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V hill thought about it at -^"'f osked i'i'^self why it is i2b:"j'^,",,",3to^v their sympathies " -he "-ea'i and erring ones t.,i lie cii'l not think about ^i; 1, hear; was tilled with aht3 ot a sadder and i;vapoa r sex, her 01 ..sin; thoug â-  nr ,1,1 ueeu Jinil} tuiie'ike paiu darted â-  1 Words; altLouwh he conscious of it, the in Qis liimd that at fiist. irniild B-jC pot be able to think '.i"tlv 0. his leiviag her, she ^^'^- ,;;,;,, crying wildly, sobbinjr, ' i not It t him go away from her -;',,. that lie v.-.-ul i be obliged to cTcntlo arguments ana the wild crying should e n-ouM he (luietly in his arms tiieii a choking, strangling 'ainiy that though ur,aiii lie Ml „ -,. .. ...Dking. â-  JQll ^f-li t 11 SO pi ' '.he was trying so hard to be 10 tho lesi aliuost hsart- •snniia t:e ;-)UC or Leinc' se-.arated as :3-= tiiought of Russel Anthon's ., ^vti-avagant such a course of i brpcfectlv natural in, and almost aay "young, impulsive, ' Tho'.i 'h Muriel'f tears were 'eVli'.i^^baiul knew that they â-  ,â-  'at the thought of his going iJr^tlicv we;v; shed out of deep '" '" iiian whose story she had irniig t.; i.TA w iiose recklcisuess and iit!" s!;c-s had Lloneas much "iuc-s con! 1 hav3 done. t;.(- pii'i tiat know!c"g3 f-.r.M'lit^ ^-^i^' i.^to Kussel ,i.,w,g i:;^ i;'i:i^t t^ii.ierlyâ€" ca\ o.' tiii-k of, or touch u-.; --.=3â€" upon the ;,-;,( ' ;â- : la h.:^ k;ic:, he )â- ' '.:i- v â- liiiii; to nave t/ v.r-- b.ul'.e.- in ov.- I might be detained r .IK .5 tc.l; and knowing 1 n â- ^r 1 ctly V, dliug to let i i\ iriel wished, at that !;cr husband more -J 'iy than she did iiavo given any- i- I ec:iuld have tlirowu hi ai A. in all sincerity. J j.A'hl not let him go, ,:id In 1,' lic-^xp.i. let put.-.;:, •with ;• i;i:i, li:i ;:i.cA.r,J.\ :, :i;i(! Vrt tlic !ic agony of an m- lie could not do- it. by nature, too inno- J, to attempt to feign no: her cwa that 1 her mind; still she .l,-'il the truth.â€" that m did not bring to Tov." that though 'ithout him would r,'^. she could not It v.as the truth .-,â-  \..j\\ 'I iicr h a 1 rcatlc ssly about .. ;r--r'/oa,!y nviiv.i.i:: licr heavy ::Di( rcund and round on her tiu- ::.;ii-ir.aetl sjuietliing to the effect ...'as bis tjro-hcr v/ils dying and t.seei'iini, and as long as he had niotli r t!:at if he could ever t; rAvr.nilel ho v.-oii!'l do it, she .vov.M bij wrong for her to say at iiv 't i!-J;;,'e him to remain lp;:ii::a |ai-ta:;LL: liica vay wrong under lluisfcl knew that, and tj'i, pf:ie;:t!y well, the thoughts â- in uis wife's heart he had v.'on- Ileavcn only lust were I "Uing pa;;i |iovsevtrj:y tlicy were tested y a.- thn.i^'i his heartstrings -nj, l:e .aid â- â- Weil, licar, then I will go." 'â- â- 'â-  iu.uaiu;-oil Muriel. las.-oon as I can, dear. I have some :.'.at rvirt le strai;;htened cut "' v,;il take a day or two, per iww.il y,, 1 -_, (i:-3t, iiussel How |lujv.\vl;tie tatind him?" l-"-.t: tulli -.lie that, Muriel. I go f'j:!;Hi;y of Mexico there I am â- â- â- T'laii.;; lit a gent.cman whose i^^e-) lii:, u resident of the eity, ;\i^' inu iu:'ormatioa coacerning I'-t' iistli\e years he has been .cv auas-ianied name no oae will â-º*'• 1 am iiis brother, nor does he I'-ii Anthoi Ihere is no such min ituisel,' he wrote ;• the a:n tlio 1, Arundel An- onc but you .^dur- t'".e real object of b^.-t that it siiould I '5-iviii te'.i pcop e, as I will, that ctaway oa bus ness." " "Viu u ,t â-  'ditfdiv. ^*Ui:ei i:; [.; â- 'â- in ij i r he 'ii. i F^a.r:, '.one very long " â-  Only think how at hicuse, all alone â- .:ay nor an hoar necessary. Arun- Pior^l can get there, or he •;jUltj:V }â-  aUe; ,,^ â- ^:'d M'.u-iel, earnestly, "sup ' V!";.' '"'^t die â€" suppose he should ^--'1 ycu biiiig hiai home with pAh-:.i.. ;i'l sadly. 'o;n^, dear his own act -â-  'ro:n his own country. If lek, should be recoguizad li live years ago killed Percy you kuow what the result "t u' as you say, he should '.^"•id see tc, Murielâ€" that be has â-  t.- v.itli pence and comfort until «cow â-  w! hi tile 3, ,e raia dashed 'acd the wild ^,^^ut tie la, i'lbai against the March night wind onse, Russel Anthon lis journey to Mexico, '2 an appareetly trifling thing hn'r "" '" person's life The 5hfcw -^ If^ter; hums lightly to â-º .\. "'".^ *^ ^he door for some one letC!! ^T- '*^' that innocent tcfL ^^- "' 'tl^i:i it the dead. ^^^eepmg hope aud happiness ^^fess^e^l^" "° °' ^^' person to whom. """JthpU "^^^"^--J^'^^oy goes run- ,â-  r street with a tele Jkm ij. hU hhistli a telegram in hia v^ ., 8 uiedong agony into -0 the world POPS =^ ,-f «;n leM" as â- â€¢long aa tiiete « will be haouui course of hia ti,i;an Ufe ^^S*'*^ whi|B ft TBas yery late thitt.Bight-lonir â„¢.«t TW-- v^® .^"JSe. qui^t bed-chamber '•I wonder if I ought to tell him before be goe3 " she said to hersi-lf at lalT laviW down the brush and .inking S K? s a^dtit'^wf hair fulling^in wavy mis know li ^7- ,1 Suppose he ought to know; !^ surely has a righfc to=knoV." a burning flush sleeping over her fair face crimsoning even her white neck and tL; tips of her small ears, "yet! cannot bear to tell hira. 1 am not at all certain about It myselt I cannot tdl yet whether it is really so. No, I will not lell 1dm before he goes 1 will positively by the time he know comes home, then I will tell him, andfiat wdl be time enough." So Muriel resolved 1 3 keep her secret a lutle longer from her husban 1. She should have told him before he we it she had no right to keep it from him. He ought to have known Itâ€" he, ber huaband-^titill she' did not tell him. Ah if she only had. Srtiftly the days went by; it seemed to Russel Anthoa that days never went so swiftly before. Th mgh he called himself weak and unmanly the thought of leavin' Mu del was almost like death to him. He could not help it, he could uot shake it off though he tried hard to do so, a vague fear of something, he knew not what settled upon him as the time for his departure drevv near in vain he reasoned with h^nsiilf^told himself how foolish and ohild»if .itj; nviis, that vague, haunting fear r,'ni.T.in;d the same, Tiie ni'ght bofcre he was t^ start for^fex- ic, Mr. and Mrs. Trowd)ridge and a other friends dined with him thiukiuj,, didail hia.frisnds, iliat he was going awa.y simply on business, they wished him good â- lupk and a speeay return. After the jsJj*^. uil gone Muriel and ho $at for a long time â-  in the pretty bright back parfor 4i.iltiriel of her own accord had gone to him and nestling in his arms, talked in her own animated way, telling lier what be must bring her, wdiat sli8 should do while he was away, and how quickly the time would pass to him and sue sent messages to Arundelâ€" little loving messages suc'i as a sister might have sent. " The time slipped by fo rapidly that they vrere bo.h surprised when, the clock struck one. " I Jiad no idea it was so late," said ^.ruriel springirg to her feet, .,V yet no^v that I think about i, I believe t «fn a little sleepy come, Russel " Muriel's dog Leo had been quietly lying besi ie'Russel's chair; he was s^ill her pet and playtldng just as he had been before she was married, and Mas allowed the full sweep of the house; raising himself now from his crouchin? position the beautdul animal fi^vej his expressive eyes upon his mister's faae. " Good old Leo," Russel murmured, pat ting the dog's head, "yoa will miss me, wont you, old boy, and ou W n't forget- me, will you, Leo " With a short, half bark, the dog put its fare paws upon his arm, wagging its tail, as if to tell his master he would never for- get him. It was only a trifling circumstance, yet the time came when with terrible, bitter distinctness, Russel Anthon remembered it. Muriel could not quite undergtand hsr husband's grief when the next day he bade her good-bye. " Why, RuHsel," she said, looking with wondering eyes at his pale haggerd face, "you must not feel so badly we will only be parted a little while you will soon be back again. " He folded his arms ar on id her-passioaate- ly, almost despairingly he could rot tell her it seemed to him as though they were parting forevtr. " God bless you, my darling, my own cear love," be whispered. " God bless and keep you." So he went away f n m herâ€" his young wife whom he loved so deeply. goes so it -will CHAPTER Vlll. It is two hours before sunset. Overhead the sky is cf that c^eep, pure blue, only to be found with'n or near the tropics, and the sun hanging like a great golden hall mid- way between the zenith and the western horizon, pours down a flood Of h»t, yellow sunshine. Far as the eye can refech stretch- es a vast plain, and in the distance rise the mountains dim and shadowy. The burnished lancei of the sun-god struggle to pierce the thick, green foliage of a hu^e mimosa that shades the narrow door- way of a smill hutâ€" it is nothing moreâ€" which is the onlv habitation in sight strug- gle, until half conquered, they fall in b- oi- en flecks of gold upon ttie bare baked earth which forms the door of the little cibin, and upon the bent head of Rasssl Anthon as he kneels beside a pallet of dried Mexican grass whereon a man is lying, ravmg and toismg in Wild delirium a i Although the face of the sick man is ttis.i- ed to a deep, purplish red, the lower part of it covered by a short, dark beard, so thick and heavy that it hides the expres- sion and beauty of the mouth and chin, the resemblance betvreeuitsand the one bending so anxiously about it, is more than atriimg, it is remikable. There are the same straight, clear-eut features, the same broad, full forehead and dark, wavy hair, even the eves of both are the 8ame,.though m one they are unnatorally large and br^iJht w^^ fever, in the other deep and dark with care and anxiety; no need to asi the reUtion- ship that exist between the two men one glaice tells plainly that the same blood Ka in the veins of both-Ras«el Antnon has found bis brother the man tossing so Seasly upon his miserable bed is .^undel "^Thrsun in momentarily shut out of the little room, the doorway "darkened by » slender Uttle fiffuro, and Russel Anthon il^ bis head « a^boy about seventeen V^ of age, half Mexican, halt Indian Jtl^iSto tie cabin, be«ing a jug of w.ter «elf about tn.^L *T^ to^*uqr.lum. thTf*^*. ' ?oy'8 face but seeing in it not S h^iW* ""' M^ encouragement! he dgh! rin^i ' *®^'y' as he proceeded to mix took W r- " to-'tents of a bottle he rook from Lis pocket with tome of the msdone, he again bent over his b^rother, eaymg, m a low but clear" and di^fTric oicc. (oslincc Arundel 'â-  The wUd, fever-bright eyes met hia. but there was no recognition in them. Thirst-" uy the cool draught was swallowed the*: M the restless head fellbaek upon the pillo-*? the hot hps began to mntter again as thev hsd muttered all that day Inngf "Oh, Russel, if you would only comet* me Y ou would, if yon *new how terrib^ 1 have suffered for my sin, how weary I am ot livmg this lifeâ€" a stranger amongst strangers. It is such a Icfeely life and such a sad one. if I tonld sete. yi^ face again onoe inore, my, !»*other, r^oald be "i^ngâ€" bs^ glad to die." Just as t.e had said so many times before liusjel said now again. " I am hero, Arundel Rus-el is here close bcwideyoB." •; -h ,;.; ^^,, gntit jsraS to^a pui^s and sopetlunrf verymedfes'pair r6se %^in bim, fes \HS ha:ids as gentle as a woman's he nut back from the burning brow the rings of'hair that had fallen there then stepping to the doo? he leaned against the frame, his tired eves wandering far across the plains until they I ested on the distant luonntains. " He will never know me again this s!dc of the grave," he said to himself "he will die and never koowthat-I-answdred hij pilji- ful callâ€" that I came to laui. Oh, Ariiidel! my poor brotEer, what a misirablc fahun your life has been " Then Munel crept into his thoughts, and., a dreamy look came into the tired eyes as ' he stood there tlriuking of his young wife and a little [arayer rose in his heait that da- ring his^ri^bseace she might come to love him.. more than she had ever done before. •• God help you, Russel Anthon, maf Ood in mercy help \oii to bear wdia" the luture holds for you Arriving at the city of Mexico he ha- J gone to the gentleijiiln whose name Atundel had give 1dm; and had received full Vjuforma- bioa regarding his brother's movements. Aruuilel Anthon had written that tetter to Rassel on the impulse of the moment. Sick, miserable, longing to see One of his own blood, hehad Sat OT%n OEfe nig^t and almost recklessly writtendt, spurred en. by that impulse which always impels men to make one last desperate efi'ort when tuey feel that a crisis is at hand. ' He had fully intended at the time to leave Guaymss where he was staying and to go down to the city of Mexico, there to wait until some word could come to him from his brother. Bat after his "letter had gone on its way a certain reaction of his feelings had set in he felt that ho had been weak, unmanly, foolish, to writs as he had done he blamed himself for doing it. In all probability that letter would never reach Russel, or even if it did, ;the chances were that he would throw it down in hot anger, not even read- ing itthr ugh when he discovered who the writer was. That thought born of his mor- bid brain grew upon him until it became a certainty in his mind that nothing would ever come of bis appeal, that it had been not oaly weak and cowardly, bub vain .as well. " I will die as Lhave lived all these years â€" alone," he said to himself bitterly. So instead of going to the city of Mexico hetwent to El Paso;, thirling that he- woaW jWss theRiolGrnujdeviflEto Texas j thOTe.b*^ fell in with a party of prospectors, who urg- ed him to join them, and, grown utterly indifferent to life, reckless as to what be- came of him, he left El Paso with them. Before he went away from Guaymas, bow- ever, he wrote to his friend in the city of Mexi ^o, telting him of his intention to go to El Paso so it was that when Russel arrived in the city he gained a knowledge cf bis brother's whereabouts. Whatever Russel Anthon attempted he generally carried out ;. having gone so far hrfesolvedtogo on rmtij be foimd Arundel. B^^vispte to ]Vtiiri«ft Aijid ttf Mr. Trowbridge, giving the^kitter a brief account of what his business in Mexico really was, so that his long absence migh; be explained then he started for El Paso, reachmg there barely thirty hours after Arundel had, with the party of prospectors, left the town. Even then he was uot daunted t iking the Mexi- can ooy ior a guide he hur isd alter them he trai-elled rapidly night aud day, ^ollowi^ the ?^e southwly course it was known they had taken, and at las: res^hed the lit- tle hut 'Tirhere Af undel 'Was iyin^ very ill, for ou the s cond day out Arjitidel Anthon .had been attacked by the fever which had pros- trated him at Guaymas. Coming to the little deserted cabin, the prospectors ha-t loft him with one of their number i,y take care of him,- and had gone on As soon ba the man who had remai .ed behind with Arundel found his servicer were not actually needed, he hurriel on to over- take his party, leaving Russel with his bro- ther aToneV with the exception ot the^exi- can bty who had served- \»s ^ide. Ihai^ Heaven, Russel bad with him^ the ^^71 ?=- di6ine which teas most-eflfectual in breaking up the fever which had seized Arundel in its deathly srasp, and no man ever worked harder to save a human life than he did ^o save the life of the brother whose f icc he had not seen iu five long v«ars. ,^ The sun was sinking toif^rd the wes. al- ready the sky was beginning to flush redly, when he turned from the doorway and went to Arundel's bedside. He was sleeping, a restleae sleep, broken by moans and starts and howsely mntteced words, yet Ji»-f«!e was not so deeply flushed, his skm so hot and dry, his pulse so uneven, as it hod been an hour before, and a sudden hope spiang to life in Bussel's heart that bus brother â„¢ie'wM ijertainly better. AH that night Russel watched him, and when the day dawned, Arundel was sleeping qutetiy, and there were drops of moisture upon his fore- head under lus wavy hair. The Mexican boy bad gone out to look ^fter the horses, the room w;a8 close a,nd hot, and seeing Arunde' sle-pmg so quiet- Iy 'i#*M|^BS*oatride to walk ap dtRMiln f^^H^^*the cabin, thinking the fra^ moraiiigPCT would dis^pate the faint fedinc that was the result of the long nighV H^^d nlfcely ^It t'e room when slow- ly, #ear^)^^the 'kng Isshed lids raise themselves over Arundel's eyes â€" eves out wi" which the wild fire had all diedl S.owly those dark, hollow eyes wandered about the room, resting first on one object, th^ on another, hkst of ail npon a curiously wrought blanket which was thrown lightly over him. Something dark red was lying near him, alf hidden ly the soft woollen folds, and an expression of wonderment came into his eyes, hitherto express onless, as the thin hand reached out and grasped a small vel- vet case. The thin fingers trembled as with 8omedi|acnl^ they opettfe*'i' th«ii the.«ick iftaa started' vio'ently.as'a woman's pictured fa9e jsmiled out at (ihii from the caj^i a face a^ch seeiped td tun) the lovehe^'he had evef seai.,- Thai pictured face wasMhr- lel's-i-tiie'faoe of lusbpothtr's wifA MUad been taken shortly after her marriage it was painted on porcelain and was a perfect likenessi even the ,^il»: and e^e|^'9M|c Mur- iel's own. '$ince Rijtdset }iia b«eu mway from iller tha!i^ctumha^lafeh ^f^g^St^Ms heart, not a day that he had not looked at it with loving, tender eyes. Once that 'pEevioi|s night he had thrown himself, for a few moments, upon the bed tai^^ A^ui^l. and the tj^l^^^e.-vh^h, because iei^1;H^e pinti^ed^W ^hi||i ft held, wa« his dearest tteafeuHf, -vt^, OTiotirta by him, slipped from his pocket it had Iain there .undisturbed imder a fold in the blanket fntil'thosS dark, hollow ejes dis- covered it. Tightly in his hand Arundel held it, his eyes fastened upon the lovely face with its soft eye^i.d smiling mouth even un- der this sm?,!! excitement the poor, sick brain was begiBnig^g to.grow'd^zy and reel ag«n. $ndden^ Ispjpreispd'lys^ps to tjrfe a ci imson dush'was setting upoki his his eyes were growing wild aud bright pulse throbbing fiercely. '•"Who are you, my beautiful one?" he whispered passionately. " Only in my dreams have I seen faces lovely as youra â€" wiU_^uijafade a-vtay af they,^^vp. d.(me Willi awaken an^ fidjl you go4e Ah, slay with me' A6 notlea^e me Is Never have I seen your face before, yet your sweet eyes awiken new feeliuas within lue." Aud then with Muriel's face in his thought:, he drifted back a ^aiu upon that wild sea of delirium. Then a few moments later Russel ctept into the room, -thinking, to find Arundel still quietly sleeping ho found him sitting taprightf muttering- wildly tendef words, pressing noMtand then to his lips something h^ heki tightly in one bnrniiig hand. Waa it prophetic He did hot stop to tliiUk, he Wi.s only half conscious of the swift, icy chill tha^^vent over him, as gently unclasp- ing the thin fingers he took from his bro- ther's hand his wife's pieture. (to be continued.) ' A Eongaiiim 0r^U4r. In a description of the Hungarian parlia- ment in the Nouvdle Revue, M. Nemenyi after regretting that eloquence (has dis- appeared from that assembJy with^Francis Deak and Jules Andrassy, thus describes the most' powerful man in Hungary at the present day, M. Tisza. A friend Oi£ Gei-- many, who had accompanied me tb the gallery of the Hungarian parliament, cried: "Why, it is nsoaf-casfe master! " (0ns who teaches several village schools in turn, walk- ing from one tb the other.) A running schoolmaster ought to bo extraor.iiuarily well-bodted, " bat does not usually strike you as prominently about the regions of the sHdstcoa't, Hre the con||)arison is.jSi^ct .finouffh. ^hs 'orator's |(trtneHt5 weri^ liot hiade to raise the authority W Ae W«»i*r; the principal one is a very short gray coat, buttoned te the top. He is thin and dry looking. His face, ornamented with .spec- tacles and surrounded by a gray beard, looks twenty years older than he really is. He stamds.as straight as an arrow, but look- as if the least touch would upset him. His eloquence accords admirably with his 3,ppeararic3. In spite of the silence which prevails directly he rises, it is almost im- possible to hear him. His voice is stifled as if he were conversing without conceraiiig •himself aboqt the effect of bts- frords. Let us take the. case of a,et(ai)ga;i.listeiUag4n the debate without knowing the language. Suddenly he sees one of tnese murmured phrases followed by a sudden thrill through the assembly Three hundred members rise at once, gesticulating and manifesting the mostoppoteJ sentiments, these appl- ud- ing with joyful acclamations, those by ve-' hement declamations showing how disagrej *.bly the orator' worda^ havte afifpcted^ljftgm. He mcaa5vhile,is,i9iperi8tucb|l le;iheflttt«nDg fContradJsstion can,|iot irrftate hkn nS ^con- tinues ih the same stifled tone, and his auditors .npver.coase listening to him with breathless attention. Members Approach on tiptoe from the farthest corners of the hall to catch the words more distinctly which fall from his lip^; for the imeiest m what he says is as treat to hia adversaries as to his friends. His self-command rarely deserts him; then he raises his voice and gesticulates a bttle. But his voi^e never tills the hall â€"it becomes hoarse and ^ftirced while his gestures aii^e awk\'ard;"be scserms to menace his oppoaehfwith the j)encil which he holds in his hand, as if wishing to trans- fix hira with that redqubtable w^fnon. NeT'ettbe^Sg, tifr^ straager, .wji»ee hm^^ise augmente,' ado^lsf tJiat it9» •pbra«e*v»#ro- nounced in a disagretab'.e voice, and ac- compani^l by. gestures auytiiug djut ele- gant, njake an impressi n ou the chamber, and that at the end of the spejch, generally very short, he produces what is called in France a mcruvement prolonge, so piolonged, indeed, and so intense, that the debate is perforce suspended lor several minutes. This orator â€" aeed i name him â€" is Kolo- man llsza, lor ten years the all-powerful president of the council. In this country no other poHtician can boast of baviag been a: vigraoosly hated in his time, nother has in an equal degree experieaced the incon- sistency of popn ar favor; and no other has shown, as he has done, pt rjeverance nndei- all difficulties in the hour of misfortune. " 'Venomoos snakes are those which have t'vo hollow teeti^ in the agper jaw through v.- h ich they eject ~p^!Kfti Iflto the wound made b ieir bite. The grtaat majority of ^nakes are ttun; \oion;cu8, but nevertheleEs there are inore venoinoy snakes in tbe~ world than most men rejJly require. ' There are two classes f ye^omoaH.Snakes Tâ€" those who^e bite ia certain death, those whose bite can be cured.' The only veno- mous snake inhabiting Ehrbpie is the vi|»er, but its bite is seldom iata' Jn tl» United $tat^, with the possible except|(m of. ij^ew Mexico' and Arizona, there are only three vfeniomons sn^fesâ€" tfio mtlesnake, ' 'the copperhtad, and the moccasini AWnour other snakes are harmless. In some places the copperhead ia known aa the flatrheaded adder, but 1116 other species of snakes to which the name •' kdder" is often givea ' by country people, are as hatndess as ttie pretty little garter snake^^^ Central and. South Aa.er^ca have many venomous shakes w'hose bite is always fatal. Among these the best known are the (jpral snake, thetuboba,,andth^ damablafica. A British naval vessel, oh its way up a â-  South American River a' few years " ago, anchored for the mght, and a iiumb^f 6f the officers thought they would go ashore ibnd sleep in a dee^rtpd shanty that stood on |the • bMik, wfiere they fancied that the air would be cooler th^n it was oa board the vessel. When they reached the' shinty one of t*em said he thought ha would go back Ijo the ship, and all the others, with one exception, scid they wouia fol ow hfm. The-\)IBcer who determined to stay swung his hasi-nock from the beams f the roof, and wsts soon asleep. He woke early in the rdoriihig, and, to his horror, found that three snakes were sleeping on his bodj' an^l that pthers were hanging from the rafters or gliding over the floor.- He recognized among them snakes whcsc bite meaatdoBthwithin anihour or two, and he did not dare- to move a fin- ger H-3tayinlii3 hammock until the sun grew warmand the snakes g!i led backto their holes. His companions had noticed thartJthe place looked as if it was infested with snakes, but had cruelly refrained from warn- ing him. The officer v/js one of the bravest men that ever lived, but he could never speak of his night among the snakes with- out a shudder. In ori§ of the West ludia Islands Ma,rt:- nique â€" there is a snake called the lahce- hcaded viper, which is almost as deadly as the coral snake. The liast Indias are full of venomous snakes, and iu British India nearly 20,000 persons are killed every year by snake bites. Of the East India tuakes whose bite is incurable the cobra is the most numerous, but the diamond snake, tne tuboba, and the ophiapijams are also the cause of a great ui.my deaths. The British Government has offered a large reward for the discovery of an antidote to the poison of the cobra, bet no one has -^ et been able to claim it. Africa, like all tropiuil countries, has many species of veciomous snakes. The horned c rastes is tbe stake from whose bite Cleopatra is said to have died^ and from its small size and its habit of burying itself all but itS' head in the^sand, it is peouliarly dreaded by the natives. Tiie ugliest of these snakes is the great puii'-iidder, which often grows to the length of Ave cr six feet and whose poison is used by the natives in making poisoned arrows. It is a very curious fjict that the poison of venomous snakes cannot be distiuguish- ed by the chemist from the white of an egg. And j'et one kind of snake poison will'^ro- duce an efl'ect entirely unlike that prodncei by another kind. Tlie blood of an anhnal bitten by a cobra is decomposed aud tusned into a thin, watery, straw-colored fliuid, while the blood of an animal bitten by a coral snake is solidified, and looks very much like currant jelly. Nevertheless, thepois- of the cobra and that of the coral si^ake seem to be preciselj alike when analyzed by the chemist, and are apparently com- posed of the fcame substances in the same proportion as is the white of aa egg. Iiiving In 'Winnipeg. Tft-o 50 per The DaminiOTi Palrliament wiH mce" for the despatch of bus#es) on Thursday, Febr I rnary 8th. things at least must come down ceni before people can live in the cities and towns of tlM K orthwest iu any degree of comfort. I mean rent and fuel. The rents in Winnipeg are simply outra- geous. The most wretched houses â€" -there shells and as c Id as I):uite's Inferno â€" being about 40 per cent on the cost of house and lot. In sp.t3 of all the buildings put up this year the city is crowded, and on an average there are three persons in every house for the one tli::re ou.ht to be, en sarutary principles, and we have enough population already for a city of double the size of Winnipeg. Every parlor and spare room is sublet to men who board in hotels, aud I know small, seven-roomed houses with no less thaa twenty people sleeping in them, with double windows aud no veutitators. Goal was $22 a ton last winter when the syndicate had things 1 11 their own way, but the contractors are running the Thunder Bay Branch this winter, and therefore it only costs from $14 to 16 now, which will save the people of Winnipeg over §150,000 in one year. If we had a competing line to Duluth, coal from Cleveland could be sold here retail at ?ood profit for $10 to $12 a ton. Poor poplar wood ia from $7 to $10 a cord. Alany other things, are equally dear. Bread of course is about as cheap as ih the east, and it should be cheaper. By the way, the best bread in ^e wide world is made in Manitoba, as the wheat|.ist by far the hard- est and best that grows out of the ground. Our ordinaxy loaf bread would j.as3 for Christmas cake in ijthe east. But we liave to pay for our luxuries, especially if they come over the C. P. R. and its step- brother, the St, Paul road, which is virtually a branch ofdt. " A Death Infested Steamer. The steamship (Jellert was twenty-nine days upon hsr passage frprh Hambu^ to New York, bavin? lost some of her pro- peller b'.ades. During this time there ;were eleven deaths and five births on board,, and upon the arrival of the ship four dead bodies were kmded. Diphttiferia and pneu- momaweie'^e pposclpal tfnses of the mor- tality. i* 1 M\\ mm :£â- ; 111! t,- 'jV- iW 'I 11 ' 'â-  ' â-  JF3" -F 'hi I Jt 5S.^: *« '.ii-.i.;' .^-i- t-rV. W '^:-