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Hank Mar! had for nearly thirty years trotted dressed one another as “Maw” and Wiad from the knee down, and ever time m blood, and the usualll en and consid- erate husband becam: whom the little wife trembled in abject ir. in She was a German by birth, having come to this country when about eigh- teen, and she had) never learned to speak our language Without the peculiar ac- cent ed Bagh es that she had the eat ‘cause His Goal of indulgence began’ t grow more humerous as his years ad- Yaneed and at last the little wife grew desperate—something had got to be done. She could not leave him; she had tried that more than onee, but the i hele ig did not seem to be big enough! to At last, when she was sure his form was to be lasting, she began {0 kinder, and with the Raupting fe fone et the demon "a possess. oes ‘in, gone, she could enjoy Pes it alas, like many another befor in an evil moment, he yielded one cond tien @ comrade’s "a jst one drink for old friendships sa sake, aa ‘of drove toand fram his work, his ary re pete Tee or i vieinity, but on this ceeasion it stood all day in the Pitiless ess glaring ‘sun, before the door of a saloon, while the worked Nie aL Lae under his charge ie eee a oe * cine sa - ithe Suan of the be the oe she knew that once more Fane ; lood so slow to rise but as as death | tate whe once a aes is _ She raised he: be a ~, ory tea inchs pow tee with rising time at | tin,” he burst out, “didn't ia Logees rote Ht you?” bul, to said Bho, “bub yas busy Watch nobody ‘an, oprriitt an oath be started for her with | {ye could “ Busy,” he roared, “ he Deter weer ee ay teach you ta rain ni hand and fet realli for his ay eee Ee and tae live eevee sel a lime ‘he next i it she had it in ee er hand, drink o1 she started toward him with t! evident inten izing him wi a invention of baptsing beni eee eerie n, surprised before he tad al always ie nak tis et cross| ig bere nie a had never. dared SP il wien boned ba oer! FAMINE MENACES INDIA. |e _ Hr beers lahat! PREPARING TO. RE-| their own caste, Governm Sane ide rae a A HOT WATER CURE) seis was ‘tin and nd bis uth ne ony ae alternative; he had to, Oh, been warned that, unless the situation of powerful bnild, a/ 5,787 improved by a considerable fall of brite time trade, and a master me-| me. Veorte heat a vill Kill c Now you can’t get drunk or Tl chanic at that. In his younger days, bd re bee! pared. These lists are D cavinatle annually, their strength from all eapable of sertorming oat luck yeas a hana heart, and aid Uh sl ng hi 6 eal made That male not a near Dlood relation are ex- ypen time less Hew than that afforded on works where labor is registered, sup- ervised and measured, by ee over- mag- is igh to look after sanitary and Artist—“I flatter m myself this lagt pic- a is dear. f man might faa as well ye to ) ‘Mhere was a young maiden named race, ai owed oo ee Js slwags tryin’ to fin Man. But se pay, any attention to him until he coil and man beings resort to relief wi meee wend sands. y which varies meets to sex, age, and man ae bee ‘line Fake raan tr now, could ee the advice ot medical pate fees Keep np the en agement ARGH Miura’ 5 ms at last, and it| you pont sot that one, for dats t the gas bill. thee \— Mr: are likely to dont they will furnish par- begun me Chri ee slippers tout Sara ee ea aS hat ? t a Did you heah that Chawlie aes to diseeaiasts Pane and Ey stort State ru behalde her sweetheart smi ee ea wee te LIME WATER SHORTENS LIFE. In the Atps and Pyranees there is a ‘house this morning, race of peo} Ao fal of the tragic tarn Gdiire wets tote| suddint at 90, all ak ating tied off my wife’s oe hotel. clerl No. ing. never put up a of auch must always de. ample need of private fate which in towns an es- seldom wanting, for ‘reat na- res areata Ces ised to sive alms, tetris Brahmans an ose of stricted to public works, land revenue, and loans to needy lay land owners and cultivators for maki t i wel other pro- is Fost—Publte Works | jects designed to improve and ee part of ‘iculturist, to cept a eae nh trea sury at 6 per cent. interest. Ho oft prefers to pay 12, Gj i. to HOLDS IN THRALL om generation to generation nine out ct eerie de customers; the rea- son being partly because a mate o who a. proud t ehpaseet at eat ama go on relief works must be left to private philan- thropy. Genteel poverty does not ex- ist asin Europe, because the customs caste in the Fast are more merciful ‘or the relief | es aot ne Wael ped Lastly, it stout never be forgotten thatt he reason why famine in India with railways an constructed tert izing canals and tanks’ \ of wells. The country is s0 ee that the monsoons never fail over its entire area. When the grain stocks are low one province they can be replenish- as [4 from another by means of the rail. wy. ‘Thirty or even twenty years ago this could not have been said. Hence pe alway is the chief preventive 0 carry |, emsel v1 nairay a ded in Gt JAPANESE TIRED OF QFE. Marikari Not so opel Brownin: some re- markable figures on suicide in Japan, ip with interesting comments on Ti cal “In Japan,” he says, “‘sui- cide jidered a sin even from a eupales point of view. 16 chief point in the teaching of Buddhism is future Salvation, so that some ignorant men and women misapprehending the sche, try to escape from this world with the _influen religion, al the dauntless character of our people, ds to increase the number of suicides. Moreover, there are noted men who haye rar ”. It appears from the tables that during the five 's, 1890-4 inclusive, the age number of suicides among male Japa- nese 606 per a ong the women, = 4, the combined. ratio being 181 per million, In Germany: find Francs 2 per cent, of the suicides e |are women, but in Japan the percent age is 38, . Bunso q ex- plains this as “owing to the situation in wi are placed, and the years under review 14,799 men and 6,188 women hanged themselves; 5,- 269 men and 6,825 women drowned themselves; 1,234 men and 597 women pertordaaittty happy despatch” with WORDS: and ed men and 349 women killed cee ae ae r. er ities eases Se siserereed aut in aeons Japanese suicides. lost curious, however, are the causes of suicides, See Aete exhaustively TRANSPARENT MIRRORS. cently been invented by a German yaar? ‘will doubtless find many ve pass a mirror of any kind without ig sig assertion. Indeed, these very bs suai in the principle of the trai rent mirror. Paes one has noti feed how in in passing one of these on a bright day, if the ated is dark or dingy, one On the same principle, when the light and the observer are on the reflecting Side of a arent mirror, one se his own reflection. But if the light apposite one sees the objects bey through the glass just as through an ordinary up in a manner that ented by the eae ne bake ie it isn’t interesting. What does ap- aa Ay the feminine fancy and to that classified, and a analysis shows that 10,049 of tide men pee 6,782 of the ‘The transparent mirror which has re-| women committed suicide through d tress or eae Tegarding means of sa go so far as to say that no woman | living, or some misfortune;’ 2,610 men mors women thro “disagreement with family, anxiety yor the ctu 21 men through “weak mind Stas Sat mead cua et nee throug “loss of fortune on oat leaica Bae. GO women through “fear of the, dis: capac ob atnareed unishment;" en, ani) Oa women eexousl Telan Gholy;” 33 men women thro ree rs physical ‘detest 2 men and iste of isi mar- NG eT mn Set 287 n through f none causes an 1467 an met and 586 en for "ASOD: 1 | silver nitrate and other aad a nown. rei Pai AGES ae a oe sees, is, thus recorded: der sixteen year: 721 males, 3,396 females; 30-40 years, 3,- cian is the’ nnmaber of nse’ | HG males, 2004 females; 40-00 Years, 4, iS phish it can be 145 males, 1,767 females; over 30 years, new mirrors DT aaW being made | 8,652 males, 4,592 f males; of uncertain ee = large firm in er in various | age, 67 males, 19 “fen Sizes and shapes—bi ‘sin — These figures give food tor feflection. to set on the floor, Panelshape ed Shakespeare's dictum that hone have ‘magic mirrors” place he panel of the’ door opening tn the glass see who looks over her shoul, and Distressing thing thappened at our ae was it? cook Not ¢ van as it eee oes car- HE COULDN'T BI BELIEVE in e” aoe Che that is just how, for the dresser, nena he those ial eee ever died of love certainly does not ap- an set v eres bette: a Porgy Eee Sar cea room sould affectionate, they do not fee) remorse it to a hos and shame so “4 E iy as who is is inclined to be curious ‘about ne are less critninal or, possibly, less fear- impress ion her home makes upon. her | ful of the consequences, thal. they are less weak-minded, that disagr ts pe directly observe the actions of a ith er Raper affect them more devoted adinirer, as he impatiently | keenly, that debis and loss of fortune awaits the approach of his sweetheart | sit moe slightly on them, that they are Pacing about the room and perhaps con- | less melancholy, except when the mis- sulting the very mirror oe conduct on ‘their busband and sons is ihe pee one of his affections is con concerned; that they sorrow more for pee fonit the eve the dear dead, that they feel censure ath tlm, ron ee be fun for the sweet- | more strongly; that the woes. of mar- “iage de jure de facto and the dread Tairror WS common, as they ee of marriage jome to lor entertainment of many descriptions. | vainer or more sensitive than men, a suppose ef to, be | that {hes ‘are not so well able to ‘keep 1 what appears to be an | seeret their motive for suicide. I glass in its door. Con- | curious to fewer than 166 sthin the cabinet and | over 80 yeara of ag of 2 age anes é 4 on. aceo mer- , being a woman, |ally speaking, female suicides are more not refuse, then have’ the per- | frequent in youth nd son within suddenly strike a mateh’ or | mature age. 7s Me steed fa 1g] bh THE BROWNIES, The Site have come to, town— —$—$—____ <a ithe. (karate ONE REDEEMING FACT. Won't 1 fit the same floor Raa they're ewes wich athe Into some corner have slipped. ‘The door-bell’s broke, the clocks are wrong, ‘The longs are short and the shorts are ‘The cake’s too light and the stove won't draw, Johnny—Pa, or said ate ents was ‘won't thaw. hie led What now? Do I Johnny—Well, he ie cue see you frown? Pa—Why do you think be isnty | 224,00 you me’ a clown! J ‘Look at his red hair and ow, Brownies ave come to town, THE MENS WA UTS = THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. ‘Interesting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, United st A dig s Gis aane’ of flour left Winni- peg for Australia. Rossland, Edmonton a Gaclaey have been made customs out e P. eget ee has ka Tyee appointen Breasure f 0 Tak Dat a Raleay Panes 2 Dash for be ‘The half-yearly statement ot. the Foe - Montreal shows ne’ ‘cotenay, under the customs 8t as New eee: will a gute ye For winter. tpbe, Goverase of Quebec, has ed his fifty-fifth birth t Horton, Toronto, has been Albert, appointed official stenogr: ‘ing Sea Commi! iene Robert Morran, cha murder of Hannah Hatton a tana, was acquitted at Winnipe) Bad Man, Gi vali Indian the pre a ade he Government erect a ne een ahs for the storage. of State ected that the session of hee deaben Lair be be rushed through, and that the held in 2 war! ‘The late Alt Yeomans of Stee ai bok eh) ands o' Feeds Lae ae -five™ attiions o! rig that are coming to and ninion Department of Fisheries expor' indicate Fhe the nearly up to that of last “Neal 1,000 hogs have been slat ae ‘county im an effort. to ut bog sul Government a eal over $1,000 0, the e_of absence which a granted todudes Tasehereau is en m ae a a coat gitte of sont “ive oe beni arent pethon of the Lee pe Re sept of ae Sni te tae oagumee of pele recently eae the ‘The Bea fons “ott oe fers of a sicamers durii ne. ae pire Moi 1 for ane th Titteen ‘hundred oilers. a to woman, signing berets » Empress of she toria’s Leh idea en gy eee trancbise,"has| written to Pre elgit billion ‘dollar Angie Chadian Naa gid on i ieghiat in October. ae Canada to Engiand ieee ten cent. during Twenty-nine per conte Fa ar pas an months of the y rot. ison of ¢ Survey staff, retunned to ora other day from port will how tae tee geocantion ot ee ‘beyond anything that was geet “rout Haktax for Vice-Admirel and Lady | Ersikine on was accompanied by the ware Partri ame *Charcosh” lacleod, dian. the ‘ion is fuel for local use. GREAT uary 12th. Sir Chi tain a proposal It is gan that Hiday Macartney, camy in Fast Bradford and Derby- pale, e Cree mame 8 Jones, who enter: ee aol tions gave patioat evidence in the Re racees tee condition as health Ls been Gnviens. a day 1 conreging. Not in one direction, but Sane student named J. ediate poms nent of ee h | Seven istricts of Meets Venn sc ota le Ser highly fy stood me pense ol es tae North dred Tee arrest a a ee ive re tating ‘murderer abot mi laged. the was shot dead ty ‘the Tn- ga the engineer finding thet, parts, 0 Say? sieorbhiscittes oausnin salieion ral Manager Hays, of the Grand Prank yuo has returned to Montreal St. Louis, intey Ganioebation eit to = ness one, and will be fully alive to any ‘om advan to be obtain ciprocity treaty between a Bae tries. BRITAIN. ish Parliament meets Jan- Rio Janeiro news just received in London, from British sources says, that the emigration 9 of Canadians to Brazil roved. a mistake. jor Kitson, of thie Royal. Rifles, Dilke powers iaely pubmitted to Great, Bri- China, Great Britain refused to vente ish t has deci ded to prepouts Si Hal Tidy counsellor of tion in London, foc the ae in the arrest and dete tention of Sun Yat of the British i the ee erate 1 in London. “since the release of Mrs. Castle from Scrubs prison on Tuesday 2 i eee os sail for. the United’ ‘ireula tae n Bae nas sat Nt ir. R. R. Dobell Sill succes of the, American jerican powers is a bea i cognition of the hegemony of the Ualted Sistes’ on the American conti- Coes ¢ ee ‘The revival of b of Mr. MeKinley's velection i is generally cael inited Stat Mrs. Dick, Pete ofa tities nt citizen of: fudson, N.Y., bas been ar- rested at New York fe x Fane eee oe coe, easily, paralyzed tran inted in partially Mot N. Graybiely ar Grand Rapids, w York post-office intends e erimentig within a week of two with orseless carriages for the delivery of mail matter. County commissioners of Pa., have taken charge of gn alee George H .Morri ares: the defaulting county treasurer, of nsselaer, was Wednesday, at Troy, ad sentenc- ed to te si 2) mim ‘The United States battleship, ‘Texas, while lying in the Brooklyn navy yard, on Tuesday had a thirteen-inch hole Stoye in her side by the breaking of sea-cock, and she now lies at the dock: ‘The interdenominational eommittee recently appointed to further ms hoa ‘oreign missi ided ign Degen in lee the United States, and these br elect the fifth achieator, ie iseaty fixes sixty years un asthe test ofcondlusive ie presupl ‘ion of rightful occupancy of the settled dis- advices from the United States all agree in stating that the in all over, Bra, orate, and mills, are | tt being reopened, while in works w] {| have not ceased sunning the number advan oe six pata in one week, lied price flow being the highest since June, 1892, Couper Ine made © considerable advance during the ‘week, and prices of, 3 primary articles are steadi GENERAL. ap rigsident Barros, of Brazil, is dying “the Spanish War Office is s' preparing send 20,000 more troops ansvaal Government will cla’ a Tualion pounds from the British Spanish Government denies thet it has agreed nvith the United States Government to terminate in Cabos, ithe f coriain peviod. A de eh from Bombay says that in eos pee are. Neuoeed to te ie the verge of starvation, ‘The report current, of another Apme: is confirmed. re put to death in Lives Red el neariy ‘al the Armenian houses pil- as. between Sombatowo and Mikale. abi e bad been wilfully ee mon the 10th ui, the © British mercan- tie steamer Boyne, while off Smyrna, took on board a boai ‘Armenians. Immediately after the Turks demani captain of the see refused, ie the ited States warship isisup- ported his refusal, and sai eos should. vaafely leave the ae vert if he fe SE EES FACTS IN NATURAL Wa ws Some curious facts in natural history are that fishes have no ees and ecessarily sleep with their e} tes swallow their food whole, having 2 fatal wound after being severed from the Hoty: ‘THE REASON. .Mrs. Farmer—Why do you walk the roads in fis sine manner, year in co year’ wis Weary, Walk Tames’ Gazette says that | Jy! fii oy pie Company as indemnity for 01 was serious rioting on, Sund af Stole we) ie Sora sath aad fied is alive. Serpents are is tenacious | VERY INERESTING TRIP. EXPLORING AN UNKNOWN PORTION OF NORTHERN ONTARIO, Good Agricultural Land Met With—Inter- view With Mr. Alex. mre of ta vey — Fou Railroad line northward. ee oe Sudbury, four miles on the c..P. "he says, “we come to the _| eons of the districts of Nipissing previously beenrun to apoint 90 ae orth of the railway, and beginnini at this point we extended the line 102 miles farther north, planti link t and well blazed throughout its en- e lengt! yped point Ri ni Hrouditoot’s base "Nine, The water was low and it took two weeks to go with Gel from Wahnapitae. ne eached our point of commen: ment, oer and began the work Ot running the meridian line, which, as @ | stated, aise a few miles west of the Sist meridian. ‘The country for about 25 silos, a epoe rinl an (Broken, but contains much valuable pine users cote crinutaty Pati Georeias had all our supplies, camp equipade cances to carry along ine, there being 21 le, ganoe, route |b through the ‘country. After coming within range Montreal River all apy cute witch ike oe fa eee plies down the tiver until we crossed Te, about fifty miles on the line, After ‘ossing the Montreal River at a point - | about fifty miles above Matachewan We, followed the Hudson’ Bay, route gami posts, crossing the the h het okt of land wee. 1 the Montreal Abittibi Rivers at Little Hawk Take, ere is B, mn in of about 700 feet ee! s equipage had generally to be carri slong the line, there bolig hot much water available for canoein GooD ater LAND. “The line throughout its whole length runs 5 eenerally thr ae a aes barat di ‘disitic a rule ware sane et ith, ‘y_coulk i eaeaoaniat & and, cont tata ad no dai oe the line fit for ricul- tural pr until le height’ of land. It w ndy maa stony except a narrow strip in. the yalley of the Montreal River. ‘The formation | oi evuntry is Lauren- tian and Huronian, and while we did not find any minerals we brought down with us quite 4 number of ‘specimens of ri assay isa ae lange 1 fe rot country meee. Supt (80 0 miles, which has never en emlorel pact! pee beste & ig the wi length If the Tine spruce iat rovall| Be ¢| and Bl ceedidise hit tumecnera unt ot | ad trees are from twelve to inches in diameter. Poplar, balm of ee and cag are also pay and in no ae Toentisiee alone the ee of the San itreall River, too, throughout its ri nav’ small boats for a very long RN JOURNEY. (Brom the termination of the line T turned, to the east down, the Red- stone River into Nightha large sheet of water it tailee by eich tating its outlet in the Abittibi. Cross: “Owing tothe trouble we had in get- ting to-our startin int and to the day morning and walked eND ie into fifteen, wean sine aa October 18th.” nd Algoma. ‘This boundary line has | son [A Parisian ‘Trains @ €at to Follow Him { tendency to ie gt ie flow vs ei elec- Lik urrent ast amoun’ Naturally “the gnats ager at at- ena el an cabeuane AE ETE the hile St nate ee cables is nnweleome either to thé man or to the cat. tempted to enter an omnibus, weit his cat. The conductor informed him that Ifthe Moon edi ig ‘Tired, and Con- _ Much attention “was attracted. beet the ‘Under the conan se set Barly 5 ae imagine eat € last ieeetay al eS cE ceria ot the a ie cat by own. rere the ma was a show- means nef h a still waters on anet eg OE the earth oriere moon ae ae busine an mit tet “trained the no bese his own ‘Thomas A. Edison has been married con: sou pam day in his laboratory, with- alee] ‘Twenty-two years ago Edison’ 's friends England and Germany mare Crna Dwelt Ey England nay soaiikiy ta Tae bed on somewhat strained shag "eamctanh which eee Paice iaskcey of these two said days they were ante thigh “How late?” tala Taison, yawning. aril had three hildeea- Thomas, W siege iat be Beate Beans ame note To ae ete