The Northern Guardian. — 1898-01-08 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

TRADE ANNOUNCEMENTS.  DAILY ONE HALFPENNY  CARTER'S PACE.  _ notwithstanding the burning of Drury Loam Tamar" was • • I were never in their totality oonsiderableeand at hie; Ate AY-MAO Hulligt Exerrnee.—Wedey death barely exceeded £6,000. But, unlike Pitt and born in 1703, and died in 1791. His jrnal wati FOR ma many eontempor.ory who owed'vost sumo one of the most amazing records of human exertion' of minhey to persons of their own degree, he owed ever penned by man. He paid more turnpike ' tolls what he did to a great number of persons who were than any wh, aver heed, we average of tram- themselves needy and who filled heaven and earth ling being 8,000 miles a year, and he preacaese with their complainta. Notwithstanding his poverty, 40,500 sermons. In spite of the fact that he had not and notwithstanding the temptations which extra: Whitefield's eloquence, he was a magnetic man. One °Winery opportunity put in his way, his political might'apply to him what Dr. Johnson said ot honour and independence were unimpeadhable and Milton—" He was born for whatever was arduous ; maispienons. As to his intemperance, lee= quota difficulties vanished at his touch, and he was not the; lec'cd Dufferin—" Wine quickly dimutleced his highgreatest of wandering evangelists only because he , 'hung nervous system; and, while delighting the was not the first." Had he been born in the Middle hiwder-headed drinkers around him with the sallies Ages he would have been the greatest of the inane of his wit, two or three gleams were sufficient to DAN' MODEST Paorosse.—lt having been the overact the delicate poise of his brain." But 8 custom in a certain establishment to pay the Bh/olden's cheerful and comparatively lam:went conemployees fortnightly, the workmen, finding the viviality, which might be accounted a positive virtue in a day when it was the fashion for men to flit custom somewhat inconvenient, decided to send a delegate to the head of the firm to state their themselves with drink until they fell 'under the grievance. An Irishman, famed for his sagacity fable, has been the subject of more talk than the beand persuasive powers, was selected for the task. netted toperism of so many of his contemporaries and He duly waited upon the master, who addressed him companions. Had he been lees extensive in the range thus—o Well, Daniel, what can we do for you this of his genius his reputation would have been safer. morning ? " "If ye plum, sur, I've been ant as a *RANGIER THAN Frorione—A novel of the most. dilligate by the hands to ask a favour of ye regardin' mutational order might be founded upon a remarkthe accident which occurred not many years ago. the payment of our wages." " Yes ; and what do they desire? " queried the master. "Well sur, it I The story runs that a man was found lying dead is the desire of rumilf, and it is also the desire of 1 upon a couch, his life having been destroyed by a ivery man in the establishment, that we receive our ; bullet discharged from a gun lying near. The cirfortnighrt's pay ivery week ! " ! eumstanesa of the matter positively proved that the t CeA t FOR Cars.—" I have come East to visit ease could not have been one of suicide, and, theremy relatives," said a Western man the other day, fore, the only alternative which could be reasonably "but I shall attend to a little matter of a purely ! gaggested was that he had been murdered. An business nature while I'm here. I have a large ranch ! acquaintance was charged with the crime, but absolute 'put in Oregon, devoted principally to the growing of Proof of guilt was not forthcoming. One of the wheat and other grain. For several years past our • parties engaged in the aim was convinced that there , mope have suffered greatly by reason of the depreda- must be a natural solution of the affair, and worked. time of great armies of gophers that infest the untiringly Co discover it. The result of hie observe- • eountry thereabouts. The nuance has grown more tion and deduction Was very curious. The rays of and more annoying with each succeeding year, and the sun had streamed in at the window of the apartwe have finally decided that a stop must be put to it. ment in which the man had encountered' his end; Now, a cat is death on a gopher, but cats are not so and had been concentrated direct upon the explosive plentiful in the West as they are here. So I intend chamber of the gnu, by which means sufficient heat. to get together a couple of hundred of cats and take had been engendered to warm the cap and powder, them with me when I start for home. Out in my I and cause a discharge. The gun having been Madcountry cats bring fancy prices, but from my recol- trertently placed in such a way as to point to the unlection of this locality I should be able to get all I fortunate man, he received the bullet while he lay need for very little money." placidly sleeping, no doubt meeting with instant , No