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The Brussels Post, 1897-10-29, Page 22 THE BRUSSELS POST. OM 21Y, M? hoeleesseemeemoieseeolimossoeriseeemooseeiseeenealle Davidson buttoned up his coat witb"j A ..S. 4.1 1-1 out iviug' eimself lima. to think, and A.Y House. •1110TEERHOOD, tt , �ip19Ye Ii'M' Pll11lll0Ihurried offto rho61111 stately house, _iUIIlIlI1V ! 1V�1` U\ hx?u•e Ai'auxiaa had boon bora and broarght up, he's See Mr. Gatherwiek 1 Why, just at dinner," said the scandalised man to whom he macer his request, Dinner or not, yaw meet toil him it's important,,' Um man debated for a moment; he was new to the situation, and perhaps scarcely realised the risk. lie opened a door these by, and Davidson could hear the message delivered, "There's the young man from the of- ten, she Davidson by name, wishing "Dawson stay behind to -night; Iwish to speak to,'ou," said Mr. Gatherwiok in a perpemptory voice one day tt"hen that dusty summer was merging Into autumn. Rio was opening bis private door as he spoke, and be passed in and shut it to with an ominous ollek. Mr. M'Cadum. twirled round on ere stool to luepeet the delinquent. 'What to see you, and woa't take no denial, pranks haus you been up to now, David- "Davidson? Siiow him in,' eon ?„ With his first gltance down tea bril- liantlyed "None that I know or," was the alas- , thasviisior omle odd fancytablaut war; "unless'-- There he stoppe, the fatted calf; it wad there in abwnd- with a sudden fear that ho did know, knee; but this father was eating it and that there would In a bad. half alma& • what bus brought you nut 11'our. before him. ,rico it cooed have hero?" demanded Mr. Gatherwick with - come to eis'master''s ears puzzled him; out laying down his fork, -"You leave he had never mentioned Dlr. Maurice's the room," with a glance at the man name even to M'Callwn. • La waiting, "It's Mr. Maurice, sir; he's very ill, "Well, returned Dir. M'Ca11um curie and his wife's frightened abant him. ously, "there is something, and you' S.ee's too poor to get him what be know that; quite well. Better make ought to have." a clean breast of it at once. Don't At that same table—Davidson could have touched the spot with his hand. till it's a case or disappearing, —had once stood Maurice's setts shell Per- like—well—like some one settsshall ba; baps Mr. Gatherwick thought of it ca - nameless. The downward track is I so for one fleeting instant before he easy, but thae's no turning back,' mind." "Thera ougat to tie a turning back," said Davidson gloomily ; "it's hard lines if ons stip is to be reckoned up against one Always" DIr. el'eneum whistled. "So you ]rave been slipping,. I thought as much, and you cannot say 1 have not warned you often enough against trying that prodigal business." With a solemn shake of the head, Mr. '1l1'Ca lam turned round to hie deck again. There were sounds of some one moving about the inner oftiue, and Mr. Gatherwick might reappear at any mo- ment ; o- ment; and in much uneasiness of spirit Devidson also went on with his in- voicing. "Now, then," began DIr. Gatherwice. sternly, when sic had arrived and, very amtviilingly, el'Callum had retired :downstairs—"I3ow ibng have you been in communication with my son, may ' I ask?" "Since last January," came the un- willing answer. "Indeed, knowing it to be against my orders." "I didn't know it, sir," said David- son, blushing at his own audacity. "You never said we, were not to speak to Sim, and Mr. Maurice was very kind to me when Im woe here." "It is not to happen again," said Maurice's "rather decidedly.? "I will have no go-betweens in this office. Mr. Maurice ought to have known better than to employ you in such a capacity." "He had no thought of any such 'thing," began the culprit earnestly; "and he's working so hard, he that"— "That is enough," interrupted bis master. "Pay attention to what I bays said—That is ale; you may go now." Davidson's strongest point was not valour; he went down disconsolately. At the end of the street he encount- ered M'Ca',Tum ; not that that gentle- man was waiting there for the purpose, ones, seeing—as he mentally phrased it —that there was a screw loose some- where, it was but considerate to try to put it right, the firat step of course being to find out which screw it was. But that was the difficulty. David- son flatly declined to give him any information about the matter, and thereby laid the foundation of a (mole mess that for weeks alter completely hook the get off those constitutional Orale -hears before closing -time. Winter set in early that year, early and very bleakly. Week after week the bitter east winds went driving 'down the streets wh etb Maurice Gate- erwick trudged daisy back arta for- wards, scantily clothed, and of ton scantily fed.; little wonder that he felt it keenly. "1 think we must be growing old, Weil," he remarked ane night as he looms in with beta fingers and ehoeter- in'g teeth."1 tined to enjoy frost and snow thoroughly, instead of enivering along after this fashion. They say you do fest the cold more when you are getting, on in life." "It is a new overcoat you are needing Maurice," she said, stirring the tiny fire to a blaze. "Couitdn't we man- age one? 11 is such a long way to that office, and gee must keep well." • 'Nell do you. knew how much cash 1 possess at this present moment? Suet three-and-ninepence. If you per- suade any tailor to furnish one for that, you. aro heartt.y welcome to try, lA£terwards you might look up a shoe- maker on the sane terms; I am need - Ing boots worse still ; look et those," dell shook her bead. "Weil, well," said Maurice, with an attempt at looking resigned, 'an- other mouth, and the worst of the winter wilt be aver, if we can only hold outs' If— Betor° that month was over, the prodigal's brief career was ended. ;Utterly unfitted for the battle, either by nature or trauning,it ended as any one night have satle;ty, foretold from the first, One morning he was not equal to going down to the office; he would rest end go fresh to -morrow; ;but to -morrow Ove diel not want to leave his bed, and a cheap doctor had lea be hssteer sent for. The doctor spoke of a touch of pleurisy, and aeon- btitu'tion below par, and promised to send. in a bottle of medicine and come ,again to -morrow. Nell putt on her bonnet atter dark tend raced rased to Davidson's lodging. Se looks so ill," ee sobbed out. "Oh, remembered his principes. 'Tho old d story," he said impatiently. "We have beard it all. before. I tlhought I told you some time ago that 1 would have no commuuioation be- tween you." And I have never been there since," said Davidson; "best"—for the first time daring to assert himse f in opposi- tion to the great Mr. Gatherwiek—"I've not forgotten hist, and Pm going straight to him now." The fatted colt might bavo played unmolested in its native fields, for all Mr. Gatherwick consumed. after le s e,erk's departure. Be had believed in and stood by certain ru:es and prin- ciples all his life; his son had gone counter to both. If be were to bring hirer back to -morrow and plot him in the ad place, how long would it last,, Could. he risk that sore disgrace a sec- ond time? Possib:iy at no distant date. This exile meant more to lien than it could to Maurice. He bud lost the most by it; asa:itary old. age stretched be- fore him; better that, than Lo build up fresh pans with a broken faith for foundation. Maurice was young, and w'ausd find out new interests—nay, had found them already. Noihiug ever troubled him long .'night the father bitterly; and he se. still and made no sign, while the slow hours ticked themselves past. Davidson went away to el'Callruu in the sudden revolt, and told him the tale of efaurice's wrongs. 1i'Calluni listened in much perplexity. Ills the- ories about prodigals were well known ; had lie not reiterated them over and over again in Davidson's unwilling ears? And yet he, too, had liked Mr. Alaurleo; prodigals often are rather likeable peo- ple—he would go and see him at any - rate, and there would be no harm done if they took some jeify or wine with them. "I believe it a-ae black currant jelly they used to give me when I was 111," he remarked on the way. "We had better buy a pot it's said to be strengthening stuff, if you give it a fair trial." This patient wets post giving ill a fair trial; he smiled faintly up 10 M'- Callum's perplexed face—talked a lit- tle disconnectedly about Nell, and his father, and schoo:pranks long ago— and finally drifted away to a much farther country just before day- break. Nettled her face down on the pillow beside him with a burst of passionate tears. "We were poor, and hungry, and coal often; butt he never said an 'unkind word to either mother or mo since the first day we saw him; and 1'31 ,ove hint 1'll love the very sound of his name al4 the days of my life." And some of tus—not prodigals by several degrees—need not complain 11 we get no Letter epitaph. There is something to be said on both sides. Was ever yet a flawless unas- sailable case recorded? Cheap vic- tories are worth little. Mr. Gather - wick vindicated Isis principles thor- oughly, carried Lheni out to the end; but there are times when he sits atone al nights listening to that clock tick- ing cut the hours, and feak' that he would give all his wealth for one sight. of the young face that lapsed out of the march .ong before ils time, for leek of a helping word ho might have spoken—a hand that he might have stretched out, (The End.) Good-bye, little boy, good-bye, I never lead thought of this, That some day I'd vainly sigh For the baby I used to kiss. That into his corner a man would grow, And 1 should not miss him nor seebim 0 Till all of a sudden the scales would fall, And one be revealed to me straight and tall, Tbon I should be startled and sadly "Good Lrye, little boy, good-byel" Good-bye, little boy, good-bye, You are going despite my tears. Yea cannot and neither can I, Successfully cope with the years. They fit for the burden that all must bear, And then at their pleasure, they place it there, 7 love you, too, but my heart is sore For the child who has gone to return no more, And deep in my bosom I sadly cur— "Good-bye, little boy, good-bye," CAR1? OF DELICATE CHILDREN. Perhaps no subject so appeals to the mother's heart as the hygienic rnan- agenrent of children who are born into the world with sensitive nerve organ- izations. Such children are increasing bemusing in modern times so many wo- men lead lives which put their nervous system on so great a strain that they break down, or if they do not break down, they are on the verge of ner- vous bankruptcy, It ought to be re- membered that the rearing of healthy children, those with sound bodies and brains is only possible when the par- ents have a large reserve of stored -up vitality. It this reserve is exhausted in any way, either permanently or temporarily the child will suffer, for there will not be sufficient of it for the mother to keep up her own bodily strength, and also to endow the child w•itb. it. It is for this reason etiattbe father and mother should not use up all their strength in work or worry iL they would give birth to: children with good organizations. 13ut nervous children once born, what can be done to repair the injury they have received. Thera are a few things which must be attended to. first and foremost is the question of nourish- ment. With good food adapted to the child, much can be done. Of course it size of a walnut, one rounded table- spoonfa'l of cornstarch' and the yours of two eggs. Stir the cornstarch into the miOk, then add the other ingrodi- encs• Bake with' an underorust only and cover with a merengue, to which add peenoh of salt wad thesamo quan- tity of cream tartarno sugar. Serve as an entree, not as a dessert. Green Corn Pudding. -Grate four dozen earls of sweet coxn. Add from One and a ,self pines to one quart of milk, according t6 the juiceinoss of the corn. 'Add tour well -beaten eggs, half a cup each 'of flour and butter, a table- spoonful of sugar and salt to taste. Butter au earthen baking -dish, pour in the batter and bake in a hot oven two hours. Eat ,tot with plenty of fresh, sweet butter. Succotash.—Cut the corn, from the cob and coo kit by itself. To every pint add half a pint of shelled beans, which have been cooked Lender. Season generously with cream end butter, add salt and pepper to taste and to most palates a teaspoonful of sugar Le an agreeable addrtiou. must not be Overfed, but in this respect however, there is not much danger, for it often has a dainty appetite and will net eat enough. Probably in our ig- norance the best food is good milk. Goat's milk would be preferable if it could be had fresh from the animal. The goat is so healthy and ]lardy, and it rarely or never has consumption— has it only when very badly treated.. If the child is old enough good bread should be added to the milk, and the addition of a little cream will not be, a bad idea, but go carefully in this respect and never overdo the deeding. The value of the cream lies in its fat, and such ahildden as the are con- sidering have to be managed carefully in regard to ratty foods. Only the most delicate and pleasant -to -the -taste fats should be used. If the teeth are developed they may eat moderately of nuts, which contain much fat, but it is bettor to give few of these at a time, and none if they are not fresh, or do not agree. The same may be sold of fruits. Let them have fruits of the best sort as freely as they seam to be demanded. I have seen such wonderful results brought about by milk, bread and fruit, or its juices, with young children that I do not hes- itate to speak confidently. The juices of apples, g.rapes, etc., may be canned, and dried fruit stewed and sugar add- ed make a fluid almost equal to milk. Nervous Children and Cold Bathing,— Nervous children will not bear very much cold bridling, they have not heat enough in their bodies to react against it. The sun bath suits them better, and enough spongingand friction keep them clean. The oil bath also is good and may be taken in connection with the sten hath. In giving the lat- ter do not let the sun shine on the head, but only on the trunk and limbs. Begin gradually and go carefully, as sun bathing may be overdone. After a sun bath a water bath is wellborne if not cold or long, and, indeed, it is necessary to prevent relaxation and weakening. Do not expose nervous children to cola unnecessarily, keep them warmly dressed and so as to keep the heat of the body and the blood evenly distri- buted. Let the clothing be wool, soft knitted goods are preferable. :Do not demand too much exercise from ner- vous children. Do not let them study too much or goto school too early. Of course their minds must be pleasantly em- ployed, and the kindergarten may be available after they are three years old, Cultivate in them a love of na- ture and out-ol-door life., especially in pleasant weather. This is the true grand kindergarten, Do not forget they need companionship. Give them a good, comfortable bed, where the air as pure, and do all sem can to promote healthtulesleep, They should not sleep cold. • A warm, soft bed is best. So far as possible keep them happy. Bap- piness is so closely connected with benne that they really go together, but if happiness does not come from a sure plus oC vitality, who not only know how to love but to live on the same plane as that of the child. 'Teach it to amuse itself, and to do for itself so far asyou can. %Isis is often hard, but in most cases it can be done. The nervous child of good stems may and often does develop into the robust man or woman, and when this is the rase, 1t fully repays thefond. parents, who are happy when their children de- veopihctedetrbrs, and miser - le n they do BEGIN IN TIME. The busy woman or the woman who has many friends to remember with gifts at Christmas needs to commence early if she intends to make these re- membrances herself. There are pretty little frames to embroider for the skill- ful needlewoma 1, besides doilies, cen- ter pieces, sachets. and a number of other inexpensive trifles where the nee- dlework makes thorn pretty For the woman who can use paints and brash there is generally no trouble to get up something pretty fox' her friends. Such cheep things as wooden bowls and plates, or caramels, but gracefully- shaped bottles, LC given a coat of paint for a background, may be decorated with flower sprays, and snake lovely ornaments at small cost. So many of these dainty trifles oast little, but they require considerable time to make, so it is idea to start in time. Then none needs to be forgotten, and there is no rush in the last few days to finish ev- erything.• FANCY _MITTENS. 101'411111ED AND HELPLESS. Rheumatism hos Hordes of Victims, and is no Respecter of Persons— South American Rheumatic •Cure Re- sists els Cruet Grasp, and. Heals the Wounds be Inflicts—Blelief in Six Il•Loure. Geo, W. Platt, Manager World's" Newspaper Agency, Toronto, says: "1: am at a loss for worde to express my feelings of sincere gratitude and thankfulness for what South Ameri- can merican Rlreu,matia Cure has done for me. As a result or exposure 1 was taken with a severe o.ttaclr of rheumatic fever white affectest bath my knees. I suffered pain ailncet beyond human enduraal;re. eleviog heard of marvel. - outs cures by South American Rheu- matic Cure, I gave it a trite. After taking three ddses the pain entirely Jert ,one, and in three days I left my bed. Now every trace of. my rhea- maLism Lias disappeared." Nald ler Deadlman & NIr,Call. ' Saxony yarn ; any combination of nine stitches. Knit eine plain rounds for him, then one round 1, o, n, nine TRE PitOGRE88 OF VIBE I MINT lITfl BIG JOE PA HL THE OLD CITY STOVES IN A SOME- THE VOYAGE OF THE DIANA' TO WHAT LEISURELY FASHION. HUDSON BAY. 501145 hewn There heels apo Saw TAlnts no as A, 1'. IOW, er Olio Geoleglcal. Morey, Iles, I 111 k Cep i 1113 with 0x+ IteNt or a. to /User P4n!ca pts tlValh price, trot Game livanp In Abrwulancc, Rion, Francois Langdlier, in an article ho P, Low, of the Geological Survey, `olio in La Semeine Commerciale, of Quebec, wont north last spring with the after carnlllirnenting Mr. Bertha, the D, tame, retainedto Ottawa the other editor, upon the truths contained in day Tile Diana entered Hudson's strait on' Jubilee day, June 32nd, On 1 eribes Iltc Voyage—'So 111lncral iliNed1v- seenery—Tl' ' rollett•Inglteniarlcs Apply a recent article by ]rim entitled "Les Elements du Progress," proceeds:— July 0th; she mot thielr weather and. " A1! those to prises 'which have t fest a° ualr on the Jth grass from rowing in she reeetea loose ice, and on the 12th prevented the $ clear water in Reclaim Bay. On the the streets of Quebec have mot with 10tH July DIr. Low's party were lana - the same objections as 'those of which ed near Douglas harbour, a place Dor. you speak in connection with the el- Low describes as affording first rate is railway. Whenever something was f es in ani p enterprises all shelter. On the 18th the Diana (steam - new is spoken of, same one says ea areae and Mr, Low set forth on his• coast -wise in the air, it might do in Mont- or On the real but it is useless in Quebec; it is -wise journey eastwards. useless to think of it.' Seventeen years 30th their yawl became fast in the ago my brothers and myself obtained seers ice and remained until the 1st a chary to bade the Quebec u 'Teat," said Mr. Low, "was thalast moiancy & Charlevoix railway, and :C a we has compere - applied t of August. applied to all the capitalists who had tvesaw of the ice as money to embark in the enterprise lively plain sailing from then to the without avail. It was useless for me °lase of our boat voyage. The ice ap traffic pears to melt in the straits," to show them that the pilgrim IL was on the first of August the alone would pay the road's way' none party reached Stupart's BAY, whereof them thee I. risk their money. And some years ago, the Observer after notice that 1 only applied to men. who had thousands upon thousands of dole "peen the place 15 named, eatabliehod tars lying in the banks at 4 per cent; a station. Mr. Low found everything but th would risk thiol, You know inlaot at the station, Along this part in h thin ' roeke, towering to agheight of 700 stance. Wo were obliged in the end to roast Ilse shores are low and the coast sell Dur rights to DIr. Beemer for a navigation rather dangerous by rea- mess of pottage, and to -day the road son of numerous boulders, and the is probably the best paying one in Can- great ries add fall of the tide, amount - S ing to fully forty feet. Mr. Low^ sail- ada, but Quebec does not profit by it. ed uP Paine river sang distance, ex- T1ie same pray be the case with the el- ploring that stream. ectriu railway, which has been talked 30IJR011LR SOUTH about for years, and should have been a trip was made to the head of ,tope's spoken of long before in view of the Advance bay, the most important in- advantagesfor such an enterprise fur- Jet of Ungava bay, but. it was fuuud Lo 1pe much smaller it extent thaude- nished by the motive power of Mont- noted on the maps. 1\'.ioreover, Mr. marency Irons. It was only because Mr. Low satisfied himself that it bad no connection with the large indentation on the western side of the. peninsula in Hudson hay known as Mosquoto bay. Off the mouth of Hope's Advance lies the island of Akpatok, differing in its geological features Isom the coast, the latter being of the Laurentian and the island of saurian formation. Teeparty readied the southermcst part ofUn- gava bay on the 21th 00 August. There al Fort Chtmo In found the Mullion Bay. Company's steamer ls'rilr which had arrived on the 20th fromFort Churchill on the west coast of Hudson bay, the earliest passage on record. The cap- tain reported, however, that the ice pack bad been the most formidable in his experience of six years' navigation of these waters. Front Fort Ch.mo Mr. Low made a trip in his sail boat across to George river, on the east side of Ungava Lai}, returning on the 7th of September. Next day the boatandher outfit were put on the Erik, which took them out of the strait and around to Naohvak on the Atlantic coast, From St. Jahns, Newfoundland, Mr. Low sailed for home. 31 , Low's party made no mineral discoveries, but of game they found an abundance. Mr. Low declined to speak of the probable leugth of the Diana's stay. but says that up to November she will he able to force her way through the thio ice of the traits. Dr. Boli and his Party made a vary successful survey of the coast. They also travelled for seven days into the interior of. Baffin Land, and discovered an immense lake over 80 miles long. He further explored the region for gold, but found nothing of much prate tical use. u 6y no i of the route the coast is bold and the popular proverb, ' Who risks note- to g as no i g. 2,000 feet above the shore uncia curb Well, I found it true to this in- and east of that aloe tea LTngavrbay plain rounds, then t, o, n, • Sow your ,Beemer could not float his scheme in hem down to this row. NewYork that Quebec has not totally First row -30 Live, 1, o, s, eight, k I lost the benefits of the enterprise. For three, repeat. Every alteraate rotund p.rain. Third row—B three, n, 1, o, k one, 1; o,s eight, ktwo, repeat. Fifth row—K two, n, t, o, k three, t; thirty years past it has been the same old. story. In 1004 the late Eon. G. Breese and the rllessrs. Cote, on nty ad- vice decided to start the first boot and o, s eight, k cue, repeal. shoe factory, here, and It was necessary Seventh row—le ons, n, t, 0, k five. to see them at work, as I did, to believe t, o,s eight, repeat. what difficulties they had to encounter. Ninth role—B, 0 three, 1, , s eight, k The same people ono, with. knowing ones n, t, o, k tw of repeat. I aair exclaim, whenever a new enter- passEieventh row—le four, t, o, s one, u, prise is spoken of, ' what fools; nothing s one, over none t, 0, k three re- of the kind can ever succeed in Que- bec, though it might in Montreal; they will lose their money: These some peo- ple, or others of their kind, did all they could to discourage them. And as these parties occupied many of the highest places in the Quebec 0inanoiat world, they for years shut the bank doors against this growing enterprise which had just then so much NEED OF ENCOURAGEMENT. One day when I asked a bank cashier to .discount one of DIr. Bresse's notes for $500, endorsed by Messrs. Cote & Cote, our brave banker who was as weak on French as on finance, repli- ed: "On ne discompte pas pour les cor- donniers.' Would you believe it, but I myself .was obliged to endorse lir. Breese's notes in order to have them discounted for him. Be wanted to de- volve hiunaeif to the industry and was considered almost as a robber. But at the same time rotten Raper for certain wood merchants was discounted to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dol- lars. Teen what happened.? The boot and shoe industry, owing to the work, anergy and .intelligence of those who had commenced it, and our banks made their shareholders, almost all of them Quebecers lose millions of money. We have heard talk of the losses sustained by our city through fires, but what are they compared to those caused by our banks? if ell this money had been in- vested in industries, possibly some of it would still have been lost, but never a tenth of weet bas been swallowed up in the lumber trade. Moreover, a large number of these industries would have survived and contributed to • peat.' ,,lake the wrist as deep as you wont it, then begin the hand with four times across the pattern. To complete the pattern begin at 5th row. Sixty-three stitches is a good nexaber for mittens. MS SOURCE. Tommy, whose questions bad been le- gion,—Pas e- gion; Pa, whtre did Adam. get tbo names for all the animals? Father, absently,—II'rom tho tionar'y, nL course, to BAND IN NAND. Ilea1Kit and Happiness go' IIiina-in- Sealud—With Stomach' and Nervesa'lll DOM.G57'1C R1501PES, But of. Sorts, Health and, Ilappineee Are Unknown. THE ATLANTIC RACE COURSE. Atlantic Steamer,: Keep Crewing Riggin' and ne,10r, The new flyer, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, which, by a complication of gen- ders upon which the invertor of the German language himself could hardly have improved, is to be the "queen of the seas" anti: the still newer Oceanio robs "her" of this distinction, brings 00, as each of her predecessors has clone in her turn, the question whether there is any assignable limit to the advance on the Atlantio ferry. Is it worth while to burn 500 tans of coal a day, amounting in the course of a voyage to the cargo of a good-sized ship, for the sake of gaining two or three knots of speed.? Export opinion, as evidenced by the infallible west of willingness to risk money on it, seems to be that Lt is. At:ontio ,steamers keep on growing bigger and bigger and faster and faster year by year. The raiser Wilhelm der Grosse develops three times the power that has yet been obtaiasd at Niagara, and the Oceanic wilt be driven by e force a third greater than that. If there is enormous expenditure oL ens orgy while. the need lasts, the drain is soon over. The At/antis voyage is reduced to a sprint. A twenty-three knot ship can make two round trips in a year more thein one of twenty knots and when she carried. from, 20 to 40 per cent. more on each trip, there is considerable margin for coal bills. Twenty years ago the commercially attainable limit or speed seemed a mat- ter of very sinmee calculation. It was somewhere between sixteen and nine- teen knots. Unimpeachable mathe- matical formulas showed that the pow- er required to drive a vessel, tuereased as the cube or the speed, and it was soon evident peat au tills roto the cast of rapid transit wouthi soon be- come prohibitory. Bet the builders persistently kept on until they con- founded the mathomat,eians. 'Choy proved that the terrifying formulae ware accurate only wilhen certain limn its, and thet whenthe wearying hill between sixteen and nineteen knots was surmounted there was compara- tively easy traveling on the other side. The development of triple expansion engines fact,iitated the work and 110w tbo applioation or the wateerwheeLprin- oiple to steam power; opens an titimit•. able new vista of inspiring possibilities. What a torpedo boat canido a pas- senger steamer can do, it t be nacre worth her wi i:w. A ship as fast: as the iturlin.ia could m.•ilro the trip from Southampton to New York in less than Lour days. Corn Free l ors —Grate the corn, or 'Frank A. Gad:bole, Corned:20, Ont.,; with a sharp knife out the kernels "1 was for several! years a groat oaf- through the center and with the back ferer from i'ndigosuone dyspepsia; end of the knife press out the remainder, bettero go and tell . 50 father; he wants ncrtmusnesa. 1 Look many remedies • To cash oupfo1 allele two healon eggs, food and many things woo, tablespoonful of rich cream, or a rennet gat," without any, ra:iiM T sate ;iirul,h Anse Neeeih1e ad,ritied. 1 r4eer- sTnull Niece of butter, salt to taste, and aVfitur"It'll not make any diow whe, Mrs, ed a halal, and 1 Nein :truthfully say flour enough to make a rather stiff; Geseeew You dente makes what his 01 10 the 1:est medicine I ever usede batter. Drop in spoonfuls in hot fat, Gatliorw ek 15 wilier( lie up his well I ,strongly re,.canmend. it to any. . litre dm llu mrghnuts. Or ake the batter a kn"one suffering l did, ew doses trifle thinner and fry on agriddle like Bari for hits own. 'eon, Do go and a •A I ;tell him, pleaded Nell. wronae.rftlilY helped copra, rand two lint- pan.°akes. "Its es mule es 1517. pitta is worth," t!ei tiMee mate a new morn to me." ;Corn Custard Pie,—Otic cup of grate wed Davidson, aghast iyeyones d measure, It tures sey donee, anti:otnl,an tore nerve , ed, corm, half a Dolt of mills, self and "But it's Mr. Maurice. . I'M try it." p Tes 11 amen S, �Ik'tlo'll { pepper cayenne slightly ,molter the cies 11 i , , Nell event (sack to her husband,.. STILES CURED TN1 3 "1'0 G 'N'LGII'l'S. Itching, Burning, Shin Diseases Bp,- ' Roved In One Day, THE PROSPERITY OF THE CITY. "Slut Qnebeo is not the only place where peopleare ready to criticize those who wish to undertake some- thing new and call them brainless fools. 1 was in Ottawa when its electrio rail- way wee bulla. Ottawa owes it to two young men, Messrs. Ahern and Soper. For twenty years previously the city bad had a car service which bardly paid for the oats eaten by the horses, although it passed through the best streets and when these young Hien spokeiof constructing an electric rail- way n the minor streets, these smart Alecks,' who always knew more than anyone else, began to laugh at them and predict that they would lose all the money which they had made out: of building the C. P. R. telegraph line. Messrs. Ahern and Soper let them laugh and set to work. 15 two months they had completed their road, and in- side of a year they had absorbed the horse cars. To -day stock in 111> Ottawa Street Railway Oommmy is one of the best paying in the country. 1 am con- vinced that the same•will be the case with that of Quebec. Nob only that, but as in Ottawa, it well awaken the dormant spirit of enterprise in our peo- ple and effect a revolution in the city, Nothing succeeds like success,' and when people see this, they will no longer listen to these croakers, who at. ways say that nothing can succeed in Quebec and they wile then no lunger leave their money in the savings bank where it goes to feed the commerce of Montreal Then and then only shall We see the spirit of enterprise reawak- en Ln our citizens." Dr. A,giioW's Ointment will etre all cases of itching piles in from three to six Melee. Oneappltntion beings comfort:. For blind ane, bleeding piles it is peerless. Alen cures Letter, sa11 rheum, •eczema, barber's itch and all eruptions of the skin. 'Relieves in a decry Ali cents. 1 1 I Hold by I)oad.n,tn es MbColl, ANIMALS 1N GROUPS. The ingenuity of the sportsman, is, perhaps, no better Lllustratecl than by the use he puts the English language to in designating particular groups of animals. The following is a list of the terms which have been applied to the various classes: A covey of partridges. A nide, of pheasants, iA wisp of snipe. A flight of doves or swallows. A muster of peacocks. A siege of herons. Lk building of Maks. A brood 01 grouse, A plump of wild fowl, A stand oL Plovers. IA watch of nightingales. A olatterfng of cioughs- • A herd or bunch of cattle. • A Hoek of geese, ie. bevy of quails. A °wet of bawkb. , A trip of dottrell. A swarm of bees, A school of whales. A shoal of ]earrings. ,A hard of swine. A skulk of foxes. A pack of wolves. A drove of oxen. • A sounder of hogs. A troop of monkeys. A pride or lions. , A sleuth of beers. • 11 gang of elk, \YHERE MUS15AkelleS ARE BARRISD, Time was in England when the em- ployes of banks might not wear beards or mustaches. 7lhis restriction has in almost every instance long been re- moved, Ono exception still remains, The he aorto house of Coutts, where roy- alty keeps its privet accounts, deolines to aline the rule of a bygone age, and vtsiLors to its misdealt walls will note that its employes present a remarks - ley trim appearance. The younger claxlts yearning for those hirstute acl- orhments so door to budding adoles- cence have recently memoria ized tile partners on this subject; but, alas! without success,. PERFECTLY HEARTRENDING. Mr. Biker—Whose a horrible railroad accident l Mrs. Biker—Dene mol What's the death list? Mr. Biker—,Seventeen brand new '97 modeles. Oh, yes, and a score or so of people, I believe. EXPERT TESTIMONY. `•,`ihe Atitorney—You say you could not believe this person on oath? The Witness—No, sir' Oi never heard the, lady swear in my ioife, sir, GRAINS OF GOLD, Goch tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, --(Larne, Better three hours too soon' than one minute too late, --Shakespeare, The truly valiant dare everything except doing any other body an in- sury.--Sir 1°, Sidney. A truly elegant taste is generally; accompanied with excellency of heart. 1i'ieltlLng. A good word is an easy obligation'; bat not to speak ill rohttises,Only one Wends, which coots .us nothing,-T'tl- latson, .... . .... ,. .. ,