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The Exeter Times, 1888-4-19, Page 7ITJTTIE B FATHER, BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. CHAPTER XXVI. mann nnans LATER. "Themes something mtten in the State."—Entieilot. On an east.wincly afternoon in March Mary Nugent emerged from the Sohool of Art, her well-Wormportfolio under her arm, thinking how many succeesive generatioas of hems and girls the had drilled through "freehand," "perspective," and even "life" With an unvarying average of failure and very moderate success, and how little talent or 'originality had come to the front, though all might be the 'better for knowing how to use eyes and Angers. On theerhole her interest as well aa her il diligence d not fig; but at sense of weed. nes and in notony would uometimes come after a recurrence of well.known blunders of her pupils, aod she missed the sense of going home to refreshment and enjOyment which had MOS invigorated her. St. Am- breee's Road had had ite goblin:Inge, but the brightness had been dimmed ever since that festival at Monks Horton. One after an- other of the happy old society had drop - pod. away. The vicar had received promotion, and she wily remained 'of the former intimates, excepting old Miss Headvvorth, who was no longer a com- panion, but whom affection forbade her to desert in feeble old age. Had her thoughts of the old times oonjured up a figure being- ing to them? There was the well -brushed hat, the natty silk umbrella, the perfect fit of garments, the precise turn -out, nay, the curly lion -shaven poodle, with all his fringea, leaping on her in recognition, and there W48 that elightly French flourish of the hat, be- fore—with a bounding heart—the met the hand in an English grasp. " Miss Nugent 1" "Mr. Dutton 1" 'I thought I should meet you here!" "When did you come?" " Half an hour ago. 1 c:arne down with George Greenleaf, left my things at the Royal Hotel, and came on to look for you." "You will come and spend the evening with us ? " "If you are so good as to ask me. How is Mise Headworth?" 'Very feeble, very dear; but she will be delighted to see you. Th t i e is Lo fear of bier not remembering you, though she was quite lost when Mrs. Eeremont came in yesterday." "Mrs. Egiemont1" he repeated with a little start. "Mrs. Mark. Ah 1 we have got used to the name—the Honourable Mrs. Egremont as the community insist on calling her. What a sunny creature she is 1" "And Miss Egremont, what do y ou hear of her?" "She writes long letters, poor child. I hope shd'is fairly happy. Are you come home for good, or is this only a visit ?" "I have no intention of returning. I have been winding up my good cousin's affairs at Melbourne." Mary's heart bounded again with a sense of joy, comfort, and protection; but she did not long keep Mr. Dutton to herself, for eyeeendhird person they met gladly greeted hadand they were long in getting to St. Ambrose's Road, now dominated by a tall and beautiful spire, aceording to the origi- nal design. They turned and looked in at the pillared aisles, stained glass, and hand- some reredos. "Very different from our struggling days," said Mr. Dutton. 'Le "Yes," said 311ary. with half a sigh. "'There's the new vicar," as he passed with a civil nod. "He has three curates, and a hourse of Sisters, and wo rks the parish ex- cellently." " You don't speak as if you were inti- mate." "No. His woman kind are rather grand --quite out of our beat; and in parish work I am only an estimable excrescencse. It is very well that 1 am not wanted, for Miss Headworth requires a good deal of sttention, and it is only the old Adam that regrets the days of importance. Ah, do you see 9" They were passing Mr. Mitten's old home. On the tiny strip of lawn in front was a slender back figure, with yellow hair, under a tiny black hat, dragging about a wooden horse whereon was mounted a sturdy boy of two, also yellow -locked and in deep mourning under his Holland blouee. 'Billy -boy is riding to meet his deddyl" was merrily celled out by both mother and son before they perceived the stranger. "Mr. Dutton," said Ma y. Annaple bowed, but did not put out her band, and such a flush was on her face that Miss Nugent said, "1 am sure that b. too much for you!" . "Oh no—" she began ; but "allow me," said Alm Dutton, and before she could refuse he was galloping round and round the little lawn, the boy screaming with de- light as Monsieur raced with them. "So he is come!" she said in a low doubt- ful voice to Mary. "Yea. He has met Mr. Greenleaf in Lon- don. I always think he has the contrary to the evil eye. Whatever he takes in hand rights itself." "I'll hope so. Oh, thank you! Billy -boy, say thank you! What it ride you have had 1" "Why are they in Puch deep mourning ?" asked Mr. Dutton, atter they had parted. "Oh, did you not kuow 1 for good old Lady Ronnieglen. She had a had fall about two years ago, and never left her bed again; and this last autumn the sank away." "They have had a great deal of trouble, then. I saw the death of Canon Egre- mont in the Ti2nes soon after I went out to Australia." "Yes ; he had heart disease, and died quite suddenly. The living is given to Mr. Condamine, who married the eldest daugh- ter, and the widow it gone to live under the shadow of Redcastle Cathedral." Therdwith Miss Nugent opened her own doonAnd Miss Headworth was soon made awate of the visitor. She was greatly changed, and had the indescribable stony look that tells of paralysis; and though she knew Mr. Dutton, and was delighted to see him, his presence made her expert to see Alice and Nuttie come in, though she soon reoollecthd herself and shed a few , helplese tears. Then—in another mood—she began to display with pride and pleasure ,the photographs d "Alice's dear little boy." She had a whole series of them, from the long -clothed babe on his Sister's knee to the bright „little fellow holding drum -- a very beautiful child, wibh a striking resemblance to his mother, quite startling to Mr, Dutton, especially in the last, which was coloured, and ehowed the likeness of eyes and expreesion. "Nuttie always sends me one whenever he is taken," add the old lady. 4'Dear Natiot It is very good fa her, Sho is quite a little mother to him" "I was sure it would be so," sold Mc. Dutton es. "Yes," eaid Mary, "he is the great inter- est and delight- of her life. Her letters are full a hie little mayinge and doing's," "Ili she at home new t" "Ne ; at Brighton. Her father seem to have tatted a dislike to Beidgefield einee hie brother'e depth, lead only goes there for short time in the ehootiog season. IT0 boo taken a lease of a bourse in London, and spends most of the year 'there." " Ah I" as the thewed him the edclrees, "that ie near the old house where I SEMI tO stay with my grand -aunt. We thought it aleogether. .in the comatry then, it it is quite' abeorbed ubtv, and II have dazzling offers front building companies for the few acres of groend around it. Have you seen her ?" "Oh no ; I,leelieve she is quite necessary to her father. I only hear of leer through Lady Kirkahly, who has been very kind to her, but, I am sorry to eity , is now gone with her Lord to the East She items she thinks that responsibility has been very good for Nuttie; she is gentler and lees im- petuous, and a good deal softened by her affection for the child," "She WEIS certain to develop. I only dreaded what society her father might sur- round her with." "Lady Iiirkaidy says thet all has Mimed out better than could have been expected. You see, as she says, Mr, Egremont has been used to good women in his own family, and would not like to see leer in a slangy fast set. All her own gaities have been under lady Kirkald's wing, or that ot Mr. Wil- liam Egrernont's relations, and ,only in a quiet moderate way, Her father gets his own old set about him, and they have not been very choice but they are inostly elder- ly men, and gentlemen, and know how to behave themselves to her. Indeed, her cou- sin 131andhe, who was here in the winter, gave us to understand that Ursula knows how to take care of herself, and gets laugh- ed at as rather an old ineldish model of pro- priety, if you cen believe it of your little Nuttie." "I could quite believe in her on the de- fensive, unprotected as she is." "What did that young ' lady—Miss Blenehe—tell ue about that gentleman, Mary ?" asked Miss Headworth, hearing and uttering vt hat Miss Nugent hoped had passed unnoticed. "Oh, I think that was all gossip !" re- turned Mary, "and so I am sure did the Mark Egremonts. She said there was one of Mr. Egremont's friends, Mr. Clarence Fane, I think she called him, rather younger than the others, who, she was pleased to say, seemed smitten with Nuttie, but 1 have heard nothing more about it, and Mrs. Mark scouted the idea," she added in haste as she saw his expression vary in spite of hemself. "Do you see much of your neighbours ?" "We are both too busy to see much of one another, but we have our little talks over the wall. What a buoyant creature she is. It seems as if playfulness was really a sustain- ing power in her, helping her to get diversion out of much that others might stumble at. You know perhaps that when she ar- rived the work -people had got up a beauti- ful parasol for her, white, with a deep fringe and spray of rowan. Little Susie Gunner presented her with it, and she was very gracious and nice about it. But then what must Mr. Goodenough do but dub it the Annabelle sunshade, and blazon it, con- siderabley vulgarized, in all the railway stations, and magazines." " I know 1 I had the misfortune to see it in the station at Melbourne; and my mind misgave me from that hour." "Her husband was prepared to be very angry, but she fairly laughed him out of it, made all sorts of fun out of the affair, de- clared it her only opening to fame, and turn- ed it into a regular joke; so that indeed the Greenleafs, who were vexed at the matter, and tried to apologise, were quite perplexed in their turn, and not, at all sure that the whole concern was not being turned into ridicule." "I wonder it did not make him cut the connection!" said Mr. Dutton, muttering "1 only wish it had." "Mrs. Greenleaf is very funny about her,'' Added Mary, "proud of the Honour- able Airs. Egremont, as they insist on call- ing her, yeth t not quite pleased that e should be the junior partner's wife • and decidedly resenting her hardly going into society at all, though I really don't see how she could; for first there was the Canon's death, and then just after the boy was born came Ledy Ronnisglen's accident, and for the next year and a half there was constant attendance on her. They fitted up a room on the ground floor for her, the one opening into your drawingmoom, and there they used to sit with her. 1 used to hear them reading to her and singing to her, and they were always as merry as possible, tiniest autumn, when something brought on erysipelas and she was gone almost before they took alarm. The good little daughter was beaten clown then, really ill for a week; but if you can understand me, the shock seemed to tell on her chiefly bodily, and though she was half broken-hearted when her husband in a great fright brought me.up to see her, and say whether her sister should be sent tor, she still made fun of him, and described the im- possible advice they would bring on them- selves. I had to take care of her while he went away to the funeral in Scotland, and then I learnt indeed to like her and see how much there is in her besides laughter." "Did the old lady leave them anything?" "1 believe she had nothing to leave. Her jointure was not much, but I am sure they miss that, for Mra Egremont has parted with her nurse,and has only a little girl in her stead, driving out the perambulator often herself, to the great scandal of the Greenleafs, though she would have one be- lieve it is all for want of occupation." "Do you think they have taken any alarm?" "There's no judging from her joyous sur- face, but I have thought him looking more careworn and anxious than I liked. Mr. Dutton, don't -answer if I ought not to ask, but is it true that things aro going wrong? I know you have been seeing Mr. fAreenlead so perhaps you are in his confidence and cannot speak." "Tell me, what is known or suspected?" "Just this, that Mr. Goodenough has been the ruin of the concern. He has been quite different ever since his voyage to America. You were gone, old Mr. Greenleaf has been past attending to business ever since he had that attack, and George Green- leaf has been playing the country equire at Horton Bishop, and not lookiog atter the office work, and Mr, Egremontwars inexpern tamed. Ono could see, of courrse, that the whole character of the bnsiness was changed —Much more advertising', much more cheap and flashy work--te be even with the times, it was add, but the old superior bandit were in despair at the rnaterittle supplied to them, and the scamped work expected. You should have heard old Thorpe mourning for you, and moralising over the wickedness of title world. His 'wife told me she really thought he would go inelautholy intui if he did not leave the fluttery, eitid he ham done so, They have saved enough to set up a niee little shop at Monks Horton," "I muse go and tote them 1 Good old Thorpe 1 1 ought never to have put these poor things into the firm when I ceased to hove any eontrol over it. 1 shell never for- give myself—" Nothing °Quid them ider be I NO .one °Meld have L'Vetsed that yearig MP. Green, leaf would be eo oarelees without his father to keep him up to the mark, ;Apr that Mr. Goodenough ehould alter so much. Is it very baoodpoo__ ?R:sthere worse, behind ? Speoulation 1 ocmr09. :I.o Pet pee to thO 1)SttOrn of it yet.; poor Oeorge seemed to reckon on me for en at:loaned, but I am afraid this ie more than a mere temporary depression, such as may be tided over, and that all that can be looked to is trying to save lethour. able names by an utter break up, which may rid them of that —that—no, won't call hint a aooandrol. I thought highlY of him once, and no doubt he never realized what he Was 0.0ing." • Before the evening was far advanced Mark Iggremont knocked at the door, and courteously aeked whether Mr. Dutton could be spared to him for a little while. Mary Nugent replied that she was juth going te help Miss ELeactworth to bed, and that the parlour was at their service for a private interview, but Mark answered, "My wife is anxious to hear, She knowe all that I do, and is quite prepared to hear whatever Mr. Dutton may not OhjeOt to saying before her." ' So they bade goodmight to Mary, and went on together to the next house, Mr. Dutton saying "You have much to forgive me, Mr. Egremont; I feel as if I bad de- serted the ship just as I had induced you to embark in it," " You did not guess how ill it would to eteered without you," returned Mark, with a bigh. "Do not fear to speak out before my wife, even if we are sinking. She will hear it bravely, and smile to the last." The room which Mr. Dutton entered was not like the cabin of a sinking ship, nor, as in his own time, like the well ordered spat- ment of a bachelor of taste. Indeed, the house was a great puzzle to Monsieur, who entered by invitation, knowing his way per- fectly, thinking himself at home after all his travels, and then missing his own parti- cular mat, and sniffing round at the ferni- ture. It was of the modified resthetic dete, but arranged more with a view to corntart than anything else, and by the light of the shaded lamp and bright fire was prommiu- ender home -like, with the three chairs placod round the hearth, and bright-haird Anaemic+ rising up from the lowest with her kniteing to greet Mr. Dutton, and find a comfor cable lam for Monsieur. (To BE 007STINETJD.) .Rules of Procedure. The S. lames' Gazette, speaking of the new rules of procedure for the regulation of business in the English House of Commons, says :—"The new Rules of Procedure are more remaikable for the restriction of de- bate than for the punishment of ditorder. The rule which requires the Speaker or Chairman to order members whose conduct is grossly disorderly to withdraw immedi- ately from the House during the remainder of that day's sitting, seems to have been more warmly opposed than an other; for the reason that the offending member is to withdraw not only from the debating -room of the House but from its uttermost pre- cincts. So to extend the order of exclusion was called an indignity by some English members as well as by some Irish ones. To us it seems a punishment far too mild for suoh offences as have disgracecnthe House session after session. As one of our corres- pondents pointed out on Monday, in France and in most of our colonial Legislatures, offenders like Dr. Tanner (for one) are pun- ished by fine; and while it cannot be said that there is any "indignity" in that, it is undoubtedly a more efficient penalty than any other that could be adopted convenient- ly. Exclusion from theprecincts of the i House for a day—what s there in that to frighten into decency men like Mr. Healy, Mr. Conybeeme, or Dr. Tanner? The sug- gestion of our correspondent was a wise one. When a member has been named by the Speaker or the Chairman, he should be liable, in addition to exelusion from the' House, to a fiae of £50 far the first offence, £75 for the eeeond, and £100 for the third or any future offence. Leas would suffice probably." Both Crippled. A cripple's sensitiveness to mimicry is , sorely keen, but no more so than his sym- pathy for one crippled like himself. The sudden revulsion from one to the other makes the pathos of this curious street scene, related in the Detroit Tribune: Pedestrians on Woodford Avenue were treated to a singular and effecting incident the other evening. Freddy Maline, a little newsboy, whose legs are so crippled that he walks on his knees, was trudging down the street, when a legless sailor came plodding along in the opposite direction on his stumps. They did not observe each other until the sailor attacked the lad. The assault was so sudden that it was all over, before any one could interfere. "What do you mean by this 9" dernarld- ed a bystander of the man. "The boy is mocking me," replied the senor. Then he got a good look at the little fellow's lege, and cried, "What 1 So you are a cripple like me? Ab, my boy, forgive me! I thought you were mocking." The tears coureed down a cheek bronzed by sun and wind, and possibly hardened by sin. "Oh, I wouldn't 'a done it 1" he exclaim- ed ; " I wouldn't a' done it, if I'd 'a' known, for these two halide, and they're all Ives got left. I ask pardon, my boy; I ask your pardon." Then the adult cripple hobbled on. The boy gathered up his papers, that had been strewn around in the struggle, and, wiping may the tears that had filled his eyes as the sailor was speaking, crawled on down the street, but not before handuls of coin had been showered on both of the unfor- tunates. Five Men Killed in a Free fight. Ktroxvirma, Tenn., April 18—A tunnel is being built at Cumberland Gap by the Powells Valley railroad. Last Saturday 100 laborers struck for au increase in wages. The contractors hired a new lot of then and put them to work on Monday morning. About noon a large force of strikers, under the influence of whiskey, and armed, as- ttamltod the workmen. The latter were also well armed# and the battle lasted several minutes. Five mei are reported killed and more than a dozen wounded, sotne of theist seriously. The sheriff went to the scene with a large pone. The Life ora Car -Wheel, By means of careful ream& most of the railway companies are enabled to know ex- actly the work done by every ear-Wheol ht the service, Some recent accidents in New England, attributed to the breaking of wheels, have brought out some interesting information as to the life of a eardrheel. Upon some roads tel wheelare expeeted to run 50,000 miles, but, as a rule, they are talv.rt off before the maximum is reached. YOUNG FOLKS. Permisf3ion to Go Home. 13etse went to churoh one sultry day; She kept awake, I'm glad to say, Till " fourthly " started on his way Then the moments into hours grew; Oh dear 1 oh dear 1 what should she do ? Thiseen, she glided from the pew, And up the aisle demurely went, On some absorbing mission bent, Her eyes filled with a look intent. She stopped and said, in plaintive tone, With hand uplifted toward the dome, "Please, preachermnen, can I go home?" The treble voice, bell -like in sound, Disturbed a sermon rnost profound; A titter swelled as it went round. A smile the pastor's face o'empread--- He paused and bent his stately head:. "Yes, little dear,' he gently said, F.H S. What Push Can Accomplish. The first experience ot a millimetre mer- ohent of Philadelphia on his arrival in the country aptly illustrates what push oan AO- complish. When he stepped ashore from the sailing vessel, he mid, "I was without money or friends. 1 spoke to e man on the wharf, and asked him what to do,' He re- plied, Work, young man. Have you any motto?' ' No,' I said ; what do you mean?' He said, Every man must have a motto.' As I walked along the street I saw painted on a door the word Push.' I said, that shall be my motto. I did push at that, and entered an office. I was asked what I wanted. I said, 'Work;' and the word on your door gave me not only a mot- to, but confidence.' "My manner pleased the man. He ask- ed me many questions, all of which were an- swered promptly. lie mid at last, I wane a boy of 'push,' and as you have adopted that for your motto I will try you.' He did. My success followed, and the motto that made my fortune will make that of othere.' The word is old, short and crisp, but it expresses everything, and has carved out fortune and fame for hundreds of thousands of poor and obscure boys. Double Seeing. If anyone should say to a boy or girl hav- ing bright eyes, open to light and darkness, that they were blind, they would surely say, "Why no 1 I see everything around me." But very many of you do not. I've seen bright-eyed girls step on their own sacques lying on the floor, and when they were told of it, say : " Oh, I did not see it," And I have seen them while bunting for things pull everything about on bureau and table and declare the book or the thimble or the handkerchief was not there, and someone else would look right after them aud find it, and they would say: "1 really did not see it" Boys will almost fall over the hoe in the path, and yet, when the father comes home and points to it, the boy did not see it before, though he may have walked past it and over it twenty times. What is the matter? Well, I think the mind did not see and remember. These children do not pay attention, and it is very unfortunate that they do not. Sometimes this habit of inat- tention and carelessness becomes so fixed that it causes trouble as long as they live; it wastes hours of time, and is an annoyance to everybody with whom they live. Another thing. Boys and girls can learn to do many things by watching others, ask- ing intelligent questions, and fixing their attention on the way skilful people work. Mr. Beecher told the following story of himself: "1 never saw anybody do anything that 1 did not watch him and see how he did it, for there was no telliug but that some tinie I might have to do it myself. I was going across a prairie once; my horse began to limp. Luckily I came across a blacksmith's shop, but the smith was not at home. I asked the woman of the house if she would allow me to start a fire and make the shoe. She said I might if I knew how. So I start- ed a fire and heated the shoe red hot, and turned it to fit my horse's foot, and pared the hoof, and turned the points of the nails out cunningly, as I had seen the blacksmith do, so that, in driving into the hoof, they they should not go into the quick, and .I shod the horse. At the next place I went to, 1 went straight to a. smith and told hinn to put a shoe on properly. He looked at the horse's foot and paid me the greatest compliment I ever received in my life. He told me, it I put on that shoe, I had better follow blacksmithing all my life. Now I never should have kuown how to do that if I had not looked on and seen others do I know a young girl, not twenty years old, who is supporting herself and partially supporting her mother. When she was only eight years old she began work in a large dressmaking establishment with her mother. She watched how dresses were fitted, asked why this or that was done, and when sixteen years old she could fit and make an entire suit. She used her eyes and her mind as well as her fiagers. To be of all possible use to ourselves as well as others, we inuat keep our eyes and minds open. Money for Religious Purposes. Lotteries, lucky bags, semi -theatricals, charity balls, funny recitations, kissing games and voting for the prettiest, wittiest or wisest may not be very sinful on appro- priate occaeions, but are all abominable me thods of raising funds for a church. If cash cannot be obtained for a religious purpose without fun and foolery, then let the pur- pose bo unsaved. In that case the only really good it can do is to die. In secular matters people frankly give for this that or She other thing what they honestly think it is worth their while, they think, to give so much for this article or that, and they give it. Till the sa,me thing is clone for re- ligion and benevolence the wheels will drag heavily. The professed Christian acknowledges giving for church pur poses to be as much his duty as providing for his little children. Let him then tattle what proportion of his income is to go in that way and let him lay it from his dontrol as fully as what he owes to his butcher or baker, If he is paid every week let him put aside: his Church and charity por- tion every week, 00 that it may be ready when calls upon it are made. We have known men in Toronto and elsewhere who did title systerhetically, When the devoted sum Wan exhausted before the month was over, they Simply refused all applications till replemshiug came froin the next month's income, This plan will be found to answer hest, and when accounts are wound up at the end of the day or of the life they will in this way give more pleasure in the retro, sped. Oredit. ,An eddreao before the Washington Board of Ttrade, preposing the abolition of the credit system, emetams some astonishing etatistioe. The national debts d the world have increased from 87,627,000,000 in 1848 to $23 236,000,000 in 1$80—an increase of over no per cent. in 32 years, The interest on the European Part of this debt is 8800,- 000,000 a year. The principal constitutes a mortgage of 830 on every aero of land, or 8100 per head of the populatien. Turning to the Uaited States, the national debt is RI per head, and the State debts $4 per head, and the munieipal debts $10 per head —total $47, Tne Itnited States railways owe K000,000,000. The bankers are oredi- tors for 46,000,000,000, and, of course, are debtors for about the same amount. The mortgages on American farms amount to 86,000,000 or $8,000,000. Then there are email debts owing by almost everybody to everybody else to the tune of several thou. sand millions. In all, Mr, Price thinks that the peoele of the United States owe 828,000,000,000. Mr. Price then discusses the cost of the credit system. He shows that e cash buyer has an advantage of from 5 to 25 per cent. over tile buyer on credit. Yet two-thirds or three-fourths of the world's business is done on credit. The ability to obtain credit fosters a spirit of towering specula. form. nmrd creates legalised gambling in many Yet what is to be done? The whole social system is founded on the coefidenoe of man in man that induces one to give credit to another. There is but one very large busi- ness that is conducted on a ()ash basis, Strange to say, that is the most objection- able of all businesses—the retail liquor trade. Millions daily pass from hand to hand for liquor. In most civilized countries a debt incurred for liquor cannot be recover. e 1. Yet the business grows in most coun- tries more rapidly than the population. The abolition of credit has not destroyed the li- quor traffic, but has, perhaps, strengthened it by constituting a liquor bill a debt of honor and by giving the seller a good reason for refusing credit where he does not want to give it. This business having survived the abolition of credit, the inference is fair that the sun would rise the next morning even though some benevolent despot should appear and brush away all debts with a stroke of his pen. From the figures given above it is plain that something will have to be done to re. strict credits. It may be that if the subject is let alone everything will work itself out all right. But it is the part of statesmanship to discern the points of weakness in our mercantile system and apply remedies which will prevent a collapse. in Terror of Wild Beasts. A Brahmin surveyor, a Bachelor of Arts and of Civil Engineering, employed on some works in Madras, has been living in terror of wild beasts ever since he arrived. "He hears elephants 'growling all night,' "relates Lord Connemara, "'which sends his heart down to z mo -point of courage,' He has, he says, been chased by a blue•eyed bison,' and, flying with great velocity,' dropped his theodolite. The instrument broke, and he tried to replace the cobweb with one of his own hairs—a wire cable to a silver thread. When remonstrated with, he said be dropped the theodolite in order to save life (his own). On another occasion he fell down a precipice, and would have been killed had not gravity come to his aid.' Nor is this the full tale of his adventures. One day, while carrying a big stick, he met a bear, or thought he did, and fled, leaving all his work -people to face the animal. The executive engineer told him he should not have left his men; but he explained that on seeing the bear he immediately ina.de a men- tal calculation of his stick's powers of resis- tance by Hodokinson's Tables, and found them insufficient. As for the work -people, Ire left them because they could not run as fast as he could,' His brother actually did get into trouble one day, and this Bachelor of Arts and Engineering thanked God it was his brother, and not himself, because he drew less pay, and would consequently be less missed by the family.' Altogether he is a source of much amusement, and hopes great things for himself, saying that since he came up he has already been made 'hall a man.' It is quite a new thing for a young and educated Brahmin, the heir of all the --Hindu—ages, to take to jungle work at all." Hygiene for Vocalists. Dr. Ryerson delivered a lecture on " Special Hygiene for VocalisM" in Associ- ation Hall under the auspices of the Toronto Conservatory of Music. Life and health, he said, were influenced by various circum- stances which might be thus classed :—Res- idence, ablutions, clothing, diet, exe cise, amusements and habits. What was con- ducive to the health of vocalists and public speakers was also beneficial to everybody. Vocalists must live ior their art and must practise self-abnegation in many matters. They should never sieg when their voices were not in good condition, as from a cold, or in the open air. In singing " encores " the same song should not be repeated, be- cause it was rarely sung so well the second as the firth time; also because it was a great strain if pitched high. Moderate exercise was essential to health. The speaker also recommended breathing exercises to increase the "wind." Fulness of tone depended on the amplitude of the air wave, not on shout- ing. A considerable interval should elapse between eating and using the voice—for singers at least four hours, and for speakers two or three hours, Evening parties, late holm, too much smoking, end the abuse of alcohol were liable to ruin the voice. Women have gained a lodgment in the medical profession. There are also elogiteut pleaders of tho fair sox at the bar ot the United States. They have secured for themselves important educational positions and in politics they have long been a force and are always becoming a greater one. Some of them are now clamouring for ad- mission to the pulpit, and why shouldn't they, if they shove the necessary qualifica- tions? The Westminster Review has taken up the cudgels on behalf of the ladies. In a late issue it says :—" Womati's fit/1080 must in the end prevail. Physical objec- tions there are taone ; her voice is as iflex- ible, ae penetrating as man's ; her oratory as graceful and her erne:wetness as real. In the church, if anywhere, the mind awl heart should be the measure of the mate As regards mind, we are sure she would raise the average; and for heart, nohe will dispute her that. Her gilt of tannage is proverbial, and there are many Dinette among us whose etoquende, tmencouraged by stipend i is in promiscuous religious meetittga outpoured in the service of God. Women can, do, may preach, only, it seems, they mug not be paid for it." Good tor the Westminster 1 And Tette% will stand by the ladies every Unto and all She time. Give the women a fair field and they will ask no favours, J*,Spuia BOW Tau ("10,1•ED Tu SIOUX, A Party Of Serontrtlre itaalailt,a1litealt,odo to their Heath to Eisea00 lignefrincre, MANDAN, Aprilda-eSlushyas the Mis.. amid River looks now, and sick and find. 9,s the ice theme to be, a week ago it was looking quite healthy and strong in the vi- cinity of old Fort Clark, a few miles below Stanton, The hunting was not especially enticing, though the omit) of the atmos- phere was of the best, and the horseman who was properly &eased and well mount- ed did not suffer a great deal, The broad, expanse of the river was covered completely with ice, except at the bend of the stream, where a bare epot was observable, and the, traveller could see that there was an airhole through which the Neptune of the Big Mud- dy would be able to eet a whiff of air. This hole is the Xeoult of the svvirliug of the waters around the bend that exists theme and though the temperature gets down very .ow, the whole never closes, as the water never etays there long enough to get con- gealed. "That hole, said an old trapper that Ir met on the bank ae I was looking across to, MoLean county, " is just the same as it was - in '38, though'n course I warn't old enough. at thet thne to seen it. But I hearn the Injins tell a good deal about it. In them, days the Sioux Injins were allers its some fight wi' somebody. If 'twan't the 1VIandana. 'were the Assinibines, and if Mwan't the- Assinibines 'twere the Gros Ventres. They were never happy, summer nor winter, on - less they had a screp wi' somebody. Es the Nuns tell onto me 'twas 'bout the middle. of the winter when a party of seventy-five . Assinibines came down film the north. They - war harmless enough and didn't moan no. harm to nobody. They got past the spot. where we are now aestandin' 'bout five railer-. jest 'bout that pint they kem onto a Sioux. village in their winter kortere. The number ' are warioasly indicated, but I should eedge from the reports hearn that there musk, ha' bin at least 250 warriors. They were feelin' their oats, es a hoss'ill feel ef you feeda him on the fat o' the le,ndfer a few months and' don'tgi' him any worruck te do. They wuzjeet a-spilin' fer a fight, and they seed the Assini- bines a comin'. Up the river a piece was an- other Sioux village, and es this were on the other side of the Missouri, an' kinder behint a hill, the Assinibines hedn't seed 'em, and, what was more to the purpose, the Sioux hedn't seed the Assinibines nether. Jest es soon es the southernmost Sioux seed the in - imp oomin' they sent one uv ther number up the water to tell the other village, and get them warriors to come out an' lay for the Assinibiues ef they should turn to run. "'Great amoke r sed the Chief nf the As- sinibines, when he seed for the fast time the Sioux village—usin', of course, the Ingle', tongue, wi' whieh I ain't so way familiar,, an' what's more to tha purpose, you couldn't understand me ef I wus. Great smoke !' said the Aminibine'"we're lost, sure pop.. See, my worthy braves, the bloodthirsty Sioux ahead ot us. What shall we do `le Shall we make a stand an' fight the inimy,, or shall we run?' An' es he spoke an arrow from a long bow came flying over the ice." "Why nota bullet?' i asked. "Rause they didn't hey no bullets in: those days. It was jest 'bout this time that the Injins used to get hold uf flintlocks, and the varments didn't hey them generally yin They were pretty high when fust inter- fluced, the Injins heving to pay about ten robes a gun. Well, this is nuther here note there. The Assiniboines considered for a„ minit and then the old chief said: I have an idee. Ef we turn back and fight we ehall, be scalped and tortured es the Sioux only: can torture. If we run we shall be caught and be cowards. Death is certain es thet we are here. See thet airhole in the ice ? The, water is cold—to leap in there is like leap- ing into the fire. But there is no torburee By fleet root we shall jine our friends in thes happy huntin' grouns with hair on our heads. We shall meet there with no. scalpers' lieeinedged knife. Only the brave feller me,' and with a wild war hoop the chief dashed to the swirling waters and heel, foremost he disappeared. Stranger, you've seed a circus, when the jumpin' fellers pile, over the tops of elephants and cs.mels,, and. other wild beasts? Well, from what they tell me I hey come to the conclusion that in wen surnpin like thee Inter the jaws of, death—and mighty cold jawe at thet—rode the seventy -live Assinibines. The Sioux were fooled some more." Taking the Oath. Whether or not the world iraimproving, certain it is that it is undergoing consider- able changes in its ways of putting things. Bradlaugh, the agnostic, was first elected. member of Parliament for Northampton in 1880. He first refused to take the oath, and then he offered to do all the law requir- ed, but said at the same time that it wouldl be a mere form, and to him an empty an& meaningless oae. After years of opposition he was at last allowed to tenably in his own. way, and now in this year of grace, 1888. he has managed to have the oath abolished for witnesses, members of Parliament or public., officials when they don't choose to take it. This measure has been carried in a Tory House of Commons by a majority of 100, The debate over the matter was a highly interesting and outspoken one. One mem- ber said :— "If at the present time the cause of Chris- tianity and, as I believe, of truth in itte highest aspect, is failing in this country, in is because those who are Christians are rotten and broke down in their beliefe whereas those who are the champions of un- belief have had the courage and manliness to state what they believe. Their course , of conduct has won them the respect of all I mankind." The Stockmen Seooped. A few days ago there dropped into the Chicago stock yards with a drove of steers a quiet, unassuming man, who allowed be was from the country and was in charge of "dad's steers." He had on a suit of rough clothing and looked like a barnstormer. The stock yards boasted a footracer by the name of Cody, and it was that footracer that the country lad was after. The latter soon talked reed and a match was quickly arranged for 8250 a side. In addition the stockmen. bet 83,000 on Cody. The latter lost by a foot, and the race was won in lOte seconds and won easily at that. When Billy Bredboure, the pugilist, called tbe country boy to account he said :—" Dad's steers are pretty tater right." It turned out that the young maxi was M. K. Kittle:man, the famous splinter of Harp- er, Ken, who can easily run the distance an ten seconds. A Careless Old Gentle man, Grandfather Totter (to aged wife) ---I Wan 1 a tellin' the minister yisticly, Mirancly, thth you'll be nihety-two year old to-morrer Grandmother Totter (indignantly)—Well, ye hed no right to say no Bach thing, John Totter ; I'll only be ninetpone. Ye ouglah to be more keerfttl, les