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Another With 3 80”” “PM!” my 1”?“th 3 1°” friend of mind, whose rest like yours was fl” ,0! “‘1’th """mn'r “with?” 5“ destroyed by the omnipresent spectacle and “3 ‘3! educfited “mum.”- " “Cb my mystery of evil, has come to believe in a uni- bnnfimi “P = "I 3 50ml? 0‘ “In” and culture- versal law of compensation, holding that no by 3 800d :‘ll'rther. a good “fiber = Where I one sentient animal, oyster or man, prince 33} “59‘0"”? KWHded “0m every bl'e‘th 0‘ or pauper, is in the long run better 03 than "ll. “711070 I 3m "5069le nursed When IN” I another ; that the higher your organization “1- Paired When I “m We“. Oorrected ,When and the more intense and complex your en- I do wrong, encouraged when I do right ; joymema' so in you, susceptibility to pain when every mfluenm’m’lterhb mwtab greater. so are your sufl’erings also intenser “’0'31‘th“ be“! “903,310 “3 cslcnhted ‘70 and more complex. Still another man of m 1mm" mm ham)!“ “mum”? “3d 8005- 03 acquaintance professes the doctrine of uni th“ 3”“ dayâ€"1h“ _1- 195’5 ‘19“ , “3 “Y- versai metempsychosisâ€"that each spark of “Nth” b‘bYr WlllY‘nller ‘3 ‘30” ""0 Eh“ consciousness, each soul, is an indivisible and world- He 15 b0“ 0' 3 ‘038 1'38 0‘ cr‘m' indestructible entity, destined to pass bad instincts, foul bodies. .His father is .a me, from Pflyp to man, from slave to amps,“ dmnlfll‘dr 1* thief. 3 Wife but". 1.113 or, from srnnerto saint, until in the end, “will” 1' 3‘ drubkgrflr mn_5nd 3011193111138 having completed the cycle, having exhaust WW“ he'ldel- 3° N hm? “1 the Slum 0f ed all possible experience, it shall attain the fill“ City. in 5 “mm Meklng With fihh- .35 condition of eternal rest and omniscienceâ€" 1' bmught “P in Equal“: under “16 "51"“! Nirvana What do we know? How do we 0‘ “35° “the? “1d mOther- Hi3 P15? know? Question you yourself propounded. ground is the gutter. His playmates are the w,3 can but trust :_ offspring of parents as abandoned as his own. He is ill fed, ill clad, ill cleaned, ill taught. He is beaten for nothing. Every infiience, material, mental, moral that bears upon him is pestilential; is calculated to degrade and brut- l§ize him in body, mind airlidhsouli1 Oh crbert how can an manw 0 sea cart, ‘ how cah he contemplate inequality and or 0““ 8'3 rubbhh ‘° the vom’ injustice like this and continue to revel in When God ham made the 9‘16 complete' his better fortune 2 Into the race of life that there is indeed one far off, divine event. these two competitors enter, one in perfect toward which the whole creation moves, training, the other worse than 'untraiued We know nothing, we can know nothing. and congenitally inferior; one given a long Speculation is worse than futile. And that start and every advantage, the other handi- p is why the brave man, the emancipated capped and saddled with a heavy burden. man, never thinks of death.” But stay. Follow us alittle further. We “ Well,” said Knight, “ there’s none so grow to maturity, that other man and I. blind as he who will not see. And perhaps Atthe age of thirtyâ€"to morrow even, Irich, I should congratulate you upon your ability happy, virtuous, intelligentâ€"I consummate to silence the harsh voice of life, crying my earthly lirs by marrying an angel of aloud terrible truths, with a few rhymes womanhood,whore love Ihave been suffered from Tennyson. For me, I cannot do it, I to win, and whom I love. He brute, beast cannot do it. For me, I can see no other that his heredity and environment made way out of the difficulty than a general reck himâ€"be, amere puppet in the hands of oning and balancing of scores beyond the neccessityâ€"he commits a murder, and is grave." hanged or shut up blood stained in prison Ever since our talk had left the personal for the remainder of his days. What man- ground and proceeded upon the abstract nor of world is it in which such things can Knight had showed no symptoms of that happen? unless, indeed, you go with me in terror which had weakened and unmanned the conviction that beyond the grave our him at the outset, Bull now all at once he accountsâ€"his and mineâ€"shall be squared turned deathly pale, and his eyes riveted and balanced; that there he who sowed themselves upon the wall before him with an here in tears, shall rcap in joy, while expression of such livid fright that one it will be my turn to sin and suffer. might have thought he saw a ghost there. ‘Oh,’ some shallow people cry, ‘he Huskily, almost in a whisper, “ Norbert. had his chance. Other men have risen Norbert,” he called out. high from beginnings as low as his; other “ What is it? what ails you 2" I cried, men have sunken low from beginnings as starting up and advancing toward him. He high as yours. He has his chance to rise. looked like a man on the verge of a fainting you had your chance to fall. You were fit. both called upon to choose between the good “ What, what ifâ€"what if it should hap and evil. You chose the good. He chose pen tonight '2" ho gasped. the bad. i: was his fault, it is to your “ Happen? Tonight? What do you credit.’ All Which, as you know, Norbert, mean? What if what should happen to- slmply begs the question, is superficial and night 2" I questitnsd. unscientific in the last degree. For, in the " If I should die lac-night,” he answered first place, since we Were born unequal, no in a tense, tremulous whisper. one will pretend that we had equal chances ; “ 0o l" I fell back in disgust at his and the second, when it was time for us to puerility. I looked down upon him. white choose, how came I by the propensity which and huddled up in his chair. “I‘m ashamed resulted in my choosing the good“! How of yon. Knight,” I said, “ and you ought to came he by the propensity which resulted in be ashamed of yourself.” his choosing the bad 2 You know what the “ I’m past shame, Norbert, far, long past answer iaâ€"Heredlty and environment. You shame. When it comes to an issue between lrnow that the evil is one which we can shame and terror, shame goes to the wall." neither deny nor explain nor amend. But “ S) I see,” I retorted, scornfnlly. beyond the grave! There the tables will “ Shame and self-respect." be turned. The creditor will receive his “Y68.Bh5m6. Balf‘refipect. Embition. love. due, the debtor will pay his debt, They everything. Terror is the king of the emo- that mourn shall be comforted. The last lions. They all fall down and hide their shall be first and the first shall be last.” faces in its presence. 01:. Norbert. I am 8 “Dear Knight," I rejoined, "you are most unhappy man. And yet you spoke of grappling with the old problem of evil: but envylug me, aui yen congratulated me.” you have nor ao'ved it, though Von think “Well. I take that back. I don't envy you have. You have removed it from this i; you. and I withdraw my congratulations.“ side the grave to the other, that is all. Evil j 6 Do you knowâ€"do Vou know What I am is still there; and that is the incomprehen- sometimes tempted to do 2" he asked. sible_ thingâ€"that there should be evil at uNo_ wh“ 3" I queried_ “11 Y0“ b5“ D°W°1V°d the PTOblem- Re' “I am sometimes tempted to call out to (laced ‘0 its 1°W€35 terms» your philosophy the sword to fall, and so have an end of this is this. that two wrongs make a right. suspense," Tl“ 1'0 is Wrong ham? thm'efomr “5 5’0“ “Y. "I don’t understand you,“ said I. "What ‘:0 square accounts,’ there must be wrong do you mean 7" there. You have not solved the p‘oblem; “I monoâ€"I moonâ€"why defer the 139,713. You may not “We in- It is infiomble by able? With this never ceasing horror and man, like all the ultimate problems of life. dread of death upon me, why not take my And si no you may never solve it, I worn “in and so learn the worst at once? It's you to let it alone. Much brooding over it the suspense, the daily, hourly, lingering can no no manner ofgnod, but immeasurable suspense that's killing me by inches, Oh, I him“. TOM We? mil-duo" “68. Even now i would prefer hell almost to this sort of life. are how i: has embittered and darkened your‘ Look 1 I am lying with my head upon the life. You have jump‘fl to a terrible 0011- block, waiting for the axe to fall. It will cinema, and instead or finding rest there, ‘ be a. umpires, in will be a relief when the you fiqd OD‘Y honor 9nd increased vgxation executioner deals his blow. This waiting, of spirit. Thinkâ€"think of E'inor. knight. waiting, waiting, waitingâ€"Oh, is is unbear. To mcrrow she will be your wife. How’nble 1 Yes. I am often tempted to put an dreadful for her that her husband should and to it, You 393,1 keep the means at hold such a creed! She does not know it? hand." He opened a drawer of his writing You have never mentioned these masters 3 table and took out a p‘stol, holding in up for to her? But is she not a woman! And me to see, does she not love you? And what with her “You coward!" I cried. Do you forget woman‘s intuitions and her wifely love, you than you are 3 betrothed hngbmm" may he sure that, whether she speaks or re- "No, I romemLer that; but I don’t; know .. mains silent, she will feel that there is,pem.p31twooldbe better for he,- if_weu’ something wrong, a shadow upon your life, 1 anyhow. in would be vary only, wouldn’t a secret between her heart and yours. Oh if" He pointed the pistol at himself, as if to it is terrible for her i All the ultimate pro- l illustrate how easy it would [33. blems of life are insoluble, unthinkable by “For God's mke, don't do that. g" I (x, man's brain. The book of life is opened to ‘ claimecL “Put, down that pinch Knight:- us a: just one page: the remainder is 1181'- " Aui I rose from my chair, half disposed to merically sealed. That page we may read. take it from him It is Covered with pernirxitics, inconsisten- The next thing I knew I hem-d him give a clef- momfill‘fl. “Mllmnilmlr lb“ b5 013‘ sort of laugh, and then I heard the report of sun balk us ; and with crueltles and foul- lgho ping] going on" and 3h; mom was fined nersu that appall and horr.fy us. But the iwirh smoke, and I saw him lying at my feet. â€"â€"â€"-That somehow good Will be the final gcoi of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt and taints of blood : That nothing walks with aimless feet, That not one life shall be destroyed, connection of that page with the pages that go before and come afterâ€"what the plot, ' motive, meaning, pur ose of the whole, _There. I have told you the truth about hock may be. that we a not know, we hmm'| height’s death as fully and as clearly as I no means if learning, we cannot gum, can tell it. The only wish I have left in life though some of us perperudly m,- to do go, now is that you will read what I have writ- The page we see, written in rock and fire, ten and believe that I was not his murderer. in tears an}. blood more harrowing Lima 3 The circumstances have been all against me ; page {am the mania of the Spanish In. I know that. He was to be married to the quisltlcu, we cannot hope to understand, women Who htd rejioied m8: W6 had quar- nnr to explain. our to reconcile to our sense , “lkd : than I W88 Closeted Ilono With him of right and justice, because the premises for two hours on the night preceding his and the crnslnriou are hidden from us. wedding a“: we Were heard to talk to- .\lsu cannot by evening find out (lad. gather excitedly and vehemently duringthat Na'ure, rcd ru tooth and claw with rapine, meeting; and finally I had rushed down shrieks against on.- creed. We must stake i lulu. calling for help and saying that Mr. our G )d on faith, believing where we cannot Knight had shot himself ; and the presump- provo. We can prove nothing; we can'tion was thatIhad shot him. [told my only was; ‘lirhcid i know not anything; story, but it was intrinsically mos: improb- Ican but trust.’ Tennyson has sung the able, and nobody believed it. Knight had kept his morbid state of mind a secret to all those who knew him. There was not a single shred of evidence to confirm my story. to show that 1 had not manufactured it from whole cloth. The jury found Everguilty, and ‘ l on Monday morning the Court sentence me to prison. But, as I have said, I can bear all that. I have reached a pass where I care very little what happens to me. where I am callous even to disgrace. Only it burns my heart like fire to know that- you think me uilty ; to know that ycu hold me accounts is for the destruction of your happiness, and that you despise me as one base and iguoble be- yond contempt. May God move your heart to believe what I have written. _...â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"+â€"-- Onr Dominion- Land of broad rivers and rushing streams, 0f wild wind-battles and cataract gleams, Whose “ Mighty Waters " in thunder fall, A seething mass, from their rocky wall ; Whose parhless prairies unmeasured roll, In wave on wave, to the Northern Pole ; Whose tracklcss forests unconquered stand, A fitting type of their native land ; Whilst fall and forest, and pathless plains Are guarded well by the mountain chains. Two oceans break on thy sturdy shores, The world its wealth in thy cofi'ers pours, Thy hardy sons are thy sons indeed, And draw on thee for their every need, Yet thy resources, exhaustless still, firing golden grist on thy teeming mill. Thy ships are known on a dczrn seas, Thine emblems borne upon every breeze, Thou hardy son of a hardy sire l 0, sea girt Canada! Home of mine, The deepest love of my heart is thine. I knew thee not as a place of birth, Thou freest child of a dark‘ning earth l But, are my summers had numbered three, My infant fortunes were cast on thee. Within my pulses, thy breezes' strife Stirred all the blood into quicker life, The sunny skies, to my spiri.s lent, Their buoyant brightness and glad content, Whilst brain and body, and heart and mind Were braced alike by the bracing wind. What should thy sons and thy daughters be? Stout-hearted, generous, pure, and free. Stout-hearted, generous, pure are they, And free indeed as the light of day. 0 loyal child of the mother-throne l Thy feet are able to stand alone ; Most favored country beneath the sun l Thy tale is but as a tale begun ; Our unborn children shall live to see The glorious future in store for thee, For even now, to the vision dim Success and thee are a synonym. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"- AN ALPINE HERO. now a Mountain Guide Saved the Lives ol’ Ills Companion and. 11 Traveler. While in Interlachen several years since, we were told of the daring attempt made by an Englishman and guides to ascend the Jungfrau very early in the Spring. The ascent, at all times dangerous. was at that season almost impracticable, but the Eag- lishman, intent upon making the earliest ascent known for years, with difficulty per~ suaded two guides to accompany him. Trey ltffi the village one bright: morning, with. ropes and Alpine stocks, their only protection against the treacherous ice and snow. Upon reaching the mountain the first guide and hero bound the rope securely about his waist, leaving several yards be- fore tyiug it about the waist of the English- manâ€"then several yards between the Englishman and second guide, and then, bound together, they began the ascent. After climbing for hours, and ha ling past the line of perpetual snow, their path led near a yawning precipice, where a treacher- ous rr ck giving way, caused the sec- ond guide to fall, and unable to regain his footing, he was hurled over the edge of the chasm. The Englishmen, not knowing howto sun- port himself, was dragged with him. But the first guide, understanding in a flash their perilous situation, threw himself upon the ground, bracing his Alpine stock against a boulder of ice, and so supported, with almost superhuman strength, sustained the shock of their fall. Imagine the horror of the sitnaion i That wilderness of ice and snowâ€"no human being near save the two helpless men dangling over that awful chasm -the guide’s only support the rock of ice, which might at any moment give way, and those heavy weights on the rope which bound and cut deep into his body. Yet the hero, though knowing the impos- sibility of saving the men himself and the im- probability of others ascending the mountain for weeks or months, could easily have cut the rope and set himself free, yet be deter- mined to be faithful unto death, and as long as strength would last to hold his two com- panions. For hours he held the dangling bodies, and strength was well nigh gone when sounds of voices came from above, growing steadily nearer and nearer. He fancied it a delusion, yet cried for help, scarce hoping that aid was are" A party of six â€"â€"foolhardy as these truce, 0‘- n; r more fortunateâ€"had ascended the mountain from the opposite sidr, and, hearing the cry for help, hastened to their assistance. With difficulty they raised the Englishman and guide, who were only stunned and terrified, the hero'sstreugth lasting until he knew the two were sale and then he lost consciousness, and so remained for many weeks. When visiting Interlachen the following year We irqulred for the faithful guide and were told that he still liVed, but the rope, having cut almost through his body, had left this strong, courageous man a helpless paralytic. __â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" The Duke and His Debts. The Duke of Portland,while he was merely Mr, L’entinck, incurred some debts of honour which he desired to pay. He went to a moueylender, but the Jew at first was not inclined to let him have the money on easy terms. “ The Duke of Portland may live twenty years; you may die in the meantime, said the Hebrew. Mr. Bentiuck could not deny this. and was ready to give liberal in- terest. “ I will te.l you what I Will do," said the JeW. “ You will give me your word that when you become Duke of Port :gfiésgagtzig:figgrfixgglfiegng’ be the most proper. .By this judicious Thy deeds are sung by a worldwide choir, mixture we may avoid diseases arising from THIS KITCHEN DOCTOR. _. The Benefits of trail as a Foodâ€"ls should Be Eaten in the nursingâ€"Inex- cellcd as 1 Medicine. â€"â€" [From Medical Classics.] It is an observation not less important than true, that by attending merely to a proper diet a phlegmatic habit may frequently be changed into a sanguine one, and the hypo- chonuriac may be so altered as to become a cheerful and contented member of society, Experience and observation show that a too frequent and excessive use of animal food disposes the fluids to putrificatlon, and, in sanguine temperaments especially, communiâ€" cates to the mind a degree of feroctiy. Na- tions subsisting chiefly upon the flesh of ani- mals, like the Tartars, are, in general. more fierce than others ; and the same effect is manifest in carnivorous animals; they emit a very disagreeable smell, and both their flesh and milk have an unpleasant and re- pelling taste. Even an infant will refuse the breast when its nurse has eaten too much animal food. Those who eat great quanti- ties of meat, and little bread and vegetables; must necessarily acquire an ofieneive breath. It appears, therefore, to be most suitable and conducive to health to combine animal and vegetable food in due proportions. The proportion cannot be minutely ascer- tained with respect to every individual ; but, in a general sort of way, it may be said, two-thirds or three fourths of vegetables, to one third or fourth part of meat, appears to a too copious use of either. Much, how- ever, depends on the peculiar properties of alimentary substances belonging to one or the other of the different classes. The eating of fruit at the commencement of a meal, while it presents a bland or con- genial material to the delicate lining mem- brane of the alimentary organs, forming a welcome precursor to the more substantial articles, many of which require protracted energy for their elaboration into nutriment, at the same time, is, to some extent, a safe- guard against tne overfeeding which comes from reserving the fruits till the stomach is already overloaded with enough, perhaps too much, of other food. Fruits should be ripe when eaten on an empty stomach, and for their laxative effect should be eaten before anything else. In this way constipa- tion may, with many individuals, especially when the quantity of other articles of the meal is within reasonable limits. There is probably nothing in which nature has been so bountiful to man, in whatever temperate or hot climate he may be found, as in fruits. It is a characteristic of all fruits that when ripe they may be eaten in their raw state, and of many that they may be eaten cooked or raw. They consist es- sentially of two parts, viz ; the juices and cellular structures in which the juices are contained; and it is necessary to add that, whilst the juices may be readily transform- ed, the cells are nct easily digested, and when possible, are thrown away. This is seen in such fruits as the orange and apple when not of good quality or not quite ripe. In such fruits as the strawberry, the pine- apple, the grape and even the banana, the cell-wall is very thin and this is easily bro- ken up, so that its presence is not percepti- ble and the digestion of it cannot be difiimlt. As a general expression it may be stated of any fruit that the variety which yields the richest juices in the greatest: quantity, whilst the cellular frame ~vork is the least perceptible on mastication is the most pre- ferred and the most digestible. We can hardly omit nrre saying what may be understood from what has been said al- ready, that though fruits in their ripest be at the same time in their most perfect state, they may, however, even in this state be taken in too large quantity. In the case of a dyspeptic stomach. I have known apples, along time after they had been taken down, brought up again by erection in the same masses they had been swallowed, and that even after two days. An excessive amount of fruit, or if eaten either in the unripe or overripe state, pro- duces serious disturbances in the system, chiefly so because of its tendency to ferment and decompose within the digestive tract and to produce stomach and bowel disorders. if these disturbances are not too great or too prolonged, they need occasion no special anxiety. A dose of castor oil, to which is few drops of laudanum have been added, a usually sufficient to clean out the irritating “ debris," and in a day or two the natural equilibrium is restored. If there is much gripiug and pain with the movements, and these become too numerous to be comfert. able, the dose of oil should be followed by curtailing activityâ€"by quiet and reposeâ€" by a diet of meat broths, containing rice, barley or ssgo by rice and milk, milk toast, etc. The following recipe, known as the Sun Cholera Mixture, is a useful and “ handy thing " to have about for “ just such disturbances," To make the Sun Cholera Mixture take rqual parts of tincture of cayenne, tincture ct opium, tincture of rhubarb, essence of peppermint and spirits of camphor, and mix well. D-se, fifteen to thirty drops in a wine glass of water, according to age and violence of the attack. Repeat eve fifteen or twenty minutes until relief is o tained. “Ill blows the wind that profits nobody,” says Shakesphere in Henry 1V., and so with many of the cases of diarrhoea brought on by a little to muchindul ence in fruit. if our bllious friends would Snow aside their liver pills and study nature, while she is in her most smiling and bounteous mood, would allow her to tempt them as Eve tempted old Adam, they would take to fruit, and by pleasant, natural and healthful methods free themselves of the “thick hi1. ious impurities" which make them a uni- sance to themselves as well as to all around them. Billousness is one of those demons that can be pretty well exercised by proper diet and due amount of exercise. A gentle diarrhoea, brought on by eating ripe fruit in summer, has frequently a sale. tary efi'eot. Acid and astringent fruit, being rather a medicine than food, is less hurtful to the healthy and to children than is com~ monly imagined. Instead of being ucxuous, as some imagine, in infl immatory disorders it is of the great service. Persons of a thick . and languid blood cannot eat anything more land you w:ll pay me 10,000 pounds, and} I i conductive to health than fruit, as it possess- will give you 1,090 pounds new." The Do! e closed with the offer. and a few weeks after the Duke of i’thland died the new Duke remembered his bargain. He instructed his agent to pay 10,000 pounds in spite of ti e ? remonstrances of his lawyer, who insisted that a promise so extravagant was not bind- .ug. es the property of attenuating and putting such blood in motion. F ruit diminishes the acidity of the urine. The alkaline vegetable salts which it con- tains become decomposed in the system, and converted into the carbonate of the alkali, which passeas off with the urine. By future of this result the employment of fruit is cal- culated to prove advantageous in gout d other cases where the urine shows a team- cy to throw down a deposit of lithlc acid. EXlLlNG A BELL. .1 Curious Performance in Russia Some '{nrce Hundred Years Ago. One of the most curious sights in Tobolsk was the K maoulie Koloko, or“bell with the ear torn off." it was kept in a kind of shed near the archbissop's palace and its romantic history is often told in Tocolsk. In the sixteenth century Prince Dimitri. the rightful heir to the Rsssian throne, was de- posed, by a revolt led by BRIE Goduucfi', who was then proclaimed our. The seat of government was at Uglich and there Dimitri was sent to be under the immediate control of the unlawful ruler. The usurper, fearing that the populace might awake to the claims of the young prince, planned hisassassinarion, and he was one day stabbed in a court-yard. None of ghe bystanders showeda disposition to aid in). A priest, however, saw the crime from the cathedral belfry, and im nedlately be- gan tolling the great ball, which was held sacred, and only rung on unusual occasions, such as the coronation or death of a cz ir. Furious at this tacirexpressionofreprcaoh the ca 1r commanded that the priest should be tortured and the bell taken down and placed beside the body of its ringer. The order was literally fulfilled and the bell was beaten with clubs by the entire populace, with the Czar Boris at their head. Bat this was not all. In those days Siber ian exiles waretortured before setting out on their journey by having their nostrils torn off with red-hot pluchers. The is \r nowdeoreed that the bell should be exiled to Tobolsk, but as it had no nostrils hecommonded, with a certain grim humor, that one ofits hangers should be removed, toindicate its disgrace. The people of Tobolsk are very fond of this trophy, and one sees bells everywhere in the town,as signsover theiun doors, toys, w:ll-‘k-boxes, cigarette-oases, and even sleoVe- ii s. .â€"__â€"â€"â€".â€"-â€"â€"â€"- A Strong Diet. One of the most popular fallacies is the idea that the consumption of a large amount of meat is necessary for health or to unin- taiu strength. It is a fact well known that the strongest animals are vegetarians. No farmer would think of feeding his horses or oxen bseisteak or roast beef in order to add to their strength, even if this kind of food were as cheap as corn or grass. The elephant, the strongest of animals, is a vegetarian. The same is true of the human race. The gatherers of rubber gum in South America travel all day among the mountains, pen- etrating dense forests, climbing among the most precipitous peaks, carrying all the time upon their shoulders, a load increasing in weight until it reaches one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds ; yet they subsist upon a purely Vegetable dietary, the chirf articles of food being plantains and bananas. The Roman soldiers, who built such wonder- ful reads, and carried a weight of armor and luggage that would crush the average farm- hand, lived on coarse brown bread. They were temperate in diet, and regular and con- stant in exercise. The Spanish peasant works every day, and dances half the night, yet eats only his black bread, onions, and water-melon. The Smyrna porter eats only a little fruit, such as limes, yet he walks off with a load of a hundred pounds. The cuoiie, fed on rice, is more active and can endure more than the negro, fed on fat meat. The heavy work of the world is not done by men who eat the greatest quantity. Moderation in diet seems to be the prerequisite of endur- ance. The Earl Who is to Marry the Princess. The Earl of Fife has, say the wise men who enlighten the public on these matters, a rent roll of $3)0,000 a year: or, as some say, $400,000. All that comes from land. Then he has an income from personal pro- perty, and especially from his share in the banking business of Sir Samuel Scott & '30., one of the few remaining firms of private bankers in London. in this business be invested $2,000,000 some years ago. As :0 bank is supposed to pay less than 10 per cent., and some pay 20 per cent. and over, the addition from this source to Lord Fife's income would carry it well over the half million with which he is credited. Ho of. fered to s:ttle upon the Princess L rules of Wales a sum the interest of which should equal any grant Parliament would make. But reasons of state prevailed over consider- ations of delicxcy, and the grant is to be asked for. If i sketch Lord Fife himself to you, it must be only as he appeared on the platform in Elgin, or in his seat at the luncheon which followed the public meeting. If you had been among the audience you would have seen standing before you a man of thirty-five whom, in or out of Scotland, you would have taken for a Seat. He has the national complexion, which is a florid bronze, and the blue eyes and brown hair which go with it; the eyes kindly, the face and features strong and intelligent ; the man not perhaps a little shy, but sympathetic He is of good stature, broad shouldered, pawsrfully built, athletic; looks like what he is, a man renowned for his skill in deer stalking, a sport which perhaps more than most others requires him who follow: it to be hardy, alert, agile and capable of endur- ing much of what, were it not borne in pur- suit of game and happiness, would be thought physical misery. Twenty-five End of Garters. Gilliflower isn't much of a scholar, and the other night when he was reading to his old fashioned Wife out of a newspaper he came acoross an item about some woman having charge of twenty-five kindergarttns. The last n being a little blurred he read it “twenty fiva kind or garters." “Law sakesl" exclaimed the old lady, as she snatched off her spectacles in astonish- ment: “twenty five kind or (garters l No wonder there‘s so many bus‘te people and repytasheus nowadays. Why, when i was a gal we used to knit ’em. or use a string, and if we wanted something right handsome, we‘d get the selvidge off the cloth when the boys got a pair of trousers made out o'store cloth. Now everybody have ’lastics. Twen- ty-live kind 0' garters! An', of course, other things to match! This is what Sarah Togy and Nary Gansett Peer's doin’ for us.” Then she replaced her specs and went on with her knittingâ€"[Texas Sritings. _______..__‘-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" Every boy and girl should be taught the names of the trees they see ; also how to plant and care for them. ‘r‘ 1.2.5“... ~.;.