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 late h--^ it fhly)_€i »*â- *»«, "'^ttoi'yX Wa8 All Bight '^it'a businesa Tw too far, Mk«. pT ** ' my John b »H right" I yon 8o 03nlid»t fT'" g»Tea only once* week ^\ iea about bavins to H«*^ theleaatbitTJ:^'?; ppearance; indeed Tki^ I »logne on his haodkif Jigb, Mrs. Cally. jk..,. fcaae, that's fure. h7. S| lai 8he Wanted know that this is my eigh-| ear." 2°^ to do me a great f»vod *y. and the beaetifal rirj wing face in tke is the favor my little m kve influence wkb the To« 't you " aiy dear." them move that gas Imd it in front of o«r gate." 1 that the fond father discoTerJ hter isn't a little girl alwayi nam or Married Life. â- g aphorisms of married life, i kl years' experience, are praya led to the considoratiin of a who cjntemplate committing irl baby appears in a bona ;enerally a family cry-sis. th the first baby is all smile self aad his friends too. la house may or may not be i s just as likely tobeagirl'j earthly use in trying to mal a man when his baby has th^ ataken idea that a bichelof to a btiby as "it:." Freqaenj of the little household ang^ unded kid." re Legal Trouble. ISâ€" '.•» thinkin' of gettin' mi Goodman, an'l'spcc'slwan^ de ceremony, 'hat will be a pleasure, Unci usâ€" Dies yo' enahure de w^ riage 7hy, yea, so far »« I'm ""l us â€" Dat'a wot I wants, s^ so many marriages p«Tij ike de negotiations aom] e, sab, so ef yo' don" in«8 yere mariiage I kin g}' ifoutinvokin' de legality' gures Won't Lie- -What will youwkiteirasbil B BMtua J .8 (figuriDg)-Lemme aee.ij ix an' fo' Ind fo' are sfbji ah Smif, will coat yo wi -That's too much, aâ€" Dat'a wat it figge" ck on figgera. I lo** " e kase I didn't fifir«r ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH." Kot /here hav©»' ' I m glad to,,, 1 J have yon~_" yon have the mortW iave the meet SS?,"' •^ ~»o there ' ^««l h^ IS boota under th, ««. ••oat beantif J^SJMJBJW)^ â€" " Yon darling j-u- ^, gnderatanding mnch nboat fanning, climate like Canada, Moodie waa adns- \j\tt neighboring aettler to farm his fanna Placing tile rifle •hoolder, in a Ominous Threat- much nndfr ia greeted by ' ger, very lent spirits, in ce state you wc my heart, coming boffl'l ,t.'^oh,wbat.h.ni.fy ;er (reproachfully) a ry D'gbt, W, She* sake to dnnkin. Constant Beader, is anex rrgnlariy :ceU4 itor-'-Ycir? have read « ion. Itnutyo**"' ^by'^yf^^S*" me for s""***^' )ilitie8 of *»»-;^^J .revaUed J*^;^ toohnioh he did ao»J*i pulpit. ^^^-iBgo,; hare •"k«*J3W 2 wha« â- â€¢ he had oanriaJ onhia (rftheioMa, headTaao- ad to the hewti^ and witlioiit •peakins. or MMBingly kwUDg at me, VUkUd hia pipe and oonunenoed smoking, Ae dogs after growling and snapping at the cat, who had not ^iven the strangers a very oonrtoons re- oeptitm, sat down on the hearth-atone on either side of their tadtom master, eyeing him from time to time, as if long habit had made them nnderstand all hb motions. There was a great contrast between the dogs. The one was a brindled boll-dog of the lat- est siza, a most formidable and powerful bmto the other a stag-honnd, tawny, deep- chested, and strong-limbed. I regarded the mm (nd his hairy companions with silent ettrioeity. H« was between forty and fifty years of 8«e hit head, nearly bald, was stndded at the sides with atrong, coarse, black corling hair. His featores were high, his oomplex- ion brightly dark, and hu eyes, in size, shape, and colour, greatly resembled the eyes of a hawk. The face itself was sorrow- ful and tacitnm and hia thin, compressed lips looked as if they were not mnch accns- tomed to smile, or often to unclose to hold social communion with any one. He stood at the aide of the huite hearth, silently smoking, his eyes bent on the fire, and now and then he patted the heads of his dogs, reproving their exuberant expressions of attachment, withâ€"" Ddwn, Music down Chance I" " A cold, clear morning," said I, ia order to attract hia attention and draw him into conversation. A nod, without raising hia head, or with- drawing hia eyes from the fire, waa his only answer and, turning from my unsociable guest, I took up the baby, who just then awoke, sat down on a low stool by the table, and began feeding her. During this operation, I once or twice caught the stran- gers hawk eye fixed upon me and the child, but word apoke he none and presently, after whiatling. to hia do(;s, he resumed his giu, and atrode out. When Moodie and Monaghan came in to breakfast, I told them what a atrange viait- or I had had and Moodie laughed at my vain attempt to induce him to talk. " He ia a atrange being," I aaid " I must find out who and what he is." In the afternoon an old soldier, called Layton, who had served during the Ameri jiares. This advice ^. and bad it been given disinterestedly, bad the persuns reoommended (a man *S bis wife) been worthy or honest people, jmigbt have done very weU. But the f ar- ' (,^ found out their encroaching ways, ?« sBxions to get rid of them himself, and DO better way of doing so than by palm- iji them upon us. ^rom oar engagement with these people ^ffloienced that lonp series of losses and Mubles to which their conduct formed the 5,iade. They were to live in the little Cjty that we had just left, and work the ftfin. Moodie was to find them the landi ^e nse of his implements and cattle, and all jjejeedfor the crops; and toshsxe with jhein the returns. Besides this, they imf or- ninfttely ^*" allowed to keep their own coWB, P«g8i *°^ poultry. The produce of the orchard, with which they had nothing to do, was reserved for our own use. For the first few weeks, they were civil tnd obliging enough and had the man been left to himself, I believe we should have done pretty well but the mother was a gosrse-minded, bold woman, who instigated juQito every mischief. They took advan- tage of us in every way they could, and ,rere constantly committing petty depreda- tions. Fiom our own experience of this mode of farming, I would strenuously advise all new gettlers never to cmbraca any such offer, vithont they are well acquainted «ith the psrcies, and can thoroughly rely upon their honesty or else, like Mrs. they may impndently tell you that they can cheat you as they pleaae, and defy you to help your- gelf. All the money we expended upon the farm was entirely for theae people's benefit, for by the j )int contrivances very little of the crops fell to our ahare and when any division waa made, it waa always when Moodie waa absent from home and there was no person preaent to aee fair play. They â- old what apples and potatoea they pleaaed, and fed their hogs ad libitum. But even their roguery was more tolerable than the irksome reatraint which their near vicinity, and constantly having to come into contact vith them, imposed. We had no longer any privacy, our aervante were cross-ques- tioned, and our family affairs canvassed by these gossiping people, who spread about a omi war, and got a grant of land about a thousand falsehoods regarding us. I was so â€"='-=- " mnch disgusted with this shareship, that I would gladly have given them all the pro- ceeds of the farm to get rid of them, but the bargain waa for twelve months, and bad as it was, we could not break our engagement. One little trick of this woman's will serve to illustrate her general conduct. A neigh- bouring farmer's wife had presented me with some pretty hens, who followed to the win ent not grows so giom Bow-a- days that I Bi acqwiataBoe altsgaihsr g ha inprov*.' "'Hadni^ awfol hard.' says E 'maybahe'saotalltof tlM ddbiom-trem- aloBS. Then naotsDing what ha maybe nptoatthlsaiinate.' " My tOad mh^ave me too, so I e'en takes the oan, and pashas oat, right upon Bnan's teaok and by the Lord Harry J if I did not find him, apon my !»»«»«£ on the opposite shore, lying wallowing inliis own biood with hia throat out 'Jm tiiat yoa, Briaa says I, giviw him a kick with my foot, to seeif he was aUve or dead. ' What upon earth tempted you to {day me and F such a dirty, mean tefok, as to go and stick yourself like a pig, bringing such a discre- dit upon the house?â€" and yon so far from home and those who shoula nurse you.' " I was so mad at him that (aa^s your presence, ma'am) I swore awfully, antf oaUed him names that would be ondaoent to repeat here but he only answered with groans and a horrid gurgling in his throat. ' It's a choking you are,' said I ' but jron shan't have your own way, and die so eacily either, if I can punish you by keeping you aliv' S3 I just turned him upon his stomach, widi his head down the steep bank but he still kept choking and growing black in the face." mile in the rear of our location, came in to trade for a cow. Now, this Layton was a perfect ruffian a man whom no one liked, and whom all feared. He was a deep drinker, a great swearer, in short, a perfect reprpbate who never cultivated his land, bat went jobtHng about from farm to farm, trading horses and cattle, and cheating in a pettifog^intrway. Uncle. Joe had employed him to sell Moodie a youns heifer, and he call of old Betty Fye'a handaome game cock, i had brought her over^ for him to look at. I was always fond of fowls, and the innocent ""^â€" *- ' " ' " ' " " ' ^^ Katie delighted in her chicka, and would call them round her to the sill of the door to feed from her hand. Mrs. O. had the aame number as I had, and I often admired them when marshalled forth by her aplendid black rooster. Oae morning I aaw her eldest son :hop off the head of the fine bird and I asked his mother why ahe had allowed him to kill the beautiful creattire. She laughed, and merely replied that ahe wanted it for the pot. The next day my enltan walked over t« the widowed hena, and took all his sera- glio with him From that hour I never ga- thered a single egg the hena deposited all their eggs in Mrs. O 'a hen house. She used to boast of this as an excellent joke amons; her neighbors. On the 9uh of 4 une, tny dear little Agnes vsti born. A few days after this joyful event, I heard a great bustle in the room adjoining to miue, and old Dolly Bowe, my Cornish nurse, infm-med that it wai occa- sioned by the people who came to attend tJM funeral of Phoibe R She only survived the removal of the family a week and at her own request had been brought all the way from the lake plaina to be interred in the burying ground on the hill which overlooked the atream. As I lay upon my pillow I could deatinct- ly see the spot, and msurk the long funeral procession, aa it wound along the banks of the brook. It waa a solemn and imposing spf ctacle, that humble funeral. When the wa{;gona reached the rude encloaure, the oorfiBn waa cirefuUy lifted to the ground, the door in the lid opened, and old and young approached, one after another, to take a laat look at the dead, before consigning her to the oblivion of the grave. Poor Phcebe 1 Gentle child of coarse, un- feeling parenta, few ahed more aincerely a tear for thy early fate than the atranger ^hom they hated and despiaed. Often have I stood beaide that humble mound, when the song of the lark was above me, and the bee murmtiring at my feet, and thought that it waa well for thee that God opened the eyes of thy aonl, and called thee out of the darkneas of ignorance and sin to slory in His marvellous light. Sixteen years have passed away since I heard anything of the family or what had become of them, when I Was told by a neighbor of theirs, whom I accidentally met last winter, that the old wo- man, who now nesLrly numbers a htmdred years, ia still living, and inhabite a corner of her son's barn, as she atill qtiarrela too mnch with hia w^e to reaide with Joe that the girla are all married and gone and that Joe himself, although he doea not know a letter, hascommenced travelliugasapreadier. After this, who can doubt the existence of miracles fn the nineteenth oentary CHAPTER X. Bbias, thk Stiix Huntbil O'er memory's glass I saw his shadow flit. Though he was gathered to the silent dost Long years ago. A strange and wayward Thatahunn'd companionship, andlivedapart; ^e leafy covert of the dark brown woMs, -l^e gleamy lakes, hid in their gloomy depths. Whose still, deep waters never knew the stroke Of cleaving oar, or echoed to the sound Of social life, contained for him tiM mib human happiness. W Itii dog aa^ban l^ay after day he tracked the aimbto deer Through all lie tangled maasa ef the fore«t. It Was early day. I vas alone io th« old (hanty preparing Iweakfas^ aiia^iiarw and «o» stalling the oradla with my foot, wImb' a tan, thin, middle-aged maa..w*llM4 into Jhe house, foUowad VtM» 1o|k When he came in to be paid, I deacribed the stranger of the morning and as 1 knew that he waa familiar with every one in i;he neighbourhood, I asked if he knew him. " No one ahould know him better than myself," be aaid " 'tia old Brian B the still hunter, and a near neighbour of your'n. A sour, morose, queer chap he is, and as mad as a March hare 1 He's from Lancashire, in England, and came to this country some twenty years ago, with hia wife, who waa a pretty young laaa in those daya, and slim enough then, though ahe's so awfully fleahy now. He had lote of money, too, and he bought four hundred acres of â- land, Tust at the comer of the conoeaaion line, where it meete the main road. And excellent land it is and a better farmer, while he stack to his business, never went into the bush, for it was all bush here then. He was a dashing, handsome fellow, tuo, and did not hoard the money either; he loved hia pipe and hia pot too well and at last he left off farming, and gave himself to them altrgether. Many a jolly booz3 he and 1 have bad, I e»n tell you. B iin was an aw- ful passionate man, and, when the liquor was in, and the wit waa out, aa savage and as quarrelsome aa a bear. At anoh timea there waa no one but Ned Layton dared go near him. We once had a piteh battle in which I was cocqueror and ever arter he yielded a aort of aulky obedience to all I said to him. After being on the spree for a week or two, he would take fite of remorse, and return home to his wife would fall down at her knees and ask her forgiveness, and cry like a child. At other times he would hide himself up in the wooda, and steal home at night, and get what he wanted out of the pantry, without speaking a word to any one. He went on with these pranks for some years, till he took a fit of the blue devils. " • Come away, Ned, to the lake, with me,' said be I am weary of my life, and I want a change. ** ' Shall we take the fishing- tackle Y says I. The black bass are in prime season, and F will lend us the old canoe. He's got some capital mm up from Kingaton. We'll fish ail day, and have a apree at night ' " ' It's not to fish I'm going,' aaya he. â- ' ' To shoot, then I've bought Bock- wood's new rifle." " ' It's neither to fish nor to shoot, Ned it's a new game I'm going to try so come along.' " «• Well, to the lake we went. The day was very hot, and otir path lay through the woods, and over those scorching plains, for eii^t long miles. I thought I should have dropped by the way but during our long walk my' companion never openM his lips. He strode on before me, at a half -run, never once turning his head. " "I'he man must be the devil I' says I, ' and accustomed to a wanner plaoe, or he must feel this. Hollo Brian I Stop there Do you mean to kill me ' "'Take it easy,' says he; you'll aee another day arter thiaâ€" I've bininess on hand and cannot wait.' " Well, on we wen^ at the same awful rate, and it was mid-day when we got to the little tavern on the uke ahme, kept by Layton then detailed some particulars of his surgical mractioe which is not necessary to repeat. He continued, " I bound up hia throat with my handker- chief, and took him neck and heels, and threw him into the Iwttom of the boat. Presently he came to himsdf a little, and sat up in the boat and â€" would you believe it?â€" made several attempta to throw himself into the water. ' This will not do,' says I 'you've done mischief enough already by cutting your weasaid I If you dare try that agam, I will kill you with the oar.' I held it up to threaten him he was scared, and lay down as quiet as a lamb. I put my foot upon his breast. "Lie still, now 1 er you'll catch it He looked piteotisly at me he could not speak, but his eyes seemed to say, 'Have pity upon me, Ned don't kill me. " The doctor came and sewed up his throat and his wife â€" poor crittnr I â€" came to nurse him. Bad as he was, she was mor- tal fond of him. He lay there, sick and un- able to leave.'his bed, for three months, and did nothing but pray to G jd to forgive him, for he thought the devil would surely have him for cutting hb own throat and when he got about sg lin, which is now twelve years ago, he left of drinking entirely, and wanders about the woods with his dojs, himting. He seldom speaks to any one, and his wife's brother curies on the farm for the family. He is so shy of strangers that 'tis a wonder he came in here. The old wives are afraid of him but you need not heed himâ€" his troubles are to himself, ha harms no one." Layton departed, and Ifft me broodine over the sad tale which he had told in such an absurd and jesting manner. It was evi- dentfrom the account he had given of Brian's attempt at suicide, that the napless himter waa not wholly answerable for his conduct â€" that he was a harmless maniac. The next morning, at the very same hour, Brian a^ain made his appearance but in- stead of tae rifle across his shoulder, a large stone jar occupied the plskce, siupended by a stout leather ' thong. Without saying a word, but with a truly benevolent smile, that flitted slowly over his stem features, and lighted them up, like a stmbeam break- ing from beneath a stormy cloud, he ad- vanced to the table, and unslinging the jar, set it down before me, and in a low and gruff, but by no means an unfriendly, voice, said, " Milk, for the child," and vanished. " How good it waa of him I How kind I" 1 exclaimed, as I poured the precious gift of four quarte of pure new milk out into a de«p pan. I bad not asked him â€" had never aaid that ths poor weanling wan ed milk. It waa the courtesy of a gentlemanâ€" -of benevolence acd refinement. For weeks did my strange, silent friend steal in, take up the empty jar, and supply ito place with another replenished with milk. The baby knew his step, and would holdout her hands to him and cry ** Milk I" and Brian would stoop down and kiss her, and bis two great dogs lick her face. " Have you any children, Mr. B " " Yes, five but none like this." " My little girl is greatly indebted to you for your kindness." " She's welcome, or she would not get it. You are straneers but I like yon all. Yon look kind, and I wouFd like to know more about you." (to BK OJKriIT0BD STAILfiTB HASDE8T JtATTLK Ike C«vkle Biavr a Hattva Tdto •( Ba*ta4i».AM«^.ap tto bpiaam. The Uoodieat aad aioat fnrioas battle Staalay had with thaCeago aativaa daring Us first descent «f that river was with .he BaNg^a. Everybody haa read hia m^iic aoooaat of thatoomhat, ia which sizty-foar oaaoes loaded with the fiercest of Cwmco fighters were precipiteted upon the 1-ttle band of travellers, aad had not spears beea pitted against firearms Stanley's party wonli never have reached the sea. A while ago Muele, one of the officers of the ohief of the Ba-Ngala, gave to Capt. Co- qailhat the native version of that memorable day. The white men on the Oonga bring home few stories that surpass in interest tlMse the natives tell of the time when ^e linknown whites first came amou^ them, aad of the commotion these strangers, with their wonderful trade goods and their still more aatonisliing weapons, everywhere produced. " We had never seen a whiw man," said Maele, whose tribe, tUokly populating the river bank for many miles, numbers over 100,000 people. " We had not the (light- est idea that such beings existed. Oae dav, some dtzm moons ago [it was on Feb. 14 1877]. at the moment when the stm atKd right abovd our heads, a flotilla of canoes of a form we had never sesa before, preceded by a canoe of extraordinary siz^), suddenly came into view. In the swiftest part of the current they ware quietly passing in front of our villages. We were astonished to see that the men, even to their heads, were overed wifi whit) cloths, and we thought it very singular, for the richest chiefs we knew wore only a litils rag made of banana fibre and a fact that was absolutelv new to â€" i, and that upset all our notions of htunaU' oneF' who had a boat for tJie oonve- nience of strangers wlio oame to visit the alnoe. -Hua tsw got oar diaaar, andaglasa of ram to wash It down. Bat Brian waa moody, aad to all ny jeksa he oaly retaraad aswtof tcmat; and whUe I was taikiag wMi Fâ€" â€" he stfUN oat iad afosr niaatsa arter w saw him omasing tbo Istko in^the •• What's tho Ned. YoafaadlMl|itv«^]ko9My aad look artsr Urn.' '" ^â- ' ' B r|^t villi ldai( Hew Atlantip Stemers. Improvements in the Atiantic steamers riinning between New York and laverpool, ini regard to speed, capacity, and conveni- ence, are following one another so rapidly that the Canadian servioe to Liveipool will soon be behind the age tinless some efforts are made to keep up with the times. The companies who control the services to New York do not propose to stop at what has been aocompluhed by the building of such ocean greyhounds as the Etruria, Umbria, and City of New York. A new vessel is to be built at Glasgow for the Gnion line which will be designed to cross the ocean in five days, She will be the biggest steamer afioat, meastiring 11,500 tons, ^er length will be 660 feet, breadth of beam 63 feet, and duttfa of hold 52 feet. She wiU be furnished with two very rakey masto, and her riggiuft will be that of a fore-and-aft schooner. There will be four fimnels. Transverse watert ght btdkheads will render her tinsinkabls, it is claimed, and two distinct ceteof engines will drive her powerful twin screws. It will be posnble to tnm tiie vessel almost in her own length by reversiog one screw and Koins ahead with the other. Etectridty will Drilliaatiy illuminate the steamer. ity, wsB the sight of two white beings, yes. as white as our pottery clay, who appeared to command the expadition. They seemed to have about the same fo^-m as other men, but their hair, their eyes, and their c lor were very strange to us. " We asked one another, were not these men envoys from Ibanza, the mysterious spirit, and why did they so suddenly appear upon our river Their purpose could only be bad, for suddenly they landed on an is- land opposite tis, instead of coming to our shore, as all people did whose intentions were no;; hostile. At first, before we were able to see them distinctly, we thought they were an expedition from our enemies of Mobeka. Our alarm druuia sounded, and we crowded to our canoes, all ready for a fight. But the clothing of the warriors, the strange form of their weapons, and the un- heard of aspect of the white men soon imde- ceived us. Still, we latmched our canoes and rapidly approached those of the un- known strangers. " The older of the two white men had straightgray hair, and hiseyes werethe color of the water. He stood up in his canoe a-^ held toward us a red dotb and some '^n^ wire. .We still approached him, "jAcussiug excitedly the meaning of hia str^ogs attitude. The other trhito man [Fr^^ak Pooock, who waa drowned a few we^^ks later in the cat- aracts of the lower Congo] aimed hia weapon at us, and the older man talked to him rapidly in a language we did not understaLd. Tbose of our friends who were neaiOit t'le strangers thought the aotiona of the white men boded us no good and so they judged it beat at once to attack theae myetdrioua whitoa, who had come from no one knew where. Then th? battle began, and it was the mist terrible we ever fought. Our spears fell fast among the enemy and we killed some of them, and their bodies lay half over the aidea of their canoea. But, oh, what fetich gave their weapona auch wonder pow- er Their bullete, made of a heavy grey metal we hvl never seen before, reached ua at euormous diatances. Women and old men who were followinK the combat from the shore were hit. The walls of our hute were perforated. Some goate who were wander- ing far off in the fieldii dropped dead of their wounds. As for ua who were on the water, our atout shields were pierced as though they had been bananas. Many of us were killed and wounded and others were drown ed, for the buUeta knocked holes in some of our wooden canoes, which filled and sank. Still we kept fighting desperately, and we followed tbe wUte beings some distance be low our villages. Their band finally escap- ed usand raised loud cries of triumph as we ended the pursuit We could not under- stand what they said. " Muele added that Mata Bclke, the chief of the Ba Ngala, exerted every effort to dissuade his ardent people from approaching the whites, who, he declared, could not be human beings. It was this same chief who, three years ago this month, wept as he bade farewell to Capt Coquilhat, the founder of ths Ba- Ngala station, who was about to go back to Europe. " Betorn soon," he said, "for I am old, and I wish to see you again before I die." A few days over a year later Coquilhat was again among the Bi- Ngala, who with their powerful and aged chief, are now among the most faithful and useful friends of the whites. WflDf. Is tlMnaot a UafsriiV bsli«{|a^ adads of onâ€"oiaB t ioa s people, that Itis aa oooa- stoaal da^ to wort T If hioacht tothe bar ofooaCipfoB aHMt of as swild probably have to own mtMt aadar nartsiii ..airoamstaaosa ^mfsa4azia^to.baIn(nlj|d»atoa«B. itisa stga-tihat waaM aot hard^wanad.'ftat sym- Ethetio, if the woes of others caaae us to awake o'aighte; moreover, it showa great soMibDIty, if we are Rloomy over possible misfortune to onrselvi s A littli girl whose aunt had died, aid who was herself too young to estimatj the cslamity, said, in after years, that she was Sreatly mortified at seefaig othara ary while she had no desire toshedatear. "Finally," she oQafeased, "I was so ashamed at being so hard hearted, that I Â¥t an onion, and rubbed it on my eyes, hen I cried with the rest, aad was quite " Why don't yon go to deep?" asked a school-eirl of an excitable room-mate, at mianignt/ " Ob, I can't," was the answer, " I am so worried for fear my mother is ill." " But she is fifty miles away, and it won't do lier any snod for yon to lie awake." " I can't help it f should bs ashamed to try to sleep while she may be awake suffer- llg" was the natural reply. Like the people who instincbively imitato an invalid who is coughing, under Ae im- pression that they are " hewing him along," like the old lady who mercUuUy makes her- i elf as light as 'She can, in an overloaded carrago, we foolishly imagine that we can, in some mysteriotis way, help the suffering by refusing to be happy ourselves. Never was there a greater mistake. When we can actually do something, no sacrifice is too great to be made for the good of others duty may justly demand of us both peace of mind and health of body. Oa the other hand, there are periods of inactivity through which we must live, seeing tlie struggles of those dear to ua, and finding no chance to strike a blow in their defence. Then it is that duty commands, " Be cheerful, resolute and calm. Your turn will come, and until it does, you have only to keep yourself in good condition for action. Agrionltnre in Anstialia. The growth of the Australian c j. has been exc iedingly rapid. They ' ^^ ^^^ denly risen to_ importance as ^rfeoltural^ an immense risen to communities. They posseaa area of fertile land and the' ducte ia large. St im ^- range of pro- ^Ttant have they" kel M%t the United become as competito^-j; ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ Suppreniiig DneUiiig. •«*FMhr mf I; 'haili eilsB w, An ex-member of the Virytinia Legislature has been disfraadiised for having seat a ohaUooge to a dad. Tho tsndsDOT of the Soatheners to appeal to the code M h»onr ia redress for baupaarj or real wtaags liaa nearly diaappaac«F nnder tiie operattoa of the law dugaalfllyiaf am tfarsoa ooaoemad iaa dad, sttbegr aapriadpia or seooad, from holdiag^pnblio office, aad tha raceat iwilMtijii iafliotod ia yirsiaia will no doabt oanaa tin laat raamanta of flio pnwtloe to disaADsar ia tlMNortfa. Bmy Imsrioaa luiTVve* « hops^aaiikatltotVMylta oftieda Uo Mitioa dviiwiaa£^trliea«f Hi kwhM bai ta â- iiriwâ€"iat dMBMttM ill ba TheBaven. In the Soudan the reapest for the " Bird of the Shade" is abundant. He is endear- ingly known to the Arabs as their " Uncle," and they are more exorbitant in exacting blood-money for his chance slaughter by the hand of the stranger, than if it were really the relative in question. Shoot their dove, their ostrich, their varied scavengers of the vulture kind, their once sacred ibis even, and they grin and bear it but once aim a bolt at the " Noah Bird" and a hundred lean but mtisoular brown arms will be raised, and ih^^ bereaved, white-teethed relatives will gesticulate and shout roimd you, while thejr explain how blask-hued was your accidental crime. Apart from this, the raven with his jstty plumage, will always be a point (tf interest in the Sondan from the strong oontraat he presentstothewdinary ' desert-oolored" biitis which a neutra tint «rf gray or bkwn, which, to the exper enoe eye,, renders them almost invisible. The nambor of women who are engaged upm some spsoifis einployment ia Qraat Britaia and the United States is remurkable and is aoaually iaoraasing. In the United Kiaodom it is estimated tiiat then are five mfUfana of womea aad girls iiho an rega- laifyoBOSged iavarioas trades aad prma- aions. Li tiie ci^ of New Yoric tha iater- «ata of the woiasB-waritatn an abwdy aa- fi«te spaeial s tt s atfua aad a aaoibw of 'ifwiinliuBt tUbnm an pnaiotiM tho onao- mUm of aa sMnahlka partdEiw «n£a of both Hi the Old Word ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ g^^ ^oj«ff"*°* *V-, caused enquiries to.be made into ^..^JToomiition and oapabUities " I^- countries. The rep?rt sent hi °^° aa mnch interesting informatimi. li .owa that the population of all the Aos- traltan colonies, including New Znaland. was in 1,861,737 509. It bad, in lS66i in' bcreased to 3,426.592. Their popolation hadinceased nearly five hundred per cant... in twenty- five years. Two of the colonier. New South Wales and Victoria, contain more than a million each. Thirty-one per cent, of their inhabitante are engaged in agriculture. The quantity of land taken up amounts to 111 849.369 acres, whUe there are 1.856 302.541 acres stUl in the hands of the different govemmento. The re- portsays"the soil is generally very fertile and the producta ranpe from the cereals of the temperate zone to the frnite of the tropics. " The wheat crop is large. The area sownMs eatima ted at .3 697,954 aorea, and the yield 45 541,592 buabela;of this about 90 000,000 waa exported. The export of wheat, owing to tbe increased home onaumption and very Ukely the low price abroad, has dim- inished. Wheat is not the staple export of Australia. It ia a grsat sheep raising country, and wool is the chief source of ito wealth. In 1884 the Australian colonies pesessed 76,626,404 Lead of sheep, and in 1885 they exported 404,088,149 pounds of wool. Owing to the damage to the paatares by the rab'oits the quantity had decreased next year to S98,54l,828 pounds^ The value of the wool exported is $85,094,230. The yield from eaeh sheep averages 4,62 pounds and it sella for a little less than twen^ cents a pound all around. The Australians own large quantities of live stock beaides aheep. Those figures show that agricultare flourishes in Australia, and that our fellow sub jecto at the antipodes know how to avail themselves of the resour- ces of the country in which they have settied. Much the Worse for Wear. Skipper Andrews, ot the "Dark Secret," who tried to saU from Boston to Queens- town in a dory, was picked up very mnch the worse tor wear, August 16;h, by a Nor we- fian barque which brought faim back to Tew York. Of hia condition when rescued the Mail and Express says :â€" After Captain Andrews had beoi taken safely aboard the Nor, he asked her people for the latitade and longitude. This they refused t3 give, being convinced that Capt^n Andrews was too exhatuted to continue his perilous voyage. Captain Andrews told the Nor's Skipper that he had not partaken of a warm m^al from the time of leaving Boston, on June ISth, nor had he had a full night's rest He was in a fearful condition, his clothes hanging on his body, which .was greativ emaciated. Alibis oO-skins were played out, and he was wet to the marrow. His booto, too, were full of holes where the wator had eaten into them. Taken on the deck he could not stand, aad he had to be helped into the barque's cabin. At Captain Bijou's sn^^tion he abandoned the voyage, and the dory was hoisted on board the Nor. where it still remaina. The Howlinc: Kept him Awake. Baj-ley (sternly)- "Aurelia, let thu thins stop right here. Mr. De Twirl^â€" " Aureliaâ€" "Oh, paw do you forbid Arthni the house ' Baglajâ€" "He may oome ovary night ia tteweek if he pleaaea, but he ahdl not bring his dog into lay pwlor. Laat night its howUnas kept me awake for an hoar/' Anrelia-*' Why, paw I tbit was Arthar singing a selection from Srmime." â-  Then is a aitoam of ailnr poarloK into fsy^~**tt* »•• «* i»5nr%aiiS dollan wwtfa a day. Itoomoa iaOaahaiM sflnrdoUiiHioftka 'ill 'I â- I ,: â- -^t i :â- '