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5., 1,1,3.“ . .. v I‘ l During the ccmrse of my ministry. been moved to certain actions for which there seemed no reason. and which I only performed under the influence of ‘* M mm. metal] MINING IN ONTARIU. may ll - "Yes. we are in great trouble. ester- ' f k Silly-Old $313-$313 cigufr‘iefigi. iiy INTERESTING saws mom rm: LAKE wife was utterly overcome b the shock of THE woops, and we would have sent or you at - .the time. but had no messenger. and especmlly of recent years, I havegwish you had been thereâ€"if you had only known." “And the time 3" "About half past 3."' . So I had known. but had been too im- a sudeen anulse, writes Kiev. Johnlpatgent Watson D. I). (lam Maclaren) in the Independent. As often as I yielded to this inward guidance. and before the is- .311“ was determined, my mind had a sense of relief and satisfaction; and in Dec til distinct and important bases my} ours: was in the end most fully justi- l'ie'l, It was my privilege. before I came to Sefton Park Church. to serve as col- league With a venerable minister to whom I was sincerely attached. and who showed me much kindness. “'6 both felt the separation keenly, and kept up a constant correspondence. while this good and affectionate man followed my work with spiritual inter- est and constant prayer. When news came one day that he was dangerously ill. it was natural that his friend should be gravely concerned, and as the days of anxiety grew, that the matter should take firm hold of the mind. It was a great relief to learn, toward the end of a week that the sickness had abated; and when on mnday morning a letter came with strong and final as- surance of recovery, the strain was quite relaxed, and I did my duty at morning service with. a light heart. During the afternoon my satisfaction began to fail, and I grew uneasy till, by evening service, the letter of the morning counted for nothing. After returning home my mind was torn with anxiety, and became most miserable, fearing that this good man was still in danger. and, it: might be, near unto death. Gradually the conviction deep- ened and took hold of me that he was dying, and that I would never see him again; till at last it was laid on me that if I hope to receive his blessing I must make haste, and by and by that I had better go at once. It did not seem as if I had. now any choice, and I certain- ly had no longer any doubt; so, having written to break two engagements for Monday. I left at midnight for Glasgow. On arrival I drove rapidly to the well~ known house and was in no way aston- ished that the servant who opened the door slmuld be weepilng bitterly, for the, fact that word had come from that very house that all was going well did not now weiglh one grain against my own inward knowledge. “He had a relapse yesterday after- noon. and he is dying now." No one in the room seemed surprised that Ishould have come, although they had not sent for me. and I held my reverend father's hand till he fell asleep, in about twenâ€" ty minutes. He was \beyond speech when I came, but as we believed, re- cognized me and was content. My night's journey was a pious act. for which I thanked God. and my absolute conviction is that I was uided to its performance by spiritual Influence. Some years ago I was at work one forenoon in my study. and was very busy. when my mind became abstracted and I could not think out my sermon. Some short time before a brother mim- istcr. mhom I know well and greatly respected. had suffered from dissension In his congregation. and had received )ur sincere sympathy. He had not, however. lmen in my mind that day, but now I found myself unable to think of anything else. My imagination be- an to work in the case till I seemed un the midst of the circumstances as if I were. the sufferer. Very soon. asugâ€" restion arose. and grew into a com- mandment that I should offer to take a. day’s duty for my brother. Nothing remained but to submit to this myster- ious dictation. and compose a letter as best one could. till the question of date. arose. There I paused and wait- ed. when an exact day came up be- fore my mind. and so I concluded the letter. It was. however, too absurd to lend: and so. {having rid myself of thisl rrelevnncy. I threw the letter into the ‘ire and set to work again; but all day ! was haunted by the idea that my brother needed my help. In the even- ing a letter came from him. written that very forenoou explaining that it vould be. a rent service to him and Jis people if could preach some Sun- lay soon in his church. and that m-iug to certain circumstances. the service would be doubled if I could come on such and such a day; and it was my date. My course was perfectly plain and I at once accepted his invitation under a distinct sense of a special call. and my only regret. was that I had not posted my first letter. One afternoon. to take my third in- stance I made up my list of sick visits 1nd started to overtake them. After completing the. first and while going along a main road. I felt a strong im- pulse to turn down a side street and :all on a. family living in it. 'Ilhe im- pulse grew so urgent tlmt it could not iv-e resisted. and I rang the bell. consid- crin on the doorstep what reason I slmu d give for an unexpected call; “'hen the door opened it turned out that strangers now occu led the house and tint my famil be gone to an- other address. whic \ms m the same street. But could not be given. This was enough. it might appear. to turn one from aimless visiting. but still the “sure continued. as if a band were drawing one. end I set out to discover their new house. till I had disturbed four families with vain inquiries. Then the remembrance of my unmade and imperative cells came upon me. and I ntnndoned my fruxtle‘u quest with some sense of slums. Had a busy clergy- man not enough to do without such a wild- oose chase? And one grudged the em had lost. Nut morning the head of that house- hold I had vmterdsy sought in vain_ calm- into m: cud: nth such evident‘. Manv other cases have occurred when it has-been laid on me to call ate cerâ€" tain house where there seemed so ht- tle reason that I used to invent ex- cuses, and where I found some one es- ially needing advice or comfort. or I called and had no courage. to lead up to the matter, so that the call was of no avail. and afterward some one ask- ed whether I knew, for she had waited for a word. Nor do I remember any case where. being inwardly moved to go after this fashion. It appeared in the end that I had been befooled. People may live in an atmosphere of sympathy which will be a communicat- ing medium. .V‘hen some one appears toread another's thoughts,.a.s.we have all seen done at public exhibitions. this was evidently by physical Signs. and It served no good purpose, It was a me- chanical gift. and was used for an am- usement. This is knowledge of another kind, whose conditions are spiritual and whose ends are ethical. Between you and the person there must some common feeling: it rises to a height in the hour of trouble, and its call is for help. The correspondence here is between heart and heart, and the me- dium through which the message passes‘ is love. ~â€"â€"â€"-â€"'â€"â€"'â€"_- QUEEN AND LORD MAYOR. â€"-. furious Ccrcmonlcs “'hen llcr Majesty [liners the Ancient Clty. The time was when the lord mayor of London Went all the way from Guild- hall to \Vestminster in his state char- iot, with postillions. outriders and foot- men in gorgeous liveries, to call upon the sovereign and to ask for royal asâ€" sent to his election. The sovereign no longer awaits his coming, nor are the lord chancellor and the barons of the exchequer at the foot of the throne to present him; butl on each lord mayor's day in November 1 the new civil magistrate of London is ' in his chariot, and his first official act is to appear at the bar of the high court in order to 'recognize the su-l promo authority of the crown and in-' cidentally to invite the judges to din-. ner at the Guildhall. ‘ I-n olden days the! king could not en- ter Lo‘ndo‘n without the: invitation and sanction of the lord mayor; and nom- ilnally the ancient precedent is still re- spected. 'When the queen made her y 'royal progress Uhrough the capital on jubilee day, the lord mayor and the sheriffs, in their robes and with their liveried attendants about them, await- etl her coming at the site of Temple Bar. Sir George Feudal-Phillips; lord mayor. presented his sword and made obeisance. The queen acknowledged the formality by touching the sword. The procession then passed on with the consent of these quurdians of the. ancient city. Potent indeed is the; sway of time-honored custom in con- serva tive England! l ' The London which the queen entered . by permission of these three. munici-T pal officials is the ancient cit?r which was once surrounded with a \va 1. It is an inner circle of a single square mile in area. and. not more than thirty-seven people sleep there at night. Outside this little ring there is a metropolitan London with an area of one hundred! and twenty-three miles and a populaâ€"4 tion of four and a half million. Still farther outside there is a greater Lon- don with an area of seven hundred square miles and a population of l:eâ€". tween six and seven millions. l But the only London that has a chief l magistrate is the innermost circle, of‘,I which the Guildhall is the centre. That 3 is the ancient city where the trade guilds were powerful enough to gov- ern the English capital in the middle ages: and they are still the nomial rul- ers of the metropolis. The lord mayor 3 in reality represents eighty trade} guilds, with a total membership that; does not exceed nine thousand. tut with 3 resources of political power which have ; survived the lassage of reform acts and i th e-introduc ion of a progressive sys- tem of town government in England. The trade guilds have disappeared everywhere else in England. In Lon- don they are still rich and powerful. The lord mayor is their servant. He met the queen. in her royal progressl and gracioust allowed her to pass on} in state to tch thanksgiving service at I St. Paul's Cathedral in honor of the: longest reign. ‘ l l l HITCH IN THE PROCEEDINGS. There was a half-finished wedding the other day, in Toddington. England. Everything went swimmingly until the l bridegroom was asked to repeat the! familiar formulary. " I. George â€"â€".i take thee." etc. At this stage there was a sudden pause on the part of the bride room. who. in a tone almost in- audib e to the congr ntion, and quiv-. ering with emotion. eclared that his name was not George. but Charles. Ev- ery one appeared to be in a dilemma; the bride grew pole. but fortunately did not faint. and the person stared with amazement. It was onl then as- certained that the bonus ha been er- roneously published. The bridegroom flew about and did his best to have the wedding on that day. but it could not be one. The beam: had to be published in the following Sun- day. in proper em. But Charles is all right now. or Hatters himself that he is. for the knot has smce been tied. BISCUITS. You should have heard lthcreok- ing up his wife's biscuits ls mornâ€" In . I believe I did hear him. I thought at the time he was chopping wood. Two (uuom Mills upon - Hugh-due Com- pany‘s Progress Gives a Lot of Satisfac- “on. The area embraced in the Lake of the Woods gold district of Ontario is vast, and the present: revival in the mining industry has given a new im- petus to this town. One most encour- aging fact i sthnt the flat Portage reâ€" duction works are again in Operation. For most of the summer these mills have been idle owing to the differences of one kind and another, but are is now again being brought in on barges from lake properties for reduction. And it may be here mentioned that some Rat Portage and Ottawa gentlemen think that there is room. here for a second customs mill. The Ottawa. Gold Min- ing and Milling Company, as their char- ter authorizes them. to call themselves, will forthwith erect a stamp mill at Keewaydiln, a suburb of Rat Portage. The company, which is a strong one. claims to have already secured the pro- mise of sufficient ore to keep them run- nmg steadily. The theory of the customs mill is av good one, for it enables companies with limited capital to make their proper- ties. yield revenue from the time they begun-to mine the ore. The idea is that by bringing in their are to the cust- oms plant from time to time thay can keep them treasury replenished and finally get together enough money to buy stamps of their own. The. theory is all. right, but to prove successful in practice the greatest skill and care is required. fllhe difficulty is that the ore from every property differs in char- acter.froml that from every other, so that in each case the mill and its ap- purtenances have to be adjusted to suit the rock to be treated One ore is nearâ€" ly all free milling, wlhile another is more _0 fa concentrating nature, and the mill man will see the care needed to. successfully treat both in the one 1111.11. Experienced mill men and amalâ€" gamators, however, are able, it'seems to do 50. THE ENGLEDUE CONCESSIONS. The decision: of the Ontario Govern- ment Gold Concessions Company to work the grants of land made them by the Government forms a source of satisfaction. to Rat Portagists and all interested ['11 the development of our gold fields. .Active operations have been begun upon- the two blocks of land turned over to them. Col. Engledue ar- rived at Rat Portage a few days ago and set about the exploration of the. two blocks of land which were prac- tically presented to them by the gov- ernment. ’l'lbe first block of twenty- fnur thousand acres, comprising ‘a Whole peninsula in the neighborhood of the Mikado mine in ShoalLakc. has been put 11] charge of Mr. T. R. Deac- on who ha sgone out with a gang of eighteen men. III-r. Alan Sullivan. dean of. Bshup Sullivan als oleft: last week With thirty men to open up the forty- th'ousa nd-acre grant in the Lower Seine district. The first month is to be de- voted to breaking botlh blocks of land up unto sections for exploration pur- poses. after which several parties will set to work to systematically prospect the areas for veins. Considerable progress should be made (before the snow falls this autumn. m -....._.___.._ J ElNNY LIND.‘- A somewhat noted concert-singerwin England has frequently told the followâ€" ing anecdote of Jenny Lind: "\Vhen I was a girl my friends thought that my voice anld training would enable me to appear in. opera. I was put on trial in Munich». Jenny Lind was to appear there, and the impresario consented to give me a little part, only two linesâ€"to sing. I knew that my success or failure that night would do- cide my fulture. I practised those two lines {for weeks. I threw not only my voice, but my heart and soul into them. “Jenny Lind arrived. The city was wild with enthusiasm. Her hotel was surrounded day and night by crowds. Every seat and standing-place in the house had been secured. “The night arrived, the opera began, and my time had come. My poor little trill came between two great arias of the prime. donna. The last triumphant noLe of the first “us sounded. and I came fonnird. I glanced at the vast audience. Every eye “us fixed on the great Singer, waiting for her to be- gin agaLn; nobody saw me; nobody would hear me while she stood there. "She was more than a great singer; she was a good. kind woman. She un- derstood my uncomfortable position at once. and instantly walked to the back of the_stage. pretending to look out of a Window. Slhe had given the stage and the audience to me. "I don’t know how I sang. I only know I never again was asked to sing in opera. But her kindness to a poor girlâ€"a strangerâ€"warmed my heart more than the applause of my audience could have done. It wanns it still. though I have grown now into an old woman and she is dead." _ There are masters in every line of he: men and women who have won popular applause and sw'cess and who sometimeslook with Indifference upon young aspirants who are struggling for recognition. If you are large en- to deserve your success. don't be afraid to give them so far as you can: the stage and the audience for thou chines. and the world will re- member you for something higher than art. and more valuable than your honors AN ILLUSTRATION. Teacherâ€"\Vhat is meant by sistencyf Pupilâ€"That would be if a. person was to ride one make of when! this rear and a. different make next year. ' incou PRACTICAL some l “manna: Farmers stand opposed in reference‘ cow being habituated to llrinking ww- tor llf. say 5.’ degrees may after day â€":|s the water in my big Mable tank mallcllt‘sâ€"ls nut Sillljt“‘ll‘|l to (he \‘I- treme temperature rangwx of uul~<l0n§ drinking water. and air included. and she must do the better for this uni- t° “18 math“ 01‘ draining =1 31011811- formity with the shocks :0 the tau": and 111811.? of them make serious blun- ders. blundering on sides of the imue. One class says to lay the: drains u p the center. ano- that class says to lay them along the sides. Either may be right; both may be wrwlg. While there are many general rules that apply in farm drainage. says \Visoon- son Farmer. still there are many ex- ceptions that govern in special cases. The method of drainage depends lalge- 1)“ upon the topography of the sur- face and geology of the subsurface. A slough is a. depression in the surface lay them along the sides. Either may or ground water flows during heavy rains or periods of wet weather. Hence the soil of a slough may be wet from surface water alone or it maybe wet by reason of several other states of the water as it exists in the 50x1 and no man can drain successfully unless he thoroughly understands the sev- eral states of water. Of course, wa- ter is water wherever it is found. but it varies in the chemical Propeflles very materially. and it has received several different terms the par- lance of drainage. accordingly Iasuit f' ds 10( went on the. surface or In e 331. W? have cloud water. flood \\ a- ter, ground water, soll water. hygro- scopic water. ooze water. and spring water. The cloud water IS the precl- pitation from the cloudsoprain “a.â€" Ler and when it first strikes the ground it is surface water. W hen It begins to flow it becomes flood_v'- ter and itmay be the rapid _11ttlc, current which gullies the lullsnde or the torrent which plows a deep gulch in the steepgraded slough or sweeps War the flood plain of the river. Ground water is the water that stands beneath the surface. It is the water of saturation. Its surface m the water table and its height or depthfln the soil is denoted by the. line at which the water stands in a well or post hole. Soil water is suspended water. or ava- ter of absorption ,or capillarlty. Itis that quantity of water which the soil holds without dripping and which It will not yield except through evaporaâ€" tion. HygrOscopic water ls the water of constitution or that quantitywhlch .emains in airâ€"dried SOIl. . Sloughs may be deep or shallow, wxde or nar- row, steep or flat. ’llhleir surface may be depressed at different pomts into little. basins called ponds. 'l‘lhe dram- age engineer, must. therefore proceed with the drainage of aslough ac,- cording to its own characteristics and without regard to the way_ Thomas Smith or Ole Oleson drained his. There. is the one general law that the. ditch must strike at the origin of the water if it be {ooze water or spring water or at the bottom of at be ground water. There is another .law very well established for the light. porous soil of the prairies which 18 that a fourâ€"foot ditch will dram the land for a distance of forty feet v on either side of it; so that ldltches may run eighty feet apart whether they be sub-mains or laterals. TlHE COW’ AND HER DRINK. If a dairyman wants to treat him- self to a. genuine surprise, let him keep his herd of milk-giving cows in the stable and give them water insuch a way that the weight drunk by each cow can be ascertained, and be on hand sothat each cow may have all she will desire, and when she wants it, writes John Gould in Country Gen- tleman. \Ve have been through a lit- tle experience of this kind. and the rpmlntity drunk by each cow was found out. It is an experiment one will not care to follow up more than aweek. before the faucet at the 'big tank will be turned, and the cows drink out of the basins again. The trial was made with: six cows, and it was found that the average quantity consumed daily varied with individual cows from 70 to 140 pounds. One cmv drank this last quantity daily right along and some the smaller quantity, with an average of 90 pounds gash. Another thing we found was that some of the cows would drink very Ioflcn. i. e... their buckets would befrequent- ly found empty, and others drank longer at. intervals; and one cow “ant- ed about all her twenty-Lour hours' supply at one time, audwnuld only drink a. little towards night As these cop's were being fed fifty pounds each of ensilage a. day. it is seen U- note that succulent food did not play any important part in the economy of of drinking water. It was aso found that the desire of a cow for pater “‘3'; about an hour after eating. but the evening thirst was never so great as in the morning. With some of the cows there was some variation in the quantity of water consumed daily, but wtih others it was as steady miquun- tity as standard measure. In this there might be some variation in re- sults from some other herd not so cared for; these cows being continu- ously stabled at the time of the ex- periment while ahcrd that ran out- doors more or less might show differ- ent results. In another thing Iwus convinced tint a cow did better that drank several times a day and 5., convinced was I of this. that a we- tering system for the. cow stables was put _In several years ago; and my Opinion of itsvalue has never changv ed. except in a more there belief. in its promoting the milk flow; and if our cows were to be turned out ev- ery day for exercise, I should not con- nect out-door drinking with it. but hold to the manger water basin. In this mnnection there is another point l think of importance. and that ls in stable watering there is nniformity of the temperature of the water. and the system eliminated. SUlmfl‘lR CARE OF POULTRY. This is the season of [has year when poultry requires the closest attention. Especially is this the. case with the young broods. At no other time of the year. with flexibly the exception of the severest winter '\\'t‘.ll.ll6r. does the flock need such constant care. l'ln- ervated by extreme stunmer heat. it ismore easily attached by the various diseases to which both the young and the old are subject. Coupled with this is the fact that it is at this particular season the prey for all the vermin that afflict. and in many instances destroy poultry kind. A few simple rules for the care of poultry during the summer 'mouths can be given. and if intelligently fol- lowed, will produce satisfactory results. not; only in maintaining Mine health of the flock. but in their [productive abilâ€" ity. ‘ ~ First of all may be mentioned the fact that poultry requires plenty of shade. and the shade .very low. {leafy trees, or bushes, is the best. Chickens are very sensitive to wind, [whether it behlot or cold andprcfer theshadeof bushes because they shelter them from both the. sun and the wind. fln the ab- sence of trees or bushel-ma shade must be provided for the flock by other means, and an open shed or lean-to on the north-side of the hen-house br barn is the next. best thing. Chickens ought to be prevented from congre- gating in the lien-house or stable dur- ing the heat of the flay, as the. hub- it increases tho supply of vermin. bot-ll on the fowls and. in the houses. and consequently makes this pest [harder to cope with. l ' ' Next; in point of importance is that the fowls have plenty of fresh, clean water. During the season. drinking vessels no matter of what de- scription they may be should be cleaned at [cost once. a (lay. and fresh. water, given morning, noon and night. A small quantity of Douglass mixâ€" ture, whicl ' can be (made by dissolving eight ounces of. copperas in a gallon of water and adding one-half ounce bf sulphuric acid, put in the drinking wa- ter. will prevent dysentery and destroy cholera and other disease germs which are liable toattack poultry at this. time. One tablespoonful of this mix- ture to the half gallon pf water is about the. proper proportionâ€"a little more or less according to the. condi- tion of. the flock won't; hurt. it. should be. used about once. a week .and dysen- tery, diarrhea and cllolcra will be successfully banished. THE GOLD is CANADA’S. One Ann-rlcnn Who Is “'llllng lo Justify (‘nmuln's Actlon »â€" Life and I'ropcrly Safe. A correspondent writing to the Chi- cago Record sayszâ€" ' "Canadian Greed may Cau‘sca Fighlt," is the cheerful caption that heads an article in one of the llecord's contem- poraries, and a sit has been preceded and doubtless willbe. followed by many articles in the same strain it may lead to consequences disastrous to all conâ€" cerned. I am one of‘ a company of American citizens who mean to send twenty of their number to the new gold fields next season and therefore I am deeply i'nlerost‘cd in everything said and done conwrning the Klon- dike, and particularly in seeing that that country remains the home of law and order. a' place where lhimmn life and property shall be as sacred and safe as it is in this city, and I. cannot we how that condition is to be maintained if newspalxns continue to preach riot and bloodshed. ’l'he Klondike gold fields are well within the undisputed territory of the Can- Iadian Dominion. Canada has 3;...le llargc. sums of money: in preparing the lcountr'y for the gold seekers. It has estaoltslunl forts appointed magislratcs, and supports them with 011-3. of the best systems of police in the world. It has opened land offices and supplied surveyors to lay out claims and give them . a legal value. In a word. it ’hus given the Klondike ‘a firsts-lass, liberal. safe and stable guvcrnmcm. where life and property are as safe as they are. in Chicago. If Canada were as greedy us Some would like to make it appear it. would have put in force legislation parallel to that sec- 'tIOD otf our mining laws which enacts flurt all persons taking up mnung claims shall bccitizens or have declar- ed their intention to 'lccome. citizens of the I’nited States. It would have lrern perfectly jmaificd in following our example. We ncvcn churned royâ€" .xltlns, it is true, and for tint-l: good and sufficient rexwons~we had no l «equivalent to give in: flue shape .of set- tled government; the constitution 'made If. diffiarlt, if not inuwallllc. to charge royalties. and 95 percent. of the wealth mined was long used to de- velop the country where the gold was found or to enrich other sections _of th eunion. Canada is justified in charging royalties. Let us be honest. The gold belongs to Canada and Can- ada has the right, to make legulutums for its distribution. - ‘ D. R. GODDIE. l Chicago. Ill. S\V'ALLO\VED 'III E INSU L'l'. Becki he cried. pulsing his knife and glaring at her with intense bate In his eye. I _ . Seein she dill not quail before this glance e took up- his fork and went to work trying to carve the ‘portion of the chicken referred to that the landlady usually gave him. Vv-«mcn' M‘. wva ,‘i\‘