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Exeter Times, 1897-11-11, Page 6ca eV( tb. th • ata Pe th cit be yc elt be to tie lii in co tb eu se at it e' THE EXETER TIMES A VILLAGE SOVEREIGN, Her trachea were bardly peoportio ta to ber years, and these measure three, She balanced her deficiency b breadth, amd toddled above on the f0 teat of short legs. She wasnot Pre ty after the angelic pattern, and w all the eoagaging- It would be difficult for her biograp er to say whicb were the more ado able; b,er sraile. that raced like a pin radianee froan the Fioft little chin the orystal blue eyes, Or the two pe pendicalar lanes of thought and feere ensciety th,at sometimes sprang b tween the mobile brows, and general fnrnished the occasion for stamping 13 foat at some refractory subject, were brought into play by an earne insistence on having the unanswerab answered without delay. As most of her hours were spent o of doors, and hats were a,ntipathet to her, if foltowedt hat few of her su jects enjoyed sight of the carefull eambed and curled little poll that le her mother's hand every morning. I stead, tb.e.a had the more disturbin if leas elegant, picture of fine brow silk railing and shaking, like the flo of a King Charles, in the dearest con fusion imaginable round and about th bright little face. Tbe invasion of curl just permitted the pretty upward pla of brown eyelashes against the pro truding aroh of brow. so that the bi blue eyes looked out froni a forest winter shade. She had the divinest o mouths, all arebed rosy bud, forme as a child's moutia rarely is. sweet an perfectly shaped, tvith an imperious claim upon kisses. Not to wish t kiss her. was to prove yourself inbune an. She was never dirty, though no exactly a precisian in the matter of raiment. It would not be safe to trus her with an orange. if it were intend ed she &maid sit upon the cbairs civilization. 'an enattlera ;of spotles thildhood: but she could be relied upon any day to pass a neighborhood wb,ere muchpies were being manufac tured ater not succumb to the burn- ing temptation to bemire herself aneh was Newry, the uncrowned ours n of a remote little town on the edge of a glorious Irish lake. Like the Oriental philanthropist, the loved her fellowmen. Her existence was based on the firet law of Christianity, with such a turprising result that her fellows of all ('lasses, creeds, sexes and ages, worshipped ber. She was not of the enter of female infant that Is content to stay in doors and play with dolls. Nor were out- door games the chief delight of her life, Wiest she liked was the making and sustaining of universal acquaint- aneee. She awoke with the dawn preoccupi- ed with the fortunes of Tommy This and Molly That. and chattered about them while she graciously submitted to the encroachments of ,soaps. water, batlitowel and brush, and she was still discoursing of them In passionate in- terludes while Marcella, fed her up- on bread and refle- and porridge in the kitchen. She it was wbo welcomed all new- en quite carried off the inelegatioe feet and Lettered skirts. bare (.11 "There gals' cried the marquis, fling- er ) img a silver piece on the ground. t- Kitty did not move so muoie es an/ eY1311,ashuillastlitheedictrireertiamge baegtahnetloalriolenl o in aangain4 ,loshrde lrygb as ai:after ertita,sshprricruekd aradeyx lag et the top of her voice; "Me lords r. me lord, I trolled ye ye ..owe me half -a - craven. "It's on tbegroued," the raarquis re - to tented frowning. "I threw it out of the window." ulr- "Oh, me lord, I eave nothing with your throwengs. Maybe to do ly What wait is me money paid into 'tis your a" aversion; 'Us no affair of inane anyway. er nie own hand, as between Christian and Christian, Your driver is welcome to or the. other bit of silver, if he likes, but 1 st mast be paid in me own fashion." le it was thanted in the singesong brogue all over the town that even - tag, how grand a sight it was to see at the marquis take a half-crown out of Lc Ins pocket and submissively ense to subdue the haughty marquis in quite It OD b- Kitty's extended palra. • But a smaller flower of her sex WaS ft another way. He had not vieited his n- Irish estates sinee the appearance of g, Norry on tee scene, and m conseque could not be aware that, in coo° fl perinea with this pinafored autocrat, ss he. was a personage of no influence or prestige whatever. On the other hand Norry bed never beard of the lora of the soil, and was under the impression that tbe beautiful park formed, like y everattleg else around ben a her owe individuality.suit- able environment and baxitground for g While her mother dawdled over the f breakfast -table, believing Norry stW f Pragaged upon her bread and milk in the kitchen with Marcella, the ciaild wee toddling up the main street, hat - d less, the brown floss on her head blown about in every direction. After her • straggled a band or admiring children to whom she discoursed lispingly ixi her ardent. inapersous, and tvlaolly delight - t tall fathion. They obeyed her because they loved her, but they would, have had to obey her in any case, Iiisola- - edieure and dissent were things she ne- ither comprehended nor tolerated. abet t went towards the park, and at the top • of the street commanded her guard of honor to await her return; not because she yearned to breathe a while in the fresh morning air the privacy of In- - cognito, for she was unacquainted with shyness as she was with fear; but she said she wanted to see Jack :galley's puppy. and Jacky was an invalid living in a cottage. elose to tea park avenue. Her intention was suddenly diverted as she turned the earner by the sight a au inposing stranger in a shooting - jacket. The park gate had swung be- hind bine and he was advancing rap- idly in her direction. Norte.. put up a pink finger and laid it against her lov- ely raouth. With her this signified) grave perplexity. and the gesture. was rendered still more quaint by the. lines of intense mental effort that so dela- ciously corrugated her forebead, and vested her in a fascinating aspect of worry. Even at so young an age are lhe cares of sovereignty apparent, and a regal mind is none the less uneasy because the emblem of royalty hap- pens not to he visible. Here was a strenger entering Norry's dominions with an air of command, while. she her- self was ntlt acquainted with him. Sba did not puzzle out the situation upon. lines quite so eleax perhaps, but she eyed. the imposing stranger question- ingly, and promptly made up her mind. It is possible. she had a prefer- ence for ragged humanity, but she was quite above such meanness as drawing the line in the matter of tailoring. After all the lonely, unbappy strang- er coald not help being well dressed, she may have supposed and it was really no reason why ne should not be greet- ed as well as her tavorite tramps asad idlers. So he walked unhesitatingly up to him. and barred his way witb one of hex imperious gestures. The stranger cast a emelt glance upon her. She was not effeetively pretty, and you bad to look twice un- til you knew her, to realize how ad- orable she was. He was moving on in his cold ungenial mood,—for children as mere children did not appeal to him, above all the ebildren of his Irish ten- atate—when her lisped demand and frown of ecstatic seriousness arrested him. "Man. what's your name ?" The stranger stared at the little cre- ature, at first in something like dis- may; then the frown and, the impera- tive glance that revealed a nature not to be trifled with, amused him, and fin- ally captivated him. He thought it the oddest thing in the world,' and smiled almost pleasantly as he answered, "Gramdby." "Doodemorrow, Daxidby; I am dad to see you, end the blessings of Dod on yen Da.ndby." To Be Continued. comers into the town—tramps, travel- lers and visitors. Her formula was as rigid and unchanging as royal etiqu- ette. She drew•no line between beg- gars ane noblemen, but simply said to the trousered male "Man what's your name?" 11 there were any gen- ially in the reply (and. there usually mes),. ehe invariably added: "The blessmgs of Dod on you. Kiss me 1" Upon her lips, however, the eoramand, took tbe form of tish. The person iu petticoatshe addressed as"ontan," and a the 'omen happened to be accom- panies' by a baby, it was an exciting moment for Norry. Babies, puppies and kittens consti- tuted the xaoet interesting portion of humanity in ber eyes. They were all doaty. as she called them. She insist - an kissing every baby that crossed her path, even on occasienal visits to the thronged eity wbere her grandam-. ther lived, to the dismay and discom- fort of her handsome young aunts. Whatever she had in her hands she needs must liestow upon the long- frocked creature, not infrequently to repent her of her generoeity, five min- utes later and demand restitution of the gift. When she bad., so to speak, confer- red the freedom of the town upon the stranger, Norry instantly toddled off with eager intent to acquaint the world that Job nny Murphy or Biddy Magrath bad been weleomed to her do- minions. The episode of Norry and the mar - leis is a tale in which the town takes nuoh pride. Tbe idlers round the bar ittia tea it to one another with un- tbated glee; and Norry's kindness to the big man Is one of the reasons tvby the town has lately begun to look less open disfavor upon that haughty aristo- trat Far the lord of the soil is not genial person. Be is distant, high - banded, and ungenerous. He takes no nronsiderable mccune from an impov- rished land with never so much as tbatik you, a humane inquiry into b,e, prosfferity of the temente, or a ingle evidence of thougbt for their wel- 'are; and. he spends it to the last faxth- /lg. along with his goods manners and relies, in England. There we hear a in as a delightful type of the Irish -entlenian, off -handed, witty, and a ratite hest; in Norry's town (which ,aght to be, his) he is known as a mer - se, close-fisted, and over -bearing . Sax - en. So much, may a man differ bis Antude toward one race and another. A wave of universal jay passed. over hitt town the day Kitt, Farrell pub- , eiy rebuke& him for his. lack of man- ners among his own people. Kitty keeps the newspaper -shop, and an Irish daily paper being one of the few things the rilerfvp could IRA import from England, it followed that he ran up a small account with Kitty during his Last sojourn before Norry was born. Driving through the town on his way tothe station., the lord of the soil stop - rd his carriages and callei out from he witidave to Kitty to ,know the am- mnt ue, "Haill-a-crcreni am lord," said Kitty, Ireeping tela elegant courtesy that WEST INDIA RAILWAY. l'anadiants Interested in the litiliding OT Electric Road at Kingston. Contracts for the pupply of material for the new electric railway at King- ston, Jamaica will, in all probability, lead to sharp competition between Can- adian and United States firms. The charter for the road calls for the build- ing of 25 miles of roadway, near King- ston, and the estimated cost is about 5500,000. Among those interested in the syndicate tvhicb hold the franchise are: Mr. William Mackenzie, of Toron- to; Mr. James Ross, of Montreal; and it is understood that associated witb them are Mr. W. B. Oleapmaan, of Mont- real; 1', S. Pearson, of tbe Metropoli- tan Street Railway, New York, and B. F. Pearson, of the Halifax Trainway Company. The name of the new corn- pany is to be the West India Electric Carapa,ny. Electric ligbting will also be a part of tbe business: A WIHSTLING LANGUAGE, It seems that, there is really a wtist- ling language. It is in the Canary Is- lands that people whistle instead of speaking when they hold conversation with eace other. The language is come posed cf wprds, as it were, like any ether language, and the inhabitants attain great proficiency in it, so 'that they can converse on all sorts of subjects. LONG DISTA.N011 SIGNALING. The Greenwich Observatoryehas. been put into telegraphic communication with that of the 1VIeGill College, Mot - tree), and the signals can be flasbed 'between the two places, a distance of 3,300 miles, in three quarters of a sec,- ond. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A Few rairatraphe Which May Prove Worth Reading, Tee egg of tbe Mexican humming- bird is about tbe. size of a,• heed of a The Rnseions rarely drinkstimu- lants without eating a snack with arta drink, Frozen milk is an article of con- costaunnttlryiesinocfreesuirnotes. ele in the warm lVirs. ea,,barie. lclWatts, at Quaker- town,is 10? years old, and can thread a needle without gla s..Pa., barbers are legally come- ptsenlldemd gtoa.wash their hands after at- nitineka,exio.pthiastre.dell:Tiarnebsye.rmusbeti°arelso awsaeioteinlyg There was a. dispute about the re- sult of a horse -race in Goshen, Ind., and it was decided by a kodak Lure, which unerringly revealed the Pisesh.ition of Lthe horses at the fin - In the Klondike gold fields whisky sells for seven dollars a pint, and the moat of it is so well watered that it requirea about two pints to produce eevieettell-drinklittelre. exhilaration. in a mod - In birds the power of vision is great- er than in any other form of animal life. The kestrel is so keen-sightedthat it eau see a. mouse on the earth when the. bird itnelf ie so distant as to be undirscernable to the naked eye. In every Norway village where no hotel exists, a prominent resident is silesidized by the govern.ment and re- quired to provide accommodation for at least four travellers. In all cases the cbarges are moderate, and the ac- coraraodations excellent. Thirty-four acres of raountain land in Berkeley County, W. Va., tbis year yielded a. crop a apples that brought the, owner, john Miller, twenty thou- sand dollars. The same gentleman also realized nearly tour thousand dol- Itahresa,ffinoone tteepeaches be raised during An enterprising saloon keeper of Dawson, Alaska, has a huge bell swung over bis door. This is for the con.- venience of prodigal patrons who are anxious to treat the whole town. Sev- en strokes of the bell sue:ninon the thirsty inhabitants to, the tavern. The only Englishman who ever rul- ed as pope was Nicholas Breakspear, Into was barn about the year 1,100, at ;Langley, near St. Albans, England. He was unanimously selected for the papal chair in November, 1154, and bore the title, of Adrian IV. The manager ot the Telephone Ex- ohange a.t Staunton, Vo., bas advertis- ed for homely girls to act as telepbone operators. The reason assigned is that pretty girls in that occupa- tion soon win busbands, and the mane- rogearinNYNt vl lAtah hgtrjarl.s who are likely to re - The "telescriptor" is a typewriting maebine which is used in connection witb de telegraph. typewriter at Boston, say, is sending a. raessage to Cleveland. She touches the keys which form the word a of the tele- gram, and the telegram is thus simultaneously written in the distant city. The power of spetteh suddenly came to le "deaf mute," who was arrested for begging in the public streets. When the judge announced that he would have to pay a fine of five dollars the beggar volubly and blasphem- ously denounced the judge, and the latter increased the fine to fifty dollars. A scolding wife, in Cusbing, Okla home, for years has made her hus- band's home a furnace. She was in- duced to attend a. religious meeting, and returned witb, a sanctimonious face, saying that seven. devils had been cast out of her. Her busband says there are about a thousand more to be accounted for. The founders of the little town of Peculiar, Mo., addressed a letter to the Post -office Department, asking the authorities to select a name, as the residents could not agree upon one Tbey wrote. "ales don't care what the name is se long. as it is peeuliar." A wag in the department selected the name Peculiar. & Georgetown girl had. a quarrel with her lover, and told him that he must never spea:k to her again. The next day she called. at the bank where he is employed and presented a check at the window. The vindictive young man refused to receive it, saying, 'You must be identified before I can cash this check." Piano leather, a species of buckskin used an piano keys, is nearly all made by a family of tanners in Thuringia, Germany. The process of tanning is a well -guarded secret. The pray deer of our Nortbern lakes furnishes this leather, as that a no other ani- mal is foun.d as serviceable. It costs from fifteen to eighteen dollars a pound. Mrs, W. Stevens, of New Haven, while temporarily deranged, drew all ber money, six hundred dollars, front the bank and went to the First Bap- tist Church, where she recklessly threw three hundred dollars on the plate. The remaining three hundred dollars she contributed to the Grace Metho- dist Church. The money was' sub- sequently returned to Mrs. Stevens' busbancL A Brooklyn girl received a diamond ring from a young gentleman as a memento of their engagement. She tired of him, and the engagement was broken. Through a trick he secured possession of the ring for a day, had a spurious stone inserted in place of the real one, and returned the eir- °let. She sued fax the value of the stone, and justice Lemon has de- cicled that an engagement ring is not 0, gift, . LEFT TEETH USED MOST. The natural babit of human beings appears to be the use of the teeth on the left side of the mouth for masti- eating the food. During a lengthened period of observation only one per- son out of thirteen was found who used both sides of his mouth for chewing and masticating les food. NEAL DOW AND 1118 1JAW. THE LAST INTERVIEW WITH THE ADVOCATE OF PROHIBITION. r -pe Ile ligooked Back With Satisractiou FoOn Ins Fight ol Forty-seven Tears — The Law a Success, Ile Said, rhough Defective—His View of Prohibition's lielieths In 3114111e• 1Vhat was probable,' the last inter- view between Neal Dow and a news- paper man occurred lest sunamer. iYn- nw nothing has been printed about it. Gen. Dow was confined to the house, and, indeed, almost to his bed from then utatie thse day of his death - The prohibition of the sale and menu - facture of intoxicating liquors had been advocated by him for forty-seven years, and be 'bolted back 011 wbat he and bis coadjutors had done with feelings of satiefaction, limited only by the re- flection that the sale a liquor bas not been entirely stopped. in the State a Maine. Gen. Dow said that there wound not be a drop of liquor made 00hreatd.nainemtheheraUdniidtedtheSitrateedutyif atnhde voted against the traffics as strongly ars they talked against it. A year or two ago he created a sensation at a Methodist camp meeting in alaseenku- setts by tleelaring tbat it was the church people of the United States wha were responsible for a continuanee of tale liquor traffic rather thanthe men encoligagabe ed allbe in it. "If tchurch mem- trrs.p"ralaheibisatiiot,"wt(42Abefdliqvuooter anbduswork wrk DRIVEN OUT OF EXISTENCE but this they will not do, and they con- tinue to vote with either the Republi- can or the Democratic party, and as it'llaTeettariallevaagete; pfedbgeetdh ttchbeesneepeaurrtaieges are liquor in.tereets as a raatter of poll.- aieal, necessity, there is nothing to be Ire'Peel for in either of these directioes," . For the reason that the church peefsie wile not cut loose from the old parties and vote as their convictions indi- cated, he said, he did not hold men3- viniabeiongetrudmeth7beIivoptrstutorinadInnofieateitnessisecaleurnachaserrtghaeniezhatitti.eohn andu eed it. to tit asgaami nes t „tut When Gen. Dow was aeked if be knew that liquor was being sold opens lye elliritrein.grbetiern;tyvn: city of Portland h "Yes, I know it, but I think tbe has been redured to the minimum, and it isnot the feta of the officers of the law Reale that it is eerenitted. In spite of ati thet has been said to the contrary, tbe prohibitory law of Maine is a success; bu.t it is not perfect." Then the went on to relate bow he firat became interested, in the prohi- bition movement. In 1850, when he was Mayor of Portland, he bad a neigh- bor who was empeoyed by the Gov- ernment in a lucrative office. Tha matt had a large family, and, in the main, was a good provider, but was ad- dicted to going off on LONG-CONTINUKD SPREES, during which he would neglect both his business and his family. Finally the man 'was about to Dose his office, and big wife came to Gen. Dow and told him that she bad. been to) the saloon keepers to ask them not to sell ber husband any more liquor, and that the priricipaL offender bad refused to stop sealing to him. Gen. Dew agreed to see the saloon keeper and ask him if he woad not reconsider his decision. "This man," said Gen. Dow, "treated me with scant courtesy. He said that he peen hia money to the city for the privilege of selling liquor and that he wowed continue to sell it to the man under coneideration as bong as be had money to pay for it. It made no dif- ference to him, he said, what became on the men's famita ; that part of it was none of bis business. I told him that if it were poesible I would stop the saleot liqu.or in the State of Maine, not only by lam, but by every- body eine, and I started out right there and then to do it. "I began making temperance speech- , and I not otly made them at home, here in Portland, but I drove all through the State addressing the peo- ple on the subject and getting recruits to aid me in the crusade. By the foe - Lowing yea,r, 1851, we had, arousedsueh a pulitic feeling dn the matter in the State, that two days before the Legis- liatu.re adjourned we went to Augusta with a prohibitory bila and got it passed by both branches. Tbe bide paased the Senate by a vote of 15 to 10 and, the liense by a vote of 86 'to 40. I did not relax rayefforts in the mat- ter, an,d aitthough many attempts were made to have the lbw repealed they were thwarted, and ba 1883, after the people had had nearly thirty-three years a prohibitory law, they were in a state of mind to vote for a prohibi- tory amendment to the State Con- stitution, and, they carried it by A MAJORITY OF 47,075. In 1893 some people here thought that the le,w 1uid become so itensanory that the amendments to the Constitution could be repealed, and the Democrats adopted a liquor policy in the State election. This election was for the parpolse a choosing thirty-one Sena- tors and 151 Re,pressentatives to the State Legielleture. The Demoorats failed to cleat a stengle Senator, and succeeded in electing but five Repre- tsentativese "Before the peollaibitory taw was en- acted in 1851 there were thirty-five distilleries in Maine, and a these two were located in Portland. Now there is not a distillery or a brewery in tbe entire State. Such limier as comes into the State hen to be enauggled ini Ilt itrt raott ton mai& to sa.y that not otne-fltunaredth as ranch liquor is sold in the State of Maine aa there was be-. fore the prohibitory law went into effeet, and thin toe, with a largely in- oreassed penult:aka,. The law is still defeeteve in many wane for when a man is crenvieted of selling liguror the Judges have cobalsiderabile latitude in borpoeiaag setiterice, and no douslot there are same Judges on the bench wbo hew been elleicted by the liquor inelkeemce foa• the very purpose of in - flatting light, fines or suispending sen- tences. As I drew the original) law, the Jude -els bed pea discretion in the matter., but were obliged to sentence a convected rupasellier to both fine and imprisonment. Before the prohibi- tory haw went into effe,ot the State of Maine was the pooreet State iaa the Union. We (now have over 600,000 PoPullaticen, ead 'although as regards peputeitian, Obio and Illinois are over feve thaaes) aa. large aa we are, we bave twice as many savings banks as these two States, and if the matey in the savingbanks in all three of the States wee to be. divided pire rata, eaeh person in Ohio wouldreceive 56, in Illinois 58, while in' Maine he would receive about 590. Prohibition is winning all the time and the outlook in this State is most hoperfult" GOVERNING A HORSE. Ile Means, to Do Right, line Errs It 18 front Ignorance or Fright. Horses are essentially creatures of habit. Of gentle, copfiding disposi- tions, but excessively nervous; timid, at tames irritable, and prone to resist strenuously anything that frightens them. If, for example, you. put a rope halter on an unbroken colt and tie him to a post, tlae more the rope outs into his tender skin the greater will be his struggles, while he will soon yield to a halter that inflicts no pain. Through rtervons fright, 'mesas sometimes be- comes parac-strioken and absolutely uncontrollable. They suffer also oc- casionally from what, for want of a better name, may be called "nervous paralyeis," when they seem to be phy- sically incapable of motion. Tiais con- dition is almost invariable tbe result oe brutal treatment, and the only reas sonables explaxiation of it is that tbe fiat emotion aroused in the horse by Punishment is fear; that when hefinds that be can not escape anger anda spirit of resistance are mingled with his friglat, and. that these combined emotions produce the morbid state. The horse is quick to take advant- age of the ignoramee or fear of those who centre/ him. As compared with the dog, be is eomewaat slow of cora- prebennon, but he differs from the dog in this also, that he seldom be- comes "too old to learn new tricks," and hte meraory is so retentive that he never forgets what be bas once thor- oughly learned, lt may also be set down, as a rule, with few exceptions, that be meant to do just right; if he errs it is either from ignorance, pain or fright, rarely from stubbornness or vice. 'This seems to be generally unknown, or at least dieregerded, for of all the animals tbe horse is the least understood, themost barshly judged and unjustly treated, and for the least infraction of diecip- line he is too °flea brutally punish- ed. 'If men who train horses would control their tempers and, endeavor to ascertain the cause of the animal's mis- bthavion tbey would find that there is often a good cause for bis ac- tions. The eye is tbe hest index to theani- mal' feelings. The ears are very ex- pressive, but tbey do not reveal so plainly the emotions that are domin- ating him as tbe eye does. Therefore. study. the eye, with its varying ex- preesums, an dwben you can read their meaning you hold the key to one of the chief secrets of successful train- ing The horse should be convinced that resistance is useless; but do not be im- patient cr hereto; remember that suc- cess is the reward of unwearied pati- ence. If ,vou fail at first keep try- ing until you succeed, Do not be discouraged if you do not seem to make much progress; your tack may take weeks or even months, but if you persevere you will triumph. NO SHOES OR GLOVES. Visitors to Scotland used to be bor- • rified to see so many children running about barefooted. Bare feet are 'esti common now than they were a genera- tion ago and perhaps the change, while showing a growing prosperity in the nation, is not altogether to be com- mended. Children's feet, grow so fast that to keep them properly shod is a natter that requares considerable care and some expenditure. It matters very little to a chid's future well-being that at some period of its childhood the sleeves of a jacket have been too short or the skirt oi a frock too scant; but the compression of feet in boots too tight or even worse, too short, may be a cause of torment in futuie years, Infinitely better ere letre feet than chtrynsey, heavy, ill-sba.pea boots. In the winter the feet may indeed. want some protection from cold and wet, but during a great part a the year thil- dren may safely and healthfully go larefooted. Some mothers by no means of the poorest class, are con- vinced that the comfort and symmetry of the feet in maturer years are largely to be gained by giving them freedom during tha time of growth. At every fasbionable marriage some time ago a eland bridesmaid was seen silk -robed but shoeleas. Wbere shoes to fit every stage a growth can easily be obtained, it may seem an excess of care, almost an affectation, to dispense with the conventional foot covering; but if it makes it easier fax the wife of a small tradesmen—witb whom the shoe pro- blem is a difficult one, never solved in a comfortable or hygienic way—to let her children go barefoot, if she sees the heir to a. dukedom enjoying the full ease of hi g uncraanped toes, e we should beseech the duchess to take a,way"bis shoes. We have no doubt the young hope of the peerage would take his emancipation gladly. And irshoes are undesirable, how much more so are gloves. Except the thick woollen ones for winter warmth, gloves should be banished from a childa wardrobe. How many youngsters "dressed to death," or near it, would echo the complaint of a West Indian negro soldier when for the first time he donned full uni- form; "Barracks for de feet bad 'fluff; barxacks for de hands too bad— too bad." UNLOOK.ED-FOR COMPLIbATIONS, jonesmith—I believe I will retire from our TJaeosophical society, I am beginning to doubt the principles of the belief. , Hillbrown—What phase of the science do you doubt 1 Jonesmith—All, in a general way. Only to -day one of the members dun- ned me for 010 which he claims to have loaned me in a previous incarnation. ()0(1[11111.1]Illi[11C1( --e— "Well, I kept that old, Blairestowed away; but months passed, and 1 saw nothing of him. Then, as you know, it so fell out that 1 gave up my old pee,miees at No. 190, end took these, and time three months more passed. But not a. sign of my friend the mar- chaeer of Blair, whom, indeed, I had altmost forgotten. At last one even- ing, in ca,me an old Jody and asked for a. copy of ernia's Sermons. "I hem only one copy," said 1, "and I fear that I cannot part with that one, for it was bought and paid for six montlae ago, though the owner has never called for it." Bat the old lady W55 very 'urgent with me; and so at lest I gave way. 'rhe price VMS one shilling. My new customer handed me half a sovereign to pay for it, and. I turned to get change, when some 0130 eAllse suddenly watered. and I heard a abarp voice say: "A pretty dance you breveled me, Mr. Larkins. Here have I been bunting up and donee the street tsr hall an bowr incouldsraivcehet°fvoruillatbaat bee' blew:tett wet eN.L. 190,-1 hope that the tel'e'rYeot ayrokure quciitzyriorgitat ataboiruttield90u, panind paper' ale yo'a left it six naontha ago. This lady bad euet persuaded n30 to let ber breve it, and 1 was just turn - Ing to give her change, when In You walked and claimed your property." "And I meten to have tt too," said the old man in rather a peppery tone, Of course, he did bave it; and the lady had to wait for auother copy." "Well, Mr. Larkins," said, 1," "that is even more curious than the adven- ture of the paper on rets. Did you ever see eitber ot your customers again?" "Never, to this day. Bat I baven't done with Sermons yet, if you, care to bear another coincidence. A, country schoolmaster somewlaere down in Dev- onshire wrote to me for a vollume of Sermons to Boys. I told bim that it was out a print, but that a second - band coipy raiglit no doubt be bad. To this be agreed; and, of a friend lower down Booksellers' Row, I got him a log on the fl -leaf 1 given by the very same scboolianaster to a fornier who bad carried it off to London, arid showed how highey he valued sermons by selling his prize at e, bookstall." One raore example and I bave done. Miss 31— 01 liarostol was e great w1'1 - Mins M— 01 Bristol was a great writer of letters. One morning she en- trueted a certain special letter to ber brother 0—, just, starting for the city. Ilis, en naiad, meeting an elder of the letter, entrueted it to him. 0—, brother 0—, end wishing to get rid atrnetteinlinee;r orals° aisl°66:4'9sieedve,a.pmueticaiotr3:intaos pocket ot rt greatcoat for.speriaa safety, and. straightway ,atter.y forgot its very existence. The writer of tile letter, supposing it to hetet lreee posted alto forgot the whole affair. But many long months after, while re- pairing her brother's greatcoat, she einidenlie came. upon that inner packet, dived into it, and there found her own better, duly addreesed mad stamped. The discovery occurred on Cthristmas Day 1887; and when opened, the better was found to 1* dated Caristmas 1886. There it had lam perdu for tt tweervemontli to the very day—though no doubt, the coat he.d been used hun- dreds of tixnes by its eccentric owner, without a thought ye bib past negli- geruce. Ot Waren it may be said of a2 such occurrences as this latter example of Coincidence, that they are bat trifles and scarcely worthy of notice; nothing turns upon them, nothing ever hap- pens in consequence of their having come to pass. Bat for alt that, it may be said, in relates that for the most parelife is made up of trifles, big and. little, and that oa some of tbese trifles events a eh:teener interest or import- ance often chance to turn. Many a, grievous misfortune, or splendid good fortune, bad depended on the loss, or deltvery, or discovery of e letter. Many a sudden and unexpeoted meeting of long -parted friend bas caused joy or sorrow to a who lifetime. Many a strange chapter of adventure has is- sued from the sojourn of an odd volume of sermons at a bookstall. Anyhow, the whole subject seems to be one not to be fautag etude as unworthy of con- eideratiom. Whether any other factor besides that a chance entered into the birth a Coincidence*, and if so, what that factor may be, is a question which must be left to our readers' own con- sideration. Want of space forbids me to pursue it; and. I must be content if I set them thinking on some of the coincidences which have occurred in tbeir own personal experience. My friend Boxer, to whom when I once told one or two of the above coin- cidences, mainly shook bis head, and then said: "Well, 1 will add one case to your list, as curious as any you have mentioned. Last March I had a set of plans, to finish for the office. I counted them up, and made just thirty- one of them. Now, it so happens that my birthday was on the 31st, and on that day, as I thought, I finished the lae.t a them. While smoking my final pipe, not the thirty-first, that even- ing after my work wee done, I said to myself: 'Bow oddly things do happen I Here am I, thirty-one years, old to -day with thirty-otne patina on the 31st day a the month.' Them I !looked in my daybook to eee wthen I began them, and hoping that it was on January the 31,st. Bat it warea't; very nearly, though— February the lat. Before tying the piens up, I minuted them over again; this time there were °et(y thirty—not one more could I make of Galena. Anoth- er gamma at my daybook told me, too, that yesterday was nay birthday I and wthtseet mee-endayarewassomAePtrelimesthemaledte, Awph:int, fools? That," said Boxer spitefully, "was very near behag a reanarkable Colmcidance." ate Thad.) PROPOSED FLOATING TUNNEL. In connection with the railway com- munication between Scotland and Ire- land it is now proposed to send train's through a tunnel which shall float at a depth of 60 feet below the surface, and welch shall be kept steadily it its place by means of anchors. NO MORE IIIANCEDVRES. Said To De Utterly Useless For Any Practical Purposc. It is probable that the tk-iland mart - oeuvres wbich itt such an enormous cost have just been held. in Germany, Austria and England will prove the last, since it has been. decided by t,ary experts throughout the world that while decorative and picturesque they are utterly useless for any pra tical purpose in the Ivey of giving off' cers and troops an idea of field oper times. Indeed, it its asserted that the are calculated to warp the judgmen of conineanders ansi men, and to giv them an altogether erroneous idea of what is required of them. Moreover the mistakes made during the cours of these manoeuvres have been o such an extraordinary and extrava gent character, and the blunders preposterous es to excitermingled ex asperatiort and ridicule. Thus, in Hun gary the 5th Army Corps found. itsel at a critical moment pouring a, ho fire kite its own side under the ver eyes of Emperor Francis Joseph, an to tee unconcealed merriment of th officers in attendance upon the Ger- raen Kaiser, whilst at Homburg swear Wittier° bimsele Jed, a therge oa twelve regiments of cavalry in a pre, posteraua attack upoxt the enemy% trenches, wbich were so defended that bad theiit occupants been firing ball cartridge with their rifles and ma- chine guns, instead of blank shot, not a hone or a rider would, have beea left alive. HIS CUTTING REMARK. It was a wild charge, and a tough struggle ensued, all rules ef sham fight being east aside, the infantry actually firing at two paces, while the artillery hurled blank shot after blank shot into the struggling masses of horses and men. No less than nine troopers and infantrymen subsequently were cerried off the field badly injured, one fatally so, wbile the majority had broken arras and, legs, end fourteen dead horses like- wise adorned the sham battlefield. Very naturally, the affair was greatly ex- aggerated, a.uci it is with the objeet of putting an end to the sensational ru- mours about the matter that the Gov. ernnaent has just issued an official an- nouncement with regard to the num- i ber of men injured n tbe charge. Perbaps the most cutting • remark about these manoeuvres was made by Gen. Count Haeseler, the commander- in-chief, of the German forces in Alsaee and Lorraine, who after witnessing his Raiser's cavalry eharge curtly remark- ed that it was fortunate that the war- . fare was mimic instead of real, slime otherwise there would not be enough soldiers or officers left alive to bures the dead. Count Haeseler Is acknow- ledged even in France to .be- os clever strategist and the most capable commander now living, the only man, indeed, qualified to take the place of Field Marsbal Moltke, CANADA WANTS THE TRADE. Warta to Capture the Outfitting or the Klondike EXPedllions. The British Columbia Board of Trade is endeavoring to stir up the boards. of the various cities in the Dominion( to take immediate steps to secure to Canada the Immense trade which bas resulted from the rush to the Klondike gold fields. To this end it has issued O circular, in whith it SaYS that this trade Is at present almost entirely in the hands of United States merchants on the Pacific coast, and is estimated to bave amounted to at least 53,000,000 during the past few months. Next sPring it is anticipated that this trade will be enormously increased. Tbe circular says that merchants of Britisb Columbia have made efforts to divert the trade into Canadian chan- nels. Direct lines of steamships bave been estaleisbed between the coast cities and the Lynn Canal and Stikeen River, and large sums of money have been expended in advertising that the Klondike gold fields are in Canada; and that goods, tberefore, if purchased in the United States are subject to duty. It says that much disappoint- ment is felt in British Columbia that so many of the Eastern Canadian news- paeers continue to refer to Klondike as 1.eing in Alaska, and also mention Seattle or San Francisco as the out- fitting and starting points. The circu- lar urges the Boards of Trade to unite with the British Columbia Board in) the endeavor to capture the Klondike outfitting trade and clivert it from its present channels before the spring resit commences. It therefore asks tbe boards to make it as widely known as possible that the Klondike is in Can- ada; that stearaers ply between the principal cities in British Columbia one Alaskan ports, that outfits can be purchased cheaper in British Colurne— bia than in the United States, and. that American outfits are dutiable. PARIS'S PROPHET. -- Dille. Conesdam Is Again Doing Dasities at the Old Stand. Mlle Couesdon, Paris's notorious pro- phet of evil, has re-established com- munication wit)] the angel Gabriel and is doing business again at the old stand. Royalty, she declares, will be re-estab- lished in France, and the capital will be transferred from Paris to Avignon. Terrible things will happen. The firet fearful catastrophe will -take ,plase in the Champs Klaus. fax eclipsing the Charity Bazaar calamity. Fire will then burst out in one of the big shops, Emperor William will the a violent •death, and Franse, after again being in the throes of invasion, will be af- flicted first by drought and then by inundations. LAW AND PHILOSOPHY. Guest—Why, don't you have a stop put to that fast driving on your streets? . Hostess—lheause the kind of people who indulge in fast driving are just the sort we -like to see pass by rind get out of sight as quickly as posaible. Generally he who is most eist toward hhn f ire most h ari table ffil tv d hie neighbors.