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YOUNG POLKS Qraadpap* i Dilemma- I know (but liitle rascal Jake'* *>' wioiintiix down to Johniton 4 lake. An likwas not uu'lloome home drowned, Orelee, hm body never found. But I don't like to tell. Hi" grama *aid be shouldn't go ; We loveil the little fllow We couldn'. bear to thick 'at he Should go wheied.tiiiir 4 like to b, 1 npoae 1 ought to tall. If Rra'm* knew. Khe'd whop him good. She'd bar to. for I never could : Vau-w 1 done jen' the same .w aim. Wn-'n !'* it bnv atf in 'gin. So hoWm I gain' to tell I I xeen the little rascal once. He didn't know, the foolum dunce! A aittin' round tlio corner there. A drym' out hU Taller hair. 1 'po*e I'll haf to tell. Expect he'll do the ->anie as me (Fer need ull grow jeV lite the treel An' HWIIU about the name .1-. tho' HIM gra'iua never lold lain ' no." Cnlea* 1 up an tell. Hi* father'* d >ad an' mother, too. An' fore negoU thin old world thro', He'* ihore to hev enough to bear ; Se le". him dry hi* yallar hair. Fer 1 aim. gain to loll. A Pariloo.7 Prince Edward Island n peculiarly inac- ble in winter oa account of the forma- ation of ice around 1U coast. In very cold and stormy weather iceboats are it* only ui6*o* of communisati -u with the mainland. They are *o constructed that they can either *kim over tha ice or *ail througn the water. This i* necessary because the ice, constantly ul)jeot to the ti ies and current*, may brsak up suddenly and leave laige paces of open water between the field*. Prince E (ward Imand i* well known for its tine draught-horse*. *o superior to iize and strength that buyer* go mere from the New England States In the fall of IHS.i I went to the island to buy some Clydesdales for a arm in Boston. Being barely eighteen years old, I was very young to be tent on such an errand, but had earned the confidence which the mission n-p'iel While malting my purchase 1 stumbled over an opportunity to buy a large quantity of oat* cheap, and decided to do a lull peculating on my own *. count. The buying and the shipping of the horses and the attention my own venture required detained me much longer than I expected, and by the time all was completed me weather had become very cold and boister- ous. Owing to this the (Uamboat service from Shsdiac and Pictou luddemly ceased, and I found that I would hve to ttay week* on the i*land, or get over 10 the mainland on the ice-bot which carried the mail in uch contingencies. Passengers are taken by the mail-car- riers, bat are always informed of the dan- gen they are likely to encounter, and warn- ed that no responsibility for any miships or delays will be assumed by the owners of the boats. Many lives have been lost on these trips, and miny limbs frozen. "We'll take you all right, sir," the cap- tain of the hybrid craft assured me, "if you re bound to go, but we don't ensure no passenger that he'll gel there, and in caw of trouble all passengers ha* got to turn in and WOrk their passage." "What trouble do yon usually have?" I afked. " Well, ordinarily we don't have any, hut we might chance una snow-storm when we got about half-way acrost, and lose our way. and drift round on the strait till we were all froze or starved to death. Two boat-loads were 'most wiped out that way 'twixt here and Cipe Tormentine mi<U the recollection* of some of lie old folk* round here, *o we always 'low it might happen again. We don't start unless the chancel are reasonable good, but once we're of, every man'* got to look out." These condition* did not shake my resolve to get away by the only route open to me, ana on the spot I paid my passage money. The next morning I found three other traveller* ready to brave the dangen of a passage across the strait. They were all Canadian "drummer*,'' who, like myself, had been hut up by .lck Kroet in " P. K. I. " They were stout, athletic fellows, and proved to be most agreeable companions. The morning was very cold, but the sky was cloudless and the wind in the right quarter for ice-boats carry a sail, and a fair wind is of great importance. \\ uhout one, the crew have to punh their ice-boat over the ice with great exertion. At the breakfast table of the inn at Sum- merside, near our embankmg-plrce, Captain Hawkins informed us that the chances were " reasonable good," and ih it as soon us we had provisioned ourselves for the trip we must go on board. Eat hearty, gent*," he advised between huge bites of buckwheat cake* and sausage*, " eat hearty. It's hungry work a-crossin' the sttait. There's some beef au I hardtack aboard in case of a:cident, but ye won't get a good square meal again unlil we're at the cape. So ye'd beet eat hearty, gents." We "ate hearty" acccordingly, and pro- vided to the best of our ability against a a resort to the beef and hardtack. Wnenwe got un ler way about eleven o'clock, the sky w.t perfectly clear and the wind fir, and there WAS every prospect that in about three or four hour* we should reach our destination. Ice-boats travel with great velocity when the wind is with them, and the distance from the point of departure to Cape Tormentine, our object- ive point on the New Krunswiuk sids is only about twenty miles. With a clear sky, a fair day an.) plenty of wraps, commend me to an ice-boat as the most agreeable method of prngresa in the whole wide world. No pen could do justice to the delight of being the only liv- ing things on a great wide expanse of clear, glassy ioe and of skimming over it, at the rate of ten mil** an hour. The bracing wind that blew in our face* made every nerve tingle, and gave such vigor and tenseness ' every muscle that when we were half an hour on our way we were all declaring that we felt as if we could "whip our weight in wildcat*," or something to that eifect. He tor we reach- ed tbe snowbanks on the opposite shore we had amp'e opportunity to show what we really could do. When w were something less than half- way across, tha st-enug gear broke looee. In order to repair the damage the Wolverin had to be unloaded, and her bow (lightly We all took hold and worked, a* we had been '.old we most if anything went amis* ; but there was much to do, and we were only amateur carpenters. So much time was lost by our inexperience that when tha repairs were at last coiupiabod ins mart winter day was nearly done. Now, to >, the snow had begun to fall in great tnick Hikes, and we could not *e the shore on either tide. Our situation, which wtseo pleasing a few hour* before, had grown de- cidedly dangerous. Captain Haw kin* proved himself to be a brave navigator, fid tbe cheerfulness with whicn he faced this emergency kepi us all in good spirit*. We'll simple the Wolverine'* stores, boy*," he raid, when liie was iu sailing trim once more, "an. I then we'll put her note to the cape and keep it there till she drives it aihoro." Rut even while he was speaking he dis- covered that the wind was veering round, and the proipecta were that in a few mo- ments it would b blowing through the trait instead of across it, which would oblige us to turn out and haul our boat, in- stead of having our boat carry us. Coffee was maile over an alcohol lamp by one of the boat'* crew, and pannikins of it with sandwichee of beef and hardtack were distributed. Once more Captain Hawkins adjured us to "eat hearty." I don't conceal from ye gents," he add- ed, "that we're a-goin' to have a rough time. The lighthouse on Jourimain Island lies thereaway." he continued, thrusting out his arm. "It can' I be many miles oit and soon as we hear the gong we're all right, but if the wind kfi*p< like this it'll be a steady pull until Wo tetcu it, and every one on ye'll have to take his spell. I'm sorry for ye, gents, but ye was told, ye Know. ' Yes, we knew we " was told," but we were beginning to be sorry for ourselves, for it wa* very plain to the least weather- wise amongst a* that a big storm originally brewed on the Atlantic Ocean wa* ni>> n^ through the strait toward tbe Unit" of St. Lawrence, and that if there waa not muscle enough amongst us to pull the Wolverine against the wind until the shore -ould be reached we should be swept out into the gulf. We drank our coffee and ate our ritioco hastily, and then started in on as stout a a'ruggle for lite a* ever eight men engaged in. These boat* are the mereet cockle-shells, but even so their weight is not a trifle, and our* was loaded heavily with the mail matter tnat had been delayed by the recent storms. 1 wo pushed at the back. Two got into a ort of harness rigged at the bow an " pulled. So we " spelled" it a* the captain had warned us we should have to do. Icy bls*t* drove down against us, and swirled the *now around so that we were literally enveloped in clouds of it. It chille 1 u* to the very heart, an 1 in spite of our severe exertion* frost-bite becaou imminent. The first man to give out wa* "Jim,' one of the crew. He fell face downwan in the snow, and was unable to raise him self, to benumbed were hi* Ings and feet We were obliged to place him in the boat, and a* the terrible haul wa* beginning to tell on all of us the mail matter had to be taken out au.l left in the snow. We covered Jim up carefully with every thing that we could spare from our own necessities, but we could hear his teeth chattering like castanets all the time Kvery few momenta we had to stop for some one to rub his frost bitten hands or feet with snow, and we were all beginning to feel more or less numbnee* in our fee and legs. Another of the crew succumbed. They were not so warmly clothed as wa who were passengers. He, loo, had to )>. placet" in the boat, and then we noticed : first time that Jim s teeth had ceased ..-n.*: teriug. The poor fellow wa* dead. We'litted him out, and laid him m th snow.* It seemed heartle**, and the cap tain muttered something about "not beim able to face his folks," but we could .1 nothing more tor him, and our own chance would have been n:aterially lessened b not leaving him behind. Next one of my di'ummer friends gav out. He stumbled and fell at every step and two of u* had to drag him along by th arms. The captain now decided to abandon th boat, as the struggle had narrowed righ down to a n,jht tor dear life.und we ha only stuck to it so far in order to have the means of carrying those who gave out. It wiung our hearts to desert the poor fellow in it, out he had already sunk into the fatal stupor that precede* death by freez- ing. We filled our pocket* with beef and biscuit, and startad once more to plow wearily through the driving snow. Now we were completely lost, The captain had been steering u* by a pocket compass, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that we could now and then keep a match lighted long enough for him to tell in which direction it pointed. At last there was nit a match left, and nothing to do but blunder around until daylight broke. Everything depended on our powers of endurance. That the poor fellow whom we were assisting along by turns, could not hold out u n til day light wa* on ly too e viden t. We were all utterly benumlied andexhaust- ed, and but for the captain'* frequent assur- ances that we might stumble up against the base of Jourim.vn Island lighthouse any moment, would have sunk into the snow aud given up the struggle. " It'* herea - '- k he declared every lived round here, boy and man, fer twenty year*, and fetched it hundred! o' times and can't have ma le no mistake" but it struck me now and then tha'. he talked like one who was trying M convince himself. At last he stopped stopped so sudden y that the sole survivor of hi* crew who wa* plodding along right behind him was sent head over heels iota the snow. We could not see the captain's face, but the moment he spoke we knew we were saved. " l>j you hear it?" he asked. Al first we could heir nothing above the wild howling of the fate. Then a sound like the tolling of a bell came aero** the snowy waste*. " It's tne lighthouse gong," he briefly observed, and turning started on again. We followed in hi* wake with feelings that oan only be entered into fully by those who have come suddenly out of a great aad prolonged peril. In less than an hour we were in safety and at a comfortable little ion, not a stone's throw from the lighthouse, were receiving every attention that our exhausted and be- numbed condition required. \s soon as day broke, a party was or- ganized to go in search 01 the boat and the ixjdtes of those whom we were obliged to abandon. Tney were the sons of farm- ers who lived in the neighborhood. A melancholy procession it wa* I hat came off the ice that atlernoon, and wound over and around the great inow drifts m which the storm had almoic buried the neiighbor- ing liiimlets. We, who had so barely es- caped a place in its sorrowful rank*, watched it out of sight with bared heads and thankful heart*. Thi* i* a true itory. It was told to me last summer by the horse- buyer who es- caped. I'HRA/V H\R' KB. CIRCUMSTANTIAL LViDtNCE- so fturr r a rlilnsi rulMsahU <>!> Tke Trrdlri !< Jnrr i.i i. .u.-.l bf a Mardrrer* I uBi>>.lmi. Albert Stroebel, t.i.- British Columbia urderer, who was resaully convicted on urely circumstantial evidence, has vmdica* ed the verdict of the jury by confessing lat he did the deed for which he is to hang n January .'i'th. He alleges, however, lat it was done in self-de' -n..-e, out this xplanation, though it will DO doubt receive onsideration, is made late in the day. troebel ha* been twice tried for the crime which, veiled in much mystery, has with xceedmgly great difficulty been brought ome to him. Now, after every endeavor, Deluding some doubtful swearing, ha* failed prevent a conviction. Stroebel seeks to tve an entirely new version of the artair f the deed was done in self- defence, it wa* sail blunder not to make that plea before, and a blunder which will now be hard to emedy. The story of the crime was laid bare at th* trial just concluded. Un the iveuingof the 10th of April lastau old man lamed John Marshall, a farmer living alono near Huntingdon, B.C., K 2e Miniooy, in the South Indian Ocean. A sharp shock was felt by all on board, and she stopped as though gripped in a visa. I'd* sea was found to Iw coloured w th the life-blood of two huge whale*, wh ch lay floating in tbeir last agony. One wa* eut through by the steamer'* sharp stem and the other killed by repeated blow* of the screw propeller. The i.erman steamship Waesland, bound from Antwerp to New York, ran into aud tilled a sleeping whale. A smaller steamer, the Kelloe, collided with a whale near iaham Harbour, and wounded it badly. The celebrated yacht Gineela narrowly avoided collision with a dead cetacean dur- iik' the jubilee race around our islands. In Isvi a Sh.elds sieamsuip, tne .l.imes Turn- pie, nearly cut a wnaia in two one starlight night. The schooner O. M. Marrrtt was almost wrecked by passing whales in the North -Atlantic. Many of the school xiruck her repeatedly with such violence that her whole h'lll shook ard nrurl-s in the officers' ro->m werot'in.wii to liie f.o >r. In llVU A small sailing vessel, the Ocean Spray, bound from (ialveslon to England, struck a sleeping whale and receiv ' dim- age. On the morning of the 17;h f July, a whale fifty feel Ion;; made his appearanc clow alongside the steamship Port Adela de Cap'.. C. M. Hepworth. R.S.K. n I'J de- gree* south, 75 degree* east. He followed the vessel for four days, never more than seventy yards away, and generally close astern, much to the edification of numerous passengers. He threw up the sponge in 4 1 degrees south, 97 degrees east, after trav elling 'JS<I statute miles, certainly without reding, and apparently fasting. In November the j.i.p Eu-ncook, Ctpt. I'arson, was under sail iu 'Jv degrees south, Jl <l"grees west, wnen a large whale lash CHISESE PENAL ?VSS. Ho*Dit! !!! Ifti.iriarr Corel-.. All Ik* < klB wl Prisons we hte a Dit>rao* U tte Oelestial !ler 117 stave FUee IB Ifce I rr.ln-iK l B e Mrk r lrul K.-1-rHr I Hi.- II in I. rtftwlr *re a in I Jail rr*. The Chines? people are lawabiding. With those of their own number who are law- breakers they hive but little sympathy in i IB ivernment h% none at alL I like China. I like the China*'. Moreover, I Ml* IN Til* " BOARD-, respect them. But in two detail* of their national life they merit unqualified oondem nation. Their hoepital* and their prisons are unmitigated national disgraces. On second -..noughts, I withdraw the word un- mitigated. The Chinese hospital* through which 1 went were almost eveiylhing that h<pita,ls should not be. But the patient* themrelves would most strenuously have of their own 'comfort. The savants of China ! are bel ' back by the taut ropes ol public they are enchained by the general ignorance, as are their prototypes every WAS KOI .SO DEAI> on tbe threshold of hit home, deatli It iving Men ctused by shooting. Thert- *-a* no trace by whi-.h the detectives could form any idea as to who did the dee I. It m evident, however, from the fact that a 'able lad been set for tw, that Marshall had entertained a visitor on the last evening of lis lift 1 . The pair had eaten the meal to- gether before the foul deed hail been done. A mystery it was, and a mystery it would Have remained had not- Mrs. Bartlet, a irding house keeper, fouud a revolver between the quilt and mattress of the bed occupied by a lodger, Albert Stroebel, who was shortly to be married to her daughter Li//ie. She notified the police of the dis- covery, though she afterwards regretted having done to and Iried to shield lh mur derer. With the revolver, a rusty old .fc! calibre Smith A Wesson weapon, were found two empty cartridges, which corresponded in si/.e and make with the bullet* extracted from the dead man's body. Expert testi- mony showed that the missiles were di barged from a rusty weapon, so that in three particulars make, SUB, and con Ii tion the revolver found corresponded with the one used by the murderer. This was the ea the sea into foam with his iai! so near j resented any improvement* slong the Jme the ship that the chief oificer, wiio i: ippen- ed to be below forward, came quick. y on deck to see what had happened. He actually fell the impact o! water against her bows. In June H'.ll, while her Majesty's (hip Immor'-aiite was steaming from Arosa Bay to Gibraltar at the rate of 1 J knots an hour, she slopped short as though a >ubmerge>l danger had been located. It wis presently found th* she had cut deeply into a whale, and it h i i become necessary to go astern in or ; a get rid of the incumbraioe. Four ' ' th* later the Anchor line 'team ship h iopia collided with * vrhale when about b ' i miles from New York. FSA3CE AAD EDQLAND. M.KT IIVM I..IM: EVIDEXi'I against Stroebel. The motive which prompted the deed was alleged to be rob. iwry. A few days before Marshall was killed he boasting! y and foolishly exhibited to a crowd of boy* a handful of J'JO gold pecs. Tne '- Bu!oub:edly reached ike ears of .Stroebel, who at that lime wa* specially in want of money. He wa* to be married in two weeks to the girl of his choice, provided he established nimself in some ^eputable business. From time to time he had assured Mrs. Bartlet, hi* pro- An Incident Whirh Is ('Isui *s*e DIs- .luii-m.ir in Paris. Two insignificant looking item* of news were cabled from Paris yesterday, but with a word of explanation added to them they may be made to snow very clearly the ill- temper France is in at the present moment with England. The Figaro is reported as protesting against what it calls " the for- mation of a British colony " at Tan.ari*. This is perhaps the most irritating manner in which public reference could be made to a matter that has already created some lo- cal feeling m Toulon. The fact is that an Knglish company has purchased Tamaris, near Toulon, a circumstance that in ordin- ary times would probably pa-a unn > But Toulon happens lo be the base of French naval strength on lh Mediter- ranean, and whatever preparat ons may be going on there for defence or AliliKESSlVK WAIl the authorities are extremely jealous of their secrecy. This question has been for some time under the consideration "f the Ministry of Marine a* well as of the Muni- cipal Council of Toulon, and at moil all that could be legally done would be the passing jf a law preventing the sale lo foreigners oi land situated within the de- fence radius of Toulon and other naval ports and fortified places. Kut it i not unlikely thai if a public outcry should be made against the Knglish company now some irresponsible act of violence might come of H. Thai The Figaro should prefer opinion I i_ I where else. The deplorable condition of the Chinee* prison* is justified u: th national philoso- phy. To the Chinese mind a law is a thing to be obeyed. A law concerns the millions and conserves the welfare of millions. It must be held inviolate by the individual, be his whim his personal bent whatever it may The Chinaman who disregards any item of the Chineee law becomes a social leper. Individual tendency, moral ill health, inherited trait* they are taken into account not at all Thi* is cruel ; Ye* . Kut it renders exia'.envs puible in the I overdensity of Chi u;i. population, a writer in the Pall Mall Budget says : A Chinamau is forgiven nothing because of his ancestry, nor does !ie suffer for that ancestry. From the moment of bis birth each Cnmaman ha* an equal chance with every other Chinaman. Rank is nowhere more venerated than in China. Nowhere does it secure to it* possessor more benefits, more privileges, bu' it is not inherited. It is conferred by the emjifror conferred for personal merit or for personal achieve- ment. No Chinaman is " nohle " except through personal fitness. There are two exception* to this rule two only. The direct descendant* of Confucius have a rank of their own. It is a high rank. It is r -specie.!. But it give* them no power of interference with national affair*. The descendant* of an emperor are iiev.T less than royal. But tiiey have no necessary power. In brief, then, in China " every man is served according to his de- serts," and it is greatly to the national :rlit that they who do not "'scape whip- ping " are so very few. A Chinese prison i* called a "cangue." Its outer door is barred with bamboo, and is guarded by petty soldier* or policemen. The "caugue' 1 contain* two room* and two yards. One room and one yard are for men. The other room and yard are for women. The space set apart for women is very much smaller than that for men. But the women's quarters and tne men's quar- tern are alike in being entirely devoid of any speclive mother-in law. that he wa* expect ing <o receive money with which he hoped j indicating the local feeling or the arti.-ial to buy the local barber shop, where he view of so small an affair. would be able to provide amply for fulure to slate the case in the manner quoted above < provision for personal comfort, or for per- is not a pleasant circumstance, either a* sonal decency. f J "0 ay, gents, it's hereaway,'' very few moments. " I've nebds. That he got any of the murdered man's money was not proven, because it was impossible to show that anything hid been stolen. The pockets it the deceased had bet-n rifled, but whether they contained anything of value at the time may never be known. Marshall'* don SET rr srcii A HOWL that the murderer fled without searching the premises, and th* neighbir* grew 'very angry at the noisy canine. It was from the barking of the dog that the prosecution ix-1 the hour at which the old man was killed. All the neighbours agreed that the dog barked about !l p. m. .and consequent- ly, to clear himself, Stroebel was asked to jive an account of what he wa* doing at that ;:m-. Theexplwiation offered wa* that he was quietly f}shing when Marshall was murder- ed. This was an unlucky blunder, a* to be fishing v that hour he must have been angling in the dark. The effort co establish an alibi, therefore, proved a failure, and the conviction on circumstantial evidence, which now appear* to be fully justified, followed. In the Huntingdon case, the folly of the practice often pursued hy coun- try people in keeping large sums of money by them, sometime* boastfully, is mvle clear, for Marshall would have been alive to-day if he had exercised ordinary caution. The value of circumstantial evidence, which 'try often is the only proof th it can b* obtained AllAINST \ MrRDKKIll, is also emphasized if the necessity for care- Fully weighing it in not lessened. Stroebel now admits that h* shot Marshall, though lie says he did it *in self-defence. Accord- ing to hi* story, Marshall told him at the upper table that he wanted to marry I.;.-- 7,ie Bartlet, who, it appears, is young enough to be his daughter. Stroebel re- plied that he wa* engaged to the girl. Threeupon the old man jumped up, say* Stroebel, in a stale of fury, and tried to kill him with an axe, and in self-defense fired the fatal shots. This itory may or may not be worthy of credence, but if it proves anything it proves that the jury was right in determining that Stroebel killed Marshall. It has, in fact, materially strengthened the chain of circumstantial evidence. In this case, as in many an- other, a mere thread ha* drawn the mur dervr's head into the noose. Ship*, .in i Whale*. The steamship Petersburg of the Kussiau volunteer fleet had a unique experience near At tliesune time a French military experl of some repute uiges upon the Government the advisabilily of siding with the Spaniards at the present stag* of the Meiilla dispute. [t i* to bj hoped that this advice will not listened to. Leaving out of considera- tion altogether the more or less generally mown facts which make the Sultanate of Morocco Ibe MOST FERTILE TERRITORY Q the world for European complications to break out in, the interference of France ust now with the operations of Spain would simply mean that Britain could not (uietiy look on while a move was being made lo destroy her commerce and her in- fluence in Africa. The statistics for the past year show a considerable increase in the volume of British trade with Morocco. Ex- 10 Britain have risen in value from tT.II.'-'ti-', to t'Ji:;,iM.>, while the imports in Briiish trade show an increase of 154 per cent. The total value of British imports is put down at t'lii.'i.rt.'i The statistic* fur- I her testify that the commercial XTEHBST* OF BRITAIN largely predominate m Morocco, and under these circumstances any step prejudicially taken to thoie interests, whether by France or Spun, could not fail to produce friction. Thai France i* liable to be led by any clamor into inch an error need not now be considered, but when, a* the cable stales, the views of Col. de Poligoac have attracted considerable attention it certainly denotes an extreme popular susceptibility to every cry that may be raised against t IB English. It is very unfortunate that a position snould t>e apparent on ihe part of the French press to feed the dangerous temper of the hour n their country so assiduously as these things would imply. Chinese prisoner* are by the government Probably there is uo quality more elli- ient iu dispelling ignorance than th* cour- age which dare* to confess it. The function of culture is not merely to train the power* for enjoyment, but first ami supremely for helpful service. Let lu have courage about these ordinary live* of ours nor fret ourselves about their conditions, but put the utmost that we can into them. If you separate yourselves from everyone that you think can do any harm to yon, you separate yourselves from everyone to whom you can do any good. Since the generality ol person* act from impulae much more than from principle, men are neither so food nor se bid a* we are ap* to think B.IARU I'l'MSIIMEST. provided irith absolutely nothing but the space beyond which 'they may not pa**. If their friends thrust food to them through the bar* of the prison fence th" law doe* not interpose Otherwise the prisoners may starve. The law does not interpose. I used to take food to the Shanghai prison yard*. I was not jeered at. A Chinese rowd is, I believe, incapable of jeering at , woman. But I was condemned for it. And a high Chineee official remonstrated with my husband. I used to buy Chinese food at a cheap chow-chow shop and when I reached a prison fence hire a coolie to feed the poor starving wretches. I did not quite care to feed them myself. And it wa* quite impossible for them to feed themselves. No Chinese prisoner a MI reach his own mouth, tor hi* neck is invariably locked into a board which ii about three feet square. It i* very heavy and gall* the neck. It blisters or ossilie* the shoulder*. Tbe " pig-tail" drag* heavily over it, and pulls ths poor unlocked head uncomfortably Ito one side. It pre- vent* the hands from lifting rice or water to the craving mouth, and from brushing from the tingling nose one of the myriad insects that infest the prisons and the pris- on yard* of Chin*. s Mr. McBride " They say that poor Wmnebuldle is dying by inch**." Mrs. Me Bride (with deep concern) " I* he ! nd he is snoh a tall young man, too !" Doctor "How i* the baby'" Mrs. Jink* " Offal bad sir. Lait night the poor little thing wa* took draffle. First the would olincn her hand*, and then she would say ' A h h !' just like a human beta}."