The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

 55;^ pI'S FATHER.. „CM»t.OT« M. YONGE. CHAPTER XXVI. jHBttYEAESLATlCB. "?g hot put loto close. 'fC'^*"» ig Eeceipts. iah to tell your-readi ie crust. It is a chai 7 of makbg it, bntji (lit good: Pataquk,, Jonfulof saltinthemii] three caps of hotwah 3nfuls of lard, pat in the stove till it boi a scant teaspoonfnl r the flour and aalt«L, very easy to roll ont ant â€"Two eggs, one-htlf^ cup of sugar, one-hslf j ane teaspoonf nl of salen im tartar, flour to makj r with lemon or vanilli in a quick oven. e quantity, and they khs if put in a dry pb girls cannot fiad tii â€" Oae cup of sugar, oa one half cnp of m vo eggs, two teaspooiL Ba,ke in two layen, The top may be fro chocolate to the fillb id one-half cups of s f milk, a piece of bntte Flavor with vanills. CDDiNG. â€" Grease a c liced spples, thenaltj-j tialf a cup of sugar, litMl cinnamon, and so ootill| ,ke about two lioan,Mtl f Wild Beasts. yor, a Bachelor of irinKs employed on I ks been living in tatml ince he arrived. "H«f wling all nighty' ' which sends his hewtl of courage. ' He hMi i*| by a biueeyed Iwoi, I reat velocity,' dropp" instrument lwoke,«»l le cobweb with oi»"l rire cable to s »^J anstrated with, he â- â- J lolite 'in order to â- *! nother occasion he ""I ad 'would ha'*,^! y come to his aid. J^'j ihis adventurer W" I a big stick, he»«»l id,andfled,le»vii«J ace the anunaL i"l aid him heshonW"" it he explained tt»«*l mediately made •ifl»l stick's powers of • J ns Tables. â- fOi^ .8 for the work IWM they could "»* '"yi s brother wlW^I lay, and this »^l inf thanked Godtt-2 himself, 'bet$^* musement, •«* "S If, saying ^7^ eady beeamM^J^ in, the haraMH^ ke to ioBgto •««» J Etitaph' iooseiHl Newi .^^_.- le, and***** I tender hew**" nrialj LtDtSil " t windy afternoon in March i*° "t emerged from the School of f "„ ^orn portfolio under her Mm, [** i manv successive generations ' f^iris she had drUled through ' T- ?.Mrspective," and even "life " ^*, carving average of faUure and "°j Success, and how litUe talent "1^ had come to the front, though be the better for knowing how to •"ffholeher interest as well as her JZ did not fl»g but a sense of weari- FA monotony would sometimes come i ,a;arrence of well-known blunders ' oili and she missed the sense of ^^ume to refreshment and enjoyment â-  hid once invigorated her. St. Am- f pW bad had its golden age, bat the ' Si bad been dimmed ever since that *»t ilonks Horton. One after an- "d the happy old society had drop- The vicar had received and she only remained of Kme'r intimates, excepting old Misr llrth, who was no longer a com- ' bat whom affection forbade her to rtia feeble old age. Had her thoughts â-  old times conjtsred up a fignre belong- thein? There was the veil-brushed 'ie nitty silk umbrella, the perfect fit ' aeats, the precise turn-out, nay, the Uon shaven poodle, with all his fringes, L un her in recognition, and there was Oihtly French flourish of the hat, be- t,irith a bounding heartâ€" the met the iinnEogliah grasp. Hfe Nugent " I'Hr Daiton 1" 'I thought I should meet you here " Hm dW yon come " Uilfanhour ago. I came down with U Greenleaf, left my things at the L Hotel, and came on to look for yon." hn will- come and spsnd the evening Ffynuare so good as to ask me. How Lma'l worth?" I'Vdry JeeJe, very deaf; but she will ba toted to see you. There is no fear of Tjot remembering you, though she was |e lost when Mrs. Egremont came in jirrijy." •Mrs. Egremont!" he repeated with a [ie start. "Mrs. Mark. Ah we have got used to {name-the Honourable Mrs. Egremont ithe community insist on calling her. fat a sunny creature she is " â- And Miss Egremont, what do jou hear jier!" ja; writes long letters, poor child. I I fhe is fairly happy. Are you come ie for gooi, or is this only a visit " 'I hav.; to intention of returning. I have â- en winding up my good cousin's affairs at lionrne." [^.Miry's heart bounded aeain with a sense joy, comfort, and protection but she did |jj)Dg keep Mr. Datton to herself, for third person they met gladly greeted .,v.d they were long in getting to St. rSse'sRoail, now dominated by a tall iautifal spire, aciordin? to the origi sigD. They turned and looked in at lared aisles, stainea glass, and hand 'eJos. I M/ dififerent from cur struggling days," ^^ Dutton. l\\ '" ^^^^ Mary, with half a sigh. -^Vs the new vicar," as he passed with .^Ad. "He has three curates, and a iK'ySisters, and wo rks the parish ex- J "loo don't speak as if you were inti- late." I "No, His woman kind are rather Bidâ€" quiie out of our beat; and in iah work I am only an estimable !;reMem'e. It is very well that 1 am not I'lMed, for Miss Head worth requires a good l« of "itteation, and it is only the old 1^ that regrets the days of importance. laildoyou see?" Ihey were passing Mr. Datton's old home. " the tiny strip of lawn in front was a »der back figure, with yellow hair, under I'tmy blask hat, dragging about a wooden Jiisewhateon was mounted a sturdy boy of po.'also yellow-locked and in deep mourning |aier his Holland blouse. 'Billy-boy is riding to meet his daddyl " insmerrily called out by both mother and p« before tbey perceived the stranger. Mr. Datton," said Ma y. Ainaple bowed, But did not put out hr Jod, and such a flash was on her face that â- iiss Nugent said, " I am sure that if too pjchforyou! " "" po- " she began but "allow l«. said Sdr. Datton, and before she could lj,"??^6Wa3 galloping round and round |y,f ^^^^' ^^^ "y screaming with de- |J5« as Monsieur racad with them. So he is come I" she said in a low doubt- l^^^ voice to Mary. Ids T ^® ^*^ ™®* ^^'" Greenleaf in Lon- I »i I always think he has the contrury to -eevi eye. Whatever he takes in hand I '^nts Itself. â- â-  "'" liopeso. Oh, thank you Billy-boy, h^i" y°" ^^^^ "de you have I ^\i " '^^y *^ *°°*^ "^^^P moiiming •" 'm J- '****"» *fter they had parted. ya did you not know for good old tvo 1 " • ^V^.ip"^^-^^^^ m â- triUag MHmlduoe to hta ^^ qaite "tortifaig to Mr. Datton. «Md2l^ fa 'Dew She is y R:nni3glen. She had a bad fall about Mfk^'T^S"' '^^ "'â- er left her bed again; â- ^ tbia last autumn she sank away." I tu 7 ^^® ^^^ g'®** ^®*1 trouble, I j^ 1 saw the death of Canon Egre- owr„ *^® Tmes soon after I went "'l.^Anatralia." «5iJ**' •« had heart disease, and died Q «i?denly. The living is given to Mr. '^e. who married the eldest daugh- «ia the widow is gone to live under "hsdow of Redcastle Cathedral » C??«»Mi88 Nugent ojKined her own »»«»,» ^^ Head worth was soon made 4^ « the visitor. She was greatly iT8«a.and had the indescribable stony W u ^i^ °^ paralysu; and though she V,fr- Datton, and was delighted to see â- ^ " DreMn,.o niade her expect to Notfae always sends me one whenever he « taken," said the old lady. »»**»« It w very good for hi. quite a httle mother to him." Datto^ â- "• »t " be "o," said Mr. Y«,»8«id Mary, ««he is the great inter- fnU of his htde sayings and doings.' "Is she at home now T" "No a,t Brighton. Her father seems to have t^ed » diaake to Bridgefield since his brother's death, aad only goes there for a short time in the shooting season. He has taken a lease of a honae in London, and spends most of the year there." "An I" as she showed him the address, that is near the old house where I usel ;» stay with my grand-aunt We thought it altogether in the country then, but it is qmte absorbed now, and I have dazzling ofife^ from building companies for the few acres of ground around it. Have you seen her?" " Oh no I b«lieve she is quit» necessary to her father. I only hear of her through Lady Eirkaldy, who has been very kind to her, but, lam sorry to Ba is now gone with her L?)rd to the Eist. She says she thinks that responsibility has been very good for Nuttie she is gentler and less im- petuous, aud a good deal softened by her affection for the child." " She was certain to develop. I only dreaded what society her father might sur- round her with." "Lady Kirkaldy says that all has turned out better than could have been expected. Ton see, as she says, Mr. Egremont has been used to good women in his own family, and would not like to see her in a slangy fast set. AU her own gaities have been under Liady Kirkald's wing, or that of Mr. Wil- liam Egremont's relations, and only in a quiet moderate way. Her father gets his own old set about him, and they have not been very choice, but tkey are mostly elder- ly men, and gentlemen, and know how to behave themselves to her. Indeed, her cou- sin Blanche, who was here in the winter, gave us to understand that Ursula knows how to take care of herself, aud gets laugh- ed at as rather an old maidish mi^el of pro- priety, if you can believe it of your little Nuttie." " I could qaiteed believe in her on the de fensive, unprotectth as she is." " What did at young ladyâ€" Miss Blanche â€" tell us ^about that gentleman, Mary V asked Mis Headworth, htaring and uttering what Miss Nugent hoped nad passed unnoticed. " Oh, I think that was all gossip " re- turned Mary, " and so I am sure did the Mark Egremonts. She said there was one of Mr. Egremont's frienls, Mr. Clarence Fane, I think she called him, rather younger than the others, who, she was pleased to say, seemed smitten with Nuttie, but 1 have heard nothing more about it, and Mrs. Mark scouted the idea," she added in haste, as she saw his expression vary in spite of himself. " Do you see much of your neighbocrs?" " We are both too busy to see much of one another, but we have our little talks over the wall. What a buoyant creature she is. It seems as if playfulness was really a sustain- ing power in her, helping her to get diversion out of much that others might stumble at. You know perhaps that when she ar rived the work-people had got up a beauti- ful parasol for her, white, with a deep fringe and spray of rowan. Little Susie Gunner presented her with it, and she was very gracious and nice about it. But then what must Mr. Goodenough do but dub it the Annabella sunshade, and blazon it, con- .siderabley vulgarized, in all the railway stations, and magazines." " I know I 1 had the misfortune to see it in the station at Melbourne and my mind misgave me from that hour." " Her husband was prepared to be very angry, but she fairly laughed him out of it, made all sorts of fun out of the affair, de- clared it her only opening to fame, and turn- ed it into a regular joke so that indeed the Greenleafs, who were vexed at the matter, and tried to apologise, were quite perplexed in their turn, and not, at aU sure that the whole concern was not being turned into ridicule." " I wonder it did not make him cut the connection," said Mr. Dutton, muttering " I only wish it had." "Mrs. Greenleaf U very funny about her," added Mary, " proud of the Honour- able Mrs. Egremont, as they insist on call- ing her, yet not quite pleased that she should be the junior partner's wife and decidedly resenting her hardly going into society at all, though I really don't see how she could for first there was the Canon's death, and then just after the boy was born came Lady Bonnisglen's accident, and for the next year and a haJf there was constant attendance on her. They fitted up a room on the ground floor for her, the one opening into your drawing room, and there they used to sit with her. I used to hear them reading to her and singing to her, and they were always as merry as possible, till Iwt autumn, when somethinj brought on erysipelas, and she was gone almost before they took alarm. The good little daughter was beaten down then; really ill for a week but if you can understand me, the shock seemed to teU on her chiefly bodily, and though she was half broken hearted when her husband m a great fright brought me up to see her, and say wlwtherher sister should be sent tor, she still made fun of him, and described the im- possible advice they would bring on them selves. I had to take care of her whUe he went away to the funeral in ScOthuid, and then I learnt indeed to like her and see how much there is in her besides laughter. •• Did the old lady leave them anything? « ' 1 believe she had nothing to leave. Her i«*itnre was not much, but I am sure they Jnia that, for Mri. Egremont hM parted with her nnr«, and has only a httle gurlm her stead, driving out the pewmbnlator often herself, to the great scandal of Vm Greenleafs, thongh she would have «ie be- lieve it is all for want of occupation. "Do yoa ttdnk they have taken any alarm?" " There's no jodi^ from her j^ona snr- faoo, but I haw *«««8" ""t^SSS? °Sfr "ZrZmem ua anzioa tium I' uked. Mr. SSSTd^ «-w« If I oodit not to .ik. ilio* .. j'i^r^"" «iu»ae ner expect nu w xntawwi. •««" • r~T'\r«~ t â- -- ., » B^^?***« come in, thoniTshe soon but is it true *b»*i?*»£»^JK^!,^S5! S-^-i her«.lf and rfiedaSw ^-^l^^l^^^y^^^Xtf^t^ OBonot spealr i -i â- â-  â- â- !â- Â»â-  a t" •Ten B», '**^ *â- ""•â-  ""'"'"'â- ^ *^ «'Jwi â€" -«„ ..^ ou«»-«w heipieM oea--m another moodâ€" i^e b^gan iL!!^l»y With pride and pleasue the »pluof "AUce's dear Httle boy." •^ iZ. 7^°^^ â- â€¢"«« of them, from k ^-?Iotfaed babe on Us«iator^ %aee Uttle fell^ hsmag » Yen wen gone, old Mr. Onaakaf »"â-  part stt s wding to hnshi e i vnt ., ,^M *f* •••i-*. aadGeorie.Oreen- Utf^ been pl^ng the eoontry tqofae at â„¢*» »*«* and net lookiog atisr the offioe wart, and Mr. Egremont was inezperl •noad. One ooold see, of oonrae. that the whole character of the bnsiaeaa was chidged â€" mndi more advertirinfr. much more oheM and flashy wortâ€" to be even with the times, it was said, bnt theold saperior hands woe m despair at the materiab supplied to tbnn. and the soamped work expected. Yon shonU have heard old Thorpe monmiag for yon, and nunalising over the wickedness of lAis world. Hu wife told me she really wonght he would go melancholy mad if he did not leave the factory, and he has done so. They have taved enough to set up a nice littb shop at Monks Horton." "I muse go and nee them Good old Thorpe I I ought never to liave put those poor things into the firm when I ceased to have any control ovw it. 1 shall never for- give myself " " Nothing; could seem safer then No one colli have guessed that young Mr. Green- leaf would be so careless without his father to keep him up to the mark, nor that Mr. Goodenough should alter so much. la it very bad Is there worse behind Speculation, I suppose â- " " Of course. I do not see to the bottom of it yet poor George seemed to reckon on me for an advance, but I am afraid this is more than a mere temporary depression, such as may be tided over, and that all that can be looked to is trying to save honour- able names by an utter brMk up, which may rid them of thatâ€" thatâ€" no, I won't call him a scoundrel. I thought highly of him once, and no doubt he never realized what he was aoing." Before the evening was far advanced Mark Egremont knocked at the door, and courteously asked whether Mr. Dutton could be spared to him for a little while. Mary Nugent replied that she was just going to help Miss Headworth to bed, and that the parlour was at their service for a private interview, but Mark answered, "My wife is anxious to hear. She knows all that I do, and is quite prepared to hear whatever Mr. Dutton may not object to saying before her." So they bade good-night to Mary, and went on together to the next house, Mr. Datton saying " You have much to forgive me, Mr. Egremont I feel as if I had de- serted the ship just as I had induced you to embark in it." " You did not guess how ill it would be steered without yon," retorned Mark, with a bigh. " Do not fear to speak out before my wife, even if we are sinking. Sue will hear it bravely, and smile to tue last." The room which Mr. Dutton entered was not like the cabin of a sinking ship, nor, as in his own time, like the well ordered apart- ment of a bachelor of taste. Indeed, the house was a great puzzle to Monsieur, who entered by invitation, knowing his way per- fectly, thinking himself at home after all bb travels, and then missing his own p»ti- cnlar mat, and sniffing round at the furni- ture. It was of the modified aesthetic date, bnt arranged more with a view to comfort than anything else, and by the light of the shaded lamp and bright fire was pre-emin- ently home-like, with the three chairs placed round the hearth, and bright-haird Annaple rising up from the lowest with her knitting to greet Mr. Dutton, and find a comfortable lair for Monsieur. (to BE CONTINEUD.) qntte ^hfe^tiw* lir. Oeodm«|h feat »eiw»h|s £eclaiming Waste Lands. Nearly all the argricultural lands in the country, that are at present available, have been taken up. There is no doubt that be- fore many yeao's large areas of swamp and other unproductive lands will be reclaimed by processes that many years ago turned similar lands in Europe into fertile fields. AUte geological survey estimates that there are 50,000 square miles of swainp lands east of the Mississippi that can easily be drained. We are only beginning to reclaim our large area of comparatively arid lands by irrigation, and our future enterprises of this sort will dwarf all our past undertak- ings. Prof. Powe'l believes that an enor- mous region in the Northwest now lying untouched may profitably be fitted for the farmer by utilizing a portion of the Missouri and its tributaries. A number of notable projects for reclaim- ing waste areas are now in progress in various p3,rt3 of the world. In her sturdy fight against the ocean, Holland has added a million acres of tillable land to her terri- tory and she now proposes the greatest feat her engineers have ever undertaken, the draining of the Zayder Zee, and thb, if accomplished, will add a new province to the kingdom. The scheme involves the long and costly operation of separating the bay from the ocean by great dykes, and then pumping out the water, a work which, in spite of its colossal proportions, is said to be feasible both in its engineering and its finan- cial aspects. The Australians drsam of a day when a large part of the great barren distrists of their continent will be reclamed by irriga- tion. Inner Australia is a desert only for lack of water, and it is asserted that the re- clamation of large parts of these waste lands by irrigation is feasible. The Governments of Victoria and South Australia are making experiments in this direction, and they have recently let a contract to a CauEdian firm to irrigate 500,000 acres by water drawn From the Murray River. It will be interest- ing to watch the efforts that will be made to reduce the inhospitable areas in that great southern continent. Perhaps the most remarkable of recent attempts to reclaim valueless lands are the pases which the French are developing on the Northern borders of the Sahara. Tap- ping an underground river which is found to flow with a deep, smfc current from north to south, they have, by means of many borings, trannormed a strip of the burning deswt sixty miles lone into a scene of !ov^ verdure. Tiwy proudly call these oases altmg the Wady Kir a utde Egypt fertilised oy a subterranean NQe, whose waters nnoeasingljr â- E'ii'S to tiie â- orfaca, wherevw onUet u vSatati, to oovw the face of the desert with beauty and gladnens. About 800.000 date pahns are now growing tiiere, trtioh nearly BOO uterian widia have â- applied widi the only dement needed for T^ietation. Pattiag It ia AaotlMr Lisht. Energetic Motherâ€"*' Yon ahonld de year beat to tafnaa'llr. U sa thMly, ^aan. He is awfnlly rich and very, vety good." Clamâ€"" I know that, mother but be is toojood. I hato good men." Ibtherâ€" " Yea, bnt think, my dear, the good die yonng." Clara promises to oonsider tiie matter. 'P«,"aaid de^^hereaft BaHietbe other di^» tmlaiit *»why Bhs Koew Better. He came in very, late, and to keep Mrs. P. quiet narrated a trumped-up story of a narrow escape he had had oh hu way home of being run over by a fire engine. " A secon (hie) sooner and I should (hie) have been a dead man. It fairly (hie) took my breath away." " No, itdidnt," she taid, turning her face to tlie walL 80 He Paid And Â¥ent. Patientâ€"" Then you think it's all up with me. doctor?" Dxstorâ€"" Pm afraid so." P. â€" " Well, we mus? all die once and I may as well go now as afterward. You're snre I'm going " D.â€" "Yes." P.â€"" Then let me have your bflL" D â€" '• My bill 1 My dear sir, that is very unusual. You should give your thonghto to more serious matters." P. â€" My, motto has always been 'pay as you go,' and now that I am going I want to pay." So he paid and went. santipodaa. rabnt wan Bachelor Qnarten. QOING TO PROPOSI. Jack vto his chum)â€"" Gus, I'm going' to ask Clara Smith to-night to be my wife, and I may not be in until late. Better leave the gas burning a little." AN HOtra LATXK. Gus â€" " Why, what brings you home so early. Jack Did you find' Miss Smith out " Jack â€" " I say, Gus, what do you think about leasing these rooms for three years more?" A Careless Old Gentleman. Grandfather Totter (to aged wife) â€" I was a tellin' the minister yistidy, Mirandy, thet you'll be ninety-two year old to-morrer. Grandmother Totter (indignantly) â€" Well, ye bed no richt to say no sech thing, John Totter I'll only be ninety-one. Ye ought to be more keerful. His Ovn Diagnosis. Mother â€" And do you really feel so very bad.Bibby? Bobby â€" Yes, ma. I ain't quite sick enough to need any medicine, but I'm a little bit too sick to go to school. Lovey Dovey. A woman weighing something like two hundred pounds, came into the Union Sta- tion the other day clinging to the bony arm of a little man who probably tipped the beam at ninety in his winter clothing. He led the way to the ladies' waiting- room, deposited the l^idy in two chairs, and started out. "You won't be gone' long, will you" dearie " she gasped out. "I feel so timid." "No darling I'll be right back. Don't worrv about me." "Oh, I shall, dearie, I can't help it, and I dread being left alone. " "Well, I'll be back in ten minutes." "Oh, do ' 1 feel so nervous." He was gone fifteen minutes, and when he reached her side again she tried totumble into his arms, and said sweetly and child- ishly, "Oh, Harry You were gone an aqe. I was 80 frightened Ah, Harry, I fear that you will find yon have married a very, very silly Uttle girl." Somewhat Fozzled, Dnmley â€" Brown and I have entered into a compact not to drink for a month under a forfeit of Â¥50. Featherly (with a puzzled look) â€" ^Bnt how will yon know if either breaks the compact? Damley â€" Why, if Brown takes a drink, he will tell me of it, of course. Featherly (still puzzled) â€" Yes, of course. Brown is all right bnt how in the world will he know if you take a drink? Betaming from the Wedding Tour. Then the newly wedded couple was re- turning from the wedding tiur. "George," said the bride, as she suddenly straightened up and patted dowa her frizzes, " there's a wrinkle or something on the shoulder of your coat that hurts my ear." " There ain't any wrinkle there, darling." " Then it's some horrid padding or some- thing in your coat." "There ain't any padding either, little one." " Well, I know it's something, 'cause my ear's 'bout cut off." " It's jus' like it al'ays was, Jule." " I know better, and I ain't troing to lay my head on your shonlder any more 1" " Mebby it never hurt your ear none to lay it on Hen Ford's shoulder " " W'yâ€" no, it didn't so there I" " Msbby you'd like to lay your head on Hen's shoulder now " " Well â€" I'd rather than on your old shoulder ' " 'Twouldn't be very healthy for Hen 1" "Hen's jes' as big as you are, George Snuth 1" " Mebbr you wish you'd married Hen in place of me " "U I had I wouldn't V had a big c-T-oss b'ar for a husband, so-soo, G-G-eorge, I didn't mean to I" And Georse looked sheeinsh but relieved, and drew her head down on the objectionable shonlder, and she never moved till we reached Lost river, where they got off and rode away home in a wagm wiA a red box and four new spokes in one Und wheeL The Life pf a Ofli-Â¥iieeL By means of carefol records most of the ndlway oompanias are enaUed to know ex- actly tiw iron done by every car-irteel in the aervke. Some reoent aoodenta in Kew Bngfamd, attcflmted to the braakiBg of wlHMii^ luKTO Iwonriit oataoBw' in f em ntiu ii ae tooie Bfe ct m V ym mmm 1 tm JJ H ataai wl wii i si te MM 8lMiQ»aiili%rt, an a mk tlMg^iM BHtaar nd the IhUiti. Seientiato and asiionltnialiata ai interaitad In tte aMon cf "Mm legates who have reoently set oat for the Anatralian eeioiita to try oonclnsitaa with the now fainonfl|Ut p«st of the anti| A quarter of a^iHnury ago tiie practically am n^jfown animal in Aostraliat to-day the questl^ of how best to deal wMk the millions tf rabbits by which lAie oonntiy is overrun, ia taxing the ingenuity of tbte wiaeat statesmen in the country. The ez« perienoe of the Australian colonists ought ta a valuable warning against all efforta to ao- climatise animals or other fauna that cannot under any circumstances be a blessing, bat may possibly prove to be a heavy curse w» the country that tries to introduce them. About twenty-five years since several ae* climatization societies were formed in tlM antipodes, mainly for the purpose of intro ducing hares and rabbits, the destruction of which forms a considerable feature in Old Country sport. They were only too snooeaa f uL The imported rabbite not only increased enormously in size, they became phenomenal' ly pn^ific instead of producing four or five young, as in England, they produce as mai^ as eight or ten litters in the year, each litter containing eight or ten rabbite of a sixe and voracity unknown in the Old Country. They incrchsed and multiplied by millions efforto were made to confine them to partioulur lo calities by rabbit-proof wire fences' but th^ burrowed under them or learned the art a leaping over thism, and taught it to their young ones. The sober, matter-of-fact of- ficial statement of tiieir depredationn is absolutely appalling one large land owner spent not less than $200,(WO in a vain effort to drive them from his sheep walk, but was at last obliged to give up the unequal contest and abandon farming; liii extensive territory is now a .wildemeaa, every blade and root ol grass and evwy other vegetable growth being totelly destroy- ed by the voracious rabbite. The Govem mente of the colonies made the peste ik national question, a bonus was offered for' the destruction of the "vermin," and in 1886 this one item cost the New South Walee Cabinet $730,000; for 1887 the cost wu com pated to be $l,'.!50,000, and rapidly lucreas- ing â€" it is estimated that in the nt;xt six montlis they will have to pay for the destruo- tion of at least fifteen millions of rabbita. It has been proposed to separate the more densely populated districts trom the dreaded invasion by a fence 400 or 500 miles long, at a cost of $3,850,000; but those who know thdr habits best affirm that it would be useless. At length science has come forward. M. Pasteur some time ago discovered that the • microbe which causes the chokra de$ poide» is fatal to the rabbit also but to no other^ animal. In response to an advertisement the New South Wales Government offering $125,000 for a remedy, he has sent out two of his assistants, who will scatter a supply of the new microbe in the rabbits' feeding- ground and thus introduce the disease, which is expected to spread rapidly and soon destroy the pest. It remains to be seen whether the experiment will succeed in Atis- tralia as well as it has in France. In the meantime a good many people have protest-, ed against such a treacherous method of de- struction; but the coloniste reply that it^haa become a question whether they shall have to "go" or the rabbits. All other means of combating the plague have failed and it ia urged that Pasteur's method of inflicting death is a rapid and painless one. Credit. An address before the Washington Boaird of Ttrade, proposing the abolition of the credit system, contains some astonidiing stetistics. Thfr national debte of the world have increased from $7,627,000,000 in 1848 to $23,236,000,000 in 1880â€" an increase of over 300 per cent, in 32 years. The interest ' on the European part of this debt is $800,- 000,000 a year. The principal constitutes a mortgage of $30 on every acre of land, or $100 per head of the population. Turning to the United States, the national debt is $27 per head, and the State debts $4 per head, and the municipal debts $16 per head â€" total $47. Tae' United States railways owe $4 000,000,000. The bankers are credi- tors for $6,000,000,000, and, of course, are debtors for about the same amount. The mortgages on American farms amount to $6,000,000 or $8,000,000. Then there are small debts owing by almost everybody to everybody else to the tune of several thon- sand millions. In all, Mr. Price thinks that the people of the United States owe $28,000,000,000. Mr. Price then discusses the cost of the credit system. He shows that a cash buyer has an advantege of from 5 to 25 per cent, over the buyer on credit. Yet two-thirda or three-lourths of the world's business ia done on credit. The ability to obtein credit fosters a spirit of towering specula- ' tion and creates legalised gambling in many forms. Yet, what is to be done The whole soda^ system is founded on the confidence of maa in man that induces one to give credit to another. There is but one very large busi- ness that is conducted on a cash basis. Strange to say, that is the most objection- able of all businesses â€" the retail Uqnor trade. Millions daily pass from hand to hand for liquor. In most civilized countries a debt incurred for liquor cannot be recover- e 1. Yet the business grows in most conn- tries more rapidly than the population. The abolition of credit has not destroyed the li- quor traffic, bnt has, perhaps, strengthened it by constituting a liquor bill a debt of honor and by giving the seller a cood reason for refusing credit where he does not want to give it. Tnis business having survived the abolition of credit, the inference is fair that the sun would rise tb'i next morning even though some benevoleut despot should appear and brush away all debte with a stroke of his pen. From the ^gures eiven above it is plaia that something will have to be done to n- strict credits. It may be that if the snbjeoh ia let alone everything will work itadf onft dl rwht. But it is the part of atateemanah^ to duKjem. tiie pointa of weakness in onir mercantile system and apply remediea wliiA will prevent a oollapae. Too Modi Liberty. Fint Sernuit Oirlâ€" "How do yoa fifca your laat miasna T" Seooad Servant Girlâ€" I dont le fjl,* ffaatSarvaatCMilâ€" "Ite«ii*tiiM|^ifM jQid-^8he j i na mm a wwi i l nse i a tii l i .^ .^ ')./^ -^'^^^ \f ij- ;.; J. irfe iliip 11 ;â- *«