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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-6-28, Page 6THE THREAD OF LI OR, SUNSHINE .A.ND SHADE. -FLAPPRR VII, Welts zx comas Thee same eight, as the Squire ad hire. Meyeey set by themselves towards the smell houre—efter the gide ha4 ueauimously stege.s to be—anythum you Itke—Lerd evaceseed the drewingtroom--cliscessieg ClmuceIler, or Postmaster.General, or VW minim of the universe geuerally, tee then Archbishop ot Caoterbury. for the matter aed ;here envisaged, over 4 glees of claret, of that, if your tastes heppen to. rue la that eup, the retothex toohed up at lest with a atreetioe." I enddea elanee into the tathern face Peal "Ile beset done =eh et the bar yet," mid, ha a to helf-anxioue, halt -timid : Mrs. Meysey contiaued, Plaelog her nth "Tom, did it ppen to strike yo e this dexterously before landing "Hetede done meat t Of coarse lae beset done meth ! Hew the dickens could he• . Can a insat make Miele for Mee% de you. ereppasee Hon Oven himself *up* he tenet me, up earning 3 livelihood by veritieg for the papers, fle bed to do he We a pity, upon my word, A clever 74u9 fellow lilee that—be underetentle the riperiaa proprie- Alta net felt over nis eom in love with her.' tore question down to the very geoun — 1 Mrs. hleysey welted A Minute or twe should be compellel to tura aside trent hie mere la eitent suepense before she spoke proper work at the bet to serve teblea, eo to agehe ; thee she Said epee more, very net- epeek—ro eain his naily bread by Penny a- ' '''Wnfr ' t take' Meng. If eed were to a teneyent a yoeng man him that. new --Tee Notre pansed, mid eyed the light titreuelt ble glass redeetively, " Ile% very preseateble," hIta hleyeey weal; OM re-arraaeloe7 her work, bax, and eon apeligg cleveely for dear Traten Wig netion. " INA 6 Man an wereen might be per- tly proud 64," the Svire reterted sn a oedema! veto with ilrmcouvletion. Ma. hleyeey followed atp her advaatage pereletently for twenty teuautee, iosumatiog every peeeible hine ageneet Hogh, end hod - log the Squire deeper awl duet into A itOpeleS4 elough of untrelid eel commetadetiett. At the end el Stet 'tune she said quietly ; " Thee 1 uoderstanis TOM* that it Witten frea tied this young Maaainger take a Utley te Mee another, yea den't put an abeolute veto on the idea of their getting engaged, ilyou !" E; will lo Work And to get on, Heel be 4 I Judge in time, I don't doubt. If a man Bite that were to marry our Winifred. 'wit 'a the zed vie could Ove Itiox and the Weeds we •could Sad him, he ought to dee by enick after:Aeon that that handt/ente eOtteln Etent Chelleeerte seemed OA tae emu feeey to our Wieifreat " Time Squire etirred bia taw:teem -idle with hie .etheon. ". I euppme. the White it ea oleo 'ite txmi," he tinewered bluetiy. : 44 No, van in kisel.4...v,fr4 colliel ever lock at. oar little, \\Innis, I ehoisid thick, Ei1y, tearzety "He Kettle to.erably mee you -ts, nose, I think, To-' "Ob, he's well caough, adareeay," the Sire admitted grarigtogly. " A barrister, he seers. Times a veiy god Profession," Irs. Meysey,went on, still teeling leer way by hradaal tonged. Never heard se 441 MY UN before," the Spire gemeed at, 44 Ttiere ate barrietere *ad bate ra gee no briefs. LiVee literetAtie, by whet he tells me; next eloor to Living ppm your wits, lean it." " Dor I am% it'a geotleatesee profee. Bien, enyhow, Teem the ear." the Melee a geutlemem of comae, Et comee Po that— a perfeet geetlemea; and itetaeferd Mete, 10111 a pezson et culture and all :het sort et thinga./ don'tdvey lliss'e evves7 preeettteble fellow, too, se. hia owa 'wear ; and nsoat intelligent z underataude the arau proprietore etteetian coy as auythiug....Yoe Can Peek hint tie dituter werieuever roe oh000m if that's whet yeidno *Mug et," Ma Meysey celled another hale tor a few meentre before she reopened Ore, etill more than eve Tom.clo yealetsaw I rather taney tos really liko oar Wiekifreda ' she near. mared, gaeptug. "t octurse he likea our Maltreat" the Sank' erepeated, with prefound cenvlettonto overv eon et hie coke. 441 slaseld like te know whoou certh there hetet &sera like our Wfred ! Nothiog new tu that. I could have told you time myself. (to ahead. with it, then„ --Whet next. now, Fatly'!" " Weil, 1 think, UM, g Pin not =tak- en, Wiralfred latemed rether in heIto toke a festally to bins tee, somehow." Themes Wyville hieyeey leiti dowa Ids itteredulemly on the smell eititeteble. d " explode, hut he hung fire ter a rato You women are alwoys fanoyieg "he eeid at lest, with a alight frown. hi k yoatre eft precious quick, you lucky Itnight of the bighwey ; he wee quite content to be blest, while he could, with beta at once, :teatimes no questions, for con- science' seke, of his eWo final diaposition, eaernal Pr otherwiee, tosvards one or the other, bet leaving the problemof his ma- trimonial arrangerneuts for fate, Or ehanee, to settle in its owe good feehiou. It wee j4it week after his arrive' at Whitestratel that he went up one morning early to the EfAti. E'sie and Wingreel were seated together on a rug under the big tree, engagee.ii reading ene novel between them. "You muet 'wish Winifred mane boPPY returne of the dey," EMei oelled Out gaily, looki ag up front her boolt aeIh aperottehed them. 'It's her birthday, Hugh; teed juet Me whet 4 lovely, delightful pteeeet Meyeeytt gleen her l" Wicifred held out the present at arrresi length for his adiniration. It was ah.pretty tittle watch, in gad, awl enamel, mill her initiate engrevea on the back oe a broad shield. "les jus a beauty I eheuld lave one like it myself Eleie erred eethasteeti. Did yea ever see suck a dear little thing keelese too, and so exmaisitely fitlieleea-It eeelle trialtea me feel (pito ashamed of my owe poor Old battered elver gee." Hugh took the wateltend examined it care- fully. He note4 the mekern name upon the dolt aid opening the back, made a mental memeranduin of the mutter., A. eudden beught had ileelted ACM:a him a the too, mera. fle wetted, only a few toi lutes at she fr1411. ;Ilea eskeil The Wo girls if they mend walk down into tee sellege with him - lie 'had a telegram to eend OM he said, which he had only jnet that soopeentremem- hered, Would, they mied ateppieg over with hint es tar aa the poetseffieef They etrolit4 together lute the eleepy High. Settee At the elfiee, flueetweote and seat off hie telegram, le Was AddreSeed to wellokuown tirm of watehmekere in Ludgate Hill. *t Could you send me by Pareorpow evenion'e poet, to adareea as below, aladY'o gold and veatntl wetelt, with irtitiele "E. V.frOETtrf. eagraved en Shield on heels, lout in every ether rennet precisely eimiler tO NO. f.479 jelt eappliedto Mr. Meyeey, et Whitestraud flalt If ea, telegraph 'seek web. priee •at (Klee, and elm/eels* *mount obeli he sent immediately. R -ply held, I only want Winnie to choose for her. Hugh Maasieger, Fiaermale8 Rot, et bite - atilt," the Severe answered with prompt de- strand., Suffole," ciSion. "o; that I euppose ter a moment ilefore lunehaime„ the reply had duly ar- there'a anythiug this yotteg fellow'a telk- area ; 'watch, Alan be seat an reelpt ef ins re bit te her. Men Ida dirt, an ibeoue. Price twentyeave gnixtetto. So gide will let 'ens. Getting engaged tae.gqocL It Wee 4 Um amount for a joule =deed. t Von ernAnt year elilekene before nezan eoutetelem to pay tee A preeene the egge are laid. A men can't look at a•84 Hugh shrewdly zefleeted, it would lrltowadeys, hat you womee untet take it UL two lensle with one atone. Day after lute Your Prodoua htaati at one he wants temorow was felitieda birthday. The weteh gO etnitight otlf to ehurch aud merry, her. would. eye Mitt *mare ; an Ilught to do Illetrertrt _ter aly woo 114 1V144 t°,, 1'414 him jeintee thoroughly levee ging pleas. tertere ta the matter one way ter the MUM ore ut aufWeely, opeelelly a pretty awe end the man 'ITN loves her, whenever be no berm in the Metsryss' era to itee that, ami tlm beat estate of all Suffolk." , erniug enough te Word to throw awey Mrs. 3-lentreth had eeeriell her Iteint witn twent,y-five glitnesa en a mere preeent to a honours. "Perhepe you're riglits deor." governeesecouetn. There is a time or gems - elm Seid diplonsetieally, ea who ehould yield omy, and there is 4 time for leviohneas, to samerior whdero. It Was her policy not The preeent moment clearly came under the to Appear too eager. • latter category. ra other site"d merry the man she levee, above as Melia But It could alto do bine traMS up, than unerry fifty thourtmed. pourele journeyman stoma t wit; wa.4 kerlutpe I'm right I" the Squire echoed, e tog miler people s fazes. I den t bdf in comp:money and halt In anger. "o on often eneeeed lo readiceethent reebd ourae I'm right. L know I'm right, Emily, Wby, I Was reeding in a bock the other day 4 most splendid appeal from senile prillelo. phio tenter or other About =Mug fewer tnarriages in future to please Memo., and more to suit the tato of the parties con - cornea,. and absent* the good. of comieg geminate= I think it was an article In one a the megezinee. It's the right way, Pm sure of that; and in Winileed'a oath I mean to stick to it," &thorn thet day forth, d mine preemie oftee, I kuow, n't want you to—that 1 CAlt But Sem:tit/1ov, Emily, you ad whet isn't in them. Theths h all decipberera of heirogly. see a groat deal more in go time ever Was put there. You re- member that time when 1 met old Hillier down yonder—" "Yee, yes, I remember," •Mr. Maysey admitted, aheekies him at the outset with Ira seettue come:atom She had OGIISO to te. member the fade, indeed, for the Semite reminded her of that one obeli:mu and pai. pable mistalte about the young fox.eubs at lose three times a week, the year round, on A u average, "I watt wrong that time; I know I was, of course. You weren't in the hut :Annoyed with Mr. Hillier, Bat I think—I don't say I'm sure, observe, dear —but I think Winifred's likely to take a feney to him—a strtous fiatoye-ana. he to his owe aide in sub an aggressiee materprise, ater—whet are you mad I to tio about it!'" As she spoke, Mrs. Meysoy looked hard at the lamp mid thee At her husband, won- dering with what tort et grace he would remise this very revolutionary axid. upset- ting suggestion.. Forberself—thoughtnothers are herd to please—it may as well be ad- mitted off -band, she has fallen a ready victim at once to Hugh Maseingere charms and brilliancy and blandishments. Such a •nice young man, ao handsome and gentle - •manly, so adroit in his talk, so admirable in his principles, tend though far from rich, yet, in his way, distingmsed A better young man, darling Winifred was hardly likely to meet with. But what would dear Torn think about him? the wondered. Dear Tom had allele very expansive not to say utopian ideas for Winifred—thought r °body bur a Duke or a Prince of the blood half gooa enough for her: though to be mire, Experience woulaseem to suggestthat Dukes and Princes, after all, are only human, and not originally very much better than other people. Whatever superior moralexcellenee we usually detect in the fidished product may no doubt be safely set down in ultimate analysis to the exceptional pains bestowed by society upon their ethicel education. The Squire looked into his olareacup profouedly for a few seconds before an. steering as if he expected to find it a perfect Dr. Dee's divining crystal, big with hints as to his daughter's future; and then he burst out abruptly with a grunt.; "I suppose we must leave the answering of that question entirely to Winnie. Mrs. Meysey did not dare to let her in- ternal sigh of relief escape her throat; that •would have been too compromising, and would have alarmed dear Tom. So she stilled it quietly. Then deer Tom was not wholly averse, aftet all, to this young Mn Messinger. le, too, had fallen a victim to the poet's wiles. That was well ; for Mrs, htleysey, with a mother's eye, had read Witafred's heart through and through. But we must not seem to give in too soon. A show of resistance runs in the grain with women. He's got no money," she murmured suggestively. U it waa Hugh Masetugerht intention or desire to prosecute his projeoted military operatmos against Winntfred Meysey's hand. and heart, he found at least a benevolout neutral in me old *Squire, Aud a secret, silent, but none the leas dozenth ally in Mrs, itleyeey. It is Dot often thee a peuniless traitor thus en- lists elm sympathies a the parental author- ities„ who ought by preuedent to form the eoutral portion of the defeueive forces on But with thigh Messinger, nobody ever even ing into the weighing room along with tho noticed it as a singuise exception. He 7" trainer. And to their dismay he was un- able to pull down the the scales. The old trainer took in. the situation at a glance and seed to the weighinaater "Enema ine second." Ho caught hold of the boy, kinked him total& the weighing.room and boxed his ears soundly, saying : lY ou young scoundrel, you have sold the xace; never come round the stables again." He dumped him again into the scales, the boy crying as though his heart would break. The saddle, bridle and whip was pitched on his lap, and strange to say he pulled down the scales, with a trifle to spare. The incident was re- lated. to the officials, and the race was saved by the old. trainer's presence of mind. The boy became a celebrated jockey and. °peeve the attendance of his trainer and muster for many years. There was a good deal of discussion at the time amonget med- ical men and others'as to how the boy's state of mind affected his bodily weight. The colt won by a nook. The boy nearly lost by an ounce—and the trainer snatched it by a box on the ear. (TO PK, tessimasnan.) eamomaaagrommwwwwwwww. Won by a Neek—and a BOX on the Ear. About twenty.iive yore ago a Yorkshire gentlemen emus,. a very promising two. year-old colt. 'Oa the day he WAX to make his debut am jookey eugaged was unable to ride, The old trainer picked out a promie• lug stable led who could ride the weigiat and promised him five sovereigns if he won. The saddle, bridle, whip and boy barely terneO the solo ; in feet there was not WE an ounce to Rare. It being the boy's that race in public he felt =dem and nervous. The result, however, confirmed the trainer's hood judgment The boy rode a brilliant finish and beat the favorite by a sleek, On returning to the paddock be was congratulated by the toiner and. the *weer promised. him that he ehould do his riding for the fano. The boy was elated and overjoyed at this, Catobing up bis saddle, bridle and whip, ho went smiling and laugh - NOTES ON CCIIRENT TOPICS. Trevellera who feel disposed to treat rail- way offieials must in future treat Only with cottrtesy. The peolty for giving them liquor while on duty is e fine of $.50 with im- prisonment for a month at hard labour. , The State of Intisalesippi is rejoicing be' eause sante reeidents of Dakota, driven away by the blizzerdst have gone aouth to try farming. It is said. that the fleeing femme all tell the same story—the blizzerd hoe been too much for them, Yew lente Tribune The Enetlish Gov- ernment never aoandoes its eolotasts when their commercial interests are at etalte. It pretects them, makes then' interesta its own, and devotes all the energiee and the &mese of ha diplomacy to their service, Philadelphia having saade Sad WOO in the lest of its ealeone is now employed in waging war against vke. The moral wave as is height, and under the pressure of peline opinion the police are having a busy time in raiding the haents et disorderly eheracters, Ottrietien Troed : " Toronto is a city C911- tganitK popolatiOn of 140,000„ anh eet they More neither Sunday horse cars nor a eingle Sundt.), newspaFer, and. it is reported that in spite of the prophecies of ill, the city ie prosperiug ots never it prospered before, nee hope unto of that kind of levee will be im- ported into she Sates, Hoehelaga, now called hlaisonneuve, will iqt stiffer from too emelt commerce if the Legislate -Me of Quebec grans it the power for wineli it IS avkime r•The town elks for antherity to ompel every num, of wbelever Wade) or pretender) be may he, to take eat a licettee, payiug not more tbau $100 ter it, before he can open. a ehep at heog out hie slit* within the mueleipality, Duffel°, being a molt more populous eity than Toronto, has ouffered to A greater de, gree from the evile of grade railway Greg, Inge. It le ateted that at least lito day is lost on these ereeeings. and it is. AO Wen. der that the peeple of Buffett) have, during the paet twelve menthe peredeteutly and vieorouoly agitated for 'the removal of so great en evil, so clever, ee hentlsome, so full of proms°, so courteous and courtly io. his demeanour to young and old, so reoh in future hopes and ambitions, that not the Squire alone, but everybody else who came in conto.ot with hie easy amile, aoceptee him before- hand as almost already a Lord Chancellor, or a Poet Laureate, or an Arelibiahop of Canterbury, according as he might choose to divot his talents into this channel or that; and failed to be surprised that the Mereys or anybody else on earth should accept hien with caution as a favoured postulant for the bend of their only &ugh - ter and heiress. There are a few such un- iversel favorites here and teen in the world: whenever you meet one, smile with the rest, but remember that Ms recipe is a simple one—liumbug. Bugh stopped. for two months or more at Whitestrand, and during all that time kb saw Inuch both of Elsie and of Winifred. The lieyseys introduced him with cordial pleasure to all the melancholy gaieties of the sleepy little peninsula. He duly attended with them the toemolent garden -parties on she smooth lawns of neighboring Squires : the monotonous picnics up the tidal atream of the meandering Char: the heavy dinners at every local. rector's and Vicar's and resit dent beronet's ; with all the other dead - alive entertainments of the dullest and. most stick -in -the mud corner of all England. The London poet enliven- ed them all, however, with his never -fail- ing flow of languid humor, and his slow, drawled -out readiness of Pall Mall repartee. It was a oomfort to him, indeed, to get among these unspoiled. and unsophisticated children of nature; he could palm off upon them as original the last good thing of that fellow Hatherley's from the smoking -room of tee Cheyne Roe Club, or fire back upon them, undetected. dim reminiscences of pungent chaff overneard in brilliant West - end drawing -rooms. And then, there were Elsie and iWinifred to amuse him ; and Hugh, Mendel's, easy-going epicurean phil- osopher that he was took no trouble to de- cide m his own rabid even what might be his ultimate intentions 'towards either fair lady, satiefied only, as he phrased it to his inner selfetto take the goods the gods pro. Tided him for the passing moment, and to keep them both well in hand together. " How happy could I he with either, ' sings Captain Macheath in the oft quoted coup- let, "were Vother dear charmer away." Hugh took it Still more lenient view of his personal responsibilities than the happy -go. Londen le not to have a fro library., the electors having voted by a large matetity tegainet it It is eatisfectory tto hewn that the oppositient to the enterprtse was Weed olely upon the conditieee attaching to It. The Library Eeerd withed the city to hey a lee of old Woke and to take posseulon of an uesuitable bvtIding, and. to Oh the people were advised not to ermeente new thing to the way of intheldies ia proposed in Quebec. On the plea diet in st cold country like this some kinelof etimulaut is neeessaty, stud On the *gumption that if people drtek good Canadian whet drum/tau- nted Will be decreased, a wine,malting firm Le fighting for a, bone from the provitteee. Of cents* if we hems railway companiee and menufeetureres why not wine produe ere Southera prejudices against the Negro one are evidently heiug eoftened by time. The leteat evidence of this feet in fouud itt the Appointment of fifteen Negroes to poi - thus on tbe police force of mew Orleems. The city council for three weeke refused to condrre the uweinatious of the colored men, but fluidly they gave way to the pressure of public; opinion. Disasters aro not alwaye without redeems !nu features. The Ileptiet church In Char. lattetown, P. E. I., was burned down and it is related that 4' the Beaten Cetholics were among the first to offer their aftlieted fellow -citizens the tote of their hall in which. to bold their aervices, and are not at all backward about tendering donations of money to the building fund." Hero la a ease in which trouble has produced sympathy, toleration and friendship. • 'few Long, If on my grave the summer grass were grow, mg, Or heedless winter winds across it blowing, Through joyous June or deeolate December, leow long, sweetheart, how long would you remember -- How long, clear leve, how long? hear brighteat eyes would open to the emu - mer, And sweetest audio would greet the sweet new- comer, And on young lips grow histee for the tak. ine, When all the eummer buds to bloom are breaking— How long, dear love, how leng To the dim land. where sad -eyed shoats walk only, Where lips are ca5, and waiting heazta are lonely, I would not call yen from your youth's warm blissee. Fill up your ease and prawn it with WM Row long, long, dear love, hew leng't Too gay, ie June, yon might be to regret me, And living lips might wee yon to forget me; But ah, sweetheart, I think you vniald re- member When wieds were wow le your life's De- e ereeteree So loag, dear !eve, leeg, The Squire dared up. "Money !" he cried, with inenite contempt, " money ! money! Who the dickens says anything to me about money? 1 believe that's all on earth you venien think about—lionev indeed I Much I care about money, Emily. I daresay the young fellow hasn't got • money. "What then? Who cares for that? He's got money's worth. He's got brains; he's got principles; he's got the The War Scare. Ltosnow, June 11.—The fading hopes ot the warmongers now centre in Turkey as a Last resort. Russia has, like a polite tailor, sent a note stating that she has been very patient, that she is pressed for money her- self, and that Turkey has not kept her pro- mise. She is earnestly requested, therefore, to send forthwith L700,000 Turkish, repre. outing two delinquent annual instahnents of the thirty-two million war idemnity agreed upon by the treaty of 1879. The Sultan not only has no money, but has a Finance Minister who just now is accused by the Vienna correspondents of ataassing £300,000 by methods which would affront the sensitive feelings of a pawn broker. If Russia is ruthless in her demand she will proceed to scissor off a slice of Turkey's territory. England agreed at the Cyprus convention to protect Turkey's Asian fron- tier, and she must do it. Mereover, English diploznatio circles are not it little ill at ease over Russian railway building, and if there is to be trouble they would prefer to have M come this year. With a Unionist majority in Parliament and the railway tbrougn the Caucasus yet ine complete, making the Black Sea Milne cont- inental and strategic necessity, is perhaps one roes= why Lord, Knutsford is laboring so hard to fix up the trouble concerning it Chinese invasion of Australia and it British invasion of Thibet. Siberia. aving. completed her great Southern • retlwasi to Saniereend, Enetile is new tern - tog he.r attention to the ilarth. Siberia is MINA 'VA be opened up to trade and civilize - tion. We tweed). of VA bad from, childhood. ituleffeito geneeptielle et thie meet imel 44 4 dreary, inhospitable regiou, land eg terri. We trent, fethemlees enowe„ and intermissabie wastes. All theee features have existed. in n Minds but as the hecitground for dark rtta of the .mititriee =tiered by-wreteleed exiles, deemed by a Mid elopetiem to all the horrors of A Jiving death in A region of absolute, despair. In the me_it Of thci .11pttpr kuowledge new afferded by mash writers as Mr. Keenan, who is deeerthiog the country in the Ceneury slf.neasine. we find. the truth of aome of *hope mut re4 fully ounfirmeti, but we hen at the same time revelations of a very differeet chereeter. Siberie is now heowe to be A Country of wet, though prat:acidly undeveloped, rottenest, having unmenee treete of fertile land* eetpezia of ins- preeelve and often beautiful sceuery, elide itt eenle parte, ef already adveneedelvIlizetioro The opeuiag up of tide vast dorman, a con- tieent in iteelt, will be an event In the hies tory of European civilization. OE 4ouroe with the sultry of the railroad the system of political exile must Canle to an end. The tiovernment is already taking eteps fee its abolition. The Administrative Conn. ell or the Penitentiary. Department has meetly reputed us favor of abolition of traneptrietion to Siberie es jadiciel puulehmear, awl in ellprot behility the system 1* doomed. As the pritonera will henceforth be shut up in dune oeone at home,. indeed of being *out into Siberian exile, le deo not appeer that they, or the MUM of humanity, wet be immediate gainers by the change, But the spirit et ohmage and of entanetpation emnifeatly at work, and will not emote till the whole land has come uuder its influeuee. When polltis est exile hat; died, politicel imprisoument *aunot loos survive, Spenteueous combustion having brought to ruin severel buildings in the nelehbour- hood of Frederioton, N. Be, the populace has arrived at the condemn that the spirits of departed enemies are at the bottom of thodieusters. 'Unfortunately punishment for arson does not lie in those cues, nor were ouch punishment possible would the Insurance comptines prosecute, for it hare pone in every instanoe thee an uninaured building has been burned. Tho aeries of calamities certainly forms an argutnent in fevour of insurance. Though thoroughbred ottle may be im- ported free of duty into the United States - the American Customs authorities have levied duties upon animals sent there by Canadians for sale at auction. Through the intervention of Sir Charles Tupper cattle of this kind, whether already sold or consigned to be sold at auction, may nowpass the fron- tier without paying toll. Sir Charles de- serves credit for *apart he took in securing the removal of the tax. The Planet Nam There Is, to say the least, nothing inher- ently improbable in the suppoitlen thee other members of the plauetery syetent of which our terth forms a Unit, may he, like it,. abodes of intelligens litet end theatres of Elena° and industrial actreity. Nor will those who have kept track 01 the growth of the science of astrolsonly, and eapecially of the development of the marvellous powers of the tole:mope,he -wholly inoreduloua as to the possibility of aStron0Merti bee001, ing one cloy able to discover unmiste able indicationof the presence an operations of such intelligent agents in the planate neareet us. Tine, a Enropeau astronomer, M. Pertain, by mune, even now claims to have dorm in the case of the planet Mere nose who are familiar with the maps of this planet as outlined by the star explorer, showing the artifact: dividel iuto long, narrow bands, presumably alter- nate strips of atm and land, will at one realize that, as an English contemporary puts it, "a few great Inter -oceanic canals would be of itnmentse benefit to commerce " and so it great convenience to the • men:hams and travellers of Mara. .Ac- cording to Mr. Perrotin, straight trans- verse linea have of late began to make their appearance, intersecting these parallel bands. Them lines the astronomer, with scientific instinct, at once recognizes as canals in process ef construction. It eeens not a little carious!, assuming that the sister planet has, like our own, been through . long mono the abode of intelligent beings of some order capable of wielding pick and shovel, or whatever may do duty for those implements in another sphere, should have commenced these engineering feats in the same generation—if they count by generations there—as ourselves. Can it be that the Mars folk are interested observers of what takes place on earth, end have taken a hint from the operations of M. de Lesseps in Suez and Panama? Seriously, however, we may be wise to hold our aceptism in check, and await with interest the observa- tions of other astronomers, who will no doubt beleager to follow up and teat the clue given by M. Perrotin. It has alwa,yo been it source of wonder to Canadians that mob law is so constantiy re- sorted to in the United States. It appears in comprehensible to us that in a country where there are regularly organized count of justice so many lynching outragesshould occur, and that no serious attempt ehould ever be made to punish the perpetrators. It does not re- quire any great capacity for moral reasoning to come to the conclusion that a number of men who, taking for granted the guilt of a person !inspected of crime, proceed to con- stitute themselves jury, judges and execu- tioners are themselves guilty of murder. The boating season has been opened in earnest, and with it have come the dangers which beset pleasure -seekers on the water. Last year several calamities occurred, bring- ing sorrow into formerly happy family circles, and it is only truth to say that some of these resulted frona ieexperience in the apparently easily acquired. arts of sailing and rowing. The trouble in past years, and it may be repeated this year, has been that people who do not know how to manage a boat are too ready to trust their lives to one. The United States fishery experts have made one attempt to transplant the lobster from the Atlantic to the Pacific, coast, but they have failed owing to the circumstance that the crustacean haa not been able to stand the long overland journey. A second attempt is to be made, and the Canadian Government is about to make an experiment in the same direction with it view to giving the British Columbiana fresh instead of canned lobsters. It is rather strange that the neuter, so popular in the Eau, is not to be found in the Pacific; lout probably the explamation is to be found inthe eir- cumstence that lobsters had contracted the absurd habit of walking backwards. The giant of all guns is in process of con- struction. Krupp's works are making a 139. ton gun for the Italian ironclad Sardegna. It will be 52i feet long, with a bore of 15.7 inches. It will fire a steel shell of 1,630 pounds with an initial veloeity of 2,314 pounds at 2,099 feet per second. 'Weal] Louis Stevenson,theteuthor, is de- saribed by it fellow traveler, who journeyed in the same car with him to New York as follows : "He has it long, narrow face, and wears his long brown hair parted in the mid- dle and combed back. His black velvet coat and vest showed plainly, and over his legs he wore a plack and white checked shawl. His Byronic collar was soft and untidy, and his shirt was unlaundered, but his clothes Nv.re scrupulously clean. On the long, thin white fingers of Me left hand he wore two rime, and he kept these fingers busy, con. Iit artly pulling his drooping blonde mous- tache. '