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A STRANGE LEGACY.
CHATER IL avowal of love for -Este. He would nob ad-
mits oven to himeelf thet 41101 a thing Weighed
When Kate mine down -stake she found e tap& grain ha hie. disfavour ; hut it le
Mr. Dottlesen in frame et mind very die
,orour froca that ic which he hate erne the doubtful whether he would 'awe Olitniseed
the subject from hie thoughte with & gen-
earliee pert el the 'atm -neon; the atorm had tOnlptt101111 4411141044VA," hAd MS poet held
saibeidect in c:oudy gloom. Papa had evi- the ground he had gained by treasuringthat
photograph as it deserved. The goad im-
premiere hie would-be son -in -1w had made
upon him had been more than oblitereted by
the unlucky forgetfulness which had wound.
ed Mr. Dottleson on his tendereet point—hie
vaulty. He recollected with annoyance thet
he had given this presumptuous suitor per-
miesion to come to the house When he
pleased, and bad time pieced himself in
a eomewhat delicate position. Had it
been any one eke, he would ',eve bad
no hesitetion be informing him at once
that be had eonsidered his proposal
and found it imeoesible to give ide remake,
and, if neeessexy, directed him to 4ease
visiting at bie house. But, in hie own in-
terests, be could not deal ao eummerily with
Dr. Lekeworth. Mrs. Leanehed's feeliegs,
proposition the nuextent ib was made. or, to be strictly accurate, Mrs. Lamalieche
44 Your idea is a very good one. It woaldiee money, had to be taken into accounts. To
do to offend your graudeaother ; ela, Kato! eiete, the 400r 04 .014 iace of "her doctor,.
"D" It'skewsstil is a WaalPaaa of ha"' as she called bin% might FM an end to his
you know, papa. Net te regular cam of love intercouree with Este ; but the mop would
me 'twenty (togs" certainly bring about the fulfillment of te
"Then twice time the dog comae to see "cediell." wad that was a contingency which
ber, we'll ask hire to stay to dinner with must never be permitted to arise. It was
ttSp" he replied more goodbutuotteedly, nes eoneelstion to IltiT. Dottleeen to discover
"Ile is to call on Tuesday afternanl," that hie agt1414 ill aeltiog bia bete Ileire to
PM KUM, Whe SAW the chance et tieing 4 dinner had effeet•ed ite objeot in eencillating
Ilttle istroke of imenieee ou her own *9440. his snothoteinaor. Izst.rtIctoasiy whsa ilo
"Ven well' ril be bem 4'334 invtte bun Weed timt she regarded it as &fennel insta1.
myshdf.'lettee of her fevortte as4 prospective tine -
When Mr. D ittlesee announced hie intese men. She now looked upon gr. lakeworthie
time et eakieg personally for the plemare et ingozernsas to Kato 411 4 owed owe,
any oue'ecemettey at dinuer, 14 signided that which the couree of time would bring to &
be intended special Itorente to the !wowed wisioctcry. conclusion ; and sc ,isnrraly am
gueee ; it went aeainet the grain to veeter elm express her eppronel of the =itch. thet
slls4 distiusasn 11PQn Dr' l'4'"Yerth' buil Ur DAtleeen felt roluotautly compelled to
eircumetaaces ineae it Advisable. be "Met es to the viewe he held ca the ob.
ee. casgiles:etbmeanbene'seccifteelonthTne Cos4tYosh71:11t4beacb°1111; iciest. If he declared hie intention of oppene
might melee tura of meeting the dootor, and
sectuelly took upon blemelf to instruct the
butlee about the wine, A thin be had never
been known to do duce the memoreble occa.
seen epee% width the exprivate secretary of
an ex viceroy of Wm cable to dies) with
him.
The enter tahuneat Wasteenceella from every
0110.4 point Of view. Ur. DA -slope wee in high
spirits theday ; and as Dr lalowortle wee
fully *live to the iropertenee of ingraeleting
ifiruelf with itie hoer he applied binseelf to
the tisk with greet sUothluity. 31e 'limited
to him with /etch deference, end, neared hie I tt, base% and there was otoo ouzo° of
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hastily expressed opinions with ugh respect. their *groans oil to mules ukowortles
fed attention, that e.tr Dattlesonle overween- „allocations,.
In va,..r4=Y was gLat.,1614* andhe reraele Mr. Dettleeen conlidered the cue in all
Woo" or the au432"4," 44 had 44(ute "46 ite bearing% and made up hie mine that for
z' "Ile sleeZ"th very genaevnt441Y* WeU" the present his sefeet piety would be one
mennered yeeng fellow.' lie mewed an they of complete neutrality, while he webbed
wept up-staire. 44Perbepe, 1 hue reelly for a cnitable Opportunity to job in the game
bee! m4tteteen Le..kblete 7.4 ri‘lhu TV:1 J. ii„ , .W:2,1 Pa it Weise% He bad been e little at a loss to
'mat's" T'R.•"' w".4 "'"'"'''''''''''' "**"" . * knowbove he bed best receive the epplieetion
will give Dr Laketvorth my photograph.' Dr, takkoworth was aura to make for the
The fortunate being to weem fror friend pictorial mark of esteem which he had
Presented bis PhusSgssPil was exPeetea by waisted so neglectfully, and was almoat re -
the original to beer bimeelf thenceforth as ileved when e week passed and be heed
Incense cue who had been distinguithed nothiag shout It. The youog men had
above Isle fellovemen by eteexceptional math celled the day after be dined at Blekewood
of Mr Dettloon'e approbation. &mere to tecover possetalea of the photo -
"1 bee a new pboto. tekens. week or two graph; but learnt with dismey that no one
ago, doctor," he said blauely, Interrupting bed, seen it. He WAS 4 maim:, itnasiniming
the guests conversation with his daughter. t„Areideel iikeeett, ono, ,whilst „Ilxi awaro
"If you will came over here, I will allow It --
thet his neglect could hardly he gratifying
to YOU. to Mr Dottleson, he did not anticipate that
"If pap, givea you one, speak to him to- it would Ova such grave demo as Eete
night," whispered Kate hurriedly, eeizing appeared to think WEIS inevitable.
the opportuulty with the promptuees of true "Papa will never forgive you for that,"
generalship.' abe sald. "But perhape he doeineb know
Charles Lelteworth give A nod of Intel'!" yen lefo it here. lie would have been sure
gene% and followed his host to the end of to mention it, and be hasn't said rs word to
the room, where he was detained for fifteen tie n
minutest criticising Me. DettIesonse unieter- Consultation with Ur* Larashed de -
eating person as delineeted in twine different metalled them to leb the manor drop; and
attitudes more or Mae conetraitted. Mr. Dattlesen was thus allowed to suppose
"I shell be very happy if you care to that his geed had utterly forgotten the
aelect one," he state patronizingly to the dietinction he had received. It was a trifle
victim wnen the ordeal was over. in itself, but it game Kate's tether the teen
Dr. Lekoworth'e gratitude was sincere, in ing that hie authorlty was being left on
viewed the opening whioh the presentation one side and himself ignored. Awes danger.
Indicated as before him. PM took plebes to ous for any one who desired Mr. Dettleson's
direct the inert flittering portrait, And finally friendship to temper with his eelf-love.
won Mr Dottleaouts heart by begging him to
inaorthe his autograph upon it. His request
eves( so graciously complied with, that
almosb boors the ink had time to dry he
had discicsed biz halting tale of love. It
was listened to gravely but not unkindly.
Mr Dettlmon d blindness Was being lifted
from him ; thie young dootor was in love
with his daughter, and frankly admitted
that he regarded ilre lamehea's calls for
big services only as a means of his
communication with Kate, Mr Dettleson
could hardly believe it; but be recalled his
zaother-ineaw's remark, and felt suddenly
reassured regarding the object of the young
doctor's attention to her. No doubt; he
might have !some other end in view; buteit
seemed clear that Kate was the primary
attraction. So relieved was she at the dis-
covery, that for the moment he lost eight of
the fact -thee the suitor wa I a straggling
professional man, who had in all probability
never owned a buds account, and he did not
give the point-blank refuted he would have
done at any other time. He hesitated, and
took refuge in a promise to consider the
matter. Kate was young, and he believed
Dr Lskeworth was also young. He could
give no definite answer now; he must think
it over ; meantime, he should be glad to see
him whenever he oared to look in, though he
must not regard the invitation as in anyway
forealsadowing consent.
dently soreethieg on hie mind, and. she
busied herself to rouse Mee.
"Shall we go out after teas paha r abo
Oegant.144 Grandmotizerhs asleep an tite rain
hers Mopped. '
"Pm afraid 1 have annoyed your grand-
mother, Kate," replied Mr. Dottleson
liornewfully ; " hue really ieb bound to
%%wait to her aa I did to your Bette,"
"She was rather hurt at wlaet you said ;
but you eau easily make that ell eight.'
" Cde, you mIght est»r Isskeworth to
dinners and make a good deal of him
before granny; ehewould soon forget any-
thing you said to day."
lel think about it," mid her father,
who. _use decided Meet open his daughterM
leg the yentig poop -1(4140m% bisreetheren.
low would join home with them againee him;
and although she held very decided op/a-
fore On the duty of a child to a parent, the
tact was by no ineens &euffielent guarantee
to matiefy Mr Dettleson that/ the would
no anbatitute Xste'e name for hie own in
her will, and time render her independent
of him. That would undoubtedly ha pre-
fereble to the realisation of hia previeue
bat -a; but it wm an Alternative he did not
relish. Kowalski treat his only daughter
liberally if she married with his approval;
he was more ambitious for her than the was
It was not long before he aaw a ohanoe of
malting the first move towards ousting Dr.
Lskewortht and he didnoil fail to take ad.
vantage of it. Almost for the first time in
her life, Mrs. Lemehed was attacked by a
violent cold, which settled upon her cheab
and defied all efforts to dislodge it. Chula
Lekeworth came in every day, and no doubt
did his best for her, but, as doctors frequent-
ly find, he had to contend with the patient
as well as the malady.
"1 never hove been ill," said the obstinate
au lady irrationally, "and I'm nob going
to begin at my time of life.—No; I won't go
to bed, Lekeworth. This drawing -zoom is
warmer than my room, an d going to stay
here."
So Mra. Lambed remained in the
drawing -room shivering and coughing whilst
Kate and her maid added their entreaties te
those of the doctor; but they made no
impression upon hoe; and at last Mr. Dot-
Deson was appealed to, to use his influence.
When he understood the condition of af-
fairs'he looked grave, and going down-
stairs, shut himself up in the library, where
he worked out his project before the mirror
to his own eatiefaction. "Now'it's your
obvious duty," said he to himself, to put
Mrs. Lemshed's case In the hands of some
one you can trust. You can'b honestly say
you trusts young Lekeworth, for she won't
obey him; so you must summon a medico.'
It was not much for the mese sangtdne •man in whom you have perfeot reliance.
lover to build upon; but Charles Lakeworth, Now, Dottleson, it won'ai do to send round
who bad never dared hope for anything but the corner for r enkwiss or Musper ; you
a poeitive refusal, was more than content must study the old lady's peculiarities and
with the answen trade upon them. If she's got a weakness
Alas, poor human nature 1 A slight lapse it's the Peerage ; and if you mean to under -
of memory hopelessly wrecked all the good mine young Lakeworth's position, you muse
work of rhe evening. Charles was so nom- shut your eyes to the expense" (Mr. Dottie-
pletely absorbed in Kate Dottlesonet society son gulped down his feelings at this point),
that he quite forgot everythingelm and "and get some swell physician. Sir Alfred
when he bad the family good.might, on the Biodget he your men; he has his finger on the
best of terms with everybody and his host pubes of half the nobility; and if he will
in pertioular, he left; that gentleman's photo- come here and talk to her about his Mudd -
graph behind on the sofa, where he had ous patients and compare her case with
spent the greater pare of the time after their's she will take kindly to him. .And
dinner. There it lay unnoticed until Me, once I get young Lakeworth away from her
Dottleson'll casting a look round the room bedside. I'make short work of his phil-
before he turned out the gas for the night, &miming with Kate"
discovered the neglected honor stioking Thus Mr. Dottleson reaeoned and racily -
ignominiously between the cushions. He ed. It wee a costly experiment ; but the
raised his eyebrows hi veritable astoniele danger ol letting Mrs. Lamshed think he
mutt as he picked Li np. That molt a gift wanted to get rld of Dr. Lakeworth mud
from himself should be forgotten thus was be avoided,,if possible. She could not bub be
almost incomprehensible ; but surpriee soon flattered by it visit from such a man as Sir
gave place to indignation, which he strove Alfred Blodget, and her son-in-law was right
unsuccessfully to smotherin believing that her weakness for the
"He didn't want it," he said to himself, Peerage would predispose her to receive him
throwing the picture into a dish; "bat he favourably. • '
might at least have had the grace to take It "The bill will be something awful,"
away with him, after asking me to write my sighed Mr. Dottleson as he closed his letter
name upon it. 1 shall be very careful to to the great man; "but I look uponit as
whom I give my photograph again; that's it premium of insurance for the preservation
of her mean her life," he 'hastily
Mr. Dottleson was not the man to forget amended.
the slight he had received at Charles Lake- Mrs. Lamsheci frowned darkly when he
worth's hands; and the incident narrated told her what he had done; woad it required
above was no small factor in helping him to all his powers of diplomacy to avert a storm.
come to the deaden he did when, next "I don't want to see another doctor,
morning, he remembered the young mane Montague," she paid pettishly. "I've told
you antes without number thee Lakeworth
le good enough f or ene.."
deat readete, don't mean to imperee
Dr. Leleeworthnt professional abihzea, in
prod of this, 3. heve hot sent for an ordi
na.cy potiotiouer.'
he, jen,theni"
1$1V17 g$1144Y /1" been 00 Pet" 4tuitl0
the • past tete days, that I am going to ask
you m allow S'..r Alfred Bledget to see you
where he calla ; just to relieve my fleece
Mrs. leenshed'a writskled coueeentinee
grew calmer at the name of the new doctor,
and the sagacious Dettleson followed up his
advantege att once.
"Ile will be in thestorrow. I have no
doubt that Lo will bake your QUA on his way
from Marlborough Rouse, where I under-
stand he is now his daily attendenee."
The Thiess conjured by thia *dole re-
mark had an immediate effect upon Mrs.
'smelled. She Bored lightly to the medal
altitude of Sir Alfred's eugust dienteIN and
expressed it hope that there was nothing in,
Notions at Marlborough House.
"Nothing at all—nothing et all," respond-
ed Mr. Dottleeou easily, "The --ah, the
PrinCees has been waned to her room with
a severe cough or somettIng ; I observed it
in the Post Wits morning,'
Lemehed lay beck upon the ofe
enehions, and the rehosb of it ensile flitted
acrom her bee. There wee something very
soothing in the theughb that the saute !lector
was to presesibe Ler the memo malady both
her the rebuses and herself. A little fellew.
bells% with 'Royalty made the old lady
woderotte kind, mid Mr... Dettleon sew that
his pint was pined, at did not maize any
ettempe to further his phew jut, now.
"Siewly stud purely, Monewe, my boy,"
be flab preeeetly to himself all he went) dome
stein. You've got ise the thin eeel of the
wedge, and you MUnt drive le home putty,
now you hey° made such it capital hyena-
I'erhape, if !.l% Dottloon conld hue
heard Willft paned 1,41Ween his mother in -
and daughter, Ave mints* otter he had
left them, he would not have looked quite
so complacently on his beginning.
"Ites eteelly very kiwi awl thoughful el
your father, Kate," paid Mrs. Lambed.
"Such a spleudid opportunity as 10 will he
for Charley I"
"Yes, granny. Why, If IP becomes
known that he has been us consultation with
pee of the flout Physielane, hi. fortene will
he suede; he will be sent for by everybody
alter that." Kate was tether supine, but
then ehe Wail In love, and that quite an -
counted for it.
It la ismelty necessary to stay that Mr.
Dottlieson bad not beeh leflumced bet ewe
desire to give Dr. Itekewottls mush an au.
*plaque opening; the view his mothee-in.
lew took with Roe had never presented it -
oil to him, or the thirty...wine^ vide he
had requested Sir .Alfred Blodget to pay
would have seeraeX all extravagance wore*
than unnecessary. In flume it was dawning
epees him that he had beeked a ash which
might prove untnavageable and be more
costly than he sulettleted on. Support Um.
Lambed =We the boonvenieut discovery
that tbis new attendant understood her con-
stitution, and. encouraged regular visile itt
the rate of, say, teu ranee* for each She
would pay for ell auletequent etteutioa, its it
matter of emerge; hue the expellee would
Indirectly fall upon bias. However, it Wee
no me being frightened by abedaws, and ho
consoled himself with the thought that be
had taken the Arse atop towards ridding the
bean of Cnarlea Lekewortb, happily ob-
livious of the scheme* 'which the ladies were
pleunlug up -stairs. ee.
Sir Alfred Blodgett, who had opoe teen
aptly deteribed be en halides:Is page be his
zoistresa as "e. :More thick poen with it
arrears hoed," came to see Mrs. Lenashed
the next they;and Commenced his reign by
sandine his pistlent to bed, with bejunations
to remain there untiabe lulled at noon the
day afterward* -The old lady aulamitted
meekly ; and her first, sot, when the deckles
directions had been complied with, Was to
diotate it letter to Charles Lekeworth en-
joining hien to be premeds to -morrow that
be might meet the groat man " in ocsnaulta-
tion."- Unfortunately, the smolt who wits
entrusted -with the note met Mr. Dottleson
jnab outside the hell door, and had to dia.
close to him the nature of her enema.
"Were you told to take Me by hand,
instead of Igniting it in the ordinary way,"
be asked as he took the letter and glanced
at the address.
"Yes, sir. Mrs. Leafleted ,pertionlarly
amid I was to take it myself," replied the
maid.
44 MTA, Lamshed said so e"
"Yes. sir. Miss Dottleson wrote it for
her."
"You may 'tell your miststass that 1
undertook to leave the note at Dr, lake -
worth s."
The woman surrendered the 'sister, and
returned to the house.
(TO BE 00tal2MED.)
How an .Engineer Was Seared.
The Sb. Joseph (Mo.) "News" says:
"One of the worst scares I ever had in my
life was when I was running on the P. It R.
road," /laid an engineer at the 'Union depot,
as it gang of enginetnen were seated on the
trucker; waiting for 'their turn to pull out.
" Ithappened in this way: It was my second
or third trip, I do not remember which now,
and I had the throttle wide open and work-
ing her in the lastnotch. I was pulling it
mixed train, and among other things was a
car -load of coal -oil in barrels. At that time
we had no tank -cars, and the oil was not of
as high test as at ,present. It was between
9 and 10 o'olook in the evening and as dark
as it stacks of black oats with their eyes
punched out. It was it pleasant evening,
just cool enough to be enjoyable. I was
leaning oat of my cab window smoking my
pipe and keeping it bright lookout ahead.
The old engine was pounding along smooth-
ly, as though she enjoyed the run, and I fell
to thinking of Molly and the little ones at
home. Saddenly we swung around a ourve
on it side hill and a head -light flashed in
my face, I did not wait for a second look.
I pelisse the whistle and the old machine
fairly shrieked. I 'plugged' my engine, for
we had no air -brakes then and I went off,
shouting to my fireman ass 3. did so. I land-
ed in a patch of blackberry bushes, and
have a dim recollection of seeing the oar
loaded with oil whiz past me. I could hear
the whiz of the driver. in the back motion
and the rattle of the breaks as the boys
swung on them' for demi' life. I shut my
eyes and listened for the crash, but itrdid
not come. I --looked up, and the way oar
stopped opposite me, while the pamengers
were poking their heads out of the windows
of the coach behind it, asking 'What's the
matter V I =ambled up the fill and tan to
the head of the train, and there I found
that the head -light I had seen was on it lawn
where a summer -night; festival was in prog-
ress. There were several head -lights there,
but this was placed in such a manner that
the light shone hill on the track, and looked
exactly like an approaching ergine AS we
swung around the curve. It was many a
long daybefore I heard the lest of 'plugg-
ing' iny engine to avoid it collision with it
lawn party."
COPIOS OF 'TIE BOUR.
"Torontots tesenimity and enterprise melee
her annual exhibition & greet outmost. It
is that for which Toronto is now preparing.
The busy hustling appearaeoe of the Queen
City suggeste greatly increased growth, and
prosperity, which muet be pleasenb to all
Cenadians. Oae feature noticeable bove
all others its pride of city.— ( Maltreat Wit.
nest.
alsat there 14 greet want a/none-Many ot
the tesoples of the Soetlen then owe he little
doubt, but reports of famine in cities like
ICharMuln are impeobable. Saab ciao live
at the pest of the COmmunititm *mg tils
river, and lentil the peoples on the Nile as
far eouth as Yawls can resell easily are
completely stripped, there wit be rip/Amite
ha Kharteate. Xeker is it village on the
Bed Sea lateral and Kmula lo a town
sheeted not beside the river, but be the hilly
dust -riot seeoue half way howeee Khartoum
and the Red Sea, The fighting men of the
Deeviell force defeated below Wesly Kolbe
were reported by General Grenfeil as well
nourished.
The wrecking of treble has Incense a daily
incident of the (meeting system of American
railway management, awl no frequent are
thine so-called aceidente tituethey neve cam -
ed to be interesting. The corenerei jury
never Wile boweVer, to discover that there
is no person to Memo, and strange to say the
corm:tees jury may not he altogether wrong.
The American syatem of raft* y °metre etion
arid sueagement iu WSW peseing throngh it
etage of teaneitiote Au attempt 14 being
made to rem many and tater trailll over eheap
elegies treek reads. withal:0 it bleak spasm,
and without that constant inspection el
took* which Europe's railways fled ;moo.
eery, and the result is woke without num-
ber. for which individattle are really net re-
aponsible.
The change in the tease of the German
efficiel prow toward Reeleed le very re-
merloble, rrinee Bier:garish; "reptiles" heve
boa completely churned by POMO measo.
and Gertany soma Inelined to really evele
the aureole° spirit of her oolenIzere. Whiell
was direeted lergely agaluet Great Britahe
All the Beglith paper. remark upon the ex-
traordinary pleaaant and kindly mentions of
the Emperor. Die eir et filial deference to
the .ceeeen, Me lawny bauter with hie
coleuses!, the priattes and priucesews of Wales,
and his dirspley of his appeolatioe 4i kindly
attention; from the people axe commuted
upon ass
so diffetreeb from what Boglith
people generally expected. Beglend and
Germany 4401 be Mends, but alter
all Great Britain's future le bound ap with
thee of the United Sates and Canada,
traiIa and South Attlee and mei with ;het
of may of the contioental powers of Barope,
If Wince Albert Victor rell la love with a
good Anearivan girl and were Allowed to
merry her It would be the beet aline* pole
Able ao As *Meucci of making Oan be
concerned in alibiing -a of their rulers.
The creeks aro still et it. One man par-
pues junipleg over Nlagare Fall' and
another purpoes going over them in it tar -
rel. Thee, may both too their lives in dm
attempt, but AS they are offered money for
the risk they look upon its as it purely bal.
Aelta Ventura. Ide only it little short of
aulolde, and against attempts at suicide,
society has made lews. Nino* hes been
the own of sulaIdets and daring feats with-
out cumber. Sentiment:it people who tiro of
lifefindthelr way thereand throw themealves
over tbe falls or into the swift remoras Oeuvre
Running water has it strange fascination
for most peopleiand of tbe tbousands who
go to see the falls there aro probebly few
through whoa mind the thought has
failed to pus how mew it would be to end
all the worry and weariness of life by simply
taking it step or two. The sight of the falls
and the 'unary round about is among the
graudret b the world and it is s. pity that
it place of snob world wide ()abbacy should
he marred by the elily freaks of qecer people
teying bo do {peer *Inge Suppose OM
0710 01 tho number really euemoded in going
over the falls 111 it barrel it dozen pmt.s,
what earthly good would it do 1
The Gooderham distillery inToronto width
is to be taken over by the Ettglishayndiasto
tst it prloo of sixmillIon dollars, is one of the
mast extensive dietillarles in the world. The
excise duties it pays to the Government in a
year would be it fortune to an ordinary per-
son. The 'buying np of breweries and distill-
eries on this side of the Atlantic has been go'.
ing on for seine time pest, and there seems
to be no telling where io will end. An im-
mense combination such an is evidently con-
templated would be a embus thing tor
others in the same line of business, as snoh
it combination would force the prices down
with the determination to deatroy competi-
tion and then force them up with the
object of putting large terofits in the cof-
ere . of the syndicate. It is not aerially
correct to speak of the English syndi-
cate as being =imposed exelusively of Brit-
ish capitalists. The money is loose capital,
which is brought together by American
middlemen having a keen eye to business.
The rate of intereab ie so low in the Old
Country that capitalists are always glad to
Slid a new opening for investment, us long
as it is sure, and they evidently think that
the money invested in breweries and dis-
tilleries is bound to return good interest.
But the confidence with which they make
the investment does not say much for the
prospects of total prohibition of the liquor
traffic+ in Canada.
--ememte,
British Money in Canada.'
One proof of the awakening interest in
everything Canadian that is apparent in the
Old Country ie seen in the success which
attends the efforts to float Canadian enter:
prises, The amount of money which has
found its way into Canadian projects during
the peat two or three years would make a
very large sum in the aggregate, and capital
is still flowing in this direction. It comes here
in many temps. The Dominion borrows it,
the provinces borrow it, the munielpalities
borrow it and it is invested in mining com-
panies, in farming enterpriees and in finan-
cial concerns of many kinds. British mph
allots have large sums to invest, as is evi-
denced from the millions which they are
spending in buying up breweries and estab-
lishIng great monopolies in the United Mates.
There is probably no way by which it could
be put to better use than by being invested
in developing the natural rehourdes of this
country. American enterprise has done a
good deal in its way in its own field, but it
is not as potent a factor 111 the production
of wealth as British capital, and British
capital has found its' way to the uttermost
corner's of the earth.
The Latest Style,
Cohen—" You don'd like dims. pante?
Ver, they wer' fineet goo* custom made, in
latest style,"
Customer--" Bat, see, the waist reaches
to my shoulder -blades."
Cohen (triumphantly)—" I told you so 1
Dot vas one of (Mesa Direotoire waists—c
latest .tyle ond 1"
A HORSE-THIBY CLUB.
Daring the last week the ktev. Lawrence
Gaeconan hats been at the Palace betel, tseye
the Sem Eras:1.440o l'Examiner." ge arrived.
from Japan, and it reporter called to inter-
view hira relative to his impreesioes of the
foreign lands he had traveled bl.
"I don't know as I can tell you anything
about Japan," omit' the reverend gentleMeee
"but I can tell you that a newspaper man
need not go outside America for incidente
to write ebony,
"There is nothing atirring or etrangfe itt
those foreign lands. Everybody seems. more
or less asleep. Itt America one meek whit
something Viet moves and etire as it It had
the rMh, warm blood of life in it."
"What is the most stirring experlence
you ever had in AnterIcar
"V's ell," eeid the olergymen, thhelting
for a moment', "I guess it WAS when I usea
to belong to A 110111e--Sh101 0111b blNebreeles,"
"Do you mean to tell me that you ever
bele/nett to a horse -thief club?'
"Yes, indeed; I used to be one of the
melnbere Of such & club. I belonged to one
for over two years.
"1 alwAys did like it good horse,' con-
tinued the reverend geatlemen, "and when.
I firsticeated in borne/we, Neb., I purchased
it rather good Wine",
"I had emit gee fairly settled down in. my
parish work when Gee day A man bythe
name et Strong called and mixed me it 3.
dj
idn'ewaat to oin the Norse -Thief club.
When I tithed him the purposes of the organ -
tuition he said it was it circle to prodece
herse-ownerss from the depredationof
hors -thieves. Yet the club went by ite
peettliar mune, which expressed just the
oppeete Mu itt was Wended to.
*4 The ebb, however, had done well under
that/name and the IMMO was ail right. fle
old as I WI it horse I bed hotter get in and
join and If my horse was atolen the club
would Need men alter the thieves and re-
cover the property. All Ma would cue me
$lementle,
"lathed him if the bee* I paid to the
authorities wattle uot give ree the ume right.
'leerily,' he old.
"Kb bee of the local authorities wite
verY .10% Ea Said he never yet bend of A
/sheriff In Nebraska cetohing a horse•thinf,
and he believed that half the cfacere of the
law in Nebraska; were in with the thieves.
fience the necemity of & loCal club to. pro.
toot horeteowners
coutitl'uod the R4114 Gatineau, "I
oeueludedthStmyilOreenneWOrthprOtelltiegi
SO Ipaisi $10 initietion feeandijobeesithe abb.
Mao *mein to pay $1 it month duos. I
west duly initiated one night, the club meet.
ing ist en *Id barn itt ebe Weyer coa.
"ail; first I thought I fuel Mee in with it
pretty hod cmwd, but when tbey beg= to
'talk I cone/Wei that I had met it sot of men
Nebo had. emaildenthle good home some.
They were rough 133012 and wore old clothes,
butt they were glad type of the honest,
body frantioranun.
"At iirat I fele it little dubious about
the club, but after the meeting WAS over
I oon eluded 1 would stay with them. They
treated PAO With it rough, sincere coUrtelr
end during the meeting a motion WAS Ma e
to exeuve me from active seevice on the
"evertaldag committee." Thie canoed con.
"Iderable deglutition, bull it was coded on
with such delicauy ithat I had no idea whet
the duties of an overtakicg commIttee"
emanated to, and it was deckled that my
cloth excused me from the aforesaid "over-
taking" duties.
"To mho it long story there one night
my beautiful bay horse was stolen end it
speclel oesion of the eltsh wee
"I WAS considerably exalted of coaree soad
wes early at the meeting. The club bed it
there session and. appointed Vitilliam Strong
and two other men as an 'overtaking corn-
Mittess to trail the Waves. They mounted
thelr fest horsee inshout five minutes, and,
with Colt's revolvers strapped on see off in
the deed of night on it swab gallop.
"In about ten days they returned and
broughe ray bone back. I was indeed glad
to sea tbe animal Once more, and it had been
recovered at it nominal east to me.
"Thatnight the 'committee' made their
report, As near as I oan remember le was
about as follows
a 'We the coramiteee, repore that eve
"overtooik" the man who stole the horse and
have retutzed the berse.
" ,Witreent STriONO, Chairman.'
"Then they adjourned, and next day Ihad
it talk with Stroug. The coversation was
about like 'this:
'Where &Wpm find my borne V
14'Down ill Kansas, juati across the line.'
44 'Did yoti fiud the thief is
"'We "overtook" him.'
"Why didn't you brbag him back
• «I said he was "overtook." '
"'What do you mean by "overtoolit"
'Overtook with tribulation. I guess he
had heed luck.'
"'Did you talk with him aboub the sin
of stealing?'
" • Talked eome.'
"'What did he talk!'
"'Ho talked back.'
" What did he say?'
" Nothing' , he just ossified the commit-
tee.'
" Did he talk long!'
" He quit sooner than we unt did.'
a Did you ask 11iMlo come back?'
• t Nam.,
"Yon should have brought himbaok and
had him punished. Had you noidea of arrest-
ing him?' 1
44 4 We hedn't no requisition.'
. "'So you allowed him tip away after
this 'mime?'
"'Not by a ingful. No in, n goes away
atter he's caught hose -stealing'
" Why'notr
" 'Cosa Ws dead, parson —deader'nnite.'
" ' Do you mean to may you killed him?'
" 'We plugged him six times, parson,
and he curled up alongside the road and
died right there. I hated to tell yer this
Mos you're it preacher. I kept it fightin'
yer off. but you kept °multi' at me, and so
now yer know that the $10 yer put up help-
ed pay the expenses of the "overtakers; '
but yer can bet high that there is no ex-
pense to the undertikers. We all agreed
to keep the killin' back from yer, hut you
pumped me and you gob the inside of the
dealedidn'eyer ?' ,
"'Why, my dear sir, did you shed this
man's blood?'
" " Cos he stole yer hem, purloin We
run on to him early one mornise, 'just'
beyond the 'Kum line. When we rode up
he wad just getthe through breakfast. He
didn't hike the look of us, I guests, for he ups
and snaps a gun at as twiate as I rode up.
Guess the veiny night had dampened the
caps, for she didn't go'but when I slung
my reliable Colt to thefore and p`agged dim
a couple er times she went, she did. Jack
and Andy pluggedlim Nome, too. We just
left him 'twin' there in the road and recover -
in yer hose, come home. ' His relatives are
the proper pussons to bury him, but folks
that an't no kin to a hoes thief oughten to
monkey with hiss remains."'
The reverend story teller gave the recital
With an inimitable' drawl, and took off the
queee frontier imeseeh to the life.
." I really felt sorry," he cordiutted, "the
the man wise stole the hose was killed, fo
hor ,e -steeling is a sin that I always felt lik
forgiving a Man for. The sin of covetousnea
naver touches my sail except when I see
sleek, spirited horse. .
"I can leek on heaps of gold and feel no
envy of the owner, on precious stones and
be indifferent—even the charms of lovely
women hardly Wove ine—dmia the eight of it
fine, high-stepping horse about id bands
high and it good cheet, with clean legs it
oringy melon when he wallas, isete me
aflame with it deposition to own
"1 am kept beck by it mese that I must
net disgrace my family by stealing him, *0
when I find a Anti who has no ;self-control,
no education, no moral training, 1 know
that he has stolen hones and pity bine for
the possession of a passion that is morally
his master.
"My good, common sense tells me that
I ehould take another meats bozo Iwoula
be discovered and imprioned. But if 3. ever
got an idea that I could secure it without)
detection and my crime never be board of 1
should—welt, I should adviee the owner to
keep el -astable -dear well fasMuescl,
" Of course this is not for publication, for
Ouch candid talk got into print my con.
gregation in Ohio would say I was Mekheg
in orthodoxy and, theregulter clerical dignity.
-you moo recollect that clergymen while
away from home do not an A rule act as
digutfiedly as when they axe itt their (mai
parish and 3. ant no exeeption to the rule ."
The EZtillOti011 LeiAllrO.
Some day there will COMO to Me time-
begtudgueg, routioseriedeu, always living.
iu-theduletre metiers of ours a revival of
leisure; bet it will not be during the Rb.
time at the resent pregnable. Vain our
wonderful estate is eafficieptly impoverietted
to workit diminiehments of credit—that
44 epring-toerd from svhenae so touch of our
clvillzation veulta end tutu ite isomers
attelta"—the fever for midden rialto!, for
artifielal diversious, for luxurious hvbsg,
and for levielt display will dietemper our
bleed as it has for the last thirty teem
Wbeu au our prairie* have been exhausted,
all our boosts felled, and all oar cattle
ranchee inhabited; when all our railwaye
have beers built and all our mime di.eovcr-
ed when there is nothing left for us to
rob—then we muse node begin to rammer.
ate our petrimony, ueleae we oeek
new coutieeut to drip. The nourish.
i end restoring of an estate beget"
it Meerut aerobe irOXIA that *WI
k begotten by the ocenuming of It.
It develops fortitude its mere throwa timers
perpetusily upon their own omen" and
foroea them to think whether they win or
no. It drives them baok to the outh, for
simplicity arid economy, and—lelenre, for it
is in tee nature of um% as of certain of the
lower animal', to be impelled by centuries.
As bug ste the bounty of nature luvitee us
to leisure, we despite it • when the poverty
of neture appeers to deny nil leisure, we
appreciate it and possess more of le. The
perpetual secretion among us of enemata
private foreanee le the greatest dieconreger
of leisure. Such magical access, with it;
eoconspauylog oateuixttion and extravagance,
fires the Imaginations of men, and raise; the
ideal of fortune and of expenditure continue
ally higher, So that we wear ourselves Ont
in getting ready to live. A generation or
two will distribute mob of these phenomenal
fortunes, es wait as introduce the leaven of
refinemeat mug thole to whore they de-
scend. Nothing so effectually destroys
the their° to obtab weeith as the inherited
poesulion of wealth. When a Welletollo
tamily becomes impoverished, It. mem'hers
aro loss likely to expendthemselves wholly
itt money -getting than are those reared in .
parsimony or indigene% Educed= and
refinement dietraot it mates powers from
the getting of ;pen, so often to the ignorant
and the unrefined the only room% They
teeth men how moll there le in the world
width cannot be bought, and that too little
cum no more unhappiness than too much.
Chose whichever you will—the struggle to
have, or the struggle toesio without—there is
soap° from neither, and both aro pain.
They are but aente and armies forms of
the mime dilemma. But the roan who strives
to do withouthee this ineetimable adrantitge
over the than who strives to have—the goda
fight Amon his side. If he la defeated, it is
always his own fault ; and if he wins,
nothing can deprive him of his winnings.
"He that lives according to reason shall
never be poor'and he that governs his life
by opinion shell never be rich; nature is
limited, butt fancy la boundlees."—tAlfred
II Peters, in the Forum.
Operations of LightnInf.
All those who suffer from fright during
thunder storm, should regard the lot of an
English woman living in a large tweet as
peculiarly enviable, for, according to Mr.
Marriott, the Secretary of the Royal Mete-
orological Society, them are the beings who
of all are most enamel) from the danger of
being struck by lightning. Mr. Marriott
tells as that on an average less than one
person in a million is annually killed by
-
lightning in England, while in Prance
nearly two, in Prussia nearly four, and in
Russia and Sivilzerhuid more than five out
of every million perbh thus annually. The
returns able show that of those who die in
this manner in England 81 per cent. are
males, and only 19 per cent, females, the
striking difference, no doubt, being attribut-
able to the greater number of males engaged
in outdoor occupations., Deaths from
lightning ate also Much rarer in towns than
in the country. The many lightening rods
and high buildings serve to diffnee the
electricity. The Eiffel Tower is said of
itself to form it perfect electrical con-
ductor, and in the case of one very
black thunder cloud which passed over
Peelle and was observed to emit constant
fleshes, the lightning stopped as soon as it
came within the influence of the tower, and
recommenced when it had passed beyond.
Animals are struck by lightning much
more frequently than human beings, and
this is owing largely to their dbposition to
take refuge beneath trees or to huddle to. ,
gather in it storm. In the first instance, the
teem, and in the second,the currents of hot
damp air rising from their bodies, act as con-
duotors, •Nothing suffers from lightning gm
frequently as trees, and the splintering and
shiveting of the part struck le supposed to
be due to the sudden conversion of the sap
into steam by intense heat. To a similar
0101130, the exploeion of steam pranced from
the moisture on the surface of the body, is
probably due the rending of the clothes on
these who have been struck hy lightning,
all the garments being 'frequently stripped
away. The boots especially of such victims
nearly always have the uppers burst open,
presumably hecause the Mather more closely,
confines the perspiration, and so leads to the
produotion of a particularly strong explosive
force. The theory has even been advanced
that in executions by electricity the criminal
whose skin is dry will suffer in altogether a
differeelemanner from one whose ;struggles
have Induced free pezseiration.