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The Greiner Victory.
It was sa honeet Granger,
With is herd and lkomy band;
His hair was thick with hayseed,
And hi far"e wae. eeauted and tanned;
Hie bootiege sagged with emeritus, hie boom wer
full of (and;
nut his heart wets overdowing, he mole a joyful
now.
He yelled and panted continually, Hurrahror
noracte Bowe In
"If 'tyrant sealust my priaciple
no. start o .t on a bat;
For more them five -and -thirty year
I've been a Demoorat,
But rd het bet a quartet, section againet a scare.
mow het
The& I wouldeet have. the luck to live to am the
hapey gay -
'when the Demeeratic ticket would win in
loway.
"Wo give tbe grand old party
Sinn a rattlieg of dry bones,
Such a Shaklee up aad raking down.
And /eines over atones,
That T guess they won't forget it, nor letup with
their molten
rev the way the Grangere smathen 'eel and
knocked the ticket flat,
Ana pat in Uncle Horace liaise, the Granger
De:nacre&
Bill Intim* and all his men
Aro suffering from a scare;
Some of feet like bawling.
And more would tike to swear
For they've mead out that we fanner -1 with bear -
geed in 'stir hair,
Aregoing tostiek together and, have somewhat
tow
About who shell be Governor ot the State of
lower,
There's a lines aid hard cider
Daft in the col ar yet;
We put it *tore tile toonetanlen
Oeuldet enfant it outyou bet ; „
4,,uvue,pazher 55 it 55d slur entoger voter
wet;
A heettu to Miele Roma Benue whom we'veut
M the Devernorn chair;
And hurrah for us, the Graugers, with beesee
lie our heir
A nifferenee la enewspapenn
That we ere fortunate in the petel ion
OE ,eome newapapers. both in city and
cetantry, vrbioh well clieeharge *heir proper
office, and are conduced with dignity,
decorum, ability and neefulaess, all will
concede. But as in the matter of bootie,
the gueetion is, how many ere of thie
etarop, ated vrhat relation do they bear to
the woole2 And vrhat are the adjectivea
the* properly describe the rest?, Desorip.
tion, indeed, is unnecessary, because the
imewledga of it be elreein notnninna and
Univerael. No thoughtful or educated per -
eon needs to be told, whet are She gualitiee
ef the matelot Ameri an newapapees, with
the oretditable exception% already referral
to; wittettier they ere highor low in intel.
lectual ability and in tone. in whet tete
weep they are oauelly expreeled. whether
they seek to enliglaten and gaide public
opinion, or to fellow its worst aberrations
and cater to its lowese hastinots; whether
they attempt to disquiet with fairness and
candor the merits of coutroverted questione,
or whether they (lesion* upon roierepreaen-
tetious of Luna, upon cheep gibee, end
appeele to the rummest prejudices; whether
or riot they obiterve the truth and respect
private (hammer and the decencies of ;
whether, in ebort, they serve, so far au
they go. to inetruct, to improve, to elevate
their readers, or outer te delude and debese
them, ere iuguiriett that thoughtful men
cen anewer from their own observatioce—
Hon. Rdetard er. Phelps in Scribner's for De.
cember.
Wonder.
remarkable story of a yoang woman's
miefortunee while in search Of a hueband
nomea from Hungary. She was the band.
somest giel in. the village and all the young
Mon tell lova with her. Before she was
20 elm had retteived an even hundred offers
of marriage, but ban =tinged. them *U. She
made up her mind et leet, however, to get
married, and aompted the 101st offer. The
young man wee ktlied in an accident, bow.
eve; before the wedding. The next offer
wee act:raptor:I, but the lover was drafted
into the army. Two others were accepted
in turn end omit a like fete. The meet two
on the lint were in turn drowned before
they could be married. Two more then
presented themetIves in tun, but bath
broke off the match became of the amen -
nese of the girl's fortune The ninth got
drunk on the wedding day and beat the girl
before the ceremony was performed, and
the raettoh was then broken ofE The tenth
candidate turned out to have a wife
already, and the eleventh ran away last
before the time Eat for the wedding.
Thoroughly discouraged, the beauty then
took a dose of poison andkilledherself.
The Snow Slower.
Count Anthoskoff's curious discovery of
the snow flower is likely to interest florican
turista for /tome time to come, as, from the
accounts given of %it appears to be not
only a remarkable but a singularly beautiful
plant, It war disoovered on the perpetu-
ally frozen ground of Siberia, but Count
Amthoskoff has sac:needed in raising plante
from seed placed in a pot of snow at
Petersburg. The bloom lasts only for a
eingle day, snd comes once in two years. A
Preach contemporary thus describes it ;
The leaves are three in number, and each
about three inches in diameter. They are
developed only on that side of the stem to -
warn the north, and eaoh seems covered
with raiorosoopio crystals of snow. The
fewer wheo R opens is star shaped, its
petals are of the same length as the leaves,
and about half an 111011 in width.—London
Globe.
"Not at Home."
A. most ingenious person hes taken
tieribus objeotion to the conventional nee of
the term not at home," and the subject
of the conftiot of courtesy and sincerity has
occupied the attention of a conscientious
-divine, whothinks it sinful to make polite
excuses—which ere ever the whitest of
• lies. Thediffitialty twee met in the case
of a gentleman who called on a lady of
fashion and was informed by the servant
that "Lady A— is in ;but she is not
at home' to anybody to -day." This re.
minds me of the atory of a young fellow
wbo called to see a lady and heard her, as
he stood in the hall, direct the servant to
say she was not at home. Than take my
compliments to her," said the young man,
"arid. pleasetell her I didn't call."—Front
the Mau of the World.
Too True.
Ida --Mamma, why does Professor But.
terbrod put that handkerchief under his
chin when he plays? Is he afraid of soiling
his collar?
Des.mnia, with a glance at Professor B's.
linen—No dear; he is afraid of soiling his
violin —Musical Courier,
--e—
Never Blow Your Own Horn.
Hotel proprietor, proudly -.-You can find
110 heirs m my butter.
Guest—No, I noticed it had passed that
age.—Binghumpton Republican.
A New York paper prints the interesting
truxtor that Mrs. Harrison, with the aid of
her sister, Mrs. Scott Lord, and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Meffee, will publish & book en-
titled, " Our Residence in the White House."
The impression of them estimable ladies of
life at the White Home will undoubtly
make an exceerlingly readable book. By
bright and ietelbgent women, such as they
tneletubtly are, a four yeerie experience at
the executive mansion. can be turned to ex.
ceireut literery acoonnt.
VJO'rell OIL AILE110,6.111
Joe Ameriein,Voin Ohild Driven ffonl. Iti
' ative Land; '
A, ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.
Teem the New York World.)
'Readers of the World will eernerobei the
peculiar eircumetancee surrounding the
cites of Mrs. Nellie Wilkie, who with her
two children, arrived in New York from
Glasgow September 26th last. The Com-
missioners of Emigration debarred her from
landing, on the plea that the might become
a burden on public) charity, and referred
the natter to the Collentor. It appeared
trona the women's etetement that she came
to this country with her hualeend and one
ohild about three neere ago and 'settled in
Ploinfit,ld, N. 1, where sbe, guts birth to
the mond child. -Last August she went to
SOOtiend with her bueband and children.
In, Glasgow the Imband suddenly decided
to return to the United Suttee, arid aid so
without consulting her. Um Wilkie re-
turned to tine country with her children
in Burch Cd him, but was detained by the
Bulintation. Commileionere.
Collector Erhardt referred the matter to
the Semetary of the Treasury, and a letter
was received in reply from Attendant nacre -
tern Betchelor, isteting the* as the soma
child was e native citizen, and the mother
Alt netutal guardien, they could net be
operated nor the ,former expatriated.
The)" mut, tburefore(be Permitted to land,
Thie decision tubbed the collector Oct, 19,
and he demanded of the Commissioners
that the women and her children be
allowed to lend. The Collector wee then
informed that On that very day Mrs. Wilkie
had been &nipped beck to Soetlane; where.
nop9tulu
oottalowneeog & seething letter to the
The World then tabled, Ito 'louden repre-
sentative to visit Glasgow and amertein the
Whereaboute of Mrs. Wilkie. On the llth
Met. the World's correspondent tabled from
Glogow that Mrs. *Wilkie hod arrived
there and that her holland bad also
returned from America in search of her.
The family intended to come back to
America ea 00014 as the niOney to pity
their passage could be earned.
In Went of 'their sufferings and Wine,
and more pertioularly berianse of the mettle
feat injuetioe done to Mo. Wilkie and her
American -bora child by the Emigration
Commission= of this port, wbo decided
that she route return to Sootlend and earn
her living there as bee% she could, the
World cabled its Loudon correspondent to
secure nutmeg for the foray from Gies.
gow to New York, 05 the arrival of the
WO/dee the World will establish their right
40 a d011ikille on Awoken soil. In the
following spoofed letter from ita corre-
spondent in London the story of Um
Wilitie's sufferings after her compulsory
return to Scotland is briefly told
Eenteusort, Nov. 28.—Andrew Wilkie
will return to America on the aeon:ter
leaving Glogew Nov. 29th. He has a
return pees, and the fare of bis wife and
two children, who were sent back to Sect -
laud by the Emigration Commissioners
New York, wilt be pad oat of the
money cabled hythe World for that par -
pose. In the °gluier( of eminent filootob
and English jariets Mrs. Wilkie ill as much
O citizen of the United States as though
her hnithaud had taken out his naturalize -
tion paper°. Andrew Wilkie had severed
his relattone withRootland as s subject by
declaring his intention of becoming a
citizen of the United Staten, and hie three
and ft half years' residence In 14/ow Jersey
emphasized that intention. Then, too, one
of his children is a native-born American
and is entitled to all the privileges pertein.
ing to citizenship in the United Stites. As
this child cannot be denied residence there,
nor reptidiete its citizenship, being %minor,
her guardian, who in this CaBB is also her
mother, cannot be debuted bona s000m-
pitnying and seouring.to the child the pri-
vileges to which the ts entitled by birth.
Such, at lewd, is the "belief of men hero
wbo are well posted on international law.
The law of domicile in Scotland has
ocoasionen an exceptional amount of litho -
Von mainly conneoten with the eistribte
tion of property and the location of
paupers. Upon one point in connection
with tbe domicile of Sootohmen *out of
Woodmen Scottish law is guile explicit.
When a Scotobman leaves Sootlend with
the expressed purpose of remaining in
foreign country and reaches that country,
the Scottish law rules that he has lost his
domicile in Scotland and the children
born to him lathe country of his adoption
have no cleim to be regarded se citizens
of Soothed. The came decision holds
good as to other children he may be the
parent of born in Scotland if these are of
tender years and are not in a position to
take care of themselves. If on the con-
trary a Scotchman leaves Scotland to
reside in a foreign country with e,n ex-
pressed intention of returning to Scotland
as his home he never loses his domicile in
Soothed 58 a'Soottish citizen.
Shoe Andrew Wilkie went to America
with the expressed intention of remeining
in the United States permanently, he lost
hie domicile, as s t3ootohman or a citizen
of Scotland, and his residenoe in the
United States bad the result of completely
severing him, his wife and his family from
any hold upon his Scottish domicile. In
Scottish law Wilkie is no longer a Scotch:
men, and his wife and family are no longer
Scottish citizens!. His visit of a month's
duration to Scotland after his residenea of
three and a hill years in the United States
does not invalidate his , position as an
American Citizen according to Scottish law,
and his more recent .visit to carry his wife
and family back to the United States only
confirms the lad that hobos lost his domi-
cile in Scotland. In proof of Andrew
Wilkie's intention to return to the United
Stater, he hos in his possemion at the pre-
sent date a pass which entitlee him to a
free passage from Scotland back to the
United States by one of the Allan Line
mail steemere. .And than he relies upon
his right to teke his wife and family to the
United Stetes with him as American citi-
zene is proven by the fact, that they are
now residing with him in Edinburgh
until arratigenients for 'the paesage of, the
hardly to the United , States can be loom-
pleted
In order to get a Scotch legal opinion on
the matter the. World, correspondent called
on D Lister Shand, WS. (Writer to ;the
Sigaet), who holds the important office of
Solicitor for the Crown Counael. Here is
what he said on the subject:
In the ease to which you have referred
the party, by going to the United States
wttle the intention of remaining there,
acquired a domicile by choice imme-
diately on lending. Of course, I presume
that he was then quite able to work. , His
wife's domicile would be the same as his.
His children would alt have a United
States domicile either as the place of their'
birth or the place of their father's dome,
er she arrived in this country, ifrii!
Wilkie heti to go through some rough
experiences. The World correspondent
chmed her kali over Scotland before he
could find her. First she went to Edin-
burgh, where she applied to the Edinburgh
Vigilance 4ineciation, which seems to be an
aai�oiatiqit4tor thepnepaelle of protecting
'unforiunota women and keeping them off
t .fitreete.entr. g, Thor/moon, the
• etary °Sul Iltsooletioh thad furnished
her,the =nen to go to Ameetos to neeet her
tinettancle.O. naturally she "milled to him
when she returned. After tilting care of
the woman for a weelt Mr.,Thompson tried
to get ber into the almshouse, but the
epplieotion woe refused beeetile elie efethe
children with her was barn "in, America.
After Pawning ber alethee ned. Medneding
to escape etarvetion for a, week in Iddin-
burgb, Mrs. Wilkie went to Glees* te
look for work. She had met ' a -Mrs.
Straiten, coming 2ayer on the atemnier, wbo
had taken an interest itt her case, and
whom Mre. Wilkie thought Weald ba likely
to help her to obtain a situation. But
Mrs. Strahan was atvey on tho tionetpenee
end the poor woman. found herielrin.
Glasgow in even wore atssits then, had
been in Edinburgh. She was taken into
the Police Court se 0 negrent and warned
that it would be a good thing for her to go
out of town or keep off the streets. Here
*gain she wee refused admiesien to the
Workhouse on the ground thee she had an
'American born child with her, and OW if
her husband, was living in Americo be
ought to be able to take oars of her. At
thie time Mrs. Wilkie did not know that
her husbend was on his way aoross again.
She was about to become a mother and
her proepect0 were dienial in the extreme.
te was the World oorrespotident who theft
geveher the Mime that her husband wig in
Gibtagow Again, ready to take her bear to
America. She had foundher way beak to
Edinburgh from Glasgow, walking much
of the woy, otia was again in charge of tire
Edinburgh Vigilanoe Alsooiation, Here is
her story:
tins. artment's stronrs
"1 WWI married to Andrew Wilkie in
Edinburgh five yettre ago, In Anril, 18$6,
my huebauct Went Americe and floured
employment at Plainfield, N. X. In
()telpher of the same yaw he sent for me.
We then had one child. He . met me it
New York end took ane to Pleinfield,
where my little girt, Chrietina, was born.
The child was christened by Rev. Mr.
Richards, neater of the Ereabyterien
fireOlviruoulitiatt 8Ppiplitinefittezulde. inWAeuglittsveaints i889Teatiattr-
honee WAS buraed down on the 5th. of Abet
month ana we moved iato another. Whielt
we furnished with the ineurenrei motley
peid on oar toes by fire. I "Mill have the
keys of this mooed IMAM Deter in that
mantle ray husband decided to visit his
relatives in Smtland, and we COMM hoe to
spend * month or SQ. but intending to
return to Bleinfiela,
"Tho expense was greater than my bus.
band bad opposed it would be, and goon
after coming here he discovered Shat be
had ouly enough money to pay his own
Passage back, Knowing the* I would ob.
jot to another operation he deoided, to
return alone without saying anything to
me about it, and while I woe visiting
friends near Edinburgh be went. He ex -
poked to get work right away and send for
me, but he watt diaappointed in this. Hie
relatives dislike me, and for thet reason,
although they roc:laved letters from birn
inquiring shout me, they would not tell me
where be had gone nor tell him the unfor-
tunate °audition I wee left in. 1 was
forced to pick up *living by doing odd bits
of owing now and then and tried to get
along without asking 'far charity. But
• when / sew my little ones famish -
big I went to the Edinburgh :la '1
Aesoietion and &eke& to be taketut
" After inveatigating my case the Eleote.
• tary, Mr. Thomson, advanced me 213 to
pay my own and my children's fares to
New York. All this time I had not hotted
a word frommy husband and had begun
to fear that he might be dead. I was sick
from worry on reaching New York and
was sent to Ward's Island by the Emigre -
tion Commissioners. I wanted to go to
Plainfield, but was told that 1 was in
danger of bedewing a °hero on the county
and must be sent beck to Sootland. The
commissioners said they advertised for my
husband, but I don't know 'whether they
did or not. Understanding that I had no
,alternetive, I consented to return to Glee.
gow when told to do Betty the commission.
era. My desire was to remain and find
my hueband, and they knew it. My trials
Once returning here have been most seveitr
and I have more than once been tempted to
end my troubles and my life together. I
could not leave my bales nor could I kill
them, and so / continued to exist. I am
glad now that I did nothing rash, since I
have found my husband and so good a
friend in the World."
nEn inIBBAED'El MOYEnENT8.
Andrew Wilkie, her husbend, gave the
World correspondent the following account
of his travels and his reasons for leaving
hie family a second time in Scotland., The
trip to Liverpool on the City of Pane and
residence in Edinburgh having nearly ex-
hausted his means, he suddenly determined
-to, return to New York. At Gletegotv he
learned that by the way of Rotterdam the
fare was only 23 10e,, without any outlay
for kit, and wish a free ticket from New
York to Philadelphia thrown in. He had
just time to catoh the steamer,end had to
leave without doing what he had intended
—to return and explain the reason for his
departure to his wife. The difficulty of
cocnratunosting with hie wife was farther
increased by the fact thet she bad gone on
e visit Musselburgh, sevenniiles beyond
Edinburgh. Arriving at Rotterdam,
Andrew Wilkie completed hie paseage to
New York on board the Dutch eteamer
Lmnding at New York, Wilkie took ad.
vantage of hie free ticket to Philadelphia,
at which city he was told there WWI & bet-
ter opportunity of getting employment
than at New York. Reaching Philadelphia
he discovered work museum, and he ctould
not find employment nor earn money to
return and pay hie way in Pleinfield, where
he had, when in the United States pre.
viously, resided. Within three or four -
days of his arrival in Philadelphia Wilkie
wrote to his eister, residing in Edinburgh,
requesting information "bout his wife arid
children ,and directing that the answer
should be posted to him at the Pnetoffice,
Philadelphia. ' Finding no work in Philet-
delphia he went to New York, but left in-
formation at the poetoffice in 'Philadelphia
to fortverd any lettere to the postoffice in.
New York. At New York Wilkie wae still
unfortunate ¬ finding employment, but
finally succeeded in getting an. engagement
from Maier Goldsmith, of NO. 127 East
Sixty.fifth street, New York, and of the
Central Stockyards and Transit Company
in Jersey City, N.J., to attend.to cattle on
beard the stearathip Hibernian (Allen line)
front Philadelphia to Glasgow. Soot.
land. Andrew Wilkie returned to Philedel.
phis from New York and lound no letter
from Edinburgh attaining him in the post -
office there to give him information about
his Wife and family. • He then sailed from
Philadelphia on board the Hibernian for
'Glasgow, the terme being no payment for
his tending Of the cattle an board, but he
was to receive a pose for a free passage
back from Gnetegow to the United states.
On his arrival in Glasgow .he wrote to his
own personal relatives, requesting informa-
tion about his wife and family, but reoeived
no answer. During hisabeencit in America
his wife had had diettgeeemente with her
husband's relatives 'end Andrew Wilkie
blentes them for nddesiring that he should
know of his wife's movements. In cense-
neenee Of receiving no information about
bia wife Wilkie remained aboat Glesleow in
ses*Qh. Of employment and eleo oroseed'to
Ireland for the same purpose. Finally, he
wrote to hie wite"it father, resident in, Bain.
burgh, who oommunioeted the information
he desired, and as a consequeue Wilkie
Came tO Edinburgh to rejoin hie wife and
Ile is ,new living with, them in
their home. India Place, Edinburgh.
The family amepted the World's offer el
funde meet thenkfully end are`happy at
the proOpeet now opened up to them of
being allowed to land and live peacefully in
the land of their adoption.
denim the nothoe mem.
Sacramento stonecutters work eight
honre* day for ll4.
The Michigan Patrons of Eittebandry
(femora) have 100,000 members. -
The Ohio miners eleoted two of their
number to the Leeieleture. Ooe is 4 OEM*
didate for Speaker.
Sea Eranevsoo Tinkles( boycotted m altos.
Maker for cutting. bis white halide 26 per
end empleymg Japanese. He wee
glad to get the white hands baoln
San Frandsen has 0,000 Chinamen,
000 of wbom are cooks and servants,
6,000 make ladies' underwear and men's
clething, and 4,000 are nigerrOOkere.
Some Oelifoeni* vineyard ownere are
diegboing, their Chinese hande by white
lebor, elanniug that the dear lebor is the
cheapest. lienetor Stantord is among
them.
Daniel Webster eaid "Itt II country
like mire, abOVe all others, We troth will
hold good: If the metope eati obtain fair
corapeneetion for their labor they will
beve good heueee, good elothing, good fOOd
and the means of ecluoting their families.
Leber will be cheerful and the people
The greet 'Outwit of thie (Annoy
is labor."
Staking Geld.
1. Birmingbam man who agog not wish
hie name to appear bus been experimenting
for a year on a metal resembling gold and
has his discovery nearly perfoote4.
eturabled on the tionabinetion bret
analyzing some metala ; and when he
realized whet be heti' forma he Ken pro-
duced s metal which puzzles the best of
jewellers: All the aluminums before dis-
covered are looking iu 'weight or roe:mother
essential point. This new metal le as
heavy as gold aud to eit appearanoes is tbe
promote/ metal itself. It aux be manufac-
tured at a cost of &boot sixty cents & paned
and will make the beat foundation for gold
plated goods that Can he band. It is evilly
worked and can be either hammered or
drawn. Tim metal fa no compound, it
being only one kind xednoed to Ito gold -like
appearance by the applieation ot certain
chemicals. The inventor seys there le no
nee itt teklug out 4 patent, as no oue can
discover,ehe secret ofite manufacture by
analyzing it.
• GloingnItountl tee World on a Wager.
Welter A Bettie, Peroy Like and ammo
Luke of Victoria Australia, reached St.
Paul las* Thursday evening. They are on
a tour of the world from Melbourne, a bet
having been meek, by A. Bryce Bain, pro.
prietor of the Coloreds% Albion, a Victoria
eporting wiper, and a Ballarat banker that
thQ4rip could not ba made, under
certain condition/On eight raonthe. The
trio resohed Tacoma Sept 20th and darted
soros the continent on foot, following the
line of the Northern Pacific). The condi-
dons of the bet are that every appliance
may be used for travelling after reaching
New York, but the journey across Nortla
Ataerioa must be made on foot. The bet is
for 28,000, and the yedestriane are due et
the Anoklend Club in Melbourne just eight
month from the date of their departure
The trevell re are in good health and are
confident of emcees.
Two Games.
Little Tohnnie—Le's play stage robber.
You come along and nt spring out with
pistol and take sway everything you've
. got.
Little dimraie.—But we haven't got no
• pistol nor nuth'n like o stage I Tell you
what, when yon come along I'll get you to
sign a paper and then I can rob you, just
the some without a pistol.
All. right, We'll play 44 Loan Agent," if
yon like it better.,
• He Retracted.
A Texas editor, having ()barged that the
father of a rival editor had been in the
penitentiery, was notified that he must
retract or die. He retraoted u follows:
"We And that we were =Ashen in our
statement laet week that the „Bugle editor's
sire had been in the penitentiary. The
efforts of bis friends to have hie sentence
commuted to imprisonment for life failed,
and he was hanged."—Texas Siftings.
The Baby Was Teething.
Tingle—Did you go to the ball het night?
Tangle—No, I had a bawl at my house.
The grand march began at 1.1 o'clook and
lasted until 6 o'alook this morning.
He Had Been In.
Boss barber (entering late and wishing to
give the shop a busy air)—Hits the mayor
been in this mo-ning ?
Apprentice—Yes, sir. He came in and
took hie oup away.
Ell!ty Cents it Dozen.
She (to suitor who is in the egg business)
-=Of all the feathered songsters, whose
notes do yoa prefer?
He (reflectively)—To tell, the truth the
lay of the hen suits me pretty well.
The Beason.
She—What under the eun mikes broken.
down widowers' so sniions to marry again?
• He—Possibly beelines they 'want to get
repaired.—Lippincott's Magazine.
Rev. El; W. Dike, LL.D., in introducing
a dismission of the divoree question ie the
North Antericau Review for November, steam
that a special study of forty-five counties,
in twelve Ename, showe that drunkenness,
Wag a direct or indirect cause in one-fifth
of tbe oases. Other (ultimates give even a
larger'percentage.
Mr. Younglinsband—Did you go to see
that pony that was advertised as need to
carry a child Mre. Younglousbeind—No,
dear. Yon said you wanted a sound &Monti.,
and tide was advertised as " well broken."
" Why did your fool ancestors make
the thistle their national emblem,? t' Asked
an Englishman of a Sootoriman. "For
some 005 like you to nibble at" was the
'caustic reply.
AEJ an instance of the quick way in whioh
some things are done now a.clayte it ie told
that itt a late diet:woe trial in Maine, at the
moment when the judge wae decreeing the
divorce, the clerk held in his kend a tele-
gram from the'libelee e.Skieg to be informed
so soon as her huband obtained his divorce,
as she end another men were waiting to be
married as soon as it conld legally be done.
FRISON tiThe liree t Be gran urea on--
BB: rOBSTe.0
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Indeterminate Sentences CoMildered.
-1 nottois the questions of indetorminmte
senteeces for oriminsle and the disposition
of juvenile offenders were wader discussion
he Toronto a few days age. There hi no
doubt that many a young lad jailed for
trifling effettee (as too many ere)find their
jail lemooiame apt teaohers in orime. They
ehortla not ka herded together with older
criminals. Industrial eohools seena to
911er a solution, when combined with a
pion of homes for the non-oriminal poor.
But the gentlemen who met, talked and
resolved, Namely grasp the situation. Who
la to do all this work they call for
Government? Government on only
snood 'in enforoing ench lewd as publio
opinion will back up with money and Mem
What a kick would be rebsed if the Govern-
ment attempted to dispossess, the counties
of their jeile end curt houses—all, or
almost all that erotism' the existence of
County Connoile—or compelled them to
spend the vast stuns that would he reguiredto
carryeeut the scheme proposed by my well-
meaning 'Wanda I And what a ehriek
would go up if the counties were compelled
to do whet justice, humanity, otterity,
ought to render obligatory in the ereotion.
and maintenance of homes for their own
poor, where they might live cheaply and
honestly instead of being foisted on the
city charities or driven into crime and tini
penitentisq I Those men who dieuesed
the Metter are in a inettellre Tenni:Meade for
the lox etitte of public( ontiment on 04;
question. Rom every pulpit in the bond
"1 aM my brother's keeper." ebould be
preeohed until the religion ot Cbriet got
dawn to the comity treeettrene etrong
boxes, and then it would be reasonable to
Make en* demenae. Neentime don't be
too bard on the boys, , Disoount what is
-"
fahly to be oreditea to , heredity, environ,,
neent, aria, prime says, Your better
art o and—well, I won't go into
then personal mettem But by all moms
try to ewe the boys.
This " indeterminate sentence" ides
has a tatting look, but I am not nearly ao
fovorobly disposedtoward it as when I
first began to etudy it oat. Its objeot,
alertly etated, is to imprison an Offender
Until he is At to be turned loom non
moiety a good oitizen. adVOOlitee
tend, and with reason and feast to support
their views, GAO in =way insist:lora the
Renner 10 se amenable to diseipline and
so noneetly desirceie of leading a geed life
thotyeera of hie life are nealemay weetea
behind prison bars, ana be is kept &
burden ripen the conntry when he should
be making a roan of himself and working
his way bolt into the good graces of
society On tbe other band, bard cases go
down for short temper' end are ternixi out
upon moiety no better,
if not *Ovally
worn, than when admitted to prison; and
that under the indeterminate system the5'
could be indefinitely detained until
reformation had a000mpliebedita per.
feet work The theory is very pretty,
and is aa attrotive aa eome aelosive
and irapraotioable schemes hew( proven to
be heretofore. It is when you begin to
formulate our "plan of campaign," that
you find where the diffioultiee crop up.
One very proper provision Of our maxi.
net lete is thee the person charged bee the
right of being tried by a jury of hie penre
and in open court. Star chamber trate,
MII012 as some (Moil& prefer tbern, are
contrary to British ideas of Juliette. Open
trials meson the ptople. They gm
them onfideno in the lotto of the °Mkt
and the rectitude of the athlete (es far as
this ahem' it), or enable them to have in-
justice abolished and the eget), of the
oitizens assured. It will be a dark day for
Canadians when any court or tribunal fa
einyowered to phase disabilities upon the
Munn by mend prooese. Now, it is jest
here that one of the lions in the path of
thio theory of indeterminate sentences
arises At present it is ignite portable—
nay, it is certain—that sometimes a mega.
trate or judge erre in proportioning bis
sentence to the criminal. If an offender
gets 4 few months or a year too long it is a
"misfortune to hien • if undue leniency is
practiced it a rniefotune to sooiety. But
in either case the tial is public, the
judgment of the court id open to review,
and in any event the precise date at which
the pened term ende is fixed. In the case
of indeterminate sentences who would be
,the ledge of the—she'll I nee the term—
:probetioner ? On what evidence will he
icese hie judgment? We have a good deal
of offioialdoin in this little country; we
know whit a perverting effect power has
on some men; Every man has his failings,
and prison parole are neither stigeie nor
Solonnons. They•have their whims,
their instinctive likes and dislikes. Only
frOut them could the informstion on which
to act in any particular °see be obtained.
Would they alwaye acquit a really well-
meaning, , zconsoientions 'prisoner of
hypocrisy? Would they never bo swayed
by likes or dislike? If they would not,
then when the world neederf menfor her
higheet places of trust and honor let the
ward 'bosses lasso a prima guard. And if
it is not on'snolt evidence the fitness of the
convict to re-enter society is to be decided
how is it to be done? Yes, how?
Masouseen,
No Doubt About It. •
A small boy's °lase in !natural history.
Professor—Aninialathat have no feet and
orawl.aningthe mond . are called ,reptiiels:
Who -eau give me aa example of e: reptile?
:Young Brown—A worm.
'I'rofeseme-Excellent. Now will some
boy think of a eeoond reptile?
Young Jones—Another worm.
When the Lip s are Sore.
A:drop tralg100Wa tpp lied
tehpsortilaTanirramutton
gteijiisteti"eingobed
will abowcatieethem to disappear Tkis is
also an exoellent remedy for parched lipe
.end chapped hands. 1. It should be applied
at nighe and Well /ebbed in. The intigheit
of htinne; he; thie treatment, will qttio ,145 be
restored: no their nattmitcondition.e
tale to rensai DtriTenities.
'A Datolephysioiarrdeeleires that a chine
conneotiOn existe between . the the exeraise,
of mental 'fimiiitlee .and 'disorders; +of the
nose. He nye that, if it , were generally ,
known how r mane uses of 'chronid head-
ache, of inability' to marc or toperform
mental work, were due to chronic disease
o1.. the nose many of them would be easily
ourecl.--:-New York Telegram..
Not it Failure.
41 Is rnerriage a failure ?" asked De
Trompy of & former fteme who had been a
petrty to a May and December marriage.
"No," she replied, with a glance toward
her husband the next room. "Not a
failure. e Only a temporary emberress.
ment." '
Dine e father rnind by what strange, by
what hardly intelliible name,his child may
call him, when for the first tune trying ' to
call him by any name? Is not the faintest
faltering voice of a child, if we only know_
that it ie meant for ns, received with re-
joicing? Is there any name or title, how-
ever grand or honorable, which we like to
hear better ?—MaxMuller
STANLEY AND
4,0rene Merl o IMPlOratten and Aitiniare,
Lure Briefly Told.
Probitkly the, great publio has by *Wit
time forgotten ehe circumstances under
tehieb Enna Bey came to occupy the posts
*ton peril which made it nem/sane' tee
Seed an expedition to hie relief. Tine
story dates from the yeer 1878, whom
'Gen. Gordon appointed Emin to thw
shadowy end hezerdooe Governorship of
Equatorial Africa,. Ernie, accepted the
commission, with all its riske, and took up
his *tootle in the wild countrY all a kind a
pioneer and representative of civilization..
L.11882 be went to Ehartoom for the pur-
pose at reedieting between the Mahai and
the Egyptian outhorities, but hie efforts(
in that direation were unsuctomaful and
be was sent book to big post. Ile obeyed.
orders, expeoting to be supported by she
Egyptian Government. Thst support,
however, for some reason be did not
receive, end, his resources exhausted, it&
the middle of a hostile pen:4141On, hie
position became one of imminent dangers.
A letter from hine„ dated Wedelai, July;
1886, and received s few months later at
Edinburgh, Scotland, made known hie
eituetion, and steps were taken for hie
relief. Stanley was &eked to go to the
rescue, and this he willingly agreed tea%
He chose the Congo River route, and am
d'antiary 22/ad,1887. he sailed from London
for Cape Town. That place woe reached
on March 10th, and by April 25th he had.
arrived at *be mouth of the Congo Risers
Then began the toilsome and terribla
journey through (lentral Attie* to Winteliti
and beck 10 theocon, which hos juet beset
brought to Buell a splendidly anooesiefol
conclusion. The noel; is * greet triumphs
not only for $tanley, hitt for civilization.—
Plifladelphic; North, American.
The Ring.
Peter Jackson, the Anetralion eolerie
pugiliet, who recently. defeeted Zern Sinithe
retErifigt.40k1rOanYSiOWttglbgtbi4j4dlet°41°AlltiCIX
Hayes in New Swab Wales; beet deck
Heyes with gloves, 17 retinae, 1 hoar 8
minutes; beet Sam Bitten, glover/. 5
rounde, 19 minetea. New South Wale?;
beaten by Bill Penn:tam ; draw with MR
Farnham; beat Tom Dooley, 3 rounds, 11
natioutee ; beat Tom Doe, 39 rounds,
hour 59 minutes; beet George Godfrey,
colored middlaweight. at Sea Prenoisatte
beet doe MoAelliffe, at 854 Francisco* in 24
rounds 1 hour 25minutes ; beat Jant
Smith:2 rowede, 7 minutes, London. Bag -
bind. will be seen by the above that
Jackson Ito never a000mplietted anything
that looluf ...tnarkable in I flatlet way
except hie victoriee over McAuliffe, Q. 0
tESY end Smith. Fernbittn, who defeated
biro, could never stand third.clue la gas
Oetintry. Tom Lees is milea behina olutrete
gionalrip form, Zem Smith and Joe Moe
Auliffe Are Setttgliy the best men hoover must.
The London Sportsman tells how madly
the bleak fellow defeeted Smith and the
taproot/ion he left as followee There bete
been, we venture to sent few such soonest**
thet witneeeed Monday net:Waited siF this
Pennell Clab—a "boxing matoh in which
only the members of o gentlemen's elate
were present, all attired as for dinner or
for * theatre, and without the slighted
element of roughness in the entire gathers.
ing. Tbere were cutely 951 Wrote. dia.
paseclof for the conteenbult neither levenot
money could proton, one for the outsiders,
herring a very few members of the press.
Smith corned to base none of the worst of
the fighting at the end of the first round,
bet before the first minute of the seoond
retind had been fought he was e beataa
man. John L. Sullivan hes been called ik
hurrioarte' fighter; Jackson is wane than
that. He is a smell cyclone, and the unarm
ner in'Whioh he swept about the ring foie
lowing Smith up at every point, and rein -
bag blow after blow upon the Englishman's
head and body was exciting in the last
degree. There was not a drop of blood
spilt, and, after tbe affair was all over,
neither man was any the worm for the
match.
• terms.
We dress too warmly, rather than toe
ecantily, for our beet health. Such is the
conclusion of one of the most interesting
papers read before the meeting of the
American Pablio Health Association last
week. In our anxiety to avoid the leant
exposure to the cold air, we put on tow
many and toe/thick garments, thereby pm -
venting the normal functions of the skin,
lessening its power of retesting the in -
aliening of meteorological changes and.
forging the initial link he the chain of more
bid processes that lead to serious oonstita-
Lionel disturbances. Less heavy clothing
and more vigorous exercise is whet the
body needs to enable it to resist the chilly
blaste. This is better and cheaper shau.
sealskins.—Boston Herald.
Fears Welt Founded.
An able and devoted youtig olergyman.of
thie city, not long ago declined a flattering
call to a church in a neighboring oity..
Shortly afterwardn friend &Sled him why
he had not /tempted the cell. "Oh," 5.18 -
plied, "the churelr,is itt each & bad way
thee I am afraid it will soon die." "o�
surprise me," said his friend. "1 was under
the impression that many of its members
were wealthy." "That is just the trouble,"
said the clergyman, "all the members are
wealthy ;,there fe not 'a poor man in, it,
and a ohnroh with no poor people is in my
opinion iniona. moribund church."—New York
r
Higher Education of Women.
Mia Frincee E. Willard says concerning
the higher edrtoition of woman "If, to
take up the °lassie's, ehe muet lay down the
duet -brush and broom; it, while her mind
brightens, her manners rust; if m taste for
Homer itninoompatikle with a tisie , for
home; if, in fine, she must put off the
crown of wornanlinees ere she can wresthe
her brow with the laurels of scholarship,
then, for the sake dear humanity, let her
fling &Way the laurehi that ,ehe may keep
:the crown. She mint, 'gain witholikloeing„
or all is lost. Be this her rinitto ' Woman-
liness,first--afterward„ what you "
Brink and Orinie in England,
, The pellets employed,' in England end
Wales number 37,296, it a cost, all
expenses included, of L3,727,e42. The
cases of drank and drunk and, disorderly
conditot were; 104,866 ; making with
aneseiltinthe total of 241,887 ; in almost the
whole of which strong drink was the insti-
gating pause of the offence,
• .
A =lee Oildoth, Menet/batwing company
that is 'opening up business in Toronto
hired a,numbee of Undo in New York to
work in the estatlishnient; Among those
.engaged was a German. Last week, how-
ever, he wrote the firm statieg that he had
el wife an,d three children, ,and 'cancelling
his engagement at; hie' wife Waft afraid to
go to Toronto with .her children because of
the daeger from the Indianian tne neighbor-
hood. The ailmit witinen didn't mornto
realize the dengerouts nature of the beers
end other wild animals that hone their
lairs in Ashbridge marsh and which prowl
around Hyde Park after dark, or else her
husband would have mentioned it.