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DUFFERIN TERRACE AND CITADEL, QUEBEC.
Above Fredericton there is still slight
draught navigation" for a hundred miles,
Fredericton is a most attractive capital At
that point the valley on both sides of the st.
John is broad and fertile and the plot of the
little city is in plane trigonometry. Asa mat
ter of courtesy ought to return thanks to
all who made my stay in Fredericton de-
lightful, but there are so many of them that
will only particularize as to my day in the
government buildings
Chief Justice John c. Allen at first view,
struck NE as altogether too jolly for su-
preme Judge, but when we got down to bed
rock an! discussed the comparative merits of
tbs United States judicial system and that of
the British colonies, found that there was q
good deal to he said ON both sides. A few
DAYS later was agreeably surprised to meet
Judge Allen at Grand Falls We walked out
together and spent some hours of late after
noon End twilight on the suspension bridge
and rocky hills that overhang that magnif-
cent cascade There | expounded unto New
Brunswick's chief justice the immense superb
GRITTY of the United States system. Of course
that innate modesty which distinguishes the
American newspaper man prevented nay
doing justice to the subject, so the chief jus
tice replied .-.... ....l<.e.-.: -.
"The trouble with you is that the central
authority is not sufficiently defined. We
looked out for that at the start, and quite
natug. ly, as our confederation was formed
Just after your civil war Your plan was
that all powers not granted to the Federal
government went to the states; we reversed
that exactly, and declared that all powers
not clearly granted to the province belong
to the Ottawa Dominion government. Don't
you think that is better9"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20

Samuel J. Tlden, great lawyer,
drew up his own will, with the assist
ance Of another lawyer, the shrewdest
he could find. He wanted his vast es-
tate to go largely to the maintenance of
a splendid free library in New York.
That it might be kept fully up to the
times, he left large discretion to the
trustees of the fund. Everything was
thus considered safe; will drawn by
two great lawyers SO tight that no heirs
could break it; a magnificent fund for a
library which should be a credit to New
York, something she has not now and
never did have. Result: The will has
been in litigation ever since Tialen died;
a court has decided 50 much was left to
the discretion Of trustees that the will
itself is vague. and therefore void; the
case has been appealed to higher court;
the lawyers are eating up the estate like
moths in blanket, and by the time the
suit is ended there will likely not be
enough left of it to anybody to buy a
corner grocery. Moral: When you want
anything done after you are dead, do it
yourself while you are alive.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20

tween Arnold and Andre, and by an odd
coincidence, Parlding, one Of Andres cap
tors, married sister of Lieut.. Ward. This
illustrates the awkward division Of families
during the American revolution. john
Ward G. Sons ran the first steamers on the
river St. John.
1t is not entirely without interest to relate
that many hundred negroes were among the
Loyalist refugees of 1888 and that the British
government lever generous to its friends In
Distress gave them the same land grant, ra-
tons and live stock as other Hoyalists, and
that they and their descendants have eyer
since enjoyed all the privileges of other Brit
ish subjects Loeb Lomond, a few miles
from st. John, was founded by 371 negroes
Of the vintage of 1915, men who went Off with
the British from Virginia.
BY far the most interesting, however, of
these Loyalist "reminiscences concerns the life
of Benedict Arnold at st. John. I'm 1850 he
received from the British government 6,00O
guineas and the rank of brigadier general
Ia 1871 he went to England with Lord Corn
wallis, with whose assistance he got pen
sion for Mrs Arnold of G500 year for life
and e1O0 for each Of their children. In 1885
he located at st. John and remained there
several years trading to the West Indies. In
17SS his store was burned, and in 1870 his for
mer partner, Munson Hayt, charged that
Arnold had set it on fire to secure the insur-
ance. Arnold brought an action for SANDER,
asking $4,000 damages After an exciting
trial the jury gave the plaintiff twenty shil-
lingsl Thereupon Benedict sold out and re-
turned to England. .
His sons, Robert and Henry, by tue first
wife, settled in Upper Canada on grant of
$4,000 acres made to their father, and faded
away into the happy obscurity of a frontier
population. His son by his second wife,
George Washington Arnold 6eewhillikinsl
what titular eo,abinationD became a lieu.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20

money, went hunting to see what he
could do. In due time he, too, matches
out an infinitesimal villain, different
from that of the other doctor, and he is
willing to stake his reputation for learn
ing, be the same more or less, that this
is what raises the rumpus with the hogs.
DR.. Salmon names his villain the micro
coccus. The long and learned essays he
wrote on his discovery are in thearchives
of the United States government.
To add to the illumination. Ger
man scientific man prepared likewise
Observation-Disclosures Vortraege - Der
Stabcher Rothlauf und die Schweine-
seuche." This is the state of the case,
when up steps DR.. Frank S. Billings, of
Lincoln, Neb., who asks for no Office at
the hands of his country, and who "fears
no power this side the grave or be-
yond,"' and avows with all solemnity
that there is no micrococcus at all, and
never was; that there isn't anything but
a bacillus suis.
Then the hog experts locked horns on
the question so desperately that finally
congress appointed a committee to find
out whether the thing was micrococcus
or, after all. nothing but bacillus suis.
There was a split even in the committee
over the burning question. Two reports
were submitted, one for the wretched
little micrococcus, the other against. So
the case now stands.
The plain farmer will be interested to
know that our great and glorious govern
ment recommends him to catch all his
sick hogs, give them nice warm bath
of weak bichloride of mercury, and then
feed them on eggs-whether eggs on
toast we are not told.
We are glad to note that the author OF
the Thiermedizinische Vortraege is more
satisfactory. He finds that infectious
pneumo-enteritisi is probably not capillary
erysipelaS
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20

swelled with sort of American pharisaism
as I Thought, 'sWhat ignorant folks are you
who 90 abroad as you call it, for scenery
Here is strictly American river, which not
one in a hundred of you ever saw, and yet il
Is lined by magnificent views through all its
course Perhaps my ideas were influenced
by the fact that have never been ABROAD
Il have always found as much matter Of In
terest on this continent as had time to see
but the st. John certainly does give the trav-
eler a series Of magnificent views for the first
forty miles or So B
Above that the rugged bluffs reeede and
give place to a fertile valley. Here and there
the stream divides and incloses low green
islands, public meadows by law and custom;
and a little farther the land rises from the
waters edge.in such slow and perfectly regu-
lar gradations of grain field, meadow, past
ure and timbered ridge that it reminds the
patriotic American of the Big Miami in the
vicinity of Dayton, the Wabash from Lafay-
cite to Logansport, the Genesee in its pref
test part, or any other scene that combines
the fertile with the picturesque, and is alto
gether lovely
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20
The Three Greatest Trotters.

Robert Bonner owns two of them, the
oldest and youngest. Maud S, the great
est trotter in the world, made her mile
in 2.06s when she was eleven years old.
She is now between fifteen and sixteen.
The worlds second greatest trotter is the
horse Jay Eye See, that did his mile in
2:10 when he was six years old.
California is acknowledged to be a fast
state on general principles, and the style
is extending to her horsefesh to such an
extent that the Blue Grass region of
Kentucky must look to its laurels as a
breeder of racing stock. The third
greatest trotter alive is the three-year
old California flly Sunol, that has just
made her mile in 2:10a, the greatest
speed ever attained by a three-year-old
trotter. IS s..s,e .. ~
Robert Bonner, in buying this Califor-
mia prodigy, says he paid more for her
than he ever did for horse before. The
sum must be large one, since he paid
Vanderbilt $40, 900 for Maud S.
The absorbing horse question now is:
Will Sunol be able to beat Maud SIS
record? IF she can, however, it will
merely be Bonner against Bonner. But
if the 2.O8s time is beaten, one may well
ask where this lowering of the trotting
record will stop7 May not horse event
ually trot a mile a minute? It is of es-
pecia1 interest to note that the three
greatest trotters, Maud s, Jay Eye See
and Sunol, are all of the same blood and
closely related.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20

NATURAL STEPS, MoNTMoRENcI RIVER.
tenant colonel in the Bengal BRITISH cav
airy and died In India in 1928 The second
son, James Robertson Arnold, served long
aud honorabiy in the Royal Engineers, and
In 1880 William " made him one Of his aids
de-camp, in which position he died. The
daughter, Sophia, changed her name, as
maidens will. and her children married we'll
In England. The youngest son, William, Fitch
Arnold, was born in st. John in 1887; he at
tanned great success as a lawyer, sat as judge
for twenty-six years, and died in 1851
The mother. Benedict's second wife, who
was in the colonies at one time supposed to
be the cause of his ruin, was daughter OF
Edward Shipper, the last royal attorney
general of Pennsylvania. Believing that the
animosities of the contest had died out, she
returned to Philadelphia in 1890, but the
unforgiving requested" her to remove,
and she went to London, where she died in
1904, aged "A. Benedict himself died there
June a, 1901. ALI this is very old history,
perhaps still 1t Is interesting to know that
the exiled Yankees founded such q beautiful
and prosperous city as st. John.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20
Hypnotism in Drunkenness,

Rev. Arthur Tooth is clergyman of
the Church of England. Not long since
he gave startling exhibition before
large party of ministers and physicians
In London. The exhibition was given in
an orphan asylum for boys. The youths
were between IL and Is years old. Mr.
Tooth had only to fix his eyes upon one
of the boys when the subject would be
thrown into the hypnotic state.
Whatever Tooth babe the youths do
was done, no matter how absurd. What
ever he told them as fact was believed,
no matter how extravagant. The most
startling part of the performance was
this: If Mr.. Tooth told them, in the hyp-
motto state, that they were to do given
thing after they had waked, in every
case this was done. One boy in the hyp-
motto state was informed that in two
minutes after he regained consciousness
he would rub out some writing on the
blackboard. He was then brought out
of the hypnotic state and asked if any
body had spoken to him in the past five
minutes. He answered no. But at the
expiration of two minutes he suddenly
seized the brush and erased the writing.
At least that is the story. But it seems
strange, rather, that he remembered to
do the act and did not remember that he
had been told to do it.. One must not in
quire too closely into good stories, how
ever. .
Now comes iii the cure for drunken
ness. Mr.. Tooth said that drunkards
were peculiarly susceptible to the hyp7.
motto influence. He had put them into
the unconscious state and then told
them that afterwards when they drank
whisky it would sicken them intensely
and produce vomiting. The results actu-
ally followed infallibly. After time
the drunkard became so sick of being
made sick that he abandoned whisky,
and that drunkard was cured.
It!was Mr.. Tooth's belief that teach
ers and philanthropists universally might
avail themselves of this method of cur
ing vice. The patient could be kept un-
der the influence of the stronger will till
the vicious habits were broken.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20
An Interesting Decision.

A case has been in litigation in New
York state which is of general interest.
An old farmer, Francis B. Palmer, had
a grandson, of whom he was very fond.
Although he had other heirs, he made q
will giving his property, worth nearly
81 ,OG0, to this boy, who was Is years old
in 1881. .-...
The existence of the will in his favor
was we'll known to the youth, who in
his 10th year became wild and unman-
ageable. His grandfather admonished
him that unless he mended his ways the
will would yet be altered, but the warn
ing had no effect In 1882 the boy, then
16, became tired of waiting for his in
heritanca One day he put strychnine
into the old gentleman's whisky Jug.
Grandfather Palmer drank the poison
and died. The boy, Elmer Palmer, was
arrested, tried, found guilty and SEN
fenced to the Elmira reformatory. He
remained in the institution three years,
and the youth who murdered his grand
father to get property the fond old man
had willed to him was such good boy
that at the end of that time he was dis
charged. Then he claimed the property
he had committed murder to get. The
other heirs fought the claim, and 1t was
decided in their favor against the young
man.
There was no law in the land to fit the
case, but the court decided that by ''un-
written law" there can be no inheritance
by murder. The case may be taken as
establishing precedent. 1t is the first
case of the kind known in this country.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20
Rulhs for Elowering in che House.

Bulbs for F1owering in the House.
The oxalis furnishes an extremely pretty
and popular plant for hanging baskets. 1t
should be potted in September and protected
from frosts. .. s
OF yellow towering bulbs, a color now
very popular, lachenialia Nelsoni is very de-
sirable for winter blooming in the house
The flowers, an inch or more in length,
borne on spikes several inches long, continue
in bloom for long time. ..r.
Thefreesia. is one of the newest favorites,
having become popular as well for the IA
cflity with which it can be forced into bloom
as for it's deliciously fragrant white flowers,
profusely borne The bulb Is potted in DC.
tober. ..s...5. ss
The sOrtental lily" or Chinese sacred mar.
cissus, represents new house plant which Il
is quite the thing" to grow, as a sort Of Gu
riosity, for it will fourth in dishes filled only
with pebbles and water. 1t bears fragrant
flowers of white and yellow.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20
Bacillus suis or heterogeneous ?

The hog raising farmers of this coun-
try will bless their bones that there is
such thing as science when they read
the literature recently issued on the sub
ject Of swine plague. If there was ever
any more Illuminating body of docu-.
ments published, our eyes have failed to.
discover ii.
In 1878 two experts in the hog depart
ment of the United States government
attacked the subject of swine cholera.
with the greatest zeal. Pretty soon one
of them, DIR. Detmers, discovered that
hog cholera was a germ disease, and that
an infnitesimal villain, which he named
the bacillus suis, was the cause of it.
Then the other hog expert, DR.. Salmon,
not to be outdone by his competitor, will
ing also to do something to earn his
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20

Daniel Dougherty, the silver tongued
orator of New York, said at the recent
Catholic congress at Baltimore: 1.-THE
only religious martyrs who ever stained
our fair land with life blood were Roman
Catholics" Daniel should study the his
tory of his fair land a little more care
fully. The early Quakers, or Friends,
Jared even worse from puritanism than
Roman Catholics did. An ancestor of
the poet Whittier suffered death at the
hands of the pilgrim fathers for relig-
ions sake. Four Quakers-three men
and one woman-were hanged in Massa-
chusetts from 1858 to 1861.
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A CALECHE.


yentured to remark that it was trifis
queer that such centralized government
should be called confederation" and that
line of amalgamated provinces should be
called Dominion" Whereupon the genial
chief justice smiled at MY ankee preju-
dices," and weparted the best Of friehds
1 need not describe the splendid scenery OF
the upper st. John, amid which fingered
many days, or the wild beauty of Fall Brook,
or the rugged wilderness of the north through
which the new railroad runs to Riviere Dl
Loup on the. St. Lawrence. There Istook
train for Quebec, and found o week too short
a time to enjoy to the full all Its beauties and
curiosities But of these the world has lately
heard much-the wonderful citadel and
gates, the Dufferin terrace, which commands
one of the finest views in the world, the
Heights Of Abraham and Wolfe's monument,
the wonderful cliff, the falls of Montmorenci
and the natural steps" the little street where
Montgomery fell, and the house where his
corpse was laid-I saw them all. But to get
around so much in one week had to hire q
.'tFrench rocking chair" as the English speak
ing residents call it, better known elsewhere
as caleche; and with sufficiently wild boy
for driver, there is q good deal of fun in q
caleche after the sensation Of danger wears
off. Quebec is indeed delightful summer
resort, but the particulars must await more
convenient season. ...s r... j..
New York. J. q. BEADrE
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20

The question has again come up
whether the first steam vessel to cross
the ocean went from America to Eng
land or came to America from England.
The truth is that the honor belongs to
this country. The first steamship was
an American vessel, of 800 tons, that
made the trip from New York to Eng
land in. eighteen days. Her name was
the Savannah.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20

The temperance organization that has
done by far the most good in this coun-
try is the w. c. T. U. Now the public
Is informed that the magnificent society
Is 30 split by internal discussions over
the third party movement that a divi-
sion of the union is threatened. Such q
break would be the saddest misfortune
that could befall the temperance cause.
Don't do it, ladies. Drop the discussion
altogether, and remain united.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20

There has been an epidemic of homi-
eide in the country this fall that is some
thing appalling. The family feuds, the
race alterations and the personal diff
culties in the south and west make up
very bloody total The late Ell. V. Red
field collected statistics showing that
crimes against property were more prev
alent in the north and crimes against
the person in the south.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20

Rim LEE, "Why, Addie You needn't cry about
It! l only said Mrs. Hen was very well.
informed woman, aad wished you would follow
her example"
Mrs LEE "Yes snd last week You said you
wished could maEa-e to look as stylish as MRS:
Allen,-and she aul"r all her own Clothes bui
che has what haven't"
MRS LEE. ~ ell, she gets all Of her informa.
ton from the Magazine they take admit that
she knows all that is going on, and is bright and
entertaining i'll conversation but could do as
well as she does il had the same source OF
Information She lent me the last number of her
Magazine lately and learned more in one hours
reading about various social matters and the
topics Of the day, than would pick up in amonth
by nv occasional chats with friends. 1t certainly
the day down to the details of Housekeeping;
and every thing is beautifully illustrated, too.
Every time Mamie goes over to the Aliens she
comes back and leases me to get you to take
Demorest's Family MAGAZINE, as the stories are
30 good Eve: tn boys watch for 1t every month.
as MACE is found for them also in its pages and
Mr. Allen swcars by it. 1t is really wonderful
how it suits every member of the family!
MIR. LEE. " eli perhal us had better send FORA
Specimen Copy; for, if il i anything like what you
aayit is it will anusc aud instruct the whole ct u.s.
tn" publisher. . Cas- til trert. New York, is
offering to send Specimen Copy for 10 cents, so
we can't lose nythir::. each number contains
a Pattern Or ;;'r eHtitl ng the holder 10 any
Pattern she may choos:, and in any size which
alone makes each copy worth 30 cents: and Just
want a Jacket pat: crl like Mrs. Aliens. The
subscription prize 10 only So co O year and
must say can't gee how they can publish 90
elegant Magazine for SO little money"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20
IF the proposed 4, national election law I,

lie the proposed national election law
should really be brought up in the next
congress, the country win witness one
of the hottest fights it has seen since the
war. Here viii really be burning
question. sufficient to call forth all that
latent congressional eloquenee the tariff
discussion could not kindle. Ithas been
good while since there was really
lively time in congress.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20

Henry George says in his paper, The
Standard: "I-know that the most press
ing of political reforms has been initial
ed, and that what we have called the
Australian ballot system must in the
immediate future become the American
system"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20

Ward, who looks
the character" to
Professionalism Is,
he looks just as one
would expect q res
olute old Conserva-
tive to look. The
inscri ption says
that he. was born
at Peekskill on the
Hudson in l752, and
served as a lieuten-
ant in his majesty's
service in 177S-60.
He was active in
~
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20

the place owes its
greatness to those
Americans W b o
left the colonies In
1883. First is the
public fountain in
the park, which
tells that "The 10y
alists landed here
May Is, 1883. In
another place one
finds a memorial to
the effect that Hon.
GaDrlel G. Luu
low, late pl'esi-
dentand command
'er-inchief of this
province" was a
Loyalist from New
York. Many old
buildings have me-
meutoes of the 10y
~ II Al III
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-11-20

1t is well that most fashionable women now
consider with favor the loW, broad heel on
walking shoes. A low heel preserves the synp-
metry of the foot and renders walking less
tiresome by allowing greater play to the
muscles