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THE WEEK'S NEWS TAN A DA. sirs. Maria Norton, St. Thomas, is dead, aged :u. Mrs. Mary Tansley, of South Yarmouth, Onf., is dead, aged W). Mr. Joseph Minks, for 50 years a resident of Kmgston, is dead, aged HO. Mr. n illiam Allin, the oldest resident of Newcastle, OnU, died Tuesday, sgeti 110 Reports indicate that Sir John Abbott, who is now in Italy, is not improving in health. The Manitoba Government officially ' nounces that 'JO.OOO settlers took up lanu in that province but year. Mr. Kobert Lang, n old and highly re- spected resident, died in I'eterboro' on Sat- urday, aged VI. During last year the C. I'. R. land agency n Winnipeg sold to actual settlers 3UO,UUO acres of land, reali/.ing f l.SOo.UUO. Herbert Clarke, twenty-two years of age, committed suicide by hanging at Thedford, Ont. To despondency is attributed the deed. Two brothers named Ximmrrman and a man named Samuel Johnson have been ar- rested at Fort Krie charged with stealing hay, which they were ukim; to KufUlo. The customs receipts at Toronii for the year ending December 31, IWrJ, showed an increase of tvu,:il.'l, as compared with last year. Many people living in the outskirtsof St, John's, Mid., have been compelled to kill all their cattle, last summer's fire having de- stroyed the grass. A rumour prevails at Quebec that the C. P. R. Company will this year transfer its three Kmpresscs, now on the Pacific route, to the Atlantic, and that the liuion line steamers will take the Pacific route. An elderly man named Theodore Dor- man, living at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, jumped into a well the other morning and was drowned. It is said that ho wss tem- porarily insane, but he had frequently threatened to take his own life. A meeting was held in Montreal the other night for the formation of t. t anadian Na tiunal League. The objects of thu society are to disseminate patriotism irrespective of party, to emphasize the importance to each citi/en of his rilirenship, to advance national unity, and to unread a knowledge of Canadian history and resource*. Both Mr. <laiUtoiieai.il Home Secretary Asijuith are under police protection. The Queen was Mtiongthe earliest to con- gratulate Mr. ItladsloiiB ou the arrival of his eighty-third birthday. kirn. Maybrn-k is said to bo recovering, and runuirs are nbro.i.l that her recent ill ness was self indicted, aud nut t'uo to . ,n sumption. It is reported that Sir Kdward Keed is forming a Literal cave to vote u^ainsf Mr. (ilatlstoiie's Home Rule bill if iti conces- sions to the Irish party are dangerous. The London Tunes says authentic news hax bean received of a serious state of affairs in Africa. The Khalifa is sending a strong force fi "in Oiiidiirinaii to attack Kerckho Ten's forte ealaLlished at l-a.l.. mirth i-f \Vadelal. Tbe Imperial nulhorilies have directed H'-otlitnd Vrd to take the spy Major Ls- I'arnn in'.n its employ for the purpose of tra. ing out the guilty parties conm . >d with tin- Dublin explomon. Amonrr the private bills lo be submitted to Imperial Parliament next session is one for tbu construction of a bridge across the Knglish cliaunel fioin Caps (irisnex to a point near Dover. The promoters estimate that the bridge oan Iw constructed for thirty three millioi. (rounds. Mr. (Eladstouo has been asked to redeve two farmers' delegations. One dusirox t urge, upon him a policy of "fair trade," which means protection, reciprocity, and bi meiallitni. The other wishes land courts tf li> reductions lu tents and special leg 1st ion in i he Interest of tenant*. I Mill. Tl tl I . Typhus fever continues to spread in New York Mrs. Ansnn I'helpn Stokes, of New York, is worth $|n.l!iKi,<Mi. l.n^t year '.'I.M.I horses en sold nil I h. Kusi lluffalo market for f. VI,. :.!'. The latest report is that Tascott, the Snoll murderer, is prospecting in Alaska. Hayti a< the Mrt loreiifii nationality to complete its building at t lie Chlrago World's Fair, During the past three days H' cases of typhus fever have been reported to the health authorities in New Voik. Mr. (ieoruu W. Vauderbilt has given a . i.. Hue int <lisi.il o to aid the Yamlerlult Kme Art (iallery in New N nrk. Dr. Kugsne WhiU, of Rnntnn, who went abroad for his health. Is said to have sni- . i.li .I by shoaling in Kegnnl's park, Uindou. Six nrisnners, including Ashury Oenlry. n nnted murderer and desperado, em-aped from jail ..t Atlanta, <!a., on Monday night. Mrs. lUih. wife nf a Mtnnea|.olm ,!.. r,.i . was divorred al !' .'It' a. BI on Snturday and I w.. honmlatet niariied Dr Amur, i>< mayor nf the same iHly. The entire for. e of hoilei inakeni sinpiuy ed in the l!r...,k. l^eensnotlvr Works al Dunkirk. N V ., >l.on! :il*l m nnniUi, hae struck lot hiplvr wages. A report fioni Waahisgton is lolh ntTect that I'li-sidml llarri> m will give Canada a parting klek by prohibiting the shipping, of goods through the I'llted Stales in bond. Hisli | \V II. Mare, of South Dakn'a, has astounded his congregation and esused i-onslderabU oommotion in the divorce t ..I..H- ! r, Macklng ths divoroe laws nf (he state.' A number of convtnts in the penilenflary al LIU a Uoek, Ark., IMVS died from a dis- ease which luflled the physicians, and agen uluo sears has sut ceedetl owing to sunpicioiis of rholeia. On Miluril.> nlglit Fre>l I'oole, formerly lit Toronto, a.id his hrothi ' (4eorge got into u waini dibsli' on tlie i|vestion of annexa- tion In Sa^.naw, Ml")'., when (ieorje. drew his isvolvxr and Hied, Inflicting a wound that caused ilealh the following night. UflBstaV A ,l..\( i h fn.m Mf.n li video says It ll be- i P.ii*i(iuy will join I ho I'.i ..Hi allianor. Mexican troops aud revolutionists have had a hot fight near the Texas border in which the revolutionists ere worsted. Il is said thai 15 Republican and 15 Demo- cratic members of ths U. S. Congress will go to Hawaii in order to counteract British influence ou the islands. Urand Chief Clark, of the Order of Rail- way Conductors does not anticipate any- trouble with the railways during the World s Fair and U not preparing for any. It i* stated in St. Petersburg that 2..VX),- OUO distressed agriculturists in Central Rus- sia will be offered inducements to migrate to thinly populated Kusian provinces. The Inf-inU Isabella will sail for America on the cruiser Comic Yendarialio, and among her suite will be the Duke of Veriguu anil several Spanish graud<*es. The municipal governim nt of Vienna is taking extraordinary precautions against the possibility of rioting by the '.U.OUO un- employed persona in the city. The Municipal Council of Paris has, by a vote of fifty -four to twelve, resolved to erect a monument to commemorate the execution of LOUIK XVI. and to demolish the Expiatory chapel erected in !*<_>.) 'JO to the memory of Louis XVI. aud Marie An- toinette. The Moscow papers have been informed that Count Lecu 'lolstoi, having disposed of large sums of money in favour of the fam- ishing peasants, has distribute.! his vast estates among the member* of his family and practically beggared himself. The latest advices from St. Petersburg and oiber parts of Russia show that the persecution of the Jews, and the inhumanity of the Czar's officials towards that unhappy race, aie greater lhn ever before. 1 1 is reported that the Russian Minister of Justice has decided to exempt female convicts iu Siberia from dodging and from wearing mansclei, and to substitute punish- incut by restricted diet and isolation. n In:., en Ibe Lakes. Referring lo the bugaboo which the New York Times has jusldiscovert-il in tbf launch- ing of a couple of revenue cutters for use on the lakes, the Montreal Witness says: Thu Times U one of the very liest of American newspapers. It has an efficient and reliable telegraphic newsservice, itnd it is generally found supporting all that is moral and righteous in political and social life. Some- time!, however, it publishes sensational letters of the n-ost illogical and giotesque character, and these art- generally found to lie about "the foreign policy "of the I'nit. .1 States. The Tim" seems to belike the LI fashioned Knghsh Liberal, sound on do- UK -tie question*, but hi.|K-lessl> jingo in regard lo foreign affairs which have not been made party issues. Its latest freak is the publication of s long obviously nousen sicallettei, trumpeting danger to the Ameri- can cities on tin- great lakes in consequence uf ll'e construction of " war vessels" under the title of " revenue cutlers" at Owen Souid. According to the Tunes, these f. in'iUhle vessels, with powerful arma- ments, anyone of which is caps hie nf dealing singly with the single war vensel and the three revenue cutters of the I'mled States i.n the lakes have been secretly bull', and two will be in commission all winter and lead) for active service any moment. The TiM't is shivering in its shoes as it thinks of llnlTalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, San dusk), Milwaukee mnl Chicago all "expos- ! ed " to Uimbardmeiit like Alexandria at any moment by these formidable war vessels. It seems the builiiiug of iheso monalers was tieiiig kept a profound secret by the Iliiu-li (internment, and one ol the methods uf secrecy olwerved was, it appears, the em ploymsnt upon them of American wm king- men wlio loyally furnished the (!ovciiin<ent al Washington With accurate desci iptiuns i.f every ilotail of eai li vessel. Ill view of these fact* the w in.b i i that President Harrison had the temerity or (lie reckless- ness te charge tolls on < 'anadian vesnels pass- inn ihrmigli IheSaiilt Ste. Marie Canal, lie, and all hii Cabinet, nhonM have hastened to I Ittawa. fallen on their knees, and bump- ing their foreheads on the floor, uncmidition ally surrendered up the I'liilrd States to the haughly di'ipot at Ottawa, that peradven- ture they might find mercy in th eyes of their lords. Doubtless, the prolonged mm isterial crisis al Ottawa only prevented out I "i.l High Admiral from emliarking on one uf these war vessels, nail it< his pent. on to the maul, des- n. ling up. n CliMigii, Milwaukee, Mid the rest, and annexing them forthwith to the llnlish I'nipire. ll appears that the purpose of tbee three marine monsters is to pieienl the people ol Canada from annexing thenmrlriH incontinently to the I'lilted States. It is the llritish not the Caimd.sn (Jovernment scheme, lo hold Csnada And moreover, these three war vessels are necei snry to Hrilain'x predominance over \ lad n...i.i'li on the I'a. ilie coitnl ot Asia, I. idle wonder they are armed to the teeth when the fats of two continents and a onuple or three oceans and a half do/en ssas depend upon them <>ie*l Itrilam has, howevei.it appear*, a plan of reinforcing them with a tlret of almut forty or fifty men-of-war at I intent scattered over the seas of the world, >) |M nUnminu the seagoing vessels through the canals. It in MTV plain that it is all up with ths United Stale*. Nothing but llis good nature of John liull has preenrved the American union from utter pulverisa- tion by sin h tone- Just what the I 'nurd States is going lo do about it is not oloar. The /urn. declares that in building their revenue cutters lh Canadian I'overnmeul has broken the Ireaty of IM7, which it at the sains tune points out, the treaty allows < una.la to du. Ths /'isr >ays that Canada nevsr has had revenue imttnrs on the lakes li'lore, why should she have them now. Ths british ars empowered by the Ireaty to ktep one war vessel and three revenue C':tlemon the lakes, but they have never done so, snys the 7'iir< (though mistakenly), and il 1 1 nle-ntly thinks they nh....'oi no' U alloyed ever to do so. The 7'isnrs is evi- ilenllv iu favor of I lie l'nite.1 States whloh already maintains the full comptemenl nf armed veesels on ths ;. Us allowed by ths trsaty, namely, on* war vessel anil three revenus cutters, hroaking ths treaty and .-.iiiiiin tinw a whoie llsek This w..u!d be linn for the great iron vesssl yards which have sprung np at diflsrent poinln en the great lakes, but ll would I* an extravagant polu -y. 1'he 7'i . has runjured up, otit of nothing, a buKabon fnr the amusement ot the children among Us readers. i - Tell me with whom thou art found, and 1 will tell Ibee wliu UiouMU HOUSEHOLD. The Little Life- O Im! delight! How chill and gray The breath .ind bloom of Hummer dar, In rolun - -on,- there lurk* moan The Or on* taken am a fobbing tune. Hi nee baby died. < i vanished joy ! The hour* thrice blewrd When elo-ely to my boom pressed The flaxen brad. Anil now the smart Of lightened .tin- and weighted heart. Since baby died. Oh mother love ! To dream, to wait. To hope, to bear, to blew my fate. Then death. Of what avail to rave! There Mill remain* the little (rare, fince baby died. O pure wet life! Thy frofrrance rare Si ill linger, in the silent air, Like a voiceloM prayer it lull* my pain. And frozen irrief drop* down in rain Since baby died. Long Engagement* Young woman, beware of the man who seeks to hind you to a \oaf engagement. No matter what the pretext may be, his motive in almoat always a selfish one. He U either too lazy to work for a family and too fond of his bachelor indulg- ence* to be willing to renounce them for the purer and calmer joys of married life, or is a base icountlrel, seeking only to win your affections and your confidence by fnud of a promise which he never intends to make good. Somebody will aik n wiut we consider a long engagement. \Ve reply a year U long enough for all purposes and if it beyond tmit time it it too long. Long engagements are galling, like any other chain. There may be circumstances which justify them. Ma they are exception- al circumstances, and we are only dealing with things as they generally exist. The woman almost always is the chief luf- ferer. Her wrong is immeasurably great- er. She struggles along the woary years of waiting in a false position, and by and by her bloom fades aud her temper sours, and then Tom stcs somebody younger and fresher anil more attractive and he is weary of Mary ; aud the engagement is broken and he marries lus new love ; and Mary either marries on t of pique someone old enough to be her gran Ifalher, or else she subsides into an ..1.1 maul, anil >o her life is wrecked, and all because of a long engagement. Hot Water Bottle- One of woman's best friends is the rubber hot water bottle. To every pain save head ache she promptly applies it. She re- gards it in many oases as a quick and sore remedy. In consideration uf its many good .ptlitiei u is now decorated with a cover. This gives it a better appearance when hung up. When in use the soft flannel feels very i "infiTtitig. The covers are made principally of eiderdown. The more elaborate onee are made of silk. The wadding consists of a thin layer of eottun batting covered on both sides with hops. The odor of the hops adds inn. li to th soothing power of the bag. The small rubber pillow is another con- i.i- nl article which the average woman does not like to be without. She may blow U up at will aud it lit* into any place with a certain adaptability she admire*. This also may In- . ,.\.-r- I with silk One woman used a small pillow of this description all sum- mer, especially when she rode in the open can. Shu said it might be eccentric, but it sa\ vd her many a back-ache. A Receipt for Beauty. " What Iwsutiful gnl ' The exclamation was involuntary, and as the lovely creature, a woman in the plenum. le of her early charm, w.ih tin cleat c)ii, the bright bloom, the elastic step, and the gracious air of youth an.) health and happiness, passed or. the prom enade, all eyes followed her. The tiil.uie of admiral i. .11 Wat paid alike by witened age, crabbed care, and smiling ease. By right of her beauty the girl was, for the moment, a princess. Beauty is in itself a .lower, a .liMinct ion. a divine right to reign. A woman who is fair to look nposi fulfils, in a way, one of woman'* chief ends in the world to a. lorn, I., gratify, 10 please the eye, as the eye is always pleased by har- m minus and graceful combinations. Hut beauty has many types and phases, ban disadvantage as well as the opposite. One sees every day women who are confess- o.llv adnrahla, so exquisitely symmetrical are thrir outlines, so sod Iheircurves, so rich their coloring. And yst ! something m lacking, (hie cannot tell what it is, or why there is a sense of disappointment, a feeling that the U'aiity just miMea ILK coronation. The very handsome woman i- sometimes wearisome-. Another, Uss correctly beaiiti fill woman, with irregular feature!!, hair an. I me. thai Apparently ilo not nut. h, a mouth too large, a nose lip-tilte.l, a fare defying analyms and inviting criticism, still iMiiwrseea that matchless quality which diet mguinhed Helen of Troy, and Mary (0 n evii of Scots, and Marie Antoinette, and .loarplnnr. and which mum itali*ed many a heroine of song and story. There sic thou|hlle people who sty that bcauU of soul sigmtioa invariably beaut) ol bo. ly, that theapitilualund intej- lectual muni of necessity shine through the corporeal vesliliire as a lamp through a traas|iarcncy, (Granting that a certain dignity and no- bilny il.i tuhere in the personality . an. I ['.,: education refines (ho features ami inform* the countenance w itli exprwsion. fheadinis sion mint lie made that lieautiful souls are not invariably resident in lieautiful bodies. A very plain la. e. a rough skin, unsightly linramenls, have often been the ontwatil accompaniments of rarely pure aud sr,nui lie beings, whose angelhood was compelled to await its wing* un thi< other side of this sphere. An etcelliMil man WM wont to ohssrve thai when h chose a wits he should took for mental rather that physical graces. "Favor is deceitful and beauty Is vain," ho quoted gradnally, "hut a woman that fearoth the Lord, shall lie praised." tlis mici . finding him slow to dr-aignate th* future companion of his travels through the world, kindly indicated to him a certain u rrpiu* lil !c Miss I'nula, as devoutly C...O.I as she was iintcrtn. lately angular and plain. And very malicious was their las- isfacUon when the barheloi brother exclaim- ed, " lireat S.ott 1 Tbrrs Is reason in all things ! A man wauls sumi/Aut,; hesUni piety in a wife I" A recelpl for beauty ! Who shall com- pound II ? It ls easy to say that we must have goed health, good temper, good breed- ing, happiness. Rusk in says, pithily, "You ran never make a girl lovely unless you make her happy." Tranquillity ' life, ability to rest, freedom from heavy ; burdens, luxury, these help ; but, after all. ' beauty; like glory, is the untranslatable word. [ Harper's Bazar. Ginger Goodies- Harrl gingerbread, soft gingerbread, drop cakes aud gingersnaps can be made with perfect success without eggs. Gingersnaps may be considered ccstly in time, as it is a labor requiring patience to roll them out until they are of paper thinness, as they should be, and then to cut and bake with due care. But the actual expense is very small, and the jar of crisp giogersnaps is something to be surveyed with no small sat- isfaction. Almost everybody likes them, and they will keep indefinitely if the supply is large enough. Here are some good plain rules for them. DnniBbMAra. One cupful of sugar, one cupful of molasses, one cupful of butter (lard will answer ; mixed lard and suet from the frying-ksttle is better), one teaspoonful uf ginger, one teatpoonful of soda dissolved in two teaspoonfuu of hot water. Make a stiff dough with flour, and knead thorough- ly. Roll as thin as possible, cut in small rounds, and bake in a moderate oven. HAHD GINUKKRRKAD. Add another cup- ful of molasses and a cupful oi sour cream to the same mixture, make stiff enough to knead well, and roll into cards (thin flat loaves), and yon have an excellent hard gingerbread. Some prefer tbeee cards glu- ed with a little brown sugar dissolved in milk. Sort GiM.iRBRLnri. For a rery nice. melting, soft ginger bead, made without eggs butter, or milk, use half a cupful of fat from the frying kettle, a large cupful of dark molasses, a leaspoonful of ginger, one of soda, half a capful of hot water, and flour enoi-gh to make a stiff batter. The only difficulty is in getting the batter stiff enough, yet not too stiff, and in good bak- I ing. The oven must be hot, but not so furiously hot as to scorch. All rakes made without eggs require to be somewhat suffer than when erfgs are used. It is difficult to give exact quantity, as both molasses and flour vary somewhat in this respect, flood j ginger cockies are made alter the sasne re- cipe. Of course they must be made stiff enough to roll out without sliding. For drop cakes substitute cloves and cin- namon for the ginger, and make soft enough | to drop from the spoon and hold shape with' | out running together In the pan. liak in j a quick oven. Three or four raisins or cur ' ranu stuck in the top of each will please ' the children, for whom these are all good, > wholesome cakes. Honiehold Rscipai RYK MrtriN*. One pint of rye flour, half a pint of graham Hour, half a pint of wheat (tour, a tablespoon of sugar, one egg, three teaspoons of,baking powder, two spoons nf salt, and a pint of milk. Mix in a smooth batter and bake in ho: muffin molds. Soi ii Mn k Cuini'i K> Two cups our milk, one egg, one ica*poon soda, salt, flour to make bailer. KYI- BREAD. Make a sponge of one quart of warm water, ons teacup of yeast thicken ed with rye flour. Put in a warm place to rise over night. Scald one pint of corn meal : when cool add to the sponge. Add r\e flour until thick enough toknead, hut knead it but little. Let rise, mould into loaves, place in deep tins ; let rise and Iwke. CiKXAvr KKX \HrAT CAKE*. Put a half teacup uf dried currants into a colander aud set in a dish so the water will rise above the currants. Then rub well and drain. Take an e.juai i|uantity nf A vena or ths best tine " A " oatmeal, and mix with water. Hake in a buttered tin about halt an hour, but de not brown. Kat with butter Makes a de- Iuiou >kc. nutritious and wholesome. Ki:ic\ktfi Pfii< Ihie cup milk, one cup water, Iwo cups Hour. Pour the milk and water slowly on the flout, a very little at a time, so that there may be no lumps in thomixture. Heal gem-pans hissing hut on the lop of the stovs. and drop into each one a piece of butler the -ire of a small nutmeg. I'our the mixture, wluch in quit* thin, into the gvin-pans, and bake them about twenty- five minutes in a hot oven. The gem-pans must be hitting hoi. and the oven hoi or il.e puris will not use. When baked, they should l>e more than double the aiio they were when put into the runs. \ >. rTAKi.s: H tn. Any kind of cold inenl and any cold vegetable*, canots po- tatoes, turuips, etc., chopped fin< and cooked like other " hash, " makes a good common dish. Be careful to season well. PAN IK'wnv. -This M a bmneJy hut pal- atable breakfast dish. Pare and quarter enough KM. i apples to nearly till a di-< p earthen baking pan dih, and add lot be apples half a cup of hot water, and nearly a cup nf niolsssss. Make a crust of two cups of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder, one half teaspoon nf tail, one-fourlh cup butter, and enough milk to make a .>(t .lougli .roll out an inch thick aud tit closely \er the apples, Iwke in a moderate oven as long as the crust will allow. When dnne, while warm, break ihe , ru't in pie--e>. which mix through the apple, h'or breakfast, tins must lie baked the day previous. - with cream or milk. IVIu iciu A 4.**>^ R IS V* I ffef A summary of ihe IVminion's tra.le with the Mothei land accotiling to I'ritlsh figure* for the eleven months of ISW appears in The London Canadian lia.elte The e por M to i ana. l.i in the eleven months were valued at 14,. VVJ..10I), compared with i I. .v'l.s.17 lait \ei. tbs slight decrease being chiefly due to a diminished business In iron and steel products. What is more interesa- ing to us is the eids of the avoonnt showing I .real Britain's inn chases from Canada, which were i'IO.i*l .(MsS against only 4*8.- <iss,.-i.V!, an increassof i'l,-?!W.StS. or about i. ..iii.mn>. equal to U.W per cent. Some of the increases are instrnctivs enough : for II months 1SOI !.>.' Hour i'OOS.tMl i-048.73* UutU* 174.043 Cheese I.WW.iiSH Wood, hewn. (W7.BS7 \\ ood, sawn l.HSd.ti.'M \\ hat a hi>a\ y burden is a name thai has too swn become faun v. The OlahtT purpner never Is o'erleok un lets the dead go witli it. Cheerfulness is heailh ; its opposite, nisi . ia disease. sVrwsikeBess aad I rlnr. A medioal doctor contributes to the Na- tional Popular Review a sttgge" ve article or :X e .eUtioo nf drunk utilises It rrimr He takes the H >und that there are two classes uf criminals, those who take to an ti social ways by mstm -t or nature, and those who steal, clf^kt or .nurder, from passiost nd poverty. To the former class, the writer says, belongs fully two thirds of the crim- inal population, including offenders of all grades, from the murderer down to the petty thief. To this class also belongs a still larger proportion of prostitutes and habrtual drunkards, who, although not criminal in the eye of the law, are anti-social in their instincts. The prostitute ranks with the petty offender of the male six : she bears all the well-marked signs of degeneration found in male thieves, swindlers and vaga- bonds, and her existence accounts to a cer- tain extent, for the large excess of male over female criminals. It is oommoo us degenerate families to find that whiU the sons take to crime the daughters take to prostitution. The instinctive crimi- nal is, in every cave, r mere or less degener- ate specimen of humanity : the re press srta tive of a decaying race. Primarily, it is his uioral nature teat is at fault and leads him to offeud against society ; but if we examine more closely we shall find that his whole economy, moral, physic*!, and intellectual, is more or less degenerate. He is scrofulous not seldom deformed, predisposed to insan- ity in the ratio of forty to one uf the ordi- nary population, and to suicide in the pro- portion of twenty to one. The criminal is very closely related to the insane, especially the congenital mean*, and personally he bears points of rseemhlssKsj to the idiot. Now, if we inquire into the family history of these criminals, it will at once become evident that there is a most intimate relationship existing between the instinctive criminal and such other marked- ly degenerate conditions as idiocy, epilepsy, sui-ide, insanity, prostitution, tubercular disease, and habitual drunkenness. All these and other degenerate states are met with in the parents and brothers and sisters of the criminal, and so (raenlly as to prove beyoud all possibility of doubt that the moral decay, of which instinctive crime is the outcome, is but one of the many forms in which family degeneration shows itself. Occasionally a whole generation of criminals appears in a decaying family : but in the majority of cases crime appears only ia one, two, or three members of ths family, the brothers and sisters showing the taint in various other ways. One will be scrof aloas) or a deaf-mute, another insane, idiatic, epi- leptic, a prostitute, or habitual drunkard as the case may be. And now a word as to the sources of this degeneration of the human animal. Of course all the deteriorating influ- ences of modern civilued life tend towards the i eduction of vital energy . and the degener* attoo of the race: stili there an some which are especially prone lo termuau in instinc- tive crime, and tint in this lit stands drunkenness. Carefully drawn statistics of 4.000 criminals who have passed through Klnura Reformatory. New York, show drnnkeuneas clearly existing in the parents ofSS.7 per cent., and probably in 11. 1 per cent. more. Out of 71 criminals, whose ancestry Rossi was able to trace, the fathtr was a drunkard in '-V, and the moth- er in II :asss (4.1 8 per ornt. ). Maseo found that on an average 41 per cent, of the criminals he examined had a .Irunken par- ent, IV. Laurent, in hist valuable work on the kalntuf.i of the Paris prisons, asserts that drunkenness alone, or cosnntned with some other nuerotic condition, is lobs) found almost constantly in the pareate of criminals ; and IV. Tarnowski, WBO has made careful inquiry into the mental aud physical condition of the prostitute* u her native land, found an alcoholic par- entage in no less than ti.66 per cent, of the 160 women of this class whose family his- tories she was able to follow. Of ronrsc here, as elsewhere, environment pi v certain part in the formation of character, but as it cannot acotmt for the scrofula, so, also, it uannol avcount for the crime and prostitu- tion. As Lucas has said : " In these h.-ri- taes ol crime example and education are only secondary and auxi lurry causes, the true first cause is hereditary influence." The writer closes with ths following as to the ireatiuenl of the inattn.'tive criminal: " I'pon the criminal from passion or pov- erty, and upon tlie designing person who, afur thinking the matter out, sleets to run the risks of his action, primitive imprison- ment has a deterrent effect : hut upon ths criminal from instinct and the habuosl drunkard it has no more effect than had ths whip ami the chain upon tne raving maniac of a hundred years ago. Tbe sys- tem I propose i a prolonged incarceration upon an indefinite sentence, in an industrial penitentiary where every humane effort world be made to improve ths criminal, morally, physical! , and intellectually. The cnpplcd in mind and body we succor without question ss to cause or origin. Wh\ should the cripple*! in moral nature be the only one in all humanity tn be- scorte.1 at and punished l<Kmus* of his atllic- lum'" A Jewish iuuk dealer in \\ inniprg im- posed an old miui'e loading musket on a green Kiigli'li immigrant a few days ago, aJoat! with thrilling anecdote* about Injun in.-io.em->. The greenhorn found the bar- rel plugged up with what **eme<i to be wads, lie took U to a gunsmith to be .-lean ed. and the smith poked out of the barrel 9706 in good Canadian bank notes. At latest acwnnU the junkman was being closely walohod by his friend*. Mrs. SJutSK rlaixl. I Nad Goitre (>r elliii(r in the iwk tnce I was lo vr-an e4d; am now M. I uvtt lloa>r ernlly an.t the has Milirrl) *t>a(<pear*4 1 1 Its* tiewi very troubte- *nM>. When I began I was frr-Hug ss) dtroor_ ajretl with the fwtin- and rre-.mwUim 1 felt that I wo'Ud as soon be dead alive. 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