. THE DARKEST HOUR,
"Tis always tho darke«t hour
Batore the dawn doth shine,
Ever the momentof fear anl g'oom,
In that troubled heart of thine:
Heavy the spirit aud sad thy sigh,
While brightness and lightness are drawing
nigh!
Look to the shafts of moroing
As they play in the moving cloun’s;
Their arrows must cleave the darkne:a dense
Whiclenow like a veil enshrouds;
Mountain and valley, vil'age and stream,
Shall smile in the glow of the sunrise gleam,
But, O, in the vigil of waiting,
Before that dawn appears,
Worn with the n'ght of watching,
Thon asi filled with doubts and foars.
Doubt not, true #on'! Faint not, brave heart!
Ia the joy of the dawn thou shalt have thy
part!
I know thou art weary, so wasry;
I know thy hopes seem dead;
Rouse! for thy cares and sorrows
With the might and the gloom ara fled
They are fled!
the asking,
Rise up with a song in thy glad surprise.
fS FAST OFFICAL GAT
BY W. P. CHAMBERS
Weston was simply a village,
lived on the hill beyond the creck a man
who divided his time about equally be-
rocky, sterile acres that constituted his
farm. This man—George
name -—was
sparsely -scttied region. He was a
giant in strength, daring in danger, cool
in emergencies and fertile in expedients,
Though illiterate, he was by no means
uneducated so far as the love of forest
and stream was concerned, and his skill
in deciphering the volume of human
nature was of no mean order. S50 at
thirty-five he was am acknowledged
{vader among his fellows.
About this time a general election
occurred, and dunnog the day somebody
suggested that George Bently be voted
for Justice of the Peace for Weston
Beat. The suggestion being acted on,
that individual returued home about
sunset, and with pardouable elation in-
formed his he had been
clected a mrgistrute without opposition.
Without giving the matter any con-
sideration, either as to the duties apper-
taining to the office or his own qualifica-
tions for their performance, he made the
mecessary b and in due time his
commission, bearing the great seal of the
together witha eo py
Wi
wile that
nd,
State, was received, 1
of the Code. Now ox new official had
never uad a law book in his hands before,
and he felt somewhat dismayed,
rather important as he surveyed
the bulky volume, bound ia legal calf
Thrusting his commission into
pocket of his pantaloons, for he had
no coat, and ki huge
volume under wended
his homeward If gait
was more staid bearing more
lignified than usuul it was simply be
canse he felt an exponent, if
not a part, of overei
capacity of makiog
laws.
As soon as s
with the sid
commission, and then taking up the Code
he began at the title page. He had got
nearly to the end of the report of the
Coditying Committee when drowsiness
overpowered him, snd he beran to di
robe for the pight, As he was in the
of lying down a loud *‘bello!” was heard
at the yard gate. Whea the door was
opened a voice in the darkn:
yut
*Does ‘Squire Bently live here!”
“I'm the man.” was ihe rather pomp
reply.
‘“I want a warrant for Jake
“What's he done?”
“Him and Pete Brown g
at old man Hull's house raising this
evenin’ and he knocked Pete down with
a handspike, and it looks like he's g in’
to die.”
“All right
By the time
his clothes and
other man—one
tered.
Had ‘Squire Bently been required to
make an astronomical calculation he
would not have been more completely at
a loss how to proceed. But he felt
his official honor was
but
withal,
the
hha
the
he
his
his arm,
wavy
anda
is
+ IN
ind
ner =
administering
ipper
of fis
was dispatchd he,
{
spelled out the
act
d
a called
us
Jones.’
come in "’
the officer had donned
replenished the fire the
John Grabham-—had en
Code for a *‘form,” he proceeded to bring
forth from his inner consciousness the
momentous document,
was the fact that there was not a scrap
of writing paper in the house. Not an
ticipating emergencies wherein it would
vided for oflicial purposes. Uawillio
to be balked, he tore a blank
pencil—for it was developed that no pen,
Bently household —he sat down,
after infinite pains, produced the follow.
ing warrant
““taik jaik joans
G. BENTLY, esq, j. p."
As Mr. Graham received this document,
he asked:
“Who will serve this warrant?”
“You can do it as well as anybody
else, can’t you?”
“J guess so!
tol"
“‘Briog him here, of course,”
“When?”
“At once--or sooner, if you can find
him.”
“All right!” and the Special Constable
took his leave.
Our officer now retired, but the inci.
dent of the warrant had unsettled him
somewhat and he vainly courted sleep.
After an hour or two of restless tum:
bling he was about entering dreamland
when there was another call at the gate,
Going to the door he was again met by
the inquiry :
“Does "Squire Bently live here”
**Yes; what do you want?”
“We want to get married!” was the
rather hesitating and huskily spoken re-
Ph ome in!” and again the officia!
hauled on his pantaloons, and out of
Where must I take him
donned.
and a shrinking ‘maiden had reached the
doorstep. :
“Come right
in! Take chairs and sit
embers into a flame by blowing on them
with his breath.
complished he arose, brushed the dust
and ashes off his knees, and, reaching
for his law book, demanded:
‘‘Are you runaways ?"
**Yoa, sir."
“What's your names ?"”
i
i
3
i
i
i
So, after bringing a few
bundles of fodder from a stack neat
by, and two or three quiits from the
cuer, and locked him up in the smoke
house till his return, and the five men
In the matter of the inquest Dr. Smith
He prepared all
and it was only
lady's is’ Mary Banks.
‘‘Are you a son of John Wright?"
*I am, sir.”
‘‘Aund is that one of old Tom Banks’
gals?”
**Yes, sir.’
“What did you run away for
“Cause her folks were not willin’' for
us to marry
‘“‘Have you got airy pair of license?”
“Yes, sir, I have the license. We ex
pected Preacher Gray to marry us, but
he wasn't at home, s0 we came to you,
Here, sir, is the license.”
“Keep 'em, young man, keep ‘em. I
don’t want ‘em! 1 only axed to see if
you had 'em; for it's agin the laws
of the United S'ates to marry in this
State without a pair of license, The
law only axes if you paid for ‘em, and
how much.”
As he said this, ‘Squire Bentley opened
his book very wide and assumed a stern,
judicial air.
**Yes, sir, the license is paid for, and
cost one dollar.”
“Where did you get 'em?”
“*At the oourthouse, of course
you please, sir, will you proceed?”
**You bet I will! Hold up your right
hands!”
The young couple exchanged glances.
If the truth must be told, the require
ments of etiquette during the perform.
ance of the ceremony had formed an im.
portant factor in their conversatiop
since leaving the paternal roof. Aftera
little hesitation both hands went up
“You solemaly swear that vou will
together as man and wife, sick
and that you will tell the truth, the
whole truth and noth the truth,
so help you God! Answer, ‘I do.""”
“I do,” was the faint response
“I pronounce you husband and wife and
may the Lord have mercy on your souls!’
The astonished couple still sat with
uplifted hands, gazing at the Magistrate
with open-mouthed wonder
“That'll do!” said hein
tone
“Is it over
siggh of relief, as
“1 reck
response i
*‘Yes,
hard and as
done it.’
“How rt 3
‘Not a cent. young man, not a cent,”
and then he added, in a semi-confiden-
tial “You see, I'm a sorter new
heginner, and | hain't prices yet
yy
If
live
or well,
but
a leas severe
asked the bride, with a
hand
* was the rather doubt!
) 3
she lowered her
3080.
f t
certal ’ ou're ched as
ius had
nor
tone,
sot ny
Where are v ' to stay till mornin
“We ex Mr
back t« acle Bill ight's, on Cane
twelve
from tera
Creek: but th or miles
i satavern in town?’
stay here? It
and I ‘drother
hel
the horses,
quire were out stabling
ntly had arisen and prepared a roon
bride and groom. After a sli
repast which the young people really
needed h stoutly protested
1gainst the ext yuble), they were left
in possession of the which
had twice served as a that
night.
An hour had passed, and most of
inmates had fallen when there
was another loud at the gate
“Whois it now!” asked the master o
the house, as he opened the door
“It's me—here’s your prisoner,” sang
out a voice in reply, that evidently be
longed to Special Constable Graham
“*Who else is with y
“Jim Hall, and brother Tom.’
All right-—come in!”
While our hard-worked Magistrate was
again dressing himself, his wife sudden.
ly inquired,
“Where will you take ‘em, George
This was a poser. The spare room was
already occupied, and, worse than all,
Lis lawbook was in there too!
Meeting the Constable in the yard he
brifly explained the situation,
“We can build ap a fire out here,” he
stiggested at last, and the others assent.
ing, the fire was accordingly kindled,
and then "Squire Bently realized that he
could proceed no farther without his law-
book. Going to the door of the guest
though Dot
tre
te
spare TOO,
law office
BSC,
‘hello
§
13 37
*“What is it?" inquired the groom.
“1 want to get my book.”
So the voung man unfastened the
door, and held it open till the officer
went inside and *‘felt around” till he laid
to the yard, he opened court by adminis
tering an oath to all present (including
just how it was
"Tr
The day had been a warm one,
hand and seal” to various documents.
It was near 10 o'clock when the
‘Squire and bis party returned from the
inquest. They were all very drowsy
Our officer found a
arrival at home. As the meal and flour,
as well as the bacon, were kept in the
as the door thereof
was securely locked and the key safely
none of the
family had broken their fast. The bride
parently happy; the children were fret
their mother was scolding, and
Jake Jones from the inside of his prison,
{ respectable quictude by
the ground with him after
Before this ocourred, or
was served, Pete Brown ro
He had concluded not to die: he and
Jake made friends and the case was dis
missed. After a hearty breakfast and
dinner in one, his visitors departed,
leaving 'Squire Bently to cogitate over
ents of “His First Official Night.”
-| Louisville-Courier
adjournment,
aven break
ie up
the e
Journa
WAR MEMORIES,
A $1,960 Meal That Was Spoiled by
an Inconslderate Missile
Ex
$ a4 pgentic
detroit Fi
Connected with the Tobacco
change at Richmond, Va. i
man who, according to the 1
Press, was living ‘‘under the
Petersburg during the
After several shot
over his house, his famil
safer quarters, buat one eveni
; Everything was
then a shot came
was
to return
Hour, and
I'his
iren, but husband
he would stay ths
ery gun in the i
# was turned loose uy
and
bimrelf dn the back over
tne Federals suddenly op
heavy guns at the hill
enoueh
over. gh
t the
jeclared
il ey
mnt
ann hour went ‘by,
roarad aod hissed and screame
man s
er Grant had his
more
ESDCOIRLLY
i
on-comiatanis
| not proj
i His guns sion
his presence
herefore pitched
any enthusiasm,
»
rot over an hour's
cheek
sie
0g
heavy
Federa
#0 elevated ti
confederate
Petersburg an
under the hill t i
window of a house and exploded
parlor. A patt of the front of the
was blown out. one side demo!
hamber floors driven through the
consi i red SON
night duriog a
the crater, the
time
the
This neoessitated an adjournment to
shelter-—and as the smokehouse was the
nearest building, thither all hands re
paired,
to cease, another horseman came gallop.
ing up.
‘Is "Squire Bently at home?"
“Yes; that's me!” was the reply.
to hold an inquest.”
Further questioning elicited the fact
that a negro woman had died very sud.
denly, and the physician who had been
called, deeming the circumstances sus.
picious, desired an inquest. It was now
past midnight, but our officer, feeling
that he ought to act promptly in the
matter, decided to go at once. But, un.
fortunately, the two Gralinms snd Jim
Hail all felt called upon to go, too.
What to do with the prisoner was the
question. Somebody proposed taking him
along with them, but the prisover him.
self stoutly opposed that plan, but of
fered to pledge himself to be on hand
whenever wanted,
Our Magistrate, acting on the principle
that “*one bird in the hand is worth two
people had moved
their goods and a dog to
out, but left
watch them.
when the explosion took place,
was not killed
after a family bad taken up their quarters
in & bomb: proof of the back yard, a shell
drove in the front door
floor and exploded under the house
There were five rooms below and four
above, and the explosion shook off every
bit of plaster and knocked down every
partition in the lower part. The family
well was at the back the house, and
so much debris was driven into it
of
In the winter of 1864 a who
had unexpectedly received $2,000 in Con
federate currency ou an old debi, deter
Citizen
company te help to eat it. Rye, coffee
bacon, meal, rice and molasses were
about the only provisions in market; but
ing a company of six friends. The guests
were in the parlor, the table set, and the
cook was over the stove, when a shell
entered the dining room through the
side of the house. The explosion
wrecked the room tbat no one could
enter it. The table, pieces of which |
saw, could no. have been demolished
any better with an ax, and the plaster in
two or three rooms was shaken down,
Suicide of a Rattlesnake,
That a rattlesnake may commit suicide
is claimed by Professor E. 8. Holden, in
Nature. Dr. Keeler saw one three feet
long crawl under the dome of the six-inch
equatorial of the Lick Observatory. He
seized the snake by the neck with a pair
of blacksmith's tongs and put it into a
bottle of water to drown it. Soon it
became obvious that the animal must
soon become drowned, At this moment
it struok ita fangs deep into its body,
He has no doubt whatever that the blow
was intentional, and with suicidal pur-
Jose, It was a single, deliberate blow,
o snake died and is preserved in the
observatory. It isto be boped that this
sort of thing may mo: e Common
with its surviving brethren,
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divins's Sua.
day Sermon.
Subjeot: “The Morning Star.”
Text: “I am
star.” --Lisvelation xxii, 16
the bright and
Our attention aud
is drawn to the
the caravansary
fut do not let us
star. T
This is Christmas Eve,
the attention of the world
star that pointed down to
where Christ was born,
forget that Christ himself was a
that luminous fact my text calls us
It seems aus if natural world wers
anxious to make up for the damage it did our
race in furnishing the forbidden fruit, If
that fruit wrought death among the Nations
now all the natural product shall
symbol of blessing, The showering down of
the wealth of the orchard will make usthink
of him whom Bolomon deseribes as the apple
tree amongg the trees of the wood, and tho
flowers of tangled glen and cultured parterrs
shall be the dew glinted gariand for the brow
of the Lord Jesus, Yea, even the night shail
be taxed, and its brightest star shall be set
as & gem in the coronst of our holy religion,
Have you ever the morning star ad-
vantageously If it was on your way homs
from a night's carousal, you saw none of its
beauty If vou mersly turnsd over on your
pillow in the darkness, giancing out of the
window, nothing about the
cheer/ul influences of that star But thers are
the
become a
ween
Sau
this hous» to-night who in great
heir tle, some them far out at
st that and bean thrilled
with indescribable giandness, That
as treambiing as with the
larkness, and bright
ins
many in
Pass eR of
Ben, have gazed
throug
tar
perils o
he anti
tional with
though
yet
It seem
ses. ite eves
wa, It is the
ornmnmg thrust un
{ithars » ars aim,
candles i athedral or ai
ed in superstitio
Bars, a spsaking star, a
sSyangelstic star--hiright
wmumphant symbol great Hedeoen
rator puts his finger on the
instrament, and the
And
inspiration
point in the heavy
hie earth,
the hand
en
its coming 31 8 like holy
er Deads counts
# litany, but this is a living
histori at Ai
and brilliant and
if the 1 r
telegraphic or
sliver key o
tidings fly
s wloectrie
wmtinent
inger of
reat |
. bright an
meaning of my text is
ar precedes and
50 Christ
§
tiding
am the
Lazarus fr
ody of Lazarus
in, Some
4 i]
and the
*
sunposs tha
3
HBothlehean Oh,
§ it
shepherds, and
svararcheg 12
fated the
ragtive
poised
fore the world
world came tro
and He grected
hildreg, witha “go
night Hall 1
the frst creation
Again, Christ herald
in a Christian soul, So
passes in life where all Kinds
mest us, You are building
anterprise ot have bulls the
the wall—you are just shout to put on
capstone, when thing is jem
You have a.barp all ing for swee
wed, and
SOMO Lroat agony
Fhere ja a
ittle voi
hold Blu:
thn heak
mong
them, as
vd mornin
rd Josue
is the dawn
metimos
¥
wes
Fount #
Int
see aloe
Ths too
quick feet the hal
those was march
are people to do amid all
Some sit down and mourn,
lip until the blood comes
wale hands. Some fall on their faces. Bome
fie ii thelr backs helpless and look up int
seams to them an us tying heaven
Bome pull their hair down over their eyes
and look through with a flend’s ginre. Some,
with both hands, press their hot brain and
want die and crv, “OGod, UO Gog!”
Long fight, bitter night, stupendous nigh
of the world's sufisring Some know tot
But not so the Christian
He looks up toward the heavens, He
bright appearance in the heavens
ily a flashing meteor Can it
Can it be only » deln
Nay. nay. The longer he lonks the
more distinet it bacomes, until after
awhile he cries out, “A sara morn-
ing ar, a star of comfort, a star
of grace, a star of peace, the star o
the RBedeemer!” Poace for all trouble
Balm for all wounds, Life for all dead
Now Jesus, the great heart healer, comes
into our home, Peace! Pages that passeth
all understanding. We look ap through our
fears, Wo are comforted. It is the mors.
ing star of the Redosmer, “Who broke
that flower?" said one servant in the garden
to another. “Who broke off that
Andthe other servant sald, “The master”
Nothing more was said, for if the master had
thean sorrows?
“ome bite their
Some wring their
to
man
yn
ston?
his heart or to set inthe vase of his mansion,
who has a right to touch the flower? And
when Christ comes down into our garden to
gather Hiles, shall we Aght Him back? Shall
we talk as though He had no right to come?
If any one in all the universs has a right to
that which fs beautiful fn our homes, then
our Master has, and He will take it and He
will wear it over His heart, or He will set it
in the wuss of the palace eternal. “The
Lord guve. and the Lord hath taken away
blessed be the namo of the Lord.” Pesce,
troubled soul! I put the baim on your
woanded soul to-night. The morning star,
the morning star of the Redesmer,
Agnin, Christ heralds the dawn of millen<
pial glory, It is night in China, night in Tn.
din, night in Siberia, night for the vast ma-
jority of the world's population. But it
soems to me there are some intimations of
the morning. All 8
under the influenos of the What
that light I see breaking over the ton of the
Pr ¥/ The morning! Yea, all Italy
H receive the Boe shail have
her schools and
collegres and her
— A ————
churches. Her wast population shall
surrender themselves to Christ, What is that
light I see breaking over the top of the Alps?
The morning. All India shall come to God,
Her idols shall be cast down, Her jugger-
nauts shall be broken Her temples of in-
fquity shall be demolished What is that
ght | see vreaking over the top of the Him
sisyas? The morning. The empurpled
clouds shall gild the path of the conuuering
day. The Hottentot will come out of his mud
hovel to look at the dawa; the Chinaman
will come up on the granite cliffs, the Nor.
wegian will get up on the rocks, and all the
beach of heaven will be crowdsd with celes-
tial inhabitants coms out to ses the sun rise
over the ocean of the world's agony. They
shall come from the east, and from the west,
from the north, and from the south, and sit
down in the kingdom of God, These swal-
al suns, These shivered
ards in Italy
tenboxes in China,
the vine These packed the
These were aborigines
And
mountain
and the sen
him who
Tiberias, and
the wind shall waft it, and avery
ne a transfiguration,
trod the wave cliffs of stormy
the great sky will becomes a sounding board
which shall strike back theshout of salvation
to the earth until it rebounds again to the
throne of the Almighty, and the morning
star of Christian hops will become the full
sunburst of millennial glory
Again, Christ heralds the dawn of heaven
very Christian's dying pillow. I sup-
have that the character
healthy davs ars
pe their caaraderistics
Che dying words of
Head of the
Mi ©
no ioed
in
pose you
{ { 2110s their
in their
ambitious
ATI Y Tha
wtic Lord Byron were, “1
The dying words of
slson were, Kiss me,
words of Yoldalre were,
1 supposed 1o b
ih that wret
the dying wor ol
room /
f bave noticed that
stinns always mean pence Generally
se, and there is
the room. As
told me of
Rhea looked un
roatural
in, ‘d
i 5a
ARVe
MA IS All og great
ide through
brothers
and said,
being
ook
{
me 10r
be in the ro
Why, thes me
t 80 that tha
ull aro
this Le a aving
from z
Il Walk : w,
the window, and you
and look at your wateh, i 1
f patient again
hat the feos is
irned light
It is peace
“Why. at
different
And v
va look out of
very nieassnt
ask yourself
room? It is
ever expected
and
Pte
BO aunvining
the fi
back
nn
it the
s tHuminated
higher
Re,
» ym
Por
1 you
ana
th
ng star--Jesgs
ath bed under
$ have
ssid of
own f of
wing
CHARA
1
and
sim Tennant keg
star until
Lord Jesus
thor
fe a harbor N¢
wd anchor inte
4 eet
star
var pleroad such
ned with such »
rho and a guide, ws
¥ th cave of Ken
sartesn miles and see
ndous place
Rome
aves hundred
ad with weird echoes,
lew falling from invisible height 10 ine
i Stalagmites rising up from
faith
Pes
fennel
s gro tons |
the oave, joining each
ind making piliars of the
Iypsun As the guide carries his
ad of you, the shadows have
wu supernatural and spectral,
iarknese is fesrial Two people,
in
ant
Ap pearan The
ost from their
vosrs ago, were demented, and for years sat
insanity. You feel like
13 their
Wie IY 10
that tha bottom less
Wy a
own into the caverns, and the light rolls
wd tosses from rook to rock aad from depth
to depth making at every plunge a new rev.
elation of the awiul power that could have
made such a place as that,
span
vou think that you are 250 fest in a straioht
line from the sunlit suriace of the aarth, The
guide after awhile takes you into what
called the “Star Chamber,” and thea bs
says to vou, “Sit here,” and then he takes
the lantern and goes down under the rocks,
and it gots darker and darker, until the night
is 20 thisk that the hand an inch from the
oye is unobservable, And then, by kindling
one of the lanterns and slacine it in a claft
of the rock, there is a reflaction cast on the
dome of the cave, and thers are stars come
ing out in constellations-—a brilliant night
heaveps—and you involuntarily oxclaim
“Beautiful! beautifel Then he takes the
lantern down in other depths of the cavern,
and wanders on, and wanders off, unti! he
comes up from behind the rocks gradusily,
and it seems like the dawn of the morning,
The guide
is a skilled ventriloquist and he imitates the
voices of the moming, and soon the gloom
is all gone, and you stand congratulating
yourself over the wonderful spectacle. Well,
there are a great many people who look down
into the grave as a great cavern, They think
it is a thousand miles subterraneous, and all
schoss seem to be the voices of despair, and
the cascades sosm to be the falling tears that
always fall, and the gloom of sarth seems com-
ing up in stalagmites, and the gloom of the
sternal world ssems desconding in thestalac-
tite, making pillars of indesoribable horror,
The grave is no such place at that 10 me,
thank God.
Our Divine Guide takes us down into the
great caverns, and we have the lamp to our
foot and the light to our path, and all the
schoos in the rifts of the rock are anthems,
and all the falling waters are fountains of
salvation, and after awhile ws look up and,
behold | the savern of the tomb has be some
a king's star mbar. | And while wo are
looking at t o an ev
A athe Prater ad ol he be
asarth crystallize into stalagmite, rising up
in a pillar on the one side, and all the glo-
ries of heaven seem to be descending in
—
stalactite, making a pillar on the
other side, and ’ push against
the gate that swings bet wean
the two pillars, and as the gate flashes open
you find it is ons of the twelve gates which
are twelve pearls, Blessed be God that
through this gospel the mammoth cave of
the sepulehre has become the illumined Star
Cn of the King |
I would God that if my sermoa to-day
does not lead you to Christ, that befors
morning, looking out of the window, the
astronomy of the night heavens might lead
you to the feet of Jesus,
Hark! Hark! To God the chorus breaks
From every host, from avery gem
Put one glone, the Bavior speaks
Is the Star of Bethlehem.
eons II evs tl
She'll Soon Own the Universe,
The persistence of the crank is one
of the most extraordinary attributes
pf the genius. When Gen. Grant was
in the White House a woman named
Thurstan came to him with a deed
on parchment for the entire State of
Maine. She wanted him to accept it
in trust for the people, and pay her
an annuity in consideration thereof.
Subsequently she made a similar ap-
plication in reference to a like paper
which proved her title in fee to the
whole United States. Io return she
demanded an allowance of $300,000
per annum. Since March 4 last she
has been seeking an interview with
Mr. Cleveland. She owns all Europe
now, and is anxious to hypothecate
the vronerty.
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Canada’s Chinese Question.
Canada has an #important Chinese
question. The Canadian Parliamen
18% enacted a law |
$50 upon all Chinese,
captions, who entered
The number of (
from one
is now stated that the
act is so strongly quest
Chinaman will test it
preme Court. The act
violation of the treaty
in
osing a duty of
ith certain ex-
th Dominion.
be landed
limited. It
validity of ie
ioned that a
before the Su-
is held to be in
bastween China
and England, or at least opposed to the
spirit of the treaty. should the act be
declarad irregular, have
fund a considerable sum of money
in admission Laxes,
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A Misguided Inventor.
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hicycie with an intricate system of
pog wheels that in
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present
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