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OUR OTTAWA :UTTER
UNPRECEDENTED SESSION OF
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Scene In the House --A Bushing Business at
the Bar - Obstruction Paramount --- A
Specimen Ineident--How Time is Wasted
, Can't Pass -A. Silly Rumor.
For five days and a halt have the legis-
lators of the House of Commons re-
mained in continuous session. The .Ad-
ministrntion, erm in its reponse to push
tIte Remedial bill as far as possible,would
consent to no adjournment of the debate.
At twenty Ininutes to fou e on Monday
afternoon the House went into committee
on the bill, At SIX minutes to tvvelve on
Saturday evening the committee rose and
the House adjourned. The regime of fifty-
five hours, made in 1885, when the Fran-
chise Aot was passed, was oast far Into the
shade. The determined old man who
leads the House would not recede an inch
from his position. Before the House ad-
journed on Saturday night Sir Charles
announced that on Monday he would ask
the House to resume consideration of the
Remedial bill.
Scene In the House.
As a result of the protracted de-
bates on the second reading of • the
School bill, there was one death
. amongst the members. There are several
oases of severe illness superinduced by
the long sitting. True, there is the bar
of the House, at which spirituous refresh-
ment may be obtained. It is a pity that
the scenes in that restaurant cannot be
photographed, 1 lo not wish to be taken
as implying that all of the members of
the Commons, or oven many of them are
in the habit of drinking too much, But
. it is unavoidable that in an assemblage
of over two hundred men there should
not be some who forgot themiselves and
the dignity that should attach to their po-
sition. We had this week tbe speetacle of
meeting ono member thumping bis desk
and, with many profane edjectives, call-
ing another a bondier and a liar. The
offender was, to use plain, bald English,
very drunk. His friends hustled him out
of the chamber.. From the corridor out-
side we oould hear his vain struggles to
escape from the guardianship of hie
friends in order that he might return to
the attack on his enemy. It was occur-
rences like those that brought eir Rich -
are to his feet on Wednesday, when he
spoke thus:-
" These rules under which we are carry-
ing on this debate were framed especially
for protecting the minority against any'
such attempt as is being made. I do not
want to exhibit to this country the dis-
graceful spectacle which may occur if the
House is very many hours telore in ses-
sion. We aro all aware of the methods
pursued by some members to strengthen
their nerves and their hearts, and I give
them warning that if the disgraceful or-
gies are repeated which occurred on pro-
VIOUN occasions,and whleh I believe led to
the death of ono member a few days ago,
those members will be hold up"ho publio
reprobation, I am afraid we ought to
move to ebolleh the bar in this House. I
can promise all parties concerned that if
there be a repetition of the very disgrace -
fen scenes, no regard for tho feelings of
members will prevent their names being
given, and they will obtain all the pub-
licity they desire."
A Bushing Business at the Dar.
Sir Rlebard's threats have had little
effect. The bar continues to do a very
rushing business. At all betas of the
day and night the white -coated bartend-
ers are engaged in concocting the cup
that oheers and also inebriates. Members
are not so muell to be blamed as are out-
siders who stray into the restaurant. The
rnember usually line business to do. The
loafers come up solely to drink. And
drink they do. It would be a good thing
If the parliamentary bar were made ac-
cessible only to those who have a right to
its privileges. As things are now, mem-
bers aver that the outsiders are the cul-
prits, and so escape blame.
Obstruction Paramount.
.At half -past two, or thereabouts, every
night during the week, the anti -Remedial
Conservatives and the Liberals from On-
tario would deoline to allow any further
consideration of the bill for ten or twelve
hours. Their method of procedure. One
of them Would move that the committee
rise and report progress. The mover
would contend that an adjournment of
the House ought to be had, and that the
continuous session was killing tile mem-
bers and doing the Gohernment no good.
Then would begin a series elf speeches on
any topic that the anti-Rensedialist orator
might think of. Let me give a sample of
the child's play to which the legislators of
Canada descended. It was at four o'clock
in the morning that this incident oe-
ourred. •
A Specimen Incident.
Half of the members in the House were
asleep. The others were reading or chat-
ting. Hughes and three or four others of
the straight Conservatives were making a
trot) endo us row.
McNeill arose to speak. "I must ,ask
you, Mr. Chairman, to keep order," he
said.
"Oh, go ahead, there's order enough,"
returned Chairman Mills.
"The obstruction is encouraged by the
chairman," shouted Wallace.
"It isn't supposed that we are here to
transact business at this time of night,"
McNeill proceeded, "The very suggestion
is absurd. I remember a story, a story
about Ireland, that, with the permission
of the House, I shall relate."
• "Is it a proper story?" (teed Mulook,
jestingly.
,"Quite proper, I think," retureed Mc-
Neill. ,
, "Go on, then," answered Mulock.
"Order, gentlemen. .A story by the mem-
ber for Bruce."
And this is tbe way the story went on,
and was listened to by the legislators or
Canada: -
"We have no peoof that the minority in
Manitoba really have conscientious ob-
jections to attending public schools,"pur-
pursued McNeill, "and the supposition
that they have.is the foundation for our
legislation hero. I was told tbe other day,
'very much to iny surprise, by an honor-
, able member for Nova Scotia, that he
knew no Roznan Catholic in his province
who was not in favour of Separate
schools. There was a man living in the
county Antrim whosemanse was • Mo -
"Give us his fantily history," put in
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Mulook, •
"1 do not think, shot is quite neoes-
'sary," replied the man from North
Bruce. "He wasa poor man. His son
wont to sea and became commander of
One of the 131ack Ball liners. He was a
Roman Catholic and one of the persons
connected with the company by the name
of Tracey was intimately acquainted
with hins."
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What was Tracey's first name?" de-
nianded Mulook.
"I do not know, but he was a Roman
Catholio. Mr. Tracey had two elhidren,"
continued McNeill.
"Both boys?" milted Sam Hughes.
"Both girls. His wife died. These girls
were left on his bands and he had them
eduoated, and he sent them from Liver-
pool to the County Antrim to the care of
this old man MeElheran."
Tracey the the father of the chil-
dren?" demanded the inquisitive
Hughes.
"Mr. Triune was the presumed father
of the children," answered McNeill. "Mr.
MoElheran sent the girls to a . school
there."
"What has this got to do with the Re-
medial bill?" shouted Fairbairn, who
had jusb awakened, and did not appre-
ciate the story.
"This is strietly on the Remedial bill,"
insisted McNeill. "The school was a
gond school and the father was greatly
pleased with the progress the girls were
making, and he told MeElheran he was
on no acoount to take them from that
school without his leave. Some time af-
ter a Roman Catholic school was estab-
lished in Larne."
"Where is that?" asked Fairbairn, *em-
ulating interest.
. "It is In the County Antrim, Ireland,"
was the reply. "I hope my honorable
friend has nothing to say against Ire-
land, or against the County Antrim."
"Not at all. Erin go Bragh," re-
sponded Fairbairn.
"The Roman Catholic priest, Father
MoKenna," continued McNeill, "with
whom was weal acquainted, and who
was a very amiable man, mime to MeEl-
hernia and told hltu he must remove the
children from this school and send them
to the Roman Catholic sehool. MeEl-
heran said he would not do so without
the leave nf the father of the children
He was told by the reverend father that
that would not do at Meant' that he must
have the children sent to tlie Raman
Catholic school. The old man refused
again, unless he could obtain tho leave of
the surviving parent,"
"He was a stubborn cad man," com-
mented el ughes.
"He was from the north of Ireland
-that is enough," somebody shouted.
"Yes, he was a stubborn old man,"
went on MeNe111. "He wrote to Mr.
Tracey in Liverpool, and anted him
what he should do, Mr. Tracey, who was
a Roman Catholic, wrote back to say
that he was on no account to remove the
ohildren from where they were."
"I thought he would have advised him
to join an Orange lodge," put in Fair-
bairn.
"He -might have clone worse, but he
did not. 'Inc priest mime back to elan
heran and asked him what his determin-
ation was,
and. leicElheran showed him
the letter he had received from the father
of the Witham and sale be intended to
obey his instructions, and not the in-
structions of the Roman Catholic priest.
The result was that he, was deprived of
the rights of the Memel, but he adhered
nevertheless to his determination and he
retained the children at the school where
they were making such good progress."
Thus McNeill finished.
How Time is Wasted.
giro the story of this incident ex-
pressly to show the readers of this corre-
spondence how the time of parliament is
being wasted. The anti -Remedial men
insist that they have the right to obstruct
and that they are doing only their duty
In so continuiug to blook the progress of
the measure. D'Alton MoCerthy 'nada
no concealment of bis plan of campaign.
"I can tell the Government," said he,
"that we shall use every constitutional
moans in our power to make the task of
the Government impossible of fulfil -
menu. We do not quail because we are
being terineil obstrudtionists. We shall
follow out our plans."
DM Can't Pass.
As I told you last week there Is asbo-
lutely no possibility of the bill's being
passed. The sitting of the last week re-
sulted in eleven clauses being road. Ten
days only remain in which to pass the
supplementary estimates and whatever
railway susbidies the Government may
decide to bring down. The supplementar-
ies, which amount to something more
than three million dollars. have been laid
on the table. The GovernMent asks for a
million dollars to pay for the new rifles
for the militia. It is not probable that
the Opposition will object to the passage
of this item. Such a course would be
most unpopular in the country.
A Silly Itumer.
On Saturday last n Toronto newspaper
published a statement that Mr. Laurier
had visited that city and had offered the
leadership of the Liberals to Sir Oliver
Mowat. To -day I asked Mr. Laurier as
to the truth or otherwise of the report.
The Opposition leader was terse and em-
phatic in his reply. "There is going to
be no change in the leadership of the
party," said he. "We are going to have
some valuable reoruits, but I still have
the honor of being leader." I have no
doubt that this statement is literally cor-
rect. It would be a most eerious tactical
blunder for Mr. Laurier to relinquish his
position at the present juncture. When
the election campaign begins, the fact
that Mr. Laurier is a Freneb Canadian
and a Quebecker will be placed In the
strongest light before the people of the
ancient province. I have the authority of
no less eminent a Liberal than Mr. .T.
Israel Tarte for making this assertion.
The people of Quebec, the Liberals thine,
will be much influenced by the prospect
of having a French Catholic for pre-
mier of their country. The English Lib-
erals, says Mr. Tarte, already are most
favorably disposed toward Laurier. It is
In Quebec that the greatest amount of
missionary work must bedone.
Thursday's ALttack.
It was inevitable,in a congregation of
men with tired minds and weary bodies;
whose sleeping hours had been dimin-
ished by half, that there should be ser-
ious fallings out and personal alterca-
tions. Even Sir Charles Tupper, usually
suave, and Mr,' Laurier, who does not
often lose his temper, engaged in a most
acrimonious Personal rencontre. It was on
Thursday last that the Secretary of State
Made a most violent attack on the leader
of the Opposition. Said he: "I find that
the honorable gentleman has succeeded
In bringing those of his followers over
whom he still claims to have some influ-
ence to maintain the most constant and
persistent obstruction ever known in any
parliament ot the world. I feel bonnd to
say that I believe that the honorable gen-
tleman is at the.: moment in the closest
possible alliance with the honorable
member for Simone (Mr. eloCarthy,) and
is co-operating with him to the utmost
of his ability in bringing every follower
whose allegiance be oan obtatn to ob-
struct this measure ancl prevent it becom-
ing law. I can only say, Sir, that the
course the bonorable gentleman is tak-
ing in this Homo is not only outraging
the sense of justice of this parliament,
, but it is outraging the sense of justioe
I and fair -play and 1191180 of publics duty of
every rightminded man in thls country.
The honorable gentteman • knows that be
le taking advantage, that he is taking
unfair advantage of the fact that the dur-
ation of this parliament Is so limited to
endeavor to prevent those of his own race
and his own religion reoeiveng justice."
And, after having termed Mr, Laurier
and Mr. McCarthy "co-conspirators," Sir
Charles sat down.
' nueriene Defence.
Laurier arose, white with rage. He
wont straight tu the bottom of Onto.
"Roman Catholics everywhere know
what esteem the Secretary of State has
for them," said the Liberal leader.
"He once said that he had no confidence
In the brood. Let tile tell him that the
breed'reciprocates the compliment. He
has AMA thet I am wreoking the Liberal
party. I am glad to say here, whatever
may be my faults in this House or out of
It, that I never was subjected to the hu-
miliation of having my course denounced
by any of my friends. I never had the
humiliation of seeing one of my most
important followers in this House de-
nounce rne au without honor and treach-
erous. I never had anybody in my party
read to my face snob a letter as was read
by the honorable member for North
Bruce.a few days ago, when he stood up
In his place and accused the honorable
gentleman of treaohery-not only ,ac-
cused him but brought the proof. I never
was subjected to the humiliation of bay-
ing one of nay colleagues forced tinder his
signature to admit that 1 bad been guilty
of deceit, as was the cage when no less a
person than the honorable Minister of
Justice was forced, under bis signature,
to express surprise and sorrow that this
bill had been gone on vvith while negotia.
Glens were proceeding. 1 never was sub-
jected to suoh a humiliation. He need
not try to bully this House nor me. Ever
slime I have been entrusted with the pow-
ers which my party have confided to me,
I have endeavored to diacharge those
powers as befits a gentleman, and I tell
the honorable gentleman that ehe only
impression his inveotives produce on roe
Is one of amused contempt, and when we
go before the people I, am quite willing
that we should go before the country with
his record and mine -with his character
and mine."
Honore liven.
It will be acknowledged that this was
a very pretty passage -at -arms; one in
which honors were oven. Certain it is
that Mr. Laurier has been unable to keep
all of the French Liberals in line. They
fear their electors, and, now are most
anxious that the bill shall become law.
On the other hand, Sir Charles has had
his own troubles. Ho has denounced, as
being recreant to their party three of his
whilein supporters. Their adhesion to
Mr. MoCarthy has given tho Secretary of
State much worry. His system is short
and easily desoribed. He wants no luke-
warm support. It was by his efforts; by
his alternate flatteries and menaces,that
the hill was given a second reading, I
have no heeltation in .saying that, had
Foster instead of Sir Charles been leader
of the Commons, the Remedial bill and
tho ;Administration would have been de-
feated.
In Ten Days.
In ten days the guns of prorogation
will boom and there will be no House of
Commons. The Cabinet hold a meeting
on*Sunday morning -the first in a week.
At that council it was decided that the
elections should be hold In the second
week ot Zune. The Quebec) Ministers
fought hard to have the 26th of May for
the date. Their Ontario celleagues
pointed out that much canvassing and
stumping will be necessary in their prov-
inee and they carried the day.
The sane Lance fjuieseent.
D'Alton McCarthy has been compara-
tively silent all week. He is ready toaalk
if the debate lags. But there bas been no
lack of speakers. The avowed desire of
the man front North Simone is to prevent
the passage of the bill, So long as the de-
bate goo e on, and the day of prorogation
comes nearer and nearer, the chief of the
anti-Remodialists is well satisfied. •
Sir John Schultz.
In the death of Sir John Schultz Can-
ada lens one of the men who did mach
to open up the Northwest. In the days
of the first Riel rebellion the then Dr.
Schultz was taken prisoner and was con-
fined in Fort Garry with Thomas Scott,
who afterwards was so foully murdered,
and with others who V70/0 found in their
cells when the relied expedition marched
into the fort, whence Riel and his lieu-
tenants had fled. Sir John Macdonald
and Dr. Schultz were always lirm friends,
and the position of Lieutenant -Governor
of Manitoba, which ear John bestowed
upon the dead knight, was Ina measure
a reward for his services to the country.
Sir John Thompson had hopes that Gov-
erner Schultz would be able to do useful
work as an intermediary 'between the
Federal and provinoial Governments. It
was with this object in view that the
then Premier of Canada permitted Dr.
Schultz to hold office for nearly two
years after the term of his appointment
had expired. The efforts of the Governor
towards conciliation were fruitless, not
because Sir &dm did not do all in his
power, but because Mr. Greenway was
immovable at that stage of the proceed-
ings in the School case.
Rumored Cabinet Changes.
Certain rumors have gained currency
as to inpending Cabinet changes. Sir
Mackenzie, it is said. will succeed Hon.
G.A. Kirkpatrick as Lieutenant -Governor
of Ontario; Hon. J. A. Ouimet, Minister
of Public) Works and Lieut. -Gov. Chap -
lean of Quebec, are to exchange places;
Hon. L. A, P. Pelletier is to enter the
Cabinet in succession to Sir Adolphe
Caron, who is to go to England as High
Commissioner. Sir Charles Tupper has
announced his inteution of tomaining
, permanently in Canada. Last week be
Paid $15,000 for a residence in Ottawa,
A Faded Beauty.
Those who were present at the lash
drawing -room over which the Prinness of
Wales presided were struok, as every one
wlio sees her is nowadays, by the corpse-
like appearance of one who is still Ma-
tured as young and beautiful. It is some
time since this most popular princess was
photographed for general distribution,
but those pictures of her whigh are in cir-
culation flatter d.eoiclecliy. When she
came to England to be Married, Dean
Stanley rdenlared her to be, in Moe and
form, as well as in disposition, the Ideal
fairy Princess .of juvenile story books.
But, within two years, and after her first
severe illness, she changed in looks and
for the worse. Now the:Italieis a'grand-
mother and far front , young, although
she has her old-time sweat expreselon
and fine .features, her figure is marred by
her limp, her hair is very thin and is re-
inforeed by the heavy false bang whiich
she has long worn, and her compleeion
has become yellowas old ivory, giving
her the dead Aspect sof-netnews to be peen
in delicate women,-sExthanue
RIVERS OF THE WORLD,
The floods of the Tiber in winter carry
everything before them. The most sub-
stantial wharves and docks have been
carried away by the men Mice of the
Water.
The delta of the Nile was the first men-
tioned in history. It took its name from
its shape, bearing in this particular an
exealct, o
exact Dsemblance to the Greek letter
D
The Paraguay River, so called from the
republic of the same name on its banks,
is 1,800 miles in length. Ab points in its
lower course it is from five to fifteen miles
wide.
The length of the Owego is believed to
exceed 2,000 miles, and it drains an area
of 800,000 square miles. In its lower course
it is frequently more than five miles in
width. -
The rivers of the "Gold Coast," M West
Africa, are rich in gold. For 1,000 miles
east and west frone .Ashantee every river's
banks yield gold in greater or less quan-
tities.
The value of protective works for the
banks ot rivers was known to the Romans,
a lenge stretch of the Tiber, in Rome.
above aud below that city, was protected
by revetting the banks.
Counting, the Mississippi and Missouri
as one stream, the total letegth of this
great inland oceau is over 5,000 miles.
Considered separately the Mississippi is
2,816 miles and the Missouri 8,047.
The Danube flows through countries in
which fifty-two languages and dialects are
spoken. It is 2,000 miles in leugth and.
bears ou its current fear -fifths of the com-
merce of Eastern Europe.
The Brahrnapootra, from whose banks
came the fowls that were so popular ia
this country a number of years ago, ie
1,500 miles in length. It isSaid that every
variety of precioes stone has been. found
.in the sand of its bed.
The rivers of the Emerald isle bevel
generally a dark color, owing to the fent
that most of them, at some point in their
course, flow through peat marshee or
beds, which impart a dark hue to the
water. e
The Rio Grande del Norte, between
Texas and Mexico, is 1,800 miles long, but
in many pieces duriug a dry season can
easily be forded, by footmen. The Rio
Grande de Santiago, of Mexico, is 1,2501
miles in length.
Tim Po, in North Italy, is NO miles In I
length, The deposits at its mouth have
caused the coast to gain upbu the sea so
rapidly that a meat which in the time of
Augustus was a seaport town is now
eighteen miles from the Adriatic.
There are three rivers known as Color-
ado. The first is in Utah and Arizona
and is 1,800 miles long; the second is a
river of Texas, 900 miles in !manta; the
third is in the Argentine Republic, in
South America, and is 400 miles long.
The River Platte during the summer is
dry along the greater portion of ite course.
The water rims underground, only an oc-
casional pool appearing ott the surface.
By digging almost anywhere in its course
a supply of feast, cool water may be ob.
tained.
MULTUM IN PARVO.
A man's life is an appendix to his heart.
Joys are our wings, sorrows are our
.8Pllrs
Ablithe heart tmakes a blooming vis
age.
A lie must be thatched with another, or
Ib will soon ntin through.
The greet secret of life is never to be in
the way of others.
Such is the posie love composes, a sting -
beg nettle mixed with roses.
Is not light grander than Ere? It is the
saine element in it state of purity.
Knowledge of all avails the human kind;
for all beyond the grave are joys of mind.
Liberality does not consist so much in
giving a great deal as in giving season-
ably,
He wbo always prefaces his tale with
laughter is poised between impertinence
and folly.
The game of life looks cheerful when
one carries in one's heart the unalienable
treasure.
Joy descends gently upon us like the
evening dew, and does tot patter down
like a hail storm.
As the confusion of tongues was a mark
of separation, so the being of one language
Is a mark of union.
You may as well go about to turn the
sun to ice by fanning in his face with a
peacock's feather.
We paint love as a child, when he should
sit a giant on his clouds, the great disturb.
ing spirit of the world.
They pass best over the world who Lela
over it quickly; for it is but a bog -if we
stop we sink. •
Law is the science in which the greatest
powers of the understanding are applied
to the greatest number of facts.
Were we as eloquent as angels, yeb
should we please some men and some
women much more by listening than by
talking.
The discovery of what is true, and the
practice of that which is good, are the two
most important objects of philosophy.
Mental pleasures never clog; unlike
those of the body, they are increased by
repetition, approtecl of by reflection, and
strengthened by enjoyment.
THE JEWEL CASKET.
The heart keeps its place as an °rime
men t.
There is a. retura to bangles sharply out
and thin.
The ever popular wreath now sur-
mounts hairpins of gold and shell.
The Mercury wings are now introduced
'in jewels and feathers for the hair.
The most beautiful rings and orna-
ments of the season are in opals and dia-
monds.
Things tututical the hard. An umbrella
handle wrapped in silver cordage is new.
IVIarquise rings are now three inches
long. They are evidently intended only
for idle hands.
member of new swords are seen With
hilts of per torand gilt that are conspicu-
ously ornameutal.
The battle axes of perforated gilt with a
gem at the summit are pretty and less
frequent than the sword.
Painted circular brooches set in stones,
turquoise and diamond, ruby, pearl and.
diamond are the prettiest things to be
seem Similar bioochin have Italian work
in gold, and are only less dosirahle.
The tenet variety of 'marquise ring, in -
steal of having the center progression of
reveled stones in color, has one large cem
tral sapphire, emerald or ruby, amt. the
I rest of the setting, in diamonds -Jewelers'
I Cline lar.
HELPS TO GOOD LOOKS.
Floi'v Nature's Gifts May be Brought to a
Setter Bevel optnent.
Ruth Ashmore writes of "The Ugly
Duckling," a roost practical and useful
article, in April Ladies' Home Journal,
and presents the helps here gieen to good
looks: -
"The American constitution cannot
stand the cold bath into which the Eng-
lish woman plunges winter and sturinter,
and to which she owes, as far es cone-
plexion is concerned, much of her beauty.
Do not be afraid to put soap on your
face; use plenty of it, and wash it off
well, first with warm and then with (sold
water. This soap bath given to the face
will make you feel and look sweet and
fresh,
"Sleep' it possible, In a oold room, but
do not sleep cold. By this I mean that
while the air in your roora should be oold
and clear, you should have plenty of cov-
ers over you, and If you wish your skin
to be beautiful - you should never go to
bed with cold. feet. _A. woman's hands
ought to be beautiful, but a beautiful
hand is not, of necessity, a claUbby hand,
nor a dimpled nor a fat hand, but it is a
wIsite hand, a clean hand and a tender
hand. Redness of the hands is often due
to bodices that are tight, sleeves that
catch you at the armholes, or are too
close -fitting at the wrists. A simple but
good treatment for red hands consists in
bathing them every night In hot water,
using for this purpose plenty of good soap
and a riell-brush; after this bath dry
them on a soft towel, and then rub in
some simple emollient -cold rream or
mutton tallow will answer -but whatever
yeti use must be soft; If necessary, melt
Ib so that what Is put on the hands can
be rubbed in gently. Then take a pair of
loose gloves, very loose, out off the fin-
ger tips, slip them over the greased hands
and sleep in them. In the morning give
the hands a sone and water bath, letting
the water used be tepid, and then rinse
the soap off with mid water, so that they
may be made firm and not sensitive to
the cold air. Learn to walk well. When I
say 'walk well' I do not mean walk
stiffly. Let your young slender body lend
itself to to movement of the feet, and
though you must hold your head up you
will present the appearance, not of some
one who has Isom baudaged on a bank -
board, but of a healthy girl, not closely
cabined in her clothes, but dressed prop-
erly and walking gracefully."
Changes In Fitglish Country Life.
A North Britleb quietist asks: "Are
there miiklatis in England?" And he is
sight, of course, in objecting to such a
term. But the question reminds ono that
the milkmaid, a feature as Much of Fing-
lisil as of English country life, is
all but extinct. Long ago she had given
place to the man, who still does meet of
the milking. But he in turn has gtven
way to maehineryl .A. machine is now in
u o by which teu cows can be milked in
ten minutes. The Graphic, in onnunent-
Ing upon it, aays: "The milkmaid is
threateuned"; evidently unconscious that
she had already departed. "Inn going a-
slr, she said I" will need a note
of explanation for the next generation.
Indoor farm servants eeem to be disap-
pearing. At all events,in many parts they
are unkown Five and -thirty years ageein
Yorkshire, it was the regular arrange-
ment for the Seem laborers to sleep in the
house and teke their meals together in a
vast kitelten set apart for their use. But
the bond which united employer and sin-
plyyed has been broken. This shows itself
In other changes. Perquisites, such as
flrewood, skim milk, fallen fruit, and
glean corn, were freely granted of old.
Now that the laborer owns no bond, and
agitates for higher wages and shorter
time, these perquisites have naturally
been stopped.
'Xrue home-made bread is gradually
becoming rarer. Every big village has its
thriviug baker, win) "does" the districa
with his cart, Of course, be professes to
se 1 what he calls "home-made" but there
is little cloinfart in the name.
Thatching is going out of fashien and
corrugated iron, among other things, is
taking bus place. In some disttiets already
only one competent thatcher Can be found.
The smockfrook, although not extinct,
is slowly going out of use On a market
day in some small country town a wag.
oner from a remote part may occasiort.
ally be seen in this quaint, primitive.
picturesque and serviceable garit ent
I3ut he Is quite singular, and obviously a
survival.
Guests and Family Worship.
There is probably no mistress of a
household who has not felt an uncertain
hospitality about asking her guests to
join in her family worship. Every ono
has acquaintances they would not hesi-
tate to ask to their table, and would hesi-
tate to ask to their house altar. Perhaps
the reluctance arises from a dissimilar-
ity of creed, and a fear of offense in con.
sequence, More likely it arises from that
sin ot restraining spiritual confidence
which is a peculiarly besetting one in this
materialistic age, for the diversity of
creed is no bar. Prayer has nothing to do
with creeds, Prayer is the universal re-
ligion; and men of every creed, aad men
of no creed may inset together as the
feet of ono Heavenly Father. The reluc-
tance more likely arises from that weak
shame-fru:sadness that too often prevents
sympathy between friends on spiritual
subjects. They are afraid to be misun-
derstood, smiled at, criticised.
This latter dilemma is one that even
goon end great men have not always met
bravely, for when Pr. Fuller once had
some guests of great quality and fashion
-Gild-fearing as he was -he omitted
his fanAly worship on their acoeunt.
This facet which he bitterly repented, he
designated as "a bold bashfulness which
ciurst offend God, whilst it did fear
Irian." But we should remeinber With
the grand old preacher, that our guests,
though they be ever so high or ricb, are
yet by all the laws of hospitality below
us while they sojourn under our roof.
Therefore, whoever oornes within our
door should also come within our house-
hold customs and discipline. If they sit
at our table for meat it is but kind and
right they should also bow at it In
prayer. -Ladies' Home Journal.
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Principles Hake the 1Sfan.
Behind all character there are enduring
principles, and it is by these, principles,
banded on from sire to son, but developed
for the first time sometimes by • him in
whom they are illustrated, that great-
ness is nurtured and the truest kingship
achieved. We see, now and then men of
tho humblest lineage, as the world reck-
ons such things, who mount to the loft -
lest emieence front the lowliest and most
obscure beginnings, and we see MI along,
in the history of such men, martens dom-
inant aspirations, courage and majesty
of rentitude, which rule and mold them
from the begineing. Such mee, whatever
their origin, seem to be born of great
troths and nurtured by grand ideas. . By
these thele intellects were nourished,
their wills disciplinedand their con-
spienees enlightened.
THE DOCTORS WERE WRONG -
THEY SA.L0 XR. REUDEN PETCH
WAS FERIANENTLY DISABLED.
They Apparently Haul C.00d Gironnes for
Their Benoit, and on the Strength of it
He Was Paid a $1,500 DiSability insur-
ance -Another Case in Which JOr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills Have Brought fiealth
After All Other Means Failed.
From the Meaford Monitor.
Mr. Reuben Petah is a resident of
Griersville who has been known to the
editor of the Monitor for a conteiderable
number of years. For several years Mr.
Petoh has been in bad health, has been
an intense sufferer and was declared in -
Curable by a nnmber of physicians. and
was paid. a disability Insurance of $1,500.
Lately, to the astonishment of those who
had known that he was pronounced in-
curable, Mr. Patch ' has been brought
baok ainaost to bis former health. This
restoration he attributes to the use of Dr.
Willinins' Pink- Pills, and knowing that
Ms story would interest the readers a
the Monitor, a reporter was sent to Inter-
view him. The following is Mr. Petah'.
narrative as given the reporter: -
"I had been sick for some five years. s.
ereisulted in that thine with no less than
six of the best physicians I could find,
but none seemed to help mo so far as
medicine was cora:timed. My limbs and
body were puffed or bloated sol could nob
get ray clothes on. I had lost the use of
my limbs entirely. 'When I began taking
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I could not
dress myself and had not dressed myself
for two years previous. I could not even
open my mouth enough to receive any
solid food, and I bad to be fed with a
spoon. I seemed to bave lookjays. I could.
not get up or down the doorsteps, and if I
fell down 1 bad to lie there until I was
helped up. I could not get around with-
out a cane and a crutch. My flesh seemed
to be dead.
"You might have made a pincushion of
me and I would feel no hurt. The doctors
told me I could never get better. They
said I had palsy on one side, caused by
spinal sclerosis, the effect of /a grippe.
You migbt roast me and I would not
sweat. X was a member of the Mutual
.Aid Association of Toronto,and, as under
their rules I was entitled to a disability
insurance, I made application for it.
was examined by two doctors on behalf
ctf the .A.ssociation and pronounced perma-
nently disabled, and was In due time
paid my disability insurance of 81,500,
This was about two years after 1 firsts
took sick. Things went on in this way
for a considerable period, and my help-
lessness was, if anything, on the increase.
I was continually reading about the auras
through the use of Dr. Williams. Pink
Pills, and at last determined to try them.
After using four or flve boxes there was a
change. It first made itself manifest by
my beginning to sweat freely. I made *up
my mind to give them a thorough trial
and to my surprise I have gained in
health and strength ever since. 1 take no
other medicine except Pink Pals, I be-
gan taking them when all other medi-
cines and the doctors failed to do me any
good. I never expected to get better, but
Pink Pills have rescued me from a living
death, and now I am happy to say I cart
work and walk and get around, finely. I
eat heartily, sleep soundly, and feel like a.
new man, and I ascribe the canse en-
tirely to Dr Wiellame' Pink Pills. I can-
not eay too much in their praise and
recommend them highly to all similarly
afflicted."
The above is Mr. Petch's ungarnisited
statement of his case; and we might add.
we know him to be a respectable, relia-
ble gentleman, who has no interest in
making the statement only to do good to
others wbo might become afflicted as he
was.
This strong testimony proves the claim
made that Dr. Williams" Pink Pills mare
when other medicines fail, and that they
deserve to rank as the greatest discovery
of modern medical science. The public)
should always be on their guard against
imitations and substitutes, which some
unscrupulous dealers for the sake of ex-
tra profit urge upon purchasers. There
Is 110 other remedy "just the same as" or
"just as good" as Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills, and the genuine always have the
full trade mark, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
for Pale People, on the wrapper around
every box.
Ready Next Time.
There seems to be an occasional mis-
understanding es to the nature of tbe
aurora. Certain people have, indeed, re-
garded it as a fixed appearance, as regu-
lar in its course as the sun and moon.
When a beautiful display took place,
not long since, a certain hicly was asked
next morning if she had seen it
" said she, in an aggrieved tone.
"Dict you?"
"Oh, yes; we watobed it for a long
time."
"And I saw you that very afternoon,
and you didn't tell me there was going
to be one!"
Of a more cheerful auci contented na-
ture was another lady who was in Paris
during a flee appeaarnoe of these
'northern lights.'
"Did you see the anrora last night?"
asked a friend.
"No ; I didn't know there was one."
"Oleyes; it was perfeotly beautiful.
You ought to have been out watching it,
fiS"We were "
"Well, I'm sorry,'" quail sbe ''bub
never mind. I'll see it to -night
Mutual Rollo.
Drummer -I've done a big day's work
to -day -have taken orders for civet $500
worth et goods.
Bill Collector -Who are the parties?
Drummer ---All to Skinner es Slowpay.
Bill Colleotor-That means steady em-
ployment foe tee for ten months.
Thanks; don't know what I should do if
it weren't for you.
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