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\ THE WEEK'S NEWS CANADA. Seventy Engiiah farmers arrived in \Viiini- ]* on Monday to nettle in Manitoba I lie hay crop in New Brunswick is mag- iniM t-iit aid is IK-HI;; secured in prim* i-un- ihUun. It is lUteil that the 'ni-l-- legislature will be summoned to meet on the '.'Hih Sep- tember. Canadian eggs properly packed liring the highest price in the Km.' Inn market, per 10 dozen. The apple eron in Prince Kit ward county is abundant, ana it is estimated thai 'J.Vi,- (100 barrel* will be marketed this year. The Minister of Agrii.-ulture for Ontario ha* purchased a number <>l Dorset horn heep in England to bring In thin country. Auolhrr parly of .lewiih refugees from Ruwia, numbering one hundred, arrived in Montreal on Tuesday by the steamship Sar- ma. The Iiiiiiii^i.intiuii Department of Manito- ba arr seniliug out agentH to various parts of the province to obtain agricultural ex- hibit* for Kaotri n fairs. The tir.tt train from < 'algary to rMmori ton under the Cinadian Pacific railway roiiiiagemeut left Tuesday morning. The McLeod extension is now being graded. A cablegram from London says that the slaughtering of United Stain cattle at Three Riven is likely to ciuc Canadian cattle in I. rent Britain to be lo* highly thought ol. An apph ation has IMMII .node to the Canadian l'a>-ilic Railway Cimpany for several tliuu-and copies of tlirir new pam- phlet, entitled " The New Highway to the Orient," for me in the public schools of 4ir>at Britain and Ireland. l)i M.:K rnrii Dominion vetcrinaiy otliur., w.ii niarrif.l mi Monday 111 Montreal to Mist Margaret, daughter ol the lair Sir Hugh Allan. It is retried that four whit* men, while returning to \ ictom, II. (' , from the gold mines. ! diowued by the capsi/inc; f their c aii' in the Kivi-r Skvna. Thf late l.i. -ill Col. Ik-d-ton had endorsed a note for Hon. Thorium Howard, and at Winnipeg tlie other day his effect* were sold to satisfy the debt ilni- contracteil. Ill'- Victoria i B.Ci Telegram ny tha 1 u party of observation will lie unit out tin- season to obtain information an to the Alaaka bouudary, with the view to an ud jsslment of the question. There was a Iocs of 121 head of cattle on tin- tramp H'.ramer Loch l.-nnoinl, from Montreal to Aberdeen, the largest loss of cattle on any one ship from Montreal that has ever occurred. A I Moon- of Mooie'* Station. Que.,died in the Montreal (.(uioral Hopital on Friday from a wound < aimed by the ac -Menial dis- charge of his gun while he was driving along a rough road. The Macdonald Memorial CommitU-e of Kingston, will re<|uire one hundred thous- and dollars to can y out tli"ir vliemc. The luunuiiifiii 11 intended lo r"!>einble th" Al liert memorial in London, KngUnd. Sir iHmald Smith, who ietiini"d to Mont treal on Monday from KngUi,.l, speaking of the rumours regarding the anialganiatuui of the (irand Trunk and I hi- ( iinadian 1'acilie railway*, said that su -h a thing had never been even thought of. A letter hai been received ,n Victoria, B. ('., from .Sir Ceorgr Baden I'oKi-ll. British sealing coniiniasioncr. Writing from I'riliy- l-.ll islands, under datr Mil August, he says : " We have inspected all the rookeries on the Pribylofl islands. Fifty schooners have l>een warncxl anil several arrested." The Moncton, N. U , Tim fives tho fol- lowing In INM7 N\a Svotia built s7 ves- sels, IVJ,.'00 tons. Iii I ssi Nova S.-otia built I Mi vessels, I'J.tNX) tons. In KS'I Nova Scotia built l(i vennela, IH.ttl.'i tors. In IHW) Nora Scotia Mult Us vessels, ID, 1 ii' tons. Some <if the vessels lately turned out of Nova Sootia yards are among the largest and finest wooden nhips atlo.it. ..lit \T nun i\. Messrs. Dillon and I'.u uell are having bitter newspaper war. KiKlit Hon. John Ingli*. IX. U.. Lord Justice lieneral, died in Kngland last If Prince A!l>-rt had lived until Tuesday he would have lieen 7- ycai* old, the name age .1- the (Jureii. Crop |.r.-|i. . i- in Knglund arr poor. From Westiiiorelmid mid I.ccdii report* of grain destroyed hve \->-n re ived. The I'.ill .Vl'ill C,a/etle say Ilic I'rincoof Wall" i taking i,'ret interest in tin- case of the iMtrswcuted .lews in Knuia, and in the conditi in of tin- emigrants who are coming to Kngland. He li.i* given iiiii<-h ainistanre to the \nglo-.lewiah committees. Mr. < .ladntiini- averages aboiil a thousand dollars pay for evory newspaper or maga- 'iiH' article he writes. (tight Hon. Henry Cecil Kaikes, the Knglf.li Post iii.ioti-1 Criin il. died last week. He was 5.'i years of age. Patrick (iilley. a noted character of Bel- fast, ha* been fined 40 shillings for hailing a const thin as " Balfour'i minion.' In a Welsh coal mine a frightful esplo- sion took place on Monday. Many miners w.i'- killed. (Ivri I MII thousand persons ittende<l the hall given on Kridity liy the Knglish naval cffi'-xrs at Portsmouth lo the officers of the vi.'tmi; Kremli ll.-cl l.iverfKiol is to have the first elevated rail- road in Kngland. It is to l run parallel with 'In- road along the docks for 0) miles, with n station at every half mile nr leas. Kli-.lri' ity will h the motive power. II" liiiiixh I ifvi riiiiif in has sianml an agrrernrnt with the Canadian 1'iu-ifh- Kail way Company providing for the trans|Mii la- tion o( 1 1 oo|n via Halifax and Vancouvers Islaiul in I he event of war in India should the Sues < 'anal become blocked. I'SITKP HTATKH. Kiftaen thousand a res of grain wcie laid low I \ n Imilslorni in Mmnesotit on Monday, A mountain of uoal in Wild Morse Valley, Wyo. , ha liren burning for more than lluny yaars "Old lliil.li" in . irdited with having madn |4KHI,INIO on the lec-i-nt use in wheat at Chicago. The convention of the Iriah National | League of America will be held in Chicago incxl n.nnth, instead of In Baltimore, as at flrst Arranged. Frederick K. Rin4ge, ofCambridfe.Maiis, has within the last three years given to charitable, religious, and iDunicipalinstitii tioiss more than $:i,000,000l He inherited his suoney. Minx .Susan M. Dunklec has just resigned the trcttaurership of the Newton (Mass,) Bank, a position which she haa tilled for seventeen years without once having to justify herwlf before the board for errors. Mrs. Anna f ioaoworski and Mrs. Catherine Schmidt, of Buffalo, suicided in Kuflalo jail on Sunday within an hour. Hanging was the method, and bed sheets torn into rope* and tied to overhead water pipes furnished the facilities. A bulletin issued by the census depart- ineni. at Washington Kirec the assessed value of all property in the United States as $-.M,a-19,.9,NO4 in 1S90, an increase since I.H30 of $7,:M6,:.96,'.M1. The absolute wealth of the I'm led States is computed to be 962,6 1 0,000,000, or $1,000 per capita. IV l.KNt.HAI. The Kmpress Frederick of (iermanv is colonel of theSccoinl (iuard Hussars of Her- liu. l-ttest advices) from Martinique say that 3tO persons perished in the recent hurri- cane. The steamship Teutonic has beaten the ocean record. Time ft days l houm .11 uunutea. The tight between President Bnlmiu'eda's forces and the insurgents in Chili has lasted three days. The killed ami injured on both sides are said to number 3,000. Owing to tin- support the Pope has given i<.i xnlinul Lavigieriein his democratic pro paganda of sympathy with the Krench Re- public, the ( ''imu- d" Paris has stopped the payment of his regular contribution to the Papal treasury. The Berlin Tagblatt says Kngland's in- terest lis on the i'U of (ieiiii.iny. an should France and Kufm defeat lln- lireiKund. tin- iuimcdiate iiut.e"ut IU-L* would be the fxp il- iou of Kni{lari<l fi'ini l-^gypt. M* Trurblno r I hrl.i BV EMM ' I'llTIS Mill KIS'M. Th< ii 11 always, umid the furmal sectari- anism of tin- most formal and sectarian body of |ieoplc, on*- who IH " a man of the Phari Been, namrrl Nicodemus. " That is, by rea- son of his being called upon to lach ami be.iig in some way a leader among his col- leagues, he has found himself unconsciously "i luding that there are finer moaning* mid deeper intentions in religious precepts than he h H been taught. Mind always puts out tendrils and lays hold on new meanings if it is not willfully set lo prejudice. The mind that makes (..! it* theme will sooner or later meditate much on .lesus Christ, unlcssit is the mind of one determined to gratify bodly passiops. .lesus Christ draws the mind that thinks on I .oil a* a magnet draw* a stell filing " No man rnmeth unto me nave the fitther that IK in me draw him." We are drawn io those who have a Duality akin to something within ouraelvcs. So N'icodemus was drawn tr Jesus. There is some great idea that your mind ha* been meditating upon, some principle not ilctiiiiicK understood by you, but which it is possible for you to understand perfi -t H. You ought to get aci|iiamted with that idea. You notice, don't you, that in all the nausea of the business or conversation* of the "lay the vague hut grent idea comes up T So .Nicodenius had for days boon looking imiai.l the idea of the power of faith as the prophets of the pant hod demonslra:< ! it, and as the young man traveling aliout the country ii- <lernon*l rating his principles. How did it happen tli.it Klijah raised to life 111"- /arepha'h child, won fed by rmvons, had such prophetic imwitis^ How did Klisha raise the boy to life, heal the waters, cure leprosy? Was it not by the presence and working of tho sameUod that he, NK-O- demus, worshipped " Why should not this i .".1 work miracles now us in the old days * Surely <iod had never departed AJI the health of His people, the strength of their life, anil the answerer of thtsBJ^feyrrs, yrt nothing was done as in days past. Why not Mav he the young .lesus w<. right. Ho would go and sec Hi' had hren a moralist, Nicodemus had, ami taken pride in hi* morality. So he uarne to .Icsiis. High moral conduct, . o.ipled with thoughts of (ioil, is liable to sti ike the heat of goodness a* Christ ijuality. Irsu* Christ prea.-hed his in""-t Htupendous doctrines to audience* of one and two. He taught over and again not to despme the Ninallet ciri-iiniHtance or opportunity. " The situation that hatli not its duty, its ideal, wits never vet occupied by man. .lames Holme* found at Cosllehar an audience of three lo bear him where he had I.een pnhlicly announced to preach. In *t -ail of idiiiltiiig his mouth he opened it and preached so earnest ly that one ' of the there, a vomit- man. waa converted, and was afterwaid called the " tongue of fire," liecauae he was so fervent in spirit. Jesus Christ wai*e<) the personal praise. He never received it from anybody who re- garded II is bring among them a* another man with just a lew points of ability, i-i jis, aUne the usual raMu. Praise of H'S teaching He received. Praise principle, not person. Do right because it is right, nol through fear of somebody or love of some- dy So He drove straight to the nerd of Nicodemus, " Kxeept a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of Hod " " Nicddcnius, except u man look into the spint only, u i. rlj refusing to call any man f fleh, or any erthly circumstknceH, his i in iioiunent a* help or hindrance, he can- not set his home life, his health, his affairs, or his neighbor'* health affairs into har- mony." How coarsrly Nicodemus answered him. The mathematician responded to the en- tranced musicisn i-oncering the marvelous music, " Ws. it was wonderful to see the violinist move his elbow so nmny time* in a minute." So " the natural manreceivethiiot the thing* of the spirit, for they are foolish- ness unto him, and he can not know them, because they nre spiritually discerned." But Jesus Christ understood the law of mind. He knew how to hold the concentrated at- tention of His hearer till he should under- stand that " Never the spirit wa* born, the spirit shall craie to he never : end and be- ginning are dreams. " He knew that it must he by the recognition that all power what- soever is of the spirit and not of in idle t . physical force. " Kicent a man )M> horn of water and of the spirit. ' The RoM'tla Mum- Mi all miracle working is that lesson on lh increaaemeot of loaves and tishes. The Rosetta Stone to this birth of water and spirit is the statement, " If any man will come after me, let him deny himself." Now, He never taught that we should deny the good in ourselves ; certainly He meant that we should deny the cviL He told His hearers that it was His words of which He wm speaking and the power of His words, so we know that the baptism of water of which He spoke to Nicodemus was the use of the washing words of denial, whereby the mind that has thought things not true in cleansed of its errors, as a body is cleansed by water. There were certain errors or mistake* call- ed profitless and nothingness and useless- OBS by Him, serving to hide the power of the spirit. To deny these error* is to call them by name and reject them. This is the water Uintisni this great metaphysician meant. Now N'aaman's seven washings in Jordan were typical of the seven denials every mind must make to be cleansed of er- ror. By looking them over we know exact- ly what errors to reject, what to eschew. The first washing we do must be the rejection of the belief in another power operating m the universe besides omnipresent, omnipo- tent, omniscient goodness. There is no power of evil. This denial is the waahing away of evil imaginations, so that we do not any more believe in the possibility of any cruelty or greed or crime coming nigh us forevermore. According to the law of mind action, we find that it sets the world free from evil also. The second waahing we must do is the speaking of the positive word of rejecting the belief in another substance than spirit. If < .'! is omnipresent spirit, then indeed spirit is the only substance present any- where ; so the rejection of the supposition of the realty of matter is a necessary process. Matter ha* no reality, or, there is no matter. This word of denial has the effect of cleans- ing us from as much experience of the Inn j dcrance or burden of matter as the law of the word bring* spoiceu as an experiment oi in faith. You certainly do find the hard tumor, the stiffened joint, or the heavy in- d.-btednrss grow less. This second waahing is very, very elhcient in making hard ways easy and heavy burdens light, exactly as the perron tried word of truth promised that it should. The third washing word (remember that Jesus Christ was always leaching words and thought* and states of mind by material terms), is the denial of our false notion that there is any life subsume of intelligence in : mutter, for if there is no matter aurely < iod { is the only life, spirit the only su'uetance, ! omniscience the only intelligence. An en- ih.inting freedom come* with the third washing enjoined by Jesus Christ. The ! mind throws off the ugly nightmare of its i third delusion )>y boldly announcing that | there is no life, substance, or intelligence in , matter. The heart rises with iimckened hope. The friendship and beauty and good- I ness of living we see. The mind is clear to understand what il reasonable and tight. Knowledge of truth n freedom, dautama Buddha and .lesus Christ both said so and proved it. Take the fourth washing boldly. Naa- , man hesitated and was petulant. We will |ire.u boldly forward for the mark of the high calling of regeneration which is the subject of this lesson. By this time yon see that regeneration means giving your -|Mi it perfect freedom. The fourth word of self denial stales that as matter is not a reality its sensations are fallacious. There are no sensations in matter. This word will cause pum to falter and fail ; will .-ause sen- sual appetites to fall away. We have no taste, sight, or hearing but for spirit. "Taste and se that the Lord is good." " Keel after him. " The tif'.li washing is a severe one for some of us to take, but there U no escaping the metaphysical meanings of Jesus Christ. Sin, sicklies*, and death are delusions. This does not make it ntcaling or a slaying good, but aminuiucH that they are delusions, without power to hurt or hinder. The temptation to falsehood, the inclination to transgression, arr unreal. To know this sets us free from them. Sickness and death are a myth. Can spirit ! diseased or die : Since Cod is spirit, the only substance, the speaking of this waahing word of denial is the sure tttmg free from sin, sickness, and death. These five cleansing waters are suitable and essential for all the world. There are two special ones applying to each man, woman, and child, besides the five for all the world. You can easily find out what two you ought to make for yourtelf. There was once a woman who loved money much that she *aw everybody through her thought of money. If she looked at you she thought first of how much you were worth, or bow much she could make out of you. You see by her looking at everybody and every thing through money rye*, sin- K'"' blind <|i;ite blind. Money is blinding If she wsntoil tosec ihnly she should di-n\ herself of looking through money. It would be well for her to nay much, " There is no money spirit.' Thirr aremaiiy who 'ook at thrlraci|u unt an. i and friends and all circumstances, through jitaloua ideas of some sort. They unconsciously or consciously wonder how much "f their own rights, or position, or possession*, the other will get away from them. So they have lost one or more of their faculties, for jealousy is crel and lops off from us nir fondest hopes. Such should deny themselves of looking and judging thtoiigh jealousy. Let them say, "There * no jealousy in ipirit." Notice that this lesson reads that we must be cleansed by water and clothe"! by spirit. Jesus gave the idea that we should take the house, swept andgariiitdied, and fill it with good "spirit*. " " Spirits" arc words, as " Sly word* are spirit." There nre seven words of affirmation that are the hot glory of Cod over and through all who make them. Ye came forth from loxl " No man upon varth is your father." Thus these words are the shining forth of your own nature with which you were en- dowed from the great forever without \tr ginning of years or end of days. None of the miracle-workine power Ni.odcmus wished to Iw master of is ours till we have boldly announced the spiiitual nature mid orhce we are endowed with. This i* the tirxt affirmation of spirit Life, Truth, Love, is t.o.1. Then we re- cogni' all life an I tod and all truth and all love ax Hod. We hail and welcome ami pritisc all the living beauty, all the li in,- strength, all the liv Ing kindness : we recognize, knowing that it i- iloil. Tliix recognition of good is t K Mhinini! f ort h of our own goodness. Once it was thought that wn were able and cap- able if we rrcogni/ed vanity or deceitful ness in a neighbor, bnt now we know that since vanity and deceitfolness are nothingness and profitless that it is a wast of time on the insubstantial. That which we see of good is oar own thinking or our own shining forth of our own spirit. \\'e learned by last Sunday's lesson that every- thing has the potentiality of goody ready to increase itself by our praise anil Mussing. The second word of spirit is : "lam the idea of God and in Uod I live and move and have my being." As God is omnipresent, we move safely and boldly on. This " spirit" or word of the I Am makes us bold and joyous. All is joyous in spirit The third is : "I am spirit, I am mind ; I shed abroad wisdom, strength, holiness." .Such a fire baptism as this word radiates or reflects fom us over the world to make people wiser, stronger, holier where we are is only brought to pass by this affirm- ation, or " yea, yea," of Chirst. The fourth baptism from above is our announcement that i ;. id tlir -Spirit works through us to will and to do all things well. Thur is our word from above, or birth from spirit, that makes TIT-BITS. 8nre Enough. Mrs. Doleful (mournfully) ; " I'm sad- dest when I sing." Mr. Doleful : " So are the neighbours." He Knew flu Father. Tommy : " Did you do much fighting in the Egyptian war, pa ?" Pa : "I did my share of it, Tommy. " Tommy : " Did you make the enemy run?" Pa : " Ay, indeed, my boy." Tommy : " Did they cUch you, pa r A Society Note. Mrs. Snobberly, a very aristtocratic lad/, received a visit trom a friend, who, among other gossip, said : ' Do you know that your son has been seen several times in company with a aeaoV stress ? Kverylcdy i> talking about-it." Oh, that doesn i amount to anything," us efficient in healing and helping at! with whom w> come in contact. The old ways of depreciating our words and our works are i "P 1 "? 1 **" Snobberly, smiling. done away with. We now rejoice in our 1 " '**< l *"' tW that the young lady ui efficiency, since we know it as Uod the (iood doing all things. There is the fifth word from above that secures our immunity from sin, sickness, and death, and that makes all the people secure when we come near them. Like the fifth denial, the fifth affirmation takes strong rising " to do the will to prove the doctrine. I am governed by the law of God, and can not sin, nor suffer for sin, nor fear sin, sickness, or death. As spiriff we cannot swerve from our orbit any more than a star in its course. To swerve and falter would be sin, but spirit cannot sin, for God is spirit. " He'll surely guide our steps aright There is the safe waiting of all who speak these words through aft the thorny ways of delusion. Then the two "other spirits" or words of affirmation which belong to each of you, you must find out for yourselves. Notice that Paul says that in his greatest weakness is his strength. So yon can see that if you have believ- ed yourself inefficient or ignorant you must let the spirit of truth drop down over you with the bold affirmation : " I am strong and efficient. I praise the spirit tliat now works with me and through me and by me ami for me to do all my work faithfully and ell. I an 1 wise with the wisdom of spirit. " This is the full potency of the treatment Jesus gave Xicodemu*. " Slarvel not." Only the carnal intellect marvels, wonders, asks ques- tions. Spirit knows. So Nicodemus rallied his faith. He had entered the presence of Jesus with hope, Hope isonly the left hand : faith is the right hand. "Hop.- thou in liod." Have faith in the good. \ our faith will show forth ; your works of good faith will be good when you have learned how lo tie bom of water and of spirit according to this meaning of Jesus. ill KM \i. n.i r 41 ii i, roKEMTH. III,.', ',-. <J,I Mllll. ..till. I I or, I I in, I. I Now KrliiK l>-*lru ,! A melancholy sight in British Columbia and Washington is the enormous areas of forests through which fires have swept, leaving only blackened trunk*. The forests of the Pacific i lopu are going a good deal like the bison of the plain*. The people of this continent do not reali/e how many hun- dreds of thousands of dollars' worth of fine timber iu that region is being annually de- stroyed. Through thf Hocky Mountains, along the Canadian Pacific Railroad one may travel for many miles and see hardly 11 bit of live timber, though the blackened perfectly respectable. ' Horrible ' Horrible ' exclaimed the agonized mother. " He may bring disgrace upon our family by marrying her. The Baby Nut Door- My neighbor's babe is fair and sweet, With dimpled hands and soft, pink feet, With all the Summer in his eyes, While in his lips what honey lies ! My neighbor's baby loves me so, His glances follow where I go, And when his clinging tonchl feel, Mo words my pleasure can reveaL My neighbor'* babe brings back thfr joy- That stirred my pulses when a boy : His breath, more sweet than flowers rare, Blows from my brain the webs of careT Ah, yes, a treasure rare is he, A jewel without flaw to me; For, I adopt this custom wise I bear him homeward when he cries 1 Extreme Old Age. " How is your father coming on ? ' asked Col. Percy Verger of a darkey. " He am dead." " IKead, is he ! He must have reached an advanced age f" " He did dat, for a fac'. He was libin' up ter de day ob his deff. " Wait for tlie End of the Sentence. The Rev. Dr. Hanson recently lectured, his subject being, " Fools." The Rev. l)r. Vincent, who is somewhat of a wag, introduced him thus : " We are now to have a lecture on fools by one " long pause and loud laughter " of the wisest men of the country. " The lecturer advanced to the desk and responded as follows : " I am not half so big a tool as Dr. Yin- cent " long pause and loud laughter " would have you suppose." An Adventuress. A beggar woman, who was in rags, met Mrs. Lordly Pompous and holding out her hand, said to the lady in an imploring tone : " 1 am in great distress ; I've lost my husband and my only child." I don't believe u wonl of it. If that is trunks standing ijuite thickly together show ' so why ain't you in mourning r Where are that only a few years ago the mountain sides your jet ornaments?" casting a scornful * glance at the supposed impostor. "1 believe you are an adventuress." were covered with spruces and hemlocks. A good deal of this devastation is wrought l.y liuuu-rs and locomotives, and the tires are accidental. In some parts of British Colum- bia, however, and in Washington the farmers* are destroying a great deal of timber to clear land for agricultural purposes. In the last days of July the atmosphere was beautifully clear, and for many mile* the grand pyramids of Mount Ilaker and Mount Kanier could he seen, rearing their splendid cones high above all their surround- ings, and showing then great sides covered with the snow that never seems to melt. Sawiiur Out the Last Act. A story n told of Byron's wretchedness when his play, "Dearer Thau Life," was produced. At the end of the second act there was a long delay and the audience grew very impatient. " What in the name of goodness are they doing V asked a critic of the author. "f don't know," moaned Byron. At this moment the sound of a saw at Three days later a gentleman was within work behind the curtain could be distinctly ten miles of Mount l.akcr, and he could not \ heard. distinguish the grand mountain, for the air wa* oppressively heavy with smoke. It did not take long to find out who started these tires. Here and there in the timber through winch the tram sped across Washington were little clearings, and fanner* and t lies r men could be seen felling trees and se'.lmg tire to the branches. It is the only way tliev have of removing timber, so that they may plough the land. They have no means of getting the wood to market, and the only thing they can do is to reduce the enormous growths to ashes and then pull out the tiuinp. mil thus .1.1.1 a little to their tillable area. They are fortunate men if they are able to clear .uorr than an acre or two a yeai , for the work i* enormous : l>ut when an acre is finally freed of iu heavy burden of timber it is found to be maguihVicnt i,u mint: laud. Kut it seems a terrible waste to see these mikjlity forest* reduced to nothing but smoke and ashes. Now and then one sees a more cheerful picture in these woods. At a side track he will find a large number of flat cars, loaded with big logs all iradv In be taken to a sawmill. This is a lumber camp, and through the timlwr may be seen the little pine or canvas huts of the lumbermen, who are felling the tree* and trimming the logs ready for shipment. Then again the travel- ler sees a sawmill, where '.umber is being turned out iu great uuanlilies ; but prolwhly fifty times as much timber is destroyed without profit to n living aoul as is now be- ing ut ili/i'd in the forests of Vtiitish Colum- bia and Washington. It is atetrible wast: , hut there is no present prospect that it will he -lopped. WSHSSSI'* Kltlil. Ill ill. I all .. " Tnr revolt of woman," as lately exemp- lified in "m law courts, has now npread to the Antipodes, where a wife has just admit- ted to the magistrate of tioulhiitn that she had thrashed her Imilwnd with a whip. Her a .'t inn wns commended by the magistrate, especially as the whipped husband was of drunken dispomtion, and, cunt.inued his worship : " It would have an excellent effect if all wives of drunken husbands did the same, instead id appealing to the court for protection" He said he knew several instances wheie the commended , . nine of treatment had resulte.l lienefirially, though the whip should only lie used when the ic. ..^'iii nl head of tii bouse had abrognted Ills right torulv by flagrant mix-on. lueU " What arr they doing now, my dear I'.vron " said the critic. Here the author's keen sense of humor came to the rescue. "I think," he said, " they must 1 cutting out the last set :" Fashion Item. Smoking jackets skould always he worn with puffs. The Kight Arm and Left Foot. The right arm is always a little larger than tlie left, but the left foot is almost al- ways larger than the right, presumably be- cause, while nearly every man uses hi.- righl arm lo lift a weight or strike a blow, he al- most invariably Kicks with his left foot, while the lounger stands on his left leg and lets his right fall easily, lieoause he has learne I by experience that this is the best attitude he can assume to prevent lassitude and fatigue. This constant bearing of the weight on the left foot makes it wider than the right, and it often happens that a man who tries on a shoe on the right foot and gets a close fit has to discard the shoes al- together because he can not endure the paiu caused by the tightness of the left. If when riding on a street car you will take the TSJMM to notice, you will *cc that in laced shoen the gap is much smaller on the right foot than on the left, while with button shoes the buttons have to lie set back ten times on the left shoe to oner on the right. The Rod to Take. There is a story told of an iiuregcncr.tie old Dinner in Hamilton who doesn t go to church ; often as he should and thus pre- vent the possibility of stories. On theoc- ia,"ion 111 i|iic*tion he waa suoo/ing comfort- ably in the comer of the pew and the minis- ter, lo.newhat of a sensationalist, was mak- ing a touching appeal to ihose who were still out of the fold. " Which rood will you take?" he almost shouted. " Which ruad will you take?" The old sinner stirred uneasily, half sat up and responded : " It don't make a bit of difference to me ; but It- Mirr you grMickVts for the sleeper." His wife had him awake l>efore he could go fuither a-.itl it embarrassed the poor wo- man so -)>r led UK chin. -l>. t I'te* Press.