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MUSIG AND THE DRAMA .. · Al ce Harrison hrus been engaged by Brooks p.nd ]) ckson to take the place ot Ltlhan Russel m the Merry Duchess which is to be gn en at the :New York Standard m ,AU'1:USt The Swedish composer Hallstroem has been mHted by the Queen of Roumama to compose the music for the new opera she has ~st written the action of which is laid m Roumama Mr James C Duff is orgamzmg an Eng hsh opera company for the season for which a number of important engagements have been made Miss Emma Juch M ss Mane Couron Mr George Swdet and Mr Perugm1 are among those already secnred The burlesque ' Rvangehne which had five years of contmuous and prosperous use in this country has failed on its fhst trial m England The pantomime hone FiBhrrman, whom we thou~ht so laughable was there an absolute and solemn mystery to the audience 1\1 ss Ruby Qumton has left for England where she will study under Raindle of the Haymarket Theatre }lavmg completed her course she will play thr1mgh tbe leadmg English C1t1es makmg her debut m Man fred and is under a four yea.rs engagement with a prom nent American manager Ltlhan Russe l has made a great success m England ~he was the guest of the New Club and sang before the Prmce of Wales and a number of the aristocracy An m JUUct1on has been issued agamst her appear ance at the G-a1ety Manager Henderson claims an exclusive engagement under the ;i,grecment The cene most loudly nd1culed mW lk e Collms s new phy Rank and Rwhes on its product10n ID London was one m which the daughter of an Earl and affianced bride of a Duke the rival of her own m:ud m the affect10ns of a lawyer s clerk accompamed her lover to a tavern kissed lum beforn a crowd and drank to the do vnfa.ll of the House of Lords John Gilbert the basso of last season s Emm11. Abbott opera co npany relates that in Peoria she went o 1t before the curtam and made a speech She sa d that Peoria was :Per native place There she had her first struggles and grew up She was glad to see m tue audience Mrs Smith who had once given her a pound of coffee and Mra Jones who had on more than one oocas1on given her sugar She was also glad to see Mr1<. Brown without whose gift of a barrel of flour she wouldn t have known what to do once upon a tune She went on with a str ng ot names none of whom Gilbert sup poses we1c those of persone present A banquet was given to Henry Irvmg recently Ill St James Hall London at which nearly 600 guests were present A letter was read from Mr Gladstone express ing his regrets at bemg unable to be pres ent In toastmg Henry Irvrn!:( Lord Cole ridge paid a high tribute to the act<.>r s pro fess on and said the drama would die with QUt au actor to breathe hfe mto 1t. Mr lrvml( Ill .espondmg to the toast said be ould conceive no greater honor than that paid hun b) this w.sembJage Irvmg and his company sail for the 'Umted States m tl e steamsh p City of Rome the Wth of October 1\!Ia.rie Von Elsner known to the musical world as Mme Marie L1tta 1s dead Her disease was cerebro sffenal menmg1t111 sup errnduced by over exert on $he had been atlmg for a long time She was born m Bloommrton Ill June 1 1806 and was there fore m her 28th }ear Her early hfe was one of great privations and struggles Her father was a poor n an of noble German birth whose voca\10n was th:i.t of a mus c teacher When quite young Manes musical talents began to develop her vo ce bemg as torushmgly strong and melodious When she was 12 years of age she sang before Pres dent Grant m the White House who complimented her highly In 1869 she went to li' e with Prof Undorner, of Cleveland and m four years she developed mto a fine ly educated hdy with great musical accom pbshments In 1864 a wealthy friend Mr Hough advanced her money to go to Paris and pursue her stud es After m.11.ny dis couragements she finally triumphed and won the highest praise of the most cr1t1cal Paris ian audiences She returned m October 1878 and made a successful deb it m Chicago m Lu01a d1 Lammermoor Then for two years she sang with Strakosch and for tile past two years has starred ID the L1tta Concert Company and was JU»t closmg a brilliant season when stricken She has 13ung m a number of the largest Cl hes m the east and west and everywhere met with success She was among the most prommng of American vocalists and her early death will be deplored by all lo' era of mus10al art and srncerely mourned by a very large cucle of warmly attached friends Mea;suring Mecllclnes It should certarnly be made the rule to dis, pense all l quid medicines of a poisonous sort m graduated phials V\ hen they mere ly bear labels spec1fymg that so mi'ny spoons ful should be tak n a given number of times per (hem it is the easiest thmg m the world Jor ilhterate or short sighted patients t() overdose themsel ve· with ser10us conse quences !1;1 a case of the sort which lately happened at Nantw10h a poor woman re ce1vcd horn a local medical man a bottle of phys c labelled with the d1rect10ns that she was to take tV1 o teaspoonfuls as stated at mtervals Notbemganadeptatreadmgwrit ,mg she took two tableapoonsfnl and dJed withm a f.,w hours The m1xtu1e 1t tppears contamed a cons1dernble quantity oflaudan um and the overdose consequently narcot ised the unfortunate creature past all cure It is open to question whet! er such highly poisonous med1cme as tlus should ever be d1spen~ed m any larger quantity than would suffice for a smgle dose But if the enact ment of that rule is undeo1rable by reason of the rnconvemence resultmg to the public every poss1blo precaution should certamly be taken to mm1mise the danger to human hfe The substitution of graduated pl 1als for measurement l y spoonsful woulct not it is ti ue ab·olutely prevent the possibility of mistal ~s but they would be less likely to occur than at piesent Professor John Stuart.Blackie says he re signed the Greek hair at Edmburgh that he l ght do sonethmg better wl ich work he thinks he has found 10 a1dmg the croft ers Let Greek d e let Hebrew dte let learn ng go to th" dogs J e sa7s bt t let human brotherhood and charity h e Miss Rosalmd a young lad~ of p tcaun Island who 1s the oni;amst of the plaee 1 about t'>ent3 six weighs two hundie l pounds nove1 ha,d a shoe on her foot and cs...i swi n 1 ke a fish writes a dam·y han<l and 1s assistant teacher m her father s school her father 1 s pasto1 as well as peda gogue · The Umted St:i.tes Attorney General de sides that whiskey cannot pe expo ted to Bernm ia and re imported to delay payment of the Government tax Cl 'l'he Old and the New _ ~ In these earnest da'ys it 18 not easy to con ce1ve as representative of a mode of hv1ng of a shepherd loll ng on a hillock and srng mg with no v1S1ble auditors but his flock 1 he Lord 1s my Shepherd I shall not want If the thmg were displayed Ill pie tonal shape nme out often men would say 1t was no way to make a i1vrng Between the times when such a state of tlungs was real and our times-in which they are im possible-there is a great g11lf fixed so far from bemg m sympathy with it we cannot even cvmprehend it Yet to thet1mes when such things were poss ble and real the world of to day owes nearly all that is trqe 1:11 thought and excellent m art It 1s stra.n_,ge that these da)B of activity should b so largely m debt to those d tys of languid con tent How is it? The solution .:if the problem seems to he here m a s mple cond1t1on of hfe md1v1dual peculiarities l ave free development in an art1fic1al coi.d t1on of so01ety tt ey do not A man s id1osyncracies are not cabmed cribbed confined There is nothing to counteract his bont be 1t good ward or ill ward If he be 1 of the earth ear~hy there is al.most a certa\lltY undet s lCh con d1t10ns of his becommg from ' earthy sensual ~nd devilish 1f he be a o;enmP tbe e rn almost an equal certamty of his dorng somethmg by hp or hand wb ch will long survive him There is m either case a natural development with notnmg to stay progress B11t in our tunes such free development lS if not unposs1ble at any rate rare From the first dawn of mtelhgence we are beset aud bewildered with a variety of aims Ill hfe The chanced of il1stmguishrng ourselves are perplexmg from their number and the like hhood of our gaming d1Stmct1on 1s propor t1ouately d1mm shed The consequence 1s that we futter away such talents and energ'y as we may ha\ e Ill a diversity of pursuits ach1e mg noth ng Ill any one of them If we look through the contents of a '-Shelf of biographies of self made men we shall tind tha the maionty of them had their n ental bent fixed under what we commonly call unfavorable c1rcum'3tances but wh10h m fact are'the most favorable of all c1rcum stances for the brmgmg out of a man of what m h n is best -c11cumstances Ill wh10h patronage does not sap mdependence or mul t1phc1ty of aims diffuse -energy Now a days we are superficial-there 1s no doubt of 1t \"\ e are not content to excel In any one thmg we see so many thmgs which are excelleDt that our a.ttent1on and amb ton are dissipated ~ e are too weak to work long ere we decide what ~s best wo tb wo1k ng for This is not an rndivid ual experience but the tendency of the age conci.ely stated And !t explams why m these days of impetuous onrush we have to go away for ideas of the true and oeautJful to Me·opota ma and the shepherds W!l.tchmg tbnr flocks 0 PIOU~~ULES I ' LA.TE N~ NQTES THE SEVEN OLD MEN A SKETCH BY A STUDENT OF STREETS. MISCELLANEOUS David slew Goliath with a sling J his proves the Pb1hstme was not a tempemnce man Even a man who has had both legs ampu tated when he opens his mouth to tell some startling stones of the wat will occaswn ally put his foot in it An Elyria O woma.n fainted away the first time she heard 11. band play She thought Gabriel had begun to toot a.nd she hadn t q mte finished her ironmg Dude-W\l do not thmk that compla1Dmg to the police will do any good The best way 1s to be carefnl hereafter aot to stand m front of a clothing store, or 1f obliged to while waitmg for a car keep movmg a lit tle I hen people won t turn you around to look for price-marks Bowles was not a oonceited man but a very absent mmded one and he differed materially from some of the mfidels of t 0 d ay w h o are not a bsent mmded but conceit ed He presented a Bible to Mrs Moore and wrote her name on the title pagfl add rng From the author A Mame man has willed $2 00-0 to the Methodist ohurch of his native town on con d1t1on that 1t is1ve up soCiables Any man who has been dragged by his wife month after month to the church soo1a.ble would have hard feelings about it that be could not well keep down even at the near approach of death Ben Deer1Dg; 1s the editor of a newspaper and pastor of a church at Carthage Mo manages another newspaper an!! preaches foi; another church at Carterville has still another church at Webb City and is now leadmg a camp meetmg by way of recrea tion BenJamm was born m Kentucky and 1s a hard shell Baptist A backwoods preacher once elucidated as follows 1n connect10n with the parable of the v1rgrns In ancient times my beloved hearers 1t was the custom after a couple had been married for ten virg ns to go out with lighted bmps and meet em on the way home fi \ e of these v11 gms bemg males and five fe nales My friend are you prepared to die? said am mstenal looking mau to a gentle man who sat next to him in a horse car (!}ood gramons no l excla med the gen tleman terribly alarmed My pol cy ran out last Monday and I am now on my way to ha~e 1t renew"d and iump ng 11p he violently pulled the bell strap The cond1t1on of the rr arket Ah good mornmg McGouge you i:e nust the man I want to see said old Put-m how s the market gomg to be? I tell you as a friend everythmg is gomg to boom '.I his little flurry will be over rn a rew days and then thmgs are go ng up I tell you old fellow now is the time to put m But Smde your partner says the bottom 1s droppmg out of everythml! Snide Ah Smde 1s the bear me nber of the tirm Fools and children tell the truth it 1s said and to illustrate we will g ve you the story of Bishop W urtzbarg and the httle shepherd boy of whom he asked ' What are you domg my little lad? Tendmg swme How mucll do you get' Une florm a week I am-.also a shepherd contmued the bishop but a: have a much higher salary That may a.II be but then I suppose you have more swme under your care, mnocently replied the boy Once upon a time a belated tlaveller ap plied for shelter at a farm house m rather a wild part of New England and after bemg taken care of for the mght was mv1ted to om the fainlly at mornmg prayers Th" host prayed with due fervor for the stranger w1thm his gatas also that his own sons might be hke two hemispheres The guest fall ng to comprehend his exact meanmg ventured to ask 1t later <in The good far mer looked a bit puzzled said he didn t ex actly know and, after a moments hes1ta t1on said But I guess its a pretty good word a1n t1P In the good old town of Newburyport Mass it was formerly the custom to have up notes Ill the pulpit on.Sunday mornrngs which VI as the vernacular for the act i,f sending a note to the pastor requestmg prayers for special QCcas1ons Not long ago a brother from the country occupied one of the pulpits 1n that town and on open.mg the Bible came across one such note and after readmg it announced to the congregation that Mr A requested the prayers and sym pa.thy of the congregat10n m the sudden death of his loved wile and m the prayer that followed he offered up a fervent pet1 tion for the brother s1ttmg lonely anu des olate m his pew etc Be noticed a move ment m the congregation that alljlOSt amounted to a panic and to his consterna t1on he afterward 1earned that the uote had been shut up m the Bible a year and that Mr A had his new wife for the tirst time m the pew He 1s very careful about g1vmgi out notices now Lady Tricycllsts. The girl on a tricycle has ~1eady made her appearance at the summer resorts As observed at NewpJ>rt she 11a.t be.t1veen two wheels which were connected by a short axeltree on a kmd of saddle-astr de of it but not so circumstanced as to make d1v1d ed garments necessary as Ill ndrng horse back man fash10n Her feet reached down to treadles and her hands were employed m steer ng by means <f a device connected with a low front wheel Her posture was not thatofs ttrng however but her figure wassus pended nearly perpend cular and her legswere moved a vreat deal bke those of a horse a! lhcted with sprrnghalt or a sw mmer tread ng water Her knees came up h1gb with an a.ction more productive of good exercise than of grace And yet she was a sym met1 cal and pleasrng tra.vell,er The pre scribed costume 1s soft thm flannel with a blouse waist and a skirt reachmg JUSt to the gatter tops It is obv10us that the lat ter level could not he stea hly mamtamed m view of the high treadmg required to wo1k the tl'lcyle without some special modi Th s want has ficat10n of the garment beeu supphed by takmg an idea from the equestrian habit Lengthwise of the skirt m front two gussets are set m at pomts where the knees will protrude mto them m rismg ~---- Do Sna.kus Drl.Dk ? In Mis· Hople11 s entertammg work on Sna,kM 1s an mterestmg chapter devoted to tn s quest10n M J;>umer1l says Snakes rarely drmk (thi.t lS not every day as most ~mm:i.ls do) mo t of them hnng m dry regions or 101ests where for long periods they are d&prn eu of water The live prey upon which they subsist supplies them with sufficient liquid Nevertheless a large number of serpeRts hve close to the water and love to plunge m and to swim These truly drink Jappmg with the tongue at other times with the head under 'l'later and the neck still lower so that thEI water falls rnto the wouth lay its own weight and is then swallowed But this he repeats uoes not go mto the blood or very little of 1t its £ mction bemg principally to moisten the mtestmes ..,Leoz a German oph10logist of still earlier date than Schlegel went very conscient ous ly mto the subiect of whether suakes drink or not havmg adopted various means m order to test them His personal exper1enc" was howtver of a more lumted range He says The numerous snakes and other n.mmals wh1ch rnhabit a.rid mountams or plams destitute of water can only quench their thirst with ram or dew Snakes re quue but httle water as long as they lne io the open air It is an estabhshed rule th:i.t no water is found n the maw stomach or entrails of snakes killed m the open air even when destroyed by or m a piece of water Snakes ar.e never seen to go to drmk in any part of the world 1 his last l)lause 1s a too pos1t1ve assertion and one not subsequently borne out by other equally conscientious and intelligent writers Lw ngst001e who was a close ob server of nature rnforms us that he has known some of the Afrwan snakes come a long way to poo1s and rivers to dtmk Dr Pla.yter on small Pox Wehave amongCa.nad a.DJOUrnabsts stood almost alone m our oppos1t10n to compulsory 'ace nat10n \\ e have striven earnestlyand will contmue to do so -to assist our readers to arrive at a true knowledge of a aubJ e<;t which rs of so tremendous importance to the. human family at }arg!l We are glad, therefore to note m the June number of The Sanita1y Journal an exhaustn e and most impartially written article on the sub Ject by Edwarcl Playter M D of this city We do not purpose here to quote from the art cle m question -whwh we re commend ~o our readers earnest consider at10n -bl'.lt s1 nply to state the result of the Doctor fl mvest gation which is m his own words that after carefully examm ng and siftmg all theatta:wableevi 1ence p10andcon m regard to the measure I feat that 1t has been and is too much extolled and too much relied upon to the comparative ne glect of other and it appears to me more strictly sc enti he pr.iv ent ve measures and that it 1s opposed and repulsive to nature Dr Playter is not the only med real man who has grave doubts m regard to the efficacy of \.t"cmation and there is a widely spread and rapidly growmg conviction among the laity that 1t 1s not all tbat 1t has be<>n con s dered to be as a prcvent1veagarnstsmallpox \V1th such a feelmg Ill ex stence 1t seems the height of folly-not to say cnmmahtyto ms1st on the compulso,ry clauses of the Vtcc1nat1011 Laws Pub! c opm on on th s matter however lS becom ng too stron15 to be gnored a id toe t me will come-and 1s comrng 1ap1dly- when this 111 p rtant sub iect will b v ewed 10 its tr ie l ght by all sorts and cond1t10ns of !nen .................~ .. ·--~-~ ----........ Small mantelets of cloth are nAwer than ~~··--'--- ackets with tailor made cloth sUits A cook sto e may be converted nto a base bu ner by s1ttmg on it while it shot One of the charges agamst tobacco s that it s use has a dwarf ng effect Thats true Ma.µy men get short by buymg c gars Brad laugh is. ev dent1y gomg to have great diffi ult1es n gettmg ti at seat of his Too bad of Gladstone to shirk the vote We did not expect that ot the grand old man .. A n ace dent en he D tro t and Bay C ty was ca ised by a culvert g1vmg way FLve persona were IDJUred but not dangerously David Tate of Ontario had !us hip and back slightly wrenched Ruch ng 1s a.giun worn ms1de the neck band of the dress and 1s now edged with the finest of lace-either fiat Valene ennes Ori ental or PompadO'.ir The ruche often tnms the edge or front () "II a.1st a finger s length Ru1m.1<R P 1AN1' IN MEXICO -Mexico 1~ m~k1ng a study l of the cu ture of the 11ibber plant Tl e hardness of tl e plant 1s sa d to be such that its cultuic is exceedm&1y simile and nexpensi e wnere tl e cl mate nd soil are sm able In much of the Mez can coast region the only expence 1s tie weed ng r ec1u1red when the plants are young to give them a cl ance to g ow and st El gthcr \v h3 m st we mou n fo vamsbcd 1 gl t? asked a poet lt' may be owmg to the fact th t 1t had been cut off at the meter because of a failure to pay an old gas b1H It sometimes happens that way The Grimm brothers the famous writers of Gem an fairy lore are to have a monu ment through p pular subscription THE James Carey the mfonner has been de It is a pity to prevent poor people havrng In the City wb.ere I live there are two a chance m this western world but an end clared a bankrupt, owmg to his fa.1.lure to streets which after runrung side by side for pay his rates must be put to pauper imm1grat1on Out some distance gradually converge and JOID of sight this is worse than any Chmese Ill The Jornt Committee of the Lords and Previous to the pomt of Junction their route vas10n Commons has reJected the English Channel is rather undev1atmg than otherwise but Thmgs are bnghtemng m Ireland Crime tunnel scheme by six to four afte that 1s passed the smgle street mto accordmg to Judge 0 Brien has d1mrn1shed which they umte staggers on its way m a The coa.l mme troubles m Sprmgfield, Ill smce last assizes to such an extent as to have all been settled a.t the different mmes succession of abrupt curves and irregular a.mount to a soCJ.al revolution So may it wmdmgs as 1f aghast atthe unsightly object with the exception of the Hurst 11 mmes continue left behind for by one of those strange The Law and Order Society of Ph1la.d,el There 1s a Boston pastor who so often m ph1a began a crusade to have licenses re freaks which Ill the ~ourse of my studies cites his people to larger contr1but ons that I have known streets to perform the build vokAd from all l!aloons that sell hquor on mgs immediately proiect ng mto the con 1 he Congregationalist suggests as a text for Sundays Last of all the beggar tmued street have assumed the d1stmctshape his funeral sermon A telegram from Gua.yaqml Ecua.Cor, re and outlmes of a gigantic coffin In front of died also The telegraph makes tile way of trans ports its capture by the insurgents thus thl.8 gnm look mg fab 1c are ranged a bne of c?mpletmg the overthrow of the dictator fantastic old men seven m number the gressonr specially hard '.!he last mstance is \ emt1mdla shadows of whose shr nkmg; figures flit that of a clerk of Turm arrested in New A petition ha.s been sent by the V1ctor11m across the page even as I write with a kmcl York False entnes and all the usual etcet Parliament a!lkrng the Imperial Government of piteous flutter of their weather stamed eras Honesty after all 1s best Edison is snpposeri to know considerable to either annex or establish a. protectorate rag;s They have stood there as far back as over Gumea. Eleo I can remember m all Borts of weather for about electricity and yet he says Mr Brad laugh has written to the Sergeant four years or more and seem likely to keep tr101ty is a ten a.ere lot wHh a very h gh at arms of the House of Commons warmng at 1t for as many yen rs longer The thought close feace around 1t All we know about him a.garnst takmg measures to exclude him strikes one lookmg at them that they have 1t so far we I ave gamed by peeping through been cast ~p by the restl0ss tide of busmess the cracks m the boards from the House Slang ha.a a short reign of popularity The Porte proposes to impose a tar1~ o 10 the street flung ashore workless on fifteen per cent on articles imported for con the edge of the pavement close to the coffin among the French As chic was dethroned !umption and from 01ght to twenty per where they stand hke seven sphmxes of by pschutt andpschutt superseded by v lan paupensm seven <l1m wrecks of the so now v Ian and pschutt disappear before a. cent on other importations The Marquis of Lansdowne who succeeds Ci ea.tors image se"t'en bitter gibes at new word tchouk imported mto Paris from the Marquis of Lorne· as Governor General youth and happmess and riches sad sad Moscow by the visitors to the coronation Is not this a pretty idea ' observed a. of the Domm10n has arranged to ea.ii for to see Not tha.t they are 130 very old either, friend of Labouchere of London Truth and Canada on the 11th of October next but there 1s that indescribable appearance of It 1s not the mtent1on of the Government rndefimte age a.bout them which forbids the he pomted to a little key on his cham Explam 1t was the response Well to qua.rantme vessels commg to England suppo 1t10n that they could ever under any I am engaged she wears a from India or Egypt But sh pa from coun possib1l ty or circumstances have been he re narked tries suspected of berngmfectect with cholera young ustensibly they a.re on the look- bracelet around her arm it is locked, and this is the key will be detamed and mepected out for odd JObs all of which however are Lord Coleridge the Cluef Justf' o Eng A mot10n has been earned m the l:k1t sh rntercepted and appropriated by one man House of Commo~s to proh1b1t the 1mporta not rndeed less aged or tatteied than the land is about to pay a. V1s1t to Toronto t1on of cattle from countries whose prevent rest but havmg a less spectral and more When here he will be the guest of Mr Goldwm Smith and will be entertamed by ive laws are not :sufficiently strict to afford woddly air as 1f he were not yet quite re s gned to his stranded condition and m the Toronto Bench and Bar 01:1 the 12th of a guarantee agamst the disease September Mr Smith was at Eatoh with Mamie Valbrecht was shot through the s sted on makmg period cal and a.brupt His Lordship and was his fag head at Ene Pa by a pistol m the hands of plunges back mto life and occupa.tion aga.m It lS said that the SunderlaLd tragedy a playmate who thought the weapon was He bears such a strong family 1 Keness to a for lus amusement The bullet lodged above certam hangma1 whom I remember ha.vrng arose from the door of exit opening m'ward seen rn an old wood cut that I have almost In Canada there 1s a Jaw makmg all doors the ear producmg a fatal wound unconsmously come to know him by that open outwardly but it 1s to be feq,red that An Alexaudna dcspatoh says that Said name Ill my thoughts the law is not always observed Surely Bey Khandeel the Prefect of Alexandria at W shmg to have a more mt1mate a.c that ought be attended to at any rate A tl:!-3 time of the massacre has been found quamtance with this functionary rn his nn httle p ecaution m time often saves any guilty of conn1\1ng at the riots and has been oilic1al capacity 1 commiss10ned him one amount of trouble .sentenced to se\ en years imprisonment at day to carry up some coal from the street to 't'he coffee houoes of Boston are turning hard labor my chambers near by and pursumg the out a splendid succe·s lt is only sixteen Nobody has been allowed to leave Man ad'lra.ntage thus gained by cap1ti.l over labor mQnths smce they were start.,d and they are surah or prov1s10os to be sent mto the town stopped and spoke to him late Ill the after yieldmg a prolit of $1 000 a mont h The The people ate dyrng from fomrne rather no n of the next da7 after as he stood lean capital was fl mated by benevolent :men, than cholera. A meetmg held at Alexandna rng agamst a lamp poa~ at the head of the but th~ enterp11se 1s not one o charity Not of delegates appomted to mterview the other six Spectres only are good meals furmshe<l at low prices, Khed1ve ms1st upon sendmg food to the Do you gei; much to do here · I asked l ut there u. a a so rnad ng 10 ms smokmg suffenng people amicably parlo rs and billiard rooms In fact every Much to do' repeate l the Hangman t hmg m the way of attraction presented by A Berlin despatch says that ij; s stated the On it e you is 1t boss ? ti e saloons except rntox1catmg drmks The North German Gazette 8 recent artiele on the turnmg 01 me Toronto ones a e also gorn11 a.head relations between Pruss1a.n and the Vatican Am tgot any nwre coal hev yer? I was obliged to confess that I had not was prompted by reports from the represent A story is going 10und of a carpenter who, Am t got none eh· Thought not hav ng thought that ho had a call to preach ative at the Vatican who is expected here toward the end of the present month The 0 mme the JOb nex· time too will yer followed that call and only found out his feeling at Berlrn )s so strong that the Boss? Tnoise ere old blokes am t fit for no th m1stal e wheu it was too la.te As a carpen Coal gets lost too !\,nd he turned ter he would have been useful happy and poso1b1hty of a rupture m the relations of m Prussia and the Vatican are being .,ons1dered hrn Jack Ketch face on h s compamon prosperous As a preacher he was miserable Spect es with aeontemptuous scowl They and yet preached all his days He brought evidently accustome::l to hi1:1 depohsm only up his cl 1ldren as _profess10 l ·ls mstead of Matclh Making distorted their ancient faces in a deprecat carpenters an l they were fa lu es also It There are more ol!fewer m\'etorate match mg gr n and mumbled some 1nart1culate de s si nply sadly true that a great many ms makers who take a pride m their work and take tne r callmg They t hmk they are called go at it with all their might So far, as fence I also craven that I was submitted to to glorify God m tha p 1lp t when they we can make out these are mostly wo Ins tyranny and ;promised to give him the would be far more comfortably and consist· men thm gh occasionally men are found who s'>le monopoly on the occas on referred to ently employed glor1fyrng Go l 'l.t the black rather l1ke somethrng of the kmd Mothers then contmu1ng my rnvest gat1on smith s forge or tne carpenter l}ncn of unmarried daughters may be said to have You haven t told me yet whether there ia some excuse for this so-rt of thmg but they Lrrd Derby is a. sensible mai.,.!'1-f slightly are not nearly so much g1<ven to the work as much busu ess doing here cold hHarted He sees th n~ ' in a wh te Busmess~ quoth the Hangman with dry l ght and lets no romance run aw:i.y others who apparently have no call It 1s Busmesa 'I Tam t busmess Its VI 1th his Judgment The other day he very to be feared that the work thus engaged scorn m does not generally prosper though some JObS effectively though ~ ery cou teously sat Jobs then I ventured times it ends m very ehgible parties bemg upon the proposed scheme for Government Well you see boas he explamed re a&s1stance bemg given to forward em1gra brought together lf Ill any case the match does not turn out comfortably the engmeer luctantly appeased by my subm1ss1on t1on from Br ta n to the colomes The Jobs com<>S and goes They arn t no gist of what h s lordship sa1cl was that the .has any number of excuses tor her part m the busmess She s·rongly warned them trustlD to em and then part es is mostly colomes wanted those whom Bntam did not she did this that and the other thmg If mean-meaner nor dirt he concluded un wish to uart with and had no notion of re on the contrarv it succeed she p\ltS ma big krndly ce1vmg the handless, useless pauper class Have you ever had any regula1 trade or who were only a burden where they were claun for the credit and hopes that both will be undymgl y grateful for the kmdness bus ness? I enquired, after an embarrassed and wer hkely to rema1D the same Ill any Bad qua.rrels however are sometimes the pause land towh1ch they might go I hat is s1m result We have known cases where the Startled the man looked at me as 1f I had ply the fact TherA 1s no u e m making feud was never made up Pity In fact raised some ghost of his bygone youth Canada for mstance the du pmg ground the less of such man<J&uver1ng of the kmd Trade ' oh I y e s Brought up to the for the pauper populat on of the old world the better though to be sure somethmg c gar makm trade I was Here m Uanada there is quit a nucleus of must 1'e done to brmg the young folks to What made you leave it? asked I press paupers already formed aad ch efiy from gather One father tells bow he manaiied ng h m closer those who came as paupers and as pmpers by alwaysencouragmg youug men whom he Ihe Hangman looked at me then at the will both hve and die did not want for sons m law and alway· ground antl finally fixed his eyes on some Is Chr1st1~ruty really dymg? Is faith a settrng his face agamst those he preferred unknown object m the llumtable distance thmg of the past ? Are men merely dealrng Tha;t plan he ea d always wrought like a Too confinm he muttered vaguely with trad1t1ons which have lost a.ll life and charm and he of course had to come m and The six other Spectres looked at him are they repeatmg as facts what to them make the best of it a.s he professed when sympatbet1ca.lly and g&zed mournfully at nave really passed mto the reg10ns of fict on? the principals had declared that they were the neighboring church spire an dechoed Many are saymg this though quietly and bent on matl'1mony Too confinm lll a res ~ned murmur almost beneath their breaths Are they During our comersat100, the Hangman speakrng truly ' or is the w sh but father t<> from some myster10us source had produced the thought' Is Cl nst as real to the men Canadla11. GU'ls ff e always take a special mterest m a shor't 01ly clay pipe m the blackened and women of to day with the1 church so girls m general and m Cana.dian girls m stem of wb1cb rr ort1fioat10n had already set c1als their neck tie fest vals their fnnny part cular The more shame to it if it did rn and the hoa1 se rattlmg 1ssumg from its songs and their all preva1lci p c mos as he not for as a whole these Canadian girls are throat proclam1ed that it would soon go the was m other days ? Is ne the pe sonal a mce neat sprightly petite set of damsels way of all clay human or otherwise Soon friend the overshadowmg presence the In this behef we are always wh1sper1ng with the air of a ma 1 demand n? an md1s mighty defence from guilt <ind sm the be to them to respect themselves and not to putable nght he abrnptly desired me to all and do all of hfe as he ought t:J be 1f tha be fools Noth ng mcer on the face of lend h m a match and on findmg my m 11arra.t1ve speaks t uly 1f the avowed beliet God a earth than a bright mtelhgent girl of ability to oblige him regai:ded me in so hos pomts to a settled ind1sputa.ble fact· Noswe~t 16 or more Roldmg such views t le and dermve a manner that I began to doubt n many oases h< 1s 1g: far more than \'\ e are shocked above all measure when thmk of beat10g a safe retreat Fa1hng to many suspect Yet to on1'ookers a good any of this particular charge m which 1t anmbilate me thus he proceeded to clamber many thrngs are strange and mexph able up the street lamp whose hght was JUSt be takes special mterest makes a bad Job of Still amid them all the g1and o d fa th is either hfe or marriage Girls don t sell g1nnmg to take effect on the gathermg anythrng but dead gloom of tw1hght Recalling his str1kmg yourselves etther tor money or a good home There is nothmg more unquestionable. Don t take for husbands men old enough to resemblance to the hangman Ill the old wood than the apparently absurd and contrad ct be your fathers January and June don t cut and the mqmsit1ve attacks which I had ory statement that the Umted States are do together-no how Don t expect to star made on his pr1 vate affa rB, I turned and ied strong both for defence and defiauoe nol m wh,.xe your mothers ended Rather take llII convmced that be was exammmg the street spite of bemg unarmed but becauae they a.re act1 ve young fellow thouu;h poor than a la np with a view to busmess Howe' er on so All the money and men that are be ng dry old apple John because he 1s well off lookmz back I saw the seven Spectres stand worse than wasted by other nat10ns are No girl is fit to be a wife m nd you who mg there yet with the Hangman m his place turned to the best advantage by t hose who cannot when neces·ary cook a meal make a agam hurrymg on the fast approachmg dis consc ous that they are strong feel th.at dress and t1cty up a house All matches solut10n of the pipe and threatenmg by his they don t need to be contmually exhausting brought round by eelfish motives are unholy spasmodic puff$ to throw both himself and themselves in preparations fo1 what may and the woman who would sell herself for it mto v10lent convuls10ns Tbe fa nt gleam never come Excep for the matter of a, pos1t10n or wealth is really not a wife She of the lamp showed that a fog had stolen up brush at the beg1nnmg of a war What 1s is but a mistress after a.II and her condition from the nver enc1rohng the old men with the use of all these monstrous arrangements~ can only be fit y described by a very hard a sort of ghostly vapor which as the dis It IS the reserve of power Ill wealth mater al and unpalatable word Ay de mi What tance mcreased between us gradually ob and men Ill which l es the strength of a na poor b oken disgusted d1sappomted pre scored their despond.,nt forms and at last t10n Inste d of keepmg hundreds of thous maturely worn out wpmen many bright swallowed them up m its soft depths So I leave them there with the hu e Cof a.nds of young men m idleness the Umted hopeful girls become to be sure lt is States set them all but the merest fragment an awful waste of material and no mis fin loommg up behrnd whelmrng tl~em ~o to work If there ever come a war 1t 1s fatef 11 shadow And I cannot help wonder take mg whether when they succumb to its Ill known that t here IS plenty staymg power ..... ~ ~ iiuencc and enter that other and final bus1 and u.ll the more because of the antecedent Cl11l<1.ren s Diet econom:i; rn prcparnt1ons 'Vhen the \Vbatever we may thmk of pastry tea nesA-that busmess where the shutters are Umterl States have a hundred millions of never taken down and where Black Death and coffee for men and women it is certain people as they will have at uo distant day that they are not the most uuobJect10nable keeps eternally busy at his awful accounts- v1ll any nation wantonly meddle w th them ! cannot ~elp wohdenng whether they poor fonns of food for clnldro:n VI ho depend so because they have n ot a fleet of iron clads much on proper nourishment for health and souls l will find 1t also too confimn and a stand ng army of half a m1 l on:/. No growtll A chill ohould ha' e plenty of rndeed All qu te the contrary pore fresh milk either warm or cold and The great no~ &lty for the tabhei s ot even ~---witn it wheaten bread Good oat cake is mg dresses 1s mckel be11d embro dery hav Hans went to the country tor a few days made by saturat ng oat meal with water ng a strange kmd of gl mmer that makes it re reat10n but returne:l ou the early morn pommg it mto a t n and baking twenty di:ffic lt to tell what ts color really 1s The mg trn n When llsked why he l d so he n mutes Wholesome corn cakes are made beads are n 01e sparklmg and less sombre said - Dot mo~qmter ,ll"J:s a, grade r11rd by m1xmg corn meal with bo1lmg wnter iust than Jet and ) et fl om their color bemg le~s He ~as vun ot doese pecool ar gases dot ,en stilt enough to make mto cakes with the light than that of steel or suver they sec: n you get lum he don t vas dcic Id vas hands and bakmg m a moderate o' en to be some new and bnlhant descupt1on of alway!! youst the sane vay Yen you shlap ThesA wit 1 cracked "1 heat oat meal or 1et N10kel beads look l ke l amond dust bun you al ways strike de blace dot he vas 1 d d d corumea poir1 ge an syrup ma e of pt re or broken fragmeuts of stars scattered over voust left already He vas got a fine vo ce maple sug"r and all the ripe or stewed the mateual doo uad vhen he s ngs you so ne leectle fruit they care fo1 should change delicate Camlets m broken checks tweeds camel s songs you don d coul l vent to shleep nght compla.mmg JUVemles mto healthy hand ha r allll new plaid cloths with a bird cat 01 away for n ore as a couple of hours al some and happy little children dragon m each square arc made up m long ready travellmg cloaks that cover the dress and What is defeat? N othmg but education Standmg Ill the front pew~don t help 11. are only fastened once at the throat by Ion!! no thmg but the first step to sometl mg bet'" man s record m the book o hfe ribbons tied m a bow er 0 ----··~ ~,,_ ..____ -----·· ..---- ..............