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A.LION !ALONE!
A Story of A stneeen Itay Itott Venn:fee on
Fact.
" Say, boys, Pve etruck a job 1" said
Douglas Gordon, looking up on a /atter
he was readieg and addressing some half a
dosen young fellow, who were lounging
about in the reading room of a Vitoria
hotel.
" Where ? is it on the railway ?" Take
me toe ?"
" Is it over in Vancouver ? the rising,
oily of the Coast,' as oue of their boomers
ealled it the other day,"
" Make me your private secretary I"
"Tell. tiealt aboat it," said a serious looking
fellow near the fire.
"This letter is frem a friend of mine,
Andrew Duncan,who jellying in Winnipeg;
he writes to say that he is going to the
Hudson Bay Post at Vermillion Lake, and
as there is another man wanted he ..recona
mended me,for he thought I would go. Yon
may be sure I'm going."
" Humph, what about the girl you'll
leave behind you ?"
" Yes," ohimed in another, " Jim Hill
will get ahead of you, suee, if you go away,
now."
"Oh 1 Douglas will take her to the lake
on a wedding tour. Arctic explorations
are fashionable just now.
"When ie the wedding, Douglas; going
to ask ue ?" -
'Oh I 'Come off' you fellows, don't talk
to me abent getting married; no, wait till
I come home with my little sack and then
P11 ask you all. Maybe Barkus won't be
williu', though. Bub I meat go now, boys,
Pve lots to do before I etart and I must be
in Winnipeg on the let of November, 1S35;
thie is the 20th of Ootober. Good night,
all."
After Douglas left the hetet he began
thinking of Mabel Morris. Her father VIIFY.9
a well-tcedo inerchant and had not quite
liked the idea of his eldest daughter •going
with Douglas. The thought of Jim Hill
winning Mabel while he was away filled
Douglas with jealousy, hut still he could
say nothing to her himself. Hill was well
off end Douglas would not bind Mabel to
any engagement; besides, he did not know
whether the cared for him. At last the
time to say good-bye came. Itlebel loved
hitt, but was determined to be etrong and
let no sign of this appear to him ; her pride
would not let her ehow how deeply she felt
the parting, for he had never said anything
to her and she was not one to give her love
unasked. Douglas had been spending the
evening with the family, and as he rose to
go he said: "I expect to come back again
to Victbrie, next year; I will think of you
all often when I'm up in that lonesome
place, and of the pleasant evenings I have
apent in your house."
As Mabel opened the door for him he
said: "It will be awfully lonely up there ;
may I write to you, or rather will you
aUSWer my letters ?"
" ph, yes; if you care to write I will
answer, but I'm not much et a letter writ-
er. I wish yoU a pleasant journey, Mr.
Gordon."
"And a safe return ?" questioned Doug-
las.
"1 shall always be pleased to see you."
" Well, good-bye, Miss Morris."
t" Good-bye, Mr. Gordon," anct the door
was closed between them. Douglas fancied.
be saw tears in her eyesebut she had closed
the dear so hastily that he could not be
His companion met him all Winnipeg and
together they started for Vermillion Lake,
N. W. T. When they reached there winter
had set in and it was cold. The ground wee
covered deep with snow. The nir was clear
and frosty. One could hear any sound for
miles. There was a large Indian encamp-
ment just aeross the lake and Andrew Dun-
oan went over to it to trade with the tribe..
Douglas waited his return for a, week and
then began to fear thatsomething ad hap-
pened to him. At first he thought of going
to find him, but then he remembered that
he knew nothing of the country and that it
would he, very easy for him to be lost in
this place, where there were no roads and
where the nearest station was 380 miles dis-
tant. He therefore reaolved, to send his
companion, an Indian who was well ac-
quainted with the gougtty. Of course this
would leave him alone,but he had no doubt
that both tho Indians and Duecan would
-
return in a few days.
Douglas Gordon did not know till long
months after that Andrew Duncan andbis
guide had bean drowned in the lake, and
that the Indian he had sent to look for them
had reached the (tamp, but had found it
deserted, for scarlet fever had broken out
and the Indians had fled before it. This
Indian, instead of going back to the post,
bad followed on their trail. So Douglas
was in that white, frozen country alone. At
first he expected the return of his friend
and the Indians daily. He spent his time
trapping. Everything was novel, but as
the week went on and no friend came he
began to get lonesome and bunting lost its
interest. Christmas came; and ralonely one
it was. Douglas made his dinner of veni-
son and. beans with hard tack in place of
pudding. In the evening he looked around
for something to read and was rewardecleby
finding an old elrnatiec, but he soon got
tired of that and began to think of the
people at home and how they woald be
speaking of him that evening. Then he
thought he would write to Mabel, but was
greatly dismayed at finding that in his
hurry in packing he had forgotten to take
As the months went by he wrote on birch
bark and pieces of weed, e et had no way of
sending off what. he wrote. He thought of
Mabel and how she must Wonder why be
did not write. In the lonely evenings he
got into the habit of talking to hirneelf ;
his own.voice frightened him at first, for all
was so still, but anything was better than
the continual thinking. He would it down
to his meal of "hard back" and imagine
some one was opposite him. Sometimes it
would be Mabel, sometimes his friend.
Well, it's pretty cold to -day, the hot
meat tastes good ?"
" Wish we had potatoes re
" Well, so do I, but they'd freeze ; we
never coulddteep them."
"1 tiaty deer ttaoke to -day ! You like
freth meet? Maybe we'll have some to-
morrow; the deer ate very bold now, I can
get nearly up to them." "Yes, as you say
it will soon be spring we'll get oet of this
desolate, God forsaken coentry !" Where
do you want to go ?"
"Oh, to Victoria I"
"Well, I'm going there myself ; I have
friends there!"
Then he begins to think of Mabel wait-
ing farit letton " Here I've been for five
roonthilind have eot, sent her a line ; what
Will she think of mc'? She'll think I've
forgotten her end that sneak Jim Hill will
be around all the time. I know he'll toll
her that with me out of sight is out of mind.
Oh, if I had hire here 1 I remember the
night at the social when Mabel and I were
having such a nice time. Of (mum in-
tended to see her hone. 1 never thought of
asking if I might ; I knew She understood,
Didn't he conte along and ask her right lois
fere me, and what could she do? She Could
not say she had company, for I hedn't Asked
her: That wan just like hirn. Perhaps
hen: metried, Then there's the folks et
home ; poor rootber will be fretting. The
tee is Clearing a little hut if it were all gone
what could I do ? I've no boat et eatioe
ated al& ef 1 ii&1gel te blio other aide I'm
tailedeeda mike eeofti the ueetest poet,
jaItelitttee.Vele knelleettee l,Wcp itleldtt
of teeing a heat, and eaeli day oely brought
diaappointneents,. While on hunting expect'.
tious every noise in the woods etartled him,
/Jo wae in Metnotary expeetation of eeeteg
someone. Whoa an -animal appeared, iu the
diatance he would be enre it Was a men awl
rim toward it, only to sea it make off at his
approaeh ; and althoegh. hunting wait his
only recreation many a deer escaped lin;
harmed, for even the thought that aome-
thieg living was near him made hhn fool
less desolate.
l the evening on eoming lionee.he would
prepare his meal and talk oyer all the day's
doings with an imaginary earnpenion. Theo
he would recite piecefrjaltry and things
he had read ; illirr
monareu of all e mirror.
My right there is none to dispute,"
"Great Toonarch, in this little eight by
ten hut living on baoon and beetle"—
''From tho centre all round to th',5 sea;
Jul lord of Pllo rosvi and. the brute.
Far from hunniniq's roach,
I -enlist !Meet ins Journey alone :
Never beer the sweet music ot seneeh,
1 . 1 gait itt the sound of my own,'
"Right you are, old Robinson ; ydu were
homesick, too."
He Would write these selections all 'ever
his walls. Tired of this, he'd take out his
almanac and read once more the jokes end
try to get up, en Mtereit. in. the patent
medicine advertisemente, As the falleame
on he lost hope: be felt that he . was to
spend another winter alone and then • an
awful fear 'grew upon him. He:feared that
he should loge hie reason. This fear pos-
, seased.hina se efitirelYthat he felt it would
only be a matter of a few triore menthe till
he -would be a lunatic. At night the howl
: of a wolf or the booting of an owl Would
, wake him and he would start up and rush
1 to ,the door'hoping to see Indians or traders
claming to the post, but the moon would be
shining neneefully on the lake and the still -
nese unbearable. On going back to bed he
would think and think! All the thiugs -he
had ever - done in Ilia life would rise up
before him. He would magnify the little
sins he had committed. until he imagined
this exile was only a just punishment for
his wrong doing. . .
One merning as he was going to see to
his traps, he gazed,- longingly across- the
lake..At first he saw nothing, but after
a time he thought he saw a small speak on
the sunlit water. Was it 'imagination, or
the illusion of a half crazed mind? Was it
coining, nearer? Hears he watched, It
:was comingemarer. It was MoNiug and it
Was a boat. Fearing lese• the men. in ,it
should not 'see him, he rushed into the
store, enetehed up a large eearlet shawl
that would have delighted the heart of
some ducky .belle,. tied it, to a ,pole and
rushed frantically along the shore, waving
it to..andsfro. After a time he saw that
the boat was making directly for the loose.
At this he shouted and danced, till one
-
would have thouglet he was some:Indian
chief practising the war ,detnee. As the,
boat approeehed the shore and he could
distinguish the men. in it, he rushed our
into the water until thoee in the boat fear-
ed eat- shottld drown.. Nearer mad nearer
it got, till at last, they reached hire:. Oh,
to hear.a human Voice ! To see a face once
more ! He 'embraced them all: • At last,
when he became more calm, the Men told
him that they had heard from the Indians
that 41'4 that post had died, and they had
sefte the word of his death down te Victoria
some nine months before. They knew the
Indians had left their encampment, and ^e
there were no other inhabitants they had
sent no one to the pose ; but now be,
Indians were returning and they had come
there to trade With them. •
1 ' They went up to the house with Douglas
and :pent the evening talking to him
and reading what he had Written on the.
wall .
"You were pretty soft on this Mabel, old
fellow! Why, here it her name almost
everywhere,- and here are twollearts .end.
'Ever Thinecarved ont the table, Toole a
pious turn this day. Why, here's 'Now I
lay me down to sleep' and ' Hush, ,My
Dear,' ' The" --Western Waves of }jibbing
Day,' and "'Miry' had a Little 'Lamb,'
written on this box: . You must -have had
a liberal, edaeatien to stretch between
those two. And I do deelare ! Herejs
some of yoer own composing. Listen, to
this; boys ; .
' -
. .
!Oli Mabel! Fairest of the flirt .
To See thee once again would, I dare
To cross the broad and dangerous lake;
Bat no boat or craft have I to take.'
• "You're. a born poet. At& an artist,
too 1- Just see this Picture I Look at that,
family gathered around a stove•1' How
placid. the expreesion bn each face I, To be
,sur, most of them have twO dots for noses
and a straight line -for a mouth, but calm
content is everywhere visible?'
•' "Qat Mother. Goose's Melodious Mel-
odies, have you? Here's 'Old Moeller
Hubbard' illustrated, too. Great' Scott !
Whae a dog I s She went to the'oupboard,
didn't he, Douglas? Just where I'd like
to go 1 Hope yours is not in the same con-
dition."
Well,- this is 'too had I You: must be
hungry 1 I was so full of menelf and so
rattled that I never thought about that. I'll
get something toeeat in no time. Before
many minutes ,Douglas had the table pread
'end eis three companions seated atound.
. ," Iney, fellews, I feel so happy and
tbenkful at having sontemie to sit clowa
witleme, that I feel it wouldn't he right to
begin even this kind of a rneal without say-
ing, grace ; you ask a blessing, Tom," said
Douglas. . -
"Oh, I can't I" came from one, after rin-
e:Mier. Douglas bowed his head, end ina
trembling voicengave thanks to the ever
lovieg Father. ' • . ,
YOU may be sure Douglas lost no time in,
returning to ' Victoria. Heceached there
'Christmas eve. The town Was quiet, as it
was near midnight. He hastened toe/label's
home. -He went .up to the door and fiiitild
thatit lied ' been left ajar by some eareless
viaitoe. As he was ;Omit to enter be heard
a voice. einging. it was -a woman's voice,
full and clear. He felt that it was Mabel's.
Ho entered the hall but- feared to startle
her. He could eee her foe. Yes l_ie. was
Mabel, but the girlish look had gone. In
it stead, there' had come a Aad expression,
and the eyes, once so full of mirth, were
thmightful and pathetic. He board her be-
gin again ;, this time the song wee :
"Cooed ye conic back tome, Douglas, Doug -
In tihaes'old like:lets that I am' ow;
1 would bo so tender, so loving. Douglas ;
' Douglas. Douglast tender and true.
Never a scornful 'word should pain yoo ;
I'd smi'e as sweet as angels do;
Sweet as your smile on me shone ever
Douglas, Douglas! tender and true."
There was such entreaty, Bach longing in
the voice, that Dauglas could stand it no
longer; he rushed into the room. There
was a half frightened, half surprised cry of
" Douglas," but Dangles had her safe' iii
his etrine, and slin was SOOn coriviriced that
it was himself Rod not a vision; The family
heard the ery and came in front the kitchen,
where they had been putting things in
readiness for the moreince The welcome
Douglas received Was most everre, and -they
all (tethered around. the fire while he told
otitis adventures and hoW ho had spent his
time daring the past year. As they talked
the clock etruck three, The father Eiaid,
"it is Christen:el Morning ; I wish you all a
merry Oferiettnade- For reyeelf, lam happy,
eeeing my -little girl herself once mere." ,
' "Yee, emit bairn ; elthmigh she never
said Anything, 1 kentied ehe Wee gtetittg'
for yeet ...Mined ,ie e differeeiegifekeleeitCM
oen t ' Idladete" letdtett therstkor. 1...:, -.'-,
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r. AN0 0. CO3PANY.
Oldelet SteaViiiip Cempxtzy ixi th9
World.
•••••
Ntablisited fl tkil--rrout the nrst Ves'
—To the " Victorta." over 0394 Tul!'s-
set, the Eaweedt 100 mene
The organization Which IS known famili-
arly to Englialunen all the world over as
the "P. and 0. Company was eetablished
in 1837, and has tithed in the van, of Qom,
Mercial Progress throughout Her Majesty's
regn The hietory of the Company, more-
over, is the history in brief of England's
Conquest of tlic: world's industry and com-
merce, for its success is duo to the pones.,
sion in a marked degree by a few utdivicluels
of thote qualities 'which have woo her.
present position, ,Eriergy, tenacity of pur-
pose, and the ability' to zee beyond the
horizon of the present have made of a emell
firm ef shipowners a greet trading orgaui-
zetion of national utility with a fleet of fifty
theee ships, representing aeapital of over
817 000,000.
The foundation of the Company was laid
as . far back as, 1825, by Messrs. Brodie,
MeG, Wilcox, and Arthur Anderson, who
were in binese ea merchants and ship.
brokere, In 132o they built their first ves-
sel,thet•WIlliam Fawcett," a paddle steamer
with a gross tonnage of 200, att'cl engines of
sixty horse -power. Lisbon was then, in the
oyeki of EnglislirMen, the most important
place on the Peninsula, mud thither were
the made conveyed, from Falmouth, by
8;eilaititgerPapeeltremittoinceg; fareqwueenktly wocineuapyaittndg
three vveeles in the passage. . jn 1835
Messrs. Wilcox and Anderson, having them
three steamers, with a totel gross tounage
of 1124, began miming steamers to the
principal ports„of the Peninsula, and, al-
though it was net immediately profitable,
they persevered. in the enterprise, and offer-
ed to. undertake ,
THE MAIL SERVICE' VOA, TO'S GOvtaNMENT..
On August 22, 1837, was agreed the first
foreign mail contract by the terrns of which
the Government paid an annual subsidy of
£29,600 in return for a monthly service
from Falmouth to Vigo, Oporto, Isisben,
Cadiz and Gibraltar, and Messrs. Wilcox
and Anderson in collaboration with Capts
•RiChard Bourne, a naval officer concerned
in the conveyance of the Irish mails then
founded the Peninsula rCompany to carry
out the contract. The fleet wasin the
same year strengthened by the buildieg of
three neve ateemers, one of which; a.
".Great Liverpool," was of 1311 gross eon:,
nage nearly double the size of any other
vessel of the fleet. • Thia was knit the begin-
ning: The extension to Egypt was the::
next step.. At thee time the mailon leav-
ing the Peninsular steamer at "Gib," were
picked ap_hy a small Governinentsteamer
and earned. to Malta, thence by another
Government vensel to Aleteandria, this
happy arrangement involving from three
weeks: tont month tor the .cotneelgence., ef •
letters from England te Tassapar reildets
were accordingly inviteli fora quick service
of steamers to replace the Admiralty Pak -
et, and the Peninsular Company obtained
the .00ntract ,-their estimate being £34,000,
or £10,000 los than the cost of the Govern-
ment service widish, they superseded. The
"Oriental" and tho "Great Liverpool"—
then considered large and powerful veesels,
though the largest Was only of ,1.090 tons
and 450 horsetpOwer--were devoted to the
new work.
THE NEXT STEP Ls; THE COMPANY'S DEVELOP-
.
MEET
kvaa the establishment of the Indian service:
In 1839 the public: awoke to the necessity
of comprehensive and unvaryingseenimunia
cation with India. It was the year of the
fateful occupation of, Cabal, and news
travelled. avith.a sloth and irregularity not
to be suffered by.a people .awaithig tidings
from its sons in the foremose regious of the
E'mpire.' Several rival schemes were
brought forth, .butthey were still -born, and
the Peninsular Company sought and obtain-
ed, a Charter of Tncorporetion for the per-
porie of eetablishiug steam communication
with India untie:elle title of the Peninsular
and Oriental Stearn Navigation Company.
The charter wee:dated December 1840, and
says Blink a.ntl. White contained none of
those,pampering clauses and conditiona with
which.foreign Governments have sought to
nurse to meturity a weak industry. On the
cottrary, it was.grented subject to the con-
dition that the company ehoeld 'establish
steam communication with India within
two years; promise of subsidy there was
not only an undertaking from the,Eest
India Com. panyto pay premitime on a cote
tain number of voyages aceomplithed in
the year, the total amount of whinh was
NOT TO EXCEED £20,000 rEh, ANnrm. ,
, On Septenibar 24,1842, the " Hindostan,"
the first steamer, specially built for tho
„traffic) to India, loft Southampton for
Calcutta bearing the Charter of incorpora-
tion. It was a journey then. You may
• travel from one end of Africa to the other
with more ease to -day. Wagliorn had a few
years previoes1 us.the way overland,
but only the rudeet arrangement existed for
traffie. through .Egypt. .Goods and paesene
ners were disembarked at Alexandria, con-
veyed thence in big mastlese canal boats
astern of a tug, along the Mt.hinondich
Canal, a distanceof forty-eight miles to
Afteh, whence they were taken by steamer
in sixteen houz.i.to Cairo. From Cairo to
Suez was alourney of eighteenhours acroes
the desert which was pert:Mined in two -
wheeled orCeibuses, holding ant persons,
and drawn by tour mules or horses. As the
roadwas merely a cutting in the sand,itwae
an experience by no means uncommon for
the horses to stray into the :deem. Cargo
vsas carried by the same route on camel
back, and it wee even found cheaper to de-
port coal acmes the desert in this way than
to Send ie reund the Cape by sailing vessel
to Sues. The completion (in 1859) of the
railway across the Iettinaua of course changed
all this, and
oPxtraissi 0 TEM Wail, CANAL IN 1869 '
evolueipeinetithe whole commerce.
The service between Calcutta, Madras,
Ceylon, Aden aed Suez proved all that could
be (desired by all but the shareholders, but
the dee:Mien of the Goirernmenete esteblish
regular communicafion front Ceylon east-
ward to Singatiare and Hong Kong in the
interests of tde India arid. China 'fwado
turned the tide even for them. „ The Com-
pany had no competitors in the field, and
the bargain steriek was for a subveotion of
£160,000; which was at the rate of 17s per
mile ever the whole -lingerorn Suez to Geer.
Ion and Celeutta, encl. from Ceylon to Sing
smote and Hong Kong.
This was a tiene of progress by leaps end -
bounds. True,,Australia was thou as it
were only suepeeted; goldt had not as yet
been disdoVered lit quantity, mod the popu-
lation and' trade Were coniparatively
scanty. liut -the nation waS throwing out
ancients in all directione, end the suecess of
the Lidian mail eerviee suggested the wis-
dom of establishing steain oonernunicetion
between Australia and the mother country.
Not linen the Blither of 1852--thoyear
Arten THE GIOIA) :BOOM
Was Auetralia inclsidcti irt the ,regular mail
tzei:eveiblFTn.:11y6;pie6terate:::::e (y)efei to:1180f c°tnrotroapde.t•
The P. Ana Veasele eatried sortie 2000
1114C4 -11:thlt Irtiffi°6°0.0
VithelO
Wes 'partially ittereoptetd by the Celine:tit
War, when heat den;giids were made upon
*I A
two afterwardS. They were inunediately
dispatehed though the cereal ; &tinge were
erected and all preparatione made durieg
their passage, so that the moment they ar-
rived at Sttez they were reedy to embark
the troops ; one vessel exiled again in lees
than ten hoera,the other in less than sixteee
properly equipped, with 1500 men on hoard.
At the paesent time thc P.& 0. fleeb con-
siete of 53 s townships, of an average tonnage
of 4104 each ; two vessels still larger than
the "Victoria" are building'but, until the
d
Suez Canal is widened andeenened, they
cannot rival the "Campanta" Llass of ship
in actual eize. The British Government
remiss by an ennual suhvention the
"Britannieie i'Viotorie" and "Oceans. 000d
seven other veasels of the big Mee are held
at the immediate dieposition of the Admit.
alty. The transatlantic lines only eoutri.
butte 00 need neither, viz.. four from the
Cunard And six from the White star lines,
arid the only other Mail steamers on the
Government list are the three "Empressee"
of the Canadian Pacific Co.
THE TALE. OF' LONDON%
"What Is Being Said and none in Social
and Other Cireles Lathe gawk. netro-
room,.
• A.„ cable special from London says :—
Thomas Salt president of uoYds' bank
which, by the policy of amalgamations with
other banks, is becoming one of the largest
financial institutions in the eaugery, has
thrown hie lot with the birnetallists anti has
joined the Bimetallic league as vice-presi-
dent. Salt was president of the Bankers'
institntion in 1801, and in his inaugural he
caused considerable stir by admitting the
necessity for more extended use of silver for
currency purpoees. Among other public
men who have reoently joined the league
are Baron Emile Erlanger, the well-known
financier, and Jacob Bright, one of the
most respected Liberal members of Parlia-
ment.
All Liverpool was smiling in the early
part. of the week over the shipping mishaps
in the Manehester canal, particularly the
sticking fast of a big barque in one of the
patent locks and the breaking tiff of six feet
of a steamer's mast in passing under
a bridge. The metriment has not lasted to
the end of the week, because it ie now seen
that the canal is a • great reality, and that
Manchester means business. Numerous
vessels pass up and down daily. The
warehouses are Mling with goods. The
wviherrvieeree trifoornegignedino4retintleatid tnaloaght,
.if
wair•E'MatTfide success and gweittli
encouragedexporters and importers.
Steamers are being coaled rapidly and
ee ese
te.HIeselleisfeeedrilsten;I'Meettenede'i of the
Seamen's Firemen's union, tells me that
he has been testing public sentiment on the
question of the House of Lords at meetings
which he addressed recently,througat„the
country. Confary totheTheting inLondon,
be declares that no topic appeals so strongly
to working men in' thn country as the ob-
structicra of the aristocracy. Every time
lie adv,ocated the dissolotion of the House
of Lord's, tho suggestion was received with
wild enthusiasm. "Down with the Lords"
would be the best election my of the next
campaign, in his opinion.
Jules Roche, the well-known deputy,
raised an alarm in Paris this week by de-
claring that there has been an annual de
bit of 850,000,000 1,0 $00,000,000 in the
revenue for several years, in spite of an
apparent balance in the budget accounts.
The expenses Of the Government increased
from 2,775,000,000 frames in 1878 to 3,-
357,000000 last year. Naval. expenses in-
creased. from 201,000,000 franees in 1890 to
266,000,000 in the current year. It will
not be surprising if an attempt be made
before long in France to raise the cry that
war will be cheaper than peace.
There has been another case of dottiestia
discipline in the Austiian royal family this
week. The conduct of Archduke Leopold
Ferdinand, who quarrelled with his elder
brother while on a trip around the world,
ad left the ship at Sidney, has been inves-
tigated byes, family council. The, young
man has been found to be in the wrong,
and an unlimited leave of absence has been
granted, to him, with the loss of all )15s ap-
pointments.
The most striking exhibit of Loedon's
destitution ever made was the annual sup.
per to waifs and :drays on Thursday last,
the coldest night for years. Two thousand
small, hungry, half- lad boys and girls
were fed. Many walked, barefooted six
miles on the icy pavernents. Hundreds
were turned away still himgry, there being
only room and food enough for 2,000.
Among Paderewski's Christmas presents
was a miniature grand piano inc bony, with
tiny white 'Keys of silver andblack keys of
gold. The little instrument has a sweet
LIFE'S CiARDEN-
Once there was a gewden plot in which
grew every hied of flower. Roses pink e.nd
white and yellow and red, lilies as pure -83
an angel's dream, poppies rod as the east
at sunrise, and many more. Now in the
midst of this garden there spriaog up a weed,
and the gardener,try as he would, mild
not uproot it, for its roots grew so doep
down in. the earth that they held fast, and
when he cut it down it grew up agein
stronger thin ever. A.nd the unsightly
thing grew larger and stronger every day,
and it, spread out great thick leaves, se that
it kept the sun from the other flowers near
it end they died.
The gardener grieved very greatly i,:ehen
he saw his lilies and roses standing dry and
dead, and rualinag with fury at the weed,
strove with all his might to tear it up, and
the thorns on the stalk prieked his hands
till they bled, but still the roots held firm.
Then hiatueighbr5 teeing the great weed
in the m --let of the garden, and the fair
flower a dead or dying about it, mocked tho
gardener saying: "He hath a fine garden,
truly. Sool he nourishes the weed biet
lets roses die."
And the summer went by, and one night
camei
there a biting frost n that country
'soda killed the flowers, turning them black.
Hut when in the morning the gardener
Walked through his garden sorrowing -much
over alithe dead flowers, he looked and be-
hold the weed in the midst of the garden,
and lo, a miracle l the treat which had kill-
ed all the other flowers had opened on the
ugly weed a great crimson floWer thee glowed
in the morning suethine like a flower of
lire.
And Ah 1" said the gardeneee neigh -
hors, "he hath in his garden the finest
flower mir eyes have looked upon." For
they had forgotten the ugly weed when they
tetws its beadtif al blossom.
, Now the garden ia life, the fair flowers
the joye of life, the gardener a human soul,
the neighbors itee the people of tho world,
the beautiful flower thee bloseorned on the
uncouth stalk the floor of pain, and the
frost is time 1—tNew Ork Observer,
Had Been Kept Too Long.
" Ally complaints?" asked the orderly -
officer of some mon who were (kb:tut to begin
their dinner on an outward bound troop-
ship from portstnouth to India.
"Yea, sir," instantly exelainted one of
tho men ; " this milt junk ain't fit for the
The doctor was at once sent for to inspect
the meat, ,
"So yeti think this meat iisn't fit for a
tt ntli-positfon tegeate" maid the doe.
oie,te te te that cettt‘it
likes of us to sat, and 1 wih to revert it.
tit ILiAt!i
gaitionzi
,
BRITAIN, 4, nit 19,
he Must Continue to Ithle the Walla
UO Who ditties the $00. 4esu1Let18 the
Land,
Britone are very busy those day e exeenin-
ing the ereunde tilmet which they eleim the.
reaz tory of t M sea. Naval exports—whether
00 not with an eye to alarming Mr. Glad,
stone into a proper steno of eoneerneasay
meet oecomplitnentetty thinge of the con-
dition of the elegy.We are told, for
stance, that we dopAttil upon the assistanee
of loose-jointed Italy for per control of
elm Mediteeeauctor: and, while we do not
believe it, the assertion stirs us to a study
of the situation. Au two ny mous writer,
with evideet claims to the cloak, of author-
ity, discusses the in:porta:me of retaining
control of the sea in the current Fortnight-
ly ; and Closes with a most vieloua prod. et
the peaeolul slumbering propentieiee of
John Bull, The Mediterranean fleetof
France and England are compared in de-
tail • and the selertion inede that " Mr.
ilult" must now melee good his pretensions
to the control of that 308 or formally
el -Alone all hu respousibilities in the
metten HO is there as the practical guar -
Mae ot the peace of Europe, 50 long as he
ie overwhelmingly dominant; but the mo-
ment
MS NAVAL SlIrEaIORITV
can be questioned, big fleet in the Mediter-
ranean becomes a challenge and a prove -
cation, "Hie present policy of pretension
and powerlesaness in the elecliterraneem,"
says the writer, perhaps, the most
formidable of existing menances to the
peace of tbe world,"
So much far a, optic shaped for the side of
the Gladstone Governmeet 1 Yet, there
can be no doubt that the writer, who signs
himself "Nauticua," makes mit an exceed-
ingly strong case for the prime importance
of the control of the sea. Britons have
long realized the value of this mastery of
the ocean to them, for their bland home
would otherwise be at the mercy of ets
foes; but the task of this article is the set-
ting up of a bolder claim to the general
effect that he who rules the sea really dome
nates the land, end is almost certain to win
in any land war where he has a fighting
chance. Tho text -books upon, whioh the
writer depends are Capt. Ivlahan's two
studies of the "Infiaence of Sea Power"
from 1660 to 1783, and front 1793 to 1812.
pt. Mahan likens. the ocean to
A VAST PLAXX
lying between the natione and contends
that he who dominates the plain, "who can
at will bar a path or trade route," is in a
mueli better position than his neighbors.
Then he applies the principle to the war
times of that -peel% and discovers that in
eery case the master of the sea hal incal-
culable advantages. Going ao far back as
the time of Hannibal, he finds an example
of the application of this law
"The Roman control of the water forced
Hannibal to tha.t long, perilous march
through Gaul in which more than half his
veteran troops wasted away; it enabled the
elder Scipio, while sending his army from
the Rhone on to Speen, to intercept Han-
nibal'communications, to return ioperson
and face the invader at the Treble. Through-
out the war the legions passed by water,
immolested and unwearied, between Spain,
which was Hanuibal's base, and Italy,
while the issue of the decisive battle of the
1VIetaurus,hinging as it did uponthe interior
position of the Roman armiea with reference
to the forces of Easdrubal and Hannibal,
was ultimately due to the fact that the
younger brother could not bring hie succor-
ing reinforcements by sea, but only by the
land route through Gaul. Hence at the
criticallEolTent thetiVo Carthaginian armies
were separated by the length of Italy,
and one was destroyed by the combined
action of the Roman generals."
Another instance of the power of the
same law of war strategy was seen during
the Napoleonic struggle when Britain won
simply and solely because of her control of
the seaV, Although she entered_ the war
aniaa wul many of the European nations,
they all fell away from her until the islaacl
kingdom stood alone, and on the defensive.
She was in this position until Trafalgar
8"e her THE UNDISPUTED SWAY
of the ocean, and then she pushed an offen-
sive campaign—" an offensive based abso-
lutely upon her control of the seat" "Her
presence in Portugal and Spain. kept fester.
ing that Spanish ulcer which drained the
strength of IsTasjioleon's Empire," continues
the writer, " and so, by slow slegrees, the
greatest military power that has been
created in modern times was reduce:I to
impotence." Nor does he fear the,t this
domination of the sea cs.n he seriously
wea,kened by a system of forays or incur-
sions. It would be impossible for any
power to so absolutely control the ocean
that no other power could sena privateers
or small cruisers to annoy her commerce.
But this only amounts to a tax upon the
commeece, inereasing the risks of trade;
and no power oan be tormi (table at sea which
cantot maintain a fleet there for a prolonged -
period.
The motive of the article is to arouse
Britain, to the necessity of strengthening
her Mediterranean fleet. The writer Con-
tends that the powers bordering that sea
are jeolous of the fact that it is eontrolled
1 by an outaider ; and that Britain must
plainly beoruNAs8AxLABTA sritustrra
there if she is to avoid attack. He believes
that to crush Britain would be to send
British commeree largely to Gertnany, and
thus to prodece an eeect thee Frazee,. for
ihstance, would. nob relish ; but he tears
that this belief is not shared by all Euro-
pean. diplomats. Hence be pleads for a
strong Mediterranean dot in the interests
of the pease of Europe. "I am concerned
not for Great Britain," he says "but for
Europe." He fancies that Eurbass is on the
whole resigned to tritainis pretension to
the supremacy of the sea, but it necessarily
jostlee and inconveniences many members
of the European family, and they have a
right to demand that, so long as Britaie
puts forward this claim, she shall so sup-
port it that no one will be tempted to die,
turb thepepete of the world by potting it
to proof. ' Upon no other terms," he de-
olares "is her presence in the Merliterrett.
ean either tolerable.or defensible,"
Distress and Depredations,
&riots depredations are reported to be
occurring among the olive groves in the
province of Cadiz, partionlerly in, the coun-
try between Xeres ad Areos, where beeids
of thale and fernale labonrees,under pretext
of the exceptiomal distrese now prevailing,
boldly hived° the groves end steal the
crops. The other (ley in the village of Villa,
Martin, two rneti or:eared the eottrtge of 0.
peaeant and compelled him, under threats
of violence, to provide them with food. Itt
the townships of Puerto Serrano and Alger
bands of labourers march frem hoese to
hotzse demanding food, and after the meal,
Whiell 111 in nearly every case given to them,
they go Oft quietly and withontstealing any,
thing.
B.o1v ie Get Throttgh nee.
A droll old Secieli forner e p to It
telll,b01 Ana finding the
wheeled hIti berms tbieed. is be
leeltetli ' v
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mahe
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