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' AOKICULTQRAL. &a Enr'ap's Barn- Ben Burlap br mgnl about hi* burn with every man I l.'i; -..-I it wux the finest burn that any barn aonld **'t ho. " Tho worl U full rr burns ; but "till I aaUcci Therr a : n no bnrnlike Bnrlapxburn. an' halnt tmen op to li.uo. An w on j-er raw a w!M-oyed man who rain*! ' rumpnr. An' -rave.1 an ilopued hl arnw aronn' to all pin'- of tin An wih~i In-. wlii-kern in the wind an' spon alwrTdny yarn. You'<! know it w, Ben liurlap. ure, cxpjuni 1 . in' on hi* bar i. AB' I want dnwn to see hi* bare, ho hung on o One day T tol' my wife I pieced Id co ami take it in Twuz IB. t r good ex Ban hd -aid, ex flne ex it coeMhe. II bcat.ill burn* I ever see. or ever 'upcct to.-!. Wen T come oat * I to Ben. "What's that .11 biiil'lln'tnero. That kinder *obbly lookin' Meg. that tumble- down affair f It looks Mor-clictyan Teak 'taint flt to hoi a mjii "Ob. ye-." *e* Ben " Ii. - full er mice ; that ar hu''* my house." -(8am Walter Kww. Value of Poultry u a Farm Product- IBy A. G.GUbert, Central Experimental Farm- On tawa. I First of all why is poultiy of great im- portance to a farmer ? I answer, becauM from I he time of the tint investment, it yield* him a quick return. You will a.linit that the farmer require* something to make money oat of quickly. The hen *tp you can take to benefit t.'.ie fanner n to place in hi* hand* rn industry that will yield him a quick return. While I attempt to iliuw yon that the poultry interest ione of greet importance, I <lo not wi*h tD be understood a* deprectatirg any other department of farm work. Let ni aek your consideration then of the following pomti : If you take small fiuiti, it will be three year* before any return i* obtained ; seven to ten yean for an apple orchard to yield a return : two to three yean for a beiter to give milk in paying quantities, while it require* half, or nearly a whole generation for a forest to mature. On the other hand, the farmer who goe* into railing poultry may h..ve but cockerel* ready for the market in three or four month*, from time of setting the eggs ; the pullets which are the young ben* ought to begin to lay in livu or *I.T month*, ana thus within one short reason from time of investment, he has bi* return for hi* noney return of what is alway* mar- ketahle and command* a good price. There are other reasons why poultry are valuable :o the farmer, and tome ot them may be in mme'l op u follow* : What would other win be waited, or in other word* what would probably be thrown sway, can be turned into poultry and egg* and a valuable manure. The worth of the manure alone will go a long way to pay for the feed of the hen*. I' i* sn o-cupation in which the farmer'* wife or daughter can engage in and leive the fanner free; to attend to other depart- ment*. During the winter season the farmer as a rule ha* plenty of time on hi* hands and it i* at that period that egg* are scarce and bring high price*. While it may take considerable capital and labor at a business on a large scale, it ean be mad-) a valuable adjunct to the farm with lifle ccst. While there are large quantities of <kimmed or sour milk, no better fattening ":et can be I mnd for the chickens intended f <r market, nor a better food a* au egg pro- ducer. In stating this much I wish to draw your attention to the fact that the field i* an un- developed one, and one to which the farmer ha* never given the attention it deserves. It 1* equally certain that he ha* not looked at it* value from the different stand-points I have just mentioned. He ha* Icng looked upon hi* poultry department as ort of a thing that could taksitschances. His hens are supposed to look after themselves in the winter In the great majoiity of case* they are not comfortably housed, nor are they properly fed. A* a result the farmer gets no return t a time when hi* poultry should pay him well. Atk a farmer if he expect* to get a crop from a frozen field, and he say*, no. Ask htm if he leaves his crop* out in the field until they are frozen and h will resent the insinuation as an insult to his intelli- gence. Yet he allows hi* laying stock to be almost frozen ai. I that at a time when he ought to, and would receive M cents a do/.cn for Ins egg*, from good customers. As to the money in poultry, some men will make more profit than others. One man will be more adapted to poultry than an- other, just a* some are more adapted to the raising of small fruits, while some Would find a greater revenue in horses and cattle. 1NCX>\4 VND KXPKN1>1TIK. I will give you some Cg-iret and I do not think you will find any exaggeration, for 1 take the lowest value*. Say a ben lays 100 egg* in a year and they sell for one cent each, you have 81.00 : 10 chicken* Hatched out at 10 cents each. Sl.OO ; body of the hen to eat or sell, '23 cents a total f/f $2.X The coat of the hm per year I put down at from 60 cents, to 75 cents, the profit being 91.90. The manure I let go to pay for time and tumble of taking car* of the hen. Now the time is rather limit- ed, and I have numerous notes ; indeed it would be unreasonable for me to expect yon to give me time to go over the experi- mental work of four ..r live years. niMI-AKATlVK MIHITS OT BREEDS. I would say, however, in a few words that we have found the Plymouth Rock to be the Ixst all-round fowl we hivo yet tried. We have found the Whit* Leghorn to lay the moat sggs and we liavi > I tr made no cross as a market fowl to come u p to the Plymouth Rock. I have had Jevel- opment in the Plyn-mth Rock of one pound and one and a i>,i vtor pounds per month. That h* been by forced feeding, but with no material tint the farmer ha* otgoton hii farm. IIKARINU rowL mm TUB MAB.KH. This brings me to t'.e n-ibjert of how bent to make a valuable market cHokta. The farmcis, a* 9k rule, do uot know the fact that tlie future fowl I* either made or im- paired in the tint five week* cf it* exist- ence. A chicken that is viut<l during that oeiiodwill never raaJu ft large fowl, tor ilio reason that it i* Juriig that j.mo.1 i! < leather* ara be.ug ^.,jU Mil it requires *nr,p,y the demand thers, hone and mus- extra nourishment to on the system for feath cle ami growing frame g*ner%lly. The fact, I am sure you will bear me out in saying, is known by comparatively few farmers. There is another fact which the farmer* <t realize and that i* the keepin their hens until they are uw old. -wo yean there U no money ID a Imn. Why ? Became after that age -.he moult* | so lute that before the begins to lay she will have eaten up all future profit. Some breed* such as the Leghorns m.ty be kept for three years, benaiiss they are peculiarly egg producers. [Special Dominion COV'L. Bulletin. Should Far men Work- The farmer* work loo mucii with their hands .i>i too little with their heads, says Mr. Philip Snyder in Country (ianllemen. They begin their lives without intellectual training, and that narrowness p-orapls dis- like of change or iunovation. Theii system of work is traditional, not progressive nr scientific. They have no taste for investi- gation in fact, rattier hate it, and despise '.he man who does liks it Ihey work and think in ruts. They work hard with their hands, give themselves up to it, think of little else, and while so doing, the rssl ot the world slips by them and beats them in the race for wealth and distinction. It does not matter that they grow the crops which (sod the world they are com- petitors with each other, and have no or- ganization (at least that has yet been effec- tive) by which to compel any terra* from tbe people. Now, work is important, and every farm- er should kuow how to work with hi* hanils in order to appreciate properly the work of his men, anil sometime* to teach them ; but that he cannot succeed without engaging regularly in hand labor is arrant CEHSUS BULLETIN SO, 18, With the Occupation! ot ths People- TBr Dominion tUailatlrisa SITU BOSSMI iHlrmtla^ Iurrnu4la l >*:ir.l la llir \mmbrrt Ksas>lerr<l la Ibe arl The Department of Agriculture ha* issued Census Bulletin N i. IS, which deals with tks oosupati-ius '.t the public. (Iroi-.l Jilfi :tilty exists m connection with the returns of the people by occupation*. In the first place many persons have) more than one occupi;iii. Tin* fishermen are si MI m many mitance* farmers as well. If they consider farming ttie more important vocation they will so answer the enu- merator's question, " What is your oc- cupation T" In '.lie second place, many women and children ure employed fur part ot a day in industrial eaLablinnments, and are, there- fore, returned in connection with these establishment*. When the enumerator! make the enquiry at the home of the people they are told thai *he wife or daughter attends to home dntiea, and that the chil- dren go to school, such being the fact. From three ntisn thero ean be no precis* agreement between tbe statement of occupa- tions under th-t various heads into which they are sub-divided and other statement as, for instance, between fisherman as givn iu the returns of the Department ot r' "i eries and a* given in the census returns, or between the census returns of employes in m.lu.tnal establishment.* and parsons em- ployed in manufacturing and mechanical pursuits in the table giving occupations. The English rule has b-en followed in compiling occupations. It u a* fol'ow* : " IVitons returned asengaged in more than one occn pation are to be relerred to the one that appvars to be of mom importance, or, The man wl.o deserves tbe name of at ! '' Iners no *PP*>?'* difference in this rs- farmer is at Isast a grade higher than any I 'P :t . '"> ""> ""/ ?"> b X P""" mere laborer. The farmer' Nxer.Hsss hi, ' m hi* or her return. In some CUMS special mind in the conduct of his bu*i;ie**-nd ['' ) ^""we,!. The endeavor has been to follow the plan of I SHI m nilly as possible, so as to serve in bsst wayall purposes of comparison. THS IM UKASE OVIK I88L The persons who gavs their occupations to the enumemion ia IS'.ll number 1,'i-". :ir.:., a^iins: I,.'- 1 '.-; -a 1SS1, anincrwueof 1<J.:< per cent. : as population increased 1- per cen'., there h-ui Iwen a greater propor- tionate increase in persons occupied than in the population. In .uinalyzmg tne occupation, the itati*- ti-.-ian divides them into six classes : Class 1, those engaged m agricultural, mumigacu 1 riiii'i'g iiiduMrios. Inis class includes the primary proilucers. Class . includes the distn'untors, viz. : Those engaged in tnde ri: Han *"'' lr * n P ort * llon - Class 3 includes the modifiers, or those sugared in manufactur- IVof. J. W. Roberu in an address before ing and mechanical pursuit*. Class 4 in- a meeting of dairymen said : I have studied j eludes person* sngagvd in domestic and per- the hog a good deal I uied to feed s great , aonal service. Class i relates to those many six hundred a year and I was not engaged in professional avocations ; and a prodigal sou cither. They ar* worthy of observation in regard to general demeanor. I went down }ne Monday morning to the hog yard*. The man whose business it wa* to look after them had allowed an alcoholic fermentation to act iu their whey. In this case it wasquite pronounced, and I watched seventy .Irunken hog* for a time. Twa* a stuily in ^Ti 1 " 1 husbandry and moral philosophy combined. There was the " funny hog " which would tickle the others all farmers arc business men in a sense but the laborer's business is to obey or-len and do specified work. Ordinarily bis work is only routine, and requires little mental exercise. The foreman of all " gangs " of laborers i* always suppwed to ha'* m>re mnl and culture than any of hi* men, and when h-- is found to bave a greut deal more mind and (xecnliveability, he is sometime* m<ule superintendent or general manager, and then perhaps he does not work at all with his rands and gU a big ralary for it ! But, according to some people, since he has stopped working will his men the business he superintends must speedily come to grief ' and run along and laugh ; then there the " fighting hog," that would show hi* tusks and utarl ; and the "sluggish hog " that would lie in the mud on toe ground sud grunt. I concluded that it wa* foolish even for a pig to let his appetite get the better of his judgment and will In feeding ho*j* I he man who feeds them well will succeed with them. You must remember that the hog has a preference for being clean. Last year in a great many pen* one si Je of each was kept clean for a week ; afterwards tne pigs themselves kept that clean for their bed. One week'* education did it, and if the hog gets s good chance and a good example, be is all right. Every farmer with one hundred acres ought to feed '> to 100 hogs. Tbe common way of constructing the floors of the pens is un- suitable. If they slope backward from tbe trough, they will be kpt wet. That mean* ickly hog* that do not thrive well. I pre- fer to make ths floor slant towards the trough. Twice the protit can be made when the animal* lie dry all the while ; and beside* that, their health is mu'-li better. Then the feeding trough should have its holding capacity in length anil not in depth It pays to have them fed with goo-l. clean feed ; which means the difference between profit and loss. They will take ths waste from the table. U does not df>, as is us- u.illy the oase, to have it put in a tub or barrel which is never emptied or cleaned. That becomes poison. It ferments and ours and make* Dad blood. With the sow and young pigs taking it, the consequence i* they <fie before they are ten days old. Kvery animal should get clean food, and even little pigs ha>e the right to be well born. Hog* fed on clean food should gain at least OOP pound for every four and a half pounds of grain used ; a man can tell whether it is paying to keep them nr put his labor to other sources of protit. If any man fejds his hogs too long, it costs than be can make out of them. scelns; Id the Bark. Considerable discussion is going on with regard to a new discovery in the way of spectacles which, it is asserted, will enable their wearer* to see in the dark. With these remarkable glasces set upon the nose the lonely matron or venerable spinster will bs enabled to find her favorite black tabby "ii the darkest night without the aid of an electric light, ana even the darkest kind of cellar can be robbed of its terrors. They will be found extremely useful for nervous young ladies in their search for bnrglan under the bed, and if they can't see them it will be so much the better. They will , also be very bandy for the blind man solicit- ing aim* on the street as they will enable him lo sus who drop* a button instead of a nickl* in hi* hat and pray for thorn ac- cordingly. They will help to supply a long felt want when tbe lights aN tnrnud down in the thuatre and people art taking silent observation cf ths young man and his best in t next seat. In fact it is hardly poivi u-.-rate the maiiy advantage* t , iv will bring and the bsaatj that everybody c*ti use them. class A includes all wiw while not engaged in gam' ul pursuits ar engaged in preparing to do so, or hsvs retired or from choice perform *ork for iweet charity's sake as nan*. CLAHHI FIXATION. Class 1 constitutes 47.G per cent, of the total person* giving their occupations. I lass 2, whicii include* 11. 'J per cent, of those giving their occupations, gives an idsa of the number of those engaged in buying | and selling goods and in transporting them. There are 1.1.92S sailors, 52;> pilots, 1,71.1 'longshoremen and stevedores, aiid 757 boat- men, to manage our vessels, of all sixes and description*. The management of trans- portation requires 't,.W railway employes and <, 1 7."i foremen and overseer* of trans- port. Besides these there are 17.4U9 * pressmen, teamsters and draymen, assisted by l.U7'. porters. Then there are IW SI persons, clerks, telegraph and telephone operators, accountants and bookkeepers, salesmen and wometi, auctioneer*, type- writers, etc. Fifteen hundred and sight wholteai- chsnts and importers and shipper* take charge of the large operation* of ti vie, and, in addition, the special transfer of wines and liquors jy wholesale is done by 204 wholesale liquor dealer*. The transfer of real estate is attended to by 924 agent*. Commission agents number _'.">(.'!. There are U..V71 person* whose busi- ness is not further specified than by the general term agnt*. Money broker*, bank- en and bank officials number 2, 174. The retail business was in the hand* of 40.714 person*. Dividing the occupation* by province*, and making comparisons with 1SS1 the figures show the following results for 18Q1 : Hrilish Columbia again of I 'fJ persons with occupations in every 1,000 of the popu- lation : Manitoba, a gam of 14 persons in each !,'>: New Brunswick, a gain of Iu persons in each l.llOO ; Nova Scotia, a gain of .'14 persons in each l.liH' : Ontario, A gain of .'t't persons in each 1,000; Prince !>1 ward Island, a gain of 21 persons in each I.OOO ; Quebec, a gain of 10 persons in each 1,000. And for all Canada a gain of 24 persons in each 1,000 TUB r\ I:\IKKM. In discussing the farming class Mr. John- son show* that the number of farmers and farmers' son* engaged in farming was 656,- 71-2 by the census of 1 SSI, and &4.508 by the census of IS91, a decrease of 7, -''!. The increase*, which amount to Js.'v'Iti, are in Hrilish Columbia, Niamtoba anil the North- west. The other province* show a decrease of 38,u I'-'. Contemporaneously with this decrease there ha* been au increase in f ,ho amount of land improved by over 6,500 000 acre*. Ths statistician remarks as follows : The general principle to be deduced from the decrease in the number of farmers in the older provinces accompanied as it i* with the increase in the population of the cities and increase in the number of farmers in the newer provinces i* that increased mean* of commanication of all kinds have enabled people readily to go to the more rcm.ite parts of the Dominion, and by prac- tically increasing the area of food supply have made possible an agglomeration of the people ia cities and towns, and havo also enabled thousands to provide themselves with small holdings on the outskirts of cities sod towns. TMK MIMSli l-LAOtt shows an increase of 6.876 over 1881. > ^ . than doubles the milling class for Wl M oompue.l with 1<W1. Considering thin class by provinces, it it found that while ! N'ova Scotia and British 4 olnmbta in hail - 1 ^ per cent, of the miners, they have ; r cent, in 1891, showing that the; other provinces bave deveioped their nun- oral we-tk'i in greater proportional rite man the two great, mining provinces of the Unuiiu'on. The province of (^iieoechss made th-i largest proportionate gsin, having 1,.->.U in IsJI, against 'Ml m NM. Ontario his .vine up fron. 4!t.l to I,'i:i4. There are 7-'l,4 17 persons engaged in mining in Can- ada. i(TIIB 1'l.AIMW. The fishing class ha* increased by over IS percent., though i^uebee shows a de- crease in the number of its fishermen. The professional class show* an increase of .'". per cent, in the l'> years. Tlie commercial class show* sn increase of about 4') per cent. THE KBXB9. The returns of H'JI show that, divided according to sexes, there were 1,411,407 males and '-M4,!(1S females comprised in the I. D.V.I.:!.", i persons whose sexes were given. No attempt was mode in the census ot \*-\ to obtain a general c'.aasiri -anon of the oc- cupations of women. I'omptrisons are therefore impossible. In 1 801 the return* show that about l.'l per cent, of the total number of persons whose occupations were given were woir.er. The proportions, of course, vary in the different classes. In class 1 women are 1. 1> per cent, of the total in the class. In class 2 they are 6 per cent. ; in class 3 Ihsy are 20 per cent. ; in class 4 they are .17 per cent. ; m class .'), -I) per cent. ; and in class ti, :jii per cent. In class 1 there were 11,590 women carry- ing on the business of farming ; 193 were fisnermnn ; 48 wei* apiarists ; 76 were florists and gardeners ; and 23 ware stock raiera. In connection with trade and transporta- tion there were 11,193 women, more than one-half of whom are in Ontario. In all i Canada there are 1,.*U3 women engaged as '' bookkeepen, 4.40U as saleswomen, H50 as typewriters, Si 7 as telegraph and telephone operators, 755 u grocers, 'Ji at clerks and copyists. In class 3, mechanical and manufac- turing pursuit*, ii'-', Ki4 women and girls were returned from the hams* of Canada as eng-iged in these pursuits. This is nearly l.'.,OUU fewer than were returned in the re- turn* from the industrial sstablwhsasnu themselves. The difference probably rep- resents the number of women and girls who only work occasionally in the indus- trial nitabliahmeut* of ths land, and who would thus be considered from the point of view of the industries s* part of the indus- trial force of the country, while from their own point of view they would consider their home work a* the nor* important, and re- turu themselves to the enumerators in ac- cordance therewith. Ti.e actual foros of female* engaged in this class would be 77, 300, of which 62.464 are the actual every day working contingent, tbe juveniles of which go to school part of the day or year and go to the industrial establishment the remainder of the time, while the adult por- tion attend partly to home snd family duties and partly to the direct work of bread- winning. In class 4, domestic and personal service, ' a* naturally would be anticipated, the I proportion of female* is the greatest of say, 1 namely, .'17 per cent,; of the 111, 4 1 9 female* connected with this class of occupations, 77,ii>4 are servant*. In class ">there are IS.J10 females, of whom 1 4.SO3 are teachers ; nearly 08 in every 100 teachers are females. In addition t here are 2,326 female teachers of muiic and :I41 female artists and teacher* of srt, and .> authorx, lecturers and literary persons of the gentler sex. Sever, hundred and sixty - five women returned themselves as Govern- mont officials and 35 a* journalist*. Til* BICUKD BT I'BOVIMCaS. Taking the record by provinces, it i* found that in British Columbia out of every l.<"; females over IU year* old, 1 22 had definite occupation* assigned them ; in Manitoba there were 96 in evnry 1,000 : in New Brunswick. US: in Nova Sjoti*. 137: in Ontario, 124 : in Prince Edward Island, 101) ; in Quebec, 120, and in the North west territories, 48. With respect to the employment of female* under 15 yean, the return* show that in British Columbia in every 10,000 girls under 15 years, 132 have definite oc- cupations ; in Manitoba, 46 : New Kruns- wiok. 63 : Nova Scotia, !H ; On'vio. 'I.I ; I'rin-.-i Kdward Island, 40, and in Quebec, S4. This contrasts with Kn gland and Wales, where 316 girls under 15 years of age out of every lO.OOOgirU under !.*> years of age have definite occupation*. f Ancient Hula. Trousers appear to have been introduced into Home at a comparatively late period, and a* s part of the military uniform. They are worn by Roman oldiers represented on Trajan'* column, as well as by barbar- ians. The Creeks have never adoptee* them. With their instinctive sense of beauty they had recognized that these are the only garments thst cannot possibly be made graceful. A sleeve may become a part of tbe drapery of a figure, a trouper leg is more obstinate ill its ugliness. If tight, it bag* at the knee* on the third wearing. Vet this is perhaps its least ob- jectionable shape. If somewhat loose, it take* petty and meaningless folds. Some oriental nation* have tried todisguiso it as a aWirt, but the result is not entirely sat- isfactory. If the trousers do not appear to give freedom to ths Isg, they have lost their principal merit. Compromise, which ia the life of politics, is the death of art, which should always struggle after an ideal. So thought the Greek* when they entirely renounced for themselves tho barbarous pantaloons. The BMt Claim t) the Bed. One night a judge, a military officer, and a minister all applied for a night'* lodging at an inn, where there was but ons spare bed. and the landlord was called upon to decide which had ths best claim out of the three. " I ha<e lain fifteen yearn at the garrison at A ," said th omcer. " I have sat as judge twenty years at K ," said the judge. ' With your leave, gentlemen, I have stood twenty-fix* yean in the ministry at M ," said the minister. " That settles all dispute," laid the land- lord. " You Mr. Captain, have lain fifteen yean ; yon, Mr. Judge, have sat twenty yean, while this old 'gentleman ha* been standing for the last twenty-five years, so h certainly has >,hel.-sst right O the bed." 10 f FOR IHE OLD JITUITIC, The Last Link in the World Eacirclio* Liue- retlailens Nelal teae In s aaVv:*sr*# fttat* f.r Use Wart* rallied r rail *,- lunar Uar Tlw rrrnsh Term ef CalL An Ottawa special says : Tbe luriden departure for England of President Van Horae of the C. P. R. i* Mated in osrtahs quartan hero to be in (MMineetioti wi'tn that old story, the establishment of a fast Atlan- tic mail service between (ireat Britain and Halifax. This time, however, there is said i. mint an assurance that the thing will mauruuixe. It ia learned here that the Dominion Government has a prom- ising offer under consideration fror.i cer- tain brituh capitalists to establish s fast 1 service, and the chief hitch is that the Gov- ernment wants a 'ALL MADE VT A KltlSCII i'OKT. This ottVr has not yet been submitted to a full meeting of the Cabinet, but the Min- ister of Finance and the Minister of Trail* and Commerce bave looked into ths matter. In the absence of the latter, Hon. Mr. Bowell, to whose department this mailer belongs, Hon. Mr. Foster is attending to it and i* in correspondence with the parties concerned. Being rpoken to on the subject Mr. Foster says that there is nothing at present that be can give to the public. There is, however, pretty good prospects that the Government will this time succeed in making negotiation* fur .% fast line of teamen. As far back as 1889 the Canadian Parlia- ment authorized an annual expenditure of ST'IO.UUO for the nwpot* of securing s week- ly steamship service on the North Atlan- tic QRIAT BKIT1IS AMD CANADA J a monthly isrvice on the North I'acific between Asia and Canada, and a service be- tween Australia and Canada. There was, in ths first place, to be $500,- 000 01 the amount to be given for 'he Allan- tic service. The China and Japan service was to receive $75,000 ana the Australian ssrviou *li'.,000. The China and Japan service is, a* well knojrn, established by the Canadian Pacific Railway. In regard to ths Australian service i tem- porary contract has been entered into tins summer between Mr. Huddard, of the new Canadian Australian line, and the Dominion (Government, and Mr. Huddart is now in Britain arranging for an Imperial subsidy. The oertauuy of this line being permanently established is almost iadnhi table. With regard to the Atlantic fast line, on more than one occasion negotiation* were very nearly closed between the Dominion and British shipowners The Andersen* ef Glasgow, it will be remembered, dosed a contract with tbe Government; but after- wards withdrew from it on account ef some drawback between themselves and the Canadian Pacific Railway over terminal facilities at Halifax. Ths Dominion, however, has never lost sight of the matter and it i* now said that ths present negotiations are Ukely to end in the otfer being accepted. It is under- stood that should ths present offer be ac- cepted, a < Glasgow firm will in all Hkeiihood be the principal owners. It would seem that the I'mon .lack is bound to own a tirst class circuit around the world. Blilrr.. In Judging from the following remark* of an English correspondent matters in tbe mother country are going from bed to worse: " Last week it seemed a* if the) siory then to be toM of the disaster of famine that was desolating whole broad countries of industrial England wat as bad ss anything possibly could be in the exist- ing state of civilization. Moreover, there appeared to bo hopeful streaks of light in ths sky. But to-day we are on the thresh- old of the nleventh r - of this unparal- leled calanity, and not only are the hesvv- sns blacker than ever, but the uistress is multiplying itself Ilk* a malignant out- I break of cholera after a rainfall. It is said ) now that fully 300,000 men, women snd children in Lancashire alone are dependent, from meal to meal on public charity, which won!-! bring the whole army up to three- quarters of a million. Tbe relief measures which are led by two Radical London papen at last are beginning to show signs of success, but they are still ridiculously incommensurate with the gravity of the) awful crisis. A little more than $3O,000 only has been raised thus far in London, al- though several columns are devoted daily to strenuous appeal*. Mis* Willard's do- nation of her watch, Xola's gift of t'2 ' and John Dillon's t'l get talked about ; but of organised efforts to secure help from the non-advertising public there is a melancholy lack. Doubtless, however, | these will come. The good order attending i this vast social convulsion s* a whole con- tinues to be a most remarkable feature of it In til Lancashire, where 30.GOO miners j hsve been idle over two months, not 10 Police Court case* have arisen. At several points, where in an earlier panic bodies of extra police were drafted in, iirange oon- I (table* have been employed to conk and serve meals at improvised soup kitchens. At Leigh 40 police have been Uius engaged, and they like it so much that they have no desire to return home. Thess amiable, and one might say affectionate, relations between the police and the public are very characteristic of the north of Knglao<L In i Preston, for example, the police have now . for four year* had charge of railing tbe ' mean* for directing the pool children's annual treat, which this year involved l.KMteas at Christmas, l.">,000 free suppers during the winter, an excursion into the country last summer, beside* much free clothing, shoes, etc. Thu record is not so bad. But if the whole north of England were made up of I 'res too*, its charities would (till not cope with one side of this tremendou* misfortune. It stem* to be more and more clear in the end we shall find some big economic change* in England dating from this upheaval. It Wa* Bit Ruin. " What caused your downfall, my good man T" asked ths ardent temperance work- er. " Stage realism, mum," replied the hor- rible example. " I was acting tbe drunk- ard in a temperance play, and tbe m* inaisltd on my using real whisky, mnn msH --iV.