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THE WEEK'S NEWS CA5aDa. Canon Pentreath. of Winnipeg, will probably b* appointed Biibop of New Westminster A Chinese leper ha* been dicov*re<? in Victoria, B. i'.. and a*nd to the lazaretto at Darcy iilaad. Mr. J. H. Tilden ha* decided to oppose Mayor Stewart at the municipal election* in Hamilton, Onu, next January. The experiment of ihipping Canadian cattle to France ii not likely to prove a luccees, a* the French market* are over- looked. The report of the Fiiheiie* Commission on the Fisheries Province of OnUrio ha. been lubmitted. and ihowi that the waten are being depleted of fish by vanou* illegal method*. The Canadian Pacific. Railway Cimpany ha* withdrawn the notice of it* intention to pay the even million dolln <iue on the North Shore railway to tha Quebec Government. A man named Switzer created a *en sa- tion at Tamworth, Oof-, last Sunday. by baptizing hit ii*ter and hi* tiece in the presence of about two hundred peoplt. A report ha* been made to the Manitoba Government on affair* inthe town of Morn*, Man., which show* them to be in very ba i nape. The Local Government may come to the r*cue a* the tawn is badly inaolv- ent. Lieut.-C'ol. Fred Toller.of th;< Governor- General 1 ! Foot Guards, ha* tendered bu reiigna.ion. He will retire with rank. It is undertood that Mayor \V. E. H.xlgini. of the Justice Department, wUl be appoint- ed to the command. Twenty thousand dollar* were paid out by the City Treasurer of London. Ont,, on Thursday to retire a number of debenture! issued in IHTi Thi* iuue bear* *even per cent, interest, while the city now borrowt money readily a', four and a quarter per cent. Sir John Gor*t, M. P., th* eminent Brit- iih statesman, ha* returned to ^ Montreal. Referring to hi* tour through Canada, he aid that he wai ittuck by the capabilities of the country, and he wondered at the I pane population of Britiih Columbia. Owing to rumoun that certain Toronto aldermen demanded money from th Tor- onto Electric Light Company for the pur- pose of securing the acceptance of the company'! tender for street lighting. Aid. McMurrich hai taken stepi to secure an investigation of the charge* by the county judge. Dr. A. Proudfoot, who ha* juit been appointed to the staff of the Montreal General hospital, claim* Toronto a* hi* native place, having been born at Tra- falgar, near that city, *nd educated at Kockwood academy. He wa* prepared for college by the R*v. Chaa. Dads), for- merly principal of Upper Canada Col- lege. The Court of Appeal* at Montreal on Saturday awarded tne Richelieu and On- tario Navigation Company the full amoun'. claimed by them, forty thouaand dollars, for insurance on th* burning of the iteamer Corinthian two yean ago, with two years' interest at six per cent, and costs again*! th* insurance companies, sixteen of whom are interested. A difficulty ha* arii-n between Mr. Vanaa**, who was recently appointed ship- ping master at Montreal, and the Dominion Government, a* to whom belong the fee* derived from entering cattlemen on the ihip'i articles. Mr. Vanawe claim* they arm hi*, and i* backed in this view by Mr. Ouimet, while Sir Hibberi Tupper thinki they belong to the Dominion Government. In connection with the resignation of Mr. Hall from the Quebec Trtnurenhip because Lifutenant-i.overnor Chapleau interfered in certain financial negotiation*. Dr. Bonn- not, Clerk of the House of Common*, gave it a* hi* opinion that the Lieutenant < Gover- nor was acting within hi* constitutional powirs in pressing hi* views upon his a 1- risers, and if hn advisors could not accept inch view* then they must reaign. BRITAIN. declares that th* recent fonat fin* war* started by order of th* lumbar king* ., IIURAL. Another heavy levy ha* been mad* upon Chine** merchant* to meet tha expenses of th* war. The Italian Govtrnment ha* giren to Krupp, of Berlin, an order for the coining of ten million nickel lira. The death of i .ustav Humbert last week reduce* th* number of the life Senator* of France to twenty-one. It is stated that the Emperor William ha* expressed his emphatic intention of visiting Paris during the Kxpoiition in 1UOO. The Primate of Spain i* about lo i*na a pastoral protecting against the recent con- secration of a Protestant Biihop and church in Madrid. A report from Shanghai says that the Emperor of China will very likely be de tl.roned in favor of Prince Rung's son, who will tr*at with the Japan***. Dr. Oertel, of the Hamburg Hygienic Institute, baa died from Asiatic cholera, resulting from an experiment witn infected water taken from the Vistula. The Czar, Czarina, and family left >' r on Sunday fur Livadia, in the Crimea,where it i* expect* i the Czar will stand a better chance of recovering from hi* illness. The Chinese Government, after a delay of more than a month, ha* ratified the treaty with the United States, providing for the exclusion of Chine** laborers from the State*. The Chines* general whoee command murdered the Scotch missionary James Wylie, in Sine- Yang, by beating him so brutally that h* died in a few hours, hai oven promoted. Robbers in Wilna, Russia, recently at tacked a farm-houe, and killed the farmer, hi* wife, their three children, and four servants, and carried off a large sum of money. The Czarewitch will not go to Darmstadt to visit hi* betrothed. Princess Alix, a* previously proposed. He will be appointed regen: during hi* father's absen.-e from Russia. Experiments in Vienna in the infection of blood serum for diphtheria are meeting with increase.! success. In cases usually considered fatal, three out of four recover under the new treatment. It i* itated in London that six thousand troop* will be *ent fro.n India to protect the treaty port* in China. London fruit importers say that many barrel* of Canadian apple* are much de- preciated in value owing to,earele* pack- ing. Major-Genera 1 Sir Henry Green, of Lon- don, Eng., states that in his opinion the sword recently purchased by Mr. J. C. Patter*on,th* Canadian Minister of Militia, as belonging to General Wolfe, i* not gen- uine. The London Evening New* publishes a sensational statement to the effect that in- formation hai been received that Ruuia is intriguing to assist China against .lapan, in return for the cession to Russia of cer- tain port* of Corea. At a meeting of the London city c >m- panic* on Saturday to elect the next Lord Mayor, objection wa* advanced against Sir Joseph Renals, the next alderman in sue- cei*ion. and a poll wa* taken yesterday, by which Sir Joaeph wa* choeen. Lord and Lady Terence Blackwood, ac- companied by Mr. and Mr*. Davis, of New YorkT arrived at Clandeboye, Lord Duffer- iii's seat, near Belfast, on Thursday on their wedding tour. They were warmly re ceived by the tenantry ,and were afterward* eienaded. UNITED MATES. On Saturday night all the tin plate plant! i n th* United State* closed . The entire undergraduate body of Prince- ton, in mas* meeting assembled, ha* voted to abolUh the system of ha/ing. Louis Ltrivee, charged with having remitted a forgery in Mnnt.val, was arrest ed in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Saturday morn- ing. A 'terrible cyclone passe. 1 over the busi- nes* portion of Little Rock, Ark., on Tues- day evenig,cirry log death and destruction in its path. The r'air Hope Indiutrial Association, of Dee Moines, la., has determined to eah- hsh a colony based upon the Henry George single tax theory. President \V. .). Littlejohn, of th-> Uo- dtrwri:*ri' Allocation 01 the North- Well, ITEMS OF INTEREST. Paper ii used a* a inb*titute for rubber on bicycle tires. Think of it ! A trolley car ran* through th* street* of Jerusalem ! A ship-chandler in Front street. Brook- lyn, bean the high-souuding name of Mr. Westminster Abbey. Men are becoming scarcer year after year. So say* a German statistician ; and h predict* that 3,UM yean hence there w.ll be only one man to 'K> jromec. Drums made of aluminium are used in the German Army. They an lighter, and give a louder ind more musical sound, than tboae made of any other metal. Th* mummy of a man over nine feet high wa* Mt by two stranger* a; a railroad sta tion in Memphis. It wa* securely packed in a large caw, and is supposed to nave ome from Norway . A remarkable mechanical feat has been performed by E. A. \\illiam*, a watch- mater of New York Throuj!. a common pin, lengthwise, from head to point, he hat drilled a hole which admit* the passage of a fine hair. Insurance i* considered very desirable by a farmer who dwells within ten mile* of Wauseoo, Ohio. H* went to town and in- sured his barn. A spark from the loco- motive which conveyed him home set fin to the structure he had just insured. A clothe*- wringer that operate* without any penon to attend it ha* been construct- ed by a Pituburgher. It take* the clothe*, piece by piece, from the tub, wring* them, and when all are out, it empties the water out of the tub. It is moved by electricity. A noiw in hi* bedroom aroused Mr. Michael Dixon, of Pequonaoch, Conn. In a few moments be wa* struggling with th* intruder in the dark, and soon vanquished him. The supposed burglar turned out to be Michael's brother, whom be had not seen for year*. A belle of Manhattan Beach wore) a fancy batbing dress well padded at the shoulder*. A rival had secretly removed the padding from th* right shoulder, and substituted salt. When she waj five min- ute* in the water she wa* a fright. One of her graceful ihonlden had melted. The Mexican vaqucro beats the world as a thrower of the lasso. One of hi* trick* i* to (tick a lot of long handled knive* in the ground close together within the limits of a narrow circle, and bet with outsider* that he can ride pas*, at race-hone speed and pick up one of any of the knives desig- nate. 1 with a rope. Fourteen children comprised the family of Mr. Nehrr, who) recently died in Logansport, Ind. Each of these children became the parent of just fourteen children. The funeral of the old gentleman was attended by oTH members of tte family, ome of whom represented the fourth generation. Little Tommy Todd, a nine- year old boy of Philadelphia, i* of an inquiring mind. The electric light puzzled him, and he climbed a pole to see how it was produced. He touched the wire with a finger, to see if it wa* warm. Then Tommy took a tumble, and in half an hour wa* in the hospital with a cut head. SHE FEARS THE WORLD, CHINA IS VERY SUSPICIOUS OF FOREIGN FRIENDS. II KMWS uo Brr.rm !* ikr Vain lsi ! Thai a*. <.u.lrv tarlh U Greater -trra istarl*> are Harm! r fey *)ar lu Prslare Are Wrral- "I > lu 4 uairol l.xprrlra. r Is * s>aeb*r. Every friend of China mu*t have mixed feeling* toward her juit now. Ihey will be sorry for her humiliation, but will b* glad if this will lead her to refor.n. China ha* been suffering from a chronic disease for over 100 yean, which all physi- cians, native and foreign, so far, have not been able|to cure. She ha* been depleted by war, and ihe ha* been given tonic* by being chaperoned anil championed round the world, but all in vain ; the disease continue* and mortification ha* set in in her extremi- ties. East Manchuria, Annam. Burma, have one by one fallen off, and now Co i* gone all completely dead to China. A little country, one-tenth th area and one- tenth the population of < 'hina attack* her and she is vanquished on land and sea ; yet China deludes herself by thinking that she i* still one of the great powers of the world ! The t*ct is she had been suffering so long from disease that the hai often been wander- ing in her mind. And her own family have caught the disease and wander too, and ao together they have firmly opposed all effee ive effort* to cure their fevered brains] One thing i* certain, there is no hope for her so long a* her temperature is not brought down. CHINESE 4TVDT LITTLE TMINiiS. Who, for instance, but raving maniacs, such a* we sometime* *e* in typhus tevr, would think of compelling all their manda nns and scholars to devote all their energies to the study of small ancient principalities whose population might be compared to that of the Hawaiian island* or the country of Montenegro, but which are all dead thousands of years ago, while living nations which to-day singly po**es* more power than all those ancient ones put together are not worth a thought in their studies ? A nation which has not, after fifty yean' constant intercourse with western nations, yet introduced the history of on* single western country laio it* curriculum must b* very ill indeed. However repugnant to the national taste of the patient, a wet pack i* ihe beat po*iUe remedy, and, in lead of regretting it, the belt friend* of China, Chinese and foreign, say that this will cure her if she only takes the neces- sary precaution* and follows thealvi.-a of her truest friend*. Many patriotic 'hina- men aay l ha l all her evil* have come upon her since (he had intercourse with foreign lapan, but to be ten time* a* powerful a* Japan, a- <1 if that should com* to pa with right motive* actuating her, what friend of China would not rejoice in the preaent. trial if it bring about such grand result*? OPEN-AIR ENGLISH ANARCHISTS. .vi vwui *> wibtiivaTikcia - . * i * i nations foreign indemnities, the Taipmg ithand mtiufnceof Englishmen rebellion, tne.iram of silver speunn pium, r *V ult "l/^'f.T".^ _ mur<i " r ; Park -rial* IsidlBTrrrai The London Sunday dinner n at the un- hallowed hour of noon. A* there i* mil a good hour between the church door and the oint, it was tempting to wander in Ite- gent's Park, where the flower bed* are blooming in midsummer iplendor. Through on* of the vista* the outskirts of a crowd was seen. Now, where two or three are gathered together there i* lure to be some- thing of human intereot. so, forsaking the inanimate gladioli and . begonias, we made for the spot. The objective point seemed to be the Zoo. Doubtless the crowd was composed of Sunday idlers watching jack rabbits and tethered kangaroos. Nearer it became a olid ring three deep around a man in the middle standing on a box. In all there were about 200 men, young and toward middle age. The man on the box wa* young, with a naif starved light moustache and sideboard*. H* wore gray clothes.and these, too, seemed to distinguish him from the conventional black that the English workmgman love* of a holiday, and that contribute* to its depressing gloom. In thi* the crowd, to a man, wa* clothed. They were workmgmen, with the except ion cl a few curious spectators in the outer row and a half dozen or more women, and as entirely English. Darting in and out through the crowd were boys with news- papers banging on their arms, '.Tying "rreedom," "Liberty," "The Anarchi*t," penny each ! Bakounme's famous book, "\Vny 1 am an Anarchist !" These were absorbed speedily. There are many curious and interesting sight* in London, but to the inquiring, none so startling and unexpected as thi*. Here in the Sunday sunsnine of Urgent'* Park was sn .Anarchist propaganda. The guard- ians of the Park lounged idly hy, the de- corous churchgoers passed to and fro, there was not a policeman in sight, and the heavens diii not fall. The young manon the Iwx wa* endeavor- ing to prove the worthleasness to the work- mg. nan of the much-coveted ballot. The ballot, he said, brought lo him neither more wage* nor more power. A man in the crowd denied thi*. " The workmgman baa th* ballot and h* ha* the numbers, then why hasn't h* bet- tered himself ?" the speaker asked. The man interrupted again : the crowd lost its attention and disaulved m to smaller argumentative ring*. The speaker offered to show that the the | the me**tant control of the hitherto all powerful government by foreigners, whoir she educate* her people to hat* anddeepiae, and the ever- increasing number of mission- aries, who they all thirk are asnt with their philanthropies to deceive the people so a* yoke. Such ideas, however plau the average ignorant Chinaman, every in to Tbr man from the crowd interrupted again : the crowd alird to him to shut up. Ihu man |.ersist*d. Tha speaker kept his temper. At length he said : " Yon might suppoae from '.his man that thi* was not an Anarchist gstneriu j s He's s finally to subjugate China loa foreign i <" lie is in favor of gov.rum.-n-. e. such idea., however plausible "to <*. *ort of man who neejs government. because he ha* no self-government. If he had he'd know how to keep still heo other people are talking. If he wants to get up on thi* box I'll got down. " There were loud outcries ; ih* man wa* 1 telligent man know* to be nothing but j another proof of her serious disease. >" RKAI. BEKUKMS IN i II ISA. Especially doe* thi* appear so if you carefullyexamine what China haaspasmodi cally done after each fit of fear. The so- called reforms 111 China are not rsal reform* in th* true sense of the term. For example, she started the Tung Wen college, sent 10U student* abroad, translated scientific works, drilled soldiers on fonign method*, built arsenal*, opened mine*, set up tele- graph*. These would all have done good to China, but the motive at bottom wa* Dad. She would not own to any failure on suppressed, and the speaker went back to his proposition that murder ami robbery were the foundation of English wealth and power, and that the ballot ai a mean* of redressing the workmgman s wrongs wa* a* worthies* a* a lance of straw. Charged to the bnir with thi* incident, an Engli*h Conservative offered to make th* tour of Hyde Park, where, he said, a dozen such crowd* could be found. " Hot mouthed speakers are the better for discharging themselves in the open air, n*r part in treating foreign nation* in a ' and it doesn't hart the air," h* said, and, Handwriting. Mr*. Binki "He write* a miserable hand, doeen't he T" Mr. P>. "That dsipend* whether it is for reading purpose* or for filling out a check with." Used to It. Citiman " Do**n't the noise and bustle of the city confuse you Suburb " Not a bit. All my neighbor* have lawn-mowers, babies, and chickens." UnhealthfuL Young Chip What cauies 10 much sickness, father ': Old Block Too much talking about it my sou. just and friendly manner, nor does she say that it wa* her desire to make any improve ment in China, internal or external. The official documents reveal that the object of the** reform* wa* always toturn foreignen' own weapon* againit themselves against those wicked nations which had dared to disturb the peace of the Celestial empire. Pure revenge, and no sane man would ever use such language unless when ill and "off his head." But shanuand wrong* cannot I ait forever. All the world know* that 'hina though huge is vtry weak, that shi is weak because unternfied, applied himself to hi* roast beef. English Opium Report The English Government has been spend- ing $200, U<>0 in the attempt to settle finally thequeition whethrr opium is doing good or harm in its Indian possessions. Although the labors of the commission have been extended over only three months, it is _ st\ted that the pith of the matter will be he feed* "her mandarins and people on j embo a je d in the report, which is likely to falseLood instead of truth, on ignorance ^ ^^,,,1 , quarter* previously u'.oit instead of knowledge, on hatred to all out- side ('hina instead of good will, on opposi- tion and misrepresentation of all Christian philanthropists instead of gratitude and moved by prejudice and one-sided state. menu, a* conclusive agsinst any state interference with the present growth and use of opium in India. It is believed that r a : UsjEf Ut UUIUIIB 1(1 Asl<i<ss>o a, i tm sswitWW**) bii*ai< friendihip. Even at her best every protec- i D<>t on ,^ wou ,j .,. m .,. r ference be highly lion afforded to foreignen ha* always been | daD( _ rO n 8 nd threatening in its political compulsory, never spontaneous. Haaven SJJ.j.J.J results, but any sub! and earth and all the force* of nature are opposed to such inhuman principle*. Those who choose to follow such must not com plain if they perish. They have no right to live. WHIKE IS THE lilMM'i ' There are ot hen again who think that the root of the evil i* with the preeeut gov- ernment. We nave heard many Chine** official* *ay that the preaent government, Manchu and Chinese, are all incorrigibly bad; their bribery, corruption, nepotism, and conservatism are pait all cure. These will not lift a finger to help what they think to be a (ailing cause. They want new blood, and would madly rush to help any Chinese pretender. We have seen some of the programs of reform of the Ko LAO Hui and of other such societies, but not one that is not like exchanging one bad dollar for another. To adopt any of these pro- grams would be to gain nothing but the terrors of sat age civil war. From all such madmen may China be delivered ! What then is the remedy ? Let China ask hereelf, how is it that a small country, one tenth her size, ha* the power success fully to oppose and to paralyze one of the largest empire* in the world ? She can then easily discover that there ii a method largely adopted iu Japan which, if fully carried out by China with her va*t re- sources, would in twenty-five year* make China increase in power and prosperity lo but any substitute*, such as alcohol, ganja, or hasheesh, would be productive of incalculably evil result* with- out any corresponding benefits, The gist of the report is expected to be in favor of the frequent usefulness, general harmless ness, and rarity of mischief from the use of opium in India, and among other data on which it will be baaed are th* replies of I'M leading Indian docton and magistrate* to a detailed schedule oi question*. A leading K.ngliih paper sum* up the question thus : "The 'opium question' may, in fact, be considered dead killed by clear light of indepenpent and ubiquitous inquiry from skilled and disinterested witnesses. ' A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Brian Laws mm* fsl*i*u r Ihr. (try la Ike . .f *>ur fmrr lalbrrv The first spinning machine had not bean setup. Every gentleman wore a cue and powder- ed his hair. Imprisonment for debt wa* a common practice. Almost all th* furniture was imported from England. There wern no map*, chart* or glob** in the school rooms Book* were very expensive. " The Live* of th Poets" cost $15. A day laborer considered himself wel paid with -J shillings a day. A horseman who galloped on a city street wa* fined four shi.hugs. Crockery plate* were objected to because they dulled the knives. A man who jeered at the preacher or criti- cised the sermon was fined. Dry goods were designated a* " men'* stuffs" or " women's studs. " Stove* were unknown ; all cooking waa done ie'ore an open fireplace. Colored engravings, very badly executed) were tha only wall ornarrents. The nouses wxre not numbered and many of the street* were no: named. A gentleman bowing lo a lady alway* craped hi* foot on the ground. The parquet of a theater wa* called the pit an. I wa* tilled with the rabble. \ a . inauon had not become popular, and mall pox wa* an every-day disease. Thu tough characters, where such exut- ed, had no bra** knuckle* nor revolvers. Th* MmiHippi V.il.'ey wa* not so well known a* th* heart of A:ru now IB. The I'mted State* contained fewer peo- ple men now live in Now York and it* suburb*. Quinine wa* unknown : when a man had ague til* he took Peruviau bark and whisky. In most families no cooking wa* done on Sunday ; a cold Sunday dinner wa* the ru'e. All ihe population of a village assembled at the inn on "poat day" to hear the new*. Beet and pork, *alt fish tnd potato** were the itaple diet all th* year round. The woman dresses were puffe.i witlf hoops and siood out 'J to 3 feet on each side. The only recognized method of imparting information wa* by the liberal uae of the rod. Buttons were scarce an.l-eipensive, and the trousers were fastened with peg* or laces. Th- only shoe* were stout contrivance* of strong hide, with wooden peg* or hob- nail*. There were no thrashing machine*. Wheat wa* thrsabed out on tne barn ttoor with flails. A fever patient wa* forbidden to drink water, and smallpox was treated in a dark room. There were no piano* ; the ladies of musi- cal taient piaj.nl on ihe spmel or harpsi- chord. \ Bear skins and buffalo robes were com- mon l-d covering*, limited comforl* ware a luxury. toe* wer* grown in flower gardens, were cailxd love apple* and thought to be wisonous. Th* yellow fever waa more coirmon in very Northern city inau it i* now in a tropical town. Glove* were not worn either for style or for comfort, .tluiens of yarn were worn in inter. Baking was done in a sort of pot on long legs. Roaitmg wa* effected witn a spit or smokejack. A mew arrival in a jail wns set upon by hi* feliow- prisoner* and robbed of every- thing he had. The windows were filled with diminutive pane* of glass, generally not more than 4 inche* square. The prisons were in a condition of indee- cribable tilth and jail fever wa* known in every town. Mail* traveled at th* rate of thirty or forty miles a day in ummer, and half that rate in winter. When a man had enough tea he placed hi* spoon across hi* cup lo indicate that he wanted no more. Leal her breechee, a checked shirt , a red flannel jacket and a cocked hat formed the dreas of an artisan. The letter and the envelope were a single sheet of piper, so folded a* to bring a blank page on the ouUide. l'o*tage wa* paid in money, and the amount wa* endorsed on the outside of the letter by the postmaster. Cravats were unknown, '.heir place be- ing supplied by huge stocks that reached from the shoulders to the ears. The church collection was taken in a bag t the end of a pule, with a bell attached to rouee sleepy contributors. K.litora begged their subscriber* to pay up : if they bad no money, lo send in wood, cheese, corn or pork. There were no manufacture* in this country, and every housewife raised her own flux and made her own lin-n. The favorite novels of "worldly" young women were "Victoria," "Lady Julia Man- deville" and "Malvern Dale." Anaesthetics were not known, and ampu- tation* were performed with the patient in full possession of all his faculties. Not at all Curious. Old Fisherman " You didn't fi*h long this morning. " Amateur (tremulously) " Sbar sharks out th there." "Oh ! Scared the fuh, did they ?" "I 1 didn't wait to *ee whether the fish were scared or not." A New York rogue caught a Chinamen asleep in a hallway, and stole hi* outer garment*. The** he dunned, and peramb ulated Mott street, the Chinese .(UsrKrs. One of th* celestial* pretended to be de- ceived and lei the iham I hinaman to an opium jomlwbere he wa* despoiled ot all such an extent a* not only not to fear lie poaaened, and bad.y beaten. With a Proviso. A certain Judge, who is blewed with a tremendous head of hair, which is general- ly in a state of wild disorder, was question- ing a youthful witness to make sura that he comprehended the character and import- ance of th* oath he was about to take. "Boy," he said, with his severest and mo*t magisterial manner, "do you feel sure that you could identify me after lix months ' .Now b* careful. Think before you ipeakV "Well, ywur Honor," replied the boy, after a prolonged survey of the Judge's portly figure and rugged features. "I ain't sure, but I thin* I could if you waan t lo ,umb your hair '.''