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£!tauadiau J'tattsmau. ~~DAY, APRIL 4, 1884-. L FE IN 'I HE B.AHillA.S. The·Neg1·oes and Their Ideas-The Cll· mate i< oll· and )!:neTvatlng. The most interestmg thmg m Nassau (Bahamas) is the colored people. It is fortunate that they are interesting, because t,here are so many of them. If one's mterest m them should ever pall, bfe in Nassau might even becomeopprAssive, on ac(;ount of the swarms of negroes which fill the houses and the st.reets. They fill the middle of the streets as often as the sidewalks, loiterrng along, chattering and lauglung, and calling to each other. Thell' voices are soft and rwh, the modulations very sweet, and they all speak broken English. Often it 1s hard to make out what they mean to say. In the market, where they are all gathered together, or among httle bands of them walkmg along the country roads, you will often hear African spoken. In the town the young women are often decked in wlute muslins, with fine hats, but the accepted fasluons for the settled matrons is an untidy medley of old clothes and a bandana bandkerchief with floatmg ends trnd round the head On top of this is worn a man's hat, Jammed down hard. Except when they shuffle a,round with a pair of old slippers hung on their toes, young and old go Buddhism in Relation to Christianity. barefoot Our waitress, m muddy weather, always sto1)s to wipe her barefeet At the last large meetmg held in Febon the doorsill as she b~mgs rn the dm- ruary, by the Victoria (Philosophical) Inner from the outside kitchen. i stitute, 7, Adt!lphi 'l'errace, London, a There are few mulattos here compared paper was read by the Rev R. C. Collms, to thos~ m the Umted States, and a large M. A., on Buddhism m relation to Chr1spro_p.grW>n of the colored people are m- tiamty. Referring to Lh parallels betense1y black Many are Africans, and tween the persons and characters of Budd, many more tbP. ch1ldren or grandchildren ha and Jesus Christ, he said -Take, as a of pure Afncan parentage. They make a promment mstance, the birth stones. I quiet and moffens1ve populat10n ; crime need not here give details, whrnh are to is rare among them But, on the whole, be found in any modern work on Buddthey are certamly not an mtelhgent race. hism. The supposed miraculous concepThe servants are much slower, duller1 t1on; the brmgmg down of Buddha from and nto;i:e careless than white servants. the Tus1ta heaven ; the Devas acknowThey seem unable to keep many ideas m ledgmg his supremacy ; the presentation their heads at once, and are cap11cious m the Temple, when the rmages of Indra and unreasomng as well as forgetful. It and other gods tlirew themselves at his is almost impossible in the street to get a feet; the temptat10n by Mara-wh10h colored person to give you a clear duec- legends are embellished by the modern twn. ['hey are very superstitious, and writer I have already quotod, under such carry on many £ their Afr10an practices. phrases as " Conceived by the Holy In case of sickness, if they employ a Ghost," "Born of the Virgin Maya," white phys1c1an, and the patient does not 'Song of the heavenly host,"" Presentaget well m two or three days, they send t1on m the Temple and ternptat1011 m the him off and gu tu a "bush doctor." wilderness "-none of these is found m This, one of them said to me, was really the early Pah texts. The simple story of the molit sensible thmg to do, because a anc10nt Buddhism is that an ascetic, white doctor charges a dollar every time whose family name was Gautama, preachyou go to see him, and you have [to pay ed a new doctrme of human suffermg, for the med1cme besides i but;;, bush doc- and a new way of deliverance from it. tor will give you advice and boil you up There is no thought m the early Budda big bottle of med10me, all for 26 cent1,1. hism, of wluch we read m the Pall texts, The but1h doctors p1·epare their med!cmes of deliverance at the hands of a god ; but themselves, from herbs and shrubs, the man Gautama Buddha stands alone in whence they get their title. Perhaps the his strivmg after the true emaneipation most logical of all their remedies is that from sorrow and ignorance. The accounts for an elongated palate. They wmd the of lus. descem;hng from heaven, and bemg topmost lock of hair on the :i-atrnnt's conceived m the world of men, when a head around a stick, twist it as close to preternatural hght shone over the worlds, the head as possible, and fasten it m that the blind received sight, the dumb sang, pos1t10J1. It is evident that tlus must the lame danced, the s10k were cured topull ~~palate up mto its proper place. gether with all such embellishments, are The often prescnbe the applwation of certamly added by later hands ; and if different leaves to different pa1 ts of the here we recogmse some rather remarkable body, accordmg to the ailment The likeness in thought or expression to chambermaid came mto the room one thmgs familiar to us mom Bibles we need morning with a shmy green leaf laid not be astomshed, when we reflect how "They's hme great must have been the mfluence, as I close behind each ear. have before hmted, of the Christian story leaves for a sick stomach," she said. The same girl, though involved m the m India m the early Ctlntur1es of the meshes of e1rror med1t:ally, was r<>lig1ous- Chnstian e1a, and, ptlrhaps, long subsely enlightened She warmly disclaimed quently. This is a pomt wluch has been any belrnf m magic ; but she assured the much overlooked , but it is abundantly German maid who was with us that she evident from, among other proofs, the would certl1mly go to hell if she did noh story of the good IG1shna, which is a say her prayers mornmg and mght on her mamfest parody of the history of Christ. knees. No other attitude would do to The Bhagavat-Gita, a theosoplucal poem save the soul ; and the girl was so earnest put mto the mouth of Krishna, is somein her teaching that she suddenly flung thmg unique among the product10ns of herself down on the floor to show exactly the East, contammg many gems of what how it should be done. Also she be- we should call Ohr1st1an truth wrested sought the German girl to get married, from their prnper settmg, to adorn this because no old maid 1s evH admitted to creat10n of the Brahman poet and indicatheaven ; but when a woman marries she is mg as plainly their or1gm as do the stories safe, as all her ams fall on the soul of her of his hfe m the Maha-Bharata ; so that husband. it ha~ not unreasonably been concluded I heard there was a native African that the story of Kr,shna was mserted in bush doctor and professor of witchcraft the Maha-Bhaiata to furnish a divine here, and went to see him. He had sanction to the Bhagaioat-Gita. If, then, spent tlu·ee years, they said, in a school as there is the strongest reason to believe, for such things, m Africa. He was ex:- the Chr1st1an story, somewhere between tremely black, and a perfect savage map- the first and tenth centuries of the ChrJs· pearanc~, though dressed hke his fellows. tian era, forced itself into the great Hmdu ----·~~~~·---He spoke little English, and that very epic, and was at the foundat1011 of tl1e most Civilization and the Teeth. brok"ttll: He told me my fortune with remarkable poem that ever saw the light m the help of three candles, a small looking· India, can we be surprised if we find One of the penalties of civilized life apglass, and a glass of water with a leaf similarly borrowed and imitated wonders pears to be decayed teeth. Dentistry and some black pms in it. The fortune m the latter Buddhist stories also 1 Sev- 18 an accompanyment of oivilization, was ordmary, but at the end I asked him eral Home and Colonial applications to and grows and flounshes much in prowhat I had better do about the pretended JOlll the Institute as gumea subscribers portion to the increase of luxury ana friend who, accordmg to his account, was were received, and its object being to in- wealth in any community. Can some secretly · "mtchm" me in the most un- vesttgate all philosophical and scientific one tell the world exactly what is the justifiable manner. questions, especiallY. any said to mthtate cause of all the tooth trouble, and what "If you want," he said, "l fix you up against the truth of the Btble,-a discus- is the adequate remedy 1 It is possible somethmg so if you lay er little stick on s10n ensued m which Mr. Hormuzd Raa- some may consider the remedy worse your doorway and she step on it she go sam, Professor Leitner, from Lahore, Mr. than the disease. Some wise legal au. crazy, ,or go to at13alm' and be sent to Coles, an earnest student of the quest10n thoritiea assure us the trouble is owmg to jail, or-..at1ything you like me to fix it. durmg 25 years' residence m Ceylon, so much hot food, and so many hot And I fix er stick so if you step on it, by Professor Rhys David, and others took drml<·. Others say that the breadstuffs de blessm' of Alm1!lhty God, you won't part. All agreemg m and confirming the we 11 ,. are too fine and do not contam get no harm at all." statements of Mr. Collms' paper. Dr. e1w1,g11 of the rngredients of which the I asked lnm if he knew imything about Leitner brought a large number of photo- brau of wheat is composed, and therefore voodoo. "Oh, yes," he said; "but voo- graphs of early Indian and Tartar sculp" the necessary tooth making matenal is Others againy that too doo bad, very bad." He said he didn't tures, s"b.owmg the first mtroduct10n of not supplied dare to use voodoo here, because he the Chnstian story into those monume1tts much cooked food is use<l, and therefore would be caught and purushed. If he between about the second and tenth cen- the laws of nature are vwlated as man was only home in Africa then he would turies, and he pointed out the value of origmally was mtended fur a.n animal use it. such add1tionalconfirmation of Mr.Collms' usrng r,iw food only. Others say that "With voodoo," he said in a whisper, statements. saleratus "and sich" have a very great _____..,. _...... "I sit right here and make a man's house d eal t o d o with 1t ; an d agam oth ers catch on fire anywheFe I want I make Every good act, says Mahomet, 1· tha t not enough hard f ood is genera11y a roan fa 11 .righ t d own dead and he dere charity. Your Sfil!lin!? m your b1otl1or's " used t 0 k eep th e t eetl1 m good h eat l hy d e maggots seven all crawl face is charity , an exhortation ~ of your exercise. p oss1bl Y a11 th ese and many · d d ays,I t111 k h roun , en ma e im get up and fellow-men to virtuous deeds is equal to 0 ther causes are pro d ucmg · the1r · pam · f u1 dance." I asked him if he could tell others how alms-giving; your putting a wanderer on results, but "ho. would pay attention to to make the spells. the right road is charity · your removma all these suggestions, even for the sake of ' stones ,and thorns fro~ the road I~ savmg !us eye teeth 1 . . 'If I tell, I be dead termorrer." charity. A man's true wealth hereafter The lnd1ans ?f t~e North We~t, it 1s re"W11l othei voodoo men kill your' is the good he does to lus fellow-men, ported, ar~ begil!-mng to su~er. a penalty "No, de voodoo kill me. ' from the mtroduct1on of civ1ltzat1on and He was like a child frightened at its Beneficence is a duty. He who fre Christianity among them. They never ol"'fi 1magmations. He seemed really to quently practices it, and sees his benevo- had d~cayed teeth before; they lived on beli~ve m his own magw, and be afraid lent mtent10ns reahzed, at length comes pemmican tough buffalo meat and of it. It was curious to watch the effect really to love him to whom he has done whatever ~lse came handy and' could of lus words on the big, handsome, high- good. When, therefore, it is said, not afford the luxury of sor~ teeth. But ly-respectable colored woman I had taken "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy- thmgs are changing now. At Calgary with me. She belonged to the Church s~lf," it is not meant, "Thou shalt love the Dentist , is at work along with of Englantl, had lived for years m the him first, and do good to him m conse- the Missionary. TRUTH does not know Bishop.'s family, and before we st.arted quence of that love-but, thou shalt do whether they "pull together" but the ridiculed all belief in such magic. But, good to thy neighbor, and this thy bene- Indian has learned to respect the temble a.s we talked about it coming home, it ficence will engender in thee that love "pull" of the dentist alone, and all his was evident that m the bottom of her to mankmd which is the fulness a.nd con stoicism and bravery gives way when heart she believed and was frightened. summation of the inclina.tivn to do good once in the dentist'a chair. Tbt foci; I thinlr the awful idea of a man to get up and dance under such unpleasant circumstances had overcome her skeptulism. The climate of Naii!sau is warm, soft, enervating. In summer and autumn the inhabitants are hable to malaria and bilious fevers, but these are rare, though not unknown, in the wmter. The trip to Nassau should only be undertaken by the most robust The climate may be good for some mvalids after they get here, but there is too much usk of their being damaged on the way. The voyage m the wmter season is apt to be rough, and the methoCls of reachmg the shore after the ship has come to anchor still rougher. The vessels now running to Nassau can not enter the harbor a;; all, and fassengers are taken to land by a smal sloop. But under some unfavorable curcumstances the vessel may not even he outside of the harbor, and may land the passengers, transferrmg then! first to a small sloop, and afterward to a rowboat, on an absolutely-desolate beach about sixteen miles from town. '!'his happened the mght we arrived, and, as the carriages sent out from town were entirely msuflic1e11t to hold all the passengers, there were a number of mvahds obliged to remam on the beach until the carriages could return for them about 10 or 11 o'clock at nignt It ramed frequently durmg the evening, and they were without shelter. An In citlent. In the cool evenmg twilight of a hot d(l.y rn August, I heard a footstep on the st<\lr followmg the mquiry, " Is M1S8 C. at home?" The voice was strange but pleasmg. I stepped from my room to meet, on the landmg, a form m the full fresh vigor of early manhood. Holding his hat and lookmg intently a ruoment in my face, he said, " I thmk you do not know me," to whwh I replied, "Pass mto the parlor, please, a better light may reveal a fnend." There are moments when we receive impiessions unmistakable, and an impalpable something becomes the medmm of truth as pronounced as that which the tongue utters, and this was one. I lifted the curtam and turned to meet the handsome eyes and sunburnt face of a traveller. .Another moment of mquiry, ard, steppmg forward he extended his hand saymg, "And you do11't know Dan!" The gemal grasp, the name, the handsome eyes, recalled a boy of sixteen who had been an mmate of my home twelve years before. " Yes, I do know you, Dan," I replied, and glad am I to see you. Be seated, please, and tell me the record of your hfe smce you were a student boy in this very house so long ago " And this is his story " You remember my mother l1ad died befo1"1J I came to hve with you, and soon aft0 my school year closed my father sold our tarm not far from here and boucrht a much larger one near a thriving to~n m Iowa I worked with him, and my sister also, whose husband had jomed his fortunes w1Lh ours, We were very prosperous and happy. The .rears went on when suddenly my father swkened and died. Grieved and bewildered our hearts were heavy, and our hands for a time powerless At length we all felt there was nothincr betrer to do than to follow out his plan ~f business. · "Less than a year ago I was in a field at work some distance from the house, when a storm of dr1vmg sleet came on, and my clothmg was wet through and frozen. I took cold, and the next mornmg I wakened literally stiff. I could not move without pam. This state continued several days, when my sister, becommg alarmed, took me to a water cure for treatment. After a close exarninat10n by the attendmg physicians, I was told if my worldly affairs needed attention now was the proper time, as my case was a critical one. This bemg fimshed, I was putmto a bath see~mgly in water at the boilmg pomt ~ a vigorous rubbmg followed, and I could move my limbs a httle. The process was repeated next day with equally favorable results My improvement was so rapid that my sister left on the third day and I remamed several weeks. Finally the day came wl1en I was to be d1sm1Ssed, cured, At the last mterview with the leadmg physician, he said to me, "Young man, you have had a narrow escape. Few persons have had so severe an attack of mflammatory rheumatism and recovered so quickly, or, if relteved at all, have not been crippled for hfe · One thmtz has saved you Had your blood been poisoned with tobacco 01 liquor, your chance for full recovery would have been very small." When he said this, Miss C , l thought of the advice you gave me the mornmg I left your home "I do not rememb.ir that I made you such a gift. If it were good I hope you kept 1t ; have you 1" I asked. "Well," said he, modestly, "I neither drrnk, smoke, nor swear. I have come to thank you for your counsel, and now must b1\i you good-bye" "But," I said, "stay to tell me if m all these years you have not found your mspuing angel, one to lead and lift, and love you, now you have left your boyhood's teacher. "Oh, yes," he frankly said, while the brown cheek grew browner with emot10ns my qutlst10n had raised. "I was to come for her last fall, but when the tune arrived she was miles away and I was so stiff I She waits my could not ia1se my hand commg now." His face glowed with well-earned. expectat10n of coming joys. If mothe1s m the othtlr life watch over their children, I should think, at this exalted moment hi~ mother's glance would make a shinmg passage m the heavenly ether through which, when hie is ended, a pure epirit might pass to rest. l followed him to the doorway ; he stood a moment in the lingering twilight taking m the boyish past and the manly future, then turned, saying, "If ever I come within ten miles of this place, I shall visit your home, and I . hope to find you here. Good night."-Sara A. Clute. shows how fa.st civilization is doing its work m the savage breast. Braves who evmced no emot10n during the selfmflioted tortures of the savage dances, and who would have maintamed their s oioism if bemg flayed by a conquering enemy, are filled with terror at the grip of the forceps. The dentist brings them to hum1hat1on and repentance; whether the M1sa10nary is successful or not. Has that Dentist put out the sign of "Draw mg, Music, and Dancmg," over his deor 1 If he has not, possibly the Indian victims think it ought to be there, or else the other sigmficant one, announcing "T~eth extracted here, with great pains." SOllE TRUPICA.L FUUITS. "!British Stra-.;berries," Mangoe~, DurJa11t<, Bavaras. Precocious Youths. The oldest people are all astomshed at the precos1ty of the present "rismg generation," or at least at a very large proportion of them. The "boy of the penod" s such a boy as was seldom to be found fifty years a~o. The prospect is gro_wmg somewhat senous as to the "fast" ideas of many of our young gentleman of today. A few weeks ago in a New York school a boy threatened with the birch showed how well prepared he was for self-defense by drawmg a revolve1 ft om his pocket. It was found on a subsequent examination that seven boys at the time in the school room was each of them m possess10n of a s1m1lar pocket piece. Theresultof such a fam1l1anty with deadly weapons, both for defense and offense, can be well enough 1magmed. One of the New York papers mtimates that ma great many of the other schools m that city and throughout the country school boys might any day be found the possessors of pistols, cards, cigars, tobacco, dime novels, and other sinular thmgs that too many mea are the constant possessors of. All these thmgs portend to evil. It will be a bad harvest that must be reaped from such a sowmg. Probably tlungs are not nearly so bad among the boys m Canada, but there are some md1cat10ns sufficiently suggestive. Who does not see boys of tender years, on their way to school with cigars or pipes m their mouths, and often with the most sensational blood-and-thunder dime novels m their possession~ 'Vho does not mvoluntary shudder at such debasmg sights 1 There is no use closmg our eyes to them. Our churches may put on extra decorations or add extra ·'stars" to then choirs, or increasmgly attractive men to their pulpits, who can put to route all the sceptical theories of our times, but it will require some other system of contendmg with evil to meet these causes of demoralization. The boy who sees his father or some other dtgmtary of the church pass down the street immediately behmd a pipe or a cigar can hardly be blamed for domg exactly the same thing. Every boy aspires to be "manly," and men must realize the respons1b1hty of thell' example. T1tUTH does not often hear a matter hke this squarely grappled with m the pulpit. Perhaps if it was somebody m the frcnt pew m111:ht feel red in the face and not at ease m Z10n. The literature to which boys too often have free access, is doing a very serious work-much more serious than the sceptrnal speculations about which church goers hear a very great deal, but see very little. It does not all appear m the dime novel either, though a great deal appears there. The family newspaper appears to be growwg mom it>id more full of su.;h thmgs ·There 1s a demand for it," s,tys the publtsher, and so it is supplied "that B.1d Boy" an<l other smnla.r debasmg thmgsof the "Spoopendyke" class are bemg found 111 publications little exWhenever there is a "demand" pocted that such thmgs must stop they will seldom appear, but not until then. Those seekmg moral reform of the people are surely C"aught nappmg if they do not see the plam tendency of all this class of literamre. Those who do not see these thrngs and yet make it their busmess to be "Watchmen," are surely very ineffi cient ones. They fail to see the evil commg when it is growmg and flour1shmg m their very presence. Qneen Victoria's Oversight. There is another great omisswn from the <tteen's new book Every one knows how ll:eenly her majesty sympathises with all the sorrows of her subjects. There is no railway collis10n, no minmg accident, that does not call forth ready express10ns of we>manly sympathy. Her public spirited patr1ot1sm 1s no less notonous. Yet tf we were to judge from this journal alone we might almost imagine that the slaughter of whole regiments of her own subjects m the Zulu campaign moved her less deeply than the fate of the young French adventurer who was speared in a quarrel m which he had no ooncern. In like manner. the royal mterests in the success of the campaign in Egypt seems to be overshadowed by the mother's concern m the safety of the duke of Conna.ught. All this is natural enough, and when it is remembered that these entries are but fragments representing the personal and domestic side of the Queen's hfe, they do no harm. But every one will not make that allowance, and the impression made by these entries will not be good. Most unfortunate of all the omissions, however, is the almost entue absence of any reference to the mterest which her majesty 1s known by all to take in the ameliorat10n of the condition of the poor. In her dnves about a country where thousands of the poorest crofters 11ve in wretched kennels h"1.rdly fit for cattle, hermaJesty carefully refrains from allowing a smgle outburst of shame and indig· nat10n at the misery and degradation which such lodging mvolves to appear in her published diary. This might not have attracted so much attentwn if it had not been that Her Majesty has printed two pa88ages in which she does make some reference to the very wretched little huts in which she found her subjects livmg. But m these instances, although declarmg that she can hardly believe that the cottages were meant for human habitation, she seems to treat them rather from the artistic point of view, as blots on the landscape, than as plague-spots calling aloud for the attention of the social reformer.-Pall Mall GazeUe. ,~ " When a man haa forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothmg will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. . lt JS the faslnon .to speak of our English hot-house fruit as superior to any tropical product. Tlns delusion is kept up by travellers, who come back with reports of what they have tasted m foreign lands-fruits from the ca.sual wayside hawker, or the bumboat-women at a seaport, or snatched untimely from the forest. These foster the preva1lrng opimon that all " the ambrosial fruit of vegetable gold," all the gorgeous produce of the gardens of the sun, is for ftavor and wholesomeness surpassed by the British strawberry. Everythmg worth cult1vat· mg is supposed to be already subJect to the donumon of the Scotch gardener, who, if he cannot grow it, condemns it as undeservmg of growth. We may count on the finge1s of one hand the exotic f1mts wluch have been added to our scanty island resom ces smce Charles II. 's g ~rdener, Rose, presented his frohc maJesty mth the 'Jist pme·apple produced m England That "as mdeed a noble conquest for English hort iculture, but what have we h,1d to bo,ist of 1 Two or three species of Musa, an equal number of Pcissijlora with a mangy mango or two, all rmc and stone, may be saHl to be the sum of our achievements The melon which is perhaps our greatest trmmph of forcmg, JS not pwperly a trnpical fruit, but a native of tempera.te Asia ; it was known to tho Greeks and Rom(l,ns, and has been artificially cultivated from tune 1mmtlmo1ial Of late years the Bnt1sh public have became more familiar with the taste of foreign fruit, owmg to improved means of commumcation with hot countries Pmeapples are brought from the 'Vest Indies which vie m size and qual!ty With the producte of our hothouses. Bananoas, imperted from Madeira and Tenenffe are bec0m111g almost as common as oranges. :Mangoes, cus.......,. tard-apples, avocado pears, shaddock, Our Immigrants. "forbidden fruit," h-tch1s (m a more or Surely somethmg more decisive must less dry state) appear m the fruiterers' windo\I s. These are still, however, cur1- be done m regard to the pauper imfillgraos1t1es, which serve only, when tasted, t10n to our shores. The matter is a more to confirm the popular superstit10n serious one than many of our men in wluch holds that there is nu fruit equal authoiity appear to be aware of. During to what is grown m English ga1dens and the p.ist wmter the number of fresh arrtvals that have had to be fed and cared hot-houses. Those who have lived in tropical coun- for at the public expense, has been sometnes know how unfounded is this idea. thmg astomshing. Durmg the month It 1s true, no rloubt, that a very large of February, the police authorities of proport10n of tropical fruits are bad ; but Toronto report that no less than 495 perto say this 1s only to say that those who sons applied for lodgement in the police live m countnes where the earth and the stations of the city, simply because they Durmg sun do much, choose to do nothmg. had no other place of shelter. F;ruits m the trop1cs arc produced m such the same time three of the char1t1es of ptofusion that the motive to cultivate the c1ty gave relief to 1,632 families that them is absent. They are not a luxury appeared to be suffering for want of rebut a necessity m hot climates, and the lief. The number of persons aided by question is not so much of quality as of private charities there is no record of, quantity They grow, and are not but it was very large. To the writer's gr.)wn, m forests rather than m orchards. personal knowledge there are some houses Except where Europeans have acclima- m this city, credited for bemg charitable, tized themselves, scarcely any trouble is that are visited a number of times each taken m the matter of selection, and week, by those des11 mg food, or aid in even the commonest processes of scien- some other form. Toronto is not worse tific horticulture, by wlnch the best kmels m this respect, probably, than our other are perpetuated in the best form and to towns and cities. It is just having its · the most profitable end, are unknown or fa11· share, and it has not been crymg out ~-----:--. neglected. The vast majority of tropical agamst its share of_the-bul'~~'"'a frmt trees are foft to train themselves, very serious matter, all the same, and and can, indeed, only be described as some remedy must be appl·ed. It will forest trees which have survived because not do to be having things go on this way of their accidental property of fruit-bear- mucn longer. It is quite true that the new immimg Under these cond1t10ns we should naturally expect to find many bad fruits grants are not the only helpless ones now m the t1opics-fruits which are e1th"r requmng aid ; but whoever has looked ms1p1d to our taste or positively nauseous much into the facts, must have become from too strong a flavor. We must re· convinced that these go a great way to member that to those who chiefly use swell up the numbers. The proportion them they are not only dessert, but dm- of 1mm1grants of the past year that are now all but destitute, and have to.be susner But that there are good fruit in the tained as a public burden on the people tropics-fruits equal if not supenor m is certamly large - much too large. flavor to the best of those a1t1fic1ally Whose fault js it ? Some blame the sysgro1Vn in English hot-houses-no expert tem 2f assisted emigration, by which the can deny. First of these is the mang.o,..- ~migration and sh1ppmg agents make a of whwh it may be said that, accordutg profit out of every man or woman that can to the variety, it is _either the best or be induced to leave home. Others blame the worst thmg that a man can eat-- the public authorities at home for trying either ambrosia. or " tow and turpentme " to get a large class of undesirable citizens It 1~ found m highest perfection m India, off their 11ands. Both systems may have The matter and m India in the districts immediately their share m the blame. south of Bombay. Many other provmces ought to be sifted, anyway, and the remboast of their mangoes; but the mango edy cannot be applied toosoon. if the propar excellence is that of Mazagong. The per remedy can be applied at all. In a few weeks more the "season" of variety is, however, mfimte ; aud they are of all sizes, from the largest Jersey immigration will set m and new comers pear to the smallest pippin, and, of all may be expected m increasmg numbers. colors. The Mazagong mango should be Those who come willmg to and capable of be long, green, slightly remform, with a takmg care of themselves will be welcome fine skm, a small stone, and no strmg1- acquisit10ns to our citizens. There has ness or turpentme. The test of a go0d seldom been a trme when mtelhgent and mango 1s that 1t may be eaten with a mdustrious farmers, with enough means at spoon ; though it is not with spoons, ex- theu disposal to start themselves m busi· cept by spoons, that it is eaten. It is a ness could do better in Canada than now. There is abundant room for such, and fruit for the closet, not for the dinnertable ; it is never wise to eat it with pro- their money will just now go a good way priety. Old Indians seek the repose of toward purchasing farms and the necestheir bath-rooms when engagecl on man- sary farm stock. The fact ought to be goes, of whwh not the least valuable made well known, however, by our au quality is that you cannot eat too many thorities that, just now there is no special of them. As for descnbmg the flavor, demand m Canada for persons without is is impossible. The best proof of its means and entirely dependent on their surpassing lusciousness is that nothing unskilled daily labor for their daily bread, can be eaten after it. The most exquis- nor is there room for mechanics of nearly ite peach, the most savory pine-apple every class or factory operatives. In all would be as insipid after a mango as a these classes the present supply is considpoulet a la Marengo after a Madras curr1e. erably greater than the demand, and in This precious fruit 1s borne on a tree consequence they are compelled to underbid each other for employment until a which is one of the hardiest and most prolific of all all tropical trees-not less very great many are not now earning beautiful for its shape and color, espec- enough wages to lay by anything for the ially m the t1m of blossom, than valuable future, if even to fairly meet present defor its produce. It has been introduced mands. It does not appear that those Canada. mto the New World from the Old, and grows abundantly all over the West has under good pay beyond the Atlantic, Indies, and Central and northern South or this side either, to watch well the inAmenca ; but except in Martm1que and terests of its people, are ta.kin~ muon in Jamacia, where some attent10n has pams, if any at all, to make publio th& been paid to the select10n of good vane- p esent condit10n of our labor demand~ and the hopelessness of laborers of any ties, it is comparatively ef infenor quality class coming here just now with any io. the West. reasonable prospect of finding renumera'.l'he mangesteen, by some epicures es- tive employment. If the people's agents teemed equal to the mango, is a frnit of aredomgso it would be well for themselves a much mo1e limited sphere, its true home and satisfactory to the people to let the being the Malayan Penmsular. It has a facts be well known. It 1s neither fair to. flavor perhaps more delicate and refined the people of Canada nor to the peopleo than that of its rival, but it is certamly abroad looking to Canada as a probable not so lusctous Another famous fruit of home, to conceal the plain truth just this part of the world is the durian, now. which nature seems to have composed in Speakmg of feats of strength remind!!' a, kind of perverse frenzy. Over it and in it is a perpetual struggle of odors and us that we saw a Fort Wayne man knock of flavors, the nastiest and the most ex- down a horse and two cows the other day. quisite. What the imaginat10n is re- He was an auctioneeT. quired to conceive is something which is The conditions of success are these ~ neither sweet nor acid nor jucy, but a First, work; second, concentration; third, mixture of many diverse things-such as fitness. Labor is the genius which. custard flavored with almonds, rotten changes the ugliness of the t w9r.ld into. onions, sherry, and very ripe Stilton- beauty ; that turns the greatest curse into. with, over all, a sense as though a civet a blessing. in high condition had rolled m it, leaving what Mr. Wallace calls "a rich glutmous smoothness such as nothing else posesses." He who has the cou;rage to brave the smell and to eat is lost. After that he is enchanted, hke those who tasted of Lobos The " voices of his fellows are thm." if they call him to give up dunan. Durian he must eat, even though of durian he .smells, as long as that entrancing contradictory, and mcomprehensible fruit lS m season. To eat durian is a new sensation, such as might kmdle even an appetite blunted on Galle prawn currtes. Of other fruits of this clime is the banana, which no one can be said to have eaten in perfection who has not eaten 1t in Malacca. There are some .lifty varieties of this fruit m the Straits, rangmg from the huge plaintam (which is more vegetab1e than fruit) to the tmy "lady's finger," and m color from purple, through every shade of yellow, to green. The most esteemed variety is one unknown to the West called RaJa Pisang-Kmcr Banana-which is green outside and rich gold w1thm. This is as super10r to the mawkish soapy article dispensed at the English fruite1ers as a Jersey navet is to a Swecbsh turnip. It may be doubted whether there is any vegetable product so valuable to man, or one that gives so large a return for the labor expended upon it. Another fruit which is grown m perhaps its highest excellence m the Malayan Archipelago is the pme-apple ; of which, however, we need not speak, except to demur to the opm10n which holds that the hot-house pme 1s superior to all other pines. That a well-giown English pine is better than the great majonty of pmes produced m the tropics is true ; but that pmes may be and are grown, with common care, m the trop10s, of a rwher flavor than any which are the product of artificial heat, is equally certam. Brazil is said to be the native country of the pme-apple .-St. James Gazette. ____ ....... ~-----