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TEE WEEK'S NEWS. CAXaoa. The entire medical staff ol the Cttawa General Hospital ka* resigned. A large shipment of Manitoba butter was made on Monday to F ;glan<l. Ottawa proposes M spend forty-five tnousand dollars to improve its fire protec- tion. Mr. John Crowe has presented the Guelph General Hospital with an operating The estimated expenditure of the Hamil- ton Polios Commissioners this year is HMI* The Finance Committee of the City Coun- cil of Hamilton have struck the rate of taxation at 19$ mill* It is expected thai the new Sanlt Ste. Marie canal will be open about a week after the commencement of navigation. J. G. Gandaur ot Orillia, champion of America, offers to row any man in the world for $'.>,. VX) a side over any course in .America. Simeon Gagneau was instantly killed by the breaking of a large circular taw which ke was a' tending in Sheatt's mill in Dover Township. Ths fourteenth annual meeting o : the Canadian Pacific railway will be hel 1 on the 3rd of April in the company's head offic in Montreal.. Controller Wallace has decided that electricity coir.es under the head of nnen- numerated articles, and must pay a duty of twenty per cent. The city of Winnipeg and the Manitoba Government propose spending S-MO.iHiO in making the Red river navigable from Lake Winnipeg to the city. The thermometer at MacLeod.K. W. T., on Friday was above nicety degrees in the sun. There is no snow whatever there.and) the rivers have been open for ten days. The Londonderry Iron Company's blast furnace waslightedat Loudojderry, N. >.. on Thursday. The stocks of ore, iuel, and limestone on hand and contracted for are sufficient for twelve mouths' work. A bill will be introduced into the Onta- rio Legislature during the present session which will so amend ths Act governing the Agriculture and Arts Association as to practically abolish that institution. The Rev. J. W. Annis, pastor of the Queen's av:nue Methodist church, London, Ont., died on Thursday from brain disease, by which he was stricken down about two weeks ago. He was 45 yean of age. Neil Heath, B. A. , late vice-principal ot the High school. Victoria. B. C., who was suspended for six monthi for using language disrespectful to the Catholic doctrine of trans substantiation, has committed sui- oid* John S'.ooe, the Grand Trunk conductor who was arrested tome months ago on a charge of defrauding the Grind Trunk railway, and against whom a true bill was returned, has sold his property and run sway. Mr. FosU i. the Finance Mmistsr.received on Friday a ofceque for five thousand dol- lar* from Sir Donald Smith, to be applied to the Thompson memorial fund. This brings the amount of the fund up to thirty- one thousand dollars. It is likely that the venue in the Valley - field murder will be changed from Beau- harnoii to Montreal, which will be more oonveuient for all parties concerned in the al, and Montreal gaol will be safer for prisoner than Beauharnoi* X Uer Kelly, the man who assaulted Station Agent Smith of the C. P. R. at Sutton Junction, U under arrest al Sweets- burg. H told the whole story how he was hired to do the job by saloonkseper* Kelly has waived extradition. Thos. Brown, o9 years ot age, who was, arrested at Montreal on Nov. 16th last for assaulting bis daughter, commuted suicide at the gaol by cutting his throat with a ra/or. The prisoner had been in gaol five times before on various charge* In view of the refusal of the United States Congress to vote the indemnity to the sealers agreed upon, the Dominion Government is now urging the Home au- thorities to decline to assent to ths en- forcement of the seslmg regulations during what the present year. An ordsr-in-Council has been passed de- j claring that booms consisting of sticks and chains, when imported into Canada | from the United States for the purpooe of confining er towing to the I'nited States! logs or limber of Canadian growth, are to j be free fiom duty as long as Canadian boomt are admitted into the United Stales duty free. With tcgard to the charge that the Grand Trunk railway, by paying a high commis- sion on all prepaid passenger* routed by way of Montreal, i* attracting transatlantic business to Montreal, to- the detriment of New York and the steamship companies whose vessels sail into that port, Mr. Sear- geanr, the general manager of the Grand Trunk, says there it not the slightest grievance as a matter of fact, and that their action has been upheld by all their colleagues in the association. CREAT BKITUN. throat i of his wife and six children on Thursday morning, and then took hit own life. The British navy estimates ior the eniuing year are tilxTUIJH-M. being i'l,- .;::. ix> more than the estimates for I>'j4. A number of new vestels will be con- structed. Up _o '.hit lime one hundred thousand dollars has been promistd in response to the appeal for five hundred thousand doi art for the decoration of St. Paul's cathedral. London. The North-German Lloyd Steamship Company will begin a fortnightly service with fast eleamers in April. between Quebec and Montreal and Manchester, by way of the Manchester thip canal. The Imperial Colonial Othce tayt ths report that Major-i -en. Herbert, commander of the Canadian militia, was about to resign in consequence of disagreements with the Dominion Government is untrue. The deficit in the Imperial Postal Telegraph Department for the current year is estimated to ke f-i'OOJJOO, or an increi CANADIAN WHEAT SUPPLY THE GOOD QUALITY OF OUR WHEAT KNOWN THE WORLD OVER. Canada'* itxlatlea le Ike Wlarai ttepplv ef ' Werld Lewer Canada Wan lurnn-r IT the reamer IB' Wheal Tradr ef Iheretmlry Tlse Falare ef the Surlh West. " Whet/ and Canada's Relation to the Wheat Supply of the World," waa the sub- ject of a very interesting and instructive lecture delivered by Mr. Edgar Judge, in Montreal, the other evening. The lecturer was listened to with rapt attention by a large audience of ladies and gentlemen and was frequently applauded. Mr. Judge said: " My subject is an important one ; indeed, fsw economic questions are of greater im- , vm V,,,II..G< vu VV V*,fW,VW. 1*1 1*14 lu^. CM. II . , L , ,, of WOO.UOU, although the groes receipts P rt a< than the world t supply of wheat; from telegrams are expected to show an increase of $150,000. There has been a heavy fall in British imports from Canada. Iraring the month of February, as compared with the corres- ponding month last year, they declined from t VJ.VJT to :>5,S6li, and for the two mouths of this year there is a decline from t*2,W6 to 1U1,:I93. The Bankruptcy Court at London decided I that many of the liabilities of the firm of i Wynne & Son, solicitors, who* failure for from :tOO,llOO to 400,000 watt announced on Tuesday, are breaches of trust. Accord- ing to the court'* decision, an inquiry into the transactions of the firm will be neces- sary, acd criminal proceedings will follow. In the British House of Commons Sir Edward Grey.replymg to Sir Richard Web- ster and Sir George Baden- I'o well, said that when the Congress at Washington refused to make an appropriation to settle the Canadian claims for BehrmgSeaseuures,and thereby reiecteil the decision of the arbi tration agreed to by the representatives at still it seems to me to be one of a class of questions which have a special interest ' rr only a limited number. And, yet, it it not inly the farmers and gram merchants of the world whose prosperity is affected by wheat. Every man and woman has a real and personal interest in that cereal, mas much as upon the volume and price of the wneat crop the general prosperity of an agricultural country greatly depends. If farmers are prosperous the demand for general merchandise is active ; merchants grow rich and contribute of their abund ance, in many instances, to the extension of colleges and to the promotion or the Arts Metropoiia, He ala-> stated that wheat is not infrequently shipped from New York to London and Liverpool for lees money than it ould cost English farmers to cart their wheat from their farms TO TOK VFARE9T RAILWAY STATION. "At the perioj to which lam referring." said Mr. Judge, "the depth of the channel in Lake St. 1'eter was only eleven feet, and a lH,liN).busbel cargo wa* then con- sidered a large one. At present it is not in uncommon thing for vessels to carry cargoes of over 100, 000 bushels from Mont- real to Europe. Tha firat shipment east wss made in HT.i by the Ogilvies, who have since become famous for their exten- sive manufacture of flour from Manitoba wheat. As the ( '. P. R. neared comple- tion glowing predictions as to the lutur- of Manitoba were again in order An estim- ate of a wheat crop of 1UU million busn- els within a very few years was a moderate one. ( rops of two hundred millions, three hundred even six hundred millions within twenty years were the more san- guine prediction*. Unfortunately, by this! SOME LATE CASLES. PBINCE OF WALES HEALTH IS FAR FROM GOOD. .!. O..I*. lu.litstrial rrejrrt* IB < *. -l.i l.ird ..;~-lr> l* citr a Faarv lr.-., H.II rur Klarkk.il 1. 2 .f r. II Uh.Mlr. r.. elr. LOMHIN, March ID. The ',>ueen has granted letters patent u> Lady Sibell* Macken/ie, e'der daujnter of in late Earl of Cromarlir, to tie Countess of Cromartie, m the name manner at was her grand- mtj'inT, tne UK Anne, Uuchess of Sucner- lan.l, who was Duchess of .Sutherland before tneepiwde of Mrs. Blair, the present Dowager Duchess of Satherland, wnoee life in Florida will be recalled by many Lora Wolseley. commander of the forces time there were some indications or the ' in Ireland, has issued invitations to a fancy ak themselves, If tnu large quantity of ' m l>ub11 ". <"> l which the ladies must wheat is to be grown in our North- West ; oe droased to as 10 resemble tome painting where is a market to be found for it ? This by Sir Jothua Reynolds, George Rjmney. is the difficulty which conlronts us to-day. ! or Thomas Gamsi>orou ? h. We hate, as I have said, untold millions ; The official correspondence between toe scree of the finest wheat land in the j Marquis of Ripoo. the Secretary ot State there, which produces m abundance | f or (joionial Affairs, and the Karl of Aber- thennest wheat in the world. Yte, alter ,ieen, Governor < ieneral of Canada, in re. UtMM years, I doubt if the largest crop I gar ,i to the death ot Sir John Thompson. which has been raised exceeded twenty premier ,,f Canal*, was published on million bushels, or aboo: half^the quantity Tuesday last. The M.rquis of R.pon referred to the premature close of the active and brillitnt career of the Canadian state*- formerly grown m Ontario. Five times, Tits TIMES THIS ...'.-AMITY could have been have been under raised probably would more favorable cir-uin- n:i, marked I y solid, useful statesmanship, WHICH msde him feel that the lose was a stances, bat neither price nor demand has ! national one. I 'ontinuing, the Marquis Money, too, circulates '. been favorable to greatly eiteuded cu'.- ftl ' i - " tne deaal wa a loyal and elo- ture " qnent advova'.e or every tiling which tended The speaker then dwelt upon the decline to tne """"X <"' tne Empire." in price* of wheat. Tint he attributed to In club circles last week there was much two facts. First, an increased production, ' comment upon the sensation caused, first and wicondly, tue increased facility and , by the blackballing of the Hon. Cecil and Sciences. freely and the general happiness of the community it increased. " At the present." continued Mr. Judge no grain u so univeruily cultivate 1 as wheat. It adapts itself to all climates. nation agreed toby the representatives at wheat. It adapts itielf to all climates, ' e ** ellei ' eott ' transportation. The United Rhodes, Premier of Cape Colony, at the Paris, the Imperial Government instructed I . _ T_JJ , ', State* wheat crep, m 1S9-J, he said, was | Travelers' Club; and secondly at the fact the British Ambassador at Washington to | ' r '" , certainly m excess of ux hundred million that the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Fife. ih ing too urge a resumption of negotiation* Secre tary Gresham stated that he was quite prepared to resume, and the convention when signed would be submitted to Con- gress tor confirmation, but unless an extra session was called nothing could be done until December. The President and Secre- tary Gresham expressed great regret at the delay. 1 \ ITED STATES. The Gerry Whipping-post bill was passed unanimously on Thursday by the New York Senate. It is expected that the medals and dip- lomas of the World's Columbian Exhibition will be issusd about May or June next. Judge Barrett, of New York, has gran ted an absolute divorce to Alva E. ( Mm. Will- iam K. ) Vanderbilt, giving her the custody of the children. The fifty-third United State* Congress adjourned on Monday at noon, without passing the bill providing money for the payment of the Behring Sea award* George J. Gould says ths statement that Count de Castellane ever received a penny from the Uould family is a falsehood from beginning to end. That he ever made ucb a proposition is equally untrue. The steamer Longfellow, starting from Cincinnati to New Orleans with a hundred people on hoard, struck the channel pier of the Chesapeake A Ohio bridge. The vessel went to puces und sight lives were lost. The case of Harry Hayward, charged with the murder of Catharine Gmg, cf Minneapolis, Minn. , came to a conclusion on Friday afternoon. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the tint .lei-ret. The five-storey flat hoots. No . 370 Col. umbus avenue. Sew York, was burned on Tuesday. Al! the tenants eecapetl, with the exception of one helpless old woman, Mrs. Kennety, HII years of age, who was forgotten in the excitement, and after the ' flame* had beeu extinguished was found j burned to death. Commercial advices from the Unite.! States are of a more encouraging nature this week. The improvement is Jus some- to better weather, but apparently more to the adjournment of Congress. There has been an increased demand for lumber and building material* generally, including larger orders for structural steel ana iron. In ths South cotton fac- tories re more active and stapls dry gooiij are in improve, 1 demand. Foreign wuolleu goods are attracting more alien tioo, and competing with American goods of similar grade. The London wool that wheat the lee- , ectare( and Australia. It hat been the chief food of a large proportion of the human race from time immemorial, in fact this cereal U MENTIONED IX THE BIBLE in Genesis, and Joseph, I must say, was the bold orginator of what would be known in nineteenth century parlance) as the first great and successful 'wheat corner.' Of oonrte I am not asserting that Joseph was animated by the motives which govern the modern Chicago grain speculator. Personal greed is the leading passion with the Utter, whilst Joseph had a wiss and benevolent end in view. Still, the result of the first recorded ssries of largs tranaac- lions in wheat was greatly to enrich the king." Turning now to Canadian turer pointed out that in the early years of this century Lower Canada, was ths centre of the wheat trade of the country, the Richelieu Valley being then regarded a* the granary ot the Province. Considerable quantities of Lower Canada wheat, he said, were exported, ohiefly of the variety known a* "Black Sea," this wheat being held in high repute in England (or mixing with the er grades of English wheat. The de- cline in wheat culture in this province Mr. Judge attribute* to the persistent growing of that cereal, year after year on the same unmanured land until the soil became thoroughly exhausted, and the natural re- tull followed a succession of bad crops so disheartened farmers that by commou consent they discontinued growing whs*;. " Until the opening of the Grand Trunk Railway to Toronto and weetward, ' con- tinued the speaker, " wheat culture in the Upper Province was limited by difficulties transportation. Argentine Republic, from the North- We* t bushel*. He tnen showed how the immense of this continent to Kgypt, Algeria *nl ' exportable surpluses of the past three ' years were a cou'inu&l menace to the grain markets of the world and depressed price* Russia too frequently undersold the Slate* and India was an sager seller, while Aus- laralia and the Argentine were looming up as active riv Us, regardless of price* Russia was proclaiming that she had enormous acre* coming under cultivation. It really. seemed a* if only a succession of bad harvest* in- the leading producing centres j would restore prices. There is littie or nothing to say regarding Canada's relation to ths wheat supply of the worl.l. Tne world's wheat crop is estimated at i4OO,OUO,'OU bushel*. Can. atla's crop the North-Wsst included was last year lee* than 40.000,000 bushels. Still, witn this crop, we have a small surplus for export and moderate quantities of Manitoba wheat and .'iur are exported. Tne jiianlity { is, however, loo small to have any appre.i- I able effect upon the wheat markets of the I wcrld. It will be apparent, from much I have said in the course of this ibat I do not look upon it as a matter for regret that Canada is ^"T A MORE ACTIVK COMPETITOR in the export trade in wheat. In my opin- ion. Ontario farmers an belur employed than in trowing wheat for export. Of our North- West I will only say this : We -nay feel a confident assurance that under more favorable circumstances it will come to the front and that crops there will only be limited by the ability to rind a profitable market (or them. In concluding his ad that the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Fife, his son-in-law, and Earl drey have resigned their membership of that club, thereby giving a damaging blow to its prestige. The blackballing ol Mr. Rhodes, following closely upon the refusal of the Maryborough dub to elect Mr. Belt, the Soulh African millionaire, and a partner of Mr. Rhodes in the De Beers diamond mines, is giving club- men a lot u> talk about. The Marlborough is the favorite club of the Prinoe of Wales, and nobody is propose 1 for membership there until hit name has first been submit- ted to the 1'rinoe. To make matters uglier, Mr. Beit, it will be remembered, was proposed by th Duke of Fife. The Prince, when he heard tnat Mr. Beit had been blackballed, offered to have him renomi- nated, but the .South African millionaire wisely declined. The London County Council elections have proved the downfall of the licensing party which made the trouble at the K.-npire theatre at the instance of Mrsf Ormistosi Chant, and in consequence there is great rr'oicmg in the amusement circlesof London. In consequence of the action of the members of tne .National Federation of Boot Manufacturers in notifying their operatives to stop work on March Iti, owing to com- p.icated ditpuie concerning the use of machinery and other matters, the shoe operativt-t' union has retaliated by calling out all the operatives who are not obliged tn Hive a week's notice. Ten thouaad operatives left their work yesterday. Reports to thecontrury notwithstanding, the Prince of Wales is grievously ailing, dress Mr. Judge said : " It is.iuit'e possible ! ">ro"|> "me trouble with the veins m ins to grow oOU.OttO.OUU bushels of wheat in that ' wnloh h " associated "*" wlth P"""' country, ae its wheat area is greater than OU V v " t ^ M mwiifestations , his lower that ol the whole United States. The '""^ . T""" varicose symptoms have de- superior ,,ulity of Manitoba wheat It well veloped very much recently. In coose- known i*.iii in the British and continental qn * "' trouble, it has been arrange,! of With the advent of railways the acreage under wheat rapidly increased and Upper Canada wheat toon made quite a reepectable showing in the list of British imports. The maximum crops of that province reached 40,Ui)0,iJOU. but wheat has ceased to be a profitable crop and the farmers of Ontario have turned their attention to mixed farming, oattle raising and tne dairy, with the result that the official estimate of the last, wheat crop was only 19,<KX).OUU bushels. With the cession of the Hadson Bay territory to the Dominion a new era dawned for wheat markets, and once the incubus ot excessive upplies i removed it may be that a ! brighter era will drawn for wheat culture in Manitoba. Ws can hardly imagine the impetus which would be given to the pros- perity of the Dominion by the harvesting ! and selling at a fair price of a crop of even i -W.'WJOO bushels . Let us hope that the time when such a crop will be grown is not so distant a* present indicatiocs seem Severe weather lias returned to Great Kritain and the northern part of the Con- tinent. Sir Henry Rwlmson, at one time pre- sident of the Royal Ctographical Society, is dead. Great Britain expects to be able to with- draw a bittalion of British troops from Kgypt during the present year. Seven miners were killed on Wednesday morning while descending the shaft of the Mail-Beach lead mine, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Sir William Scovell Savory, F. R. S., Surgeon-Extraordinary to the ijueen, and late president of the Royal College of Surgeons, ii dead. Sir Joseph Dodge Weston, Liberal mem- ber of Parliament for Kast Bristol, is dead. He had been suffering from influenza for some time past. / Mr. Geo. \V. Smalley, tho well-known London correspondent ot the New York Tnbuii*. has be%u appointed American correspondent of the London Times. A plasterer named Taylor, living at Lower Tooting, near London, cut the GENERAL. from The French President is suffering influenza. The Egyptian Council of State has cided to extend the lailway to Assouan. The French have seized the Island of Nossivey, on the south-west coast of the Inland of Madagascar. The Prince of Wales' Britannia was defeated in the Cannes regatta on Thursday by the new Scotch cutter Ailsa. A Russian Imperial decree has been issued abolishing the use of the knout for offences committed by the peasantry. The Emperor of China has completely vindicated Li-Hung-Cbang from the charges brought against him. He has been fully restored to favor, and accredited as peace envoy to Japan. Consul General Penfield, stationed at Cairo, Egypt, in a report to the United States Department of State, shows that during the year 3,.'15'.J vessels passed through the Sue/ Canal, an inciease of ten over the preceding yar. I'RAlKlls or THAT CHEAT COCVTRY mar ket is stronger. Bessemer pig iron is un- culture in 1 Canada. The fertile changed, and lumber is advancing. The industrial situation does not improve, and strikes at I'lttsburg ars adding to the industrial depression, thut decreasing the spending power of the people. American stocks are generally weak in the London market. care foe such me, no ; but I gOnll COOk, dishes, ' produce the finest wheat in the world, and are capable of raiting crops which will place Canada in the first rank as an export- ing country. The steady decline in the price of wheat for some years has, however, hindered the extension of wheat culture there, and probably the largest crop yet grown did not exosed twenty million i bushels. 1 attribute the depression in wheat chiefly to two causes, over production and the lessened cost oi transportation. The United Slates alone in the last three yean produced 1,600,000,000 bushels of whsat, leaving such an enormous surplus for exports that it has been a continual menace to the wheat markets of ths world. The exports of the Argentine Republic sprung up from lees than 4,OOO,000 bushels in 1891 to OO.UOO.OIK) in 1S94. Russia has produced large crops and has, with India and Australia, been an eager seller at continually declining prices. The great reduction in freight rales has enabled these countries to continue exporting, whereas, if the old scale of rates existed, they would have been absolutely prohibited from shipping at current prices in Europe. Supplies are thus continually pressed upon importing countries, (raving no opportunity for recovery in values as m old times, when low prices usually reduced xnipments until importers were compelled to raise their bids in order to secure lupplie*.'' Mr. Judge gave tome extraordinary in- stances of the great decline in freight rates. He pointed out that wheat could bo ship- Caller" Dear, pd from Chicago to London for less money m suie the will make a that it would cost the English farmer shs breaks so many lovely I living 1"" miles from London to get his I wheat carried from his tarm to the Engl'sh that he make a prolonged stay m the Riviera. Gentral Booth has returned, filled with ent) u>i.ia i>- confidence in ins future of the Salvation Army, and of its industrial pro- ject* in Canada. He seems to have stint) doubts about the L'nited States. He was greatly pleased with the attentions shown him by th officials of the Harvard and Chicago Universities, and equally surprised imply. The possibilities are with us-the lo fiu i "uch an exceptionally large proper- promise of the future is with us I had "" oi professing Christians or regular almost <aid that the certainty is with ut churchgosrs to the population : but he that Canada will ultimately take the place so long occupied by the United States r **' that of the largest wheat exporting country in the world. When it does, then indeed, our North-Wsst will bloasom as the rose. Then its vast area will be the happy home of millions, living free and prosperous lives where once the Indian and the buffalo held undisputed sway." Caller " I am going to send my little girl to cooking school at ODCS." "Doesshe .-rn for such thiuijrs ? " Caller "Dear. A MAN DREAMS HE IS PURSUED- erere H. u Awakened H> u Badly i ut and tleasMl Freaeau A despatch from Detroit, says : Sun lay night Ernest Schroeder listened to a grewtome story told by his wife about a women in Germany who had killed twelve men. The details were so horrible they disturbed bis slumbers. Early Monday morning Schroeder saw the ama.'-n's horrid eyes peering through his own bed-room window. Slowly she raised th* sash and was soon at his bedside. She grasped for his throat with her trurderoui fingers, but with a desperate bound he escaped from the bed. As he did so his head banged into the wall and knocked off a lot of plastering. But that did not awaken him. He thought himself still pursue.! by the womsn and fled through the house to the sitting-room win- dow. The sash was closed, and so were the blinds, but lhat didn't stop Ernest. He jumped through glass, blinds and all and landed a do/en feet below in the frozen enow on his hands and knee* His night robe was torn completely off by the glass in tne window, and without a lag upon his manly form he dashed madly up the street. He had not gone far before Patrolman Kornman taw him %nd a lively chase ensued. It wan not until the officer caught him lhat Ernest awakened from his terrible night- mare, 'the policeman conducted him to his home and found that he had been so badly cut and to nearly frozen that medical treatmeni was necessary. He was dressed in warm clothes and sent to Harper Hospital. from the world all thu ngnifie* About the Dominion, though, he ha* no reservations. He believes that he is going to astonish the globe by the mag- nitude of his achievement* there, and ap- parently his plans are all cut and dried for beginning an exodus of emigrants from this tide which will be one of the most remarkable of our time. He is very san- guine, too, about keeping these 10.HOO colonists in Canada liter he has got them there. Cause for Joy. Oneman You look happy over tome* thing* Tother I am happy. We have a new girl at our house. Oneman Ah, let me congratulate you, I suppose you'd be happier if it were a boy T Tother Not much. It's the on!y girl we have ever had that knew her place and kept itandknew her business and attended to it. And we have to pay her only two and it half a week. Oneman Oh ah er let me congratti- ate you more than ever. Heredity. Binks Speaking of heredity, do you reme.nber Forrester, who bought some wild land and turned it into a farm? Winks Yes : he was the inventor of a very effective stump-puller. Bicks--Jusl i >. Well, his son is a very tuccessful dentist. Kept His Vow. And did he really keep hit vow of corn- nut' ing suicide when he found she i. not marry him T Why, yes in a fashion. He drank him- self to death. Oh ' Killed himelf on the instalment plan, did be '