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 lAL for nl*.^^ lEBin( 1 oou ^T^J^g lorn â- on â- a. Supplies ev 5 dealer for It i IManuiaotuier," p. 25c. SOerr^^ I packets, 6 in "Sj, C «ash to 'coonJSi* P, 20 per cent o«7^* "•' ^3 Yo nge St ,\ _o unless yon t^T^ I and contains thiSi per published. ^S£3 per year. SecnreS!; '.hoerally dealt wS^ 1 terms. Mention S J Int. ' everywhere for «., T. Jones' Own Book-* llected and edited mla In, with an autobioT*" Kern Evangelir t â-  ?ff* _, hivings.andasteelBHa Icmhftr, this book IsS.! h autiiorized agents, 'i P, Puohsher, Toronto, c IciRCULARsV. ISS UNIVERSITY and w fublic Library BuiHlJl Book-keeping, PenmSJ I, etc. Write for ^^ k Co. Courts, PresMBi i pec y and Manager. ^^ KTEA.USHIPS, hecii Montreal and Um, laloon, Montreal to liv» Irn TicketF,Sso,«9o,s^'3 land ac"onm.odatioit Kt lowest rates. Pot ire Berth" apply to |.| WjniHKer, i CustomflJ the Lo Ml Agents in theJ 3 kinds Clothes Wri kinds Washing Ma_„ kinds. Cliurns, Carpetg. neks, and other 8undri»1 ORKS Co., Hamilton, r ed, or Illustrated Cab ' :ovn. THAT overioo'bi peracw.j ologaet «Vdar GroTe, are Weak, Nervous udl tid Who feel thetMelral p I'le, delicate and sickl; hi 1 tlif man V complaints] 101 i.iirt r«afl M. V. It, on the Uisca.se!* of W« le from obsers-ation on i â-  ihF.K h:bk. Address, i] n St. Kau, Toronto, Oi XT from EBTGI ^liip "Norwegiun." itE Tradk. We are sole I '3 Celkbr.\ted Sherf iRK SON Tonik NOE ca find it to their advantip y- our make of File* ud ing a Specialty. 8ad,{ ;rmr. O M ontT BOUR SEEDS i^atlsfaction to| They aie Fresh, r to name, and Cb .â- â- ei.ei\ed our catalogue,) chainis aiid Urowen, Ilanilltoii, OnUi Bi:!Kl, li'eeding-, and lb flicctur.Uy cured by M(!iai Pile Kent' Tl-o.i'.inds of sufferen i rii: relief f.om these inte Wm jicr package. a-aTi:TKBi8I TON C( TO RONTON iNT SYSTEM.] Reserve! JOCIATIO' ro?i-.OiOU3 open i â€" !esires active Canada liberal induo ^epo-Jit, and under tb»' rtmciit at Ottawa, cd. Address, General Manag* ssrcrt^ast. Tor i\m Scale All Styles of Imi»OT«* ANDARD SCAI i Specialty o( id Portable Scales. HAMiLTiy licji The CoMune HaWt *u iR no doubt of the valaeTft w^ii,' CcraTaad surgeons. Dr. H^unoi* 6f S York, lately read » W^r «i the «b- I- Thefore the New York Neurological So- '^^fc in which he expressed doubts as to the "â-  â-  fin e of a cocaine habit which could not K'^adUy controUed by the wilL I He had tested cocaine on himself, and the effects exhibited are of interest, though we I take exception to his conclusion. He first Sfectedone grain beneath the skin^ It ex- Sarated him and make him feel quite happy Uit he was sleepless after it almost untd Unrnine, and arose with a severe headache. Shidache followed each triaL The next night he injected two grains, and I the same pleasant feeling followed accom- nanied by aninordinate desire to write. He wrote much, and thought at the time his work the best he had ever done, but found it in the morning to be disconnected nonsense, each sentence being complete in itself, but having no relation to the others. He next injected three_ grains, and felt the same inclination to write, but restrained himself, and indulged in speech- making. Having at different intervals injected succes- sively six or eight grains, he then injected eighteen. The effect was intense exhilara- tion, and inability for so'me ^ours to recall what he did. Next morning he found he had thrown his office into more or less dis- order. There had, in each instance, been much palpitation of the heart, but this time it was greatly increased. His headache lasted two days. But he felt no disposition to commit acts of violence, and was not con- scious of any habit. It seems to us, however, that Dr. Ham- mond overlooked two important facts First, that all such habits are formed gradu- ally and secondly, that temperament is an important consideration in the case, persons of a nervous temperament being specially ausceptible. In the discussion which followed th-s read- ing of the paper, Dr" Mafctison said he had had within a few months seven cases of the habit under his care, five of which were physicians. A physician, in attempting t i write a prescription, wrote for a sheriff to come and take the patient to jail. He hid also himself noticed hallucinations and delusions. He thought the continued use of the drug more injurious than that of the morphine.: His patients had gradually accjuired their habits. The President of the society referred to thirteen cases reported by a single German phyaici in. In Pittsburg a prominent phy- sician, who had formed the habit, beoame violent, and, under the delusion that he was being attacked by burglars, began firing risht and left. Insomnia. On retiring for the night we are apt to earry our business with us, or we have some pet theory to further develop it is wrong to permit any subject to take possession of us at such a time. Yet the surroundings are most favorable to mental activity. It be eomes easy to think it is a real pleasure. It is on IV to begin a train of ideas, or to find ourselves urged on as if by some unseen stimulus. There is an unaccountable vigor with our mental powers, not often present through the day. By and by we begin to realize that this ought not to be encouraged so we desire sleep, but sleep is farthest from us. What is the remedy I have often risen and taken a bit of plain food, then fixed my attention on some other Bubjett, and always with good results. But this reaiedy I feel is not a proper one it is only directing the determination of blood from one set of organs to another the whole body wants quiet rest. Thus far my best means of relief is to ab- solutely pin my mind down to some single trivial object, as a view of running water, or counting a half dozen figures, over and over till all is forgotten. »4lf^«(«lMft knowledge nd MM*^f« of Bfeiriiicli wouU their cwiditiim to Oar! 4t â- till. -0^6 lite fli tkii^Ja lNl44MeAafe poiaonone than the scratch of a ^nTuwffl be well however, for thoee Tdio have been bitten by a strange animal to have the wound at once cauterized. Thi» wMe un- necessary in the vast msfort^^ ease^will have a salutary mental e£EtefcallfleBty nod can do no harm if no good reaultik If a4og bites a person, under no condition ahoiild he be killeid. Let the owner chain of isolate him, as he chosses, and permit the ibjai«d one to visit him from time to time for at least a week or more, and thereW be con- vinced that the dog is healthy. Thus will fear, the most prominent element in such cases, be eliminated. Cold baths train tiie cutaneous vessels to contract and thus lessen the loss of heat when the body w suddenly expoeed to cold so, persons who have thus " hardened" themselves are less liable to " teke cold," but are also able to endure greater degrees of cold than are those who h«^ve not so train- ed their cutaneous TetBela. The time ot talc- ing a cold bath is a matter of importance before l»:eakf ast being the usual time. This can be well borne only by the most robust the best hour beingmidway between break- fast and dinner. When the system is fully braced to throw off the depressant effect of the cold water, and to rouse to that reaction which has to be insisted upon as a sine qua non, if the bath be not absolutely hnrtfuL A popular idea that the water should not be entered while the surface is warm needs to be exploded. The surface and extremities should he warm wiien a cold bath is taken, and 'exercise should be taken just previously, if necessary to effect this purpose. JUBILEE NOTES. Hygiene. " No chemist, however able, can analyze a taste. It has been proved over and over again that people are healthiest when they eat moderate (juan titles cf what "tastes good." The customrry privy of country and vil- lage houses is a plague spot, and a blot upon civilization. It is a retrogression from bar- barism. It is a method worse than that of any beast of the earth. Its existence among civilized people is utterly inconceivable, al- though familiar as a fact. It is without the smallest excuse of necessity, of convenience, or of ignorance, wherever there is soU, and a cat to give lessons on the first principle of sanitary prudence and decency. The multiplied appliances and complex ways of highly civilized life do not make for health and long life. The comparatively «ncivilized do not suffer much from disease, and their offspring; are not doomed to die in freat part in their infancy. The simple abits of those who live close to nature are most favorable to real human welfare. To live close to nature, which in general means in accord with nature â€" that is the cardinal axiom which the doctor of hygiene would do well to specially inculcate. Life is best sustained amid alternations of dryness and moisture. It is common to look on damp or rainy days as those of greatest exposure as to health. But the dry, arid, dusty atmosphere is in many respects more trying. Oa our ploasent days we are less on guard against the unseen and insidi- ous forces of disease. We therefore believe that the attention of moat persons, and es- pecially of invalids, needs to be drawn to the perils of very dry weather both as they relate to the person, the ground, the wata: .supply, and the effect of the dry air on con- ditions of health. Surgeon Major Warburton says that in cases of ague, where quinine and arsenic, either separate or combined, exert little or no influence, he has found a grain or two of opiiim with ten or fifteen grains of quinine exhibited an hour or two before the expect- ed paroxysm to act like a chtuin. If possible the patient should go to bed in a darkened room, he falls asleep or dozes, and the attack either does not come on at all or is greatly lessened in severity. The opium acting as a sedative on the vaso-motor system woidd thus appear to allow the quinine to exert its anti-periodic power unopposed. It is a well-known fact that country peo- ple do not look to be and really are not so generally healthy as city people of the same rank in life, so far as material things go. ^a there is no doubt that this arises frmn Hamilton's Philharmonic Society will cel- ebrate the Jubilee by producing with a large chorus. Had yn's "Creation." Tne Ottawa Free Press suggests as a simple, permanent, and inexpensive way of celebrating the Queen's Jubilee, that one of the streets of the Capital should be re- named Jubilee street. Tuesday, June 21st, has been fixed as the official date for celebrating the Queen's Ju- bilee in the Dominion. All muncipalities and corporations are, however, at liberty to choose any other date if they prefer it. Mr. Wiman says a large and influential committee are at work and an excellent pro- gramme is in progress. Liberal subscrip- tions are coming in and the celebration to be held in New York promises to be quite equal to any to be held in jiny British city. Referring to the general desire not to let the Jubilee year pass without settling the Irish question, a Cablegram says an admir- able scheme has been submitted to the Gov- ernment by three politicians, and will be re- ferred to the Queen, who is bringing about a pour parler. Evidently the Jubilee year is making the Queen democratic and again accessible. Al- ready tradesmen, miliners, pastry cooks and artisans feel that a new impulse has been given to business by her drawing-rooms and re-entrance into society. The smiles of royalty seem to stimulate the business of London. It has been found difficult to develop en- thusiasm for the proposed bridge across the St. Lawrence at Quebec, so a local promoter has suggested thas the bridge be made " a memorial of Her Majesty's Jubilee." In other words Canada is invited to push the undertaking or to confess indisposition to honour the Queen. It might be as well to make all the proposed '-igantic enterprises Jubilee affairs. There is the Prince Edward Island subway, and the Ottawa ship canal, the Huron and Ontario ship canal and the Toronto and James Bay railway. The idea of forcing upon the people a public work for which they do not crave in the guise of a memorial to the Queen is a form of loyalty which, happily, is not prevalent. Charactv ^Hinjhe mad, aadall-iti ncrifioes wowZISc^Bb, and becooii 1^ the coin of IiiB3i4Mlp^ "Charactw b everything.^* sud a sfitesman. wbtm dyiM, and glamaLog ba«d: over an eveiUfal ^Si "i|«lelsriafa*.|C f^" itratfon oj ii^ mai|ier. fi; ♦'Shij|e,siit|. V And a bri^c, numly-IooUni summers stepped up to a gentleman in the old Grand Trunk D^tft, Tcoronto, and cast- ing his large brown eyes up into his face, aaked, "Skine^-sir?" "I want my ahbes polished/' safd the gentleman^ "Then, I wonid be glad to shine them, sir," replied the boy. "Have I time to oatdi the Montoeal towir " No time to'lose' sir. I can give yon a good job before it pitlls oat." "Certain of it?' "Yes, sir. Shall If "Yes." And in a pair of seconds the bootblack was down on his knees, and placing his box in operation was at work. " Djn't let me get left," said the gentle- man. "I won't, sir," replied the boy, as he plied both brushes with rapidity. " What's your name r "Paul Fay." " Is your father living V " No, sir, he is dead â€" no one but mother, I and the children. The train is going, sir." The gentleman reached his hand in his pocket, and drawing out a silver half dollar handed it to the boy, who pulled out a lot of change, and began to count out the cer- rect amount. The gentleman moved off to- ward the train fearing, he would get left, and before the little fellow could get to him the train pulled out. Two years later the same gentleman was called to Toronto on business. He had for- gotten the little bootblack and his forty-five cents change. As he wandered up the street the second day after his arrival, he was approached by a lad who said " Were you ever here before " " Yes, bubby," was the reply. " When ?â- ' the boy asked. " About two years ago." " Didn't I shine your shoes at the Grand Trunk Depot?" "Some boy did." " Well, lam the boy, sir, and I owe you forty- five cents. I tried to get to the train, but I couldn't â€" honestly I couldn't â€" and here is your money. I was afraid I would never see you again. I didn't intend to keep your money " and saying this, the iioy pulled out a lot of change, and, taking forty- five cents, proffered it to the gentleman. The letter â€" ^written from a Southern city â€" ^which relates the above incident with its pleasant sequel, mentions the recent death of Mr. one of the most uprght and honored citizens of that city. He was the boy who many years ago blacked the gentle- man's boots at the Grand Trunk Station â€" and returned the " change." The fact that the gentleman was so pleas- ed with little Paul that he adopted him and educated him, only adds a circumstance to the biography of a boy who probably would have grown up a good man without the an of wealthy friends. One act of simple integ- rity illustrated his character â€" and his sacri- fice to principle was gain, here and eternal. A Mining Bomance. A very curious story of mining romance comes from France. It appears that about a hundred years ago there was a flourishing silver mine near St. Brieuc, employing nearly a thousand miners and their families, and sending down to the Cotes-du-Nord a rich stream of ore and bars every year. But in the midst of its prosperity came the " glorious " Revolution the smelters has- tened awaj' and the owners perhaps came under the guillotine â€" anyhow, the village and the workings were forgotten in the ex- citement; the huts tombled into mateh- wood, the " pans " filled up, and Nature reclaimed the spot as her own with briar and knot-grass, and sowed bracken and bramble on the diggings, until tradition forgot their exact position. But even bad ink is better than the best memory, says Sancho Panza and a hundred years after, on certain documentary suggestions, the neighborhood was explored, the mines re- discovered, and opened under the owner- ship of an English company. One of the first things they found was " a soUd mass of pure silver reduced from the ores, and weighing many tons," which must have been left behind in the flight a century or more ago, and was buried in sand and ruins. Such a find is curious, even in the dramatic annals of treastire-trove. A Cat's View of life. This is the very worst world that j ever got into. I declare a cat can't do a single thing, but what some one gets after it. This morning, when I woke up I felt thir.sty. As I like fresh water, I was just ready to tike a cool drink from the bucket, when I heard "'scat!" Well of courte I had to run. As I could not get the water, 1 went to the spring- house. There was a nice pan of milk on the table. I took a drink from this pan. Be- fore I knew it, Maty Jane gave me an awful slap. I ran into the yard and staye ' there till I felt hungry. Then I tried to catch a mouse or a rat in the bam, but none came out. I went into the dining- roc m to see what I could get to eat. No one was there, so what could I do but to help myself. As I could not see what was on the table, I jumped upon it. There stood a plate of meat. Now I like meat, but do not get it often. So I was eat- ing finely when quick as thought I was thrown out of the window. I think the girl treated me very rudely. Don't you think so By this time t felt tired, and as the baby lay in a very soft bed, I thought I would lie down beside her. What did that baby do then but scream, and her father came to see what was the matter. I saw I had better get out of the way. He thi -w his slipper at me. I heard him say, " Jack, if you don't make that cac stay in the bam, I'll drown her." When I heard that, I thought it best to go to the bam and stay there. I don't dare go nea/r the house for fear of being drowned. Now I ask you, my friend, if this is not a hard world for a cat to live in ^een te^ovmit^iaa. heliid •'wMle ofadlbf i i»nutfed't(i. «.TstebB) iR9»ctii{gMjMi4 Hit varipos «^jects 'were rfstwmed in their yhice. "ArtiiHes ' token firom one jAace'Bave been found in • shanty twenty mileii distant^ I metone di^ at a railroad rtatium an dd ranchman \nib lived ' at least twenty miicf' from the road, ani obanoinyto sffqak of these rats he said: " I found m my ' shack'*^ ' ' the other day quite acoHectdenol spoons, forks 'andkhives hid nnder a pile of rubbish that had be n brought there by the little thioves. Where they came bom. 'I don't know, hat I do know tii wr carried off in turn a whole box oi 45-75 Winchester cart- ridges." I laughed .and replied "Well, I- have yoar cartridges ahd yoa probably have my spoons, for out of a dozen I have only two left. And as the cartridges will not fit my Shaips 40-70 they are no ass to me so if you wUl bring the spoons to Flinn's store I'll see that the eartridgte are left there and you can get them." The exchange was af- fected in the coarse of a few days and the spoons proved to be mine and the cartridges hu. ♦' Wliat She Did- Many stories are told of the courage of the women of that early generation who first broke ground in the foresto of this coun- try. They were in constant peril from wild, beasts and from hostile Indians, but with heroic patience endured hardships, labor and disease. An example of another kind of courage is preserved by the descendants of Christiana Dickson, the wife of one of the first settlers of Ontario. She was a small, blue-eyed, low-voiced woman, extremely timid by na- ture' on only one point was she resolute she had a horror of drunkenness. She lived in the days when the use of liquor was universal. Whisky was as com- mon a drink as water among these hardy, hard-working pioneers A temperance or abstinence society was unheard of. But when her sons were bom, she resolv- ed, as far as she could, to put a stop to whis- key-drinking in her home. Her husband being absent from home, her brothers called for the help of the neighbors, according to the custom of the time, to put up a barn needed on her farm. They all assembled and went to work, while she prepared a great dinner. After an hour or two, whis- key was asked for.. One of her brothers came to the house for it she refused to pro- vide it, to make her friends drunk. Her other brothers, and at last an elder in the church, came to reason with her to tell her that she would be accused of mean- ness. Without a word, the little woman went out to the barn, and baring her head, stepped upon a log and spoke to them In a faltering voice "My neighbors," she said, "this is a strange thing. Three of you are my broth- ers, three of you are elders in the church, all of you are my friends. I have prepared for you the best dinner in my power. It you refuse to raise the barn without liquor, so be it. But before I provide whiskey to give to .you, these timbers shall rot where they lie." Thei men angrily left the work and went home the little woman returned to the house, and for some hours cried as though her heart would break. But the next day every man came back, went heartily to work, enjoyed her good dinner, and said not a word about whiskey. Afterwards the use of whiskey at bam- raisings was discontinued in the county. Her sons grew up strons;, vigorous men, who did good work in helping to civilize and Christianize the world their descendants are all of a high type of intellectual and moral men and women. If she had yielded this little point, they might have degenerat- ed, like many of their neighbors, into drunk- ards and spendthrifts. " Our stout-hearted pioneer forefathers re- deemed the land, and drove out the 'wild beaste and serpents but there are still vices and malignant customs to be conquered, and for the work we need women of high souls and gentle spirits, like Christiana Dickson. vnt And from tbdr MendaUp sweetnMsl To.Uess Mdi ttsy and crown eaofa morrow. M i h e tore to^ay iâ€"m»k» mow faMBonwr t Tou'll have to span when otheta bomnr I :^lwill t» an auudste to aerrow Smld it peichahoe ariae to-morrow. STATISTICS. Wasn't Oanght Uapping. " Well, Mr Brown, how is your curcula- tion today?" inquired the physician of an editor whom he had been visiting for some raised his head cautiously. their 'uwamtary modes of living, which are time. The sick man andasked .,.,,„. " Doctor, am I very sick T " Oh, not so very." •„ " This isnt likely to be my last iHness, is it'" H '" Not at aU not at all." ,. ., " Fifty thousand copies dady,' replied the editor firmly, as belaid his head back on thepillow. ' ' /•' TSo More Smitiuk Jones-" Have yon* 5^jf-^,v SiHitii^" IMve *^,"»°«°'" 1 1 «• Have io^po â- od" » .,, » ' Sn^^heavilyy-"IluaTeno^ to^erpetuSTSy name- I* ^^ ^le with me. *» !nieS%t asaTiadei. Stodies in natural history, calculated to excite the wonder of a young stodent, abound in the western regions of America. I know I was vastly entertained during a trip through Arizona and New Mexico by my own observation of the monntein rats, popularly known there as "trading rats." I nsed to lie awake sometimes in order to watch their pranks by the light of my camp-foe. Thdr antics and gambols re- minded me of young kittens at play. They often appear to be at « gjime of "teg." They Iqok like common r^ts, saye that they ace Ugl^rin colo^, thu^ tails shorter and ^oker^and t^eor noses less pointed. They Ihre ia.l»aiIlQir trees and in the ^ocks. But the very funny thing is that though they are been, thieves, little klq^Mnaniacs every one, they always retorn something in the place of every article taken away and a queer thing, too, is the fact that they rarely steal artides of food. One night I felt a sliiiht stir about my head. Cautiously opening my eyes I saw one of these rats tugging manfully at my saddle which I was nwig M a pillow. As the saddle was one of The population of Ireland has within the last fifty years fallen from 8,000,000 to 5,000,000. The .annual number of parcels circulating through the post, commencing in August, 1883, at about 18,000,000, was, in the first complete year of the calendar, 1884, 22,000,- 000, and in 1885 nearly 26,000,000. The total production of wheat in 1885 in the United States was 24,500,000 quart- ers, valued at the sum of £55,000,000, as against 37,250,000 quarters in 1884, valued at the sum of £66,000,000. The average yield per acre in 1885 was not more than 6 bushels. Out of a totol population of the world of some 1,430,000,000, only 430,000 000 at the outeide can be reckoned as in any sense or form professing Christians, the remaining, 1,000,000,000 being made up of Jews Ma- hometans, Buddhists â€" of whom there are some 500,000,000â€" and other heathen. There are estimated to be nearly 100 places in the Black Forest where the manu- facture of clocks and watehes forms the stople industry. Ninety years ago the pro- duction was about 75,000 annually in 1808 it was 200,000 in 1880 it reached as much as 1,800,000, nearly 500,000 being sent out from one place. Last year, 146,459 English, 25,363 Scoteh, and 61,297 Irishâ€" 233,119 in allâ€" emigrated from the United Kingdom for places beyond Europe. In the preceding year the numbers wereâ€" English, 126,260; Scotch, 21,.367; Irish, 60,017â€" total British, 207,644. There has been an increased emigration of English- men to the United States, British North America, Australasia, and all other places, but a diminution in the numbers of Scoteh- men and Irishmen who went to Australasia. In 1870 the telegraph-companies handed over to the British Government 42.370 miles of land- wires and 1,622 miles of cable-wires, irrespective of the railway -wires, connecting together 2,488 telegraph-stations. At the present time the Post-Cmce has no less than 153,153 miles of wires, including submarine wires, in conunnnicatioa with 5,097offices. Thus the.jnileage has hem trebled, and the litations doubled. In additioa to tids, the railway-comp^nies bwre kbo9fe iB0i,OQO miles of wires,' makifig a grodB total of 221^153 miles and the weight of iron wires employ- ed id no leas tiian 50,150 tons. :1 BiBD^ Â¥aid Jeeohsr. BV WM. TOCNQ. mtydoweweaal Heisaotdead. Heir of eteiiiKl epriiiK. Earth holda the (onnTSis sool ia fled. And God'a own an^elahaate tobrio) HesTen'a dwiccat flowera to deck hia For socfa a Ute, fpraneha doae Why do we mourn .» That voice of jov that early rose To cheer men a aojls sh^ stUl be home Ob winds of love from hia repoae. sun where false'pride and bi{(ot seal Heil'a mitred warriois dim the light, nie incenae aprungrfrom Beecher^agraT* Shall gather champioua for the right. Well might the few who Jtiuw hia worth With flowers orowB his homely hearth. And dres^ thdr city in the pall Of death, de^Mir, remorse and all The woes that mortals know. Such was hia life â€" a guiding star When Envy, following Av'rioe'a track. Usurped God's sway in human hearts To paths of peace to turn their back. A pathway marked by joy and love Enclosed by strife arouiid, above Peace to his ashes, when in times' slow coune God's holy praise sounds from each home at eve. And Joy, not sadness marks the road to Hearen, Then shall men praise his moat exalted plan To leave on .earth the impress of a man. • Bethesda. BY L. A. HOKKIBOH. Read^Jokn v. 1. to lU. Bethesda f ountam by the gate 1 In thought I view thy porched side. And scan the helpless throng that wait The moving of thy placid tide â€" The Angel's presence in the " F ol," With hope, his coming may make whole. How long, in weariness and pain. These fettered ones have waited here Bound by disease's galling chain. With scarce a hope and many a. fear, â€" Waiting the " M-vin o) the t^ovl," That' one, perhajis, may bemitde whole. And as I scan the weary throng, I see a Stranger pas sini^ near, Who moves with quiet j;i ace along. And drops a woid oi kuicUy cheer To one â€" the weariest oi»e of all â€" Waiting, so long, to be luadc whole. I see the eager upturned eye I hear him say •' have ivjriend To put me tn" A swift reply Conies from the Stranger, and the end Ofeweary waiting by the " PoU " " Go sin no more, ttou art utaae ichole." Oh, earthly remedies for tin I How impotent j e are to save Ye are as feeble, lite to win, As vain Bethesda's troulik-d wave Ye seem to help the sin-sick soul. Yet none but Jesus cau lu'aKe whole. None but the Christ â€" strcnjj Son of God- Can conquer death, or pardon sin. Oh, sound His praises all abroad,â€" Invite the world to entei' in And wash in Israel's fount ach soul That washes there, i.- cUaused und whole. A Forest Dream BY J. E. WlL.'ilX:iON-. Bare and gaunt the forest standeth. Reaching out so wide and high As if mutely supplicating Mercy of an angry sky. Oh 1 such hollow, weinjly voicrs Issue from its solemn aisles As if lonely forest phaiitoiiis Hourn the loss of summer's smiles. I have sought the 'lim. old forest. And its still familiar ways â- Frozen streams, dm-k 'leiis and bowers. Dear to me in chiidliocd's days, All is silent, and forsr.keri. Leaf and flower lie cold and dead Mute appealing to the memory, Telling of a day that's fled I have known when summer's mantle, Fair, and sweet, as poet's dream, Cover'd in a wild profusion These old haunts with rustling green. Then the forest aisles were merr.v With melody the sonfr birds made And its gentle echoes foUow'd Every stream, and fragrant glade. Then 1 sung with boyhood's rapture. Leapt, and shouted in the dell Till the golden hush of sunset With its silent shadows fell O'er the hills, that wTapt in dreaming Wateh'd the nioonrisc on the sea Where the wavelets danc'd and murmsred Low voiced and mysteriously. Lite was one long dream of gladness. All imknown the future lay Ah the years have brou'ht deep saioesa Summer's merg'd in winter's gray. And I wander, loae and weary. Grieving e'er the faded past As the snowflakes flit around me Borne upon the wiLtry blast. A Sailor's Duty. An old North Sea skipper who was asked to buy a number of life-belts for his vessel's use waxed eloquent in the sublimitv of his contempt. ' Take 'em away " said the old " salt." " Don't let me see such long-shore rubbish on my decks. I don't want no life- belts, nor no smelling-salts, nor no eau-de- Cologne, nor no feeding-bottles or fans aboard of me. Them as sails in my ship has got to stick to her as I do and, if she goes down, why, I expect them in duty bound to go along with her " At the end of 1885 there were 395,00*^ licensed establishments for the sale of drink in France, besides 26,000 in Paris. The proportion to the number of inhabitants averaged about one to 95 but in the de- partment of the Nord there was a drink- riiop for every 46 inhtkbitants, which repre- sents one toll adult men. The number has increased by 40,000 since 1830, when the law which required authorisation to open a new wine-shop was abolished. In most men and women there is a reserve fund of sentiment and feeling which is in- exhaustible the dreams of youth do not fade entirely out of the sky even of those who are unfaithful to their early ideals;, tiiey still renuun along the horizon line like the memory of a beautiful day. However men and women may distrust and restrain the aqgxeenon at their deeper feeling, they are alwajm eager to hear and quick to an- swer tiie honest utterances by another ot that which lies silent and hidden within themselves. '