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The Brussels Post, 1891-5-22, Page 2LYNDON OF HIGH CLIFFE, -- AN OLD SOLDIER'S LOVE STORY, By C. Deseatin, Author of " When the Tide wee lligh," " The Artist and the Man," " Into a Larger Boon)," Eta, %to. CRAP= NIL THE VISIT TO DEEP D4,04, The maul:Hug old famo-house in the moor - laud valley uf Deep Deane, to which Mildred cod her goveteese had been invited that afternoon, was a. perfect paradise to ehintren. There \vas so moth to be seen ; the horses in their statics • the stall -fed outdo in their long feeding-s'heds, looking sleek and sleepy as they waited for their next meal oe medi- cated over the last , the piggeeies, with lit. tie ffigs 1 big pigs, ugly, but delightfully amusing ;the tiehls that were being meadow - ed end the fields that were being cut ; and the largo water -meadows in the heart of the valley, where the little herd of Alderneys, General Mackenzie's pride and pyesure, looked up at you gravely out of their deer- eyee. Ail this was familiar to Milty. On the delightful aftermon when hoe dem/ Colonel Lyndon lect hegged a holiday for her, she tasted a. new .pleaseve in seeing her paradise through the eyes of Letty, wine, on her sole, was as pleased as a effild with her new ex• periences, All the kind people at the farm made much of her. Janet led the way, showieg her everything, aud the general pulled them up now. usid then to listen to his explana- tions : and Colonel Lyadon, as genumely happy many of them, brought up the rear with Milly aud. Veronioa, making various ignorant suggestions about neer methods of THE BRUSSELS POST. suitable way of doing so. He hoped, how• ever—here his vote° changed enviously— that if there wits enyr change it would be for the better. After that Vereniert refrained from any 2 her questions, She was unusually silent that evening, and they asked her if she felt tired, and then she became feverishly gay, and talked so fast and so wildly that mild -tottered Janet was amazed. " What is it, Veronica ?" she asked. " One would think the air of 018,11100es had got into your head." Thay were alone together in Veronica's pretty elm:plug-room, to which her friend bad accomponied her to hid her good night. To Janet's amazement her light question whS answered seeiously. " Perhaps It is the moors," said Veronica, "or perhaps it is a new experience. have found out that it 11) possible fee a rich woman, and "—her fall votes broke--" one who wishes to use her riches well, to be disliked—despised." "A rich woman ! You So generous and good ELS you are—despised My dear Vent," said Janet, looking anxiously nto her ftiend's face, " are you store you feel quite well to -night?" "My wits' ars not war -idol -Mtn if that is what yon think, Janet—I believe not, at least, My clear, I have been sp died ; you all spoil me, every one of yon. Tell me a few wholesome truths. Lot me know that money aud cleverness can't do everything in this world ; ellow me to sit in sackcloth and forming—suggesttons that provoked the ashes for a little time, and repent, and per - general's deepodiested laughter, aud 80011 haps then I may be worthy ot sympathy." Lett .'s blue eyes were sparkhne and her dee te had grown rosy agaio. Rapidly did the itottes of the afternoon and the loeg tranquil availing slip away. Tea WAS sect at half -past four 111 ("0 the meadow, awl supper was spread out in the verandah at eight, when kind Mrs. Meeken- -sie, who took a motherly interest in Letty', made her sit by her side, and asked her oue or two questions about. herself asked them so kindly and tenderly, that the young girl had. no difficulty in unswering, It, waa certainly. perverse of the .cohntel. Veronica &oleo on one side of hint, ann (lettere' Mackenzie on the ether, wen., itoing their best to he centerutining, and, as a general rule, the tesk -of aniusieg him was easy enough. It was not so now. Ile neglected twies to answer questions addressed to 'dm by :Digs Broome, and when he was told by the general of his breach of good manners, he was deepl), apologetic ; but in a few moments his thought, wou'il wandering off again—" to the clonne," his friends eani, which made 1 lie hmest 01.1 soldier blusli, for he knew it was Lot fc far az the eintols t hat his thoughts Lail gone. lie was listening, in spite of himself, t thr tow -toned talk across the table, and hat great kind heart was so full of compassion and sympathy as to be complete- ly unable, Our the moment to take in any- thing else. Sapper Was neatly over, The general, indeed-, who ate largety mut slowly, when he thought it worth Ins while to eat at all had not finished his second plate of straw- berries ant) cream ; but alil/y had begged permissiou to get up from the table, and Janet had followed hee out, and Mrs. Mac- kenzie a et1 Letty were still deep in talk. "Nly dear eromen, you are raving." "No, Janet, I am only defeated, and, as it is ray fiest defeat, I don't seem to enjoy sit Good night, clean" " Dot Veronica--" " But, Janet, I will tell you nothing ; there is nothing to tell ; leave nid alone, and I shell soon get accuatoMed to my new eharacter. ho knows that I may not like myself better in it than I have erer liked myself before?" Feeling helpless and perplexed, Janet bode her friend good night, and Veronica, left atone, pace& her room to and fro, and set her peotul lips together, end it few tears, the bitterest she lad ever shed in her life, forced their wet, from under her eyelids, It wits a, new pain fvom which she Was Seffering, mud she could not submit to it. Iler spirit was up in arms ; her whole nature rebelled. Stiffer 1 Why should she suffer --she who, only a few days before, had been as free as the 'wind? 11 there -was any reason --if she had beeu bereaved, insulted, ealumuiated, wroeged, if she had even been bodily she might have set herself to endure as others endured : she niight have oounted herself a coward if she had complained, Bat there wets uo reason, none. If er paia had come she knew not whence ; it was a new pain, a humiliating pain, and sloe would not tolerate it. Putting foree upon herself, she tried to analyse her feelings. Never in all her life before load she eared in any earneel, ovay for the opinion of any one, These site loved had Moen her ; a perfectly textural course of things, in Veronica's estimation, Of the others she had said, in hoe light- heartetlness, " %Vhat does it matter they Stuldenly %-eroniva, it -ho had finished may be pleased with me or not, as it snits eating, got up, toed aeked Colonel Lyuclon themselves. To me it makes rat differenoe to go with tar as far as a little group of whatever." trees above th • lawn. There was a good I She had often, iu the clays that had gone view of toe house to be had from there, by, made a boast of her independence. She "It will take us five minutes to go, ond had counselled her more sensitire friends to Jive minetes to oome back," she said, when 10110W her example. he demurred on the plea of time, " end your " So long as you eare tor the opinion of trap cannot be put up in less time than I any one, you 'will always be in hot water," that," She spoke with a slightly imperious she had said. manner, for the had not been accustomed And now —strange saulsoerowful Nemeeis to eentradietion. It WELS only in this °eons , she had booun to care herself. She, the snored imperiousness that Veronica showed proud Veronica, who had been ready to herself the rich and emelnintlulged woman i challenge the whole world, sought humbly 'whom all the world was envying. for the favoumble judgment of one whom Her object in drawing Colonel Lyndon she had only known a few days ; noy, not only sit, hut trembled .and wept when she aside was to spook to hint about Lefty, in whom, as she had not failed to see, he took read disapproval in his eyes. Could mor- e warm 1ntetust ; but when, in obedience to her requeet, he set off to welk with her to her favorite point of view, she felt a difficulty ill enterity upon the subject, which WaS altogether new to her. thing be more foolish, more humiliating? h would not bear tn be thought of, she'said to herself, impatiently. Yes she thought and thought, and meld not sleep, and tossed to and fro upon her bed, and went over in im. ninon:ion the scenes of the day, and, though He opened. the conversatton by malting a simple remark about the beauty of she WS alone in t he darkness, felt her cheeks valley. Veronica answered him absently, flame with hurtling red as slee remembered her awkwardeess and the mistakes she had for a little conflict Wen goieg on itt her mind. She might befriend Letty without asking made. Oh she cried out in her heart, if the old Veronica, whit WELS free of spirit and Colonel Lyndon's advice, Did she reelly independent in bearing, woulci only return wish for lois advice, or was was it only that 1 an wish, and fruitless as vein 1 The she desired to recommend heraelf in his e es? It was the first time the rwaaa old, old woe of humanity had touched her and not all her high. spirits, nor her friends, nor the flatteries (het were poured out before het continually, nor lier wealth, had she heaped it up round her like a fortress, could have power to draw the sting from her heart. ero BE coxmotroons.) ••• ITBWMUNDLAND TROUJ3LE. The aegtsinture ovtio rasa a Roil Eartiming the Mottos layout 1. eromon, had ever wished. to monument' herself particularly to any one, and she could not altogeffier understand her feelings. "Colonel Lyndon," she eaid abruptly, "I want to speak to yon—to ask your ad. vice. The fact is"—so far 13,0 she could judge of his expression, he loolced surprised —"I can't get that poor tittle thing, Lolly Morrison,.out of my head, I want to help her. How is it to be done?" A curious feeling of annoyance swept ore; the colonel's mind 'as Veronica asked him this question, Not being able to answer it after the offhand manner ill which it was put —it fashion which was the reault of em• barressment, and not, en he might hove thought, of want of feeling—he was silent, and she went on hurriedly, "I am deb, end I should like to use roy rwhes in making other people happy. She le a deer, modest little creature, and she has interested 2110--" "But I don't know," interrupted the colonel, " that Mies Mortieon wants any- thing done for her at present." The colour flamed to Veronica's face ; tohe wished she had loft Letty antl her affairs alone ; but, being so far engagetl, sloe vsas bound to go on. "011 1 I know the is emnfortillile with the Winstanleys, she sant hotly, " but there , neighbourhood of Dtmolly, % Montt, hie may be changes even amougst there, and worlil-famed nugget, keown as the " Wel- they will not want a governess for ever. come Stra»get," was found by two diggers What ebonld like would. be to make the named John Deason and Richard Oates. It poor child's future secure, I eouhl de it so ' 11,1114 mating on red stiff clay in a looee gravel- easily—settle 801ne money mem her, ly loam, and WW1 lamely covered with earth, something of the sort, A fewthougands aro ' and Waft fleet brought to light by the wheel nothing to nee." of the peddlers' cart turnmg it up. The It was fat from Veronica's intention to ' nugget measured 21n1 in length by 1 0111 boast of her wealth ; she only wished tho thloknems ancl though mixed with questa eolonel to underetand that she Was sincere the great body of it was solid gold. The her offer of assistance, mod that what lucky fielders took their Meager° immediate - might seem fan testicle another WaS perfect. ly simple in her, The colonel read bor ail. A. strange gray of superstition tomes erently, and he answered with an irrospon. from a Bonffshire fishing village. A mon kyoness that cut her to the (plink, Ile did suffering from displaced heart was " mired" sot see, he said, how any . such proposal thus Lead was proonrod from throe per. mold be nutria to lVfiss Morrison. She was tons bearing the same neart0 11,0 tin! patient, proud, muljustly proud, 01 her position;and and boiled, A tade was inverted over Ids to:felt ormvineed that slut woold not wish head, and the melted load was poured on a) give it op. 'If there should later Ise eaty the bottom of it from a height The rat. change in hor life and if then Miss 13rowne tling of the motel on the wooden tub Wee oared help her; Int felt no doubt that elle believed to restore the heart to its proper would have little difileffity in finding some position. New York, May 13.—A deapatell from St, John's Newfoundland, says :—After a. conference between the two Houses of the Legislature end prolonged sittings in private, both branches decided to endorse the action of the delegates to Englend,and to carry into effect the proposals made them to the British Parliament and Government. 'Ettore was math opposition at first, but relloution showed this to be the wisest and mast hon. our/1,We nurse. A bill will bo submitted en. forcing the modes risen:di, The Champion Gold Nugget. The heaviest nugget of gold ever discover. ed was found in February, 1860, says " Col. 011155 and India," at a spot about a mile west of the small village of Moliagul, in the LAUNOIUNG• TBB SR1B A tleitday tiove 8001 la. At last, though time is never laggard in a ahiplard, lennehing day le ethand. Not that the ship is completed ; most generally a fortnight's work oughter clorte first "; but the DIVII Or le tired of waiting for her, aud the builder is willing to see her go And so the most of the carpenters and la bor. eas onset. to work getting the ways in pleco and building a Cradle under ther, laying a railwatt of heavy timbers, down which the ship may slide, ond building a frame -work to hold her as she goes. Whore the water ehottls gradually the treys may be laid on the ground for the entire distance, but in most places about the Bay of Fundy the shores are steep, and the water end of We railway must be a substantial trestle, well braced and spiked together, and 110c1 down at high tido by barrels of grevel from tho beach—something that always loolce very funny to the DOVICO. • Meantime the builder has gone or sent away to the nearest printing-offiee to have some posters printed announcing the coming event, for launching day is the ohiefest of Nova Scotia's holidays, Colored paper— green, red, or yellow—and bold type are in high favor for smell occasions, Here is the wording of such a bill : MARRIAGE ANOTBER BIG SHIP TO OLD 0.:1 8 AN sm SPENCER'S ISLAND, SATURDAY, AUG. 20, AT ABOUT Lae O'CLOC/ff. Cumberland Comety's Largest Ship will be LAUNCHED, FULL 13,11131ED AND EQUIPPED Mit Soo. Such an invitation will (Law hunareds of speetators. At tile latutel log of the bark " Argenta " Eatonville in Augusts when] WEIS present, I saw people who had driven more than thirty miles in order to see the launching. They all 111,111.0 ',11 holiday attire, old and young, parents and children, lovers and sweethearts—ell very goty, and oll very much interested. in any peculiarities or unique features about the ship, and all watching. for signs that tent indicate what her leek is to be, With handreds of oritioal and no end of misehievotts eyes upon them, the mon do tho Inst strokes of WoCk, 010E11 the Ways and the ship With a Will and a care that, exereis- ed all along, would have made tt better ship 11011 the One. The speetatora steam) everywhere. They stantl and sit on the debris alongshore • they gather in the shade of tool -house and ;lied ; they clamber up tile staging, and got lo the way of the men at. work ; a few of the yoang people in couples commonly stray: off to out.01- the was places ie the yard In a Manner that indieetes greater interest in 0011180111g other than ship -building. The foreman frets and fumes about on all sides; the builder, silent but anxious, watches the doings with hands in his pockets ; the owner, bland and stril. Mg, receives the ladies on the quarter-deck, and compliments them oe their eletrous, while they praise the new ship, and admire ,, 1 tittle]) of wheat from that country, and that teen fonr, perhams Less, become an importer the buntiug with which she is al ways decorat• ed, Finally the Bine coolies when the tiny 1-f of wheat and meat, this be true Canadians will see what au ' in the some year, at the present rate of con: su Ln m 'Mon. (' rope will have a, defitit or while 111 another set there were hesitancy in there WaS apparent f natural movement important bearing Ole situation llas on tho 1U8,000,000 of bushels of Wheat. Here is it the lines, angles in the platm of romul teens waves of the ilood-tide break over the tops of the bamols of gravel that hold down the products of this country, and theimfore the outer ways, The water will rise no higher, Pral/le'a pot forevarci by Mr. Deals ie one woethy of the attention of every Canadian polusetan, of every farmer, of every matt who has an interest in the eountey. lir. Dans sets out by showing that " The prodttctive power of the wheat fields of Europe has during the past tweuty years in- creased from 1,17(0,000,000 to 1,900,000,000 Intshols per ammo, or two per cent. ; popu- lation in tl e meantime having increased nettrly 20 per cent. In the same period Doe rye fields of Europe have shrunken more than per cent., and more rye than wheat being grown, it follows that the European supply of homegrown breadstuffs ts now less cradle grows tnatlied as the men go further than nt 1870." in, and louder email as they near tile end TIM EUROPE IS VED. MAY 22, 1891 WHEAT MUST RISE. itikd thn Earmer,i ProspectS 1100 come Brighter. -- GAN OUR NORTHWEST GROW BBXAD " FrOln all average crop Canada able spare 2,000,000 bushels, of whith about 000 0(19 roach the United Khigdom end ontinentod Europe, and it la saf0 In 3140E1111e that 0,11111(111, Will 1895 eend not more then 3,000,000 bushels to Europe, as tite population of the Domieion ie inereesing (theta too IT3pIdly 05 wheat prodeotion. , " An unfounded Imre:mom ()retails, that FOR .111.U.ILIONS 9 in Manitoba and the Canadian Northwest there exieLs Rem of unlittlited extent peouliarly ealapted to when ttt growing, Tbe tiorles; Wheat Somas Foiling ON ‘4 Lying immediately vont) of Minnesota the Itrenin•liarIng inianintion and North 'Dakota n tract extending out enemases—en Goo the united slates 001118 1011V or five degrees of longitude and win COM kkkkk Every Rotolo to lodges. less than two degrees of latitude that is adapted to the preduotion of this cereal, North of imeh limits sammer frosts area bar to profitable wheat culture, no is aridity west until the weelorn elopes of the Citseade Mountains are reached, ()aside of this diatriet, wheat -growing is euell en ware- hazardouehnshrese that no prudent man embark it, hence there has not been the t increase in the output. predicted by enthust. Ratio Canadians, Speculation has beet) the solo basis of many of the glotvieg statements put forth in relation to the Bedtime extent and fertility of this dietriot. " In British Columbia tho Paoilio Coast is washed by the waters of a warm equatorial element, rendering the elimate mini and equable, and makmg it possible to extend Wheat culture far northward. The soil is fertile and this district will ultimately adal largely to the world's supply, yet additions from this source will be slow, as these rich lands are inostly covered, with an immense forest growth, the removal of which will be a task for more than 031C generation." TIEN UNITED STATES Wil EAT FIELDS, Mr. Davis next goem into the wheat peoduetion and exportation of the United States, and ho ohms thett the limit of wheat production in that country has been reached, as all the good land has been taken up and it large and ever-inerettsing (Duvall), of land hitherto devoted to the cultivation of wheat is being employed for the production of other staples of a, more preamble charm:ter, and especially is this the case of land stun rounding largo contrea of population. For melons to minister to their comfort, and 1,11 the hve years from 1 880-4 the average year - abundance to spare rue the gratifieu (too of 1 1 y production was 493,000,000 of bushels and the amount of tiliport of that production 00011 higher needs 'and longings as are the 160,000,000 of bushels. 10or the last five common heritage of dm rece. " It is hardly possible to conceive oe years the annual prodeetion teas 435,000,000 bushels and the annual aveinge exportution save the changes, material and intellectual, 1 18,000,000 bushels. In the last five yeats which will attend, an advance of 50 pel omit the shrinkage of production hes been 8.4 pt r in the returns from the labor of the fermer atin such advance fe likely to be a hundred cent. and in export (Mee 40 per eeuti. rather than fifty 'ler cent. ' Ala Davie next.goes on to show that willo the probable rtse ie. the prim of wheat there 'Elio above remarkable quotation is froni will not be an extension of the acreage set Ito article in the May number of The Arena, magazine of a somewhat ratlieal oloaraeter aPattfar its cultivation in the United States, as it will be foutol that more money can be published in Boston. The wviter is C. inane out of other growths. From Olio re• Wood Davis, a nlan W110 1108 made for him - view of the main wheet-peoducing countries self a reputation as a statistician and writer on political mod economic subjects equal to titat of Edward Atkinson. The article in question is headed, " The wheat supply of Europe and Americus" and the burden of it is to show that the =punt of wheat in whore ehe censumption of bret Win exceed America for export is yearly falling, 'while I the production of wheat, and therefore cause the increase in population on this continent ja saah that hat," tem America woo „at (Laterally lemmas° in the value'of wheat and have 0.11C bushel of grain or one peand of I a law" standard ot living resorted to by will consume everything she grows, and as meat for sale abroad, In other words, she i large etionbers of people. Mr. Davis puts the year 1 894 as the time far US the United Stotes is concerned that when the growth of population in the United I States wallop such as to preclude the expor- countr v • " Stich change is impending, and cannot be postponed beyond. 1 895, unlees populetion shall muse to immense, or the aVerap stand- ard of living shall be reduced greatly ; and with shot t crops it may ewer a yeer or two earlier, and when this inevitable ohange mines, the era of theap.broad and world- wide agricultural depreseion will end, and the prom of wheat and all ether farm pro. duets reach a higher level than that knoveit during and immediately after the American Civil War ; and with tile advent of such prisms tlte many millions of people employed or supported on the farms of lam United SUttes, now buying so little of the produote of shop, mill anti faotory, willhave the means of increasing then purchases many fold, giving business of kinds an impetus not known si»ce the close of sneh period of high prices, and cause au activity in the exchange of products the younger half of the businese comintmity has little conception of ; and home markets 141 then absorb an immense volume of wares, giving artison, professional man, transporter, trader, miner ond manu- facturer ample and reinuneretive employ- ment, infusing new life into commercial, fintuicial, social, literary and artistic circles, Such will lie some •of the restate flowing from 0, great Merease in the purchasing 'pewee ot an immense agricultural popula- tion. " This may be considered all Optithistie Vir3W, Lint it will Ise but the nattiral sequence of converting a. great and impoverished rum) populotton iuto ono having ample hf r. Davis is thus enabled to ehowthati Glom is o falling off in the production of wheat i lucancl whit+ the clerk s. and a steady inCreaSe in the number of con- " Taki„g the teepee in my hand I looked emoting population, and that therefore at a et the signature for not min e than one min- vety oozy peeled a potat will be reached ute. Ynn wrote Butt, mut that,' I said, indicating three of the signatures, and your eleek wrot the rest.' 1.140 lawyer ad- mitted the cerreetness (tf my, austver, and expressed groat surprise et its readiness end aceeraey, aed asked how I had determiued it. ex plaimil Gott in looking down the page I observed that the writing of one elass of 11011100 Wei entirely homogeneous. In its thine, shadet, grace of line, and all, ABOUT RAND W.RITIR G, 11 Evpert Espinins now gees It ge to Tel; elnittc trout Eheeme• A profession wlindi is old and honored ono, Mt which has not. 3'03.301VOLI distinguish- ed recognition until reeently, Is that tar handwriting expert. This kind of testimony 1101V 0111.1.188 10010 weight: with judge and jut:yawn than It (lid 80(110 years ago, by Gm manner in which the tettionont, is given. The expert nowadays does mit ask the court and jury to except his private opinion ote to the genuinencss of a signature, but produees moll proofs of the emotes which have made him re tee the 00118100011 by means of dia. grams, photographs, ete., as to lettve no della in theie minda. "Every petwon," Said D. T. Amos, the hunous hentlwrtting expert, the other clay, has peculiar characterieties, and no two handwritings are exactly alike, Pereonali. thee enter as 11111011 int° a man's penmanship as in his daily intercourse wlth friends or aequeintances. The forgets for instance, eau not know his own habits or control his own hand so as to set it aside entirely at will. More will power can have little effect on the formatiou of letters, end 09011, although lie tray try, the skillful forger cannot wholly hide his own individuality. Forgeries ere more frognently maned to a single sigma - lure. The forger has the advantage of having before him a copy npou which he nuty preo- Bee until be has attained enough skill to reproduce it, or he nuts, make tise of the various mechanical means for seeming a (tor - root outline by whittle be will be guided in reproducing his copy. Where the former method is employed there is usmilly fatal leek of accuracy Eta to form, The other method usually leaves signs of the slow and hesitating MCV0111011 required for , carefully following aci outline, also several retouches of the shaded lines, which when extunined ender a microscope aro at 01100 apparent. Forgeries thss made may generally be de- monstrated Om the very character of the work without any reference whatever to the general signature. " An amusing instence of Lim detection of this class of simulations ocenered in my own experience some time since when called to a eertidu Inw office for the purpose of examin- ing a eo»testect will, The junior member of the firm took occasion to speak disparaging. ly of expert examinatione of writing, saying that a clerk of his (sada copy his own eigha- taro so closely that lie WAS 3.1310U0' hiinself to deteet the difference nor clid he believe that any expert emtlil do so. I had never seen the writing of the lawyer or that of his clerk. After a few minutes the lawyer handed the a sheet of legal cap covered from top to bottom with his name, rem/Irking that a portion or the signatures had been written by himeelf and a pottion by lois clerk and reiterating his belief Goat it was beyond the power of an expert to determine 81)101 were mud a gang of stnetly young fellows wall mauls and wedges crawl under the stem end of the ship's craalle, nod begin to split out the blocks on welch the weight of the ship rests, There has been no end of chopping and poending anti clatter all along, but the click of maul and wedge is nitre, ma, and the sound Mattes the busy tougues, even stills the wail of the tired baby, for ib is a signal that announces the quick deperture of the new ship, never to return, Silent, but nervously thifting abont in their plowes, the speotators gaze at the motionitss hulk, while the " click elicit " from uncler the nt last the tops of the tall spars are seen to tremble faintly, and then, with elow bet quiekeeing speed, the glides away. Sweeping over the 'bend of the limo)), she' nuts a shining curl of foam from the crest of the wave that rises to meet her, tips ligIttly from the end of the emdle, and floats away, bowing in trentle courtesy to the throngs upon the shore.—Merper's Weekly. . Tos Many Legislators. In 1894 the Isew Brunswick Legislative Connell will be no more. Snoh Gm ex. premed wish of a majority of the Councillors themselves of whone tite meently appoint- ed heal pledged themselves., before their ap- pnintment, to the Provincial Pretnier, that atoll times they would vote foe any measure or oneasni es introduced and promoted by the government for the purpose of bringing about the abolition of the Council. Now that Now 13runswiek has made a beginning in abolishing this useless body the Globe suggests that Nova &Mao and Prince Edward Islancl, are enomnbered like manner, follow suit, and that when all the Councils have ttisappeared the three provinces slutll form a legislative mien which. shall have but one Governor, one Administration one Legislature, and on set of ollicerto, 'It says ; "It is absent that the eastern end of the Dominion should be divided into three prostitutes, oath with Ile separate paraphernalia." And really it does 8001T1 absurd that a combined population of only a little more then three-quarters of m million, or say Mut times ese many as the popelittioli of the oily of Toronto, should have ebout ono Inindren and fifty-six leg's. lours, eurnoting Cinnteillore and members of the Aeaombly, This gime a represe»ffitive, either Couneillor or Assemblyman, to less then every six thousand a ratio that would give Toronto obout thirty•six, Ontario has no reason to template of the fownese of her repreeentittives, and yet insteed of ninety, he would have about three hundred, wore he as liberally sepplied as the throe eitstern preview:4, Ovr fellow -citizens down by the gee, need have no fear of a dearth of rulers. The present number might be reduced by one.half, and still they wonld hove onongb ancl to spare. If np Adapted t the Time. A Wolf and a Lomb were drinking out of the same Pue1ing Stream, when. the Wolf angrily blurted out " 1 say, you 1 You are Rolling the Mud all up." " Lot hor roll," returned the Lamb non. cludantly. Wheteupon tho Wolf Lettped aoross the Stream and fell upon the Lainb. 'rlie Mono Creature load hardly attempted to Tear the Ltunb's Shoulder off, however, before Ids Teeth broke off Short, and fell to the Ground. "Ilith I" sand the Lamb " what a Fool you are to try your Fangs r n a Hardened old Tongh mssolf. Can't you See that I run a Spring Lamb 7" At thepresent time Ettropo requires, Me. Davis says, 1,400,000,000 bushel., ancl the sources of supply aro as follows : Average European orate 1,200,000,600 bush. Denorta from the 'United States and Canada 70,000,000 " Imports from India 80,140,0011 " Imports from all other coun- tries a 1,000,000 " Deficit 70,000,00e “ " With an averagoyield theUnited States mid Canada ean now spare some 88,000,000 bushels per arnehm, but of this 17,000,000 to 90,000,090 bushels are annually required by the 'tropical islands, Central America and Eastern .Asie, end our own needs augment' by more than 8,000,000 bushels annually, while the aree in wheat is no greater in 1800 than in 1880. very eignthertut pare raph : " To this defic t of IS0,000,000 bushele ovheat, wo must add adefiet of at least 45,000,• 000 bushels of rye, and as the United States will have ceased to supply the people of the tropics they will absorb abort t 20,000,000 bushels of the quantity assigned and hereto- fore going to Europe, too that in 1 895 it is prolonble that the worict will have to face defieit of some 930,000,000 of the INV0 prin oipal bread graine, end that thereafter such deficit will augment by, morq than 95,000,- 000 bushels per 011110103' 8,011.01,4 (1,,NA11.t (,)„,1,0 Mr. Davis gi83233 full benefit for improved methods of outtivetion, of the introduction o neov wheat fields and other such consider- ations, and therefore we tee very little rea- son for not agreeing with his deductions. We do however, take issue with him in regard to Canada's 'prospects as a wheat-produmng Country. I% e do, not.ttecept his statement that our wheat fields in the Northwest are so limited, so unoortain as he allegei. There is every prospect that Canada will be the great wheat exporting country, of the world within the next few years 'The only thing that eon lee said against our wheat fields rn. the Northwest is the liability to frost, boot wo are making headway against this by the introduotiou of new varieties of wheat, and es the country is openect up and farmers get to understand the nature of the climate and soil they will, no doubt, aucteeed nine times out of ten in reaping to large harvest. We believe, as Mr. Ihtme states in his ertiele, Gott the peolonged period of agricultural depression is alseut, over, and that the value " Of the -wheat exported from India, aver- of land and the receipts from farm production aging 33,000,000 bushels per annum, 0 te 10. will smelly augment in the—coming years, per cent, goes to countries outside ofEurope. and that the positioe of the farmer will be " The output of the wheat fields of the immensely Unproved, world in yenes of averttge yield is now clear- ly ineuffiezent to tneet current requirements, and. the geowing deficit has heretofore been met by rirawing upon reserves aommulated during the earlier port of the ninth decade ttud front the exoeedingly large crop of 1887-8, Tim approaches of the Clair Tunnel, and tho time when the current. deficit shall connecting the Grand Trunk Railway of make itself apparent in a painfol and start- unmade with its line in Michigan, will havo ling. manner depends upon the degree to a grade of 105 feet to the mile, and a sooty which such reserves have been exhausted. heavy locomotive will, consequently, be re - There eon be no question that with average (mired to /mut heavy trains np the grade. crops throughout the world .present styptics 'Foe this purpose four extra large locomotives are insufficaent, and yet prices continue be- are being built by the Baldwin Locemotives low the cost of production a.nd the aigricult Works, the her viest ever built there, and, burin popalatiolts are in an impoverished it is believed, the largest ever built in eonditioe, from WhiCli they will emerge Antal/lea. One of them, " No. 508," is tali 50011 08 tho eonsumers awaken to the fact reedy oompleted, now at Port Huron, tund that the over,abundant supply, to width in 'working ordee weighs 105,000 poneds, they have so long been accustomed has Those locomotives are of the class knOWII as ceased to exist." topic locomotives, and ham Ito tender. The The author then takes a review' of the tunks are nii both sides of the boiler, and future supply of wheat and the countries them capaeoty Is '2,000, gallons. . The space from whiell it may be drawn. Chili is an for the fuel, which ie anthracite coal, is on important wheat exportiog country, yet the tho foot -board, Thom aro five pairs Of production increases slight, and by 1 805 driving wheel% which are the only wheels, she wt1 I not have more tan 6,000,000 and they aro 50 inches in diameter. 'Pho inishels to tenni to Buropo. The Argontino wheel base 38 1 8 feet. 3 inches, The cylinders Republic at th same date will not have arc 13'2, inches in diameter and have a stroke more than 1 0,000,000 for expert. At most, of 28 inches. The boiler is of steel, 1,1 of om at the Saln0 date Australasia will not bo in. 11 thick, mid is 0 rect2 inebes in diameter. able to eontributo more than 12,000,000 There are 280 flues, 2,1, inches in diameter bushels towards the ltlitropean supply, At and 13 foot 0 inches long, Tho firebox is II ene time it was thought that India would feet long and feet wide. The cab its placed be a great sourer) of wheat supply, but there on top of the boiler and midway between is now a noticeable (teenage in the Wheat the ends, There arc two sand boxes, one on of nonage that eons LAT, end the probability the front of the boiler arid one on the is, according to Mr. Davis, a, further do- back so that sand eau bo placed on tho rails troaso and, that she will not have more than whoilier the locomotive is running forward 30,000,000 bushels for expok in 1895. OaleADSSIS W1t08.1. or backward. There is a, powerful air brake whieh enemies on each driving wheel, There aro headlights and stops at both meets, like those of a thifting.ongnie. Tim locomotive will run on 100 pound rails, In its oonipleted state tho locomotive is too heavy ler some of the bridges it will have to cross en male from the Philadelphia, shops to the tunnel,. so the cob, the tanks, side rods, and other parts will have to be balm off to lighten her weight and be shipped separately, lieavy Locomotives for the St. Glair Tunnel, As for Canada, and this is 01 groat im. portance to Canadians, Mr. Davis does not expect that she will bo able to do a greet deal in (hie direction. While we agree with his deductions o do not agree with his statement of the futuro wheat. supply of Cenetta, and hi order that we may do him no injnotice we quote his remarks in full %Moles varying in place and degree, a ddrer ent slam:and general want of homogeneous- ness, So it wag very easy to tell them apart Affairs in the Soudan The situation in the Sondan, if the latest of- ficial reports from Suakim are to he credited is one ealonlated to excite mingled feelings. On the one hand entniniseration muscle) felt for those nitheppy tribes who lastfall suffer- ed all the miseries of famine and who atil- suffer ; while on the othermattifiembion must stir the breast in that Madhism is no longer a power throughout that vaat country, and that the tribes would gladly welcome the rule of Egypt wore the disposed to extend her authority into those tegions. Ono writing on the peesent situation saye: " The tribes are thoroughly disaffeeted and in many clic. Wets say openly that the Mahdi is a, false prophet and Lloat they have been deceived." As an illustration of Dee change of feeling mentiou may ho made of the Hadendatis and other tribes near Sualtim whcatt few years ago were among the fieroent fighters under Osmon Digma. They now wtsh to be recognized by the Egyptain Gov- ernment, and none of them was among the fighters who recently sought in vain to hold Taker for Osman ng1110. By their defection Oman has lost the flower of his support, which ao long made him the terror of the esstern Soudan, and Ids complete defeat, re- cently eustained, has placed Egypt in con- trol of the entire coast region. hthes it will be seen that tile way is open for Egypt: or England to anter in and take possession of that country. That either power Will do so is not likely. It is more probable that the tribes who now realise their bondage, will be loft to effect their own deliverance by throwieg off tho yoke of Mahdism and form- ing trade relations with the outside world. No doubt by being left to themselvet they will have to suffer for then, folly in join.. ing. tho muse of a fttnatioal pretender but then/experience will be ueeftel in smiting them from repeating their fermi:fatal mistake. The Naticnal Bird, . A correspondent revives the suggestion, says the Albany Tintee, of 0141 Benjamin Ftanklin that the American wild turkey be chosen as the emblematic bird cif tliiS 00111). try, teethed of the eagle. .A. new dovioe is to be invented for our silver min, and sugges- Mons are in order, The proposal to stilititi• tote the wild torkot, is accompanied. by the argument that the bird is a geaminivorotts, innoeuougan eaffithle of toolf.defence, but never aggressi ve, cleanly in its habi bs, (1190. fled in appearance end valuable for food. and plumage. Oh the other hand, the eagle is eatrion eater, foul.smalling and filthy, of murderons propensities, solitary habite, ,and unclesirnble olutracteih, eruct and rapaei. ous Old. Ben Franklin saul, if we remember arigh t, that the eagle wits wall enough chosen for tho Roman State, which set oat to oon- quer and rob the known world, but that the petioeful end Vaillable turkey was Imre appropriato for a poople with national por- Peoles and destinies like ours. It will be re - Membered that, Louis Philippe, by the ittlyiee of Lafayette, chose the domestie cook as the emblem of the monarchy of July, rather than adopt the Napoleonic eagle, paid, a fine emblem 1110804 0118 A111840811 wold turkey is as noble and striking a .pieture as Die Gallic cook. rho discussion should be general, Nations aro judged by the UMW they exhibit quite as much 110 by tho deeds they accomplish, Quite Another Thing. Dentist (to juvenile pationt1Cottrago, boy 1 Without pluck you oan never hope to Albin the PSOSidattiSA. chair, Boy (with a liowl)-13nt what's that got to ao with si tut. ni a dental chair, anyway ?