seen at *"Une man after another resisted, and could not kill that little group otf young girls all unprotected, but the leader seeing them relent, waved the flag with "kill them" on it, and they dared not disobey, and they did it. It was thought for a long time that Mr, and Mrs. Stewart had escapâ€" ed, us their bodies were not found, but they were sfterward found burned to ashes on a heap of ruing. So little was left that it was difficuit to distinguish which was which. No one seems to know anything wbout vhem, except that they were in bed and the rioters went to their room first. _ *"Miss Hartford was saved by her teacher and coolie. She thrust aside the instrument when attacked with almost aad then ran back, thinking Miss Saunders was notquite dead, but she was too heavy for them to drag along, so they were comâ€" pelled to leave her. Little Cassie was so wonderfully braze ; it was just marvellous; they saw all the ladies kilied before their eyes. All the other missionary ladies were found together. Itis said that two who might nave escaped stayed to help the others to dress, one being too paralyzed with horror to do anything. She died aimply from shock, it is thought. Eisie Marshall had her Bible, which she would not give up for some time, and in her atâ€" tempt to keep it got her fingers terribly cut, She was more wounded than any of thein. One of the other girls was made to walk up and down the veranda, and was asked all sorts of questions about their money and their things, and every time she did not give a satistactory answer she was wounded with a sharp threeâ€"pronged instrument, with which they did all their deadly work afterward, The men thought o{ binding them and carrying them away, but they pleaded to be killed rather than that. "*The brave little giris then got up, and secing Lena, the nurso, being attacked,they took the baby from under her clothes where she had hidden it in the hopes of maving its life, They ran to some bushes a little way off and Letters from Eyewltnesses of the Terr/Dl¢ Sceneâ€"Erave Conduct of the Helpless Vietims and Horolsm of Little Milite Atewartâ€"Only One Native Dared to Plead for the Lives of the Forelzners. The following letters have juast been reâ€" geived from the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, giving the details of the mmssacre of the lady missionaries on Aug. 1 : Oune of the ladies connected with the Zenana Missionary Society, writing to & near relative in England, says . "This is the first opportunity I have had to write since this terrible event happened. It seems that on Aug. 1, which was little Herbert Stowart‘s birthday, the children were up carly gathoring flowers, as they were going to bave & picnic, when several riffians suddenly came upon them and éragged Millie Stewart along the ground by the bair, but did nothing serious to them, They managed to run to the house, Millie crying out, * Motber, the Vegetariâ€" ans are coming â€" They told them all, and then ran into the nursery and locked the door. Little Cassic and Evan Stewart, the two younger ones, got under the bed, Millis was about to follow when she thought, *1i I do that the men wili know that there is somebody here, because the door is locked ; I will lie down on the bed and unlock the door,‘" which she did, thinking that perhaps they would only see her and not look under the bed tor the others, They plandered everything in the room, and then came to the bed, dragged the bed clothes all off little Millie, and just «t the last they gave ker the termble gash j which is nearly costing her her life. & GRAPHIC DETAILS OF THE MURDER OF WHITE WOMEXN. THE KOCEENG MASSACRE SAVED FROM DEATH CERTAIN DEATH HID THE BARY, of the Terrible aelipeictie The Poultry Industry. Prince Edward Island makes $200,000 this year through the butter and cheese ‘ industries. â€" The expenditure on promotion ‘nd education was trifliing ; the results enormous. It is to be hoped that the Government will direct its attention to other branches of agriculture. There is the poultry industry, as an example, Engâ€" land purchased $22,000,000 worth of egge last year from France, Denmark, and Conâ€" tinental countrfes. We can get some of these millions if our farmers wiil keep the fowls which lay the large eggs, and if eggs are sent over in good qondltlon for the English market. What is wanted is inâ€" struction in the business of keeping the right kind of poultry, of feeding it to the best advantage,and of marketing the eggs. Along with egg exportations will of course, go poultry exportations. For poultry there is also a large market in England. Mr. Gilbert, of the Poultry Department, is already doing excellent work. But he can do more, and with great benefit, if the opportunity and the facilities for doing it are afforded him. ' o‘ their lives (fr;m about 17 to 27) in serâ€" vice, durimg which time many of them contrive to save a goodly sum of money ; and, when not mulcted of it by the white men, they return to their kraals, buy cattle and wives and luxuriate in utter idleness, while their womenâ€"folk tend the cattle and cook the scoff (food). While living in Johannesburg or in the adjacent locality allotted to them, they are subjected to certain special laws, which are more honorâ€" ed in the breach than in the observance. Here, as elsewhere, the e\'e.x'ydAy detail of living nolds a prominert place in the adjustment of everyday life; and the womenkind of e«ch household have there to take an unusuaily active part in the management of domestic affairs. For the kitchen boy, almost the only servant obâ€" tainable, costs from £2 10s to £3 or more per month, and is an endless source of wonoyance and difficulty, Some of them are raw Kafiirs from "up country," who enter service knowing nothing of civilizaâ€" tion, and have to be taught their duties from beginning to end ; but even these are better than the soâ€"called Christians, who areusually more or less dighonest and given to drink. They sleep in an ont.house%)uiit. in the compound, eat mealy meal (local name for an inferior sort of Indian corn) or i scraps and leavings, at which they are: now beginning to protest. . They speak, as: a rule, pigeon English, but are infinitely more impressed when spoken to in Dutch, a‘though some of them know not a word beyond their own special dialect ; they are supposed to do the work of a general ser vant, These "boys," as they are calledâ€" irrespective of‘ngeâ€"nkpend‘ about ten years What did your tailor charge you for that uit ? Nothing. What ! â€" How did that happin? _ RICH RED VIRGIN SO.L, which will grow almost everything, are, when planted with creepers, ferns and flowers, and placed along the stoop, almost a« decorative as the flower box which occuâ€" pies the window sill of a London house. More substantial furniture is mostly bought ut sales, which cccur very frequently, as homes are always being sold up. § _ Such bungalows, which are the homes of ‘ the middle classes, consist of three or four bed rooms, & sitting room, kitchen ard ; small larder, with a compound (yard) and ama‘l garden attached, and costs in town from about £20 to £25, and within & ten minutes radius from the town about £12 to £15 a month, most contracts and all payments being made by the month. Thereâ€" fore, to move from one house to another several times in a year is not a very unusual occurrence, mor is it attended by much difficulty, for the household goods are few, and the residents are averse to increasing the number of their possessions from luck ofspace in which to place them. ** Atrt" musiin,packingâ€"cases and paraffine oil tins form m large item in the economy of those who can not afford to import furnicure from home. Muslin window curtains, sometimes of the lighest coloring, are very effective in the bright sunshine, which is seldom dulled for long. ‘The possibilities of pucking cases are almost beyond limit, for, with a little dexterity, they can be converted from dressing tableto divan from linen press to larder, and so on, while empty oil tins refilled with the PLEASANTLY IMPREISED. He sees a bright, lively, and promising little town, picturesque, scattered, and busy. The soil is of a bright brickdust red, which tones well with the emerald green of the newly planted gum tree#, The bungaâ€" low dwelling houses boast each a stoop (veranda), and a small plot of ground, and seem to tell a tale of simple satisfaction, lending a charm which lasts about a week, let us say, for the duilest person does not take long to find out that almost every erection in the town it ‘‘jerry" built, Winâ€" dows are not made to exclude the air, nor doors to reach their lintels, the walls do nothing much towards deadening sound, and the ceilings, though very often formed of polished wooden panels, are not so freâ€" quently impervious to rain ; in fact, um brellas and mackintoshes have on occasions been used, even in bed, as & protection from intruding raindrops. A Look Throuzh the Boom City of ‘ Johannesburg. _ Some nine or ten years ago, when the Kimberley days were drawing to an end, owing to the diamond fields having become practically a monopoly, faint murmurs of gold to be found ""up country" crept into the moist, warm air, and revived the drooping spirits of the ardent little Kimberâ€" ley colony. Regardless of hardshipâ€"nay, miseryâ€"buoyant with hope, and with an esprit de corps seldom seen outside a mining camp, they trekked in wagons drawn by mules or oxem, and in this primitive mannerâ€"the only one possible at the time â€"they left the home of their lost prosperity to seek a new El Dorado in unknown regions. â€" Seldom, if ever, ia the proneer of a y enterprise the man who reaps the benefit of his temerity ; his siruggles serve but to point the way to newcomers, and his inevitable failures but to help others to success. â€" Johannesburg leapt into life from these first few wagonioads, which were tentatively outspanned on a barren, sandy tracsof land,around which, in an incredibly whort time, new wagon loads, tin shanties and canteers collected. The gold fever, always incipient, broke out with its usual virulence, drawing within its miasmatic reach all sorcs and condlitions of men to lay tae foundations of the town. Then began the prospecting, the pegging out of claims, the formation both of bogus and bona fide companies and syndicates, the rapid buying up of farms and flrmsu:ndlvn.‘ c es He didn‘t charge it. Iâ€"paid him for it, _ Toâ€"day the newcomer alighting at the Park Station (presuming that hearrives by train from Cape Town) is ians, At first they said they intended to bind them and carry them away, and they begged,as this was the intention, that th y might be allowed to have their umbrellas, but this was refused, Some even of the Vegetarians seemed touched with their pleading for life, butan old Hwaâ€"Sang man alone of the natives,who did not take part, begged that their lives might be saved. Some of the Vegetarians were inclined to spare them, but were ordered by their leaders to carry out their orders. Rad they been able to escape into the brushwood around they might have been saved. Lena, the nurse, died protecting the baby, whom: Kathleen managed to carry out of the house, but uot before the baby‘s eye had been injured. _ Miss Nelly Saunders, Kathâ€" leen told me, was aiso knocked down at the nursery door while going to help the children, as we afterwards found the remains of a burnt body. For a long time we thought that at least Mr. and Mrs. Stewart had escaped, but later 1 found their bodies, or rather ashes, in what had been their bedroom. _ The Hwaâ€"Sang people seemed to have had no hand in the affair, though doubtless four or five Vegetarian families were concerned. The natives say the. Vegetarian band came from the cast rosd of Kuchery city, and many from Aniong and Ahdiengsan, within thirty or forty miles of Kuâ€"Cheng." soUTH AFRICAN GOLD FIELDS Good Plan uts of Rivers to the north and the Skeena and Peace Rivers to the south is an area of $1,000 square miles, which cxcept being recently penetrated by a field g;rty.hquize unexplored.. Another area of 30,000 square miles, southâ€"cast of Athabasca hko, is an Cauada Has Room Enouzh for the Popu lation of Enrope. There are more than ore million and & quarter square miles of unexplored lands in Canada, according to the opinion of Dr. Dawson, Director of the Geological Survey. The entire area of the Dominion is computâ€" ed at 3,470,257 square miles, consequently oneâ€"third of this country has yet been untravelled by the explorer. . Exclusive of the inhospitable detached Arctic portions 954,000 square miles is, for all practical purposes, entirely unknown, Dr. Dawson bas made a careful estimate of the unexâ€" plored areas, beginning at the extreme morthwest of the Dominion. The first of these areas is between the eastern boundary of Alaska, the Porcupine River and the Arctic coast, and consists of 9,500 square miles, or somewhat smaller in extent than Bolgium, and lying entirely within the arctio circle. _ The next area is west of the Lewes and Yukon Rivers and extends to the bouudary of Alaska, Until last year there were 32,000 square miles in this area unexplored, but & part of this was} travelled last summer. A third area of 27,000 aquare miles lies between the Lewes, Peily and Stikine Rivers, being nearly as P.p'xl gendarmes, _ As the law then stwol the mct of the gendarmes was justified through the fact that the child had _ been secretly baptized by . his Catholic _ nurse. The â€" boy _ subseâ€" quently became a monk of the order of St, Augustine, and is now well known as Father Mortaraâ€"one of the most distinâ€" guished linguists of our time, speaking no less than twentyâ€"two languages, _ He resides at Madrid, and the Queen Regent is a regular attendant at his church. A generation or so ago a great deal of noise was made over the forcible taking of w boy child from his parents at Bologre, by P.pil wendarmes. As the laiw then w vo‘ent explosion. Miraculously, the prdJdle: will escape with his life, but he sufers from a compound fracture of the righs legand from many flesh wounds caused by metal scraps,. â€" There is no doubt chat the explosion was that of a dynamite sartridge, probably hid in the dust heap by ome suspected Anarenist who was anxious to get rid of it. The terrors of dynamite lurk every where â€"in Paris, at least, From 1‘Intransigeant we learn that a peddler, who went to marâ€" ket early one morning, not long ago, hapâ€" pesed to step on a dust heap, only a few steps from the police station in the Rue R:chechuart, when immediately there was At Ratzeburg, Germany,Street In#pector Schritze died demented last year, His wife followed bim a few weeks later, One son and one daughter had previoualy died in Junatic asylums and a younger daughter is still an inmate of such an rmstitution. A tew weeks ago the remaining members of the family â€"the eldest son and two daughtâ€" ersâ€"sought death voluntarily, the man first shooting his sisters and then himeelf. The city of Nesswish,in Russian Poland» belongs to Prince Radziwill, Two lakes one within the city and the other near it» also belong to him. This summer, when the heat was greatest, almost unbearable, the Prince suddenly issued a proclamation forbidding fishing and bathing in these waters, the only ones for miles around. The servant of a judge, nevertheless went in swimming, and was immediately shot by the guards placed by the Prince. Add to this that the Prince and his tool are in no danger from the wheels of Justice, and you have one picture of the state of liberty and law within the realms of the Czar. A short time ago a lady in Paris became violently insane on the street and was sent to an asylum. _ Her apartments in the Rue Rambuteanâ€"fine ones, for which she paid an annual reut of 2,000 francsâ€"were then visited, _ An intolerable stench pervaded them. The demented woman had completâ€" ly "tinned"‘them with empty sardine boxes which emitted the peculiar perfume. There were four cartfu‘s of these odorous One of the smallest monarchies in Europe is the principality of Lichtenstein, wedged in between Austria and Switzerland, it measures about fifty square miles, and has w population of 6,000 all told. _ Lately its Parlisment of fifteen members accused the sovereign of violating the Constitution. Thereupon the Prince simply prorogued the Parliament "until further notice," and now all is quiet again along the waters of the Rbine. There boxes Pater Paolo Peechi, a celebrated theoâ€" logian, died two years ago at Sassari. A few nights ago his grave was robbed of its inhabitant. _ In that region the belief prevails that the possession of a priest‘s bones enables one to discover hidden treaâ€" sure. A heavenly census is now being taken by the Paris Obeervatory ; to count the stars the heavens are photographed in sections. Some of these show only a dozen stars, while others of the same dimensions show over 1,500,. _ The work is carried on under the superintendence of a Mme. Klumpke, m *‘Doctor of the Sciences." of Physician to the Sultan of Zanzibar is far from being a s‘necure. Probably, 40 guard against poisoning, the unhappy dector is compelied to swallow nne-'nnl? of the medicine prescribed by him for the sick person, reports in favor of it. He says that of the cightyâ€"two consumptives tréated with the serum sixtyâ€"one were éither completely cured or are in afair way tarBzain bealth, while twentyâ€"one derived & benefit whatâ€" Prof. Maragliano, of the &m"wjpnhy of Genos, has for three years kperimented with the antiâ€"tuberculous serum, and now We learn via Europe that during the late war not less than fortyâ€"seven Japanese officers committed suicide, because the terms of the peace, which they considered too tavorable for China, made them feel too tired to live any longer, The procireader of the Uamburger Nachrichten, Bismarck‘s organ, has been sentenced to four weeks‘ imprisonment and a fine of 15 marks, as ‘"the chief propaga» tor" of a false report that cholera had again appeared in Hamburg. German papers aesort that gas pipes made of paper are m success, Manila paper stripe are passed through moiten asphaltum and then molded under heavy pressure. After cooling, the pipes, which may be of any desired length, receive a waterâ€"proof coating. L‘Intransigeant says that some years ago Charles Castellani, the Parisian painter, wanted to paint a picture of Monsieur Deibler, the executioner, to be exhibited in a pano:ama of Parisisn notabilities,. He dxsn'bâ€"becuuac Mime. Deibler demanded 20,000 francs for the privilege of taking the "tamous" hanzman‘s likeness. For months past the city of Vienna has been governed mbsolutely by an imperial commissioner, and this will contiuue until the next city election, . The last city counâ€" cil acted so rowdyish that the Emperor of Austria was compelled to dissolve it to save the inhabitants from an outbreak of anarchy, A correspondent of the Muenchener Neueste Nachrichten affirms that the office A New Fabricâ€"CGas Fipes Made of Paper â€"Japanese Officers Commit Suicideâ€"â€" Anttâ€"Taberculous Serumâ€"Census _ of the Heavenaâ€"Four Carifuls of Sar dine Roxesâ€"Liberty and Law in Hussin, «&c., «c. A fabric made of pine and spruce wood pulp is made into overconts in Leeds, Eng« and. It looks like friezs. soME ODD HAPPENINGS THAT HAVE RECENTLY OCCURRED. QUEER THRINGS IN EURQPE UNEXPLORED TERRITORY Mir. Citimanâ€"A friend of mine bas invited me to accompany him on a yachtâ€" ing ccuise, but I suppose you‘ll be angry about it, as usual _ _ _ 4 ~â€"Mrs. Citimanâ€"No. The Society Chitcbat says that mourning. hats were never so becoming as they are this season." Wifeâ€"Then we are not going to Europe after all ? Husbandâ€"No. No tour through Switzerland ? No, no. No crossing the Alps ? No, no, no, 5 Wel!, have you any objection to buying me a new hat with an Alpine crown ? Immigrants From Austria. Prof. Oleskow, who was sent to Canada to enquire on behalf of the Austrian peas* ants into the advantages this country offers for settlement, hes returned to Ottewa after a thorough tour of the Northâ€"West. On Monday he had an interview with the Minister of the Interior, and submitted a proposition looking towards an extensive movement of Austrian peasants to Caznada. The matter is under consideration, and if the offer is found to be to the advantage of Canada it is altogether likely that the professor will bring a large party of Ris fellowâ€"countrymen to this country. He leaves on Friday for Europe but the deterâ€" iination of the Government on the offer he has made will be forwarded to him. Signor Crispi‘s Dally Life. Francesco Crispi, exâ€"conspirator, °x Garibaldian, exâ€"Republican, present Prime Minister of Italy, whose fate he seems to hold in the hollow of his hand, is now in his seventyâ€"fifth year. â€" Nevertheless, even in looks, he is anything but an old man. Energetic,restlces by temperament,he leads a wonderfully active life, seldom leaviog the Italian capital, even when the heat of the Roman eummer drives every one else to the seaside or the mountains,. He is perhaps the caly Italian statesman who understands what business means ; and in th‘s fact may rest the secret of his remarkâ€" wble success. Other Italians work by fits and starts, with long int «rvale of indolence. Crispi works all the time. Crispi sleeps little, eats less, and does not drink or smoke. Instead of indulging in copious libations of beer, like Prince Bismarck, or even of his native wine, Crispi drinke nothing strongei than milk, of which he consumes about three litres a day. 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(On the south coast of Hudson Bay, between the Severn and At: tawapishkat River®, is another of 22,000 square miles, or larger than Nova Scotir, Lying between Tiout Lake, Lac Seal and the Albany River are 15,000 square miles of unexplored land, or about half the size of Scotiand, To the south ard east of James Bay and nearer to large centres of population than any region which still reâ€" mains unexplored is an area of 35,000 square miles, which may be compared to the area of Portugal. â€" The most easterly area is the greatest of all. _ 1t comprises almost the entire interior of the Labrador Peninsula or Northeast Territory, in all 289,000 square miles ; more than equal to twice the are« of Great Britain and Ireland, with an added area to that of Newfound. land. and fifty 10n. of the continent. _ It will be rememtered that Mr. J. B. Tyrrell recently struck through these barren grounds on his trip to Fort Churchill, on the Churchill River, but could only make a preliminary exploration 1} to area of which little is known, except that it has been crossed by a field party en route to Fort Charchill. East of the Coppermine River and west of Bathurat Inlet lies 7,500 miles of unexplored land, which mey be compared to half the size of Switzeriand," Eastward from this is an area of 31,000 aquare miles, or about equal to Ireland, lying between the Arctic comst and Back‘s Kiver, Much larger than Great Britain and Ireland, and embracing 178,0J0 square miles is an arem bounded by Back‘s River, Great Slave Lake, Athabasca Lake, Hatchet and Reindeer Lakes, Churchill River and the west coast of Hudson Bay. This counâ€" try includes to L1 (qua:itruple plate 66 Aven Bl blep in tohe . 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Sumple copies sent free. _ * Dear Mr. Shaw,â€"! rsceived your letter on last Tuesday, I think I will get hung, but I don‘t care as long as they give me a good breakfast before they hang me. If they don‘t hang I think I will commit suicideâ€"that will do just as well. I‘ll strangle myself, I hope you are all well. I go up on Monday to the Old Bailey to be tried. Ihope you will be there, 1 think they will sentence me to death, If they do I will call ail the witnesses liare. 1 remain your affectionste friend, R. A. Coombs." y There was attached to it m Grawing of a gibbet with two figures being pushed forâ€" ward by another, over whom there was the word, "** Executioner." ‘There was the line, * Scene I., going to the scaffold." At the other side there was another a person being hanged while the words good«bye issued from his mouth, and below the words, **Here goes nothing." There wes a postscript:â€"*"My willâ€" Doctor, £3,000 ; Mr. Payne, £2,000 ; Mr. Shaw, £5,000 ; my father, £60,000 ; all the warders, £300 a picce. Signed R.C. Piease excuse crooked #caffold. 1 was too heavy, so I bent it. â€" Ileave you £5,000." The tone of this letter can of course be traced to the penny dreadiuls, but the heart and the #pirit behind it belong to the individual, The jury evidently did not want to have the lad hanged, and brought in a verdict of "‘guilty, but insane,." At the same time it is quite evident that while he is abnormal he is not insane. He was nevertheless sentenced to be conâ€" fined in some iosane asyluin during her Majesty‘s pleasure. Rmm#.;nnwar and an honest opinion, write to LUNN & CO., who have bad nearly fifty years‘ experience in the patent business, Communicaâ€" tions strietly confldential, _A Handbook of Inâ€" formation concerning Patents and how to ob» tain them sent free. Also a catalogue of mechan» ical and scientitic books sent free. _ _ : _ Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive :Eocm noticeinthe Scientific American, and us are brought widely before the publicwith= in the father‘s last voyage, at a town called Plaistow. Nathaniel, the younger boy, told the story in the witnessâ€"box of what happened after the father left home, Pre. vious to his departure Robort bought a knife gor & sixpence, with the deliberate intention of killing his mother with it, He slept with her, and on the night of the 7th July stabbed hor to death, He then told his brother, who wassleeping in anotber room. Nathaniei would not believe in the fact until be went and saw his mother lying dead on the bed. uch as attending cricket matches, etc., with the money thus obtained. They lived in the house, and when arrested were «moking and playing cards with a partial imbecile named Fox, whom they had picked up as a companion, while the mothers‘ body was putrefying upstair®. Nuthaniel, being asked what reason Robert gave for desiring the death of his mother, replied that he wanted to get money and go to "some island." This allnsion brings up another phrase of the case, It is alleged that the boy Robert was an ardent student of the class of literature known as ** perny dreadfuls," and the Eng!ish press almost unanimously traces the absormail moral condition of the lad to the influence of this class of reanding matter, It is, no doubt unwholesome pabulum with which to stufl the young mind, but to say that it made this lad the moral monster that he is, is straining the matter a little too far. Jt will very likely be found that many of the men who are toâ€"day distinguished in law, divinity and literature both in Eugland and America have in their callow days been devotees of the penoy dreadfal, While doubtless they received some curiously disproportionate views of life, the perusal of the wbsurd stufl did not lead them into ii For Sale by all Druggists, or addross J Dr. D. T. K ENDALL COMIP AN and to argue from any thing he may have done to general principles would be very misleading. The reading of the yellowâ€" backed literature may have given adirection to his evil propensitics, but it did not create them. The boy‘s extraordinary callousness may be estimated from the following letter which he wrote from prison to Rev. Mr. Shaw of Plaistow : MCrg® â€" *From R. A. Coombs, H. M. Prison, Holloway, 14 Sept., 1895 : _ An Awful Crlu‘r of a Boy Thirtcen Years of Agcâ€"Mis Renson for the Dreadfal Actâ€"A Characteristle Letterâ€"IHs Trial! nud Sentence, The trial of two boys, Robert and Nathâ€" aniel Coombs, in London, England, has esulted in the discharge of the latter and he committal of the former to anlasylum. The case has chalienged a sort of horrified attention from one end of England to the ather, â€" The two boys, who ars the sons of a stewart of an Atlantic steamship runâ€" ning to New York, are aged respectively 13 and 12, â€" They were left with their mother, Then they took what money they lay hands on and locked her doo:. indulged in some of the wbsurd stufl did not lead themm in the commission of even the lesser misi meanors, let alone the awful crime . murder CRIME OF A LITTLE B0Y. R H MUNN & CO., NEw YouK, 361 Broapway. think it the best Linkr moved one Curb, ime teo Hone Mpayins several of my frieud and keep it. Ies Dear 8irsâ€"Pleas wend me one of your Horse Books and oblige. I have used a great deal of your Kendall‘s Spavin Cure with {‘ood wuccess ; it in i wonderful medicine. 1 once had a mare that had an Oeentt Spavin and fire botties cured her. 1 keep a bottle on hand all the time. Yours truly, Cuas. Powrtr, KENDALL‘S SPAYIN CURE Dr. B. J. Kexparz Co Dear Sirsâ€"I have 1 " Kendall‘s Spavin C _ _ Box ;‘amun. Henderson Co., 111., Feb Dr. 3. J. Xampatt Co. _ oC YOUNG MONSTER STABS HIS MOTHER TO DEATH. Niile Certain in its offects and never blisters. Kead proofs below : â€"that will do just as well. I‘ll > myself, I hope you are all well. on Monday to the Old Bailey to be I hope you will be there. 1 think ill sentence me to death, If they ill call all the witnesses liare. 1 your affectionste friend, R. A. "" ; was attached to it a drawing of a with two figures being pushed forâ€" y another, over whom there was the ** Executioner." ‘There was the Scene I., going to the scaffold." At er side there was another DRAWING OF A GIBBET, n being hanged while the words e issued from his mouth, and the words, **Here goes nothing." FOR MAN OR BEAST. The boy Coombs is evidently ENOSBURGH FALLS, VT INNOCKENT DISSIPATION A MORAL MISFIT, could They For Sale by McFARLANE & CO,, Wholesale Agents for From Kussia the crop reports are rather cenflicting. . The latest ofl?chl report says that fine hot weather was good for the harvesting of the winter crops, but was unâ€" favorable for -‘rrmg crops, which ripened too quickly and wiil consequently yield a poorly developed grain. _ Uats and wheat especially suftered from this. The general crop outlook in South Russia is much deteriorated,report indicates therefore that the crops are much worse thin last year, when nearly all the crops were far above an average, From Australasia the latest crop reports are sa:isfactory, but in Argentina according to latest cables, the outlook is dessribed us by no means brilliant for the wheat crop, *Eight bushels makes one quarter. Du:ring his experience of ncarly m quarter of a century as a newspaper pablisher in Paris, Ont., Editor Colâ€" well, of The Paris Review, has pubâ€" lished hundreds of columns of paid medicito advertisements, and, no doubt, printed many z gracefullyâ€" worded puff for his. patrons as & matter of business, but in only a single instance, and that one warrantâ€" ed by his own personal experience, has he given & testimonial over his own siznature. . No other remedy ever ofered the public has proved such a marvelious revelation to the most sceptiâ€"al as the South American Norvine ‘Tonic. It has never failed i1 its purpose, and it has cured when Lumber, Shingles and Lath always ‘"Oh ! your too fly," remarked the wind 0 the kite. *"‘Well, 1 notice you alweys ve â€" me a good rerdâ€"of!," retorted the kite. â€" The Italian wheat crop is zow officially estimated at 13,000,000 grs, against 14,â€" Sash and Door Factory â€"â€"allass (} gopetoe Saving Completed our New Factory we are now prepared to FILL ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY. We keep in Stock a large quantity of Sash, Doors, Mouldings, Flooring and the differâ€" Good and Bad Reporis From Biferent Countrics. In France the harvest has been completed under the most favorable conditions, and the Minister of Agriculture has now issued his estimate of the wheat crop, which greatly exceeds all previous expectations the total yield is, in fact, put at 336,000,009 bushels or only 6,400,000 less than last year. France will require to import very little wheat this year, In Austriaâ€"Eungary the wheat crop is finally deecribed as m good average one, which means that it is little short of last year, but that rye is about 2,750,000 qrs.* less than last year. In Roumania, according to the latest official report, the grain crops are not #o abundant as was expected, but they ure much larger than last year, Wheat, for instance, givieg 8,250,000 qrs, against about 5,500,000 gre last year, | From Spain the latest reporte state that the crop as m whole is much below last year‘s, which was a very good one,reaching 13,000,000 qre. _ . 750,000 grs last year, so that, as the past season‘s imports have been about 2,500,000 ara, Italy may be estimated to require over 4,000,0C00 qrs in the season just comâ€" menced. From Buigaria reports po‘nt to very large crops of wheat and barley, C médicine, Huidr=ds of test deifal recoveries w Groat Stth Americ were received from all over ta= country began to prescribe t in chronic cases « digestion, nervous Hundreds of testimonials of wonâ€" defal recoveries wrouzht with the Groxt S utth Awerican Nervine Tonic were received from men and women all over ta= country betore physicians began to prescribe this great remedy in chronic cases of dyspepsia, inâ€" digestion, nervous prostration, sick bheaduche, and as a tonic for buildâ€" ing up systems sapped of vitality through protracted spelis of sickâ€" nc Nowspapar ccitors are almost as serptical as the average physician on the subject of new remedies for sick people. â€" Nothing short of a series of most remarkable and well authentiâ€" cated cures will incline either an editor or a doctor to seriously consider the merits henestly claimed for & ent Kinds of Dressed Lumber for outside sheeting. Our Stock of DRY LUMRE is very Large so that all orders : can be filled. If EDB{TORS, CLERGYMEN, PRYSIGIANS 0 F 17- /,/4 %\\'S:P ‘?‘ 6 T\ 4Mb THE WORLD‘S WHEAT C20P. CiÂ¥ mASE a and esns C > a9//¢l. " & (i@Nixw 3 ds n d > yssm ) us â€" d P "AAApP 2 ’\ 24 :/// “{{/( 'J}j‘ 'lr/é r;?i % T 7 s ) /Up ’/ Fr ///jyf : Atr#rrp se PaT%} /E TL /1"\\.%\' Y rAZ //,z?' j »v‘ 2 â€" ,5,«./?3’:"5 es â€" > 7z rd Women in all Walks of Lif Tell of the Remaikable Cures Wrought by South American Nervine Toric. EDITOR COLWELL, OF PARIS, ONT., REVIEW, 3 WILL CONYIKCE THE MSST INCREDULOUS. ience of ncarly & y as a newspaper Ont., Editor Colâ€" Review, has pubâ€" * Tâ€"s Gs C EC & . In Stocli. Agents for Durham and Vicinity .. G&. & J. McKECHNIE ‘ The South American Nervine Tonic rebuilds the lifo forces by its direct action on the nerves and the nerve centres, and it is this notable feature which distingvishes it from overy other remedy in existence. The most eminent medical authorities now concedethatfully twoâ€"thirds ofall the physical ailments of humanity ariso from exhaustion of the nerve forces. The South American Nervine Tonic acting direct upon the nerve ceutres and nerve tissues instantancously supplies them with the true nourishâ€" ment required, and that is why its invigorating effects upon the whole system are always felt immediately. For all nervous discases, for general debility arising from enfeebled vitalâ€" ity, and for stomach troubles of every variety no other remedy can possibly take its place. tried in vain. * I was prostrated with & particuâ€" larly severe attack of ‘ La Grippe,‘" says Mr. Colwell, and could find no relief from the interso pains and disâ€" tress of the malady. 1 suffered day and night. Te doctors did not help me, and I tried a number of mediâ€" cines, but without relief. About this time I was advised to try the South Ame:ican Nervine Tonic. Its effects were instantaneous, â€" The first dose I took relioved me. L improved rapidly and grew stronger every day. Your Nervine Tonic cured me in a single week." doctors and other medicines we:! tried in vain. astonished at the results. No other blood medicine that I have ever used, and I have tried them all, is so thorough in its action, and effects so mauy permanent cures as Ayer‘s Sarsaparilia."â€"Dr. L F. MimRILL, Augusta, Me. Jn L2E ~ Ayer‘s omy Sarsaparilla PR _A Ayer‘s Pills for tiver and bowels. WITHOUT AN EQUAL. * Ayer‘s Sarsa as a bloodâ€"purific cannot have pral its effects in ci treatment was o AYERS man Statemenrt of 2 Well Known Doctor Resulits Astonish Admitted at the World‘s Fair. MEN OF SCiENCE. A MEDICINE Dr. H. F. Merrill Na is without an equal ad Spring medicine, and nough. Ihave watched ic cases, where other > avail, and have beeit sults. No other blood e ever used, and I have thorough in its action, y permanent cures as the world. 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Sol1 by all druggists throughout Benny Bloombumperâ€"Papa, when you say there are no flies on anything, you mean the thing is pretty good, don‘t you* Mr. Bioombumperâ€"Not always, Benny, The rule has its exceptions. Suppose you re speaking of fly paper, for instance * The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. â€"Goethe. English Spavin Liniment removes ail Hard,Scft or Calloused Lum;sand Blemishes from horses, Blood Spavins, Curbs, Splints, fweeney, Ring Bone, Stifies, Sprains, a‘l Ewollen Throats, Coughs, etc. Save $50 by ame of one bottle. 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