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The Brussels Post, 1891-1-23, Page 3JAN, 23, 1801 THE BRUSSELS POST. A TREASURE OF THE GAL- LEON. i,. no OM netts% 1,i, Hee futlier's house was nearly 0 utile '+ 'front the tom, but the breath of it was al• ways strong t t tit i windows and doors in the early mu Din ;, and when there were heavy"otso, s ars" blowing in the win - tor, te wind be -night the sharp sting of ,and to her cheek and the rain an odd taste of salt to her lips. On this particularpocent- ber afternoon, however, as eho stood in the doorway,it seemed to be singularly calm ; the soutwest trades blow hot faintly and earthly broke the crests of the long Pacific swell that lazilyrose and full on the beach, which only 0 lanting copse of sarub-oadc and willow hid from tho cottage. Nevertlie- less the know this league -long strip of shin - clog sand much butter, it is to be feared, ;j than the scanty flower garden, arid end stunted by its contiguity. It had been her playground when she first came thorn, a motherless girl of twelve, and she hadhelp- ed her father gather its scattered driftwood -as the fortunes of the Millers were not above accepting those occasional offerings of their lordly neighbor. "I wouldn't go far today, Jenny," said her father, as the girl stopped from the threshold; "I dont trust the weather at this season --and besides you had bettor be looking over your wardrobe for the Christ, ma Eve party at. Sol Catlin's." " Why, father, you don't intend to go to that man's ?" said the girl, looking up with a troubled faro. " Lawyer Miller," as ho was called by his faw neighbors, looked slightly embarrassed. " Why not?" he asked in a faintly irritated tone, Very well l Do aa you like," he replied, with affected carelessness ; " only I thought as we cannot afford to go olsowhere this Christmas, it might be as well for u5 to take what we could find here:" "Take what we could find hero 1" It was so unlike him -be who •hadalways been so strong in preserving their little domestic re• fin entente in theirrude eurrounclings that their poverty had never seemed meat, . nor their. seclusion ignoble: She turned awaya to con. veal hot indignant color, She could share • the household work with. a .squaw, and tf Chinaman, she could fetch wood and water. Catlin'had patronizingly seen her doing it, but to dance to his vulgar pipping -never ! She was not long in reaching the sands that now lay before her, warm, sweet -scent- ed from short beach grass, stretching to a dim, rocky promontory, ar.d absolutely un - trod by any foot but her own. It was this virginity of seclusion that had been charm. ing to horirlhood Ifenced id between the impenetrable hedge of scrub oaks on the one side, and thu.liftinggreen walls of breakees tipped,with cheveaux de frise of white,foam on the other, she had known 18erfect secu- rity for her sports and fancies that had cap- tivated hor town•bred instincts and native fastidiousness. A. few white -winged sea. birds, as proud, reserved and maiden -like as herself, had been her only companions. And it was now the custodian of her secret -a secret as innocent and ohildlike as her kprevious youthful fancies -but still a secret nown only to herself. Ono clay she had come upon the rotting ribs of a wreck on the beach. Its distance from the tide line, its position and its scop imbedding of sand showed that it was of an- cient origin. An omnivorous reader of all that pertained to the history of California, Jenny had in fancy often sailed the sen8 in one of those mysterious treasure ships that had skirted the coast 10 by -gone days, andher sheat once settled it in her mind that discovery was none other than a cast -away I Philippine galleon. Partly from her reserve end partly from a suddenly conceived plan she determined to keep its existence as un- known to her father, as careful inquiry on her part had found it was equally unknown to the neighbors. For this shy, imaginative young girl of eighteen had convinced herself that it might still contain a part of its old treasure. She would dig.for tt herself with. * out tolling anybody. If she failed, no one would know it ; if she were successful she would surprise her father and perhaps re- trieve their fortune by less vulgar ,meats than their present toil. Thinks to the se- cluded locality and the fact that she was known to spend her leisure moments in wan- dering there, she oould work without sus- picion. Secretly conveying a shovel and a few tools to the spot the next day, she set about her prodigious task. As the upper works were gone, and the galleon not large in three weeks, working an hour or two each day, she had made a deep excavation in the stern. She had found many curious things -the flotsam and jetsam of previoue storms -but as yet, it is perhaps needless to say, net the treasure. To -day she was filled with a vague hope of making her discovery before Christmas Day. To have been able to take her father something on that day -if only a few old coins -the fruit of her own • unsuspected la- bor and ,intuition -not the result of vulgar barter or menial wage -would have been complete happiness. It was perhaps a some- what visionary expectation for an educated girl of eighteen, but I am writing of a young California girl, who had lived in the fierce glamour of treasure hunting, and in whose sensitive individuality some of its subtle poison had been instilled. Howbeit, to -day, she found nothing, She was sadly hiding her pick and shovel, as was her custom, when she discovered the fresh teeth of an alien foot in the sand. Robinson Crusoe Was not more astounded at the savage footprint, then Jenny Miller at this damning proof of the. invasion of her sacred territory. The footprints came from and returned to the apse of shrubs. Soma one might have seen her at work 1 But a singular change in the weather, overlooked to her excitement, here forced itself upon her. A light flim over sea and sky, lifted only by fitful gusts of wind, seemed to have suddenly thickened, until it became an opaque vault, narrowing in eir- eumference es the wind increased, The pro- montory behind her disappeared, as if swat - lowed up, the distance before her seemed to contract; the ocean at hor side, the color of dull pewter, vanished in a sheet of slanting rain, and by the time she reached the hotted half running, half carried along by the quer- tering force of the wind, a 'full gale was blowing. It blew all the evening, repohing a climax and fury at past midnight that was remem- teres for many years along the clast. In the midst of it they heard the booming of can - lion, and then the voices of neighbors in the road.•"There . was," said the voices, " a big steamer ashore Met afore tho house." They dressed quickly and ran out. Hugging the edge of the apse to 'breathe cul evade the fury of the wind, they strug glad to the sande. At first looking out to seatho gill mw nothing but foam. Bob, fol. loving the tiiration of is neighbor's; arm for in that will. tumett'08an alone seemed s eoehloss, she saw directly befote ler, so close Open her tootshe'bould have threivn a pebble on board, the high' bows of a shop,, Indeed, Its vorymarnoas gaee hot' the feel. Inh'het it wee already saved, Ind its oo. oaalonal heavy roll to leeward, drunken, a helpless, ludicrous, but not et wfntl , brought a hysteric laugh to her lips. Bit when a ]arid blue light, lit In the ewinging�g t»p, Showed a number of black objoets, clinging to bulwarks and rigging, end the sea wife languid heavy cruelty, pushing, rather than boating then away, one by ono, site .know Huth Death was t11500, The neighbors, her fatller with the other's had been running hopelessly to 01111 fro, or cowering lin groups against o copse, pse when 1 suddenly they uttered a cry -their first of joyful welcome. And with that shonb, the man elle mat despised and hated, Sol. Cat, 1111, mounted on 0 "calico " mustang, as outrageous and bizarre as himself, flashed among them. In another moment, what haul been fear, bewilderment and hesitation, was changed to courage, cOnfidenee'cnid action. The men pressed eagerly around hien, and as eagerly dispersed minor his quick command, Gal- loping at his heels'. was if team with a whale- boat, -brought from the river, miles away. Ho was here, there and everywhere ;catching the line thrown by the rocket from the ship, marshalling the men to haul it in, answering the bail from those on board above the tem. pest, pervading everything and everybody with the fury of the storm; loud, imperious, domineering, self-asserting, all sufficient and euccoesful ! And when the boat was launch- ed, the last mislay inputse came from his shoulder. He rode et the helm into the first Banging wall of foam, erect sad trium. plant I Dazzled, bewildered, crying and lashing, she hated him more than ever. The boat made throe trips, bringing off, with the aid of the hawser, all but the sailors she had seen perish before her own eyes. The passengers -they wore few- tine captain and officers, found refuge in her father's house, and were loud in their praises of Sol Catlin. But in that grateful °horns a single gloomy voieo arose, the voice of a wealthy and troubled passenger. "I will give," he aid, "five thousand dollars to the man who brings me a box of securities I left in my state -room." Every eye turned in• etinotively to Sol; he answered only those of Jenny's- "Say .ton thousand, and if. the dod•blasted hulk holds together two hours longer, I'll do it'—mo ! You hear mil My name's Sol. Catlin and when '4;4Y a thing, by -•-, I do ib." Jenny's disgust here reached its °limo::. The hero of a night of undoubtedeuergy and courage had,blotted it out in a single moment of native vanity and vulgar avarice. - Ile wee gone; not only two hours, but day- ligh Chad cone and they were eagerly soaking him,whenhe returned among tltem,•lrippping and-empty-haided. He had reached' the ship he said, with another; found the box, and trusted himself alone with it to the sea. But in the surf be had to abandon it to save himself. It hail perhaps drifted Ashore, and might be found ; for himself, he abandoned his entire to the reward. Had he looked abashed or mortified, Jenny felt that she might have relented ; but the Wagged was as all -satisfied, so confident and boastful as ever. Nevertheless, as his eye seethed to seek her, she was constrained, fn mere polite. nese, to add hor own to her father's condo- lences. "I suppose," she hesitated, in pas- sing him, "that this is a more nothing to you after all that yoto did last night that was really great and unselfish." " Were you never disappointed, Miss?" he said with exasperating abruptness. A quick consciousness of her Own thank• less labor on the galloon, and a terrible idea that he might have "ome suspicion of it, and perhaps the least suggestion that she might have been disappointed in him, brought a faint color to her cheek. Bat she replied with dignity : ' I really couldn't say. But certainly," she added, with a new-found pertness, " You don't look it." " Nor do you, Miss," was his idiotic answer. A few hours later, alarmed at what elle had heard of the iuroads of the sea, which had risen higher than ever known to the oldest settler, and prehaps mindful of yesterday's footprints, she soughther old secluded haunt. Tho wreck was still there, but the sea had reached It. The excavation between its gaunt ribs was filled with drift and the seaweed carried there by the surges and entrapped in its meshes. And there, too, caught ae in a net, lay the wooden box of secu'retiesSol Catlin had abandoned to the sea. This is rho story as it was told to me The singularity of coincidences had °hal- longed some speculation. Jenny insisted at the time upon sharing the full reward with Catlin, but local critics have pointed out that, from, subsequent events, this proved nothing. For she had married hien WIRELETS. Sir John Macdonald was 70 years old Saturday. Two boys were drowned on Saturday while skating near Bronte. Guatemala is improving its army with a view of "getting even" with San Salvador. Judgment hi the case of the North Bruce election petition has been postponed till the 17th instant. A Madrid despatch says that Padlowski, the murderer of Get. Seliverskoff, has been captured in Spain. Two steamers were sunk by collision in the Firth of Forth Saturday and thirteen then were drowned. A despatch from Gen. Miles says the hos- tile Indians aro moving in towards the agency to surrender. A Russian gentleman committed suigilo at Monte Carlo on Friday because of losses at the gambling table, Prince Edward Island delegates wore at Ottawa seeking financial aid from the 1)o - minion Government. Mr. Gladstone has written a letter to Mr. Furness, the Liberal candidate in Har- tlepool, setting forth his views on the poli- tical situation. On Saturday night a wooden flour mill near Guelph was burned, and next evening Present's large stone mill in the same city was destroyed. He Was Whipsawed, "Can yeti drive ?" asked a fair young East Hind damsel, as she stood by the side of her adorer and gazed out of the window at the snow. "0, yeti," replied the young man, nitbhink ingly : " I'm quite a good driver," ' And it looks like good sleighing," the girl went on: " Y,e,es," The young man relapsed into silence, which was occupied chiefly in mental cal- culations a0 to how many sleigh -rides at current rates ho could afford on hie $10 a week salary. You said you could drive, didn't you?" asked the girl, resuming the subject., "Well -ere -We been a long time since I did much driving, and I'm afraid ft would hardly be 'safe for mo to undertake it," "0, I'm so sorry; I was just ping to ask papa to have the cutter hitched up so We 0on1d take a ride." YOUNG FOLKS. GRANDMA AND BERTIE, " There's a little chap as wants tc spako will yes a min it, Mistime Harding, "Indeed? Weil, suppose you ask Min 1,0 oomeright 111 stere, Noah." Mr. Harding and his dh ifo wore silting at the toa•tttblo, which was very neatly spread, and the room and all its furnishing seemed entirely inkeeping with the wealth and taste of lis mistre05. The boy,who might have been 12 years old, canto rather timidly, into the room, fully conscious of his bare foot and the daintiness -of the carpet beneath them ; but, there Wee a fearless, bright, bravo look on his face that at once won him a welcome. " Well, thy boy, you wished to see int, Norah said," Yessir, I -I did, I come a•purpose." "Yes? Is it on business? You look rath- er young for business matters." " Oh, l'tnolder'nllook, an' Ivend tohire your house -the one in the lane." "That shanty ? Why, I told Perkins to tear it down next week, It's rather a blot on the farm, I think, What do you want of it ?" ' Want to live there -me an' gramma." " And where do you live now "Down by the mill, an' it's cm.orful dirty an' noisy, an moll rough folke about that gramma don't like it, but if we could git that little house o' youth, we'd think -why, she sold it'd bo next door to heaven." "Dear me, Mary," said Mr. Warding to his wife. " To think that any one should cast longing eyes on that mese-green hut," But there was a smile full of meaning on the lady's face as she filled a plate with good things and banded it to the child, saying: pleasantly : " Your grandma Would like . to live there because it's quiet and eho loves the country ; isn't that it ?' "Yos'm ; an' then there's currant -bushes along the fence an' hollyhawks in the gar- den. Gramme's a dreadful hand for holly - hawks, an' roses, an' sooh I" Yes, there are several kinds of old-fash- ioned flower's around there, I know, but you see the, house has been standing empty for some time, and so no care has been taken of anything about it." Oh, we'd fix it up real 'nice an' slick if we wuz let to Dome. Grandma said so." " What is. her name -and yours, my boy?" Mine's Bertin Wilson, an' hers -why, it's Mis' Wilson, en' there's only us two. I could pay $3 a month for the house. Would you want more'n that 1" "No ; I weld let you have it for that if I thought it was worth renting at'all." "Oh, but it is I gramma, and ane have been to look at it twict-outside, that is," "It isn't any better inside than out, Beetle," It's plenty good, we think. Ye see, I work in the mill. I get 83 a week now ; an pretty soon I'm to have a Hee in my wages ; 50 the boss says." " Then it will take week's wages to pay a month's rent, as the case stands now ?' " Yes sir !but gramma she does " finish. in"' at home, an' some weeks she earns pretty near as much as I do. Olt, we'd be sure to pay you the rent 1 We pay three now, jest for rooms, little an' mean they be, too, an' not a flower nor a bit o' grass with 'em." Bat have you though hof the long walk back and forth to the mill, and the bundles of work to carry to your grandma ?" " Yes sir. But Mr. Nolan -yon know Jim Nolan what teams for the mill ? Well he says I oars ride up with him every night." " That is very kind of Mr. Nolan." " An't it ? But ye see his little boy fell in the pond last summer, an' 1 -well, I fished him out before he got drowned dead." " Oh 1 I remember hearing of that. And so itwas you who saved the little fellow's tiro ?" ' That's what they said ; but !abbe somebody else would hey got him out if I hadn't, but Mr. Nolan has been dreadful good tome over sena." " I should think he would be. Well, if if you can ride with him, it will bo a great help ; but you must remember that it won't 'boas pleasant out in the country next win- ter as it is now in midsummer. The snow will be very deep sometimes." " Yea sir ; but Mr. Nolan says he'll see that I .get to the mitten them times. I've talked it all over with luau." " Ah 1 I see that you're quite a business- like little fellow, Well, Mary, what do you say ? Shall I snake a bargain with hint ?" Suppose we all go down and taken look at the house. Ihaven'tbeen there in a long time." ' That's a sensible thought. We'll look it over, and then decide whether to tear down or fix up." .The house in question was quits a little distadoe away, along the lane lending to the " far meadows." It was low and weather• stained, with tiny windows and projecting roof, and had an old-tbney look about it that would have delighted a relio-hunter. The little yard and garden were grass and weed grown, but rockets, white and red, and royal hollyhocks lifted up their heeds bravely. , Oh, my ! how gramma will love the out. doors to it I" exclaimed the boy. "I s'pose it's too lute to plant anything this year, an't it?" ' Yes," said Mr, Harding, " unless it's turnips or 001517." Then they wont in the house. Tho rooms were small and low•walled, end had a musty air from long disuse ; but the house. wifely oyosof Mrs.Iiarding saw possibilities of neatness and homely comfort m it for all, and watched the boy's face to read his thoughts. At last he said half reproachfully " An' you was gain' 'to tear it down -all these lovely rooms that lots o' folks' sides us would be so glad to git I" " No, my boy, I won't tear the hones down -not yet, anyway ; and you and your grandma can move in as soon as you please --- or the first of next month," he added, catch- ing his wife's meauin look, " That's good moving•time ; and I'll slave thereof mended, and loose boards nailed on, and weeds out, and so on, to make rho place look more pre. sentable.' "Oh, sir, please, you needn't do nothin' to the outside things. Gramma an' !e'll fix all that ; love to, if you'll lot ors tomo here." " All right, you're my toned 1 How will you move?" "Oh I M:r. Nolan'bl do that early ono mornin. Wo an't gat more'n a load, en' he'll set uj the stove, too. Hes an Orfthl good man 1" ' So he is. Well, good -night to you. 1 hope you will take a good dual of comfort here," • The bay's feet secrcely seemed to touch thegroundas he sped away' to carry the good news to his ranclmother. Mr,Ilard- and his wife watched hire out of sight,' and then turned to constilt;about the roams. " They frust have a thorough cleaning, said she, "aril. some paint, and paper, and whltowah will snake a world of differ. once," " Now May, don't plats how to spend the entire pewee income on the old hone be- fore the tenants even nave in 1" No one knows just how in will money and time Mr, and Mos. Harding did spend, but when Unwritten, Willson oamo to stove in she holdup liar 1101ntlain ama%ement and slid: " For massy salve. It's altogether Ho nice for the likes of us, Sortie 'That's what ib is I" The !muse was as clean and float inside as soap and water, paint and 1)01)0r could make 1t. '1110 tallest weeds had been out sway from the windows, but the re0t of the yard was, es Ballo bail begged, loft foe them to do as they pleased with. The furniture was old and n otvery plcutif ul, but it seemed to settle very kindly to Hollow rooms and soon gave tiled; a familiar aspect, and it was wonderful how soon everytipin seemed to got to rights. Bub Mn Nolaua strong arms put all the heavy orticlos in place and then took the boy with hint to rho mill, so that he 01wu1d not lose even one day, And all day Grandma Wilson puttered about her tiny place. Indoor and out, talk. ing to herself, half -praying and half -prais- ing, and sonothnes wiping away tears of mingled feelings as she oamo upon some old-fashioned flower or plant unseen tor years. "Blase me ! if here an't some balm, an' I an't seen a bit in thirty years or more, I mind how it used to grow in mother's gar- den, an' she used to steep the blows and col- or my hair ribbins in it -dreadful pretty color it made, too. Law 1 I don't know when I'vs been so pleased as I be to see those old-fashioned flowers, an' a -grow - in' where I've got a right to 'em. What a dear, blessed boy that Bertin is, to hunt around and finis such a comfortable home for hie old grandma 1 'Tan't many boys of hie age -no, nor them that's lots older -as would a -dorso It; but he's just as good as gold, 8o he is, blocs leis precious heart I" She could hardly wait till he came home at night to talk things over, though the day passed vary quickly. Mr. Harding had been up and down the lana with a pleasant word each time, and at noon Norah made her appearance, rod with heat and smiling with good nature, and bearing %large dish filled with something hot and savory. " Sdme chocking potpie forlyez, nom, an' the ini55u8'oe complements. She knowod in coorsotltey'd bo no chance fur yez to cook the day." Tho old lady gratefully accepted the pres- era; and returned a thousand thanks to the "omens," and than she made a cup of tea and had a grand dinner all by herself, and plenty, left over for slertie's supper. But, when the buy oante, he was too full of excitement to settle down and eat right away. He fairly flew from room to room, up and /town stairs, and in and out of the tiny house, tie if to conrmee himself that he was really in possession, and not dreaming. "And to -think, Bert, that we've got a spring," said his grandma, " It does seem so good to dip water out of a spring, jest as I used to years and yearsago. I at t felt so to hum in uo place this thirty years as 1 do now ; nor so kind o' cheerful sence you're I lived together. Now,if I only had a nice cat of my own -what comfort a cat could take here." " Au weuidn't that big tree be a grand place for awing, gramma? 1'd love to hey a swing." So you shall, dearie. An' it beats all how the birds do sing up here. I an't worked mor0'n half the time on account of listenin' to"em, and lookin' about." " An' jest think, gramma, if Tom Beiley comes in drunk to•nigltt, wo won't hear him, An't that gooll?" " Indeed, 'tie ; nor I an't had to hear Atm Wilkins an' her mother'n-law quarrel to -clay, neither. I toll ye, sonny, I'm one thankful soul for with a peaceful place to live, and it's all owin' to you being seoh a good boy to look nutter me." As soon as supper was over, Bert went up to Mr. Harding 0 house to return the dish and pay his rent. But his landlord said very kindly : You eau pay at the end of the mouth, r, if you prelate" - no, please I'd rather pay now. We'll feel more independent to pay u1 advance, so gramma says.' f Yes, Well, then, I'll write you a re- ceipt." ' An' we're orful thankful besides that you let us come. R o'ro going to take lots and lots of comfort 1" And perhaps there was no boy in all the land who was quite so proud and happy as the little tonent who went skipping home- ward in the dusk, Large Fields of Gypsum. Orr,twn, Jan. 15. -Mr. Costigan has re- ceived several blocks of gypsum quarried out of a veritable mountain of this product along the line of the Tobique Valley railway in Victoria county, N. B. It can be rend- ered into an excellent fertilizer by merely grinding it. It averages 85 per Dont. in purity, and one bushel of ground material suffices for ono acre. This gypsum has been in use for many years amr-ng the farmers of Aroostook, Maine, and was a common arti- cle of export until the United States Cus- toms laws pounced upon it and made the uty prohibitory. .the Office Boy's Revenge. The Chief Clerk (aside)-" Hit royal nibs ain't himself to -day. Kind of silent and sad. Wonder what's up?" Unregenerate Offtoe Boy (sotto vac)- " Guess my littlelan worked. Know'd it would when I fastened the typewriter's yeller hair on his overcoat last night. And I'll do it every time -leo calls me a chump, for Bing -Worm. Apply a strong solation of borax in saltand water, three times a day, or bind on with a compress, borax ground tom fine powder, and moistened with the solution. 9 Soolety Note, Little Chink-" What do you lot tha ugly little thing come under your wing for ?" Old Hen (who had in advertently hatched a dock's egg)-" I can't help it, my dear. We've got to put up with the creature, be- cause she belongs to our sob, yott know." A little praise is good for a shy temper ; it Malta it to rely on the kindness of otlt •rs.-(Laudon. Literary history is the great morgue whore all seek the dead ones Whom they love or to whom they are related. At Bath, Maine, yesterday, Edward Brown awaited the world's ehaon ionship for endurance in doh swinging, held by him for five years, but recently woe by Isomer Crawford, Brown swung 0 pound clubs for 0 hours and dl minutes, at 10 minutes longer than Crawford, who teed 8 pound 10 oeneeclubs, Brown averaged 66 11111 swings. to the minute, AND STILL Tan WILL STEAL, A Short Story or plow Nome Mee ftecome Defaulters. The now extradition treaty with Canada signed last winter 805100 to have materially decreased the number of large defaloations mud embezzlements in the Wilted States, but the number of little thea shoes no :fall- inj< oft ' We have on an average throe embezzle• mauls every two days," said the vice-presi- dent of one of the elty surety thiopental in New York a few days ago. ' Our business of bonding employes fs mainly ooifiued to Week', and railroad and enema moll, and the amounts we are called on to make good are small, The bonds id most oases are lees than $20,000, and fully nins•tenths of the ainbaozlomonts aro ander 510,000, "'!'Ito desire for accumulating wealth by opeculation is at bite bottom of nearly every case, and the first step the temporary use of funds trusted in his hands has boort the ruin of thousands. They need the money, take it, and probably return ie ell right. That is fatal. They think they tan take more and more, until iivally there comes a time when they can not make it good, and must take ,note in the hope that fortune will favor them. Discovery and dishonor is the inev- itable outcome. It may be delayed for a time, but it is bound to dome. " In all our business I recall only two or three cases in which a man has accepted a situation for the deliberate purpose of rob- bing. The people are not naturally dishon- est, but they tan not resist tempation, es- pecially when there seems a chance for them to avoid detection, and they ease their consciences with this intention unbil they are in the net too far to retreat and escape is impossible, The new extradition treaty has done much to stops peculation, but the vigorous prosecution of offenders hoe done more. The now treaty, however, gives more facilities for bringing these criminals to justice. Before in nearly every case of embezzlement the prosecution had to prove forgery in or- der to extradite, or else punish the fugitive in the dominion by prosecuting for bringing stolen property into Canada. As it is hard to identify me}, however, the criminal could ften dodge the latter charge, and not being guilty of the former, could sca o entirely, Now it is almost impossible for a man to escape, but in many instances the amount taken is so email' rand the cost of prosecution so great that the matter is drop- ped. In every casein which we are inter- ested we prosecute unrclontlessly. We must do so to deter others, and in many instances have spent far more to convict a mem than lois embezzlement amounted to. Common Sense. Oommon sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to bo done, -[C. E. Stowe. "Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, " is folly ; without method, it is waste ; without kindness, it is fanaticism ; without religion, it is death." Bat with common sense, it is wisdom ; with method, it is power ; with charity, it is beneficence ; with religion, itis virtue, and life, and peaoe.•-[Ferrer. Common sense is, Of all kinds, the most uncommon ; it implies good judgment, sound discretion and tact, which is practical wisdom applied to every day life. -[Tryon Edwards. If a man can only have ono kind of sense, let slim have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense, too, Ito is not far from genua -[B:. W. Beecher. Tho crown of all faculties is common sense It is not enough to do the right thing. It mush be done at the right time and place. Talent knows what to do ; tact knows when and how to do it. -[W. Mathews. The figure which a man makes in life, the reception which he meets with in company, the esteem paid him by his acquaintance - all these depend as much upon his good sense and judgment, as upon any other part of his diameter. A than of the best intentions and the farthest removed from all injustice and violence would never be able to make himself ntnch regarded, with- out a moderate share of parts and under- standing, -[Hume. Fine sense and exalted sense aro not halt as useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit to one man of sense. He that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for readier change.- [Pope. To act with common sense according to the moment is the bust wisdom I know ; and tho best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respect. fully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given its so touch happiness with it, whatever it is, and to despise affeetation.- [Walpole. He was cue of those men who possess a'+ most every gift except the gift of the power to use them. -(C. Kingsley_ Aphorisms, A woman requires no tutor to teach her lovo and tears. Ono self -approving hour whole years out- weigh. -[Pope. Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. -(Voltaire. A sound disoretion is not so much hull - opted by never making a mistake as by never repeating ib. -[Boren. A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that aotious, not words, are the true criterion of the attaeh- mont of friends ; and that the most liberal professions of good will aro very far from being the surest marks of it,-(Goorge Washington. Tho great man ie he who does not lose hie child's heart -(Mencius. Mankind are always happier for hexing been happy ; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. -(Sidney Smith. Most of our misfortunes aro mere sup- portable than the comments of our friends upon thorn, -[C. C. Colton. Business dispatched is business well done, but Wetness hurtled is business ill done.- (Bulwer-Lytton. Thorn aro moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, ' More expressive mar bo than all wordo over spoken, It is when too heart has an instinct of what In the heart of another is passtng• --l0wen Meredith. • New Mother-in-law Joke. Son•im•laov—I can't undaretand why the comic papers show such bad taste as con• sbanbly to publish jokes about the mother- in-law, Mother -in -law -It i0 really the greatest injustice, and I am glad to find a man at last wlto- Son-in-law--'I e, it is the greatest in, justice I A man is glad when Ile can, for is moment, forget his motloor-in-law, and to be eottioual.ly reminded of hor in this was is positively cruel,. LATEST BY CABLE. The Irish Muddle -.Destitution in London --Alarming Information, ft is understood thatMr,O'Brion will bring about if possible the resignation of Mr. Mc- Carthy and himself aseumo the leadership. Mt'. McCarthy is not et all unwilling to lay down, after his brief reign, his much divid- ed authority, Ile has no stomaoh for grap- pling with Mr, Sexton, Mr. Healy and other members of the party who compose such a difficult team to control, Moreover„ this work serionely interferes with Mr, Me- Cartby's livelihood. He is not rioh man, but must live by his pen. The evident of birth alone made him an Irishman. His colleagues regard suint as no genuine compa- triot. Those very insbinots of courtesy and moderation which recommended him to the English Liberals constitute objections with men who believe in rough, uncompromising methods, The public have yet to learn whether the balk of the party will recognizes; Mr, McCarthy's withdrawal in favor of Mr. O'Brien, even if the latter hi content to share his authority with the committee of eight others. The rigorous weather atilt continues, and the distress among the working classes caused by seven weeks of frost and Snow hes assumed terrible proportions, In London alone, it is believed, there aro nearly .204,- 000 men without work, and every city en the kingdom reports a proportionate number. Most of the local authorities have lamentably felled in their duty toward the suffering poor and private charity, although given every- where in generous measure, has proved aadlF- inadevuate, owing to the tremendousmagm- tude of the evil. The Socialist agitators never had more promising material for their purposes, and they are seeking to utilize it to the fullest extant. The Government has received information which proves that the ;agitators have for weeks past been busily engaged among the poor people inciting them to violence. Starv- ing men are told of the abundance, wealth, and the abounding luxury in the West End, and aro urged to seize forcibly that which they will never obtain by quiescent suffering. The agitators have not so far met with muck success, partly on account of the inherent orderliness of theBritish workmen and part- ly because there is not one among these sin- ister mentors who has had the courage to risk a broken skull by heading the westward march. But the powers that be are undeni- ably alarmed, and are quietly taking elabor- ate precautions for the preservation of the public peace. They have never quite re- eovored from the panic into which they were thrown a few years ago .when the . mob marched from Trafalgarsquat'e along the West End thoroughfares smashing and looting for a full hour almost without hindrance. Such an opportunity is not like- ly tobe given again to the revolutionists. At the present moment soldiers and policemen could be massed in great force at any threat ened point withinfive minutes of first alarm, and the knowledge of this face explains the cowardice of the agitators. Now that the recent financial crisis in London has been more accurately measured, it is apparent that the Barings' liquidation will leave the members of that great house very seriously stranded, the syndicate taking everpennythat can be realized from the Revelstokessets before they will them- selves plant a shilling to help the old house of the Baring Brothers. Instead of having £8,000 or £10,000 a year out of the wreck,. it almost seems as though Lord Revelstoke might not get more than £2,000. The ringer Nails. There is a common belief that the finger nails aro poisonous which idea is natural enough, considering the fact that scratches made by them aro generally quite irritable and much inclined to unusual inflammation. The reasoning is erroneous, however, for, as. far as is known, the nails bhemeelves do nob have any poisonous properties. The trouble excited by them is due to the foreign depos- its under them. In other words if one keeps - his finger nails clean, scratches caused by them will be no more irritable than those produced by any like instrument that is con- sidered innocent. The results of the examin- ations made in Vienna show thab it is more important that thefinger nails be kept cloaa than is supposed. Seventy-eight wore made and there were found thirty kinds of micro. cocci, cocci, eighteen different bacilli and three kinds of sarown; besides, common mold spores were present in many instances. It would seem from this that the spaces under the finger nails were favorable hiding places, for minute organisms which are more or less prejudicial to health, and that therein lies - the poisonous element attributed to the nails_ Furthermore, that cleanliness of the nails 10 a very important eseenbial. It is not suffi- cient to use merely a knife blade; but at the toilet a nail brush and plenty of soap and water should be celled into service. Surgeons long ago learned that deposits under the nails wore a menace, and that through them wounds wore easily poisoned. This led to extreme care in the matter of personal clean- liness on their own, part and on the part of all their assisstants. Before an operation is performed ell who touch the patient or the instruments which are to be used must first clean their hands thoroughly with soap and water, being especially careful to have the apnoea under the milt absolutely olean. After this the Mande aro put into disinfeotantsolu- tions. Girle Who Make Poor Wives. I never sot a potted, pampered girl who is yielded to in every wlnno by servants and parents, that I do not sigh with pity for the man who will some day bo her husband. It is the worshipped slaughter, who lost been taught that her whims and wishes are supreme in a household, who makes mar- riage a failure all her life, She has had ha. way in things great and small ; and when she desired drosees, pleasures or journeys which wero beyond the family purse, shit carried the day with tears or sulks, or pos- ing as a martyr. The parents sacrificed and suffered for her sake, hoping finally to 550 her well married, They carefully hide her. faults from the suitors who seek her hand, end she is ever ready with smiles and al- lurements to win the hearts of men,and the average mein is as blind to the faults of a pretty girl as a newly -hatched bird i5 blind to the worms open rho trees about him. ifo. thinks her little pettishways are more girl- ish moods but when she becomes hie wife and reveals hor selfish and cruel stature he is grieved mut hurt to think fate has been to unkind to hint, t1ndor all spook that is good for anything there lips a silence that is better, 5ilonee 10 deep as eternity ; speooh is shallow as bane.- .tlbazlitb.