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REALITY. i Of Love the minstrel sang, and drew An easy linger o'er the strings. Then laughed and sang of other things? Of grass and flowers and azure blue. Of Love the poet wrote, and soft And sweet the liquid measures flowed, Then gave his moments to an ode. And crooks ana shepherds mentioned oft. One day the singer met with Love. And miehtv Tim-sip ?shnnk his st.rinirs While dreams and light imaginings His new-1 jsed spirit soared above. ^ Love met the poet on his way. And kindled all his soul to fire, Filled all his measures with desire, 'Aud left no room for fancies gay. The minstrel sang to Love one song, And died for joy. yet lives in this. The poet, touched by Love's warm kiss. With echoes fills the acres long. ?Oscar Fay Adams. ? THE ACCUSING CONSCIENCE wm&mmMMm Montresson's limbs trembled beneath him as he stood up to receive .? the verdict of the jury. For three weeks the trial had waged about him ?now an accusing witness dramatically reciting damning facts which brought the murder directly to the accused man's door; again one who recited what little there was to be told in the prisoner's favor. The voice of the attorney for the defense, striving to make the worst appear ' the better reason, hr.d risen in conflict with the cold, cutting accusa. tions of the district attorney. Vis irtnf r-if 1 i f a on/? fraa/lnm r? i o _ JIUUO vl liic; aiui ntiV/ uic~ placed by nightmares of the room with the little door?the gaunt chair ?the twelve solemn-faced, professional witnesses, the sharp click of the key, the end! Even the presence of his wife at Tiis side had not served to lighten the load that he carried. He had felt at times as if he should be compelled to cry out, so ordinary and humdrum did it seem to everyone else?so vital to him. The pain of it all was acute, and the more so because of his feeling of utter loneliness?because of the fact that among all of them there. c he alone, Basil Montresson, knew whether he had taken human life wontonly; he alone could say whether the tortures that he had endured through those three tumultuous weeks came from a consciousness of outraged innocence, or of remorse over the act and gnawing fear of the consequences. "Jurors, look upon the prisoner? prisoner, look upon the jurors. How say you, gentlemen of the jury, do you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty?" "Not guilty." i The words seemed to come from 1 -afar off. At first he wasn't sure that ae nau iitaru rigui. a iow murmur of voices in the court room attracted his attention, and he glanced about In confusion. Then he felt a tugging at his coat. He was drawn into his seat, and a woman's arms encircled him. A woman's head fell upon the shoulder. "Basil, Basil!" she cried, "don't you hear? Don't you understand? You are free, free! Oh, thank God that it is so. Thank God! Thank <Jod!" Her cries awoke him from his stupor. He bent forward mechanically ind kissed her. A pang went through him when their lips met. He vaguely ' felt that he had done something that lie should not have done. His attorney took his hand and pressed it, aaying: "Congratulations, Montresson. It was a hard fight, but I never had any doubt as to the result. Come along, now. There is nothing more to hold t you here. Come out in the fresh air. Brace up, man; brace up!" He looked curiously at this advoA A X A X 1% n m TT? U /\ Vl M #3 ?V? /V V* i +U A xaic man wuu iiau wiuugui iuc wonderful thing, and mumbled a few words of thanks. But there was no warmth in the hand-clasp with which he returned the salutation of the lawyer. The next thing that he remembered r was being in the carriage beside his wife. She was holding his hand, alternately smiling and weeping, and murmuring her thanks for his deliverance. "The children will be waiting for us." she crooned. "They will be glad. Think, Basil, if?if it had? been?otherwise.'' She shuddered and shrank back mio ine corner ot tne seai. "But it couldn't have been," she hastened to say. "Oh, I was confident from the very beginning. I knew it v/as all a mistake. I knew that they would see it as I did. How could they believe that you, my Basil, could?Oh, it 'n all too.horrible." "Yes," he said. sud..oaly, in a hollow voice, "it is all horrible. God, if I could only get the thing out of my mind." "But ycm are free now," she said, "'exonerated, and the world knows that you are innocent." He looked down at her with great, blood-shot eyes?peering, question jug eyes, eyes iuai seemeu iu reau her through and through, wondering eyes,' eyes filled with apprehension, fear, shame, remorse?for what? r "Please, please, Basil, don't look at me like that. You frighten me Tell me what it is." "What is it?" he repeated. Then lie shrugged his shoulders, and his lips parted in a ghastly smile. "Nohting?nothing," he said hurTledly. She nestled closely to his side once more, and her joy reached the supreme height in thai, and in silence. So they rode out into the suburbs of the great city, the man's gaze fixed -wonderingly on the old familiar sights that now looked so strange to him. He had been in jail but nine months and yet the change seemed Jike that of a century span. He speculated if the world would ever again look to him as it did before that night?that night when the gale drove the clouds in great black masses across the night and the hawk cried shrilly; that night when I the moon leaped suddenly into a blaze of spectral light, showing th house?the trader who had come tc I sleeping room above the carrfaga buy corn?the up-turned face ? that night when a stiffened groan was answered back by a sharp cry of the hawk calling across the void. He shuddered as these disconcert ed pictures framed themselves before his gaze. The remark of his lawyer flashed across his mind. "I never had any doubt of the re-, suit." He wondered why. Truly it was a wonderful thing?this justice. Ho felt the warm clasp of the lawyer's hand and glanced furtively at his own. Was there anything on it? He became sensible of a feeling of antipathy toward the man who had set him free. There was something in the hearty, open, honest frankness of the lawyer that grated on him. j Ha turned his gaze upon his wife, I who met it with a serene cmile, her | lips half parted. i "I trusted you all the time," she I whispered. J There it was again. She, too. She i grated on him as did the lawyer. He | ! wished that she didn't have so much j trust in him?all of this confidence j I touched a cora in nis nature mui. j cried out in mocking protest. If it i hadn't set all his nerves tingling, he j would have been tempted to laugh | uproariously. I Then suddenly his mood changed. I What was the use of all this? He | was free, acquitted by a jury of his peers. That was* a fact. He had1 stood his trial?hadn't it been fair and impartial? And here he was? yes, it was reality?riding back to his home, the stain of murder wiped from his scutcheon, privileged once ' more to hold his head high. I These thoughts rushed through 3 Montresson's brain, and with a grf;at ] effort he sought to cast his burden j aside. A sort of smile spread over . I I his face. He gathered his wife in 1 j his arms and kissed her. I "Thank God! Thank God!" she ' : murmured. They were nearing the house now. From the door the little ones came rushing to meet the carriage. BeI fore he knew it he was out and Ihey v/ere capering about him?their | kisses burning into his flesh, their i merry laughter driving his tortured j soul to desperation. "Bad man shut darling papa in nasty prison." lisped the youngest. He looked down on her with an expression of great longing, and then turned as the little six-year-old scrambled to his knee. i "Papa, tell your little daughter? | you wouldn't kill a man, would you?" I His bead.fell forward on his breast, . and great tears coursed down his 1 | cheeks. The mother hastily gathered i up her brood and dragged them from I the room. 1 And then he rose up, and with ' I mighty strides went out by the side ' j door and proceeded directly to the carriage house. Entering, he silently 1 closed and barred the door, and then ^ mounted the stairs to the room above. ' He paused on the threshold and his eyes became riveted on the bed. 1 "I was mad, mad," he murmured 1 fiercely. "But now I am sane. Here \ he fell, struck down by me. And here I " he strode over to a ] dresser, and opening the bottom 1 drawer fumbled about for a minute. The muscles of his face tightened. ( "Pitiful, pitiful law," he mur- i mured. "Blind, aimless justice. You remove the scar from a brow by driving it into the soul." With a feverish jerk he drew a revolver from the drawer, examined the chamber to see that the cartridges j j were there. He laid the muzzle of the revolver I against his temple and pulled the I trigger.?Boston Cultivator. Favorite Authors. Oi lawyers?Sue. Of thieves?Steele. Of the impecunious?Borrow. 1 Of bachelors?Chambers. ! Of the young widow?Newman. Of the chiropodist?Foote. Of the telegrapher?Cable. Of the doctor?Payne and Akenside. 1 Of the painter?Black, White, ; i ! Gray, Green and other Hughes, i Epicures go in for Crabbe and Hare. The avaricious want More. Cricket players like Fielding. The author wants his Wordsworth. The fisherman takes to Hook and j Hake. 1 And President Roosevelt to Wilde, ! Woods, and Traill.?Boston Tran' script. j - 1 Eating the Octopus. j At Atlantic City the other day a fisherman caught an octopus, a rare fish in those waters. ^ The octopus, which resembled r. frayed and ruined football of brown leather, was carried home by the fisherman in a bucket of water. "What am I going to do with it?" he said. "Why, I'm going to eat it. I'd almost as soon eat octopus as I scallops. "I am a traveler, and I learned in i Italy and France the octopus' excel! lence. You can't give an Italian of the Riviera or a Frenchman of the northwest coast, where the fish abounds, a more welcome dish. "What does it taste like? It tastes like scallops or like tripe and oys- 1 , ! ters."?Philadelphia Bulletin. ' : Insulted. j ^ The big stray dog loomed up from ! { behind an ash barrel. "Look here," he growled savagely, 1 ( "I have a bone to pick with you." The multi-millionaire's bull pup looked up with wounded dignity. "What!" he responded, in the dog "ninlr a honp^ W'hv \ * Ul*.-,uu0v, ? never ate anything but boneless chicken and ham in my life. On your way, you tramp!" And leaping into his master's $20,000 automobile he was whisked off to the park.?Chicago News. I ? Eed Trousers. According to the Figaro red trousers are now the rage among young i . men on holiday in the southwest of J < . Francs. The upper garments are a i 1 matter of comparative indifference, j 1 > but on the tennis lawn, the beach or ! t the esplanade the trousers must be < l red of some sort, wine color and scar- i > let beiug permitted as variations.? I Tall Mall Gazette. 1 / ' ... f , ,-jj MADAME FALLXERES. - ? Strictly Fresh Hen Fruit. A peculiar apparatus recently Indented Is shown in the illustration aelow. The inventors?two Western men?term it a mechanism for dispensing eggs and other commodities. The apparatus was especially designed tor use in cafes, restaurants and sim- | liar places. The machine has the general outline and configuration of a, hen in the act of setting, the construction and relative disposition of the several parts being such that when an operating lever, is depressed an egg will be deposited at the rear of the nest and in a position to be jonvenleatly removed. Of course, the hen fruit thus'handed out does not carry a guarantee to the Effect that It Is strictly fresh; but nobody will be able to deny that they are not fresh "laid." The apparatus was designed, also, to be used as a vending machine, the deposit of a coin causing the hen to lay an egg. When performing the latter operation this near-hen displays all the attributes of the live [owl, tilting her head and tail and producing a sound resembling the cackle of the genuine bird.?Washington Star. * cr.br, c~. d*-. ?- ? J: J-:p\. f.: 5". -f. : "U*" V"-\A/*V,XV" Y'V, Z??* * " Alphabet of the, "New York Point" System of Printing For the Blind. < Fireworks were originated in the ;hirteenth century by the Florentines, ind later were popularized in Rome. HOW HE ESTIMATI Scotch Keeper?"What a verra Chauffeur?"Oh, it ain't a ba Scotch Keeper?"She wad be a Chauffeur?"Oh, no, I wouldn' Scotch Keeper?"I wass not ju the smell,"?From London Punch. Butter Cntter. In cutting butter into small quan:itles the grocer or packer usually juesses at the size of piece necessary A make the required weight. In )rder that this guesswork may be ilimiuaied and the cutting performed in an exact manner, a New York man las designed the simple butter cutter 3hown below. It consists of a box Dpen at both ends and also partly at the top. At the end of the box havIne the ODen ton arp numerous 7er Ileal slots, equal distances apart. [ j i > / 1 HboBP^^ tli"'^ ^ ' \"r-^'' r' $ ,: I ( ] I i i C LEME N T-ARMAND FALLIERES, I resident of the French Republic. 1 C Where the Octopus Abounds. , "The rock coast of Brittany," said i a lifeguard, "abounds in octopus?the t pieuvre, as they say down there. Walk at Breton beach at low tide? the beach of St. Luaire, for Instance ?and you will easily find In a half i mile a score or more of perfect cuttlefish of those friable white bones that birds love. They are from six inches to a foot or more in length, snowy and very prettily shaped; they make nice ash trays. The peasants gather them for bird food, for ash trays, and also, I believe, for cigarette cases. They are bones of the octopus, and their abundance is a convincing proof of the octopus in this rock-strewn waters of France. "^MlnLeapolIs Journal. Polly Was Not Always a Perfect Lady. Papa -(outside the Talking Birds Show)?"I suppose it's quite safe to take a child in?" The Box-Office Manager?"Yes, sir. I guarantee the performance absolutely refined, but. of course, there's always a certain amount of risk with i the parrots."?The Sketch. 1 1 ( Compact Facilities. 1 "Why do you favor a highly cen- * tralized form of government?" c "Because," answered Senator Sor- 1 ghum, "it's more convenient." , "But think of Rome!" "That's just the point. Those old * Roman orators got up into the ? Forum, made a speech and went home to dinner satisfied that they had 1 reached their constituents. They 3 didn't have to struggle with mileage c books and sleeping car berths."? * Washington Star. c f 3D AUTO'S POWER. \ mmmmrnMk \ fine car you have got!" I 0 d car." 0 verra powerful car, whatever?" s t say that." n dgin' by the size. I wass judgin' by I 1 u Transverse slots are placed In the ^ closed part of the box. The cutting a is done by means of thin wire at- a tached to holder. The several slots t serve as guides to measure the butter r into the quantity desired. The dlvld- y ing is accomplished by forcing the u cutter down the necessary slot, the i, latter acting as a guide to insure a 0 perfect cut.?Washington Star. 0 c English Engineer's Record. A remarkabJe record is possessed by James Dobson, of Selby, who has just celebrated his golden wedding. Mr. Dobson was formerly em- o ployed by the Northeastern Railway Company and as an engine driver it is estimated he made fifty thousand t Journeys and traveled practically I two million miles without serious accident.?London Daily News. h No wonder that so many shops in c New York City sell shoes and that so a many shops sell nothing but shoes, for it is estimated that the pedestri- * ! ans of that city wear out 28,800 pairs t s' of shoes each' day. ( ^ I - . ... . v IOW THE JAPANESE USED TO TELL TIME By UME TSUDA. Japan's progress, not only In her Lrmy and navy, but In her knowledge ?f science and commerce and Westtrn arts, dates from the opening of he country to the world, the revoluion which restored the Emperor to lis power, and the establishment of he present government, all of which las taken place within fifty years. Now the gun booms out the noon lour in Tokyo from the Imperial Dbservatory, and every one takes >ut his watch to look at the time. Sven the students have watches, nanv nf them of American make. ind clocks are found In all the vllagea, even way up In mountain dtsricts. , Yet less than forty years ago time vas told In a very curious way. No me owned anything like a watch, md the clocks they had were very >dd ones. Nor was time divided up into welve hours and these into minutes. The length of the hour changed all he time, according to the season of he year. The rising and the setting of the tun were the two fixed points of time, ind the periods from one to the other vere divided into sii hours of time, 10 that an hour in the winter day vas short, just as it was correspondngly long in summer; but the short vinter hours of the day were made ip by the long hours of the night. Dne could work at an hour's job on vinter days and cheat time out of :hirty minutes or more, but It had :o be made up in the summer, for an lour then was about our present two lours and a half. Only in September ind in March did the hours get'even vith themselves, and the sun rose as t should at six and set at six, and ;ach Japanese hour was two of the present hours. This is the way it was counted: 12 a. m. was called the 9th hour )f the morning; 2 a. m. was called ;he Sth hour; 4 a. m. was called the fth hour; 6 a. m. was called the sixth lour; 8 a. m. was called the Bth lour; 10 n. m. was called the 4th lour; 12 p. m. was called the 9tb lour of the afternoon. And so on again, beginning again it the ninth hour, and going down ;o the fourth hour. Sunset and sun ise were always the sixth hour. Now notice how odd it seems to lave the hours run backward?just is they say everything is done opjosite in Japan. i I asked an old gentleman why the lours went from nine backward, in* itead of from some number onward, ind he said that the lessening of the lours showed that the hours of the lay were getting fewer, and we should be more likely to use what emained in a better way. I also isked him why there was no first, tecond and third hour, and the aniwer was that the time was always nade known to the people by the itriking of bells. To strike one or ;wo might not be heard or noticed, io they used only the higher number rom four to nine. Ul course mere wcic uu divine vhich would regulate themselves Id ;his way, lengthening the day hour tnd shortening the night ones In lummer, and acting vice versa in win:er. Such wonderful clocks could lot be made, and common people only Istened for the bells which rang >ut In the castle grounds of the loblemen, where were clustered the lomes of the retainers, or in the big :ity of Yedo (now Tokyo); and in he country there were fixed places vhere the timekeepers rang out the 10ur so that it WH3 heard throughout ill the streets. These watchmen poslessed the only clocks that existed. In a shallow box,, full of ashes, was jacked in long and Harrow coils a lubstance called makko, which looks [uitc like fine sawdust, and is made rom cedar-wood aud the dried leave? >f a plant. It burns with a fine * mu ragrance UKe mceusB. ima punuvr ike substance has tbe quality of >urning very slowly and evenly. If ighted at one end of tbe long coil, t would slowly burn all day like a use, and would always take tbo same ength of time to burn a certain ength. The timekeeper had a measure vhich told him how long the day pust be at each season, and the ength of the coll, aud he would diide the whole length of utakko into ix divisions for the six hours from unrise to sunset. A different length ras used for the night hours. Although the sun changes each lay, the measure was not. changed [ally, but only once in fifteen days. I'hlch was quite near enough to keep ip with the real sunset and sunrise ime for ordinary purposes. In some places water clocks were ised, formed by the dripping o? drops if water into a vessel. When the fater got to a certain height it larked the hour; but, as in the case f the fire clocfc, the measure for ummer and winter and ior day and ight differed. There was, however, another way to ell time, in which time was divided p from noon till midnight into one undred equal parts, each part being bout seven of our minutes, and these gain subdivided into ten. And by his method cxact time could be eallv lcent. but it was so difficult hat it "was known ouly to the learned len who kgpt the almanac and stud2d astrology and astronomy. The ther way was the common one for rdinary people. ? From Youth's Companion. The Helpmate. The author's young wife buret la ij him joyously. ,;Oh, Milt," she cr!cd, "I know now ;hy Scribbler's Magazine has reurned all your stories." Milton Vviskar seemed to see light. "Why is it?" he demanded, with onsful eagerness. "It is because you have alxays tnl03ed stamps," said the young worn* n. "Haven't you ever read the noicc on the editorial pags Avhich says hat no MSS. are returns;! unless tamps avs inclosed?"?New York 'ress. ' / .j-.. ; [~ 757777VGJ\ i toyoRTH mrowiNcjl Homer pigeons, in calm weather,> can travel at a speed of 1200 yards a minute. With a brisk wind prevailing and blowing in the direction of its flight, a pigeon has been known to T-V-. O 1 AAA TTO ? TV* Jnilfrt xxiaxv.u ijvu jcli ua a jluixiu ic. In the total number of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians (4034) on exhibition, the New York Zoological Park stands to-day at the head of all the zoological parks anft gardens of the world. Berlin comes next with a total of 3149. John Ruskin, the great English essayist and critic on art, at the age of seveg wrote verses in rhyme and kept a diary. It is claimed that the harbor facilities of Montreal are almost as good as those of Liverpool and have cost much less. A great tunnel has lately been found at Gezer, in the land of the Philistines, in Palestine. A locomotive engineer Remarked that he never made a run in his life at night that he did not strike several skunks. As a rule the white flowers are more fragrant than those of other colors. Though Russia has much coal and Iron her industries are quite undevel' oped. Russia produces only onetenth of the quantity of Iron produced in the United States, and only onetwentieth of the quianttty of coal. There never was but one oil pori trait of Daniel Boone painted from ' life, and that was by Chester Harding,-a distinguished artist of Boston; New York City has 133 department stores. Twenty million feathers are sent from Germany to England every yeai for millinery purposes. * I It takes about 2,000,000 cords ol' wood a year to make the newspapers that go through the presses of New York City. There are 20,000 dangerous crim lnals in Paris who are capable of doing murder and 100,000 who live by dishonest means. HOW WHALES ? : ARE KILLED 2 ? The feature attracting the casual observer is the vessel's harpoon gun, situated forward of everything, from which the formidable harpoon is fired Into the whale. The gun looks like a smaH cannon, and about a pound of powder is used to discharge the harpoon, which is rammed home in the same manner as a shot would be, and tied from the outside end with a small cord, this breaking, of course, when the ?un is fired. The harpoon is a very heavy missile, weighing several hundred pounds, which necessitates its being fired only at pretty close ranger the lance head pierces the whale and soon afterwards explodes a bomb contained in it, while still farther back on the shaft are barbs, which expand on entering the, whale, making it next to impossible for the harpoon to be drawn out again. Each harpoon, after being fired, has to be straightened by a blacksmith in order to again fit the gun-barrel. A stout hemp rope, four Inches in circumference, is attached. to the harpoon about eighteen inches from the point; this line is of great a?H atroncth .and Is mann U^Ai Uilit; ?***<* WW. J ? factured solely for whaling In Norway. A few fathoms of this line are, coiled on a plate directly untfer the gun, the remainder being below decks clear to run. There are two of these lines each 1800 feet in length, and sometimes they are none too long for the purpose.?From "There She Blows," by C. R. Patterson, in ths Metropolitan Magazine. One-Sided View. j "A member of the Georgia Leglsla- ; ture," he remarked, "has introduced a b:ll which provides that any man who is lured into marrying a woman who has by artificial means enhanced her beauty may, If he wishes, have the marriage declared null and void.1 That is to say, if the bridegroom dis covers that the bride is compelled when she goes to bed to hang any of her supposed charms upon a chair he may consider himself free to wed again." "And what about it," asked the lady, "if a bride discovers after the i ceremony that the groom wears a wig or dyes his mustache?" "Any woman who is foolish enough not to know a wig or a dyed mustache when she sees one ought never to make any complaint about it."?Chicago Record-Herald An Ancient Parsonage of Maine. The Congregational parsonage at i Kictery is one of the oldest houses in the State of Maine. It is the oldest " * 1 J ? ? Cfof/v ecclesiastical resiaeuca m lu? oiaic, and the oldest one in present use in New England. The house was built in 1729, in the days of Mr. William Pepperrell, father of Sir William Pepperrell. It contains the library bequeathed by Sir William to Dr. Benjamin Stevens, for forty years minister of the Kittery Point Church. Dr. ( Stevens in his turn bequeathed the library to the Congregational ministers of Kittery and York for all time. Many of these books contain the Pepperell coat of arms.?Kennebec Journal. Cuts Fast. The machine which cuts up wood to make matches turns out 40,000 "split ts," as they are called, in a single n.inute. Hamburg has more firemen in proportion to her size than auy othtr city 1n th<? worldl, * J - . ' .. * , LAURIEB FORCES WIN ' vl CMHII ELECTIONS Premier Will Stay in Power With His Majority Cut in Two. GRAFT CHARGES FALL FLAT Sir Wilfrid Laurier Will Continue to Lead the Federal Cabinet at Ottawa?Losses In Nova ScotiaContest Extremely Bitter. i \ ^0 Ottawa, OntaTlo. ? The general < ''Jyi elections of the Dominion House of Commons, which took place throughout the Dominion, resulted in a vie- y( tory for the Liberal party for another . term. Sir Wilfrid Laurier will lead the Federal Government at Ottawa. ; : The campaign has been one of the ^ most remarkable in the history of Canada. Practically It has been fought on a single Issue?that of graft. That Sir Wilfrid Laurier himoa! t 4o Vinr ft erf Von Koon and ia aH. DCil. AO UVUCOi. UUJ MVWU U.UV* aw uw mitted by even his most bitter ene- ; mies, but it is alleged by the Conser- . , vatives that the Premier has been eithec singularly shortsighted or sin- . > . gularly unfortunate in choosing the >^5 men who have been his lieutenants. ' Conservative and Independent . newspapers throughout the dpminion have for months been making charge? against the Government of the grav- J est character ? charges which have ? been supported by detailed state* ments and figures and by affidavits. To all these accusations Sir Wilfrid has made no reply except to declare that his opponents have been searching the "sewers" for their argu- _ ments. Neither have the Cabinet Ministers attempted to refute th.e numberless charges of corruption. ' That there was ground for these charges it was impossible for the Liberals to deny, but the stroner personality of Sir Wilfrid Laurler and his vigorous railway policy minim< ''- JpM ized the effect of the opposition attacks, while an era of returning prosperity, mainly brought about by a fine harvest yield in the West, quite * offset the opposition cry for a change of government. That the charges of graft made f-r against Ministers and prominent Lib- ; eral members fell rather flat in the end is indicated by the return ol nearly every jprominent Liberal against whom the accusations were -w levelled. The returns indicate the following results: Nova Scotia ? Twelve Liberals, 6 Conservatives; a government loss of 5. New Brpnswick?Ten Liberals, 3 . - .. Conservatives; a government gain Prince Edward Island?Three Liberals, 1 Conservative; a government gain of 2. Quebec?Forty-six Liberals, 10 Conservatives; no change. Ontario?Thirty-seven Liberals, 36 Conservatives out of 86 seats; a slight government gain. Manitoba?Three Liberals, 7 Con- . ? servatives; opposition gain of 3. ' * Saskatchewan ? Five Liberals; 2 . V. ( Conservatives (new districts). Alberta?Three Liberals; 2 Conservatives (new districts). y ' British Columbia?Two Conservatives. The latest figures Indicate that Sir | Wilfrid Laurler will , come back to : . V r? . Ottawa with a majority in the House 1 of Commons of aboqt 35. He had 65 r - In the recent House. , ; a. SKIZKI> Wl'in i'lnUAUUIUl. Barns His Own and His Son's Property, Then Kills Himself. cvfc Oakland, Md. ? A. P. George, ot Swanton, Garrett County, during a fit of temporary Insanity set fire to his own barn and house. Then he went to the home of his son, saturated the , beds and other absorbent materials with oil and set them on fire. Then, taking his stand with a revolver near the fires, he prevented any one from extinguishing them. Mr. George returned home, keeping every one away from him with the revolver, where he shot himself through the heart, dying instantly. Mr. George served several terms In the Maryland Legislature, and for several years naa Deen iiiayeciui ui rural free delivery routes throughout . ; the Middle West. He was also an ardent Grange and Sunday-school worker. . MONTGOMERY FOUND GUILTY. Cashier Convicted of Talcing $489,, <- 000 is Placed on Trial Again. i r Pittsburg.?William Montgomery, former cashier of the defunct Alle--gheny National Bank, which failed some time ago for over $1,000,000, who was placed on trial on two indictments charging the embezzlement and abstraction of $469,000, was found guilty as indicted by a jury in the United States District Court. Montgomery was immediately {placed on trial on a third and last 'indictment charging him with the misapplication of $144,000 in bonds. The jury in the second trial was selected within an hour, and United States Attorney Dunkle began his address to the court immediately. Wild Deer in New York City. Wild deer browsing in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, New York City, are frightening school children and worrying the police. i :y CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY QUITS. Resigns From Toledo Pastorate and Will Go to Kansas City. Toledo, Ohio.?The Rev! Cyrus ? j -n ? ^ ? Hio author nnrt > Townsenu siauj, >.uo playwright and pastor of Old Trinity Episcopal Church, created surprise when he announced from the pulpit that because the Toledo church was not under the canon laws he would be forced to resign and that he had decided to accept the call of the St. George Episcopal Church at Kansas City. ?*. JAPS WOi\ AT BASEBALL. Took Fifteen Innings and Umpire's Decisions Were Questioned. Tokio, Japan.?A feature of the iior <->f thp American fleet's IU11 U uu; w?. visit to Japan was a baseball game between nines of the fleet and Keio University. The game resulted In a victory for the Japanese team after fifteen innings had been played. The decisions of the Japanese umpire were questioned, but good-naturedly accepted by the boys of the fleet. /