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s-wmernz-rsruvxswumw;«era-aw A F>- any,» i , ,i P l. 5., , mouse was discovered standing near the Eon] BY RAILROAD MEN. Good Stories Picked up at a Uonveution of Tana Conductors. Extraordlnnry adventure ofn C. P. R. "Puncher." “ Five years ago,"z:.id Mr. L. V. Hurst- man, a conductor on the Illinois C intral, “ we never saw or heard of such a thing as a woman tramp, but lately, within the past two years, the percents e of females among tramps has been ste ily increming, and now we meet with one almost every month. They are not as during as the men in jump- ing on or off trains, but we find them hang- ing allover a freight car, on the trucks, or clinging to the truss rotis by hands and feet like the sloth ; in fact, in a good many dangerous places that a male tramp would never think of getting in. I suppose this increase in women tramps may attributed to the way theynre occupying all the positions formerly held by men alone, and they don’t propose to let even the tramp’s profession go b without entering its ranks.” “ have been on the B. and O. in the capacity of engineer and conductor for ‘26 years,” said G. H. Bailey or Parker‘shnrg. \V. Von, “ and us you see I have In to scrat ch to show for it. Every engineer run- ning on t's'e road believes more or less in .. ..1115 and pcculiar signs. I had an engineer under me that would never go out wuen warned in a dream that there was danger ahead. Of the dosen or more times that he stopped at home only one accident occurred, and that was trivial. I prevailed upon him to give up this superstitious belief, and on the third night out, after he had been warned in three dreams, we met with an awful catastrophe, in which sever- al persons were killed and many wounded. The engineer was among those killed, and I have never forgiven myself, nor Will I until 1 din pursuadc another man from any belief.” “ Une stormy night in October, three years ago,” said J. R. Beesling, “ I was in mortal fear that the bridges, of which there are a good many on that branch, would be washed away by the swollen rivers. For- tunately we passed nearly all of them safely hit just as we draw near the last bridge I happened to be crossing from one car to an- other and noticed a. strange, weird-looking blue light dancing up and down in front of the train. I don t know what possessed me to do it, but I rang the bell and brought the train to a stop. The engineer, brakeman and I then set out to discover the cause of the light, but it had entirely disappeared- and not a trace of it was left. We went down the track as far as the bridge, and found that it had been completely washed away b the stream, which was swollen, only a cw timbers remaining to bear evi- dence that a bridge had once spanned the stream. We were kept; there for over two days, until another bridge could be built : and although the other trainmen laughed at me for it, I earnestly believe that that spectral blue light was placed by a Divine Providence to save us from an awful fate.” “ Bridalcouples give me more trouble than spotters, drunks, or the other things which the general public think make a conductor’s life miserable,” said E. E Suvdam, now yardmaster on the D., L. and IV. Railroad at Elmira, N. Y. “ I have been a conductor and I say to on, never make a bridal trip on the carsi you can help it. You cannot conceal the fact. The more you try, the less you succeed. It is a. laughable sight to see a man with his arm around a girl on a train, but they do it. A man’s arm seems to creep naturally in that direction. W'hen you ask for their tickets both of them look at you as if you were an intruder. Then, as a rule, they never know where their tickets are. He thinks she has them, and she knows that she saw him put them away, but she can not tell where. When they do find them, they usually drop them on the floor as they hand them to you. Confusion ensues. No matter how often they have tried matrimony before, they age a ‘mark’ as soon as they get on a train. I was married before Iwent to railroading and I never ex- ect to have to go through the ordeal again but if I do, I'll take to the woods for my trip.” ' he Canadian Pacific was represented by, among others, H. A. VVashburn, one of the youngest and most neatly attired “punch- ers” in the assemblage. He wore a very peculiar watch chain, made from part of the horns of a moose, to which is attached this story: About two years ago the train in char 0 of Mr. \Vashburn pulled up near Nort Bay to kill afew minutes’ time. About the time the train started a large track about 150 yards away. At the ap- proach of the train the animal became fran- tic, and when the engineer blew the whistle, instead of running away, it made a dash for the engine head downward. It was too late then to stop thetsain, and the engineer fearing that an accident might,happen to the train put on a full head of steam. The engine struck the moose and lifted it about thirty feet in the air, and it dropped on the feet, and one leg and one arm were broken, but it stopped pulling pins at that station. The father of the boys had had a claim against the com y, which was rejected, and this was his method of getting even." Moonshiners give us some lively times on our runs,” said B. N. Roller, a passenger conductor on the L. and 5., whose home is at Louisville, Ky. “I am on what is known as the Knoxville branch, from Louisville to Knoxville, and the amounth white whiskey that is consumed on that run sometimes is quite utonishing. The worst station for catchin this class of passengers is Pineville, allhoug they are to be found at Barbersvillc and other points. I have often seen half a our lead of these people from the country dis- tricts,» and all of them drunk and noisy. Women in the party ? “'hy, yes. and just as full as the rest, and in the end sicker and more sorry than any one. Understand me, this is not the encral rule, nor is it the case with anything 'ke a large percentage of the passengers. But these moonshiners do ride and they do drink as they ride. All of them drinkâ€"young women and old. Their tipple is the white whiskey they make themselves. It has never been watered. I have never tried it, but I think that one drink is about equal to four of the kind served over a city bar. No, we don’t have much trouble with them. \Ve generally manage to get them into the smoker. All the men are usually armed. You will meet a man who has nota dollar’s worth of clothes on him down from the mountains. His but he has worn for perhaps a. dozen years. But be is sure to have a late make of revolver, the latest he can get. That is his pride. He does not care about collars and vest and the cut of his trousers, but his ‘ gun’ must be of the latest make, and the leader of moon- shine society is the man who has the newest and latest improved shooting afi‘ray on the train. They quarrel among themselves, but they usually fix it up by taking another swig. I let them alone, and they do the same to me. The situationsometimes looks danger- ous, but ‘ trouble,’ as they call murderous afi'arys, is very rare on our trains.” Medical Colleges or the United States- The glowing words of Sir Daniel Wilson, when referring the other day to the Super- ior institution of which he has the honor to be president, suggest, but by way of contrast, a recent article of the New York Sun on the medical colleges of the United States and their standing on the con- tment of Europe. According to the Sun only a very few of the American schools have any standing in Europe, or have their diplomas recognized. The great majority are condemned as lacking in preliminary education requirements, as deficient in hos- pital facilities for students, as requiring too short atime for actual preparation, and as not sufficiently testing the qualification of the man before conferring on him the degree of doctor. These structures the Sun believes to be in the main just and accounts for the low standing of American institutions by the case with which charters for such col- logos are obtained and the selfish ambitions of physicians. 'Says that journal : “It has been possible for any group of six or eight practitioners in a. city or in a country town, desirous of obtaining the titles of professors and of acquiring a con- sulting practice in the neighborhood, to or- ganize themselves into amedical faculty and to engineer a. charter through the Legisla- ture empowering them to confer degrees with license to practise. The charter is easily secured, and without any sort of of guarantee that the proposed teachers possess the rudiments of an education or have any hospital connection, or in fact any facilities whatever for giving proper in- struction. As a result of this laxness on the part of legislatures, medical colleges in the United States have multiplied until they number at present 135 from which between four and five thousand young medicos are annually graduated. How more than sufficient this number is to meet the requirements of the people, especially seeing that the Americans are a particularly healthy nation, will be seen by a comparison with some of the European countries. Thus while in the United States there is one institution able to confer medical degrees to about every 500,000 inhabitants, Germany has one for every 2,000,000, Great Britain one for every 3,000,000, Austro-Huue‘at‘y one for every 5,500,000, and France one for every 6,300,- 000. Singularly enough these schools most abound not where the population is most dense but where the expanse of territory is the greatest. Thus Pennsylvania which is jusc twice as populous as Missouri has only six medicalfncult-ies-while the latter has four- teen. But the area of Pennsylvania is rough- ly 45,000 square miles while that of Missouri is 69,000. So too Massachusetts, Connecti- cut, Vermont, and New Hampshire have to- gether about the same population as Ohio, but they have altogether only six medical colleges, while Ohio rejoices in fifteen. But Ohio has nearly 10,000 square miles more of area than these four States taken together. But while Americans who are jealous of their country's reputation are crying out, and not without reason, against the inferior charac~ tor of many of their medical schools, it is hind platform of the second coach, breaking l gratifyin to Canadians to know that we lass and causing quite a commotion. g'clther the blow nor the fall killed the ani- mal. and while stru gling to freeitself itfell between the cars. T ie horns were torn from the scalp, and, after the excitement subsided and the passengers were pacified Washburn got the horns and has them now in his room. “ When I was running a freight train on the ‘ Nypsuo,’ several years ago,"said John Fulkorson of tho Pcnnsylvannia line, “ I used to have a good deal of trouble at a lit- tle station up in northeast Ohio. I always expected to get out of that place behind time, no matter what time I got in there, if I struck the town durin v the night, for it always took the crew ha fan hour or more to get» the whole. tram out of the place. The trouble was caused by a number of boys who made a practice of pulling as many coupling pins as his while the train was stand- m . 0 course when the engine pulled out, onIy the cars which were coupled to it would follow. Then the engine would back up and all the pins be put in place. While the bmkmeu were doing this the ho would all some more further ahead, no so they opt us starting and backing ups ' some- timesfor a who 0 hour. Ono nig t the on~ ’ cor concluded to trv an experimenter: o rascals. He pushed the 'trnin slowly hooks few feet, sons toolnekenallthe coup- ‘ and then suddenly throw the lever omen. Thorium a light one and forwardlikendou. Onooftbsboys justly-Bode ' ondgrsbbed thebwke rod to jump from thocnrs when the \rain started. Ho we “can: nearly 100 have in tic Dominion several medical Col- leges particularly that of the Queen City which are second to none on this continent and which are regarded with high respect by the leading institutions of the old world. It is to be hoped that at no time in the future will the authorities be induced to lower the standard but that in every case the tend- ency will be to demand a more thorough ac. quaintunce with human ills and their reme- dies before conferring uponaman the degree of doctor. The proposal of the Montreal steamship owners to reduce the space allowed to each head of cattle while on board ship from 2 feet 8 inches to '2 feet 6 inches, is said to be creating great dissatisfaction among the ex- porters who declare that the reduction will ruin the trade. Of course only those who have had to do with these things can speak intelligentlv, but to‘the lay mind it- sesms that if any chm-,3- is made it should be in the directiu . oi unzu'ging and not of reducing the spree. ll w a full grown animal can lie dowa, get up. and stand at ease in the space of 3.3 inches is a question which we venture to say has puzzled many a one. It is tobo hoped that the ngK'CH; mut whom the ship owners are petitioning for permis- sion to c the reduction, will satisfy th before acceding to the nest. that the c is both expedient 1m. mane. The on strode. of this country is too important, amounting last year to 6.5%,- 000, to allow the interests of any one class of citizens to oominto competition with it. £85231” FA.ch sleeve close on the forearm is not showing any decline of favor. 4 A rounrknbly. pretty sleeve is , shit-rod all along the arm below an immense! high Thecouspicuousfeatures of present shapes puff on the shoulders, and has a s allow are the lengthening of the waists, the length- ening of the skirts, the long hi pieces, the flattening down in some cases 0 the 1qu on the sleeve and its ersggerated height on the other hand, the clingin effect of many of the skirts, the continu use of side-fasten~ 1 ing bodices, but not to the exclusion of, or ’ sons wasps or rasmoa nterference with, the central-fastening waist, and the sustained favoritism of the flaring collar, an adjunct of which the style renders it equally useful for cold or warm weather. Add to this an extreme lengthening of the cuff, till its gauntlet effect or extended fril~ ling brings it down to almost cover the hand â€"an effect in perfect harmony with the flar- ing collar andhigh sleeveâ€"and you have except as regards a few minor matters 0 which this article will also treat, the entire programme of dress effects as now about to be seen and already adopted. sovm. EFFECTS. I One of these is in a deep coat shape as to the back alone, the waist in front having an hem is notched. There are four breadths, all straight. WAISTS. I \Vhile in the description of street costumes and other dresses there will be mention in this number of many and varied styles of waists, a few may be cited here which offer certain features, the mention of which will be of service to ladies who are making up their summer outfit. The silk or sateen lining being retaingd, cotton dresses display ace trimmings, velvet ribbon, watered silk, and full jabots of crinkled or plain muslin of the thinnest kind. A fitted ceat is seen in some such dresses and having sides which are extended to nine or ten inches bCIOW' the waist-line and are square both front and back. Then again, cotton dresses will show the waist belted and unlined, the sides below the waist-line consist- ing of a deep piece of pleating attached either to the waist itself or to a. belt. A great many yoke-waists are seen in these summer fabrics ; and with these the material is often carried up above theyoke in a. point or the yoke will run down into the low-set point. The pleated sides will often show a ruffle below the pleating, while, in lawn es- pecially, full waists are gathered on cords and garnished with a. turned-over collar or have none at all. Silk waists often have a coat~piece of eleven or twelve inches in depth and are belted in. There is a wide back, bias sleeves and either no collar or a flat one. The fronts fall open in a. jacket shape over a. waist, in some examples, made like that of a shirt and having a wide belt pointed up and down. With such a. top the collar is usually standing. Cheviots show long coat-tops with deep coat-sides and are single or double breastedovera shirt-waist oravest I made like agentleman’s waistcoat. A very novel suit has such a waistcoat associated with deep “ coatrskirt” sides, and this is simply crossed by a wide, straight belt fastened by thongs such as have been already described by us in other numbers. The curious feature of a. jabot displayed both front and back and running to the belt-line will be found in the newest summer dresses. Revers are seen on beige and Cheviot as well as other light wooleus, and the singlevbreasted coat-top on which they are displayed is open so as to show a low-cut vest, often of velvet match- ing the revers. The ends cf the cost are so. long at the back as to touch the hem of the skirt which is plain, and the sides which are shorter. The collar is high above a low collar of velvet. The sleeves are not very full, and on such‘ woolens often have small buttons in rows of six, eight, ten, or twelve on the inside seam, and three or four on the cuff. The bodice shows larger buttons on each side of the closed portion of the front. SKIRTS. Skirts are longer on all the dresses except the mountain dresses worn over knicker bockers and which will be extensively used by ladies going about to continue the physi- cal culture begun at gymnasiums and clubs in the winter. The bias skirt in four straight breadths, a widc~hemmed skirt turned up on the outside and piped and with a foundation skirt beneath are both worn, as well as a straight or I nearly straight and sim ly hemmed skirt which measures three yards and a half or four yards at the foot, and is somewhat; sloped at the top of thebreadth seen in front. The plain ef- fect is to a. certain extent lessened by an extendng of the width at the foot, and by making the pleats fuller at the top. A skirt will have three front breadths slightly gored. These are draped in pleats on each sir e, and have a couple of darts on each side. A few shallow folds of silk garnish the foot, and the back breadths show a pleating or gathering all of which is closely drawn together in the middle of the back. More will be found relating to skirts in descri tions of costumes and toilettes in this num er. SLEEVES. There is less variety in sleeves than might be supposed in view of the fact that other adjuncts have varied of late, and although an immense variety of fabrics will be seen in the contrasting effect with that of the rest ofthc dressâ€"as, for example, piece-lace, net, silk, gauze. muslin, and two thin fabrics inl the top and cuff of the same sleeve, thus.i addinga third tothe summer material in the! remainder of the toilette or costumeâ€"this seeming variety is in the fabric and net in the shape. But there is some variety even here, such as shows itself in the long flat pleats running all along the arm, the flat- tening down or much increased bunching up of the top, the extending of the cuffs else- where alluded to in this article and which, just now, seems to aim at hiding the whole hand, the e tensive use of buttons, the hav- ing, as seen ' some imported dresses, the outside of the slfive in one fabric, and the inside half of another, and, in some examples, the puffing all ‘ along the arm, and diminishing only at the wrist where it becomes close shining. A sleeve with n stb ' t topusfibowséien an im. ported dress, 3 'ng at elbow, andasmnikr onegaxttbewristht astylo auedQuosn-Clsude. The sleevocon- tinues to be immensely liked, and its cool- ness, comfortableness, and pretty efl’oct have established itfor the summer, while the obtaining prcper food and clothing ; and for through the streets as a. prisoner or be pub- loose ulf falling over the hands so as to concea the knuckles entirely. Juvenile Criminality. One of the most im rtaut subjects disâ€" cussed in the Prison Ieform Commission’s report, which was the other day laid on the fa le of the House of Assembly, is that of juvenile criminality. For several years our country has witnessed a steady increase of youthful offences, that is, offences commit- ted by persons under sixteen years of age. Taking the whole of the Dominion, the per- centages ‘for the years 1884, ’85. ’86, ’87, and ’88, were respectively, 10.13, 10.24, 11.00, 12.84, and 16.06. Thus in five years the morease of this class of criminals has been more than 57 per cent. The commis- sioners are led to conclude after careful and thorough investigation of the subject that the cause, or more properly causes, of this ill- omened advance are : \Vaut of proper paren- tal control, the lack of pro or home trainin of children due to the c pable neglect of invisible side fastening, a high collar flaring Parent's: Phell‘illdiflel‘ence mpm‘ental duties» at the top but clinging to the throat below j {ind We Influence 0f bad hOmes. To these this flare, and sleeves which diminishto ward ‘3 added ” the impormnce 0f Children the wrist and show a. row of flat pleats held taken from the Teformntbl‘iesi refuges 811d down by stitchingabove the elbow, this full- “‘Orklfmlses 0f the Old, World ” which the uess being gathered into the long cuff below, commissroners are forced from the evtdence The skirt parts in front overs. second fabric, the? received to regard as fmught With and this effect is repeated at the back.‘ The much danger. nudes calculated, unless con- ducted with the utmost care and prudence, to swell the ranks of the criminal classes in this country. ' In view of this alarming increase, and of the manifest inefficiency of present methods to deal with youthful criminals, the commis- sioners recommend that the law requiring children within certain ages to attend school during a certain specified portion of each year be vigorously enforced; that provision be made to secure the proper edu- cation of children employed in factories, workshops and elsewhere; that one or more day industrial schools be established in every city and large town; that provision be made on these schools for the control and instruction during the day of disorderly or neglected children belong- ing to what is generally described as the “ Arab class” ; of habitual truants ;of those who cannot be controlled by parents or guardians, or who otherwise require special supervision, and of destitute and forsaken children who may not be pro or subjects for constant residence in charita. 1c institutions, but require partial assistance in carrying on work of a simple kind for the industrial training of these classes. They recommend, moreover, thatas little pub- licity as possible be given to the arrest and trial of youthful offenders that no child under 14 years of age be taken publicly licly tried for his alleged offence and that in no case_should such child be committed to the common gaol either while awaiting trial or after conviction. Instead of con- finement within the common prison they would have children accused of crime, if serious, detained in the house of a police of- floor while awaiting trial, and if convicted either discharged on suspended sentence, which might often be done with advantage especially where the offence is the first and not of a serious nature, or be sent to a. refor- matory (which should be so arranged as to permit of a proper classification of the prisoners) under an indeterminate sentence, that is, a. sentence which enables the offend- er to earn by industry, diligence and general good conduct, a remission of a portion of the extreme penalty attached to his crime. It is obvious that to carry out these recom- mendations will involve large additional expense, seeing that the existing provisions are both inadequate and unsuited for that classification of the prisoners which experi- ence has proved to be absolutely essential to secure the best results. .This fact is rccoenized by the commissioners who never- theless assert that unless the recommenda- tions are carried out the whole rcformatory system must prove a failure. And to fail here meansperil to the welfare of society. Transplanting Hearts. The latest surgical wonder is reported from the City of Mexico where a. Dr. Rap- hael Martinez is said to have succeeded in transplanting hearts from one living animal to another, and is prepared to undertakes. like transfer in the case of human beings, upon proper surgical occasion. The figura- tive transference of hearts is an operation not unheard of, as for example when a young woman at a watering-place leaves her heart on storage with a satisfactory oung man for a prolonged period and then uriug a brief boat ride reclaims her property and transfers it with the umost case to the bosom of some other young man of better social position, larger financial resources or a. “ lovelier” thst to his mustache ; but the literal transference of hearts is certainly a new thing under the sun. Can the dis- covery be turned to practical account is the question which many will be disposed to ask in this intensely utilitarian age, when everything must. submit to the test, what profit will it serve? If the report is really authentic, and if with the heart is convey- ed the peculiar disposition of the person to whom it belonged, the possibilities of the discovery from the standpoint of moral re- form arc simply beyond reckoning. What a change would come over the face of society and how the Millennium would be hastened if by any means the hard-hearted oppressors, the protected monopolists who “ grind the faces of the poor,” the fiinty- soulel grabbcrs of this plutocratic time could be induced to exchange heartR with men of gentler and more compassionate spirits who desire, as such sometimes do, to quit a world where compassion is apt to torture the helples possessor of it whose means of giving play to it are scant. In the light of such a vision one is led to ex- claim, 0 that the wires have not deceived us and that Dr. Raphael Martinez has really been raised up as a savior of his gen- emtion and yet we are terribly harassed with doubts. â€"a-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€". But who shall dare To measure loss and gain in this wise? Defeat may be victory in disguise; Thodlowcst ebb is the turn of the ti o. it â€"{Longfellow. Ho erred, no doubt ;psrhaps he sinned; Shall I then dm'to cast a stone? Perhaps this blotch on a t white Comulessthmthedingyrobeslown, â€"Georgo W. W. Boughton. 31")". ‘1 ’«W'U’s‘t #366. if?!)r‘s37ul49:“1.w“rtl:fi‘3'*"§?l .“L- ‘ffi-‘ifi ‘1‘” THIS HERO 0? PORT TRIBAL. a... the «unsung swim i ’ i Eighty lien Defeated Pou- non- snltl Mort. The true story of Lieutenant Grant is al- mosttoogoodastorytobetrue, androads like one of those that Mr. Rudyard Kipling invents. Its scene is laid in Mr. Kipling‘s own ter- ritory, and it deals with dscoits and junggs, and the little daring Goorkbas of whom r. Kipling is so fond, and with native princes an rsjahs and hand-tobaud fighting and the gloryof the British arms. In the early part of April the Associated Press, under the unfamiliar data line of Cal- cutta, told of a massacre in Manipur, wher‘ ever they may be, where semi-barbarous nao tive Indians rose against the representatives of the Empress of India, and killed them treacheroust while they were negotiating terms of peace, and trying to put the right rajah on the throne from which troops. of the wrong rajah had driven him. The news was partly rumor, partly horrible fact, and g the names of many commissioners and of- ficers were given as dead and as butchered after death. And at the end of each news- paper account was the brief statement, “ Lieutenant Grant, who leit Tamar for Manipur with eighty men, has not been heard from. He isbelieved to be dead.” It was a. most unimportant ending and an anti- climax. Nobody but the Grants of Grant. in the Highlands of Scotland, who “raised the Black \Vatch,” knew or cared about this un- identified and unknown Lieutenant Grant. What was one lieutenant and eighty men to three commissioners and colonsls and the commissioners’ wives and the picked troops of the Forty-fourth Goorkhas? But on the days follo ' came fuller and more accurate accounts of a massacre mod it was told how the manipuri had shelled the Residency“ ith the same cannon thoEmpress of India had-sent them as a token of her-royal good feeling ;-aud how the younger officers and Mrs. Grimwood had escaped in the night, and travelled on foot by jungle paths for 120 miles, living on roots, to be rescued at the last by Captain Cowley hurrying for- ward with re-enforcements ; and now Mrs. Grimwood’s husband and the others who had left the Residency toarbitrate had been cut into quarters, and thrown into the moat for the pariah dogs to mangle as they pleased. It read like a pa e from the history of the Sepoy mutiny, li e a modern version of the terrible stories of Cawnporo, Dclhi,and Luck- now, and it was a blow at the British rule in India, and a trial to the hearts of every one who read it, whetherhe read it in English or translated into a foreign tongue. But there was one saving clause, one paragraph that lightened the rest for every one w 0 read it, for Lieutenant Grant, the unknown, march- ing, unconscious of massacres, between Ta~ mur and Manipur, had at last been “ heard from. ” His paragraph came at the end, as it had on the days before, modestly, as be- came his rank, behind the colonels and com- missioners. ‘ ‘ Lieu tenantGrant, ” i t road,with 80 men, has defeated 4000 Manipuri,oudhas taken Fort Thobad.” Now nobody know whether Fort Thobal was bristling with can~ non or a mud embankment, but every one could appreciate that 80 into 4000 goes fifty times, and that Lieutenant Grant-s chance was only one in fifty when he charged up the wall of Fort Thobal, and drove the Mauipur-i across and over the other side. And allover the world, thanks to telegraphs and tables, the name and fame of Lieutenant Grant be- came momentous and familiar, not only in the clubs of London, but in the elevated cars of‘New York, and at breakfast tables from Paris to Portland, Oregon. For .if all the world loves a lover, it loves a hero next, and the chance that came to Lieutenant Grant, and the way he rose to it, became a brilliant spot in the gloomy tale of treachery, butchery, and blundering of the Mani ur massacre. Lieutenant Grant held tort Thobal for three days, and then repulsed the Maui uri again at Alongming in afight that 1am. three long hot hours, during which the Scnaputty prince and his twoooxnmand- ers were killed, and the Manipuri were driven off into the jungle by Iioutenant Grant’s men of the Second Burmahs General Sir Fredrick Roberts, the Com- mander-iu-Cinef of the Indian my, has congratulated Lieutenant C. J. W. Grant, which is as also as it should be, and Punch has given him a full pa 6 all to himself ; it is also as it should that Lieutenant Grant is as handsome as his portrait shows him to be, and that ho is only thirty years old. “ It is the boysâ€"the raw boysâ€"who do the fighting,” Mulvancy says ; and though Lieutenant Grant is no raw recruit, he is a' boy in years, and the Second Bur- mahs are but newly formed. Now while the home government sends out more com- missioners to determine who blundered and who should be punished, let us hope that he may go to Simla on leave, and ride with all the pretty girls, and wear cool things, and drink the wine of praise and approval, and keep out of the clutches of Mrs.IIanks- bee. Add in time he may get his regiment and become a K. C. Who knows? And in the meanwhile his father, Lieuten- ant-General D. G. S. St. J. Grant, who is now in London, goes to all of his many clubs that the members may say, “ Ah, Grant, fine boy that boy of yours ; oughtto be proud of him.” And then the lieuten- ant- veneral says, “ Pooh l pooh ! only did his uty” ; and then goes home, and tells his wife everything they say. Perhaps this may seem to you ngrcat deal of bother about one young man ; but do not think of what he did, but what he might have done. He might have said : I ' have no instructions to take Fort Thobel. I have no right to risk my men’s lives at odds of fifty to one, I ought to make a custody detour, and show my strategic knowledge, and leave Fort Thobal and the 4000 Maui uti alone.” Who wouldhave blamed him 2 obi-n Would have done it. But Lieutenant Gaunt walked rightup the mud wall audover tbootber side. It was his chance, you see, and he took it ; and it teaches the moral' that when 0110’: chance comes, it is much better tobaroport: ed as “ heard from" than “ missing' ' ." Satan rejoices in good treatmt. But: he does not appreciate or reciprocate it. It isonly the opportunity for him to take ad- vantage of the one who treats him well. He respects no flag of truce. â€"{Hon.ld and. Presbyter. An hing which makes religion its not and o ject makes rehgio' ' n no object. God will put up with a many things in tho hummhwt, but re inane thingflewffl not put up wath' in Itâ€"o' second place. Bo whoofien God soooondplsco, offers Hive o plumâ€"[John Elihu. f - WM "a..._.c‘. ,4 ...â€"â€"....aâ€"â€"‘. ova-u...- firs .._._._._.._._