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The Exeter Advocate, 1891-4-16, Page 2urawaserailmoumw. The kluintuer Hirt. She'e coutieg with the ilovvers thatwill bloona for ue mace more. theta conaieg with the breezes that will blow along the there. Tlae sun will taes her ringlet e and will tinge her claeeks with brown, While he who loves her mean, grapples fete and toile ia town, ,and Cepid, with the arrows that he's given her to twirl. Will guard anew the tootetepa of the sprightly summer girl. When robin redereasthops around while yet 'tie early dawn, Aud. tennis players dot the green of greasy field audltswu We'll see her dressed in percale, with a walking stick iu hand Azad ha her bratherh elect tie will she stroll along the esenl, And where the crowd is thiekeet in the summer hotel whirl, Will bloom once mere the beauty of the clasam- ing summer girl. With glossy collar shiuing in the light of sum- mer days, With vest wed elsh and blazer we will learn anew her ways, Young Cupia will austruet us how to pierce the thin daeuise Of meeouline attire that hidas the maiden heart we prize, And when ono more we cutim her as the sum- mer's priceless pearl, Well haat the sualiug features of the iony sum- mer girl. --Tom Masson. THE PEPIA DONNA ruin their *wane for sale) I would have them copied in ahromo, plain lithograph and engraving, and, in the eud, 1aatually believe th&t I ehould realize mere money than 1 have been offered mud yet have the paintipge to. me." "Four hundred thousand frencs 1 will give you, to -night, for those peintings I " the benker ejmuleted fiercely : " And while you Will num of Your theneth mice, you may thank the gods that yoa are saved the damnably volgariziog of two noble works ot art by haviog them chromed and litho graphed." " I will pey you our hundred and fifty thousand frame within an boort' re. marked the other deliberetely, "and you may reserve the right to exhibit those paintings for one yeer, and at the end Co publish WA Mhtly copies aa you claaosa, on one condition -teat conmeteut judges Shall prononuce them worthy of the originals." There was eiletice in the little group. Four hundred and fly thousand trence and the right so copy was the gorgeous mule met total value of three weeks end three dritre eted-No! of my life! 'You are anxious to poeseas them," the banker muttered with n three. "Yoe, I ern more anxious than you are," was the brief reply. "Then take them," soneded in a peal:beg nrl as the banker walked away, "Are they mine?" naked the purchaser. The deeler's voice was not proteseionelly calm now, as he replied: "As a rule, ens is BO jealous that no copy of any kind sand' be mede ot his high- priced works of art ;ht.-pardonme, Moro eieur-your very generosity makes me -- makes un-" " Doubt my ability ? " e,alted the pur. chaser. "Tho man who bid against me did not recognize my face, it ia true; but he will very readily recognize my nitme and honor my draft for double and treble that amount. Is not that sufficient ? " "For the money 2 Oh, my deer air, believe me! For that I had no thought. It is only that the offer you have made destroys( for you all money value in your purchase sant perpits:es me." " I have not seen the paintings," the purchaser replied, " theretore I was not appraising them at their money value." " Bat, ray dear sir, you perplex me even more. Now, may God forbid that I offend you! Remember that I am standing here, hesitating to accept the largest profit that was ever realized upon two works of a liv- ing artist, for I wouiel willingly saorifin it -though it left me to beg my bread -before I woald do en uthiud or discourteous etot So Anthony Winthrop. that is my trouble. Let me explaan it. if I can, without offend- ing you. If AL Winthrop were dead, these work e would be purchased for the Louvre, and there they would be admired by all, with the highest and punnet sentiments of the human heart; for among the pure all things are pure. Bat you know it is evil to him who evil thinks, and if, through my carelessness, theee worka should Blip from me to find a place in each a great gallery as that in the halls of the Je,rdin Anthill% for welch place their having been copied would not iejare them but rether enhence their value, 1 can BOB that then they would be worth four hundred and fifty thousand frenos to become the evil genius of the grand salon. And, Monsieur, I tell you frankly, I would be a beggar all my life oefore I would see Anthony Wiuthrop for himself, or as the eon of Carlo Winthrop, so disgraced." Anthony Winthrop! A man thus de• fended by a contparetive strenger 1 Amen whose unbounded possibilities, unlimited facilities, abantlant resources (teetering in that arrogant Utopia -salt! culminated in the ehiveriug orntkard, cringing in the cor- ner, lest the eyes of one of God's creatures should penetrate the shadows and be defiled by resting on him. "What is it then that 30u ask of me? !' enquired the customer. Simply that you satisfy me (=corning the parobaser," replied the dealer, "and that you make the usunl contract with high- priced worka of art, giving me the right to repurchase at the price peicl, if the terms of the sale be violated. It is quite custom. ary, Monsieur, even with works of muoh less value, to niae that contract." " The enetrent is of little moment. I will readily coueees to it," repliedehe teas. tomer. "Then, as to the hands into which it is to !all?" queried the dinkier. "Is it ie confidence?" the other asked. " Be sesuree it is information for myself alone," replied the dealer. " Very well, Aloneieur, I am businese manager for this lady, Mlle. Wilhelmina von Steinberg. She ia the purehmer." Gasping 1 tottered to my feet. , "Vagabond 1" cried the dealer, catching me hp the throat. " Onoe to -day I heve ordered you oat 1" He was dragging me to the rear entrenoe. "Oat witkt you! Drznaken wretch 1" he mattered as he thrust me through the open door to fall upon the rough pavement ot the dark alley. He paused for a moment to readjust his dress, then, closing the door upon me, he returned to complete the sale of those paintings upon which he wes to realize a fabulous fortune, which he would have eaorifichd, though it left him a beggar ell his life, before he would do an unkind or a discourteous act to Anthony Winthrop. CHAPTER XX. And the bleeted face in the MIMI' gave me no hint or sue,gension thet (multi in any way emplate to me why Moe& did eot come. Even e raireor could aloe reaee mes.e! my- self, and, teatime net reeponeibility but bitter rebellion egitimst her, I !Gond the sentituant c sariefection, arid, w it, consoling xecif 1 determined to go to the gallery and as those wonders of ars, those wonders at art which the critic had so superlatively praieed. wes esrly in arritieg and she gallery was leree, bus alreedy s orowd had gathered &soul the petimings. The door keeper frowoeo approathed the gate, but I held the money in my hand whtre he could eee it. and, like the world he represented, he yielded to the temptation and let me pass My franc ns it fell tato the box rammed a carious melod to my ears. Dearly had I earned it in itiintiog those pictures, and now it was ping back again into the pic- tures to cut short, by e freno's worth, the closing reel of the last figure of the dance of Death for me. Bat what did it master? As I entered the throng pressing toward the paintings, many & stranger drew away from me in disgust. There were artiste there eager to gain what they could of valuable hints from those greatest produc- tions of the day; bat they hrank from me with a loathing shudder. There were gold - lined celebrities there, coming to purabeee, muttering to themselves the various amouats they wenld offer to p0S$E1BS those artistic) triumphs of the age ; bat they started in horror when they found thetn. selves near me, and for a moment they forgot their eatimetes. nth women of Paris cringed as they looked at me and turning hurried on then in the menvellona beauty of Anthony Winthrop's work, they might forget that ghastly sight they beheld in me. Little child' en omit f tightened glances toward me and presaed clatter to Came who • had brought them there, in order that they might say, long yen -re afterward, that they, too, had once looked upon the greatest works of the the antist whose name, at that raciment, at least, was the moat celebrated it the world; but, better than the paint- ings and longer, I think, those little onea remembered me ! The dealer, as he eueved through the admiring throng of satellites, was startled betond measure at the eight of me and caught me roughly by the shoulter, drsgeing me away from the paintiugs that those more worthy to look might, unoutraged, feast their eyes upon the treasures furnished him by Anthony Winthrop's brush. Glad enough to escape from my sum roundinne I shrank into a secluded corner and hid. myself in the shadows, sitting on a low bench almost concealed by the drapery about the window. After all, I was not BO amnions as I thought I should be to see those paintings of Anthony Win- thropte It was not worth the diffioalty of reaching a positiou neer them, and I did not again attempt it, but sat all day upon that bidden bench, till, late in the after- noon, the dealer epproached arm in arm with one whom 1 recognized as a leading banker ot Pans. The dealer I had known well in my " palmy" days More than once he had visited Florenne as my tether's guest, and once he had been there as mine. The banker said tablas : "I do not qaaetion the feat that they are the finest figure. nieces that have been pro. duced by modern art, but what I say is, that men of our eat, are not rich enough and are too aensible to run wild over piotures. I will give sixty thousand francs for those two paintings, delivered at my house to -night ; and I warn you, you cannot do better." The dealer ebrugged his shoulders, smiled and shoo* his head, refusing sixty thousends francs for the labor of three weeks, three days and a night. A gentlemen and lady approached. In the prevailing fashion of the time the lady's fame was completely hidden by e thick veil; but, even then, the fear crept over me that, notwithstanding this, a woroan's eyes might penetrette my hiding place, and it made me shrink farther behind the cart/tine, and bury my face be'nind my hand, in the hope f hiding its hideousness. The gentleman said : "Ah! and I understand that you wish me to make you en offer upon the same terms," mid the gentleman, a little 800111- ba:11y. "Very well, I will make it. I will give you eixty thousand trestles apiece for She paintings after you have exhibited them one month." " A hundred and fifty thousand for the two tonight 1" muttered the banker. I did not look up but I knew by his voice that the other was angling as he replied : " Now, Monsieur, I see where we stand, and I will chimp my offer. I will pay you two bruadred thousand francs for the paint- ings and you ratty keep for one year.' "Three linndred thousand frame for than:linen 1" Osculated the banker. The belt:won days of life were looming 1 The El Dorado of my wildest imagination I The elysium of the math 1 The one ambition of my life WAS Shia! "Gentleman," the dealer cruelly inter- rupted," you truly appreciate, as I do, that these paintings have a value which is only limited by what one must and ow afford to pay for them. Why 1 why I could I afford it, gentlemen, believe me most sincerely, no one should ever purchase them. Yes, and even now, I am quietly bidding with my. possibility could Mina ever aoMe over lin Whit 4 eight ot revelation it was 1 In the morning 1 WOO ready to marvel at the divine forgiveness that enabled her even to mama those paintings that had mune from my forgotten studio, when, with all her heart,tehe could but loathe me, as, with all my heart, I loathed nayselt, and, turning fiercely npon me 1 muttered lt is you, not Mina, who has done all this " Sufficient untothe night was the horrible revelation of it. I will not stir the =here of the Are through which I paesed to emerge ao offended, disappointed and enraged WWI what I had been that, though I had no longer any hope of winning even so much ea a frietdly approval from Mina, there was C1bso1ately nothing left me but to reactive, with all the strength that remained in me, to turn from whet I was and do something, anything .that ahould at leset be inatigated by a deetre to do better; but at eighwandtwenty, as I Mapped from fleet old into the unknown new, I was more helpless then thett starving boy of fourteen, sitting, shivering under the shadow Of the Lorelei. Getty haired and prematurely old I found no longer a blank !militia me, only waiting to be filled out with Muds', for the future, but es life that was full to the brim with the results of wasted energy, arrogance and shame. I was !ashamed to acknowledge myself as the painter ot my piatures. I was ashemed to confess rayeelf as the bearer of ray own name. I weal ethernet' to diaoloae myself to friends who might stilt be friendly. I was eshemed of myself any- where and everywhere. (To be Continued). Self against Yon. I am saYitig to inYseire for instill:me, that, to exhibit those paint- ing for peer will be worth a hundred thotteenct fretics to me, and—." "Three hundred and fifty thotiesind fratnla to alum at once !" said the bather' ellarply. The Turf. The seeing season In Toronto promises well. The bill already before the public makes a programme of 25 days and the purses amount to 525,000. Of this 510,000 will be divided aruong the thoroughbreds, and the remainder will go to the trotters and peelers. The season opens with the May meeting of the Ontario Jookey Club eaS Woodbine Park, testing lour days,. The Woodbine Driving Club had decided so far on six days in June aud July, giving 55,000 in purses, anti Mr. Charles at Dufferin Peak offers 510,0000* five meetings of three days each in Jane, July, August, September and October. The fall meetings of the Jockey °lab, the Hunt Club and the Woodbine Driving Club have yet to be arranged. The once famous racing horse Proctor Knott promises to do good work aeain this emeon. lie is at Memphis and a day or two ago when the other horses in treining went the half in 52 and 53 at hetet work Praetor Knott went easily io 54' and was ea fresh as possible afterwards. Some most extraordinary and ecercely credible stories are being oiroulated about the "facts " which the English Jockey Club are said to have colleoted in their investigations. "One young jockey, I am told," writea a correspondent, " was found to have upwards of £30,000 at his banker's. A. proteseionel backer was discovered to have had sixteen winning weeks in slimes. sion, during which time many thousands of pounds were paid him, and another is etated to have lent £70,000 to a municipsl- ity." When the horses of the late August Belmont were sold the 2 -year-old filly Magnolia, by The Ill-Usect-Alagnetism, was purchased by Baron Leopold Rothe. child for 55,100. She hag been in charge of James Rowe, but will be shippato Eng. land thin week. ` The judgment of the court in the ottezge against Lord Lonadale for 'fariettOrddiving, arising out of his driving metals,' was as follows: The magiatretes have considered this cue very carefully, andthe majority are of opinion that it shonli be dismissed. They think that there is no evidenoe that the horse was not nader proper control, or that the life or limb of any person was endsngered. At the same time the msgis. tratea express the opinion that a public highway is not a proper place to be need as a raceoonree. LET ME TOUGH IGIT THE HEX Or HER GARMENT. As he dragged me past my Mina ray hand touched the hem of her garment. In hell a drop of water fell upon my lips from over the great gulf, and the result was just as it had been when Mina caught my hand upon the Rhine. It made me think. With whet I had accomplished in art Mins was satisfied. She was pitying tour hunared and fifty thousand francs for the only part of me with which she was satiefied ; the only pert to which Lever had given et single thought that it should be worthy of her seinairatiou '• a single ougges- tive consolation to the drunkard, lying bruised upon the pavement whither he had been thrust, that he might not pollate the air which she was breathing. There, on the Rhine, I saw my life, look- ing forward, in Is picture. In Paris, in that wretched alley, I saw e picture, look- ing beoltwerd, iu my life.; and they were both alike. All my life hed been drawing a battle scene, where love, like the water, was all the wrong color, where ambition, the knight in the foreground, wee so out of proportion that, when I presented it to Mina, she could not do otherwise than admit that I could do better, I mts Noble saloon -keepers. Buffalo News: The Earl of Darby has the gneationable distinction of owning more drinking pieces] than any other Eng. lish peer. He has 7,2 of the plates to his credit or discredit, while the next largest owner is the Earl of Bedford, with 48 grog shops. The Duke of Devonshire ie bat one behind Bedford and so it goes through a list of 152 peers, who own 1,529 places where liquor is sold and drank -all in "darkest England." "Fardein me 1" exelaimed the obseqtfiotts dealer, growirtg wont hi a aubject, ehd conelantly inaeittairig in civility. Whet Mil flaying to toyeelf is teeny title : ',Why Mtn net, alter ell, actually arrerge te keep ailr trlynelf, by' , Reaching the raiserab e spar en , where rnisisry had driven me,I eat down, and for the first time in my life sank into' silent and serious contemplation; for after ociattleee suggestions, it teigen to dawn upon the dark valley where my self-esteem had bnilt an hermetidel fortress, that it was with me and not with ray art that Mina wss disastieficed. For the first time 1 pet myself in Mina's place, and, timing ell, I marvelled, jut as you have, M my own blindness, bigotry, selflatiness, weakness arid folly. I saw how meth day had driven be fattherl away from mo; how 1 had bolted the door arid wondered Shat she did not enter; how I bed built & great wall between tut, woroletiog then Met did not those piztings foeyed exhibit 0•088 iti and tem, euddenly, 1 reehzed • that _ ing *hens what ail EurePo hue eeen twin. it wog 55 met, eel 00 etertog thet by no Oat novel issued trent the.. preSs Sh-hen he aite tioderatand that 1.t mild la (eh/ down na Lovell tic Son, publieherSt ludlo6rodh A Hint to alietreeses. New York Tribune : "11 boasekeepere would take a hint from hotels," says a hotel man, "they would have less trouble in getting all the help they went, though they offer only moderate wages. The dif • ference is not so much in the work as in the home. In a priyete home a girl's labors are from the rising of the san until the m going down of the same, and ore too. And if she does( happen to get through her work and ventures to sit down,ber mistress is apt to objeot. In a hotel a girl has cer. tain well-defined datiea to perform, and after they are performed, as a rale, her time is her own. If some snob arrange- ment could be reaognizad in private houses the servant problem would be simplified. TEA TAB1.113:1 GOSSIP. nee Noon ti woo erateg. .1 e, feel done up," the maiden cried; . That fellow, Jack, you know, Juet begged for otos mote round until eaid that I most go." "I'm done up, too," the youth replied, Much worse than you, I 'WA; T.dite you my round was with friend &exit - name wee ).?oth -Mescaline neckwear is brighter. -"One good turn desetvee another," mid the orgeogrinder to the lady who turned her back on hint, and he ground out another tune. SNMcatOVEr-At Cabman, Ont., an Wednesday Merch Nth, 18e1, the wife ot II, J. anelgrove, editor et the World, of twin sons. Here's to the MO young priuters, and a health to their laandeome dad. The Grit vote is inereaaing in West Nortlauraberland. Shake, Captain! --Smola a lot of yellow 1 All the girls in Fifth avenue of a Sunday lame jonquils in their jackets and yellow in their hate. House plants are set in yellow jardnieres. Hendbage 0.113 made of yellow brocade. Smart whips have yellow streamege. Steamer riga are lined with yeliow. So are the Easter boxes and bags for choco- lates and sweete. And there is no better selling garter in trade than the band of crinkled yellow and the hackle of yellow gold -New York TYor14. -A despotah from Brooklyn same Edwin Booth, the greet teagedie,n, will retire from the stage after this season. -De cream has seen its shadow. -Sera Bernhardt appears in Montreal next week. -Ann Eliza, who was the nineteenth wife of Brigham Yonag, has become the wife of a lawyer in et little town in Michigan. -George Persona Ltthrop and his wife Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, of Boston, were beptized in the Roman Catholic faith lest week. Wi Phillis, gentle epring is here, This ice kieg's grip is loose, See, o'er the vacaut lot there stray The gander and the goose - If Single Tea should strike that spot. .Twould he no mere& ve,cant tot. -Detroit News. -So many people who howl that they do not get the good things in life which they deserve should be feeling thankful instead that they don't get the puniahment they deserve, either. WHAT IS THE REASON ? I told Ilezekiah to tell Widow Gray To ten mother Brown, nest door, To tell Dicky Dwight, who goes that way, To tell Deacon Barnes, at the store, To tell the old etage driver, Timothy Bean, To come for me, sure, and in Beason; But I've waited an don and no stage haveI seen ; Now what do you think is the reason? -A.coording to the lest census there are 15,000 Canadians in Buffalo. -Miniaters deolare that in nine oases out of ten brides are moth more self•poesessed than the bridegrooms daring the marriage ceremony. TENNYSON'S LATEST AS A QUATRAIN. Oh sleep, Oh sleep, Oh sleep, Oh sleep, Oh sleepy, sleepy sleep; I sleep, Oh sleep thy sleepy sleep, Asleep in sleepy sleep. -The levees the Mississippi people are trying to hold are not the Buckingham palaces veriety. • -A new author who is destined to be- come a fad is J. M. Barrie, a Sootchman from Forfarshire. -The Arolabishop of Canterbur, hue accepted the presidency of the Pal one exploration fund, ot which the late bishop of York was the president frot he foundation of the society in 1865 in his death. -The hesd of the school system at Bay City, Mich., has leaned an edict prohibit - log women towbars from going to &mom and parties evenings on the ground that it is not conducive to the beet interests of the schools. AL Novel sale. Rochester Herald : The sale of accounts of merchant tailors on the stook exchange Wednesday was nota enemas so far se money was conaerned, but there was lots of fun. Some large accounts went at very small prime. Bat the prineipal thing aimed at was to mare debtors into paying their accounts, and =mob money ia said to have been paid before the sale. Just the Same. Albany Times : Dtashaway-I went up in the conntry the other day to see a girl I have always bean in love with. Cleverion-And found her greatly obanged, I suppose Dashaway-No •, that was the moat remarkable part of it. She was juet the same. She skill said "No." A Oiroomatist. Indianapolis Jammed " Whioh one of ua do yea think the handsoiner ?" asked one of the two pretty girls. "15 is iniposaible for me to compare yon," eaid the diplonmstio young men. "You are both inaomparable." -Mrs Annie A. De Barr has received a license as mechanical engineer from the Chicago Board of Engineers. For eighteen months ehe has had full charge of the engine mad machinery of & large steam laundry. -Rev. R. Heber Newton and Dr. Rains. ford, of New York, are to be censured for alleged uncenonical practices. A protest against them, it is mid, is being awned by the members of the clergy of the New York diocese. -Plans are now before before the London County Council for the construe - tion ole now tunnel under the Thames River, which shall be 23 feet in diameter ineide, with a 16 foot roadway and two footways. The cost ot conetruotion is estimated at 5400 per lined foot. ADVICE WIVES By the Wife of 10. T. Barnum, the Great Snowman'. Alm P. T. Barnum reeds the Modern wife a nice little Renton full oft pithy prac- tical unite: " For Ruth personal obarms as may be youre-anci every women has eome-thank God and make the moat of therm Make of them gold, wherewith to gild tlae fettehe which your sterling qualities of boat and brain have forged oround your huabmad. Think it time well giant in choosing his favorite cobra and. etylee, and making yourself fair in hie eyes, " Iotereet yourselt in all your hueband's pursuits and share suola its you can. You oennot go to bueittega with him, but you can learn though ot it to liaten under. stendingly whea tie talke ot , an IllitItOttield OW lailInDROOIL Comer) Whitt Ifaies No Tinge oenellistmeeein Rehm Prompted by Love Alone -Re -- markable illustration. The London Spectator ears; There is something very pethetie about the heroism of obildbocidl, where we mean by heroimate aomething of really independent daring and presence mind, something beyond mere steadfast truthfulneas, which ie in a untie natural to childhood. The bequest held yesterday week before Dr. Illitodpinalde, M. 1)., coroner for Northeast London, on Henry James Brietow, aged 8 years, illus., trates precioely whet we mean. Mrs. Eta-- etow,who lives at Walthematow,had left thin. little boy alone ha the room with a younger' sister of only three yeasee of age, in order to go on an errand, from which elle , re - twined berme 6 o'clock to find tient the to give him gaiek sympathy, and often little girl, had ()limbed on a them to reach 4, a bright edert wheat), he will appre• oiate and 013Q. Share his pleestires ; take your holidnye together, even if by so doing you wake them few and brief. Don't spud your summer in the monotains v,nti at the seaahore, hewing him in the city and don't etey et hoone in the euttunn while he goes to Europe. It is an ominous skate of things when laushs,nd and wife oan really enjoy separate pleasures. " ?dual friction otunes ot the inability of the average women to comprehend that her husband hue many thoughte, moods and feelings, in which she hag absolutely no part. It wives could realize thee, and 'wept the faot, how naany unhappy me - memo would be spared them t Love may be, and is, with a good arm, the greater and better part of his lite, bat it is not all hie life, t "A husband may at timee be Went and preoccupied, and yet it does not etrgue that he is indifferent to, on tired of hie wite ; he may be depressed, and yet not feel that merriage, for ham, is a fadure ; he may be oreptioue and fretful, yet feel oo ihritation against hie wife. "Learn to wait, and by end by you will find that business went wrong that day; or he sat in a draught, and all his bones ached with an incipient cold; or he had eaten an indigestible meal (mat at home of courae), and Wadi depressed he knew not why. Wait! wait 1 and when you have foand out what the matter was, you will be thankful you did not weary him with foolish questions. " be careful to have your little re- serves of thought and feeling, and grant your husband the same right. Don't seek to tell him your every thought - many of them ere not worth the telling - and don't ask to know his. This is not eeeretivenese, but common sense and delicecy, as mtiele so as the feeling that prompts yon to say your morning prayer inaudibly, and to take your bath in private. " Shun dissension. What metier, gteat or small, is worth quarrelling about "every Beene gives you an added wrinkle and ten gray heirs, and elaskes your husbend's faith in the firmness of his hotteehold happiness, a faith he sorely needa to take out into the world where men rasp end yeomen -other women - charm hien Scenes persisted in, will ruin your health and beauty, and make your husband brutally abusive, or as indifferent to your tears as to the rain drops on the window pene. If you have ett sinned against light end knowledge (otherwise common settee) as to quarrel with the man tor whom you wonld die, make haste to repent and believe; repent your own Mame in the quarrel, and believe, without exact- ing the admiseion, that your htieband does the Same. There is no generosity a man so admires and apprecienes in his wife me her willingness to absolve without con- fession." religious orders in Canada. There are now eetablished in Canada 21 Catholic religions orders of men, whose re- speotive names are as follows : Carmelites, Trappists, Brothers of St. Viateur, Brothers of the Congregation of Miry, Dominiesne, Franciscans, Brothers of the Clhristians Schools, Brothers of Christian Instruction, Jesuits, Soniety of Mary, Oblate of Mary Immaculate, Little Brothers of Mary, Fathers of the Resurrec- tion of oar Lord Jesus Christ, Institute of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, Priests of Saint Basil, Congregation of the Holy Orme, Sulpiaisne, Brothere of St. Vincent de Paul, Congregation of the Holy Rs. deemer, Adoring Fathers. A Common Fault. New York Herald Chapple was wound up last night," odd Alsrthet. Yea -but a little too tightly, I think," mad Ethel. " He wOuldn't Agreeable, " My oreditore and I agree on one point only," " What is that ?" " Thet they are in the mom." mom. good way to fired ottt what kind of religion a men hes is to notice what he dose with hie nwiney. " P it Mina Smith" la the title of the Mutually satisfactory. Texas Siftings: Mr. Porkohops-Mien Lakeside, it is better that we should park. In feat, I am already engaged to another young lady. Misa Lekeside-That suits me. I have noticed for eome time past that you were cold and distant, so got married yester- day morning. A Good Combination. Reporter -Here is my account of the wedding of that Boston men to the Chi- cago girl. Editor --Have you put a head on it 2 • Reporter - Certaanly. "Pork and Beane." -trudge. , In a Hurry. New York Herald : Friend -May is an uniuokly month to be married in. Why don't you wait foe June? lilies Passe, a prospective bride who has waited a number of Junes -Bat May 00M0EI before June, dear. Bible Leaves and the Police. New York World: A men engaged in the evangelical labor of bestowing Bible leaves upon people he meets in the street, end especially to policenaert, wants to know if he is right. He has been arrested once, but was discharged with a warning, end immediately betook himself to dis- tributing the leaflets again. He argued the propriety of doing so with the police- men, who generally allowed it was all right, but that he must "move on." He endeavored to get a permit and applied to & Justice, to the Mayor's Marshal, to the Bureau of Street Cleaning, to the Corporation Conneel, and having 1ailed with all to secure it, reanraed his teak without it. He is interested in knowing what law he breaks in giving Bible leaves awe. Perhaps if he is "moved on " all the time he may never find out. soinethIng New in Waistcoats. small wet:tine lamp, and lae,a upset It over her otothee, which, of course, caught fire at tame. The boy iramedintely tore them off her, DOA !hid her up the bed, bat in lift- ing her on to the bed his own clothea caught fire, tend it took the child a long time to tear them off, which, however, at last he eucceeded in doing, but not till he was so eerioaely hurt that, tlooagh teken at once to is hospital, he died within the week frora the result of the injarieu. His little sister'e life he had succeeded in saving ; aS least, the was mid to be doing well at She time of the iwtheet on her brother. The coroner very Judy spoke of the boy as quith a lade hero, and her was a hero in preoisely tka sense iu which it seems to us that the word, as applied to a child of 8, diaries is profound pathos with it, because it implies a presence of mind, a promptitude of purpose a self - command and fortitude and steadiastness, which are nauslty quite beyond tri child'a imaginstion, math. lees its prectical achievement. In the books of verse for children, which wore in me a generation. or raore ago, there used to be some versee about a child who kept perfectly cabin and aelf-poseaaed aea during the raging of a tempest, became hie father VMS at the helm," which was the refrain with which the child replied to all the queetions asked him BM to the (=roe of his self- possession. This is a kind of heroigna- if heroism is the right name for it-whieh should be, we think, natural to ohildren, at least to children who have felt the fullest trust and reverence of which children are astable. But the children ot the poor are often early initiated into a hind of heroism more properly deserving of the epithet; for heroism, acourately construed, expresses, we think, more or Iess of the power to. stand alone and cope with the difficialties or terrors of life by the promptitude and boldness of individual energy. There ie certainly something in the spectaale, which is eingularly impreggive, and gives tie a deeper nose of the apiritual force Of our nature than atiy other phenomenon of human life. In the mature, what looka like heroiena is very often lave of praise and little elee. The sense of what the world expects tram ea man will often make a coward eat as if he were constitutionelly brave, and a selfish. man sot as if he were habituelly disintereeted. But when a child Nina the most spate pain, and (sole proved in this case) death itself, to save another, and this too in the absence of 811 speotatoren it is imposeible to aearibe his conduct to any semionelodramatio or even imitative motive. The little boy of 8, battling alone with time and pain to Gave his sister, can hardly have anything in his mind except love for her, and responsibility to Ilia mother in her absence, and aseuredly can- not have been buoyed up with that eager- ness to win the world's good opinion, or to become the subject of the world's curiosity, which tainte EC) much, not only of our modern life, bat even. of our modern courage and daring. We should doubt if the little hero of vviaom we have been writing so much as farmed the desire to be himeelf brave or feithful, or to be, for himself, anything at all. Itrobably his first desire was to save his dater, and his next to release himself from the agony of the flame; but the former was the overmaster- ing motive which carried everything before it, and made him deliberately incur the severe pain from theeonsequences of which he died. It is hardly poesible not to think better of the human spirit when one sees a child of eight so affectionate, so dauntlese, and so resolved. The okeleton vest hes a full vast front and an open book. The colter and a piece of the shoulder top run all the way around, thus affording sufffoient body for a proper shoulder set. The vest is then fastened around the waist by a belt. These skeleton vests are made in two eine. One size will fit a 32, 31, 36 or or 38 bust, and the other will fit a 40 to 46. The gernaent sots beautifully, and fits the figure perfectly. The main features are that it does away with a great deal of weight and useless materiel, aud makes a very cool garment. -The Mercer. A movement is on foot to ereot a simple memorial of some sort in honor of Mise Sewell, the author of millaak Beauty," in order that her work in behalf of the horse may not be apeedily forgotten. Insurance Agent -Yon tlay the flames originated ini the parlor, and yet there wee no fire in the rooin Property Otther- No, but my daughter left a letter from her thence lyitoe on the tettile. Queen Viotonia has programed so rapidly in the randy of Hindelatitnee that oho note writee it With ease. In the New York dry gook( shops both mete and temele cletke are canntielled 10 dress in bleak Or very dark obethes. A gateman who tipmetted in a gtey chit wotild be fent home to chtinge it. 'Why Be Liked it. New York Times: Pewrenter-I want to tell you, Dr. Hornblower how much I liked your sermon on brotherly love yester- day morning. It was powerful and right to the point. Dr. Hornblower -I aria very glad if you enjoyed it. Pewrenter-Enjoy it? Well, I should Rey I did! There are a lot of people in Shat church that I hate like poison, and you simply gave them fits. The Highways and Byways. Now York Scottish American : The mine- iaters at Jersey City ftre making arrauge- meats to have a house-to-house canvass with the view of finding oat what people do not attend church, and the tames that are at work to account for their indifference to religious matters. The city has been laid out in five distriats, emelt of vuhiah will be in (shave of a member of the executive committee, whose duty it will be to invite the co.operationof the clergy of ell denonsi millions and the moot active members of their congregatiorns. The ides is to have one visitor appointed for every ten familia( amoug the nonmhurohgoing portion of the community, and to see what can be done towards getting the people to begin attend- ing a place of worahip of some kind. Inappropriate. Peddler -Madam, I, have some very fine mottoes for the house. Woman -What have you got? Peddler -Here's a beautiful one : ' If yon don't see what you want ask for it.' How'a that for the dining zoom? Woman -We no good for me, young man. This is a boarding house. In the Vernacniar. " Hello, Jack, where are you living now ?" " I'm boarding with a widow lady on Madison avenue. Where are you living ?" 0, I'm the guest of a widower gentle. men with two daughter ladies and one son gentleman -same avenue." Edward Hollinger'beater known as "Big Hollinger," a oolored pugilist, of Jemmy City, brutally murdered his wife Sunday morning by beating her on the head and taco with a hatchet. Ile then tried to cortunit sundae, bat he Only mede e (slight wok in his throat. He then gave himself up, deelering to the Voltam:tan "I deliber. ately killed her, arid 1 am Willing to hang for it." They had iivea together tinder an agreement, lent had never gone through a merriege ceremony. Vint Office Bay -He' a newspaper mat. Second Office Boy No? - "Naw. 1163es alienation He writea wid a gold pen." Not the Education She Wanted. Judge Mrs. Gazzem (to her daughter) -Annie, I'm thinking of sending you to boerdinmeohool. Annie -11711y, mamma, I never intend keep boardere. The Reverses of Time. " straege how time reverses thinger isn't it ?" "Yoe, I auppon so." "Mies Ladling, whom we just passed, wee three or four yeara older thenrnewhen we went to school together. Now I find I am three or four years older than she is." No Canteen There. The Soldiers' Home in Waelaington. with 800 rnen inside its walls, has hardly an inmate in the guardhouse once a month. There is no canteen permitted within et mile of the grounds, and earnest tem- perance efforts are made to help the men keep to a high stsindand of daily living. Miss Hewlett, the young Beaton women who has won tlae prize for the best design for the woman's building at the World's, Fair, is only 22 yeere old. She ia a gradu- ate of the Inittitute of Technology, in Boston, and her design shown remarkable talent, though she had not previously wen any fame as an architect. The prize money receivea amounts to 51,000. Tho devil can't underakend the atingy man, but he likes hie Ways. Gen. Booth, in his book, " In Darkest England," Days : "Ont Of every five pet - sone irt London one diea either in the hospitals, Ballet= or workhouses." Navigation hoe opened on Lake Chant - plain' The TSultan of Turkey is Bead to Ito imbuedwith the ampersiitiori ooncerning ototuneyed people. He had al Men in his matte efflioted with ren Obliquity of vision io one dye. ahd no the coartiar was ttla nodal to daoharge the nye Wee extirpated..