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'CHAPTER XVIII, !settee to spear meeltinonge with Moodie/
id the words imply ?-an extol-• The evening turned out very °Mil find foggy,
ie wed? 1 hoped thee I was mistakeand, before twelve, they roterned, with only
fore L could loge any time in cohjecture °Pe fish, and half frozen with cold, Mal-
usbend awoke, The At had left him, ieolm had got twinee of rheumetiem, and he
he nee and drooled himself, and wee
• on chatting cheerfully with his guest.
Mr. Meloolm now informed him thet he
WaS hiding from the sheriff of the N—
disteict's officers, and that it would be con-
terrieg upon him a great favour a he would
- allow him to renein at hia house for afeW
weeks.
" To tell you the teeth, Malcolm," eald
Moodie, "w.e are so badly off that we ean
scarcely Vend. food for ourselves and the
children. (,,It is opt of our power to make
you comfortable, or to keep an additional
hand, without be le willing to tender some
little help on the farm. If you can do this,
I will endeavour to get a few necesearies on
credtt, uo make your stile/ more agreeable."
To tine proposition Malcolm readily went.
ed, not only became it releated him from all
sense of obligation, but bemuse it gave him
a privilege to grumble.
Finding that his etay might extend to an
indefinite period, I got Jacob to construct a
rude bedstead out of two large chests that
ha,d tranaported some of our goods across
the Atlantic, and which he put up it a corner
of the parlour. This I provided with anneal
hair -mattress, and furnishedwith what bed-
ding I oould spare.
For the firet Xortnight of his sojourn, our
gueat did nothing but lie upon that bed, and
read, and smoke, and clrinle whithey-and-
water from morning until night. By degrees
he let out parb of his Watery ; hub there was
a mystery about him which he took good
care never to clear up. He was the son of
an officer in the navy, who had nob only
attaitied a very high rank in the service, but,
ior his gallant conduct, had been made a
Knight -Companion of the Bath.
Ria shrewd observations and great con-
versational powers had first attracted my
husbancl's attention, and, as men seldom
show their bad qualities on a journey, he
thought him a blunt, good fellow, who had
travelled e great deal, and could render him-
self a very agreeable companion by a graphic
relation of his adventures. He could be all
this, when he chose to relax from his sullen,
morose mood; and, much as I disliked him,
have listened with interest for hours to his
droll descriptions of South American lite and
manners.
He had himself served his thne as a mid-
ehipmauon board his father's fiagehip, but
had left the navy and accepted a commiseion
in the Butmos-Ayrean aervice during the
political struggles in that province; he had
oommanded i aort of privateer uuder. the
government, to whom, by his own account,
he rid -rendered many very signal services.
Why he left South America and came to
Canada he kept a prolound secret. He had
indulged in very vicious and very diesipatecl
connes since be eeMe to the province'and
fey his own accounfe had spent upwarcla of
four thousand pounds, in a manner not over
creditable to himself. Finding that his
, friends would answer his bills no longer, he
ook poesession of a grant of land obtained
f‘brough his father's interest, up in. Harvey,
'a barren townehip en the shores of Stony
Lake, and, after putting up his shanty, and
expending all his remaining means, he found
that he did not possess one acre out of the
whole four hundred that evould yield a
crop et potatoes. He was now coneiderably
in debt, and the land, such au they were,
lead been eeized, with all his effecte, by the
sheriff, and a warrant was out for his awn
d apprehension, which he contrived to elude,
during his sojourn with us. Money, he had
one and, beyond the .dirty fearnought
blue se man's jacket which he wore, a pair
of troteers of the coarse cloth of the country,
an old black vest that had seen better days,
and twci blue checked shirts, clothes he had
none. He shaved but once a week,
never combed his hair, and never .washed
' himself. A dntier or more slovenly crea-
ture neva before Wag dignifie'i by the title
of a gottleman. Be was, however, a man
of good. education, of excellent abilities, and
posseased a bitter, sarcastic knowledge of
the norlde but he was selfish end unprin-
oipled in the highest degree.
Naturalle indolent, and. a constitutiosial
grumbler, it was with the greatest difficulty
that Moodie could get him to do anything
beyond bringing a few pails of vveler from
the swamp for the use of the house, and he
has often posed me carrying water up from
the lake without offering to relieve me of tbe
burden. Marty, the betrothed of Jacob,
called him a perfect " beast ;" but. he, re-
turning good for edil, considered her a very
pretty girl, and paid her so • many uncouth
attentions' that he rowed the jealousy. of
holiest Jake, who vowed that he would give
•him a good " loomping ." if he ouly dared to
lay a finger upon hid siveetheart. With
Jacob to heckler, Mary treated the " zee-
- bear," as Jacob termed him,. with vast die -
Amin and was so saucy to him that, forget,-
lingihis admiration, be declared he would
like to serve her as the. Indians had done
a scolclbog woman in South America. They
attacked her house during the abeence of
her husband, cut out leer tongue, and nailed
.it to the door, by way of a knocker; and he
thought that'all women who could not keep
a civil tongue in their4hed should be served
in the same manner. •
" Andwhat should be done to men who
swear and use ondecent language?" quoth
Mary, indigns.ntly. "Their tongues should
be slit and given to the dogs. Haugh 1
You are such a nasty fellow that 1 don't
think Hectot would eat your tongue."
"I'll kill ibat beast," muttered Malcolm,
an he walked away:,
1 remonetrated with him ou the impro-
priety cf bandying word e with our servants.
You see," I said, "the disrespect with
whIch timy treat you; and if they presume
upon your familiarity, to speak to our guest
in this contemptuoua manner, they will soon -
extend the eame conduct to us."
" But, Mre, lefoodie, you should reprove
therm"
"1 cannot sir, while you continue, by
taking liberties with the girl, and swearing
at the man, to provoke them to retaliation. '
" Swearibg 1 What harm hi there in
!Swearing ? A Bettor ettertot live without
fussed, aed sulked, and swore, and quarrelled
with everybody and everything, until
Moodie, who was highly amused by his
petulance, advieed him to go to his bed, and
pray for the happy restoration of his tem-
per.
"Temper 1" he cried " I don't believe
there's a goodsteninered person in the world.
It's all he pooriey 1 I never bad a good,tem-
pa 1 My mother was an 111 -tempered woman,
and ruled my father, who was e. confoundedly
severe, domineering man. I was born in an
ill.temper. 1 lees an 111,tempered child ; I
grew up an ill-tempered man. I feel worse
than ill-teropered ubw, and when I die it
will be in an ill -temper."
"Well," qouth I, "Moodie has made you
a tumbler of hot punch, which may help to
drive out the cold and the ill -temper, and
euro the rheuresithen."
Ay; your husband's a good fellow, and
worth two of you, Mrs. Moodie. Be makes
some allowance for the weaknees of human
nature, and can excuae even my ill -tem
per." ,
I did not ob,00se to bandy words with him,
and the next day the unfortunate oresture
was shaking with the ague. A more un
-
tractable, outrageous, wrepatient I never
had the ill -fortune to nurse. During the
cold fit, he did nothing but swear at the
cold, and wished himself routing ; and dur-
lag the fever, he swore at the heat, and
wished tbat he was sitting, with no other
garment than his shirt, on the north side of
an iceberg. And when the fit ' at last left
him, be got up, and ate such quantities of
fatpork, and drank se much whiskey -punch,
that you would have imagined he had just
arrived from a long journey, and had not
tasted food for a couple of days.
epee' the green The ox paeeed on. 1 Rath-
ered myself up and returned home. Mai.
coke was very feed of new milk, and im
came to meet roe sit the door,
" Hi 1 hi 1-17Vhere'l the milk V'
"No milk for the poor children to -day,"
Raid 1, showing him the ineide of the pail,
h a sorrowful ahalte of the head; for it
was no small los to them and Me.
"Row the devil's that? So you were
afraid to milk the 00WB. COMB away, and
will keep off the buggaboos."
"1 did milk them -tee thanks to your
kindnese, Mr. Malcohn-but—'"
"But whit?'
"The ox frightened me and 1 fell and
spilt all the milk."
"Whew I Now don't go and tell your
husband that it WaS all My fault; If you had
had alittle patience, I would have collie when
you &eked me'but I don't choose tc be dic-
tated to, and I won't he made a slave by
you or any one else."
"Then why do you stay' sir, where you
•
ooneider youraelf so treated ? said I. "We
are all obliged to work to obtein bread;.we
give you the best shares -surely the return
we ask for it is but meal."
"You make me feel my obligations to you
when you ask me to do I. nything • if .you
left it to my better feelings we should get on,
better."
Perhaps you are right. I will never
ask yeu to do anything for me in future."
"Oh, now, that is all mook-humility. In
spite of the tears in your eyes, you are as
angry with me as ever; but don't go and
make mischief between me and Moodie. If
yeu'll say nothing about my refusing to go
with you, I'll milk the cows for you myself
to -night."
"And can you milk ?" said 1, with some
curiosity.
"Milk 1 Yes; and if I were not so confound-
edly low-spirited and -- lazy, I could do a
thousand other things too. But now, don't
say a word about it to Moodie."
I made no promise; but my respect for
him was not increased by his cowardly, fear
of reproof from Moodie, who treated him
with a kindness and consideration which he
did not deserve.
The afternoon turned out very wee,
and I was sorry that I should be
troubled with his company all day in the
house. I was making a shirt for Moodie
from some cotton that had been aent me
from home, and he placeli himself by the side
of the stove just opposite, and continued to
regard the for a long time with his usual
sullen stare. I really Jolt half afraid of
him.
"Don't you think me mad ?" said he. "I
have a brother deranged; he got a stroke of
the sun in India, anklost his senses in .con-
sequence; bus sometimes, I think it runs in
the family."
What answer could 1 give to this speech,
but mere evasive common place!
"You won't say what you really think,"
he continued; "I know you hate me, and
that makes me dislike you. Now what
would you say if I told you Iliad committed
a murder, and that it was the recollection
of the cireumstance that made me at times
so restless and unhappy."
I looked up in his face not knowing what
to believe.
(TO ME CONTINUED.)
He would not believe that fishing in the
cold night -air upon the water had made him
ill, but raved tlaat it was all my fault for
having laid my baby down on his bed while
it was shaking with the ague.
Yet, if there were the least tenderness
mixed up in his iron nature, ie was the
affection, he displayed for that young child.
Dunbar was just twenty months old, v. ith
bright, dark eyes, dimpled cheeks, and soft,
flowing, golden hair, which fell round his
infant face in rich curls. The merry. con-
fiding little creature formed such a contrast
to his own surly, unyielding temper, that,
perhaps, that very circumstance made the
bond of union between them. When in the
house, the little boy was aeldorn out of his
arms, and whatever were Malcolm's faults,
he had none in the eyes of the child, who
used to cling around his neck and kiss his
rough, unshaven cheeks with the greatest
fondness,
"11 I could afford it, Moodie," he Naid
one day to my husband, "1 should like to
marry. I want some orke upon whom I
could wreak my affections." And wanting
thet some one in the form of a woman, he
contented himself with Venting them upon
the child.
As the spring advanced, and after Jacob
lett vs, he seemed ashamed of sitting in the
house doiag nothing, and therefore under-
took to make us • garden, or "to make
garden," as the Canadian term is for prepar-
ing a tow vegetables for the season. I proour-
ea the neeeeeary seeds, and watched with
no Inman stirpriee the industry with whioh
our strange visitor commenced operations.
He repaired the broken fence, dug the ground
with the greatest care, and laid it out with a
sidle and neatness of which I had believed
him perfectly incapable. In lest; than three
weeks, the whole plot presented a very
pleasing prospect, and he was really elated
by his moos.
f' At any rate," mid he, "we shall no
longer be starved on bad flour and potaeoeii.
We shall have peas, and beans, and beets,
ana carrots, and cabbage in abundance;
besides, the plot 1 have reserved for cucum-
bers and neeloned?
"4h," thought 1 ; ," does he, indeed, mean
to stay with us until the melons are ripe ?"
and my heart died witlain me, for he notonly
was a great additional expense, but he gave
a great deal of -additional trouble, and en-
tirely robbed us ot all privacy, as our very
parlour was converted into a bed -room for
his accommodation ; besides that, a man of
his singnlarly dirty habits made a, very
disagreeable inmate.
LATEST BY GABLE.
and Aroused by Another Idurdeg-The
Weather in Europe-Gladstone's Birth'
day.
After nearly two .nthe' immunity from
Whiteohapel murders Engleud was startled
the other dee by the aenouncement of a
crime committed in IBtadford, Yorkshire
which, in its horrible detail, hilly equal the
atrocious work with which the East, End of
London has become familiar. The methods
of the Bradford murderer are strikingly aim.
ilar to those employed in London, but int
stead of a WOMB, the vietim is a little boy,
veho seems to have been lured from his home
and out up as thoroughly as any Jack the
Ripper's prey. Litttle Johnny Gill was
playing in the streety on Thursdey morning,
He was last seen alive im the afternoon tak-
ing a ride in a milk van. The driver of the
van has been arrested, but it is pretty certain
he had nothing toddle with the crime. He
myelitis eat the boy down in the most fashion-
able part of Bradford.
The only redeeming po n
ter, in my eyes was his love for Dunbar. I
could not entirely hate a man who was so
fondly attached to My ohua. To the two
little girls he watt very cross, and often
chased them from him with blows.
He had, too, an odious way of finding
fault with every thing. I never could cook
to please hint and he tried in the most
malicious way to induce Moodie to join in
his complaints. All his schemes to make
etrife between ns s however, felled, and were
generally visited upon himself. In no way
did he ever seek to render me the least as-
eistance. Shortly after Jacob left us, Mary
Pine was offered higher wages by a family
at Peterborough, and for some time 1 was
left with four little children, and without a
servant. Mtiodie always milked the cows,
because I never could overcome my fear of
cattle; and though I had occasionally milked
when there was no one else in the way, it
was in fear and trembling.
Moodie had to go down to Peterborough;
but liefore he went, he begged Malcolm to
bring me what water and wood I required,
and to stand by the cattle vvhilo I milked
the cows, end he would himself be home
before night.
He started at six in the morning, and I
got the pail to go and milk. Malcolm was
lying upon his bed, reading.
"Mr. Maloolin, will you be Ito kind as t
to the fields for a few minute
t Tin his change
A Voice From the Departed.
1 shine in the light of Goa,
His likeness stamps ray brow,
Throughthe valley of deathiny feethave trod,
And I reign in glory now.
No breaking heart is here,
No keen and thrilling pain,
No wasted cheek, where the frequent tear
/lath rolled and left its stain:
I have found the joy of heaven,
I am one of the angel band.
To my head a crown is given,
And a harp is in my hand.
i have learned the song they sing,
Whom Jesus hath made free,
And the glorious walls on high still ring,
With my new-born melody.
No sin- no grief -no pain -
Safe in my happy home -
My fear e all fled-rny doubts all slain -
My hour of triumpla come -
0 friend of my mortal years 1
The trusted and the tried,
Thou art walking still in the valleyof tears,
But I am at they side.
Do I forget ? Oh no!
For Memory's golden chain
Shall bind My heart to the heart below,
Till they meet and touch again.
Each link strong and bright,
And love's electric flame
Flows freely down, like a river of light,
To the world from which I came.
Do you mourn when another star
Shines out from the glittering sky?
Do you weep when the noise of war
And the rage of conflict elle ?
Then why should your tears roll down,
Ancryour soul be sorely riven,
For another gem in the Saviour's crown,
And another aoul in Heaven?
REV. LUZERNE RAE.
Johnny Gill did not oorne home on Thurs-
day evening, and his permits, alarmed fox
his safety, advertised the factt of his disap.-
pettitince m the local newspapers. Oa Fyn
day the police took the matter la hand, but
no nevss was obtained until Saturday morning,
when the poor boy'll body' was found indes-
cribably mutilated in an outhouse a mile or
so away from where be was last seen alive.
The body was perfectly naked, and was
laid on the boy's vest and trousers, his
jacket being thrown over his face. Strange
eo say, there was little if any blood on the
clothing, and this, with edam indications,
makes it probable that the crime was per.
tietrated leisure Inside a house and the
mutilated corpse atterward removed to the
spot where it was found.
4'But a gentleman might, Mr. Malcolm.
I phould be sorry to consider you in any
other light."
g' you are such a prude-eso method -
Whet -you, make DO allowance fer cimum-
stemma ? Surely iu the wood's We, may dis-
pense with the hypooritioal, conventional
tomtit of ectoiety, and tipeak and act as We
please."
"So you seem to think; but you so the
iresult."
"I have nener been wed to the ' sweaty of
ladies, and I eannot f ashion friy Words to
plentie there ; and wett't, that's more 1"
he muttered to himself as he strode tiff to
Moodie iti the field. I tviehed from my very
beset that he was ouce more on the deck of
. 1:Antacid Smith American daft, _
One night he Unlisted on going out ia
b Ion to the lent family. They STATISTICS.
multiply hoth by division end by the for-
metion of speres Tile spores -which cor- From the Soeitheonian reporb of 1885 it
respond to seede--h.ive great vitality, and' appears that the several Inciten ware Niter
are uteffected by the tempeeeture that 1776, iuoluding thst war ot 1812 in the West
would destrey the p4rent plant, The mul- said Northwesen the Creek, Week Hawk,
tiplication by diviiitea exiseeditigly rapid. and Siminole ware, np to 1860, were bloody
' Thee the total eredieation of the germs is and eeetly,
The Sandwiele Island alphebot has only
12 totem's ; ehe But:mese, 19; tbe Itallan, 20;
the Bengalese, 21; the Hebrew. Syriac, Chat -
dee, Steneritan and Latin, 22 each ; the
Preget, 23; the Greek 24; the German and
Dateli, 26 each ; the Spioneh and Slavonio,
27 each; Arable hat 28; the Pereian and
Coptic, 32; the Georgian, 35 ; the Armenian, s
38.; the *eaten, 41 ; the leluecovite, 43; the
Sanscrit end. Jemeneee, 50; the Ethiopic and
Tartaric, 242,
The Burea.n of Statistics of Illinois has
been collecting information about the farm
mortgage in the State. Leaving out Cook
County, in which Chicago is situitted, aa
being in exceptional eircuritstanoes, there
are 90,399 mortgages on 7,962,354 acres,
for $123,733,098. In the whole Suate there
are 34,694,172 acres. The peroentage under
mortgage is 23, 28, The average rate of
interest is 6.9 per cent. The number and
amount of the mortgages have increased
about 60 per cent. in eeventeen years. In
the meantime the Hefting Wale Of the land
has fallen at least 30 per cent.
Except when (mowed in war with Great
Britain and Mexico, or during the rebellion
(1860 65), the T_Taited States army was al.
most entxrely wed for the Indian service,
and stationed largely in the Indian country
or along the frontier. It will be fair to es-
timate, taking out the years of foreign wars
with England (1812.15), $66,614,912,34, and
with Mexico (1846 48), $73,911,735,12, and
the rebellion (1861.65) and re:mutated=
41865 70), $3,374, 359,360,02, that more than
threetourths of the total expense of the
army is chargeable, directly or indireotly,
to the Indiana. (During our foreign wars,
and the rebellion as well, many of the Indlan
tribes were at war with us, and others were
a cerement danger, a large force being maces-
peeaseriesmetatezh.oiclhdisteaeomeauinateleutiedercotpiopne.a Sirtodral, :tee
eine:pet oat 'Of tbe cpiestion, and iu even a
ehart time,' if the pest, be neglected, it be-
comes difficult to the, harm they coal
do. That, bare metehe effected either by
the growth of the bacteria at the expense
of the celle of the body, or, more probably,
perhaps, by developing a poison tn their
Waste products.
It must be remembered, however, that
many kinds of bacteria are perfectly harm -
leo, while it is possible that some aid in
the vitalprocesses of -the organism.
Tbe mouth is infested by eeveral forms
of innocent bacteria. The ealiva is neeer
free from them. Therefore in order to
ascertain if dental caries ia cfue to bacteria
mot rigorous testa were neeeseary. The
bacteria must be found in the deeityed
matter of teeth ,be isolated from every
other kind e cultivated outeide of the body,
and the pure cultivation must produce a
similar caries when introduced into a
healthy tooth, and this caries must show
the same form of bacteria,
Dr. Miller's experiments have conformed
to these tests. He found bacteria, filling
the tubules of the decayed teeth ; obtained
pure culture e from them, and, placing the
letter in tubes with pieces ot eound teeth,
the microscope in from two to four weeke
shoed similar Caries, and the tubles,dist
tended vidth becteria.
The weather in Barone certainly deserves
attention. It is BO extraordinary both
in London and in Paris that the very old-
est inhabitant creates no excitetnent, because
everybody knows perfectly well that he has
never men anything like it. The tempera-
ture has been practically what it was last
July, and this is destined to be kuown to
futuro generations as the flowery Christ-
mas In London flowers are blooming in
every direttion, and in e'ads the Boulevard
cafe sidewalks are crowded with Frenehmen
sipping their absinthes and enjoying the
warm air and sunshine. Bare -legged child-
ren are disporting themselves in the Tail-
eries gardens, where the French wines and
firemen still carry on mild flirtations that
usually end in October.
The Liberals are always exceptionally
hopeful said enthusiastic upon the birthday
of their leader. To-day.they are cheerfully
asking one another why Mr. Gladstone
should not live as long are Viscount Eversley,
the former Speaker of the House of Com-
mons, who died recently at the age of 95,
full. of intellectual vigor to the lasts De
Lesseps is tlaree years older than Gladstone,
earl ie to all appearances good foi many
years of hard work. Lord Palmerston died
in the harness at the age of 91. and might
have lived ten years Imager or more bad he
taken as much care of lumeelf as Gladstone
does. "Why, in short," asks an entlansi.
esti° editor, should not the Grand Old
Man rival the ootogenirian,. the blind old
Dendolo, who became Doge of Venioe when
he was 84, and, after going cruising and be•
sieging Constantinople, died at last at the
-.respectable age of 97 ?"
One- of lifivir.
rt was evening in the country,
Summer evening, calm, and still e.
And the eoent of newmoven clever
Seemed the drowsy air to nn.
Crownint all the trees with silver.
Rose t e moon, eerene and fair e
On the river gleamed the moonlight".
Peace and silence lingered there.
By the bank two figures wendered,,
One a youth, and one a mail.
He in tender tones was pleading,
While the lietened, half•afraid.
She was but a farmer's daughters
He of noble mdme and great;
But his tempting voice was pletisant,,
And she followed to her fate.
go With me
while I milk ?"
" Yeti 1" (then With a enllier frown,) "bat
I want to fiinisle what I am reading."
" will not detain you long."
"Oh, no suppose about an.hour. You
are 0, shockiiig bad milker."
"True; I never Went pear a coW until
came to thie cottateYe and I have eieOer been
able to.evercome my fear. of them."
'"'More iihatte fcit you 1 A farinet's vsife,
and afraid of. a cove 1 Why, these little
children would laugh at you."
.did not eeply, nor Would I Mak hine
again. 1 walked slowly to the field, and My,
tiedignation made nib finget fear. I hed.
just finished. millting, and with a brimming
pal, Was peepering to Ara the Nine and
retlent to the hone, When very wild ox we
had mune running With.letedlongepecid from
the weed. All My fears were alive:again in
a moment, snob:died up the pail, and,
instead of elfinibing.,the fence and getting to
the }foto. I ren With , the 'Jested I &meld
conunend down the Oteep hill towards the
lake thore e my feet caught e toot of the
Melly ettimpti le the path,. and I fell to the
toy pan rollin teeny yerao adiesel *tektite We meet ititend to cle , e
So that night she left her parentst
Left her peaceful country home,
Far away in distant cities,
With the one she loved to roam
Leaving only a brief letter
Telling them that she lied gone,'
Gone with him who swore to cherish
And protect her from all wrong.
To the kind and loving parents
Sharp and bitter was the blow,.
But they spoke no vsord of censure,
No reproach that she should go.
No 1 they left their home deserted,
And they wandered far and wide,.
Hoping somewhere to discover
Tiding of their erring child.
It was evening in the city,
Bub no longer calm and still.
Noisy and discordant tumult
Seemed the stagnant air to filh
Hurrying crowds were peeing rudely
Those whom they might chance, to, meet
-
Cries and wicked oaths resounded
Freely through the noisy street.
In. a tumble-down old attic
Lay a maiden near to death
Through the thin lips, parched with. fevere
Feebly came the fluttering breath.
Only one brief year had vaniehed
Since she left her parents' care,.
And that night, alone, deserted,
Slowly dying she lay there.
Another Soudan War.
Disgusted as Britain is with the prospect,
likelihoods seem to be that she has another
Soudan war on her hands. It may be true
as some think, that not 13ritain alone, but
Germany Mao, and. other representatives of
Christendom may be involved before all is
done. and that the clash of confilee between
the religions of Islam•and of Christ may re-
sound throughout the African continent,
wherever Mohammedaniam has planted its
banner. For Islam knows that the pre-
sent attitude of Christendom is hos-
tile to the slave trade, and aanthing
like the preaching of a crusade spinet that
frightful iniquity would certainly be followed
by the prodamation of a holy war against
all Christians. Religious zeal is apt to be
more fiery when material interests are bound
up with it, and it may safely be assumed
that the African slave traders would not give
up their lucrative trails without a struggle.
At the same time the feeling of civilization
is setting so strongly against that form of
barbarism that ultimately, however unwill-
ingly, there is likely to be a combination of
effort to crush it out, and a life and death
struggle between the Crescent and the Cross
will result. Whetner this realization of the
fent that their craft is in danger be the
reason of the recently increased activity on
the part of the Mahdi, the fact that he is
becoming increasingly aggressive admits of
no question. His forces are. pressing on
Sualtim with great vigor; and there seems
to be little doubt that helms got both Stan-
ley and Emin Bay in his clutches. At
present writing Britain bas not made up her
mind what she will do, but the urgency of
the occasion le seen to be such that even fee
Irish question for the moment is thrust out
of sight. The probs,bilities,'es already said,
seem to point hi the direction of war, of War
costly and bleody, for England has under-
taken responsibilities in Egypt which she
cannot with honour abandon. It is safe to
say that the Madhi will not condescend to
recognize the- Khedive, but will treat with
Great Britten or not at all. Students of
Bible prophecy will do well to watch events,
in those Aitken regions, very closely, sines
it eeems likely.that things are tending to-
wards results in Egypt which will throw
maveriak light on interpretation:
Thought It Was Satanlamiself.
One,of the crew of a Nova Scotian vessel,
a native of the Green Isle, expressed a wish
to visit the dime museums the other day,
and having been directed by the captain
where to find one took his way thither, say-
ing as he left the vessel;
• I never saw wan afore an' I expect to
entoy myself.''
He had never seen one before, had never
seen even an orang-outang and was greatly
astonished on beholding one of thesie animals.
On Ms return to the vessel the captain
asked him if he had enjoyed himself.
"Enjoy myself 1 Never better."
" What did you
'what did I see ? Why, cap, 1 saw the
divil himself, wid bands like fate and fate
like bends 1"--atmeton Courier.
"We are so accustomed to think^of the
enormous population of India says the " Pall
Mall Gazette," "that we find it hard to rea-
lize teat the excessive density of the popula-
tion is largely local, and that there is sull an
immense amount of elbow -room in our preat
dependency. This feet is well brought out
in the new number of the 'Statistical Ab-
stract for British India' recently published.
Cf the total area, 364.000,000 acres, under
the direct administration of Englind, only
152,000,000 mires are under cultivation. A
very large portion of the remainder is return's
ed as tin& for cultivation, and the foresee,
are credited with 40,000;000 acres, but there
still remains im less than 80,000,000 cultiv-
able acres as yet untouched by the nlow. At
the present. time, thepopuletion of British Inii
Lae se eteeeteenuOu peenetee atm tea. Li enema'
sum in arithmetic will show that there is
stilt room for another 100,000,000 people
without any additional squeezing."
The total toeny expense from March 4,
1 1789, to June 30, 1886, was $4,559,419,924.
Deducting $3,514,911,0( 7 .8 Mr foremu wars
and the rem:alien, the remainder is $1,044,
508 916.25. .
Two-thirds of this sum, it is estimated,
was expended for war and other services
incidental to the„Indians, viz., $696,339,277,
68, fortfications, poste, etc., being deduc-
ted.
Total cost of the Indians to the *United
S bates.
Indian Department proper
from July 7, 1776, to j.une
30, 1886. .. .$232,900.006.34
Expended by War Depart-
ment for Indian wars and
incidental thereto from
July 4, 1776, to June 36,
1886.... . ... ... 696339,277.68
Total... ... .......... t$929,236,281.02
Almost a thousand million dollen.
"Oh, my mother 1" moaned she feebly,
"Would that yon were with me novel:
Just that I might feel your cool hand.,
On my hot and fevered brow 1"'
On the stairoa,se footsteps sounded,.
Softly ope'd the garret door,
11...nd the wandering one was:taken.
To her parents' arms once more.
Eagerly they spoke their pardon,
But the soul had passed away,
Naught remained to the bereaved onas,
Save a Melees piece of clay.
She had posed frem earthly sorrows.
To that country of the blest:
"Where the vekked oease from teoublinge
Ana the vveary be at rest."
IIad the Best of it.
" trow 5enueb. will you give me 'on this;
overcoat ?" asked atseedy-lookingtnan of the
functionary in the psesubeolter's ehop.
" Fifty cents,' wee the reply that follow-
ed'a glances at the garment.
"You ought to give me a couple of dollars,
anyhoW. The:poet ain't vvorth lees than fift.
teen dollars." •
" My friend, 1 vouldn't giv yen sin dol-
lars vor dot ofergoat. It ain't vordt it, so
laellup me gracious."
" W Mild you take six dollars for it if it
Was yours?" . s
"My friendt, I would talio•five dollar for
dot oferceat."
"All right, here's your five. It was hang-
ing out in front of the store, end I brought
" to see how much it was worth."
'1 Here, stop, dot vas a schvmdle.
"Well, I thould Fey so, Yon had. it mark-
ed at thirty.five dollars, you old reeseal.
Well, so long, uncle."
It is not sufficient not tie littera to do
ground,
leo
Of Me. Evety drop o my Milk wads spilt carry out intentiofte a
WhY Teeth Demo'. •
Deoay of the teeth (caries) is exceedingly
ple. The lack of power to resist 'this dise,ase
may be due to the depression of vine' vigor
through over -teeing the nervoue system or
through eeclentsay habits and luxurfoue
living. In tide, BB in other matters, there
are inherited tendencies, and the children
of those whose teeth decay early themselves
suffer the same evil.
But what is the immediate mute of den.
fal, decay ? A. paper on the subject was read
°meson eepecially so among czed peo-
by Dr. George S. Allen, of Nev York, be-
fore a meeting of the Dental Unitee, lately
held in tostot.
According to this paper, the credit of
solving, the question belongs te Dr. W. D.
efiller, an AMerioan residing hi Berlin.
fed in the
Germany, e sci
germ theoryelvieiela has 'alreedy eettied the
The .microboopice geerrie 'Which are Celled
etigin of so many. ideetteent dieeiteesa
bacteria, the siniaBeet Of organized beings,
all that it takes 'one hundred thodeand
of them placed leugth.Wisci to nteasere alt
Houlton, M
A. IldCATISON.
Ida Thy Hands.
Loose not thy hold, 0 hand of God. t
Or utterly we faint and fall.
The way is rough, the way 'a blind.
And buffeted with stormy wino.
Thick darknees veils above, below,
From whence we come, to what we go;
Feebly we grope o'er rook and sand,
But still go on, confiding all,
Lord, to thy hand.
In that strong hold salvation. is;
Its touch is comfort fredistress,
Cure for all sicktiess balm for Hie
And energy for heart and will.
Securely held, unfaltering,
The soul can week at ewe and sing,
And fearless treadeaehunknownstraaid,
Leaving ateh large thing, and eseh less, •
Lord, in thy hand.
0 mighty Friend, forever near 1
Et heavenly Help L so soon. forgot,
So oft rebelled agamst and grieved,
ItInthanked, distrueted, disbelieved ?
Forgive us all, and hold ne fast
Till dawning lights the dark at last,
And looking back we understandj
How we were kept and knew it not,
Lorcl, by thy hand.
A most important document in regard to
the history of strikes is the last annual re-
port of the 'ET.. S. Secretary of the interior.
From the statistics given armors tart for
the six years from 1881 to le86 the strikes
numbered 3,902, the number of establish -
remits involved was 22,304, and the number
of employes thrown out et emptoyment foot-
ed up 1023,203, From the best information
obtainable tee loss to the etrdeers for the six
years was but little short of $52,000,000, and
the loss to employers through lockouts was
over $8100(1,000, or say a total wage loss, in
round numbers, of $60,000,000. The em.
ployers' losses through strikes for the same
six years amounted to $30,701,000; through
lockouts to $3,462,000 --or a toed loss to
the establishments involved in both strikes
and lookouts of $34,163,600. Of the 22,304
establishments in which strikes immured in
the six years, 82,24 per cent. of the whole
were ordered by labour organizations; while
of the 2,214 establishments in which look outs
occurred 1,573, or 79.18 per cent., were
ordered by combinattons of managers. Suc-
cess for these striaes sand lockouts was
achieved in nearly 47 per cent. of the estab-
lishments affected; partial success in. almost
131 per cent. of them; and failure followed
in 10,375 establishments, or a trifle more
than 46e per cent. of the whole.
Cool no Ward For It.
4' That's cool," said the policeman,
when the burglar whom he had heard
falling into the weterbutt, piteously asked
him to help him out. " Cool, ' moaned the
burglar. "Cool's nee word for it -it's
deevlish csuld, that's what it is; help um
oot (pick, or yell lute the credit' o' captarin
cleid men."
Their Oozed.
Scene on the parlor sofa, half -past eleven
Saturday night.
Cholly (looking ha her soulful eyes by the
gaslight dimly berning)-,4' 00'S 0018 oo ?"
Phippettina-'14 00'S oo.
Cholly-" Oct 1"
Chippettine--it Ott V'
Old Veen (eb tho door)-" 0o -g -h -h 1 Ooze
out o' here, ye younggesline 1"
They oozed.
InIsepleed the tot of oratory is seeing
who rattles off the most Worde without stop-
ping to draw a breath, and the women gen-
, deelly come out Aced,
A Trap -.Door Spider's Nest.
In a recent number of Pityche, Mr. Geo.
F. Atkinson described the ingenious manner
in which a species of trap-door spider con-
structs its nest for the evident purpose of
entrappiog the unwary insects that they
mightbe " gobbled in."
A nest, which he examined, had two
tubes or chambers, the main one about nine
inches long, with the door opening at the
surface of the ground, the branch about one
inch long and placed six inches below the
surface of the foot -path, tn which the nest
was constructed. The seider would open
the outer door, enter the branch and close
that door after her, and there await) results.
.Hungry ineects, crawling on the ground,
would find. the open tube an attractive place,
entering and passing beyond a branch door,
which is suddenly thrown open, they, much
themselves t th
to their surprise, findak
en cap-
tive and made a meal of by the cunning
spider.
The °award Indio:salons,
The little boy had come inwith his clothee
torn, his hair full of dust end his face bear-
ing unmistalmble ‚signs of a severe conflict.
"Oh, Willie 1 Willie!" exclaimed his mother,
deeply ehooked and grieved, "you have dis.
obeyed me again. How often have 1 told
you not to play with that wicked Stapleford
boy 1" "Mamma," said Willie, "do I look
as if I had been playing with anybody ?"
P. T. 13arnum,,the veteran showman, has
Made his will, and attached to it the affi.
davit of two prominent physicians stating
that the emblent shotenrien was, at the tittle
the Will was drafted, in his right Mind,