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, CHAPTER UL,
Le Gentler Was not Mr wrong in Ids esti-
mate a Carlo Vied. The game the former
W88 playing was. a dangerous one. He lied
met the yeuthful Genevieve in one of hie
country exoursious, aud, struck by her
beauty, ceneeived the idea, of finding seine
slight athhi3otheht in her soeictY, It was
not hard, ie. that collet place, with his aud-
city and telents, to meke himeelf known to
her ; no did. the ohild—for ele was little
more --romantic, pesstonate, her bsad filled
with dreams a loye and devotion, loug re,
mein cold to hie Advances. Friendship
soon ripens into love in the sunny South,
where temperaments are warmer, a,nd the
cold reatrAints of northern society do not
exist. The Frenelunan had no sinister ix -
tendons when he commingled his little flirta-
den, a mere recreation pear paseer Zs tamps
on his side ; but alas for good intentiens ;
the moth may not approa,oh too near the
flame without scorching its wings. Begun
in playfulness, almost sport, the thing
gradually ripened into love—love such as
most woinea never know, love encountered
by keen wit and a kuowledge of the evil
side of life. When the story opens, Gen-
evieve had known Le Gautier for six
months—had known him, loved him, and
trusted him.
But Ls Gautier was already tired of his
broken toy. It was all very well as apestirae;
bee the gilded chains were beginning to
oh tie, and besides, he had ambitious schemes
into which any calculations of Genevieve
never entered. He heal been thinking less
• of dark passionate eyes lately than of a far
English face, the face et Enid Charteris; so
in his mind he began to revolve bow he
could best free himself from the Italian girl
ere commencing his campaign against the
heart and fortune of Sir Geoffrey Charteris'
heiress, Come what may now, he must
file his fetters.
Filled with this virtuous and manly re -
'solution, he set out the following afternoon
for the Villa. lelattio. It was Vici's whim
to keep his sister there, along with a young-
• er sister, a child as yet, little Lucrece, both
ono.= he eharge of a sleepy old gourernante.
In site of his faults, !fled was a good
'breather, having too sincere an affeotion for
Ilifs sister to keep her with him among the
wild student spirits he affected, fearing con-
tamination from her mind. And so she
remained in the country; Visci running
down from the city to see, her, each time
congratulating himself upon the foresight he
had displayed in such an arrangement as
this, little thinking he had thus caused the
greatest evil he had to fear..
Le Gautier walked on till the white facade
and stucco pillars of the villa were in sight,
and then, striking across a little path lead-
ing deep into a thick shady wood, all car-
peted with spring flowers, threw himself
upon the grass to wait. There was a little
shrine here by the side of a tinatstream, with
the crucifix and a rude stone image of the
Virgin in a park niche; evidently a kind of
rustic woodland sanctuary. But Le Gautier
did not notice these things as he lay there;
and there was a frown upon his brow, and a
thoughtful, determined look upon his face,
which boded ill for some one.
He had not long to wait. Pushing the
branches of the trees aside and coming to-
ward him with eager, elastic step, was a
girl. She was tall and slight; not more
than seventeen, in fact, and her great dark
eyes and clear-cut features gave promise of
great beauty. There was a wistful, tender
smile upom her face as she caane forward—a
smile tinged with pain, as she noted. the
moody face of the man lying there, but
nevertheless a smile which betokened no-
thing but perfect, truiting, unuttera.ble
love. Le Gautier noted thism his turn, and
it did not tend to increase his equanimity.
It is not easy for a man, when he is going
to commit a base action, to preserve his
equanimity when met with perfect con&
donee by the victim. For a moment she
stood there, looking at him, neither speak-
ing for a brief space.
"How ridiculously happy you look,
Genevieve;' Le Gautier said. irritably. "It
is a great compliment to me, but"—
The girl looked at him shyly, as she leant
against a tree, the shafts of light through
the leaves playing upon her lustrous coronal
dusky hair and showing the happy gleam in
her eyes. "1 am always contented when
you are here, Hector," she answered softly.
"And never at any other time, I sup-
pose ?"
"1 cannot say that. I have ,many things
to do, but I oaaa always find time to think of
you. I dwell upon you when you are away,
and think what I should do if you were to
leave me. Ah, yes, I know you will not do
that ; but if you did, I should die."
Le Gautier groaned inwardly. Time had
been when he had dwelt with pleasure on
these out• pourings of an innocent heart.
"You are not one of the dying order of
heroines, Genevieve. By no means. And
so you often wonder what you would do if I
were to leave you ?"
The girl half started from her reclining
position, and'with her scarlet lips parted,
and a troubled expression on her face.
"You speak very strangely to -day, Hector,"
she exclained. "What do you mean ?"
"Precisely what I say. You are anxious
to know how you would feel if I left you.
Your curiosity shall be gratified. I am
going to leave you."
"To leave me I Going away, Hector,
and without me ?" Genevieve wondered
vaguely whether she heard the words aright.
She started and pressed her hand to her
heart, as if to still its rebellious beating.
Going away? Th warmth seemed to have
departed from ttiscene, the bright light
grew dim a- g , ally the words forded
themselves upone,. r;•and the cold numbness
of despair fteed:litir trembling limbs.
"Yes, leamegOing away," Le Gautier re-
peated ia ,a; :matter-of-fact manner, but
always wit !ye anywhere but on the
girl's face. • " Indeed, I have no alternative;
and as to taking you with me, it is impos-
sible." '
"1 have dreamt of something like this,"
Genevieve intoned in a low vague voice, her
look seemingly far away. ' It has been
famedupon me, though I have tried not to
think so, that you have been growing cold-
er day by clay. And now you some and tell
me that you are going to leave ! There is
n� regret in yeur voice, no Sorrow ih your
face. You will go away and forget, leaving
me here in rny arrives, mournino for my
lost love—leaving me here heartbroken—
deceived!"
" You shoeld go on the stage," Le Gauv-
ler replied sardonically. "Your talents
are wasted here. Let me assure you, Gene.
vieVe, speaking as a num who has had a
little experience, that if you can get up a,
scene like this upon the boards, there is
Money in it."
" Yon are true'!" the girl cried, dashing
her tears away impetuotisly—" you are
cruel t ,Wlitee,have I done to deserve this
• front yeita Reiter? • Yon wieli to leave me ;
that you will not come back again, my heart
assures me. ' a • r •
"Your heart is a prophetic orgen, then,
1
, rare mica Now, do look ,ist the thiug la a.
rational light. I Um under the orders of
the League ; to disobey is cleeth to me ; end
to take you with nie is impoesible. We
mast forget all our little flirtations now, for
I cennot tell when I may be in Italy ag tin.
Now, be a eensible girl; forget all about nu
fortunate ote. Noone possibly can know ;
and when the prinee appears, marry him,
Be Q5SUre4 that I shall tell no foolieh tales."
Gradually, surely, the blood creptinto the
gir.'s face as she listened to these mocking
words. She drew herself up inch by inch, her
eyes bright and hard, her head thrown back.
There was a look of infinite withering SOOTR
UpOil her as she spoke, sparing not herself
in the ordeal, "And that is the thing I
loved 1" she said, each word cold and clear
--" that is the thing to which I gave all my
poor heart! I undereatud your words only
too well. I am abandoned. But you have
not done with me yet. My turn will come,
and then—beware 1"
"A truoe to your histrionics," Le Gautier
1
cried' , all the tiger artake
in him now, and , , , th
. only too ready to e up the gage rown
' down. "Do you think I have no °coupe-
; tion, nothing to d well upon but romautio
i
schoolgirls one kills pleasant hours with in
' roaming about the world 1 You knew well
Ienough the thing could not last. I leave for
London to -morrow; so be sensible, and let
i us part frieuds."
. "Friends !" she echoed disdainfully.
"You and I friends ! You have made a
yeoman of nie. , From this moment, I shall
• only think of you with loathing !"
"Then why think of ine at all? It is very
hard a man cannot have a little amusement
without such a display of hysterical affec-
tion as this. For goodness' sake, Genevieve,
i do be sensible !"
I Stung to madness by this cruel taunt, she
took one step towards him and stopped, her
whole frame thrilling with speechless, con-
suming rage. It would have one hard
with him then, could she have laid her hand
upon a weapon. Then all at once she grew
perfectly, rigidly calm. She stepped to the
little saactuary, and took dowa the woodeu
cross, holding it in her right hand, " 13efore
you go, I have a word to gay to • you,'
said between her clenched white teeth. "You
aee a man;:I ani a poor defenceless girl.
You are endowed with all the falseness and
deceit that flesh is heir tci;. I am ignorant of
the great world that lies beyond the horizon.
You fear no harm trona me now; I shall
' evoke no arm in my defence; but my time
will come. When you have nearly accom-
plished your most cherished schemes, when
you have your foot upon the goal of your
crowning ambition, when fortune smiles her
brightest upon your endeavours—then I
shall strike! Not till then shall you see or
hear of me; but the hour will come. Beware
of it !"
"Perfection 1" Le Gautier cried. "You
only want"—
"Not another word 1" the girl command-
ed. "Now, go 1—mean, crawling hound,
base deceiver of innocent girls I Go! and
never look upon my face again; it shall be
the worse for you if yen do! Go! and for-
get my passionate words ; but the time will
come when they shall come back to you.
Go 1" With steady hand she pointed to the
opening in the wood; and without another
word he slunk away, feeling, in spite of his
jaunty air, a miserable, pitiful coward in-
deed.
As he turned to go, Genevieve watched
him down the long avenue out of sight, and
then, sinking on her knees, she sobbed long
and bitterly, so full of her grief and care that
she was oblivious to her surroundings. Her
face was deadly pale, her white lips moved
• passionately, as she knelt there weeping,
half -praying, half cursing herself in her
despair.
"Genevieve 1"
The word, uttered in Et toneof wonder and
alarm, was repeated a second time before
the agitated. girl looked. up. Salvarini was
standing there his usually grave face a prey
to suspicion and alarm, a look which did not
disguise entirely an expression of tenderness
and affection. Genevieve roseto her feet
and wiped away her tears. It was some
momenta before she was calm enough to
speak to the wondering man at her side.
"I have chosen an unfortunate moment
for my mission," Salvarini mournfully con-
'tinned:a " I am afraid my presence is unwel-
come here.—Geneieve, there is something
behind this I do not understand. It must
be beyond an ordinary grief to move you
like this." I
" There are some sorrows we dare not
think of," Genevieve replied with an air of
utter weariness—" Luigi, do not press me I
now. Some day, perhaps, I will ask you to
help me." ,
"1 am afraid a brother is the fittest con-
fidant in a case like this. Pardon me, if I
am wrong; but when I hear you talking to
a man—for his voice came to me—and then
I find you in such a -plight as this, I must
think. -0 Genevieve I my only love, my
idol and dream since I first saw your face,
to have given your heart to some one un-
worthy of you. What will Gael° say, when
he hers of ib?'
"But he must not hear," Genevieve whis-
pered, terrified. "Luigi, you have sur-
prised me; but you must keep my secret --I
implore you."
"1 can refuse no words of yours. But
one thing you must, nay, shall do—you
most tell me who this man is; you must ,
have an avenger." •
"Luigi," the girl said; laying her hand
gently upon his arm, "1 shall be my own
avenger—that I have sworn by the cross I
hold in my hand. if it is for years, I can'
wait—and hope."
"That Is a wrong spirit," Salvarini re-,
plied sorrowfully. " You are triad just now
with your wrongs. Stay here at home, and
let me be your chaaripion. I love you too
well to admire such sentiments from you
yet. I shall not press you now; but all
time, for good or for evil, I shall wait for
you •,,
"Luigii you are a good man, far too good
ese
Stranger's earning .to-ilearrewe r •The words 1 11.41^.:11'11
bear on her brainlike therear a count -
lees hammere, •,Strongera coming and or
143 ihO' 0 i ukCet tkl4131 liont with this
wl1d, aelis of ` Wrong, burning within
her yengeful Italian heart,' bruised but
not crushed? She walked slowly up -
stirs aud sat down in her roern thielting
till the evening light, be tain to wane, and
i
the lainpe of distant ake Q to twinkle out
one by one. The vex"ya ilence of the place
oppressed her.
"Are you coming dONVII to supper, Gene.
She arm -teed herself at these words, and
•looking up, saw a child standing before her.
She was regarding her sister somewhat curi-
ously, aud somewhat pitifully too; the lat.
ter, child as she was, did not fail to notice
the pale face and dark -ringed eyes. She ap-
proached the older girl, throwing her arm.
round her neck and kiseing her gently
"What is the matter, care ?' she asked in
her soft liquid Italian "Have you one of
your headaches again, sister? Let me
comfort you."
"1 have something more thou headache,
Lucrece—some pain that no soft words of
yours eau ,charm away. Run clown -stairs,
aim ; I am not fit to talk to you now."
"Please, Genevieve, I would. rather stay
with you."
Genevieve looked out again across the
landscape, lit here and there now by twink-
ling lights, reflected from the happy fire.
sides, till it was tee° dark any longer to see
aught but the ghostly shadows. '
"Lucrece 1" she exclaimed sucldeely,
"come here."
The child hesitated for a moment, and
obeyed, taking her sister's cold damp hand
in her own, and waiting for her to speak.
"Do you remember, Luorece, the Golden
City I uee,d to tell you about when YQU
were a little one, the blessed placefar away,
where there is no strife and no care, and
every heart can rest?"
"Yes, I remember, sister." •
"And should you care to go with me?"
"0• yes, please. I wouid go anywhere
with you and not be afraid."
"Thea you shall go. •, When you go to
your room to -night, do not take off your
clothes, but lie awake till I come for you.
Only, mind, if you say a word of this, you
will not see the beautiful city."
Through the rest of the hours, Genevieve
moved about mechanically, getting through
the evening meal she scarcely knew how.
Gradually tirne passed on, one by one the
members of the household retired. It Was
au hour later when Genevieve entered her
little sister's room. "Luorecie, are you
awake?" she whispered.
• "Yes, sister; I am waiting for you. Are
we going now ?"
"Yes we are going now. Walk slowly,
and hold my hand. Come, let us hasten?
we have far to go, and the way iireveary."
Silently they passed down the stairs, and
out into the night -air along the path to
Rome, walking on till they were lost in the
darkness of the night • Genevieve's face
stern and set; the little one's, bright and
hopeful.
Gradually the east flushed with the Golden
splendour of the coming dawn; thebirds awoke
to welcome up the sun; and after them, the
laggard morn. The orb of day saw strange
things as he rose in the vault of heaven : he
saw two tired wayfarers sleeping on the road-
side; and then, later, the anxious faces of a
party gathered at a pretty villa by the
Tiber. As he sank to rest again, he went
down upon a party searching woods and
streams far and. near; and as he dipped be-
hind the shoulder of the purple hills that
night, hie last red glimpse flushed the faces
of the stern sad -visaged group on their way
to Rome. When he rose again there were
no wayfarers by the roadside, but a brother
on his knees praying for his lost darlings
and strength to aid him in his extremity.
In Sol's daily flight he saw hope lost, aban-
doned in despair; but as came eacfi moan,
he brought a gentle healing, but never Gen-
evieve back to the Mattio wood again!
And so time passed on, bringing peace, if
not forgetfulness.
fro se CONTINUED.)
A Hindoo Marriage.
A case that has attracted no little itten-
don in England as well as India, and will
strike Canadian readers as involving a
curious marriage custom has just been tried
in the High Court of Bombay.
It appears that Rukmibhax, a native girl,
was, according to Hindoo usage, married
when only eleven years of age to a youth of
nineteen. The two inunedietely parted, the
girl remaining at the house of her parents.
By them she was carefully educated', and
"grew up into a refined and cultivated
lady." Recently the husband came to claim
t her as his wife,but she declined to live with
! him and her family refused to recognize his
claim. He is described as being little better
than a coolie—illiterate, coarse, too poor to
support a wife, and, moreover, consumptive.
.A. snit was thereupon brought ,to en-
force the marriage agreement The judge
remarked that their involuntary union
would be unnatural and barbarous and held
, that the man's claim could not be maintain-
; ed under Ihndoo law. From this decision an
I appeal was taken to a higher court, which,
' while expressing sympathy with the young
woman d.ecided that she was the lawful ,
r wife of man and bound to live with him. I
' An order was accordingly issued requiring
, her to join him within a month or submit
I to six months' imprisonment for disobe-
dience.
• Aside from its hardship and absurdity the
case presents two curious legal aepects. The
first Is that it was a suit for the restitution
of conjugal rights, and the decision of the
High Court upholding it was ' based on
glnglish precedents. Now, this remedy to• ,
compel a wife to live with her husband has ;
been abolished in England. Second, the '
wife may escape the obligation of the mar-
riage by six months' imprisonment. After
that she ia not bonnd to recognize the man
as her husband, though she is not free to
marrv another.
Olean" and " Unclean, "
13ible etudents have noted with inter-
eetieg cogneents the tea that the division
of fehdh [nth two cheeses "lean," which
were illowed, and "nucleon " which were
forbidden, as found in the Pentatench, was
something more than an arbiter' law im
posed upon the Jewe. A careful study co
the list of animals excluded from the cate-
gory of alleivable foods as uuclean, will show
• that all thein are by their habits render-
ed specially unfit for food. Except when
pressed by hunger, most of them are reject-
ed by the most barbarous tribes, and are not
considered choice food even by those Animals
• which prey upon others; as the lion, tiger,
etc.
• Not a single predatory or scavenger ani-
mal was allowed in the list of foods; and
why? Evidently because in the eating flesh
food, the flesh of the eater is deteriorated.
The lion might eat the same sheep that the
man intended to eat; but man must not eat
the lion. Ile might take the grass and grains
at second hand, but not the sheep. Is
there any reason for this? Experieuce shows
that when an animal whoae usual food is
chiefly grains and other vegetable 'substan-
ces, exchanges its ordinary diet for animal
foo, its flesh becomes unpalatable and no-
wholeimme. Evidently, animal food leave
in the tissues of the eater certain impure
and unwholesome elements which are not
left by vegetable food. Is not this the rea-
son why flesh -eating animals were interdict-
ed by the law of Moses? The flesh of a
flesh -eating animal is rank and unsavory;
and that Of a vegetable-eatinganimal, as a
sheep or an ex, bee:fames rank and masavory
when the animal eats flesh food. Certainly
the evidence seems to be conclusive.
But there is still another conclusion which
may be legitimately drawn from the facts
referred to. If the use of flesh as food, has
such a deteriorating effect upon a sheep or
an ox, and upon all carnivorous animals, as
thereby to render them unfit to be eaten, is
it not probable that the same cause nuty
produce alike effect upon the flesh of human
beings? Ib is not pleasant for one to con-
template a condition of his body which in
another animal would render it unfit M be
eaten; and when we consider the high pur-
poses for which the human body was made,
mental and moral, as well as physical, and
the infinitely delicate functions which its
marvelous machinery must perform in the
mechanism of tlaought and mind—in,feeling,
knowing, and willing—does it not occur to
one with considerahle force that a body un-
fit to be eaten, is unfitted for thinking and
for exercising the highest powers of heart
and mind and soul, of which a human being
is capable? If fruits and grains, the pure
products of the earth, make the best flavor-
ed flesh, will they not also make the best
brains and the best nerves as well?
Gut of Gaol Again.
Herr John Most, the windy Anarchist
for me. Listen 1 I must gratify ray re- who emerged to public view from under a
venge ; till then, all must vvait. Thiogs
alter; men change; but when the tirne
comes, awl you are still the same, say
Come to me,' and I shall be by your side,"
"I shall never change I" he replied as he
touched the outstretched hand with his lips
• gently.
Slowly and sadly they walked back to-
wards the house—Genevieve calm and col.
lected r1097 ; Salvarini, mournfully resigned;
pityand rage—pity for the girl, and rage
against her deteiver—alterriately sopreme
in his heart. For renne time neither epoke.
"Will you eoine in ?" the tusked.
" Not now," he replied feeling inetinctive.
ly that his preeence would only be an un-
' welcome restraint. " I had a message to
briefs from Carlo. He arid Sir Geoffrey and
Mee Charteris arc coining to-morrow.—And
now, remember, if you want a friend, you
leave one in me.—Good bye."
" Gooddaye, Luigi," she maid 7)1w -diesel.
cally. "Sou are very good. I.shollre.
member.
bed about a year ago to disappear a little
later in the penitentiary, reappeared the
other day and was seen by many of his kind, ,
• until he again retired, this time into a beer -
shop near Second avenue. A number of
cnrious specimens of humanity greeted him
• on his arrival from Blackwell'e Island, none
of tnern having work that they could not
just as well postpone. What Most expects
to do beyond posing as a hero and martyr is
not stated; but he will ;probably continue
to be an agitator. Within bounds, of
course. His term in the, penitentiary will
serve as a wholesome check on his loose
tongee, we imagine, for it is a painful' fact
(painful to Most especially that for, ten
rnen ths he hire 1)een actually working, Doubt-
less lie expeets that to last him during his
lifetime. ' l'erhaps it will, if he obey e the
lawand keep hie mouth shut.— .111'. Y.
71eibutee.
The first yesael to leave Port Colborne
this season gelled for Cleveland.
What to Do for the Baby's Earache.
"What makes the baby so cross to -night?'
says Jones.
"Oh 1 he has taken cold, and got the ear-
ache. I guess he will be all right as soon as
Mary Ann gets back from the drug store
with the laudanum," says Mrs. Jones.
And so when Mary Ann gets back, a good
dose of laudanum is poured into baby's ear,
and very likely a few drops get into his
stomach too,if he don't get quiet without.
Perhaps some old lady in the neighborhood
will droptin, and insist that he must have
an onion poultice on the outside of his ear,
or chloroform inside of it, or a mustard
abider -to the back of his head, or a dose of
soothing syrup, or sornething else equa'lly
inefficient.
Here is the proper thing to do. Pour a
little warm water into baby's ear. Now wet
a soft sponge of folded flannel in hot water,
wring dry, and apply to the ear. A hot ear
douche, taken with a syphon or fountain
syringe, allowing the hot water to run slow-
ly Into the ear with little force, is still more
efficient. This simple remedy has the ad-
vantage that it not only eases the pain, but
removes the cause by stopping the inflam-
mation. • The application of hot water
may be made as often as necessary, or all ,
the time. Keep the ear warmly covered
during the intervals. If the baby has really
talon a cold, a warm blanket pack, M pro -
dude a good sweat, should he used in addi-
tion to the applications to the ear.
The significance of earache is: generally
not understood. Quite a proportion of the
cases of deafness occurring in adults without ,
immediate cause, are justly attributable to
the oft -recurring earaches of childhood. I
Hence the importance of giving to a matter
of this sort early and efficient attention.
The notion that in cases of severe earache
there is nothing to do but to wait for the
ear to "break" or discharge, is a mischievous I
one. When this occurs, it is usually the re-
sult of neglect, and the effect is a more or
less permanent injury to the ear. This
"breaking" should be prevent( d by prompt
treatment. If the earache is not (speedily
relieved by the hot-water ear douche,—
which may be used almost continuously, if
necessary,—a skillful physician should be
consulted without delay. It is sometimes
necessary to lance the drum membrane.
It is always important that an ear which
has been subject to severe inflammation
should be treated after the inflammation has
subsided. The eustachian tube must be in-
flated by means well known to physicians.
This will also drive out of the ear, secre-
tions which, if left for the slow process of
absorption, may permanently injure the
hearing.
Hints Worth Preserving.
1. Some one's nose bleeds and cannot be
stopped: Take a plug of lint, moisten, dip
in equal parts of powdered alum and gum -
arabic, and insert in the nose. Bathe the
forehead in cold water.
2. • Child eats a piece of bread on which
arsenic has been spread for killing rats
Give plenty of warm water, new milk in
large quantities, gruel and linseed tea; fo-
ment the bowels. Scrape iron -rust off any-
thing, mix with warm water, and give in
large ' draughts frequently. Never give
large draughts of fluids until those given be-
fore have been vomited, because the stomach
will not contract properly if filled, and the
object is to get rill of the poison as quickly
as possible.
3. Child "falls backward into a tub of
water and is much scalded: Carefully un-
dress the child, lay it on a bed, on its breast
if the back is scalded; be sure all draughts
aro excluded; then dust over the parts
scalded with bi-carbonate of soda; lay mus-
lin over it ; then make a tent by placing two
boxes with a board over them ih bed, to pre-
vent the eovering from pressing on the
scald.; cover up warm.
4. Mower cuts driver's legs as hn is
thrown from his sent: Put a tight bandage
around the limb above the cut, slip a cork
under it in the direction �f a line drawn
rem the inner part of the knee to a little
utside of the groin. Draw the edges Of the
ut together with sticking plaster.
At the annual meeting of the Canadian
Chili 18 New 'York, 1V1r. Brutus Wimen
was re-elected President,
HOME op CiEliRAL NEWS.
Delaware is trying high license.
The Dacoit leader in Burmah has` been
ltilled bY one o 114i 9,_Nt?1
York Comity and Torbate are to be sepal.,
ated for shrievelty purposes.
'A Reesian War vessel seared the Varna
people by praotise firing near their port.
A society for the preVention of cruelty to
animals has been organ zed in Kiegeton.
Thb German Governmeat asks for au
extra military credit of 134,000,000 marks,
The Doinieion Exhibition grant of $10,000
is to be given this year to the Termite In
dustrial.
Successful experiments have beeu made
in Metz with a navigable balloon propelled
by an electric motor.
The Prince oi Wales has consented to not
as honorory president of the Melbourne In-
ternational Exhibition.
Since May 1 of last year 37 convictions for
violation of the Scett act have been obtained
in the County of Oxford.
It is stated Tichoneff, the man who fired
recently at the Czar, was hanged the day on
which he committed the crime.
The Vanslooten iron monopoly bill has
been defeated in the Nova Scotia Legislature
by an almost unanimous vote.
A libel suit is to be brought against The
London Times by Mr. Biggar because of its
articles on Parnellisrn and Crime."
Sheriff Jarvis, of the County of York,
died suddenly on Saturday night of last
week. He was in his sixty-ninth year.
The proposal fir affiliation with Trinity
Medical School, Toronto, has been approved
of by the medical faculty of Queen's Univer-
sity.
Rev. Dr. McCaul, late President of the
Toronto University, died at his residence,
hi Toronto, the other morning, in his 81st
year.
The decision of the Pope in favor of the
Knights of Labor is given on condition of
their fighting shy of Henry George's doc-
trines.
The Imperial Government, fearing the
importation of dynamite from America, has
instructed Customs officials to keep a sharp
lookout.
An expert has compared Mr. Parnell's
handwriting with the signature to the dines
letter, and at present declines to give an
opinion.
The loss on the running expenses of the
Intercolonial railway last year amounted to
$106,000, and on the Prince Edward Island
railway to $61,000.
Mr. Alexander Sullivan, of Chicago, who
was referred to in the Coercion bill debate,
denies that he had any guilty knowledge of
the Plannix park murders.
The new Mahdi has written to the Queen
saying if she recognizes him as the true Ma-
hdi she willbe saved and they willbe friends.
Otherwise he will march forward.
An issue of five per cent. bonds of the
Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic)
railway has been successfully placed on the
London market.
Lord Salisbury on Tuesday evening made
a speech before the Primrose League in
which he violently attacked Mr. Gladstone
and the Parnellites.
Sir Donald Smith and Sir George Stephen
have donated $500,000 each for a jubilee me-
morial hospital in Montreal on condition
that the city furnish the site.
Premier Baker, of Tonga Island, and. his
party have put a great many of the Wes-
leyans on the island to death, apparently on
a trumped up charge of conspiracy.
Sir Adolphe Caron says that the Govern-
ment will provide a sufficient sum to put
up a spacious drillshed in Toronto as soon
as the people of Toronto provide a site.
• Mr. James takers, for nearly forty years
secretary and manager of the Montreal
Telegraph Company, died in Montreal re-
cently, aged 75 years.
• Mr. Gladstones has written a letter ex-
pressing his sense .of the importance to be
attached to the expression of views on the
Irish question from this side of the Atlan-
tic.
In opening the Spring Assizes at Hamilton
Sir M. C. Cameron remarked on the notable
absence of crime on11113 present circuit, and
spoke strongly in favour of maintaining the
jury system.
The Pall Mall Gazette, which has been a
little wild on the Irish question of late, says
the House of Commons ought to commit the
editor of the Times to the Clock tower for
a breach of privilege.
Rev. Dr. Parker, of the Temple church,
London, will deliver the eulogy on the late
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in Brooklyn on
June 24, and it is believed that he will ac-
cept an invitation to fill the vacant pulpit.
The Aineer of Afghanistan is ooncentrat-
ing troops round Herat to resist a dreaded
Russian advance and he is also sending a
strong force against the Ghilzeis and other
rebel tribes who are resisting his authority.
A deputation from the roronto Ministeri-
al Association recently waited upon the
Minister of Education and laid before him
the resolutions passed by the association re-
garding the education laws.
An article in the current Quarterly Re.
view says Canada is a failure as a wheat.
producing country, and that nothing short
of a ham:loon-re fortune should tempt anyone
to a colony with a climate far colder than
that of Siberia.
A bill will be introduced at an early date
in the Dominion Parliament for the total
prohibition of the manufacture, importation
and sale of intoxicating liquors, except for
sacramental, medicinal and scientific pur.
While renewing public records partly
burned in the great fire of 1871, an employe
18 the Chicago• y clerk's oThce hadiscov-
ered a deed conveying property covered
with valuable business buildings to the city,
. . .
million dollara,
The proposed Sunday law has been so
amended by the Nova Scotia Legislative
committee that its framers could not re-
cognize it. The clause relating to barbers,
ball.playing, racing, fishing, shooting, and
running horse -cars were all struck out.
Prospects for the building trade in Mont-
real this season are of the momt promising
charaeter. Public buildinge, iheluding two
new railway stations, involving an expendi-
ture of about two million dollars, will be
erected, besides a large ntunber of business
premises and private residences.
An intense sensation has been created in
London by the publication of the foesirnile
of a letter signed by Mr. Parnell, written
to Mr. Egan, say* that while he regret-
ted the murder of Lord Frederick Cavene
dish in the Plicenix Park, he thought Burke
girt be more than his desert. Mr. Parnell
denies that he wrote the letter, and epealcis
about demanding that the editok of the
rimes be called to the bar of the House of
Commons. •
rioning 10 DYsc
The ?sage oPurope.
Tho President of RobeetCollege, Constan-
tinople, contiunes his etory in the New York
indepeinteet, lie Mile ef the treachery of
Rumple, and of the wisdom and moderation
of those who have ruled in Bulgaria. bilICO
PI ince AleeaMiler wee ,foreed to retire.
Anything but thole eountry'm indepeeeence
t heee men are willing to yield to Russia,
but that independence never, so long as they
Ihave a dollar or a gun. " deriously.," says
Dr. Washburn, " Reptiblican Preece le using
all her influence to aid Russia, in her effort
to crush Bulgaria and melee it a bridge to
Constantinople, uninieaful of the warning of
Thiers titan) the fate of Europe when the
Czar should plant ems foot upon Copenhagen
and elm upon Conetantinople, and equally
as unmindful of those principles of liberty! a
which she profesees to champion." He adds '
that there are to -day not twenty political
prisoners in Bulgaria and that all the charg-
ea of atroctiee are pure febrications. As to
immecliete war, he adds, opinion is divided.
Some think it will not come this year, others
are as sere that it will, If the Czar is rs ady he
will go et it speedily, whatever his Jish to
save the feelings of the old German i' peror.
But what a pagan faros it is, all the same,
that the peace of the world and the lives of
uncounted thousands should depend upon
the passion or caprice of an all but irrespon-
sible madnian 1 Are the great masses of
the people in every land never to have more
sense than this amounts to? And never
more Christian principle than to set about
and "bleed each other white," as Bismarck
phrases it, es soon as any ambitions and un-
tiorutnikres seoundrel gives the 'signal? For
the fiftieth time just let us the how the facts
stand. At the beginning of this year of
,grace and peace, the armarriente of Europe
on a peace footing reached the vast propor-
tions of three and a quarter millione of men
in the very vigour and hey -day of manhood.
The number of trained men ready for war
on the slighost emergency, in other words the
armies on a war footing amounted to twelve
and a half millions. Is itpossible to realize
the almount of misery, demoralization and
waste which these figures indicate? In France
military service is compulsory on all men ex-
cept a few invalids. The time of training ex.
toads over five years, and the liability Meer -
vice over twenty years. So it is in Russia.
In Austria the new military service act brings
in all males from nineteen to forty-three
years of age. All the men of Germany are
liable to military service from twenty to
forty-two years of age. They must, to begin
with, joiu the army for three years. Think
of all that! And then the costly fortifica-
tions ! Why, since 1871 e'rance has erected
a double line of forts of one hundred and
forty miles along all her frontier bordering
on Germany. And yet all these people
claim to be Christians while all of them are
as busy as beavers praying against each
other for all they are worth and making
eady to out each other's throats on the first
opportunity. Suppose war broke out to-
morrow, with what contradiitory and con-
flicting petitions Heaven would be assailed,
and yet, every chaplain in the whole crowd
would keep as grave and earnest as an owl,
and never think but with pity of the Roman
augurs who laughed in each others' faces, or
at any rate had good reason so to de. Good
Heavens! "God of battles, ,1bless, ur ban. 1
ners, and for Thy dear Son's sake, send us
speedy and overwhelming victory ! Nine-
teenth century of the Christian Era 1 Eh?
Toronto Truth.
The Victorian Empire.
Great Britain is quarrelling with Venez-
uela, and has even gone so Inc as to with-
draw her Minister. The quarrel is, of
course, over the boundary question. Great
Britain took Guiana from the Dutch, and
while the line between Dutch and English
territory has been settled by tre ty, those
between English territory and e territories
of Brazil and Venezuela have iaver been
laid down, and Britain's claims rest upon
the old Dutch conquests. Treaties between
all the nations exist which debar either one
from, occupying the disputedterritory, which
is said to amount toover eighty thousand
square miles. The area of British Guiana,
wiphout this disputed territory, is, accord-
ing to latest figures, one hundred and nine
thousand square miles. This is a very
small proportion of so large a continent for
a nation which' has annexed over one-
seventh of all the lanci on earth. She owns
indeed even a smaller proportion of the con-
tinent of Europe upon which her sole posses-
sion is Gibraltar whose area is only about
one andseven-eighth square miles; butthen,
Europe is too Inc advanced to need her
fostering. care, while South America is in
part undeveloped and in part uncivilized.
Of course Great Britain owns a good many
scrappy islands which count with South
America, and whose aggregate area is about
125,364 square miles, but two hundred and
twenty-five thousand square miles is too
sraall a proportion of such a vast continent
Lor ,a nation to possess which owns about
3,600,000 square miles of North America,
3,306,000 square miles of Australia and
Oceanian, 1,104,655 square miles of Asia
and 300,000 s equare miles of Africa.. This
is without counting such recent annexe-
' times as those in New Guinea, in Burmah,
1 on the Niger in Africa, or such protector-
ates as those established over Egypt, or
Afghanistan,.or Deloochistan, and leaving
out such pearls as Cyprus, Malta, Aden,
i Perim; nor does it include the.United King-
dom, whose area is 120,892 miles. Serious-
• ly, Great Britain possesses already too much
undigested territory. She has been nowhere
less successful in Anglicizing, her possessions
than in the plantations of Guiana, whose
conditions are little removed from those of
the former slave plantations of the South,
j and in some respects differ for the worse, as
i the planters lipase less interest in their hands;
i and these, being largely imported coolies,
i suffer greatly from the climate. Britz' is
iis
r
i a wellsgoverned country, and Venezu la,
a self-governing republic, which, h leever
' unsettled, is more to the mind of freemen
,than a crown colony ever can be. On t
i whole, we hope England will not distress
herself about acquisitions in that region.—
Montreal Wanes&
• Frontier Marks.
The frontier between Germany and Prance
is more distinctly marked than that of any
• other two countries. The frontier line is so
arranged that it crosses every road at right
anglee.
On the German side is a large post, twelve
feet high, painted like a barber's pole—red,
black and white, with a cross -piece at the
top,with the word, in black letters on a white
• grounds (posse (boundary), with an exclama-
tion mark.
Diagonally opposite is a cast-iron poet,
twelve feet high, whereon is painted in gray,
on an iron cross -piece, the word fromeets
Such posts are onlY .placed on road e and
railways. The line is indicated "across
country" by some stone block§ projecting
about a foet above the ground at inter vale of
fifty Yards, On thiPrench side of the bloelt
is cut with a ehieel the' letter "P"'on the
German'side is th'elettet "D" ---for "Deutsch-
land.