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The influence of these two light-thinking girls afiected a large circle. They organized a readingâ€"club, and provided themselves with all the desirable hooks in the different de- partments of literature, while the improve- ment in the tone of society was everywhere visible. “Well, Katy, send her right up hereto me 1” and Grace Adams sprang up from her listless attitude, and met her friend with great efl'u- axon. “I am so glad you came, Floy dear,” said Grace, “for 1 am so blue that everything ap- pears of an indigo hue." Florence returned her friend’s dolefu] speech with a. laugh, and, taking a low rock- er, threw aside her hat. and said: “Now tell me all about it. Gracie.” “Well, we’ve has such a scene 1” “Why, what had happened?” queried Flor- ence in alarm. She went over her arguments in so earn- est a manner that the girls caught her spirit. and promised their influence, while the gen- tleman, whom Florence in her enthusiam had forgotten, clapped his hands, and ex- claimed : “Miss Florence Leslie is down stmrs, Miss Grace 1” “Why, Grace, that- lovely iii-($55 ! You have scarfxgly worn in 3” “50:; at all." was the rebly. “If you will wear that without change, 1 will wear my green silk and white that was made even be- fore yours, although papa gate me money for a. new dress yesterday." “What do you mean, Flay i’" “Just what. I my, my dear; will you agree to it. ‘2" 7 “Jilst 160k tit Grace Adams. She is wear- ing the same dress she wore to my ptrty a. year: figo !" “1'65, but how pretty she looks I” was the answer. “I can tell you," said Florence, stepping quickly forward, "don’t you see that I wear an old dress, too? Grace and I have organ- ized nu anti-fashion society, and we w nt you to join us !" ' ,‘Well done, Miss Leslie, you are right! We gentlemen admire taste in dress, but not a. blind devotion to all the ridiculous fash- ions that come up. Success to your new society. Let us hear from it occasionally.” The influence of these two light-thinking “Girls,” said Bertha, Ashton, as she enter- el the club room one afternoon, I believe I shall introduce another innovation! ‘Do you the that dress ‘2” and she raised the bottom ofher skirt as she spoke. “Filth and dirt!” “You see," she continued, “I asked papa this momng for money to buy a dress for Emma Clara's party, and he told me plainly that I had been so much expense to him late- ly that he really could not afiord me a new dress just now; isn‘t. it too bad 1’" “Well 3" answered Florence. “Well, the case is just this : I must try to make over this silver and blue I" “I know it, but it was made last y‘ear, and it is all out of date. It. is the most suita- ble dress I l ave, if it was only in style, and I am afraid there isn‘t enough fur the long OVCI'nkll‘t, andâ€"0h, dear, I’ve a great mind nut to go at all I" But G we did not take the money. “Thank you, papa,” said she, but my dress is already provided for Wednesday evening.” Mrs. Adams looked her astonishment. “Yes, mamma,” said Grace merrily, “I am to wear my silver and blue.” "\Vhy isn't it made over, then?" “Because I am going to wear it as it is." And then Grace recounted the arguments that Florencn had used to her. Mrs. Adams wns only brought to allow her daughter to ap- pear in an old dress because Florence Leslie would do so, and Grace was unmolested in her “new notion,” as her mother called it. The evening of the party came, and amid a throng of lovely girls Florence and Grace reigned supreme. Florence was standing wrth a gentleman friend in the recess leading to the conservatory, and overheard the one young lady say to another: “Nothing sexious; don‘t worry" said Grace, laughing at the distress visible in her friend's face. “Dofi’t alter it; wear it just as it is," 5113 gestqd Florence. “Fiorenoe Leslie, are you crazy?” demand ed Grace in astonishment. “She always looks well, but what can pos sass her to wear that dllesgfomight ?” Tears of Vexution filled her eyes, and her brow was wrinkled with frowns most unbe- coming. ‘ Why do you propose it?" asked Grace, still unable to believe her ears. “Because, Grace, I‘ve been havmg a think, ‘all alone by myseli,’ as little Ettie Buys, and I have come to the conclusion that we girls s‘rand too much time, thought and care on dress. We spend one-half the timeptt a dress- makers, having new dresses made, and the ollwr half in our own rooms, fixing over. Now I‘ve decided that I will not do it any lmger. andI want you to help me in insti- tuting a reform in our set in that respect." “n”; , ,1 V 7 of ,- - About half an hour utter, little Nina, shy, bu: pleased, was trying her new duet with a star Grace, while darling Florence Leslie smiled encouraging] y upon hex efiort. Grace Iglt guilty, when the child threw her arms around her neck and said: “Thank you, sis- ter you are so good !" _ .... m," “Bhtwhat will you do ‘I” igglged Gmce, thh great interest. ' “Plenty of things,” was the reply. “When I need a new dress, I‘ll get as nice as I want. and have it nude in as pretty style as possi- ble ; then I’ll wear it until it is not fit , to wear, no matter how many styles intervene. English indies of rank and wealth wear their clothes out the way they are first made, but we poor American girls must spend all our time energy and strength in devising ways and means to follow every new fashion that appears‘ The consequence is, we do not take enouwh out door exercise to keep us in health ; we neglect home duties ; we neglect all means of culture, and narrow our minds down to the contemplation of silks, ribbons, feathers and flowers. We assemble at even i lg parties, and, having devoted every 111 ught and energy in» our dress, We can think and talk of nothing else but appearance. No won- der gentlemen stoop to converse with us ; tie have no ennohling topic to talk on. It is a shameful waste l" As Florence finished Grace said : "Well done, Floy ; you are an enthusist l But it you do as you propose, what will you do with your regained time and money ‘3" “I shall study, for one thing; and. gather 'bxgry. instead of closets full 0! Wufiqémtand my plan, it lune passed rapidly away, and Mr. Adams was quite surprised that he didn’t hear Grace compmin about hul' pnrmy dress. Finally his wife said to him : “My dear, Grace has acted very sensibly, I think. If you could afl‘ord her a. dress, it \quhl glleatly please me." Mr. Adam; {bought for some time, and thgp said, "Well, I‘ll see.” That day at dihner he handed Grace 1; roll of bllls, and said : “.Fr'ere, Gracie, perhaps I can spare that amount for your dress, 1 should like to let you have all you wish, but ’Ligrimpossible.” _ V 7 ~ I, ' “I wil. I" cried Grace, withrunwouted eu- crgy. “l’d join you with 11.1 my heart ? I! will fix! me of ever so much anxiety ! I be- lieve I should not have nervous headaches so often it I dxdu’t have to worry so much about what to wear I” "Just so." said Florence. “And you spoke of neglected home duties," continued Grace. “It is true, I have neglect e1 some duties this morning, to worry over his dress. Poor little Nina. wanted me to practice a dth with her, and I was too cross 3) do it." , , .. J“ ....\.‘.,..,........ u, will you jail] me? Will you Wear that unchanged toIEmma Clarejq party ‘9" "Find her and try it now," ence; “I want to hear it I" "All right, and then I'll walk until di tme, and try to get to feeling better," Grace, bustling around to gqfxfgudlt u L .,..A.‘ ,u THE ANII- FASHION SOCIETY. LADIES’ COLUMN. suggested Flor until dinner aresé said Mr. William Cook (Chairman of the Bir- mingham Health Committee) reports that in Birmingham during the three years 187-1 5 6 out of 27,663 deaths registered in the bor- ough, 8,182 were those of children under twelve months old, thus showmg an average of 2,727 a year. Of every 100 children born in those years on average of 18, or more than one sixth, died before they were a year old. 01 these deaths about ~ half were due to diarrhcea and other diseases connected with she continued, in tones of disgust. “I shall have all my dresses clear the ground here- after, and resign my office of street-sweeper forever ! Who will join me ?" “I. I !” cried the girle. “If you have any of my experience, you feel delightfully free, since it is found not necessary to follow every freak of fashion l” said Grace Adams. The name of Mr. Albert Grant was struck off the register for West Sussex by the Re- vising Barrister, on the ground that, having been reported to the House of Commons as guilty of corrupt practices at Kiddorminster, he could not vbte at any election for the space of seven years. The decision was ap- pealed against, and has been reversed; the Judges pointing out that the corrupt prac- tice referred to had not been imputed to Mr. Grant personally, but to his agents ; and that being so, he was not brought under the penal clause of the Corrupt Practices Fre- vention‘ Act. “That is my experience,“ added Floy Les- ie. “I am healthier, Imppier, better in tem- per aud morals, and have had time to get much information. What is it Bertha?” A Melbourne new.â€"pa,'_‘er.raports a, crowded labour market there. Sewing machine workers are never short of hands, though the girls emploped can barely make enough at the business to keep thorn in food and clothing. Young women are found in plenty to enter shops and give their time for n con- siderable period for nothing. and at the end of that receive 105 a, week. Competent artisans can obtain good wages ; but there is always every large number of applicethns for any situation that is not mechanical. “I my, anti-fashion forever l”â€"-Mrs R. in Standard (Clzicago.) A novel question presented itSelf before Judge Schenck, at Asheville. North Carolina, the other day. At the spring term of Bun- combe Court, Judge Furches sentenced one Shaft to imprisonment in the county jail for six months. After he had remained in jail a. month, the county commissioner, having seen the recent acts of assembly allowing them to hire out convicts to the public works or, “individuals,” proceeded to hire Shaft out to his wife {or five dollars per month, and Shaft moved his quarters to the old domicil as the prisoner and “hire‘.ing" of wife. The matter leing now presented by the solicitor to the court. his honor ordered that Shaft be committed to prison as an escaped convict, holding that though the let- ter of the law had been complied With, it was a. violation ofits spirit and meaning, and a virtual nullification of the sentence of the court. Capt. McLoud, who is the prisoner‘s Counsel, has appealed to the Supreme Court. â€"(,'/Ir1vrIot/e Democrat. The glory of summer has gone byâ€"the beautiful groenness has become withered and dead. Were this allâ€"were there no asso- ciations of moral desolationâ€"of faded hopes â€"of hearts withering in the bosoms of the livingâ€"connected with the decaying scenery around us, we would not indulge in a mo ment’s melancholy. The season of flowers will come again~tho streams will flow graceâ€" fully ns beforsAthe trees will again toss theircumbroue heads of greenness to the sunlightâ€"and. by mossy stone and winding rivulet the coming 11138501118 will start up at the bidding of their guardian. But the human heart has no change like that of nature. It has no refuruiny/ .«pl‘illyl-tinm Once blighted inits hem of freshness, it bears forever the mark of the spoiler. The dews of affection may fall, and the gentle min of sympathy be lawshed upon itâ€"but the stone root of blighted feeling will never again waken into lifefl nor the crushed flowers of hope blossom with thvir wounded beauty. In a recent lecture Dean Stanley recom. mended his hearers to hunt up any subject which they heard of in conversation and of which they were iguomub, and to ascertain the purport of the name of any place in which they happened to be, the historical associations ofgthe day, the cause of the popularity of particular books, and the origin and meaning of words; anfi to have, and to be ready to communicate, clear ideas upon various matters. Mr. John IIollingshcad writes to|tlie Daily @‘Iegraph :â€"“Willyou allow me to contra diet a report, very widely circulated in cer. tain newspapers, that the Lord Chamberlain has expunged a. (zeitnfn song from “Little Doctor Faust.” Mr. Byron is quite incapa- ble of writing, and Misa Farreu of singing, anything that could be objected to by the most fastidious guardian of public morality." Three men, sentenced by Mr. Justice Haw- kins to receive twenty-five lashes each for robbexies with violence, have been flogged in \Varwick gaol, the punishment being so dreaded that the Governor resolved on in- flicting it at thé earliest convenient moment. One of them at the twenty-fourth lash was so much prostratexl that the twenty-fifth was not inflicted. Prince LeopolJ, who is at. Balmorn‘, is again reported to be ill. It is confidently expected in legal circles that the Government will appoint three new Judges. Conservative lawyers havmg a claim to preterment are naturale elated at the prospect. By an Order of Council the restrictions upon the removal of cattle from the metro- polis, and on the holding of markets and sales in the metropolis, which were imposed inconsequence of the outbrcuk of cattle plague at the beginning of this your are now taken off. The Barrow magistrates have granted a removal order to a female pauper said to be 105 Years of age. There has been a great. talking of? in the supply of American bedlzmded at Liver. pool. The Master of the Rolls has comp‘ained that from beginning to end of a winding-up case there is no control over costs. Up to November 23rd about £20 had been subscribed to Dr. Kenealy’s “million six- penca fund" for partially regenerating so- ciety. The publxcans of London, in order to guard against the recurrence of “vexatious prosecutions” for selling weakened 01' adul- temted liquor, have begun to exhibit notices on their premises that “the liquors sold in this establishment are (muted according to price." A contagious disease, the nature of which is at present a matter of speculation, has been raging at the Royal paddocks, Hamp- ton court, resulting in the death of three brood mares, Appeal, Viaidis (dam of Spring- field, and worth £4,000), and Australasia Dr. Cumming, in a recent lecture, re as serted that the end of all things is near at hand. Among the latest novelties in the way of imports (the Bristol Past says) are oranges {tom the Brazils. The quality of the fruit is said to be exceedingly fine and luscious, and it will, moreover, 13 is said, be to hand earlier and ripar the European fruit. CAN A \VIFE HIRE HER HUSBAND? GENERAL NEWS. A BEAUTIFUL EXTB B111 HSH ITEMS .IAC’I' The annual meeting of the Grand Divi- sion of the Sons of Temperance, Onteno, was held in Bowmenville this week, at which there was a large atttnlence of repre- tatives. i The Barrie Advil/m: says :â€"«“Vandalism :was rampant in town on Saturday night, ‘ (Nov. 24), and mournful testimony was borne to the fact in the shattered lamps that lined Dunlop street, in the broken Windows of the police court, and in the absence from their place, in the armoury of Chief Rogers, of three of his trustyrevolvers and adagger. Whoever did the damage and committed the theft is not known, though circumstances point to ayoung man of town, a. notorious rowdy and drunkard, and a companion of hisuvhosa record is very little better. A reward of $20 is ofiered for the detection of the miscreants, and the police, With the clue they have already obtained. hope to be able to nab the scouudrels. The Chief Says he was out after midnight on Saturday, and that the mamuders must have begun their rounds early on Sunday morning. The number of street lamps ruined is six, and the loss sustained,including the articles stolen from the police court, will amount to about $754” nutrition. A very large proportion of this mortality must be caused by the 1guor- ance of the mothers as to diet. and manage- ment. The township of Weat Zorm has $522,000 out on interest. ' Herringis reported scarce on the north coast of Newfoundland. In Streetville' bread has had another fall, and is now sold at thirteen cents for the four pound loaf. Plans for the graving dock at Levis have been received from England, and excavating has commenced. In order to prevent flirtatious at the Berlin Model School. it has become necessary, says the Telegraph, to avoid employing pretty females in the institution. Extensive gold discoveries have been made in the Cariboo District, British Columbia, and the populace are said to be greatly excited in consequence. Speaking of trumps, the Welland 1?ch graph says :â€"“This class of the community is becoming very dangerous and should be looked after at once. Our council have built a. shed for their shelter and provided them with food. After getting the latter the tramps declined the shelter of the “roost,” and seek other resting places. Last week they occupied the M. E. church, building on agood fire. They also got into the lock shanty. Wednesday night last, (Nov. 28.) they affected an entrance into the born of Mr. Griffith, at the rear of the brick lock. Thcy have been in the council chamber, and tumour say one night they got into the engine house. If this thing is allowed to continue Welland will soon be found in ashes. If the council persist in endangering our lives and property in this manner, the citizens will have to take the mutter in their own hands.” A telegraph from Ottawa states that Lord Duiferin will sever his connection with the Dominion next autumn, and that the Duke oszmchester is mentioned us his Excullency’s successor. The telephone has been introduced into Winnipeg. Mr. H. Macduugall has two of the instruments attached to the wire con meeting the telegraph office with his resi- dence, one telephone being in the office and the other at the house. In Montreal, the other Cay, a seoundrel named Adolphe Gervais was sentenced by the Recorder to three months’ hard labour for assaulting a Woman named Susan Brown, by striking her with his fist in the face, from the effects of which shebecame insensi- ble. Municipal Councils have a trick of trying to put burdens and inconveniences on some- body 91 e. The Lindsay Post says :â€"“The Orillia. Council at us last meeting voted the expenses of an indigent to Lindsay. We presume they thought Lindsay had an asyâ€" lum, but they should remember all towns are not so highly favoured as Orillia.” A young Englishman named Thos. Pritch- Md, working on the extension of the Victoria railway, came into a fortune of £30,000 the other day by the death of a relative in Lon. don.' He came to Lindsay, spruced up. got a new suit of clothes, bought a. ticket for Englanllfnnd started for home In excellent spirits. It is a good thing to be a. navvy on the Victnria railway. A Hamilton paper says :â€"“Several days ago anold man named Alex. Case. nearly sixty yams of age, was arres’el in Ii xbrook by Constable Eustice on a charge of having committed malicious injury to the property of Mr. John Shaw. Case is a shoemaker by trade, and seems to have some grudge against Show, for he went into a field. be- longing to the latter and with an axe de- liberately smashed a plough lying there. He was found guilty and fined 95 for the offence, $5 for damages, and $5 costs, and wm; given two Weeks in which to pay the sum total, lfhe makes default, the sen- tence is that he shall go to gaol for two months.” A friend of ours who holds a couple hun- dred tubs of butter, which cost him seven- teen and eighteen cents per 1b., has received a. letter from his correspondents in Montreal, from which we give the following extract :â€" “There is no market here now for butter unless at price of grease, seven to ten cents, except a. little giit 0411/4? fit for table use ; and all the English markets are in the same unâ€" satisfactory state. We cannot recommend you to send any here or ship at present. Our advice is hold it there until markets improve or a buyer turns up.”â€"Ou‘vn Sound Advertiser. The Village of Morpeth, Kent Couuty‘ was considerably excited the other day on it becoming l’nown that their miller, Frank Morse, had absconded, leaving sovcrnl farm- ers to mourn his loss to the tune of from fifty to one hundred and fifty dollars. It is supposed that he has taken with him about eight hundred dollars, but the exact amounts cannot be ascertained. Warrants have been ismed for his arrest. The Port Colborne 191w I’rcxx says:- “Thero is a clergyman not a hundred miles from Stonebridge, who receives for his ser- vices, Irom two congregations the sum of [INTO hundred and seventy/jive dollars, an- nually. In addition to a. wife and family he is compelled to keep a horse. There isn’t much Christianity in these congregations. that’s certain. We have heard of such a thing as ‘gcnteel starvation,’ and here we have a case in point. Shame, shame.” When the turnip-lifting season came round at the Waterloo Industrial Farm, (in connection with the Poor House in that county) George Wolfe, an inmate, thought it prudent to absent himself for a few days until the job was over, and then cool’y re- turned to his snug quartersâ€"for which charitable exercise of libexty he was taken up beore one of the town magistrates and sentenced to ten du-ys’ imprisonment, this being the second offence of the kind. Alexander Knott, on old pensioner, about seventy years of age. while under the influ» ence of liquor, cut his throat with a. razor in bed in his own house, Amherstburg, about four o’clock Wednesday morning (November 28th). His wife was away from home, and his stepdaughter, wh) was in the house, did not call a. physician till some of the neigh- bours went in about seven o’clock, when Dr. Quarry was called in. That gentleman sewed up the wound, which was about two inches long, but not very deep. Knott will recover, although he lost a good deal of blood. The Gram] Worthy Patriarch says in his SONS OF TEMPERANCE CANADIAN ITEMS PAm‘sJ Nov. 2-9.â€"â€"A published letter from Raoul Duvnl (Bonapartist) expresses the con- viction that true Consevatives should sub- mit to the national will, and recommends such submission to MacMahon. Duval strongly condemns the policy of the Duke De Broglie and the intrigues which resultéd Gen. Armandeau. Conservative, and Mass'utJ‘uepublicau, have been elected Sen- ators for the Department of Vienna and Pyrenses. LONDox,Dec. LIL-A Paris despatch says the Marquis de Banueville, Minister for Foreign Afl'uirs, has confidentially notified the Vatican that his conduct will be guided by tbs strictest 3001 will to the Holy See; but hewillnot tolerate and direct intefer- once in the internal alfairs of Francs. report: The number of subordinate Division in this jurisdiction is now nearly four hun- dred. During this year over fifty have been organized. The great missionary work car- ried on by members can scarcely be estimat- ed; they are to a very large extent alive to the noble work in which they engaged and take advantage of every opportunity to re- suscitate old Divisions or organize new ones. Every Division room "is a centre around which the temperance people gather, in which temperance subjects are discussed. and from which temperance literature and tem- perance education are disseminated. Every one of them throughout these winter months Laisant and De La Rochette, Deputies fought a duel today. The afiair grew out. of the publication by De La. Rochette of a dis- paraging letter. De La Rochette WM wound- ed in the thigh. One hundred and twenty members of the Republican Left; have decided to refuse to vote any fart of the Budget until the Gov- ernment return to l’arliametm'y course. Minister Noyeshes obtained the repeal of the order expelling the American citizen Bedel to Belgium for language displeasing to the Government. The situation is unchanged. l’Anxs, ghee. 2.â€"â€"A meeting of 1,500 Iner- chants and manufacturers to-day drew up an address appealing to the patriotism of Presi- dent MacMahon to yield to the wishes of the majority in view of the threatened ruin of trade, and in the interests of the Inter- national Exhibition. Aietter from Krants, chief commissioner of the Exhibition, was read denying the Exhibition would be de- layed a sing 0 day whatever might happen. VERSAILLES,DEO. 1.â€"The Budget Com- mittee intend moivng that the Chamber pugs a vote on the direct taxation clauses, enabling the Councils-General to take the prelnninury steps of distributing, without, howeyer, authorizing collections. will be lighted up once a week, and serve as a beacon to guide the thoughtless and un- waryâ€"e beacon light which I hope and prey may be the means of saving many poor un. fortunntcs from the road to ruin. Were these doors to be closed, these Windows to be darkened, these lights to be extinguished, what a pail of darkness would surround us l The ark or safety wouid be gone, the pilot boats wou‘d be dashed to pieces, and this fair Province would be strewn with human wrecks ten times more numerous than now, many and lamentable though these may be. Even those opposed to our principles would be anxious to see them again spread their beaming rays across the midnight path. It would indeed be darkness to many homes and to many souls, did our Division rooms cease to be institutions in the Ian/1. Know- ing this, it becomes our sacred duty to 9x- tend their numbers and increase thir eflici- ency. From the Grand Treaurrr‘s report it ap~ pears that the total receipts of the 5621! amounted to $4,134,08, and the expenditure to $4,404,96, cash in hand $30,12. The 115» sets of the Grand Division are 31,787,36, with the liabilities: $1,198,85, showing a. bal- ance in favors of the Order amounting to $587.51. “This is to us the most important ques- tion with which 1 have to deal in my report, and which during the pest year has embar- rassed a number of our Subordinate Divis- ions, and a: It consequence our Grand Divis- ions has been similarly affected. The inâ€" debtedness of the Subordinate Division for supplies has increased, and as before alluded to u large number are delinquent in making returns. 1 have so often directed attention to this matter that it seems like repetition on my part to refer t< it under this head. [know uf no rimedy unless each Division failing to make returns during the first month of the succeeding term, for which the returns are due, should be charged with the same tax as for the preceding quarter. “I may hero suggest that many of our Di~ visions endeavor to (‘x‘st on too cheap 11 scale, their fees and an s not bring‘ng in suil‘icicnt to pay running expenses, and leav- ing nothing for an emergency, should the Division meet with reverses. So long as the financiui nflairs of a Division is in a healthy state, there is not much fear of its failing. [ would suggest that a minimum rut-e of fees and dues be fixed by the Grand Division, leaving Subordinate Divisions to incr'ease the amosnt if they wished, this, I have no doubt would to it great extent remedy this defici- ency. The Grand Scrbe says, refering t0 finan all all ' ' “Let us continue to press forward in our work, pledging the inebriate and moderate drinker, suppressing the trafficker, and of- fering to thorn all the privileges and bless- ings of uniting with us in our glorious mis- axon. "The present tidal wave of Temperance that is swwping over this vast continent is but the result of the education which the present generation has received in our cir- cles of fratmnity, combining as we do all the elomonts or open and close organizations, moral suasion and Prohibiton. "l‘ho accounts flue by our Subordinate Divisions have been rendered to them and payments messed so far as consistent for the best interests of our Order. Some have remitted the amounts due, and otheis have promised to do so by the close of the pres- ent quarter. From these receipts and re- turns now coming in, liabilities due are be- ing paid, and I have no doubt will be'entire- ly disohargcd during the incoming quarter. V "1 Law been unable without seriously in- conveniencing our Divisions, to follow strict- ly the rule to furnish no supplies except when orders were accompanied by the cash, though it would sw’e this olfice inconveni» encu could this rule be strictly observed by our Divisions, as well as enable your Scribe to discharge all liabilities with the close of each financial year. ‘JIn reviewing the work of the year, we have had much to discourage us in our of forts by the failure of some of our Divisions, and the suspension and expulsion of many members from various causes other than ‘violution of the pledge.” the principle cause being ‘non-payment of duoe.’ How to reme- dy this great loss to our Order is a question which has called for the rerious considera- tion of nearly every Grand and Subordinate Division of_our Order, but as yet no adequate remedy has been found. The collection of weekly dues has been suggested as one way by which to meet difliculty, that under the order of business ‘payment of dues,’ the roll should be cuiled and each member expected to ruseoml. In order to facilitate the collec- tion the Conductor might pass around the room announcing the name of each member to theiF. S., as his ordher dues are paid. “In locking back over our history as an organization, we have reason to congratu- late ourselves on the result of our efforts, and {10-day our Dominion is reaping the be- noflt of years of anxious toil and labor of members of our beloved Order. From the 150,000 members who have been V initiuted into our {Division an influence has gone out which is to day shaking the very foundations of the liquor trafllc. Every family reprosent. ed in our Order. has an influence which must tell on the policy of the future rulers of our country. l’lLEN'CH AFFAIRS The following are the conditions on which M.Du{aure agreed to attempt to form». Cabinet‘:â€"Tha.t the Ministry have entire liberty as to all oflicial appointments; that the Marshal agree to bills restricting the power to declare a state of siege and modi. fying the press restrictions, and send a. LONDON. Dec. 6.â€"â€"A special says the French Ministry tendered resignations at this morning's 001111011. President Mac- Mahon accepted them. President MucMahon ot the first inter~ View with M. Defaure seemed inclined to form the Left and Right Centres. A mem- ber of the Right Centre,however, manifested a disinclinution to enter the Cabinet. M. Dufaure then ascertained from the Duke d'Audifiret-Posquier that a, Cabinet from the Left Centre would have the support of the Constitutional and Orleanist Senators and command the majority of the Senate and probably also of the Deputies. President MaoMahon thereupon entrusted M. Dufaure with the formation of a Left-Centre Cabinet. It now only remains for M. Dufaure to agree with the majority of the Deputies. M. Dufnure is now endeavouring to form a Parliamentary Cabinet. It is thought like- ly he will ;sucoeed. Rumour mentions M. Waddington as the probable Foreign Minis- ter, and M. Marcere for the Interior, with M. Bat/hie, Bardoux, Teisserne, De Bork, and Leon Say as colleagues. in the overthrow of the Thiers Government on‘tbe 24th ng,»1s73._ Jules Gravy had an interview with Mac- Mahon to-day. The President assured him that Parliament was in danger. Neither its existence nor its functions as established by the constitution would be threatened, and the apprehensions of a, coup (l'ctat were base- less, but he seemed not to accept Grevy’s pro- posals for a parliametary regime, and evinc' ed towardstha Chamber sentiments of re sistunce. Viscount d’Harcourt, in the course of his remarks to the delegates of the trades‘ coun- cils yesterday suggested that they should use their influence with tho deputies with the view 0: effecting reconciliation between the latter and the President. He deprecated the idea of convokinga congress of both Houses to solve the crisis. Balbie, in an interview with MacMahon yesterday, again urged him to return to normal Parliamen- tary rule. * MacMahon holds that the Chamber can, by voting the budget, easily prove that it did not intend that Saturday‘s vote should be considered as a declaration of war against him. If the Chamber thus shows a. concil- iatory disposition, the President will frankly fulfil his promise to appoint a thoroughly parliamentary Ministry. If the Chamber does not show such a. disposition the Presi- dent must ask the Senate to choose between his resignation or a. fresh dissolution. A Delegation of Elbeuf manufacturers called at the Elysee on Wednesday to preâ€" 8 eat a petition to President MacMahon, but failed to see even his Secretary, and was re- ceived and bowed out by the usher with their memorial. 1"i yam names as among the probable 1\Iinis« hers M. Batbie as Minister of Justice; M. Waddington, Minister of the Interior ; M. LeonBay, M nister of Fmance, and M. Christ- ophle, Minister of Public Works. The Soleil states M. Dufaure ié willing to conduct negotiations to the point of form- ing a Ministry, but in unwilling :to accept oflice himself. The various groups of the Left look upon Dufuare as the future President of the Re- public. The Left Centre Deputies are re- solved that they will not vote the direct taxes as long as MacMahon continues to re- sist. They will, however, vote the indirect taxes, but only by instalments. The latest advices indicate that rumours of a possible arrangement are gaining ground. Loxnox, Dec. 5 â€"â€"A Paris special says the political finessing and ostensible negotia- tions for days past simply conceal a plan for a second dissolution. President MncMalion has summoned the Duke D’Auaifiret Pas- qnicr and MM. Grevy and Dufunre to the Elysee, but neither side formulated propo- sals. Advantage is taken of the individual, unofficial, and almost confidential note of Senator Duclerc in order to strike with an ill-disguised enthusiasm into the path of a second dissolution. Runs, Dec. 6.â€"â€"It is stated the negotia- tions between President MacMuhon and M. Dufaure WU’G resumed in consequence of steps taken by Senator Batbie. M..Batbie IS probably acting for the Orleanigt Senators. PAR}, Dec. 4.â€"â€"Emi15 “Grimrain has been nominated by the Republicans for Deputy for the ninth urmndissment. ’ In the Chamber of Deputies to-day M. Jules Torry said the majority would grant the Budget only to a l’m‘llamentary Minis- try. Until further notice the Budget Com- mittee will not report in favor of direct tax- es. aM. Gambet'n said the Chamber was ready to consider the Budget, but would only hand over the resources of the country when those in power bowed before the popular yvill. The members of the Left declare the idea of the Congress, mentione.‘ in private, has been seized upon at. the E13 see as a pretext for breaking ofl' conciliatory negotiations. The Cabinet toâ€"day discussed the petition movement among persons in trade. The Government appears resolved to prevént this manifestation, which is considered hostile to itself. The sale in the streefs of the Journal Le Bicn Public, containing extracts from the p<atj§ioxgy has been_s§opped. _ The 500' states M. Duiuare conferred with President MacMthon two hours on Wednes- day. The Sui r considers there are strong inclinations of the formation of a Dllfuure Cabinet. _ President MaoMahon’s refusal to recéive a delegation of merchants on Monday causes grgafi irritationi It is reported the Government contemâ€" plates proroguing the Chamber of Deputies and forming». Dlssolution Ministry should the Chamber not vote the Budget tu-mor~ row. Leon Renault gave notice in the Chamber of Deputies that-he would ask Ministers to explain the semi-official note published stat- ing President. MacMahon's efforts to form a conciliatory Ministry had been so far frua. (stated by the exorbitant demand of tho Left. A. congress of the two Houses should be held for a revision of the Constitution. The Bureaux of the Left in the Senate has issued a note formally denying that any Senator of their section has been authorized by the Republicans or commissioned by President MacMahon to formulate conditions for aPm-liamentary Cabinet. The Deputieix of the Left have issued a similar declaration. LONDON, Dec. 4.â€"A Paris oorrespcndent oonsidersit palpably evident that Senator Duclerc’s strictly informal and personal pro- posnl to President MacMahon for the revisâ€" ion of the Constitution in a, Republican sense have been eagerly seized upon as :{urnishing a pretext for a second dissolution. TAMS. Dec. 5.â€"In parliamentary circles this evening, in consequence of groups of the the Left having protested against the impu- tation that they wished to modify the con- stitution, arrangements are not thought im- possible. Negotiations are believed to be imminent. (Noteâ€"The correspondents o( the L )ndon papers‘do not share‘thege nqticigajtions.) M. Rouher moved to cofisiaer the Budget onriThursday. Lostiby 328 to 197. The Sena-ts elected M. de Lurcy (Legiti‘ mist) and M. Burst (Bonupartist) life Sena- tors. M. Grevy said he was only a. member of the majority who had been summoned by the President, and he did not speak in the name of the Daft, or indicate any conditions. The affair causes much comment. M. De Welch, Minister of the Interior, assured the Mayor of Paris and others to-day that the Marshal’s Government would re- spect the law, the constitution, and the lte public. It is mmared the Left are inclined to post- pone the debate upon the Budget question until Monday_ t9 fa_c_i}it_ate negptigtions. SrArNEu, Dec. (5.â€"â€"About 5.20 this aiter- noon a fire was discovered breaking out in the storehouse in rear of J. Parkinson’s store in this village, :which rapidly commuâ€" nicated with the adjoining buildings, nearv 1y all stores. The buildings, being frame, succumbed rapidly to the flames, and in a short time, consumed the largest part of block. The fire would soon have destroyed all the business part of the town, but for the timely arrival of the steam fire engine from Collingwood, which was telegraphed for alâ€" most immediately after the fire broke out. The authorities of Collingwcod, deserve credit for the premptness they displayed in coming to the rescue with their engine and fire brigade. The following is the list of lossesâ€"J. Parkinson on building and stock about $8,000, insured for 05,000; Miss Steen milliner, loss about $200; Henry Perdue, on building, occupied by McMahon a}: Strang- way, as general merchants, and the Masonic Hall. $1,200, no insurance ; McMahon d: Strangway, on stock, about $3,500, insur- 3 once not known ; Thomas H. George, liquor dealer and general merchant, on building and stock about $3,000, insurance not known ; Mr- Blair, occupying the upper story of Mr. George’s building as a photograph gallery ‘ and dwelling, about $100; Wm. Henry. sad- dler, on building and stock, about $1,000, insured for $700; Bloomer. barber loss $100 ; W. B. Saunders, druggist on build- ing and stook about $2,500, insured for 551,800: Dominion Telegraph Company, loss small ; M. McKeahnie, damage to build- ings, lose about 0200; Mr. Jones, of Toronto, two dwelling houses, lose about $4,000; ,Mrs. Bain, loss on stable and damage to dwell- ing 0200; Henry Allan, damage to :bmlding, lose about $60. The contents of the Ma- sonic Hall were entirely destroyed. The Oddfellows occupied the upper story of Mr. Sanders’ building at a lodge room, saved nearly all their effects. The occupants of the message to t'ie Chamber guaranteeing it against capricious dissolution. The Mar- shal accepted the conditions with much difficulty, at first declaring he would resign. He still desires to have the choice of the Ministers of Marine, War, and Foreign Af- fairs. M.Dufaure made no engagement on this point, and it is considered unacceptable. The Ministry will probably ‘not be definitely formed for two days. M. Victor Hugo has promised to have the second volume of his “Histoere d'un Crime" ready for publication by the 2nd of Deâ€" cember, the anniversary of the (024) (1'6th It will present “Le Massacre et la Vieâ€" torie." Professchlaekie, of Edinburgh Univerâ€" sity, certainly does eccentric things for a grave and reverend scholar, He began a series of lectures at Edinburgh the other night with one on “The \Vit and \Visdom of Scottish Songs," am; diversified the proâ€" ceedings by himself singing two Scotch songs, “Kelvin Grove" and “When the Kye Come Hame,“ Then. when he had concluded the lecture. he delighted his aw dience further byputting his arms around and kissing the minister in whose church the lecture was given. Prince Bismarck's grief fdr his lost dog has been soothed by the gift of a young animal resembling the departed favorite as much as possible, Markart's immense picture of Catherine Cornaro, which struck with awe the rustic visitors at the Philadelphia Exhibition, has been sold. It has been bought for the Ber- lin National Gallery for the sum of $2.500. It was originally painted for :1 Vienna. pic- ture dealer, who paid the artist for it $550,000, and who fondly thought that he could gain untold gold by admission fees during the exhibition of 1873, and could afterward sell it for what he gave. He was sadly disappointed, and when the picture came to Philadelphia,it was in reality to finds. purchaser. It wentback inglor ious~ ly, and has now been sold for a quarter of the price pAid to the artist. Admiral Caracciolo, the victim of Queen Caroline of Naples. Lady Hamilton, and Lord Nelson, whose unhappy fate will never be forgotten norforgiven by the Neapoli- tans, is now to be honored by a tribute to his memory. The Municipal Council pro- pose to raise a monument in his honor on the new street which bears his name, close to the sea. His remains, whicn at present lie in the church of Santa Maria della Cantena, are to be deposited underneath. Some ofour readers may remember the awful picture of the way in which the Adiniral‘s body dropped into the sea after his execution at the yard arm. got free of his weights and suddenly rose in the wake of the king's ship on its course from Naples to Sicily, bobbing horribly up and down with the waves. A curious story about Shelley has just been published in England for the first time. Shelley has often been accused, and appar- ently not without cause, of having left Har- riet destitute when he went abroad, and, indeed, of never having in any way taken thought, or properly provided, for her. It seems that when Shelley and Mary returned from their first visit to the continent, in 1814, with means quite exhausted, they im- mediately went to their bank to draw out what might be there. But, to their dismay, they found that the balance placed to their account had been already drawn. \Vith dejected looks, they came away, dolefully pondering whither they should next turn with their emptypockets. \Vhile walking in the direction of Hyde Park, they sudden- ly encountered Harriet, and to her apparentâ€" ly they revealed the miserable plight they happened to be in. It was Harriet who had just been to the bank and drawn all the ready money available at the time. She re- proached Shelley and Mary for their con- duct, but generously parted with the greater part of the money. At the marriage of Mr. Edmond de Rothschild, youngest son .of Baron James. with his cousin Mlle. dc Rothschild, of Frankfort. the toilets came direct from Paris, and were such as \Vorth alone knows how to compose. The wedding dress, in white satin, draped in front, was ornament- ed with little flounces laid plain in point (I'Anglctcz'rc, copied exactly upon‘ old lace ; fringes or orange flowers fell upon these little flounces. The train was entirely covered with masses of {mint d‘Auglcfcrz/u The body. an cuimssc, was also fringed with orange flowers and covered with lace. 0n the travelling suit in myrtle green velvet, and on the jacket, were placed bands trim. med with the feathers of the lophophorus ; the hat was of the same material. The morning dress, in Satin, ofthe color of_ tur- quoise,hada double trimming of Malines lace and grebe. A story concerning Meissonier is gleefully told in Paris. The manager of a New York theatre took it into his head that he would like to have a drop curtain painted by the great-artist. So off he trudged to Mais- smls'sfiiaiojina mm large is the curtain to be ?" asked Meis- sonier. quite seriously. "Fifteen metres by eighteen," answered the manager. Meisâ€" sonier began to reckon, and then, paper in hand. he explained that as his pictures bring him 20,000 frances per twenty centi- metres. or 80,000 frances per metre,the curâ€" tain would just eost 21,600,000 frances ; that is to say, something over $4,000,000. "Kut." added the painter, "the price would not be our greatest difficulty. But it would be time. I take three months to paint twentyâ€"five centimetres of canvas. You see, therefore, that my age would not suffice to paint your curtain. which would take me over 200 years to complete !" The American declared he could not wait so long, and departh in a state of mystification, leaving the painter rejoicing. Thestory doesn't seem impossi- ble. THE VILLAGE OF STAYNER PARTIAL LY DESTROYED. PERSONAL l Thoaewho commit _:crime seldom look at more than one side of the balance‘sheet, Satan always shows the gilded side of sin, and that side only, when he tempts mé‘rg; and when the7 are di'a-wnjawey by their own lusts, they take into account only the profit they hope to derive from an evil course. How otherwise could so many intelligent men cover themselves with disgrace and plunge their families into a sea of wretched- ness for the doubtful enjoyment of 1ll-gott en gains. We wish every young man, and every old man as well, could examine the belanoe- sheet. . Miss Lydia. Tompson, the Theatre under- stands, says she will retire from the stage at the beginning of next year. I must give my special thanks for doing me the justice to believe that my conduct during the Just five eventful years has been governed by my sense of duty. I had no other guide, nor haul I any other object than the defence of those principles of American liberty upon which the constitutions of the several states and of the United States were originally founded, and, unless they are strictly observed, I fear there will be an end ; to republican government in this country. ‘I concur with you in opinion as to the pro- priety and duty of ftll persons uniting, in the 1 present posture of affairs, for the restoration and reconciliation of the country. I he." endeavored to pursue this course myself since the cessation of hostilities and have recommended it to others. So far as my knowledge extends there is no opposition at the South to the general government. Every one approves of the policy of President Johnson, gives him his cordial support, and would, I believe, confer upon him the presi- dency. I do not know what more you desire and even if I possessed the influence you attribute to me, how I could exercise it, as I have. But I have no influence, and. do not” feel at liberty to take a. more active part in public affairs than I have done.â€"â€"From a Let- ter to (l Washington Friend, July 9, 1866. houses owned by Mr. J ones, of Toronto, Mrs. Campbell, and S. Horsey, sawed most of their effects, and their loss it; small. Prof. Wilson, while frankly owning the weather beaten look of the monolith after the 3,500 years through which he holds it to have battled with time, describes cheerin enough the rugged rose granita’s tight grip of the Written record intrusted to his pkeep- ing: “In places it will be seen that the an- gles are rounded ; here and there the once burnished surface is blurred and rough, and some of the engraving had suffered almost to obliteration ; nevertheless, as a Whole, it is remarkably perfect. It is said to be in better preservation than the standing Needle at! Alexandria; it has happily escaped serious injury from its fall; and its entombment in the sands of the seashore and the rubbish of building material would seem to have been favorable to its preservation. The sides most injured are those to landward, and the agents of mischief, tha sharp rellets which ride in the sand storms so common in Egypt. that drive their sl'arp and plerciug atoms against an opposing surface with the fury of musket shot.” It is worth notice, in passing, that the present in just the 1.900th year since the Augustnn ceremonial. Of course, when that happened Cleopatra had been dead Seven or eight years. But against the suggestion that she hail, therefore, no right to give her name .15) the Needles, it is plausibly urged that she might have de=igned their removal from Heliopolis, the Biblical On, where the in- scriptions on them say they originally stood, as she may have designed the temple of Cw- sar itself. Prof. Wilson dwells on the inter- esting associations of our monolith with On and with the Land of Goshen, in which that metropo‘is of Egyptian learning stood. and so with the history of the Hebrew patriarchls and people, with their great leader, Moses. Moreover, under the shadows of its now lone obelisn, the oldest in the world, tradition locates the Holy Family. “Originally there were three pairs of obelisks at on, but of these only one single obelisk remains, almost the sole surviving relic of that ancient city." Prof. \Vilson thinks it was erected nearly 5,000 years ago. The other four obelisks were all set up by Thothmes Ill; and his family. “Two of these four were called Pharaoh‘s Needles, and now serve to decor- ate the cities of Constantinople and Rome, while Ihe remaining two were transferred to Alexandria to become celebrated as Cleopa- tra's Needles." It is ylain “Our Egyptian Obelisll’, need not be ashamed of its lineage. Nowhere in the land of obolisks, not even at sacred Thebes, dial ever stand a finer or more interesting group at those monoliths, all symbols-of tum Sun-god’s rays, than the three pairs which guarded the pylons of his temple in his own city, On. 01' the six, but one has disappeared. Its surviving sister, the noble shaft of Usertosen 1., who heads the grain]le historical Twelfth Dynasty, stil keeps lonely watch on the spot. 0f the 0th or four, all bearing the name of the greatest conqueror oi the new Empire down to Alex- ander, not excepting llamses-Sesostris, two are divided between old and new Rome, the third marks the site of the old part of Alex- ander’s Eg} ptiau capital, and we are now craning our n'eclcs'in expectation of the arri- val of its fellow in the greatest city of the modern World.â€"â€"Lmulon Time-s. LEE’S WISE COURSE AFTER THE \VAR. Claiborne 1". Jackson, Governor of Mis- souri before the war, was a. much married. mun. He was successivly the husband of five deters in one of the most respectable, wealthy, and distinguished families in the State. As soon as one wife would diehe would go and marry her sister in reasonable time. Of course some of them were widows when ~he married them. In connection with the marriages there was a, standing joke told at the expense of the Governor. which was that, when he went to ask the y _ em 1%“ have said, “Yes Umm,‘ fin ca‘n ha_ You have got them all. For goodness’ sake don’t ask me for the old woman.” With this reasonable request Jackson kindly complied. ' Tne extinction of many animals that are known to have fox-mir'y ex'sled on the earth 18 a sul‘ject which cannot very easily be ex~ plained, while the number of them is greater than at first right would be supposui. Various species no doubt undergo gradual extinction by changes which deprive them of their accustomed food; but others seem to die out from unknown causes. During-the historic period at considerable number of animals have been swept off the British Islands, among which are the bear the wolf, the Irish elk, etc. In America,during the comparatively short period of its history, various species have vanished. and others are following than The beaver, formerly so generally spread. over the whole of that country, is now only to be found in remote regions. The deer and the moose are dis- appeared in the same manner. The bison is very much diminished in numbers, \P'Ni must ere long he extripated. The manta-:1 a. creature of enormous bulk, has totally dis» appeared, a‘though, along With the skeletons of them which have been discovered, there are evidence of their having lived on food derived from plants which are still existing. In other ports of the world, the dodo and the moalmve perished within the last few centuries; and the ztpteryx is undergoing the same fateâ€"“Um Gigantic Mex-Bird," in Popular Sviwu'u 'Muntllly for November" / THE EXTINCTION OF SPECIES. MUCH MARRIED GOVERNOR CLEOPATRA‘S NEEDLE. WHAT IT 'COSTS