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“w” '-m'.â€"â€"::s,-- ~41-.-._x.A__L, , , _ H ‘ Maw woman”; ,fls. ......._.._ . ‘ J. ,. g \‘ ,' '. “r v I" 13‘; ‘ " MY FATHER’S FRIEND. BY HARKLEY IIARKER. C “Your father and I were good friends, sir, long before you were born.” ' \Ve were at a. public reception, and the old man who said it stood grasping the hand of a. younger man, who was a. candi- date for high office. I .“lndeed '3” I overheard the young man reply. And he turned with more than pass- mg cordiality to say : “Any man whom my father honored with his confidence and high regard shall have mine, with compound in- terest 1” - It must be an impressive experience 1n an old man’s life to see the son of his dead friend advanced to high hon'ers. After all the years, the little fellow, whose birth in his friend’s household he remembers as if it were yesterday, has grown to be great, ‘ and talked about. “Can it be possible ? That boy ? And what would his father have given to live to see what I see now ? I must congratulate the young man. I wonder if Ishall detect his father's lineaments in his younger face. Yes; he is a chip of the old block. I can shut my eyes and imagine I hear his father’s vows in his tones, as that voice sounded five-and-thirty years away. Of course the boy will not know me. I wonder if he is proud and vain. If he only knew it, 1 once lent his sire a helping hand that saved his fate. But let’s see. I knew his father and loved him, as he did me, forty years ago 1” For my part a friend of my father’s is always dear to me. To meet him is always a bit saddening. It is a. pathetic reminder of the shadowy past. I see such a man ap- proaching,and it seems, almost,as if I could detects. shadowy form walking at his ‘side. ‘Ns‘there used to be. He always recalls father to my mind, whether anything is said or not. I associate him with father. And, while I know, of course, that he had many other surround- ings in life, and still has, to see him is to bring just that one thought to my mind. I have even detected in myself the half thought that he belongs to another world, that his tarry here is a_mistake. How hard it is not to complain that he lives to be a father to his sons, while my father left his sons orphans too soon in a lonely world. So it transpires that the sight of my dead father’s friend fills me with conflicting emo- tions. I am sad and glad asI grasp his hand. . How the sight of my father’s friends affects my mother. And I can read unutter- able things in her face when he calls, salut- ing her with, “How are you, Martha ?” in the old familiar way. 1 know she likes to have him come, inquires after him if he does not come in so often. But after he is goneâ€"oh, my mother ! If your father’s friend is a strong man, he will serve you. He will protect you. It will be a. pleasure to do a thousand things for his dead friend’s children. He Will re- gard such service as a sort of debt. Hence he is willing to‘ act as administrator or exe- cutor for your father. Heaven forbid that you quarrel With him. Whatever pay he gets, the office is a thankless task at best. It be be a good man, he is vastly more troubled and anxious over your estate than he is over his own affairs; he has a sense of the dead looking down on him. With his own money a man can do what he will and if he lose it, it is nobody’s business. But trust-money is a sacred and a worrying care. I beg you, trust the man Whom your father trusted. Do this, by all means till you have something more substantial than mere suspicion and natural irritations to make you do otherWise. It is natural that you are annoyed in “settling up.” But, if I you remember, you and your own father were not always able to wholly agree ; he thought you often careless if not worse. Do not strain mere friendship, when you recol- lect that natural affection sometimes hardly brooked your fretfulness. What would you do if your father’s friend should throw up your cares entirely? Could you select bet- ter than father? I stood,,a few months ago, among the throng at the funeral of a neighbor. The clergyman, instead of talking about the dead, did a sensible thing ; he talked to the living. He exhorted any of us, who had reason to remember the dead man with gratitude, not to waste all our gratitude in idle tears that day. “ But,” quoth he, “ as often in after days as you meet the children of this de- parted friend, remember your debt to their father. They will need a. friend. Act like the friends of the man who has gone.” It struck me as about as sensible talk as I had heard in a. house of mourning for a long time. If your father’s friend is a weak inanâ€" that is, if his after life has gone hard with himâ€"ought you not to be kind to him for your father’s sake Ought you not to treat him somewhat as your father used to ? What a. misery it is that the children of a good man are often cold-hearted 1 The poor knew your father’s door. But since he has. gone, they often look on the door as they pass, and sigh. It is your door now, and it is not open as your father kept it. There is an old clerk in your store whom your father befriended. But after you boys came into possession, you made the old clerk’s life so wretched that you broke his heart. If your father is permitted to look down, what do you suppose he thinks of you ? There are scores of men who used to look to your father for a helping hand. You are not your father's successors. Are there honorable and high-minded men and women,citizens of the better class, who were your father’s friends, and who would not to-day associate with you? If so, whose. fault is it? Hardly theirs. Did they not try you? Did they not begin by receiving you into good society ? But you ‘cared not for such companionship. Is it possible that the trade is full of your father‘s friends, but you have not a. friend in the trade? \Vhose fault is that? Is it possible that the whole town were your father’s friends, and the same town your enemies? Whose fault is that ? The church over there, whose spire you see from your window, all your father’s old friends were or are there. You were brought up in those aisles. But to-day you would walk in there a stranger. The more's the pity. It is a Wise thing to heed your father’s friend in advice. He can tell you many of your father’s ideas. He can recall many of your sire’s sayings and doings which you never heard of. If he loved your father he loves you, provided he be a (lecent man. It is doubtful if a man can leave a better legacy than a town full of friends who will be kind to his cl1i351:en,as he was once kind -...â€"_ A ._.___ h. Hâ€"___ to them. It is first-view evidence that a man means you well that he was once ad- mitted into your father’s confidence. He Wanted Sharing: Gross- One afternoon I jumped upon a ’bus in the Seven Sisters-road. An elderly Frenchman was the only other occupant of the vehicle. “ You vil not forget me,” the Frenchman was saying as I entered. “I desire Sharing Cross.” - “I won’t forget yer,” answered the con- ductor; “you shall ’ave yer Sharing Cross. Don't make a fuss aboutit. That’s the third time ’ee’s ’arst me not to forget ’im,” he remarked to me in a. stentorian aside. “ ’Ee don’t giv’ yer {much chance of doin’ it, does ’ee.” At the corner of Holloway-road we drew up, and our conductor began to about after the manner of his species. ' “Charing Crossâ€"Charing Crossâ€"’ere you are, ladyâ€"Charing Cross.” The little Frenchman jumped up and prepared to alight ; the conductor pushed him back. “Sit down, and don’t be silly,” he said, “this ain’t Charing Cross.” The Frenchman looked puzzled, but collapsed meekly. W’e picked up n. few passengers and pro- ceeded on our way. At the Angel we, of course, stopped. “Charing Cross,” shouted the conductor, and up sprang the Frenchman. The con- ductor collared him as ho was getting off. “Carn’t yer keep stills. minute,” he cried, indignantly. “Blessed if you don’t want looking after like a bloomin’ kid.” “I vont to be put down at Sharing Cross,” answered the little Frenchman humbly. “You vont to be put down at Sharing Cross,” repeated the other bitterly, as he led him back to his seat. “ I shall put yer down in the middle of the road if I’ave much more of yer. Yer stop there until 1 come and sling yer out. I ain’t likely to let yer go much past yer Sharing Cross. I shall be too jolly glad to get rid o’ yer.” The poor Frenchman subsided, and we jolted on. Al! the top of Chancery-lane the same scene took place, and the little Frenchman became exasperated. ‘ “He keep on saying Sharing Cross-â€" Sharing Cross,” he exclaimed, turning to the other passengers, “ and it is not Shar- ing Cross. He is a fool.” “Carnt yer understand,” rctorted the conductor, equally indignant; “of course I say Sharing Cross â€"-I mean Charing Cross -â€"-but that don’t mean that it is Charing l Cross. That means thatâ€"” and then ! perceiving from the blank look in the ! Frenchman’s face the utter impossibility of ever making the matter clear to him, he turned to us with an appealing gesture and asked : “ Does any gentleman know the French for bloomin’ idiot?” A day or two afterwards I happened to enter his omnibus again. “ Well,” I asked, “did you get your French friend to Charing Cross all right?” “No, sir,” he replied; “you’ll ’ardly believe it, but I’d a bit of a row with a policeman just before I’d got to the corner, 1 and it put’im clean out o’ my ’ead. Blest if 4 I didn’t run ’im on to Victoria.” _ __. _...,_ .â€" Ths Guillotine at Work- Eugene Beaujean, who in July murdered an unfortunate named Valentino Dolbeau, lwas guillotined on Friday morning last i near the Pont Colbert at Versailles. Pauline lSiller, his accomplice, who urged Beaujcan to commit the crime, and stamped on the [dying victim, was informed that her sen- ltence was commuted. Beaujean had been i awake two hours when the magistrates and it 'e executioner entered his cell. He dis- . \yed great courage, and was left with the I c. plain, to whom he confessed, but declin- ed Lo hear Mass or receive the communion. He was then taken on a cart at a slow pace to the Pont Colbert, about half a mile from the prison. Beaujean jeered at the crowd and the mounted gendarmes in thoroughly Parisian slang. Arrived at the scaffold, he embraced the chaplain and delivered him- self up to Diebler. Forty seconds after, all Iwas over. The body, which Was buried at .the Gonarts Cemetery at Versailles. was not handed over to the medical faculty, at the special request of the condemned man. It is noted by the Debats that among the “ privileged" spectators who Were allowed to take up a position Within a. few yards of the guillotine was one of the jailers, who had brought to Witness the ghastly sight his little boy, about 12 years of ago. __--...._~_.,__ Boomers Outwittod by a Girl- The Chicago Tribune relates the follow- ing incident in connection with the rush for the Cherokee territory. A little girl about 14 years old came through the jam of teams and horses near the booths, dismounted, and tied her horse to the hedge. Going to a coffee stand, she procured a tray and two cups of coffee and started for the dense throng of men about the booths, now at least fifty deep. At the outer edge her piping voice was heard saying. “ Please make way, gentlemen, I have lunch for the clerks.” She slowly made her way between the Strippers until she reached the magic circle' marked by barb wire. The stolid soldiers on guard refused her entreatics, but when she said 001. Gallagher (chief clerk) wanted his lunch she was admitted ahead of the four lines held in check. W'alking up to the first desk she put down her load and said : » “ I am an orphan, and, therefore, am the head of my family. I want to register.” The men gathered about looked upon this proceeding with glowering faces until a great hulking fellow in the crowd cried out “Bully for the little gal 1” Then a hearty shout went up from the men she had so clearly outwitted, and she received her certificate and proudly held it aloft as she passed out to her waiting horse. Her name is Cora. \Viley, from Sedgwick county, an orphan, whose widowed mother died about a year ago. __ a, ___-_,.. Death Preferred to Siberia- A tragic incident has just occurred at \Varsaw on the occasion of the trial of a young ensign of the Novobrinsk Regiment, who was charged with having struck a sentinel on duty. While the sentence of the court was being read out, condemning the accused to the loss of all rights, degra- idation to the ranks, and exile to Siberia, , the prisoner suddenly drew a revolver from his pocket and shot himself with fatal effect before the military ofiicals present could interfere. OF AFltIGA. DR. PETERS, The Celebrated German Explorer Inter- viewed in Toronto- Tliinks Emin resin is Aliveâ€"European Si-tilers lxi Africaâ€"They Should be Manorsâ€"Britain will Retain Eigniiiluâ€" “as no (“car or Niatnbole. When the story of African settlement, not the missionary enterprise, comes to be ‘ written, the records of the last two decades of this century will be principally devoted to the doings of three men, namely, H. M. Stanley, Dr. Carl Peters, and Emin Pasha. Stanley has begun the study of British poli- tics, and has already fought and lost an election. Emin Pasha is reported to have been killed and eaten by some hungry Afri- can, but Dr. Carl Peters is alive and well, and spent five or six hours the other day in viewing Toronto. In the‘ register of the Queen’s hotel was this entry : “Dr. Peters, German-Africa,” and a. reporter of the Mail had no difficulty in locating the man whose actions once or twice very nearly involved Britain and Germany in war. \Vhoever has seen the portrait of the explorer in the illustrated papers would have no difficulty in picking him out even in a crowded hotel corridor. He was most affable, and readily granted an interview. In answer to questions, Dr. Peters said he organized the German Colonization Society in 1884, a charter for which was granted by Emperor William I., who acted on the ad- vice of Prince Bismarck. Immediately the charter was received Dr. Peters proceeded to Africa, and opposite Zanzibar began his work. His staff consisted of two officers and two non-commissioned officers of the German army, and his first duty was to organize and equip a force of native soldiers. Having got his small army ready the work of exploration be- gan, not for ‘the sake of discovery, but for business purposes exclusively. After many adventures and several angry dis- cussions with the British Consul at Zan- zibar, Dr. Peters returned to Germany in 1836, consulted 'with the members of the society, and received increased powers from the Government. Returning to Africa. to- wards the. latter part of 1882 be immediate- ly commenced an extension of German influ- ence in the “ Dark Continent.” So critical did the position of affairs between Britain and Germany over the claims of the two nations in Africa become, that debates were raised on the subject in the Parlia- ments of both countries, but eventually cer- 'taiu arrangements were made by which peace was secured, and on the 25 of July, this year, Dr. Peters and Consul Smith, Britain’s representative in Zanzibar, com- pleted a treaty at Berlin which settles the territorial questions between the two Em- pires so far as Africa. is concerned. EUROI’EANS IN AFRICA. V’Vhatis your opinion of Africa. as a place for European settlers ? A tropical country is never a success for settlers from Europe. Africa has immense possibilities for trade, so immense that we cannot realize them, but Europeans cannot do hard work there except in certain well- defined districts. White men going to Africa must go as masters or not at all. You went in search of Emin Pasha, doc- tor ‘2 Oh, yes, I did, from 1883 to 1890, and I found him. You know when I was on that search it was reported I had been killed, and many papers wrote my obituary. then I feel low-spirited I read the _many kind things they said about me. when they thought I was dead. Do you think Emin Pasha is dead now? He may be, but all the stories about his death vary so that it does not convince me. In fact, I fully expect to hear of his ap- pearance in some unexpected place. There have been so many (lilferentstories about his death that I am a little skeptical. Did you prefer to fight the natives rather than make treaties with them ‘2 No, no, although I am put down as a firebrand and one always ready to fight, I am misrepresented. I never fight if I can possibly avoid it, but I always take care to strike a sharp and decisive blow when I have to fight. My followers were mostly Soudanese and as my band was very small I was more frequently attacked than if I had had a larger force. Have you traversed much of Africa? I have travelled over 6,000 miles, but as my business was colonization, and not ex- ploration, I did not travel merely for dis- covery. I surveyed the Tana district, which is now a British possession. The Tana river is a magnificent stream, navig- able for over 240 miles. Then I went all over the Kilimandsharo, or Snow Mountain kingdom, Have you seen much of Uganda, Mashon- aland, or Matahele Land? 7 I have seen a good deal of them. all three. Uganda reminds me of our own Thuringia, mountain and valley, woodland and fertile plains. Mashonaland and Matabelc Land are also rich and valuable territories, and Britain will not be likely to let go an inch of either. The Matabele have no chance of doing even temporary injury to British prestige or British property in Africa. Is there much chance for Canadian trade with Africa? I cannot say. German trade we desire, and Britain Will seek her own interest there, but Africa will be an immense field for trade, and that very soon, too. ABOUT HIMSELF. W'hat is your opinion of Stanley? I met Stanley recently, but Ido not wish {to do so. {one girl earned her livmg to ten who do so ed to see Toronto. He was delighted with all he had been able to see, especially the wide, clean streets and the apparent effort of all the citizens. BRIEF AND INTERESTINQ White is the mourning color in China, Japan, and Siam. One thousand ships annually cross the Atlantic Ocean. I rlhe British have $500,000,000 invested in United State railroads. Honey, kept in the light. granulates. gheifefore, the bees always store it in the ar . . Queus have been worn by Chinamen since 1627. They were first worn as a sign of degradation. Pious Russians do not eat pigeons,bccause of the sanctity conferred on the dove.in the Scriptures. A five-pound nugget of gold was recent- ly mined at Maj-we, Cal. It contained $1,100 worth of pure gold. The Swiss postoflice conveys anything from a postal card to barrels of wine, scythes and bundles of old iron. Australian rabbits have lately become tree-climbers, and scientists note that their claws are growing longer. .A coal mine at Nanaimo, British~ Colum- bia, has galleries which extend twelve miles under the ocean. Chinese burglars wear not a scrap of clothing and artfully braid their pigtails full of fishhooks for obvious reasons. _ A wonderful pig is owned by J. W. Gar- rison, of Flat Creek, N.C. Ithas two heads, two tails, three eyes, and six legs. _Forty-three women were recently inter- VIewed as to the animals they feared most, and not one of them named the mouse. . A special trolley car in San Francisco is intended to carry the dead to the cemeteries, while the mourners follow in other cars. The hat worn by Napoleon at the battle of Eylau was sold in Paris in 1835 for a sum. equal to $100 in United States currency. Children in India have to learn the mut- tiplication table up to 40 times 40, and this, is further complicated by the introduction of fractionl parts. Barron Felder, of Vienna, has occupied his time for many years in gathering rare butterflies. Recently he sold his collection to Lord Rothschild for the sum of $5,000. Someone who has figured on the work v.- THB DOOM OF MEN OLERKS- They Are Rapidly Being Elbowcd Out of Existence by Young Women. Mr. J. L. Hayne writing in the Canadian Magazine says that girls are much more clever as clerks than men, that the male clerk is doomed to extinction like the dodo. and he thinks the results are most disasâ€" trous both to women and to the men. The following are the salient passages of his paper, which is entitled “The Displace- ment of Young Men.” Nearly all classes of clerical work are passing rapidly into the hands of young women. These young women enter the offices with skillful fin- gers, winning manners, industrious ways and general aptness to write letters, keep books, count cash, and disoharge the mul- titudinous duties attaching to business life. They do their work satisfactorily and well. Taken altogether, they are neatcr, better behaved, and quicker than young men. Nor can it be said any longer that physical disabilities render them inferior to young men in clerical positions Where endurance sometimes becomes a. factor. Experience has clearly demonstrated that these young women can do whatever is required of them, and do it to the satisfaction of their employers. From observation, I should say that two young women now enter the departments at Ottawa and Washington to one young man. What is true of the Civil Service is unquestionably true of ALL BRANCHES OF BUSINESS where clerks are employed. Shops and offices are all but closed to young men and each year the situation assumes a more fix- ed form. Into all the lighter branches of laborwomen are entering in steadily increas ing numbers, to the exclusion of men. The result is, that these bright young fellows, capable of doing excellent work, are forced to toil for long hours, often at night, for the munificent salary of $15 a month. After two or three years of hard and faithful ser- vice, promotion to the $25 a month class is possible; while $35 to $50 is the outside figure to which a. clpirk may aspire if he ex~ hibits special quali cations and sustained dune at Pom eii Since June 13 2 S“ s deVOtiOI} ‘70 his taSk- If the 119155 twenljy that it will flake until 19.47, to 7uhearfli years Wltness the same relatwe lucrease 1” i the entire ruins with eighty-five men work. the number of working girls and women as ing every day. has taken place since 1870 in this country “hate paper in the U S gbates Depart and the United States, we shall see young I ment, of a private character, is carefully men doing the house work, and their sisters : b . I . , and mothers carrying on half the business 0331:3011: ‘m open gla’te m the Secretary 5 of the land., As an instance of how the . v I . pinch is commencing already to be felt, I A L1\'eI‘P001 dentistbemg ‘Vlthouc work; might cite the case of a family, consisting thought. he WORM get his hand in at a new of awe girls and a, boy, an em enough to I occupation; so he attempted pocket-picking, earn their living. The young man is a and was caught at ill- Wide'a‘lva‘ke.’ ilidllstrious.a‘nd Cleve.“ fellow; People who fail to clean their teeth after but while his Sisters are in good Situations, I eating fruit invite early decay of their he finds 1t lmPOSSIble 1’0 secure 8‘“ openmg . masticators. In California, where fruit is in which he could hope to make even the , cheap and Plenty, Bound teeth are mrm rice of his board. This is by no means an . , Exceptional case. 1Alarriztges are on the A {look 0f geese ‘8 used by Dr"l\ICBrl‘le 01 Orange, Va., as a team. In Winter they are decrease in ro ortion to the o )ulation. . . Some monthI; ago I took occasioiifin writ- latta‘Plle‘] to an Icebom’ mid dl'a‘w mm 9"“ ing for an American magazine, to prove by 22:51:38“ ’3‘ Speed Of a mile m fort'Y‘elghll statistics, _ . Two REALLY GRAVE FACTS: The poet Shelley feared being. buried . alive. In order to guard against it he or- First, that the proportion of marriages on dered his heart removed. This queer relic the part of young men between the ages of , is still preserved at Bascombe Manor, twenty-three and thirty had materially de- . Bournemouth, England. Cllued during the PM“? twenty yea”? i and! Frederick the Great revolutionized the secondfihab the, number 0f m‘ma'rrmd Per' cavalry of his time. All evolutions were 80118. In Elation ‘30 the toml Populatlon’ executed at full speed, and the charging and had very materially increased. I hold,imu ' fth P . _ after giving the matter careful thought, led rill-$50310“: russmn cavalry were deem that the increasmg number or working girls' i Members of the I’VOYal Irish. Constabu. ‘ ‘ . . . v . h f I I ’md the ialhng Ofl m the relative num er 0 ‘ lary,when appomted, must be between nine- marriages are connected in the relation of l t d t b fl Y f , cause and effect. Neither young men nor eff” m; Went)in ‘9 55°?“ 0‘ age’ unmuin' young women are content to live as did ’ am are no 9‘ owe. 0 selvemacou“ ry where they have relatives. young men and women a. generation agoâ€" _ ' . . a thing which is natural and in most re- The Japanese tattoo likenesses of indiv1~ Spects commendable, but it is only aecom- duals on_tlie bodies of persons who are fond plislied by the payment of a high price. A of this kind of ornamentation. The like: part of this price is, that the daughters 1193368 We coined from Photograph, and are shall earn their living as well as the sons, usually remarkably accurate. and that neither the daughters nor sons A strange experiencn came to Thomas Shim have the gVirllinglneSSIto beglin mifrifid somers, a resident of Brooklyn. A friend me on 3‘ hum 10, sc‘a 9' n‘m Tones, yfm‘ was drowning in the VVallabout Canal, and doubt as to When lei or "0‘7 5‘ mmeuy 0" l Somch plunged in to save him. He dove, thfs State Of affairs can .be succe.ssfully ap‘ and brought up the body of a strange man. plied at the present time, or in the near ' ' future. Any means at all practicable would have to be educational in character, at night, on her way to summon a doctor, and should aim to simplify the general con- was approached by a rowdy, who insisted ditions of life. Take away this artificial on escorting her. She plunged the point I A Brooklyn girl, while on a lonely street basis of social and domestic life, this im- of her umbrella into his eye, and destroyed prudent and wasteful effort on the part of the sight. common People to “V0 as if they were Opu' Some incautious burglars, while blowing 16119: and by him-bone “on you Wonk] return open a safe in Lebanon, 111., used such a half the girls who now work to their homes. big stick of dynamite that the explosion I say this because I believe tha" stdrtled the town. Everybody seemed to MORE THAN FIFTY-PER CEXT. have been awakened, and the burglars were easily captured. Emma. Holland, aged twelve, of Lyons, N. Y., while laying her wraps on the bed, felt something cold and claminy. It was a. black-snake over six feet long. The child was so terrified that she went into convul- sions, and it was feared she would not re- cover. The Sultan of Turkey is a mouomaniac on the subject of carriages. He has been steadily engaged in making a collection of of all the girls who now toil do not need Twenty-five years ago only to-day. Will any one say necessity has caused this great change ? I think not. A very large proportion of the additional ninety per cent. have entered the field of toil in order that their parents may keep up appearances and they themselvesenjoy many luxuries. No girl should work who does not need to. If this rule was observed it _ _ would create an opening for at least two such Vehicles for the past twenty years hundred young men in this city of Ottawa “{‘d How has nearly 500 Of all makes and alone ; for there are at least that number in kinds- the capital who have no other excuse for A Railway, N_ J" widow, who had stow_ working than comes from commemtion Of ed away $500 in small bills in an old bureau cupidity, selfishness and pride. I know drawer, discovered two days ago that, her something 0f the Circumstances of M least board had been converted into fractional to talk of him or his work. It would not fifty girls Who earn their “Ving’ and it 13 the currency by mice. The moral is that hoard- be polite. The traveller did not care to enter into the story of his personal adventures, but admitted he had fought 11 duels in Ger- many, nine with the sword and two with pistols. W ere any of those duels fought recent- 1 r? b No, I have not had any duels since I have been in Africa. I am old now, and I hope I have more sense than to fight duels. The doctor smiled as he spoke of his age, for be was born in North Hanover, near Hamburg. in 1856,2ind is consequently only 37 years of age. He is about five feet six inches in height, wears no whiskers, has a light brown moustache pointed in the true military style. He is rather slightly built, but wiry, and, although a pleasant-looking gentleman, when he talks about his work he seems to be all on fire, and his counten- ance assumes a set determined look. He has been visiting the Chicago Fair, and is now on his return journey. He did notpurpose stayingin Toronto at all, but in view of the beauty of the country he decid‘ simple truth to say that thirty of them ing at home in nooks and comers is a, raw should be at home. Young women must way of banking realize these two thingsin chief: First, that Judge McDonnell, of the City Court, in workin if they do not need to they . . take the Ifldces properly belonging td young ISE‘Y‘m‘m?’ ‘fiaz amigo 1“ “Eltfigfliggsgi’glfrt; men ; and secondly, that modern not-ions agilififanlemahave a wgunded mm dressad about the Independence Of women’ coupled On arrivifig at court he fined himselfSlO for with extravzwant ways of living, are partly . . . , responsible foDr the conditions which are 3mg late’ and the“ dlrecced the clelk to remit the fine. bringing about a steadily declining marriage _ ‘ , 1 rate on the part of young men. In other clergyman . 1'4 Springburn. England, Words, when girls work they intenSify the noticed that his sermons made Several conditions which are filling this country members Of his congregation sleepy. _0.H It with spinsters and bachelors. recent Sabbath, he took a snap-shot picture ...________...__._,..,_____ of the congregation, and has it- hung in the . , vestry, with the sleepers made conspicuous Domg Penal Sermtude. in a red border. Father (who had caught Tommy stealing): Only women of extraordinary merit are “ I thought you knew better than to com- permitted to wear trousers in France, and mit 21. theft ; you know how the law pun- for this privilege they are each taxed from ishcs people for small offences. ” $10 to a year. So far the priVilegc has Tommy: “ How about you, father, when only been granted to. George Sand, Rosa you stole mother’s heart ?â€"you never got Bonheur, Madame Diei.dafoy, the Persian punished for that.” archmologist ; Madame boucaiilt,tlie beard- Father: “ I got a. very severe punish- ed Woman; and two feminine stone- . ‘ ment, my sonâ€"I got penal sei‘Vitude for cutters, Mesdamcs I‘ourreau and. La Jemi- life and I am doing it now.” nette. -« _..__-- -c. ____‘ . fiw'fu’e ta . Yang??? d4 n » [3,, ., TX , 1’3” .3; g E I“ . -l ,l ‘l 'J i. >1 i i . __4_AAA