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Solicitor qtc. once on A-__ ‘g‘l ;d customer- _|ivin'g_ 9t_ 0 BUREAU FOONDDYIAN’ SAVINGS BANK. Durham Agency. A? m we: FOUND! G. LEROY MOOAUL. Medical Dii'ectory . JACOB KRESS. tum um I norm-1'03. Legal Directory. J. P. TELFORD. hush-Inc as specific). Miscellaneous. DENTIST. 3’ NIL-{SKID The Paris newspapers, with scarcely an exception, now, profeee ardent friendship for Italy, and are disposed to argue that the visit of the Italian fleet to Toulob, like the visit of the French fleet to Kronetadt, will have far-reaching political consequences. A Hungarian paper takes a similar view, and dechrea that the Triple Al- liance will not be renewed in 1903. but that, on the contrary, Italy will become an ally of France and Russia. The presence of a Russian squadron at Toulon during the festivities in honor of the italian visitors i9 thought to confirm the prediction. There is another and more probable theory. that Italy, while refrain- The later theory rests on the authority such es it is, of the well- known correspondent o! the London Times in Paris. M. de Blowitx says that he has eeen .e letter from “a personage of high rent in one of the small northern Powers," which letter contains an outline 0! an agreement alleged to he on the point ot signa- ture by Russia, France and Italy. Ac- cording to this peraonage, the treaty is neither offensive nor defensive, but simply pledges Italy. as we hl’ve said. to remain a neutral. A moment’s reflection will show that such neut- rality would be of xmomparably more benefit to France than to Germany. In the event of a war between the two last named Powers, France would no lager be compelled to keep a con- siderable part of her army on her southeastern frontier to withstand a possible invasion in that quarter and she would also be able to employ the whole of her Mediterranean fleet for aggressive ope-rations in the North Sea and the Bani-c. Germany, on the other band could use only a part of her land forces against France, be- cause Ru,si»a would be able, not only to occupy Austria. but to menace Ger- many’s eastern fronLLer. mg ‘ firm 'Soi'ning 1i); Dual Alliance. will enter into a compact to main- tain a strict neutrality in the event of a war between Germany; “Dd France. It is clear, then, that such an agreement would be regarded at Berlin as a hostile act. and. while Germany might not: venture to punish Italy directly by an invasion, no longer be compelled to keep a con- ill-ct with Russia and France. she might have recourse to the weapon which in 1881-83 Bismarck found ef- iective for the purpose of driving ltaly into a league with Germany and Austria. That weapon was an- agitation in favor of an international guarantee of the independence of the Papaey, a guarantee which would have involved a revival of the Pope’s ecveregnty over at least a part of the former Papal dominions. Such a restoration, ii brought about by ex- terior preSsure, would deal a more deadly blow at Italian unity than would the sometimes mooted vol- untary cess-Ion of the Leonine City. together with a strip of land run- ning from it to the sea. The situa- tion, however, would be materially different from that of twenty years ago, for, it Italy could count upon the support of France and Russia, she should be able to resist any pres- sure exercisod by Germany and Aus- tria. in the internal condition of Italyi at the present time there are indica-' tions that a change of foreign policy might meet with favor. The young‘ King Victor Emmanuel _III, is be- lieve to be strongly prepossessed in fav of France, and he has already ev' ed a determination to be much 1e 02' a figurehead in the Govern- ment than was his father. It may be taken for granted that his Queen who was a Montenegrrin Princess, would do anything in her power to further the UlUtSt cordial relations be- tween itussia and Iver adopted coun- try. Then, again, in the Cham- ber of Deputies, the centre of political gravity seems like- ‘iy to be fixed permanently in the Left, and the Left /is not .only notoriously anti-Teutonic, in is sym- pathies, but includes the lrredentists, who deem the unity of Italy incom- plete so long as Austria, is suffered to retain the Trentino and Trieste. Once more, in Lombardy, the feeling of dislike for Austria and of gratitude to France is more pervasive and em- ’phatic than in any other part of the Italian peninsula, and it so happens that in the present Ministry, both the Premier and the Minister for Foreign (fairs are natives of Lombardy. So much for political tendencies; .even stronger are the economical mo- tives for deeiring cordial relations with France. Germany, which is an intensely protectionist country, of- vters no prospect of an outlet for any importanypart o'l' Italy's outplue pro- ducts. Austria, nevera highly valu- ed customer, ie of lean consequence to-day than she was 'some years ago from the viewpoint of the Italian ex- ' porter. France used to afford by far the best market for Italian commodi- l tiea, and, although the treaty of emu- ; mehe concluded in 1838 wae adieap- pointment, much better terms could be hoped for it France were entirely eatielied with Italy’s political atti- tude. M'e may note finally that in the eyes of far-ai'ghted patriots like Sig. Sonnino, a programme of rigor- one retrenchment is indispensable for the national wellare, and each a retrenchment would be practicable, were stat) to bind heraelt to- the maintenance of a etriet neutrality, (or then her etanding army, the principal eauee of her extravagance, might be aignally cut down. Were Italy to proclaim neutrality in the event of a European war, France and- Bueeia could annihilate Germany’e ea, power, and ought to prove mach etronger on «’land than» the united toreee o! Germany and Autria. . NOTES AND COMMENTS. HEROES AND HEROINES. Rev. Dr Talmage Says They Will Stand High on the Last Day. 'A ,despatcb from \Vashington says: â€"Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from, the following text: “Thou, therefore,. endure hardness.”â€"-2 Tim. ii. 3. Historians are not slow' to acknow- ledge the merits at great military chieftains. “'e have the full-length portrait of the Baldwins, the Crom- wells, and the Marshal Neys of the world. History is not written in black ink, but with red ink of hu- man blood. The gods. of human am- bition did not drink from bowls made ont ot silver, or gold, or precious stones, but of the bleached skulls of the fallen. But I am toâ€"day to un- roll before you a scroll of heroes that the world has never acknowledged; they who laced no guns, blew no bugle-blast, commend no cities, chained no captives to their chariot wheels, and yet, in the great day of eternity, will stand higher than those whose names startled the na- tions; and seraph, and rapt spirit, and archangel will tell their deed: to a listening universe. I mean the heroes of common, everyday lite.- In this roll, in the Iirat place, I find all the heroés of the sick- room. When Satan had failed to overcome Job, he said to God, "Put forth thy hand and touch his bones and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face." Satan has found out what we have all found out, that sickness is the greatest test of one’s charac- ter. A man who can stand that can stand anything; to be shut up in a room Bto fast as though it were a bastile; to be so ner- vous. you cannot endure the tap of a child’s foot; to have luxuriant fruit .which tempts the appetitebf the robust and the healthy, excite our loathing and disgust when it first appears on the platter; to have the rapier of pain strike through the side or across the temple, like a razor, or to put the foot into a vice, or to throw the whole body into a blaze of a fever. Yet there have been men and women, but.rnore wo- men than men, who have cheerfully endured this hardness. Through years of exhausting rheumatisms and excruciating neuralgias they have gone, and through bodily dis- tresses that rasped the nerves, and tore the muscles, and paled the cheeks, and steeped the shoulders. By the dim light of the sick-room taper they saw on their wall the picture of that: land where the people are never sick. Through the dead silence of the night they heard THE. CHORUS OF THE ANGELS. The cancer ate away her life from week to week and month\to month. and she heca eweaker and weaker, and every “ 00d night" was feebler than the “good night” beforeâ€"yet never sad. The children looked up into her face and saw suffering trans- formed into a heavenly smile. Those who suffered on the battlefield, amid shot and shell were not so much heroes and heroines as those who in the asylum had fevers which no ice could cool and no surgery could cure. No shout of comrade to cheer them, but numbness, and aching, and Ehomesicknessâ€"yet willing to suffer, confident in God, hopeful of heaven. Heroes of rheumatism; heroes of neuralgia; heroes of spinal com- plaints; heroes of sick headache; he- roes of lifelong inviidism; heroes and heroines. , They s all reign for- ever and forever. Hark! I catch just one note of the eternal anthem; “There shall be no more pain.” Bless God for that. In this roll I also find the heroes of toil who do their work upcom- plainingly. It is comparatively easy to lead a regiment into battle when you know that the whole nation will applaud the victory; it is compara- tively easy to doctor the sick_when you know that your skill will be ap- preciated by a large company of friends and relatives; it is compara- tively easy it? address an audience when in the gleaming eyes and the flushed cheeks you know that your sentiments are adopted, but to do sewing where you expect that the employer will come and thrust his thumb through the work to show how imperfect it is, M to have the whole garment thrown back on you to be done over again; (0 build a wall and know there will be no one to say: you did it well, but only a swearing em- ployer howling across the scaffold; to work until your eyes are dim and and your back aches, and your heart taints, and to know that if you stop before night your children will starve. Ah! the sword has not slain so many as the needle. grace 01' God. Society to-day 15' I . , strewn with the wreoke ct men who in cgfigggtothgosggfi? ttlolstlfiomhzg under the northeast storm of domes- just where God has . . . . put you to pla “6 "“9110“? have been the hero and heroine. Do not cnv; DRIVEN ON THE ROCKS. any man his money, or his applause There are tern of thousand! of drunk- 5 01' hi8 506581 position. D0 not 011'! any arde in this country to-dey, made such ;' woman her wardrobe. or her exquis- hy their wives. That ie prose! But ; ite appearance. Be the herd or the the wrong is generally in the op-i heroine. If there be no flour-in the paeite direction. You would not haveihouee, and you do not know where to go far to find a nae ‘whoee liteuy’our children are to get bread. lie- in a perpetual martyrdom. 80m“ ten and you will hear something In this roll I also find the heroes who have uncomplainingly endured domestic injustice. There are men who [or their toil and anxiety have no sympathy in their homes. Ex- hausting application to business gets them a livelihood, but an unfrugal wife scatters it. He is fretted at from the moment he enters the door until he comes out of it. The exas- perations of business life augmented by the exasperations of domestic life. Such men are laughed at, but they have a heart-breaking trouble, and they would have long ago gone into appalling dissipation; but for the grace of God. Society to-day is strewn with the wrecks of men who under the northeast storm of domes- tic infelicit-y have been martyrdom. Some- ' :on thing heavier than the stroke of a fist, unkind words, staggerings borne at midnight, and constant maltreat- ment which have left her-only a wreck of what she was on that day when in the midst of brilliant as- semblages the vows were taken. and full organ played the wedding march and the carriage rolled away with the benediction of the people. No bitter words when the rollicking compen- u ‘-v - '-'-vâ€"â€"â€"w ions at two o’clock in the morning Ditch the husband dead drunk into the front entry. No bitter words when wiping from the swollen brow the blood struck out in a mid-niB’ht car- ousal. Bending over the battered and bruised form of him who, when he took her from her father’s home, promised love, kindness, and proteo- tiom. yet nothing but sympathy, and prayers, and forgiveness before they are asked for. No bitter words when the family Bible goes for rum. and! the pawnbroker’s shop gets the last: decent dress. Same day, desiring: to evoke the story of her sorrows, you say: "Well, how. are you getting along now?” and rallying her trembl- ing voice and quieting her quivermg lip, she says: “Pretty well, I thank you. pretty well.” She never will tell you. In the delirium of her last sickness she may tell all the secrets of her life-time, but she will not tell that; Not until the. books of eternity are opened on the thrones of judg- ment will ever be known what she has suffered. Oh! ye who are twist- ing a garland. for the victor, put it .on that pale brow. When she ltS dead the neighbours will beg linen to make her a shroud. and she will be carried out in a plain box with no silver plate to tell her years, for she has lived a thousand years of trial and anguish. The gamblers and the swin- dlers who destroy her husband will not «come to the funeral. One car- riage will be enough for that funeral â€"one capriage to carry the orphans and the two Christian women who presided over the obsequies. But there is a flash, and a clank of a celestial door, and a shout: “Lift up your head, ye everlasting gate, and let .her come in!” And Christ 'will step forth and say: “Come in! ye suffered with me on earth. be glorifi- ed with me in heaven.” What is the highest throne in heaven? You say: “the throne of the Lord God Al- mighty and the Lamb.” No doubt about it. What is the next highest throne in heaven? _While I speak it seems. to me that it will be the throne of the drunkard's- wife, if she, with cheerful patience, endured all her earthly torture. But. I am speaking this morning of those who, out of thenr pinched pov- exty help .othexsâ€"of such men as those Christian missionaries at the W,est who are living on $250 a year, that they may wwlaim Christ to the P00' ple. And of those people who have only a half loaf of bread, but give a piece of it to others who are hungriei‘; and of those who have only ascuttlc of. coal, but help others to fuel; and. of those who have only adollar in their pmkets, and give twenty-five cents to somebody else; and of that father who wears a shabby coat, and of that mother who Wears a faded dress, that their childr’en may be .well appareled. You call them paupers or ragamuf- fins or emigrants, of tatterdemalions. 1 call them heroes and heroines. You and I may not know, where they live or what their name is. God knows. and they have more angels hovering over them than you and I have, and they will have a higher seat in Ileavern.\They may have only a cup of cold water to give a poor traveller, or may ha.ve.otn.ly picked a splinter from under the nail of a child’s finger or have put only two mites into the treasury, but the Lord knows them. Considering what they had, they did more than we have ever done, and their faded d’ress will be- come a white robe, and the small room will be an eternal mansion, and the old hat a corronet of victory, and all the applause of. earth and all the shouting of heaven will be drowned out when God rises up to give Hi9 re- ward to those humble workers in His kingdom, and say to them: “Well done, good and faithfiul servant.” But there is great excitement in heaven. Why those long proceeaionsi Why the booming of that great bell in the tower? it is coronation day in heaven. M'ho are those rising. on the thrones, with crowns of eternal royalty? They must have been great people on earth, world-renowned peo- ple. No. They taught in a ragged school! Is that all? That is all. Who are those souls waving sceptree of eternal dominion? Why, théy were little children who waited on in- valid mothers. That all! That is all. She was called“ Little Mary,” on earth. SHE IS AN EMPRESS NO\V. Who are that great multitude on the highest thrones of heaven? Who are they? Why, they fed the hungry,they clothed the naked, they healed the sick; they comforted the heart-brok- en. They never found any rest un- til’they put their head down on the pillow of the ecpulchre. God watches them. God laughed defiance at the enemies who put their heels hard down on these his dear children; and one day the Lord struck his hand so hard on his thigh that the omnipot- ent soworrd ra-r'ued on thb buckre r, as he said: "I am their God, and no weapon formed against them shall prosper.” What harm can theworld do you when. the Lord Almighty with unsheathcd sword fight: far you! ‘ HEROES AND IIEROINES. tapping againet the window-pane. Go to the window. and you will find it '3 the beak of a raven. and open the window, and there will fly in the freeze for lack of clothes! Do you think that the God who grows the cotton of the South will let you lreeze forl ack of clothes! Do you think that the God .who allowed the disciples on Sunday morning to go into the grain-field‘ and then take you starve? Did you ever hear the ex- perience of that old man. “I have been young ,and now am I old, yet have I never seen the righteous for- saken, or his need begging bread." Get up out of your discouragement, 0 troubled soul, 0 eewing woman, 0 man kicked and cuffed by unjust em- playersp ye who are hard beetead in the battle of life and know not which way to turn, 0 you bereft one, 0 you sick one with complaints you have told to no one. Come and get the contort 0! this subject. Listen to our great Captain’s cheer: "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the fruit of the tree of life which is in the n'ist ot the Paradise 0! God.” ‘ Ibo auroral-g Ilene-elem nu fellows Digging In I‘d-[dad‘s Asphalt lake. Few people who travel over the asphalted streets at our large cities are aware of the origin of the black, pitchy mass that goes to make up the basis of the smooth roadway un- der their feet. Eighteen hundred miles almost due south from New York lies the little tropical island of Trini- dadâ€"a British possession off the coast of northern South America. At the south-western extremity of this col- my the famous Pitch Lake is located on the summit of a small hill, less than two hundred feet above the level of the sea. In appearance there is nothing phenomenal about this wonder 01 the tropics out a visit to the lake as it is familiarly called..re- veala one of the most unaccountable oddities of nature in the annals of traveL The tourist may take passage to the “land of the humming-bird"â€"as Trinidad people like their country to be calledâ€"and after securing ac- commodation at the only decent hotel in the colony, proceed to the lake by one. of the small Government steam- ers plying ccsastwise three times" weekly, disembark at the Brighton pier, and proceed to the scene of “dig- ging." Of all the crude,’ rough, and ready means of extracting wealth from mother earth, the Trinidad Lake asphalt operations are the most striking. The visitor arrives on a fairly level plateau, spotted here and there with tiny pools of water, beneath which ‘ the soft shiny sub- stance known as asphalt glitters in the reflection of a fierce tropical sun. Scattered over the surface of the lake dozens of swarthy negroes are ply- ing pick and hoe, extracting the tar- coaly looking stuff from the earth. One may sit in the shade of a near- by ahrub, or under the protecting shelter of an umbrella, and watch the negroes pile heap after heap of the asphalt into the endless chain of tube that hurry along to the pier, from which one has but recently land- 0.1:, until asyawnin‘g excavation of twenty.or more feet suggests to the supervising darky that. the time has come *to move a bit further on. In the course of a few hours the excava- tion. resulting from the morning's diggings begins to look less deep, and by eventide the spot from which more than five or ten tons have been dug is again level with the surround- ing earth and ready to be dug over by the gang of noisy blacks. From the. point of digging to the pier is but a mile or less of endless-chain descent; moored to the pier are big sailing vessels, and sometimes steamq Bunk Physician Announces a I.“ In- porult Discovery. Dr. Harvey R. Gaylord, of Buffalo, N.Y., has announced to the medical profession and to the world at large that he has discovered that cancer is caused by a microscopical animal parasite a protozoon. gigâ€"{Bto iw-ho'se capacious “holds the tubs discharge the pitch at the rate of two or three hundred tons per day. Gaylord is now searching for asec, um containing the protozoa of can- cer which he can inject into the blood and prevent cancer or cure it if the sufferer has not reached the advanced stgge of the disease. He has produced cancer by inject-t ing a serum containing these para- sites into the blood of animalsâ€"dogs and guinea pigs. He has discovered that a protozoan causes can er, and that the protozoan is like the bodies found in the blood after vaccination and in smallpox. Scientists have been vainly search- ing for vegetable, not animal, germs, as the cause of smallpox, scarlet fev- er. measles and hydrophobia. In the light of Gaylord's discovery that these diseases are caused by animal organism. scientists will now divert their attention towards finding a rented}; to combat the cancer microbe. In. layman's English, he seeks a “vacine” against cancer. a serum that will give n man a mild case of- oancer. ho to any, and will prevent him ever having the real cancer. Ex- periments made with guinea pigs along this line tend to show that it will be poeaible to secure this canâ€" oer vacine and prepare a positive remedy tor the dread disease. Senator Forster will spend the (all in Porto: Rico, and make a thorough study 02 an’its industries. chase! of Mutton and. its vnriou social. edu- cational and religious institution. LAND OF THE “BIKING BIRD. TO VACCINATE FOR CANCER. THE RUYAL TRADESIEN. ALL ABOUT KIM} EDWAID’S BUTCH- EIS AND OHIINEY SWEEPS. m. I.“ It is one of them may novel experi- ences of the Kings and Wen; of Bar land, that, wherever their tuvela may take them, from Scotland to the South of Europe and from Russia to Chanda. they can always rely on find- ing their own tradesmen, trusty and approved. to execute their Royal com- These Royal purveyors at all thlnc‘l. from pickles to perturnes and silks 10 saddles, form. a small army of nearly 900 men, who very naturally regard themselves as the elite of trade:- mm. and who are an proud of the Royal Coat-ot-Arml which throws its aegis over their show no any Duke of “5 QMNOI‘MI and strawberry- haves. Nor is this Maine's-pride without ample justification; for it is only given to a few tradesmen. and those of unimpeachnble business rank. to cater for Royalty; and the honour in not one that can be transmitted on a matter of course. even to a son. Death terminates it, and the suc- cessor. it he wishes to have the rever- sion of the dignity. must make a special application to have it trans- ferred to him; and it may equally be cancelled by bankruptcy or anything unsatisfactory in the trades-man’s method of dealing or in his goods. So jealously, too, is the dignity guarded, that any t'radesmnn. wrongiully as- , suming the Royal Arms and Warrant i may be lSEVERELY PL'NISHED AT LAW. These warrants proceed from [our distinct departments of the King’s Household, the largest section be- longing to the Lord Steward’s De- partment, or the “Board of Green Cloth,” a designation which carries us back to the days when the Lord Steward transacted his business at a table covered with green baize. The Lord Steward is responsible for crery- thing connected with the Royal tables, from the salt and mustard to the wines and game, and the trades- men on his list. are counted by hun- dreds. The warrant .which conveys the dignity of purveyor to His Majesty the King is. in itself, a simple doc-u- ment, consisting of a form printed on foolscap. bearing at. the top the Royal Arms and the name of the department from which it issues; and signed at the foot by the head of that. depart- ment. It contains a provision that the, grant is personal to the. grantee, and is revoked by death, retirement, or bankruptcy. Each warrant is completed by filling in in writjng the. name oi the. grantee. his address, and trade. He it is who appomts the Royal butchers and bakers. greEngrocere and wine-merchants; of grocers and bakers alone there are sixty who boats the Royal Arms; more than a score of butchers, ranging in latitude from Aberdeen to Biarritz, supply Ilia MujPSty with meat; and the wine- merchants number just under thirty. to say homing of the gentlemen who purvey potatoes and pork. oil and oysters, fish and mustard. THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN: is responsible for all that appertains in any way to the Royal palaces, their OQUipmemt and repair. In his wake follows an army of painters and plumbers, carvers and cabinet-makers piano manufacturers and clock-mak- ers. and the rear 18 brought up by a Royal chimney-sweep, who is quite umoud of the dignity as any of the The Master of the Horse. has almost a greater variety of retainers in his retin'uc, each of whom is an expert on some branch of horse and carriage craft. The aristocrats make. coach- es or doctor horses, while others sup- ply corn, saddles, harness, leather breeches, button-s, everything, in fact that is necessary to the equipment of Royal stables and coach-house. The head at this department. from whom the warrants issue, is insually n nobleman with considerable know- ledge. and love of horses; and his is an office for which its present occup- ant, the. Duke at Portland, is peculi- etrly well (fitted. The fourth of those Royal depart-l meats concerns itself with the Royal wardrobes, and has as rataioers us far away as St. Petershurg in the east and Quebec in: the west. where the choicest furs are provided for Royal wearing, Its tradesmen supply lanes and silks, indeed. lane and silk mer- chants alone number nearly twenty, shoes and hosiery. jewels. and pins and needlesâ€"all that i-s necessary [or sumptuous appaxel; while. one genltle- man is solely reSpoceible for water- proofs and two others for umbrellas. Of all these Royal tradesmen the bakers, who number thirty-three, are in the numerical majority; although they are very closely followed by the grocers. wine-merchants. and butch- ers; while some professions, such as those of chimncy-sweep'tng and sup- plying potatoes and turtles, have only one representative each. as “chip-breakers,” who buy up wrecks and the bulk: of etranded veaeela. etc. But the latest received comes from Newport. England. where one lucky ship-breaker made a bid for one of the vessel: stranded on the LWellh Hook. between the English and Welsh sands, at the time when the ateam- ship Brunewlck grounded and waa; wrecked. Apparently no hepeleu waa the condition of the veaael that he had the lot for £82. However. he auc- ceeded in raising her. and having towed her to Newport then became Md ot'_the v_cae_el. a cargo of 9m Many stories are talc; of good luck following old purchases made by the enterprising mercantile men known Rain. of coal. 33d the. who“â€" at the ship'l “or“. L A GOOD INVESTMENT. FEM THE UNITED STATES PERSONAL AND POLITICAL HG ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. hulk-Hy luau-cu I. II: Oahuâ€"u an of I“: and III. M I'I'O. Ito M A bunch of the Y.M.C.A.. amok": for coloured men. ha been organised in New York. The America: mum Society hu up- proprin'ted 05.000 (or colportour work among the necroea at the South. President James K. Putnam, d Kentucky State College. Lexington. Ky.. has nuanced that in his will he has set aside 350,000 {or a collego library as a memorial to his damned Fire Chief Swenie, of Chicago. ll said to be writinca book. partly auto- biographical and partly Ibistory 0‘ the {ire departmant of his city. It i‘ to beg entitled "Fifty Year: a Fire- Duvid L. Richard; ha been electol to the position of Town Clerk of Nortl Dana. Mass" tor the forty-tint con- secutive time. He also served as tren- surer of the town for twenty-on. years. - Mrs. lda A. Hull, a Methodist mi!- sionary to the Chinese in Sen Franc ciseo, has changed her name to Cha- [ion 'lan. Aecurding to competent testimony it is the name of a worthy minister and a scholar. The Governor of Utah he had the good sense to veto the bill passed by, the Legislature for the toleration of plural marriages solemnized bolero Utah became a State. An attempt to pass the bill over his veto failed. Favourable arrangements are being made with the railroads for tho con- veyance of Epwoa‘th League“ from all paints in the United States and Can- ndaa to San Francisco for the next Na- tional Convention which, according to present arrangements, will be held July 18-21. An example to 01 her cities has been set in Pittefield, Mas... by ministers of all denominations. They have agreed to refuse to perform a mar- riage ceremony when one or both parties to the marriage have been divorced. excepting the case 0“ th- innocent party to the divorce suit who has obtained edivorce on Scrip- tural grounds. \VHY IS BAD COAL LIKE A BA! ' HUSBAND? The boys and girls of Farringdou have amputation for being distinct. ly original. A sixth-standard pupil at one of the schools there was asked to write an essay on "Coal." This wan the result: A ton of coal makes twenty bun-u. drodweight; but coal ordered (or de. “~er by the railway companies makes many thousands wait. Bad coal is like a bud husband,-. smokes often, goes out. and does not kagp the pot boiling. Coal differs from most other article. of merchandise, for it is no sooner delivered to the buyer than it goo. to the cellar. Coal in the tire is alight; but the barge that brings it up the riveri‘ a lighter. Our correspondent does not any whether it mu 3 boy or a girl who wrote this. From the last part of tho canny, however, we see it was agirl. Frances. said the little girl’s mam-n ma, who was entertaining aliens in the parlor. you came downstairs so noisily that you could be heard all over the house. You know how to do it: better than that. Now go back and come down the stairs like a lady. No, dear. I am glad you came down quietly. Now don’t let me ever have to tell you again not to come down noisily, {or [nee that you can con. down quietly if you will. Now tell these ladies how you managed moon. down like a lady the second time. while the first time you made so much noise. France- retined. and, after the lapse o! n few minutes rc-cntered the parlor. To take a cake from a pan M when baked. lay a clean towel on the kitchen table, invert the ceh‘, The last time I slid down [In ban-z inter-I. expltined Frances. this time. mamma! _ pull over it and put a cloth folded two or three thicknesses. wet in cold wuter. over the bottom of the punt. I. minute or two the pan can'be lifts! from the cake with am. Now take hold at the md‘ot the tqwel the och Kitâ€"{iii dhd turn the cute. our. right ude up. It is apt to main 3' cake huvy to lot it. cool I“ m CAME DOWN LIKE A LADY. KEEP THE CAKE LIGH'. ‘y‘u