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Markdale Standard (Markdale, Ont.1880), 16 Sep 1886, p. 3

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 .^J .^.-•6»c^.*. ^^-^.^rs* i gOXJBJBlHOLiD. ,--, .henldbeoB the leoend ^TJ/rihsuW be well^iMd ud kept .MflthB thenld be gone over Hght- t \f^ y„nlih twice ft year. Oiewi *!,befere applying *»e VMnlah. â- * vLldered olotb, nnder the tea. aet "'ml.tfe»l» pretty and saveithe *• %hlte, Turkey red andpenna- ioii U »nitable fvr the work. Mousses Cakb â€"One cap of 'cop "ng" cap eenr milk, not urd and butter mixed, teMpeon '"â-  egg'i ^-°' *® "â- ** " ****** " *^*'.jthat wooQen never embtzzlefer jk "'Tat they are not trueted In re- l^^-itiena without cenolneive evi- S xeipectablUty. With men It « MrrFisa â€" Take one egg, one "^k eie pint flw. a P«noh of aalt. '*.liabt,»dd part ot the milk, all "' Ten add reit of mUk. Bake ""iiinntes in buttered tini. £at shtoKB reccmmenda a lelntlon of a in aloeho' to keep rilver from Paint the ill ver with the ioln- ii eaeil^ washed off with hot ijn the gllvtfr la needed f er nie. I Raisins Easily.â€" Pour boil- over tbem, letting them stand "'to ioften, th.n penr it oflF. The «.y »ben be ea»ily pinched oat at the '^j,y giving an " extra twist" to the .jlO'K RaIsI"*S Mas s Fecit Cake â€"One and a .;-, brewn sugar, two of flaur, one ".(batter and chepped ralalns, three three tableapoons of soar m'.lk, half iBieda, half cup blackberry jim. ice;lent as well aa eoonemloal, ln«ver naes the fellowing preparatisn .(uuiiig fllver will never aak lor an- " twe ounues f ammonia, two of pre- ch»lk, »nd eight ennoes of rain wa- inpiy with a soft fl uinel and rab with lii jkin. Far the filagree worjt age a â- brnih In Persia, sells for one oent a sheet, li'aboat aa thick as sole leather, and „iea an apron. It is baked on the tbe oven in a few minutea, and la ipiead eat to cool. It ia sweet and ineme, and with fruit and vegetables J the chief article ef foid for a great oltte people, ku Omelet.â€" A geed omelet ismade of pieces of bam and one egfir, a pfnch of ,ae tecap 01 mlk and flsur enough like qnito a thick batter, and a little 3aat the eggs, then add the milk, tnd soda, peur the batter over the ef meat and you have a cheap and idnicil breakfast dish. " hre glycerine has inactive affinity for Tied If applied to the hands absorbs otlatme ef (heskir, increasing instead liSjing irritation. By washtnii; and .jpsrtially rrying the bands bef ere pat- snth'iglyctrire the clli^uityls avoid-: Uc the glycerine may be dilated with ilsnithitii bn!k ef water, !lie detection f alum in bread is aooom- led IB fo:iO^s A piece of gelatin frm amn is icimfTsed inaooolin- itcefthe su'pected bread fer twenty- oeura Tbr gelatin, upen being wash- d with (iistilitd water to .which has icded a little cf a ten per crnt. gcln- of legsreed tincture and ammonium iDite, ihonld not show a blae coloration ibnad is free frem alum. SUPPLE Ice Ckkam,â€" One pound of ipple grated fine, yolks of eight eggs, piiimi ot sugar, one pint of milk and pht of cream, a little salt. BjU the icd cream, that the pineapple may ittnsit into acid, then add the yolks, II beaten with the engar, and grated pine- le,itir all tegether over the fire nntil it I te thicken. When beginnicg to In the freezer add e pint of whipped this is a great improvement fanV lybe emitted. gtekt are the rcspeneibiUties ef jera Simetimes an indigestible itieei food, by its tfi^cts up'.n a king, ffettbrewn an en-pire, A distingaisb- Rithticisn says, that of one thousand 'tiled men there ware thirty- eight »ii, and of ene theusnd married men figbtesn were crinainals. What a sng- 'inofh^me iLflupnces Let the most side ef them Hsusekeepere, by the tiiey provide, by the conches they ao. by tb.- bcoks they introduce, by ttntnce? ihey bricg around their heme, '.iiecidlDg tbe pbyalcal, Intellectual, i!ii,eteiBai destiny ef the race. â- I fc.vM Dessert -Soak half a !e Gt gelatine in half a cup ef oold 'wtll aifii. Wb en ihe gelatine ia soft, '•te coilitg tv?e and one half cups of "Fberty, unrraat, strawberry or grape Jweeten to tatte and turn over the ^}^ gelatine, bt-ir until perfectly dls- •511. then Etr»fn and set the dish in ioe '^rtacsel, Wnen it is cold and begin- •« th-.cken, bes.t the whites ef three "6 a atiff irotb, and stir into the *^H gelatine Bcatthoreughly with ,,b »tip or beater till the whole is of a iT^; "" entugh te retain its shape. â- â€¢'" minutes ef jjeed beating ought to '8. Turn iuta melds previously ,^ "Id water, or pile roughly in 'PeonfnlB in a glass dish. Set away J "V"gwatefr until needed. Serve iti'""' whipped cream sance idled '"» aretnd it, "^g hot water over ohina tends t« nJ?"' P'«es nn which the steam liill^. ^°'y- In washing dhhes,a d^r*" fi"« the dish pan with water '.«, *T"y *â„¢P ^^ » slop-bowl, .J„"yp'»to and dish into me dish, P«ed afterward into the garbage 'r '^ommenobg with the least •"Djsome 83ap en her mop or diah- nie, i?? '°8 a glass, cup or plate Into »»hU«^ ' ' "K'l^y "»d loaves It to I How ptkeepe He it i»lth J4b,7 "'^f ceat of soap on a oloth ttita^V^'y °^e' several pieces y »hen be taken out, drained, and » 6^. " ^^^ » pile In the dish- having a pil (^hina or glass cleaned with lod ^°i* ^^'°*! 'inaed, never leeks evoe, L'*^»ith •Ui»i.^""°8wwhen rinsed and i,erBBU '"h^l 1q » aelotien ef tea. '•^thtit?* grease, neither iMk 0«r â- " » tile touch, A FEMALli FOIEOHEB. TkeSlret Wes On a recant Menday momiiia'the senteBM ef death paaiad en Mary Ann Bdtland, faofe- •ry epenthre, ef Artan nnder L/ne. far p«b- ening|Mrs. Dlxen, wl/e of Themaa IXx n, waa curled eat at the Strange way agael, Manohaa ter. In her last hoars the prisoner was vary mneh ezdted. She ate souoeiy anytliing en Sunday night, and at midnight and daring the amaH hemrs of Monday meming she was heard meaning heavily and singioK snatohea of hymni. In the momiiig,wlMn the warden entered tha cell te {urepare her for *x-Kmtlen she looked wearied and ezoltad, and »he had no appetite for snoh refreahaBents as were offered te her. With as iittle delay aa pestible the ezeoationer, Berry, of Bradferd, had lijer pinioned, and the onstemary pre- cession started fer the soafield, wliloh is erected en the sooth- wcat center of the pris- on. Heading the prooeaaieB came tiie pih- on chaplaini reading the prayera. He waa followed by the prisoner, supported by twe female warders, with twe mate whrders in the rear. As the preoaesion left the cell in which the prisoner had been confined, one of the warders took np a pesitien en the roadway a short distance fiem the scaffold, in order te see that the sentence waa pro- perly carried Into effect. A little farther aw» steed the repreaentatlvee ef the press. Sa^the tailing of the prison bell and the screaming ef the poor woman, who was iMlng led to fxecntien, nothing was seen or heard for a minnte or twe by these who were wait- ing. Aa the preoession APPROACHED THS SCATFOLD the voice ef the chaplain was drowned by the prisoner's appeals te 0«d for meroy. " Oh, Lord have meroy I" •• Oh, fergire me, forgive me 1 ' S.ie cried piteonsiy. A few mir-ntes saffijed to bring the precession aleng the covered way oonneotiag the oeUs with the scafiold, and .tise prisoner, who looked thin and pale, was still shrieking with snch yo|oe as was left to her. It waa feared there weald soon be a scene en the scaffold, bat it was not so, Aa soon as the prisoner liad been placed nnder the beam her face covered in the uanal manner, the rope was pnt round her neck, and at a given signal from the exeontloner, the two female warders let go their, held of the prisoner^ The bolt was then drawn, and in an instant the woman was hanging at the end of the rope dead. The length of the rope was seven feet. Ttie length of the drop was seven feet. The hoisting of the black flag informed the crowd outside that the prisoner had suffered the last penalty of the law. SIOBT OF THE OBIHE. The crime far whioh Mrs. Bdtlaad has paid the full penalty of the law was ef a very extraordinary character. At the beginning of the year she resided at Aahten with her husband and two grown np danghters, and near them lived Themas Dixen and his wife. A close intimacy seemed te exiet between the two families, amd Mrs. Brttland was often seen in the cem];aay ef Dlxen, amd oo one eccasloB went en a janmey te Oldham in his company. In March last Mrs. Brit- land's daughter, who was engaged te be married, beeaoie suddenly iU, and died in great agony. Early In May Mrs. Bcitland's hu^bimd died nnder similar ctrcamstanoea, and a fortnight later Mrs. Dixon suddenly became ill and succumbed. Various rumors were circulated, and on the police making OBqairies ttey found Mrs. B-rltland had been a fr4 quent purchaser ef "mouse powder," The symptoms before death and an investi- gatien ot the bodies of the deceased led to the belief that tbey had been poisoned. Af- ter the death of Mrs. DIxan, Mrs. Britland seems to have been greatly alarmed, and In a cenvertatien with Mr. Iaw, a oefiee tavern keeper, asked him ** If they could tell if a person had been paiaoned?" and ' If they could discover if the person had mouse pow- der I" The police apprehended Mrs, Bdt- land, and also Thomas Dixon, the husbamd of the deceased woman, but Dixon was sub- sequently discharged. When being sentenc- ed to death, Mrs. Britland strongly pro- tested her innocence, and said she had not given poison to Mrs. Dixon. rOB THE TflOTJGHTPUL RrtKjrion is our life, being essential te our peaot !.' mind, our support nnder the trials of life, »r.6. enr fitness for the eternal world. We ought not to leek back, unless it ia to derive naefal lessens frem past errors and for the purpose ef profiting by dear-benght experience. Unless we are prepared to assert that all goodness oniminates in ourselves and recedes from others in exaot proportion to their dis- tance from us, we must admit that our feel- Irg^ are large factors ef injustice in the judgment that we are all ef us only toe ready to form. Few oompuions are mere delightful, aa few alio are mere rare, than a sympathetic person. So many good qualities make up the ideal sympathetic natureâ€" tact, unael- fiahnets, a knowledge ef many subjectsâ€" that it is not wonderful taat such gifted per- sons should be the exoeptlons, net the role, Trials of every kind may await you, sterner and darker than any yet experienced. Da not antidpate them, but do net forget their possibillqr. Da not, as yen prize your own soul, forget that your strength for every conflict depends on your being girded fer each as It comes, and never being cweless er weary. If we find that ear time passes slowly and heavily, we may be sure there is something wrong within. £lther we have net enough te do or we work me ch an i cally without heart er energy. If past time looks short and empty, it is iMoanse it lacks a distinct record ef noble aims, definite raaelvee, worthy endeaveors If tiie immediate future leeks tedious and onlntereating. It is be- cause we are net living fall, ildi, and eam est Uvea. The former kaewahe cannot diangethe speciea ef the seed and nuke rye yield wheat er barley eat* but lie alae knewa that he oan bring many inflaencea te bear open the growth ef each plant after ita Uadâ€" that he 1, ae accommodate Ita relations to son, air, water, and aeil aa te enanre its better devel- opment er te stunt sad impoTeriah it. Se, If we lean the tnw leaaen ef heredity, we dujl knew that hamiui tend en dea, real and aotud aa they are, depend fer their develep- ment largdy qpon the way they are treated. TBE WOBLD OYEB. Farmer Taft, ef UzbrUge, MasB..1iM a fate ef aftssia iHiieh he drtraa te hMncaa, •adwidehhave tcotted, wMi low in the ouriage, four mUea In half aa lumr. A threatening stenn deodlaiaraied the worshippers at a celered camp meistiag at Green Gsmp, Oliie, an Sunday, and In their hnrry to get away thirty-two boggiea were totally wrecked. Mme. Gndden, tiie widow ef Dr. Ond- den, who haa reoently been given £10.000 by the Bavariaa Oevemnunt, ia an anthoreaa of dilldren's stories, and herself iiaa eleven children. Sir William Armstrong Go. have jast ottain a very large oentracc fer the supply *f their guns to the Cuinese Government. They are wanted for the new fortlfioatfena of Formoaa. ' A Rondont cenple who liaye been en a spree for three weeks iiave In that time pawned every artlde ef funltnre in their rooms, and. It they do not die ef dellrlam tremens, will be sent te tiie almsheose. A Georgia fanner lias a* geat that joina gleefully with a hound In banting rabbits. When en the tndl he Imitates the dogs and runs with his nose to thegreond, but when the qnarry Is In view np go head and tail, and he dashes after the lufortniute bniiny regardless ot his companions. Lake Elsinereâ€" a body of water seven milea long, three wide, and dghty feet deep â€"is between Los Angdes and San Diego, Gal. A city is growing up all around it, and steaunboats make regular tripe along the shore, and people cam go from street te street by water in a diarmingly Tenidan manner. Hpw many people have any idea ef the enormous capital Invested in British rail- ways T The railway returns joet iasned show that there was open for traffic at the end of last year 19.169 miles of railway, that the oapital anthoilzsd In railway stock is £927.750 000. and the capital actually paid up £815.858 955 Thi total receipts from ttaffij were £66 644.967. Droitwioh Choroh, which is one ef.the oldest in Soglamd, is te be pulled down, aa a leoent subsidence in the ground has caus- ed the ^n'lding to become undermined. This is the affect of the pumping for brine, which haa eo seriously depressed the soil in and about D/oitwich. The fine old tower of the ohurch ia of qaite unknown age. It escaped the great fire ef 1293, which des- troyed most of the body ef the strnotare. Daring a railroad excursion from jLafay- ettte.Ind., te Dayton, O., the 'ether day, the train was stopped as It crossed the State line, and David Clark alighting stood in Indiana^ and Mrs. Mary Hawkins stood in Ooio, and a minister who waa present straddled the line and married them and then the 800 excursionists formed a oirde around the pair and gave them three cheers while the band p'ay^. Helen H. Blanohard, the daughter of an unsuccessful Portland merchant, failed as a bearding bouse keeper in Besteu, then bare- ly kept soul and body together by running a|sewtng machine In a Poiladelphia clothing house, and then invented an ever soMm stitch, and a patent sweat band for men's hats, and with the money frem these sue cessful inventions haM bought back the old Maine homeateaid, where the [iamily lived in the proeperoua daya ef the pnst. Henry Dmnelly of New H«ven heard criieo for help coming from Mill R'.ver, ram qalte a distance at full speed, reached the water in time to see a small bey sink for the third time, plunged in breathless as he waM, without removlxg even his shoes, fail- ed to get the boy at the first attempt, dived again, and just manaiged to bear the appar- ently lifeless body ashore when his strength gave out. Donnelly was dragged out faint- ing, the boy was resuscitated, and so was his mother, who had in the mean time ar rived and fainted. Another mouse that sings like a oanaury is reported. This little fallow waM captured by D.. Caldwell lof Santa (Rasa, Gal, who found It In a wire trap singing blithely. He kept it for several weeks and then re- leased it, but the next morning It was in the trap again. Again he let it go, amd aigain It came back imd now monsie goes in the trap each night and is* released each morn- ing. Whoa it sings it sits on Its hind legs and moves its head amd threat like a can- ary. Its BODS ia rather sweeter than the ordinary raaary's. The Traveller tells ef an Arkansas mother who never has trouble giving her children medicine. " When I want Tom to take castor ell," say she, " I pour soma In a glass and say, ' Here, ,Tom, drink this but you needn't ask for any more.' He drink* it right down and always awks for mo) e." It waw on this sams principle that a fatmer induced his cattle to eat buckwheat straw. He built a low fence around the stack and once, or twice a day clubbed the cattle away. The straw was all gone by spring. In spite ef all partiiJ repairs, St. Mark's Cathedral at Venice is slowly sinking faito the mud of the lagoons. The tide ebbs amd flews np under the great dome, and the other day the water was standing on the floor ef the crypt, which was wallmi In amd cemented only a few years age, it waM hoped impermeably. The eaurth on which the ohurch stands is being slowly wawhed out by the flow amd ebb, and the founda- tions of the church aire unequally subsiding. The great meteorelogicaJ observatory on the summit of S jnnblick, 10 177 feet above the sea, and the higheat In Earope, is new In operation. The view frem the anmmit is magnifioent, ramging over a great part ef the Tyrol, Garinthia, and Sahibnrg. The roof is of copper, chiefly on account ef Ita electrical aulvantakgea. The situation Is very exposed, and U a aert ef centre for the diadiarge of eleotrlcad diatorlMncea. Tele- graphic cemmunicatien la maintained with the central offi «at Viennau Ida Granratii, a pretty little fenrteen- year-eld daughter ef a St. Lsnia boarding house keeper, fell, heela ever head in leve with big Anten Pierre, the Canadian wrest- ler, who boaurded at her father's hense. The brawny athlete had no Idea that he IumI made such a oenquest until he waM abeat te qalt St. Xiouis, when the girl weeping, lisgg- Bci him ,to take her with him. He said tlirt he could net, beoaase he had no money so a few days afterward she stele $400 ef her fatiier's money and set oat be find Anten. Her father caaght liar at Tndiaiiapella aad took her heniab but aha â- *yi that aha will yet ge te the maa ah* levea. A Toong Laadflr. At a tiiae wlMn old msa an ine-aadneat in Earepean eenndls the advanoe of a yeong Biaa to tiie front rank ef Bitlah party lead- era la worthy ef notloe. S»ya the **S:. Jaaua G^aette " Lord Ruidelph Ohorohlil ia the yeongaat leader that the Henae ef Cemmena Ima had alnoa the daya ef Pitt, who first aooepted the post at the ageef twanty-tiiree. Fed waa called te the aamo reapeadblllty at forty, Rassdl at forty-two, Disraell at forty- sevaa, Palaserston at seventy. HsppUy the natien la anfettered by any hard aad-faat rnle age In reapeot te aach appdntmeats. Had Lord Rudolph been a dttssa ef Re- pabUoaa Rome, he mast luve waited another six years a* be legally eligible fer the oea- anlalip. Under the Frenoh ooaatttntloB ef 1876 he could net be chosen a aeaater for three yearn to come. On tiie other lumd, he liaa added twe yeaura te the ttilrty-five which am Amerioan mnat have Ured before he oan hold the preddenoy ef the Uidlsd Staites. Ne doubt a majority of the men wlio have maide history haid shown the mea- sure of their capadty at thirty-seven, Bis- inaurakwaa jast thirtii-six when be became minister at Frankfort, and his aggressive personality began te assert Itself. Gambetta entered «n hie thirty-third yeaur theausknew- ledged dictator ef Fmnoe outside Paris. G.)rdea had juH completed the third decade ef his life when he awsumed the command of the **ever-vlatoriens" army. A True ro? Story. Last year a clergyman ef Norfolk, Eng- land, missed bis pet doe. and there was much grief In the family, for R mgh, the lost collie, was a favorite with the grown folks »m well aw with the children. Same nine months later the clergyman happening to go to Cat- tle Hill, where the drovers wwe, sawBrJugh, amd joyously laid claim te him but Ringh's new master, a drevar, refused to give the dog up, and there was a dispute. O.^ course the drovers were in sympathy with thdr fellow, and the clergyman fonnd the odds against him. The drover sdd that he had owned Rough for yeaurs the minister held to it that R3ugh waM the very Rough he had raised. Twe policemen came rnnning up, and the case was stated, " Bat how oan yon prove ownership " asked one of the officers. That pnt the minister in mfaid of something. He thrust his huid into a poc- ket, pulled out a penny, and gave it te the dog with the command, " Rough, fetch a loaf." Rough, with* the penny In his month, went te the nearest bakery, made it clear thait be wanted some bread, and seen caune trotting baok te the crowd. The olwgymaa broke off a morsel, gave It to Rjugh, and stood by while thedog munched tt. Suddenly the dergymam exclaimed, " R af{h, I believe that bread Is poken- ed " Oat the dog spat the plooe of bread, and tbe crowd crf^ '" B.-avol" There waa no longer doubt as to the true ownership, amd to the shame of the drover the dog trotted off at the m nister's heela. When William Dies. Those who believe that a great Earepean wau: will follow the death of the E sparer William find additional ground fer their belief In the activity which the groat Powers are displaying In the re-armament o* their troops. Special attention Is being paid to the military arm, and the single breech Is being gradnad'y superaededlythe repeat- ing or magarane rifle. Nat long aigo a sen- sation was oaoMd by a celebration at the Spandan armory over the completion ef the last ef the 100.000 repeating rifles for Ger- man troops. Daring the summer 2.200 men have bean employed at Erf nrth. Span- dan amd elsewherein converting the Mauser rifl-a loto a repeating arm, at the rate of 1,200 daily. It Is announced also that by th's time 60,000 repeaters are in the hamds ef Ft-ench troops, and a Ff enoh paper says that the conversion of the two hundred thousandth Frenoh rifle will be duly uele- bratsd. Austria la substituting the Man- nlieber i-ifl^, with'a detachable magazine, for her Wdnolgun. Norway and Sweden have the Jarmaun maigazlne rifle, vith a very long range, and Italy and Swltzsrland have the Vetterli rifla, of dmilar pattern. The expense of snch a change Is enormous, and ita significance is only too apparent. Plajug Dead in Earnest. It is related that Poter the Great, strell- ing Inobgnito through the camp, came upon a party of n«n cemmiasioned efficsri amd grenadiers enacting a comedy. All at once his brow became clouded. In the piece a soldier, in the uniform of his guard, commits at a certain moment a robbery. Neverthe- less he allowed the play to proceed. The coart- martial U summoned on the stage and the thief is sentenoed to death. The specta- tors, composed of officers and men, shewed the most lively concern in the performance, amd laughed at the grotesque contortions of the condemned culprit. The amateur actor played his part very well. Here came the squad that Js te execute him, " Fire I ' orders the lieutenant, and the amatanr drop? pod down dead, his heart pierced by seven ballets. No make believe, but dead indeed. Whereupon the Emperor cbreppod his Incog- nito and addressed these assembled "A soldier of my guard who committed a rob- bery most die. If he did net sted why did he beaut ef It and soli his nnif orm It is I who ordered the leaded rifles given te the men. I henoderth forbid my soldiers te ply the trade ef mummers." Gnrioos AnaKiaoU' Hm following Is a list ef very remuk ' aUe anagrams :â€" Astronomersâ€" No mere staus. Gatdegnes â€" Got as a dna. Impatientâ€" Tim in a pet. Matrimony â€" Into my arm.. Meledramib â€" ^Made moral. Midslilpmaa â€" ^Mlad Us map. Old Englandâ€" Galden land. Parishioners â€" I hire parsons. Parllaynsntâ€" Partbl men. Paidtentiatyâ€" Nayl repent. Praab/tsriaas â€" ^Bsstia prayer. BaTolatienâ€" Te leve rain. Sweetiieartâ€" There we aat, lalagraphaâ€" Groat helps. in Sow that Btipdd. **Yaa, mamsna, faidaalry dudl Im my bread aad att aa t i oa my batlsi^*? M aaid the beyMaoaolay. ohUdkoed he oftaa ssado remarka like tills. One day, when vblting a lady, a aarvaat apiUodaeMe hot oaffee over bis lags. Too My took him en her lap, oemfortad Un, aad aaked him hew he fdt. **Ihaak yea, atadaa,^ aaid the bey, f enr yoaisef afo; ••tke i«oaBy ia abated." In dealing with this diUd, Zwhary MioMilay, hia father, aoted ap f atthfnUy te tne beat light he had. He made it a rule notte praise his yoathfnl wisdom, aet te notice his smart replies, aad la ether ways M ohsck tliat taadaacy te arrogaaoe which Is the greait daagw d beys aiul men who have ex- oensiend pewar over wwcda. Zuihary Maoaolay aneat forty yeara ef hia life in aaslstbg te brlag his oenntry ta the point d aUeiIshbg slavery. He worked ia 0(-eperattoa wHh Wilberferce, Bablng- ton and their drde, amd did aw mnch In the oaose as the best d them. He saqrifioed to It hedth, fortane aad pleasnre his business dwindled amd perished throagh Jiis devetloa te It j aad he died poor aad dependant. Bat there came am hoar of repayment. He haMl the pleasure of heaving his sea do- quaatiy adveoate the oanse en the platform and In the House ef Oemmons, and saw at length the prindple bicerporated In the B.lilsh Oonstitutioa, that ae slavis can live upon imy soli over which the flag ef Britain floats. The excellent biographer ef Lord Macao- lay, Mr. G. Trevelyaa, Is of opinion that the happiest half -hour ef Zmhary Macan- lay's life was when ho heard his ^ted son make hia mdden speech en the platform of am anti- slavery meeting, a speech was per- haps never snrpatssd by am orater who was addressing am audience for the first time. One passage called forth " a whirlwind of cheers." "The hour is at hand when the peasant of the Antilles will no longer crawl in list- less amd trembling de j motion round a planta- tion from whose froits he must derive no advantage, and a hut whose doer yields him no protection but when his cheerful and volontauty labor la performed, he will retarn with the firm step and erect brow of a B.'hish dtfitan frem the field, which is his freehold, to hi* cottage, which Is his casUe." These words, delivered with the calm, re-^ bust power of the young M-ioauIay, thrill the father's heart. The nexi speaiker was Mr. Wilberferce, who dluded te the presence of his amolent ally on an occasion of so much interest te him, both as a father and as a dtlien. "My friend," sdd Mr. Wllberforce, " would doubttess willingly beaur with all the base falsehoods, dl the vile calumnies, all the detestable artifices, which have been dmed at him, to render him the victim and martyr ef our cause, for the gratification he has tlds day eo joyed In hearing one so dear te him pleahd such a cause in such a man- ner." The eld man, true to his eld-fashioned principle of conceding from his boy the pride and joy he felt in him, sat .motionless during tke speech, with his eyes fixed upon a piece ef paper held as If he meant to take notes. In talking te his son in the evening, he made only one slight allualon to the scone of the afternoon, when he remarked that it was unbecoming in so young a mam to speak with folded arms in ^e presence of the royal prince who had presided. Zwshary Maoaolay lived until 1818, long enoagh to see his son the feremesi yeung man of kis time. He was buried in West- minster Abbey. Upon his monument he Is described as one who worked forty years agalnet slaveiy, and ** redgned to others the praise amd the reward." There are hours that crown life's efforts. It cam6 to the father in the son In this caMO, and happy is the father to whom the son brings the crown. Boned for Four Hoars. Frank Manzhardt, a resident of Curbon- dde, IlL, met with a most extraordinary adventure on Friday last. He waM engaged in wallios; up a well he had just dug on the faurmofCtpt. J. C. Scott, a short distance east of that place. He had Idd up the wall to within a few feet of the top of the well, bat waM at the bottom of the well for some purpose; all of a sudden the bricks b«gam caving in at his feet, and the entire wall set- tied downward and began tumbling In. No help was at hand. Manzhardt tried to ex- tricate himself by climbing up on the brick as fast aw they fell, and in this way elevated himself seme five or six feet. The brick fell falter and faster, and at last he was caught amd held fast. The brick then covered him up for a distance ot ten feet. As soon as the accident was disoovered workmen went to his relief. They called to him and re- ceived answers. The work of removing the brick continued over four hours. At last the man was uncovered. He was standing upright. One arm extended, the other raised above his head. He waa wedged in so tightly that he oonld not move. The most singular pari; of the mkhap was that he was comparatively nninjared. A alight braise en his face aad a little knot on his head waM the only damage. The workmen releasing him enooaraged him all they could, and he kept urghig them to work hard. He says that his sensations during the four and one half hours' imprisonment were peouliaa beyond imagination, Imt that he was net nn- oensdens fer a moment. Jast Like Manuna If mothers could dways readlae the Ideals thty represent to their children, they would be greatly enoenraged la their ardueos duties. A lady riding la a street car saw a littie boy whom she Imew. •* So yea have a little sister, WllUe." she roaiarked fdeasaatiy. "Is die a pretty baby!" " She leeks jast like mamma," was the smOing answer. " What do yea oaU her " asked the lady. ' She's named iJter mamma," answered the little fellow promptly. Everybody was smiling, aad te relieve the lady's embarrassmeqi, her friead en- qaicod tiie odor of the baby's hair. " It's tiie same odor iw mamma's," he re- sponded timidly. A geatlemam who had been amrased by the didogae awked tiie wee mam If the new Uttle sister was a good baby. " Yea, dr," waa the prompt reply. "Sho is jast tike mamma."

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