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A. BAD WKBOK OB the N. p. 8 r,,, m ,uns Among the injured. A llatena, Mont,, despatch sayi : moat wreck occurred ca the Northern Pacific liad on Tuetday afternoon. No. 1 th* 1'acitic fast train, wai nearing Drum mond, fifty miles west of tbii city, when two sleeper* were thrown down a thirty fool embankment. The passengers of Ih first car were thrown violently from thn seats and huddled into a matt, while those in the tecond fared hut little better. Alias May C. Carson, Fort Sherman Idaho, wai injured to badly that she diei within an hour. A dozen others were in jured, the most seriously bnrt being A. M Otto, Northern Pacifio Kxprea* auditor who had hit arms broken and badly bruited Mra G L>. Howe, I aribault, Minn., leu injured . Annie Benson, Waterville, Wai-h ington, nbnnlders iiijnrtd . James Blrcim Heppner, Oregon, injured in legs and body Mri James Klocnm. arms and uhculdert injured , Mrs. Ji 1m (.alley, New Vurk, face and bead cm , Mrs. A. time, Kingston Ont., internal injuries . htr child was also njored . K. K. Hiaaley. Port Towntend Washinxtvu, head hurt , Elijah Bmitb, Ne York, hand* cut and shoulders hurt ; W L. 1'atth, Mmceajolis, arm burl; Mra W. I. Patch, face, bead and arms lacerated. Tbe sleepers were badly amaahed Several of the wounded are dangerously burl, but pbyiiciact say no more deaths will retail. The wounded were taken to tbe Northern Pacific lloepital at Mittonla, wberetvery thing ii- being done fir them. A Tit \ AS l-I.Ol'D-HUKST. A Train Flood-Hound by thi- W-lilnic Out of Tlr- A Van Horn, Tei ., dei[atcb of last night say-: A remarkable cloudburst on the monctaici baa slopped irsrlic temporarily on the Ttxaa Pacific railroad to day. The noon train out of Kl Paso, eastward bound, bad three coaches, a sleeper, and tbe special palace oar Mayflower, containing the frank I.filtr'i HV/fc/y Xrietpoper party, inoluoiug Mr. Husse 1 Harrison. It was moving along about H o'clock to-night at high tpeed, whin at this point it suddenly ran into an enormous flood of water, spread- ing for over eight miles along the valley and inundating tbe entire town. The train wai instantly slewed, but tbe flood from tbe mountains increased so rapidly thai tbe lies were washed out from under tbe track and the train flopped to await level- opmenti. Tbe extraordinary nature of the cloud burit ii thown by the fact that fif- teen minute* before the train approached Van Horn tbe track was pi rfectly dry. Be- fore tbii there had been no rain at Van Hum for many months, though there had been occasional small cloud -bursts. Tbe Letlie party remains on the car at the track it cut ci; from the mainland by the water, the roaring of which can be lirard for miles. l II 1C COM I- \N4 . 11 U.N. Suing for Mum- <>iii cif \\hi.li mi \Knt Hwlli'llnl ll. A New Vork .|.-pi.h of Wednesday ays : In the n . i ^ if rtnlvi.-lpi.lv again u - York. M r.ii I wan - ^ I lion, iul . fraudulent praoure* if Lurei.-o 1'irnirK, ceiieral v M ' f ii' 1 itrfi 'iilani A at I- . vlio > . his own by trar,:-f> rn- fj n-k drawn a^auiKt i" 1 .'.! Company to an- other . ' noon as he receivnl i of lo.'s Hi; wan tenlenoed to five years' imprisonment . but WM d. muted lo bail p< iu!i:.. ^ \], KM I he arini s, Canada, whi died. 1) > ;: .. r auita. for anms ai!n eating -'(ID (MX), aijairinl the C. nil neiital Company on tho *m grounds. A ll<l MII lo Mol>. An Alexandria, \ a. .despatch tayx : Police- man Tn-'T this evening arreated a man, when his pritoner wax r. - n.-i from him by Kred l.e, ft negro politician. Li knocked the ottitier down, but Policeman McCaen coming to hit retcue Lue was arrested. A crowd of ut'groes gathered and became threatening. Tioer tired two thotl, almost inttantly killing Lee ami mortally wound- ing another negro, Ueorge Tine. The mob dispersed, hut reasHembled around a saloon to which the oflioertt had gone, and tbera negroes were haranguing the others to take revenge, when a * piari of police men captured the speakers and broke up the throng. A MurUlT Hllc Cliargdil With Korfcrjr. A New York despatch sayt : Mitt Nettie Clark, of Providenoa, It I., was a prisoner in the J. tt.-rmm Market Uoort today, charged with forgery. Hhe it a tlately brandte and has moved in the best society of that city. Hhe pleaded guilty of forging a chrijue for >. (H)0, which she oatbed, and was hel'l to await the arrival of requisition papert from Providence. II it taid the affixed the name of Joseph L. Toartelot, a retired mill owner, and an intimate friend of her family, to tbe chr<|iie on the Me- chanic. Havings Bank of Providence. Dmtih l-rrr.-i.i-, i to Poverty. A Unboken. N. Y.. despatch tayt : The body of Mrs Fran/. VVentlandt wai found in the river to-day, and clasped tightly in the t rent at the woman was found a four months' old babe. They had been dead only a short time. Wentlandt it missing, and it it believed he and bin wife com- mitted suiridn together on aooonnt of their l .virty.as Wenllanat sent a note to hit pattor tbit morning saying snob was thnr intention Wentlandt was a German jour nalitt, bat had been unfortunate. The Htate of Michigan will holdt its nooiiil annual International Fair and i.xpouitiou in Pelro" ' "t '>Uth m September Mh, and MOO.IXIO will ! liKituwnd in oanh preimuina npon the breeders, rnanufactnrerii and skilled pro din-en of the Cniied Hlalei and Canada whose eihibitt thall be deemed worthy. It IH to be hoped that the enterprise will fn'lil all the eipaotations of itt liberal- minded projeotort. Four of a Hiiatluf fnrtj Uruwunl. A McKeetport, Pa., despatch says : Thii afternoon Jim Thompson, bit wife and 14 ear old girl, Bessie, and Richard Smith and wife and three children started to row across the Youghiageny 1'iver here. The boat was old and rotten, and in the middle f the river it gave way. Both men sank nstanily, and Bessie Smith and Annie Thompson followed, after rising three limee (!! pitiuusly lo their mothers to sve hi m. Robert, an 1*4 year-old eon of Mrs Thompson, dragged hi* mother to tbe beat, and she and her infant child were sup- 1 i. <t by the boy until help arrived. Mrs. imiili : "If by ''linking to the boat. 1 iii b 1 ..'lies of the two men and fi-ir l r i . r ; A III MIAMI - I l<1 HF DBO(erou>lr hoot* Hi M< k vTlfe Thru Kill. HIM,. rlf. A New York despat. h sayt . John Lutz a Muugarian, tbii morning, while in hi oups, entered the apartments on Clintor street of hi* second wife, who left him som time agu, and who had been supporting herself and her 13-year-old daughter b; her first husband. Luti four weeks ago threatened to kill hit wife, bat she drove him way, and they did not meet again until this morning. Liu/ found bis wife thit morning in bed nursing a baby " day old. There was also present a midwife I.ut/; at once began calling his wife names and, npon her refusing to allow him lo kits the baby, be drew a rtvolver and told bit wife be was goint! lo kill her. Bhe arose from the bed, claepmg the baby ever he left brrat. The little daughter threw he arms around her mother to protect her The midwife ran out of the room. Then Lnt/ tirea three bhota. Kach entered the woman's bcdy, but the eecaped from the rocm with tbe baby and reached a cei^h bor's apartments. Lu>/ then tired two shots into his left brtasl, killing himvel inttantly. Mrs. Lut/s wounds arc danger out, but rihe may recover. I MI FATAL -III- \i.- A Hi inUiu llu-i.,11 .1 M>.!.- Bl> Wife to til* Heart. A yesterday 'i New Vork despatch sayt Mra. Hi ier Lcppy, aged 40, was founc dead lo- night in h. r apartment! on tbe to] tloor of No 227 Christie street. She had been stabbed through tbe heart with a pair of ubears, and her husband Martin i* under arrest charged with her murder. A year ago Loppy had a fight with a woman and wat struck on Ihe bead with an iron kettle. He lost the tight of bit left eye and bi) mind became affected. For the last year be has done no work, and his wife supported him by working in a tailcr shop, Loppv drank heavily. Tbii afternoon l hoi. Weir called to tee Loppy, but beard the latter and hit wife juarrelling and went away. Afterwardi he returned, and lad to knock ten minutes before being ad milted. Weir then saw Mr-. Loppy'i body and accused Loppy of killing her. Weir lurried out in the street to get away, and ppy followed and told a neighbor that lis wife wa-i died. The neighbor nailed jolioeman, and Loppy and Weir were arrested. A in. ,.'....,. . , , (p. A Bed ' ' - > *ys : A sad t,' at W W. I rv, i irv > ., *H with Mm. Ulllr i , , I"-' i.iifs on i ><:at : it tin \ w.-ri- auilt-d that n- 1 nmlv, ami laiiii.-. . , , . 'he li ".i H have MM bn-u rucovered. i'rje wan do Irnl nr Mlinlrr A New \ irk nays: A boat n, was shot throtuh art uni kille.t thit evening by )dward Citterton. ('ilterlon claimed tbe huoting was accidental. Lie had bt. pped Ion In pri-vi'iit him from striktnv i , r 'itu-rto'i -i oruthcr Frank. Ciliirton old a riAol 1 . IT in his hand which had bevn SIM! in the Fourth celnbration, and it went II. Dillon and Frank Cuterton were rnnk. Edward Citterton wan sober. All >ere young men. tilklnii < U.nUii ,k, i. lin n i fur Tn>olilt>. A New York despatch of Thursday in^lit ays: Abraham Kotenbi<rg and a crowd f thirty other strikers visited the tailoring hop of Hmm'l I'llli'i, in Kldridge street o day, and began an indiscriminate attack pun I iillrt, his wife and the workmen in he thop. I >illet defended himself with a evolver. Il>< nred Into tbe crowd and hot Rotenberg, inflicting a probably fatal ound. Fell 140 reel. A Lexington, Ya., detpatoh says : Tbii morning, at lluena \ lata, four men entered cage for the pnrpote of desrnding into a mine when, without warning, the oar fell feet to the bottom of tbe thaft. I'.u 'mil r, John Montgomery and Lippt Inead were inttantly killed. Floyd Marion, one of the party, it ttill alive. " Yon needn't talk about keeping one't ord," said a hatband to bin wife daring a light mitnnderstandinx ; when I tirst sked yon to marry me you declared that you wouldn't marry the beat man in the rorld." " Well, I didn't," tnapped the rife. First tramp What day of the week it k? Heoond tramp Hunday, I guest verybody it going in the back door of that aloon over there. -Jury. Have yoa been to hear Rlrtnih ? " Yet; couldn't bear a thing." "Why lot .' " "The uahert clothes were too load." AVw York Sun. A woman went recently into a booktel er't shop to purchase a present for her husband, and the assistant in charge tag ;ested a set of Shakespeare. The would be mrrhaiinr met this proposal, however, with he pn uni remark : " On, he read that when it limt came ool." .N < 1 k ,s'r,ir. The heanlifal Dnnhess of Marlborough wearn Him yol.l bracelets from which three |old keyt hang in pendant, l Ine opent the ook of her grade's jnwel box, the other be ongH to her writing folio and the third to a mall satchel, bras4 bound, in which the :eeps her loote money. COUNT TOLSTOI Declare! That Marriage Was Mot Insti- tuted by Uhrist. LOVE IS ONLY A f.D,BA.NOE 1 Ii. Aothorof 1 In- Kriiet/i-r Sonata ' In i KplT lo Critic* ^dVMurfH a M*rtl>ii| Theory, Whl Ii Ti-rrltifft Him 1'i.tl H'- KMI-I.I. and I .,i,., 1,1 .,- In'd Kir, Tliat l . in. i, > i. i. n 1,1 ,i,.i marriage Wrong. Translated from Count Tolstoi s iuaiiu-erii.it I have received, and still luuiinae to re ceive, numbers of lettern from p<-r*oiis who are perfect stringers to me. a>Kiiig utate in plain and Pimple lai guagt my own view* on the subject bandied m tin- entitled "Tbe Krtui/.er Konata." With thia ri'|tiett I afcsll now emUavor to comply. My views on tbe <jaestioii may be sue cinclly stated BH followa : Withont enter ing into detailt il may be generally ad milled that I am accurate in saying that many people ocudone in young men a course of conduct with regard to the other Bex which id incompatible witb strict morality, and that thia dietolniereas ia pardoned generally. Both parents and tbe government in ooDWijaecce of this view may be said to wick at profligacy and even in the !tot rtacrt to encturage ita practice I am of opinion that tbia i- nol right. It it not poisiblt) that the betlth of one claaa should necessitate tbe ruin of another, and in coneeijunnce it i* our first duty lo turn a deaf ear lo tuch an essentially immoral doctrine, no matter how strongly society may have ettablisbed or law protected il. Moreover, it needs to be fully r. c.-)gm, ed that men are rightly to be held responsible for Ihe con sequence* of their acts, and thai these are no longer to be visited upon tbe woman alone. It fol- low* from tcia that it ii the duty of men who do nol wish to live a life of infamy to praotiae such continence in respect to all women as they would were tbe female society in which they move made op ex- clusively of their own mothers and sinters. A more rational mode of life should be idopled, which would include abttinence 'rum alcoholic drinks, from txcesa in eat- ng and from deah meat, on the on* hand, and recourse to physical labor on the other. I am not (peaking of gymnastics, or of any of those oocupationa which may be fitly described as playing at work . I mean tbe genuine toil that fatigues. No one need go far in search of proofs that thii kind of abstemious living is nol merely possible, >nt far lest hurtful to healtb than excess. Hundreds of milanoei are known to every one. Tbii ii my first contention. IT Ml) TO HE nlll-NNEIi. In thn tecond place, I think that of late rears, through various reasor - into which I need not enter, but among whicb the above mentioned laxity of opinion in society and the frninent ideaii/ation of the (abject in current literature and minting may he mentioned, conjugal infi ',-hiv in' 'inc more common and it rt-prenti mile. I arn of ion that thia in not riglu. Th - i .(ofii-1. Ii id due, in in* tirat place, lo a natural instinct atd in tinet a i , i,|,(, u, the evil can only "i Ihe it " falln and all that thin icrrn impl, .; MB I'lc, and rid of healthy public opinion, o practise that abstinence which morality ml Christianity alike ecjuin. Thia is my econd contention. In the third place, 1 am of opinion tbal anther coum, pence of tbe false hunt in which " falling in love " and what n , o are viewed in cur society il that tin lirth of children h-i lost 11-4 printnm iguiticance, and that modern marriages re conceived leu anil lets from the point of view of tho family. I am of pinion that thia is not right. Ttait ia my bird contention. l HILl'kCN OVF.Hir:< AM' MOIl.EI 1 . In the fourth place, [ am of opinion that IIH children (who in our society are either in obstacle lo enjoyment an unlucky icoident aa it were) an> educated nol with a view to Ihe problem which they will be onu day called on to face and to solve, but uil-ly with an eye to the pleasure which hey may be madei to yield totheir parents. 1'he ooutc.|uenoe is that the children of human btings are brought up for all the world like the young of animals, the chief -re of their parents being nol to train hem to inch work at it worthy of men ind women, but to increase their weight, o add a cubic to their stature, to make ibem upruoe, sleek, well fed and comely. They rig them out in all manner of fanlat- io continues, wash Ihiim, overfeed them ind refaaa to make Ihtm work. If the hiMren of the lower ordert differ in Ihia asl respect from those of the well tu do lasses, the difference is merely formal ; hey work from sheer necessity, and not because their parents recognise work as a Inly. And in overfed children at in over- id animali, teuauality i* engendered an- naturally early. Fashionable dress to-day, Ihe course of reading, plays, music, danoes, lusoiout cod, all the elements of our modern life, n a word, from the picture* on the little toxet of sweetmeat* up to the novel, the tale and the poem contribute to fan thii sen ualiiv into a ilrong, ooniuming flam*, 1th the result that sexual vioe> and dii taea have oome lo be the normal ooudi tiona of the period ol tender youth, and i oonlinn* into the riper age of full >lown manhood. And 1 am of opinion that thii it not right. Il it high time it ceaied. The children of human beiugt ahould not be brought up at if they were animali, and we thonlii set up aa the object and strive to obtain as tie result of our labors something better and nobler than a well dresaed body. Thii ia my fourth contention. um tu I.IKI i n. la Ihe fifth place, 1 am of opinion that, ant; to the exaggerated and erroneont tigiiiticancti attributed by oar society to ove and to the idealised states that accom- iiny anil inooeed it, the bast energies of nir men and women are drawn forth and thansteil daring the moat promising wriod of life ; thole of the men in the work of looking for, choosing and winning tbe moil diairablu objects of love, for which purpose lying and fraud are held lobe quite excusable , inote of the women and girls in alluring men and decoying them into Hainan or marriage by the mom ijueition able meant conceivable, at an instance of whicb tbe present fashioos in evening dress may be cited. I am of opinion that th-- is not right The truth it that the whole affair has been exalted by poets and romancers to in undue importance and that love in its various devilopmeuls is not a fittine object to consume the best energiea of men. Peo pie set it before ibem and strive after it tit-tune their view tf life ;* ta vu gar and brutish as ia that other conception fre ;'! ntly mn w.'h in tbe lower ataitta ol luveioprnent, which se.et in luscious aid abundant food an end worthy of roan's bi at eflorie Now, this la not right and bhctild not be dore. And in order to as rid doing it it it only neertfal to realize tbe fact that whatever truly deserves to be held up aa a worthy object of man'* striving and workicg whether it be the rervice of humanity, ol cne's country, of silence, of art, net to speak if the dtrsice of God, i- far above and beycnd the sphere of jertonal er joy ment. Hence it follows that ool only to form a li/iiion, but even to contract mar riage it, from a Cbrviitn point of view cola pr(vn.-H, but a fall. Love and all tbe statet that accompany ana follow it, bow ever, we may try in proie and veraelo prove tbe contrary, never do and never can facili tale the attainment of an aim worthy ol men, but alwayt maket it more difficult, Thii it my fifth contention. How about the human race ? If we admit that celibacy ia better and nobler than marriage evidently tbe human race will oome to an end. But if tbe logics conclusion of the argument is that the human race will become extinct the wnole reasoning ia wrong. To that I reply tbal Ihe argument ia not mine , I did not invent II. That it ia incumbent on mankind so to strive and tbal celibacy it preferable lo marriage are Iruthi revealed by Christ nineteen hundred yeari ago, let forth in ocr catechism! and professed by ua aa fol lowers of Cbriit. HAS NAIL HAU.1 CHABTK. The lame truth n confirmed by our reason, which telli us that tbe only sola lion not repugnant to the sentiment ol Humanity of Ihe problem of over copula tion is afforded by the systematic striving after chaatity whicb, though distasteful Ic animals, is natural to man. Il i* a molt extraordinary thing when you come to think of it ; Mallhnuan theories can be broached and propagated , million* of children may be allowed to die every year of hunger and waul : millions upon millions of human beingi may be Butchered in war ; the Slate may itrain every nerve to increase and perfect tbe meant of killing tbe people and look upon this at the main aim and object of itt ex stence all lhe*e thing! may be done under our eye* without striking nt aa in any way dangeroua to humanity, but let tome one hint at the necessity of celibacy and immediately Ihe cry it raited that the laman race la in danger. Chaatity aud celibacy, it it urged, cannot constitute the ideal of humanity, because chati!y would annihilate tbe race which strove to realize it, and humanly cancol let up at itt ideal ita own annihilation. Il .,- pointed out in reply that only that . <1 which, beint; unattainable. ad- ,.i -lit. gradation in decree* of 'i i* Ihe Christian ideal cf fie. founding of Odd's kingdom, the union cf all living creatures by the uomls of love.. The uoitcpption of ila attainment is incom- patible with the conception of the move- ment of life. What kind of life could n'ln- i if all living creature! were joined together by the bonds of love .' None. Our conception of life IH iuleparably b jtitid up with the conception of a continual air i vim.; alter an unattainable ideal. : IlACt I>OC But even if we auppoao the Chrijti.it> ideal of perfect chastity reali/ed, what then? \Ve should merely find onraelvua face to face on thu one band with tho familiar teaching of religion, one of whose dogmaa ia that Ihe worlu will have an end ; and on the other, of ao called acience, which informs ua that thn sun is gradually losing ila heat, the result of which will in time be the extinction of thn human race. If the lives of ua Chriitiani are charao teri/tul by an :h a frightful contradiction between our oonaciencea and reality it it became we fail to understand the doolrine of Cbriat, which points lo an unattainable, imperishable ideal, and in consequence allow ecclesiastical prescriptions, wrongly called Christian, to be sabatiluted for Ihe Christian ideal. This has been done in tbe matter of divine ae.rvi.-e of apoatleahip, of power and of much else. The same thing has been done in respect of marriage. Christ not only never instituted marriage but if we teeroh for formal precept on the subject we find that He ralher ditapproved it than otherwise. (" And every one tbal hath forsaken hoasea, or brethren, or listers, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or landi for My name's take, ball receive an hundred fold aud aball in- herit everlasting life." Mall., xix , '.". ; Mark, x.. 19, :o ; Luke, xviu., 29, SO ) H* only impressed npon married and unmar- ried alike Ihe neoeaaity of striving after perfection. The ohurchet, however, by endeavoring, contrary lo Christ's leaching, to establish marriage as a Christian institution failed to create a solid institution, and yet de- prived the people of Ihe guiding ideal let op by Christ. The optbol of tbit ill ad- vised effort wai that people flung away the old before receiving the new ; they lost tight of th* true ideal of chattily pointed out by Chriit and embraced outwardly the ; ecclesiastical dogma of tbe sacrament of ' marriage, a doctrine that hat been built up npon no foundations whatever and in which men do not really and sincerely be- lieve. This affords us a tatiafaotory ex- planation of the faot, which at first tight- aeema a tlrange anomaly, that the prin- I oiple of family life and in basis (.lonjugal , tUelity) are found to be more firmly rooted | among peoples who possess clear and min- iii.- external religiouj pruacriptiooi on the inhjeol among Mohammedani and Jewi, for instance - than among 10 called Chris tiact. The former have a code of clear, detailed external preoepti respecting mar- riage, whereaa the latier have nothing of the kind. It it only over a very iniiguitl cant fraction of the union* whioh they con- tract Ibat the men and women of our so- ciety have a ceremony performed by tbe clergy to which they give the name of sac ramental marriage , they then live on in polygamy and polaudry and giving them salves up to via*, in the belief that they are practising tbe monogamy they prof. ae. UMsriiN MARRIOKH A rKAl'U. Now, there ia not and canaot be such an institriiicu aa a Christian marriage, jnst as there cannot be snoh a thing aa a Christian uiurgy, Matt., vi,5-l'J; John, iv,21) nor ''hrintian teachers, uor church fathers Matt, xxiii.. 810) nor Chrianai- armies, Christian law courts, uor Cbriatian States. This is what was aiways taught and be- lieved by true Cbrsiiaiid of the first and following centuries. A Chriotian'a ideal is 11 t marriage, bat love for Goa aud for his m-ichbcr. Conv>juenily in the eyes of a Chriilian relation* in marriage tot only do not cot stitnte a lawful, rurt and happy state, as our society arid our churches maintain, bat en tbe other hand, are always a fall. Such a thing as Christian marriage never was LU never could be. Christ aid not marry, : or did He establish msrriae neither did His diet if lea marry. But if Christian marriage cannot .-xist there it such a thing at a Christian view of mar- riage. And this ia how it may be formu- lated : A Christian (and by ibis term I understand nol those who call themselves Christians merely because, they were baptized and still receive the sacrament occe a year, but those wboae livet are shaped and regulated by the teachings cf Christ i a Christian, I say, oannol view the marriage relation otherwise than aa a deviation from tbe doctrine of Christ ai a sin. This is clearly laid down in Matthew T., J->, and the ceremony called Christian mar- riage doet not alter ita character one jot. A Christian will never, therefore, desire marriage, but will always avoid it. If the light of truth dawns npon a Chris- tian when be is already married, or if, being a Christian, from weaknets be enters into marriage relations with tbe ceremo- niet of the Church, or without them, he hat no other alternative than to abide with bit wife (and the wife with her husband if it it the who U a Christian) and to atpire together with her to free themselves of their sin. Tbii ia the Chriatian view of marriage, and there cannot be any other for a man who honestly endeavors to shape hia life in accordance with the teachings of Chritt. A TdBRIBLB CONCLUSION. To very many peraont the thoughts ! have uttered here and in " The Kientzer Sonata ' will seem ttrange, vague, even contradictory. They oertainly do contra- dict, not each other, bat the whole tenor of oar lives, and involuntarily a doubt arise* " on which tide it truth -on the tide of tbe thoughts which teem true and well founded, or on tbe tide of the livet of others and myself." I, too wai weighed down by that tame doubt when writing The Kreut/er Sonata." I had nol the faintest presentiment that tbe train of thought 1 bad started would lead me whither il did. I was terrified by my own inclusion and wai at first disposed to reject it, but u wag impossible not to barken lo the voice of my reason and my conscience. And so, atrange though thev may appear to many, opposed at they un- doubtedly are lo tbe trend and tenor of our lives, and ic compatible though they ms\ prove with what 1 have heretofore thought and ottered, I have no choice but to accept then. " But man it weak." people wilt object. " Ilia task should be regulated by hia strength." - is tantamount to saying " My hanii it weak. 1 cannot draw a >traight line thai id, a line which will be tbe shortext line between two given points- and so. ii: order to make it more eay for myself, I intending to draw a straight, will choose !or my model a crooked lin -." Thn weaker my baud the greater the need that my model should be perfect. LEON TU.JIOI. The Putor's Lot. Folks go to the pastor with their troubles and ak bm help about tbiuga they ought to fix themselves without anybody's assist- ance. They tell the minister stuff they ought to be aahameu lo repeat to them ved in a whtaper at the bottom of the well, and yet thii man they hire for a thousand or two dollars a year muat do their preaching and be the confidant and arbitrator for the whole pariah besidet. Ministers need, a vacation every year it only for a change. Cburohem should be glad to give it to them, and all concerned will be directly or indirectly benefited. ('l tea Preti. Vnavuldably l>Utlued. Manaing Editor What do you mean by tbta: "Mr 1'rindle wai unavoidably de- tained " .' Why, now, Prindle't dead. New Writer 'S that so ' What shall 1 do? M. K. Well, it won't do to say he i dead n ao many wordt. I'M tome enphemiatio expression. N. W.-Ob. yet, I underitaud. (Write*) ' Mr. I'rmdle was unable to attend, hav ng gone on a long viail to the Bolphar Hpriugs." ' lie is a very original boy, that son of yoars. I think be it bound to rite in tbe world?" "1 don't know. It't a hard biuy to get him lo riae in tbe morning." Mrs. Millais, the famoui artill'i wife, md tha ex wife of John Kuskin, hvet like a oyal prinoett and bat a staff of arlittioally dreased servants, who care for her every desire. Hhe it beautiful, accomplished and captivating and it regarded as her laaband's maaool. Her Greek arettet are >oe>uni and her poses the perfection of ;raoe. Hhe hat oriental oonohea in all her aparlmenlt ami it said to be the happiest woman in all Karope. Her husband ia worth 11,000,000. The largest tingle dock in the world was opened on March 12>h last to the waten of IVri Jaokaon in (Sydney harbor, New Booth Wale.1. Il hat taken in one steamer of ' '.wo tuna and had room lo tpars The celebrated German remedy for burnt opnaists of 1~> ounces of the belt vhitf glue, broken iuto small pieces in two piula of water and allowed tu become HO(I ; then diaaolve it by meana of a water bath and add. two ounoet of gly c-eriue and six drama of oarbolic aoid ; continue the heat until thoroughly dissolved. ()u oooling thia hardens to an elastic man, covered with a shining, parchment like skin. V