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PC:Oki/DE:RS SIOM NEADA.014t- and Neureetie •ta no itesettersa, also coated Tongue, Diem. sor,s,Dieousness, Pain in the Side, Conetipatien, 'Torpid Liver, Bad Breath, to stay cured also regulate the boweis. ,ttupev jv,crt 'cs rAird. 14k(E21co.ntraID i:)1,21.10 g.STOttrgge .t.ottig,proilewnineMalintql. e. WOMANS STORY. CHAPTER VL mersv's nealtm. I isometireee think mother hardly makes enough of Uncle ,Ambrose or of his good - newt to me. I know she is grateful to hitri, and proud of my progress, which ie all his Work. But now and then it ;seems to me that she keeps him too inuoh ab a distance, indeed of treating him as if lie were her brother and really my uncle. he very seldom comes into the morning•room while I am at my studies there, and there are many days when he leaves the helm° at one o'clock without having seen her. Once in a while she asks him to stop to lunch, and whext she aoes 1 can see his fair face light up suddenly with a Rush of pleasure, and he is full of life and talk at luncheon, be who is generally so calm and plecsid, like deep water; and after tench he lingers and lingers in the garden or in the drawing - room, till mother is obliged. to ask him to ste.3r to tea; and after tea he goes away lowly and reluotantly,ltngering at the gate if it is fine weather, and mother and 1 go oub witheaim to say good-bye. • He is so fond of us both 1 It is the little gate in the fence near his cottage at which •we say good-bye to Uncle Ambrose—not the gate by which father went out that summer morning, never to come back to us again. That which was brought back nearly a week afterward was not my father. That whioh lies ander the sod that mother and I kept bright with &were is not my •father. We know that he is living still— somewhere. Living, or waiting in a placid sleep for the wakening of the new life, We know not how, we know not where; but we believe that he is living atilt and that we shall see him again. As I grow older, and my education goee on, and absorbs more of my masteo's valu- able time, I wonder all the more at the sacrifice which he rnakes and has been making so long for my sake. When I think that he is a man whose books are valued and praised by the greatest thinkers of his age a man who might win distinction in almost any walk of literature, I am awned at his willingness to waste so great a part ot his life upon my insignificance. It is all the snore wonderful, perhaps, because, although when he came to live at Leanforcl he wan poor man, he is now a very rich man, a distant relation having died in America some years ago and left him a large ortnne. I hardly know when the change in his circumstances arose, he himeelf made so light of the matter. It was Cyril who told me one day that his father was rich. • "Did you ever know such a man as my father," he said, "to go on living in that ugly old cottage when he might have a house in Park Lane and a country seat into the bargain, if he liked 1" I asked if 17nole Ambrose was really very r i c,h. "Really, and really, I believe," answer- ed Cyril, "though he has never condescend - en to enter- into .particulars with me ; but a Yankee fellow at Oxford told me all about the man who left father his fortune, and it was a biggish lane—that's the Yankee's expression, mind you, not mine." Cyril is at Christchurch, Oxford. He spent his last long vacaction in Sweden and Norway. He promised me that he will spend the next long, or, at any rate, the earlier part of his time at Lamford, and that he will take me about in his boat, and that I shall help him with his classics. l'm afraid this is only an idle ample. ment thine ; but Uncle Ambrose says I really might be of some use to Cyril in reading Horace and Virgil with him and that I know both those poets bettezAhan many undergraduates. If I do I have to thank *Uncle Ambrose for my knowledge,and most of all for teach- ing me to love Latin poetry instead of to hate Latin grammar. Cyril is sometimes just a little inclined to find fault with his father for living in the small ugly house to which he came in his poverty ; but as he has a very liberal allowance, cango where he likes for his i vacations, aud s never denied anything by the most indulgent of fathers, he feels that he has no right to complain. re, so afraid that other fellows will take it into their heads that my father is a miser," he said one day, "when they find that I have no home to which 1 can invite them, and that my father mopes away his life in a cottage by the Thames. And the worst part of the business is that most fel- lows in the Univerity know every yard of ground between Henley and Oxford, and must know Lamford." I told him that a man could not be said to mope away his life when he had written two books which had been read and prelim& all over the civilized world. " Well no doubt with some rnen the balsa count for something, and they put my father down as an eccentric scholar, living his own retired life, for hie own pleasure;but you see there are more foole than senble peo_ ple in the world, and the fools must think my lather is too fond of money' to spend it like a gentleman. I dare say theyfancy that his wealth came to hitn too late in life, and that poverty's penurious habits had got burned hito hie very nature." " What does it matter What mistakes people of that kind may make about your father ?" I said. We knave that he is a gentleman in every act and *tight of his life ; and that if he does not spend money upon things that please other people, it is only became he cares for • „higher things, which don't dost motley or make a great show.' "You are right. there, Daisy," answeeed "and there are some things he cares for which don't make a show, and do cost money—his books, for instance. There are two or three thousand pounds sunk In his librery—rare books, old books, new booke, Oriental books lining the walls of every room in the ootts,ge. Upon my Wo.rd, now,Ian Seareely,talte My bath Of a morning without, epleahing a ten dopy of the Fathers ; and yet i can't get him to make up hug mind to build a house to hold his treamiree. Perhaps when the lase inch of widespece is Riled he will begin to think about a change of quarters," Oyal is nob like his father. Ho takes after hist mother's family, I am told. He ito not his father's fair skin and blue eyes, or his father's rale And silky hair, oe his father's high and thOughtful brow, Ms eyes are dark gray, his hair is dark brown, his features are smaller and sharper than his people 0411 it; not the face of a thinker and dreamer like Uncle Ambrose, Some call Cyril handsome, and Soule do not. He has a very kindand bright expression, and is always very good to me. He is tall and straight and tremendously active, a first- rate penman, and, I am told, a good shot. Re is very fond of Radnorshire and his mother's people, and I think he likes mother and me, though we do not see him very often, Ire laughs ab noy educatis In and says that hie father would have made rae a blumetooking it nature had not .niusted upon making me something else. I wonder what that something else is ? Father's grave m in the ohuroh-yard at the other end of the village—such a pretty peauresque eleeping-ple.ce for the beloved dead 1 There is one corner of the (Mara - yard which is separated from the river only by a strip of waste land covered with rushes, and bya low stone walholothed with mosses and lichens, gray,and esennand greeet—a dear old wall, with fine small - leaved ivy oreepiug over it here and there, and with fairy-like sPleenwort growing out of the interstices of the stone. Just in the angle of the wall nearest, the river lies my father's grave, under the shadow of a great willow, like my tree on the lawn. It was because of that tree my =tiler climes the aped. Father had alwe,ya talked of the big weeping -willow an Daisy's tree, end mother knew that he was fond of it for his little daughter's sake. So he lies under Daisy's tree, and his only monument is a low red granite cross, with his narrie eald the date of his birth and death'. No text, no verse; nothing. to liayhow much he was beloved; only a blank space for mother'a name when she is laid beside him. All the rest is garden. Mother thinks the garden tells best of our love for him who lies there, because it is a changeful thing, and not dead and immutable, like letters carved in marble. Mother and I do all the work of this little gatden with our own hands. No one else is allowed to touch it, and the flowers change with every change of the seasons— from Christmas roses to the pure whiteness of the chryeantheraums in the late autumn; and our garden is always lovely and full of freshness and perfunte. Fair weather or foul, one of us goes there every day. We never miss a day while we are at Lainford. When we are away the garden is left to itself; and when we come Mack we have to make up -for an interval of neglect. We had rather there should be neglect and decay for a little while than that hireling hands should cultivate father's garden. That corner by the river is very lonely, the most remote from the church and the vicarage, and the path by which people go to 3hurch. I have sat there for hours and no one has ever °erne near me; though I have heard the boats going by, and people talking as they rowed past the little rushy waste outside the wall. Nobody can see me from the river when I ten sitting there, for father's tree makes a great green tent, just as my tree does on the lawn at home. Sometimes I hold theeeettfee &roe in ream. ery apart and peep O " by in the sunlight, shadow. Many and many spent here with my booker -in r deerhound; Roderick Dhu, more soli- tary, more secure from interruption than if had been at home, where any one of the few friends with whom we are intimate might drop in upon me. In the church- yard I have my life all to myself, to read -or to think, and I prophesy that a great deal of this diary will be scribbled on the grassy bank under the low wall by my father's grave. There is a little hollow nook all among the ivy and bramble and fern, which is my own particular seat, and I can study there better than anywhere else. One day Beattice -Reardon came and found me out in my node, mime sailingtup to me in her bouncing, noisy way, flounsla ing her racket. "So I've found you at last, D," she said. She is one of those girls who can never call anything by its right name, and she fre- quently calls me le "Simon told me you were out for the whole afternoon, but I thought I should unearth you. Come and make up a set." 'Now you have found me, perhaps you'll be kind enough to lose me again," I answered. "I should have thought that even you would understand that when I come to sit by my father's grave I like to be alone, and I don't like tennis ra,akets.' I don't often ion my temper. but I do think Beatrice Reardon—though no doubt she means well—is a girl who would have exasperated Job. There are times when I feel that a continuance of Beatrice's society would be worse than boils. " You're a morbid, disagreeable little D," she said, "and you'll find out you're mistaken before you're thirty; for by that time your moping, solitary., cross-grained Ways Will make, you look forty, and then you'll be sorry.' She meshed off withher racket on her shoulder, singing "Gather your roses while you may" in her loud mezzo-soprano voice, the voice of Lamforcl and two villages be.. yond ; and lam happy to say she never invaded my peaceful corner again. Here I read the sixth book of the Eneid, add here I read Dante, until I feel as if 1 were more familiar with the world of Shad- ows than the world of realities. Here I learned those odes which Uncle Ambrose chose for me in my little Horace, and my favorite bits from the Georgia, and my favorite Eclogues. Here I read Milton and Shakespeare. The spot is full of lovely images and haunting fancies. EX ATIER, TTIVIBS brother I don't understand young xnen's ways; and oertainly, jedging by fjyrii's account of the goirigs-ou at Christchurch, young men must be extraordinary oreaturee, with the oddest ideas of pleasure. Cyril says that if Xr. Reardon had not three daugntera to marry he would not be quite so charitable in his opinion of Mr, Copeland's young men; but I dotet think our deur old rector la a contriving sort of person ; and I don't think one ought to be too hard upon Mrs. Reardon for ;vying so many tennis parties, and Cinderella dances, and blindquan's.buif pastime and water 'Amiga ; tor three daughters to marry mat mean hard work for any mother. Mrs. Tysee, the dootor's wife, bag two sons and only one daughter ;se there le not nearly so much excuse for her; and I must say she does make rather too much of those unmannerly hobbledehoys from Temples made; nor an 1 oatmeal from my dear diary that Laura. 'Pysoe's conversation would be more entertaining if it were not all about Mr. Copeland's young men. I am afraid my diary is going to develop all the worst propensities in my nature— above all, tbe propensity for thinking too much of myself and looking down upon other people. A. diary is swots a safe cou. fidante; and it is such a Comfort to know one can say just what one likes without any fear of having one's silly babble babbled aboue and made sillier by one's dearest friend. S0,dear diary, I mean to seribble just what I like in your Moe smooth white pages, and when my foolialmese has 41 run off m pen and ink, 1 have only to turn the key in your neat little brass lever lock, and my secrets are as safe as if they were shut up in the heart of the biggest pyramid. CHAPTER VIL SEE anwzraino, "suit." Seven years ! Robert Hatrell had been lying in hie grave seven years and a day, and Ambrose Arden was slowly pacing the rover terrace which the dead man planned in the pride of his heart while his murders er was lying in wait for him somewhere in the big city yonder, far away to the east, where the bright blue sky changed to a dull and heavy gray. Ambrose Arden and Clara Hatrell were walking side by side upon the broad, gravel terrace between two rowa of cypresses ; she with a slow and listless step ; he suiting hie pace to hers, but by no means listless, intent rather, watching every change in the pensive faces every shade upon the fair forehead. Seven years and a day he had been lying in his grave—seven years and seven days had .gone by since he was found steak and cold in a "two pair back" bedroom in a shabby lodging - house near St. Giles's Church, a wonder and a mystery to all England. For seven years his widow had mourned him, missing and regretting him every day of her lif — albeit cahnly content in her quiet lot with the daughter she adored—brooding over the tragedy of his death, brooding over the cruel destiny which had sundered so per- fect a union. Her sorrow was in no Wise diminishea by the years that had come and gone—her memory of the beloved dead was no less vie, timusiterasabefore the first flowers Oetneel io%yewas11 i•lttt1�leer We have very few friends, though mother is obliged to be civil to a good many acquaintances scattered about the happy river, betweea Henley Bridge and Caversham Weir. She visits very little—only in the quietest way at the houses of her oldest friends., the people she knew besb in my father's time. The only families of whom we tiee much are the reotor's and the doctor's for mother's ohar- ides bring her in contact with both, and as there are girle in both families, I have been invited very often to play tennis or to join in water plaice, oe any other homely festivitia. I have never gone to parties at either house since I was a child, and the girls laugh at me for my solitary bringing up : but mother and I have been too happy in our own rinieb way for me to think that I lose numb in staying away from the Rear - done' birthdey deuces and hobbledehoy parties oat -of -doors and in. Not e, hundred roilea from Leniford there is a big red house by the river, celled Templemead, which come belonged to a noble family, and which is now oemipied by Mr. Copeland, who aoaehee yourig mots for the drum. Some of the young moo aro the sons of noble familia, mid teeny of them aro rich, and I'm afraid X must say that most of them imeseve badly. The teeter Bap anieneistniete,I eay heel manners, father's -4 keen, clever Mee, I have heard The reetor says thao at 1 have never had a Itt a had not eitakenedio teenitesee 4 ig Ambrose Arden, walking bleliefetriffe the sultry stillness of the July afternoon, .knew her heart almost as well as she knew it herself. Seven years had made little alteration externally in Robert HatrelPs widow, or in Robert Hatrell's friend. At six -and -thirty Clara Hatrell was etill a beautiful woman, so much the lo-veller, perhaps in her calm maturity for the seclusion and repose of her widowhood. The cares and excitements of the moman of society, had not written premature wrinkles on the broad.. white brow, ,..The disappointments and -vexations of the fag; ione.ble world had not drawn down the corners of the mobile mouth or pinched the perfect oval of the cheek. Ambrose Arden was exactly the Iran 11 had been seven years before—faincompt ioned, dreamy -eyed, with the seholar's 13 shoulders and with the scholar's measuldi accents. A remarke.ble looking man always"; and a fine-looking man in spite of those stooping sbouldera and the slow meditative walk ; a Man to attract the admiration and the love of women, as being different from his fellow -men, and with something of that power whioh women call magnetic in his thoughtful eyes—so blue, so clear, with the color and transparence of childhood, yet with such an unfathomable depth of thought. Seven years, and in all that length of months and weeks and days he had been this woman's slave; and she knew it nob. Day and night, waking or sleeping, neer or far, he had adored her; and she knew it not. Seven years since her husband's death, and how Many years before? Only since the hour 1m first looked upon her, when it had beento him as if the heart within him, strong and passionate heart — whose forces he had never known till that moment —leaped suddenly into life and linked his fate with hers forever. He had married a fair young wife, and he had been a good and tender husband. He had truly and tenderly mourned the early deed. Bub till be met Clara Hatrell he knew not what passion meant. He knew not and could never hope to know, what it was that made this woman different from all other women upon earth, the one supreme mistress of his life, whom to serve was destiny, whom to love wen a necessity of his being. And so for seven years and more before her husband's death, and foe seven gars after, he had been her idolater and slave; she nothing knowing—accepting his quiet attentions as calmly as she took a basket of hot -house flowers from her gardener, asking no questions of her own heart or of his,thinking of him only as anamiable ecoen. trio, who lived at her gates because it was his faney so to live, who gave one-third of his lite to the tuitioti of her child, became it was his whim so to waste himself. Her kindnesses to him had beet of the slightest, for in her widowed loneliness it had behooved her to keep even so old a friend somewhat aloof, lest the little world of Larnford should begin to haye ideas and speculatiens abont her and her (laugh. ter's teacher. She had, kept her life com- pletely apart from the life of pupil mid, muter, and had oh rarest tmetteions offered hospitality to the man to whom she Oared 330 trilleh. To his sorishe had been more frankly kind, treating him almost a a aen of the house, mad letting him feel that he Was alwAys welanie. Even to Cyril's col. lege Mende her house had bail open, and he had itt no wise atretehed his privileges; theugh there were 000981005 upon which he was glad to take a boating friend to River Lawn rather than to his own cottage home, With its ehabby furniture and atmosphere of overpatioh leonine, Thus had he worshipped her, faithfully and silently, for fourteen years, just the length of Jacob's servitude for Raohel; and she was still afar off, cold as marble, unre- sponsive, ungoneeious of his love. It wee a hard thieg to have been so petiemb, and to have waited to long, and to be no nearer the goal—to feel flee golden years of mem- bowl, slipping away like theme faded liliee yonder drifting with the Current, flowers whialo some careless hand bad plucked and gaud away. Itt wae hard. It was more difficult to be patient now when he felt the glory and strength of life beginning to wane. Was he to be an old man before he dared ask for his win who had does so Muth to 'vent his beloved, who had sacridoed for her sake all that othet men care for, To -day hie heart was throbbing with a new veheinence, and there was a Arida hie thoughts that must needs burst into a blaze before long. Everything in life had ite lionibo; even the petienee Of a man labia loves as iAmbroso Arden loved. (To BB covrusniuu.) PEKING And itite Great Wails That Enclose it. 'Peking is perhaps one of the least known cities of the world. I have paid two visite to it, and 1 spent a month in it six years ago, During the present spring I prowled aboue its streets for dart and devoted my self to making a study of the town and ts people. It is an immense city. Ib con- tains about 1,500,000, but these are scat- tered over an area of 25 square melee, and the people as a rule live in one -storey houses. The city is surrounded by walls weich were built 'tandem:1s of years ago, and whioh must have.coat many millions of dollen. These walls are in good condition with the exception of one or two placee where the floods of last winter undermined them and oarried parts of their -facings away. It is hard to give an American an idea of one of these walled cibies of China. Tito walls of Peking are 60 feet thick at the bobtom. They would fill the average country road or city street, and they are as tall as a four -storey house. They are so wide at the top that you could run three railroad trains aide by side around them and they are se solid that the cars would move more smoothly over these tracks than they do on the trunk lines between New York and Chicago. These walls are faced inside and out with bricks each as big as a four -dollar Bible, and the space between is filled with earth and stones so jammed down that the ages have made the whole one solid mass. They are built, in fact, much like the great wall of China, and tbe bricks of the two are almost exactly the same. I have before me e. brick which I brought from the great wall. It weighs about 20 pound' e or as much as a two-year- old baby. It isblue-gray in color, and it is covered with patches of white lime mortar just like those 1 saw in the broken places of the walls of Peking. Four Children Burned to Death. A despatch from Nyack, 'N.Y., says le— eghtliklinineleneertstmen Monday , . esteesensn't smenees TOR IA for Infants and Chfldreno 00Castortaiseo welt adar*cdt0e.ht(drentbat reconunend it as euperier to any preecription limown to me," IT, A. Artenart, 11. D., 111 Se. oxford St.,,Brooldyn, IL Y. 34 'The use of cCastoria/ hese universal and its merits so well known that it seeme a work of supereroge.tion to endorse its Fevr ;we tbe intelligent families -who do not keep Castoria within ease -reach, canr.cs zdawrm, New. Yerk Ones Late Pastor Bloomingdale Peformed Church. Gostorio copes lie 13toma roc lcul# Nirprr, gime sleep, and pro wi o out inieriousane4eation. • "or several years 1 have recommended your 4Costeria,4 end wean always continue to clo so as it haa invariably produced honeficiel mutts," 13pwztrF. neon; IL P., "The W1ntlitcp."125th etreet and 7thAve., hieW York Cater.- ' Tax tharrica COUPANY, 37 mearnay $TItlarT, HMV Team nielliiIMMINESUBMWORMSMENIMISMINOMISMIIIMINIIMMIIIN A REMARKABLE SOE1TE, THIRTY-TWO WATCHES, FORTY RINGS AND OTHER JEWELRY Placed on the Altar-4E13s Ionise Shepard who Stripped dm itier Diamonds at Round Lake, Set the Epidemic Going need tor a Form Part of the 008 Raised. la the 43nerican Theatres New York. At a meetingdon Friday ,nigne in the Eighth avenue Gospel Taberemcle of the Chriatian and Missionary Alliance, New York city, which closed its eleventh annual conventien on Sinaday something enusual happened. It was' ittlie height of tile meet- ing, when Mies ,Loetlie Soepar1,aaevange- list, proposed that there should be an offering of gold and eilver for the work of the Alliance. Ih a wfiirl of religious fervor, men and vrOmen marched up the aisles to the altar and left gold and silver watches, diamon5 pins and rings, and jewelry of all forms, to be sold in the interest of mistsion- ary work. The program of the meeting was stopped and was not resumed until the altar of the Tabernacle was piled high with the offerings. - On Sunday morning at one of the three great meetings at the American Theatre more jewelry was given. One man's gener- osity reached such a pitch that he gave a deed for a farm; others gave sums of money ranging from $6,000 to $1. More than $50,000 was subscribed during the day. CANADIANS WERE THERE. tith nes of -e- William Taylor, the is le dist bishop for Africa, was destroyed by flames and with it four children wereburned to death. Michael Mullady, a laborer, W95 so badly injured that it is believed he will die, and two decorators who were em- ployed in the building were seriously burn- ed and barb by jumping from upper win. dows. All three were sent to Bellevue hospital, New York. Mr. and Mrs, Tayler made their escspe, but found it impossible to save four of the children, -Harriet, Ada, Arthur, and Schultz, aged reepeeeimelf ' 9,7, andS yep 53 net B. Simpson of the Gospel Taber-tie:elm e Ren, DmArthur T.Pierson, the Rev. Walter Russell of Cantsda, the Rev. Dr. Nathaniel West of Syracuse and the Rev. Dr. A. X. Gordon. There were missionaries who had seen service in all parts of the globe. deT programmes were item ' in s dozen people pushing their waY along this seats to ehe aisles, and carryieg their offer•, Inge of jewelry aloft, so that all could see. Subcriptione to be paid within the year were made with great enthusiasm. When the figaree reached $40,000 one man whq would not give his nares, said that he would make up the $50,000. More than $50,000 was sabscribed. Miss Shepard will arrange to exchange Iron watches, as they are called, for the thirty-two watches that were given. on Friday night, So far as is possible the works of these watches will be put in iron cases, which will be furnished lay Miss Shepard. Thom who gave atennwinding watcbee will get the worst of this deal. They will be compelled te take the iron watches as they stand. Those who gave the forty rings and the other jewelry will re - Iceive iron creases appropriatsder en" graved. TRADR AND G0111E1101, Some Items of Interest to the Busi- ness . At Fall River, Massachusetts, the mill - men have voted to open the mills under a reduction. -Neweepwe offices have been °mete Ontario as follbvesiere-senttenden.§iteleVe Inglis Falls, Grey Co.; Kintyre, Elgin CM, and Rock Hill, Muskoka. The amount of wheat on passage to Hump is 24,972,000 bushels, a deoreaae of 352,000 for the week. A year ago the amount was 29,840,000 bushels. The deposits of New York associated banks amount to $590,859,000, as compared with $412,456,000 the corresponding- weeks "rer. The loans aggregate $500,165,- »395,716,000 a year ago. eee Ina been done to the flee crop by goods and -winder according to telegraphed reports, and the war between the Eastern rice growing countries also helps t ' the me,rket a Erni tone noticed for tie product, ell-enmetierm te. s making advantage etter tone of the markets several. Canadiala schemes are being pushed in the city. One is promoted. by the friends of the Montreal, Sorel & Bale des Chaleura Railway. It is proposed to float a loan a £4,000,000 in bonds in order to develop the through route between Bade dee Cheaters and Sault St. Marie, via. Montreal. and Ottawa, and time bi in a position to com- pete for the traffie of the Western Straw. eiroy ae-Were urned to ri a teven o'clock. Mr. o.nd „ s. -Taylor are under the charge of physi- cians and neither can be seen, THEY ARE ENGAGED. Prince Adolphus of Tech to Marry a Daughter of England's Richest Nome. man, A despatch from London, says :—The Gazette prints an order in council by the Queen, dated October 15, ansentirig to the marriage of Prince Adolphus of Teck, eldest son of the Duke andThichess of Teak, and brother of the Duohess of York, to Lady Margaret Grosvenor, the youngest daughter of the Duke of Westminster, prob- ebly the wealthiest nobleman in England. The engagement of the Prince and Lady Margaret yeas annouced in July last. -9 Pressed for Funds. NeW Route to Europe, Mr. Wm. Little, in a letter to The Montreal Star, revives the project of a rail- way along the north shore of the St. Law- rence to some Labrador port, there to con- nect with a lite of fleet steamers to Europe, The steamers should be able to perform their part of the journey in three days, and Mr. Little is of opinion that nearly all the mail serviee of the northern pert of North America would naturally seek that route east and eveab. Passerigere who perferred a short ma voyage, or who were in hate to cross the ocean, would aim make choke of suelt a route, . The trouble ic that for every reason that tan be suggested in famorbf the route a much stronger ono oan be urged agoenst it. Such a project Will have to depend on the revenue ib can earn, Wad in this era of competition it is herd ehough for a steamship line te earn enough to meet its own expenses, let aloire holding up the heavy end of a railway built through a wilderness. Children Cry for Pitchee% Castor.4 13ttt.1t .410, cdifonlrninating pitch ey 'night when Miss Lmise Shepard broke up tbe meeting with her proposition or offerings. Miss Sheard is a wealthy New York woman. A few years ago she was coa- verted at a convention of the Missionary and Christian Alliance at Round Lake. At that time she took diamond rings from her hugers and earrings frona her ears and laid them on the altar as an offering to the cause. Since that titne she has been a meet earnest' and devoted worker for the Mance. MISS SHEPARD'S AMIE. The program on 'Friday evening MO to include a series of short addresses on mis- sionary topics. When it came Miss Shep- ardn tura to speak she arose and showed a small watch, with eases, which, she said, were made of iron. She determined to sell her gold watch and give the proceeds to the Alliance and use Et cheap iron watch instead. Then she told a little story about the Order of the Iron Cross. This !society was formed by women during the Prussian war, when the Emperor called upon all of his subjeats for assistance. The Prussian women sold their jewelry for the benfit of the Government and wore iron dross- es. "Now," said Miss Shepard, with an ap- pealing ,,gesture, "if these women were wilting to give up their jewelry because of the loyalty to their native land, surely vre ought to do as much for the love of Jesus. For gold we will give iron to you." The Rev. Stephen Merritt, the under. taker and preacher, sat on the first row. When Miss Shepard stopped and looked about for a response to her appeal, Mr. elerritt arose, and after turning toward the audience pulled a tine gold watch from his vest pocketlaidand it on the altar. Miss Shepard rewarded Mr. Merritt with an en. oouraging smile. "Who is the next ?" she asked. Ton EXCITEMENT STARTS. • A man took a diamond ring from his searf and laid it by IVIr.Merritt's watch. Women arose in the audience and began to pull rings from their lingers and jeweled pine from their dresses, Mr, Simpson tried to resume the programme of the meeting, bet gave up when he NAV the exeitement grow. mg and the aisles fillinedth people march. Ing toward the altar and leaving watches, rings, pine ahd Money. Some of them made brief speeches. One woman drew a little band of gold from her finger and Staid, that itwas her wedding ring. Her voice brcike when she said that it was veryt precious to her, edit that she Wad glad to give it to the Cattee of Christ. Watthes of all kinds were carried forward by the owners, and either harlded to Mr. Simpson or laid upon the altar, end Whenever an attempt Was made to reeturie the servioes there were half a The various monetary systems as! divided among the several, countries are as follows: Gold—United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Scandinavian Union, Portugal, Australia, Canada, Egypt and Cabo. Silver—Russia, Mexico, Central and South America. and India. Gold and silver—France, Usettedem States, Italy, Belgium,SwitzerletedNeece, Spain, Netherlands'Turkey Mad japan. It is estimated the total stock of gold fel- $3,600,000,000, and of diver $4,048 900,000; while there is about 82,635,673,000 of un- covered paper money held as follows :— SouthAmeriaa $600,000,000; United States, 8432,000,000; Austria, 8260 000,1,00; Italy, 8163,000,000; Germany, $107 000,000 ; France • $81,000,000 and Great Britain, $50,000,000. , The hog business in Ontario has received a decided impetus in the past year. The receipts at the Toronto market in 1893 were 74,557 animals. For the nine .ninnths of the present year 85,565 have been reeeiv., ed, and it is expected the 100,000 mark will be exceeded before the year is &eked. Many of the animals are wheat fed. There has been a very marked development in the Canadian hog raising industry in late years. Aecording to the aims of 1881 there were 1,207,619 hogs in the country by the the returns of 1891 there were 1,702,185. From being a pork importing country this has become a pork exportingceuntry. Ev-en in three yarn the ohmage is notable, as the following figures of the value of hog prodnote Imported and exported. will show: Imports. Exports. 1890 81,191,930 $645,360 1893 377,892 • 2,052,4713 The exports began to show a market prevenient in volume it may be remarked, and the imports to 'fait Off, immediately after the increase in the duties, England's sornarine Cable Syste The war in Corea has just broeght prominently, the control whieh England has over the sabmerine telele gram; of WV world. English oompanierehave lines he ing a length of more than 150,000 Initml which cost over £80,000,000 an& \produce revenue of more thitti 04,000,000. The t eminent bee done everything iti ite t. to facilitate the laying of these oablea subvention and patronage, and the prel friary turveye have been nearly 41 Ma by the naval authorities. In return nompanies are obliged to give priority the despite:hes of the imperial and oaia. governments over all others, to emplv,t iereignere and te allow no wire te be the eontrol of foreign governments, tiudy esae of war, to replace their serVante government ofheiale When required,