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The Wingham Times, 1894-03-09, Page 6
etilh See y��Po o00oGlRO�CiYO a rny�'•+ 4OPYRI0171T J9 DYJ.I .LIPPIIVCOTT COMIAM! PUDLISiItD DY SPECIAL-AKiie/4QCMrin YVlin I I "l 1 `ri.i,i' WJNGI1AM TNES, MARCH . , 1894. 1 inn, that's auI, A little qui'dt, and r1I be 1 11 ' ht You mustn'twait in on my ac- impressious."besicging him was so gothic- I tive he quinkened_his steps. How the sparrows kept chattering , ;among the denuded boughs! "):fere be COMM..." they seemed to chirp 1 rapidly. "Look! look! Here he cones. Oh, sect oh, :see! .IIere:he comes. Hero be comes." Was there an 'accusing note in their shrill chorus? Or did he:•from an unex- plained sense .of gilt onlyfancy it? He stole ,like a thief through the de- serted Balls. When he had :locked the door of his xoom, he three :himself half disrobed upon the lied .ancl sank ir•.to s. feverish, brokeen.sloep. It was a sleep of dreams. He was .again iu.Giendenning's house; filling his senses evith e. surfeit of the delicious coloring, the • evasive fra- grance,, weeidering;among the. treasures w . -gathered from mosques .and throne. Toon1. ,"tflo rugs everywhere changefully glowing like huge ,chameleon skins, the armor looming with feudal .significance in shadow. His memory floated bares .to•a blur of Wine and smoke; the soft .bite.of the .champagne was again in 'his throat, its delicate fire mounting to his .brain and shedding over it a confusion :soft and witehiike. Nor did he forgetthe jesting slings,at things he had bitherto:viewed as sacred, nor the 1a;tghter that ,turned virtue to ridicule. They .were :recalled with tho same genial palliationithat.had marked his acceptance of them. The rosy light, the crowd where awo men flattered like bright hued butter flies, the evidences of reckless wealth on every hand, the complete absence.of .all restraint, had captured him, and in .a mental saitnrnelia ho heath the toasts and saw the money changing hands.att cards, the refrains of songs that:shook the windows and the dances that :called . forth screaming cheers. As half :wake- ful he tossed upon his bed bis memory • reveled in every detail of this newphase of life—a wildly joyous thing, holding no thought of the morrow, only the de - tight of the dear, the living moment. A. faint tapping sounded through the mebulte. At first it seemed that Gien- denning was knocking on the table for silence. No, it was. rain beating on the window. But it sounded still clearer and evoke him • o full consciousness he opened his heavy eyes and listened. . Some one was gently knocking at his door. '"Tom," came softly to him, "here are ' letters for yon." Virginia's voicel He started up, leaned his head' on his hands, but kept silence. The gaydelirinm of his dream departed, and he felt sick at heart. He seemed strange to himself. The room was strange.. Only Virginia outside the door .calling to him was fearfully real. a rel; o . count." "You've worked toe hard, Toni," came tho delicious voice with tender severity. "The strain is telling now. No wonder your head aches, you poor fellow. I'm sorry I called you. I'll leavelunchready for you." Aud she added with determi- nation, nat•.ion, "Now do try and cat a little by and bv." alto gave a short sigh as ehe turned away, and Tom felt bimeelf a monster of deceit. He rernainetl quite still, with closed eyes, and something very like self Contempt flowered in his heart. In one wild night he feed be'coniebetteracqu:tint- ed with himself and the dark possibili- ties of his natnro than in all the peaceful years gone by. Weak! Tfrat was the word an elfin voice seemed whispering in his ear. Bril- liant, impetuous. tender hearted. with as- pirhig motives, bet weak, vacillating as water dimpling in new circles with ev- ery pebble thrown. If ho were not weak, he could not so easily have thrown away his shy reserve and lent his voice and ear to words that stood forth now stripped of all captivat- ing glamour, course, cynical, shameful. Distinctions would not so soon have grown misty. He had loved Virginia as dearly as it was possible for him to love. Yet for a night be had forgotten her. Her resist- less eyes and guiding hand bad not staid with him to lead him away frons the flattery and easyconiradeship of wo:nen unfit to breathe her name. He loved S ireinia. But wad he worth her love? Thrown annidvarietltemptr.uions as he Virginia outside tnc aoor calling m If she should see him, she would know —she might even guess from his voice— that he was---- lee could not finish the thought. "Tom, it's 2 o'clock. Are you ill? Don't you hear me?" And now the voice.had an accent of fear. III? Yes, that would be his etc And surely it was true. A dre.3fcl naatuteasurgedthroughhim;redhn otplte - srs seethed holding his head, Peb ping a yawn, he coughed and said; "Who's there?" "Oh, you are awake at last, Sir Lazy.- bootiedo you know it is well on in the afternoon?" He made no answer. Virginia must see him; she must not know. That s all he could think of as he sat on edge of the bed, his hands clasped Ws hot forehead. otir lunch is ready now. 'Will you stat semi? Mr. Plurrket Inas sent over omen or more lettere from the theater." 'I'm not well, Virginia. I couldn't eat enLet the letters wait." ce followed for moment, and he d fancy the undeserved pity in her eyes. "tuft there something I can dote help Isn't there something thatwould to eat? I must go out, but I'd you comfortable tied."ell a ukzO t. My: Bead ieettelee prefer as a tenant some cbuunonplace fellow with Money instead of a brilliant critic who 'made eigarotte lighters of his dunning letters! A few oaths that reduced creation to elms, and a few puffs of acigarette cleared his brain. Ho sat back to think. So much money had gone at the gatn- bliug table; so much on the races; so much in speculation. Awad the result? Buoruwoua bills flowing in from every quarter, chief among theta an appalling array of figures for more than a year's rent. "There's not a hole or corner where I can borrow a third of it," he exclaimed impatiently, and tightening the girdle of the eastern robe Welding his slight figure he strolled to the window, and through the tangle of bare branches looked across at the snowy grass plots of Washington square. He scarcely moved for many minutes. Was there nothing he could do? Nothing? One plan after another was dismissed as impracticable until his eyes fell upon Tom coming across the park, the orange light streaming from the west behind hint, making a moving silhouette of his viorotts figure. cDelatoie's eyesbecarueinscrutable, the smoke wreaths curled furiously around his head, and he caressed his lip with the point of his tongue, as if he had literally tasted a palatable thought. "You fool: Why didn't you think of him before?" ho said aloud and burst out. laughing. When the sedate English valet, who I of a departed model still upon the plat - .had almost forgotten the look of Ameri- + form. You could *furnish it as you can money, opened tho door for Tom, please and have it as your own particu- his host strolled from tho window with 1 lar den." hands outstretched. Ile watched Tom's eyes tiavel half "Only half an hpnr later he said air- a'�stfully around the odd, artistic place. fly in his drawling voice. "Not bad for �, Charming, he said at length and a new celebrity. Did yon se© The Chat- ' aidded slowly, "but impossible. " You lenge this morning? Good—wasn't it? ;boo, I'm going to marry very soon. Here, read this." i Delatole stared at him ,as if incapable. He picked up some loosely scattered of�grasping tiro statement. pages covered with his delicate, cramped Yes, said Tom, duel now blunt writing and pushed them into Tom's tenderness rang in his voice, �' I am go - hands. ingto marry Virginia Kent. "This will be in on Thursday morn "moo you lead?" and the words were a ing. You see, ifs a minute review of slow exclamation, the play. You certainly can't complain." Delatole rose as he spoke, lifted one of Tom carried them to the window and the fragile glasses ou the table and ron- turned one rustling page after another.. temptuously flung it front him. It lay Glorious words were these—magnetic, upon the hearth, a mass of opaline splin- intense. And. how trite!—how marvel- yrs• ously true! His own intimate struggles "In another year you will be as artis- an writing the play had been divined by tinily ruined as that glass." R give you up. I'll only give you tints. Here comes my man with some brandy and soda. Perhaps your saiutship won't have any?" "Of course I will. You don't suppose I meant to draw such fine distinctions. Surely you understand," said Tony ear- nestly, and ho looked awayinto the leap- ing golden heart of the fire. "Last night's events gave a blow to my precon- eeivod ideas of life. T mean to Bold to them, you see." "Rubbish! A little laxity only makes a titan's nature wholesomely expand.. Now, look here, Murray," and Delatole spoke impressively as he stroked his poiuted beard, "Ian going to transplant yon, and to a soil where you'll gro y mentally. If you don't astound us with a .play even more unforgettable than 4The World's Way,' because morn ma- ture, it won't be my fault." A question darkened Tom's eyes, and he leaned eagerly forward. "You made a wonderfully good geese ' at life's flavor in 'The World's Way.' Ent Inn going to make you taste it in truth, the brackish and the sweet. In going ash r 'titto askyou to itch in short, � p your fox tunes with urine and share these rooms with one. Since Glendenning dis- appointed rte I have preferred to live and dream alone. But—frankly—I like you. The suite is large. We would. not clash. Besides, just across the hall is an atelier left vacant since De Courcey ran aawity* only recently • to escape his debts. You'll probably find the drapery and with some nauuey would not bane to knock at society's ,golden door for ad- mission. It would fly open to you. For myself I hate the stiff set, but it le al- ways well for an artist to become acquainted with every sort of human. Uuder conditions of tltiesent your artistic vein would waren and expand, your nee . tura vibrate to ebange after change, The pian who enters a race fettered is a tool, When I have said this, I have said all." There was offence after these words and then the riistling of paper. Tom hastily turned and saw Delatole leaning against the table, looking scornfully over, each of the pages whereon the criticism, was written thathad so delighted him., A painful premonition made hiui cold, but he said nothing. "Alt, well, I wish I had known that you contemplated. this 'idiocy before I wasted time and ink on you, Murray. You didn't tell me, of course.% No rea- son why you should. But 1 assure you, had I guessed what manner of man you were I wouldn't have plunged into such. a bewildering prophecy about • your fu- toxob re tl sne, I'm not t usually so im- pulsive," s pulsive," and he rent the shoats Half across before Tom's voice made him pause. "Is this fair? If you really liked, 'The World's Way,' why won't you say so?" Tho mysterious violet gray of twilight stealing through the high windows be- hind him touched his young face with shadows. It was pinched, eager, watch- ful "Oh, I'll do' that, of course. A few lines, a paragraph, will suffice, but not this psalm of victory, this heralding of a now voice that is not to be stilled, but will rise again and again—not, that. You'll have to prove all I've said false boforo I write of you in. that strain." And he was the incarnation of bland, impersonal regret as the papersonce more fluttered in his hands. He lookocl thorn over half regretfully. "It's one of the best things I've ever written, but in submission to my honest opinion I nne st destroy it." Ina few strides Tom was beside hint. They looked intently at each other. Tour's eyes 'i avored and fell. -•Don't—don't," he said, and leis voice was half choked. "Give mo time. ' Let inc think." Half an hour later they were walking up University place. They dined at a chophouse frequented by Bohemia, where tables were bare and beer was .served in mugs. "Better than Delmonicots in certain moods," said Delatole as they crossed the sanded, floor; "the food is excellent and cooked to suit Lucuilus. As accom- paniments yon have art, devil -may -care - ism, smoke and even socialism." His friends were scattered through the long room, and merry greetings were called out to him, which he repaid hi kind. The hours passed in sparkling reminiscences, jests and laughter. Dela- tole's levity because ustonisleeg, and in this impudent wag, who soon formed s group around himself, there was not a trace. of the cynic, the philosopher, the serious ratan of letters.' Much that he said was coarse, but so audaciously hu- morous it was impossible not to respond. Tom found himself proved to enthusi- asm and laughter. His pulses were• alive; his oyes glistened. Yos, let him reason as he would, ho was .attuned to this reckless brilliancy, this mingling of wits, this clatter of defiant freedom and spontaneity. Dolatole was right. Chance words here and there gave him a new in- sight into ahappy, modern paganism that filled his brain with imagery. Tho witchery, the sweep of it were intoxicat- ing. He regretted when 9 o'clock cane and Delatole parted with him' to keep an ap- pointment at his club. No word had been exchanged between the two men upon the subject that so nearly con- cerned them both. Now, as Tom hur- ried up town the undecided question danced before his eyes, his heart became suddenly weighted. Should he east tho old life behind him utterly and enter upon a now one—free? . He reached Union square. It sparkled in crystal whiteness. The branches pate terned on the pavements waved fantas; tieally about his fent as he strode on, his head down. Passionate indecision wont with him like a wraith in tho white rays. He thought of leis enchanted dreaming of the night before. Only last night! Ah, leo had 'learned much since then. Rad he ever really reasoned or under- stood before? "Keep yourse;f unshackled. The num who onters a race fettered is a fool." The frosty breeze that whistled past his ears seemed whispering these words to him. His memory flew back to a miserable childhood spent among the rigors of a poor western farm, and lie shuddered. Only by a hard fight and inorodible sac- rifice had his father saved the money necessary for his support and education. Poverty! How he loathed and feared itl How bo had always loathed it!, In- grained' in his nature was a love for the poetry of life, a hatred of the cannon - place, and now—let him be careful, lest by one ill advised step he' taste all the old bitterness again. The fragrance of the hyacinths in his coat canoe to him in the crisp air, so penetratingly sweet it gave hint a heart• eche--tlse ildwers she lord given hint. With. a green he flung himself into a Boat. "I love her! f love her! /end she? ' have x not had the confession in her eyes—in her kiss? Who lute helped nine who has understood nte like het? How tie I pain hep jioyr can 1 leave her?" sawnowhe must be in a crowded, world- I the keen critical understanding of the Not dreaming of the selfish mnnve ly life, would his heart remain unsoiled? ; writer. The lines flowed delicately,, sub- prompting this violent objection and Could he keep faith with her? Yester- ; tly, and were sweet as incense. They listening to words that were a passion - day, without •.ono wavering doubt, he throbbed in his brain; his eyes lightened. less prophecy, Tom could not resist the . shudder that ominously passedover him. • "One would think I talked of commit- ! ting t4 crime." And the words were 11 1 4+ l _ I breathless. • ! And so you are. Isn't it a crime to throw away your chance? Life doesn't offer too many of them. Let me tell . .. ,► � � I you, too, my dear fellow, that yon do eeenot strike mo as one who would euiti; would have said "Yes." Today he felt a gloomy, tormenting. fear. No, he darn not say that the bright wave of success would touch him and its backward serge, bear away no moral wreckage. Ho sprang up determined that a first failure should not rob hien of courage. Se would not think. He could not fancy his life apart from Virginia's. 'When ho entered the sunny front room, he found the round table drawn close"to the window. The sun struck scintilla- tions from the glass and eddied in swim- raing beauty around a bowl of fresh Hy- acinths placed beside his plate. Ile picked out a duster and pinned it in his coat caressing for a moment the uplift- ed, perfumy bells. "They are like herself—fair and sweet andpure. I wish sho was hero now." dust before him' his bloodshot eyes • flamed from a mirror. They seemed re- ! Tom carrtcd then a to the window. peating the question: "I had not hoped for this," he said, • 'Aro you worth. her love?" with a gretefhl glance as he came back to the table while slowly drawing off his gloves. "How awfully l inclof you! My conviction that you• mean it all is far dearer than that Now York will. read these words." • "Yes, 'I mean it all." Delatole handed him a cigarette, gave • 1 vate tho virtues of patience and humility _ l under the stress of failure and poverty. r1�" � � j� a � t I I • a f � � � Marry now, when you have just crossed the lino, before your strength has had a fair test, and you'll not only fail, but probably break .your wife's heart in a year. You remember what I said to "i it'''111 11 6 �_ hatulyou ast night. ere thinking of thedream madness 'CHAPTER VIII. Delatole's apartments were in the Uni- versity building. He loved the weather stained, pilo because it was old—so little was old in New York. Ho loved the gloomy balls and the high, dusty win- dows. His rooms were a medley where discord in the extreme blended into a startling harmony. Curiosity shops had been ransacked for treasures, and he had even paid flying visits to ship chandlers' shops upon the wharves in. the desire to collect antagonistic bits. Fish nets that hacl the salt of the sea woven en into their fibers took the place of more conven- tional onventional hangings. Mugs of every size and the most fanciful shapes, some of them very old, hung in a line around the man - an abrupt glance at his harassed, weary face, and said musingly— "You don't look like yourself today. .Aren't you well?" of an early marriage; that you stood on the verge of the abyss strewn with the ruins of good beginnings." As Toni listened his face grew stern, his eyes searching. "Why should I fail because I keep my word. to a woman, better, truer, a hun- dred times, than I am --not a woman to retard any man's progress? She has been my inspiration. You don't know Virginia. She is more to me than any- thing in tho world. I need not fail. I will not fail." He looked very stalwart, very deter- mined, as ho towered above Delatole, his blue eyes flashing in his intense face. "What interest can I have but for your good?" asked his new friend, and "I'm quite well."' the silken voice hold a soothing gentle - "But you seem depressed." • Iness after Tom's hot, strained tones. ' Tom smoked for a moment in silence. I "Let us look at this matter dispassion - "Not so much depressed. I am des- " ately. You aro young. You have writ- gusted," he said fiercely. "Did you 'ten ono play of startling strength and know that Iwas—drunlc last night?" charm, • It will bring you so much mon- Delatole opened his eyes very wide ey. Alone, independent, you would have tel, each a mirror for the crackling fire !amused, y laughed as ff infinitely a good income, be able to mix with the worldtravel a little and feed yourbeein below. Divans swatbed in Turkish stuffs "I wish you wouldn't laugh," Tom until it teemed with digested impressions jutted from shadowy angles and held said, a little sullenly, a streak of color palpitating gleams from hanging lamps ' crossing bis cheek. "It was the first gathered from boudoir and barroom. in their oriental, bespangled folds. His time and is not pleasant to remember." s The same money will not support a bed had curtains of pale tapestry free 9 Delatole's eyebrows twitched; he low- i home and a wife except in a cramped,. obscure wry. Your love for her will be grant as *ice and looped up by spears. eyed his eyes and thoughtfully moved °another drawback to earf r work. Tho It visa i rd.';ned by aleathery Indian mat ' some trifle on the table, r reeenehlieg thebxck of allege turtle and "Ent, I say, are you going in for re- ' treadmill of your dull, loving, respecta- s, :a eaelea Le beeke freta the ceiling. 1 ripectability—for that cumbersome re- <. ble ekistence day in and day out in some leelatele had hash y :lee tfo leis charar_- ., spectability that 'strains at as gnat'?' Aro 1 little fiat ahI afford non. feverish impetus nevus tam 1 , .c..s re rake, a p irasito, but he you: I via.3 als,o a g hills artist mul loved his ' The languid curiosity of his tone was 1 write a play worth h e# ng typewritten ' on the inspiration offered by a baby's >c ,1i% le'. loved the somber dreams ' muse, contemptuous than his laugh. flats. Alit have Y not watched the mental d reeete *tee in neon b'e c.ilatude in this ; Torawas troubled by a strange feeling "r pal sis set in before? Love 3s bad oed heave, in this al street, Theytipped as lye listened, Ile did not like Delatole r poenough, seut love and re? erty"--- lee pen with ea'oal. le p,:.e=r. When in his iridal genial. unreserved way. i t'•,.weed Leewled and the,•.s7 ha•fell the ;Peet to watch the slow movement a of i Toni turned away and faced the win - drafty peeeag 3s t w: a<;l tree—lea lay has bustler •; liatyais held ata enigmatical i dew. Ho dict nob seek the park. rot • ghostly feet, and fancy often comas :. l;Dc thresheele, g. rb 4 in ceiae iiiit`e•ie reg of the plead year. .a,s:a ti,ay<•.s�9i, j;+)3 but to half diet hie epee :191+i 4 epic. g across his untidy it -,s to the Melte of the spacious square bey sed sIrl the reef top:; stretch away into a. Lau kiss2,j dee— ert, and the hanging s.119;s1 Irusoyaze tl h white tents csf a matte; e; aarmy. Yes,. he laved the piece, but it rued go and Isis life there be renzenabered is a dream, On this November afternoon whiledno waited for feet he held in his hand, which was tremblieee with rage,* • notice to leave these self seine apart- ; tnents or fray a very large sem le a very ' short time.. Cerjgitss that a lnan shnn14 f.rxss.atarna, Ii<s felt a r,trnn;; drsirato just one moment the gray picture Delatolo ca..ialai?e ): eleeo and eagacity, but un- • stretched rose before hint, and an acute, eeent,atia #mal through it all there floated ' unmeasured. despair took hold of Mtn. an in null yc i rnffnktit n, Ho beat it back fiercely. He would Tilde nran tamed the raoduet of anot believe. Eat the resistance was no forcre& peeeeetee life, something about. longer buoyant; it was forced. )yds 'l:,r:a miler ewe leveeing lips dimity Tien there is the othersncie--froedonn reiniteled'Toom of a flower forced into a knowing no limit," continued Delatole snrnlhlar:e of bloom by the aid of a nox- in a soliloquizing tone as he walked up Si+sus gas, but With life and color and and down smoking, never once glancing strength rn;s inxg. ; at the silent, erect figure in the window. "Von see, nay dear fellow," Delatole "Freedom. Only those who have sure continued. "I know that yon are fresh rendered it know the full swoetneas of from a religions environment—that you that word.Y Every door would be open arcs ye nnq; tliereforn I don't accept petit to you. ou need not only be a Bohe- 'rlews seriously. Perhaps they are but mian, A fellow like you, of undoubted tzatttr>nl, iC won't label yon 'prig' and talent, well looking, clever, indefiendent 1 an Glad in the interest of any,, who may be suffering from Dyspepsia,. to bear testimony to the tact.that I have been greatly benoiitted by the• use of K. I). C,, when other medicines. prescribed as remedies afforded no, relief, • (REv.) Jiasuen How, Minister of St. Audr'ow's Church, Aug, 10, 1898, Winnipeg, Man.. Free Maniple nailed to any address. IS, D. O. Co,, New Ulatsgow, N. S.,• and 127 State St., Boston, Mass. Lauxidemfg Shirts. Tho glaze on- a laundered shirt front le more the result of knack and practice than of any particular secret,. though Many persons think thele is• sonic way of preparing the starch that will give the recltlired i;�lazo,• Wax, turpentine or borax can be' added to the starch with good effect. A goal plan when the shirt front has. whil- e over �vl l ' r a t)` isto 'lb t 11 i ' e It i •101 d been ironed. a piece of dalhlp white castile soap and iron it Over again. It is to the prose sore of the iron that the gloss is In ti,: great measure Cine. For Sore Throat, Sudden' Colds and diphtheria, no remedy has: ever been 'discovered so powerful to' cure as Davis' PAIN-KILLrt;. As a Liniment it has no equal in curing Rheumatism or Neuralgia, Burns and Bruises, and wounds of every descrip- tion. It is the: cheapest and best remedy ever offered to the public.. Only 25e. for big 2 ounce bottle.. How are sandwiches quoted now 7 said one railway passoliger to another, who was coming from a lunch ciol ltetr witha couple in his hand. Ifi.11ll t0• 'bard at ten cents, was the reply. "As a noiseless wing To waft ane from distrecfisn," Aro those powders which every -- body is using now for sick headache; neuralgia, biliousness, etc. ''They are called Stark's headache and liver Powders. Write the name in your hat or on your cuff so that you will know what to ask foe when you have - need for then. -If you have twenty five cents in your pocket or - good credit with your druggist, you can always' get a box. • 4 terrible earthquake, onefeef the - most disastrous of any age, is reported from I.ureban, in Persia. Twelve: thousand persons were killed in the disaster, and where was once an ani • portant city of 20,000 'people, there is now clothing but death and terror; 10,000 corpses had been recovered at the date of the despatch, In adclitien- to this stupendous loss or human life 50,000 cattle are said to have perished in the upheaval of the, earth. - • When Baby was sick, we Cavo her C':tstorta. When she' was a Chid, she erica for Caatoria, - when she bceamo Miss, she c: to C:.atoria,. When she h:W 0111dr en, she gave the: t Vastoria. EAKE' Oshawa, Ont. Paws in the Joints Caused by lriflarnmatdry' Swelling A Perfect Cure qtr Hood's Santa— "It adonis me much pleasure to recommend heed's sarsaparilla, lay son was afflicted with great pain itt tlio joints, aeeompanlod with *swelling so had that he could not got up stairs . to bed without Brawling out bands and knees, 1 vas very anxious about titin, and having read iood'sCurcs Margsari" j1a r so much about Hood's Sarsaparilla, 1 deter- mined to try it, Ash got a half-dozen bottles. four of whtoh entirely cured Mute :lupus. O. A. Lem Oshawa, Ontario. N. Ie, tie sure to get hood's Sarsaparilla. Hoo 's Fillip act easily, yet promptly and. effielently, on the liver mud bowetii, 26e. v 041 Reports of Public Inetitutjoiis in!! Ontario, TIun. INSANE,. The report of Inspector Christie on Lunatic and Idiotic, Asylums contains the following information ',l'he iivan•ber of insane awl idiotic under I' ,chargeiii. the several institutions h* the Province on the 80th of Septem- berlast was 4,240, being an increase .of 170 over September 80th, 1892. The admissions for the past year wore 758, showing a decrease 4f 89. The relative proportion of these 'classesto the whole population of the Province shows a marked increase' during each decade, as follows ; Population No. of In - of the ' sane in Per. ' Province. Asylums centage 1867 1,626,878 961 ,062 1871 1,620;851 1,366 .084 1881. 1,926,922 2,406 ,124 1891 2,114,321 3,468 .164 Mr. Christie continues with a refer- enec, to the bulletin issued by the Do, ininion Department of Agriculture in May last, compiled from the census of 1891, in which the number of in. sane (and presumably also the idiots and feebleminded) in the Donlinior is given as 18,355, of which Ontario is credited with 5,855, and, as stated 3,468 were resident in the Provincia institutions on September 300, 1891 so that the remaining 2,887, or 40 pc cent., remained outside of asylun care. AEA$ AND DUMB. The report of the institution fo the education of the deaf and dum 'covers the year ending Septembe 30tH, 1893. The inspector's roper contains interesting information re specting the deaf and dumb in Cal add. An analysis of 943 eases shot' ,ed the loss of speech to be congenit, in 308 eases, and accidental in 5'i eases. - Of this total nluuber, divide according to families, two falnili. contained five each, and four farili contained four - each. The parer) were in 57 cases first cousins, whj •;r in $03 eases there was no blood h lotion between the parents. T population of deaf mutes to the pc ulation in Canada was 10,5 to eve 10,000 people. The foreign pop ation, •which is one-seventh of 1 whole, lzas one-fourth of the deaf a dumb. In the other provinces i deaf and dimlb have not increas as rapidly as the populatioli. '1 pupils in the Belleville institution last .inspection llumbercel 251, whom 119 were girls, and 113 be There was no sickness at that t: among the pupils except one case measles of a, mild, type. The insti tion is reportedasbeing inasatisfact sanitary conduction, .and the pu attentive, anxious to learn, and n• ing good progress. The cost pupil for maintenance was. $176 as compared with $16601 the vious year. THE MIND: , The twenty-second annual re 'of the Brantford institute for th struetion of the blind for the ending September 30th, 1898, tains extensive and carefully piled information, which goes to that, compared with the provinc Qucbee,"Nova Scotia. and New B 'wick, Ontario has less blind pe per thousand of population than In Ontario the population. is 5, cent. •It is estimated that till 1,228 blind people in the provin whorl 580 were born in the pro' The occupations'followed by the aro divided into groups, non -lit titre including children, femu households, retired, no men given, members of i.•eligious c paupers and students nurl 2,492; and productive, inc. those engaged in agriculture, i and mining, 533; those engag professional services, ,53; those l ed in domestic and personal s 98; those engaged in trade and portation 72; and. those engs mechanical pursuits, 120. P year just closed there were in ford institute 130 pupils, of w1 were hales and 57 females progress made in musical and 1 studies ibis been marked, wihil dustrial and agricultural l good work has been done. I.ie N8Es az i DRUMM= h'2T7 According to the report or and shop licenses, 'the numbs in 1898 was 4,318, a decreas as e)lnpared with the precede' The decrease is chiefly in ' licenses, while the wholesalei increased by.four. The total derived '+aa $604,169, as e Lith $665,('0') for the precec Of this the municipalities $20,996. Drunkenness, w been gradually on the shows also this year a f