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PITCAIRN'S LONEL ROCK. J walk, as the pathway is all well shaded by trees. The hoote you see at she top of the I bill was built for Uie nlorage of cotton for Lettera From a Bright Young Wcaian Who Describes Life Then. far HMr. d < i >|alliiM. ft ami IMBgklrrx ! laSSWSU Mul I IK r I .1. . fill. II l|.|" I M.l'lin ""' ill om.iii. .1 i.iami. Is, Ike f.tc in. . Kvery one who has read the romantic and remarkable story of the I'ilcairn Islander* is always glad to hear of the prosperity and ale. You will find thin pathway pleasant and delightful, an It winds through the ooooanut groves. When you are about half way through the grove, turn around and look at tbe peak above Hie landing place. I > you see the exact representation Ike of an old man's head ? That is what we call the ' Old Man's Point. He is a venerable looking gentleman, and is really so, having been there since the formation of this inland. We will go on again ; the road is wide and clear just now. After we have gone on for a few minutes longer we will see the first dwelling house on the way. In front and happmessoflhi. simple and p,,,u. people. ; " Thefr father, were the band of desperate | -""I""?'* ' with scarlet geraniums, - ,. I ueacias, and other flowers. Our garden sailors of the sh.p Bounty whot the,, Up i fencM ; fe mide of pine pple pUn ,l A> the plants, which are about two feet high, are prickly, they afford an effectual barrier against the invasion of the fowls which sometimes prove troublesome. tain anil a |. ii t of the crew .-uli-ifi in a small boat on the Pacific Ocean, and then sought refuge from the vengeance- they fear- ed upon the almost unknown rock of Pit- cairn. Tin i'laudcrs of to day (sprung from toe union of tbe mutineers with the women of Tahiti, whom they took from their native island when they wiled into the unknown. Win M news comes from 1'itoairn the names of th to recal Young, McCoy, and tbe other* who perish ed, all but one of them, in their prime, most of them by violence, tbe victims of their own strife or of the treachery of the few Tahitian men whom thev liad taken with them. Only one of them was saved, John Adams, to he the redeemer of his people. With the wives and helpless children of his brothers ID criDie all around him, John Adams dis- the noble mission before him and he people who are mentioned never fail call their unhappy ancestors ( 'hristian, eagerly embraced tbe opportunity to wipe out his past He pored over the Looks that had been saved from the Bounty, adding to his own meagre knowledge that lie might tbe better instruct his Tittle people. He taught them to read and to love morality and religion. As he grew in years the graces of perfect simplicity, unselfishness, and lo\ ing kindness more and more possess rd him, ami were reflected in the character of the little band who revered and cherished him as their father and guide. Itut for bis uuturing hand 1'itcairn Island would never have become the "Carden of Eden," at it was described by the early visitors there after the world had bean) the story of the mutineers. Sometimes a whole year elapses without Miss Young describes the house in which her family live*. It is a plain little cottage gable roofed and thatched. The interior u divided into four rooms. The house being mere nests. ys. " Under an hangs small, the sleeping rooms are "Let us step inside," *he sa_ the eaves of the thatched roof empty cage. The dear little birdies aVl died last year, over whose dea'h I shed many a bitter tear. Now for an introduction to our family. This dear, noble-looking man, with snowy beard and hoary hair, is father. Mother is this lively old (no, not old, only growing in years,, woman, who i* so very glad to see you and make you welcome. Her hair is very black still, with a very thin sprinkling of silver in it. She is a hard working woman, as her hands lietoken. This pale, quiet girl is my sister, Mary Ann, two yean younger than I ; and ihe other young woman o? my own age is Hnlinan, my brother Ben's wife. The little children, five in number, are theirs." There are four other members of the fain ily whom she describes : and in her various letters she takes her correspondent through the valley, rich with coffee trees, whose burden of green berries will soon ripen, and tells her about the. people who live in the various cottages. " As regards the furnishing of our homes." she says : " We do it in the best manner I onr limited means will allow, but some of \ tbe cottages are bare and totally devoid of to the providential favor that finally brought peace and blessings to the ialaod. Here is one of the stanzas : We own the <lepth of n aad uli.noe. Of guilt and crime from whence w Thy hand upheld un from despair. Kin" we had Mink in darknew ther there. 4 In I form Law. A movement designed to bring about a uuifernt law of marriage and divorce for all the States of the I'nion has recently been started: by the American Bar-Association. N'o one familiar with the present state of affairs will question the desirability of the change, for truly the marital laws of the republic furnish an anomaly unparalleled by any other nation of the world. Instead of one law of marriage and divorce, which would seem to be the proper thing for a single people, there are no less than forty odd codes, each State being a law to itself in these matters. In itome States) a marriage in order to be valid must be performed by a properly authorized person, a clergyman, magistrate, eto. , in others, no such ceremony is repaired, a mere agreement of the par- ties) l mi; sufficient. Troublesome doubt has by this diversity arisen as to what con- stitutes a valid marriage, while it has given rise to an endless number of cases in which the courts are called upon to decide whether a woman is a wife or a mistress, a widow or a false claimant, whether children arc legitimate or otherwise, whether certain persons are heirs entitled lo inherit or not. Nor are the evils lees grave which grow out of the diverse divorce laws. In ronie States the laws are so rigid that it i* difficult to sever the marriage tie. In others it is as easy to throw off the marital obligation as it is to take it on. In New York, for instance, there is but one ground of divorce, infidelity of husband or wife. Klsewhere a dozen may be found including the most trivial things. In one state the applicant mast show a year's residence. In another six or even three months will do. In^some divorced defend- ants arc forbidden, in others, they are free, to marry again. Thus it will he seen that the work which the Bar Association has undertaken is a much needed reform. It U reform moreover that is sure lo receive the hearty sympathy of right minded men 11 over the world. any news from 1'itcairn Island, though the ! <"y pretension to beauty." inhabitants always watch their chance to send letters by the ships which happen to lie pausing. The September number of the OfHaiut Monthly publishes a number of letters written by Miss Rosalind A. Young The unpretending little church has only three windows of glass. It contains the (Vneen's organ, as tbe islanders called it, a reading table and a desk, enclosed by rail- to a friend in thia country. They are very readingmatter abundantly bestowed by kind Ian- i friends in distant parts of the world, and interesting, uecausc they picture in tbe Ian gu*ge of an educated young woman the ing*, the church library, well stocked with .er abundant! tant parts o twelve family seats. The walls are painted I n.afr Blldlo. It is not a pleasant thought to contcm plate that for the sake of gain any person could be induced to scamp his work when by so doing he endangers the lives of scores of his fellow beings. And yet this is the only reasonable conclusion one can come to con- cerning thote rr>|K>nsib)e tor the New York building, whose collapse a few days ago re- salted in the death of some fifty persons en present life of the islanders, of which we j white, and the only ornaments aie iilumin- ! gaged in the budding. At the preliminary nav e hud no detailed account for many years. , ated cards w ith Scripture tex in. The build- ' The isl inilcrn are audio be fonder of Ameri- { ing is seventy feet long by twenly feet wnle. cans than of the British, whose protection j IU west end i* the nchoolroom, separated they enjoy. They, however, have good rea- . from the church by a thin wood partition. son to entertain the kindliest feelings toward " You could not fail," says Miss Voung, Queen Victoria. Here are exlracts from ' " to admire the view from my hoine.pspeci Miss Young's letters : " We have had a new organ," she says, "as a present from our <Jue<-n. An inscrip- tion is written on a heart-shaped tilver plate above the keyboard. T'us is the imu'rip- tion : " ' A present from the Queen to her loyal and loving 1'lU-airn Island Subjects, in appreciation of their Domestic Virtue*. " It is a gift of which we are justly proud, ami tin instrument in a splendid one." Miss Young is the schoolteacher on the island. Her ancestor, Kdward Young, was < in of the two mutineers on the island who died a natural death. He succumbed U> anthina in IHOO, leaving Adams as the only survivor of the inulmeen. Kvery cue, Miss Young writes, addressee the others by their Christian names. " For that matter," she says, "we are like one family. Thus my father is Simon, my mother Msry, and so on. All are like brothel u and sisters.' Then she describes the way in which the inlander* spend their lime. "On Sunday." he nays, " after family prayers, all the young people prepare them- selves for Sunday school. The teachers are five in number my father, Mr. V. Young, ' trial before the District attorney abundant testimony was brought out to show that the building was known to the inmates to be unsafe. Certainly one or two of the renten snd i he builder denied any knowledge of tbUfacl, or that they ever felt the vibration i ally wbcu tin golden sunlight tinges the of the structure. But against thin negative feathery leaves of the coooanut giuveonyoiir test imony stands the positive statements of . left in the early morning. How often have many others that they had tell and been ' I exclaimed, ' How perfectly beautiful !' as alanneil by it. Onr of the tenants swore I havega/ed on the siiirounding trees and thai he thought the building very weak. plants ; and surrounding ihe view like a pic ture frame stretches the beautiful blue M. n Leal > U Vs>e*Ber Bealrlre. The schooner Aida, which U&i arrived at San Kranclsco from Cooper River, brought down two of the crew of the sealing schooner Beatrice who had been reported lust in Behring Sea, where they were separated from the vessel by a gale in July. On the afternoon of July 10 Harry Man don, hunter, W. H. Doyle, sailer, and Scott, boat steerer, were hunting in a small boat a short distance from the schooner, when a fog settled down and they lost sight of the vessel. After rowing for some time in a vain attempt to find the* schooner, they conoluded to make themselves as com- fortable as possible and wait for the fog to lift. When night came on the wind began to rise, and to keep the boat's head to the weather they made a drag by lashing the carcases of two seals and a pair of oars to- gether. The wind increased to a gale dur- ing the slight, but abated in tbe morning. At daybreak the scbooner was not to be seen, and hoisting sail the three men headed to the north, skirting the shore of Alaska to find a landing place. The wind arose again, the mast and sail were carried away, and the boat drifted into ' . breaken where she capsized. Scott was drowned, but Mandon and Doyle clung to tbe boat and finally scrambled ashore, clad cnly in their underclothes. The boat was soon cast upon the beach, and the men se- cured a rifle, two shotf uns, and some cart- ridges that had Iwen lashed. All the provi- sions were spoiled, however, and the cast- awayi had nothing to eat but a raw seagull. They turned the boat over and camped under it during the night. In tbe morning they set out to find some habitation, and for four days they trudged barefooted along tbe rooky coast, subsisting on grass, roots, and one raw duck. On the fifth day they had to swim a river, and loet the shotguns. An ex- ploded -lull in the chamber of the rifle made that weapon useleM, and they could not se- cure anv more meat. An extensive mud flat forced them to leave the coast and take to the mountains, and .id- r eight days hard climbing, with no sustenance except roots, they came upon a deserted Indian village and were rejoiced to smell the odor of putrid salmon. They started a fire with cartridge* and cooked and ate some of the salmon spawn. They resumed their terrible journey, and they thought it providential good fortune when they were able to varv their menu with stale eggs from an abandoned duck's ueet. After many days of suffering, the casta- ways came upon an Indian fiitherman, who fed them and nursed them for a week and then took them to an Indian village on Martin River, where they were fonnd by a trading steamer. The Beatrice arrived at Victoria only a few days ago, and ( 'apt. Keefe reported that the men were lost. Telegrams announcing their rescue were sent to their relative*. It often shook and scared me, but I did not think it would fall in all at once," was his declaration at the trial. It was also Mated that the globes on the chandeliers were nome tune* "shaken off and broken. ' It waters of the vast Pacific. I wish you could see it as I saw U thin morning," The inland, she says, is full of hills and valleys. The trees are not many in kind, but there are a great many of i hem. society if those re*pon*ible for the proper I census. After pointing" out that th popu l..ra< mmi Irral. Tbe fact that Toronto during the last de- cade has made more progress than Mont- real and that theQueen City tmls fair to soon eclipse herpowerfulrivalwhichunlilnowhaf, in point of population, maintained her posi- t ii.n nf supremacy among the cities of the Do- minion, is not particularly realisbed by our contemporary, the Montreal <!n~Mit, which seU itself to reduce the effects of the unfav- ; will be a crying shame, ami an outrage upon ' orable comparison brought oat by the recent Flowers are few, and what Ihey have are construction of the ill-faled building nhould ' lation of that city and her suburbs has grown mostly sent to them. Now and then they be allowed to , TO nnwhipt of justice. Never ' from li.s,',.'.' in ihM ti. .'4:i,'.i7 1 at the pre- 1 receive newspapen from |..i--mg vends, ' sometimes only a month old. So they have a 1 very fair idea of what is pasing in the out- ' side world. The arrival of a ship is usually a holiday time, if strangen from the vessel land on the island. All the people on >he inland go baref'Kit, and they never cntch cold and are hardened to all sorts of wea tin i They have never had any contageous diseases and iteldom have dangerous sick- nem. Most of the people die ofold ige. " In your letter, Miss Youngsays, " you | ask if our climate is so marvellously healthy that our children encape all the ills of child - - hood. Perhaps your uuestion can best lie Miss Mary Ann McCoy (McCoy wai one of ; answered by my telling you that measlcn, ihe most ignorant and depraved of the mut- : whooping oough, croup, scarlet fever, and a meets. He found a root from which he was | long list of diseases, incident to childhood, able to distil an intoiicatine liquor, and his ' are names to us of which we scarce know the last years were spent in almost incessant meaning * * ' Our island being - intoxication. In a tit of delirium t remans, high, and surrounded as it in with the purest in 170H, he ihrew himself from a rock and ' air blowing from ihe ocean, the .Innate ,s was killed], Mrs. Sarah Young, my sister in pec-ulurly healthy." Uw, anil myself. Father has a class of the oldest nf the young people, and V. Young the larger hoys, luid Mia* McCoy the young girls in thetrtena. Mm. Sarah Young has the younger boys a 1 have the youugest ihililrcn, boys and girls. Tim avenge attend- ance is aliout forty. " (Ii tlir work on week days stie writes : "The men are usually employed in field wtuk, planting, weeding, ami supplying the food tliu- produce) for home. When the weather li.ii continued for u. long time dry, anil after lh Mian Young sayn she often think* she were criminal* more guilty or more clearly their punishment. Too \r Mrasstalst*. Two ocean steamships, named respective sent time an increase of 77,049 or TIT BITS. Sweet to tbe Sweet. " You don't mean to say she threw yo over and took up with a candy-maker, do you ;" inquired his bosom friend. " Yes," answered the gluetny youth. " I didn't stand any chance at all. He DCCIINM! to have more of a er pull, you know. " 8h Wasn't Afraid. "Now, I tell you, Minnie, I wouldn't BO out baggy-riding with Dick Whiltesley for anything. Why, the last tm.e I was oat with him he hugged me till I screamed, the impudent puppy '" Well, there won't be anything of that sort if I go with him." "There won't?" "Not much. I've never screamed yet." Mr. He Knew a Better Place Johnson " How'd yo like to waft yo'self away in a bl'oon, Mistaw Samson t" Mr. Samson " Huh ! wouldn't mind if ef I had a rood place ter light." " Whar'd you like ter light, Mistaw Sam- n ?" " On a haystack, I guess. * ' ' No'n deed ; no haystacks f er me : I enow 'betta place to light dan dat. "\\heah be it, Mistaw Johnson V " Watah melon pMch. " latvp.-at?! t'le Dream. A Dundee navvy, on awakening one mom - ng, told his wife of a curious dream that be lad daring the night. He dreamed that be aw a big fat rat coming towards him, fol- owed by t wo lean ones, and in the rear one ilind one. He was greatly worried over it md swore that some great evil was about to all upon him. He had beard that to dream of rats foreboded some dire calamity. In vain did be appeal to bis wife, but she could not relieve him. His sou, who. by tbe <vay, was a bright Isd, bearing the dream told, volunteered to interpret it and he did t with all the wisdom of aJoesph. Said ic : " The fat rat is the man who keeps) he public house where ye gang to sae aften, and the twa lean anes are me and me mither, and the blind one is yerssl', father.'' Waxing Them Together. Many of the first settlers of Illinois were rude in speech and rough in manner. Money as scarce with them and service was paid tor in produce. Ceneral Bmoe used to illustrate these incidents of frontier life by .he following anecdote : One day when he was a Justice of the Peace there c.-une to his office a young man, accom- panied by a yoLng woman. Be you the squire V asked the manly youth. " Yes, sir." " Can you tie the knot for us right y!" "Yes, sir." " How much do you charge?'' " One dollar is the legal fee, sir.' 1 " Will you take your fee in bees wa "Yes, if you can t pay cash." " Well, go ahead and tie the knot ami 111 'etch in the wax." No," said the sciuire, thinking there was ai ?" a good chance for a little fun : " bring in the ' first and then I'll marry you." Reluctantly the youth went out u> where was hitched the hone upon wbuh, Darfcy per and Joan fashion, the pair had ridden, and IV or 4O per i Mill .riii laanwu, M1V pMI uiu iiuueil, auu cent., the (la.rHi continues: "As compared brought the wax in a sack. On being weigh- with Toronto oar city is fairly holding its ed its value was found to be only about half own. Ten years ago Toronto had a popula- dollar. <WI ><u, _l.Tl- :. u_- _ ' l ion of 06, 19(1, while it has now showing a growth of (0,024, but Toronto lythe Nu.milian and the Labrador, have has in ihe meantime absorbed all of the sur- just Iweu added to Canada's merchant [ rounding villages, and, of course, the large inarm.-. I he dinner is an addition to .tbe I ,! gratifying increase inner population has been U) some extent brought about in this way." It is open to ijunticn whether many Mnnlrealers will share ihe opinion of the </n .'; that "as compared with Toronto our city is fairly holding her own," when they consider that tbe increase of their city was only ." per cent. , while that of Toronto even Allan line ; the latter to t 1 e Dominion line. In dimension* and capacity there is not much difference Iwtween the two vessels. The fi .-iirci in the case of the N'tirr.idian are : Length 4I.~> feet, breadth 4.i feet, depth of holil .11 leet, und registered tonnage .'I, Is I. Tin . . Mcs|rt>nding dimensions of the Labra dor are length )0 feet, breadth 47 feet, , according to the figures used by the tla-'th, depth .(> tVi . and tonnage -.',9x. Th? ships has increased more than K9 per cent. But are built w ill, a view to 1* used in l.th the the Ha.ii'- w in error in stating that the passenger and cattle trade and are. admir- ably adapted for their purpose. The '.'/<' in describing the I<abrador nay* : " A npecial feat ure of the new steamer, Labrador, is that the saloon and staterooms for tint-class pas stating large and tratifv mi; increase in Toronto's population has lieen to some extent brought aliout '> the absorption of the surrounding villages which have len taken in by the city dining the ten years past ; for as the woulil enjoy a trip abroad, but she does not ' sengers are contained in a house erected on j .(/,.' points out " the Ml, 100 which the re- think her father woulil ever consent. She the bridge deck, being thus entirely isolated cent census gives as the 'imputation of Tor- from other department* of the ship and sc | onto in IKsl m.VtuiV* the population at that niiing peril ct ventilation in all weather. I t j me of the suburb* since absorbed Toron- I nivinion i* also made for the. safe carriage to ', actual population in ISSI was Mi.145, ami comfort of animals m accordance with ,,! her increase over this figure is 108.0 per the new regulation* of the British H-wrd of oe,,,. The increase of 89.4 per cent given Agri -c and ihe Canadian Government. | l, y t |,e ceusiia was not brought about to any has several times mentioned the subject to him, always receiving iheai nwer, "I think you are better where you are." As an evi- dence of the intercut these people take in the affairs of the world, this extract from one leller will sntlico. You mention aliout vour remit elec I' 1 on. lion against tire is provided by steam | extent by annexation. lions. So far, how dors I'residenl Clevc land proceed u, Ins ailfinuiil ration % Satin pipes connecting with each KC pirate com- partinent, by which steam can lie turned Wsuu ljtlr < Horace MlsfM tuat life gives uolhing to father [her father is the clergyman of the little settlement ] and nometimes alone in our niniple school work : besides which I have to do Ihe family wash- ing and ironing and most of the memliug, all handwork. [In another letter Mi* Young write* that they have recently received a sewing machine from Tahiti] My inter, Miiy Ann, does the sewing for our boys and I for our girls, mother, Mary Ann, and my- I .. .' i- i m. ike most of our dresses. (i, u omen employ their time doing hnnse- wnrt, Hewini/, washing iioning. k ing. mil every n:ie liken to spend ,i ilay liihing now and then. If you want to be |'ii'|'il> lanned the nion. chVctual way to Mi. it 1 1 in spend a day on the rock* Hulling in Ihe hot VIM. and having a -a 1 : water llh afli r you hnvedone. Sleep aft ci a iia> o "pent cullies HI. Mllllir lllv , Hlnl I- -ii i, In si, '"(i I li>- little inland win 1 1 ili,- i feel that such a loss to the nation is one that will need years to lie.il IIMI. Minn Young says that Thursday October earning. K"-S fron alphabet up Ki 'uitn of clay- to poun jiala et ami splendid cathedrals, Many a farmer lime* money I hat oug.it u i.. in 'in Lank through nol knowing hi w U x r i unnerve wooden posts. The post nhould l>e Trom ve'iioles of > rudity it enters inrvrmfi rhr.stian is now the oldest nan on the ..land- I nored with an inch and a, ,uartei auger from rent steamers. It brings all science and Many of the '""ders bear the namen of the [ ,,. hull to a distance that will I* six inches philoaophy to ihe doors of tbe rich and the day and I hey we ln.rn in. 1 bis | bo, e ihe the ground when the post in set. poor, and' makes th' unit erst- unravel her mynterie* iinl glories. It <>|H-IIS avenues of inspiration* and power to every . ..nuclei!- tious toiler and determined thinker, and places the wreath of -Ulamment ami lioiinr j - -.---... ,._ H | N>vr , ne i, lc . ground wnen inr poM in *ef man, who is 62 year, old, ,. a grandson of Tn , n , har O v er ft good fire for a Quarter of Fletcher Christian, the only educated mai among the mutineers. It was he who fur nished the brains for Ihe enterprise, ami up on him rested a large part of the reiiponsi liility for the rVime. His ytiars at " an hour, so as to drive all moisture out of tbe heart of the butt through the hole bored, fill the hole with boiling coal tar, and drive in spending her life i only a mile and a half long .ni.l .1 niih wide, .111.1 vet >lu- iiiuls un- eliding iile.iaiiren in the vai\m^ .i|i.,"-i,f the little rock, and in the different moods of the ix-ean which stretch away on every sule. She has an eye fur the picturesque. "Conn ashore wilh me.,' she. writes, "and hi go ii |. Hi. hill from the lainlnig plan- It is an ascenl of .tlioul -.1 K i or .'MM) feel, -tut what sleep, but not an unpleanant Pltcalrn Island were very ynhappy. over his crime, anil the fact act of a passionate moment him forever of the society of his loved freinds in KniiUnil. He wa killed by the Talulian linn ninl nol one of the 1'itcairn Islander* kno'.vi to-day where he wax hurieil. One woman is now over DO years old. She ia the ! oldest IN i. .-I. on the island, ami i* ihe only woman | representative left of the tir*i generation in a well fitted plug, which will act an a hv I above the brows. ilraulic ram, and forcethc tar mtu the hpt pores He brooded ' of thewood, which will thunbecoine thorough that "he fatsl |y , reosoted.aixl last sound for twenty yearn hail ilennved j j,,,u.ad of four. As in ordinal-* , ase*,a /our oveil freinds ,,.), |,,,, t ahoiild have one hole'in its center nil-inch, two, side l>y side.eigbt mrh, three ; I- ii'ch, four. Post* which are already in MM- ground may lie Uired diagonally, filled up with hot tar (in the dry xummer lime,) | plugged up and repainted. tier the mutineer- On .Ian .' : IKOO the PiUaiin Islanders met tn .-I'le' .tic il.e iii-' . ciiteiinia) of their history on that lonely rock. They had a remarkable history io recall, and it wa* for Manager Joseph Frank, of Jacobs A Spar rnw vopcra House, has become the owner of the celebrated (ielding Chester. His sire, the A ppr native. Mi- Rha|inoily. " Yui ale fond of music, Captain?" Captain Baines (of the Toronto Field Battery). "Well, yes: in fact, I think I may say I like noise of any kn ! Inappropriate Simile; Lieutenant 'to elderly lady I. Madame, you look as fresh and blooming to-day as a rose of twenty summers ' " This world make* me tired. "said Paw- kins. " A man dot-M noinething ml, I or iiueer them a inmt impressive occasion. Miss Young wrote a hvnin to be sung on lliat il/.> . ll allnden lo the dark crime of fathers, lo the tragedies that followed, (annum Rifleman, and dam Lady Clarion, and everybody talks of it from one cud of Mr. Frank purchased this fast and mylish the land to the other, hut if he only does (ieldmg from Mr. I'axton, of Port I'eny. | some good, decent action, it" ia'never' heard their | The horse was entered at our Toronto exhi- of." "Oh come now'" said bin friend " Wall," said the anxious groom, " tie the knot and I'll fetch more wai ueit week." " No, sir '. I don't trust ; that's against the rules of thin office." Slowly the disappointed youth turned to go out, saying : " Come, Sal ; let's go." " I say, mister," answere 1 Sal, with a wo- man's wit, " can't you marry un as far an the wax will go ?" " Yes, I can and will," replied tbe squire, laughing, and he did, [ Louisville Cvmer- Jourual. Joit Like A Boy. " Papa?" ' Well dear?" " Will you please -.nil is Ihis string for me?" " Yes, in a moment." " 1 want the string now. " Well, papa's busy and you must wait a few m'nutes. " Can't you doit right aw " No, I can't." Why V " I told you I was busy. '' " But I want the string to put on my little wagon." ' Well, IT gel it for yau in a minute or Iwo if you keep ntill. " " I can't draw tbe wagon without u smug to it." " Well, what if you can't ?" " But I want to draw it." "I on't help it if you do. I'm busy now." " It's more than a minute since yon first said you'd do it." ' It will lie a good many minute, before I untie a if you ilon't stop teasinp ">< " Hut I want the string." " Well, wait until--' " I've waited a long time now, papa. ' " You'll wait longer if " Can't you untie it now, papa?" " No, I cannot." " Why?" " Don t you see thtt papa is) busy writing ami It wouldn't take but a minute to the string, and i o 1. 1, rre's the ruing, pap " Diil you hear what I said ' 1 want the string to put 04 ny little wagon." " (ioaway and ' ' I can't illaw l he w .igiui wit Inn l a nil ing ' " Now yn-i run right out (if this IIKHII. " " What for?" Because you're bothering me so 1 oan't write." " 1. you'll untie the string I wouldn't bother you any more, " " I tell yon that here, give me the string 1 declare, you might as well try to dam Nia- gara as to stop a boy's tongue. There'* your IlltM " Harold, I tell yon" " There's the string, pa[ tin rock where they sought refnpe, and ( a greal horse. ,l,on and i. styled by tbe knowing one* a* old string, you take it and get right friend here." discouraged. Just " Y'ei j string" it of papa thank you for untying tb