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The Exeter Advocate, 1897-1-14, Page 7• OUR OTTAWA LETTER MR. LAURiER AND THZ MONT- REAL BANQ JET: 'gait Taken acd Anglia Len --Where Did the Money Coto Trout? ---The Bishops anti the Press--Eleerien Protests. JP'rorn Our Own Correspondent.] Ottawa; Jan, fr.--Once more , has Mr. Laurier honored the , oantry with his views on the soh ,ot question and the treaty of settlement that he, Dir. Green- way and Clifford Sifton negotiated a few weeks ago. Down in Montreal, one even- ing last week, the Premier was dined by a gnthe:r.ng of French Canadians. The Chairman was French, the speeches—or nine -tenths of stem—were in the second- ary language. After his statements to the English press Mr, Laurier had to he canefal as to what he said, but it was impossible for hint to avoid the necessity of proving to his compatriots that the Roman Catholics of Manitoba had been given more ty the liberals than they could have expected from the Conserva- tives, had they retnained In power. Let us have the Premier's own words:— "In March last, as we know, the Gov- ernment of Sir Mackenzie Bowell seat Sir Donald Smith, Mr. Dickey, and Mr. Dosjardins as commissioners to Mani tobe—to do what? To put their hands an the Shoulders of Manitoba and force the 13ove+rnmcj t of that, province oto restore. asparati schools as they existed before 180J? Not at all, 'but simply to offer a compromise. But that is not all. The compromise they offered gave the Catho- lics much less than has been granted us by the onneessions to which the Mani - tofu,. Government consented. The com- promise which ,the commission of the late Government offered and were pre- pared to accept wan much less Advanta- geous than the eoncessioua which have been made by the Government of Mani- toba." • This was plain speaking, intended to ahow that the Government's settlement of the question was such as should be hailed with joy by the French Canadians as being more satisfactory than that pro - period by the Bowell Administration. Mr. Laurier did not tell his audience why the Greenway Government, after stating that is would make no change in its school law, bad refused the mild arrange- ment proposed by the Conanrvatives'and had acoeptod the more drastic plan of adjustment suggested by the Liberals. Bub, although Mr. Laurier did not go thus far in his retrospect of the history of,'the ease, every Canadian knows right vell why Greenway sent the Conserve - t' ves empty away, and went forth to est the Liberal ambasaciors, Within bis vn cabinet council room sat the man rho dictated his action. Clifford Sifton, distrusted by Greenway and full of am- ' bition to attain a place in the Laurier ; Government, had said that the Conserva- tives must be rebuffed and the Liberals received with open arms. To Sifton the Liberals could give mush; from the Conservatives he could expect nothing, Who oan defend such a plot? The Liber- als have been making a great fuss about the action of a Cobonrg gentleman in consenting to make up to an aged civil servant a few dollars a month of super- annuation money if this civil servant resigned his office. They °ail it "con- spiracy." If that he conspiracy what was the Sifton-Laurier-Greenway plots The • personal fear of Greenway, the political cupidity of Sifton, the political needs of Laurier,were served by the School ques- tion deal. But the Prime Minister, speaking to an audience of French .Canadian Roman Catholics, went farther in his desire to convince them that he' was anxious that the Separate schools .should be established in Manitoba. He hinted at the possibility of the terms of the 'much -lauded settlement's not being car- ried out by Mr. Greenway. "The Mani- toba Government has promised," said the First Minister, "to • grant us the necessary legislation. If that legislation prove unsatisfactory, we at Ottawa still possess the right to introduce a remedial 'bill, and to pass it." Whereat the admir- ing French Canadiaus applauded uprsar- 1ously. None of the newspapermen who were present toll us in their reports how Mr. Greenway, who was a guest .at the banquet, looked' while these minatory .sentences were being pronounced. The 'possibility is that, at that particular moment. as at nine -tenths of the tiwe .consumed in speechmaking, Mr. Green- wecoked wise and wished he under- rstoFrenoh. But was it not rather an liefair advantage for. the Premier to take of his fellow-Liberal—to shake his politi- cal fist under his nose, while the threat- ened provincial premier was in happy ig- •noranoe of what Mr. Laurier was saying. Later in the evening, and, no doubt, be- , lore anybody bad translated the speech ,fur the. benefit of the Honorable Thomas, Mr. Laurier said a few words in .Eng - bah, in which he eschewed Mention of the schools at all, and fell hack on • his time-honored aspirations for a united country. None of ns have any objection to make to these wishes, but I have not- iced that when speaking to an English audience Mr. Laurier is much more ear- nest in his desire for a thoroughly united Canada than he is when addre,sing an audience of French Canadians Mr. Greenway replied and then thisgreat love feast of Liberals broke up. Tait Taken and Anguli tett. From Toronto I hear that, while Mon- treal Liberals have been fraternizing, the faithful in Toronto have had still another battle royal over the distribution of the spoils. ' Soule time ago the post of Surro- gate clerk at Toronto was thrown open by the death of Dir. Gordon Brown: Im �med•lately aa dozen or' so good Liberals 'proceeded on the warpath in pursuitof; the job. The oontest narrowed down, to two aspirants, Mears. Joseph Tait and ";Frank Anglin,the latter the son nf,a for- mer Speaker of the House of Commons. Mr. Tait, by grace of the Mowat Govern- . silent, was the minority representative ' for Toronto in the legislature for two terms. When the pity was dividedinto four constituenoles he was snowed under by. Mr. Marter, the, gentleman who, until; a short time ago led the Coneervatlyes.in 'the Legislature For'. many years Mr. "•''Talthas been a faithful hnnohman'of air. Oliver Mowat. From end to`end of the 'province be has journeyed, speaking and mro working in favor' of the I,' beret party, and, although a strong Pronibitionlet, acting as the intermediary itetween the Government and the gentlemen intereated in the liquor trade. After the defeat of the Conservative Adminisrra,ion in June last Mr. 'Tit peeked his valise and has- tened to Ottawa in search of en appoint- ment to the Senate. He was unsuocess tut, and renewed his pursuit of the Osgnude hall office. • in the meantime lilt. Anglin, who is a Roman Catholic and who possesses considerable weight in local polities, was not letting the grass grow under his feet. He secured the aid of Hon. Charles Fitzpatrick. the Solicitor - General, and telt himself sure of the appointment until one fine day last week when the Liberal papers announced that Dir. Tait had been given the office. Mr. Anglin and Mr. Anglin s friends are' in a state of tremendous indignation. They point out that for years Mr. Tait was In receipt of "acknowledgements" of his services to the Liberal party. They say that Mr. Tait is a rich roan, well into his seventh decade, while Mr. Anglin is a youn; end struggling lawyer. The truth of Dir. Honore Beaugrand's pro- phecy that his friends would be falling over each other in their desire' to get at the soup, Is being proved in Ontario as well as iu Quebec. Where Did the money Come From Clifford Sifton like young Loohinvar, has Dome out of the West, and has pro- ceeded to pnrobaso a ten thousand dollar residence in the Capital. When W'inui- peggnrs henrd of this purchase their eyes opened wide. They remembered that Mr, Sifton owed the oity some thousands of dollars Even the Winnipeg Liberal paper mentioned the fact. Let the independent paper give its view:— Ordinarily, says the Nor'wester, the private investments of public men are exempt from journalistic criticism. But -to' that salutary. rule., the, publip interests, sennatinies requires an exception to he made. It is certainly in the interest of the taxpayers of Winnipeg that the atten- tion of the City Counoll should bo directed to the investment mentioned in the despatch. The Honorable Clifford Sifton, It is to be remembered. lea debtor to the City of Winnipeg for a very con- siderable sum, which for years he has expressed his inability to pay. Mr. Sifton, some time ago, by means whish do not detract from his reputation for smart- ness,suooeaded in obtaining a loan from the *Winnipeg Sinking Fund upon secur- ity which, when it Dame to be realized upon, was found to bo practically worth- less. That loan, with interest and other charges, now amounts to some $7,000. 'rho utmost Mr. Sifton has evernonsented to do toward liquidating that indebted- ness is to offer to hand over to the olty the property is question with a small cash payment, the whole amounting to. some $2,000, in full acquittance of the city's claire against him. Needless to say, such ' an astonishingly inadequate composition has nut been accepted by the city. So Mr. Sifton has snapped his fingers at the city and will pay nothing. Under some circumstances, Mr. Clifton's conduct in thisrespeatmight be tolerated, if not condoned. Ware this, for instance, one of those boom transactions where a man has bought property that has sub= sequently depreciated in value, and, doing the best he oat] under the oiraum- stences, offers to surrender the property and all he has paid on account of it in - composition of his debt, the public nf Winnipeg, which knows what boom debts are, wnuid be disposed to take a lenient view of lir. Sifton's position. But this was no such unfortunate speculation for Mr. Sifton, whatever it may have been tor the city. Mr. Sifton received from the city nothing , of n fictitious value: his share of the transaction was to pocket a substantial sum of cold cash, If, again, Dir. Sifton presented that spectacle said to be dear to the Gods nf "an lxoneat man, struggling with ad- versity," the publio might be disposed to commisserate rather than to censure him. But Mr. Sifton Is not poor. As a private individual he had ono of the most remunerative legal praotioesIn Manitoba. As a member of the Greenway Govern- ment his riches increased in a truly surprising manner. He now ostentati- ously proclaims his affluence by purchas- ing a costly mansion to benefit his state as a member of the 1)omia1on cabinet. A journal having at heart the interest of the ratepayers of Winnipeg would be wanting in ate duty did it'fail to direct attention to the opulence of which this $10,000 investment is the evidence, and suggest that the City Council take irnmediato steps to collect the $7,000. Mr. Sifton owes it. It may be very gratifying to the struggling people of the West to know that the dignity of Manitoba is being upheld in Ottawa by the Minister of the Interior having a princely mansion Wherein to dwell: but the ratepayers of Winnipeg who find it no easy matter to meet their heavy tax bilis and pay their creditors 100 cents on the dollar, find very little consolation in the fact that all this magnificence is being paid for with their money. Every working man in the City is having to pay his share to make good the deficiency in the Sinking Fund represented by Mr. Sifton's bad debt. One further comment is also justi• liable under the circumstances. A public man h. supposed to have some sense of honor and a due regard for his promises. If be have not euoh in his personal. deal- ings, he eon seemly be expected ' Eli dis- play such in public affairs. Mr. Sifton's 810.000 investment, in view •of his finan- cial relation with the City of . Winnipeg, does notafford a favorable augury of his career as a ruler of Canada. But, alas and alack, the Nor'wester forgets, when it talks of collecting this account, that Mr. Sifton cannot be com- pelled to cash up unless he so desires. • And it is evident that Mr. Sifton would much prefer to continue as Winnipeg's exalted debtor than to pay up this seven thousand dollar bill. Mr. Siftori's'an- nual salary by a curious ooinoidanoe to just. 87.000 per. year. To the Honorable Clifford it probably seems ridiculous to ask him to pay up an entire year's earn- ings when therm is no legal means of compelling him to do so. .Toe Martin, whom Sifton supplanted, was charged with .partlsan crookedness, bus as far as personal' disregard of the teachings of the deoalogue went , Martin. was not held guilty. tits. recreant friend Sifton seems to have beaten 'liis Mende, beaten the Manitoba Government and beaten the City' of Winnipeg. Great is Clifford, Sifton. • The Bishops and the Frosts: English Canada looks with interest on the warfare being waged in the French province •.between the bishops and a section of the press. The old struggle between the Galilean and the Ultra-: xnontanb sohools seems to . be in a fair way to be renewed, Their Lnrdshipa, seem to be acting in concert, but it is incon- ceivable ;that amongst the clergy there, may not be more' liberal minded men who will understand that the hands of the 'clock cannot be put 'bank. Mr. Paoaud, tha editor of the proscribed L'Electeur'is making a strong bid for public sympathy, and is getting it, even irom those who know that for years he has been a vary unscrupulous organist of the Liberal press, Mr Panted is in luck, even though his paper hes' been block, Hated by ti,e bishops who have refused the samttments o,1 the`•ohuroh to its read ars, 'aha' bishops should go on and de- nounce Mr. Tarte's Cultivateur. Not •long ago the Cultivateur said that the dlergy were citizens who had not .the 'charge of families on their hands at.d who were not fathers of ohildrendestined to earn their bread by the sweat uf their brows. This language is quite as coo- tuxuaoions as any employed by L'Ele o ear. 'she offence or the latter paper onnsited in saving that Monsignor. Langerin had not the right to columned the Roman Cathollos ie Manitoba to attend particu- lar sohoole if they do not so desire. But the power ni Mr. Tarte has dissuaded the bishops from taking hold of his errors with a view to punishing their author As has been said before in this . corres- pondence, the subject luta no polities' aspect. We in English Canada desire t:' see the whale people enjoying the rights that are granted to them under our law. The bishops of Qaebeo, it is true, act as the spiritual superiors of thnse to whom they speak and of course their mande- ment would have no effect at all were it not that the people are content to allow them to exercise authority of this kind. Election .?infests. In June last protests were filed in this Province againat eleven Conservatives, Tbo gentlemen of the Liberal party had only one protest to fight, that against Bon, W. Paterson. In six ridings, North Perth, East Durham, East Northumber- land, East York, West Toronto, and North Grey the protests were dismissed. In three Conservative ridings, South Brant. North Ontario and East SiWcoe, the Peanut were successful and the'seaits. are vacant. "peaking of protests, that against. Mr. Hackett, a Prince Edward Island. Conservative, has been successful, The Liberal heelers who brought the ease against Mr. 1tnekett had sixty charges against him, not one of which was sus- tained, The member was unseated on the testimony of a witness who swore that one of Mr. Hackett's friends had bouamht him a drink. Mr.Haekett's coun- sel showed that this witness had twice been in jail for bribery and attempting to buy votes. Nevertheless, under the law of the land Mr. Hackett was compelled to lose his seat on the testimony of this rogue. In the general election Mr. Hac- kett was elected by n fairly large majority. in the bye election the Government wits pour money and men into the riding and will do its best to tele the seat. A Doctor's It Ily Ways. The physician look troubled. "Do you know anything about the Turners?'' he asked, at last. "Why do you want to know?" in- quired his wife. "I have met Mrs Turner a number of times, and she seems to be n very pleasant, well-bred woman, who—" "Oh, I don't care anything about that," interrupted thephysioian, quiekly. "I was thinking about Mr. 'turner's flnannial condition." "I think he pays his bills very prompt. ly.,, - "I know he doesl" exclaimed the phy- sician, impatiently. "But is ho really n wealthy man, or is he only moderately well off?" "I don't see what business that is of yours," suggested his wife. "I want to prescribe for his wife." "What's the matter with, herr' "Nothing. That's just the difficulty. She complains of a feeling of lassitude and all that, and I must humor her or lose all the family as patients." "1 don's just "Ohl uf coarse you dont. You've been a doctor's wife for ten years and you don't know anything about the pro- fession yet." `!But what effeut tan his wealth have upon your proscriptions?". "Why, the whole thing depends upon that in a aaae like this. If I have no idea what he is Worth, how am I to know whether to advise a visit to the south of France or simply a little exercise?"—Tit. Bits. An Independent Stage Driver. Eastern tourists who cannot differenti- ate between a California stage driver and en eastern coachman moot with a rude shock in the wild and woolly west, and they soon learn that the Californian is a knight of the reins several grades higher in the social scale than the menial uf the east. There is an old driver at Monterey who is determined that his patrnns shall )Hake no mistake regarding his extra status, and in a quiet way he cheeks all attempts to make a servant of him. A short time ago he was driving a party of tourists about when one querulous old lady who had annoyed him not a little by her air of superiority asked:— "My man, do you know the name of that wild flower?" "Yep," he replied, and flicked one of his leaders with his whip. She paused a moment for hire to give the name, but he merely clucked to the wheelers. "Driver, .do ',you know the name of. that flowe>:P."` she repeated, in an imper- ions tone. G "Yep; get up there. Billy.' .Again the, waited and again demand- ed:---, "Man, don't you know the name of that flower?" "Yep, g'long there, Peter" "Then why don't you tell me?" "Oh, you want to know, too, do you? That's a wild rose." "—San Francisco Pont. Wouldn't Use False Keys. The'nntion that alcohol may do good because for an instant it seems to do good, was well answered by a physician's response to a man who was too muuh given too the pleasures of the table. The man had said to the doctor:— "What do you think of the influence of alcohol on the digestion, doctor?" "I think its influence is bad," said the physician. "But a tittle whiskey taken just be- fore a meal is the Only key that will open my appetite doctor." "I don't believe in opening things with false keys," answered the dootor. This responsewas particularly applic- able, for a falsely stimulated appetite is. a sure prelude to indigestion. Up Againstlt. Riffet—That was a terrible accident. that happened to 'the air ship. Sparks --What was the trouble? "They ran into a 'Chicago cloud. "— ISife. A Lucky Thing. He -I loved you better than ydu knew. She—Sometimes we don't' know lie worst. HOW PLANTS'SPREAD. They Bove Ways or Their ONqu for Getting Over the Ground, Thee dandelion is au Old World flower not tattle,' iu A.mericu, save far to the north aud un some of the highest 'of out 'Western maulrtainS.. But Somehow, it •was brought here. perhaps from Eng. land 111 old colonial.. titles, says "Si. Nicholas." Now we' see its golden heads and 'feathery balls at every grassy roadside, this "clocks" the boys and girls blow to tell the hour. A few years ago farmers in the Northwest found a new weed, a vile, prickly weed, in their wheat fields. In a very short time this weed, the Russian thistle, has spread over wide arear of the best farm land in that part of the country. and has done great injury to the crops. How do 'these plants spread so fast and so far? They are not carried about and planted. No one would be so foolish as to sow Russian thistles. The mother plant must have ways of her own for sending her offspring abroad Into the world. Plants propa- gate themselves in two ways, from seed or from buds. Sons,+:,rites these buds are borne ou slender runners- A strawberry plant. atter it has bias- somed, begins to send out such rowHers, . with buds, unfolding tufts of. leaves, along them. These tufts are at first connected with the parent plant, but later the runners between break away, and each tuft becomes a new plant. Many grasses, like Ber- muda grass and the troublesome quick or couch grass, have creeping stems, each point sending out a bunch of roots•bcilow and a. bud on the upper side. If you try to hoe up such grasses, you only make matters worse, for each point when out off is ready to form an independent plant. Such grasses spread very fast, and soon take possession of the land they get into, PASTIMES OF ROYALTY, Iiow Some Queens and Empresses Emnloy Their Leisure Bloruents, The Belgian Queen and Austrian Empress in former days employed their leisure moments with "breaking in ' pet ponies; but of late the Belgian Queen has preferred the study of litera- ture, and the Austrian Empress of Greek. The Dowager -Empress of Rus- sia and the Princess of Wales have mates ' entirely in common; both are devoted to art embroidery, painting in water colors and are wonderful adepts at millinery. The Queen of Servia, while indulg- ing in all the luxuries due to her rank, eschews a soft bed and the tempting down pillow. She • sleeps on a hard divan, with a hard and unyielding mattress, andivitbout the•vestige of a head rest. The consequence is that her figure is perfect, and the carriage of her head stately and natural. The royal family of Servia has never been permitted as children to indulge in a pillow, consequently the absence is no deprivation to the beautiful Queen. Don't Give Up. Sorrow casae to you yesterday and emptied your home. Your first ini- pulse now is to give up and sit down in despair amid. the wrecks of your hopes. But you dare not do it. You are in the line of battle, and the crisis is at hand. To falter a moment would be to imperil some holy interest. Other lives would be harmed by your paus- ing. Holy interests would suffer, should your hands be folded, You mustuot linger even to indulge your grief. Sorrows are but incidents in life, and must not interrupt us. We must leave them behind, while we press on to the things that are before. Then God has so ordered, too, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to brood . over our sor- rows. the darkness deepens about us and creeps into our heart, and our strength changes to weakness. But if we turn away from the gloom, and take, up the tasks and duties to which God calls us, the light will come again and we shall grow stronger. "When all our hopes are gone, 'Tis well our hands must still keep toiling on For others' sake; For strength to bear is found in duty done; And be is blessed, indeed, who learns to make The joy of others cure his own heart- ache-" —J. R. Miller, D.D. 'Cheerful Girls. Good and healthy girls are.almost al- ways cheerful. No novelist would consider} his youthful heroine complete if a "ringing laugh" were omitted from the list of her charms; and in real life the girls who do not laugh now and then are seldom trusted -or liked ` by their. companions. Even beauty will not save tl•iem. A belle who fails to understand the jest of her admirers and smiles in amiable bewilderment while other people are laughing is soon left with no consolation save to wonder what anybody can see in her rival—a girl with "tip -tilted" nose,perhaps, and a lame mouth and freckles, but the Happy possessor of a pair of merry eyes and a cheerful mind, The gift of gayety is indeed of great value; but it must be gayety which originates in a kind and cheery heart, not that which is born of mere excitement of gratified vanity. Joining the Church. Joining the church is in one sense a very small affair, It makes no differ- ence whatever iffer-encewhatever in your life in one sense. It is simply the open confession of what you already believe in your soul. .In anothersense itis of the utmost 'im- portance. It means the open alliance of your life's powers with those whom you believe to be battling on the right nide in 'this great moral conflict. It means that your 'influence with men shall be for the right.—Rev. J. P. Eg- bert. WHY HIS WIFE DIDN'T OBJECT. nerves Wasn't Doing Any 'Worrying dont Could Stay Out Ail, Night, "Really, boys, I have to quit," said the man with the biggest stack of chips in front of hien as he. gathered its tate other jack pot. "Olt: coxae off, that's net square," declared the biggest loser. ,.5; ht• ?" "You've got all the chips. .Aren't you going to give the rest of us a show ?,: "That's not it. You' know I don't care for your money, blit--" "You're getting; it." "Maybe I am. But 1 really oiust quit. You see, I am married. You fellows are single. It isi2 o'c:lock now; and if I don't get home I will be in a pretty mess. As it is I expect to 'find my mother-in-law and my wife wait- ing for ale, You are not married." "I axe," declared the man whose luck had just returned. "And you are going to play all night?" "If t want to." "And drink ?" "Bet your life." "Anti smoke?" „Vert." "Your wife won't say anything to you when you get home'" "Not a word." "Doesn't she object to yam• playing poker, drinking and smoking all night ?" "Oh, I don't know. I am not wor- rying about it: Stay all night'." "There; you see it's a bluff ! de- clared the biggest loser, "It's all very well for Harvey to talk about the way he has his wife trained, but I can't do it," returned the man with the biggest stack. of ohips, "but I tell,you what I will do, I'll give my ,stack if he will tel' me bow he manages it," "Done!" cried the man whose luck had turned, as he reached for them. "My wife is out of town visiting some friends,"--Chieago Times -Herald. ANIMAL HUMBUGS. Tricks of Our Friends to Obtain Favors and to Avoid Rork. inc military stables horses are known to have pretended to be lame in order to avoid g.ling to a military exercise. A chimpanzee had been fed on cake when sick. After his recovery he often feigned coughing in order to procure dainties. The cuckoo, as is 'well known, lays its eggs in. another bird's nest, and, tc make the deception surer, it takes away one of the other bird's eggs. Animals are conscious of • their deceit. as iP shown by the feet that they try to act secretly and noiselessly; they show e sense of guilt if detected; they take precautious in advance to avoid dis- covery; in some cases they manifest regret and repentance. Thus. bees which steal hesitate often before and after their exploits, as if they feared punishment. - A uaturalist describes how his monk- ey committed theft. While he pre- tended to sleep the animal regarded him with hesitation, and stopped every time his master moved or seemed on the point of awakening. The Second Marriage. "13:0w cosy you do loot:!" I could not help saying as 1 sank into an easy chair oppos to my two old friends whom 1 had not met in five years. "We are enjoying our second marri- age," answered my friend with a merry laugh. "Your second marriage!" I looked at her in amazement. 1 knew she had never married any man except the one beside her, and she has been his wife over thirty years. "You see," she continued, tucking a silvery hair neath the dainty cap, "when Will and I first married, we had only each other to think of and care for. To this day I love to think of those first two years. Then a little one came to share our affection. What with making dainty little dresses and keeping busy hands' and feet out of mischief, 1 could not always think to have my husband's slippers by the fire, or his hat and gloves in just the right place. As the years passed and our children grew, our interest was cen- tered in their welfare; we had less time to think of each other; now they are married and settled 'in homes of their own, and we have gone back just where we started._ with only each other to care for." "And do you enjoy it the same?" I asked. "More," she answered quickly; "then we had to learn each other's likes and dislikes; now we know them and can gratify each other's wishes, almost before they are spoken." I watched them during the day, and noticed how careful he was to do all little errands, to save her steps, and stow quietly she arranged everything for his comfort. When he praised the lunch her eyes brightened, : just as I imaginethey did in those first years. We lingered long at the table, chatting of old times and old friends. His voice was as strong, and his laugh was as hearty and fresh as years ago, while she had lost none of her peculiar powers of entertaining. •1 wondered then, and many times since, why there could not be many more such second marriages. Why, as the years pass instead of drifting apart, husbands and wives could not be drawn more closely together, help- ing .and cheering each other in their declining years, until they. pass over the river and sit down to the marriage supper of the Lamb. , What the Doctor Said. "Husband, what did the doctor say about me ?" - "Iie said that you must give up re- ligion and take to drink." "What?" "Well, he sa ldou y must stop -doing so much churchwork and take a tonic." UNEQUAL ANATOMY. 'Strange Differences i tl,e EYe•s a.! Ulhei!!" •.. flirts rat the Body. Some curious features are noted in the inequality in size and influence of oorieicponding parts of the I t uman body, says an exchange. The ears on the same head are, probably- More alike than any other of: the t,vin organs of the body. Nevertheless, they vary as regards thickness, length; shape and position most remarkably in different: individuals, If the eitr, However, ort one side is delicate in, size and .contour, the other will be the same,, While if the one looks like a dried fig the other. duplicates it in form and color. But with the eye it is different, 'l o say nothing of the fact that one eye•is gen- erally moreopen than the other, all. oculists agree that the eaten where the seeing power of the two are equal the same head are very rare. Usually men use the right eye the most.. Watchmakers, engravers, ' "microsco-- pists and mariners using the telescope apply their right eve to the instrument and generally overwork that organ. There is no good reason why both eyes should not be equally strong, but they are not. Tailors agree that the right shoulder is almost always lower than the left. This they account for by the universal habit men have of resting the left elbow on the desk while writ- ing, and to the equally prevalent prac- tice of those who carry heavy burdens resting them on the right shoulder. As regards the arms and legs, there is generally but slight difference. In the size of the hands and feet there is commonly a great variation, and, cur- iously enough, while it is the right hand that is generally bigger, it is the left foot that often requires a larger sized boot or shoe. Glovemakers give the proportion of large right hands as 900 to 1000, which, by the way, ap- proximates to the proportion of right handed persons in the community. The size of the band is generally increased by labor. If ladies are to be trusted as to the size of the gloves they wear, the human hand has grown smaller within the last twenty or thirty years. But glovers tell a difierent story. They confess to snaking all ladies' gloves a half size smaller than they really are. This, 'they say, is because ladies al- most invariably ask for a size smaller glove than they should wear. There is nearly always a difference in the size of the hands. This is sa ♦narked that the glove that fits the right hand wilt wrinkle on the left, looking in feet, too large. The leit foot, as a rule, is the larger. While the right hand and arm are generally better developed and stronger, the op- posite leg corresponds in those partic- ulars, It is found that in athletic persons the advantage of strength is often with the left foot, That is the. foot we habitually stand upon, and it is the left foci that leads off in the walking. A maxi uses the left foot most on the bicycle, and even more so in mounting a. horse. While the con- stant use of the right hand is a ntattet of training (monkeys use both equally; the more frequent use of the left foot would seem to be a general habit, hence that foot is in many cases the stronger, Je A Smart Arithmetic Man. A Chinaman flied, leaving his pro- perty by will to his three sons as fol- lows : "To F uenhtten, the oldest, one- half thereof ; to Nupin., his second sou, one-third thereof, and to Ding -bat, his youngest, one -ninth thereof," When the property was inventor ied it was found to consist of nothing more nor Iess than seventeen elephants, and it puzzled these three heirs how to divide the property aecording to the terms of the will without chopping up seventeen elephants, and thereby ser- iously impairing their value. Finally they applied to a wise neighbor, Suen- punk for advice. Suenpunk had an elephant of his own. He drove it into the yard with the seventeen, and said : "Now, we will suppose that your father left these eighteen elephants ; Fuen-huen, take your half and de- part." So Fuen-huen took nine ele- phants and went his way. "A.ow, Nu -pin," said the wise man, "take your third and go." So Nu -pin took six elephants and traveled. "Now, Ding -bat," said the wise man, "take your ninth and begone." So Ding -bat took two elephants and vamoosed. Then Suen-punk took his ' own elephant and drove him home again. Query: Was the property divided according to the terms of the will? A Hare Stone' Bunted for Lina. "While up near the Point of Rocks, Frederick County, Md., some days ago," said a prominent geologist, "1 visited the quarry from which the stone that constitute the famous pillars in the old hall of the House of Represen- tatives, otherwise known as the National Statuary Hall, was quarried. The stone is known to geologists as breccia, though the common name is 'pudding stone,' from its peculiar formation. It is a limestone conglom- erate, though uoarly a true marble. Itis a handsome as well as a remark- ably interestin formation to geolo- gists as well a, to others. • Strange to say; however, there is no demand for it, though it is easily sawed into slabs for table covers. etc. "The day I was there I saw great quantities of it broken, up and thrown into kilns and burned into: Iime. It make% a very desirable lime, and par- ticularly for a• fertilizer. What made me feel sad was that this wonder of the World, 'for it is found nowhere else in the world in such perfection, cannot be turned into other uses. It .seems a pity to have to burn it into lime, when there are any quantity of limestone that will do so well for such uses, though there is but one such a find o2 breccia in this wide world." An Object Lesson, TeacherNow, if L take yoL}r slain pencil, what can 1 do with it? Little Boy -You can turl your hair.