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evad feses > :m or, he was wor by him all the time. _ > ~ and still Mr. Wesscort ha We were sitting in the : § *MWestoott ‘returned, we should be quite a% alone for the night. i lak. . The short winter day went by, the évenâ€" 3 * § to close in, and he had not reâ€" Fskapalle / fi ._An the afterncon the little: boy 2 Ne 23. 0 n ruther feverish, and, as the evenâ€" o £4 es O ed TL C T I I &;:» .__"_ For the first two years I acted as [Mire. y o 4 £ Westcott‘s maid, and then, when the first NA t ehild, a boy, was born, 1 was made nurse. hx Well, for the first three years things € 3p5 went on ‘all right, withâ€" plenty of fine i. °C parties aud an open house to all comert, M when suddenty a crash came, and it was R foynd that Mr, Richard ‘Westcott was by [3 °C mo means so rich as he had made people : 4. He had deceived his own wife as much t ...~. . ae anybody, mod it was a terrible blow ‘to "j,_;. her to find that they were in debt right u;-.-:m.:j;::_xm ‘ As soon as she discovered how fo o s reetern berls the det in woark fo en hi. e o c gentle as sho seemed. She hated a "W___ _*___.__‘ debt worse than poison, _She couldâ€"wear care. He lived about five milesâ€"distant, and when he intended to be away from home, he would bring over a big leather case in m« ».._. which he kept these diamonds, ‘and leave _.__.__ them in his naphew‘s care. ‘This made Mrs. few"â€"; __= ;. Westcott very uneasy, and two or three 9LE is C him to put.them in the tct gm.mr-bqwmfldhuhr. + However, he wouldu‘t hear of such a thing, t and as they didn‘t wist to offend him, they let him have his own way. * *A «4 remember well, it was about a wnk‘ mM i this ie Wetkeott of Hdgatiant! Mowa ht Lh T ns thar tom n eaamerei on uie 4 Sthras wuar foly aiter (r,-n-u-mppc and look a lady in itâ€"ay, and was willing, too, so that they could Bhe was just twentyâ€"one when she was LM ql'q.hnlcy-rddu.-d as happened just then to be at home, she ”-MQF“MM“.‘- It Noi d se the amiep naald hass e ““!"honh\rmmu:f the housekceping go a:ve style. A K W ';','...Lu honestlyâ€"but to be dresséd in fine clothes, and owe people money was 'p“:»y" mm to her. Her first atroke was in housekeeping* Three servants out of the five were atâ€"once dismijssed. She kept me and cook ; and at ull the company they used to see kept far enough away, now that the junketing was dver, we could monage the work easily enough. + s Week in, ‘week out, no dne came to the house except Mr. George Westcott, Mr. Richard‘s ancle. . He was an old bachelor, m‘rfitvtld very queer ithis ways. . He a wouderfuily outspoken old man, £00. One day the nephew must have been askâ€" iag him to help him, for he broke out, right betore me : . ~**Look here, Dick," says he, ** I won‘t d\\wgmmn dollar or lend you a dollar, When i‘m your boy will get all I own, but till then I won‘sâ€"part with a dollar, so don‘t bether me." , ue P Old Mr. Wescott‘s fancy was to eollect diamonds, and iu that way he was as odd as in everything else. Instead of having them bright and shining, he used to buy Ahem when they looked like rm: pieces of stone. 1‘ve seen him showing t to Mre. Westâ€" cott, and saying they were worth thousands of dollars, when all‘the while they didn‘t look worth their weight in iron. ~â€"The uyho;-lnrl.dnud as fire, and went straight out of the room. a Early the next morning I was sweeping the stoop, when two ~roughâ€"looki men came up and asked where Mr. "l.t'whnd Weatcott was. . As it happened, he crossed the hall as they‘wereâ€" speaking and came c‘(‘): b read, and gave him a paper to r no mmum.r-m than he turned «s white as a sheet. k R _ ** Ldo wish he n‘t do.so," said my -&FMW‘ very uncomforâ€" table to have stich ‘valuable things in the house which are not our own." . **Nojonger than three days, sir, at the outside," said one of them as he turned to goâ€" hd w; evidently -o-.c.:thor extravaâ€" gance turning no money to hww.’l ¢r passing ’th was e hie horse, ready saddled, out into the yard. ** Jane," -n{ he, tell: your mistress I‘m going out on business, and may not get by him all the time. 1t r lnter, slook strack eleven. * e **Rvidently Mr. Westcott is not coming back ‘toâ€" nig Jane," said my mistross, *%o may make the house secure." £~ round with me, and we saw bolt and lock fastened, examining the windows carefuily. In doing this we found that the 'hzv in a amail room into the hall was nnfastened, and v cr I said at once that 1 had not it bke that. "l--w to Farah about this," said Mes. W . _ ""She must have ten very eareless to leave the window ajar in this '..“.l .l‘lmm and then returned up to put .out the M ap m ins hail whok hy mincrem before ondâ€"Christmas when he drove over and left this case with them as usual, as he was off on a trip to Europe. _ % back before toâ€"morrow ." 7 & To any one but myself this would have seemed a most curions message, considering that the mistress was just indoors, and he might have told her himself, But Lsaw how the land lay at once. He was going to beg wome of his soquaintances to help him, and she would have died sooner than. beg of borrow of any one. 7 Me kreow thit well enough and so he was alipping off withont her knowledge. _ _ â€"Akat day; Sarah, the cook, had obtained fi- to ~go u‘Ookhrd ”db-. her , as it was some distance, the ':'-:"hf'l' so that, unless Mr. mm mourt yind: wriich ‘had sn divect ror po conâ€" __He drew ‘the men aside and spoke to them for a few. moments, and thenâ€"they Web aWaye â€"0 11 TB o To 0000 As 1 suld, we ware sit in the Sumery; which was immediately sbove l htlh whate #C had leand the vindus s -u-n:zri-s:‘uu-u C s ooked at ewch f m‘“! We listened t . d a breath. There it was mo to leave it aligl t. #till wewsuld hear their staps on the of the yard under the window era w ies .. â€" that l‘n-n:. l:: :ii.... -f’ â€"prote lor ons Inresor toue inmpe Taily that plenty of lights burnin he was worse and both of us .u:d-nb a good ALARM d ue To sn the ait ap with the a bit slsepy, and TP LC Wha‘ w *3 7 Wed te be‘s mundaih 1 shall never m,“ moment. J fely sick with > Mte o wl tw t n 4 dr% oc and _ *The dismonds," Aashed .into my mind like lightoing. 1 knew "‘a":," 5: J was so allly* old ind know was aod I must ‘ nuu%m%.fin-y said, ty : * Be quiet, Jane. We strained our ears again. Whoover 1t was they were trying â€"sheâ€"window which we bad found unfastened. . d s * There is some one trying to break into the lfla Jane," Nr?" mistrees, MB coolly as if it were quite the regular thing, As soon as her first start was over she was e Een TT wrins, hlxh. her â€"chegk m us q'l\nah‘ earried him It could not be Mr. Westcott, for there room, listening with all hor might W &m‘hfi M‘l::: m EETTCY EmtE Crash! My heart into my mouth, ‘The fl:dol"hlo' ES“..... ;'c{heu-'» that catch might be reached from the 1t was certainly some one very we!! MU uainted with the state of the house at the 3-. for the lamps were burning as bright: ly in the hall as if the whole household were at home and astir. .. _ & g the glass, she stopped her walk and lai T oo oee i ae uty "* 0. "iifi-iz.fiuu"'" heard the the glass, she stopped her walk hoii thecacedtoniP ecsir id Without a word, she wentâ€"gut, and I followed to the door. Ixaw her go 10 a spare room at the other end of the corridor, where Mr. Richard ‘kept his guus aad fish ingâ€"rods and such liker s a Loo ts ccccnicr tardtho td . She was back in a moment with a rifle ant a box of the little cartridges, you E io. Pnseponnd AF in the . 1 Saabe, on too. .o mi as | en gentlemen do a time, ali ‘bed in ons of tha.partridaes, hnd clickod it to. ‘Then she"étc in listening. .‘ «"Are %:;: to them, ma‘am?" said J. t on a# short as could be. * o. & in them, She knew what it, too, : She opened it in the seen genvlemen hfll‘: ped in one of the cartridges, to. ‘Then she"étc ain liste «"Are you to #hept th said J. She tukned on could be. * *‘Why not?" sa lw as ible. «‘What‘s my bub’y done t::&“tpmhin- should come here to disturb, perhaps kill him? . They came here of their own accord, and they rut take the consequences." While this was going on, the, window below had been pushed wide open, and in another instant footsteps were heard in the room beneath. â€"â€" i+ s "«Jane," said Mrs. Westcott, ‘‘don‘tleave baby for a second," She gave him one kiss, caught up the gun, and went out. She had on soft bedroom slippers, which made no noise as she walked. Although she had.given me strict orders. to stop in the nursery, yet I couldn‘t help following her to see what would happen, .1 crept actoss the landing, and looked . over the staiâ€"rail. It was quite plain at once what her ‘The room which had been broken into :E.ndl nowhere but into the hall, and from centre of the stairs the door could be phhlg.uu. ‘It was there that my misâ€" tress had taken her stand, the gun pointed directly at the door. _ The lamp made the Whether his stirt disarranged it, or whetter he kadn‘t been very handy at Anstening it, I can‘t tell ; but the stuffâ€" was a piece of volv'et.â€"-li{:tad from his e and For : second there . was the ' Tik a mz ui.unlu &1“. m 9 e somepoor dumb animal. 1t was ht ~+ B eA vWPLA Tia LW' Alled vim From where I stood I could see both their faces. Never did I see such scorn and uuunfi:hino in ‘anybody‘s eyes as they did in s that night. i’uver did I see such terror as his face showed. For a while she didn‘t move. â€" Then she lifted the cn as if she would, have. shot him where stood. He saw it, too, and half. raimed his hands as if begging for mercy. P place as light as da thumping against my ribs. It seemed hours and hours before the door was slowly and carefully opened. Then a man, in a long m&h wlster down to his heels, something black over his face, and a biy, ‘slouching hat, stepped out. He was alone, for he elosed the door behind him. _ * Stand there !"‘ cried my mistress, in a. deep, roufh voice I should never knome hers, leveling her gan with a sure aini, _ ‘ ‘The man started in every limb and looked up. He put his hand to his face, as if to assure himself that the covering was there. She dropped the weapon, then sdized it nadl‘ u‘-)in. and turned the muzzle to #, Poor thing ! I could see that she was beside herself with ra ge and shame at hvh&:flah a husband, and didn‘s know what she was doing. _ i little arm with all my might, +, He woke up and gquz to scream,I can promise you, and before you could turn * How the idea came into my mind, I can‘t say, except ‘thrn.Al. am_a woman myself, but The next morning Mr. Westoott came down to breaktast with as natural an air as if he had let himself in with his latchâ€"key the night before. My mistress had t the night in the nursery with the um:m, and never a word did she ever say to me about our midnight alarm. Neither of them ever expected that I knew what I did, and I was careful to hold my tongue. I flew beok into the nursery. The baby had gone comfortably to sleep, and lay there, one little fist tucked .undar his cheek, and the other lying out on the coveriet. I never stopped an instant, butâ€"it was black and blue the next morningâ€"I pinched his fat little arm with all my might. s round in flew my ififi;"fi?‘fii away from the crib as if I had been a feather,and whipped bim up into her arms. **Go to bed at once, Jane," said she t-rgy ; *‘ there‘s nothing the matter." ** This riddle isn‘t very hard to read," thought I, as I undressed ‘ndfiot into bed. * Mr. Westcott meant to rob his own house of his uncle‘s diamonds, unless I‘m very much mistaken," 1 listened for a while, but not a sound was to be heard anywhere in the house ; and in a little time I went to finflhlbmhdmy‘ufldu her with & s0rt of steaithy fear. Six months later the littie boy diad wery â€" suddenly, and after that Mrs. From that day on she shrank from her hiteband, and slang more And more to the his handkerchiéfap to his face, _ People 0 didn‘s know him were dreadfally sorry ' + did take: ’Ml it as natâ€" ‘qub of the pincs bay and beguare, 2 m sn as I sould, and I‘ve never set syes on him since. . n;loud he married a Miss Bivke, a mm a Miss a mm'ud they went out n.t'bo Northâ€"West and started s cat‘le ranch ; * host of children, too I‘ve heard. Old .. Westoott, his uncle? Lord bless you, alive now, and lives at Edgeficld. ‘-’u aver ninety yeurs old, but they tell me he‘s m-malnn he‘ll live to be a Westoott never he‘d her ‘head up again, She pined and pined until she took to zu‘. and three months to the very t after her child died she died herâ€" soif. The heart growsnrich in giving all its Is was all gone in a flash,and then he put e as light as dl{ stood in the shadow above, ‘my heart as @wuw-wm baby ain and be: m-'l. Sh::.fim-pi- her aving her cheak down to his and '.,,“ him up and down the mnoise of Strange Story of a Grave Robbery Which Mestored the DBead to Life,. d Juliet, the daughter of French gentioman, was affiicted a diss order of the heart, says a French 6 ge. She one day fell doad as was sup and after a suitable time was laid away in the, family veult.â€"Her body was arrayed | e first ball dress, with her . rings, c \ necklaces,â€"and other jowelry. _ Her fathen proétrated with grief, returned to the l use and sought his chamber. His valet, who had assisted in the burial, waited upon ';:’ attended ""‘.'*m CC \'{"IV‘ ;;:;;u’-pnodludtvi terrible night. 1t was cold ; the win@ Kowled outside, the snow flow and he could think‘ only of his beloved daughter in the tomb, y Suddenly, at 3 o‘clock in the morning;he was startled by the ringing of the front door bell. llo)umpod to his feat, wonderâ€" ing who could arrive at such an hour, / n"fll the bell rang, The servants either did not hearit or feared to go to thn door, He iool::n.dh and descended the atairs, but before opening the door demanded, «"Who is there ?" * There was no anawer,and in his weakness and grief, feeble with fright, he slowly n ie id ie roke m e re, n white. He ?'ll &. stammering, *‘Who are you*" "It is I, P‘dp‘ [w f It was his daughter, : He thought he was woing crazy, He recoiled from her and motioned ber back with his hand. / â€" **Do not fear, paps. 1 was not dead, Son:aonr;:hdm,r::onoo(nydlpnd out m T v blood m to rum * saw then that was‘ covered with blood. atl. recovering himself, he sppreâ€" xfl good fortune that had come to He took her up to his chamber, and. ran@#for his valet to rekindle the fire, proâ€" eure some nourishment and go tor the doctor. _ But when the man. entered he uttered a piercing ory and expired, Itâ€"was he who had broken into the tomb, knowing that the corpse had been aitired with the valuable jewels, mutilated her hand and left her, as he supposed, d When he saw her atanding in the room hought it was her ghost come back to dendunce him, and he was frightened to death, Lessing was subject to the most extra« ordinary fits of abstraction, On his knocking at his door one evening the servant looked out of the window to see who was there, Not recognising his master in the dark, he ealled outâ€"*‘The Professor is not at home," "Oh, _.very .well," replied Lessing, "no matter, Ill call another time." . On another occasion, having missed.money at different times without being able to discover who took it, he determined to put the honesty of his servant to a trial, and left a handful of gold on the ‘table. "‘Of , course you counted it?" said one who knew him. ""Counted it?" said Lessing, rather embarâ€" rassed, "‘no I forgot that." £ 'l T The. Rev. George Harvest, minister of ‘Thames Ditton, a great scholar and skilful fisherman, was one of the most absent men. of his time. . He was engaged to a daughter of the Bishop of London, but on the day ofthis wedding, being gudgeonâ€"fishing, he overâ€"stayed the appointed hour, uuf the. lady, justly offended at his neglect, broke off the match. . With Arthur Unslow, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr Advice To Housewives From a Chemist Learned About Ferment.Plants, . / This is the preserving season, when foreâ€" handed housewives put up all sorts of fruits in sweetmeats which‘ make theâ€" tea table attractive all winter, In somé seasons and with many fruits there is little trouble in making. these preserves _keep, but at other times it seems as if the greatest care were bound to be defeated and all skill were naught. â€" The sweetmeats will ferment and .lpoil. 4 _ Harvest was on terms of great intimnm Being one day in a, punt together on | Thames, he began to read a beautiful passâ€" age from some Greek author, and, throwing himself back in an ccstasy, fell into the river;â€" whenee he. was with difficulty fished oat. .5 An absentâ€"minded landlord called on a tenant to condole with him on the death of a valuable cow, â€" The cause. of its decease had been enveloped in myltgr*i _and w it was beingexplained, the Iandlord, tho a kind and sympathising person, went off into the clouds.â€" The last words ot . the narrative wereâ€"‘"And can you bolunufi my Lord, when we opened her we fo she had been choked by a large turnip that was sticking in her gullet." Here the landlord woke up, and in a congratulatory tone of voice observed, ‘"Ab, yes,and so you got your turnip?" F A chemist of New York, who has been making a special study: of the life and growth of ferment plants, n'{n the remedy for this is double boiling. This must be done with a certain reason and system. . If proper precautions are not observed, he says, you might keep right on boiling the things time and again, all the &‘m mmfix and still they would spoil, iling â€" kill all the ferment g:l.nu that are glcnlz ed from the spores, but it will not kill the spores, srane P onl sys mc ie sn l"éporel of ferment plants require onl from eight to twelve hours to develop. fi Iho{ are left longer than this time the spores will have become new plants and in turn have deposited new spores. To get rid: of piants and lm. therefore, the preserves #t oald have a good boiling and be set away in sealed Md!h“? hours later . be Ifmh again. just to a boiling heat, Trew in this way, the chemist says, no further trouble can occur nnless new ferments get in from outside sources. of the 'nni'hbornood. from . whom they obtain money by the means of threate and menaces of the most bloodthirsty ordet. Nccasionally, if the vietim pnvno‘nl-u-, a révolver is produced, though there wasne aviende to prov ttempt 1 h'r ke any further use of it It iss a good: many m":c;.“. » cXxtortion, willingness than 'IML:I:L have de ’::‘ all likelihood to the timate tas gat of the district. The throat of ® i Â¥ visit was always a sure draw in the tional case of a shopkécper | satisfy the demands of callers ‘ description, ‘The police have at f taken action in the mattor, -i.,c” man who is reputed to be a member of i "!l."' strate at W “I‘:.\ to at | hdlvfl? was n.w; Rempntiant t iratremen who h ' at the hands of the ruffians. LONDON TRADESMEN ARE ROBBED. Forced to Give Up Money by Threats of a Rand of Rrigands, A band of brigands, numbering cighteen men all told, is carrying on a lively system of terrorism at the East end of London England. * According to the evidence of the police, these Fra Diavolos of the Mile End road pay surprise visits to the tradesmen Stories of Abséntâ€"Minded People. HWIS SIN FOUND HIM OUT PRESERVES THAT WILL KEEP. dnm:. has returned to his Califor: nia us extended stay in Paris. It in atated that the ette is â€" sible l-: ...nwu-mm the l:?ogt:d applicants at West l'gl_n ut! :Alupolh._ wh Miller, President of the Interna Association of Sunday Sshool Work ore, is _ the fathorâ€"inâ€"law ‘of Thomas A Rdivon. > P DanieF K. Belknap, the Erie Railway station agent at Hornellaville, N. Y., bhas been dontinuously in the wervice of the company for forty . years. .__ _ __.__ .. Rxâ€"Governor St. John, of Kansas, is to become the lnnnrt of the total abstinence ?t.ml of alite insurance company in New York. Bunford Samucl, assistant librarian of a Philadelphia library, can‘ recall instantly the title and location on.the sheives of any book mentioned among 110,000 volumes, ~Jamea S. M\‘wjo has recently been %&n éxaminer for Kentuck; and v is jast 30 and is the y‘_‘_fll Efi?za'- m:» 30 and is the youngâ€" est man ever appointed to such an office. John Tyler, jr., son of a former prosident dl“vn;ltpd ‘?um. fi“"vtum in l'“ unpretentious house in New York, ng his declining days in poverty and psn“l'yuo‘ â€"R. H. Moore. of Wellsboro, P., who has passed his 8lst year, climbed up the 228 winding steps in the lighthouse in Atlantic City, and kept on without rest frgm start to Some one has figured that there are so many railway lines, steam, elevated, cable and Ln-un in New York city that a perâ€" son may ride for six hours at a total cost of tinent, was a firm believer in the immortal« ity of dumb animals, SF Rev. Thomas Dixon, in a sermon in New: York recently, expressed his opinion that W'Noh nt.lrllk:’ is coming i‘::hc near l;tnrr will affect every ustry and parâ€". alyze the world.. . ___. . ho | .President Angel!, of thÂ¥Boston Humane Society, says that Professor Louis Agassiz, the greatest scientist onâ€"the Ame rican conâ€" ~The proprietor of the Parker House, Bosâ€" ton, in fortyâ€"six yenn}nld to one market in that city :8,188.906 or provisions. . The remarkable part of this statement .is, that only $100,000 wont for beans. 5 â€"Clifford Breckinridge, of Arkansas, whom President Cleveland has appointed Minister to Russia, once declined to fight a duel on the ground that he was then studying for the Presbyterian ministry. > John Dubel, who has beén elected con. stable of the Kighth ward, Brooklyn, is a colored man who runs a boot blacking chair and was put ‘up for fun, but he will draw $2,500 a year just tho same. ; f Miss Mary Cornelius, of l‘mrt. N.â€"Â¥., has been secretly martied to John Mackey, her hired man. Miss Cornelins is said to be Wworth $60,000, and is some years Macâ€" key‘s senior. > New ihmi:hln was formerly called Lionia. 1t received its present name in 1829, being firat called New Hampshire by Captain.John Mason, who had been a resi dent of Hampshire, England. *â€"Prince Cautaceuzone, the new Russian Minister to Washington, is an inveterate traveller and chess playor. . .He carries a pocket board with him and is elwaysâ€"ready and anxious to make a move. Mr. Clarence R. Greathouse, fnrmarg of San Francisco, was lxoinud Consulâ€"Genâ€" eral to Corea by President Cleveland in 1885. He has never been back and is now Postmasterâ€"General of Corea. >A family of five kittens at Rome, Ga., .was Adopted by .In.:. ::d in -pl{;hol av:g effort to t l range alliance ‘P‘pfirzhd in her attentions until the kittens were removed beyond her reach, â€"The total value of produce raised on the farms of the United States is $3,700,000,â€" 000 ; of this the people of.the United States themselves consume $3,330,000,000 worth, ; and ship .bro‘-d $370,000,000 worth., ‘ Receivers have been appointed dnrl;g the six months ending in /une for United States railway. companies owning 2,988 miles of road, and representing stocks and bonds to the: amount of $260,101,000. Justice Lippincott, of the New Jersey Supreme Court, has decided: that a man born in the United States is an alien if his father was foreign born, and was not natâ€" uralized at the time of the birth of his son, 1894, only 7,771 immigrants .came .. in through C!udn. whereas the nnm%hld previously ranged from 40,000 to 50,000 annually," anoe." .‘ Kirmess manager ;" «* Rubber comia and cloaks to measure," Bicycles to order, any atyle." â€" Secretary Carlisle stated in Washington ""that from October, 1893, to June 30, Within the last six years the annual proâ€" duction of beet sugar in .the States has inâ€" ereased from 500,000 to 45,000,000 pounds, California growors place the value of the erop at $65 to $125 an acre, and the cost of production at $17 an aore. @q- is a modest but wellâ€"equipped arsoâ€" I"at the Grand Central Station in New ergency, and probably sufficient to protect life and 'p_roporp;: ud’l the police or militia A Boston M{ has embarked in a multiâ€" farioas occupation, In the four corners of her cards are inscribed . "‘Solicitor of insurâ€" could be brought to the scene John 1. Blair made the first few dollars of his fortune of $20,000,000 by trapping muskrats aedrabbits and selling their skins. He became a clerk in a country store at the of ten and at seventéen he had a store :rhlo own, with a cash ufid of $500 and a good commercial reputation, churches and mearly 10,000 parsons, Worth in the aggregate about $125,000,0.0 Tommy Atkins‘ Improved Condition . ork city ready for use in any sudden em: BusY alun hk o2 2 °4 SERrenent oo sat o7 ioi t *.| had not to be got rid of zo (1 drawn on for fuel, lumber,. F and the lumbermen and settlers little recked what became of the timber belts after presâ€" ont urgent needs wore satisfied, A permit to take timber seemed to be regarded as a license to make as much havoe as possible among the growing trees on Crown lands, Settlors fromthe Western provinces, where within their owa‘ memory timber was treatâ€" \od as a thing that merely OUMBERED THE GROUND, Rousp BY THE COURT‘S DEOISION, ;;:l;ul-; ;u" against which the ‘;m were probably more extravagant of the| The Act will apply &l;lytor:‘h‘:eund ln‘f‘ broke. More than two hundred and Afty Northâ€"West‘s wood resourses than settlers | Doh Aid 19C9rp00000 £50000000005 0000 | human: beloge were left atruggling 16 the from the Qid Country, Before Manitoba|p,ouzht by laborers not connected. with|sea, some of whom were immediately: was opened up to settlement we in this any organization, _ Mr, Reeves bélieves | qrowned ; others were dashed agsinst the province had come to realize the folly of| (y i; uns desire to have differences amicab} raike‘to 1#e while about one hundred ruthlessly d‘lm‘l‘n‘ our foreats. Our and finally adjusted will N-mm-‘{ a ward, s uit experience should have warned the GOYeM: | {; smpioyers io counteract their unwilling: | suc¢eeded in prolonging their. existence by . ment to reserve the wooded aréas ol the| nou, to have their books examined by per: | Inying ‘hold of the shrouds and mounting: new country.. Several of these ArO® MO | youy pop y ie omertt which remaingd «hote hWE Tocey se se ieoriedy wot aiew that the courtr are constantly cailed upos | About | miduight the maiom wey xA p.nh.mu.vhloh not likely to be a low | . ‘decide onses whibh req nowled ons had found suteby, gavie why AUG 18 oo felp‘) '?mhnfi"::m“'l‘mh quiteâ€"as special, and \hss’h‘\r,lumon ::: l. flag the ship.: . to help irrigation s¢ » "lx' everthel erally satisfactory. m mal ueP tion 'pi“‘” necessary in the future if the | TS NOVUTVI® OM genel ll'r Reeves oo ul ~Before morning dawned all but twelve of. t-o:rowmm Teomk Women® WENIAITES ARIR and drying. l'ommnndfll also as a "eover to . the . se of moisture. The ‘Northâ€"West is out off" by the M'hL mountains from the moistureâ€"laden of the Pacific, and is " too far tw:Lhon the great lakes to receive any of th -tuou vapour. Thg‘:nntry requires & clroulation of its own, reite are needed to keep the resorve ofâ€" moisture that â€"will ensure the country rain{all. It there had been foreats in the West,there would have been no need of irrigation works there. Little of the forest is cleared away to reclaim the land for agriculture, as a great Ym of the wood» ed lands would be scarcely more suitable for farming if they wore cleared than they are »now. â€" Settlers, . however, r-(cr toâ€" take home®teads near a bush, which they cango to for fuel, ‘rails, and building material. ‘The ‘dry wood will probably: accumulate fast enough for &hafi#pcm‘. and its removal will keep the forests tecte l from another delcroaor. that is, 5'.: For some weeks prairie fires <have been frequent in the southâ€"wostern part. of Manitoba, where they hare . entered the timber reserves and done great destruction. In a country whose winters are cold and whose wood is scarce, it would seem that the settlers could be trusted to ‘economize their fueland cultivate its yield, but even the laws relating to Y.u_iriu fires appoar _ to be disregarded, . This is the fault of their not country‘s: foresta â€"are swept .'fi. It is possible that mflm holding land grants in the tracts may ‘perceive it to be in their own intereat to coâ€"operate with the Government for the plnurutla:” and extension of theie tracts. . If so, it will be easy for the Governmentâ€"to carry out ite new forest pothin the : Northâ€" West as well as in Manito! With tfl the diffiâ€" culties that may be in the way, it <is easier to save and onlyu-g- a forest than first to clear it away and replace it by a new one, In some of the Northâ€"Western States, notâ€" ably in Dakotayâ€"the greatest encouragement is given to treeâ€"planting by both the State nns Federal Governments, but the treckoss area remains troeless, despite the liberal bounties and land grauts for bree plantations. Coquqmd‘{ Dakota agticulture declines, In the Northâ€"West > ts TE PIELDS NEKD FOREST3 to protect them from winds which are cold being strictly enforeed. Canton, Where the Plague Comes From, r cnd it l.flâ€"l.r.rl’ n hanges 7 A line or two from Mrs. Archibald Dunn‘s new book gives a striking picture of the horrors 6t life in Canton.â€" . ‘The cireum« ference of the city walls measures from six to seven miles, and within thoir <inclosure their exist 1,000,000 Chinesepsople. J had been in many oriental cities and had smelt many oriental smells, bat those of Canton," says Mrs. Dunn, *‘were giants to theni all. The passageâ€"like strests ure open sewers, avéry demriyuon of refuse being cast into them and forming ‘continuous heaps on sither side of the way .â€"â€"The water supply is raised from wells in the streots, the mouths of which are on a level with the ground, and a shower of rain, or drlpylngl from the buckets in which they lift it from the buckets in which uu‘ HID it must e-rr{ back the surrounding filth in a vnl horrible to think of. _ Through miles and milss of these high, narrow alleys did we travel, through the most fetid, airless atmosphere that human lungs could cope with, through the most evil and noisome odors that could assail human nmfl&p‘n the most loathsome sights in the shape of abnormal butcher meatâ€"such as dogs and cate, skinned and dressed ru:L for cookâ€" ing ; rats, both dried and hanging alive h{ the tails ; frogs and unnnnnl-bokllg fis in tubs of water, alive, and awaiting death A Diichess With 101 Descendants. _ Queen Victoria‘s fiftyâ€"six Irving déscend â€" ants are cast in the shade by the remarkable family of the Dowagerâ€"Ducheasof Abercorn, A fortnight ago this venerable lady saw 101 of her descendants assembled at one time and in one place. It was at Montagn House, Whiteball, London, the residence of the duke of Bucclethich, where an interâ€" esting ceremony took place in commemoraâ€" tion of the Dowagerâ€"Duchess‘ cightyâ€" secoad birthday. To celebrate that event, the pretty idea had been aoted on that all her children, rntlohlldrn and rntâ€" grandchildrenâ€"101 persons m'h| n age from 60 years to 4 monthsâ€"should assembie to offer their congratulations to the venarâ€" able lady. The Duchess having taken her place in the ball room, the various families of her descendants filed past her, headed a her eldest daughter, the Downgerâ€" tess bf . Lichfield, with her thirteen children and thirteen grandchildren, A Story of the German Emperor One of the many quaint requests whleh‘ daily reach the Gorman Emperot was made by a little girlâ€" the other day, who M‘ informing his Majesty whe had just arrived. ONE OF CHINA‘S CITIES. to visit hor reâ€" torily, will provide that any association of registered work ingmen may file a complaint againat an employer and compel him to show cause in court why wages should be reduced on.why they should not be raised. Employers, on the o’hr hand, will get the right to mm’zl the association of ouplo{- to appear court < in case of a strike. \Whn either party bnntl.lm other into court, both parties are to ; If the prophecy of Mr.. Reevesis fulâ€" filled, it will gr worth while to watch the working of this plan of compulsory ‘arbitâ€" ratiqn. < It may be said that hardly any thoughtful person on this side of the world believes that nrbimuon,oatha made comâ€" ulsory without ceasing to arbitration, E‘he appointment of a court that could fix wages would be equivalent to turning over THE BUSINESS OF ME COUNTRY to that court. ‘It would place in theâ€"hands of a few men powers ter than it has hitherto been oo'uidoromllnbje to !)‘!m in theâ€"hands~of any â€"Government. ‘They would hold the puh.lt:. of a trust vh(o{ might be infinitely. m dangerous to a oom:try'- welfare dl.bu any l:omhinnlol. yet in existence, and they wou! K“"‘“"“T have the destinies of the nation‘ whose industries they . controlled in their hands; If oo:snlnry arbitration succeeds in New Zealand, it will be legitimate to conclude Ahat New Zealanders are differently conâ€" stituted from: other psople,. . Bat it is l-unuinfh have the experiment tried, and both labor men and the general public will look for the results with some interest The : Stopfes\of . Wonderfully Rich Dis. erles Fully Confirmed, . 4 T @ of wonderful gold discover. ies in weÂ¥tZrn Australia have been confirmâ€" ed by official despatches, ‘The details of theâ€" principal find near Coolgardie has already reached London, A party of six were returning from an unsuccessful prospecting tour on May 8. When in camp one night theyâ€"separated to test and examine: the neighborhood.â€"A mannamed Mills came to one of the Jarge ** blows" which are characteristic. of the country. He was astonished cn rubbing his hands across a z';rotmdlng piece of stone to see o&old standâ€" ng ou&éptm' ently, . Hoâ€"knooked a large piece off a boulder, and at his feet lay a magnificent . apecimen . 1 terally n,ndfiod xth coarse gold, while before him, zaling: his eyes, was a magnificant reef of almost pure gold, a fortune . in iteelf, Mills," taking sqveral pieces of the reef, placed them in his bosom, and, ‘cnrolnlly covering the reef with earth, found his mucl..dOn ltho s::lx"b n_:;nl-. hfi: acres were ol the blocks. at .&’:fl'ua wore also ur: up. ! One man went to town, and bo-?t.doflyr the largost he could procure. . In one day. they dollied ©1,000 ounces, n{l in a short time had nearly $100,000 worth of ore. On June 31 they packed lfiin;_ug;:hnd landâ€" ed v.l:;‘?oum at thc”llzi-io:“ k.* Tb.; man weighed . it vurn the scales at da&‘nulu A few days afterwards the discovery became public.. One Jump was taken from the reef containâ€" ing more: gold‘ than ore. 1t woi,hedmo pounds, and is worth $20,000. â€" Of course, there is immense excitement in the region, and many other discoveries are reported, but there is unlikely to be anything left for late comers. LUNACY IN INGlliallD IS INCREAS Report of Commissioners Shows a Large Total of Afilcted Persons, ‘The fortyâ€"eighth report ‘of the English commissioners in lunacy, recently made public, is not pleasant reading. It is, to may the least of it, distressing intelligence to be officially informed that at the comâ€" mencement of the present year there were in our ‘midst ©02,067 lunatics, idiots, and lrnon of unsound mind, a number 2,245 n excess of the returns of the previous affiioted in this way as yet officially record ‘.:‘.d The increase is reporte1 to have h:‘ general t.‘%n England W.I'fl.lhlslvhth nown as the m-t{ of London is shoyn to be providing for I, 800 more pauper lunatics than were nq';- modated during the previous year. . The gravity of this announcement is, to a cerâ€" tain ‘ extent, dissounted when the corâ€" responding increase in the lation is taken into account, thoruhm‘g one in sane person in326 for the year under notice, as compared with one in 331 during the :::iou year. ° It wouid, however, have far more satisfactory had it been pos #ible to record even the slightest decrease, What can be the reason for the increase! Is it the Primrose league, the Jabe: Balfout swindles, the weather, or the noncomformâ€" ist conscience? guarded night and day by deteciives, Going | is down Sonth,to Pan, to effect the execution. .’t| of Joaehim Noray,the young Spaniard who | Lights and Shades in Hangmen‘s Lives, M. Deibler,the Freuch sxeoutioner,is not a man to be; envied just now. . For a long i T n o »;}* â€" law GOLD IN AUSTRALIA. Slowing from the evathenet, Imoge C gals, â€" The vessel was‘at ouce lightened by throwing overboard all the guos, and at nine o‘clock Shat night, at the height of the tide, The Was floated off the shoals, but with rudder gone and seven feet of water in the hokd. . By heroic exertions the ship was kept afloat for an, bour, when she. lurched and rolled.once or twice like a. drunken person, and went down near a line of perâ€" pendicular cliffs ‘against which the waves broke. More than two hundred and ffty Before noninfi dawned all but twelve of ., the crew of two handred and fifty menâ€"that. had manned the vessel a few hours before had been swept away. In the early light it was discovered that the vessel. had been: wrecked near the entrance to@ m place known as Herring. Cove, the i + tants of which soon oon‘fnptod on the oliffs to gaze pityin%ly and helplessly at ‘the scene of the awful tragedy, and to see the few despairing men who yet olnn&r the broken and awaying lfiltl. The w con\ tinued to blow ~neavily. _ Masses of water were torn from the tops of the rushing seas and hurled through the rigging of the wreok with a force that threatened each momens to knook the seanien into the waves that seemed : toJeap ‘at.them o'l;ly m Mi‘*- tance below. As the .morning passed the wind and sea went down nqlkuh.‘n‘lil! wind and sea {.“ hdown » 'lk;ur.,‘t .fi: was y the . women huMuld wx to reacue the survivors," but the fisherman eclared that they could do nct.hl“ in mich a (rifhflul seaâ€"that a boat.could not : lize in it.. Shortly after this a small dory with a single rower was seen to tfhcmt. out fromi" the cove, and ppil in the direction of the wreck. ‘Time and again a huge sea would rush down upon the frail craft as thoufh to dash it back into the cleft in the wall of the rock from which it had emerged, then the next moment the boat would be swung high â€" on theâ€"might roaring crest, with vjn Ifurhu mv;"rlh?- ing it ever on. .. 0_« _ _____ p At last he approached so close to one of the reeling masts that two of the seamen dropped â€" into the skiff, then, fearing to burden hor further, he made his way back to ‘ the cove, and ran his dory up on the beach. . It then .p;zaue.l that the. brave rescuer was & boy of thirteen years, named Pietre Leroux, the son of an absent fisherâ€" man. . As soon as his boat . was empty be again shoved: off on his errand of rescue; but this time he was not permitted to make the porilous voyagé alone, for the fisher> men, stimulated by his conduct, had har~ ried to the shore, maniied one of their fishingâ€"boats, â€" and put . off, On coming up with the young heroâ€"they took him on board, kuiinq his boat in tow for the use ‘of such of the seamen as could not be car: ried in their owo dory. In this, way all wore brought safely asnore;yet Pun before they Janded the inl‘ inci with such fury that : in less then fifteen minutes after the resoue the two remaining masts fell in to the sea, and were quickly dashed .into splinters against the crags. . Had it not been for the gallant cnm'l:le set by Pietre Leroux not a man would have bain saved fromâ€"theâ€" frigate \Lis: Tribuno.â€"]Harper‘s Young People. Femeiides Wheat Has Been Descending Townr ty the _ :.: >3 "Â¥atne of peeding Graine > ©~~ _ But a fow years ago the: farmork of Kanâ€" _ _ mas ‘did not know what to do with their â€" . s d surplus corn, . It was‘so plen and had _ \f% become so cheap that it began to fall away .__________ from its proper utility, as a fodder and food _ _/ stiff, and to take the place of cont andwood; . *‘ The Kansas farmors could got more heat out . ~â€"~ of the corn they burned than they could out . ©__ _/ of such a quantity of the stapleâ€" fuele as ~ | _ / s, would be exchanged for it, â€" At that time . â€"=~~â€"> wheat was high compared with its pusgent . _ ttgn. price. The consumption of corn, as a subâ€" _‘ _ .. stitute for wheat was large among the ue poorer classes of some Europegn countride, = _ > . Cheap corn gave a great impotus .to hog» => .. 5e raising, and the price of pork dropped to a _ ,‘é low figure. But at the present moment & ___ / . "bushel of corn is worth rather more than m . _ i{ bushel of wheat, and a few days ago it was . worth $ is 95 mnm:-ndw and of . two ‘price movements. . has descending towards the value of _ ¢ flu, while corn has been rising «+ :h.‘“ of breadstaffe, 'l:{ in ‘h. see these two movementa on at same timo, . Wheat is ohup.gunn it is superabundant. _ Its extreme lowness of prro.o brings its consumption down among the higher ranks of corn contamers P.ro whose means prevented them from eating pure wheaten bread can now ‘afford that luxury, and can dispense with corn. Wheat is ted to hogs and beeves nowadays, and there Anim‘:L are sold against those fed on corn. ‘The effect of this encroachment on the part of the higher cereal would be exâ€" pected to brin&down still farther the price ot the lower, . It would be natural to pose that the prices of the two ‘m would keep their distance. But, as whent declines into the planéwcf corn com : tion, corn rises in value, the ""fih i E should do if it ‘were competing U as #food stuff, and the ver mfi 1 do to any Mt‘ rhen it was competing quitemetively, ... . ... CORN DEARER THAN WHEAT. #HIS SEEMTNO ANOMALY SEVERAL CENTS MORE on theâ€"mighty: