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 T^P-' "?^'?T-'r';."U?'-y i-'^» 'Ih^J^^filt, f mmm m Owtoti. [onraging to foere neve., i. thin; ,. *â- â- Â«-..•»«.- ' »^-^ .. c ' » to y-^ ?.*l^!«» Mills* â- * f?'«»;^Bi'^W»ir-r-*ifc.fc-» ^vi^v^r- V c^Nr^^wv -.1- ♦-•SOl'W .-hj^ ... ogfam « uoualy to th^XlS^ i5?l ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH." even "J- « the cnii" â- â€¢* towL ^beatUoA pes, who Ithat he i t^Iie world k/jf" C2 hen Robert wK. *ith ,,2 he paused for P^' ^tZ M only to stutteT?„*]*L*^5 and ' » debatiM*"l!5^l fnedaa "Orator m'°? "S â-  recall mf .,^, ^Pâ„¢ ° Pv!2 Jake hi fortwaaalsoThuSi^^ ^^^ recall Di„a.l,*^2S;"«^ *^e hu iden ,5£S "iS *i« Bhou!d"not""S*^« "a- E8 that every anlat?^^1^ "o* to blosao^'^^hobr^ have been quotlniTr**- jeneral rule M^, i ***P- shaps are Hke tfcfr" â€"Iâ€" I r Ue this tim« ' °? •"" Js, if ever I rise ^gain in tk- yon leave to cut meoff,^*'"' «^er. " Many of th« i^ '"' »»d â-  their CstXte'ffer?" i^^f!!!:4«j,fi"'«-eh:Zols tis gown, of debate/" to at "aipg. Thiawaiaho K" "' "« ^^"ttimeheshoBM pn m confusion had he noSJ tugging at hia eown Vu. J* should „ot felt "2eRupenrf"deba'tJ««' henhewaagoingtoapeiwS i^eaaonriaing. ThlawMZ 'Mayor of Liverpool he wu« '^f„",«"'«fl^edontoapeak^S ^to leave the room to coUscttS hia may have been, howevâ„¢ comparative novelty of hia m r an orator outaide his aoouatw.' completely loat. Lord Eldoa 1 always aomewhat nervoua io the Goldamitha' Dinner, tlfonjh k before Parliament aa though ^aing ao many rowa of cabbtoe Lobden apeaking of Lord John On the boarda of the Home Johnny is one of the moat snb- feroua of opponenta take him da and I care nothing for him." it given as to O'Connell to sue- with all audiences. Before he 3ou3e he waa declared to be a orator " but in 1830 he wu in 1831 he waa recognized as a ether in swaying a multitude on jpealing to the more educated Parliament, or in perauadiog a urt-houae, he waa equally at Alakina: Willsr atonishing thing that lawyers are most careful in all other :ters often show the greateat vith respect to their direction )8ition of their property after late Lord Chancellor St Leon- tance, wrote much respecting 36 of drawing willa ao clearly 10 room for litigation, and yet fa the will which he waa knovn ated could not be found, and re auked to determine whether ould be proved by hia daagh- blared that she could repeat [nemory. Mr. Tilden, aUo, lie lawyer, left a will which 1 proceedings almost necessary Jtatior. This week also it h»i red that the late Courtlandt 'w york, the founder of the â- entury Club, left two wills licila which are conflictin*. ink that men would pay parti- a to the proper transsctionof a piece of busiaeaa, but it is Clock for the Sick Boom. considerate invention has been Frenchman in the ahape of » for use more specially in «« ice of the usual penuulnm, tM in motion by the unroUing ot ad of which is fastened to • a a tank of Uquid. This flnid if orm rate, and can be ntiliZDfl wick, thus giving the »Pptf- character of clock and lamp- is lighted the necessary dio- d takes place by cQmbufltMffl, by carefully regulated drop- Keeping Still, iiy ia a very talkative b^- r hia uncle promised ""*T Id go an hour without ape**- go ted the dime very l»dly. »»J to keep perfectly still fr«n il ail o'clock. Che clock verynneMily ""J rer. By and Ly the bsgj [past five. Tom:ny l*ked Jd.atthetcpofhi.^/«' t'me'a gone,any w»y' 8 He the Jonah? ieraen, steward of tlwsJJ survived six °«»",r^ cent one betw««nw"^^ «ard which ^I^'m Vincent fa 18»»^lfc, run f rom^etr^^^,^ 74^ and the **^ offPortAdg**j^g;. Lucky IfaP-J^-^Si^ Why fcl;^f" dolUkr#VJg^ enaes i?*â„¢" CHAPTER Vm. John Monaghan. ,y„ Vature I on thy ample »WMt f"' nnt room for thy netskcted son ,y*°°.^ity h»= driven him forth \T*"'J^X^. He h«i nwght but thee^ Itf^trnnz hand atronjter h»art thou gaveat, V jjyafter the old woman's visit to i '•* onr servant James absented him *? week without asking leave, or giv- " tatimation of hU intention. He bad •"{j^careafine pair of horsea, a yoke of f Siree cows, and a npniei;o«ia famUy of 'i!rtides having to chop aU the firewood P-ZT for our use. His unspected depart- ^aied no' email trouble in the family hlT truant at last made hia appear- Moodie discharged him altogether. v'winter had now fairly set inâ€" the iron j of 1833- The anow waa unusually j "'and 't being our firat winter in Canada, f' jed in such a miserable dwelling, we i ^rvery severely. In spite of all my L^ted fortitudeâ€" and I think my powers j [T urance have been tried to the utmost j Utnv EOJoum in this countryâ€" the rigor •!!e climate subdued my proud, independ- EiKli* spirit, and I actually ahamed "VomiDhood, and cried with the cold. ' I ought to blush at confeaaing such un- Lab.fe wcakneas but I waa foolish and ^i-erienced, and unaccustomed to the Mv husband did not much relish perform- iJttie menial duties of a servant in aoch ,npr but he did not complain, and in meancime commenced an active inquiry a man to supply the place of the one we lost Dut at that season of the year no je was to be had. It was a bitter, freezing ni?ht. A sharp ad howled without, and drove the fierce jf through the chinks in the door, almost the hearthatone, on which two inunenae of maple shed f«»th a cheering glow, ^htening the narrow window-panes, wad kinjrttie blackened rafters ruddy with heart invigorating Uase. Tae toil" of the day were over, the sapper liitts cleared away, and the door closed for ke light Moodie fead taken up hia flute, Le sweet companion of hap^er days, at ie earnest nqu««i ut our home- sick Scotch Lrrant girl, to cbser her drooping spirits ly playing some of the toncbing national lirg of the glf us mountain land, the land (! chivalry and song, the heroic North. Be- lore retiring to reat. Bell, who had an ex- iiisite ear for music, kept time with her loot and hand, while large tears gathered in her soft blue eyes. "Ay, 'tis bonnie thae songs; but thejy aak me greet, an' my puir heart is aair, sair when I think on the bonnie breas and the uyso'langsyne." " Poor Bell! Her heart waa among the Els, and mine had wandered far, far away ;othe green groves and meadows of my own liir land. The music and our reveries were ilike abruptly baniehed by a aharp blow -.ponthe door. Bell roe and opened it, ften a strange, wild looking lad, barefoot- id, and with no other covering to hia head ian the thick, matted locka oi raven black- ness that himg like a cloud over his awarthy, sunburnt visage, burst into the room. "Guidness dtfend ua Wha ha'e we licre? ' streamed Bell, retreating into a cor- ner. " Tfie puir callant's no cannie. My hust-and turned hastily round to meet :iie intruder, and I raiaed the candle from ihe table the better to diatinguiah his face while Bell, from her hiding-place, regarded aim with unequivocal glances of fear and Jiiatrnst, waving her hands to me and point- ing signiticautly to the open door, as if altntly bBseechingme to tell her master to turn him out. "Shut the door, man," said Moodie, whose long scrutiny of the strarge being be- ioie us seemed, upon the whole satiafaciory; "we shall be frtzjn." "Thin, faith, sir,, that's what I am," said aelad, in a rich brogue, which told, with- oataskicg, the country to which he belong- ed. Then, stretching hia bare hands to the 5re, he continued, "'By Jove, air, I was nev- er so near gone in my life " "Where do you come from, and what ie your business here? You must be aware that this is a very late hour to take a bouse by storm in this way." "Thtue for you, sir. Bat necessity inowsno law and the condition you see ne in must plade for me. First, thin, sir, I eome from tne township of D and want • maather and nex to that, bedad I I want Mmnhiug to ate. As I'm alive, and 'tis a ionaand pities that I'm alive at all at all, for ehure God Almighty never made sich a Jiiiafortunate crather srfore nor since â€" I have "ad nothing to put in my head since I ran Way from my ould masther, Mr. F yesterday at noon. Money I have none, •ir the divil a cent. I have neither a ahoe my foot nor a hat to my head, and if you "hiae to shelter me the night, I must be wntint to perish in the snow, I have not a Wad in the wide wurld." The lad covered hia face with hie hands, ttd sobbed aloud. "Bell," I whispered, "goto the cupboard *d get thj poor fellow aomething to eat. liie boy ia starving." " Dinna heed him, miatreaa, dinna credit ^\m. He ia ane o' thae wicked Papists wha ha'e just stepped in to rob and murder "Nonaense! Do as I bid you." "I wbna be fashed aboot him. An' if M hides here. Ill e'en flit by the firat blink °' the mom." "Isabel, for ahame Ia thia acting lilce 'Christian, or doing aa you would be done Bell was as obstinate aa a rook, not only f^^wng to put down any food for the fam- !*«d lad, bat reiterating her threat of leav- 5«the house if ke were suffered to remain. ^y husband, no longer able to endure her *««h and absurd conduct, got angry in s^ earneat, and told bar that the might ?lease heraelf that he did not mean to ask J*» leave aa to whom he received into hia ??«•• I, for my part, had no idea that •»» [OWd realise her threat. She waa an axoel- ^t servant, clean, honest, and indoatriona, «4 loved the dear baby. Yon wiU think better ol it intkaBKam- «id I, aa I roae and placed before the "« «ome oold beef and bread, ud a heml of *J. ta which the runaway did aaple J" U^^7 did you gait vour mastor* my T:««dMooaie.^ y Bjoanae I could Uve wid him oo iMilf • 55«^sir,rma poor fooadliDg from tta ^ft Asylum, ahored «a* by ttw.VMMT '^Inm nie.apon the wide w«rid,lM« before I knew that I wm in it. As I __ top yoong to spake f«r myself iatirely, aha pat me into a baaket, wid a Ubel roand my neok, to tell the folka that my name waa John Monaghan. Thia waa aU I ever got fromn^ parenta; and who or what they were, I sever knew, not I, for thOT never claimed me bad cess to them t Bat I've no donbt it's a fine illigant gintleman he 'was, and heraelf a handamne rich yoong lady, who dared not own me for fear of afironting the rich jintry, her father and mother. Poor folk, sir, are never ashamed of their children 'tis all the threaaure they have, air but my parenta were ashamed of me, and they thrust me oat to the stoancer and the hard bread of depindenoe." The poor lad sighed deeply, and I began to feel a growing interest in hia sad history. " Have yon been in thia country lonj " " Four years, madam. You know my maather, Mr. F he brought me out wid him as hia apprentice, and during the voyage he trated me well. But the young men,ihis sons, are tyrants, and full of durty pride and I could not agree wid them at all at all. Yesterday, I forgot to take the oxen and the yoke, and Musther Willi;im tied me up to a atump, and bate me with the raw bide. Shure tbe marka are on my ahowlthers yet. I left the oxen and the yoke, and'turned my hack upon them all, for the hot blood was bilin' widin me and I felt that if I stayed it would be him that would get the worst of it. No one had ever cared ior me since I was born, so I thought it was high time to take care of myself. I had heard your name, air, and I thought 1 would find ynu out and if you want a lad, I will work for you for my kape, and a few dacent clothes." A bargain was aoon made. Moodie agreed to give Monaghan six dollars a month, which he thankfully accepted; and I told Ball to prepsire him a bed in a corner of the kitchen. But miatreaa Bell thought fib to rebeL Having been guilty of one act of in- subordination, she determined to be incon- sistent, and throw off the yoke altogether. She declared that she would do no anch thing that her life and that all our lives were in danger and that she would never stay another night under the same roof with that Papist vagabond. " Papist " cried the indignant lad, hia dark eyes flashing fire, " I'm "ao Papist, but a Protestant like yourself and 1 hope a duced dale better Christian. You take me for a thief yet shure a thief would have waited till you were all in bed and aaleep, and not step in fornint you all in this fash- ion." There was both tru^b and nature in ths lad's argument but Bell, like em obstinate woman that she was, choae to adhere to her own opinion. Nay, she even carried her ab- surd prejudices ao far that ahe brought her mattress and laid it down on the floor in my room, for fear that the Irish vagabond would murder her during the night. By the break cf day ahe was ofi leaving me for the reat of winter without a servant. Monaghan did all in hia power to supply her place he lighted the firea, swept the house, milked the cows, nursed the baby, and often cooked the dinner for me; and endeavored by a thousand little attentions to show the grat- itude be really felt for our kindneas. To little Katie he attached himself in an ex- traordinary manner. All hia apare time he spent in makin.-, little sleighs and toys for her, or in dragging her in the eaid sleighs up and down the eteep hills in front of the house, wrapped up in a blanket. Of a night, he cooked her mesa of bread and milk, as ahe tat by the fire, and his greateat delight was to feed her himself. After this opera- tion was over, he would carry her round the floor on his back, and sing her songs in na- tive Irish. Katie always greeted his return from the woods with a scieamof joy, hold- ing up her fair arms to claap the neck other dark favourite. •• Now the Lord love you for a darlint ' he would cry, as he caught her to hia heart. " Shure you are the only one of the crathers he ever made who can love poor John Mona- ghan. Brothera and siatera I have none â€" I atand alone in the wurld, and year bonny teee fact is the aweetest thing it contains for Oih, jewil I could lay down my me, life for you, and be proud to do that same. Though careless and recbleas about every- thing that concerned himself, John waa honest and true. He loved us for the com- paasion we had shown him and he would have resented any injury offered to our peraona with his best blood. But if we were pleased with oar new servant, Uncle Joe and hia family were not, and they commenced a aeriea of petty per- secations that annoyed him great l^r, and kindled into a flame all the fiery particles of his irritable nature. Moodie bad purchased several tons of hay of a neighboanng farmer, for the use of his cattle, and it had to be stowed into the same bam with some flax and straw that belonged to Uncle Joe. Going early one rooming to fodder the cattle, John found Uncle Joe feeding hia cowa with hia maater'a liay, and aa it had diminiahed greatly in a very abort time, he aoenaed liim in no meaaared terma of being the thief. The other very cooUy replied that he had taken a little of the hay in order to repay himaelf for Wa flax, that Monaghan had atolen for the oxen. " Now by ^powers " qaoth John, kindling into ^th, " that is adding a big lie to a dhirty netty larceny. I take yonr flax, you owld ^Ulikil Shurel know that flax ia grown tomakeUnen wid, not to feed oxen. God Almighty haa given the crathera a good waurm coat of eir own- they neither re- quire ahifta nor ahirta." t • w. • I aaw yon take it, yoa raided Inah Tagabond, with my own eyes." •• Ihin yer two eyee abowed you a wicked illnaion. You had betther abut up yer head, orm give you that for an eye-Mdve that aliall make you see thrae for the time Bdying vpon Ua gre»t ain, and thlnUng ibat ttw alteht st^Uag, who, by the-by, waa all bones and awa, waeao natdi for bim. Unole Joeatruck Monaghaa over the fc^ Witt thepHchlMfc I" »»»«»* aetiv*lBd «•â-  i9»^*â„¢ IBm^* wiklca^ JlSSSJteel tl»liff«w»oe?lhiia«e«.d waidiM at' Mg â„¢** aaeha totoatalmidl OwB tiiatyoa ace a thief asd aliar« Catte'Mirâ€" «»9ariateiqr«i S^;;^ good lad-Ht awfrt • Jao* iM 1o*Ub bfaMuttefaoe,! ttom^ h^ buraten- tuely." The fM aaa aeittar foKgot nor forgave Uiis in jury and diougk he darcd not attadt John pennnalty, h«Mt the ohildNa teia- ault and elBroBt Urn on all occaaiona. The boy waa without aooka, and I aaait him to old Mra. B to inquire of her what ahe would oiiarge for kidtdng him two paira of aooks. The rmly waa a dollar. Thia waa agreed to, and omt enough they were but the weather waa vary oold, and the lad waa barefooted, and tiiere waa no other altema tive than either to accept her offer, or for him to go without. In a few daya Monaghan brought diem home but I found upon inapecting them that th^ were old aooka new-footed. Thia waa rather too glaring a cheat, mad I aent the lad back with them, and told him to inform Mra. R that he had agreed to giye the price for new aooka, he expected them to be new altt^ther. The avarioions old woman did not deny the fact bat ske fell to cursing and awear- iag in an awful manner, and wished so much evil to the lad, that, with the superstitions fear so common to the natives of hia country, he left her under the impreasion that she was gifted with the evil eye, and was an " owld witch." He never went oat of the yard with the waggon and horses, but she ruahed to the door, and ouraed him for a bare-heeled Iriah blackguard, and wiahed that he might overturn the waggon, kill the horses, and break his own worthleaa neck. " Ma'am," aaid John to me one day, after returning from C with the team, " it would be betther for me to lave the maather intirely for share if I do not, some mischief will befall me or the crathara. That wicked owld wretch 1 I cannot thole her curses. Shure it's in purgatory I am all the while." " Nonaease, Monoghan I you are not a Catholic, and need not fear purgatory. The next time the owld woman commences her reprobate conduct, tell her to hold her tongue, and mind her own business, for curses, like chickens, come home to roost." The boy laughed heartily at the old Turk- ish proverb, but did not reckon much on its efficacy to still the clamorous tongue of the ill-natured old jade. The next day he had to pass her door with the horses. No soon- er did she hear the sound of the wheels, than out she hobbled, and commenced her usual anathemas. " Bad luck to yer croaking, yer ill condi- tioned owld raven. It is not me you are deathroying share, but yer own poor miser- able sinful scwL The owld one haa the grip of ye already, for curses, like chickens, cotiie home to roost ' sc get in wid ye, and hatch them to yerself in the chimley cor- ner. They'll all be roosting wid ye by-and- by and a nice warm nest they'll make for you, considering the brave brood that be- longs to yon." Whether the old woman was as supsr- stitiovs as John, I know not or whether ehe was impresaed with the mural truth of the proverb â€" for, aa I have before atated, ahe was no fcolâ€" ia difficult to tell but she ebrunk back into her den, and never attack- ed the lad again. Poor John bore no malice in his heert, not he for, in spite ot all the ill natured things he had to endure from Uncle Joe and his family, he never attempted to return evil for evil. In proof of thia, he was one day chopping firewcod in the buah, at aome dia- tance from Jie, who waa engaged in the same employment with another man. A tree in falling caught upon another, which, although a very large tree, was bellow, and very much decayed, and liable to be blown down by the least shock of the wind. The tree hung directly over the path that Uncle Joe was obliged to travel daily with his team. He looked up and perceived, from the situation it occupied, that it was nec- essary for hia own aafety to cue it down but he lacked courage to undertake so faaz- ardocs a job which might be attended, if the supporting tree gave way during the operation, with very serious consequences. In a careless tone, he called to hia companion to cut down the tree. " Do it youraelf, H " said the axe man, with a grin. "My wife and children wane their man as much as your Hannah wants you." " I'll not put an axe to it," quoth Joe. Then, making aigna to hia comrade to hold his tongue, he shouted to Monaghan, "Hollo, boy you're wanthd here to cut down this tree. Don't you see that your master's cattle might be killed if they should happen to pass under it, and it should fall upon them." " Thruefor you, Maather Joe; but your own cattle would have the firat chance. Why should I risk my life and limba, by cutting down the tree, when it was yerself that threw it so awkwardly over the other ' " Oh, but you are a boy, and have no wife and children to depend, upon yon for bread," said Joe gravely. "We are both famUy men. Dou'c you see that 'tis your dnty to. cut down the tree?" The lad swung the sxe to an firo in hia hand, eyeing Joe and the tree alternately but the natural kind heartedneea oi the creature, and Ida recklesa courage, overcame all idea of self-preservation, and raising aloft hia slender but muscular am;, ha cried out, " If it's a life that must be aaorifioed, why noc mine as well as another? Here gqn 1 and she L^rd have mercy on my sinful aowl " The tree fell, and, ' contrary to their ex- pectations, without any injory to John. The knowing Yankee burst into a loud laugh. •* ell, if yon am't a tamatioB aoft fool, I never aaw one." " What do you nakne T ' exclaimed Jolin, hia dark eyea flaahiag fire. "If tia toinanit ine for doing that whSchndther of yon dared to do, yon had better not thry that aame. Yon have just seen the strength of my spirit. Yon had better not thiy agdn the atrengtt of my arm, or, may be, yon and the tree would chance to ahare the aame fate ;^' and, ahoolderiag hia axe, the boy atrode down the hill, toUet aoolded by me for hia f oolhardiaeaa The firat week in Mardi, all the people were bnay nnJdng maple aagar. **. Jni yen ever taata any niyle aagar, ma'am f'aaked Monaghan, aa he aat feeding Katie one eran- iagbythefiie.' ' ••No John." '*Wea, thai, you've a dirate to ooow; and ita myaelf that will make Mia Katle^ tho dariist, as HUcpMrlomp of t^tfaMBS." EBriyintteaMEaii«Jeln;i»B nf, haid ahoufodae wiA fMMk pdd* «f kwlk I iaift» Utile dborttteuMto H Jp^A h#f j^ t?^ :»«• »» ,bo tapped, the angar made, and if it were really IpMtdu^enm^e?" Ib^df my quariea^ Jakn raapouded, "OJi 1 tie Hl^aiR. It bataradl tlie sugar that was ever made in Jamaky. Bat yon'U see before to-morrow night." Moodie was away at P and the pre s peet el the maple augar relieved the dnlloeaa-eoeaaieaed by liia abaeaoe. I reck- oned cm ahowing him a {rfeoe of angar of our ewii miking wImu he aame homo, and never dreamt of the poadbility ot diaappointment. •fl' {to BK OONTOnnU)). How Yaiutebfltllade $105,000,000 After fl« was 65 Tears Old. A Saratoga letter to the St. Louis •'Globe Democrat" says â€" It is singular that jast as Saratogiu loses the Vaaderbilts she gains Gonld. "Ilie old Commodore," as the elder Vanderbilt ia always called, and " William 4 " aa the late President (rf the New York Central is invariably referred to, appeared at Saratoga aa regularly as the season came roimd. The heirs have cut the Springs and spend the summer at Newport and other resorts. " The old Commodore" waa a great man to ait on tha verandah and talk with anybody and everybody. An old- timer says he once sat in a group which included "the old Commodore" and Wil- liam H. Seward, who so narrowly missed the Presidency in 1860. They were talking; ibout money making. "Commodore," asked Mr. Seward, "you are not always success ful in your business plana, are you " " No," replied Mr. Vanderbilt, with ex- treme frankness. " Sometimes I lose $50,- 000 or §75,000 or $1CO.OOO, but I generally come out a leetle ahead at the end of the year." Another veteran of 30 Saratoga seasons tells this " I have often heard Vander- bilt say that he made his great fortune after be reached the age of 66. He had only $15,000,000 or $16,000,000 when he waa 65. His first big hit was the purchase of the Harlem road. That donbled his fortune. Then he bought the Hudson River and Central, and doubled another. And finally he took in the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and hia Western property, and doubled his estate the third time. Thus, when he was at the age when mcst men are thinking ot making their wills his estate jumped from $15,000,000 to $30,000,000 by the purchase of the Harlem, from $30. 000,- OOQ to $60,000,000 by the purchase of the Hudson River, and from $60,000,000 to $120,000,060 by the purchase of the Lake Shore. That is the whole secret ot the building up of .the wonderful Vanderbilt fortune. But the heirs have shown a better quality ot holding on tx the money than was expected. There isn't one of the younger Vandcrbilts who lives up to his income. They have more than the ' amount* left them." Electricity Instead of Hanging. After Jan. 1, 1889, all persons convicted ot murder and condemned to death in New York will be executed by electricity instead of by hanging. No experiments have been made, and no means have been devised to apply electricity so that it shall be abaolutely certain aa an agent ot death. It ia known to all electriciana that a force ot even 2.000 volta, and an alternating current at that, might produce inatant death in one case without auffering, aud intense agony, followed by death in smother. The various devicea thus far suggested have come from newspapers and magaztnias, and each and every one ot them are open to some obj action. Dr. J. Mount Bleyer, who was one ot the commisaion appointed to report on " the beat method ot executing criminals," gUve the matter a good deal of study, and devised a method which he believes ia perfect, but waich ia really open to the gravest objections. Dr. Bleyer 's plan is to place the condemned person in a sort of a hut, hia bare feet rearing on a metal floor which connects with one pole of the battery. An i-lectrode coming through the root of the hut and touching the doomed person's head is connected with the other pole, and 80 completes the circuit. Should the condemned pereon twiat hia head ao as to break the contact even the thousandth part ot an inch the circuit would be incomplete, aud life would be prolonged as long aa he remained in that poaition. " I fear," said a gentleman who ia an accepted authority on medical jariaprudence, " thikt unless the state gets to work at once and devotes a great deal ot time to experimentation, that the first execution by electricitv will be a most distressing bungle. "-[New Yark Press t1 Rtej^jUdt" Paiisian Pancies. But the great thing juai now ainong the not exactly demi-mon^e ot Paria, but say the workini; women out toir a holiday, is to be dresed all in one or two colors. This idea is more comprehensive than ever be- fore. It includes pot only the costume, hat, parasol, gloves, hoeiary, baudkerchiefs, •• pamre," tut ia interior collar and cuffi, but skirts, corsets, uaderwear, stockings, v^ uid, in short, every important and un- important part of the toilette. The dress may be a tiny-dotted, sprigged, or striped foulard or percale. The parasol will match, the hoae will be dotted, between the linea ofembroidary on the front, iiandkerchiefa will be iGotted upon the color. The chemise and the drawers also, trimmed with white laoe (torchon), which here ia ao fine and real and at ao low a price. The corset will be Idue and the glovea a dull grey ahade of the aame color, and if they can be found, for auch a ooatume, with a row of email white embroidered dots roand the top, below die atitched edge and op the back, isatead of the ugly solid white or black stitching which haa been faehionable lately f any true Parisian would bag her soul in extreme content, not at getting rid ot the horrid thick IdaiA or white stripes on the back idwaya emerging to the hand, and dreadfully unbeeominglont beeanae the dearUttle dota match ber ooatume. Thia fitneaa of thinga ia at preaent the aole aouroe of Pariaian auperioiity in dreaa and faahion. Hard woriitec tran^â€" f •Smrea't yoa got VoQCf #r two of wood jroiiniit aawad alter Hwalifaat r Aatonkhedlioaanrile, eaoer^H- •*Iateed I have, and I waa^ttuaawad dUft a fl» r Bail fMreakfan for nvee and riaa* up t»V» WMwkfng, '« ra keep my eyee agm^ he would likete WW that «Md.rtt While it wvald be afaeurd of Canada to attach undue importance tp the very undig- fied and nnreaaonaUe diaday of aoimoaity against this country manueated in turn by the Senate, and by tih^ Preaideat of the United Statae; it would he «ven more fooliah not to take warning by tiieoe nnjoat^able attache and avoid expoalng ouraelvea unne- oeaaarily to auoh unworthy treatment. Theeeapeeimena.ot what we might expeot if we aaorifioed our indepsndenca have come in gcod time to oaadon tlie psopleot Canada against any compliance with the schemes of those who weald deliver na, btmnd huid and foot, to the United Ssaces. Canada cannot deaira either immediate Commercial Union or the next atep, Poltical Union, with a nation which in ita corppratci capacity evi- dently haa not the moat elementary con- ception ot fair play. Individually a very large proportion ot their people are just and honorable, but their men ot this chkracter seem to atand aloof from politics, or at least not to solicit the auflirage of the electors, probably because of the unworthy meana deem^ necessary to secure election, and thus they leave aa repreeentatives ot the nation men who have no scruple in appeal- ing to the m)st unworthy prejudices. Instead ot placing ourselves, as the Wiman- ites would have ua to do, in the power of auoh men or rather of such a system, it would certainly be to render ottraelvea aa inde- pendent as possible of them in every respect. There are not two opinions as to the recent proceedings, alike ot the Senate and of the President, being primarily merely election- eering dodges. The majority of the Senators considered that a show ot b allying Canada, although a gratuitous inaulr, or rather be- cause insulting would be ot aome service to their party in the preaent campaign. Then the President, to counteract this move ot his political opponents, thought fit to condemn and threaten Canada without any regard for fair play to this country or for hia own con- sistency, attacking us btcauae the Senate had rejected his treaty. The knowledge thit all thia is electioneering tactioa tends to relieve us from the feeling that we are being deliberately insulted out of animosity, but does not prevent us from experiencing an unwillingness to expose ourselves to such treatment. An insult from a drunken man may be treated with contempt, but at the same time with a determination to avoid further contact, especially it the drunken- ness is recturrent. United States politicans become intoxicated with electioneering ex- citement and lose their s'4t control at every Presidential campaign, and every four years we would have reaaon to regret being tied to such partners it we rashly entered the firm. Bat beside the tall talk and electioneer- ing bluster there u something more sab- stantial at the bottom ot these attacks and threats. It ia evident from Senatorial apeeches, Irom the Presidential Message and from editorial utterances that the enter- priae and progreu dt Canada have awaken- ed very jealona feelings. Tbeie are power- ful intereata in the Uaited States, powerful through their great wealth and their or- ganized " lobbying," whose grasping spirit ia aroused by tbe formidable competition in the carrying trade which thenatural advan- tages of ita position and ita enterpriae in utilizing these advanta^ea have enabled Canada to offer. Nothing could be more bitter and vindictive than aome of the at- tacks upon Canada tor daring to do su large a share of the carrying business ot the con- tinent. If we are tuua hectored now for the superiority oi our railway and canal routes and the appreciation they have gained, what would be our position if we were help- lessly bound up with there greedy competi- tors by adopting the advice ot the Wiman- itea to restrict our commercial intercourse to the United States, telling all other people, by the very practical method ot im- posing differential penal :ie3 on their goods, that we have no wish to trade with them We wculd have alienated all other people and made ourselves dependent upon these competitors, who grudge us the share of business which our enterprise brings us. Would they be less dictatorial if we were in their power? The " American'zmg " Canadians may say that there would not be thia fierce rival- ry under Unreatricted Reciprocity because tbe interests ot tbe two cnuntriea would have become identical. Well, hardly and even political, inateid of commercial, union might not quite remove the sectional jeal- ousy ot our neighbors. Look at the pro- ceedings of thin very session ot Congress. The Southern States are politically as well aa commercially within the Uoion, but that baa not prevented disgraceful scenes in which Yankee orators have waved aloft the "bloody shirt" of the civil war to keep alive secUonal animosity. Gould the " Cannck " expect better treatment tnan the Southerner Even without this local feel- ing, the overwhelming inflaence of the great rings might be most injurious to ua. In Behring'a aea the United Statea are actu- ally, for a rental, protecting snob a compaiiy in flagrant piracy, exercised not only gainst Canadians but even againat aealera flying the Stara and Stripea, and the Governor of Alaaka doea not hesitate to de- clare that theee pirates owe their impunity to the uae of their ill gotten wealth at Washington. We cannot expect fairer treatment than that which the Sraate and the President now tliink good enough for na, even if we were unwise enough to adopt Commenaal Union, and then we. would have placed ouraelvea in their power. In- stead of accepting dependence our true policy ia evidenUyto paraiat with even re- newed energy in aaeUag ouraelvea thorough- ly independent of our nd^bon. Our re- latione are likely to be iJl the more neigh- borly if we maintain our eelf-reUaiiae. '♦ The Hebrew's Financial Methods. 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