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OLD JINK'S MONET. A DETKrTIVK HTORV. once sent tor l>y a firm of lawyers who prstolisoil In a quiet little country i"wn altualecl in Norfolk. They wishd lo con- ml', me. they mild, in a piatter oi very eon- siilrral>le Important 4 !., anil they woulil feel oKl^.-il if I would lose no time in seel tig thi-in. I, therefors, set ol at once Irom London, and arrived at my destination on th nftarnoen ot a delightful Hummer ilay. The country roinul about wu charming ; ami as the llijlil from a cloudless i-ky fell upon it, 1 thought It wan au pmlly a panor- ama a* I bad seen for some lime, 1 Ion nil that tha little town was a rest- fui, dreair.y, sleepy, hollow tort of place, with the grass growing uo between the eithl.l, .* cmiiM in the High .Street. The town lull wo.s an old, rJ brick, tumble-. lowi. building, standing on arches In the very centre of the High, Street, ami bearing dale 1617, The arches were I In common play- grnunii o( ihe arabs, and general meeting j-iaee far the men-folk, wlioassembled there lo smoke and discus* wnyjniy affalra of .State, sand particularly the allalra of their neighbour*. The "oldest inhabitant," K toothless old fossil nljh on to five score, was a walking encyclopaedia so far as that particular atrip of country weul, for he Inul been born there, and had nerer In the whole course of his long eitstenue been more than tidy milei away, except once when he wan first married, and he look " t'ow.l ix>inao to Lunnim " Dub " bygomrn " he uevor went again j for it " wur wickedest plaace " M erer h " teej," and not only w* " t'owd oeniau'a hanknrcher " stolen, hut they ac- tually took hia silver watch that had bo- longed to tin grandfather, ami he had heard IIH grandfather aay himself that the watoh foit " tire punter." This Interesting mum- my hail very prononncd views on thing* in general, ami he wu decidsdly of opinion that the- world ha.l gone to the devil slnoe he " wnr a lad," what " wi' now-iangled uootions of railway! and telegraph, and ti'-h like abominations." " Foak in my usy," he exclaimed Indignantly in tha course of & conversation I hal with him, "wur content to rids in coachers, and didn't want none o'yur 'apress trains what Is alien a killing somebody." He waxed wioth when I ventured to suggest that the eiige2c?iei of modern existence necessitated amore rapid means of locom >tiou than that which ssatutied our granil fathers. " Nost, uo," be cried, "nowto 1 sort. What wi:z good enough lor Jack in rny day is good enough now. U'liat good - does your railways do, Vept till t' pocket* o't' owners on 'cm?" I found that Mr. Howdcn, the head of the tirrn of lawyers at whose request I h-n 1 gone down to this oat-of the world little pUcc, wu a typical country lawyer, not far behind the oldest inhabitant in the point of age, but still a hale man, with a fon>lness for snu IT and old port wine. The modern feer of lute anil bu*l!e hail not atfecied him, (or he did everything with a slowness and ileliberatcnesi) that taxed one's pa- tience sorely, and seetnod to suggest llial he had aortic idea lie wu going to live for an- other century or so. With a great di il oi unnecessary detail, and with i round-about- lifts which cauaud m- to womlorif ho would ever come to the main point, he told me the following story, which I give in outline only, ska being sufficient lo indicate the nature of the csue I la called upon to in vtiugate. Samuel Jink i noon had been born in the neighborhood eighty yean b.ick. He wan the son of the then s>|uiro, and was a wild rascal in his youth, a portion of which had been apent 111 London, and the other portion iu travelling abroad. At last fc married Miss Oldcroft, the harum-scarum daughter of 01 ilcro.'t, the milljr, who hail made a bit of money, ami gave his " gal " a fair proportion of it when ab<> married. Sirah Oldcroft, while being reganled as the village beilu, wm also unaiiiinoiisly voted to be tin; worst of coquettes, and the most heartless of young women. The village croaker*, therefore, were not slow to pre- dict that Samuel Jinkinsou would noon rind hi ha I made a wrong choKe, nor were they wrong iu this particular inslarce, fur it wu speedily made manifest that they rrere a ill-sorted a couple as ever came together. A daughter was bon ami died in her infancy, and then a soi. came and lived. Wheu the boy was only four years ol.l the mother took hersell oil u> I W.-DI to I.nii 1 in. 11 T husbtuid did ii'it make any efforts to bring her back, but, con.-otnriu-.! all his ittrections ami hopes on his boy, who remained with him until he was Hfteeii years of age, when his wi/e, through her relations, succeeded in jmi ming the boy's mind against hU father, with the icaiilt that th- lad went oil' to his mother, and Jmkiuaon was brokenhearted. From that time he became i|iiite i chaiued man ; and ulhe years passed on he grew into a misan- thrope ; shunning Ins accquaintances and neighbor*, and living an isolate'!, lonely life cuTiis c*Utc, which he let out lo farmers, and proved nne of tho mo-t exacting of I:.ndlor<.l9. His habits became thojo of a niUcr, and while he would n->t spend a penny on im|irovoment hu took i;i>il rnru tocolleut hu dues totho iittcniioat farthin? Sn mat i. era went on fur many years, ami hu >ivl become a grumpy, toureil, broUcMi nrtn. He hwil taki-ii up hia rci It-noi- in a cot- ttge winch stood in on<- of his li-lds ; n I a woman known in the villiige an liutHy (.'larkn became his liousokee|>er. IVtsy was tho widow of a firmer, and at the time she rn viT.l the service of Xr. Jinkinaon as hia housekeeper >he wu nearly forty years of age. Many more years passe 1. Jinkinnou grew old, and was familiarly known to all tin- villagers and for miles around as "Old Jinks.'' As the year* galhoro<l about him ho INXMIHO iiior. i -rolchety and eccentric, and his miacrly hal.it H increased. He looked after h : ^ r<-'Ul w:th the keenness i|nite ssWMtwMil of the miser ; but not a penny piece woulil he spend on his property, ex- cept to keep fences in rt-p.iir ; !>ut even thou he would hn^lc and i| larrnl about a half- penny. 1'ortiunaof hiaeatate Kcaubso.iUfht- ly joiil, realising far more than its value. I'.ut it wu bntiglit by a wealthy Kanik'niHii who csvme to live in the neighbourhood, and who wtta anxious to extend hia own i i.iind which Adjoined Jinka's. .Aud ai nioncy was no object to him, and as Jinks would not sell it until tempted by a big prioe the land wu sec uroil. Now, there was circumstance in connco- tiuu with Jinks which lorely exercised the lumiU of the rural population. \Vlru !i 1 he do with his inoucy ? He kept no bank in( account, he spent very little, and his wealth WM always m raising. )>efure con- cluding lb bargain about the sale of his land, he stipulated that the purchaser's law- yers should pay him tha amount agreed upon in coins of the re.ilm. This waa done and Jinks carried the coins off in a big can- vas bag. Of course, as was only natural, Ketay Clarke was frequently aaked what the old fnllow did with his money . But her invariil>!i> answer was XVhat's the use 'er ukinif me. I ain't got nothink to do wi' it. And Ihe old man lon't make me his banker." People believed as much of this as they like. I ; and il was considered most unlikely thut Kelsy could live as long a< she bad done with the old man and bo entirely ig- norant 01 the iii.ini.fr in which he disposed of his money. Many nasty thing.* were said about her, and hint* wrru freely drop- ped ahoilt her looking niter her own ends ami feathering her own lies', (or spiteful tolk are to bu found everywhere. However, u Jinks never cumnlained about his house- keeper, and indeed, seemed perfectly satis- tied, no one else hail any riglit to interfere. But still curiosity ran high, though it wu never gratified. So the years sped and Jinks'* hair be- came snow- while, hia cheeks hollow, his form bent, and his footsteps hulling and teelde. With alv^ncing age his miserly habit*, if anything, increased, and it w.is currently rumoured that lie and old Betsy lived on a fw pence a day, and that tires and lights of any kind were unknown. The muiiey, theiefure, went on accumulating; but whit became of it ? Not a penny piece would tho old mm give away. And ho did not pend a hundredth part uf what he received. Whsn he was about seventy-five years of age he liegan to think that hia sauna were became necessary ; but this left no doubt about his having died from extreme age. soon as Mr. Howden heaid of old Jinks's decease, ha lost no time iu proceeding with his son, and his two business partners, to. (inks'* house, in order to secure the mon- ey, and place it in the lunk, but no m nicy waa tound in iho loft. And wln-n lietsy heard what they had come about shn smil- ed, and told them shu knew where the old man's money was, and led them U> the well where sure enough in a bucket a sum of a little ewer a thousand pounds iu gold ami silver was found. That was all in accord with what .1 uik* had told the lawyer ; but it was alwolutely certain that it did uot rep- resent all the testator possessed. li.-uy pleaded entire ignorance of any other place of concealment, and declared that old Jinka had always given her to uudersund he kopt lim minify iu the well, and she had never seen linn put any anywhere else. On the ta.'u of it, it seemed absurd to sup- pose lhat ihe old man, after a generation and more of scraping and hoarding, had died worth only ainmt a thousand. ng, I It' I may mention, as fully testifying to old Jink's accuracy of detail, on the m-casioii of his visiting Mr. How Ion about the will, that Urn ladder ho haii spoken of as KHIIIU; under his lloor iu hu bedroom, was duly found tliure ; and the woodwork aboul ihu Tan- Jews las Bs-ul*. The persecution ot Jews in Rnssia has two molives, neither oi which would be regarded in any other country a justifica- tion for this policy. The Jew is as need not be explained outside the pale of the trapdoor, that ga/e access to the loft, boro (Jh-istian community. Kven iu the most VMyaigBsi some one having frequently wU^i !,.,,, there still hirers a s>- passed up and down. So far, i.i.-ii, ev.-ry - Ullleut ( l loBt ile ornjudioe auainst Uiu thing turni'd out exact ly M be had said with , o , Urae i The , m , of the f at | lt . re the exoepuon of the bag of money being in t | lrollg |, whose murderous deed, redrmp- tion came to niankliul, ever since the fur liest days wlii-n Christians became a power in ihe earth, have been viu ed on their children. The track of the Jews down the centuries is one of lil.. u. 1. I ia a miracle indued that, this race h i not been exterminated, us it would have been had there not been a Di- vine purpiiM- m us maintenance as a witness for the truth it lives only to deny. the loft. For some weeks, in spite of the utmost vigilance 1 was unable 10 oblaiti iho faintest clue calculated to aid me in any way. In the meantime, Jinks's son had bumi found. He had passed mnldlu life. His mother hail lieen deai! in my years, ami he was married and the father of a large family, but was iu easy circumstances, for he was in business < as a saddle and harues* marker on his owu account, and had a very goud conneclion. This tact, however, did not render him leasi eager to obtain Ins t.ither i olil Jinks'* -money according lo his rights, if it cuukl The pcrseci.t ion of the Jews in Kussia is merely a survival of practices that were j'-n- eral throunnput Kurope a few centuries ago. The defenders of the C/.ar declare that, ha is animated by the holiest of motives. Their ! be found. wcl II known what hit property brought in, j Old H.tsy Clarke left the neighbourhood ,,,..,,. h ' cUartd o( cull is . th ai he and besides his annual . icome there was ] soon after Jinks s funeral and lookup hei tlamel) th<) ,J OW ., , order to show his love the large sum h- hait received for the sale , residence with the Carmichaeb m Norwich. ',- Jhri . t . !>rocew |ipg which U a. logical of a portion of his estate. What had be- and about three moi.tns later 1 learned that ' come of that .' | Carmichuel ha.1 let to_ Liverpool.^ making A most exhaustive search was made of the premises, but without any result. Nothing tun her wits forthcoming, and so from lip to lip was bandied tho question "What hasrbe-come of old J inks's money?" Mr. Howden was convinced in his own mind that Jinks had not deceived him, and he came to the conclusion ihat the money hail been stolen, and though bis suspicions fell upon Betsy C'larke, he could not get a nearly run out, and one day he called on I shred of proof to support him. and in tho the finu of lawyers of which Mr. How.len { dilemm.i he sent for me ; for it was a serious waa tha hi-a. 1 ., and requesting that he might ses this |-ntlenun in private, he told him having lirst exacted a promise of secrecy from him that h wished to make a will. As may be supposed, Mr. Howden wu mui-h surprised, and asked old Jirika to whom ho wan going to leave his money. " To my son," was the old fellow's an- swer. " tfe is an Migrate, and has never been near me since he went away, but then I cannot take my money into the grave, and I've DO one else to leave it to. Besides, he is inv son after all," the old man added pathetically. Mr. Howden uked him if he knew where his son was, but he said he did not, though he considered there would be in finding him. " And will you leave him everything ? Mr. Howdfii inquired " K erything." was the answer. business, as until the money TIB found tho provisions of the will could not be carried out, though steps were at once taken to trace the heir. Such was the story and particulars I got from Mr. Howden, aud I could hardly havo done otherwise than havu come to thu con- clusion that Betsey riarku was not su ignorant of where the money was as she pretended to Iw. I therefore sought an m tervi w wilh her. S iu was au old cross (framed woman, surly and sour, as well she might be, after Ihe iiruiy years of hermit like life she had passed with the miserly old Jinks, whose parsimony led him to deny himself and her us a man (jetting intoxicated to show his zeal for temperance. A writer in a lead- ing Review recently said : " Russia is magnanimous. She contnuli ts not his)*;. Sho subsidi7.es no reptile Press. Russia, confident of vindication by posterity, is si- lent. ' l'iHr, amiable Kussia, it is sad she is so harshly criticised ! At to Russia's si- p.ei.ms. and 1 shadowed him more closely , e R ^*^ known tnal ,,, , ( , ()f lhlt than ever. In consequence it came K, my . ^ u spent freely in buying th- advo- ini|nries as to the cost of passage for him self and family to New Zealand ; and short- ly after he set about trying to let Ins houw*. upon which he had au unexpired lease of six years to run. These circumstances seerred to me sun- ithing wnilf ily: ing sonio knowledge that Mrs. Ctrmichael had been up to London making extensive purchases of clothing and other things for Iho faul- tier husband had been discharfr- long-standing liabilities in the neighbourhood, and had paid a hundred ami twenty guineas fora Stradivarius violin, which he had long coveted, and which h nl been in possession of a well known collector iu Norwich. Now, for a man who had long been steeped in poverty, to suddenly launch out like this pointed ominously lo there lie- mtf something lhal wax not fair and above- board. Of course, I did uot over-look the possibility thai ho was drawing the money from his niothur-iu-law. But, if thai were really tho case, it did not seem to me in cacy of* the preas of foreign countries. There is no nation so lavish in us bribes, for the cause of Kiuaia is so hateful, so unpopular in the rest of Europe, that only by large payments is she able to secure literary de- leiidi-rs, of the class who would defend Sa- tan for a fee. Hut, conscious of the utltr inadequacy of Ihe cry of religious zeal as an apology for her crimes against humanity, Russia's de- fenders, put forth another argumenl to jus- tify the cruelties indicted on the Jews m that Country. Tho object pursued by the governing -Isssss in repreasing tho Jews is said to be ' 4 sheer sell-defence. I'lie bright Jewish intellect, if allowed free play, woild con- no difficulty a ,iythmg ihitt was not absolutely necessary to keep body and soul together. And yet, strangely enough, he had lived a good deal beyond the allotted span, and she was turn- ed seventy. So that it seemed ai if hard fare, togelher wilh cheerlessness and dis- comfort, had uot tended to shorten their lives. I was by no moans struck with llotay With these facts before me, 1 took counsel " Without any restrictions T" 14 Without any restrictions whatever." Mr. Howden next ventured to hint that l, V es. with the local authorities anu it was de- perhap* Mr. Jir.kiuson would like to ac > [ wa , |, v no moans struck with Betsy, 'ide.l that there was suihcient evidence to knowledge the long and faithful services of si,,, c^ve me the impression of being a shifty g before a magistrate wilh, aud apply for ihe housekeeper in some way. But on this ' ul ,i untruthful od woman, and notwith- a warrant to search Carminliael's house, on the old mau got raspy aud said I standing that she hail been so long in his suspicion of his being in unlawful possession accord with common sen* that hu would , ^j l|jc wl|ole E f, ,' a , h ort.pace have rushed into such lav,., expend,* ire. . f ^ wrlla . on / RlullUin advocate. Iheabiity to pay so large a price as I JO T .. J onUlninallon -. O f R u-la by " bright guineas fora violiD certainly aigue,! posse.- lnU)Uect ,, ,. , loul)tles . fearw l by the Czar. ion of a good deal more. There was another , all ' op i e whose brains were acli e suspicious element, the value of which I duly weighed. He kept no banking account, and ali bis paymeuts were made i-icasli. the violin being paid for in sovereigns. would soon make a bold strike for free. i in from his tyranny, and demand, and se- cure, the liberties unjoyed by all civilized nations. I'Uc .lew, it seems, acts like yeast m dough, and Russia does not wiuil any intellectual tel mentation to be intioduced his despot ruled subjects. " It calculated that if the leprecsiva laws of Russia were repealed, aud the Jjws . * . i , ..-^ .. . ...... .'w.. . "!* - allowed access to any aud every post in the Mmi't you bother about Betsy I'll see g. rvlcei .he had not a good word to aay for ' ^ !< ^_ nlo . l> P r -... l 1 h ^. w ^ *J.**.."?."'l.L limpire, eight years would uot pios before every post worth having, outside the aimy aud navy, would Iw tilled by an olhcial of the Hebrew faith." Such i tin- real motive oi me persecution of U.e Jews in Kutsia, ag,Ut,on and relueta.ie.tocomplv will, my ,^ g j e J Mnntt , ^ M ...Ju^d race : t. him. Itut did he uot leave you anything ? " gave me a paltry fiva 1 asked. 'Oh, yes; he that hetsy doesn't want for anything, and befi ir I die I'll give her good honest coin of the realm, so thai she won't be bolhered wilh any of you lawyers." This remark suggested to Mr. Hiwdento, hundred "pounds afew day. afore he died. rein pid bis strange Micnt that., according to jj ut t |,,. n \ , u ppoe, it will do me my time, common rumour, he kept no banking ac- ' ^.j |i,. e( , mo ,,,, t o ( the workhouse. ' count, aud lhal he must have hoa'ded some- where. Upon tins old Jinks smiled, as though he couriered a great compliment had been paid to him, and, with a know- ing wink lie answered - " Well, of course, if you don't know where to tin. I ihe money you could uot give it to my sm, could you* But you can make your mind easy ; it will be all right." The lawyer urged upon In in , he importance mgly granted, and my appearance at lit L'armichaels, and my demand in the namo of the law to search their house was like the shock of a thunderbolt to Uiein. Their " When you knew ho was likely to why didn't you get medical advice?" I d.du't know he was a dying, " .lie, si* growled. ' Fact is he'd been a-dying for i Ter y large many years according to his own account, ' demand betrayed guilty knowledge of somo kmd. Th track, and in covered in the wah coals. " ul<1 of revealing his hiding place, as otherwise there might he considerable trouble ; and at last, after much pondering, Old Jinks wrote on a slip of paper, which hi mvle I'd come to think he would live longer I nu arrested, and, the litllo game being thus spoiled, ho confessed that at hia mother-in-law's request he had gradual! v removed Uie money from Jinks's lof*. during tha time that the old man lay insensible. Betsy Clarko had wilh extreme nrlfiil- aoss arranged ihe whole plan. When sao found that the old man had mado a wtll leaving his hoard of gold to nis unworthy intellect with Uie race who W.TO selected by lhan I should. 44 But still you must have seen at laU that ho was going. Why did you let him die wilhoul anyone knowing oven that he was near his end V 44 He would not let me toll anyone, ami he would nut have a doctor. Hs hated doctors. He said as they was all a parcel Howden promise faithfully he woul 1 keep ' ignorant <|uacks, whal took your money, and ungrateful son it made her furious, lor a secret unlit the lime came to use thu money am i ,i,,i noinn.g for you." that he hail accumulated a sum of nearly forty thousand pounds m notes and gold, and that the money win lied up in a sack, which was carefully stowed away in a little loft over h.s bedroom, and the only access to the loft was by a trap-door in the ceiling of his room. Kvery in^ht before tin retired lie climbed up into ihu loft to see that hu money was nil right, and the ladder hu used for getting up to the loft he kept under- neath tho boards in his room. He had ar- ranged two of the boards so that he could lift them with the greatest cv-.o, and over Kill still ought to hav , MI justice to yourself, you j got assistance, I urged. Perhaps I should, but we ain't always got our wits aboul us. If I'd knowd as he was really a dying I'd a got assistance for him, for! wur worrit enough, I oau tell you. After this interview I felt sure that even if Betsy (iidnot know anj i.niug about Jinka's money, she was an artfu' aud untruthful woman, llul the fact, is, I trongly suspect- ed that she did know. It tint was true, , however, it was very evident that she most the boards !i spread a pieco of carpet, have a confederate. I'erhaps more lhan oue: He Ihttcred himself that no living soul knew f or if there was as much siwcie an Ihe tesla- of his hiding-place, not even his housekeep j tor Kave his lawyer lo nnderslaud there was er, anJ in order to throw her off iho scent . wu ,,|,l havo been ditlicult to remove, ex- he bad frequently di-iplayud before her a ! ^pt Dy , ma || quantities at a time. Or if sho considered thai if anyone had a right to it .he had, after her many years of service with Jinks. Morally, il might have beeu argued lhal she was justified iu this belief : but, legally, of course, she hadn't a leg to stand upon. Hut so great was ihj shock and disappointment to her that she took to her bed aud in six weeks' lime w.it dead. Uonirini; ,ho world. The Jewa in Russia where they have been left comparatively free, hold 47 per oeut. of the capital engued in trade, run 07 per oeni. of tho reUul stores, Ao per cent, of the mercantile establishments. They control iu equal proportions, the dl.lillcnes of brandy, and tho retail spirit stores. How enormous 'u their influence, compared to their number, ean bo judged by their being ih, i - -.'- if t lit Mai /x>/>/o/iofi. Tliu sucial, intellectual, material, and pi.liuual.sdvancemeut of Kussia will receive each a serious ciiock it thu main body of tho Jewish population is ex jwlled. They have become tho vuius andarleriesof the commer- cial body, along which has flowed in slreami of foreign capn .1. wooden bucket, m which ho kept a few hum lied pounds in gold, and Ihis bucket was kept concealed in a disused and per- fectly dry well in the orchard. I relatives or acquaintances Betsy had. Of Such WIIH the .<iory us told by Old Jinks, I acquaintances -except o! the moil casual and as the lawyer knew that he had been ] kiud she seemed to have none, for sho hail taken away in bulk it would have necessi tate.! two or three strong meu. 1 therefore l-c;an to maUu carviul eni(iiiries as lo what hoarding and accumulating for very many ycarx, there was no reason whatever to d-ml'l his statement ns to the amount. A will was, therefore, carefully prepared, >n<i by it everything was left to the son; or, in 'the event nf Ins death and his leaving einlduMi bc'.inid linn, it was to go to the chil'lrtm. 1'iit failing children, the money w* tobuiiHfd fur biiildin<> and en. I. win/ mi I'ipliaii asylum, which wm to he cr on the old ni'in's laud, and w.u to bo known for nil time as " Jinkm.iou's House." These details and wishes of the testator were set forth with great prccien<*H4, and thu will was drawn up with a vicwot n\ n I ing Any subseijuciit inisilnderstand.n^. \n 1, atlast, all being right an 1 in perfect order, it was duly signed and attested : one of the witnesses, by the old man's request, being Itetsy Clarke, his housekeeper. So far, then, all was well, and oil Jinks jcoincd highly siti.ined, wilh what he bad done, and in the lawyer's hearing said Now if my son would ouly come and see me I should die hap .y." Whereupon Mr. Howden suggosted that tho son should lie found, and requested to come and see his father. I'.ut on this Jinks tlarudwith anger, and exclaimed 44 No, no. It ho won't come of his own free will, ho shan't come at all. And when he hiM my money after I'm dead it w ill bo like gull and w.>: inwoo 1 to him u long u he lives." This WM a strange idea of Jinks ; but u no 0:10 had any intero.it in contradicting him, h>> had his own way, and about a year lator he died suddenly of sheer old age. He wa known to have become very feeble six nionlhi before hi* dit.uh, and fir three in., itli.t his familivr figure li.nl Iccn missed from th village: but, mini IJetsy Clarke gave the in form i 1 inn tha.1 ho was dead, no unit had any idea that he had pvuod away 1 1 his eternal rest. Ai no minimal man had ..ti--iidi! I him, an in juo.1t and poll mortem kept herself as secluded ai her master hud done. Bui I ascertained that in the town of Norwich she had a daughter and son :n law living, and they hail sevtral child run, all of them grown up. The daughter's namo was Carmichaol, and her husNand had for some years been steward to Sir Joseph Hat- erson, the M. P. But on Sir Joseph's death Carniichael was thrown u it of employment; and .ne'e tn.n he hail earned a precarious living by giving leuona .m the violin, an instrument that ho hail learned to play ex- ceedingly well. There is no doubt that hu and his wife and a growu-uu son, who was consumptive, and lived with thoin, had suf- fered a good deal of hardship ainl priva- tion. P.ul it camo to my knowledge that Kelsv occasionally visile I them; and when- ever sho did so she always left something be- hind. Up to this point there was nothing that justified suspicion attaching itself to the Carmichaels, although thoy were the only relatives Betsy had, aud the only people sho visited. Therefore, unless she herself had stolen old Jinks's money little by little, and hail hii'dcn il awny somewhere and had told no living being, she must havo had as- sistance ; and who was more likely to have been taken into her coninlence than Mio I'armichaels? Of course thoro was Iho other alternative, which wa that Jinki had not hoarded any mon-'v. litit the reader will see for himself how utterly improbable that was, having regard to Ihe very considerable income be was known to derive from his properly. Ho I dismissed Ihe idea as one that was wholly untenable, and worked upon tho assumption that Hetsy had a guilty secret, which I resolved to find out, and to that end I set a very careful watch on tho Carinichael's actions, feeling perfect- ly sure that if they had p.sseHcd them solves of tho money, Ihev would <->. later commit some act which would betray Uiuuh What money she had in her own riglit ehe li-tt to her son in-law, and oul of it in- made good what hail beeu spent of the slot en money, and in coiisideralioii of tli culiarity of all the circumstances of thu case, and in the beliof that he had Iwen m atigated to remove the money by 1111 mother- in-law, he got off with the hghl punishment . |{ USB , a of ihreo months' imprisonment for unlaw- ; As tno tj/.ar is the had olhcial of That they aro avaricious, keen bargain ors, oppressive aud exacting linanciers, we can i-eadily believe. A small body of for- ?' leigners, living in a laud by sufferance, liable tu be expallod any day, having no ties U hind them to tho country, must inevitably become .ill that, is charged against the ,Iuw one of fnl pinsesmon. I was really sorry for C'ar- .,, m ,,, t ancient, and one oi the largest of michaol, as up to then he had borne an ir- l(;| ir jgtiAU uhurclien, his treatment of the raproachahlc character : while on the other j ews , a tcandsUous cri me against ('hristen- haud, the heir had been a drinker for year*. i\,, int ^ w ,|l * a dirgrace to this century. and was by no moans either v model father or a fcooA imsband. However, those wcro matters outside tho ':oifni*aiic of tho law, and could not bu taken into account. He w K lawfully entitled to old Jinks's money. the world better than he found it I cannot say The Jews may well resist "iir cir.irti t. vert them to Clirist, when His religion is said to instigate suuh cruelties us forcing im-n, woineu, ami children from tl.eir homes amid the severities of winter. Itseems to us, that a mission to christianize the C'/.ar ot Kunsia, M Tfcc Oalarln Health onirrr F.vpnMitlalfK aud lie got it. Whether it brought h:m happiness or not, and enabled him ^to loava ^"i'liis'oHk-ials) throughout tho Kmpire, is as much needed as one to do that service to thu Hebrew raoe. The destruction of so many Russians by famine would uot havo occurred had their inef Ruler not been destitute of the first pi nu ipltsof chrislianit). The grain needed i to keep his subjects alive, was being Dr. I'.rjc", of the Ontario Provincial | inpiodigious.(tiaiitilies,iiiiiiilitarygranaries Health Hoard, attended the meeting of tlio s' u , |, m.liHcreiicii t human ngony a thu Detroit, board tho other day and protente.! ('/ Rr shoved in the time oftlio famine, for a^ainsl the ouarantiuing of immigrants in Windsor. He said that the system waa a hardship for Ihe immigrants and an injim- tice to Canada, being entirely unnecessary in \iew of tho measures carried out iu Que- bec and Montreal. He intimated thalOn- laiio might adopt retaliatory measures in caje its protests were not regarded. Thin could be .lone by refusing immigrants from \. w York hound for Michigan, admission lo Ontario at Niagara Kails. Members of the local board explained lhal they had voted to accept certificates from (jneliec * that, 1 1 which he was nininly responsible, and Bin li callous severity u ho has howu towards the .lows, proves him to havo the |.mv heart of aauMv^e, to be indeed a baihai lau wearing njhrisuan mask. spousible for the present system of inspeo- lion. Twenty-lhreo immigrnnls detained in Windsor by the order of Dr. Mill boron oil .Saturday night wcro released on Sunday night by order of Dr. I'oreornn, i/ne oi 'he local inspect'. i.-. Pi. i ore cr.m laut'on will doiibtloss stir up the state hoard, and soino lively correspondonco over tho matter ia oipecliil. Heading Her Oil: C'nrnsn Wan a in'iinte, Kindle, Twniit to stop into tho dressmaker's and puy my wife's bill. Kangle \Vhy don ; you give her Iho muni \ .ind let her go and pay it.T (.'I:IM-O Mie'd order uuoihur dress. U.... l*sr >alUl)rew. The t iins takeu for the tissues of your left hand lo give you a complete change of nails is from eight to ten days more than that rviniirod for a renewal of those on the right hand. Tliu growth is also known to he more rapid in < luldrnn than in ailnltH aud goes on faster in Siimnirr than in \\ in- ter. It roi|uircsan average of I.'W tiny* for a renewal of the nails in Winter and out I IU during the Spring and .Summer month*. A nautical journal piihlimied on tho Pacific coast Astoria that the Nicaragua Canal, if completed, will never bo used by sailing vetsnln, fur n i caaon which applies also t>. tn I'm,. nun Canal. On either side .it (' iitni America, in the vicinity of the pio|in.iud I'litiaiiiT* u> the ranal, in a . of perpetual (.alma and duldrnii -. ..n.i i : \<f., ; would find it t:x. eedingly d tiicult to get, into tho entrance on one Hide, and after heir.g towed through woulil havs) 1'ijiial ilitliciilty in gi-tling vny 'lo'll tbn coaHt iulu the region of trade winds on ' 'i