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The Exeter Advocate, 1890-2-20, Page 6Save You EvQr NOtieell That gavO you oVer notieed When you're buying berries by the peck • Alkat those on top are large and ripe, without a spot or speck ; liale those beneath are small and green—hot worth thp looking at, ,And altopther worthless—have you ever noticed that 4, gave you ever noticed in tbe summer when the days are cold Tile iceman leaves a larger chunk them 'what your box will hold ; But when the days are scorching hot and nearly try your fat Ere leaves the merest trifle—have you ever noticed that ? Base you ever noticed that the man who's tliwaYS telling you 4)3out the wondrous things he's done aud what he's going to do Ts Imam( ah the present time—his purse is busted tlat, And "won't you loan a /Ivor ?—/aave you ever noticed that ? lifave you ever noticed fishermen all have such awful luck, The mammoth fish they neariy get fall back int.) the brook, And while of great fresh water whales they ever wildly (Mat, They bring home tiny minnows—have you ever noticed that? Rave you ever noticed officeseekers, ere election day, Grasp everybody's hand and something kind and fetching say, But who, when safe in office, with a salary big and fat, Forget the humble voter—have you ever noticed that ? THE DOSTERS: ARomence of Georgian Life I crave pardon, sir," Henry answered, pressautly bowing. " It was doubtless a mere vagary ofnay thoughss to imagine for moment if that little beast were trying to express its regret for the words with which you just now characterized so excellent a man as the Reverend Mr. Swinger. As a matter of fact I aver most positively that I did not know beforehand a word that he was going to say in his exhortation last night, if that was the occasion of his fancied offence to yourself; indeed," he added, smilingly, " I doubt if he knew, as he usually speaks on such occasions according to the inepiration that he feels prompted However, pessing,thet by for the time, and referring to the first remark, wherein you notify me of your wishes regarding your house, as you Beene it, and some at- tentions that I have had the honor to pay to your sister, I will answer that my im- pression all along has been that the man- eion in which you reside along with your mother and her belonged to them jointly with yourself, and having been treated by them, on the few °wagons when I have been there, with mtioh courteousness, 1 am not quite sure that I shall observe that portion of your demand; but I think—yes, I rather think that, at least for some time, le will." " I rather think you will, sir." "Perhaps you do. It concerns me little whether you do or not. As to the other portion, I must say to you frankly that I shall pay no sort of attention to it whenever rmay happen to meet Miss Joyner, unless I find that her will in that behalf coincides with yours." " In the name of Goa ! " mid Hiram, laboring hard to repress the loudness of his voice, " what is a man to do in such a ease " After meditating a moment Henry an- swered, " What would you do, pray, sir, if the objeot of of your present ire, instead of myself, were my relative, Mr. Thomas Doster ? " Then he again looked up at the squirrel, which had run up to a higher limb, and was continning its warnings. With deep scorn Hiram replied, " But for Mr. Thomas Doster's leaving the camp after your Fourth of July oration I should have made through him the demand jest t to you in person. It is not relevant to ,nensider what I might do were he in your case, notwithstanding I will say that his vicarious visits and attentions to my family are disgusting to me ; infinitely less so, however, if for his own personal ends, would they be than his cousins's. No one -could regret more than I do, on all accounts, that I have not to deal with that gentle- man, who, as I have always believed, has same sense of honor and responsibility, instead of his preaelaing cousin, who seeks to thrust himself into my family, and that, as I verily believe, by maligning a man whom everybody who knows my sister, and whom she herself until lately, have been expecting that she would marry. If you were not a preacher—even as it is I can hardly refrain from putting on the black oloth you wear to screen your person from violence such marks as would disgrace you in her eyes and others'. And I now warn you, sir, that unless you cease Hold, sir—hold for a brief moment, I pray you," interruped Henry, still Bitting, as Hi- ram stood withering with paseion. "Mr. Hiram Joyner, I do not know how much I ought to 'feel gratified by your words in praise of my cousin. If they had been more cordial they would have approximated nearer his deserts. But, sir, it is not true that I ever sought, and I claim to be a man incapable of seeking to win the hand of any woman, or any other object, that I may deem necessary to my well-being, by the employment of such arts as you mention. Having answered this much to the insult- ing charge which your manliness, it seems, was not enough to withhold you from bring- ing without proof, I have now to add that my profession, or, the better to suit your taste, the sort of clothes I wear, will help I truat, to defend me against many a real danger, bat I menu you that I neither rely upon them as much as a jot now, nor shall 1 hereafter in any poseible conflict with you. For the sake of others of your family I restrain the words that would rise to my lips in further answer to your •charges and your threatenings except to eay that I brand the former as grossely lalS9, and that I depise the latter as vain menaces of a childish braggadocio." He then rose and looked with calm defiance upon bill adversary. " God! " exclaimed Hiram, overpowered by rage. Taking a step backward and closing his fingers tightly he raised his hand on high. Henry spraug forward and seized ilia arm. At that moment, like the bull of Marathon or him of Bs,aban, Mr. Swinger rushed from behind the poplar and as he peit 'himself between the oorabittante, elbowing them apart mid, in merry tome : "No, you won't ; not quite you won't; not if old Allen Swinger know hiseelf." CHAPTER VIII. No men could have foreseen what wonld have been the belle of the contest. At least tm could not Mr. Swinger; otherwiee his deportment, ag they were presently mooted, would have been different. The young race mold not, but separate under the eeplasion ,of thou etalwart mime. He looked est Itirana with ttagry disdain, an the latter recoded with some seg of elmone for hav- ing given away to hie passion so far beyond what be Ined intended. " }Brae Jemer "—flattening his lips against fisteath-.—" want to know how 1 come here ? Well, 1 tell you. 1 are yot1 and tlettry Dawster a-tettodn' to these woods and knoWed from porde o' miter talk in the neighborhood1 bored abett you wee up to rmenii,ortal4aenvilrooket ent'4e;ast8ad 0nI btilueeld emclI,a thee papier than Olnyon mu come down now, you littlevarment "—Moking up at the equirrel, that had net yet °mud its cone- plaininge ; "you like to veld on nee, though I weren't teeter your young num. Go 'long home ! " 'The squirrel took him at his word, des- eendea, tripped joyouely to the poplar, Dna was soon laiticleo withea its nest. "And now," Mr. Swinger reeumea, " you want to know how I come to part you two? Well, len up and tell you that, too. It were jos because I were 'epicioneri Henry Dews - ter a beim' ruttier light weight, and eet usea to soh, you might of ben too much for him. Uneeretaud '2 If I hadn't ben jubous on them p'ints in my mind I'd a stood back and a let him lam you till you hollered and out with some o' your mean. nese. The good Lord Immo I ain't for fighttn when it can be help; bat when it can't, thee Pin for pitchin' in; and when I am in, Pm for fennin' out the concern, even if 1 does have a rewivle on my bands. And let me tell you, Him Jyner, if it hem ben me, 'end othie yearlin' of a boy, no sooner'n you out with your oudattions sass, I'd whirled in on you and Po a frazzled you oat so that you'd a ben thank- ful to be let take it all back. I'm not a-denyin' I were meaninsome o' my words last night for you along o' teother ongodly (Maps, that you special got right in the path o' my chergin' and looked that impotent that I were jos ableeged to give you a passin' wipe; but when you say I were pat up by this boy here—when you say that, you tell a—. ' " There, there, Brother Swine,er 1" ex- claimed Etenry, do not—I beg you do not utter the word. Mr. Joyner doubtless be- lieved to be true what he said." " Well "—reluotently lowering the arm he hed raised—" I'll do as you say, Henry. Mayby he did. But it go to show what fool notions some people have, that they think so much more& theirself than t'other people know they're worth that they'll go off heintiocked, and nothin' but a flash in the pan at Met. Now, Hume Jyner, your father, Zenil Jyner, were a man I thought a heap of, 'spite e his bein' sech a streen- ious Baletise But yit he were a mono' them kind that he'd a 'never denied a bein' o' that, nor whatsonever else he might think it were his jaty : and he were not a man to jes find fan't and make a hullaballoo with people that he have no more ocossion than you has with me or Henry Davester, ary one, without you jos natohuilly thinks people belongs to you to order 'em about as you please—hanh ? " " If he is through, sir," said Hiram, sul- lenly, still looking only at Henry, "1 with- draw the charge which Mr. Swinger— though wine his usual extreme rudeness— has convinced me to have been without just foundation. It is poesible thee I was overhasty in referring in such terms to your profession; but the demand I made regard- ing your deportment towards my family I repeat, and I shall trust to be able to enforce it. As for Ur, Swinger'he is too old a man for me emu think of resenting his coaree insults," He then turned and weekee rapidly away. " Old or young," answered Mr. Swinger, loud enough to be heard but for the sway- ing shrubbery and the sound of the trampled leaves, 4, he could fan you out so bad you'd have to be took up and took home in pieces. In my day I wanted uo better fun than to handle seoh as you, two at a time. Sher, boy! sher 1" Henry had sat down again and covered his face with his hands. Looking fondly upon him, the old man said: "Come, my son, te.ke down them ha,nds and liven up. 't har's nothin' to cry about, nor not even to be sorry about, exceptin' it's for not Hokin' that bar into some sort o' shape; which, I hadn't ben afeered you was too light weight for the above, I'd a let you a done it. It ain't of'en seltleth'dis' preacher have to fight; but when he do it's a positive needoessity for him to whop the fight, or he'll git that cowed that he can't preach the blessed gospel effecuil like it got to be preached to make headway with the gen'razion o' sinners we has to deal with in this gen'ration ce people. The good Lord don't want them he have ohoosed for to preach his word to go about mmakin' practice o' fightin''and piokin' up fights with Tom, Dick, and Harry; but nether do he want 'em to be mbackirndown when people tries to run over 'em. So git up and look peert. Yon got to preach agin to- night." The young man looked up with imploring remonstrance. " Yes, sir 1 " the elder answered, unre- lentingly. " It's done fixed, same as the law o' the Mede and Persian. This very night of our Lima some more o' your sweat and whut elee stuff you got in you got to come out. Another reason I some rather you wouldn't hitch with Rime Jyner, and look all tousled and bunged up when you ris in the pulpit. Come, git up, and march back, and don't you open your month nary one time about what have took place this mornin'. It'll do you more good than harm, and in more ways than one. But I hain't got time to talk about that now." Taking him by the arm, he raised him up, and they repaired to their tent. They were not surprised to hear during the day that Hiram ana Ellen had left the camp and gone home. With what little reflection he had time to give to the matter, Henry rather thought he would have thus advised. With every successive effort he rose higher in men's eon:done. The camp was continued only two daya longer than the usual time, when, owing to the great strain on tent -holders, it was broken up, and the [services earned on for another week in town. In this while Henry saw Ellen not at all, though after the return to town he met Harriet daily at the Ingramse The' rencontre in the woods became known only to those immediately interested in it, and its extent to not all of them until some time afterwards. Second only to that he felt in the great revival was Mr. Swinger's interest in the fortune of his dear protege, and in their private interviews he spoke of them in cheerful hope. " Go on, my boy, witn your aties, and attend to them the beet you know how. Not only the good Lord, but everybody else, have respects of a man that stand up to hie jute?. When this rneetin' is over, then we can see how it suit to move. Him° Jyner settinl at you ain't goin' to do you any harm, speak,' when it's forma out how you stood up to him. That part got to oonee out certain if the rest do. Whatever you do, don't let Tom know yit how it all were. Tom's fiery hisself. It's best for him not to know all about it, so he can keep goin' that, med keep you posted how the land lays. 'Term bettor not go anigh the Jynerre y it awhile. They ain't no doubt 'Erne's told his people all tebont it—bull- headed feller that he itl—and your a goin' to the Mame and not thar, it'll show Mesas Jyner that you bete reitpeots of her Mello% and it'll maktt Ellen naadder with Hime and more deterna'ed to lean on you, and it'll fetoh Mange to a heed quicker. The old lady come of fightin' stook, Babtie as they Wa00 spa she ain'tgoin' to think lees 0' yeti for atandin' wetter)up tee Hime, her own eon if he do be; and as for the young 'an, segaelettate her stronget. Wine" ming, Henry beweter, its a Maki o oreetere, I don't keer how skeery they Make Mit therneelveri, they want them they gin ' to take up with to be feared o' nothiu epeeial 01411,01ot has two legs. A man got to etudy winimiog to find out all atom 'ern, like had to do when I were a -outman' Mester, and they had me up a tree. Why, Me, in 'damn theme a teller, and he were Fleeter's emote, sina he have prop'teettud he wore a big teller and a fighine feller, and he wanted Hester Inc his own aelf, he dia— ler she were pretty as 0 pinle— and he made all kind o' pine in me. And I teok it, bemuse I were &Marcia o' miepleasiin any her relation and kinfolke, and a leetle more ani he'd a got her. At lest, when I see how things was o gwine, I got neeperne end so one day I mete Jahn in tom), and he hadn't hardly more'n said the word beats to me beleee I lit on him, I did, and wore him out. Now whut you think were the upshot o' seoh as that 7 Well, sir, the very next time I are Heater she were oomiu' out o' meanie' ; for I daran't not come mai& her nials house; and when she see ine she bowed, she did, and ehe smile ; and the next day, when I went thar all a-trimb- lual—for she were a beauty, I tell you, boy, and she hold her own now along with any of 'ma yit, ae people men me for theyeelf— but, when I got thar, ef she didn't rise, and, a.s I understood the motion, she hilt her arms open. She always say she didn't. All the some to me. Into theta arms I flawed, same as a eparrer from a hawk, and thar I ben ever since, blessed be God ! And vehut's more, her ma, that fellers own blessed aunt on his father's side, she got riconeiled to the match, which up to then she ben horstile, same ef I come of Tory people. No, sir; that's wlmraing the world over; aud main reason I parted you and Rime, I were feared o' your light weight. But you showed thesperrit, and, as the feller said, that are suffioient. No, sir; that skrimmage will go to fetoh the business to a oompermise quicker than if it hadn't happened. It woald of done it quicker if it had ben the Mays, which they ain't that awful streenions about Bsbtis as the Jynere. lit, my son, you done right in follerin' your instink o' love. believe in her strong as pizen, same as I did thirty year ago. A man got no businese a-wantin' to marry any female girl without she seem to him at the very top o' creation, so to speak, and he feel the instink o' love breakin' out all over him in spots big es a sheepskin. No, sir 1" Henry smiled, aa well at the speoulations of Mr. Swinger on his own ronartntic ex- periences as at the intimation thus given unintentionally of his partial regret that his young friend's affections had not found SI lodgment somewhet further down the river. CHA•P PER IX. Whether or not Mr. Swinger understood human nature as well as he claimed, re- sults justified his predictions. Ellen pru- dently refredued from expressions of ,uatich feeling at home. She managed to see Tom Doster on the day of her return from the camp -ground, and in the interview both gave and received some salatary advice. Two weeks afterwards, when Mrs. Joyner found out that Henry bad been in the neighborhood and had called only at the Mays', ehe said to Hiram "You've made matters worse by your foolish interference. Ellen has seen that Henry Doster is quite able to take care of himself against violent young men like you, and though she don't say so in those words, it's plain to me that, just as I'd be in her place, she thinks more of him than she did before; and it would have looked much more decent, besides being better every way, if the young man, when he was down here, could have come right on to the house, instead of having to meet the child at—the Mays'. The respect he showed for himself as well as us all by keeping away proves to me that he's a gentleman, and if he wasn't a Methodist preacher I don't know that I should feel so much opposed to it. As it is, you've put it where it's worth nobody's while to say anything about it, one way or another.' " I've done my duty," answered Hiram, bluntly. "Ellen, is she always has done in spite of my advice, will do as she pleaees, espeoially when you don't try to hinder her; but euch things are very far different from anything pa ever anticipated." - Then he went ont, in order to let this remark, as he knew it would, rankle in his mother's mind. Mrs. May also had her words of indigna- tion for Hire.m's conduct and admiration for that of Henry. " Why, William," she said to her son, " Sally Joyner ought to be proud of such a young man for Ellen's bean, and if she wasn't Bach a Baptist, and so proud of Horeb because Mr. Joyner started it, ehe would. Upon ray word, when I heard how he had behaved to Hiram in what was the most uncalled-for attack I ever heard of, to say nothing of camp -meeting going on at the time, I deolare, Methodist preacher as he is, I couldn't but wish--. However, I won't say that; but you two boys, William May and Hiram Joyner—how have you two boys abused your opportunities 1 I've no patience with either of yon!" Will laughed as he turned away, for already Mary Anderson, whose father's land and negroes were just across the river, was beginning to seem in his eyes about the equal of anybody. In all this while the mind of the pastor of Horeb had been anxiously exercised, in spite of several quite unexpected immer- stone, which there was no denying were ow- ing to the late Methodist revival. He tried to be reasonably thankfal that some little good had come out of such a whirlypool, as he was wont to characterize the camp -meet- ings, but he must brood over the possible lose of at least one favorite lamb. Outside of his own home, except when in the pulpit or when engaged otherwheres in religious (partionlary denominational) discussion, he was far from being a wordy person, and he rieldom meddled, except when appeal was made to him, in family matters among his congregations. One evening Hiram Joyner came over to his house, and after merely saluting Mrs. Buffington, asked her husband for a private conservation. After the visitor had gone, the groans and other interjectionel things from Mr. 13tillington, being more than common, awakened some curiosity in his wife. " Whut in the world Hiom Jyner want 'ith you, Mr. Bulennon, make you look so serous? I don't know when that boy ben to thia houee before." " I ought to look ser'ous, 'omen, if I don't. Hiom Jyner sere:nee too, andwell he mout be. I didn't, know tell now the intruet he take in Horub, which Zekol Joyner thought and believed he were foundin' on a rock when he built her, and him nor nobody elee ever expected se& a thing in this whole ontimely world tte to see a Methidis' comin' down here and breakin' of her up by =rum' into a fanebly that nether wants him or hien. There reports about them girls was jet the Mot -truth, and Hiom Joyner say that if soneethin' ain't done, and that soon, beth them famblies le lorake nee from Hornh. For you know well enough, to my gamer, fleet them Mays they ain't never been good, genuine leabtis' like the joynets, and when that preacher, that heeti Tom Dortister's °engin, Rod TOM a-helpini him—my Lord! •And when he have tdok Ellen away, Iliotit say they clean to get Tom and lekirriett in time, and, I cen't tell the time I felt like I ben a-feelin' for tilia hist hem, When 1 ben eountin on Tom Dorriater for one a' the very Mail deacons when he got a little more age and expeunce an his shouldere and as for the he)piix' sapport the parstor moorain' to his propty, he hen the one most 'pennance wee to be pat of all of 'em. I wouldn't a believed it ot Tom Dorrister. And not only so, but I alwaye, tell Ude news, counted on the jindin' o' thee banns whensoever they got enarried that everybody never had ary seole a thought but Ellen and ,Willem Mem and Mom Jeeeee and Hare.% And I'll jest toll you how it'll be. The old man Swine,er'll be the (me to do tbe waren' o' that Demister preaoher and Ellen, and then he'll hop up and put Tom and Haat through a bciin of Tom' d cousin, arid in eourse a menthe' back hie fee he paid ole Br'er Swinger, and I elmen't be even iuvited to nary one o' their weddin's. Ain't I got cause to feel ser'ona, omen 7" " Ob, Mr. Bull'n'ton," began his affection- ate wife, with comforting, intent, 4, if rt s the lots and lotteries of them young people—eP "Don't talk to me about your lots and lot- teries, female 1" he bawled. "Tour lots and your lotteries don't do any good to my mind, the fix my mind's in." The good wife subeided, and could sym- pathize only in silence with the multitudi- nous oomplainings of her lord before sleep that night came imparting temporary relief. The next morning, after awakening, the first words that Mrs. Bullington overheard, sounding as if they oame up from the bottom of an extremely deep grave, were, " Woices the time have come when woices got to be raised and let out in mob a que,n—darous— conee off! e About an hour after his breakfast Mr. Bullington rode over to the Joynerse Dis- mounting solemnly, eolemnly hitohing his horse, he walked as if his legs barely were able to take his gigantic form into the piazza. "Brother Buffington," quickly said Mrs. Joyner, even before taking his hand, "you are not well. I saw it the minute I laid eyee on you. Take that rocking -chair, unless you are afraid to sit out in the open air, and I'll have Nanoy bring a dipper of cool water from the well." leie let himself down upon the rocker, and waved his hand veith some defiance to the open air, as if the harm it could do, added to that already poured from other sauces, was merely contemptible. And when able to speak, though in much feeblenees, he an- ewered "How do you do, Sister Jyner,? No, Sister Jyner, I ain't afraid o' the ar That ar can't hurt me. Yon said eomethin' about water, if I heerd correct, Seater Jyner, and I'll acknowledge my mind were a-mu:loin' on water the minute you spoke. No, uo,—oh, no1 " And he raised a hand in mournful, firm deprecation as the lady started into the house to call for the beverage. "My raind, I say, have been amunnin' on water more here lately than I 'member it have run there speoial Bence I were old enough to be cionwicted o' the value, not so much for the drinkin' of it, leastways for the present. Foot is, I never doubted nor wished to deny the good Lord made water for man and beast to drink; one thing. But the mainest thing, if I understand the Scriptue water, when it were made, it were made for people to git down into it, and have theirselves dipped into it, or nether, as the Soriptur' say, baptized into it, bythem He have apPinted the authority to wash away their sins. And I well 'members how that used to be the idees that Br'er Zekol Jyner had on them same subjects, and I couldn't begin to tell the times, me and him, that we always went together in our mind, same ef we been two blaok-eye peas. Bat, a -last I him a bein' now dead and goned, and me left here and a-tryin' to peg away best I oan by myself—no, no, Sister Jyner, I don't want no water to drink, a yit, a not a-denyin' I Won't take a gourd after a while. Whar's Ellen ? " " Harriet came by here a little while ago and got Ellen, and they rode together over to Sister Doster's." " Rode to Sister Dorrister's 1 The good Lord send it were to stay thar 1" he mid, with solemn heartiness. "That is, of course, I mean when the child git ready to leave the parenchen ruff. But it give me, her bein' away, a some better chance o' empt'in' my mind of some o' the load that look like I caret sleep o' nights a•thinkin' on poor Br'er Zekol Jyner, and a leetle more and I'd. a lost my appetites for my victuals." (To be Continued). Thoughts By the Way. The man who fears God shall be taught by God in God's own way.—Dr. M. It. Vincent. Some one said of a fine and honorable age that it was the childhood of immortal- ity.—Findar. Sin is to be overcome, not so much by maintaining o direct opposition to it as by cultivating opposite principles.—Fuller. All our actions take their lines from the complexion of the heart, se landscapes their variety from the light. —W. T. Bacon. On a sun, dial which stands upon the pier at Brighton is inscribed this most hopeful line: "Tis always morning eomewhere in the world." The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful inflaenoe in the world, next to the might of the spirit of God.— Spurgeon. Beautiful is the year in its coming and in its going—moat beautiful and blessed, be- cause it is always the year of our Lord.— Lucy Larconz. A Western Classic. Franklin Parke—Of course I shall gee you at the symphony concert, Blies Pray - roe? Your aunt tells me that you're devoted to music. Miss Prayree (a visitor from Chicago) — Indeed I am 1 And it's an orchestra of 60 pieces, you say? Ole, I do so hope they'll play "Down WontMcGinty 1" eiot a mopefui case. Mr. Fainwed—Then you refuse to marry me ? • Mrs. Blainehence—For the present I naast. My husband is in good health and we are the best of friends. I will keep your address and if a vacancy should occur I will drop you a line. The Florida orange crop this year is reckoned at 2,000,000 boareti. Saillier's Catholic Directory for 1890 estimates the Catholic population of the United States at 8,277,039. There are 8,332 priests, 7,523 oharchee, 3,302 chapels, 35 theologioel seminaries with 2,132 sten dents, 102 colleges, 636 acederniee, 553 charitable institutions and 8,194 parochial schools with 633,238 pupils. Archbishop Fe.breni organ, Le Senzaine Religeztae, denonmee the proposed taxation of religious property. The Rev. Dr. Ilymen A.bbott is (hawing nearly as large corigregettione to Plymonth ChM& as Henry Ward Beecher did in hie lest damn In a late Sunday •eermon Mr. Abbott took r&tbe a pesidmietieve oi the conntry's future. The Census 13111 about to be introduced by the English Government will provide that hereafter the miens be taken eery five years. • QUA OVItttEniqx. The O0e4t10n of tlie Issue or Money tri canana—Tne varloiui What kinds of money leave you gat in your pocket? No gold, probably; a dollar or two in silver coins, whiele are worth almost their Moe veluts to mule the melting pot, and some bills. What eort of bide Oa one you reed Abet 4, The Dominion of "Canada will pay te bearer Two Dollars, "Ottawa, July 2ud, 1887." Oa aaother that 4' The Traders' Bank of Caned& will " pay Five Dollars to the bearer oa de- mand, Toronto, 2nd J ' elly 1885." The membere of Parliament, tilebankers and other Co,nedians are now discuming pro- posed changes in the ourrouoy system of the country. We learn from the Canada Gazette that Donainien notes to the amount of 015,085,057 were out at December 31s1, made up of Fractional $ 172,667 bo 31 and bg 6,350,951 75 $4 4/5,768 00 30, 310 and 300 11,767 65 $50 and $100 379,40 00 3000 and 31,000 7,743,000 00 Total 315,005,657 90 The bank e reported that they had on deposit at teat date e9,117,810.86 of Do. minion notes, eo the people must have had 4e5,967,847 worth in their pockets and tills. There were alto bank notes in circulation to the mamma of e33,577.700, including 02 733,523 of tlae Bank of Commeroe, 41517,- 150 of the Tradere Bank, 41988,888 of the Bank of Hamilton, e5,446,225 of the Bank of Montreal, e1,224,833 of the Bank of British North America, e1,816,711 of Dd.olson's Bank and 92,961,780 of the Men clients' Bank. Thus it appears that the community can make nee of abont 940,000,- 000 worth of paper currency. Now, what are the requirements of such a oarrenoy ? If tbe banks are Milano their " promises to pay " as currency, it is important that the notes shall be redeemed in even when a baule suspends payment. Tide has been provided for by making the notes a prior lien on the entire assets of the bank, and by the "double 'Minty " of shareholders. Every bank whioh hos sne- pended since this arrangement came into operation has ultimately paid its notes in fall. Some Ions has been caused, however, by the notes of a suspended bank falling to a ,discount temporarily, between the date of sospension ana the winding up of thebank's affairs. A man might watt to use his money, and he could not afford to wait for the time when the notes would be re- deemed at par so he disposed of them at a discount. To obviate this necessity, it is proposed to establish a " Currency Security Fined." Each bank shall pay jam a fund, to be held by the Finance Minister and the General Managers of the several banks, one half of one per cent. per annum on its average circulation, until the total amount in the hands of the trustees of thie fund reaches 5 per cont. on the average circula- tion of each bank. By this means a fund of e2,000,000 can be accumulated in a few years which, invested in Dominion of Canada seourities, would place the possibility of a lose beyond doubt. Each bank contributing to the and would draw the interest annually on its depoeit, and in the event of reducing the volume of its ciroulation or going ont of busineee would be permitted to withdraw its proportion. Should a bank fail and be unable to pay its notes in full, the fund would of course be depleted, and the banks again have to resume the annual payments of one-half of 1 per cent. until the amount drawn was made up; but in the past no such loss would have occurred to the fund, and it is urged upon the Government that banks shall be established hereafter upon a much safer basis if the existing banks undertake to give this guatemtee. Inthe event of the failure of a bank it is also pro- posed that its notes shall bear 6 per cent. interest until the liquidator announces hie ability to redeem. It would follow from this that the notes of a suspended bank would be received by every bank, and would be willingly held by them, until the receiver was able to pay, in order to earn the 6 per cent. interest, the holder having the know- ledge that he oould at any time fall back on the guarantee fund. It is a cause of complaint that Canadian bank notes are subject to a discount a, long way from home; that notes of the Bank of Hamilton are not willingly taken at par in Prince Edward Island, and that notes of the Bank of Yarmouth, N. Se are only accepted at a discount in Hamilton. To remove this liability to discount for geographical reasons—to make it certain that the notes of any Canadian bank shall be received at par in any part of Canada—it is proposed to make it obligatory on the part of every bank to arrange for the redemption of its notes at the commercial centre of each Province in the Dominion ; that is, at mole cities as Charlottetown, Halifax, St. John, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, or Calgary, Vancouver or Viotoria. And to prevent any bank from refusing at an outlying point in a Province the notes of a bank redeemable at the commeroial centre of that Province, it is suggested that the notep•of all banks which have conformed to the Act shall be received by other banks in payment of debts to a limited extent yet to be fixed. These suggested amendments appear sufficient to provide the two requirements, the look of which has led to a demand for the adoption of the United States National Bank note system in Canada. The Canadian bankers argue that the Ameriosn system is unscientific because there is no relation between the power under which bank notes are iesued on the one hand and the cumeney requirements of the country on the other, whereas in Canada there is almoet an absolute ratio. To illustrate this: During the years when it was pro. fitable to &peak bowie with the United States Government and obtain circulation therefor, there was inflation, which in the end helped to bring about the panic of 1873; while daring the yeare when it was unprofitable to depoeit bonds and issue circulation therefor, a contraction of the currency has taken place so violent that it mast have worked fearful commercial die - aster had the gap not been filled with paper dertificates againet silver. Therefore, in order that clemency issued under Govern. ment bonds should exectly meet the requirements; of the country, we would have to suppose that the profit from the issue of each notes was just sufficient to induce bankere to inn° the right amount of notes; and even then there would be no elasticity whatever to phovide for the mei- rattM and minimum issues of each year. It is not only necessary' for a currency to be elastic with respect to the numb:atm and minimum imany one year, but it must also fall and rise with the requirement° of trade over a, seriee of years, This quality the Canadian bank circulation has alweye possessed and the A.ruerlean Mutilation has RS distinctly lacked. Conteasting the Canadian with the United States syetem, the aaveritages of large Menke with bran& systems having a natiehal importimee, at egeinst Members clf email hankie inaividually weak, and having May it load ineportande, May be urged. The branch systein is developed 6 a 'very large ettent by the Mutilation prieileme bbs &a&d&nbaflk bav, not tinty ' because of theprofit from these iSones, but bemuse the till, money M all *he branches mete the benke nothing, being la fact not money until it has been Put into deo:da- tion. It is believed by bankers that the lose of thie power would cause the gust invoke in Canada to eventually oloso third, or peeeibly one half, of their officee. Now QUO great feature of the branch sys- tem is that it Wogs to every little town of 1,000 to,1,200 people, and upward, a. safe piece of deposit, and an institution from which Madera may obtain loans, possessing o firemcial strength and prestige altogether different Mean that of the ernell banke wideah minister to the wants of towns and cities in the United States. Thin is a very great point in times ot financial stress. 11 1* is adinitted that the funoteon of bank is to gather in the surplus earninge from communities where there is more money paved than is required for new ven- tures, and to lend that money 000 10 portions of the country where the ne w ventures exceed the annual savinge, the branch bank sve- tem perfonne these functions admirably, while the American syetern utterly fails to do so. In the United States it ia no unoora- mon thing to find beaks in New England overloaded with oapitel which they are eager to lend on good eeourity at 4 per mut., while the bast borrowers in States like Kamm are paying 10 and 12 per cent. In Canada we can see the extraordinary development of the branch system in the Bank of Montreal, whioh gathere money in the Me,ritime Provinces from a people who save annually much more than they require for new ventures, and lends it on the Pacific' slope where the enterprises are out of all proportion to the savings of the people. There are some who ineist that the banks should not have power to issue their notes as currency at all, but that the legal tender of the countryshould all bear the impress of the Government. People take the Dominion ones and twos readily, and they would take Dominion fives and tens just as readily, in place of bank notes. Then, whatever profit there is in the circulation would accrue to the whole people instead of to a private corporation, and when a note was lost or burned the whole people would be the gainers. Were Dominion notes made the sole paper mer- rency of the country, it would be necessary to guard carefully against the irredeemable feature, so that there should be no inflation of currency and consequent depreciation as was the case fifteen years ago in the United States and is the ease now in Russia. The Dominion notes mush be redeemable on demand in gold, and the Government would have to keep a gold reserve. It might be suffiaient to keep one dollar in gold for every e3 of note lame; or a minimum might be fixed for the issue of notes 012 the credit of the country—something len than the lowest ascertained requirement of the country—and the entire issue above that minimum could be secured by the de- posit of dollar for dollar in gold. The banks would lose the profit they now derive on oiroulstion. Probably the bank dividends would come down; possibly the rate of benk interest would go up. Per- haps, as hinted above, some of the bank branches in email villages would be closed. We cannot discuss the pros and cons of this question ex cathedra, but rather in tentative spirit. Primarily, the 1 unction of a bank is to provide a safe place of deposit for the eurplus money of those who have, and to lend the money of share- holders and depositors on good security to those who have not. The circulation privilege is an added function, which evidently is valued by the bankers. We can safely assume that it does them good; it is for Parliament to decide whether it infliote harm upon the country at large. Principal McGregor's Strange Disease. Since the last day of last year I have (says Principal McGregor, of McMaster University) been seeking what advantage might come to me through hospital life and treannent in New York City, and / can thus for fix no date at which my stay here may end. I am still lying on my back in bed with a weak spine and the lower part of my body paralyzed. Thus far I haye had no return of power to the paralyzed parts, but the day of possibility and hope is not gone by yet. I am now re- ceiving treatment from ,Dr. A. B. Judson, son of the great missionary. His special department is orthopedic surgery, and by the application of brace pressure to the spine with cautery and suspension hole now working for a removal of the paralyeim Should the means now employed bring about no ,improvement in the ensuing Rix weeke I may then have my spine opened. by Dr. Weir, one of the foremost of living surgeons. The operation is rare and critical and leas been at- tempted only withia recent years and chiefly in America. Yet though critical the leading surgeons in this city think the risk of life in the operation maoh leas than I was led to regard it before coming here. I have learned of a number of cams of paralysis in which the operation ha e been performed in this city. None of these were followed by fatal issues and in about half of them large advantage was gained. Yet no very acourete prediotion can be made regarding results fence the operation has been performed in very few cases, perhaps not more than 25 or 31.1 ell told. The phy- sicians here agree that my paralysis is dua to a slight displacement of two or three vertebrae in the apinal column, and that this displacement is due to some external injury which has wrought eome decay in the bone and thus given rise to the curva- ture. Dr. Weir tells me he believes that any tendency to decay in the bone at the point of injury has been wholly arrested, and that it is fortunate for me, since it is often progressive and therefore amerce - milled with dangerous ulcers and aboesses. Ile says he regards my cam ars (mite hope- ful, that I have two good chances of recovery, one through the present ortho. pedio treatment, and if that should fail another through surgery.—Canadian Bap. fist. Thts is the Way of It. Wife—Dear George, how does the smoking cap suit you that I presented you with at Christmas? Husband --I am delighted with it, dearest. It waa very thoughtful, very kind of you to give me Ruch a present. W.—The bill for it has just 00108 10. Will you pay it now, or shall I tell the inert, to call again? John Smith on a Back tieat. . In one city at leant John Smith hes to take a hack seet. The directory or Min- neapolis revues the fact that there are in that city 2,000 Ole Olesone, 1910,Brick Ernikeens, 1,216 Nebo Nelsone and 1,011 John Johnsons, Evidently Minneapolis id somewhat of a Scandinavian eity.—New York Tribune. It Would. Not be Hare. Mrs. Small (to Stitt Boarder)—Won't yott have some pound mike? Star Boardee--Thanke, xi°. I forgot to put my bottle of pepsin in my pocket. .• Mrs. brae toketi, of Cleveland, Ohionile probably the youngest Widow bn reeorl ger husband died of the grip lane, week. They were married throe weeks ego the age Of the bride being 14 years.