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'Woreleater Gaeette ;
In southern areetipelagos he fought the bloody
cannibal ;
He'd skinued and tannedthe crocodile and towe1
him very tentiable;
Not a work ot feer he'd uttered, not a weird ud
not a eyllable,
When he killed the, Bengal tiger, aced be foued
him very killable.
• olaimee hie etrength was very great, forbears
and lions suite.blee,
Ile ueed to boot the grizzly bear, and found him
very bootable ;
Be claimed in killing monstrous 'makes that he
No wat vtegoToPru'ebolel
bond escape, for he was un•
-
escapable,
Just then the wife came 1 aud said, " I'd ethink
it qulte commendable
If you'd come and tend the baby; and you'll find
nim very teudeble,"
The way she took hen by the ear will make this
poem readable
She pulled him out and led him home, and found
him very loo.dable.
The Farmer's Easy Time.
Chicago Post :
The bees have left the clover
Aed the season's work is over,
They're busy playing checkers, are the farmer's
hired men.
And the live'y yellow -jacket
That in haying reesed a raoket
Bag packed away his stinger till the summer
comes again.
'Tis now the honest yeoman
Idly loafs around his home and
Enjoys his three square meals a day in kingliest
conterie,
Or he lames in the city
And awakens people's pity
By telling them how hard he works and can't lay
up a cent.
"LAST CENTURY 140VERS";
A Tale of the American
Revolution.
From that moment the evening was like
a delightful dream to Betty. The music
sounded, and her he end feet kept time
to its beat. She been to feel that people
were looking at her, that ehe was admired.
Gentlemen crowded around, and her anh
mated face grew beautiful with the simple
pleasure of a girl's gratified vanity.
She was taken in to supper by young Mr.
Tilghman, who was painfully shy, nd
made amends for lack of oonversation by
piling her plate with new supplies, the sup-
per being, in the, old hospitable *ashion, of
the most substantial order, the sideboard
furnished with wines, where the gentlemen
resorred frequently during the evening to
refreelt themselves and discuss politics, the
one absorbing topic whioh entered into all
things at this exciting time. Tom Rozier
was mnoh in demend, as the last arrival
from the Old World, to explain European
views on the probable trouble.
Betty caught sight of him once or twice,
standing with what she fanoied a Iwamoto
pied expression, as if he had some secret
cense of anxiety. Once he eew her looking,
and smiled, when a strange anger filled her
that she should have been seen weitohing
him. He did not join the circle of her ad-
mirers, but, just before the minuet, came
ap and begged the favor tee being her part.
new
" Thank you, I am bespoke," she said,
tossing her pretty head; and danced it
with Mr. Philip Reed, who was the most
violent patriot in the country, a tall, large
man, and a noted drinker and high liver.
Will Ringgold hovered around her, helping
leer into the coaoh when, immediately after
dancing the Sir Roger de Coverly, the party
dispersed.
The dawn was breaking as, well enveloped
in wraps, they descended the steps of the
hospitable mansion. Lights streamed from
open windows and doors, where the gentle-
rnen bad essembled to see the ladies depart
in coaches, leaving them to remain and pro-
long the conviviality until daylight. As the
coach rolled down the road they heard the
sound of a becobanelian chores.
"Those men !" said Miss Stacy, admir-
ingly. " They are going to make a night of
it. Well, I protest I've passed the most
enjoyable evening. La! Miss Bab, warn't
Betty a prodigious belle, making a conquest
of all the beaux? What did you think of
our new spark, Tom Rozier?
relies Barbara was too exhausted by her
unusual exertions to reply, but sat nodding,
the dim light gleaming on her worn face
and closed eyelids.
Betty was fresh, and flushed with
triumph, humming some bars of the
Minuet to herself.
"1 think," she said, speaking with sever-
ity, " that Mr. Thomas Rozier is a prig and
Mr. Will Ringgold a coxcorob—& mincing
coxcomb and a conceited prig. But, oh, I've
had such a lovely time, Anastasia, my
darling 1"
" They say," said Miss Stacy, confiden.
tinily, "that Tom is a Tory. There was a
quarrel after supper which may lead to
something serious. Some gentlemen were
in the dining -room drinking, and Philip
Reed -called Tom a d— Tory,' and Tom
Mapped him in the face. They drew rapiers,
and would have fought it ont at once, but
since° was patched up. I'm afraid Torn will
make trouble, though, for Mr. Reed's got a
great deal ot Ullmann in the Convention.
Such e pity 1"
Betty leaned her head on her hand and
oohed out at the gray morning landscape.
He's a prig," she repeated, not so
"but handsome enough and manly,
I grant."
Then she wondered if this was the cause
of hie troubled and preoccupied expression,
and began to hum the minuet again, vexed
at her own wonder.
CHAPTER 1V.
After the party came two weeks of Ind-
ian -summer weather, when November
sighed and remembered June. Through
the calm days, when the earth in fulness of
matured beauty rested in a golden trance,
premonitions of impending change broke
into the mufti quiet of country life.
From the village came the sounds of
drum and fife ; mysterious strangers came
and went, who were said to be spies of
either party. Every sbop was a debating
society anel pandemonium, where every
num had a right to exercise the prerogative
of a freeman, and to declaim for his own
pleasure, for or against resistance to Eng-
land. The Toriee became lose and keg con.
dent and bold. Many who had been loud-
est in their avowed allegiance to the old
Ind now -powerless government left their
120Mee and sailed for England, while others,
to whom Mr. Itozier was one, by their
assumed neutrality, beoame °biota of sag.
pieion for what was deemed their inter
toted cowardice.
As wee natural under Huth agieating oir-
entnetances, there were few gayeties to
follow the aseembly at Lord's Gift.
After that unwonted excatenient, life, for
Betty, eettled into a routine of which she
bed never felt the lack df interest before.
True, Mr. Will Ringgold came to see her
several time, potted into her ear his poly.
glot ooroplimente, and preeented her With
vomit : "To my Charming Fair," where
"ardent Swain" rhymed wieh " pletteure's
train," and Miss Staey kept them informed
of the rash's of the neighbohOod—how
Mrs. Pena bed boxed the as of a strap,
pirig negeo Wench jest ftorn Africe, and
filitie Bartley had gone riclitig with TO m
- eta
Rozier, malting an elegant appearenee, On
* white horse, olad in a mulberry -colored
riding -habit with a scarlet evoked bat; but
aomething was laoking whioh Betty could
haraly define.
Sbe grew very restleee daring the long
coon:tinge when she end Mies Bab eat op-
posite each other on the two horse -hair
edits in the lower hell, each busily mimed
in sewing up the seeras of homespun
trousers for the fielciehande. Never,
thought Betty, did naen have such long
limbs; they heal the tallest negroes in the
neighborhood—sons of Angle. Her weari-
ness would gain the upper hand sometimes,
and she would follow her longing gaze out
of the open door to the garden and stand
on the hill, looking over the placid water
and the russet meadow promontories to the
melting blue of the horizon.
Reeurning, one noon from such an expecii.
tion, when the eon bad kissed aer cheek to
a deeper glow, and the soft breeze had
blown her hair into little tendrils and curls
around her cap, she found that Bab had
disappeared from the sofa, the trousers
boadled under a ouehion, and heard the
sound of a man'a voice from the parlor,
which elle entered with some trepidation
as to h tr long, white apron and unruly hair,
that inoreaeed as she heard Mies Clem
mention Torn Rozier's name, and ea w his
tall form rise between her and the window.
He laid his hand on his heart, and she
made a step backward on the polished floor,
It was but an instant, but, in thataime,
her quick eyes took the never-to•be.forgot.
ten impression of sunshine on a bowl tull
of yellow ohryeanthemume on the window-
sill, and against the blue sky, a keen, dark
face, earneet and strong, the faoe, not of
"a conceited prig," but of a brave, honest
gentleman as she felt him to be.
Then, because of the fair day and the
flowers, a bird somewhere near began to
sing. Tom raised his powdered head, and
Betty seated herself in a prim, upright
chair, where e stray sunbeam touched her
throat and cheek.
Another sunbeam pierced the shadowed
room, brightening Borne of its accessories—
oblong mirrors with carved, gilt frames,
three-oornered mahogany tables supporting
grotesque china ornaments, and straight
chairs reflected on the shining floor.
"Well," said Mies Clem, contemptuously
overlooking the interruption, "1 do not
doubt but that the classioe are necessary to
a gentleman e ednoation, by giving an idea
of she letters and the polite arts of the
Greek and Roman civilizetions ; but,
prithee, why not have a tutor at home?
/ never went to Oxford, bat, under the
direotion ot my father, at the age of ten I
had mastered Cornelius Nepos—"
" Yee ; but, Blies Clem, we do not all pos.
sees your natural advantages," said Tom,
with a courtly bow; "1 am sore that I
have learned something by having trav-
elled."
"And there is Will Ringgold," said
Betsy, speaking for the first time, " is he
not a shining example of foreign training
and polish?'
"A fair case of showing
'How much a fool that hath been sent to roam
Exceeds a fool that has been kept at home.'"
laughed Tom. "But he is not a bad fellow,
Will, only his trip to France, and his intro.
duotion and aoquaintance among the beau
monde there, hath somewhat turned his not
over strong wits."
"Indeed, he seemed to we very pleasant
oharactered and of a most polite address,"
charitably interpoeed Miss Bab, who was
almost obscured by the herpeichord.
" But such a coxcomb," said Betty,' h
his ma foi's and. grimaces!"
There is some good in him: ban i'faith,
I can't like a fellow that's not enough of a
man to enjoy a run after the hounds, but
mast sit at home and cap verses like a
mincing French abbe!"
" Enoueb, enough," was the fiat of Miss
Clem, listening frowningly. "1 vow I do
not know what to meke of you young people
nowedays, with your talk about cheraoter,
and this quality, and how people feel. No
doubt, a hundred years from now they will
be writing books about the symptoms of
the mind, and what the hero and heroine
think! All fiddledaddle 1 Take a men for
granted, and let well enough alone.'"
"A saying, my dear madam, which te
often urged as an excuse for negligence and
sluggishness," interrupted Dr. Wells, who
had entered the room behind her. The
reverend gentleman was, at first sight, far
from conveying the impression whioh his
learning and goodness inspired in those who
knew him better. As is often the oaten the
preoione soul was encased and hidden in a
defective casket. Short and fat, with a
broad face, hooked noee, and little eyes, he
looked even swarthier and more untidy
than was natural by the contrast of the
snowy powder of his bob wig, traceable on
his upper lip, and falling over his shabby,
black clothes.
'Humph 1" said he, "Tom Rozier here
Quite opportune. Sir, I wish to enter a
formal protest and complaint againet that
white, hound, serving -man of yoars—Pere.
grine, I think they call the varlet." The
little doctor was quite excited, dancing up
and down, his eye flashing fire, and speak-
ing in a high, pompons squeak.
"1 hope, sir," said Tom, respectfally,
"that the fellow, who is a pernicious wag
and bubbling over with pranks, has not
dared to molest you ? "
" Molest I I do not know what you cell
it, then. Why, look you. As I was walk-
ing here, ruminating on the beauty of the
day, the glory of God, and many such kindred subjects, here comes along thie fellow
of yours on a sorry nag—'
"Confound cried Tom. "He
must have stolen it. I've got no each nag
in my stables, and he's wont to be a gdocl
judge of horseflesh."
"That is neither here nor there. This
varlet rides in front of me, pulls off his cap,
and speaks very respectfully, so I stop.
Sir,' said he, '1 have long had a matter of
conscience whiob only you can heal, a reli.
glens point that, for my peace of mind, I
moat have settled. I am aware of the dia.
advantage and publicity of our present
meeting, but, if you will give me the benefit
of a few minutes' explanation, you may
make me a reformed man.' The rascal
spoke so engagingly that I feared he might
hem some crime on his conscience, so I
baited, for it little behooves one of my
cloth to refuse ghostly aid. Speak,' said
I, ray son.' • Well, doctor, the point is
this: Can a tnan marry bis widow's sister-
in.law ? ' Certainly not, certainly not,'
seed I. If there is one point upon which
the canons of the church and of civil lave
are explicit, it is this.' Then I proceeded
to give him certain authorities and jadg.
ments of various tribunals and commils,
deduced from a long course of reading;
until I began to eee the absurdity of my
standing in the road arguing a knotty
ecolesieetical point with a groom, by the
fellow's eyee beginning to twinkle, and, by
the soul of me, lied I not been a clergyman
and he on horseback, I'd, have punished
him for hie impadence, and applied my
cudgel to hie pate 1—I animadverted upon
him with great severity. line the fellow
reasons well and in a dunning rogue. I
can't help smiling at hie waggery."
The debtor was in a broad grin, which
burst into a good.nettired laugh, in whit:1h
-
he wee joined by Tom and Betty,
'1 I'll charge him with it, sir," eadd Toni,
"and be eball apologize; but the fellow
heeana no harm, He has lived from hand
to month in moat of the countries of Eur.
opo, been en rainy Beryline, and picked np
a deal of the odde and ends of learning."
"We will appeal to the dootor," said
Mies Clem, reverting to the argument
winch she dearly loved, eepooially when elle
was pitted against the masculine intellect.
"Doctor, I hold that the education of
young men here ehonld be oonduoted in the
country where they are to live, and that
education in England serves to unfit them
for their own home,"
"But, Mies .lem," argea Tom," England
is my mother•eountry, , my home. Surely
we, here in the provinces, should feel that,
and wish to know more of our parent."
"A parent who is at beet but a step.
mother, " deolared Miro Clem, No
mother ever burdened her offspring with a
tax BO disproportioned to their strength as
England has laid upon us."
"But we owe her allegiance," said Tom.
"1 will always feel that. No doubt the law
will be repealed; if not, we can take meas-
ures to lighten this tax, whioh I, with you,
ihink unreasonable, by cutting off superflu-
ous luxuries and by encouraging home
menufactures."
'No plan of non -importation will prove
available. We will be driven to extreme
measures, even to retistance. The policy
of England has ever been, with ns, that of
extortion, and the reeult will be final alien.
mien."
" Say the policy of the Ministry," inter.
posed Dr. Wells, peering restleasly to and
fro, soattering snuff with zealous enthus-
iasm. "Now, Tom," he continued," which
are you, patriot or Tory; for your country,
or for supporting the aotioa of the Min-
istry,"
"Sir, answered young Mr. Rozier, with
a proud gesture of his hendsome, well -set
head, "1 cannot conceive that there will
ever be but one course open to his Majesty's
eubjects ; allegiance to their oath of fealty.
As troubled as matters look at present, they
will, no doubt, be satisfactorily adjusted;
and, if not, why, as loya subjects, we must
submit to the right of taxation."
"Tut I my boy, you are wilfully 131ind
not to see whither matters are tending, that
no aotive man elm idly withdraw his sup
port from what he thinks right; or will
yoa emulate the stupid clown of whom I
read the other day? When the Royaliet
and Parliamentary troops were encamped
just before the decisive battle of Marston
Moor, when the oivil war had been waging
for five years, a horseman, galloping over
the country, came across a coantryman at
work. • Well,' cried the Cavalier,' for
which Bide are you, King or Perlie,ment ? '
Why,' gaped the bumpkin, staring stu.
pidly,' is them two fell out.' "
"Ay, sir, and at that very battle my an-
imator fell fighting for the king, and his
great•grandson went into exile following
the fortunes of Charles Edward."
All parties were becoming excited, and
the air wae rife with one of the disturbing
political debates imminent at all times and
in all places.
"The time is coming, Thomas Rozier,"
said Miss Clem, solemnly," for you to make
your final choice and abide by it. Will you
be a tame coward, submitting to all that
these scornful masters over seas may chime
to impose upon you, or will you, like an-
other Brutus, be handed down to a glorious
posterity as one of those patriots who,
against overwhelming odds, chose to suffer
odium as a traitor—death, maybe—draw-
ing your sword in defence of your liberty
as a man and freedom from gelling eleiv-
ery?"
The moment was electric with exoite-
=tent. Tom had risen, his head thneenhe
back, facing the earnest little group to
whose opinions he wee antagonistic. '
"11," he eaid, qaietly," it comes to the
choice of determining between my estates,
comfort, and a happy future, such as I have
always antioipeted, and exile in poverty;
and if the former is to be gained by treach-
ery and disloyalty to my king, by subvert-
ing all laws of peame and order, I will
choose exile, death even, before such dis•
honor. God grant then I will never be in
such a predicament; but if it comes I shall
not stain the roll and reoord of my ances-
tors, who have fought and died for their
king—loyal gentlemen, a line never soiled
by treachery or edition!"e
His eyee were glowing. As he paused
they rested on Betty, who felt the nobility
of his words, and as though another sun.
beam had entered the room. There was an
awkward moment. Tom made a low bow,
to leave the room.
" Hem!" oonglaed the do3tor, nervously,
"1 fancied you were thus affected—one of
those who believe in the divine right of
kings to govern wrong.' Not that I myself
doubt the right of kings, and that they de.
rive their prerogative direct from divine
power, for the Church holds "
"Hark ye, Tom Rozier," cried Miss Clem,
"1 like son none the less for saying what
you thins, like a man. You have a right
to your opinion, only be oat with it, and
don't be a neutral, a nonentity. Come
again when you choose. You've got sense,
and tbere are too many fools in this neigh-
borhood for the sensible ones to quarrel, be
they Tories or patriots."
"Betty," said Miss Bab, who was much
discomposed, and wished to make the vie.
itor feel at ease," put on your hat and walk
down with Tom to the landing, and as you
pass by the store -room, stop and get some
cookies."
At this reminder of their youthful days
and the panacea which Miss Bab had ad•
ministered to their every woe, Tom smiled,
and seeing that Betty hesitated, said;
"Will you not come ? " with the desired
effect, for Betty arose and left the room
with him.
CHAPTER V.
When they were a few steps on the
sunny lawn, Mies Clem put her long face
out of a window and called after them:
"Tom Rozier, remember to come again,
and we can disoues the matter more logi.
oally."
On a shady bench by the kitchen wall
sat Unole Mose, his cornmob pipe in his
month, and several lank hoande capering
around him. He rose and shuffled toward
them with e bow-legged, thembling gait,
pectilier to himself.
"Lord A'mighty Mars Tom, yer eut'nly
hez grOwed. An' wuz`nt you a mischievous
boy? I minds me er de time Jed's baby
died, an' deehootddn't find de coffin no whew,
no whar, an I come down ter de crick, an'
dar war de coffin an' you a paddlin' 'round
in it jea' as happy. He! he! I 'spec Mars
Rozier dun gay ger seoh anodder Veal.
lopin' "—looking sadly eympathetio, and
ending in a chuckle of delight. He he!
but yer wuz a lira' er Satan." At the men-
tion of his supernatural enemy, the sable
Pharieee heaved a deep eihh.
"Uncle Mose has trying time with the
devil," explained Betty.
"'Deed I has, Mars Toro, a tnighky close
fight wid him. Sometimes I gets hien
under my feet, an' den I jos' stamen on
him."
Stamp on the devil!" exclaimed Tom,
with au air of horrified surprise. "Don't
do that, old man. Think how etrong he is.
Bette* make friends with hirn, and not
Make him wager."
"Dat de tzar, mega ; data de Wed."
Dittoing them to determine Uncle Mone'e
future reletienti wieh the powere of dark
nes, 13etty ran let° the house foe a nate-
e,
ment and returned ander the ehade Of a big
straw hat, for the autumn sun wite hot.
The air was balmy, laden with the ont.oft
door murmurs which seund like !lumpier,
the clatter of the kitohen yard, °looking of
fowls, noise of ohildren's voines, and all the
indesoribable hum of the country lying low
and level and golden under the deep sky.
"Far de Lord's sake, mama," pleaded
the old man, " girame same terbaoker far
my pipe. I ain't goe none in de world."
"1 haven't any in this cot, Unole, but,
eend you over a pound,"
" Bien yer, mans, de Lord will shorely
bless yer. I ain't got a bit in de World.'
" That is a way the old man has of Baty.
ing his conscience," said Betty, as they
walked along. "He. has a pocket which he
calla the World,' and when there no to-
bacco in it he fenoies he ie telling the
truth."
"The old rascal," laughed Torn," I hew)
a mind to give him two pounds for leis
ehre wdness
Tom was rather moody and silent as
they went along the peth threngh the field.
He 'muted very fine, Betty thought, in bit
coat of deepolaret color, buckskin breeohes,
and highnopped boots, which he restleasly
hit with a switch. His brows were ent,
and his eyes fixed on the ground.
" I regret," he said," that stunt isons•
sion should have arisen, but, under the cir-
cumstances, no man of honor could with-
hold his view; and, by heaven I cannot
conceive how any man of honor can hold
but one view of the subject. Had 1, before
leaving England, imagined that affairs here
were in suoh a oriels, nothing would have
induoed me to return; but"—looking
around—"it is a lovely and a peaceful
laud, and I am glad to be home. Betty,
you have not falfilled your aunt's bequest.
Where are my cookies? "
"1 have them here," said Betty, diving
into the depths of a capacious pocket and
extracting several; at which they both
laughed. and Cassius, rejoicing in the pos-
session of one, tore on wildly down the
path.
Betty had felt rather constrained with
him before, and awed by the travelled
yoang gentleman's polieh and courtliness,
but this demand put them on their old,
familiar footing. War might be imminent,
but it was hidden in that future which is
full of delightful possibilities to youth, and
they linghed and were happy for no better
reason than that they were young.
Caseias turned his attention to chasing
the shadow of a buzzard sailing with per-
fect poise over the fields, yellow with stub-
ble and staneed corn. Betty looked up at
it, and her lips moved as she repeated
something to herself.
"What is tinsel you are saying asked
Tom, curiously
"Only a silly charm Hail, lonely buz-
zard, hall! Who shall I see between now
and this time to -morrow night?' Then
you make a wish, and don't look at the
buzzard again, and you will see whom you
wish for."
"'Pon honor, that's a pretty -may way of
seeing one's sweetheart. A.ndyou wished
for—whom?"
"Oh, I can't tell you. It wouldn't come
true."
They had reached the landing, two wood -
me steps to the water, where a row -boat
lay. Tom leaned against the ecarred trunk
of a weather-beaten pine -tree, while Betty
seated herself on a stone in the sunlighs,
Cassius resting his bead on her knee, seem-
ingly satisfied by this communion with a
higher nature.
(To be Continued.)
Knowledge is Wealth.
First Tramp—Where did you git that
fine overcoat?
Second Tramp—In the big house at the
corner.
First Tramp—I went there only die
mornin' elaiveria' wid widen' they wouldn't
give me a rag.
Snood Tramp—I didn't ask fer dote es
fer meself. I told 'em it was fer the poor
heathen in Central Africa.
Ile Amended.
"Look here, I understand that you re-
ferred to me as an educated hog."
" Yes, I did; but I am willing to modify
the statement."
"You'd juat better."
"Very well. I'll take beak the word
educated."
"Canadian Minister" is Good.
New York Press : Sir Henry Tyler, a
Canadian minister, said in a recent speech
that reciprocity in coal between Canada
and this country is under negotiation.
The latest phase of the Newfoundland
trouble is M. Ribot's rejeetion of Lord
Salisbury's request that the matter of the
French bounty system be referred to arbi-
tration. An ee.rly agreement having been
found to be improbable, negotiations have
been opened for the prolongation of the
modus vivendi, but a difficulty has arisen in
Lord Salisbury's demandthat the present
arrangement be amended.
THERE is a great scarcity of " stiffs " in
Toronto for anatomical purposes and the
medical students are wroth at the Salve,
tion Army, beoanse it claims and buries all
She bodies it can get hold of. The 'Varsity
of this week says :
What the Army's reason for acting as they do
is, we cannot say, We believe that tee officers
do it out of kindness to the poor, but in many
cases it is misplaced philanthropy. There
would be more real kindness in letting them go
to the medical students. Do they fear that these
human beiegs would be denied the right of a
decent interment? We assure them that every
subject, when the dissection is finished, is
carefully and decently buried in the cemetery.
Every respect whioh their humanity entitles
them to is paid them. And we have no doubt
that, at the resurrection morn,those who have
i
been dissected will be found n as good condi-
tion as their more fortunate brethren whom the
army.has taken care of.
This may be, but we never hear of a
medical student being " carved" for the
benefit of his fellows.
An inquest was held at the London
policeestetion before Dr. Flock, for the
purpose of fixing the responsibility if any
carelessness was the cause of the accident
that resulted in the death of the late Samuel
McDowell in the employ of the Imperial
Oil Co. After heering the evidence of four
or five witnesses of the aooident the jury
found that death was caused on sr:wont of
a want of proper care in the execution of
She work, and that the foreman, Geo. Min•
hinniok, is and was responsible for the
want of care.
Col. Chailli-Long, the Franco -American
Chief of Gen. Gordon's staff during the
Soudan campaign of 1874, ridicules Stan.
ley's early staternente regarding the con.
version to Christianity of the Xing of
Uganda. He thinks Stanley'forest dwarf
incidents, cartes a dormier de bouteille, and
the rescue of Emin Pasha a philanthropic,
Masquerade, mid generally emestions the
truth of Stanley's accounts tef his jontney.
Chailli.Long prediate that Stanley will be
found to have been guilty of imposture and
disloyalty, and challenges an answer to hie
aesertione.
" Don't you know how to spell?" asked
the exatmetated teachor of the extremely
phonetics boy. "0, yes," said the boy," I
know how to spell well enough, but the
wen who made the dietioreeriere don't seem
to."
RQIIIANCE Oir AMAX, LIEN.
HOW a W00118tOlik Boy Was 'Lost and
Found in More Ways Than One.
Five years ago last summer, says the
Owen Sound Advertiser, twit Woodatook
boys whose heads had been turned by a
course of dime novels ran away frora home
equipped with a revolver and a stook 91
remarktole ideas about the world. One of
these lade was Fred W. Bale, the eon of a
wellato-do oontractor in Woodetook, and
about 15 years old. On leaving home he
changed his name to Weed, The pair
'walked some twenty miles from home, and
then took the train to Port Elgin, tem
escaping detection. From Port Elgin
young "Wood"Oreille over here, and was
engaged by M. Forintri to work en his
place, where he Mayed a year and a half.
He then drove tattle for Dlr. Kennedy
and other bnye ea for a year or se.
On the 1st of December, three yeare
ago, he engaged witn Mr. C. A.
Fleming tie janitor of the Business College.
.e hiding good metal in the youth Mr.Flem.
ing the following July apprenticed him in
the College printing -deportment, where he
readily acquired the bueiness, and bids fair
to be an excellent printer. He has all along
been e, trusted and valued member of his
employer's household. Whatever longings
the youth may have felt for home and
friends have been combated in his mind by
a settled couvicnioa that hie relatives could
no longer (etre for hirn:' No one here knew
that the name of Wood was an assumed
one, though he made no secret of having
ran away from home when a boy. Two
weeks ago, however, in attending the
special services in the Disciples Church
young Bale experienced that marvellous
obange which always sets the wanderer
back into right relatioeehips, human and
divine. The eeoret could no longer be kept
but the poor fellow, Mile doubting hie wen
come, wrote to hie mother over the name
of C. Wood, asking if she would like to,
hear news of her runaway son. Any
mother who reads thie oan imagine what
sort of an antiwar the first return mail
brought. The eager mother and fainly
could not ewait a response, and closely fol-
lowing the letter OSElle yonng Mr. Bale to
learn what newe he might regarding his
lost brother. He canvassed the different
families of Wood or Woods in town, and
was finally set right by Archie Trout,of the
post -office, wbo went over with him to the
Businees College. We will leave our read-
ers to imagine the surprise with which he
greeted hie brother and the genuine plea-
sure of the meeting to both. That was ,
week ago Seturday. The following Mon-
day Fred went home with his brother, and,
after a week of heppy re -union with hie
relatives returned last night. Mr. Bale
had been out on the Pacific comet execut-
ing railway bridge contracts for the past
three years, and was not expected home at
present, but when the brothers reached
Woodetook they found the father there be.
fore them. Fred deserves credit for the
bravery with whioh he has "roughed it,"
and the good use he has made of his later
opportunities.
Clergymen's Big Pay.
The following information regarding the
salaries of some of the clergymen of New
York and Brooklyn is believed to be
euthentio : Dr. Morgan Dix, of Old Trinity,
has $15,000 a year, and his assistant $6,000;
Dr. Huntington, rector of Grace Church,
has $15,000 and re Louse the rental of
which is worth $5,000 more; Dr. Greer, of
St. Bartholomew's, receives $19,000, and
being wealthy reteine nothing of it for
himself; Dr. Brown, of St. Themes', has
15,000; Dr. Rainsford, of St. George's,
leas $10,000, and like Dr. Greer gives it all
away. A dozen episcopal parishes pay
from $4,000 to e8,000, and the bishop re•
°elves $15,000. Among the Preebyterians
Dr. Hall draws e13,500 ; Dr. Paxton, $12,-
500; Dr. Parkhurst, b8,000; Dr. Taylor,
$15,000; Rev. Robert Oollyer, Unitarian,
has e10,000. Dr. Talmage receives 812,-
000 from hie congregation and doubles
this income in litereture and the lecture
field. Dr. Abbott is paid $8,000. The
pastor of the largest Methodist Church
has $5,000 and rent of an elegant par-
sonage; and the Bleshodiet biehop receives
$5,000.
Time le money.
Teacher (of class in grammar)—What is
that familiar short sentence whioh brings
time and money into Mose connection?
Voioe in back seat—I know. Teacher—
Well, Tommy, what is it? Tommy—Ten
days or $10.—Munsey's Weekly.
LIVERPOOL, England, is said to have the
beet paved streets in the world. The
American consul there notes that the
laying of the impervious pavement which
was adopted in 1872 for the carriageways
of the city has been continued without
intermission, and is faihl in progress, re-
sulting in needy 1,750,000 yerde superficial
of impervious carriageway pavements and
a saving by the execution of this class of
work unprecedented in municipal experi
once. Among the regulations are these:
1. Permission is never given to private com-
panies or %. ersons to cut through the pavement
in any street for any purpose. When such work
is necessary the city re,rporation will do it in its
own thorough way, and the interested parties
must pay the entire coat.
2. All the street railway tracks (tramways) are
laid and owned and kept in cendition by the
corporation, and the company leasing them for
traffic peys an annual rental o 10 per cent. on
their cost. The manner in which these rails are
placed is fully shown in an illustrated report of
the fernier City 0 gineer, who says: "The
Liverpool city lines as now laid are conclusive
proof that when tramways are well designed and
properly constructed they do not form the
slightest impediment, even to the narrowest
wheeled vehicles,"
The streets are divided into three °lassoes,
the pavement designated 68 first class
being uonally laid down in the Main streeto
in the central parts of the city where the
traffic is heavy. The prinoipal material is
granite, both for roadways and footways.
LEARNED IT I3A0IIWARD.
"V stands for Voter," the scheolboy remarked,
As ho stood squarely toeing the line.
And he thought of the freeman with ballot in
hand,
power that was semi -divine.
The boy grew in years and he found out at Wet
How wrong 0/18'44 first lessons may be
An hour at tee polls gave him plenty of proof
Tbat the voter oft stands for
otiona Vb.as Dispatch.
Beggar (to gentlernan)---Clan't you give a
peer man a dime? Gentleman—Haven't
any change now. Will be beck this way
soon. Beggar—Ah, air, it's giving credit
to men like you that keeps me poor.
The C. P. R. Telegraph Company are
arranging to lay in the spring a three -wire
cable in the golf of Georgia from Victoria,
13.0., to the mainland. The cable between
Viotoria and Dungeneterwill also be kept in
repair, and other measures taken to insure
transmission of messegee promptly. A
fourth wire is also to be put on between
Donald and Winnipeg.
Mrs. Elena Stuart has been an invalid
for many yeare, during which time she had
88 different dootors, all of whom had
different treatmentfor her dinette.
Strange to say, Mrs. Stuart lived through
it all, end has weitten a book on "How to
Get Well and KeepWell." Dooters and
theinpille are " not in it." Her reriipe
in brief, to eat rem beef and drink warm
water,
1l'f438114g 81,V1140 on Food Grouled swd
Vuground,
Sue—An QXPeximent wait conducted at this
farmduring the early part of the year winch
clearly indeettea the emu rektiveloss suetained
by farmers who oonthae pigs to a diet of un -
growl eraine during the Winter season. Pige are
very feequently fed in tiara wey, it may be
leanly from lack of thought, hut oftener bele
cane° it is convenient. The pertioulare relating
to this experiment are uow pine through the
press and will be issued in bulletin form a few
days hence. The gain on the investment from
the pigs fed on a ration of peep, barley and oatie,
all of which are ground, aud wheat middlings.
Was 399 Per (lent in 104 days. On tho other,
hand the returns arising from theme Iota which3
were fed on unground peas and barley, and
Around peas arid barley respectively, wore
far from eatiefautory. There was a,
lack of general elm& in their appear-
auce throughout the experiment. Some of them
also become rheumatic and did not wholly re-
cover although fel on a peeper ration for BOID8
months after the experiment °Weed ; wheras,
those fed on the mixed ration of ground grain
and wheat middlings grew well bean the first
and were quite ready for reerket at the end of
the 131 days during which , experhnent laste&
wou,d also like to state here tbea the bnpor-
tenet-) of havi, g p rit ready for the early mar-
kets has never been duly considered by the
farmers. Tbey have been accustomed to bring
ix iato market during the last half of October
and tho two months followi g. This custom
which is almost universally prevalent has Faison
from two causes—First, the pigs which are kept
on e. low ration uutil the fattening period am
not sooner ready for the market; second, the
pork has nearly all been slaughtered at home
and marketed in the dead earcaes form uneil
recent years, and it aas been found more con-
venient to do this late in the semen. The prac-
tice of marketing on foot is growing rapidly. NO
one should feel better pleased over this than the
farmer, as it so.vea him the necessity of engag-
ing in tbe unpleasant work of killing it
bimself, and it reayeates this work to the pork
packer, who has it done in the best form. If.
hovvever, the farmer could have his spring littera
ready isr the early market, say iu the months of
Jul',', August aud September, he would get
much better prices for 1135 pork. The following
figures, which give a list of the prices paid for
pork ou foot in (:), trio during the outran:ter and
autumn months of 1889 and 1890, will show the
differencee iu the prices prod duriug those
months. They else show tee eve nt of the
advantage in the price of pork the Ontario far-
mer possesses over tee farmer in the Western
Stotee. The figures given have been furnished
at my request by the leading pork packing bons
iu Toronto, and are assuredly reliable. The
represen, average prices for the whule month.
The prices given for the emericau perk were
those paid iu S. 14 uis and Chicego ; and if to
diem 25 cents per hundred is added, it gives us
the price of the same delivered in Toronto:
PRICES PAID POR PORE ON FOOT IN 1689.
Ontario Hoge. American Hoge.
June 5.60e per lb. 4 500 per lb.
July 5 63 " 4,36 "
Aug... 5.70 " 4.44 "
Sept 5,50 " 4.37
let 5.40 " 4-37 "
Nov. Ist5.00 " 4.17
PRICES PATD PO EPORR ON FOOT IN 1890.
Ontario Hogs. American Hogs.
May ......... 5.58c per lb. 4 87c per lb.
June 5.43 " 381
July 595 " 375 "
Aug 581 " 3.8e "
Sept 551 " 440 "
537 "
4.62 "
400 "
Oot.lst
Oct 24th
Nov. let
.19 0
These figures are of much significence to the
Canadian farmer. They prove re him: First.
that during the mr nths of June, July, August
'and September. excellent prices were paid for
pork last 3 ear and this year. Second that tho
average for these months was $5.61 per hundred
on foot as againet $5 on November let. and that
in 1890 the averages for the some months respec-
tively were $5.37 as against $4, that is to say,
the tamers who his year marketed hoge in the
four months named, got on an average $1.3'7
more per hudred on foot, than those who mar-
keted them on November 1st. Third, that in
both years the'decline in price was considerable
during October .Fourth, that for the four
months named in 1889 the Ontario farmer ob-
tained $1.20 per hundred more then the Amerie
can farmer, teed that during the corresponding
period in 1890 he was paid 01 42 more per
hundred, that is to say, our park mer-
chants were willing to pay us $1.42
more per hundred for our pork during
these months, than they were willing to pay for
American pork. Our experience at this inetitu-
tion throughout the entire seeson strikingly con-
firms the correctness and importance of thoae
figures. During the months f spring said early
summer we had no difficulty in ob eining from
to 5e cents per poend live weight for our pima;
whereas, for the last lot tur ed off, Nov. 14112,
we only realized 4 Mu cents per pound. The
pigs in this lot were fed for purposes of experi-
ment through the summer, and although the
figures are not yet made up, I feel satisfied that
they were fed at a loss, or at most at a very
slight profit; whereas, those fed on a proper
ration in the experiment alreedy referred to in
this letter and sold in Juue made a gain of 38 9-10
per cent on the money iuvested in 134
days. From these figures two im-
portant questinns arise which demand
an answer at the hands of our farmers. First,
can we make our pring litters ready for market
prior to the end of September, and second, why
do our merchants leave to go to the United
States at all for supplies? My answer to the
first question is: Yes, and with much edvantage.
If the spring litters come in April and are well
fed they will do to go to market in September at
from 110 to 180 lbs. dreseed. Those who have
warm pens may h eve them come in January,
February and March, when they may be mar-
keted in June, July and Au ust Tbis way the
merobants would be supplied in these months,
which they are not at present at West by our
farmers. Tho dams producing them litters could
then produce agate in August and September.
and not in October and N ,veelber as n,evy. No
farmer requires to he told hat pigs farrowed in
August and September are immensely superior
for wintering over to those ferrewee in October
and November. The cause of the ra.dd decline,
in prices towards the ,pproach of November ia
the glut in the market. Neerly all our farmers
have their pork ready at that time, hence there
is an excessive supply at tbat period; whereas,,
if the supply were distributed over the summer
months, this glut would be prevented
and the buyers would not have the ulnae
necessity for going to the Ueited States
for supplies during the months indicated.
A quarter of a million of Cana iian money now -
goes annually to the United Bastes for pork for
purposes of slaughter Here is one place at leaat
where the McKinley tariff does n t -teed cannot
harm us. It remains with our farmers to
determine whether in the future the geld of our
pork 0 erche.nts now going to the United States
for pork shall continue to do eo, or whether it
shall go to them instead. With the vantage
ground we stand on 09 11) prices, and witb the
fine capabilities we possess to' go k production
we can assuredly shut tbe Ameriean mit of thie:
market, if we are but true to our interests in the
liue of peek reeking. Yours dec.,
TRIOS. SEre.w.
Out. Agr. Col., Guelph, 201h Nov. 1890.
wTEE people of England are not all tithe.
orshippers. The following in the London
Weekly Times has a democratic ring: " L
think we ought to keep snobbery out of a
polioe court. Why should people like
Viscount Royston, Lord Dangen, Lord
Greenock, and other morbid 'minded noble
cadets be politely invited by a magistrate
to take a seat on the Bench and stare at
their leisure at the criminal charged with
the Kentish -town murder? tThese people
and the women who were with them are no
better in the eye of the law than the ham-
bleet frequenter of the police courts.
should be the last to object to courtesy
offered to a really dietinguithed men. 11
Mr. Gladstone, or Lord Tennyson, or
Professor Huxley have reason to visit
court of justice, let them, by all means, be
enabled to do so with the minimum of
inconvenience; but these titled nobodiee,
nine out of ten or %them are practically
better-olass paupers, why should they be
thus lifted above the rest of their fellow -
citizens in a place where all ehould be
equal 7"
The late Mrs. Astor had a laoe dresa
which cost $15,000, and it is atatedl that
another wee recently sold to an Aramaean
lady for $25,000. There are a number of
ladies in New York who each own laces
valued at from $20,000 to $50,000.
Physioian—My dear sir, yon need deep.
Tell me, do you sleep well at night
Patient—Dootor, I hive not had a night'
sleep for eleven year° ! Physioien—Why,
it's a wonder you are not dead or insane t
Does it interfere with your businessa
Patient -No, darner, not a bit. '4 Indeed?
What is your oottapation, may I ask ? " "
am editor of a morning piper." Dootor
leaves in diegast.
Nearly twenty thoneand pounds of bread
are daily eaten in the etiltan ot Turkeyhe
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