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 Wf^' 'W^^'?f?!r^^'^f'^^^^:, The Destraotive White Ant. The Scientifio Americwi has an interestin« •rUcle OH the noted termite (improperly cM- «d white ant), which works roch fearful havos with woodwork of all kinds in mMiy warm countriea. rendering necessary we be- lieve in mangr districts the use of metal f«c ndlroad ties and similar porposea. j^e writer maaUk in large part from p«*»n^ Talae. We copy bnik of the artid*. oondenaias aomewlMt The raTagca of the WM»Ikd white aat oan liardly be oompreheiided by tbow who have not seen the reanlta. TheM are so dispropor- tionate to the siae and apparent powws of tii0 ioMot, tthat no one oan be blamed for doabtiag, except on the mort pontfve evi- dence. I remember onoe, in Um sbutti of China, havinr oooasion to move a huge hard- wood chest fiUed with books. I oaUed two men to lift the chest. They took it by its iron hf^^'^^'" and with one accord bent to it •ad lifted. It was like a signal for dinoln- tion. It seemed as if force of habit alone ooold have held the handles in their places, for the instant they were tagged at they came away, and the chest cmmbled and feU to the floor a heap of dust and irregular, thread like shreds of wood. The books proved to have suffered in the same fashion. Some of them crumbled on being taken up, and others remainfed so thorongltly riddled with holes as to be nothing better than a fra- gile lacework of paper. If the insect be destroyed only at times duriuc; its varied existence, it might it pos- sible to guard against it bettar but when it is considered that as larva, pupa, and per- fect insect, it is equally destructive, it will be understood what a pest it must he. Cam- phor Lb a shield against it, and camphor- wood chests are therefore used for keeping valuable articles in, but even the genuine camphor wood is not always strong enough to keep away the ravenous thing, and it has to be reinforced by plentiful supplies of the go"' My first accquaintance with the msect was made one night in the fall of thb year, «t Canton, while dining with a merchant there. It was still warm enough to need the windows to be wide open and to have the fan or punka swinging steadily over the table. We were about halt throagh with the soup when there came in through the winduws such a swarm of the termites as soon filled every glass. Tbey fell upon th« table like hail, their wings, which they seemed to be losing, floating through the room and finding their way to our most un- willing mouths, in spite of every effort to avoid them. The windors were shut and the table cleared, and we went on with our meal, swelterins; in order that we might eat. These termites, which so bothered us, were the males an females out on their court- ing tour, and well it b that they were so easily destroyed for if more than the very smallest percentage of the females were to live, the whole world would hardly be large enough to contain their progeny. One female wUl lay in the neighboihood of thir- ty-one millions of eggs in the course of a year. Of these eggs, the smallest proportion are males, the others beinr workers and soldiers, and the workers being in an exces- sive majority. There are several species of the termite, some of which make those groat tent-shaped iboands of which travelers tell so much, and others buUdinsf high up in trees. The sort which is so destructive to wood and books makes its home underground, and approaches the object it intends to convert irto food by tunneling to it. By this means it renders any attempt to watch for its coming nul!. Usually it follows the grainof the wood in its progress, but this IS not always the case â€" the direction being determined by expediency. A chest which has not been totally destroyed will show that the insect has gone back and forth, and ip and down, just as the nature of the wood or its thickness renders the most ex- pedient. Frequently the termite will per- form a most singular work in the effort to make thfi best use of any wooaen structure into which it has made its way. If, for ex- ample, it has bored through the length of a pillar supporting a house, and finds at the top that tuere is wood which it would lifae for food, it first uses up the wood of the pillar, and then fills the hollow shell thus created with mud packed until it is as hard as ctmcrete. The pillars cf one house taken down for rebuilding in Sc. Helena were found to be mere shells of wood, compactly filled, except for a tunnel through the length, with a pUlar of hard mortar. The skill with which the termite conceals its ravages, and die manner in which it guards against the premature destruction of its means of ap- proach to its food supplies, indicate a high degree of intelligence. Bound Advice. Never, under any circumstances, read a bad booK and never spend a serious hour in reading a secona-rate book. No words can overstate the mischief of bad reading. A bad book will often haunt a man his whole life long. It is often remembered when much better is forgotten; it intrudes itself at the most solemn moments, and contamin- ates the best feelings and emotions. Raad- ing trashy, second-rate books is a grievous waste of time also. In the first place, .there are a great many more first-rate books than you can ever master; and in the second place, you cannot reul an inferior book with- out giving up an opportuni^ of reading a first-ratebook. Books, remember, urefriends â€" ^books affect charactw and yon oan as little neglect any oth^ moral duty that is upon you. Same Thing in Bostonese. " I have no time to write a reply," said the hanghty Boston maiden. "Tell Mr. Cahokia I am prevented from accepting his invitation for this evening by obstacles that are insuperable." "Miss Howjames says," reported the meaaenger boy to the yoong man some hours latfBT, " that she can't go wid ye tliis evenin' and she says ye nee£i't git obstropiJous, fur ye're in de soup." An Appiopriate Heading. Reporter â€" "Here's a man with an ac- count of the fijrht. Shall I put a slug head over it?" Manaj^g Editor â€" "Does it amount to much?" Hmorter â€" "Yes, one of them was kiUecL This maa lays they "fit to tke MaMfffng g^wA«â€" ««T*â€" 4ia4^J* • Zho SaWnTdTtho Tfttfeot.' " Dt. B. W. Bichardson on Alchol- In 1863, and for a year or two befor^ I had been making some original researches into the properties of a rare ^emicai sub- stance named nitrite of tanyL Then I went on to inquire into the methyl seriiM, a nd so step by step oontinned, reportlp^. onjy yeur untU, in 1886, I began wiOi tie alcohol. It wa« at one of these, but than areaowknowntBboaevanL Nwr. tfaefirtti gioat feat that atarded me lirhea^xaninug into the alcobtda was that they aiiqaeatlai^ able lowered a«teniperataretftlii body. I did not then know that ai^ona elae had noticed this before me but I know now that two or three others â€" Dr. John Davy, (brother of Sir Hamphrey), Dr. Bse, the Arctic explorer, and Dr. Lees, of Laeda, had all aeverally anapeoted this fact but they had not proved it by ezperimental reaearch. My great point waa ademonatra- tioa by tdontifio inatrnmentaâ€" by the per- fect thermometers now made. That was the first stepâ€" the startling faot that alcohol lowers temperature. Now for the second. This came from the study of anseithetics. In watching the action of aloohol, I found there were just the same four degrees or stages in the action of ansa- thetios, viz, simple excitement without in- sensibility excitement with commencing insensibility insensibility absolute and lastly, death-like insensibility. I came, therefore, to the conclusion that aloohol does not act aiter the manner of a food, but of a chemical substance like an anseithetic. This, then, was the second step. This was fol- lowed up by tracing the changes and th^ •nodifications which take place in the body from the continued use of alcohol. I reach- ed thus the third step or third conclusion, viz that alcohol is a prolific cause of death andoi great harm to the internal organs of the body; it is, in fact, in its ordinary use, a slow poison, I can no more accept the alcohols m foods than I can chloroform, or ether, or meth- vial. That they produce a temporary ex- citement is true but as their general action is quickly to reduce animal heat, I cannot see how they can supply animal force. I see clearly how they reduce animal power, and can show a reason for nsing them in order to stop physical or to stupefy mental pain but that they give strength â€" i. e., that they supply material for the construction of fine tissue, or throw force into tissues supplied by other material â€" must be an error as solemn as it is widespread. The true character of the alcohols is that tbey are agreeable temporary shrouds. The savage, with the mansions of his noul unfurnished, loruies bis restless energy under their shad- ow. The civilized man, overburdenel with mental labor or engrossing caie, seeks the same shade but it is shade, after all, in which, in exact preportion as he seeks it, the seeker retires from perfect natural life. Mastodons in Alaka. That the mastodon was once coibmon in Alaska is certain from the great number of their skeletons, found in the marshes and clay banks of the Yukon and northern plains; but that this huge pachyderm stUl exists there in the living state has never been deemed likely, or even conjectured, tiL re- cently. This coDJscture rests on reports by way of the Stick Indians on the White River, a tributary of the Yukon. The account Is that while hunting on a wooded bottom, a few miles from thid river, two Indians came upon a trail, consisting ot enormous tracks fully two feet across, and deeply imprinted in the moss and earth, strewn along near which were broken braocbes of the trees. Following cautiously on these signs, they at length heard the noise of the creature feeding, and presently espied a prodigious animal, as large, they assert, as a white man's houseâ€" meaning the trader's one-story store. Its teeth, they declared, were as long as a man's leg, and curved outward, while its ears were likened to a seal-skin. In color it waa represented to be dark broWn. It lean- ed against a dead tree-stub, and scratched its side, and its body seemed to be covered with patches of coarse brown hax. Terri- fied at the sight of such enoraious game, the two hunters promptly retreated. Ocher native hunters corroborate this story wish similar accounts of their exper- iences accounts which they are reluctant to relate for fear of ridicule, or for some super- stitious feelings regarding the matter. The uncharitable attribute the apparition of the strange beast to the vbion- disturbing effects of hoochinoo, â€" a particularly villain- ous kind of whiskey distUled from molasses. Ouhera rejoin that these Indians never take hoochinoo while on a hunt, â€" or in other words, that they never go on a hant as long as there is any hoodiinoo left in the ranch- erie. This may be subjecting the narrative of the natives to a somewhat harsh criticism, the more so when it is considered that one of the two who b\w the supposed mastodon is an Indian of known probity and good character, â€" he with three others of his tribe having brought down to the trading post the body of the late murdered bishop. Let us hope that these Indians liave really seen a mastodon, and that it may, in due course, fi^re in the place of thu lamented Jumbo, and not only substantiate the theor- ies of the savants, bat .delight the eyes of every boy and girl in the civilized world. • â-  Bather Yague. The pacific utterances of Emperor Wil- liam, while very creditable to hinoi and aatis- factory to his people, ate rather too vague and conditions to Iw mnoh rdied npon. They are oounterbilanced by huge national armaments everywhere, and the natural con- duaion is that sooner or later these wUl be pvt to nae, even if only in order to g^o them a reaaon for exiatenoo. Thaae anna- menta are alao continually incre aa ed, and in to-morrow'a re-aaaembling of the Rdohatag a new naval loan and odier budget mattera have the rfa{ht of way. PoadUy thne may be aome spedfic asanranca of a leaa warlike feeling in Raasia'a recent deolara- tion that she has detemdnad to waahlier handa of Bulgaria, being oonvinoed that aha could not have Gennany'a anpport in a posi- tive poUoy thare. This senna to aooord with tiie atatement that tita Forte is willing to give its oonaent to Hba adminia- trative union of Bulgaria Mid Eaatem Roa- melia, provided no attHnpt iauMda to enroach on Maoadmiia. In tiuit oaiiw yonng Prinoe Ferdinand, whoaa boaataiiavobeen. so much ridicnled, woald oodw jpiitt at Ac topaftek aB. ladaad, ha ao longfar aolEnraaoe tliafe *i The Thistle i» 8o;;tIaad. There ia mnoh obaonri^ aa to tho dronm- stanoea under whioh the the tniatie waa adrated aaita emblaif 10 the Sbattii|h ^tion but the tollcwbig la a tradition Queen Scotia had led hiw-tnopa iB'apeU'fMight field, and when thedav waa won ntind to the rear to reefe fr^ her tdb. She threw herself upon tlie ground, when, aa ill If ok would have lt,an aiwipnatM|tl»had alaoted to grow at the van ap»t aeUstad lor her repoae. Whether the fair Amazon fonf{ht fai the national ooatoma I know aot, bat the nlnM of tiie offsodlag harb w«r« mffioiantly powerfol to penetiato tiw akin in a vary pain- lol manner, A pcovarUal philn a opli a r (not Mr. Tdtear, I tk) haa declared that "he that aittath on nettlea riaetii vp onlcUy, " and the aame remark holda gnod of thintlaa. Qnaen Sootia qprang np and tore Aa tbiatle up ly the roota. She waa abont to oaat it from her with a military, Imt nnladylika ex- preaaion, when it atmok her tiiat the prlok- plant would henoeforth be ever aaaodated in her mind with the gloriona victory whioh she had just gained. Her intention waa changed. She plaoed the thiatle in her casque and it became the badge of her dy- naaiy. She Waa FrofessionaL Sheâ€" " Where did yon say Dr. Winter met his wife T" Heâ€"*' At the Springsâ€" Saratoga Springs. A highly accomplished young lady." Sheâ€" "She must have been. Was she also professional " Heâ€"" Oh yes. Guess now, she was aâ€"" Sheâ€" "Yea, I imderstand- a met-a-phy- sician 1" Her Bit of Advice. ' John," she said softly, " have you been saying anything abont me to mother late- ly " "No," repliea John. "Why do you ask " " Because she said this morning she bdieved you were on the eve of proposing to me, ^ow, I do not wish you to speak to mother when you have aii Thing of that kind to say. Spuak to me, and I'll manage the business with mother." And John said he would. His Aimy Oontiact. A Hurculean Scots Grey, passing along Princes' Street, Edinburgh, one day, stopped at the Post OfSce and called en a boy to shine his boots. The feet of the dragoon were in proportion to his height, and. look- ing at the tiemendcus boots before him, the arab knelt down on the pavement and called on his chum near \,y â€" ' Jamie, come owre and gies a hand I've got an army contract." to di4b%e Uaa aiight ba joaUr «)|kd ?» attaakearW tmS^mto^;^'-^' " aueEsed She'd Try It. Applicant for Placeâ€"" Well, I don't know, mum. Yon have a very large fam ily and I'm afraid I couldn't do the work. I Boppose you have great trouble keeping girls, don't you ' Sharp Housekeeper â€" " Yes, indeed. There is a big factory full of handsome young men near here, and every one of my servant girls goes bff and gets married." '• Oh I Well, I guess lU try it." Why They Did Not fiespond. President (debating club) â€"Well, we have had some stirring speeches on the negative side of the question of the evening, " Is Mar- riage a Failure " but none of the gentlemen appointed to speak on hte affirmative side have' responded. Secretary (whispering) â€" Their wives are here. The President (loudly)â€" Owing to the late- ness of the hour further debate is postponed. Adjourned. â-  Coffy's Generosity. Uncle Cuffyâ€" " Which.is de cheapest, de fly blister or de poor-house piaster " Druggiiit- " Just the same â€" twenty-five cente apiece." Uncle Câ€" " Well, doctor, you better give me all two my old 'ooman is berry low wid de remonia, an I want nm fur hab eb'ry comfors." A Private Still, An Englishman had managed to pass the Civil Service examination, and obtained the important office of ganger in one of the western islands of Sootland. The locality was noted for smuegling, and as "new besoms sweep dean." hi waa desirous of making a leizuro. He met Tonal 1 in the principal, or rather the only, hotol on the u^md. They bad severiu 'weta," and were beoonung quite confidential. S^id the Englishman. " Look here, old fellow I I understand there are a number of private stills abont here. I would like to lay my hands on one. Now, if you oan put me in the way, Tonalt, I wouldn't mind giving yon a five for yourself." "Ooh, ay I" said Tonalt. "Maybe ye'U be needin' yer fiver tae yer nabissl' Staon' a hanf mutehkin, my laddie, an' 111 show ye what ye want." The cbink was ordered, paid for, and drunk. "Noo,"aaid Tonalt, "here's my son"â€" pointing to a strapping fellow, who waa at home on furlough, and waa atanding baaide themâ€"" he liated in the 931 aax yeara ago, and he'a a private atill 1" APazTOtStorT. One time Daaooa Staplea* wife was pat- ting np ononmbar pli^laa in the IdteuB, and the parrotâ€" lia waa a very knowing bfard, and had been j^naly brought ap in tha deaoon'a familyâ€" ^raa rittingon tha baok irf a diair watching ttioaoaratna. rraaaul ly, wlwn tlie daaomi'a wif ra baok waa tamad, the parrot alipped i^ and atqla one of tha piduka out of the diah. She tamed anmnd In time, howaver, to oateh Idm at iti nad threw her Itttlia at liim withaw^ fbreait took all tha feathara amoothly off the top of the bird'a head. The parrot flew aroond for two days in aore diatcaaa at the loaa of hi! top Iniot^ bat reoovere d itlnthaoouieof daoie. Cm day, aoma littla tima aftaritUs inddant, aiaia' iatar oama to i^and tha Sal^th at Paaeoa, Staplea*. ^la parrot waa in the w^Bg-mom when tiie fUarily aiKl.toa miiilatar oamaia' totanohfaki Tha daigydiaawaa^aiylfid: hiahaad |«lr;«h«i^a» hhd a^Sa thaajni aaatod aa.ttatjMia Jbafawti(a sac. adaasj-s-j.'" B..^ ,t,vv» v- a -•!â- .••,-•â- ' a MISCminKBOUS. The WaaliiDgton oorreapondant of The Bufila Goariar fconhaaiea that Ptoaidwt Banrtaoli irOl wy to foroa the Fiaheries Treaty throudi the Etenate. Bat tihongli; diaoomfited, aw Democrats are wmvntm enough to be alila to prev«Bt the simficatlon of tha treaty. Why thaf alKt^^ ha expected to do aa ia, hcwcwer, a myaliiv. TMy at* tally oommittad to tha aaaartioa thi^ itia fair, joat and honorabls to tha Unitad Stotoa. Saaatw Mobnoa writes to a Britiah Col- amMa paper denying the report aent oat from OMawa that l^roay liaa bean introdno- ed into tliat provinee by the Chineae. Be aaya he never either aaw or heard of a oaae of leproi^ in Britiah Cdombia. Ha adds, however, that tha Indian popalation, now phkoed at 46.000. ia !ikdy toaaooiuab Iwfore many veara to yrMakey, maaal ea, aorofnia, and other diaeaaaa eontraoted item iriiitaa andOhinetai It baa bcca calcnlatad ia the Unit«d Statea, and ia not diapnted, tliat tlia preaidentiu election ooat direotly and indirectly not leaa thaii t600,000.o00, that ia, at the rate of 1126.000,000 a year for the preaidential period. Thna the mere ooat of ohooaing their ruler is sot only far greater than what the Grits sometimes call the large salary and ex- penses of onr Governor-General, hot is even several times the amount of onr whole public expenditure. A testrlctiocist contemporary derides Richard Cobden and his works in one column and lauds Mr. Foster in another. " What," it asks, " is left of Cobden 7 What lives after him " To this it may be replied in the words of a poem written at the time of Cobden's death in 1865 "If one poor cup of water shall have Due recognition in the Day of Dread, Angels may wdcome this one, lor he gave A nation bread 1" A very interesting commercial case has just been decided in New York. Last ses- sion the State Legislature passed a bill pro- hibiting storekeepers offering gifts to indnoe the public to make purchases. The Court of Appeals of the State has now decided that the law is unconstitutional on the ground that ic interferes with the free sale of food, for the condition is imposed that no one shall sell food and at the same time and as part of the transaction give away any other thing. It will be interesting to note what recep- tion the bill for the suppression of combines, which Mr. N. C. Wallace, M.P., has an- nounced he intends to re- introduce at the coming session of the Dominion Parliament, will get. A similar bill introduced into the New York Srate Legislature was defeated or rather it was made practisally useless by amendments which were brought about by the influence cf the truste affected. Will the Canadian bill meet a similar fate !â€" [To ronto "MaiL" There would be a sudden stoppage to the influx of pauper immigrants, so mnch com- plained of both by Canada and the Uni^ed States, if the plan suggested by Signer Ua- garo, of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, were adopted. It is simply that no emi- granta should be given passporte unless they can prove they have enough money to pj^y for their passage and to keep them decently for a few montJ^ after their arrival in Amer- ica. Canadians will hope that not only the Italian Government but all(itbe Earopean Government may adopt the proposal. The representative Jewish journals of Am- erica are discussing the expediency of holri- the Sabbath on Sunday. The Hew York " Hebrew Standard" very forcibly says â€" "The business intereste, the inexorabie ne- cessity, which compels hundreds to labour on the Jewish Sabbath in order to support thiir families, have made the observance of the Sabbath the exception instead of the rule; Chose you cannot preach to they do not oome to listen to yon. You cannot argue with them, because your words will not pro- vide the bread which they and their families must have." The Rochester "Jewish Tid- ings" boldly says the change must coma. No doubt one day of worship for both Jew and Gentile would be to the advantege of both Ctiristians and Jws, and as there is no Jew- ish law forbidding worship on Sunday, there should be no great difficulty in transferring the Sabbath to Sunday. A strong illustration ot the vidousness of the game of beggar-my- neighbor that the European natives are playing, ia afforded by the commotion npon Germany increasing her naval estimates. She has appropriated about $30,000,000 for the oonstruction of new irondadsi With this addition to the German navy, Russia will feel herself insig- nificant. France must make a correaponding addition, and that will necessitate England's adding to her navy as much as that of France and Germany together. Earxipean taxpayers will look upon the dynamite gun vessd as a great blessing, should it abolish the floating oasties of iron which now swallow up eaoh year the value of a iair-sizad city. In connection with Lord Salisbury's advo- cacy of woman suffrage, it may be asked why women should not be oonsidered intelligent enough to have votes when they are admitted to podtiona of trust both in Enghmd and the United States. Toe records ofthe Post- office Department of the latter country show that there are 3,000 women in the various Ssatea holding eommissions aa postmasters. The oomplainte against the women post- masters are comparatively few, and in the fonrth-daas cffioea their reoorda are better than thoaa of the man, baoftoaa they are more oonadentioaa and pay oloaer attention to thdr dntiea. There ara thonaanda of womaa moreover both ia England and AoMciaa who ara amployad in reapondUa podtiooa aa bookkaepera, elarks, and tde- graph operators. Soma atarongar ebieotion to womaa voters thaa that ttuy wonld aot ozardaa tha fraaohiaaiatalllganily will have to ba allvaBoed S tha oievanaat for tha woman'i snffiraga ia to ba rasistod snooeaa- fully. Tlie Cttue itf Hii Goa|(hiiu: " That waa a savara oongUng dt," re- maritada sexton to an nadartakar, whan takiag a glan together. " Oh, 'tis nothing sava a Uttia ala whidi wwt down tha wrong way," rapUad tha nndartakar. "Ah I ah I that'a joat like yon," said tha aexton; "yon alwaya lay tha ooiEa on tha otnv" -i^ •* â- â- :' â- â- â-  â- f^:-tfmsMJ»miJ^i00 ^IM^i^SSSSf One of the most rematfc.v. of tiie decade is the Upnerl^u^^^«l»ptou. Marie Guial tiii. yea, »hi ** S»bh J* that passing tiiroujh theX.^^Vi 1^ present rate of growth SsStW^ l^ left hopelessly behind iH^^iliC thir P«l«9lv»nia n^ I JL".*^! ««alve4atga steamers on the D?' ' Nk pot them roffetiiar at some lit ^**.W Between Bilalo and Djff«??'U5 r*^ handful of peoptS, J *J^i Amerioaa and CanadUn KortwJl'N h (bi this badness to be io^^^^^ unpeopled square miles. ew»lr* maintain its mant Canals ^i!^ 4a f^fU^^ •'•ilable ronte^*r»»»«. not be room in tiie Saolt Rlv„ t*** »«l traffio. 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WELLINGTON STREET. „_„,rtv»tlo»' This Company lend? on g«od faâ„¢ P" We *»^ Mt currant rate of internet an"«° " ^r » For inlonnatiOT ap^lyto^^»^°*^^wrw»- 'V ,:-U5 ».iJ5-iti^-- ,m'r.y4(i-c :iii SCOTTS SOBOrULA EMULSION CURES wonderful Flesh Projuc^! 00LD8 Wasting oreand. th«wodH. i?iB°^^byPhy«^' V- aiUpiftM A8 z:M-' â- ff- ROUGH CWAPIER XVI.â€" (C During the winter of '36, BMtfiy privations. The ru 1_, from Clear L^ike, Itaca » fine young boll we t lor aevend weeks all waoe 1 lott. We had almost forgot of poor Whiskey, when a MjdtoldMoodie that his f 'a, and that he woo «rek it back aa soon as po»si Moodie had to take Y_^ '8 mill, and as th OTJyamile further, be cal and there, sure enough, b animaL With the greata mcceeded in regainins; his i without many threats of ve DWdes who had stolen it. ^regard but a tew days 1 on which we depended f o store of animal food, were* ake, and destroyed. The death of these anima three barrels of pork, an( Arougb the winter. That -â-  IteaTily it wore away! froet^ potatoes, and so animal food rendered us children suffered much frot One day, jast beiorethe bad gone to Peter boroug servant was sick in bed w I waa nursing my little b w shaking with the cole ,able fever, when Jacob ronnd, rosy face in at the 1 "Give me the master there's a big buck feeding sear the island." I took down the gun, no ohanoe there is but on shot in the house." ••One chance is better Jaoob, as he commenced ••What knows what maj VMhap oie may chance te and the measter and the have Lummut zavory for z Away walked Jacob wit top" over his shoulder, after, I heard the repor never expected to see anyt when Jacob suddenly bom naif wild with delight. '•Thae beast iz dead sz how the measter will lai the fine buck that oie a'zh •'And have you really e "Come and zse 'Tis io w«lk down to the Ii 'on. Jacob got a rope, and tihe landing, where, suie buck, fastened in tow of soon secured him by the rope he had brought an' ^rta, we at last succeed^ prize home. AH the tim in taking off the skin, Ji ting the feast that we wer good fellow chuckled wit fcung the Cf rcass quite cl door, that his "measter" it when he came home at ally took place. When I door, he struck his head dC6F "What have you sjot ht " A fine buck, zur," sai forward the light, and ho a maimer that all the n could be seen at a glance. ••A fine one, indeed hyit?" „ ••It was zhot by oie, i ixia hands in a sort of ecsl ia *e first oie ever zhot ae he " •'You shot that fine there was only one ch Well done you must h tdm." •• Why, zur, oie took n joEt pointed the gun at my oeys and let fly at dence kill'd 'un, not oie. "Ibelieve you," said dence has hitherto watch us from actual storvatio Ihe fiesh of the deer, that I was able to obta assisted in restoring out ]bng before that severe we were again out of fo given to Katie, in the uttle pig, which she iiai animal was a gre*t ff and the children, and n« food from their handi followed them all over 1 We had a noble hounc tween whom and the p she most tender frien( shared with Hector th served him for a kej laughed to see Hector slearing by his ear. A of ai^imal food ucitil o the bad potatoes and we beganâ€" that is, tJie to cast very hungry no one liked to propos At last Jacob invoke hii ject, •'Oi've heard, zar, eat pork but we Chri right glad ov the chai been tuinking that 'ti our keeping that beas zow, now there might ijiiDs: and we all feel ^^' Spoae IkUll » bad piece of pork," Moodie seconded t tiie tears and prayers pet waaaaorificed to tl bLmfly but there we house who diadained victim poor Katie an the adf-denial of the fronder, forshewaaa â-  sad warm affections, â- A» brute creature ta nswlthaurpriae. Jaci tlon to the atrange f a •• That dog," he sa through the kitchen 1 "do teach uz Cbrud tnat our frienda. ' sel(rfSpot. Oie in all manner ov r yJ tnm iwhi »w»j •ndi on a tbetaU 'M f.%*V» t^ m â- ;?»V:-. I *y