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Cyprian had lived his life "I wish you; would give me a little had wasted his last e,vailable shilling. and. had reforraed. His dissipations assistanee ti-ith the tea -cups. Gilbert,e had. never been of a base or degradiog Mrs. Vo eAsingham said, rather impa- order. He had been wild and reckless tiently. "It is all very well to talk of* the pleasantness of having the tea made in the room iu this way, but one requir- es some belp. Thanks. Take that to Su* Cyprian Davenant, if you please, and -bring .me Sophy Morton's eup." Mr. Sinclair obeyed, and when he CRAW back with the empty cup Mrs. Walsingham motioned him to a vacant chair by her side, and. detained him there till the carriages were announced. She called him by his Christian name LA the face of society, aad this party of to -night was only one of many eater- tainments that had been given at dif- ferent times for her gratification. It was seercely strange, therefore, if ru- mor. especially loud on. the part of the lady's friends, declared that Mr. Sin- clair and Mrs. Walsingham were ea - gaged to be matried. But the acquain- tance between them had torainued for a long time, and those wao knew MiAtSt of Gilbert Sinclair shook their heads significantly when the matrimonial question. was mooted, "Gilbert knows his own value." growled. old Colonel Mordant, an inve- terate whist -player and diner-ounwho hadeintroilueed young Sineleir into fast society. "When he marries he will marry well. A nein with my friend. alinclair's fortune must have MI the advantages in the lady of his choice— youth, beanty, rank—or at any rate position—and most men of that caliber look out. for a corresponding amountof wealth. I don't say Sinclair wilt do that. He is rich **weigh to indulge in a caprice. But as to marrying Clara Walsinghara—a deucetl fine woman. I grant you—pas si betel" Mrs. Walsingham detained Mr. etin- elair in conversation some time after the carriages had. !mem anneuuced. She was very bright ana animated, and looked her best as he talked. to him It was nearly eleven intatielt when elle was reminded of the lateness of the hour, and the length of the drive before them, by Miss Sophy Morton, who had lately transferred. her atientien from the callow +omen to Mr. Wyatt. much to the disgust of the youthful drag- oon. "Yes, Sophy, I am just going to put on my shawl. will -0,x1 fetch our wraps ha.d played high et his elun and. lost money on the turf, and kept an extra-, vagant stud., and ridden in ?steeple - (*bases at home and abroad, and had in- dulged in many other follies peculiar tie his age and, station; but he had no low vices, and when his money was gone, and the freshness of youth with it he fell from the ranks of his fast young friends without a. sigh. It was too late for him to thinle of a profes- sion.; and there seemed to hiat to be no brighter fate possible for him than the dreary monotony of old bachelorhood on a limited income. "I suppose I shall live to be an old. fogy," he said, to himself. "I shall have my partieular corner at the club, and be greedy about the newspapers, and bore the youngsters with my stu- pid stories. What a life to look forward to!" Sir Cyprian had work to do after the Richmond dinner, and was occupied till long after daybreak with letter -writ- ing and the last details of his parking. When all was done, he was still wake- an.d sat by his wtiting-table in the morning eunlight thinking of the past and the future with a aloomy face. Thinking of the past—of all those careless hours in which one bright girl- ish face had heea the chief influence of las life; thinking of the future in whieh he was 10 iige that sweet faee no more. "How happy we have been together!" he thought, as he bent over a photo- graph framed in the lid of his dispatch- hOO, contexupla.ted the lovely faee with fortd stuile, aud a tender, dreaming look into his dark eyes. "What long hours of boredom. I have gone through in the way of evening parties in order to get a waltz with her. or a few min- utes of quiet. talk in some balcony or conservatory,. and all for the vain de- light of loving her—without oue ray of lento for the future, with tbe know- ledge that I was doing her a great wrong in following her up en closely vvith my barren. love! So even James Wyatt Sil.W my infatuation; and hers, he said. Is there any truth in that last assertion, I wonder: Does Constance really care for nie? I have never asked her the question. never betrayed myself by any direet avowal. Yet these things make themeelves undersloati some - hew, and I think my darling knows thee I would die for her; and I think I knew that she will never care for any man. as she could. care for me." He shut the dispateh-ho. and began to walk slowly up and down the room, hinking. "There would be just time for .me to do it," he said to himself. presently— "just time for me to run down to Dave- nant, and see the old. plaee once more. it will be sold before I come back from from the next room, please, Mr. W y- Afritat If ever I do come back. And. att? Will you take the bade seat in there would be the cbaniel of seeing the brougham, Gilbert, awl wind. up her, I know the Clanyarties have gone with a lobster salad. in Ilalf-Moon back to Kent. Yes, I will run down Street 1 It is really early, you know." to Davenant for a few hours. A man 'Thanks, no. 1 could scarcely ire:it must be hard indeed who does not care my man to drive those chestnuts; so I 40 gree one farewell look at the house think I'll go back he the phaeton; and" In which the brightest years of hie life l'ra due at a hop in Eaton Square.." have been spent.. And. 1 may see her "Indeed:" asked the lads. eurtously, agent., only to V good-bve, and to see and with a rather auxious look. el ou used not to eat* for dancing parties." "I don't tare for them now; but wee has to sattrifice inclination now and then. you know." "Ito I knew the people". asked Mrs. Waisingthana Mr. einelair smiled as he replied."I think not." A eloud came over the lady's face, and when her shawl had. been adjusted she took Gilbert .elinclair's arm in sit -. a she is sorry for my going. Whet more ,can. I say to her? What more need be saidethe knows thet I would lay down my life for her." He went to his room, and slept a kind of fitful sleep until eight (Moak, when he woke with a start., and began to dress for his journey. At nine he was driving through the streets in a han- som, and at midday he was in one of the woody lanes leading across country from the little Kentish railway to lits owe. Nor dui she speak to him on the own ancestral dommn, the place he had way to the poreh of the hotel, where once been proud and fond of, but which a. mail phaeton and a couple of brough- he looked at now in bitterness of spirit ams were waiting. Her adieus to the and with a passionate regret. The es - rest 0 the party were brief :tad cold, tate had been. much encumbered when and Gilbert. himself she only honored tt fell into his hands. but he knew that. with prudent*, he might have saved the greater part of it. He entered the park by a rustic gateway, beside which there was a keeper's lodge, a gate di - eating' the thickest part of the wood from a broad green valley, where the fern grew deep under t)ae spreading branehes of grand old oaks, and around the smooth silveragray trunks of raighty beeches. The Davenant thit- her had suffeted little from the prodi- gal's destroyuag hand. He could bet- ter endure the loss of the place than Its desecration. The woman at the keeper's lodge welcomed her mastea with an exclamation of surprise. "I hope you have come to stay. Sir eel a. :stately mehnation of her beautiful head, with its coronal of bright chest- nut hair, and eoquett Isla luttle curls dot- ted about. a broad white forehead. Mr. Sineleir stood bareheaded under the porch as the Walsingham brougham drove away. and then turned with a frown to perfortu his duties in other direetione. Here, however, he found there was nothing left for him to do. Miss Morton and her companion had been escorted to their carriage by Sir Cyprian Devenant and Mr. aNyutt, and were waiting to bid their host good- bye.. "And a. thousand thanks for our de- lightful day Mr. feinelair, which we are not likely to forget fora long time, Cyprian" she said, dropping a rustle are we, Imogen?" courtesy. Miss Imogeu Harlow, who had. been "No, Mrs. Mead. I have only come born Watson and tehristened Mary for a last look at the old place before Anne, shook her empty little head co- I go away from England." quettahly, and declared that the mem- " Going away, sir? that's b -ad news." ory. of that Riehnion.d dinner would re- Ceprian cut short her lamentations main with her to her dying day. And with a friendly nod, and was walking' on the wayihome the two ladies discus- on. when it suddenly struck him that sed Mr. Snelair and hie income, and the woman might be useful. speculated as to the chances of his ulti- "Oh, by the way," he said, "Lord mately marrying Mrs. Walsingham. Clanyarde is at Marchbrook is he not?" "Yes, sir; the family have been there for the last week." CHA.P'rER II, Sir Cyprian Davenant and James Wyatt went back to town by rail, and parted company at Waterloo, the bar- onet going westeturd to his bachelor lodgings in one of the shabbier streets about Grosvenor Square, the lawyer to a. big dull house on. the coldest side of Russell Squaxe, which his father had bought and furnished some fifty years before, and in which there was a large collection of old piotures, and a still larger collection. of rare old wines stor- ed away in great gloomy cellars with ponderous iron -plated doors. Mr. Wye att 1he elder holt done a good deal of busi- ness of a very profitable kind. with the youthful members of the British aris- tourasy had raised loans for them at heavy ,rates of interest, never omitting to remind them of the sacrifice they naade, and only yielding to the stern necessities of their position in a reluc- tant grudging spirit at the last; where- by the foolish young men were in no manner prevented from rushing. blind- fold along the broad road to rum, but were kept in ignorance of the fact fleet it was from Thomas Wyatt's own cof- fers that the money came, and that to him the interest accrued. James Wyatt inherited his father's cautious spirit, together with his fath- er's handsome fortune, and he had cul- tivated very much the same kind of business, making himself eminently useful to his young friends, and winning for himself the character of a most pru- dent friend and. adviser. He did not take the risks of an ordinary money -lender and he raised money for his clients on terms that seemed, moderate when com- pared with the usurer's exorbitant de- mands; but he contrived, nevertheless to profit considerably by every transac- tion, and he never let a client escape him while there was a feather to pluck. Sir Cyprian Davenant had been ha this gentleman's hands ever since his coming of age, but now that there was not an sere of the Davenant estate un - mortgaged, and the day was not far off in which raust come foreclosure and sale, the relations between the tvvo men were rather those of friendship than "Then I'll walk over there before I go on to the house, if you'll unlock the gate again, Mrs. Mead." "Shall 1 send one of my boys to the house with a message, six, about din- ner, or anything?" "You are very good. Yes, you. can sendethe lad to tell old Mrs. .1'ornfret to girt me something to eat at sits o'clock, if you please. I must get back to London by the 7:30 train. "Deary me, sir, going back so soon/ as that?" . The gates of Marchbrook were about a mile distant from the keeper's lodge. Lord Cla.nyarde's house. was a dreary red hriek habitation of the Georgian exa, with long lines of narrow windows looking out upon a blank expanse of pasture land, by courtesy a park. An avenue of elms led fromthe lodge -gate to the southern front of the house, ana on the western side there was a prim Dutch garden, divided from the park by a ha-ha. The place was in perfect order, but there was a cold, bare look about everything that was eminently suggestive of poverty. A woman at the lodge informed Sir Cyprian that there was no one at home. Lord Clanyarde had driven to Maid- stone ; Miss Clanyarde was in the vil- lage. She had. gone to see the chil- dren at the National School. She would be home at two to lunch, no doubt, ac- cording to her usual habit. She was very fond of the school, and sometimes spent her mornings in teaching the children. "But they leave school at twelve, don't they," demanded Sir Cyprian. "Yes, sir ; but I dare sa,y Miss Con- stance bas stayed to talk to Miss Evans, the school -mistress. She is a very genteel young person, and quite a fav- orite with our ladies." Cyprian Davenant knew the little school -house and the road. by which Constance. Clanyarde must return from her mission. Nothing eould be more pleasant to him than the idea of meet- ing her in her solitary ,walk. He turned. away from the lodge -keep - per, muttering something vague about calling again later, and walked at a andel pace to the neighloriug village, which consisted of two straggling rows et oldefasttioned cottages fringing the skirts of a common. Close to the old ivy-covered ohureh, with its massive square tower and grass -grown grave- yard., there was a modern Gothic build- ing in which the village ehildren strug- gled through the difficulties or an edu- cational course, arid from the open win- dow:: whereor their youthful voices rang loudly out upon the summer air evety. morning in a choral version of the mul- tiplication table. • Miss Clanyarde WitS standing in the little etone porch talking to the school- mistress when Sir Cyprian opened the low wooden gate. She looked up at the sound of his footstep with a sudden "1 did not know you were at Daven- ant, Sir Cyprian," she said, with some little embarrassment, as they shook hands. "1 have not been at Davenant, Miss Clanyarde. 1 only left town this morn- ing. I have come down here to say good-bye, to Davenant and all old friends." The blush faded and left the lovely face very pale. "Is it true that you are going to Africa, Sir Cyprian? I heard from some friends in town that you were going to join Captain Harcourt's expedition." "It is quite true. 1 pronaised Har- court some years ago that if he ever went again I would go with him." "And, you are pleased to go. I sup- pose?" No, Miss Clanyarde, not pleased to go. But I think that sort of thing is about the he employment for the en- ergies of a waif and stray, such as I am. I have lived my life, you see, and have not a single card left to play in the game of civilized existence. There is some hoe.* of adventure out yonder. Are you going home?" "Yes, I was just saying good-bye to Miss Evans as you came ina "Then I'll walk back to Marehbrook with you, if you'll allow me. I told the lodge -keeper I would return by and by in the hope. of findiug Lord Clanyarde." "You have been to Northbrook an ready, then?" "Ye,s, and they told me at the lodge that I should find you here." After this there came rather an awk- Ward sil.nee. They walked away from tbe sehool-house side by side, Sir Cyp- rian furtively watchful of his compani- on's face, in which there were signis of a sorrow. that seemed sonaething deep- er than the conventional regret which a fashionable beauty might express for the deperture of a. favorite waltzer. The silence was. not broken until they hail arrived at a, point where two roads met, the turnpike road to Marchbrook, and a eha.dy lane—a eross-vountry road, above whieh the overarching branehes of the elms Joule a roof of foliage at this bright midsummer season. There was a way of reathing Marchbrook by this lane—a, tempting walk compared to the high -road. "Let. us go back by the lane," said Cyprian. "It is a little looger, but 1 ara sure that you are not, in a hurry. You would have dwadled away half the morning talking to that young woman at the school, if 1 hadn't come to fetch you; and. it. will be our last walk together, Constance. I may call you Con.stance. may I not, as I used to when you were in the nursery.? I am entitled to a few dis- mal privileges, like a dying naan. you know, Oh. Constance, what happy hours we have spent together in these Kent- ish lanes! I sball see Mule in my dreams out yonder, and your face will &thine down upon mtr frora a background of green leaves and blue sky; and then I shall awake to find myself ramping out Ron some stretch of barren sand, with jackals howling tin the distance." "What a dreadful picture!" said. Con- stance, with a faint forced laugh. "But if you are so reluctant to leave Eng- land, why do you persist in this Afric- an expedition?" "It is a point of honor with me to keep my promise; and, it is better for me to be away from England." "You are the best judge of that ques- tion." Sir Cyprien was slow to reply to this remark. He had come down to Kent upan a sudden impulse, determined in no manner to betray leis own folly, and bent only upon snatchingthe vain de- light of a farewell interview with the girl he loved. But to lie with her and not to tell her the truth was more dif- Meth than he had imagined. 114.. could see that she was sorry for his depart- ure. He believed that she loved lion, but. he knew enough of Viscount Clan- yardea principles and his daughter's education to know there would be some- thing worse than cruelty in asking this girl te share his broken fortunes. "Yes, Constance," he went on, "it is better for nae to be away. So long.as I am here it is the old story of them - sect and the flame. I can not keep out of temptation. I can not keep myself from haunting the places where I am likely to meet the girl I love, fondly, foolishly, hopelessly. Don't look at me with those astonished eyes, my darling; you have known my secret ever so tong. I meant to keep s'ilence till the very end; but, you see, the words are spoken in spite of Md. aly love I dart' not ask you to be my wife. I dare only tell you that no other woman will fill that place. You are not angry with me, Constance Lor having spoken ?" "Angry with you—" she began, and then broke down utterly and burst in- to tears. He drew his arm round her with a tender, protecting gesture, and soothed her gently, as if she had been a child. "My darling, I am not worth your tears. If I had been a better man, I might have redeemed Davenant by this time, and might have hoied to make you my wife. There would have been some hope for me, would there not, dear, if I could have offered you a home that your father could approve?" "I am not so mercenary as you. think me," answered Constance, drying her tears, and disengaging herself from Su Cyprian's encircling arm. "I ani not afraid of poverty. _But I know that my father would never forgive—" "And I know it too, ray dearest girl, and yoa shall not be asked to break with your father for such a man as I. I never meant to speak of this, dear, but perhaps it is better that I should have spoken. You will soon forget me, Constance, and I shall hear of you mak- ing some brilliant marriage before I have been away very long. God grant the man may be worthy of youl God grant you. may marry a good man!" "I am not very likely to marry," re- plied Miss Clanaarde. "My dearest, it is not possible you ean escape; and Heavet forbid that ray .mernory should come between you and a happy future! It is enough for one of us to carry the burden of a life- long regret." There was much more talk between them before they arrived at a little gate opening into the Marchbrook kit- chen -garden, fond, regretful talk of the days that were gone in which they had been so mutat together down in Kent, with all the freedom permitted between friends and neighbors of long standing, the days before Constance had made her debut in the great world. Sir Cyprian did. not persevere in his 777.71:••7".•,"77"-Vel•••.•••11.••V1 talked -of -visit to Lord Clanyarde. He had, in truth very little desire to see that gentlenaan, who was one of the most pompous and self-opinionated of noblemen. At the little garden gate he grasped. Miss Clanyartle's two hands in his own with one fervent grasp. "You know the old story," he said: " 'it must be for years and it may* be forever.' It is au eternal parting for zae, darling, for I caa never hope to call you by that sweet name again. You have been very good to xxie in letting me speak so freely to -day, and. ii„ is a kind of consolation to have told you my sorrow. God bless you, and good-bye!" This was their parting. Sir Cyprian went back to Davenant, and spent a dreary hour in walking. up and down the corridor and looking into tke empty rooms. He remembered them tenanted with the loved and lost. How dreary they were now in their blank and un- occupied state, and how little likelihood there was that he should ever ece them wan 1 His dinner was served for him in a pretty breakfast -room, with a bay - window overlooking a. garden that had been his mother's delight, and where the roses she had loved still bloomed in all their glory. The memory of the dead was with him as he eat his solitary meal, and he was glad. when it was time for him to leave the great desolate house in which every door closed with a dismal reverberation, as if it had been shutting upon a vault. He left Davenant immediately after dinner, and walked back to the little station, thinking mournfully enough of his day's work and of the life that lay before him. Before noon next day he and his companions were on the first stage of th-ir journey, speeding toward Marseilles. (To Be Contanteda A FEARFUL WEAPON. The Can Invented by a Montreal Main Capable of Piring 260.000 Sliots a min- nte, A. native of Montreal has invented a gun which he confidently believes. when it is adopted by all nations, will make war impossible. If all that is claimed for it be true, this gun is cer- tainly the most remarkable piece of ordnanee in existence. A description of the piece is furnished by M. Sotui- mery of Montreal, an agent of the in- ventor, who recently returned. from Washington after giving an exhibi- tion of the weapon before M. Patenotre, the French Ambassador, and the milt- tary attaehe of the Embassy. The most remarkable feature of the gun is that no tsxplcsive is used and that its missiles are projeoted by an aigeney the nature of whieh is a protound secret, which, without noise or smoke, is cat - able of diseharging the almost incredr- ble number of 260,000 shots a minute. The gun bi general appearance resemr. tiles a field piece of the modern type. A little forward of the breach is a funnel, down which the bullets are passed into the gun as fast as two men can pour them. Underneath the gun and between the wheels is placed the meehaniam by which the propulsive force is generated. .The presence of the pressure guage might be taken as an indication that compressed air is the mysterious power used. The meehans- ism is put into atstion by simply givr. . ing a slight oscillattng movement to the trail by means of- a lever worked by two men, the trail being geared dtreot to the mechanism. The power of the weapon seems to vary greatly with the length of the piece, one two feet long giving a muzzle velocity of Mk feet a second, white for the nine - foot form. the amazing velocity of 3,752 feet is claimed, the bullets in each case being half an inoh in diameter. The. inventor insists that bus principle oan be applied. to cannon of the larg- est size. NECKTIES AS BAROMETERS. Devices by Which Every Ilan May be Ills (Own Weather Prophet. A fabric that changes color under varying conditions of the weather has just been produced. No practical use of the. new inven- tion has yet been made, except a few sample neokties which the inventor has distributed among his friends. The. fabrio of which the neckties are made resembles a coarse linen. When the weather is warm and fair the color is a a. dark blue. In cold weather it change es to purple. The approach of rain is heralded by pink, and snow causes the , necktie to become a startling green. The invention marks a new era in fashions. Shirts, trousers, gowns, and other articles of dress can 136 made of the malarial. The invention is yet in its infaney. When it has been de- veloped to a greater extent the women of fashion can array herself in a blue gown in the morning. By noon it will turn to a mauve. The afternoon will find it pink, and the evening some othe er color. As a laboresaving institution the new oloth is exceeding valuable. Thermo/nee ters and barmometers will go one of fashion. The "city man" as he puts on his shirt in the morning has but to glance at the color. If it is a purple, he weans his heaviest overcoat. If it is pink, he takes his umBrella under his arm. When sails are atade of cham- eleon °loth the yachtsman has but to glance at his mainsail to know what kind of weather is coming. HOW PAR BLOOD TRAVELS. - The mileage of the blood circulation reveals astounding facts. 11 is calcul- ated that, assuming the heart. to beat sixty-nine times a minute at ordinary heart pressure, the blood goes at the rte of two hundred and seven yards in a minute, or seven miles an hour, one hundred and. siktyeeight miles a; day, and sixty-one thousand three hun- dred and twenty miles a year. If a man eighty-four years of age could 'have had , one single blood cot -pude floating in his blood all his life it woulcl leave travelled hi that time five million one hundred and fifty thousand miles. INGENUOUS. Mr. Stilby—Really, Miss Chatter, I don't see how you find so much to talk about. I am very glad to have beenin- troduced. to you. It is a pleasure to hear an original person talk, Miss Chatter—Yea, our hostess said she theught we would get on nicely to- gether. I think people of opposite char- acteristics are always likelyto be con- genial, don't you? For of the soul the body formdoth take, for soul is form, and doth the body make.—Spenser. Children Cry -for Pitcher's Cagtorit THE FIELD OF COMMERCE. Some Items of Interest to the Busy Business Man. The Bank of Montreal has opened. a Nbvreeanice.h at Roseland, B. C. sed £565,684 during the past The specie in the Bank of England increa Lard is very low at present, selling in Chicago at 114.85 for May, the lowest price on record. The Toronto wheat market is quiet with offerings fair. Sales of wheal on (be Noathern at 77e. It is not expected. that the bill pro- hibiting the importaion of live cattle into Britain will be tweed. this year. There has been a. good demand. for Canadian Pacific of late, and the pres- e;rt oeprnict.eshows an advance of 4 to 5 The stooks of wheat at Port Arthur and Fort William are 3,435,543 bushels against 3,430,753 bushels a week ago, and 725,231 a yew* ago. Money at Toronto is still stringent, with call loans at 5 1-2 per cent. on stooks, and the best eon:weer:lel paper commanding 6 to 6 1-2 per cent. Speculation is very quiet on Toronto and Montreal Steel> Exchanges, with Cable easy. A little business is doing in Canadian Pacific at advanced prices. The outlook for the cattle export trade this seasoa is considered very blue. The foreign markets are de- pressed, and beef is selling in London as low as in Montreal. The visible supply of wheat in the United States a.nd Canada is 58,483,000 bushels, a decrease of 847,000 bushels for the week. A year ago the total was 68,626,000. The amount on passage to Europe es 26,480,000 as compared with 41,040,000 bushels a yell' ago. The number ot cattle fed at the dis- tilieriee in Canada for shipment to England the past winter is about double a,s compared with the previous year. The following will give approxiraately the number of eattle being fed, with the names of the owners: Walkerville, 4,800 head, by Rogers, Halligan & Lune nese ; Waterloo, 400 head, by John Scott; Prescott, 600 head, by Wm. Hearn; Belleville, 440 head, by Harry Dean; Hamilton, 450 head, 1W Stroud Bros.; and. Toronto, 2,800 head, divided among John and Jesse Dunn, John Coffee, Cornelius Flanagan, Rogers, Halligan & .Lunness and. Sheridan &Thompson. Business in wholesale departments at Toronto is fair, with an increasing num- ber of sorting -up orders for seasonable goods. Prospects are said to have im- proved, but there is apparently little foundation for brighter outlook. At least there will be a great deal of tua- certainty in commercial matters until after the eleetione. All classes of mer- chandise and produce are comparatively low in praxis owing to plentiful sup-. plies or the look of consumptive de- mand. The buying is fie= hand to mouth. The gaentere trade is slightly better, but the long -expected advance in sugars is still tletay.ed. Hardevare and metals unchanged in prices, with a fair demand for seasonable goods. Leather is dull and hides unchanged. Whea.t is weaker, with millers holding off, owing to lower prices in Britain and the United States. The butter market is lower on increased receipts. Money is still scarce and rates firm. It is difficult to borrow on stock col- lateral, and speculation in securities is thereby curtailed. The bank statement for March shows the amount of mon- ey out "014 call" as only $13,849,000 as compared with $17,279.00 a year ago. Commercial houses, however, &Atoned a. good deal of accommodation last month, discounts having increased. $4,100000, and the total discounts on 'March 31. was §211,60a,000 as against S199,086,000 a year ago. Consols show a reaction in price, and the highiprices have increas- ed speculation n this security. The heavy floods reported from so many sections of the Province of Que- bec, with serious attending loss, have interfered materially with trade and traffic, and Montreal houses report the distribution of goods as slow for the. season, and even less active than a week ago. As might be expected pay- ments are indifferent. The demand for sugars and teas from jobbers is very light; in the former line quotations re- main unchanged, with regard to teas. some claim that exerts can be bought eentLeirpr s xnogeesra. telin Hdridye ()°:118at ht rathermovean as deal- ers report. a lack of enquiry from tan- ners, and another decline of a full cent has been established, this week. Leath- er remains dull, ancl no very great im- provement is anticipated until active cutting is begun by shoe manufactur- ers on fall stock. The spring sorting business in boots and shoes bee been disappointing. The annual Leipsig fair is now in progress, and advices so fe.r received, do not indicate any recovery in the prices of ra.w furs. Quite a lit- tle activity is shown in cements, which are moving out of store quite briskly in moderate lots, and stocks will like.- ly be pretty well absorbed by the ttme new supplies by. first yeestels are available. In oils, paeras and glass the rush in first. spring saipramas is over, but a goo(1 many goods are being got ready for diepatesh by first river boats. Domestic bar iron' is reported firmer, and there is some 'anticipation of an advance in iron piping. The money market rules very firm at 5 1-2 to 6 per cent. for call money, but a. good many loans become due next month, when there may be some easing off. When Baby was hick, we awe tier naitoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became miss, she clung to•Castoria. II/hen she hail Children, shesave them Castorise THEIR ADVANTAGE. An American millionaire, accustomed to purchase anything he wanted, tried. to obtain from an Oxford gardener the secret of the beautiful lawns which 1 make the pride of Englandt—or a port- ' tl°"nTeme,°11 ity good man, how you I manage it," he said oondescendinglY, putting his hand significantly into hisefriskewerry. simple, sir," replied the gardener, quaintly. "You outs it as close as ever you can out, and rolls it and. cuts it for six hundred years." t PYNY-PECTORAL COUGHS and GuresOUGHS and COLDS 0 in a surprisingly short tirno. It's a sal- entific certainty, tried and true, soothing and healing in its er_ecta, W. C. 1\1cComBsosunchfteStteet:4;10.. report in a letter that Yyny•Yer torsi oiled MO, 0, Garceau of ebrooteceid in ghost anti brotteigal itutingbottaanuddIntls000me.ured, W. G. MuCiattber dr. ••••••••••• lie. J. II. Butte, Chemist, se8 Yolige St., Toronte, writes: " As aeneral coligh'eud ti Pectoral le a most Invaluable reparation, it ger syrup rya', luts gi ven the Menet goods:he en Vo all who hove 141.1 11 mom' b whom:pion to me of 11, bonolito &wired from 111 me ift their families, 14 18 suitable Avoid or young, being phone% to the taste. Its gale with do has been wonclarful, '44143 (3141 ravers reconupent It 50 .5 skfe Rua reliable cough medicine,' Urge Bottle, 25 COG DAVIS & LAWRENCE CO3, LTD, Sole Proprietors IVIONTREAL CARTER'S !TTLIVER PILLS. URE Sick Headache and rel eve all the troubles ince, dent to A bilious state of the eystein, each as Dizziness, Nausea. Drowsiness, Distress after eating, Pain in the Side, &c. While their most remarkable success has been shown in curing SICK Headache, yet CARTAa'a LOT= LOtlett PILLS are equally valuable k: Constipation, curing and preventing this annoying coMplaint, wide, they also correct all disorders of the stoma() stimulate the 'liver and regulate the bows Even if they only cured Ache they would be almost priceless to those who suffer from this distressing complaint but fortunately their goodness does not here, and thoae who once try them will fin these little pills valueble in so many way, that they will not be willing to do without them, But after all sick head CHE is the bane of so many lives that her is where we make our great boast. Our pas cure It while others do not. CARTglet1 LITTI.E LIVES PILLS are very smell and very easy to take. One or two pills make a dose. They are strictly vegetable and do not gripe or purge, but by their gentle action plume all who nee them. In vials at25 cents five for $1. SoId everywhere, or sent by mail. CARTER MEDICINE CO:, New York. " en ta!li Oettell MIL CURE YOU We guarantee Dodd's Kidney P1118 80 cure any ease of Bright's Disease Diabetes, Lumbago, I)ropsy, Rheumatism. Heart Disease, Female Troubles, Impure Blood—or money refunded. Sold by all dealers in medicine, or by mail oit receipt of price, 5oc. per box, or Six boxes Ita.so, DR. L. A. SMITH & CO.. Toronto. • THE GREAT Family Medicine of the Age. Taken internally, It Cures Diarrhea, Cramp, and Pain in the Stomach, Sore Throat, Sudden Colds, Coughs, eta, eta User! Externally, It Cures Cats, Bruises, Burns, Scalds, Sprain°, Toothache, Pain in the Face, Neuralgia, .-Thaurnatiami, Frostad Feet. 115 ertlelo over attained to such unbounded popular. .17.-4a:ern Okcreer. We can beio testlinnny The of:1meg of din Polo- i;11,.r. We have 13 n its rn,441 effects in soothing tho tovrrnat pain, and knew it 44 Co VW. articla—Cineln, Otophfi h. No4134.:11440 Tot Eappei Paln Killer, which is %a roost valuable Orally medicate now in use.—.2'grosano bno reel merle as n. ft116 Or removing pale. no • 1.rins hoz ncguirad 6V151.. •.&71.14,11s* THE' PERFECT TEA THE FINEST ace IN THE WORLD FROM THE TEA PLANT TO THE TEA CUO IN rrs NATIVE PUSITV., "Monioon" Tea is packed linder the supervision of the Tea growers, and is advertised and sold by them as a sample of the best qualities of Indian and Ceylon Teas. For that reason they see that none but tht very fresh leaves go into Monsoon. packages. That is why "Moesoon,' the perfect Tea, can be sold at the same price as inferior tea. It is put up in sealed caddies of 34 lb., lb. and s lbs., and 50441 114 three flavours at eoc., goo, and eoe. If your grocer does not keep It, toll him to write to STEEL, BAXTER & CO., xx and x3 Front St, East, Toronto. 1111111.1•11•111.11,..reeleeel•el.M14 Blessedness is a. whole eternity, older than dananation..)-B.loWee. levee