Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 August 1897 — Page 2

THE DAILY BANNER TIMES, GItEENCASTLE, INDIANA.

IHF. DAILY BANNER-TIMES. M J. BECKETT, Publisher. IR.EFNCASTLE - • INDIANA Prayers that mean nothing are never btarJ iu heaven. Lillian Russell is said to have her sys on her seventh husband. It is easier for water to run uphill than for a selfish man to be happy. We don't know who he is, but the press agent of the Klondyke show understands his business. By chasing himself around the block and yelling "demagogue," Hon. David B. Hill manages to contribute liberally to the midsummer excitement. Will not the eastern millionaires who have been moving about to avoid taxation now consider the single tax town of Prescott, Ariz., where the only tax is on every lot? To give money for votes is universally conceded to be politically immoral, but to give office for votes is vastly worse, says Dr. C. K. Adams. It has led to the relegation of the Golden Rule to the rubbish heap of obsolete nonsense. In the place of the maxim, “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you,” it raises aloft the shameless substitute, “Do up your political opponent before he has a chance to do you up.” The president of the American Association of Librarians said, in the recent general conference of that body, that the number of volumes in the libraries of this country had more than trebled since 1876. The chief cause of this great increase, he said, is a wholesome growth of public perception of the value of good books. This fact, even more than the willingness of the rich to found and endow libraries, is a matter for national satisfaction. Unused libraries do not speak well for their possessor. Welcoming the United Confederate Veterans to Nashville for their annual reunion, the governor of Tennessee uttered such sentiments as these: “The hand of secession will never be lifted up again.” “I>et the veterans who wore the gray salute, with uncovered heads, the national flag; it is the flag of the inseparable Union.” “Anarchy cannot live on Southern soil.” Herein is additional and good evidence that the Civil War is ended, and that the South will he loyal in the pending conflict of law and order with the advocates of anarchy and disorder the trusts and the combines. ■Mrs. Hattie B. Ilemis, a Nebraska woman, says it is the farmers’ wives who really do the work on their husbands' acres, while the men reap the credit and profit. She proposes to give the gentler sex a chance to “go it alone.” She owns a tract of land in Dawes and Sioux counties, Neb., which she intends to give to a co-operative community of women on condition that they work it themselves without the assistance of male farm hands. She will furnish them with money to last until the first crop is harvested, and will guarantee any indebtedness they may incur in the purchase of machinery and stock while getting a start. She already has in mind twelve women to whom she proposes to give the land. All are farmers’ widows ami all are in destitute circumstances. Mrs. Bemis thinks they deserve assistance. and is sure they will know fully as well how to go to work as would a like number of men. She hopes to make farming popular with women and declares there is no reason why they should not find it well suited to them. The British consul general in Japan. In a recently issued report, states that “owing to the financial depression in America, that country has made its appearance as a serious competitor with Europe in the supply of machinery, rails, nails and pig iron. It has been stated that American nails have been sold largely in Japan about the end of 1896 at 50 per C” , nt. lower than prices current in the I'nited States, and these goods altogether defied the competition of German makers,who have hitherto held the trade. About 30,000 tons of American rails were sold to Japan at lower prices than British makers were willing to accept.” Another matter of some importance, ami one which may have considerable bearing on the future of the American iron and steel trade, is discussed in Mr. Sanderson's report. It is, that the United States, not content with its enormous railway mileage, is providing means for improving its water carriage. The existing c inals, such its the Erie, the Champlain, the Oswego, the Black River, the Cayuga and Seneca, are to be widened and deepened. Besides this, a commission of inquiry as to deep-water canals has recently made a report. Reports from Hawaii indicate that the proposed treaty of annexation is received by the press there with feelings of enthusiastic rejoicing. The only drawback apparent is a feeling of apprehension as to the position of Japan. The utterances in the Japanese papers have been of a disquieting kind, and a certain feeling of uneasiness has been created, which appears to be shared by the official authorities. If Spain and Japan don't stop buzzing around they are likely to get stuck on the fly paper.

TO BREAK HIS WILL. An KfTort In I’arU to I'pnet Itr (Ioncourt's Plan (From the European Edition of the Herald.) The family of the late Edmond de Goncourt is contesting his will, dated November 16, 1884, in which he appointed Alphonse Daudet his executor, with instructions to found a "Societe Litteralre.'' The testator signified that the first list consisted of MM. Theophile Gautier, Ixtuis Veuillot, Flaubert, Paul de Saint-Victor, Frementin, Barbey d'Aurevilly, De Banville, Valles, Zola, "before he was a perpetual candidate at the Academy,” and Maupassant, "before he went mad.” His goods and furniture were to be sold and the proceeds invested in three per cent rentes until an income of 65,000f. was provided. This sum was to be expended in an annual income of 6,000f. for the members of the society and a prize of 5,000f. for the author of the best work of imagination. Until the fund was realized the members were to meet at dinner monthly, at a cost of 20f. per head, and award an ad interim prize of l,200f. at the December dinner. There was also a legacy of 5,000f. to complete a pearl necklace for his goddaughter, Edmee Daudet. The will further provided that should there not be enough money to carry out the foundaUon the proceeds of the sale should be given to the Hospice des Jeunes Filles Incurables of Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs, which is under the patronage of the Princesae Mathilde. There were three codicils to the will. The first appointed M. Leon Hennique a second executor, and the last, executed in 1893, transformed the executors into universal legatees. The plaintiffs have established the fact that the will of November 16, 1884, was ante-dated, Guy de Maupassant not having gone out of his mind until 1892, and Edmee Daudet not having been born until June 18, 1886. The defendants, while not contesting the antedating of the will of November 16, 1894, contend that besides the will there is another of the same date, of which the second is, in its essential oarts, only a reproduction. ONE MORE ENOCH ARDEN, This Time He Turns Up in Real Life in Missouri. The story of a second Enoch Arden comes from Wilton, Boone county, Mo, in 1861 Rowland Griggs, a strapping young fellow of twenty-five years, left his home near Wilton to join the confederate army. He bade good-bye to his young wife and their six-weeks-old daughter, Margaret, and promised to return in a few short months. But months passed, and then years, and all the neighbors and friends who were in the armies ou either side returned, but Griggs came not. After waiting nearly ten years for her husband. Mrs. Griggs gave him up for dead, accepted the attentions of Riley Riffelo, a prosperous bachelor farmer near Wilton, and married him. Of this unjon five children were born. A stranger came this week to the Wilton neighborhood. No one knew him, though he said he was born and reared near by. He asked for Mrs. Griggs, and an old farmer told him of her marriage to Riffelo. The stranger said he had known her when a girl and would call on her. He did so, but was not recognized. He was invited to dinner. Then he announced his identity. He said he was Rowland Griggs and that Mrs. Riffelo was his wife. He told his story and proved it by dorumejits and other evidence. He had been wounded on the battlefield of Murfreesboro, and captured by the Union army. Remaining in the hospital and prison until the close of the war, he heard his wife and child were dead. He did not return, therefore, to Missouri, but went to Iowa, where he has been engaged in farming. A longing to look on the scenes of his earlier days seized him and he came back to Boone county. After mutual recognitions followed a problem—would he claim his wife? She seemed happy and content in her new relations, and the first husband would not disturb her. Accordingly, after a visit to his baby Margaret, now married for the second time, Griggs left for his home in Iowa. Kansas City Star. ('ontHglon In Applefl. The moral of the following extract from an article in the American Kitchen Magazine, on "Sanitary Precautions,” is not above the heads of average people: The old apple man came slowly around the house. Two apples were in his hands as specimens. He was wetting them with his tongue and polishing them on his clothes. They were very bright and rosy when I answered his knock. A lady who was passing stopped to speak to him,and before I could interpose she took an apple from his hand and hit it. His hands were dirty almost beyond belief. I said to him, "No, I cannot buy apples from hands so soiled.” “Those apples are not clean. I saw you rubbing them on your clothes.” The lady's face took on a queer look. "I wish you had told me,” she said to me. Then, turning to the vender, she said, "What the lady says is true. No one ought to buy apples of you if you are so unclean about your person.” She paid him for the apple she had bitten, and he went on to the next house. “You were right,” she said again. "Every one ought to tell these venders why she will not buy of them, and possibly it would incite them to be a little more cleanly.” When the lady had passed on I returned to my desk, but 1 could still see the man as he sold from his wagon tn those who came about him. and there was not an apple that those hands, swollen and covered with warts, beside being filthy, did not handle.

THEATRICAL TOPICS. SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF THE

PLAYERFOLK.

OIga Nethersole's Suit Against the Frolituans Her Victory Over Augustin Daly The Klaw & Krlanger Plays— Julia Arthur’s New Role.

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Olga Nethersole's Suit. HILLARY Bell says that Olga Nethersole's suit against the Frohmans is a try for inconse-

quential damages. They have paid

the full amount of

salary due for her

anticipated season in London, preferring to settle with

the actress in advance and give her a holiday rather than adventure the problem of a summer engagement in the metropolis. Olga is not satisfied. In Mr. Daly’s production of that amusing farce, “A Night Off,” Marcus Brutus Snapp, a strolling actor, exclaims with vehement earnestness: "It has been the dream of my life to play one consecutive week in New York at somebody's expense.” So also it has been the lifelong dream of Miss Nethersole to play a London engagement at somebody's expense. She has tried the experiment twice at her own cost and the dream proved a nightmare. The English managers are not of a sufficiently speculative quality to undertake this venture, but Olga has been lucky in finding an American entrepreneur who had the courage to sign if not fulfill contracts to support her in a London engagement. In his first enthusiasm over her abilities, aroused in some measure by the adroit arguments of Clement Scott—and thereby hangs a tale which shall be told some day—Augustin Daly agreed to let Miss Nethersole end in London the season she began under his management in New York. But after studying this young actress for some months in America Mr. Daly decided that he would not risk his money in England. Miss Nethersole promptly brought suit for damages, and Mr. Daly settled the ease by paying ?7,000. She has equal cause for action against the Frohmans, and they will probably give her a similar amount to call off the dogs of

war.

Judge Joseph F. Daly, in a recent speech in New York, said: "No public servant assumes a higher duty than he whose function it is to watch the course of public amusements, to approve what is wholesome and condemn what is harmful, to encourage on the one part the maintenance of a high standard of excellence and on the other part the taste to appreciate it. His Is not only a hard task, but a thankless one, unless the large class which recognizes a kindred spirit in his steady adherence to the right resolve to make known to him that they have watched his career, comprehended his design and rejoice in his success.” The rapid growth of the stock company system in the United States is noticeable. Mrs. Beaumont Packard, the widely-known theatrical agent, writes to the Detroit Free Press: "Where I engage one actor for a combination I engage twentj-five for stock companies. Last year the conditions were reversed. Manager John W. Albaugh has made his Baltimore house the stock theater and the Schiller in Chicago has turned into the same path, producing almost exclusively new material. Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Brooklyn, Denver, Salt Lake, Portland—in fact, most of the Pacific coast theaters — Louisville, Providence, and many other places fol-

low.”

Miss Julia Arthur, who is to make a tour in the stage version of Mrs, Frances Hodgson Burnett's "A Lady of Duality,” has just arrived from Ireland. Miss Arthur has gained more or less pronounced favor from time to time, notably when she played the title part in Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s "Mercedes” at Palmer’s theater, Now York. It is in tills character that she is represented in the picture given. She has been for two years a member of Henry Irving's company, and slip acted in several of the plays given by him the winter before last. After spending a few days in New York Miss Arthur expects to go to the country with Mrs. Burnett, to study her part in the play.

Thomas Cosgate introduced the fork Into England about 1640.

Arthur Sturgess and J. M. Glover have written a comic opera, which deals with the life of a young king, who is compelled to marry by the socialists in the parliament of the country over which he reigns. The parliament also insists that the new queen shall be chosen by competitive examination, and examination papers are Issued to the pupils of all the young ladies' seminaries throughout the kingdom. In the development of the plot, an unsuccessful competitor manages to secure the king’s hand, a contretemps afterward set right in the denouement. Jessie Couthoui is one of the most noteworthy recruits of the vaudeville stage has gained from other fields, and during her successful career she has proven her ability as a monologue entertainer, says the New York Clipper. Born in Boston, Mass., of French and English parentage, she early developed a natural tact for reciting, and in furtherance of her gifts she began studiously to perfect herself, studying assiduously under the best instructors at home and abroad. Her first public entertaining was under auspices of the lyceum system, still popular in the provinces, and as she gained in experience she broadened her field, until she had made creditable progress upon the dramatic stage. She played, among other engagements, the title role in "Jane," under the management of Daniel Frohman, through the west, and was seen in "The Girl I Left Behind Me” at the Schiller theater, Chicago, 111., during its world's fair run, replacing Odette Tyler during the latter’s illness. She has played Mrs. Honeyton in "A Happy Pair" repeat-

play, in three acts,is said to give prom- (} \p] THE KLONDIKE,

ise of amusing by the ingenuity displayed in the lively story and in the variety of real character. Well-known players are being engaged for the cast.

HOW THE GOLD IS EXTRACTED

WILD ANIMALS VERY SCARCE IN THE

NEW GOLD FIELDS.

Mme. Helena Modjeska has a short tour of some six weeks booked for next season. There seems no reasonable doubt that she will be able to fill those dates, after which the tour will be prolonged. The tour which her attack of peritonitis forced her to abandon in the spring opened auspiciously, and several thousands of dollars received for tickets had to be refunded when she fell ill. George Richards and Eugene Canfield, who were successful last season with “A Temperance Town,” will commence their second season Aug. 21, at Elizabeth, N. J., in a new comedy,with a musical annex, entitled "My Boys,” by William Gill. Mr. Richards plays the part of a rich country stock raiser, and Mr. Canfield that of his son, the fool of the family. The Motor Bicycle. The motor cycle is being pushed by its English manufacturers, but whether it will become popular and of general usefulness is a matter for the future to reveal. Many say they do not believe it will meet with favoritism by riders who wheel for exercise and the pure love of sport. The motor bicycle might seem too much like mounting the wooden horse of a merry-go-round instead of a neat and spirited animal. Nevertheless it may prove enjoyable to many would-be riders. The motor bicycle will be quite serviceable, no

edly, and has appeared frequently as Julia in “The Hunchback,” and in other roles, demonstrating completely her ability in the legitimate. At the opening of the world's fair she was chosen from among many aspirants to present, at the dedication exercises, W. A. Croffut's especially written poem, "The Prophecy of Columbus,” and thus came into greater prominence. During the past season she has toured at the head of her own company, besides filling several weeks in the vaudevilles. Less than a year ago her vaudeville debut was made at Keith's Union Square theater, this city, where the refreshing novelty of her act was so greatly appreciated that she has since been in active demand. Bossessing an exceedingly expressive face and a voice of excellent quality, she makes quick friends of her audiences, which invariably find great delight in her monologue entertainment. Although her act is out of the ordinary she has, with commendable enterprise, determined to soon present a new specialty, on equally original lines and from her own pen. Edwin Knowles will open the Fifth Avenue theater, in New York, on Monday evening, Aug. 23, with a new and original farcical comedy, entitled “Nervous Prostration.” The name of the author is not disclosed. Hut the

JESSIE COUTHOUI.

doubt, to women who admire cycle riding yet find their strength unequal to propelling the modern bicycle, especially on long rides and uphill. However beneficial it may be to the weak riders, it will undoubtedly be ridiculed by those who are able to handle the bicycle of today with ease. The motor cycle may be o. k. over asphalt or finely graded boulevards, but for the rough country roads many have serious doubts as to its practicability. Liahllity of llotoU For >Vhe<>ln. A judicial decision has recently been rendered at Nantes, in France, which is of interest to bicyclists here, in view of cases which have occurred on this side of the Atlantic similar to the one it bears on. The decision in question related to a suit brought by the owner of a bicycle against the proprietor of a cafe from which the rider's wheel was stolen while he was in the place. The judge decided for the defendant, on the ground that, although the plaintiff had notified a waiter that he had deposited his bicycle in the vestibule whence it was stolen, he had not formally consigned it to his care. Moreover, although many visitors of the cafe were in the habit of leaving their bicycles in the vestibule aforementioned, the plaintiff must have been aware that it, was open to the street, and consequently an unsafe repository for the bicycle, and, finally, the sole duty of the master of such an establishment is to furnish food and drink, and he therefore assumed no responsibility as to the safe keeping of his customers’ property unless it was directly com mitted to his care. A Hie Thing. Arrangements were perfected at Boston the other day for an hour competition match race, paced, limited to four men, to be decided at the Charles River track on Sept. 18. The purse will he $5,000, the largest ever put up for a race of this kind. This, with other inducements, will be sufficient to attract the eream of the middle distance men. The purse will be divided as follows: $3,000 to the winner, $1,500 to the second man and $500 to the third, though the prizes will not be rewarded to any rider who fails to cover at least 30 miles within the hour. The men will not be limited as to the number of pacemakers or pacing machines. Stocks, the English champion and holder of the world's record for the hour, has been invited to participate, Lesna, the French rider, and Eddie McDuffie will also enter. M. Pognon, Lesna's manager, will insist that Shafer keep his agreement to race Michael with the Frenchman. Although it was only a verbal promise. Pognon believes that it is binding, and I the match may take place after all.

Lower Down Reindeer ami M(tfiie Are A!>umlaut—The Appetite i« Wonderfully Inereaeed by the Sharp Air— Cundltlniie That Cuufr.uit Prnupector*. It is not necessary for everybody to feed on dog meat on the Upper Yukon river and in the vicinity of the Klondike gold field in winter, as a member of a party which was up there said several of the members did. He refused the dish, but at the same time, says the Washington Star, he aekuowljedged that more than once after food had been thrown to the dogs, literally speaking, he had snatched it away from them before they could eat it. Fish which small worms had appropriated to themselves he did not hesiitate to eat, he said, and was glad to get it. That is one of the great troubles which will he encountered by persons visiting the gold field. The farther up the Yukon one travels the scarcer becomes the food supply, until in the Klondike region ami thereabouts it ceases almost entirely. There is practically no large game, with the exception of one or two moose and reindeer which have become separated from the rest of the herd and wandered out there. Hothat prospectors who intend visiting the field should not rely in the least ou the resources of the country to feed them. There may be a few 'rabbits, ducks and geese in the spring, which disappear very quickly. These are not sufficient to supply even the wants of the few natives who wander nomadically about the region. Lower down the Yukon, at certain seasons of the year, there is abundance of game, probably from 400 to 500 miles from the Klondyke River. The moose is about the largest of the mammals, while the reindeer is fairly plens tiful. As the population has increased! the game has correspondingly decreased, and in the winter the Indians there have a hard time securing food,, as they are very improvident. During the season when it is abundant they think of laying by a supply. There are heavers on the streams and various kinds of deer, bear and carib m. In the winter months these go south ami disappear almost entirely. The polar hear is found several degrees farther north, never appearing in that vicinity. In the mountain streams which feed the Yukon River, up towards its head, near the Kathul Mountain, there are mountain trout of good size and iiavor. Many of these streams dry up ,in the winter, as they are fed by glaciers, which, of course, in cold weather are frozen entirely. The salmon is found in the Yukon, hut only lower! down, toward St. Michael's. Occasionally they are caught high up on the Yukon, hut the water is rather Icold for them. There is a sort of fish [known as the white fish which is found [near the Klondyke River, and is said to he excellent eating. It ranges in [size about the same as our black buss, and is one of the chief mainstays of the Indians. In winter, if it is not too cold, holes are cut into the ice and the fish pulled out by means of bone hooks. They are more plentiful than any other kind, and the ice cold water appears to be their natural habitat. Early in the spring water fowl, such as ducks, geese and swan,put in an «p- ( pearauce, but they do not tarry long, and wend their way after a stay of only a few days. They are very plentiful when they do appear, and the natives kill them by hundreds. The trouble is, however,that things of the kind do not last as they do in warmer dimes. Reindeer formerly were seen in very large numbers on the Yukon, some jtwo or three hundred miles from where the Klondike flows into it, and a gentleman who spent two or three winters! there several years ago stated to the reporter that he had seen a herd of at least 5000 cross the river ou the ice in one day. He also saw moose and caribou in herds of large number, hut such an occurrence is an unusual rather than a common one. Klondike would-be prospectors should hear in mind the fact that in that region, where game is scarce, the appetite is something wonderful. All kinds of food is eaten with relish, particularly anything that has fat or grease about it. The sharp air increases hunger nearly a hundred fold, and it is necessary to have plenty of provisions in order to withstand the temperature of sometimes as much as sixty-eight degrees below zero. Persons who have passed the winter there state that it is much better not to touch alcoholic liquors, as the aftereffects from indulgence in them are much worse than any benefit which may be derived from temporary stimulation. Tea is considered one of the best things which can he taken, and it is drunk in large (|iiiintities, strong and as hot ns possible. This seems to keep the heat in and the cold out better than anything else. All kinds o* canned goods are excellent, and dried fruits or lime juice should bo included! in every bill of fare, ns scurvy is prevented by making use of them, it is necessary to use large quantities of salt meats, which produce the disease. It is believed by travelers up the Yukon River that vegetables which grow rapidly could bo raised profitably in the summer months. Potatoes, it is thought, could he brought to fruition without trouble, and turnips also. The latter have been raised successfully bv missionaries 400 or 5(10 mile* or si. from the source of the river. The sun there is said to have very strong power , in the three or four months of summer and in hot houses lettuce and other vegetables could be raised easily. In 1895 Germany had 25,726 postoffices, with 154,293 officials. The number of letter-boxes was 86,569.

Kxpert Talk. About th* oKlondike Hold FieliU '' rf ul Dr. William H. Dali, one of tk

dors of 1 he National Museum &t w ' 1 ,’'

nigtoii, is familiar with the tv

country iu which, the Klondike ou fields are situated through having ^ on several geological expedition,! 11 tie region in Alaska adjourning u gold district, and says that in i/ opinion the reports from there >,► 15 ably are not exaggerated. Re said ^ “Whan I was there I did not fio gold, but knew of it being taken outi profitable quantities for fifteen ve or more. It was first discovered tTT in 1866. In 1880, when I was in |j * country, my last trip having 1,4' made two years ago, the first partv fl f prospectors who made the mining

profit started out. The gold i,

on the various tributaries of the Yu kon, and I have been within a com! parativcly short distance of the Klov dike fields. I made one trip to Circle City, just over the boundary of Cau'

ada.

“The gold-bearing belt of Northwestern America contains all the gold fields extending into British Columbia what is known as the Northwestern Territory and Alaska. The Yukon really runs along in that belt for 5oo or 600 miles. The bed of the main river is iu the lowland of the valley “The yellow metal is not found i n paying quantity in the main river, but in the small streams which cut through the mountains on both sides. These practically wash out the gold. The mud and mineral matter are carried into the main river, while the gold is left ou the rough bottoms of those side streams. In most cases the gold lies at the bottom of thick gravel deposits, The gold is covered by frozen gravel in the winter. During the summery until the snow is all melted, the surface is covered by muddy torrents. When the snow is melted, and the springs begin to freeze, the streams dry up. At the approach of winter, in order to get at the gold, the miners find it necessary to dig into the gravel formation. “Formerly they stripped the gravel off until they came to the gold. Now they sink a shaft to the bottom of the gravel, and tunnel along underneath, iu the gold-bearing layer. The miners build fires over the area where the* wish to work, and keep them lighted over that territory for the space of twenty-four hours. Then, at the expiration of this period, the gravel will be melted and softened to a depth of perhaps six inches. T ' is taken off, and other fires built, until the goldbearing layer is reached. When the shaft is down that far fires are built at the bottom, against the sides of the layer, and tunnels made in this manner. Blasting would do no good, ou account of the hard nature of the material, and would blow out, just as out of a gun. The matter taken out containing the gold is piled up until spring, when the torrents come down. It is certainly very hard labor “I see many reasons why the gold fields should be particularly rich The streams which cut through the mountains have probably done so for centuries, wearing them down several hundred feet and washing out the gold into the beds and gravel. “It is a country in which it is very hard to find food, as there is practically no game. Before the whites went into the region there were not more than 300 natives. They have hard work to support themselves."—New York Times. Fliyaiciaiif) From* to Suicide. Statistics show that the medical profession is more prone to suicide than any other. During the last three years the number of suicides occurring among physicians has been respc ^ve!y forty-five, forty-nine and forty even per annum, an average of nearly one to 2000; or, as the death rate among physicians is abouttwenty-fiveto 1000, nearly one-fiftieth of all the deaths iu the profession have been by suicide. It has been suggested that an explanation of this tendency may he found in the development of morbid fancies in the mind of a doctor on account of his constant association with the sick mid dying, or of an actual indifference to death, or because he has the requisite knowledge of how lo die painlessly aud conveniently. A Medical journal dissents from all these views, and holds that the leading factor is the accessibility of the poi-ou-ous drugs, which arc almost invariably used,—Pittsburg Dispatch. Migration of ('unadiaio*. |The migration of the French-speak ing people of Canada to the New England States has assumed enormous proportions in recent years, and shows no signs of diminution. The French population of the Province of Quebec is 1,200,000, while, according to the census of 1890, the number of French Canadians and of persons of Canadian extraction in the United States was 840,000. The late M. Mercier predicted that by 1910 there would he more French Canadians by birth and descent in the United States than in Canada.—Boston Herald. Mrs. Stowo’s Statue. The bronze statue of Harriet Beecher Stowe, which will soon I"' erected in Hartford, Conn., will he twelve feet high and will represent Mrs. Stowe seated with a supplin nt figure of Uncle Tom stretching forth a pair of brawny arms, from which hang broken shackles. The statue is the work of W. Clark Noble. A Nov ** I I ml us try. The band-knitting industry whh’k was organized by Lady Arrau in County Mayo, Ireland, to give ew ployment to her husband’s tenants, has proved a success financially Seven thousand pairs of stocking 3 were knitted last year and .V1000 spent iu wages.