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 '-â- ^^wW-^^m^ff^^^W^^^ ^^sfmmmmmm :;^-^,*«*-';jii-_,«r*?- â-  !-^r ICoUn led. k •ad ^° c»,nphS *ij* Sj fPartment, iT^ for. afterward Zd^ ^^^ Ionization of tK- ' I the newlv oJ!? .*'»««n2n» J^erandtheoS^" containing pi Jzlf ^* 5 thr^ the third^aSe^and**^ re were also two Sm^K****- ^^ water and Co'S^i| (-.land BuriinSL"'*^ leforni Associatfon. 5id?j' •on Elwyn. the ,i«.?^"°«* fThatinthepr^St:'"^. health it is imwr^t^""' Jrt should be SeJjV'^* [freh-giousmeSShte I. and persons of inflnenee^- la stop to the repulsive 1^1 Itterly indefensibfep I^ti^"!; I the neighborhood Su.rS^ It accumulations of huSn^, k «**g« °f arrested and p^! |arls of teuth. nettled with severe railler, er to show that you are sS oose to provoke more. )mes happiness? From tran elf -control. Men without self- ft before their passions lit, ats before the wind. thing in the world phich givei discontent as idleness, no mat- forced or voluntary. A m»B darning stockings than doiuj le habits habits form charact controls fate. This, or some- is,, id the epitome of whatmes rule and law of rational life, 36 to be taken by those wh« 3ter3 of themselves and circom- rhoi knowing st to be wrone te ir neglect his family or yield t« these things can claim no ei- tside influence or the pressore iceo. Indeed, so far from haT- ponsibility on these accoanti, i. He ia accountable not onlj does, bat, to a groF: degree, for lim do it. to make the beot of thinsB! ife of half its cares and to domtle to incsease its brightness both 8 and others it ia to see the g threugh the clouds whew ily blickness; and finally, it ii 9 workaday world a garden of ad of a pUce of weariness, and be enjoyed instead of simply e most precious possessions of e its ideals. Whatever of poT- ship, of sicknecf or sorrow, of ants or advei sity, of failure or sin may afflict a man, he ha* lim the image of something bet- lappier, more successful to hop* strive after. To, this image, gh it does with the character ity of each aidividual, ia sooi- d for it3 continued progreM ments in manifold directiona. duties would be nearly aynon- 1 were it not that custom hai e word " debt" so closely with lost to confine its use to that y duty is however reallya debt )mething which we owe and It may be money or it may may be justice or mercy, oojn- iience, protection or friendahipi love whether it be that cornea bligation to be met, a dnty ta [, ia also a debt that ia owed, thful conscience will not sm Fate of one CelestiaL Dor little Yan Sin ived in Pekin ia diet was rice, aried with mice e flew his bird-kite, f day and by night, ^ith a frantic hop iat would not stop It the kite was strong, nd pulled so long, bat it drew him soon, p toward the moon, lough no one has bean seek Yan Sin, is my belief e came to grief. BT CBiBLOTTS H. TOKOB. Lfiit""' CHAPTER XIX. THEVOBTKX. bW* shadow at her f eefâ€" TmaraoK. \«Sb that society had bestowed on i daughter at Nice had rendered \i*^'^„„t the more determined on pro- •^'â- 'Tm in London and establiaUng 5 -Sgn He secured a forniahed !^Westbur«4 ^^*' leaving Nice, " veiling leiaurely home without '"gridgefield, he took poaaeaaion the "•fAeekioMay. T' had no: been much correspondence Vh Rectory, and on the firat forenoon, fe E^remont and Nuttie were trying '•ten" the drawing room with the ent up to meet them, they were "ed by the entrance of Blanche, full T" and welcomes. fZ' didn-t you know I'm with the t Uv8 just round the comer. Aunt r/t has undertaken to do the part of Sanntbyme." 4hen you are here for the season And 'l(av wouldn't come, except just for " to see the picturea, and lay in 'Ji ol talk. She's growi more parochial ' ere^ and we believe it is all Hugh ,nifce. Oh I forgot you were gone cme home last autumn. He is a c nephew, you know, and was or- Tlast year to the curacy of the next %. t3 his father's place. If the Ed- lies oDly would take themselves off, we itld have him at home, and then we Id have flowers on the altar, and all of joUy things. Papa would stand io mucii more from him than from the jEJifardaes." "But he is engaged to May, then?" Weil, no, not exactly. I believe he not think it right till he has done pre- fer priest's orders. He's ever so itt"you know, and he hasn't got much if but he means it. Lucy, hia aister, know, told me all about it, and that rether the elders had settled it was bet- for both that he should attend to his »ration, and May should not bind hor- thongh they really underatand one an- ;r, and so she won't come to London." Oh, that's very good of her " cried Nut- "but why won't they let them settle rmmds and be engaged " People are always tiresome," aaid Bche " and I do believe the livins; is at bottom of it, at least Lucy thought so. lean everybody wanta to wait â€" all the ones, I mean â€"not Hugh or May, of ifse-to know whether Mark will stick to umbrellas, or turn back and be a clergy- I, because, then, of course, he would re the living and if he doesn't, they It to be certain whether Uncle Alwyn, ton, Nuttie, would promise it to Hugh if Harried May " He " exchimed Nuttie. "Uy dear, I don't like to hear you talk inch things," said Mrs. Egremont gently. "Oh yea, 1 knowâ€" It's all very dreadfal. lu only telling you what ia in the old heads, and what would aettle it, iinake it all right with them." And how is Mark Is Mias Buthven London " asked Mrs. Egremont, glad to n away the conversation from the con- {tncies of which Blanche apoke With the hsa of youth, as yet not realizing aor- did notiiMiat obIih might be n^ S-SSyTWpSiS: or when it inited Um t« rfu^l C! S"*!??! I daresay yon know nearly as much Uukas we do, now the Kirkaldya are bere. All hia lettera go to Lescombe. no, Annaple is not in London. The Inars can't aSord it, you know, though I be my lady would have made a atretch teple hadn't been bespoke â€" ^but now inserves herself for Muriel." ilice looked with some discomfort at the t fur haired creature who was uttering tills worldly jargon in a tone that would 'e teen flippant if it had not been so ^tt. S^e asked if Lord Bonniaglen i written. 'Oh yes, long ago. Lady Delmar had to make him nasty about it, but he ildn't be, so that's all right and Mark 31! to get on very well, though it must iorridly dull for him now the Kirkaldya •way, and he can't spend all hia Sundaya Monks Horton." will get more into the spirit of the »i"8aid Nuttie, whereat Blanche shru? Mr shoulders a liti la, and exclaimed â-  lou've got out of it at any rate, Nut- ithj of His Hire. ,boy)-Boy, can ypu dlreotm« t bank fer twenty-fi cents. .^xv-t Twenty-five centa I»ntth»» •ir, but ita bank dlrectora wh^ rhe One Thing. "_,«„,, eep paasion)â€" Oh, G*^ 30 love yon so. I love yw"" be mine. ^i «» Ob. auppreaaed *»?*2» '• e so sudden 1 ""»• rdedly) Don't m-wjyji le ia nothing; i90«flS a've got plen^- .-^^^5 .â- Â«*^^ ils are now w^'^SIm; *â- !• ffonseonMondaf'"" ^^ e mono better "2?.ijw nt In h^faff *• I**" I hope not I ' ' \\ eil, then, the look of it I never saw !«ae 80 improved Isn't she, Aunt Alice? 'grown, 1 declare 1 Yes "â€"measuring l^lf against her cousinâ€" "I was a 'I' bit taller when you came, and now '^8 got above me and what a duck of a Tw doing your hair! You muat ahow 'â- ^ I must tell May there'a no fear of "being taken for one another now; iiargaret will be quite aurpriaed." "'as true that Ursula had developed a odeal during the last year, and, under "penenced hands of Martin, had lost Khoolgirl air, and turned into a young wpable of becoming the P»ria outfit ^» ber father had enjoined. Without we beauty, she was a pleasing, intelU- wiaiitcd girl, with the reputation of ^w heuess, with a romance in a back- ' ^Jid there was nothing to prevent â- nni bemg a succeas. The family oon- ""M, \rith Lady Kirkaldy to aet the 3. had determined on giving full " to Mrs. Egremont, and, as of course ilT}^^ to look at so lovely a face, «£ liJv u ^^ ^^ smoothed in a manner St*^!l ^^ her husband when they en-. *tw any of those who had looked 'y« her at Nice. *owd have had her presented, but her f Kl°^?f "^^ ^^^ io»t«d counsels of jj^ttKaidy and the Canoneas prevailed •rC .P*^« idea; and then there »onM "•" Ursula, who declared that ""0 not go to court if her mother did »e was at last ovemtled by *!»»* jears at her defiance and let her- Udf4?^ted, together with Blanche, l7^ '^kaldy. /?)»« it was altogether a rtrange ot the aame kind of rwskleBi •""sense of intoxicatien that had tjw at Bridgefield. Not ttwt "L^ exceaaive amount of Mtaal ^ot room, and late boon tree* Jfto agree witii Ifia. tor- *«»«ked faded and langnid^r t»i^*»lwr husband reaUy owed "•»• her teady to wait «p«» U« I^^^^ 'i^^ as wdT^Ved^ letting Ursula go ont with Lady Kirkald/ SfJI" '»»™lyi»t««ted in mother a£d fares" *^*^ *? companion for Blanche, and stm m«re glad of a companion for hw! â- ^•v *OT •»» waa not alow to diaoover that exhibitiona, which were merely fashionable gapeseed to h«: nieca, were to Nuttie real delights, viewed intelligently, and eUcitins comments and questions that Lady KirktO^ and even her husband enjoyed in their fre£ interest, but whioh were unendurable weariness to Blanche, unless she had some one to chatter with. Lectures and lessons, which the -aunt hoped to render palatable by their being shared by the two cnuaina, only aerved to ahow che differ- ence between a trained and eager and an untrained and idle, nature. With the foreign aociety to be met at Lord Kirk- aldy'a, Blanche waa kaa at a loas than her brother, and could get on by the htlp of nods and beckh and wreathed smiles but Nuttie, treah from her winter abroad, could really talk, and was often in request as a useful person to help in entertaining. She thus saw some of the choicest aociety in London, and, in ad^tion, had aa much of the youthful gaiety aa Lady Kirkaldy thought wbcleaome for the two girU. Also there were those eccleaiastical delights and privileges which had been heard of at Mick- lethwayte, and were within reach, greatly enjoyed by Mrs. Egremont whenever she could share them, thous;h her daughter chafed at her treating all except the chief service on Sunday as more indulgence than duty. Nuttie was strong, with that spring of energy which unbroken ihealth and a quiet life biys up, and, in her own phrase, she went in for everything, from early services to late balls, th.nking all right^liecause it was seldom that her day did not begin with matins or Celebration, and because she waa taken to more than two balla a week, and conversed at timea with auperior people, or looked at those with world-famed names. Possibly the whirl was greater than if it had been more gaiety, for then the brain would not have participated in it. Ghurth func- tions, with the scurry to go at all, or to ob- tain a seat, fine music, gramd sermons, re- ligioua meetinga, entertainmenta for the poor, lecturea, leaaons, exhibitions, rides, drives, kettle-drums, garden-parties, Kcon- certs, theatres, operas, balls, chattering, laughing, diacuasing, reading up current aub- jeota, enjoying attention, excitement aa to how and what to do,â€" one thing drove out another in perpetual aucceaaion, and the one thing ahe never did or could do waa to ait atill and think Beat waa aimply dream- leas sleep, generally under the power of a strong wUl to wake at the appointed hour for church. The short intervals of being alone with her mother were spent in pour- ing but histories of her doings, which were received with a sympathy that doubled their pleasure, excepting when Nuttie thought proper to grumble and acold at her mother'a not coming to aome Church featival at an hour when she thought Mr. Egremont might want her. Of him Nuttie saw very little. He did not want her, and cared little what ahe did, aa long aa ahe waa under the wing of Lady Kirkaldy, whoae patronage, waa a triumph- ant refutation of all doubts. He werthia own way, and had hia own club, hia own aaaociatea and, with his wife always at his beck and call, troubled himself very little about any- thing else. Alice spent a good deal of time alone, chiefly in waiting his pleasure butshe^ her own quiet occupations, her hooka, her needlework, her houaekeepbig, and letter- writuig, and waa peacefnUy happy aa long aa ahe did not diaplease Nuttie. There were no colliaions between father and daughter and the household arrangements satined that fastidious taste. She was proud of Uraula'a auccesaea, but very thankful not to be dragged out to ahare them, though ahe waa much leaa ahy, and more able on ocoa- aion to take her place. One pain she had Good old Mra. Nugent, waa rapidly decaying, a°d ahe i^ared witih aU her lovtag heart in the gnef thia was to Mary and to Miaa Headworth, and long- ed to help them in their nuramg. She IwouldnotVie^e Nuttie by dweUing con_ stantly on the bad accounta, and the gnrl hardl/ attended to them in the tumult of occupations and so at last, when the final tidinga came in the aecond we^ m July, th^were an absolute shock to Nuttie and affected her as the first grief sometm^e does Mra. Nugent was reaUy the farat PctI^u of her own intimate knowWge who h!d died, and in the excited state in which fl^vJ^rthe idea of the contrast between her^^ occupationa and ^^^ary's «^ « dreadful to her that she wept moat bitterly, S the aoba of chUdhood, auch aa ahe reaUy did not know how to reatrain. It WM an unfortunate day. for it waa one nf thrfewon which Mr. Egremont wanted toSle out hL h«iiea. There wm to be **» **^* aarden-party at Bichmond. given • • aet. ' that, Mrs. Egremont " he she implor- I nf *hirf 'i â- ;;t;"who had lately lase »"" __ ^^ ^jjg subject at t^^'KSy-r'r'b^^father'wi^qai^ ij^row,*' «Silec^ ?ii with constema- ""â- ^Mv dear, my dear, hush I You mwt stop/ouSdf'l Remember we have to go -.V^o-out,-;^ Nu^e^er -^^f â-  ^^l iTafSl your fSer"°would very much vexedâ€"" «• Let him I It U a horrid wicked riace â€"when dear, dear Sffish^^^-ii^^^ear kind old .. We have J?*^"«^^d /Oice, going ^^S'iJ^^^MmNug^V'anl towards him ?*?* "^^ f^e, which he ie lifted »?^f^jS^. pS^ld body " ««essed a *«* "^J^i^t yoo stop Uraula but then, »t a s^ ^^»^ ^^^ disfiguring from makmg ^^_t Bdda, nw.*"rf ' •* "!S'"6-^if you oodd M M.«*»y •* aaditd^ii „w'»ad diafignrug yonr loess, ft sensation and stood op wnthfal Bot goiag," aha •aid. "Oh, Indeed r he ntuiMd'te a that made her stiD more angry. ' " Hein" i a French ejaculation whidi he had the habit of uttering in a most ezasparatinti nuumer. " No," she said '• It is soarody a place to which we even ooght to be adked t» co. and certainly not -*^ " " "Doyonh asked. " Oh, Nuttie, Nuttie, dear J" ed; "don't" "No, mother," said Nuttie, with flash- Ukg eyes " if you care so little for yonr best mend as to let yourself be dragged out among all sorts of gay, wicked pe«ple when your dear friend is lying deac^ rm sure I shan't go with yon." Her father laughed a little. "A pretty figure you are, to make a favour of accomp- anying ua " "Oh, go away, go away, Nntlae," en- treated her mother. " Yon don'no what you are aayin^r. " I do not know," aaid Nuttie, exaaperated perhaps by the contraat in the ihiiror op- poaite between her own awelled, diafignred face, and the aoft tender one of her mother with the liquid eyes. " I know how much yon care for the dear friends who took care of us when we were forsaken i" And with this shedt she marched out of the room, while her father laughed, and aaid, " Have they been training her for the tragic atage Nevermind, Edda, the little vixen will come to her senaea npataira, and be begging to go." " 1 don't think ahe will/' aaid Alice aadly " ahe ia not that aort of atnff, and ahe waa very fond of Mra. Nugent. Oh, Alwyn 1 if you could let us off." " Not after that explosion, certainly." he aaid. " Beaides, I promised Jemingham, and such an excuse would never hold water. She is not even a relation." " No, but ahe waa very good to me." " The more reaaon why yon ahonid not stay at home and be hipped. Never mind that ailly girl ahe will be all right by and ijy-" On the contrary, ahe did not come down to luncheon, and when, about an hour later, Alioe, after writing a few tender loving worda to the mournera, went up -to her daughter'a room, it waa to find a limp and deplorable figure lying aoroaa the bed, and to be greeted with a f reah outburat of aobs and inarticulate exclamations. " Oh, Nuttie, dear, thia will not do 1 It ia not right. Dear good Mra. Nugent her- aelf would tell you that it ia not the way any one ao good and ao auffenng ahould be grieved for. Think " "Oh, I know aU that " cried Nuttie, impatiently " but ahe â€" ahe waa the deareat â€" and nolody carea for her but me. Not even yon " Again Alice tried to debate the point, and urge on her the duties of moderation, aelf control, and obedience, but the poor gentl- mother waa at a great disadvantage. In the firat place, ahe reapected and al- most envied her daughter'a reaistance, aoid really did not know whether it waa timidity or principle that made it her inatinct to act otherwiae in the next, Ursula could always talk her down and, in the third, ahe was, and greatly ahe reproached herself for that same, in great dread of aetting heraelf off into teara that might become hyaterical if ahe once gave way to them. And what would be her hnabiand'a feelinga if ahe too collapaed and became unpreaentable. So, having once convinced heraelf that even, if Nutty had been a conaenting party, no amount of cold water and eau-de-cologne would brins; thoae bloodahot eyea, awollm lida, and mottled cheeka to be fit to be aeen, ahe fled aa f aat aa poaaible from the gaapa of barbed reproachea which put her own com- poaure in peril, and dressed with the heav- iest of hearts, coupled with the utmost sol- icitude to look her best. If she had not thought it absolutely wrong, she would even bave followed Martin's suggestion, and put on a soupcon of rotij;e but by the time ahe waa anmmoned to the carriage the feveriahneas of her effort at aelf-control had done the work, and her huaband bad paid her the compliment of observing that she looked pretty enough for two. Nuttie heard them drive oS, with a burst of fresh misery of indignation against her mother â€"now as a slave and a victimâ€" now as forgetting her old home. It waa chiefly in mutteringa ahe had piretty well used up her tears, for, unconsciously per- haps, ahe had worked them up aa a defen- sive weapon against beiog carried to the party and now that the danger waa over, h r head throbbed, her eyea burnt, and her throat ached too much for her to wiah to cry any more. She had not felt phyaically like this, since the day, seven yeara ago, when she and Mildred Sharpe had been found auapiciously toying »ith the key of anth- me-Jc, and had been debarred and guilty now she felt, or ought to feel, like a heroine maintaining the right. She got up and aet heraelf to righta aa weU aa ahe could. Martin, who had been allowed to know that ahe had lost an old friend, petted and pitied her, and brought her a aubatantial meal with her tea, after which ahe aet out to evenaong at tiie church at the end of the aquare, weU veUed under a shady hat, and with a conviction that Bomething ought to happen. Nothing did, however, happen ahe met no one whom ahe knew, the paahna were not particnlarly appropriate. Mid her attention wandered away to tne scene at home. She did not come back, as she was sure ahe ought to have done, aooth- ed. exhilarated, and refresheil, but ratfter in a rasped atate of mind, and a wnaciCTOo making a vehement atmggla to beUeve itoelf in the right-a matter in which ahe flior- ""ihl^T^te a loig letter to Mary Nu^ and abed aome softer tears over it, thenabe buUt a few castles on her fntore escape from the power of her father and then she pick- ed upBeata. and became absorbed in it, re- ttretting only the weakness of her y es, and ^e darkening of the summer evening. She was SBU reaoing wnMjno otters came home. Her mothw kissed her, bnt looked ao languid and tired-out that Nfttae SLS^J^keS^ Martin declared that she onAtnottogodw^todiwier. X uua-Mt dinner between fathA and be penfttad. ao she dMMd atlfai NnMia Mf«i- It Aa f^ rf it heart, A» hadpiqpared how knocked np Iwr 01 moottioB «'Iahaald«BU draggadoat widi Nnt3»-a tttOa eraralBeaahahad matter traa. "Then I ahonid recommend kee^ns yonr ideaa to yoanelf," he answered, lodong at hmr in his annihilating manner. She waa put down. She tliongfat altw- waids ctf a hundred tUnga that she could have aaid to him, bat she was omahed for the preseat^ and when ha went ont die ooald only betake herself toccata and fonratall about it aa much as she could Whoi she wmt upstaira, at the end of the third volume, Martin waa on the watoh, and would not let liw go into the room. "I have been at hand, ma'am, without her gneanng it, and I am happy ao aay her teara have had a free course when she was in bed Yes, ma'am, suppressed grief is always dangerous." Mrs. Egremont was still prostrate with fatigue aid headache the next day, and Nut- tie had all the quiet Iqxuriating in reminii- ences she desired. Her fatter waa vexed and angry, and kept ont of tte way, but it muat be confeaaed that Nuttie'a qpuita had ao much risen by the afternoon that it waa a aore conceaaion to conaiatency when she found heraelf not expected at Blanche'a jiatlittleaftemoon dance atLady Kirkaldy'a I (to BK OONTINUKD.)• ' V AU BuDfi JlaBiag-^ "Sm^j ia^ AN ADYBNTUBE SST FATACK)HIA. Tkrllllas SzpeHenee et a Seaman Waahed •nto the Savage Ceaat. Tommy Biordan, aeanum of the ateamer San Pedro, juat arrived at San Fxanciaco, ia one of ten men loat by tte ahip Balaklava during a terrible atorm off the coaat of Pata- gonia laat aunmer. He telle tte following atory of hia experience: "The Balaklava en- countered very atormy weather before my compudona and myaelf were waahed over- boai d. The aea had been running high for several daya, but tte day of tte diaaater it waa mnning in long, heavy and poweriul awella. which, had they been higher, would have watted the veaael into kindling wood. It waa thought adviaable to take in aail. Juat aa we were about to execute tte com- mand a heavy aea waahed over our veaael. I aaw it coming, but it waa too late to get out of danger, and I went down in tte trough of the aea and muat have beenalightly ttunned, for I don't know how it happened. When I came to I was holding on to a portion of the maat with all the atcengtt there waa in me. It ia impoaaible for me to relate what I auffisred in that cold water. 'I floated on tte piece of wreck for two daya and then I loat all conaciouaneaa. It ia queer how I waa waahed aahore, but I waa flung up by the aurf on tte only decent por- tion of coaat line ttere ia in Patagonia. When I regained conaciouness a band of the most hideous-looking beinga I ever aaw were da icing around me. The men were gianta in size and I could not tell whether ttey were cannibala or not. Aa I opened my eyea I tried to think where I waa and what had happened. Shouts of joy were uttered by all, and two big bucks raised me up and carried me with ease a long distance into tte interiot ever a miserable country to their camping groimd "I was well guarded, and a councU was held to see what should be done witt me. I imagined aU tJ^e most horrible deaths and determined to escape, and I did ttat night. I still retained a littie clasp knife that all sailors wear, but it was impossible for me to get at it until my hands were 'liberated. On guard were two big men who watched me closely, while otters slept by tte fire. I kept working my hands until ttey were f re a. One giurd sat down and began to nod, and tte other walked back and fortt When his back was turned I severed the oorda which bound my feet and tten I waa free for action. The anoring of the aleeping aratinel became louder and louder, and at laat I felt aatiafied that he waa faat aaleep. The next inatant I waa on my feet and creeping up alowly behind the otter guard. "liyleft hand was on his throat, and witt my right I plunged my knife into lus breast, and he fell over a dead Indian, witt- out a struggle or uttering a cry. It was a terrible experience, but I at last reached a place up the coast that gave some evidence of civilization, and ttia inapired me to freah efforta. I don't know how I lived. I causht some fiah, and these kept life in me. I at laat aighted a canoe, and luiiling it, tte Chilian master took me up the coast, where I waa put aboard a amall aailing veaael to Chiloe Island. The Brituh bark Valdavia took me up the coaat to Chili, and ottera have brought me here. inhsr qfM â- FWiiiA ^sm^^^- ly. "I is abnid to for amy ••* dau^ter agiutiim to .. â- nd went down^ lx"â„¢i ]^,«Mt sooirtsd a*, Xa odathim.--, tta otter, and wh« at A]jtpag»^9t^ bed. leaving a hsadadiawoaldha^^^ iiobsten. There are aome three hundred and fifty lobster factories in the Maritime Provinces, according to the Halifax Herald. Quite fifty of thonumber are owned and operatedby Americanr. From f 1,250,000 to $1,400,000 is invested in tte industry, which gives em- pl-yment,during a season of three months,to 5,000 peraona. Laat year'a catch iaeatimated at 225 000 cases of 48 cans each. This re- presents about 70,000,000 lobatera. A few yeara ago it took only from three to fonir lobetera to fill a 1-lb can: now owing to reok- leaa alaughter, tte majority of tte catch being young fitt from aeven to twelve are neceaaary. At $5.50 per caae. tte average price of laat aeaaon'a catch, tte aggr^te ^ue would be $1,337,000. Halifax is, and always has been, tte headquarters of this important industoy, and of tte totol oateh die exported 160,000 cases. Twelve vears aco tte value of the lobsters sent out )^m£ port of Halifax was $309,751; to-day tte vahie is estimated at $884,797; In a dozen years nearly $8,500,000 wortt of tUs single article was expwted from that dty- Whttca do ttey aU go Well, Great Britain took upwards of $6,000,000, the Umted Statea $1,500^000, and otter coun- triea about $380,000. The largest and best lobsters come from Newfoundland, where some entortiridBK Halifax dealers started factories a tnrfmn ago, and, in the opin- ion of tte HemU, the aadaa* ooleny bids fair, at an early date, to take the pUoe now ooenped 1^ HalliaK. Our oontsiivoraiy doaea itorathsr tartereptlBg aoMnatof an immanm industry by saying: "NovaSootu haa long bseo Canada's tobaisr faetory," and aaksiTT^^ihdto as^ti^aaiia Witt ahe 'a teit aad oom Thaa«B«fiob sbw to ,«.tidla«dtt LoHMur, IWb. 14.â€" The pahUoathm of ttv text of the Anstro-German treaty was duly explained by Prinoe Bismarok in tte Beioh- â- tag to be aimply another guarantee of peace. Europe tO(A tte great obanoellor aerioudy. The bouraea recovered from ttdr bewilderment and panis and scare- mongers oeased to foam at tte mouth and gradually got better. The Czur, it appears, was informed of tte intention to publitt tte treakty, of tte nature of which he had been made acqnunted long ago, and ttere is tterefore noneceasity for him to eat hnmUe pie in tte sight of Europe. Prince Bismarck has no reason for dreading an early war, but he ia oppressed with an aching desire to let tte world know how lamblike are his own intentions, and to secure the aympatty of tte nationa in tte event of hostilitiea breaking out. So oonfi lent are he and hia Generala of tte preaervation of peace ttat tteworkof increas- ingOermany'aofftnaiveatrengtt ia beiogputt- ed forward witt feveritt activity. Boada continuea to do tte aame, and Buaaiao mil- lionairea are anbacribing liberally to a patri- otic fund for purchaaing faat armed cruisers. The Austrian araenala cannot turn ont guna quick enough, and are to be hdped by Herr Krupp. The magnitude of Italy'a ar-na- menta ia beginning to attract European at- tention, and her ironclada are being pre- pared for active aervice. The French news- papers are imploring the Chambers to hurry up witt the budget in order that France may make in good time all the necessary preparations to enable her to asaiat in the preaervation of peace, and French officera are atudying frontier mapa. Lord Salia- bury aaka Parliament for extra money to fortify Britain'a coaling atetiona and porta, and rumor haa it tbat.England u pledged to pro^'ect the coasts of Italy and Austria when, in the fax distant future of courae, thoae coaata may require protection. The pay of Turkish officiala ia getting more hopeleady into arreara, and every piaatre tbua aaved is apent on national arm- amenta. But with aU thu Prince Biamarck aaya there is no danger of an early war, and most people are inchned to believe him. Prince Ferdinand has returned to Sofia after hia burleaque of a royal procession through Eastern Boumelia. He found little to comfort him. On his arrival home his Ministers showed him a report of Prince Biamarck'a apeech, with certain paaaagea marked. Ferdinand felt no happier than hia Ministers after he had read them. If there ia one tting certain about Prince Bia- marck'a apeech it ia ttat it waa intended to encourage the Cz\r to apend hia auperfluons energiea in the reatoration of his prestige in Bulgaria. He can do anytting he likes in Bulgaria, save perhapa aending a big army there, and Germany will not interfere. Un- der theae circumatancea apeculationa are again rife aa to the probable length of Prince Ferdinand'a atay at Sofia, and aix montha ia conddered to be an exceaaive al- lowance. The Wildcat Came. A Marbletown, Ulator county, farmert not long ainoe found ttat he waa loaing hia fowla ac faat that hia rooat would aoon be depopulated unleea a atop waa put to it. Whether tte atealing waa done by a man or an nimo.1 he could not telL He decided to lie in wait, and whatever it waa, " man or devil," to attack. One cold night he bun- dled up in horae bluiketa, robea and over- coate, and hid himaelf near the hennery. It waa a long, tedioua wateh, and aevend timea he almoat decided to trudge to the houae and go to bed. He never before realized what it waa to atand picket guard. He had heard old veterana talk about it, but had no idea there waa any great hard- ahip other than bdng ahot at. Juat aa he waa about to give up and leave, he heard a aof t-footed atop, and aaw an ani- mal of aome kind moving over the anow to- ward tte place where the fowla were roosting. It alipped through a hole and daaappearM in the building. Then, by tte auppreaaed aqceaka of the hena the farmer was convinc- ed ttat tiie depredator he had been waiting for waa at work. Graaping hia club with a firm grip, he went to the door, threw it open, and apraiu; indde. He heard a wick- ed growl, a ateafthy catlike movement, aaw two balla of fire in tte dark, and then he atruck with all his might The blow waa well aimed, for it atruck the wildcat be- tween the eyea and, no doubt, 'killed it at the firat blow, though tte man continued to rain down blowa for a minute or more. He dragged tte carcaaa to the houae, and the next morning, for tte firat time, knew what a dangeroua animal he had killed A Great Esh Stoiy. On Wednesday and Thursday of last week an unusual event occurred in the Des Moines river at Bonaparte, Van Buren county, Iowa. There ia a dun aeroaa the river ttere, and no water paaaea through it, the only eacape being through tte mm-race and the water wheels. For the paat few daya all kinda of fiah â€" black baaa, buffalo, blue cat, yellow cat. mud cat. aalmon, pike, rock baaa and all tte varieties of fitt va thia atream â€" ^filled tte mill-race ao full that the poweriul wheels of tte ndll were stopped by ttem. An eye- witoeaa writea " The people ot tte town turned out en maaa with rakea and hoea, and took out fiah by tte tub, baaket and bag full, and now everybody haa fitt and to apare. They are of all aizes and varieties, 10 to 12- pound catfish and buffdo being frequent. The fitt have been crutted by bundreda in tte wheels, and ttouaands have been carried away by the people. This began on tte 18tt and continues. The run is supposed to be on account of tte severe weathor having f ro- lea tte upper river and creeks to tte bottom and tte fitt seeking deeper water or breaks in tte ioe for more air. The milla were oloa- ed, the wheels stopped, ani race wioketa opened yerterday to perndt tte fitt to paas through and empty the race." As an evi- dence of the niunbnr of fish, the race, which ttey crowded for two days in snocsasfam, is about 3001 feet h^and 50to 75feet wUe, and aboot tan or tapUa faat daep Bona- pMtoiaafaasoaafiaiiiqggroand. Xnwiatar ^£dsa an oat in the ioe aiid oalflsh vail " bom 5 to 75 ponds an i^aand ia I .4?^ ^.â-  â€" -J*