The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-01-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TIME AND THE WOODMAN. (Written en Mr Gimlet ,ne's 8.3n1 Birthday,) 0 Tine, oar Wool.nan Rpane, And stlt We powers renew, Rio a.ue atilt le% bun bear,  For he he wcrrs to do. `Tis true that he • old, But who so ilt as he To fell, witi Erokes so-bold, Tho Irish Lipos-tree? Already many a limb From ;t he's loppA away, And into CORM?. dim Hos let the light M day; But still himself he's selti  One teat là a Lie to cr iwn, The Trims trunk stands yet— lie romics to cut it down! 9'7, too' wit'a axe in band, In laboursstill pro!use, He'll clear, throughout cur lard, • The junles of abase. Aye, deeds most valorous He at ii prepared to ‘ia re; So, Time, be k n 3 to ns— Grand Old Woodman ultra!  I hope that we have hard the last of Mrs Maybrick for some time. Having been found guilty of one of the vilest murders that e‘ ee was committed, and most properly condemned to be hanged, Mr Matthews changed the sentence i.; to penal servitude for life. First we were asked to let her out of prison because some American public men, who probably had ne.er read one word of the evidence on which she was convicted, good natnredly signed a petition tor her release. The next thing was for a mythical ITIRII at the Cape to declare that he bad committed the murder, aided by a servant wbo, he said, hail been with the husband when he died. These appeals to mnrcy having failed, we were harrowed by assurances that the convicted murdereFe was dyiqg. an I that at least she ought to be showed to die out of prison. The fat seems to be that she wa.; malingering, having swallowed a few pins to create the iinputssion that she was ill, and that lad she been ieleused, her recovery would have been immediate. Mrs May. brick is a most fortunate woman in not having been hanged. Were she released from the continenlent that has been substinted for thia punishment, no husband would be safe were Ins wi!e to wisli to Olt an end to his existence,  The fuse that has hen mad-, about the delay in the arrival of the Umbria is proof of the progreas that has been made by Atlantic steamers in keeling to their times. I remember above thity years ago crossing the Atlantic in saiamer of the Collins Line (a line that has disappeared f3r many' • day, but which used to hi the rival of the Crriard Line). ;somewhere on the Newfoundland Banks the machinery broke down. It was so foggy that nothing could be seen, and the captain told as that it would take several days to mend what was broken, when we should go on, if we did not run ashore before, which he kindly assured sta was not improbable. For a few hours, we talked to each other in solemn whispers as though we were taking part at our own funerals. But habit is everything, and we soon left our ilestiny to fate—ate, drank, sang, read, and payed at cards, as though no danger thneatered us. We arrived at Liver. pool about • week after we were due. There had been no anxiety in regard to us, or— what was, of course, of far more importance— about the ship or its cargo. We had started, we rens supposed to be mating our way to Liverpool, and whether we arrived a week late or when due was regarded as a mere detail of the voyage. A few months later I was on a West Indian steamer on-my way to Ifo,vanna.h. One of the paddles declined to work in the midst of a storm. k'or several days we just held our own with one, and we Completed the voyage in this lop.sided fashion. We were nearly a fortnight late when we got to St. Thomas; but, as in the case of the Collins steatr.er, our delay had attracted no notice. L  A 'ThseintreaL Sum= ScHEwn RiBIECTZD. The Halifax Cotmty Council on Wednesday, by 23 votes to 2J, rejected the recommendation of a committee for the erection of a technical school, in spite of the Mayor's assurance that the ratepayers would not be called upon for a farthing, in COllllOO- with the scheme.  BAtiQuilp 721113