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aTheeBleteextbfne ?Monts have been Su
tabdiaml a-
Indisai arrested at Fort MaeLeod a
few deys ago was thought to be Deerfoot,
limb e tuna out to be Bad Dried Meat,
probably a near relation.
Fishing at Saddle Lake, N, W. T,, was a
failure last mason owieg to water insects
eating the nets to piecee every night, There
were plenty of fish but they could, not he
caught,
Priecipal Grant, a Qteeenti University,
believes that when all the can.vassers report
next week it will he found that tlae quarter
a A million required for the jubilee enclew-
mut feed has been. aulascribed.
Complaint luta been made to the Dominion
Goyernment that a man who escaped from
gaol on the American eide of the 'Soo "
was laurelled by American offleers into Cana-
iian territory and forethly taken hack.
biological examination a samples ef
Ottawa city water made in Toronto lam
demonstrated that the water is unduly in-
ested with 'bacteria, though it la not settled
definitely whether they are typhoid fever
germs or not,
The Torento Board of Trade deckled to
apply to the Dominion Parliament for
Amendments to their Act of locorporation
giving them 'tower to compel the ettenclanee
of weniteseein uen of Arbitretion and te
entire() owardt.
The Archblehop of Canterbury hie el
clined to nominate eblehop for Nova Scotto,
alt the Provineial Synod will not guerantee
the rat/4044M Of his nominee, and the
Sped will therefore have to melte another
Oren to elect its OWn bishop,
The New York World seri that what
Manitoba watts wane than anythiug else is
a new climate- New climate pendia
Meraltehe vaill be lambing before Dakota,
Mantel* or lelleekeeeta IUd eut evhere they
left their fences list fall.
It is proposed by leadin4 msmbere of the
Bar of Montreel to all uulignationrocet-
ing at an early date to protest against the
neglect of the Loeal and Domiuion Govern
-
meet to remedy the pteeent uneatisfactory
condittee eit the adrUinlatratiOn of *Aloe.
The follewien neW poet egices were Web -
Belied in Wane On Jan, let AmaralNorth
flutings I Blaekwell Station, lisiinhten
Estoonde, ReufrewLes Meennee., Musko-
ka t Stittleut 'Meech ; Spigneh River
Sudo; itigema, one Mills, South Leeds.
It reported diet the Prince Sanwa
Islauders are huliguaut over the failure of
the Domiolen Government to maintain rep-
laxeonwatinkation between the island and
the maiulandl which is deelared to be this
winter more tucomplete and irregular than
for many years.
A whom for establiahing a p mud colony
in the North-West Territories adjoining the
Athabasca River, with a view to the demi-
opment and settlement of that region, is
proposed by 'Warden Dedson of Alenitoba
Penitentiary and endorsed hilllr. lqoylen,
inspestor of Prison; in his mutual report.
The first special Omar train from 'Minima
-
polio by way of the Sauk Ste. Marie and
Canedien Pacific railiveyteached Montreal,
having made the journey In five days despite
the heevy snow and severe cola. The train
left immediately for Boston, where it is ex-
pected to land the flour on tha seventh day
after leaving Minneapolis.
The Postmaster -General says that the
convention for a parcel poet sortie° between
Canada and the Unitea States had been
signed by, himself and Postmenter-Generel
Wee and only requires the signature of
President Cleveland to make it legal. The
terms agreed upon were satisfactory to both
Governments and it had been arranged for
the aervice to be inaugurated. on March 1.
When one of the politicians imprisoned
for bribery in Prince Edward County had
completed his term in gaol he was given an
oyster tupper by the gaoler, and was driven
in state through the town, the sheriff and
the police magistrate taking part in the
proceedings. buch is the statement of the
Conservative journal at P oton. It is to be
hoped the story is not true ; for if it is, it
would appear that °Mears of the law are
doing their best to make bribery respect-
able.
The burglary in Montreal on Saturday
was certainly one of the most extraordinary
on record. Not content with carrying away
three iron safes—one large oneworth 51,800
—the enterprising burglars made away with
books, bookcases', desks, chairs, letter-
presses, counters, and even the flooring, in-
cluding the jadeite. When the proprietor of
the ransacked premises came upon the scene
in the morning he no doubt felt grateful
that the ceiling and wells were still left to
him. In such a case even the smallest mer -
dee are greatly to be appreciated.
At a tea meeting in a New Brunswick
parish there were some unusual features
provided. In one corner of the church an
enclosure was prepared, within which two
young ladies were sawing wood into stove
lengths. In another corner were two young
men making a patch -work quilt. .all for a
single admission. Tickets ten cents. It is
a wonder that in order to make the leap
year effect complete, the young pastor—
and be must have been a very young pastor
—was not shut up in another corner and a
detachment of young ladies engaged to
afflict him with proposals of marriage.
The practices in many matters in the var-
ious provinces are curiously. divergent. In
Nova Scotia and British Columbia there are
divorce courts, but there are none here. In
Nova Scotia street cars may be run on Sun-
day, as driving, according to the courts is
not servile labour; in Quebec they may be
run to carry people to church; in Ontario
they must not be run under any circum-
stances. In British Columbia Sunday news-
papers are published, and. tbe closingof
saloons on Sunday is a matter for municipal
and not provincial regulation. Here Sunday
is observed unanimously, except, as the law
pro- ides, by Indians. Here the Legislature
regulates the municipal franchise. In New
Brunswick the city council fixes the voting
qualification.
vorotrolc.
It is reported in Berlin that Italy ispre-
paring to send 150,000 troops to Galicia in
the event of war.
The crofter agitation in Scotland and the
anti -tithe movement in Wales are rapidly
growing more serious.
The ship Britannia, from the Mediterran-
ean, with 850 people aboard, is now six
days over -due at New York.
The doctors have decided that it the
Grown Prince of Germany dies, his disease
is of a fatal oharactenbutif be recevers it is
not incurable.
Many of tdr. Psenellts followers, includ-
ing the two Hole's and Mr e 'Dillon, object
to their leader's Reopened, policy of abstain.
ing from obstruction.
The Paris Univers has a report from
Borne that the English Cabinet accepts
Papal mediationin regard to Ireland on tile
basis of Mgr. Persice's report,
A. gigantic; Christmas tree was sent from
Potsdam to the German Crown Prince a
San Remo, so large that it had to be cut in
two for transportatien, each Italf filling
freight ear.—En.
Out of 53 palatial residencea nPark in-
spected by a Goverement sanitary engineer,
47 were heed to have such defective plumb -
hag that the health of the occupants was
constantly threatened,
The Pope has advised the .Erish blehopte
and priests visiting Rome to use their in
to restore respect for the law in Ire -
laud, as the Irish pettple could not obtain
what they asked by violence,
If the records of her baptism in Kumla,
mahcm Ireland, are eorrect, and if she lives
uutil tlse 5th of April next, Mrs. Bridget
WNW, of Miuerel Point, Wile, will be 116
years old. She has outlived all of ber ten
children, the youngest of whom was born
when she was 58 years old. She is in pretty
fair health, and seeing likely to live for
several yearse
At a neer at the Mansion home, Lon-
don, three fareign commie were present
whom the Lord Meyer wiehed to honor by
Irinhieg their benithe e accordioely
directed the toast muter to annelinee the
healths of "the three present commis."
however, misteking the words, gave out
the following ;-4' The Lord Mayor &Mite
the health of the 3 per mut. consols.
Tbe experiment of giving halfpenny din -
nem at the Birmingham aehoole has been so
enemata thet farthing dinners have been
tried and nearly elecceeded. TWO hundred
and twelve thousand farthing diunere were
given last year at e, emit of lean thau 39 Maui
of a penny. The attendance at the wheels
has been greatly increased, and the good el -
feet upon the temper el the children has been
astamshing,
The Amiga, of the Russian troops amain -
bled ready for action in the weatern provin-
cial toward the end of December is reported
by a Germ= militia), paper as follente
In the first line elm to the faultier, there
ere Witte:lea eight eviler eerps, Cue eaeli
Riga, Keene, Piotak Loraelm, Petrehof
Wareew, Imugored Lobito, Rovno Shito-
mir, Kiel Meekitecaliye rind Materiel. The
secoird flns is made up of three corpse one
emir atiBielystok Meek, Tclieringoo Orel
and Karim! Poltava. The third line coin
date of five corps, one each at Revel Nor -
gored, Peteraburg, hiaseow, Jouelay and
Kazen Sorata, Beth of these aixteen corps
counte 44,;i00 men, or, altogether, 71%00
tneu. There are further nine divide/0i of
cavalry on a complete war footing and re -
caving already war pay, close upou the
frontiers tower& Germany and Austria—
namely, one each a Kovno, Wane, leorrishe,
Alexendrov and Tehenstoek of kinking to-
ward Germany, aud at Lublin, Samostne,
Dubuc, and Kiel bolting toward ,Austria,
The four divisions stationed ab Romny,
Tehorgovyef, Jeliaavetcmad and Kishcnef
can be transported. to the frontier in a few
days. These thirteen divielons count 3 600
horses each, or, altogether, 40,S00, Each
division is supplied with two batt crime The
whole force omelets, therefore, of 757, 00
men, of which eight oorpa and nine divisions
of horse, or 350,000 foot and 35,:1C0 horse
form the first line. Railroads with double
tracks connect the emond and third lines
with the first—that is, they can be moved
forward so rapidly that they Can be in the
encempment of the first line simultanously
almost with the forward movement of the
latter,
MRS. ICEECUIER'S TALKS.
If one were to faithfelly investigate, we
think it would be foiled that more than half
tire children who, in early childhood move
unmanageable, and pe later youth, are
breueht to this state through the parents'
leek of union m family governMent. The
mother empplains that she would have no
trouble in controlling the children if their
father did not haterfere. But if the child
asks for food that she knoves is not beat for
it to haVe, and so she refuses, the father at
once °ear -hale, "Oh, let the child have it,
an ewe it will do no. harm;" or, if she re-
fuses to let it go out to play in stormy
weather, the father inatantly seys, Non-
eense 1 ])on' ti make a baby of the child.
This weather will do no berm," and so on
until, at any refusal on her part the Weenie
Ontre appealed to, and the child soou.
learns to refuse to obey its mother,
On the: other hand, perhaps it is the
father whose government is interfered with
by a. foolishly indulgent mother, an4 he
says, "I have a family of children who,
when quite young, were eesily managed,
But as they grow older their wants and wills
increase and grow stronger, and eceasional-
ly natural pe.rversity and wilfulness requires
some restramt. But the mother's heart
would ehield, her children from suoli se -
*Amines as the father feels are ueeeseary for
their education and future happiness. Her
Tzworit.NEsS wES IIER JUDGMENT.
and too often in Epeech as 4 action she etareds
opposed. HOW far—for the tuture well-
bemg of our children, if She CannOt control
her words before them and the servants, -
am 1 to push my authority,. as the tether
and head of the house, and insist upon her
yielding to my jdgment without oppoai-
tion ?
Such questions rrs often put to us, and,
no doubt, to many others. The Ammer, on
the spur of the inomeet, and withoat dellbe-
ratiou, bee= comparatively easy. But
careful reflection will show that, looking at
it in all the many aspeets which are needed
to force a correct juegment, it is a very io-
tricate and itteportent subject, and thee no
rule can be *yen to meee the wants of all.
The happiness of the family as a whole,
and the future welfare al the children, de-
mand that family government should be
thoroughly united. Unfortunately, how-
ever, we oeldem ses this to any wee% extent.
Too often the great eanees of irieeension and
divialou are the children, who were given to
be a bond of union. The mother, who hare
Watchei ever them from their birth, 11 the
father m atern, arbitrary and ever-striet,
netutally ahrinke from the effeete which such
a count roust have on their youns and ten-
der minds, feeling, and very 'correctly, that
geutlermes and love in alcnoet all caeca will
eater. the heart and secure obedience, while
coldneas and
Treacherous.
A reporter tor the Pall Mall Gazette re-
centlyconversed with Mr. Bartlett, superin-
tendent of the London Zoological Gardens,
about his experience with the hipp6potamus.
According to Mr. Barelett's account, this
curious animal makes an 'interesting pet,
although—as is the case with some human
animals—its temper is rather uncertain. It
would be straining a point to call it thin-
skinned, since its skin is two inches or more
thick, but there are times to say the least,
when it seems to he unconifortably touchy.
Mach, the first hippopotamus that came
to the gardens, was presentedby the Viceroy
of Egypt in 1851. ile died in 1879. For
some reason or other the brute got attached
to me. I believe it was because I talked to
him whenever I saw him.
We were the greatest of friends'and he
was so docile that I used to ride on his back.
In 1852,1 was engaged in mounting a speoi,
men hippo for the Crystal Palace, and went
into Obach's den to make somemeasure-
ments. Thinking no evil, I was busy with my
tape, when it suddenly slipped, and the brute
turned around on me with a furious snort,
gnashing his jaws fiercely. I rushed for my
life, and escaped through the rails ; the
keeper, who was with me, did the same. It
was a very near thing, indeed, for both,of us.
At present we have only one hippopotamus
here,—the daughter of Obach,—who was
born in 1872. Well, one day a stray dog
strolled casually intothe gardens and stopped
before the rails of the hippo's outside in -
closure.
The day was warm, the pool was tempt-
ing, so the dog wriggled through the rails
and sprang into the water to his doom. The
hippo rose to the surface, and, roaring, took
the dog into her great jaws and crushed him
to bits.
Another narrow escape was that of a keep-
er who came hems to the gardens very late
one stifling August night. Be was slightly
tipsy and very hot, so he stripped off his
clothes and plunged into the pool. .Unfor-
tunately, the hippo was also in the pool,
dozing away m the dark solitudes.
The keeper of course, thought that he was
locked up in a cage. He did not discover
his mistake till his hands came in contact
with the back of the huge amphibian. The
hippo swam after the man, bit was not quick
enough. The keeper just escaped, and when
he wanted a bath afterward, he took it else-
where. Had the brute got at him, only his
mangled remains wduld have been found to
tell the tale.
When our baby hippo was born the mother
was terribly savage. I was afraid he would
kill herself and her baby m well. We were
compelled to feed them throngh the ventilator, and never dared to go into the house.
SZVEUITV WILL rrsOVOliii UNIOALIOX.
On the other hand, perhaps, the 1 tht
loving and tender, yet firm, fully aware tbat
injutholous and foolish indulgence will in
tho end work out, not "the peaceable fruits
of righteousness," but for the children years%
of aorrow aud sim and for the parents
wretchedness, tribulation and augurain If
the mother co-operates with a father whose
commie thought is how to compan the beat
i tattles of thew children, even though some
resiraint and selfelenial will be necessary
to secure it, the training of the family. will
be a labor of love and mutual hammier.
When both 2300 eye to eyo, melting Claire
blessing an every step, they =treat assured
that their children, thuti led in the way
they should go. will in meter() age rlee up
and, call them blessed. But how seldom do
we see thia blessed union in family govern-
ment
With so many examples, on the one hand
which warn parents against over -indulgence,
and on the oth er encourage them in using
all needed discipline, it is strange that they
do not am and learn to avoid all disputes
and diacussiona with referenceto family gov-
ernment in the presence of their children.
They not only lose the respectof those who
should naturally look to them for help and
guidence ; but, still worse, they do incal-
culable injury to those whom they should
Iove and protect, when, forgetting their
children's best interests, and their solemn
duty, They dispute and reorltninato when-
ever a ease of discipline is unavoidable, and
dare to do so where their children and ser-
vants can hear and see the whole shameful
wraugle. It will nut take many specimens
of divided counsels to complete themischiel
begun by the first specimen.
there is blame °ramie mistake on heth aides.
But, right or wrong, it is better that no dis-
pute should arise, and that one should siieut-
ly the point and let the other' ; de -
cermet prevail for the time being than to
attempt to right the wrong in the presence
of anyone—particularly in that of their
children, 4h, .parente, if you truly love
eaeli other, it ur not hard to do tine 1 It
should be very sweet and easy when alone,
kindly and unselfishly, to dieouseithe subjecb
under censideratien, if clueing mai diaenansee
the husbaud
insuissas Ann IDEA DE AETEORITY.
That is an ugly word between busbaud and
wife at all times, and when endeavoring to
settle a disputed point leeep 18 as far out of
eight as possible. not once in a hundred,
unless where morality or eorrupt principlee
are 'involved, will the wife peramt in having
her own Tien, of the !peal= recognised, if
her husband goes tO this conference in the
same ;spirit that lefluericecl him while weeieg
her, and speaks with the Same gentleness.
Words thus apoken will be like oil on the
troubled waters, and briug both into eloser
and more harmonious 'amen than corantands
can ever do.
But when eettling any disputed point with
regard to the vamagement of tbe children,
the father should not forget that of ne-
cessity during their early years the mother
renat have Mere to do with them, and eau
scaroely fail to better underetand their
separate pecullaritua than he poositaly can
do. If aliusinea$, literary, orprOfessioua/ man
he Cannot spend Moat time with, them, Wen
only at their tritele„ v bile the mother'; life
is largely theirs aloe watelive over them
hourly. She peividlee for their perpetuity
recurring wow. She naturally, meet have
the Care of their health and. early hebite ;
the watching and wearinees in times of ehik,
en fells on her, and the toil of Aurelia
them through the troubimome, frstfulperiod
of cenveleecence beck to health and vigor.
In the few hours Me bueiecee peemite the
tether to opend, with his ferelly he may be
able more clearly to aee the weak paints
than the mother een do, who is elwaye with
them, Ito maysee how at tineshe weak-
br yields to their capricea ; often too weary
e be firm or resist importunity, she
Qualm THE SLAM TO TrIgIlt WILLS.
This is the time when tire husband's love
and syropetby for his wife, the mother of
his childree, ehonid hs mut truly menifeet,
:1WhileeUmbayy tplarteovvaerwyhetychniptiettloanstrdokotgue,dlit;
which the better able to he the true head of
the hone% But eueh weekneues, from
whatever eauee they epring, no true, noble
man will allude to before the little despots,
but when alone, gently recognleing that her
cares are heavy and her petience) great, will
elbow lds WIN how such indulgence,
80 eOSLly yielding to their importunitiea
ften because too tired to withetand
hem, will lay the foundation for a great
deg of preecut trouble, and, perhaps for a
wicked and ignoble future. If she has a
=mon stock of good souse, and be, with
unselfish desire for the good of all, does not
seek by arrogant (natation to place himself
far above her, we minuet imegme a wife or
mother who will not be atreugthened, cam -
forted eed restedby her husband's euggea-
tions, me the wisdorn that prompted them
and eeruestlyendeevor to make the necessity
far such appeals or euggeetione very in-
frelrtlie
eut: mother, upon whom of neeeveity
most of the cave of the early life of their
children meat fall, be frivolous and self-
indulgent, too weak and indolent to take up
the erc as of refusing childish and unreason-
able importueities for the glory that aluilI
crown her, when by her firmnees her child-
ren hey° became noble men andwornen then
God help her who ten tbus lay the axe tie
the ..very root of all domestic happiness.
For the husband and father to put& his
authority during the few Ileum he San beat
home, when the cluldron, always at home,
are constantly exposed to snoh influences
will do no good. It only increases the
difficulty. There seems but oneevay left to
save tho children. Remove them from
home, as soon as old enough, and a weak
mother's cruel indulgence, and place them
in some SC11001 where health and morals
may be cerefully watched, but sufficiently
strict to save them from the ruin of too
great indulgence. 'I his is a hard tusk, and
the proper school hard to find. Bub it out
be done by careful resea.roh. Such a course
has saved many children, whose parents,
one or both, were too foolishly tender, or
too cruelly indolent to control them in their
early youth.
MIS, HENRY WARD Beeman.
Brooklyn, Jan. 18.
CHILDREN' ARE VICIE OEURYERv,
and arrive at singularly correct conclusions.
They soot learn which parent is the most
reedy to conceal their Write and overlook
their shortcomings, and soon learn to turn
to that one for help to escape punishment,
or to secure the gratification of a whim
which the other has forbidden. And it is
very ead to see how quickly they learn to
care little for either parent, and that love
which is onlygiven when their own demands
i
are satisfied s purely selfish, and of little
value.
Aside from the loss of all truefilial respect
and affection, the moral character soon de-
teriorates, and the child becomes stubborn
and passionate. When the father com-
mands, and the mother openly or privately
cancels the injunction, or the mother prom-
ises an indrdgence, and the father forbids
or revokes it, who ean wonder if the spirit
of revolt and bitterness is aroused ?—fortun-
Me if it does not become hatred. No surer
means can parentemploy to destroy their
children, even if they were seeking to effect
their ruin.
But bad, cruel, as this is, 1818 not the
worst feature in parental disagreement.
The mischief does not end here. The par-
ents themselves at length become
ALIENATED AND EMBITEERBD
by such dissensions, leading sometimes to
disputer; acid quarrehr on all subjects, and
what can more effectually.cultivate a child's
selfishness, jealousy and mercenary nature
than such exhibitions in. those whom God
ordained to be the children's guides and
teachers. Better far are early deaths than
life and health for children that must other-
wise grow up under the malign influences of
divided counsels between their parents.
It is a very easy thing, and can be done
without losing respect or love, for parents
whose views on family governmeut dieter
somewhat, to agree between themselves on
some compromise, but in the presence of their
children or others, these differences should
never be mentioned. Even if one parent
unmistakeably misjudges, better by far to
let the mistake pass trunoticed than to dis-
pute, or one parent interfere in the presence
of the servants or the children. Usually,
FARM,
NoTEs.
Protect tender roses and plants.
Plenty of good feel, remember.
Fatten or sell the surplus stock.
Extra feed for pigs and poultry.
Protect fruit trees from the "nibb1ers.4
Guard grain against the re,ips and mice.
Emil? use the teetering cheek -rein.
A. clean, well -ventilated cellar.
Milk for young pigs and ealves eliould
fed warm.
Farming land in Connecticut, except be
the vicinity of cities, has not increased in,
value in the last thirty years.
Where hens axe not changed from one lo-
cality to another, they will lay a great Many -
more eggs in the eourse ef it year. Even tith
active leghorne form an attachment to A
Certain place,
If a farmer has plenty of patience, and
is willing to give cloae attention th detail*
in the eAre of stock, he eau make mom
money for focia consumed from theep than
from ;my other stock.
It ought to be settled beyond dispute that
it pap to provide geed shelter for all the
atOelt on the farm. Tile surest plan. as far
as possible, is to provide for thin aliead ef
tint° when it may leo wanted.
The Wisconsin Dairymen's Areseeletion
Met at Ripon. January 258o 27, Inclesive-
Them meetiegs alweye attmet attentiou, not
only in the state, but are attended by dairy*
Men freni surrounding etittee
o
At the Ontario Agricultural College, an
xperimerit itt feediee eighteen head of
tore cattle with twelve palm& of hity,
lairty.five pounds et termini and nine
nude of wheet bran per head daily, and
siso the same alliontlt of bay and roots but
with different kinds of grain, resulted in
the lowest coat of productiall 013 the bran
tion.
The Maryland Partner says that while
mends of dollars bare been made in
growing cranberries, largo fortunes have
been lost in similar ventures. Only the
wealthier airmen, who have expended vmt
sums of money in improving and equipping
their property, can calcniate with any de-
gree of certainty en a paying crop of fruit
every year.
There are no eecrets in itheep ratelog. ft
hen to be done by feedlog. The pinto have
to eat aomething, and that untething bas to
be aweet feed, gran; grab, vegetable%
fruit, or auythieg that fa wholeume and
maritime, but meet be abundene and nn.
felling, Weed% braeli and briam will keep
alteep alive, but den% ask *hop to geow
mutton on web paeteree, no, nor wool,
The Deiry Anociatione et the &Oda,
shires of Dumfries and Nigh= have decid-
ed to make a joint endeavor to maitre for
next season the eerviem 91 a Areteclars Can-
adian instructor in checeeenaltim Thiel is
compliment to Canada; but is will be or
nioro particular compliment to Ontario'ifor
it is to thia province that the aseeelatons
will look for their expert. It is not a lltde
reinarkeble that the Dominion thould be
invited to inetruet the Mother Land in
climes -making.
The average cow, well oared for, saya an
agricultural writer, should melte 200 pounds
of butter a year—one of km cap:if:fay ehould
riot be tolerated—a good cow will maize 300
pouude a year. We will call three acres
milleient to keep one cow a year, whieli
a large estimate. Two acres abotild suffice ;
in fun Hiram Sruith, the celebrated Wis-
consin dairyman, comes pretty near ke.oping
a cow on one acre. But two or even three
aOres to one each cow as noted above will
prove cow keeping to be a better business
than can be done on any wheat land in the
country, pertioulaely when it is considered
thet in the cow bueiness the farm is getting
better and bettor every year, indeed of
poorer and poorer as in the wheat business,
Between the North and South Forks of
the Red River and the 1COth degree of lon-
gitude is an extensive range of fertile coun-
try about 34 miles wide by 107 miles long,
containing 3,087,360 acres. It is elaimed
by Texas under the name of Greer County,
and by the United States as a part of the
Indian Territory, and is also known as
"No Man's Land." Belonging defibitely
to no torganized community, it is governed
by no laws, and has long been the resort of
desperadoes of all kinss. The land has
never been sold by any proper authority,
and the thousands of settlers there—stock-
men and ranchers—hold their possessions
by aquatter sovereignty. Tile President
has jest issued a proclamation warning all
persons whatever against gelling or other-
wise "disposing of uny of said land or ex -
erasing or attempting to exercise any au-
thority over" it ; and also warning "all
persons against purchasing any part of the
territory from any person or persons whom-
soever." .Ait enormous amount of Ian d
swindling has already been perpetrated by
locating Texas land grants in "freer
County," and selling the certificates to
greenhorns, and this proclamation should
have been issued over two years ago. More
than three years ago the Eye•Opener warn-
ed rural readers against this fraud.
Some Advice to Boys.
My son, you may not be missed a great
deal by a very wide circle of people when
you die. It won't be necessary for you to
leave much money for a tombstone. The
few people who love you, who tenderly and
dearly and truly love you, will know which
mound covera your sleeping figure,
and.
they can find it just by the ferns anclgrass-
es that wave above it, and a monument
ninety feet high won't make strangers love
you, or make them remember you. you
may not be missed a great deal by very
many people when you die, ray boy, but
that ,isn't what you want to think about.
You want to make yourself felt and noticed
while you are here. That's what you want
to do. And that is more than most men do.
Just run your eye over this paragraph
again, if you have time, and think over it a
little, while you are waiting for morning
service to begin. Now and then you will
meet a man who actually rejoices in a mean,
envious sort of way to think plat in a few
years his more popular, prosperous, enema -
fill neighbor will be dead and forgotten. It
may be ;true. The big, wide world is so
busy with the living, that she does see01 to
forget her children when they fall asleep.
But yon will notice that that the man who
rejoices in this is usually a man whom she
has forgotten while he yet lives; who is
notnotioed ; who is not felt or heard in the
world at all. Now, do you go ahead,' my
boy, and don't stop to wonder whether the
world will remember you and miss you one
hundred years from now—little you'll care
for this Old World in a hundred years;
Heaven send it may be under your feet
then—you just go ahead and make yourself
felt now. When you are gone the world
will 'get along without you, my boy; but
while you are here do you make it under-
stand that you are running part of tido
show yourself, if it is nothing more than
standing at the tent door and directing the
people to pass to the right and move along
in front of the oases.
Prince Ferdinand.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria looks upon
his duties in a different way from his prede-
°moor. PrinceAlexander considered itreason
enough for abdicating that Russia insisted
upon it, and he held that in so doing he was
best serving Bulgaria,. Prince Ferdinand
would "rather leave his bones on the battle-
field than abdicate," became this latter
would be abandoning and ruining,Ilalgaria.
The present ruler pcsaibly overestimates his
personal importance to the principality, yet
he has doubtless been of real value in fur-.
nishing to it a head, and thereby giving a
head, and thereby giving a greater semb-
lance of public order and security. The re-
port that the powers contemplate a com-
bined boycotting or " blookade "of Bulgaria
in case Ferdinand should not resign'al-
though exceedingly doubtful, yet recalls the
process made ready for refractory Greece
when that little kingdom persisted, at great
expense, in preparing to fight. There would
probably be no difficulty in disposing quiet-
ly of Prince Ferdinand could the surround-
ing powers only agree why they want a
vacancy and for whom they want it. In
the lack of such agreement, and of any com-
mon notion what to do next, Prince Ferdin-
and seems justified in holding his place,
even if only as the man in. possession.—
N. Y. Times.