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THE WEALTH OF THE WEST Farmers From Western States Flocking Across to Canadian Grain Acres. One hundred thousand settlers from the United States alone, a hundred and fifty thousand from Great Brit-tain and European countries, and a wheat crop exceeding 100,000,000 bushels, is considered by those In a position to speak as likely to be the record of the Canadian wheat belt for the coming season. "Westward the star of empire takes its way," and this saying never had more fitting examples than in Manitoba and the Canadian Northwest. At last the eyes of the world are directed to trie finest wheat lands in the world, the only lands in the universe which, according to Professor Kent, of the Ohio State College of Agriculture, are oapable of producing growing crops valued at twice the cost of the area they are raised on. Tho most remarkable feature of the approaching movement is the exodus of well-1o-do farmers from the Western States into Canada. Hundreds of these men have already secured lands. Others have purchased improved forms in Manitoba and are already moving their farm implements uld some of their household effects to their now homes, to be followed by their families when some preparations have been made for them. Hundreds of Canadian farmers have disposed of their farms to great advantage, to their American cousins, and are moving further north to the Saskatchewan Valley region to set up another homestead in this the largest of the four provincial districts which were carved out of the Territories in 1882. FINEST PART OF THE WEST. Mr. William Whyte, assistant to the president of the Canadian Pacific, declares this to be the finest region of Canada's great western heritage, capable of growing all kinds of cereals and root crops, with an almost unlimited area of fine pasture lands. It is for this reason that the eyes of three of the largest railway corporations of Canada are directed towards this fertile region. The Canadian Pacific, which already taps a portion of the district, will in the spring branch out from the main line from Prince Albert to reach further into the Saskatchewan. This will also be accomplished by building a new line from Medicine Hat. and extending existing lines from Wellwood, Waskada, Yorktown, the present terminus of the Manitoba and Northwestern; Pleasant Hills, Pembina on the Pembina section, and from Lad-ner to the western boundary of tho province of Manitoba. The Canadian Northern, which now runs to Erwood, has been surveyed to Prince Albert, and further surveys are to be made into the Saskatchewan region in the spring, when the extension to Prince Albert will be completed. The proposed Pacific route of the Grand Trunk,. as at present contemplated, would pass along what is known as the plateau of the Saskatchewan. All this means the opening up of a vast and fertile region of great value, with an area of 106,700 square miles. Mr. Whyte maintains that the climate is probably the most equitable in America, with a. mean summer temperature of 60. . Spring opens in April, and seeding is completed in May, hence the desire of new settlers to get on the ground. The tide of immigration to this district has been steadily increasing year by year and will now receive a greater impulse than ever with the spread of railway communicati and the greater facility thus afforded for handling crops and marketing produce. LUMBER AND COAL. But it is not alone in cereal farming and in cattle raising that tht Northwest and British Columbia arc destined to reap so magnificent results. The lumber and coal indus-teies which have not been on an entirely satisfactory basis are now feeling the boom of prosperity. The farmers, as they become richer, consume more coal, and the demand for all kinds of manufactured lumber is unprecedented. The British Columbia lumber mills, according to Mr. Mar-pole, the general superintendent at Victoria, are working night and day . getting out material for the increasing demand from Manitoba and the Territories. When the influx begins next month this will increase ten fold. The estimate as made by the Canadian Pacific and the Great Northern railways is that the wheat crop of 1902 was in the neighborhood of 68,000,000 bushels. Of this upwards of 22,051,144 bushels were shipped by lake from all elevators at Fort William and Port Arthur, as against 9,662,097 last year, being an increase of 12,398,047 bushels. To United States ports,' Port Huron and Buffalo, 13,474,654 bushels were shipped as against 5,711,783 last year, or an increase of 7,782,-871 bushels. The total shipments by water were consequently 35,525,796 bushels, more than double the amount shipped last year. ELEVATORS ARE FULL. The elevators of both the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian Northern at Port Arthur and Fort William, with a capacity of some eleven million bushels, aro full, while those of the Canadian Pacific along the line west of Winnipeg contain 5,-000,000, and those of the Canadian Northern 2,000,000. In round figures there has been moved to date about 45,000,000 bushels by tie two Canadian roads. The balance is either kept for home consumption and seeding or will be marketed after seeding has taken place. The elevator capacity of all the roads is being rapidly augmented so as to be ready for the movement of this year's crop in August. Last year the total elevator capcity was 24,-500,000 bushels. With the additions now being built to the C.P.R. elevator at Fort William, which will give an additional capacity of 5,500,000 bushels, and with the new Canadian Northern elevator at Port Arthur, with a capacity of 2,500,000 bushels, the next crop will have elevator accommodation at these lake ports of upwards of 32,500,000 bushels. ANIMALS WITH BRAINS, a day for five years is said been the record of a certain if Mexican wolves, led by a monster whose track was a whole inch wider than those of his followers. 'At last the ranchers offered $1,000 for the pelt of this expensive animal. A professional wolf hunter tried to earn the bounty, but he lost all his dogs and gave it up. Then Mr. Ernest Seton-Thompson, the well-known naturalist, took the matter up. He melted cheese in the fat of a heifer in a china dish, cut it into lumps with a bone knife to avoid any taint of metal, and put in a dose of strychnine in odor-proof capsules. In order to avoid the slightest taint of humanity he wore gloves steeped in blood while manipulating the bait, and even avoided breathing upon them. Next morning he found that the old wolf had scratched up all the baits and laid them together untouched. Then 130 steel traps were set in horseshoe shape. When dawn came the tracks of the old wolf were traced where they had entered the mouth of the horseshoe. Further on the wily beast had dug round a trap and UNEARTHED THE CHAIN. Then he had backed out of the dangerous locality, putting each paw down backward in his own tracks till clear of the dangerous ground. He had then sprung several of the traps by scratching clods and stones on to them with his hind legs. Kxmoor huntsmen know how extremely difficult it is to get a big stag out of covert when hounds are out. Even when a fine beast is at last turned out he will make full tilt for a second wood. The older animal then lies down in place of the 5 for defeat- • trick. Foxes are full of t ing their hereditary winter of 1887, a plaved its pursuers After a run of som miles the hounds were pretty close on its brush. Suddenly the hunted animal made straight for an old ruined house which stood in a field, und dived into the cellar. The whole pack plunged in hard ac its heels. When the huntsman arrived he found one of the hounds wedged in a small opening in the opposite wall through which Master Reynard had evidently escaped. By the time the pack were got out of the cellar THEIR QUARRY WAS SAFE* Lord Willoughby de Broke once hunted a tired fox into Ragley stable yard. There the hounds were completely at fault, and eventually they were called oil. Some hours later a man went to wind the stable clock. He nearly fell off his ladder when, opening it, the fox sprang out of the works where he had lain s _ cealed. How the creature succeeded in getting there was a mystery-must have made an immense jump the wall, and then climbed was located near their camp, and several times they tried to kill him but failed. Then the brute hid among the boulders near the spring, and when the cook went down to get water killed him , WITH ONE BLOW OF HIS PAW. After this tragedy the party moved their camp three miles. About midnight on the first night a timber wolf was heard howling dismally in a lot of rocks fifty yards away. They stoned him out, but the second night the creature was there again and howled so that they could not sleep. St( so two went out with guns. The first man was--luckily as it proved-a half-breed with a keen sense ( smell. He stole up cautiously to th rocks, hoping to get near enough to shoot the disturber even in the darkness. The man behind saw him suddenly stop, turn, and bolt. "Bear !" he shouted, as he ran. He had smelt their cinnamcn enemy who was crouching behind the rock waiting in ambush to 1 other of them. It seems certain that he must have entered ance with the wolf for the purpose of tempting his two-legged fc«s his clutches. --+--- ROYALTY IN" AFRICA. A Visit of the King of Western The visit of a king is naturally ai occasion for display, and African po tentates make tho most of theii kingly privilege. Tho authors o "To the Gold Coast for Gold' de scribe the splendor attending a visit of the King of Western Appoh The vehicle in which he came w long basket, big enough to lod{. Falstaff, open and lined with red cloth, and carried stretcher fashi by four sturdy slaves. King Blay's garb was, to say 1 least, peculiar. A tall cocked hat, with huge red and white plume, contrasted with the dwarf pigtail bearing a Popo bead, by way of fetish at the end. His body sky-blue silk, his waist cloth of marigold-yellow, and he held in ', hand the usual useless sword of h( or. The Ashanti medal hung from his neck by a plaited gold chain of native Trichinopoli work. The bracelets were of Popo beads and thick gold wire curiously twisted into wreath knots. Each finger bore a ring resembling a knuckle-duster, three mushroom-like projections springing from each oval shield. King Blay dismounted from his huge basket with ceremony. He was accompanied by a band consisting of two horns and three drums. Of the latter, one was sheathed in leopard skin, and nibbed, not struck, with two curved sticks. A second was hour-glass shaped. The sticks were bent to right angles, and the drummer carried, by way of cymbal, a small round iron plate adjusted to the fingers, with little rings loosely set in the edge. The horns were that is. ^leniiii^ mall s along it £ > the r incident was ported recently in an Amsterd: paper. In Dutch Borneo alligators infest every stream, and the wild dogs in the neighborhood of Sinpang must have suffered severely they crossed the rivers which sect that part of the country, parently, however, they have learnt wisdom by experience. Now, when a pack wishes to cross, the dogs collect at a spot some distance below the ford and bark loudly. The alligators in the neighborhood are attracted by the noise and swim to the place- IN HOPES OF A MEAL." ■ As soon as the dogs see the ugly heads of their enemies protruding from the water, they run back to the ford at full speed, and as they can run twice as fast as an alligator can swim they usually cross in perfect The common little gopher or prairie dog of Western America has far more sense than it is usually credited with. A traveller once noticed a commotion in a prairie dog town, and soon saw that fifteen or twenty of the little animals were dancing about a large rattlesnake in a state of frantic excitement. Pre-one of the dog's holes. No sooner had it vanished than the dogs set to work and scratched earth into the hole to fill it up. In a very few minutes it was quite covered in when suddenly an ugly head was pushed up through the loose soil and the snake came crawling out again. The dogs fled to a safe distance barking frahtleally. The rattler went off to another burrow and crawled down it. The dogs waited a few moments, then a large number rushed for the hole and filled it up in a trice, beating the earth down as they pushed it in. They did not leave off till it was quite hard, and when the traveller examined the place he found the snake was securely sealed inside. Tho grizzly bear is the biggest, lost powerful, and savage of all the North American wild animals. But the hunter does not fear him as he does the crafty, slinking cinnamon almost incredible' story of the cunning of the latter animal told by a man named Tarberwood, who was one of a trapping party of Colorado mountains iu The notable part of the suite was the sword-bearers. I have never seen such distorted weapons as the swords. The blades were of chop-ping-bill shape, pierced like fish-slic-ers, with round and angular holes. All were of iron, rusty with the rust of years, and hardly sharp enough to cut a pat of butter. Interviews with African kings consist mainly in gifts and compliments. The next day the king made a friendly call without basket or band, and lingered about until called home by his household. -4- ASIA'S PENDULUM LAKE. Among the many interesting discoveries of Dr. Sven Hedin in Central Asia is a singular oscillation in the position of the lake of Kara-koshun, or Lop-nor. This lake seems as restless as some rivers that change their beds, but the cause of its movements is a secular change in the level of the desert, in the midst of which it lies, bordered by vegetation. At present the lake is retreating northward from the place where Prjevalsky found it, and creeping toward its ancient bed, where it is known to have lain in the third century of the Christian era; and as it slowly moves, the vegetation, the animals, and the fishermen with their reed huts follow its shores northward. Doctor Hedin believes that after reaching the northern part of the desert the lake returns southward, the period of oscillation being 1,000 years or more. HE THOUGHT TOO MUCH. * An Indian servant never answers back when rebuked, but enters on a vigorous conversation with himself, in the course of which the faults of his master are carefully rehearsed. In ' Behind the Bungalow" the author declares that the hamal, or house servant, could be endured if only he would not try to think. It is in vain to impress upon him that he is engaged to obey orders, and that his employer prefers to do the thinking himself. Now and then he sets his intellect in operation, and the consequences are appalling. It was our hamal's duty to fill the filter, and at the time when the water was very bad orders were given that it should be boiled before being filtered. One day my wife saw the hamal in the act of filling the filter, and it occurred to her to warn him to let the water cool first, lest he crack the filter. "Oh, yes," said he, "I thought of that. After boiling the water, I cool it down by mixing an equal quantity of cold water with it, and then I put it into the filter." Some men never think of going to work until they have given everything else a fair trial. Whoever pays you more court than he is accustomed to pay, either intends to deceive you, or finds you necessary to him.--Courtenayj BIS SUMS FOE TRIFLES, OHANOE FOR ENGLISHMEN) REVENGE OF JILTED GIRLS ?1,250 IS GIVEN FOR DUKE'S TOOTH. The Duchess of Cornwall's Kindness to a Poor Little Girl. During the recent royal tour round the empire, the Prince of Wales (then, of course, the Duke of Cornwall and York), when at Adelaide, suffered great agony from toothache. His Royal Highness, however, did not put up with the pain for long. One of the leading dentists of the place was sent for, and, as the Duke* himself said afterwards, "there was a real royal tug for about ten seconds before the offending molar was extracted." What a bidding there was for this tooth! Incredible as it may seem, one royal colonial offered the lucky dentist £250 for the "royal ivory," and, more incredible still, this offer was refused! When the Duke of Cornwall heard of this ho remarked laughingly to the Duchess: "Well, if the dentist only gets as many pounds for the tooth as I got pains with it, he'll have reason to remember my 'toothache tour.' " In no part of the empire Is our Princess of Wales more beloved than in Canada, and, during her memorable tour, some of the wealthy citizens of Montreal offered immense sums of money for the most trilling article which had, at one time, been in the possession of Her Royal High-While driving through the streets of that city one morning, the Duchess happened to drop from the car- "ageONE OF HER GLOVES. Immediately, there was a rush for it, but a poor little child, at whose feet the royal glove had dropped, picked it up and proudly carried it away to her home. Poor as were the parents of this child, they refused, the next day, a lady's offer of £50 for the simple article really not worth fifty pence. When the Duchess of Cornwall heard of this, she immediately sent to the child a pair of gloves which Her Royal Highness had herself worn, and with the gloves the following little note: "If one of my gloves is so valuable, I hope the pair I am sending you will make you quite rich." Within a few days the pair of gloves, with H. R. H.'s note, were sold at a bazaar for ninety-seven guineas! A very amusing incident happened a few years ago when our King (the Prince of Wales then, needless to say), was" present, in London, at quite an informal gathering of Bohemians from all parts of Europe. A certain enormously wealthy man-- his nationality matters not, made himself objectionably servile to His Royal Highness during the evening, anil seemed to hang on his every word and gesture. A few days later, tho Prince ngnin happened to fall across his multimillionaire admirer at a certain select club dinner, and, ever courteous and affable, H. R. H. entered into conversation with him. Presently, to the utter astonishment and extreme disgust of the Prince, the servile one pulled out of his pocket, very carefully indeed, a half-smoked cigar! Holding it up, he exclaimed: "I would not part with this, your Royal Highness, for half my fortune It is a cigar you commenced to smoke the other evening, and it wa= afterwards seized upon by A LUCKY WAITER. I may as well say, your Royal Highness, that I gave the waiter £70 for the cigar, and no money would ever make me part with it. Would vou consider me rude if I ventured to ask where you get your cigars from?" -' - The Prince of Wales, who hatea gush and sickly sentiment from the bottom of his heart, replied, quietly: "What a pity, Mr. Blank, you gave £70 for a half-smoked cigar. You need not have done so, I assure you, it was a cigar you offered me yourself from your own case!" This was a positive fact; the infatuated millionaire had given £70 for one of his own cigars, which had probably not cost more than a shil- hThe King of the Belgians, one of the most free and easy of monarchs, and who goes about among his subjects without any show or ostentation once left his umbrella in a hansom when driving in Brussels. This was returned to His Majesty, a few hours later, by the proud "cab'bv," who was offered for his honesty the sum of 100 francs (£4). The astute Jehu, however, begged great favor of the King. Could he have, instead of the money, the umbrella His Majesty had left in his cab? The favor was granted, and before many days had passed the cabman had put up the umbrella for ___-_( and it was knocked down to some royal enthusiast for no lew a im than 1,800 frans (£72). When this was told King Leopold, he laughingly remarked: Well, I've heard of an umbrella being put up to keep off showers of • , but this seems to have been put up to bring down showers of gold.:' A WRITER GIVES ROSY VIEW OF CANADA'S FUTURE. Refers to Northwest as Land Where Dollars Fly as Thick as Bullets. Canada to-day presents an object lesson in progressive agricultural development such as no other country can claim for its own, either on this or on the other side of the Atlantic, says a writer in the St. James' Ga- Canadian commercial expansion is secured departmentally, by units, each departmental chief being not only a worker, but the master-workman of his craft. The council of the nation is a correlation of forces, resulting in perfected mechanism, working truly in every part, no section being permitted to interrupt the smooth operating ol the whole machine. Not many years ago Canada was importing some foods; today she is the granary of Great Britain and her other colonies "beyond the seas;" and in dairy produce not •only in point of cmantity but especially in that of quality she is fast forging ahead. A GREAT INCREASE. Of the total imports of butter into the United Kingdom six years ago, Canada contributed only .46 per cent., while last year she sent 4.28 per cent. While Canadian exports of butter between 1895 and 1902 have increased in bulk, the price has risen by 18.70 per cent., so that last season's price applied to the c ported is equal to an £154,534 over the busi season of 1901. In cheese last year, with all the world against her in open compet tion, Canada exported and sold Great Britain 55.5 per cent, of tl total of the importations of that product to the old country. In value, Canadian exports of cheei Britain have increased 780,000 in 1896 to £3,920,000 odd during the twelve months ended June last; during the same period Dominion butter exports to the motherland have grown from £178,600 to £1,091,860; while Canadian butter exports to Great Britain in 1895 were worth only £107,360. SOME INTERESTING FIGURES. In 1890 Canada exported to Great Britain only £129,072 worth of bacon, hams, and pork, but during the last fiscal year--1901-2--of the total value of these articles -- £2,491,573 --the old country took £2,473,031 worth. In the former year Britain purchased £1,874,443 of cheese from Canada; this y a total of £4,139,391 produced, she secured £3,924,048 worth. In 1890 Canada sold to the motherland £77, 773 worth of wheat. £104,277 worth of flour, and £51,232 worth of oats; this year she sold in same market. £3,604,852 worth wheat, £458,012 worth of flour, and £.340,039 worth of oats-. Taking bacon, hams, pork, butter, cheese, cattle, sheep, lambs, eggs, wheat, , pes , and ap- ples during the last fiscal year, of a total aggregate value grown in and exported from Canada of £16,-143,876, the markets of Great Britain purchased £14,857,337 worth, or 91.9 per cent. Another important item lies in the fact that the Canadian poultry trade between Great Britain and the Dominion has grown from £2,200 to £43,709 in less than six years, while the total exportation of goods of all kinds, the produce of Canada, to Great Britain, has risen from £19,-800,404 in 1892 to £39,203,953 in 1902, coin and bullion not being eluded. EASY TO GET A START, a man enter Canada with little e than his fare, he can always an steady farm employment for ■ thrt yes Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in . life is to know when to forego an advantage.--Disraeli. There are only two powers in the world, the sword and the pen; and the end the former is always conquered by the latter.--Napoleon. Bereaved -- 1 'Well, doctor, now that the interval permits my speaking calmly of my husband's demise, I am prompted to ask you your confirmed opinion as to the cause of his death." Doctor -- "A complication of diseases, madam." Bereaved -- Ah I That was so like him. He versatile in everything.:' while he will, if he be careful, have earned and saved enough to start farming on his own account; and the practical training he has tl tained will enable him to the value of his holding by £80 a year, or 400 dollars : •rency. If a man have £100 clear on first reaching his homestead, he is in a position to make .a fair beginning on free grant land. The man who hires himself to a farmer for one, two or three years, will be kept hard at work during the seeding and harvesting periods; but he will find ample time during other months of the year to perform the statutory and necessary work on his free homestead. The young or other man with ample means can always purchase an improved farm, where he can at once reap the benefit. Intending settlers are warned against purchasing agricultural implements except in Canada, because farming here requires special tools, and every necessary specialty adapted for this country can be purchased cheaper in Canada than elsewhere, besides saving cost of carriage, which is a seri- WARNING TO SETTLERS. The intending settler is, likewise, warned against putting his trust in, and above all entrusting his money to, anybody, however, apparently respectable, in the belief that they confer any special favors upon him which he cannot obtain himself on application to the officers of the Canadian Government. This article is being written during the fourth week in November in the capital of the Dominion, at an open window in a room free from fire or other artificial heating, and with the warm rays of the sun pouring upon these words as they are penned -- it is a typical fine bright English autumn day, with paths leaf-bestrewed, and the lofty range of the blue Lauren-tians, which stretch from the banks of the mighty St. Lawrence to the bounds of Hudson's Bay, standing out in bold relief far more clearly defined against the azure sky than Coniston Old Man, Skiddaw, Saddleback, or Hetvellyn on the clearest day in early autumn. MEN FORCED TO MAKE THEMSELVES RIDICULOUS. Young Society Man Had to Appear as a Bareback Rider in a Circus. Final cial remedies are not always* sufficient for the injured affections of i to whom fond lovers have p xposed and from whom they afterwards desire release instead of in-ony. Frequently it is the that the young woman feels an indigni ,y has been put upon her licli c.n be removed only by the young man making a public spectacle of himself. admitted that cases are here the young wo-has been content to prove a has been content to prove to a jury that her affections have been damaged to the extent of a certain number of thousands. The excep-however, are enough to show a pecu iar desire for unique revenge n the part of many. There is the case of the young New Y srker who proposed to a cir-•ider and was accepted by her. bly tier daring flights in short skirts attracted him for the mo-and that on more sober thought the attraction waned. It had led him into the difficulty, how-id he had to get out the best way he could. a public exposure of his loves-affair was the last thing he desired, he had his attorneys make the young; bstantial offer in settle-._™ ^ecure his release thus, j It was not adequate. The young money, but more in the way of reparation. She demanded that he-supplement his financial offer by appearing one night as a bareback rider in the ring with her. There was nothing for the young man to do but agree. He was an athlete and expert rider. With much preliminary practice he managed to become sufficiently expert to bring his first and only appearance on bareback to a successful ending, and the young woman pocketed the money entirely satisfied. HAD TO TURN MINSr#¥i£L. Another case in illustration is that of the young Minneapolis physician, who had proposed to a waitress at a lakeside watering resort. After he had been accepted he reconsidered, ri - ■iicnil position made the affair quite impossible, as he saw it in sect.d thought. The waitress, however, declined the financial remedy unless something more accompanied it. She felt that she had been humiliated and that he should undergo some displeasing personal experience before the matter would be entirely squared. She demanded that he appear for a week as a negro minstrel and entertain the Jolks at the resort. As there was no other way out of it without a full airing of the matter in court he accepted. He told his friends that he was doing it on a bet. She promptly gave the real reason for his black face performances, and he found that the proceedings were about as full of woe as a public hearing of the case in court would FORCED TO ENLIST IN ARMY. An officer in the English army owes his commission to an affair of this sort. He proposed rashly and repented. In this xaso the father of the young woman took the matter in hand. He threatened proceedings at law, to which threats the young man replied that he was a clerk on a small salary and that he would be unable to pay a judgment, however small. After awhile the irate parent consented to forego his intent, but only on the condition that the young man should enlist. This the clerk agreed to do, and, being « fellow with brains and shrewdness, he worked himself up from the ranks and has received his commission recently. It. has not been long ago that a middle-aged gentleman surprised a gathering at an animal show by entering the lion's cage and drinking a bottle of wine there while the beast eyed him with suspicion and disapproval. His friends thought he was paying a rash and foolish bet carrying out a dangerous da When the truth was discovered it was found that he had rashly become engaged to a restaurant keeper's daughter, and had wished to break the engagement. The girl consented to release him only on condition that he accomplish the feat which had caused the wonder of his friends. MARRIED GIRL'S MOTHER. Not long ago an English curate surprised his parishioners by marrying a widow considerably older than himself. The astonishment was still greater when the cause was known. The curate had become engaged to a young girl whose frivolous conduct soon led him to regret the step. He offered a settlement for his release, but it was refused. He endeavored in every way to break the engagement, but without success. "Is there nothing I can do to escape this?" he exclaimed one day in despair. "Yes," remarked the girl s mother, who was present, and who had been the prime mover in the marriage negotiations, "by marrying me." The curate decided that if he had to marry one of the two he preferred the mother and accepted her. The g girl soon married a wealthy stock broker. "What has become of Miss Blank, who was always such a favorite in your set?" "Her father failed some weeks ago and all they had was sold by auction." "Poor thing!" "And now they have to live in a little house in the suburbs." "What a change! How she must feel it!" Yes; she is so much changed that ven her best friends would not recognize her. I met her in the st to-day and dill not know hew at all, ppoi' thing."