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wroto ft poem Ogee, in the hey -(lay et 3,',0
And waited joky/olly, its priattd form to Bean,
It is not miblished,yet, anti 'tie the soleinn truth,
That 1 em now unitised, aged loan,
wrote a little sone about the "good, red
And all the cheer wend, "the bops's. loanaue
edge,'P
AO they kindly printed this dritlkillg Bong of 11111lQ,
Upon the very (lay 1 signed the pledge,
1 wrote i sonnet, toe, 'twas iLl1 Of wild despair,
Of lilighted hope, and love and joy that ilew
awfq,
Ana other dismal things,—I vied have torn my hair,
To see it published on my wedding, (lay
1, wrote once of how sweet it was to live—to be,
Upon thisenilltug aerth, tat blesses for lutd wide,
Awl after many years, they sent the proof to me,
Whoa 1 1111$ thinkine solace ot sideide
tYrIO 01118 giltlY Dees (t bate to 'owe it her),
That euded and "how is thetos hash ?"
And 'twin be just my wok to have that thine wear
As MI Obituary, wheni die 1
A Matrimonial Moms
It is a curio s circumstance that while the
waiting-rooIlic
ur t 'at yodentist's is Sure to be
a cheerful ap lament, well provided With
illustrated paP rs and the current magazines,
your need of distractment before a trying
interview is never similarly recognized by
your solicitor, who leaves yon to attend his
leisure either in au outer eine°, where every
sign of agitation ox year part is noted and
enjoyed by the clerks, or at best in a
wretchedlittle ante -room • of unmitigated
dullness and dingy discomfort.
" I suppose," thought Miss Sybil Eason,
who had come to the lawyer's offico,. for tlie
first time in her life,and was struck. by the
above contrast, "1 suppose it is because
lawyers do not often have ladies to visit
them, and never' children. Do you think
Mr. Wiggins will soon be disengaged ?" she
inquired of the clerk nearest to. her. •
"1 can't say, Miss, but I shouldn't think
he would be long," he answered; civilly,
for Sybil was not only a, lady, but young
and pretty. He wondered whath,she had
come about, and why she was so nervous.
As a matter of fact, Sybil was more impa-
tient than nervous, and presently, when
she was ushered into the solicitor's room,
she had all 'her wits about her, and looked
straight and composedly into his face.
She knew him by sight well enough ; the
small, untidily -dressed figure, the clean-
shaven face, the bright eyes anclprotruding
under lip, had been familiar to her since
her childhood ; but she wanted to read be-
yond these—to find out whether he was
kind and whether he was clever.
Augustus Wiggips, however, was not a
man to be read like a book. He fondly be-
lieved, indeed, that he was the most in-
scrutable of men, and with a view to sus-
taining this character had an odd habit of
changing his manner continually. At this
moment he was the busy professional man.
"What can I do for you, madam ?" he
inquired, looking at her penetratingly over
his spectacles.
Sybil was an intelligent girl, and, taking some cash," he said.
her cue from him, straightened herself, and " Pooh ! Cash I Talk like that at your
spoke out with a reflection of his business- age! I'm ashamed of you. Chops good,
here?"
"Very fair."
" Waiteraget me a chop done to a cinder.
You know,' the lawyer explained to Lor-
rain, knowingly, "if you order a chop well
done, they'll bring it to you a little less
raw than usual; if you want it cooked, you
must say done to a cinder 1 Now tell me
more about yourself."
At the end of an amicable conversation,
the two parted with mutual friendliness,
Lorrain promising to dine with the solicitor
the following Thursday.
Obviouslythe next move was to get Dr.
Eason to bring his wife and daughter the
same day; and consent to this being ob-
tained, Wiggins felt that the battle was
half won.
He now devoted himself to arranging the
details of this dinner -party, which must be
planned from beginning to end with a view
to arousing the interest of the young people
in one another. When Thursday came, his
two servants wondered at his fussiness. As
a rule he allowed them to manage his din-
ners without interference, but on this occa-
sion not only must he inspect the Mentt and
give minute instructions about the waiting,
but he must take the arrangement of the
drawing -room furniture out of the house-
maid's hands. The piano must be put .00,
the chess -table so, this little armchair here,
that screen there, and so on all around the
room.
"What's the meaning of it all, that's
what I -want to know ?" demanded the out-
raged Jane.
"Old Miss Brown's coming ; he's going
a -courting of her," sniggered the cook—o
conviction in which she was much confirmed
when, just as the guests were expected,
Jane informed her that the niaster had ap-
peared in a new dress suit, with a flower in
his buttonhole, and a pix of " panksnay"
on his nose.
Lorrain was the first to arrive, admirably
dressed, anclwith a dash of thepatrician
about his open, Self-ptiesessecl bearing, .which
Wiggins noted With approval Disuse to im-
press .theamsephiscated Sybil. The solicitor
corftrived. very casually to drop the fact that
he expected some people of the name of
Eason, and had the satisfaction of seeing a
look of keen interest dart into Lorrain's ex -
your youth and. beauty. Let your .father preseiye face. • ., . •
come and give inc ,instructions,, anti I will "Living in Morley S uare?" the young
MenttitMOSSOIMMOMMIMMIAINIMOOMalliftil
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"Now that's a sweet' little' maid," Said night," was given inga low, slightly con.
thelaWyer to himself, when, he:lia* watehed str deed yoiee.
her dealt Staire, l'0,114 I would like to save During the next few weeks, the' young
her fortarie from lin& Lorrain.' Ile's' nutn, really thoroughly hi love, went ahead
bard man." like a eteam-engine helped by the peny
The afternoon lya,s. daeaving to a close, pushes of a ehild, who imagilies at is deing
and presently Me. Wiggine, etill thinking all the worla—Wiggine, it need not be Said
over the Lorraio case, put on his shabby,old being the child.
hat and prepared to leave the aloe. Sybil was bewildered by the frequency
. As be passed , mashie the door of an inner with which ehe met the son of her father's
room, where ho wished to deposit some tie, opponent, bat Mr, Lorrain alweys looked so
pers, snddeu thonght struck him. ye -Sy surprised to see her, that she weld not
"Hugh Lorrain hada son I" he exclahned, for tnerrient sespect him of cemplicity,
and then he stopped, put his ecigie. to. his All this time, though beth knew well
noee and made a calculation.
enough that a, law -suit wee pending be-
" butt girl Wes still a, little thing when 1 tween their parents, the question was never
left Morley Square, and in those days I used broached between them. Sybil bad a repu-
te visit at Hagh Lorrain's and we his boy tation for plengingheadlong bite any etas -
Bartle, Who was at Eton, He must be six ject rather then manitain. a constaained sil-
or oven end: twenty, now. Who was the once upon it, but ou tide matter a new shy -
king who planned. 0+ match to stave off the nese kept ker silent; while Lorrain, who
Minty Years' 'War? Well, Why not Wig- was moving heaven and earth to persuade
gins, to nip a lawsuit ip the laid ? James his father to resign his claim, and had ap
was ,a barigiar, and, West ; but Wiggins far signally failed, nattirally avoided a topic
len% and won't.' , likely to raise hostility.
The scheme fascinated him. It not onlY At ast the day MA fiXed for the trial to
offered scope . for the display., of all those coma on, and, then Dertie marehed into
gifts of tact aOci diplomacy niacin which he Wiggine' office, looking the piethre of de -
piqued himself, bat roused an old-fashioned spew. .
Chivalry in ,hie, breast: , "Kindly remember that lam solicitor for
' "It is to be done," he told himself, "but the other side, and avoid that subject," said
I must be as wily as 'Ulysses, as patient as the lawyer severel.
—as Penelope."
s "Oh,- hang it!"said Lorrain, "I'm not
„The heat day ]m. Eason, a nervous man, going to discuss the case. I only want to
withe thin, fair' face and deprecating man- say that it's a sin and a shame, and if I had
ner, called and gave -him uot only all the in- a voice in the matter I'd withdraw the
formation in Ins Possessien; but full instruc- ulaim on our side and apologize humbly for
Cons to aetfOr him. The mere 'Wiggins en. ever having made it."
.tered into the case, the more doubtful be " That statement, made te me by your
became as to his client's chance of winning father through his solicithr, would be inter -
it, and the more closely he hugged the 110' eating and valuable ; 'from you it is Mere
tion of bringing about a match between waste of words."
Bartle Lorrain and Sybil. " Wiggins, don't get on the stilts," :add
As a first mosie he found out that] the Lorrain impatiently. "You ought to see
young man was at present in an architeot's what a fix I'm in.'
office in Ilioomsbury, and, important de- "You are taking up rny time, sir," re-
tail, usually lunched at a certain reetenrant marked Wiggins significantly. •
in the neighborhood. Thither at lunch
tinte the very next day old Wiggins betook
himeelf, and then ,glancing around, he per-
ceived his young' friend at a table close at
hand, and immediately posses& d himself of
the seat opposite to him.
"Well, Bertie Lorrain, its a long while
since I tumbled across you," he observed,
feigning what he considered just the right
amount, and no more, of sturise.
"Mr. Wiggins, as I live ! he returned,
shaking hands cordially ; "and looking not
a day older."
"Can't say the same of you, my boy.
You have grown into the man ahout town,
since I last saw you. What are you doing?"
"Oh, grinding in an architect's office
near here."
"Married, engaged, or going
aid Wiggins.
"Bravo ! that sounds sensible. No wo-
man worth having, eh ?"
Lorrain laughed. He was a pleasant -
looking young fellow, with the frankest im-
aginable manner.
"That's what I mean to think till I get
like air.
"I am the daughter of Dr. Eason of
Morley Square, Bayswater," she stated,
"and wislisaa, ssk you in the first place
whether you would, under any circum-
stances, undertalse a case for him without
being sure of payment, in the event of its
being decided against him?"
"Um—that would depend on the nature
of the case," replied Mr. Wiggins, cautious-
ly. "I might, of course, be able to predict
the issue mth certainty."
"Let me tell,you," said Sybil, and then
you can judge.'
Like most ladies, she forgot sathat a law-
yer's preliminary opinion even has an ex-
change value; but Mr. Wiggins was
privately in uenced by her fresh beauty,
and encour ' ed her by a grave bow to pro -
teed. .
"It won'etake ninny words," she said,
" for I've written it all down clearly, so
as not to make a mess of it in it telling.
At this Mr. Wiggins manner underwent
a sudden transformation; open surprise and
admiration illuminated his conntenance.
"My dear young lady, what admirable
fore -thought! How I wish your example
might be followed by every client I have!
Admirable !"
His pretty visitor produced a note -book,
and proceeded to set forth, with details into
which we need not enter, how her father's
claim to a legacy of R.50,000 was being dis-
puted on account of a mere technicality, by
a certain Mr. Hugh Lorrain, of Queen's
Gate to whom the money must come if the
will were proved invalid.
" father is too poor to fight it out,"
said the girl. "He is afraid of heavy law
expenses, and would rather give every-
thing up at once. That is why I have
come to you. There are. ever so many of
us, and We want: the money dreadfully.
Why should we surrender it without a
struggle to this mean man who has not a
shadow of real right to it ?"
The girl spoke indignantly; her ayes
flashed, and she leoked so lovely that Au-
gustusAlfaSiggins quite forget his own pecun-
iary iXs.rests. s
"My dear, Mies Eason !" he exclaimed,
with quite unprofessional gallantry. "1
place myself unreservedly at the service of
do all I can for lihn." ,
"Must you see him ?" asked Sybil ladle -
may. "Won't what I've told you, do?
He is sure to decline to, accept your gener-
ous offer. Oh, Mr. Wiggins 1 ' couldn't you
make it double or quits? Let him pay you
double, I mean, if he wins, and nothing itt
all if he loses."
The solicitor's eyes twinaled at this re-
freshing Ingenuity on the part of a client.
o" Well well, he said, arrangeinents of
sore audi nature have come to before now, picture, and one that effected an abiding
but • this case your &they may set his lodgment for itself in Lorrain's mind. .
. mind atisest ; the costs woul dcertainly be As for her, she was a good deal excited at
ordered out of the ,estate. Anyhow, my being.introduced to any one of the name of
dear, most intelligent young lady, I ampaid Lorram. At first she triecl to be cool and
in advance by the honor and pleasure of reserved, but soon she unbent, reflecting
ayour visit here," that she might 'have caught the name
Sybil finished pulling up the wrists of her wrong, or he, might belong to quite another
gloves, and then looked up at ' him with a family of Lorraine. In the course of din -
smile ' nor, however, he and she flashed the ques-
" You are as nice now, Mr. Wiggins," tion back at him : Did he live in Queen's
she said, "as you used to be in IVIorley, Gate ?—upon which it momentary silence
Square, when you, always took the side of ensued, which was broken bya deft refer -
us children against oar enemy the gardea- ence on Wiggins' part to whet he had found
out to be 13ertie's hobby—namely, mot -in -
What 1" exclaimed thelawyer, regard- taineering in' the Alps, Lorrain was easily
ing her with fresh interest ; " were you one , prevailed on to hold forth on this subject,
of those dear little girls who would skip on I and Sybil, getting intenSely interested,
man asked quickly ; but before any answer
could. be given the door opened. and the
Easons were announced.
Sybil's-allowance was what girls call
slciMpas," but she had a knack of putting
On her clothes so that the poorest of them
looked -well onbor ; and as she stepped 111
now, with soft folds of Indian muslin falling
about her lissome figure, a pretty flush on.
her cheeks, and a smile on her lips for he
friend Mr. Wiggins, she made a charming
FARM, '
Feeding Young AniMalS.
All intelligent breeders end feeders admit
the importance of getting a good start on
young animals, says a waiter M the Country
Gentleman, no matter what the breed, and
holding tide, that the final results be up to
the highest stand:4rd in growth and profit,
Wants that eat freely of potatoes and other
vegetables get large abdOtrteus, and to the
extent that this is true do they keep thin
M the muscle end grow tardily. Such child-
ren suffer from cold svhen winter sets in Pict
to a degree they are Siwayfed by thieleeding
upon bulky, inuntritiouefood. The Stores:eh
of the calf, the pig, end the colt are also
small, and ,When these are distended by
coarse feed, they having to depend upon
this after weaning, the ,belly gets big slid
growth of the body in a measure stops.
After frost has nipPed: the grass it will
prove fatal to the health of the young things ,
if they be made to depend upon this kind perhaps, is owing to the extraordinary mar
of food, Frosted -
ed at all will be acted upon but slowly, Supposed that the custom of eaani-
grass has lot its nutri. riage aws of,the people.
It is
tiousnese, and that part which can be digest "aloinsin aliaSionutv xo 000n."
lei mentation will set in, the bulky stutf holism was imported from some Of the neigh.
will pass through the intestinal canetard- boring islands. The legend. goes that some
ily, and in this way we get the big abdomen. sixty years ago, after a certain battle, a
Upon this half-deadeoed fall feed the young chief, out of 'bravado, cat a portion out of
things, both calves and colts, in connection another ehief that was slain, throw it into a
with the big abdomen,' are liable to becom,e pot and ate it, When the buryinal'party
constipated, the bowels moving tardily and came and asked for the dead body, he said
the freesia being impacted and dry. From scoffingly, 4 I have eaten. it." This joke led
the moment this condition sets in the flesh
begins to shrink, and in place of the young
animal being on the road to sucoessfnl fit.
ting for winter, it is traveling away from it.
BSIBESPOSShisOitiMOSIIIIMMOtikaleMISSIOVIMM
BOILED "LONG PIG."
LATE DOMINION NEWS.
A New Guinea cannibai Declares cooked ."
114" "1
P"" " 8° 44°°d''' many fromOttawat8ttistie•aclitsliti4otSiciocitrArcit4 cboet!inigti efish
ipcd
'rho Rev. Mr. Chambers, who for
ua oil
years Jule been a missionary in New Guinea,
give to the Pall Mail Gazette representa,t- The Lieence and Police committee, of
ive a must °mushy, account of some recent Winnipeg, are of opinion that the Provin-
egpsgiougs aggongAge gannibai4, fgg it sem, Oat OCIVer,l111101t should establleh it Ref011134.•
CailllibtaS and non-casmibals ase sandwiehed tory for :Boys.. '
together very indiscrimhattely, „ Mr. Chang Mr, Simon Rennid, of Franklin, Que., in, '
hers paid a, visit to a very presperus race of digging his white Belgian earSote found six
these gentlemen at::Bald-head Point, which which weighed twenty-four pounds, the '
is in the centre of the sage producing eoun-, largest weighing 4 pounds and the highest , '-
try. It is also abundantly supplied with 312 pounds.
pigs, and a few miles up the river are kan-
garoos and cassowaries. An account of this , Twelve men are to be indicted for the OS- •
sanit on .Mayor Malhsot, of Three Hisers,
visit will be told 1»a book which Mr. Chem.
bore lias in hand, but I may mention one or and for three of the accused, Hamel, May- •
Lti,Wwoo fmaactne.aiei‘1,eeer tblieeepays of Helen of Troy 11(1' mia Michand, whom the Magistrate
cause /Jou. As is has decided were the ringleadese in the s •
slot, bail will net be accepted. .
was io Troy, so it is in New Guinea. A wo-
men is generally the cause of the inter-trib. Last week the Saved Army barracks at
.confliets which are ever raging. This, Reblin was destroyed by fire, and almost at :
the same moment theirbarracks at Davies'
Corners suffered destruction in the same
way. Inceudiarism is suspected in comiee- '
don with both conflagrations.
After a recent fire in Lucknow a number
of poises s soaked through and:tine-Ugh with
whiskey went through the streets of the
village singing and shOutiog, and smashing
doors and windows. No arrests' have been
made, however, and it has not been shown
where the rowdies obtained the liquor.
to reprisals, and the custom spread to the. • A great slaughter of geese. is reported
mainland. However that rimy he, "long from Beaver Lake in the North-West. Two
pig" is a favorite plate in a State menu. "1 men, named Fraser have killed .1,000 aiia are
found," saidMr. Chanters, "these eannibals having theni cared as dry meat for winter
of Baldhead 'Point are the most agreeable use. any Other porkies have killed from
• When -calves are found to be bloating up
in the fall; having been changed from milk,
and -perhaps a ration of gruel .twice
the bowels being captive as stated, the cioaxse
dry food will become inspected in the third
stomach, ancl in many cases no prompt and
sufficient relief can be had until the harden -
"Then you may as well listentome. Don't ed mass is diluted, which can only be done
you understand that I'm dead set on marry- by using the pump provided for such cases.
ng Sybil Eason, and that whichever we.Y By pumping in an abundance of water the
the ease is settled m done for? If we svin hazdened mass becomes softened and. will
she will simply loathe me, and if they win be encouraged to pass out, little by little,
how can I make up to a girl who'll have as it is softened and mixed with the water,
such a pot of money? Speak up, sir—what which had better be used warin. By diseolV-
am I to do ?" ing a quarter of it pound of epsom salts in
Speak up yourself," said Wiggins, the water a laxative effect may follow when
the mass reaches the bowels.
Now, to escape all this is easy. How to
do this? Simply by feeding concentrated
nutritious.foo ,. seeing to It that the bulk
" Wiggins put on Ids spectacles and look -
shortly.
" To her, do you mean ? Now? My
word, if I dared? Do you think she'd let
me" •
is in keeping with the cavity into which it
ed the young man up and down without a,
word.
Lorrain positively blushed at the implied
compliment.
"Seriously,do you think I might? Oh,
goes, leaving space therein for the stomach
to act upon the contained mass, as in this
way the damming up of the passage is pre-
vented. A large proportion of nutriment
must be contained in the given bulk of the
Wiggins, what on aastfully good fellow Pr.ni food given to young animals of any species,
are! I say, how do you think the case will 1 as the natural tendency is to grow fast—
go ?" 'this only being possible upon the use of
"Your question, Mr. Lorrain, is impro- food ih every way calculated to meet the
per to the last degree. Kindly leave my ;wants of the developing body. This must
office." be easy of digestion and easy to be assirailat-
Lorrain walked out very soberly and hail-
ed a hansom. ed, else we get upon our hands that worst of
"Now or never," he said to himself, as he all entailments in stock-growing—stunted
growth.
directed the cabman to Morley Square.
Once more luck favored him; Sybil was
sauntering round the square alone. Bertie
joined her, and presently—she hardly knew
the gravel and send the little stones all over
the grass ?"
" Yes," replied Sybil ; "and you always
told the man to let Us enjoy ourselves, mid,
sennetimes you turned the rope and counted
for us "
"So I did, so I did," said Wiggins, nod• ,
ding bus head. "Dear MO 1 you've grown of the acquaintence. ,
up very quickly, "1 shall allow myself the pleasure then,
,
li
. "Ah, I'm the eldest girl," remarked Sy- Miss Eason, of sending you the book we
• bil, laughing, " and that, in a large family, have been tenting 1,1sont, ' Wiggins heard
s.
ie an ageing circumstance. Good bye, Mr. him say, as the Banns rose to go. He was
Wiggins. I tun sere I don't know how to leaking very straight into the girl's face
thank you."
Timely Suggestions.
how—she found herself sitting on a bench An excellent feed for swine to begin the
with him standing in front of her. fattening process is cooked potatoes with
He wes quite simple and direct. buckwheat, whole or ground, thrown in
" Sybil, ' he said, "your father and mine while the potatoes are hot. After standing
are fighting this case, and next week it will long enough th cool the mixture may be fed
be decided ; if for us, you will hate me: if freely with no risk of cloying, provided a
for you, I can't play the part of a fortune- little care be exercised in the first few clays
hunter. So let me say now that all I want to see that only as much is given as may be
eaten clean.
in this world is you for a wife, and tell me,
Sybil—will you give Inc what I want?" I A writer in the Dakota Farmer says that
was equally simple, but had not so a few months since he visited a dairyman in
muchSyb
Sybil s0,5, .
'New York, who had for years kept good
"1 don' know whether I know you well :common cows. Four years ago he bought
enough," she faltered, glancing up at him a fine pure-bred Holstein bull and crossed
and down again, "but I think—I think. I upon his cows. Last year his two-year-old
do." i heifers gave double the quantity of milk his
And therewith she glanced up again with c'c'mulcin cows did.
a happy smile and told herself of course she I Knowing the benefit fromharrovring spring
did. Was he not everything a man should grain after it came up we once tried the
bo? , same plan on winter wheat in the fall. The
Dr. Eason took Mr. Wiggin's word for it result was not satisfactory. Undoubtedly
that this engagement was an excellent thing, the harrowing caused increased growth at
but old Hugh Lorrain was furious for days. ; the time, but it also made the soil more
Then Bertie made a solemn appeal to him, norous, and leveled the surface by breaking
and in the end the old man, actuated partly uown the ridges made by the drill and
by affection for his son, partly by a not un- which helped protect the grain. The wheat
founded anxiety as to the result of the trials evidently winter -killed worse for the ham -
consented to agree to a compromise. This "wing'
Dr. Eason had always signified his readiness 1 A large crop of potatoes takes from the
to enter into, and filially, after endless con- soil nearly one hundred pounds of potash
sultations, a division of the money was ef- Per acre. Few soils will stand this drain
fected which, while leaving Dr. Eason prin- and therefore the yield deelines. The pota-
cipal legatee, settled a large sum on the to crop is universally sold from the farm,
and it leaves less refine as manure than any
young people.
Wiggms was not so jubilant as might ' other. Potato tops should be brought to
have been expected. True, his great scheme the barnyard to be worked into the manure
had succeeded admirably, and his repute- heap. Though not bulky they contain cou-
tion for diplomacy was recognised all round; siderable fertilizing material. Left in the
but, on the other hand, he hact become field they will be blown into fence corners in
andthus be lost.
deeply interested in the case itself; and so , winter,
convinced of his ability to establish Dr. I Next swing many farmers will complain
Eason's claim, that the compromise patched about their seed corn, because they will not
up at the last minute seemed to snatch a select it at time of husking, or before. There
second, even sweeter cup of triumph from is plenty now if it be saved properly. Pick
his lips. 1 up the best ears, strip the husks; except a
It was not till the wedding -day arrived few required for braiding then braid in
strings and ingt dry placewhere there is free
that his self-satisfaction regained undivided
circulation of air.
supremacy. On that occasion his calm con-
sciousness of sagacity, benevolence, and
power over his fello-w-men made his manner
grand. Everybody credited him with hay- 111 Caloutta,
mg been the manager of this affair, and for In the tropical climate of India a laudable
once in Ids life he had his fill, or almost his common sense regulates the costume. . It
fill, of deference and respect. would be extremely uncomfortable to wear
Privately Lorrian whispered to Sybil, a dress-suitOf broadcloth at a party. Gentle -
with the 'basest ingratitude, ".You know, men, therefore, who dine, say with the Vice-
alls , old Wiggins really had to do with it roy, appear in the reception room infull even -
was the origsnal introduction. After that ing dress, but, beforeentering the banquet
I didn't need any egging on ;
quite forgot to. coney by her manner how
she hated him.
After dinner Wiggins put forth all his
power ft8 a strategist, and made it turpris-
ihgli, easy for LOrrain not only to see great
deal of Sybil ie. the course of the evening,
bet th provide safely ' further development
fellows in the world. We got on remark- 50 to 100 each, and a, local merchitot named
ablyell " John Brown.is reported to have killed 200
"Then you were not afraid of being' put inlour days.
into the pot yourself ?" .
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Joseph .Godfrey, a young married man of
" Not a bit of it: I went so far as to ask'
them if they had any such intentions. The Talbotville, disappeared the other night..
chief, with a smile (not a hungry one), said He left a note in bis bed stating that he
that they slid not care for white man. They
wife to whom he had been married but a
would not return. He leaves behind him a
had tried him but he was list good's Of
course they might prefer white man to no year and who is about to become a mother.
with a neighhor. .
She is almost destitute and is now residing
man at all ; but as a matter of fact, 'long
pig' orgies are few and far between. They
are like plum -pudding at Christmas --very Mr. Charles Warren, of Alumette' Island,
good ono a year." owns a turkey which, in the month of June,
IN TER SCULLERIES. 'laid a nest of eggs and hatched them out,
"These cannibals, are really a fine set of and the youngturkeys were given to another
men, both intellectually and physically - turkey. She again , resumed flaying,
superior to many of the coastal tribes. ' and brought out a second brood ,of turkeys.
Their houses and temples are very remark- When the last turkeys were two weeks
able structures. I was allowed to visit one ' old she again resuined laying for the third
of the temples, and a veryremarkable place I time, ancl has laid one egg every day since.
human flesh are conducted. When a 1 A daughter of Mr. Joseph Griffith, of St.
it was. It is here that the saturnalias of
num-
ber of bodies are taken, they are broualit Thomas, took a black-and-tanterrier named
into the temple one by one. At the encY of Tuck belonging -to her father, to Brantford
the temple is it dark recess, and into this with her a few weeks ago,. but he was soon,
each body is taken. After the obsequies the missed at Brantford, and in a few days after -
body is dragged out into the open, the head his departure he turned up a little the .
is carefully chopped off, and the body is cut worse of wear but in apparent good spirits.
up into pieces and put in the pot for dinner. at his home in' St. Thomas. Whether he,
The flesh on the skullis then very carefully beat his way home by train or crossed the,
taken off until the skull is clean. The hide. fields for a short cut has not been determins
ous trophy is handed over to it skilled arti- sci•
ficer, who carves and paints it. It is then 1 The payment of the Treaty money to
hung up on a peg in the temple. It happen- the Indians at Whitefish Lake and Lac la
ed that these skulls had been taken clown Biche has been postponed, on account of
for their annual dusting, or I should not epidemic of measles. Numbers of Indians
haye been able to make such a close inspec- have died, and many are sick. At last ac -
have found out the way anyhow."
. love would
1 hallthey repair to an adjacent apartment, and.
I change their heavy claw -hammer or swallow-
" But I shall never forget that Mr. Wig- tail dress -coats for white linen jackets, so
gins thought of it and smoothed it," said that the guests present an appearance not
Sybil warmly. "I'm going to he grateful unlike that of the waiters in some IA our
to, him all my life." . I restaurants, This arrangement may not be
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strickingly picturesque, but it is sensible and
Weather for November, 1886, I comfortable. Owing to the geniality of the
attests—for the most part English officers—
In November there will be eonsiderable .otel life in Calcutta, is very pleasant. The
cool, raw weather, though there will be curriculum through which the British arm
some 'pleasant weather scattered. through Officers must pass and in which they are ex-
• the month, It will not be as pleasant it amined, ensures 'their being scholars, and,
month as November of last year. In the with very few exceptions, they are gentle -
greater part of the country the temperature inens Hence; there are no more pleasant
will aSrerage considerably cooler than tt did parties than their mess dinners. The officers
in the seine month last year. •Though in of Eng.lish regiments in India receive both
some quarters we think it will be it trifle !British and Indian pay, and most of thein
warmer than 'it was then. • having also private means of their own, are
There will be . considerable st"mY thus enabled to live in good style. Indeed.
.weather in mit of the country, thongli the ,in the three great cities of British India—
amount of raintall svill not be excessive, ex- catietitat, madras, and
, Bombay — thesociety
' t in a few places in the East and South. i '-'
ceP , of military officers, their wives and families,
In, portiona of Hie West andtgNorthsvest I may be said tsi be the best. At the table,
there will not be as much rain as is needed ,
d'hote of the hotels there is little restraint,
th , and the guests epeak to one another as they
for t he wells,,. though the 'endue , of e
ground. Will generally have plenty. ' would at it private table.
On the Pacific coast theta) Will. generally t •
be plenty of rain, though it will rt be as 1 , ---, -see. •-• ,s---
exce.ssive there as it was in :athe, Is
•
year, Bobby "Mn, you doretwant me to play
with iieked boys ; do you ?" Mother
tion of the sculleries."
The Man who Has Gone to the Pole.
counts the sickness had reached Lesser Slave
Lake, and many were sick and dying there.
Measles are particularly fatal to the Indians
and Halfbreeds, on account of their habits
Col. Gilder, who started for the North of life and the constant exposure to which
Pole by way Of Winnipeg a while ago, was they are subjected.
at last accounts nearing Fort Churchill, on, -
Hudson Bay, where he hoped to find the I A young man engaged by Mr. Lobsinger,
Eskimos who sometimes visit that trading , Carlshue th assist at making cider, was to
post. These are the Chesterfield Inlet na- receive twenty-five cents a day and his
tives who accompanined Lieut. Schwatka th board in compensation for labor performed.
King William Land. Gilder lived among :One evening the young man did not par.
them for many months, and he expects th :take of any supper, the reason assigned
enlist some of them in his service before he ;being that he had eaten so many apples and
starts on his formidable undertaking next' ,drunk so much cider that he was much
spring. Upon their superior ability as 'full," and demanded from his employer ten
.Arctic travellers he relies larsely for the cents, the value laid upon the meal which
success of his enterprises, and without their he had missed. His demand was not
cooperation he cannot attempt the journey. 1 granted.
If Col. Gilder succeeds in piloting a I Lone Man is held a prisoner at Fort Sas-
party of Eskimos into regions where they katchewan for being party to the murder of
see no certainty of ample food supplies, he IVIcIvor on the South Saskatchewan during
will do what other explorers have tried to the rebellion. Sand Fly, another Indian, was
do and failed. Lieut. Stoney says in the also engaged in the killing. Lone Man de -
report filet published of his two years' work dares he gave himself up th Governor
in Alaska, that one party which he started Devsdney, and that the White Beard forgave
overland to the .Arctic Ocean was compelled him for killing McIvor, a story which is
to give up the journey because their Eski- regarded questionable. Lone Man is not
mos, seeing poor prospects of game ahead, pleased with his position in the guard room,
refused th go on. It was with the greatest ancl recently was detected trying to pick
difficulty that Lockwood persuaded his the lock of his shackles with a bent nail.
Eskimos dog driver to accompany him on
his famous trip, though they were well sup- Workmen engaged in clearing away logs
plied with food. Lieut. Greely says his at the False Creek, B. C., found. a human
Eskimos could not understand the purpose skeleton with the bead imbedded in the
roots of a tree. The remains are believed
to be those of a negro, and it is supposed
they were buried many years ago, as the
tree was between twenty and thirty years
old. Terrible crimes were of frequent oc-
currence in this district about a quarter of
a century ago, and it is pt esumed that the
negro was the victim of foul play, and that
the crime has remained hidden for all these
years.
"No' indeed, Bobby," Bobby : " Well, if
A conthigent of the Salvation Army has one little boy kicks another little boy, isn't
-invaded Winnipeg. I it. wicked for him to kick him back ?"
In it reont 'hunt of confidence young • Mother : "Yes, Bobby, very wicked."
Benedict said that there was one thing about Bobby : " Then I don't play with Tommy
his wife that he didn't like. Wheii pressed White any snore. He's to wicked. I
for an explanation he replied that it Wag her kicked him this morning, end he kicked' me
back."
and „her " Thank yOtl very much, good mother.
of exploration, dreaded fieldwork, and were
driven along with the sledges only by prom-
ises of large presents.
In the two attempts made by Dr. Bessels
of the Polaris th reach Humboldt Glacier
from Lifeboat Cove, he was defeated by the
refusal of the natives to keep on with him
after they had reached hummocky ice. Dr.
Hays said that when he started up Smith
Sound, where Col. Gilder proposes to lead
his Eskimos, the natives were puzzled to un-
derstand the object of his journey, and th1c1
him they never thousght of entering that
region except to catch -bears, and then only
when in danger of starving.
When Sohwatka, and Gilder made their
brillant clash to King William Land the
Eskimos with them travelled over their
well-known hunting grounds, where game
was in abundance. it may not be so easy to
induce the native to enter the vast reigon
south of SmithSound, where game is scarce
and no human beings live. The opinion has
been expressed that Col. Gilder will never
return from Ids adventuresome journey. It
seems more probable that he will not be
called upon to meet any very serious clan-
ger, ownig to inability th induce the Eski-
mos to face the perils and the arduous toils
Of the journey he proposes.
A correspondent writes that in a gem -
Ming saloon in Moscow the walls and ceil-
ing were covered with paper on which stars
were stamped. Among tbe stars in the
'ceiling boles were cut, and it manlying on
the floor in the room above saw the hands
of those playing cards and telegraphedthem,
by means of wires connected with his shoes,
to his confederate.
Mr. Gladstone denies any. intention of
taking a pensioU of 510,000. Ile declares
his disapproval of political pensions, but
does not deny the statements attributed to
Mrs. Gladstone that his pecuniary condition
is uncionifottable. The Natianal and Other
Liberal Chibs are puzzled as tcs Whatcourse
they can take which would be acceptable to
Mr Gladstone in placing him beyond the
chance of financial einbarrassment.
RESCUED IN MIDOCEAN.
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The Crew of a Sinking Bark' Saved by the
• Steamship Bulgaria.
A thrilling story of rescue from a sinking
ship in.midocean during a terrfic gale is told
by the survivors who reached Boston on the
steamship Bulgaria. "It was the roughest
weather that I ever experienced," said Capt.
Dakin of the rescued crew., "I have been
crossing the ocean twenty-two years and I
neverencountered such a wind. It was one
of those circular sysssnes which it was im-
possible for one to stand up' against. The
bark Antwerp left St. John, N. -B., on Sept.
9 for Tralee, Ireland. We experienced vari-
able and severe weather. The worst was
on the 30th, when. off the coast of Ireland, ,a
about latitude 51 . longitude 22 °. The
wind on that day struck us with hurricane
force and. the lee side deck load, which con-
sistect of deals, was all adrift. At 6 A. M.
on that day we had foueteen feet of water ,
in the hold, and we were obliged to throw
the deck load'over to ease the Ship. At 8
A. M. the ship was full of water, and on
her beam ends. I ordered the spars cut
away for the safety of the crei,v, and after
that we cut the fore and maintopinasts.
She then righted somewhat. At 10 A. " M.
We sighted a steamer bound westward,
which proved to be the Bulgaria. We gave
signals of distress, and she replied, that as-
sietance woulcl be giverl us as soon as the
state of the wind would permit. The 'Bul-
garia passed armind us several times, and
at 3 P. M. sent us 0 lifeboat. The weather
was such that it was necessary to make ,
connection by throwing a rope with a, life
peeservet aboard, and tliett to drag 'us
through the water to the boat. This was
done lat great risk of ,capsizing the boat.
We were all reacued—ten of 118 in all.
There were no passengers. A statement of
the facts, giving our thanks to Capt. Bary
and. the officers of the Bulgaria, had been
drawn np and signed by myself and 'the
other officers ,of the Antwerp. 'I found it
necessary to set fire t'O the Antwerp, as the
was right in the track of the ocean steamers,
and might cense trouble to others."
A large factory of Breslau required a
elffinney 54 feet in height. Instead of con-
structirig the Chimney with bricks, as ustal,
a large number of solid blocks of paper firm-
ly compressed were made use of. These
blocks wore placed carefully one on top of
the other and joined together with is special
cement. The chimney is ton -inflammable,
is very elastic, and is by the nature of the
material quite secure from lightning, which
so often plays havoc with the more ordinary
sort of factory ehitnney.
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