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 •-f^7 K' ' ,r 1 1 u |B f*r " *T in! i lit " â-  ** â- â-  'm M f »5 -if, ItH m ST. MARY OF THE MGELS; OR, HIS FISST AND LAST LOVE BY THOMAS A. JANVIER, CMAPTERI. In tliat old, old time when the viceroys of "King Philip ruled the Province of New Spain, certain holy men, Franciscan Brothers, vowed to God's service, went far into the savage â- wilderness of the North, and spent their lives â- willingly that the souls of the Indiana there dwelling might be brought to a "knowledge of Christian grace and so be sav- ed. Thus there came to be, in that remote, -wild region, many little mission stations -where the brethren of Saint Francis preach- ed constantly the Word of God, telling of lais infinite goodness and mercy, and of his long-sufifering love for sinful m*n. And of these fortalicea of the Faith Christian, whence paganism most resolutely was assailed, Santa JIaria de los Angeles was one. In the course of years, as the leaven »f righteousness worked itself (yet never very thoroughly) into the heathen lump, a little chapel of adobe was builded here and around the chapel came to be a cluster «f adobe houses; and with water drawn frcHn the stream, on the bank whereof the chapel stood, some part of the arid land was fertili2ed; and on the far-reaching plain, and the slopes of the hill-sides round about, «ame to be a few scant flocks and herds. Everywhere, in this sunny, easy-going land, time moves slowly. Over the town, if town it could be called, of Saint Mary of the Angels, time scarcely moved at all. Therefore it was that when the American-built railroad, coming down from the North, reached Santa Maria, and passed it, the whole of the town still was only the chapel and the half-dozen or so of adobe houses that the Brothers had builded there three centuries and. more be- fore. And in these many years the only change that had come to pass was that the chapel had fallen almost mto ruin, and that all memory of the good Brothers and of their holy teachings was buried in the dead depths of a forgotten past. In point of fact, when the superintendent appointed John Hardy station-master at Santa Maria, he considered it necessary to preface the appointment with an apology. "I may as well tell you. Hardy," he said, "that Santa Maria's about the hardest station on the whole lin*. Such a crowd of Greaser toughs as have got together there I've never come across in one lump before. There's not many of 'em but there isn't a men in the lot that's fit for anything but to be shot offhand. All the men are horse- thieves or smugglers, or both with a fair sprinkling of murderers and all the wo- man â€" well, I guess we won't talk about the women. "I hate to put you there, and that's a fact but unless I can get a decent man there the company's property will all go the dickens. There's a watering-station at Santa Maria you know, and something's all wrong with it. Barwood, who's in charge, is a tough if ever there was one. But I wouldn't i mind how tough he was if he'd only run his pump right. But he don't. We only water four engines a day there, as a steady thing, ' and pumping two days in the week ought to keep his tank full easy. But he requisitions enough firewood to keep his pump going all tha time. I want you to go to work and find out what his game is. He's a bad man, for sure but I guess you can manage to down him. You know how to shoot?" "I've been living around in New ^Mexico and Arizona and Texas for the last two or three years," Hardy answered, with the modest indirectness in such matters that usually characterizes a good man on the frontier. "I guess you'll do then. I hope there "Won't be any shooting but, if it comes, just you take care of yourself and the company will back you up in it. I declare, I hate you put at Santa Maria, I do indeed. I don't mind telling you that I'm sick of this awful country myself, and I'm going to pull out of it pretty soon, and go where there's w^hite men. Now, I tell you what I'll do I.U take you along. "I can fix it; so just you be ready to put your hat on when I start. But while I'm here I must run things square for the companj' and that's why I want you to take hold at Santa Maria and straighten things out there. But comfort yourself by thinking that j'ou won't have more than two months of it. Then we'll light out together and get into (iod's country once more â€" and after tliat you won't eatch me taking any more J leaser in mine! I don't know what biougiit you down into these parts but I know I came because I was a big fool I I'm not proud of myself, but I do think I'm a sight too good for Mexico and un- less I'm badly gut, so are you. I guess you're not the kind, any more than I am, that was made for the frontier. " John Hardy certainly was not made for the frontier though, to do him justice, he had the " sand " that enabled him to hold his own there pretty well. But then for the past three years he had been very much in doubt as to whether he had been made for -anything useful at all. Fortune had not treated this young man well, and the instru- ment that Fortune had used to his injury was a woman. Hardy was a fair specimen of the hard "Working American. In the coal-mining town in the Wyoming Valley, where he was bom, he had gone to work when he was sixteen in the company's store as "boy;" and in the course of half a dozen years he had won his "WOT to a responsible place at the books. He was a steady, resolute young fellow, 'Who did not meddle with anylody's business tuod who insisted tliat nobody should med- dle with his. He found it necessary to mash several heads, in his quiet, decisive way, be- fore his attitude toward the community in which he livel was understood but when, by this simple and direct method â€" well understood in a mining-town, where the "ordeal of combat was a recognized social in- Btitntion â€" he had made' his position dear and himself respected, he was let Wilkesbarre, and she came down to take ' charge of the primary department of the public schooL A good deal of doubt was expressed among the towns-folk as to her ability to manage that primary department; but, according to 'Squire Rambo, who was Chairman of the School Board, and who also was a mine superin- tendent, she did manage it successfully. "She ain't much to look at for strong,' said 'Squire Rambo, "but she's just a little, blue-eyed breaker to go, and don't you for- get it 1 She's a wonder, she isâ€" compressed air ain't nothin' to her " Yet there wereimcharitable people who said that inasmuch as the new teacher Was 'Squire Rambo's wife's cousin, and boarded at his house, his views concerning her were not strictly impartial and who hinted, also that better results would be produced in the school were the transitions on the part of the teacher in the management of her charges from efi'usive affection to severe castigation less sudden and less frequent. As a matter of course, most of the young men of the town fell promptly in love with the pretty school-mistress. Some what more- deliberately, but very earnestly â€" as his wa.y was â€" Hardy fell in love with her too. But his quiet method was misleading, and it was a good while before Mary realized the under- lying force of it. She called his feeling to- ward her "brotherly," and she maintained this fiction of brotherliness, even with her- self, long after her instinct had assured her positively that it was nothing of the sort. And this was not by any means a fair way of treating Hardy for all the while that she permitted him to make love to her she was engaged to be married to another man. Of course, so false a situation as this was could not endure. It lasted for rather more than six months, and then the end came with a crash. They had taken man walks together, on" the rather thin pretex that Hardy might learn what little she could teach him of botany. But that particular June afternoon they made no pretense of botanizing. They had walked a couple of miles across the meadow-lands, and then up a bit of the mountain-side to a ledge of rocks that commanded a far view ' up the valley. They had discovered this place, and they regarded it as peculiarly their own. The day was a very perfect one. The sky was a deep clear blue, with no fleck upon it save a belt of low-lying clouds along the horizon to the eastward and out of the southeast was blowing gently, languorously, a warm v/ind. Mary had brought a volume of poems â- with her. Dr. Holland's " Bitter- Sweet, " and for a while John read to her. Then he laid down the book, and there was silence between them, broken only by the low throbbihg of a pump, heard faintly from some distant mine. It was an unrestful silence, like the stillness that precedes a storm. The steady beating of the pump seemed to come nearer and to grow more Clear. Mary felt a shiver go through her, j'et the air was soft and warm. At last, very simply, Hardy spoke " Will you marry me, Mary "' She started violently and began to cry. Hardy drew, toward her, but she motion- ed him away. " Oh, John, please â€" I'm so very sorry I â€" I ought to have told you. Haven't I told you? I'm â€" I'm engaged to be married, John. " Then she fell to crying again. After a while she said, " V\ on't j'ou for- give me, John Indeed, I'm sorrj' Please forgive me " He was silent. "Have you nothing to say tocomfortme?" she asked at last, looking up at him with her pretty blue eyes full of tears. She was startled when slie saw his face, his look was so hard and stern. "Nothing," he answered. And presently he added, " We had better go home now, I think." " You are very cruel," she said but she put her hand xipon the rocky ledge above her head and slowly raisd herself to her feet. There was a curious rattling sound, that caused her to turn her head quickly. Slie gave a cry of terror, and Hardy started violently. Close, beside her hand was a rattlesnake, just coiled to spring. It had come out in the warm rock to sun itself, and had lieen there, no doubt, all the while, close leside them. Hardy caught her in his arms and snatched her ;n^ ay. At the same instant the snake sprang â€" just missing her hand â€" and so strongly' that it went over the edge of the rock and disappeareil among the undergrowth below. Mary lay v.eak, almost fainting, in his arms. He carried her to a spring near by, and there with the cold water bathed her wrists and temples. As she rested in his arms he had a curious feeling that the body that he thus held was a corpse. Presently the cold water revived her. â-  She' stood up- right and said that she felt strong enough to walk. With his arm supporting her, they went together slowly down the mountain- side. Thick clouds were coming up over all the sky. Everything was cold and gray. A chill wind was blowing out of the northeast. Over all nature, as over Hardy's life, ha(l come a desolate change. In silence they went on until they come to '.Squire Ramljo's house, and in silence he turned to leave her. "You are not going away like that â€" without a word?" she said. " What is there to say?" he asked. "That you forgive me. Oh, tell me that you forgive me, John I'm so very, very soiTy. Indeed I am. You will forgive me, won't you, dear John " Hardy looked at her keenly, and the ex- pression upon his face was not a pleasant one. Then he spoke, slowly fKid steadily "You have spoiled my life for me, Maiy, and without any reason at all. The liarm that yon have done me you could have spared me if you hod told me three months ago what you have told me to-day. And now that the harm is done you want me to forgive yon for doing it. Well, I teU you plainly, I'll see you dead fint. Is that want any- frontier, and that had made him a waiiderra: there. Being tbwnxst ant 'xato the- ^^ildemess, life had no good in it forhkn, and he valued it lightly and so wasready to take the risks which, rfter «B, in that rough region led most surely to safety. He was more than ready to fight anybody, ,and he was rather surprisedâ€" after engaging in a few passages at arms, in which he came out on toj)-â€" by finding how few people wanted to fight him. At first there was a strong probability that he would go to the bad, and that ms- end would be a sudden one at the hands of a vigilance committee or a sheriflTs posse. But gradually, as he rallied from the shock that his moral nature had sustained, his old habits of steadiness and self control returned to him, and the danger- ous comer was safely turned. He did honest work, and he worked hard but he found that he could not work long in any one place nor at any one thing. He tried ranching for a while, and fot the hang of Spanish from the lexican herdsmen he ran a store in a little town he picked up telegraphy and took charge of a railway station he drove a stage he managed an express oflace â€" only by keeping his mind stirred by frequent change could he save himself from falling in- to a brooding melancholy over the past. Yet, as time wore' on, much of the bit- terness that had filled his heart slowly died out of it. He was far from forgiving the woman who had ruined his life for him, but he had passed the stage when his oaly feeUng toward her was a fierce anger that made him long for revenge. Thus three years went by, and the tonic to soul and body that came- of his hard work and his rough life had done much to restore his moral equilibrium. But he still carried his heart-wound with hiin, and his only desire was to continue his drifting existence until a full forgetfulness should come. And this was his state when, drifting down to the border in search of a job, he accepted the offered berth of station- master at Santa Maria de los Angles. That the berth was a rough one,* and that there was a chance for fighting connected with it, he considered t6*t)e its strongest attractions. (to be cotixced) â€" ^-^â€" m She Wanted to be a Bird, and He Said She Was. "What are you going out again to-night, Mr Jirkwater " said Mrs. Jirkwater, as her husband reached for his overcoat. ' ' Yes, I am going to meet a friend at the club on a matter of ousiness. " Mr. Jirkwater, had I known before we were married that you would make apractice of rounding every night of your life you can rest assured that I should never have marri- ed you. Last night you attended a social ses- sion of the Elks and came rolling in this morning at the tmcanny hour of four o'clock, with a breath on you that would give you away anjrwhere, and now you are going to meet a friend at the club. Well, I shall bid you good-by till morning and, to tell the truth, shall not feel very bad if you never come back again." " Yes, Mrs. Jirkwater, that is your con- stant crj' You want to get rid of me, and nothing would give me more pleasure than to gratify your v/ish, but really I can't see how the thing can be done." " Ah, me I would I were a bird that I could fly," and Mrs. Jirkwater, gazed in- tently into the fire. Softly Mr. Jirkwater turned the door knob, and after making preparations for hurried flight turned to his loved one and said " Mrs. Jirkwater, you are a bird." The poor neglected wife's heart gave a leap for joy, and a warm blush suffused her cheek, her breast quickly rose and fell and trembling in every fibre she turned a loving fiance upon her husband. "Harold, am â€" am a bird " Making sure that the coast was clear for flight Mr. Jirkwater turned slowly to the partner of his joys and sorrows and said " Yes, Mrs. Jirkwater, yon are a bird, but you cannot fly. You are, in fact, an old hen.;' Mr. Jirkwater was not a moment too soon in getting through the door for a cut- glass rose bowl struck'the door casing right back of where he stood and was shattered in a thousand fragments. ana nmweu resP?^?®?' j^e was let alone, plain enough for you? Do you" Thus he fairly established himself as a god ftiing more? Godd-bye. I'm goLii away citeen who could mamtarn his own right, ^^'m going out of this altogether, w that A and who respected the rwhts of others and „ever lay eyes on you aSinâ€" aiid I i^«h in as a buame«8 man whocould make hi« my heart Pd never laid^yes m vou at i^ way m the world. And then, when he wa« Bat, rememher, ym have hroi^i a cnrse on **^?!^/^^'**^ the w*i^'0f itY-»»-k nq^igraai.' ' â-  â-  •'â-  --ft ' ?â- :: J..fIjV-v,.i So he V^rtegttb^mH'ia^tm^hi^^tLr he left the town. â- ' Thw, ^en. WM the experience tt»\ had driven H«rdy down to the eoBthwirteni And twenty-three years old, he b^;ui his mis- fortunes by |t^i|ig in love. " "Hardy did not think that there was any^ thing UDfortunttMihtnt. ji; He did thii^, though â€" being a modest yomig fettow-:- tiukt Mary Wade wa.-) a great deal too jjood for him. Her people lived in A Bomance That Didn't Fan Ont. Her farther was a millionaire, whose life, had been devoted to candle-making. He was practical naturally, but all the poetry of her family was found in her. She was beloved by another millionaire's son, and when he proiwsed to. her she declared he must do something for her. " Dearest, what can I do "' " Become a poor artist." " I couldn't be any other kind of an artist.' '•I mean you must pretend to be a poor ar- tist. Padoesn'tknow you. Youmustcomeand make love to me and I will fall in love with you. Pa wiU object and make a row. We will elope and get married, and when it is all over we'll tell him and it will be delight- ful." So he became a poor artist and took a poor studio, and daubed on canvas and pre- tended to paint pictures. And there was another millionaire's daughter who began to come to his studio and sit for her picture. He forgot all about the romantic maiden and when the romantic maiden came one night in peasant costune, as a sweet sur- prise, to run away with him, she found that he was married to the other and had gone off on his honeymoon. She thinks that romances are aU moon- shine now and that nothing happens in real life as it happens in books. Sne is about right. Goniting in the Snbnrbs. Alfred â€" " Hease dont put me off any longer, Katie. Will you marry me " Katie â€" "Alfi-ed, why will you be sopei*Bis- tent I hardly know whether I love you well enough or not. Besides â€" " Alfred (looking at his watch) â€" '♦ Katie, the last train is due in just three minutes. Yes orâ€"" Katieâ€" "Yes, Alfred." The Vulcan, torpedo depot ship, intended to carry nnall torpedo boats through seas too heavy for them to the point where their servisos are needed^ and also to *ftHTa a genenl floating vepttir shop toe toipedo opVittt in t^e oi wait, a veeeel that naval ^itiL^?^ bM^ n^to. t^?^^^{ navy for a Imwtime, haspote^, eveulitfore ' her txials, to be toe weakly built, and wiU have to be abmgthened before ahe goes to A Pew PomteiB. To freshen salt fish soak tbemjMpBpur milk. "^^ "â- ' Beets should be boiled one hour in sum- mer one hour and a half, or erai twohoiuai, if large, in winter. rg -v;^;. ' When several cups of fea of r 'equal Btreo^gth are wasted 'pour a Jttfle into each cup and then fill in inverse crfder. The tea first poured from the pot is the weakest of the decoction. All vegetables should go into fast boiling water, to be quickly brought to the boiling pointagain, not left to steep in the hot water before boiling, which toughens them and de- troys color and flavor. Flax Seed Syrup for Colds.â€" Boil flax seed until water becomes slimy, then strain, sweeten with powdered rock candy and juice of fresh lemons. Dose, wineglassful when cough is troublesome. When the Skin ia Bruised it may be pre- vented from becoming discolored by using a little dry starch or arrowroot merely moist- ened with cold water and placed on the in- jured part. This should be done at once. If black dresses have been stained boil a handful of fig leaves in a quart of water and reduce it to a pint. A sponge dipped in this liquid and ruboed upon them will entirely remove stains from crapes, bombazines, etc. No mattei- how lai-ge the spot of oil, any carpet or woolen stuff can be cleaned by ap- plying buckwheat plentifully and carefully brushing it into a dust pan after a short time and putting on fresh until the oil has all dis- appeared. To keep pie crusts from crumbling. â€" When your pies with upper crusts are ready to put in the oven to bake take a little sweet milk in a cup and with a bit oi clean cloth wet the upper crust and rim. When baked it will present a shiny surface and will not flake off. Meal time should always be regulated by the hour at which the meat will be done. If the meat should have to wait five minutes for the vegetables there will be a loss of punctuality, but the dinner will not be dam- aged but if the vegetables are done and wait for the meat, the dinner will certainly be so much the worse. House keepers will find the following recipe for cleaning paint useful To a pound of soap and half a pound of pulverized pumice stone add an equal quantity of pearl ash and mix with hot water into a thin paste. With, an ordinary paint brush lay on this mixture over the paint which requires clean- ing, and in five minutes wash it off with boiling water. Bathing inflamed eyelids in hot salt water is beneficial. The taste is blunted by. hot drinks and frequent indulgence in highly spiced dishes. We are likely to be more anxious for our health on a rainy Church-night than on a rainy concert-night or the ni^t of an even- ing gocial gathering. â€" [S. S. Times. A piece of lemon bound on a corn (soft part next the skin) will, "The Evangelical Messenger" asserts, eradicate the painful growth, root and l3ranch." Two or three nights is generally sufficient. Lemonawie for sick people now is usually made by grating the skin from one lemon, pouring a cup of hot water over it and let- ting it cool then add this to the juice of the lemon and sweeten to taste. Smelling salt, the old-fashioned remedy for faintness, consists of one gill of liquid ammonia and a quarter of a dram each of otto of rosemary and English lavender, and eight drops each of bergamot and cloves. Mix and shake the prescription and drop it on a sponge, or as much as the sponge wUl hold. In Holland one gets the most delicious Dutch cheese. They take sour milk and put it in a muslin bag and hang it up over night. In the morning this is a soUd mass, but not tough as when boiled, as some make it. Salt and pepper are added and a teacup of rich sweet cream is stirred into, say, a quart of the curd, and this is then eaten and not left to harden or turn acrid and aonr. Any one can make this, and whoever does will say they want no more " emear case" as Ion as there is milk to be had to make this kirn of. Very neat and pretty house shoes may be made for children of heavy pants cloth, beaver, etc. Rip up an old shoe that fits the one intending to wear the home-made article and use as a i)attem, allowing a trifle more fpr seams on the cloth line with flannel, bind off edges with braid and decorate with a bit of embroidery, or not, as you choose For soles use the tops of worn-out shoes or fine boots, or back of buckskin gloves. Potatoes are the proper vegetables to ac- company fish. All kinds of vegetables may be served with beef, although green peas are more appropriate for veal, mutton or poul- try. Lorn sliould never accompany game or poultry. A\ ith venisonicnrrantjelly. Cabl)aKe apple sauce, parsnips, carrots and turnips s^iould be served with pork. Macaroni with cheese should always accompany woodcock. Green peas and water cresses, wild ducks Apple sauce, tuniips, cabl)age, wilp or tame geese. ' How to Take Castor Oil. The best way of taking castor oil is to thor- oughly mix the dose with about four times as much hot milk-this is most effectually accomplished by shaking the two together ^Jfi* Ti'u "" ^^^° ' **»^« directed, the ^r^- °fth««»l appears to be increiUed, and being rendered vei-y limpid by the hot ^SwJ.'lt^y-*"**"' "' lirceived. Chddren take it very readUy in ^is form, m which, indeed it is scarcely distingnish- JourS°* •ni"'.-{Bristol Med.-(lirur. In Mid-Ocwo.* the best I know how, suppUed every wwit ^^^z^T^' "'^^- whyd:^'« iJ^^'^^^ Pa»e"«er-" I want the' Atffis Unole'g. ».^!i ?^ (c2,'"ol«nghi« watch)â€" "Is your watch going, Brownly?" "jfuur gonn^^ ie8pondently)-«0oing? It's He Bndwk Whan He Hm fcia'ngh. thSrdSS""?V^'»' W«* when J5^«p drunk or,^^.^.I)o they. Friteâ€" "Dote rot I tin^ C»l»*i, db«,v« mw d»t evening^ « i-w^et dSk!^ BEITISK Ifi;^^ It is said in London that Vj: ttiat city again in May. ^** »|^ •The expenditures of i^„ j t^!J-rnTo.se are l!i^^^, million dollars. ^**y«i(L* l^ere is to be a German «»,,•.• ' dan next year, after the fa.vT ""*i4L Italian exhibition. "•^'^Wnoft^ At a recent fancy dress li.ii ^gland.one of themenpreseUr** ^k ed. as " Jack the ripper^ """^^^sc^ Beer bottled in 1798 by ^^ CONQUEST AT was recently opened b.a Londo^^' ^iil and pronounced sound a»d hS Ra,m fighting is said to divide iiii,! fighting the affections „, blood among the natives »iti, â- ~ of Ceylon. The Bums Mausoleum a* iv been leaded to a gravediw^ „f^"«« l« «i«dpi^^«l ouriositiee and reUcs ot th The largest shaft in Africa"hr* opened injie Kimbeiley diaa^^.^.^ measure and is to I the h.imbei-leydiajnrV?^« 23feet3h,diesbyT£^" be 1,000 feet deep. '»«S Sporatley, a village near Huii v l, terrorized by a l,ear that^cal^l two Itahans and got into tht- !;:f7 ' I IS twuiiauans ana got into the wZT' ^ittacking a man and several sheep " English manufacturers are said to *w mg good headway m the atteini,^ Zz.^' with the Germans in toy manufMSPr* business amounts to SlOfXlfifif^â„¢ ^* T J r '"'"J^UjUUU a tea. A London confectionery store ^r every purchaser of a shilling's worth./" entithng the purchaser to have ST^ graph of herself taken at an e.tabl 7 up stairs. 'i^omifflia,; IJie London Fire Brigade is lobeincre.^ ' by three stations and a hundred metJ the newspapers say that this is utterk ' sufficient, and predict a ^reat fire ;one L\ that will sweep away a Iwgepartofthecit,- ' It is announced in England ih- u' Burns, the leader of the '..-4 stiik" Lo" to the States for a fchort rtsi. ain! \om^ the labor problem here, upon the inrtta' of American labor leaders;! "'" The Sardine Trust has gone to piec Ihe public criticism was too "bitter for tkt French, English, and iJelgian ctpitalau who formed the syndicate that was to btrl up the business and they drew out. A new trufile field of wide extent is saij to have been discovered near Mussoora,] India, and epicures abroad are lettiEg tttir mouths water in antijijiatiou of a mort abundant supply of the delicacy hereafter. The rat plague is getting worse in Suffoli In thrashing two beanstacks of orfc ary size 169 rats were killed, fc teen were driver from one hole hy a fertr. which was killed by the rat« teforethe}* was done. It is said that this year's manoeuvres ofiit I English na\-y are likely to he held in ml Mediterranean, instead of about the Engiiill cor.st, and to include an attempt to blockail the Straits and defend frc m attack the for| tress of Gibraltar. The first consignment of tea from Perak,! a settlement in the Straits of the East Indies,! has just reached the London market, was sold readily at gool prices. The outM| for the new field, whicii is in Enghsh 1 is said to be very- promising. The experiment of electric lightmg at i'.\ British Jluseum was entirely successful, aoi I the system will hereafter beusedpennaneBif ly in those parts of the museum in whici-sl has been introduced, and will he eitendeil throughout the whole institution. An English inventor claims to haveil system by which coal gas can be compiwsMi intb 8 per cent, of its natural balk, audiil that shape carried about and turned intoal illuminant at any time by simply tuminj*! stop cock and lighting the evaporation, i There is a story in Brazilian cirdaiil London that the present trip of Foreign Mis- 1 inistcr Bocayuva, of Fonseca's GoverameH.! to Uruguay and the Argentine Republicistl arrange preliminaries for a general confwB- 1 ation of South American States, which Bffii| wants. Frank Carew bought a gun of a Lmd'il dealer amd went off to Africa to shoot am*; I lope. The gun burst in firing andiinjn-'"' Mr. Carew, for which injury he has]nst*| covered 85,000 by a suit against the dealer who, in titrn, is suing the manufacturers « the gi;n. An English religious paper pu"^-'j^^^ following advertisement " A laily ^?1 to hear of a good sclm.-d tut p where the birch """l "«^^' 'â- """'f ^4( I fashion again, is used in the ""I.,,' r'l Also of one for boys. Mrs. Cnirith-S (-tui^" Times' Office.' In one ot the small islraulsrf theNejrH-^ ides i\ t radii) u vessel recently pat »*'"" -Ml brides a trading sailor to buy sonie vanis, urrangingto c: him in a few hours. While he w;is ^^m, band of natives attacked liim and carnea off into the interior, where subsequenu) was roasted and eaten. It has been discovered that some o^; largest manufacturers of '°^*-fjesii| ages have been mixing po^r. "^jjftj with worse pork in making their »»^^ I Prosecutions have lieen begunagams 1 and the ItaUan authorities declare ifl» I buskiess has been broken up. r ma An inmate of the Camberwell.^n I workhouse, lias just died at the age mj^ I and Isaac Bone of East Tested wr^l to, be 102, and WilUam Barber ptj^l Idt years old. Both the la«er^^j||^l smokers and moderate "'"^*"^igt«d"l is parish clerk of his town and as singing the carols at Christma«. ^^ Edward Travis 52 years old, " "^l in a Liverpool court a few days "S" .{ti^l ing a door mat. On the trial i^fzl^ he had committed the same ff^ ^\ fore, and had been sentenced to n i^i iuic, tmu uou uccu dcu^-â€"- „ pu. imprisonment each time, ine ]^. y^mi duced variety into his life by lettu* i with one month this time. )Jel*' An organization called "'H' T/iii**' Defence Union" has been formed u ^i which, upon the annual pay®*" im shillings by a doctor, g"""^,bl»iK' himagainstany charge made witn»^^ i^i ing or other improper B^rpose ^p»l year. Branches of the organi»n^ â- â€ž. i established throughout Great ^^,«!«| The MacSerraigh family of 1^ ft(M originaay caUed Hodnett, and ^;^ Ensland; wishing to "i*t*.fcpii»ii« i5l IriA a* poesibK they, took toe « of It, and, remembering that °^0[f^t a foUinlriah, they havechang«« aigain to Foley. ry-J'/**' At Utf* S" ^Chiaese troops in F ^dSfied^them. A jLâ€"d a'more stubb ""^tti^of southea^te ' PMitested inch by u r^erS^nificent mou f^in the world, wh h^ would mamtain thei hS^ is an island lyingd !rt tos large relations w j^idTand yet, owing to K of Malayan des'je; Sheastem regions, full ^^ntrThas naver been eM trSw to-day whether !«d harbor exists along tl Tshores of Formosa ha- Jieailon. for to be shipw Unitable coast meant sp ^3s of the natives. .â-  ^urrences of this sort tf the crew of the Br Deluding Mrs. Hunt, ihe natives said later Lhave killed her, but fhst she was a woman. A few years ago a par r ship landed among th 00 strong to "be in dangi A shooting match at a dw tards was arranged with lere armed with matchloc l^ed to a tree, and the LjTyed their marksmanshi_ Owy results. The nati Lt all surprised, but sud( L the underbrush, and pi Kawling on their stomach Let. ^Vhen they were wit bf it they blazed away, ant tagRt in the centre. The ist this was not exactl "Well," replied the nat bow whether it's fair or ray we kill Chinese, and Korus." Along the western si island Chinese settleiuen irhile just before them th »nge, whose summits thej ojrning illuminated by t •en as inaccessible as thoi ulf stretched between. Jarray have the Chinese Jthese' uplands, and even tl â- has been slow and uncertai |had many a rough expe larty of 250 Chinese soldie idvance post were killed t -xmpaign of 1875 the Ch ll.OOO men by sickness, and 1 attempts to hold grour won were abandoned di season, on account ui the â- army by disease. Thus the war has been ji a desultory way. It is a China has regarded Formos Iffround, where 'Western ir Im safely tried and proven 1 Ipermitted to gain a foothoh nuanland. The result is Formosa has been more o linflaences and has recent I greater progress than any c IChinese dominions and -s â- the island has been advanci Iprinng strides under the im I capital, the little region in â- been closed against all t Igfatifying news that the I last been broken down. 1 l»f Qiinese civilization tlier* I blessing in comparison w Ithhags that has made th I beautiful island I preached it. a menace Bacon as a Fuel This Englishman's prai.se I the most digestible form o jliver oilâ€" should find even I in this climate, ani he doe; I say that cod liver oil is an I fat, and that bacon fat, not 1 19 the most easily assimih I (It will be remembered th; j able trichina is never f ouii I hacon or ham. "It has b( j sandwich made of boiled bi I acceptable to a dainty chih Ition." Cream, "a natura I pecially when compoun«ietl I tract, is most palatable, foi Imembered that fat in the 1 I w more easily digestible th Without fat healthy tissuei Up, and a loathing of fat is I T?!?' **^ pulmonary phtl ^T*° who have maiasm I ireely on bacon fat. THE MALTED PREP.' I' of which M. Mellins w '"i»part of easily digesi o| milk and a tablespoonf other malted food, boiled "»g*o directions, can easi ^1« KU of fare, at su y^ieh fulfils the di [the starch in bread. "4VOTHZK BILL OF 1 at of milk, wit] boil well \^ quarter poum " finely broken, ai ^quarter of an Mya, is enough rho have dim ive dishe put into 1 or othei ^_. J vitb a quart ttne hours, adi Vt* keep it a tl potato, and 1 i-epqra, is a suf as it com Wlu aded a li baltiUb^ â- iii