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Ont Messrs Aifta., Toronto EAR! illng of re ortei- 3m with- separate iing the mdesig- he same one Oil- oise for ly make moviug less you of hair, etc. ?t class lo good )rk can- rs may !r lower )r later :rive to nber of ying to sending wish it leers of want* JO.OOt* ia bufli- â- mplish we saf Others If yon yon to on and ank U8 f^e shall to OOT- jcesBfi" e their ise pic; reds^ .rmsor r, "We 7raph» rev«r lySi • T utodo â- Kent I haw enthif â- ecaw- m.ano- • ajent in two Tapto ritb a IS! ar NEWS IN A 1H( ^yjryof roretgn.-»w ftetl ^i Tne foot-and-mouth disease is spMadiof^ 2 the cattle in Ireland to an alanning I'l^'Emperor WiHi«ift\t^ Crinrt «ncf f rAlfonso, and King Milan hars afnve* Jgambnrg. :- I The cholera vctima in E^ypt since the I irsak of the presen t epidemic; up to Aug. iaumbered 26.597. I 4 terrible hurricane has cccnrred at Mas- I Many houses were blown down. FiUy «!cl9 were wrecked, and sixty lives were 'ost. It 'is stated that Mr, Painell has selected ,, Edward McMahon as the candidate of f gome Rulers to contest the election for jjrliament for Limerick. pespatoheS" from Australia exhibit the jbest indignation at the conduct of the frernment with regard to the New Guinea ^i Pacific Islands. jlr. Gladstone's visit to Copenhagen has -roduced a deep impression at Vienna, and jay lead to the modification of certain points ,;the AustroGerman policy. Efforts are being made to obtain the scr- ;,eBof Mr. Charles Rusaell, M.P., to lead •ie defence of O'Donnell. A Central Com- aittee is being formed to obtain funds. A Vienna despatch says the American Jinister to China has joined with the ^:glish representative in urging China to ome to an understanding with France. A Con:tantinople despatch says a box of /.namite was recently discovered within â- ie precinct of the Yildzkiosk, the resi- ence tithe SaltaT. A Circassian has been ailed. The Italian barque Fratelli Gaggino, from ynnkirk for Darien, has been in col- jjion with an unonown steamer. Both •esaels foundered, but the crews were aved. A Berlin despatch says Mr. Gladstone's apected meeting with the Czir is regarded is of the first importance. Vienna newspa- pers attribute political motives to his visit » Copenhagen. A great struggle between capital and ibor in the Lancashire cotton trade is eipected. The operatives will resist a redaction of wages, which the masters anaider the condition of trade renders ne- jessary. A Piiis despatch says â€" It is reported :aat the memorandum of the French pro- .3sal3 upon the Tonquin question, which :ne MaKjuis Tseng telegrapned recently to Pekin, have not proved acceptable to the Jhinese Government. The l»jke and Daches3 of Teck have left Eagland, and intend to live in retirement in l.ermany, where they can economise. Their ;partment in Kensington Palace have been placed at the disposal of the Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louise. A Melbourne despatch says Kavanagh, Haclon, Smith, and the other Irish ia- iarmers in the Phcenix Park murder trials, Tho arrived here but were cut per- nitted to land, have been reshipped to Earope. Col. Clibbom, of the Salvation Army, las been expelled from Geneva, and Miss Booth, a member of the Army, is im^ prisoned at Neufchatel for violating the order prohibiting them from holding meet- ags. It 13 Stated that during the bombardment it Tamatave, Missionary Shaw's residence was looted, and he was threatened with pun- ishment by the French officials because he iiiled to remove the debris oausod by ran- acking his house. The British ship Oxford, from New iork, with a full cargo of petroleum, has iieen burned at her dock at Havre. The steward of the vessel was caught in the iimes, and his body entirely consumed. The balance of the crew escaped. The Xarodraja Wo^ja, a Nihilist organ, a being secretly printed in St. Petersburg. Reviewing the work of Count Tolstoi, Min- uter of the Interior, it says "The continn- wce of a similar policy cannot be tolerated. The da\ s of Tolstoi the hangman are num- oered. There are now seven Chinese gunboats iaoored alongside the English and French aen-of-war at Canton. Placards were Pted on the walls of Canton recently threatening the destruction of all European property if the Government decides that an â- ndemnity shall be paid for the damagedone -Ming the recent riots. English journals ridictile the idea that the purpose of Mr. Gladstone's visit to Co- penhagen was to form a coalition against the AustroGerman alliance. They de- clare there is no political purpose to effect, ind say that if Mr. Gladstone had any ob- 'M of this nature it was simply the ex- ercise of a moral influence in favour of peace. The Association for the Advancement of ^^ience has been discussing the condition of the Enghsh cotton trade. The general opin- ion wag that England had nothing to fear 1mm foreign competition. Sir William *^heelpouse ascribed the commercial de- Pfession to the operation of free trade laws. oe advocated a return to a protective tariff. -^ Rome despatch says â€" An enormous Towd witnessed the ceremonies attending the commemoration Italian of the entry of the troops into Rome in 1875. The ^.y^dic, alludintr to the King's visit to ^itnna, said the ancient enmity between ?lJstriaand Italy had changed to sincere "â- 'endship. The Syndic then placed a breath on the tomb of Victor Emmanuel. ^t Bis Cattle ranche, N. M., Joel Fowler *«t Pocby Forest and BUI Uhilds, against *hom he had a grudge. Forest .and Cl»il4» ^f • McGee. McGee asiel iimlo come out, »hen Forest fired, killing Mi^kieaaa pOTrkft ^e then set fire to the house and put a ball J"9igh his own heart. All three were â- "ttied in the same grave. nentoality wiU be converted into .otiye oo- operandi. AtiU^i^-^Giwiiirdin, Hongary. re- centiy^,^,^ the Hnngaritn S^ 'f^liA^lpAte «ith ?«,# Jdcfanthori- «»e» by adpptwg equitable and concilia- tory m^niies. J«w-!)aiting aflFected the honor of the Fatherland, and the Govem- Hiwit was boand to protec-. «W lives and property of all citizens, regardless of class preadicc. A rei^t weeding at Erie, Pa., cnlminat- ed in ft probable tragedy. While the mar- nage service was in progress three brothers. Jerdinand, Charles, and Williwr. Weber, entered unoaUed for, and grossly insulted the bridal party. Being turned into the street .the Webers w-iittd until the newly '°jf'2'd "^iiplei Mr. and Mrs. A. Thaler, tea fcr the train on their wedding trip. They stabbed the groom with knive«. and beat his wife's face with stones until the young woman was unreo:gnizable. All three «« ingaol awaiting the result of Mr. and Mrs. Thaler's wuunds. OUa WXIiL-WOSK KA.RTH. The Never-ceasing Changes on Land and in the Sea. That the falling drop will wear away the stone, is a saying which few adult persons have not been able to verify by observation; but it is not so generally understood that falling drops of rain will wear away a moan- tain or wash away a continent. Rain, frost and ice have ground down the summits of the loftiest mountains and there are few high peaks now in existence which have not been much higher, and which are not being steadily levelled by atmospheric agencies. In colder climates solid glacier rivers, are also found, which moving imperceptibly, but with irresistible force, hollow out val- leys and grind down the superincumbent recks. The sea also devours the land rapid- ly. Furthermore, innumerable rivers, streams and springs are perpetually loosen- ing the soil, rasping down the rocks with sand, and bearing off billions of tons of solid mutter to the sea bottom, where the whole mass is squeezed by the terrific hydraulic pressure into stone, marble or solid strata of some kind. The Mississippi alone carries an- nually to the sea 812,500,000,000 pounds of mud. All the habitable land of the globe is being continually ground and washed away â€" planed down to the ocean-level while the sea-bottom is being as steadily filled up. The deposit of foraminiferal shells alone â€" not including other remains â€" is sufficient aa Huxley has calculated, to create a bed of limestone in the bottom of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans SOO feet thick supposing these oceans to have existed for only 100,000 years. Were it not for internal forces the time would come when all existing land would ba leveled with the ocean, and thereafter planed down still farther by the action of the waters, so that the entire globe would be a shoreless ocean. The coral islands would form no exception; for the cbral-Luilders cannot live above water, nor could their is- lands ever have reached the surface but for subterranean upheavals. Thus the teodency of the world's crust is to become uniformly smooth and level, and to surround itself with an envelope of water. But within the earth enormous forces are constantly at work to counteract this tendency â€" forces which manifest themselves in volcanic action, seismic action and in other and even more mysterious actions. â€" JVew Orlearis Times- Democrat, yrtiy tb.9 Editor Conld'at Tmtb. Write ttre ' How iait yoa can tell strch whoppers I asked* caller addressing the editor of the fish story deparfaneot. 'J wife's aaip^ u Anna. 'iWliatbaBtbatioddWithitr "A good deal. When we, «i» writing fis stories we usually have Anna nigh us to itaL- TUUsa Omrjhm \( tnUttsr Lnther as a Preaoher. In the October Century Professor George P. Gisher, of Yale, says " For moving elo- quence in the pulpit no one excelled Luther, He not only knew how to preach, but he could tell tne secret to others. One defect, he obaerves, may eclipse numerous gifts in a preacher. ' Dr. Justus Jonas has all the good virtues and qualities a man may have; yet merely because he hums and spits, the people cannot bear that good and hon- est man. Let a preacher stick to his te xt and not ramble "A preacher that will speak everything that comes in his mind is like a maid that goes to market, and, meeting another maid, makes a stand, and they hold a goose-market.' He despised the hunger for applause 'Ambition is the rank- poison to the Church, when it possesses preachers.' ' Cursed are all preachers that in the Church aim at high and loud things, and, neglecting the saving health of the poor, unlearned people, seek their own hon- or and praise, and therewith to please one or two ambitious persons. When I preach, I sink myself deep down. I regard neither doctors nor magistrates, of whom are here in this church above forty but I have an eye to the multitude of young people, children, and servants, of whom are more than twO' thousand. I preach to these, directing my- self to them that have need thereof. Will not the rest bear me The door stands open unto them they may begone.' ' An up- right, godly, and true preacher should direct hia. preaching to the poor, simple sort of people; like a mother thsit still her child, dandles, and plays with it,' etc. ' When they come to me, to Melanchthon, to Dr. Pommer, etc., let them show their cun- ning, how learned they be they shall be well put to their trumps. Bat to sprinkle out Hebrew, Greek, and Latin in their public sernions savors merely of show,' etc." â-  ^amenced firine and Fowler shot Childs fiah story depaifanent. f'd. Forit^^Su2!^«^|ie4by.*^' Wed.3^^ "«" i^- McGee. McGee asfcedhimto come eat, wif«VnWf » Ann«.^ ^.:.- „, I Mr. William Bititeiaon, a basinent nmutf Boffiao, travelling in the Kinzua dutriet ot Bnw^vaBJa a -Jew nights sines with his fMnily, lofrt his w*y in one «{ the fcajwta of that mountainous region. His stoiy iai^ re- markabls one. The n^h« was ver^ dbid, and Mrs. BattstMa and the chfldren tegan to sufifer from the chilly air, as they w«ri not clad with the expectation of baing out long alter nigbttaU. Mr. Batters*^ found an old railroad lantern in the carriage, and, lighting it, he prospected through therwoDds in the hope of finding a road which would lead them out of the woods. There was none to be found. Abont a hundred yards ahead of where ks left the carriags h9 came out upon a railroad track. This was the track of the Erie Railway's Bradford branch or JohnaoDbnrg extension. Feeling that neither his wife nor children soald stand a night of exposure in the mountains he resolved to drive along the railroad track, notwithstanding the great danger that attended such a course, in the hope of coming to some road crossing the track or some station near by. He did not know what railroad it was, nor what the chances were of trains coming along before he might reach a place of safety. His wife was will- ing to take the risk with him, and he led the horse out upon the track. He then walked ahead with the light, and his wife drove the horse along over the ties after him. On either side were the woods and high banks. There was no way to escape should a train appear. They had proceeded nearly a mile without finding any crosfing or place where they might turn out. Then Mr. Batterson took his wife and children from the carriage, so that they might climb the bank or get into the woods away from danger if a train was heard approaching. He led the horse, and they followed on foot by the side of the track. After proceeding in this way for a hundred yards or so, they came to a bridge, on one side of which was a narrow plaoK walk, the railroad track occupying the re- mainder of the bridge. This was THE GBEAT KIKZC7A VIADUCT, which spans a ravine at the bottom of which flows the Kinzua Creek. This bridge is the highest in the world, being 303 feet afaKOve the creek. It is nearly half a mile long. Mr. Batterson and his family were now in a situation the peril of which was too apparent, and the uncer- tainty of which filled them with terror. They were entirely ignorant as to where the bridge would lead them if they ventured to cross it, but knew it was madness to remain where they were. Mr. Batterson at last determined to attempt the crossing, trusting to Providence for the result. He succeeded in getting his horse on the footpath. The wheels on one side of the carriage extended over on to the track and bumped on the ties. Mr. Batterson at first suggested abandoning the horse and carriage, but his wife would not hear of it, taking the ground that their presence on the track might lead to a dis- aster on the railroad. The horse was led slowly forward on the bridge and Mrs. Bat- terson and the children followed close behind the carriage. A high wind was blowing down the valley, and it was with difficulty that they could keep their feet. They had proceeded on their way only a short dis- tance when a sudden gush of wind extin- guished the lantern. It was impossible to relight it in the gale that was blowing, and they were compelled to grope their way onward in the darkness. They crossed the bridge in safety, and, if they had known it, really placed themselves in greater peril, for trains pass over the bridge at a very slow rate of speed, and cin be stopped al- most immediately. When Mr. Batterson and his family left the bridge they entered a deep rock cut made for the track, and were wrapped in still greater darkness. A train coming upon them.in the cut would have crushed them all to death, for there would have been no escape. That they were not ground to pieces in that way was owing to the fact that a coal train that was due at the cut at the very time Batterson and his family were stumbling and feeling their way through it was detained a mile below by a hot journal. The party emerged from the cut and dis- covered the light at Palen's Switch, a small station a short distance below, just as this coal train whistled for the station. The horse and carriage was turned from the track into the road leading alongside of it to the station, and Mrs. Batterson and her children had reached a place of safety just as the train rushed by and thundered into the cut. A delay of one minute in making their way through the passage would have been fatal to the entire party. When the full force of the peril to which they had been exposed and the narrow escape they had made broke upon her, Mrs. Batterson fainted away. Mr. Batterson himself was so unnerved that it was some time be fore he could summon aid. They found shelter at Sweet's boarding-house at the station, where all were soon revived. They a3ccrt^i::ed that Howard's Hill was only four miles from the station. In spite of the terrible experi- ence through which they had passed and the lateness of the hour, Mrs. Batterson was anxious to proceed to their destination, which they did, reaching the settlemant safely about midnight. The Roar of London. W. J. Stillman says, in the October Cent- ury, in his essay on the "Characteristics of London " "As I write, sitting by my study window, full five miles from the city pro- per, I hear the roar of the traffic like the sea on a rocky sliore â€" the rush of incessant trains along the iron ways, the rumble of myriads of drays along hundreds of miles of stone-paved streets (for which wood is now being ia part substituted), each no more to the general symphony than the hum of a gnat in the sounds of a summer day â€" a vol- ume of sound nnintermitting from dawn till dark. Yet I am bowered in green trees, with cowslip and daisy-flecked fields spread out under mjr eyesâ€" dt a fipire, not a chim ney-stack of the metropolis visible and the oaroU of larks and Ijimshes, the song cI the nightingale, run through^ the web of f sends like g(dd and jniver threads through a dingy 'fabric, with the twitter of scores of sparrows like tiny spangles thrown on at random. Out of the moilotona dashes the individual roar of a nearer train, the scream of a whwIilD, and tii^msr dOssaway again in the soUen monody, "this is audible London." 4 ^^^^^^" *^^F^^ T^^^^^^^^K^^^^^ "An ApMhe, in foil war p*iat» stalked into an Indian sohool at Albaq^ergne^ V M., «tito^#iiy; The diildren ^vere iMdiaautoly fenc e d and tremUingly told m be #a9' a *haii Indian.' "niiBy sMd ata Unele'of ^oe of the boys had killed his brotimr mui tiiey feared he had come for revengjp. As it was diArtrrititse I^saw nothing better to do than have the children marohed iaiD th* dinig room, aa usual. We keep open boose to Indiuu at all times and treat them aa dii- tingtiiwhed ffoests, so I motioned to aax Apaoh* to take a seat at the table.. He sat dowu, terrible in his war paint, sndid two loaded revolvers on the table before kim. The obildren began to tretnbla. I summon ed all my coarage and said 'Patihos^re Tohrers on the window.' The Apsohe nev«r moved. The cook placed before him a cup of oo£Fee and a bowl of soup. ' Take away that coffee and soup,' I commanded, with my heart in my mouth, and adding, to the Indian ' You shall not have them until yon put these revolvers on the window.' Tremb- ling for her life, the cook obeyed. When the Apache saw his dinner removed ^e deliberately arose, picked up his revolvers and â€" ihall I ever forget that terrible mo- ment â€" quietly laid them on the window. His dinner was restored to him he ate it in silence, and then picked up his property, and walked out withoat a word. " I did not see him again for years. But this last time, on my way home, as I was waiting in the train at Santa Fe, my terrible Apache, in all his feathers and war- paint, got into the car and walked its whole length, as if looking for some one. My blood ran cold. He stopped beside me, gave a grunt of satisfaction, and broke into smiles. Then nothing would do but I must vigorously shake hands. He then left the car, and re- turned with a dozen other braves, as horrible as himself. He introduced them all, and all must shake handd." â€" Harriet Phillips, in Philadelphia Tim4s. Kngllah and French Women The French are very fond of decrying the women of our coontryas a flat chested, long- membered, large-footed race, awkward in gait, ill-dressed or overdressed, unlearned in the elementary rules of that important matter, the dressing of the hair, and incap- able of harmonizing colors, says a writer in the London Standard. These criticisms are ill-natured and exaggerated, but nevertheless a good many grains of truth underlie them. Take a London and a Parisian shoD-girl as an example. The former has generally the advantage over the latter in clearness of complexion and in comeliness, yet she loses by the comparison. She is neither so becom- ingly dressed nor so careful to suit the color of her dress to her complexion, nor so neatly shod and, above all, she seems to be ignor- ant of the resources an abundant head of hair affords her as a frame to an attractive youthful countenince. The horrible, bar- barous fashion of cutting the hair short, which obtains no favour in France, prevails, I observed with real regret, to a considerable extent in London, and, when the scissors have not been ruthlessly applied to mas- culim'ze the female head, there seems to be a deplorable want of taste displayed in the arrangement of their tresses by London girls. Those I met out, those I saw behind the counter, appeared to have a puculiar penchant for screwing their hair up into tight, ugly little knots, singularly ungrace- ful â€" so I thought, at all events, fresh from the sight of Parisienne heads. The appear- ance of the London nurse-maid also contrast- ed unfavorably with that of the French bonne. I do not refer to the elite of the calling in either country, but to the ordinary middle-class narse-girl or bonne, such as one meets with in Kensington gardens or in the Tuileries. Perhaps the tasty cap worn by the latter, with its meter and a half of broad ribbon streamers behind, gives her an advantage perhaps she holds herself better, or pays more attention to her general ap- pearance. Whatever may be the cause, the result undoubtedly is that the eye rests with more pleasure upon a group of French nurses gathered together with their charges in a public garden than upon a similar group in a London park. To sum up my impression concerning London women of tne middle or lower classes, they seemed, as a Frenchman would put it, vetueB, not /uibiUees â€" clothed, not dressed. A hardy postboy, with a bare throat, was driving his vehicle along an exposed road in the teeth of a biting wind. A passenger suggested, as the driver had no neckcloth of any sort, that he should at least fasten his shirt at the neck with a pin. "A pin " was the reply " sure there's no hate in a pin 1" Lord Chancellor Hadwick's bailiff, having been ordered by his lady to procure a sow oi a particular description, came one day into the dining-room when full of company pro- claiming, with a barst of joy be couid not suppress, " 1 have been ut Royston Fair, my lady, and have got a sow exactly of your ladyship's size. " A young lady who recently started oat as a fashion writer has deternoined to quit journalism. She mentioned in an article on ladies' fashions that "skirts are worn very much shorter this year than usual." The young lady is certainly justified in being angry with the careless compositor who changed the " k " in skirts to an " h," A travelling man, noticing a pretty girl alone in the car, went over in her directi(m and smilingly asked â€" " Is this seat engag- ed, miss " " No, sir bat I am, and he^s going to get on at the next station," "Oh â€" ah â€" indeed â€" thanks â€" beg pardon â€" " and he picked up his feet after stumbling over them, and went into the smoking oir to be alone awhile. In the great cities of the Western States the gamblers seem to hold sway. It is a notorious fact that the present Mayor of Chicago is a great champion of the gambling interests, and his election was carried in spite of the strongest efforts of the better class of citizens to the contrary. News now comes firom St. Louis that the Vice-Presi- dent of the Police Board has resigned on aocoont of the powerful efforts of the gamblers to get control of the. Board and nuQtify the effiect of the new law, against gambling. The fact that hebas Vesplved to step down and out is a pretty good ' infiet- tion that be finds resistance to tbe gamblers too great aq e£rt to peaist -in. The. f oroign element coiistii|ntl^ beu^ft i^atrodnoed in the United States cines on sucVft, large scale by -iaimigration, irkttended wlih".l(reat moral dwger to the people. .liJfilHl 'iirr The U^Ued â-  States officU jwtaatB ahow 19^ alMir onA-^tltird of atttbe Imotfi^rimts arrtviag are from Gernwny, while those from Irelafmlwmilch Mb man from several other ,trans-Adaotle coontries. In several of the Western Mtafes, 6* ia la^iii^r' {Portions of^^Mm the.Oetoma popolation xi now in a nugqnty; over all otbtfs. and maaj-of^the ihstita^ons bear inore ^e comptxtion of the jUernwn tlan of the American. The Qeniiahs do not assimilate as rapUtly as â- NMS «th«r p«^e. One of the future dangers of the Amerioaa Republic, as it aow studs, probably lies in the fact that there is such a vast German population. The grave derioals of tbe Methodist Church how in conference assembled at Belle viB» have their occasional humcna much like other martab. One day last week Dr. Steaart, of Nova Sootia, moved for an all- night session, and the President tpok no notice of it. When the President's atten- tion was called to tiie faot he apoloj^sed by saying he sapposedthe motion was iatwided as a mere joke. The dignified dootor as- sured conference tliat he depreciated the idea of committinff a joke on them, where- upon another delegate ventured to blurt out his opinion that it would be no joke to have aa all-night session such as was pre* posed. An unusual case has just oome to light from Kingston. A Forwarding Company of that city, of which Mr. A. Gunn, M. P., is president, was exempt, with some others, from municipal tax by the action of the City Council, and they have actually made the announcement that it is not their inten- tion to accept of any such exemptions, but to pay their fair shaie of the mimicipal ex- penses along with others doing business and making profits in the same city. It is now in order for others to speak, but where are the others to come from If corporations have not souls to save or bodies to kick, it is evident that some of them have at least a fair sense of business honor about them. A Falling Off. â€" There seems to be a falling off in the demand for liquors in the United States as well as ia Eagland. The Chiacago Signal says that a wealthy Ger- man business man of that city has just gone oat of the liquor business for another branch business. His reasons for doing so are that the business is now " dreadfully demoraliz- ed." Many of the Western distillers are running at only one quarter of their capa- city, and yet the market is overstocked. Many saloon keepers are ready to sell out. but nobody is willing to buy them out. This, he says, is owing pirtly to overpro- duction in Kentucky, and partly to the fact that "the temperance folks have mide a big hole in the basiness." It is a great thing to be a great m\n aad a self-made one at that. It is flae and con- soling to be told that Jay Gould was a rat- catcher, and Win. Vanderbiltai unsuccess- ful farmer, with a great many similar facts intended to be stimulating) and wonder- ful. Bat after all can it be said that any of those whose names are thus trotted out are really great Not much. There are suc- cessful men every where who have started with as little as any of those supposedly big folks, and have made life better and brighter though not so full of gold and silver. How many of the leading people of L'oronto were at one time dreadfully poor Most of them. Bat their money is not their chief claim and distinction. At least it ought not. It is awfully difficult to make a money grabbing; life sublime. Indeed it "ciu't be did." In Ottawa an attempt is being mide to require the members of the Civil Service to pay their fair share of the city's tax along with the rest of the inhabitants. They are determined to evade any such burdens if at all possible, throwing the entire amount of it on those not so well favored with a good "sit." List week more than two hundred of these gentry assembled and bound them- selves together " to protect their interests," and they are determined to fight it out in the courts. Of course they would be among the first to find fault if the streets and walks are not in the best condition, an J the police system the most efficient. All these things cost money and require taxes and why should not Government officials bear their fair share of the burdens if they are to enjoy their full share of their advantage This question of exemptions must yet be more equitably arranged in some way. Even in the agricultural districts of the United States immigrants are not now looked upon with anything like the old- time favor. The people begin to feel that the country is so filled up that nearly all re*1Iy v£.luable farmicg lands will be needed by themselves or by their children. Much of the unoccupied l»ids of the western ter- ritories are barren and worthless, and much land now occupied is not worth the cultiva- tion. So soon as it becomes pretty evident that the good lauds are all needed by pres- ent residents the party platforms will re- cognize the fact. In addition to the cry " the Chinese must go," will be added that of " other.people must not coma." That day is evidently hastening. It is many years ago that Thomas Jefferson said " We shall get along well enough so long as we have plenty of land on which to put the increased popu- lation but when population begins to over- flow we shall eat one another as they do in Earope." America will be a much harder country for the poor than Europe as soon as there becomes a surplus popula- tion. John Bright's Position. â€" The Union says â€" " The Hon. John Bright has at last cojimitted himself to the principle of local option and control. In an address at Bir- minghanr, a few weeks since, he gave it as his idea that the public sentiment of a placs should have the control of the license ques- tion for that particular locality through elective representatives, changeable with the pnblic opinion of the place and that pnbucans who obtain licenses are entitled to have their property and their licenses ac- knowledged and protected, and not subject, ed to the whims of officials appointed sta- tlonairy in their offices^ and having no rea loeal interest in most of the questions of li- censes decided by them. The main thought running throogh tiie entire address was that Ideal :ommtmitiM should be intrusted, as far as possibla with their own local self-govem- akient, and should be controlled as I^tle as peasible bj non residmts, or non-local elec I tive offioiMS." i 1 "' J i, 1 bj ^^^mmmm =^Ktiy