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In these last years of the nineteenth
emitury it Laity emu that there is lit -
tie ateed to say a, weed in praise of eul-
lure, In certain circles, indeed, the
• vorship of culture has been 'carried to
t alisurd extent, it has beeu col:5M-
(1 NAacca for all evils, as the
sole retately st bad mannera and bad
•Maras -the oue. requisite for a golden
age. Those who best know what trne
mature Ls will be the last to ()labia for
it any small extreme merlin; they rea-
lize too., well its in,erits, and. also its
(pas a arid undenialale advantages. It
may safely be affirMed that neither the
"rid UOr any individual will ever be
reformed by culture of the, imagination
and.intellect alone. Rightly speaking
that which we !KUM' afs culture is not
mortal at all ; it is mental. Mortal
culture is more generally known as re-
ligion -or some may call it philosophy.
A grea,t deal too nauch moral virtue,
has been alarmed for intellectual
ture and edueation. Even the arts, no.
bis and beautiful as they are, are not
in themselves moral, however excel-
lently they may be adapted to moral
purposes. Music, painting, poetry, are
In themselves absolutely non -moral,
though one may be used for anthems
and hymns, one for sacred pictures,
and the other for teaching the high-
est les.sons. Before we. naa,ke a °him
for greater eulture in these things,
NVE1 raust learn to estimate thexn at
their true value. Although, in the best
sense only that is beautiful which is
good, yet there is a quest of beauty
which many entirely miss, and not even
seek for the noblest good. Reformers
whose cry has been education and art
have too often forgotten how slight tbe
moral worth of such may be. It is the
culture of the heart alone that will
reform the world, not that of the imag-
inative and. mental faculties, Ile,ving
admitted this it is possible to plaee
a just and fair valuation on the part
that should be played by general cul-
ture. This part is truly a most
iiii-
ortant one, and has hardly yet been
fitly recognized.
One of the charges brought against
England by foreigners has usually been
that we have neglected culture, -that
we are a nation of shopkeepers, with
• ideas only reaching to the limit of
our counters, says an English writer,
The charge, tt.s such wholesale amuse -
tions must be, has always been an ex-
aggerated one; yet there has been
enough ot truth in it to give it a cer-
tain sting. We deserve it now less
than ever before, but it may still be
pressed with some fore. • In all. ages,
and countries there is a struggle be-
tween the utilitarian spirit and the
• spirit that makes for beauty and adorn-
ment. That struggle still goes on, and
It 1.s often assisted by the binding ne-
cessity of earning daily bread. Cul-
ture, the busy tradesman will say, does
not pay. Culture, to the equally busy
clerk, salesman, or salessvoman, ap-
• pears little short of an Impossibility,
Such education as has been acquired
at sehool is forgotten within a year
• of leaving. Young people of 16 or 18
jiasten to forget the little that they
learned, and say that their education
finished." It is astonishing how
many persons of so-callecl education are
profoundly ignorant even of the his-
tory and geography of his own coun-
try and their knowledge of our glor-
ious literature is limited to the latest
novels. But the lack id f culture is not
confined to persons of this description.
Persons who have primed and loaded
themselves with special knowledge,
passing difficult examinations, often
prove to us the fact that the mere ac-
quirement of information is something
very different front culture, and that
with all their boasted knowledge, they
• are very dui/ Tolle indeed. To a• great
• extent true culture must be seLf-ac-
quired, and almost the only avenue to
its riches is the study of literature.
Nothing so truly refines the mind and
enlarges its vision, as the absorption
of good books, and of books which usu-
ally the special student ignores com-
pletely.
Poetry and the highest literature
may be of small use in coaehing for an
examination, but their value is more
abiding than that of a. thousand col-
lege books. It is in this respect that
the educated and lettered are often
as uncultured as the ignerant and iLlit-
erate. There is a utilitarian spirit in
the aequirement of knowledge, aswell
as in the pursuit of commercial prase
perity ; and both of these are too fond
of sneering at that which, to their
narrow vision, does not appear to lead,
immediately to anything practical
and remunerative, But the harvest of
culture is in the soul of naan itself,
and it remunerates even beyond. the
mere learning of facts and figures, or
the produce of naarkets.
There are persons who boast with
great pride that they never reacl a
book in their lives, perhaps not even
a novel. Such axe, Indeed, to be pitied,
and, what is more, they will generally
be avoided by peopre of eultivated
mind. With few exceptions, the peo-
• ple who do not read, and who neglect
all culture are very dull and uninter-
esting ; their conversation is of the
pettiest description and oceasists at the
• smallest talk possible. As a maxi who
always slays in his native village mist
• ever have the most circumscribed no-
tions of the world, so he who never
• nods moat have similarly confined
ideas as to evliat other persons have
said and thought- and felt. Reading
is a species of travel for the mind• ; it
admits lis to the minds a others great-
er and wiser than ouraelarea. If mir
consideration of (mitten- becomes nar-
rowed down to a eulogy of reading,
this is little wondexafor int, wise read-
• ing does truly exit nine-tenthts of the
best edacatioa. For our even sake, and
the sake tof these with whrem we have
intereourse, it is well for us to seek
atteh culture. Its acquirement is hot
a Mak, but the gteatest of pleasttres,
Culturedpeople are rarely drill, and
earely beeoreie hares. They alone Can
enjoy the &neat sweene 1 leisure, and
their Mind" is f3tOrad with resources.
But W4 Ding never. forget that milt:tire
alone ia net a naoral agency.
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A STORY OF SLAVBR,Y DAYS;
• By MARY J. 1101 -MES.
'ss,sset'seass:ilike,Asss,
CHAPTER XXVI.-Contimmal
Amite Could uot tell. She was not
sorry that Jimmie ehauld think of her
stars
haree ozdunide, teinntit iInlanttneniegpyt elaveheinoekthede
tearfully up at them wondering whieh
Nvas the One watched; for by the child -
int young man, andt the little buy who
died. Mrs. Carleton had. lakea it for
graated that if Jimmie came beak An-
nie would be her daughter, 0,11(1 she
eltinn tn her with a love and tender -
Ones secon4 only to what she felt for
Rose. Poor Rose! She had listened
with some degree of interest to such
portions of jiramie's letter as Annie
chose to read to her, but it had no
Power to rouse her from the state of
ahaiian iato which she had fallen. She
never entailed now, and rarely spoke ex-
cept to answer a question, but sat all
day bythe window in her own room,
and looked away to the southward,
where all her thoughts were centered.
It was very strange that nothing
could be heard of her husband excel":
that he was shot clown dead. A dozen
corroborated that fact, but his body
was any mention ever made of him in
the field, nor
had not been found on
any official accounts. Once Rose had.
been startled from her stupor by a
soldier who pretended to have seen
her husband in one of the Southerfl
prisons, but a closer examination
Proved that the man was intoxicated
and had told what he did in the hope
that money inight be given him for
the intelligence, and, then Rose sank
bank into her former condition, the
same hopeless look in her eyes NV1110h
had been there from the moment she
heard her husband's name among the
killed; and the same look of anguish up-
on her face which never relaxed. a mus-
cle as she watched indifferently the
preparations made by her mother and
Annie for an event which under oth-
er circumstances would. have stirred
every pulsation of • her heart. But
when on Christmas morning the bell
from St. Luke's was sending forth its
Joyous Peal for the ohild born in Beth-
lehem more than eighteen hundred
years ago, there came a softer, more
natural look to Rose's eyes, and. her
lip quivered a little as she said to
Annie, who was bending over her,
" What is that sound in the next
rooni like the crying of a baby ?"
"It is your baby, Rose; born last
night. Don't you remember it, -a beau-
tiful little boy, with his father's look
• nninerg and gimmie's dimple
his ohin
Annie hoped, by mentioning both the
father and Jimmie, to awaken some
interest in the. little mother, whose
eYea grew larger, and. rounder and
brighter, a -s she whispered.:
"My baby, I can't understand. It is
all so strange and mysterious. I:tow
cameIwith
ababy, Annie? Bring it
tome, please."
They brought it to her, and. laid it
in her arms, and then stood watch-
ing her as the first tokens of the
mother's love came over her face and
crept into her eyes, which gradually
began to fill with tears, until, at last,
a storna of sobs and moans, burst forth
as Reorohserioldok:ed to and. fro whisPering
to h
"Poor darling! to be born without
a father, when he would have beer, so
proud of his boy. Poor, murdered.Wiil!
Poor, fatherless baby! I am gladGod
gave you to me. I did not deserve
it. Pre been so thoughtless and wiok-
ed. but I will be better now. Dear
el
little tI
t neo babyto
g
bywe wei grow()lie day goodwherteo gpeatpha-
hen gone."
She would not let them take the
child from her. It Nv as he,rs, she said.
God had sent it to make her better
and she would have it. There was
something in the touch of its soft,
warm hands, which kept her heart
from breaking. And so they left it
with her, and frorn the tie that the
little life came to be one in the house-
hold. Rose began to amend and, in
her love for her child. forgot in part
the terrible pain in her heart. Once
her mother said to her:
"Will you call your baby, William?"
And she replied:
"No; there ia but one Willie for me,
anal he is in 'leaven. Baby will be
called for brother Jimmie"
And so one bright Sunday morning
in March, when 51: Luke's was decked
with flowers from the Matber hot-
house, and the children of the Sunday
Selanoi sang their Easter carols, Rose
Mother, in her widow's weeds, dvent
up the aisle, with her mother, Annie
and brother Tom, the latter of whom
gave her bright-eyed, beautiful boy to
the rector, whe baptized hirn " james
Carleton." And all through the con-
gregation there ran a thrill of pity
for the widowed. mother, whose face,
though it had lost some of its brilliant
color, was more, beautiful than over,
for there was shining all over it the
light of a new joy, the peace which
acmes from sins forgiven., and after
Ib' baptism was over and the morn-
ing serviee read, Rose. knelt with her
menial., brother, and Annie, to receive
for the first time, the precious sym-
bols of a Saviour's dying love.
• Rose had cettsed to ononse. Arinie in
her wish to join Mrs. Simms who was
then at Annapolis: and when Tom, e,
few days sfter the baptism, went beak
again, Annie would go with him as
a regular hospital tonne.
It might he that Jimmie would he
among the number ot skeletons sent
up to "God's land," as the poor fellow
called it; and Annie's heart throbbed
with the pleaeure it would be to min-
ister to him, to atilt the life back to
hi n heart, to aweken an interest In
him or olden times, and then, perhaps
whisper to him that the deeision made
that triooniinht night, more than a
yekr and a heti ego, had bean revok-
ed awl where she lied said no, her
answer now was yes. Betweea 11PT-
,5talf nod 11,11.3 Carleton there hail been
a long taIle, of whieh Jimmie and the
little Promo{ girl were the enhjeets,
and the proem lady had asked forgive-
neen for the wrong done to that girl,
if wrong there tvere.
"Something tella me yen will find
my boy," aha said, " and if you do, hal
him bray freely I give hint ibis little
Lelia arid God Ideas you bath 1"
aokeles later, end, news came
to the Mather House that When the
llatlie of the Wildeinese was over
a ,
'-aPtaiti Tom Carleton was not with
hie heedful of men wbo °twee from the
field. "A prisoner of war," was the
,nexi rePert, and then, as if her last-
hoPe had beea taken from her, Mrs.
Carletun broke down entirely, and, se-
cluding herself from the world with-
out,sat down in Ler desolation mourn-
ing- and praying for her two boys -
ens a Prisoner iu Aedersonvitle, and
°Ile in Columbia.
CLIAPTER X. XVII.
The sun was just rising, and. his red
beanas gilded the summits of the Al-
legheny Mountains watea in the
glory- of the early morning seemed as
oadni and peaceful as if their lofty
• heights had never looked, down watnal
soones of carnage and strife, or
their tangled passes and dark ravines
sheltered poor, starving, frightened
wretches, fleeing for their lives, and
braving death in any foein rather
than be recaptured by their mereile,es
pursuers. There were several of these
miserable men hiding in the moun-
tain passes now, prisoners escaPadfrorn
Salisbury and other points, but our
story now has to do with bat one, and
that a young man, with a, look of de-
termination in his eye, and. the cour-
age of a Samson in his heart. Be had
suffered incredible hardships since the
day of his capture. Ile had been strip-
ped. at once of his handsome uniform
by the brutal Texans, whofound him
upon the field. His gold, which he car-
ried about his person into every bat-
tle, had been ta.leen from hirn, and m
this condition he had been sent from
dim prison to another, until Salisbury
received. him. At first be had suffered
but little mentally, for the ball
which struck him down'Inia left him
with his reason impaired, and to hirn
it was all the same whether friend:,
or to had him in keeping. DePrive"
of everything which could mark his
rank as an officer., and always insist-
ing that his name was "Rose," he
passed for a demented creature, whom
the brutal soldiery delighted to tor-
ment. Gradually, however, his reason
came back, and he woke to the full
horrors of his condition. Then, like a
caged lion he chafed and fumed, an
resolved to lie free. He nould not die
there, knowing that 'far away there
wan a blithesome little woman wait-
ing for his coming, if, indeed, she had.
not ceased. to think of him as among
the living -a state of things which he
thought very probable, as he became
aware of the fact that no one of his
companions was acimainted with his
by which he was known, and the proud
thatasehaivrearaedmee
real natrae. Rose was the only cognomen
jesting lips around him. A horrid SUit
vuetrtyer e dti Tye tithe's cljaaerasred,
of dirty grey had been given him in
Place of the stolea aniform, and though
at first he rebelled against the filthy
garments, he began ere long to think
how they might aid hina in his esoaPe,
inasmuch as they were the garb of
the Confederates. Day and night he
studied the best means of escape, un-
til at last the attempt was xnad.e and
he stood one dark, rainy night, out on
the, highway a free man, breathing the
pure breath of heaven, and ready to.
sell his life at any cost rather than
go back again to the prison he had.
left He haaaput histrust in God, and
God had raised him up a friend at once.
who had seen him leave the pnison,
and. greatly aided him in his escape,
just as he had. aid.ed others, knowing
the while that by so doing he was
Putting his own life in jeopardy. But
a staunch Unionist at heart, he was
willing to brave everything for the
cause, and it was through his instru-
mentality and minute directions that
Will Mather had finally reached the
shelter of the mountains which sep-
arate North Carolina from Tennessee.
P1 e had found friends all along the
route, true, loyal men, who had per-
iled their lives for him; brave, tender
women, whose hands had ministered so
kindly to his wants, and who had so
cheerfully divided. with him their scan -
meals, even though hunger was
written upontheir thin, haggard f aco,
and stared in their sunken eyes. And
Will had taken down each name, and
registered a vow that if ever he reaeh-
ea the North, these noble self-denying
people should be rewarded, and if pos-
sible removed from a neighborhood
where they suffered so much from pri-
vation and. froni the hands of their
former friends, who, suspecting their
sentiments, heaped upon them. every
possible, abuse. Ragged, bareheaded,
footsore and worn, he came- at last,
at the close,of a June day, to thwerta
trance of a cave in the hills
to which he had been direct-
ed., and where, on the damp
earth, he slept so soundly from fatigue
and exhaustion that the morning
sun was shirting through the entrance
to the cave, and. it. robin, on a shrub
growing near, was trilling its morning
song ere he woke. The air, though
damp from the water which trickled
through the roeks, was close and stif-
ling, and Will crept cautiously out
from his hiding -place, and sitting
down upon the ground drank in the
beauty and silliness of the summer
morning, Exactly where he was he did
not know, but he felt. certain that his
face was Loward the land where the
Stars and Stripes were -waving, and a
thrill of joy ran through hie veins as
he thought of home and Rose, whine
eyes bY this time had grown so dim
with Looking for him, "God take me
safely to her," he whispered, evhe,n up
the moutitain side clone the sound of
loud voices and the tramp of feet.
Creeping to the fartheat side of the
cave, and crawling down bencath the
shelving rock where the awl waters
Were dripping he hoped, to avoid being
eeen. (Sp to this moment Will s cour-
age had never flagged, but now, when
the Federal Hiles were riot many mule
aevay, and Rose aria borne seemed eat -
lain, he felt a great partg of fear, and
his -white lips whispered, "God pity
me! God help me, God save me, rue hia
own glory, if riot for .13,0se's sake,"
thee, knee-deep hi the pool of water,
he stood witi his body nearly doable,
while the voiees and the fe,et came
TIMBE
nearer, ad at last stopped directly in
froat a his hiding Owe.
There were terrible oaths ouleide,
and bitter denunciations were breathed
against any luadees Union men nho
ai bei i!near 01 tlie111:itroteirotoeeeev0%N
‘oca:lusav111
ulell'S back was against the silting
i1et
Did;tt:1k1oa0f:theeaN:0ni
• i1eee1nt10tnn11 tolt'
would they find hire? Will kept Ask-
ing tthe i..1111ai,midn:meele4e-hglaasiFilitl-bnagegilYtic°zslkistaii°han'8:1,:tivaInco
exi-
trance to Inc hiding place eves the
bitterest in Inc inweetives against the
ilii-4e11,Mk.ectemalledtnt6
ibnginiollal;ItisIlxi'v%itew and
lengaage indicated both education arid
poellion superior to his companions,
who evidently looked up to him as
their leader, calling him "Square,"
and acquieseing readily wheal, after tile
lapse of ten or fifteen minutes, he sug-
gested that they go higher up ibe
mountain to a gorge where some of
the fugtives had ,hereinfore taken
refuge.
Five minutes more and the foot-
St8p$ and voices were heard far up the
mountain, and Will breathed more
freely again, and kneeling down in the
Pool of water, thanked God who haa
turaed the danger aside, and kept him
a little longer. Ile did not dare leave
the cave, but he came out from under
the rock, and stretching himself upon
the ground tried to wring and dry
4thpeon tiici.
trterswhich hung so loosely
rt was two days since he had tasted.
food, and the hang fast began to make
itself felt in the keen pangs, of hung-
er. Surely he could lveriture out to-
ward the close of the day, he thought,
and see if there were not berries grow-
ing in the ledges, and when the sun was
setting he crawled to the mouth of
• the cavern, where just in the best place
forbihtiraof lo lay a huge corn -cake
and slice of bacon, wrapped, nicely in
a
How it °ante there he did not stop
to ask. That it was, there was suf-
ficient for him then, and never had the
costliest dinner, served on massive
silver, tasted to him half so well as
exleirdn,tbhrae.tadb.it of bacon with the coarse
Refreshe&1 and encouraged he Wellt:
back to his hiding -place, intending to
start again on his perilous journey
when the mountain path grew dark
enough • to warrant Jahn in doing so.
But soon after the sunsetting a fear-
ful storm came up, and in the pitchy
darkness of the cave Will listened to
the bellowing thunder roaring through
the mountain gorges, and saw from
the opening the forked lightning which
struck more than one tall tree near
the place of his concealment. Fed by
Love and war.
the rain which had fallen in torrents,
the stream under the projecting rock
was beginning to rise and spread itself
over the surface of the cave. It was
• up to his ankles now, and it roe so
rapidly that Will was thinking of
leaving the cave and groping his
way as w -ell as he could- to the west-
ward, when his quick ear caught the
sound as of two or more persons COM -
Lag steelthily up the mountain Side.
• Whoever they were they seemed to
move with the utmast caution, and
Will's heart beat high as he hoped it
was some brother fugitives seeking the
shelter of the cave. The gleana of a
lantern, however, and the aortae voice
he had heard in the morning cursing
the Yankees so bitterly dispelled that
illusion, and in a tremor of terror he
drew back in his evatery quarters,
crawling in the darkness to the far-
thest end of the cavern, and feeling
the rising water flow over his knees
as he waited for what migait come
next.
"Stay here, Charlie, while I go in.
I know he must be here, and if he
isn't drowned by this time it's just
a special Providence, that's all I have
to say."
Surely that was no unfriendly voice,
notwithstandint the oaths of the morn-
ing, but still Will did not move until
the stranger who evidently knew
every turn and nook of the cavern,
was so near to him that the light
from the dark lantern fell full upon
his face and betrayed him at once.
There was a thought of Rose, and the
freenom hehad almost regained, and
then forgetting the friendly tones, 'Will
gave a low, bitter moan, and stretch-
ing out his hands said. imploringly,
"Kill me here as well as anywhere,
and let the eustense be ended."
"'Kill you my boy?" and the strang-
er spoke cheerily as he bent over poor
Will mad rubbed his clammy hands,
the farm -houses in New England.
There was a light shining front the
windows, an woMati's brisk step
-was heard as they went toward the
door; Paul ',tavern!, emighing to
n
give
warning of Ille aPProaol
(To be Contlaued),
LUCK IN LOTTERIES,
SOU10 S(V3111ge FAII`111,114:e.
011. Fort Irtekle
iartune i$ never 5'.)caPrioions 55
when she is turning a lottery -wheel;
and a -whole library might be written
of the strange pranks she has p151' -
ed with those who have wooed her in
tine guise, She Was in a strangely
„capricious meted when it pleased. her
to convert. a Dublin shop assistant in-
to a man of fortuue aad, the founder
of a noble family, eays London Tit -
Bits.
Ltike Wlaite, the father of the first
Lord, Annaly, was a poor Manxman,
who had drifted to Dublin to serve
behind the counter of ai bookseller's
ehop. In the hope of adding to his
scanty 'earnings he bought a number
of lottery tickets for sale, but found
himself unable to dispose of them all.
AL the last moment he decideS to send
the unsold tickets to Belfast, in the
hope of finding a, better market there,
but when the coaeh had been. a day on
its journey he received a letter inform-
ing him. that the despised tickets had
won valuable prizes,
Although the news came in the
dead. of night, Luke White got up im-
mediately, saddled a horse, and raced
madly in chase of tile coach. He rode
through the night and the evhole 91
the following day, and overtpok the
coach within a few miles of Belfast."
He rescued the bundle of tickets, and
returning horae, exchanged them for
prizes of the value of 20,000.
5'ortune was less kind to Charles
Rotter, a tobacconist of Chicago; who
purchased a lottery ticket: last year.
Rotter thought so lightly of his pros-
hPeot tojefkwinningaanpyi jtt
t:ihinogthfuaut
t he gaveoa
iset,iaa
friend, Joseph Dost, as
A BIRTHDAY PRESENT.
On the very day on -which he parted
with the "ticket, its number was an-
nounced. as having won a prize of
£3,000. Rotter felt the blow of his
misfortune so keenly that he died from
heart disease, from which he had suf-
fered for sonae time, on the following
day
An amusing story is told Of a
ed trick trick which fortune played, a short
time ago, on a lady. The lady and her
husband, who Were traveling, called
at the shop of a country. draper to
make a few purcheses. They were about
to leave the shop, when an attractive
bonnet arrested the lady's attention,
and she induseed hen husband to buy
it for her.
When it came to payment, however,
the husband. found to his dismay that
he had not sufficient money to pay
for it. In tine dilemma he offered the
draper an eighth -share ticket in a
German lottery which he had in his
purse, and finally induced Wm to ac-
cept -it in part payment. A few days
later, the lady learned, to her disgust
• that the lottery ticket had won an
eighth of Z15,000; and that her "dar-
ling bonnet" had thus cost her the
record prioe of nearly 1:1,900.
It was a happy inspiration tha,t
Sempted. a young Lieutenant on the
Italian battleship Lepanto to turn his
attention to the Spanish Christmas lot-
tery a couple of years ago. The ship
was cruising off the coast of Spain,
and it occurred to the Lieutenant to
ind.uce all onboard, from Captain to
cabin boy, to join in purchasing alot-
tery ticket. The ticket was bought,
and, to the delight of all, ev-o -for-
tunate enough to win the
FIRST PRIZE of S:35,000,
which- was divided among the lucky
owners oil Christmas day. '‘ '
A very curious piece of good. fortune
'fell last year to the lot of a poor wi-
dow who kept a small shop in a sub-
urb of Berlin. One evening as she was
What should I kill you for? I've had serving a ciastomer, a workingman
my eyes on you ever since yesterday; stepped into the shop and begged per-
eve/1111g, when I saw you creeping 1 mission to light his pipe. Drawing a
under the brushwood, and InieW youpiece of paper from his pocket, he
were hunting for this cave. The! twisted it up, lit it at the gas jet,
`Refuge of Safety,' I call it, and it and, after lighting his pipe, threw
down the spill and walked out with a
word of thanks.
When sweeping the floor, the next
morning, the widow took up the char-
red paper, out of idle curiosity, and,
unfolding it, saw that it was a lottery
ticket, only a fraction of which had
been burnt. She folded it up, put 11
away in her pocket...and had almost
forgotten it when the result of a
large lottery drawing eaught her eye
in the paper. She than remembered
the crumpled ticket in her pocicet,
and on producing it, fotind to her
amazement and delight that the re-
jected ticket had wen a maze of R10,-
000. She claimed the prize, and al-
thongh she advertized widely for its
original owner with the intention of
sharing it with him, she has been left
mn tuadisturbect possession of her for
tune
has proved so to many a poor devil who
like yourself has taken shelter here.
I have never known one ' to fail of
reaching the happy land. when once
they got so far as this, so cheer up,
my man. Paul Haverill can swear a
string of swears about the Yanks
which will reach from here to Rich-
mond, if necessary, and then when the
hounds are thrown off the track he
can turn around and save the poor
hunted rascal's life. You are among
you friends, so corne out from this
puddle. You must be wetter than a
rat. There's a spring under the rocks,
and it riee,s in a rain so as to fill 1 he
cove sometimes. Here, Charlie, give us
that shawa his teeth are fairly chat-
tering."
Thus talking, the stranger, who had
announced himself as Paul Haverill,
led 1,17111 out to where the boy Charlie
stood, holding a bright plaid shawl in
his hand, and looking curiously at the
worn, drooping, sorry figure ertierg-
irig from the cave. It was a woman's
Shawl, Will knew, but it was very
soft and warm, and he wrapt 11 very
closely road him, for he was shak-
ing with cola, and his tattered gar -
Merits were iv -ringing wet. Vety few
words were spoken, and those in a
whisper, as they went cautiously down
the mountain until they reached what
seemed to he a road winding among
the hills. This they cud stlt follow,
but, striking into the field or pas-
tille; land beide it, kept to the right,
and at it safe distance from it, teat
some straggler might be abroad, and
meet them faec to face, Will Mather
was enough acquanited with Scant-teeti
customs not, to be surprised to find
here in the mountain wilds a sub-
etantial and even ha/Weenie-looking
hulidbng, whiela with i t 8 White irllS
and green blinds, seemed inuah like
WIDELY CONCERNED.
Does your wife Lake any interest in
locat politics?'
Yes; she always goes down tOwn
With me eleetion nights -to hear the
returns and get me hosne in good
tame.
ONE ADVANTAGE.
What is the use of looking for the
North Pole?
Why, after 1113 found it won't be ne-
cessary to send any More expeditions
to look for it.
A. CORRECTION,
Why, even now you ate stiffering from
intoxieationl,
etifferin', Murra,
I'd he-hic-perffelely happy if I-hic-
if 1 ould only afford to keep thin way.
BOlik1103
• What the Legislators Of the Country
are Doing at OttaWa.
QUESTIONS AND ANS
Mr. MoDettgall was informed by thi
Preartier that the -cost to the Dcoriinioe
treasury of the prohibition plebieeite
taken bait year was 5180,004, evith o
fow accoun Is atilt ou ts tan di no,
Mr. Kloepfer yes told by Sir Wit
fri,d, Laurier Oita the total cost et the
commission'relating to affairs bet ween
Canada' arid the Uaited Statee \Vas
515,660. One dinner eves given by the
Canadian IViinisten at Quebee at a cost
of 5108, and Ceaticla's share of the din-
ner at Washington was 5005, The
amount allowed to Mr. john Cherlton
for Jiving and travelling expenses was
$1,766. He received no personal in-
demnity,
Mr. Beattie was told by Dr. Borden
that 30,000 rifles were sold by the Gov-
ernment during Ole year 1898 for 75
cents each, The price included a,
bayonet aud 25 rounds of anamonition
Per rifle. They were aold, by tender
after being advertised in several news -
Papers, and the purehaser was Lieut. -
Col, F. Cole, of Montreal.
Mr. Sif ton, replying to Mr. Carseal-
len, said that Or, amount of his (Mt.
Sit ton's) travelling and living ex-
penses, paid by the Government, since
the first day of Jaly, 1898, till the 28th
of February, 1899, inclusive, was $945,
including $25 for cab hire. The tra-
velling and living exgenses of his pri-
vate secretary during the same ner-
iod wean 5412, including 54.50 for cab
hire. No of the expenses of ser-
vants or friends accompanying him
-were paid by the Government.
Mr. E. F. Clarke was told by Mr.
Paterson that there had been eleven
oppointmenhs to positions in th.e. To-
ronto Cuatona-house since July lath,
1896.
Mr. Foster was informed by Sir Rich-
ard Cartwright, that, as far as the Gov-
ernment could ascertain discrimina-
tory duties were imposed by Germany
upon the following Canadian products:
-Barley, 13-10 cents per bushel 48 Ihs;
beans and peas, 3 3-10 cents per bushel
60 lbs.; oats, 4 2-5 cents per bushel 34
1bs; rye and wheat, 9 7-10 cents per
bushel 60 lbs.; butter, 9-10 centa. per
Mr. Kendry was informed by Mr.
Blair that the land upon which a dam
is being constructed at Nassau was
purchased from che Beale of Commerce
for 520,000.
Mr. Clarke was told by Mr. Blair
that the department could not find any
record of any application for protection
to Dunn avenue railway crossing in
the city of Toronto.
Mr. Foster was informed by Mr. Sif-
ton that a permit lawfully granted by
the authoritio of the North-West Ter-
ritories authorized the holder to inaport
liquor into the Yukon without any fur -
thee sanction frnm the Minister of the
Interior. To prevent the possible use
of forged or fraudulent permits lists
of the permits issue'.i by the Govern-
ment of the North-West Territories
were forwarded to the officers of the
North-West Mounted Police with in-
structions to recognize only: those upon
the list. Such lists comprised all. the
permits of which the departmeat had
beci, advised. '
Col. Hughes was infornaed. by Dr.
Borden that the Fenian raid medals
might be expected some time in the
summer. The prospects were that a
long -service meclal would be issued to
the Canadian militia, but until actually
granted, he could not say what the con-
ditions would be.
SECOND READINGS.
Thi following private bills received a
second reading: -
An Act to incorporate the Canadian
Yukon Railway Conmany.--hir. Morri-
Respecting the l3ritisb Yukon Min-
ing, ,Trading, and Transportation Com -
pony. and to changet its name to the
British Yukon Railway Company. -Mr.
Finser, Guysborough.
To incorporate the Russell, Dundee,
and Grenville Counties Railway Corn -
pony. -Mr. Edwards. •
To authorize ha amalgamation of
the, Erie and Ilueo‘a Railway Company
and the Lake Erie and. Detroit River
Railway Ccrapany.--mr. McGregor.
Mr. Richardson moved ths second
reading of hie hill respecting the at-
tachmern of salaries of public: officers
anti employes of the Government. He
WaS threat eped by a ginentio
1,155 111 ie of 8015 I eat r Irma t are re
11 the United Staten
'the bill ineeieed s00011(1 .reading
Me, Bertram mowed the second read -
of his bill to amend the Trade
Mark and 1)enign Aat. Ile explained
it was a, bill to allow woricinafineina
antene to adopt a label and, regniter
it, So far as lee earaid team, nO menu-.
facturers h'aci any eabjection to the hill.
This bill wee rejeeted by the Semate
year, but he hoped that with a
year'e experience they would have
chaeged their
'Lam tall was eetiai a aecond time.
YUKON TERRITORY ACT,
Mr., McInnes introdueed a bill to
ainend 'the Yuk-on Territory Ant, ltI
exolained 'that the object was to pro-
vide. a speedy aapeot when parties
were dissatisfied with the decision of
the raining 'recorder or Gold Commis-
sioner. .
CANNIBALISM.
How VritetiCed by Irish, Float und
Fowl.
Ca.nnibalisra is a vice that has per-
meated almost ettery grade of life tbo
world over since its creation. St Is re-
markable to what extent, it is prao-
Woad among fish, animals and
sects, to say .nothing about savage
and civilized races,
It is a common oustom of the Cuban
scorpion offspring to devour the moth-
er. This occurs shortly after the birth
of the brood. The young cling to the
mother until they have
_. killed her.
The "grampus," the rare, black
Florida scorpion, devours any other of
its species it comes across.
Among the spider tribe hardly one
male in a thousand escapes the fate
of being eaten by its mate, The fe-
male spider is always much the larger
of the two, and it is she, as a rule,
who spins the big food net, and con-
structs a neatly lined nest beanie it.
There her mate goes to find her, and,
tearing a hole in the side of the nest,
enters. Sonaetimes ehe allows hara to
live unmolested for weeks or months;
but the end is always tlae same, One
clay a
DRY -SUCKED CORPSE
is all that is left, and the female goes
On as quietly alone as if such a domes-
tic tragedy had -never taken place.
itna itehme hisighaer voircdsirscaomf incrsenat.isoinioacagnh..
tWimlisatolfaramnoetrh'serhebasietn busnutat nna
sudden disanpeasanee paid -t' bUrr tahlel
of a promising litter of piglings,
butchered and eaten, by their unna-
otunreas.1 mather. Such norrible per-
formances are far more common
among domesticated animals than wild
Every sehoolboy knows how neces-
sary it is that the old buck rabbit
should never be althwed access to the
Young ones during their first few
weeks of life, while even the doe must
be carefully shut up in a dark, quiet
hutch; or aheatoo, willl develop canni-
balistic tendencies, Cats when fright-
ened have baen known to hitt and
eat tiny kittens, and at least one easean-snowe
is 011 record of a tigress, alarmed by a "'—
terrier, doing the same thing.
.The worst cannibals among purely
savage animals are undoubtedly
wolves. When pressed. by farnine, they
invariably full upon and devour any
weak member of their pack, and ev-
ery Runsian wolf hunter knows that;
when chased aoross the steppes by a
yelling horde of these ehaggy &oolong
of Lhe waste he willl be granted a re-
spite for each one he shoots while the
leaving tear the fallen one to pieces,
NOT A BONE BEHIND.
The same holds good of the savage
" " of India, the wild dogs which
hunt the jungles in packs and are ob-
jhetcniteseloff. dread even to the lordly tiger
The despised and hated jackal and
its cousin the heavy -jawed hyena aye
both to soro.e extent cannibals, and not
above snatching up and making has-
ty mouthfuls of some ev-retched young
one of their own species. Rats, too, all
over the world, turn cannibals when
pressed by hunger. '
'Fish:, are the very worst cannibale
of all. Big fie!) eat little fish, all the -
world -or, ra.ther all the seas and -riv-
ers-over, Salmon are- the most cruel
offendera. The great big fish snap up
the small ones in dozens. anti hundfeds.
So does the trout and ail the "saTmo " '
family. The peach is much geveri to
Ins inannityiciecleen, alecl by ?lies epiizkee'asnav oernapcal toy_
ity for stowing away nod. The great
al -mor -plated garfish of tropical wa-
ters, which is the origiital ancestot of
wo bait. eariek en, f his nbaatiNvV:tlealrcett ginobtbleinclear
eteilamnoleonin(e):0-itirinotg;e,narrilitee.leointiheeectoacari)jlieliejonaswonalys rethnteo_ little gars all day long.
In many parts ,of, the world snalees
cTering their salaries subject to at-
ta.chment.
Si r Wilfred 1,aurier asked ilia I. the
debate be adjourned unlit the Minister
of Justice coal(' be coneull ed. lie sym-
pathised with tbe obje.et of the bill.
Civil servants should pay their debts
the same as others, but the, bill, if
passed, should be subjeet to ecrtain se-
atrictions as to the percentage of a
man's salary whialt could be tittached
each month. The debate was ad-
journed.
Safr, Sproule Moved the seemed, rend-
ing of his bill to amend the Grirol nal
Code, 18112, with respe.ca to cornieinetions
in restraint of trade, so as to make
the bill more seriogent. The lkcs 113
it /low stand 13 makes it an offence to
combine to reetietin trade "iinduly and
unreasonably," the wards quo! ed bay-
ing been ineerted by the Senate. Mr,
Sproule contands that the effect of
these words is to rondee the Act prac-
tically tieeless, He read a consider-
able ainount of evidence in support of
this -contention, more eepecially' in
connection with the leather latiaihese,
Ile wanted the evotds "unduly arid -an-
reasonably" struck out.
Mr., Holmes apid that the petition
favor of the bill was, algae(' by all the
favor of the bill WAS signed by all the
Mr, Craig said that the so-ealled
leather coarthine merely gave it rebate
of fine per emit. to customers who
dealt with them steadily for six
Months. The Objet was not to wiise
prices, btat only to retain their trade,
are supposed to devour their young.
But this is a fallaey. It is, all (lie .
same, a fact that both the adaer, the
rattlesnake, and other serpeule give
their young shelter in theie mouths
vhen any sudden danger threatens.,
COSTLY li`oTN
Mrs. 17110 .1ik fEirn, ito of sing,
apore, is nue ied 111 a 520,000 coffie,11
was it( carat:ea with g Id a na
precieu4 stones, and was the anew cost-
ly, coffin 0Ver construct ea in the
Straights Settlement.
A SENSIBIAS PRE folo. R ENC 13,
Mra. Brown -Yes, she's engaged, And
she Once told me tinet elle. 'wouldn't:
matey the best, mon living 1
t suppose ehe'd t h-
er be happy than cenaistent.
AT T3fl:1,1 ASYLUM.
Fen -tale Attendant (sympathetically)
-That is e very saa case, The poor
creattire, actually prefers comfort lo
Visitor-Gooanessl Ancl wou°1 bbs
eVer ,reeover her reason'?
Tfili; ;WASTED IIOUR.
A !Ilan wonla be a goraa deal nior,
likely to awake to find hineeelf faconeie
if ho Were nOt se tOnd of sleepl,n;a,
lat0.
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