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PRESIDENTWINNER!
In Squabble Over Provision of!
Pending Meat Bill.
COMMITTEE WILL ACCEDE
*New Measure to Contain No Court
Review Feature?Government to
Appropriate $3,000,000 Annually
for Inspections.
* A Washington special says: The j
tbasis of a complete agreement on the
r -r.
meat inspection legislation between
President 'Roosevelt and the house
-committee on agriculture was arrived
at Monday at the white house. Speaker
Cannon represented the committee
in this instance and subsequently
.spent some time explaining the situation
to the committee in its rooms
at the capitol. The bill was practically
complete when the committee adjourned
Monday.
It will authorize an annual appropriation
of 13,000,000 to pay the cost
of inspection and will contain no provision
for the levy of an assessment
j "."to make up any deficiency in the
^amount available for this work as
; .suggested by Mr. Cowan, representing
the Texas cattle growers, and
. later urged by the president.
The court review provision will not
"4>e contained in the measure.
This action meets the suggestion of
the president. The words "in the
judgment of the secretary of agriculture"
will not be inserted, as sug
?* gested by the president, and this conclusion
now meets Mr. Roosevelt's
approval.
? The section waiving the civil service
law for one year in the selection
of inspectors will go out of the provision,
also one of the president's reeommendation.
There is to be no date on the label
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v of the packing of meat food products.
In this the president yields to the
committee. The language which
.gives the inspectors the right to the
packing plants at all times is ampli\fled
by the words "whether the same
be in operation or not"
With these changes made, the president
has indicated his entire satisfaction
with the measure which was
reported from the committee as a
substitute for the Beveridge amend
ment, and was Monday recommiuea
' -to the committee that the change may
bo made.
Speaker Cannon was accompanied
to the white house by Representative
Adams of Wisconsin, a member of the
agricultural committee. Ordinarily,
the speaker does not take the active
part in legislation which he has in
the present instance. It has been explained,
however, that he regards thepassage
of an adequate inspection
i bill with all possible speed, as vitally
essential to the welfare of many
Important Industries throughout the
country.
- ' The objection which was urged to
the president as a reason why ne
should not insist on giving authority
te the secretary of agriculture to
levy a tax to make up any deficiency
was the constitutional provision that
congress shall levy all taxes. A
head-tax on animals, it was pointed*
out, would be an exceedingly unequal
one, as the value of a fine beef steer
wQuld be much greater than a steer
of inferior weight and condition, yet;
the tax would have to be the same.
The same .condition would prevail
as to all other animals killed for
food.
The guarantee of the constitution
yr of every roan's right to have his
r, grievances heard before a court was
* also presented to the president force*
fully as a reason why the decision of
2 . the secretary of agriculture should
not be made final, as would be the
case should the w?ords "in the discretion
of the secretary of agriculture"
be Inserted throughout the measure.
In this argument, it is understood,
* the president acquiesced on the
ground of its containing a fundamental
principle of guaranteed rights.
DEATH LURKED IN SAUSAGE.
Farmer and His Two Children Poisoned
by Eating Bologna.
J. B. Baremoore, a farmer residing
near Fort Smith, Ark., and his children,
Emma, aged 5 years, and James,
aged 18 months, died Monday at Bellepoint
hospital at Fort Smith from
poisoning. They had eaten bologna
sausage. A daughter, aged seven
years, is at the point of .death.
The mother ate ncne of the sausage,
and is not affected. The deadly stuff
was purchased from a street lunch
stand
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WORKERS TO SHARE PROFITS.
Fall River Cotton Manufacturers Will
Divide With Employes.
The Cotton Manufacturers' Association
of Fall River, Mass., representing
practically all the cotton mill interests
in the city have, in a letter to
^ the textile council, made public Monday,
offered to guarantee the mill operatives
a profit sharing dividend of
not less than 5 per cent.
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KIDNAPER BEHIND BARS.
Philadelphia Ex-Broker, in Financial
Straits, Stole Young Boy With
Hope of Getting Big Ransom.
* Freddie Muth, the seven-yearold
Philadelphia boy, who was kidnapped
from school in that city nearly a
week ago, was recovered from his captor
in a sensational manner Monday.
For several days the identity of the
kidnaper was known to the police,
but, despite the efforts of 400 men
who have been working on the case,
he was not located until Monday afternoon.
Accompanied by one of his
men, Chief of Detectives Donaghy
went to 426 North Sixty-second street,
West Philadelphia, and there found
John Joseph Kean with his captive.
Kean attempted to escape, and was
shot at by the detectives. The bullets
mkefwi oim hut Kean surrender
ed and was taken to police headquarters.
The kidnaper, who is 42 years old,
is described as a former stock broker
who had recently been a real estate
agent. He has a wife and three children,
and it is believed that his desperate
financial situation drove him
to his crime. In communications to
the father of the child, he demanded
$5,000 for its return, and in a letter
written on Friday declared he would
kill the child and himself if the money
was not forthcoming. Kean's terms
were acceded to in a "personal" inserted
in all of Saturday's papers. In
a subsequent letter Kean proposed
new terms and these were likewise
accepted and another "personal" was
inserted in Sunday's newspapers.
Meanwhile misleading stories were
given to the public by the police in
order to serve their purpose.
The boy was unharmed except that
he bore evidence of suffering from
hunger and exposure. When the kidnaper
and his victim were brought
before Superintendent of Police Taylor,
the little one still had in his
hand the school bcok which he car*
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from school by a decoy note purporting
to be from his mother, and
stating that she was in a hospital
suffering from an accident
The capture of Kean was primarily
due to the publication in Monday's
newspapers that the police had abandoned
their search for the kidnaped
boy and his abductor. This threw
Kean off his guard and he ventured
outside the house. Blair pounced on
him and succeeded in forcing a confession
from him.
When the boy was found in the
house he was extremely dirty. He
said he had been kept constantly in
the house; had been given bread and
milk to eat and was not mistreated.
Kean kept constant watch from the
windows of the house. When anyone
approached he would carry the boy
to the roof.
After making a statement Kean was
locked up and the boy was taken to
the home of his parents.
AGITATORS CAUSEDTROUBLE.
Head of Copper Company at Cananea
Throws Light on Rioting.
In a letter filed with the state department
at Washington and dated at
nananfta Snnoro. Mexico. June 11. W.
C. Green, president of the copper
company at whose mines in Cananaa
the rioting occurred early this
month, charges that agitators from
the western federation had been
through the mines inciting the Mexicans
and telling how he was warned
of the plot to dynamite the bank
and to inaugurate a revolution
against President Diaz. He reviews
details already published and says,
among ether things:
"On the night of May 31, I was
informed by a man working in the
Cobre Grande that a Mexican there
had told him trouble was going to
start in Cananea on the morning of
June 1 at 5 o'clock; that a socialist
club had held three meetings at midnight
on the night of May 30, at
which a large number of agitators of
socialist tendencies were present;
that agitators of the western federation
had been through the mines
inciting the Mexicans and that they
had been furnishing money for the
socialist club that had been established
at Cananea. He also gave us
a counle of copies of a revolutionary
circular that had been widely distributed
together with a number of other
details."
Mr. Green adds that all federation
agitators were ordered out of town,
and "I think there are about 87 of
the agitators (Mexican) now in jail,"
that many of them were deported
from Mexico and southern California,
who have previously taken part in labor
troubles; and that all of the revolutionary
club that stirred up the
feeling escaped across the line the
first night He estimates that "about
twenty Mexicans were killed for each
white man."
TWO FIRMS PLEAD GUILTY.
Harvester Machine Companies Admit
Wrcngdoing and Pay Fines.
Admitting that measured by the Arkansas
statutes they were guilty in
restraining competition on farm machinery
in that state, the International
Harvester company and the International
Harvester Company of America
in court at Chicago, on Micnday,
agreed to pay $10,000 each In fine3.
18 OKLAHOMA STATE
President Signs Bill Addirg
New Star to Our Flag.
EXIT INDIAN TERRITORY
President Used Two Pens in Making
Signature, One of Gold for Indian
Territory, and the Other a
Goose Quill for Oklahoma.
Another star was added to the union
Saturday when President Roosevelt
signed the bill admitting Oklahoma
and the Indian Territory as one
state. The measure also provides that
Arizona and New Mexico may be
admitted to statehood as the state of
Arizona, provided the people of th9
territories vote in favor of admission
on the terms submitted to them by
congress.
The signing of the measure was
made the occasion of an interesting
ceremony. Senator Beveridge, and
Representative Hamilton, respectively,
chairmen of the house and senate
committees on territories, who have
worked long and hard to bring about
the enactment of the measure, were
present, as also were Delegate McGuire
of Oklahoma, and a delegation
of residents of Oklahoma; Delegate
Andrews of New Mexico, Secretary
Loeb and several others.
The president used two pens in
signing the measure, writing his first
name, 'Theodore," with a solid gpld !
pen presented by the people of Arizona,
and his family name, "Roosevelt,"
with an eagle's quill taken from
an American eagle in Oklahoma.
After signing the bill, President
Roosevelt congratulated Senator Beveridge
and Representative Hamilton
on the completion of their long and
arduous labors in connection with the
measure. Me expressed in strong
terms the hope that the people of
Arizona and New Mexico would avail
themselves of the opportunity afforded
them by the law to come into the
union as a state. From every viewpoint,
he said he regarded it as the
wise thing to do, as. they were now
offered an opportunity which might
not again be offered in a score of
years. The president said, too, he
had a personal interest in the admission
of Arizona and 'New Mexico, as
many of the members of his regiment,
the Rough Riders, resided in those
territories. He adoea taai ne uupeu
sincerely the people of the territories
would not lose the opportunity thus
presented to them.
LOUISIANA PUTS UP BARS.
Passenger Traffic from All Tropical
Fruit Ports is Quarantined.
A quarantine order prohibiting all
passenger traffic from all tropical
fruit ports to Louisiana was issued
Saturday by Dr. C. H. Irion, presideijt
of the state board of health. The
order was issued because of a report
received in New Orleans from the
resident medical inspector at Port
LiLmo, Costa Rica, stating that within
the last few days 150 persons from
Colon had arrived there, many of
Limo, Costa Rica, stating that withof
yellow fever. Blueflelds, Nicaragua
and Belize, British Honduras, are
shut out by this order.
A COSTLY CHILDISH PRANK.
Little Girl Confesses That She Caused
Wreck of Train.
Little Alice Kyle, a school girl, and
daughter of a farmer, residing be
tween Macksburg and Elba, umo, naa
confessed to having caused the wreck
of the "Pennsylvania Flyer," near the
latter town in which two passenger
coaches were overturned and the engine,
tender and mail car hurled
down an embankment
The girl, who is 12 years old, says
that she wedged a rail bolt between
the ends of two rails Just to see the
train smash it as it had smashed nails
and pennies.
The girl will not be arrested, as the
railroad officials are satisfied that It
was a childish prank.
SLAIN BY BROTHER-IN-LAW.
Claud Murray Shot Dead in the Pre*
ence of Hit Family.
In the presence of his wife and
children, seated in a buggy in the
public road, near Elkton, Ky., Claud
Murray, a prominent farmer, was on'
Wednesday morning shot and instantly
killed by his brother-in-law, Lee
Clifton- Clifton immediately went to
Elkton and surrendered. 'Domestic
trouble between Murray and his wife
are given as the cause of the tragedy.
Sundry Civil BUI Passes.
The sundry civil bill passed the
house Saturday after an amendment
of Mr. Sullivan of Massachusetts compelling
the Panama canal commission
to purchase material in the cheapest
markets, had been defeated.
Seven Miners Asphyxiated.
A report has been received fro*.
Santa Eulalie, a mining camp in Chihuahua,
Miexico, that the Bueno Tierra
mine caught fire and seven men were
asphyxiated. A candle set fire to tim
bering in the mine. |
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BUTCHERY CONTINUES.
Massacre of Hebrews in Bialvstok,
Russia, Reported to Have Broken
Out With Increased Fury.
A St Petersburg special says : Disorders
appear to have broken out at
Bialvstok Friday afternoon with even
greater fury than characterized
Thursday's riots.
No dispatches are being received
from Bialvstok, where the telegraph
office is closed, but semi-official messages
from Grodno and Minsk report
that the excesses were started again
by the throwing of several bombs.
The crowds, according to these dispc*hes,
then opened fire on the police
station, to which the troopi replied,
and there was a constant interchange
of shots between Jews in their houses
and soldiers in the streets. A mob
nf neasants. armed with clubs,
scythes, etc., who had found their
way into the city, was participating
in the rioting.
The city has been cordoned in order
to prevent the ingress of more
peasants. Many persons are reported
to have been wounded, but the number
of dead is said to be comparatively
small. Exact details of the disturbances
are lacking, but the pillaging
is attributed largely to peasants
from the country.
At St. Petersburg the lower house
of parliament read the government a
lesson on promptness of investigation
of the Bialvstok outbreak, a committee
of three having been named
and departing Friday for Bialvstok
in the hope that the presence of representatives
of parliament will check
the disorders and have a salutary effect
on reactionary officials if the
charges are true that they are inspiring
excesses.
The first evidence to be submitted
to the committee will be proclamations,
which, it is asserted, were distributed
in the streets of Bialvstok
the last ten days under the eyes of
the police, calling on the population
I iHoo ocainst thA .TftWS.
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I FRAUD CHARGED TO XECUTOR.
Affairs of Brown Estate to Be Aired
Again in the Courts.
Mary V. Oonnally, Elijah. Brown,
Sallie Eugenia Brown and George M.
Brown, four of the six children and
heirs oi Jos^h E. Brown, war governor
of and United States
senator, fixed a bill in the superior
court at Atlanta, Ga., Friday, against
Julius L. Brown and Joseph M.
Brown, the remaining heirs and sons
of Governor Brown, and the executors
"of his U, and against Peter
Brown, Leon i-^'an and Mike ?human
The bill charges that Julius L.
Brown, as one of the executors of
the estate, resorted to a scheme to
purchase certain realty belonging fc#
the estate for $5,025, when its real
value was $15,000, thus allowing him
to make $10,000 wrongfully out of
the estate.
This is charged to have been a
flagrant violation of his duties as executor,
and that the sale of sain
property to Peter Brown, Leon Eplan
and Mike ?human?the property bo
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lius Jm Brown by said purchaserswas
in pursuance of an understanding
between the parties, the several
transactions being characterized as
subterfuges and devices to escape the
rule of law which does not permit
an executor to purchase at his own
sale, and is charged as a fraud upon
the complaining heirs.
REPORT FROM DRY DOCK DEWEY
Great, Bulky Floater it Sighted at
Entrance of Sabang Bay.
A Washington dispatch says: The
navy department Friday received a
dispatch from Commander Hiosley announcing
that the dry dock Dewev
passed the entrance of Sabang bay,
at the extreme northern end of the
island of Sumatra, on June 13, about
noon. The Dewey Is expected to
reach Singapore on June 20.
LOCKWOOD CROSSES "DIVIDE.*
Wat Man Who Nominated Cleveland
for fUy<"% Governor and President.
Daniel N. Lockwood, a well known
lawyer ana ionner memoer 01 congress,
is dead at Buffalo, N. Y. In
1881 he nominated Grover Cleveland
for mayor of Buffalo. In 1882 he
nominated Cleveland for governor of
New York, and again in the national
convention of 1884 he made the nominating
speech in behalf of the New
York delegation which presented the
name of Grover Cleveland as a eandl*
4ate for the presidency.
TO FIGHT SPECULATORS.
Farmers and Business Men Urged to
Prevent Market Manipulation.
President ML L. Johnson of the
Georgia division, ?cuthern Cotton Association.
eives out a statement to
the farmers and other business men
of the state, in which he urges them
to stand together in fighting the speculative
manipulations of the market,
and to put themselves in a position
where they will be able to hold cotton
in the fall for remunerative pcice3
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ON THE CA
Gentleman Tramp's
to G1
DOWN on my luck one day lasl
autumn, I had diligently footed
Montreal for several hours in
search of something to do. At
last I happened to strike an employment
bureau, having a blackboard outside,
on -which was -written: "Free
passage to England and back as cattlemen?apply
within."
I walked in. A big man in a fur
coat, sitting in front of a stove and
smoking a cigar, looked up. "Well,
what's your business? You ain't no
lumber man." I admitted I was not,
and told him I wished for a free passage
to England as cattleman. "Well,
guess you can," says he, making out a
form end hnndfncr it to me -with the
remark that he wanted $5 booking fee.
I expostulated and asked him what his
sign mean: "Free passage." He
smiled and said: "Guess you'd better
take it now, as it might cost you $10
to-morrow."
I reflected a few minutes, and then
handed him the required sum. He immediately
became amiable, and asked
if I had any preference as to where I
shipped to. I said I had not, but
wanted to get home as quickly as possible.
I knew there, were very few
more boats out of port before winter
was upon us, and my cash in hand was
now reduced to less than $10. After
looking through his books I decided to
put my name down for Glasgow, to
sail the follbwing Thursday, and
turned to leave the office. "Say," he
bellowed out after me, "guess you git
five shillings from the company at the
other end." The eventful Thursday
came, and I arrived at the office at 4
with my "grip," ready , for work, to
find some twenty or thirty other men
ail waiting to snip Dy tne same Doat.
I Jbegan to get fidgety, as I knew there
were only six men wanted from that
office by the cattle shipper and I wondered
if my $5 "was gone bust." Fate,
however, was kind, and by 8 o'clock
that night I had signed on as part of
the ship's companjr to the port of Glasgow.
I found, on getting on board,
that there were two foremen and fine
hands to look after 350 head of cattle.
The first thing we did on getting on
board was to find our quarters. These
were right in the fo'c'sle head, next
door to the firemen, and a steward was
there waiting for us. He ventured a
remark that he would for $2 lock our
baggage up in the foremen's cabin for
the present, as the firemen were not
to be trusted with anything lying
about. This being done, we set to
work to bed down for the cattle, which
were to come on during the night
This finished, we prepared to retire,
but on arriving at our quarters found
only bare boards to sleep on, which discovery
sent us howling to the steerage
steward with a view to getting blankets,
etc. We were, however, informed
that we could not have any until next
day, but each man received a plate,
knife and fork, and cup, and also a
large tin pan to fetch our meat in, and
a can to be used for fetching both tea
and soup. We went back to our quar
j ters, and with my "grip" for a pillow
' I wrapped myself np In my great-coat
and slept my first sleep as a cattlemam
Next morning we were aroused by
one of the foremen at 7 o'clock, and
then we arranged who should be kitchen-maid
for that day. The duties of
kitchen-maid were not arduous, as I
found when my turn came on the Sunday,
the work consisting of going to
the galley to fetch the grub and washing
up the things after. Breakfast
that first morning consisted of coffee
and stew, with bread, and I shall not
forget it in a hurry. After breakfast
was over we went on deck and
watched the boat cast off for England,
and then our duties as cattlemen commenced.
We first of all got up sufficient
hay from the hold to last until
next morning; after that we watered
and fed the cattle. In the evening we
i . ? a. ? a A!
again watered ana iea, ana men
cleaned up the alleyways, and had finished
for the night. Sapper, pipes and
cards saw the time through till 9 p. m.,
and one of our fellows proved no small
performer on the violin. On all subsequent
mornings we were up at 4
o'clock sharp to water the animals and
give them their hay, after which we
Wltnefi can't Think.
Sir Henry Irving once said: "What
Is the good of lawyers treating an
honest and sensitive witness on the j
witness-stand as though he were a
sneak thief? A young man in my
corilpany was a witness in a case of
robbery. He had seen a thief snatch
a young girl's pocket-book and make
off. Well, the thief's lawyer crossexamined
my young friend shamefully.
He roared it him, shook his fist at
him, raved at him. 'And at what
hour did all this happen?' the lawyer,
sneering, asked toward the end of his
examination. 'I think?1?' my friend?
began, bnt he -was at once interrupted.
'We don't care anything here about
what you think!' said the lawyer, with
a sort of contempt. 'Don't you want
to hear what I think?' said my young
friend, mildly. 'Certainly 'not' the
lawyer roarei 'Then,' said my friend,
'I may as well step down from the
box. I'm not a lawyer. I can't talk
without thinking.'n
The Birch In the Brltlih Nnvy.
The Government have decided to
suspend the use of the birch in the
navy, directing that a report be made
to them on the efTect of the suspension
at the end of a year. This is a matter
for naval men rather than for politicians.
Opinion among experts is cer4
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Cruise From Montreal
asgow*
: proceeded to get up enough , hay and
i meal to do duty until the following
i morning, and then to breakfast.
Breakfast over, at 9 a. w., we gave
each beast a pailful of meal, and then
cleaned out the alleyways, and were
' then (11 a. m.) free until 3, when we
went through the same performance
again, finishing off by 6 o'clock each
' evening. Sunday was a great-day with
us on account of a change of diet, each
. man receiving for dinner a raisin and v ~"j
1 currant pudding, and for tea a onequarter
pound tin of plum jam. Each
day saw us through exactly the same
routine of work, and occasionally in
the evenings we were invited down by
' the steerage passengers to their concerts.
1 The 350 cattle 'were decked in four
rows etxending fore and aft, two rowg
to port and two rows to starboard,
1 with alleyways separating the port
rows and the starboard rows. A foreman
and five cattlemen worked the aft
lot, and a foreman and fonr men the
forward division. It was very good ^
fortune to work forward, and we used
to pity the other gang, for they had no soft
job in the early morning, with a
rough sea, groping their way past the 1.
"engine room up to the deck. The hay
and meal were stored in the fore and:
aft holds, and were got up daily by |
pulleys. The water was stored in
large barrels, filled daily from the -M
engine room. The worst part of our
work was the sweeping and cleaning
of the alleyways, and those who escaped
seasickness, among them myself. *
Were often a bit below par from the sM
smell of the cattle. But custom, is a J?
good mate, and in my own case I ami
willing to travel as cattleman again, if d*
necessary.
Our foremen were very decent fel- |
lows, one being an American and the, J
other an Irishman. They were treated:
as second-class passengers, having a ^
joint cabin and a steward. After the.r$g
first three days, by means of a little,-" . 3
"greasing," I succeeded in feeding with]
them, not to avoid my fellow ca\tle- J
men, for they were all good fellows,! yi
but . to escape their grub, which was M
not "0. K." Among my mates were a- * $
violinist from a Newport (U. 8. A.); "M
band, a "vet" from Toronto, a farmer
from Manitoba, a bushman (Scotch),: : Ji
and four other Scotchmen, all stone*} . 'M
masons, going home with three or fourj Jj
hundred dollars apiece. To complete! . ^
the picture I must add that the ship!
carried four saloon passengers, four- S
teen second-class and twenty-three ^
steerage, all Scotch, and one was an;
enthusiastic bagpiper, who piped at- <1
night with an utter disregard for 'the!
weary cattlemen. He and the violin- 'Jjj|
ist were, however, in great request for '. 3
the steerage dances. t
And so time passed away until, on J
the following Sunday, we sighted Tor*
rey Island, off the north of Ireland. I
might say that for some hours before
we sighted land the cattle were very
restless, and my foreman told me that -M
they knew they were nearlng land.
On Monday at noon we anchored at ' j
Birkenhead, where, in the space or-an ' m
hour and a half, we had got all the 'ii
cattle off, and also about 150 bales of /m
hay that remained over, and were once
more on our way to Glasgow, where U
we were to be paid off.
Never shall I forget that morning
when we steamed up the Clyde to
Greenock, Ben Lomond In the distance,
its peak covered with snow and the jf
sunshine on It, and around us a lot of * |
boats waiting for the tide to take them
on. Then we gradually drew away
into civilization, with all its smoke and %
dirt 4
We were paid off that afternoon,
each man receiving 5s. and his discharge,
a deduction out of this being |J
made for any tobacco supplies during J
the voyage, which, in my case, left me
only 2s. in hand.
Each cattleman, in addition, is en- 1
titled to a free passage back by fhe
next boat, but, on application at the %
steamship office you can, on payment
of ?2, prolong your visit to this coun
try fop three months, which enables ,
yon to return to Canada in the spring,
when the snow and frost have broken
up and life is making a fresh Start in
the new country and all good labor is
in demand.?Pali Mall Gazette. ?
tainly divided on the question. There
are able men who are strongly in favor
of the abolition of corporal punishment, :>/
but the prevailing opinion among naval ~ 3
officers is the other way. Is the birch $
ilie best deterrent? That is the question.
We have no sympathy with the ?
sentimental view of the matter. Abhorrence
of methods of force is a traditional
Liberal doctrine, and ode for 1:
which we have always had unmixed . - >?
contempt. Refinement may become a :.i
morbid process, and no nation infected >
by it can have any chance in competition
with ruder peoples.?London Sat*
urday Review.
3lr.1i ?nd Bridge*.
All river birds have a great dislike to
hft/Irroc TphJr>h annn fha strMtm nt
intervals, and give them as wide a
berth as possible. An oyster-catcher
may be flying swiftly np river Just
above the surface of the water. One would
think that it would save a great
deal of time and energy were it to continue
its course under the bridge; but
no, there is evidently something uncanny
about the latter to the bird's
mind, so it invariably rises from the
surface of the stream, and flies well s
above the bridge. Small birds, how- , ~
ever, as the dipper and the swallow,
seem to ignore the obstruction.?Country
Life.
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