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Emigation circles in Great Britain are much peitulibfzd by the_ action of the Cana- aian s‘teamship lies in raisin e .- rites twenty-five per cint. at afiimflargg t ere are indications 0 an unusuall 1 flow towards Canada. y arge {the Lands, shipbuilderszat Birkenhead, The Imperial supplementary Civil Service estimates contain an item of £20,600 for the compensation of Behring Sea. sealers for losses due to the delay in arranging a mod is vivendi is 1891. The London Standard calls Lhe’Home Rule bill a. “colossal monument of ingenious futility,” and ridicules especially the financial proposals. It says the unity of the country would rest on a basisof whiskey and brown stout. Ho 11. Arthur Stanley’s condition continâ€" ues to improve. Lady Stanley is now with I: is probable that. England will order a. naval demonstration to take place shortly in the neighborhmd of Honolulu as a protest against the annexation of the Hawaiian slands to the United States. United Ireland, the Parnellite organ pub- lished in Dublin, expresses the opinion that, the new Home Rule bill is inferior to the measure of 1886, which Mr. Parnell (lid not regard as a complete settlement. The Midlothian Liberal Association has adopted a. resolution declaring that. Home Rule for Scotland is a necessary condition to granting Home Rule to Ireland. A bill has been introduced into the New South \Vales Legislature to restrict the ad- mission of Syrian peddlers, on the ground that these destitute aliens are becoming a public eV il. Ireland sends annually 40,000 tons of eggsâ€"some 640,000,000 in round numbersâ€" to England alone; Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, the Opposition leader in the British Commons, is suffering from influenza. The strike of cotton spinners in Lanca- shire has been settled by a. compromise. Premier Greenway, of Manitoba, thinks the money received from the sale of Mani- toba school lands should be used for educa- tional pu ses in that province instead of being hel by the Dominion Government. which declines to advance to the Provincial Government from the fund the sixty thou- sand dollars required for the erection of a. Normal school building. BRITISH. England will send two delegates to the cholera congress at Dresden . Mrs. W. C. Mackny, of London, 01113.. died on Sunday morning trom an overdose of chloral administered by herself. She had obtained a. prescription from a. family medicine book, and did not understand the character of the drug she was taking. At a. meeting of the Quekec branch of the Dominion Alliance, lield'in Montreal, it was stated that in 1891 the number of licensed places in Montreal exceeded by 157 the mud number of licensed places in the eleven cities of Ontario. A whim on the part. of a prisoner in the gaol in Napanee, Ont, who sought to re- lieve the tediousness of his leisure moments by singing hymns, is said to have created a. genome religious revival among many other inmates of the prison. Mr. Robert Fallon, of London township, left his team untied at Geary’s creamery on Saturday, and while he was inside the horses started off. Mr. Fallon ran after them for a mile, when he threw up his hands, fell down and died. A young man named Thomas Eas her-brook was kicked in the face by a. runaway horse which he was drixing at Tweed, Ont., on Saturday, and had his Jaw bone broken in two places, besides being otherwise injured. A motion to further restrict Chinese im- migranion to British Columbia by increas- ing the poll tax from $50 to $500, was de- feated in the British Columbia Legislature on Friday by only one vote. The British warship Hyacinthe is coaling st. Victoria, B. (3., and taking on a full sup- ply of stores. Is is Said she is to sail with sealed orders, and it is supposed she is going to Honolulu. The members of the “'omen’s Christian Temperance Union of Winnipeg recently debated in that city the question of grant- ing the franchise to women, and the ladies on the negative side presented some very strong arguments in opposition to the pro- posed privilege. The members of the Local Legislature supposed them to be in earnest, and now they are anxious to tell the states- men that they were only speaking for argu- ment’s sake. The Department of the Interior has issued an order that in future all immigrants must he landed at, Quebec instead .. of‘Mon treal. This decision has been arrived at owing to the want of accommodation at Montreal. Robert Best, a. patient at the Hamilton Lunatic Asylum, was drowned in a pond, wlnle workmg in a quarry near the asylum grounds. Hon. J. M. Gibson has been elected presi- dent of the Dominion Rifle Association. The report is current in Ottawa that Mr. J'fI- Foy. Q. C.,_ __of Toroqto, will be ap- The Commercial Cable Company proposes to lay athird cable from Canso, N. 3., t0 \Vaterville, Ireland. The Toronto branch of the Irish National League passed a resolution endorsing Mr. Gladstone’s home rule bill. ' A branch of the Imperial Federation gue has been formed in \Voodstock, comprising the leading men of the town. Ten farmers of Oxford county have with- in a. month past left wealth valued in the Mgregate at $122,000. Among the rumours current in Ottawa. is one to the effect that Mr. Frank Smith will be among the Canadians who will receive knighthood next spring. A test case of -the Manitoba school question is being prepared in the Depart- ment of Justice for submission to the Supreme Court. u.:). may, Q. (,3, or 1'oronto, W111 pomted Deputy Minister of J ustice. A Canadian Club was organized at Hamilton on Wednesday night, with Mr. Lapgfprd Evans as_ pxtesidgxlt. , CANADIAN. A Swiss colony is to be formed on Lulu island, at the mouth of the Fraser river, B. THE WEEK’S NEWS " His way of working was much less like ‘ work ’ than inspiration. ‘ I can always write,’ he said, ‘when 1 see my subject, though sometimes I spend three~quarters of a. year without putting pen to paper.’ When he did ‘ see ’ it his mind dwelt on it at all times and seasons, possessing him until he possessed and perfected it. Sparkles and [ gleams might flash out at any moment from \ the anvil where his genius was beating his }subject into shape, but the main creative process, where the vision was condensed into art, went on when he had shut himself up in his room with his pipe. He would do this two or three times a dayâ€"his ‘most valuable hour,’ as he often told me, being the hour after dinnerâ€"and then: with his pipe in his mouth and over the fire, he would weave into music what things ‘ came to him,’ for he never accounted for his poetry in any other way than that ‘it came.’ ‘Many thousands fine lines go up the chimney,’ he said to me, and indeed the mechanical toil of writing them down, made heavier by his short sight, was so great that it was easy to believe in the sublime wasteâ€"the characteristic profuseness of genius. When he came out from his room at such seasons he would often have a sort of dazed and far-off dreamy look about him, as if seeing ‘ beyond this ignorant present,’ and such as Millais alone has caught in his great portrait, where he looks like the prophet and bard that he was.” Here is the poet’s own account to Mr. James Knowles, editor of the Ninclecnth Century, of how he was offered and accepted the laureateship: “ The night before I was asked to take the laureateship, which was offered to me through Prince Albert’s liking for my ‘ In Memoriam, ’ I dreamed that he came to me and kissed me on the cheek. I said, in my dream, ‘Very kind, but very German.’ In the morning the letter about the laureateship was brought to me and laid upon my bed. I thought about it through the day, but could not make up my mind whether to take it or refuse it, and at last I wrote two letters, one accepting and one declining, and threw them on timetable. and settled to decide which I would send after my dinner and a bottle of port.” (I "d: 117“" n‘ Innlfilr:v\n u-nâ€" ”HAL I--- 1:1,A Two old women in a. remote district of Russia were deteetd in the act. of stealing a child, and subsequently confessed to having killed and eatens number of children Whom they had kidnapped. The two female can- nibals were burned to death bya. mob of peasants. Signor Grimaldi, Italian Minister of Fi- nance, says the Monetary Conference will probably not reassemble next May, as the European Governments are convinced that. nothing will come of it. The floods in Germany and Austria. are reported to be doing a. great deal of damage to property. A special cablcgram says the losses will amount to millions of marks. The returns of the French Board of Trade show that during January the imports de~ creased 105,205, 000f. and the exports in- creased 3,571, OOOf. ., as compared with the corresponding month last y.ear Baron Bleichroeder, the richest banker in Berlin, and one of the richest men in Ger- many, is dead. He leaves a. fortune of 1,00- 000,000 marks. Mr. J. Sterling Morton. who will be Secretary of Agriculture in President Cleve- land’s Cabinet, says there are only 40,000,- 000 acres of timber left in the United States, and this supply is being used up at the rate of 25,000 acres a day. He will suggest legislation compelling railways to to plant trees along their tracks, from which they can supply their own wants. G l-ZXERAL. Mild sprint: weather has prevailed in Germany lately. Already fields are becom- ing green and shrubs are budding. A passenger train on the West- Shore railway, running between New York and Rochester, was derailed about a. mile east of Palmyra, N. Y., at‘ ten o’clock the other morning, and fell down an embankment eighteen feet high. One of the two engines and the coaches were badly smashed, and three passengers were killed and fifteen in- jured. It is reported from \Vashington that the Hawaiian treaty is not likely to be ratified by the present Congress, as the Senate has all the work it can do between this and the inauguration of Mr. Cleveland. It 13 understood that the Propaganda in Rome has decided that. Mgr. Satolli shall maLe his official residence 1:; Washington. A Special from Washington states that. the financial situation hasaot improved, and that the United States Government; may be forced to the expedient of putting bonds on the market to retain the integrity of the reserve. \Vallace Bruce. of Poughkeepsie, United States consul at Edinburgh, has been elect- ed to succeed the late John Greenleaf Whittier as life corresponding member of the Scottish Society of Literature and Art of Glasgow. Mrs. Griggs, a. native of Nova. Scotia, and wife of Mr. Henry J. Griggs, manager of the New England Dressed Beef Company, committed suicide in Buffalo Ly stabbing herself in the neck with a. pair of scissors. President Harrison shot a rabbit; on Saturday and violated the game law. The sherifi‘ took no action, but simply laughed when told of it. It is announced that the Chicago and North-\Vestern railway willelevate all its tracks within the limits of Chicago, at an expense of $24,000,000. One thousand depositors in Rockafellow’s broken bank at Wilkesbarre, Pa.., will only get 5 cents on the dollar. The important announcement is made that. Mrs. Cleveland will not have her in- augural gowns made to be worn with crino- liner There has been sleighing for 60 consecu- tive days in Utica, N. Y., and the runners go well yet. The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has favorably reported the Hawaiian treaty of annexation. The Walker failure at Youngstowu. Ohio, is said to have ruined Governor McKinley. who are furnishing the “'orld’s Fair with models of Atlantic steamers since they were first run between New York and Liver- pool, have offered a. model of the rebel cruiser Alabama, which was built at their yard, but the ofi'er has been declined. , . UNITED STATES. President Harrison has gone duck shoot- ing. Tennyson’s Vision. COMMENTINGWN THE SKILL displayed at this work, Mr. hiassie said : “ They soon adapt themselves to it, and if they do not, we remove them to something more suited to their tastes. Although the work is easy it rcquiresa peat hand and light touch. The labour-saving machines of modern times give us the opportunity to take up employment of this kind. We re- ceive all those things in the rough, and put them together and paint them here. Some of the convicts become very expert at it, but you can understand that it is never- ending instruction here. The average de- tention is not twelve months, a good deal less, in fact, so that we are always teach- in g, and always hoping that our teaching is not in vain.” The broom shop, a great room two hun- the first of the many comfortable steam heated shops wherein the convict labours easily for stated hours each day. Croquet sets to be played with by innocent lads and lasses later on were here being put together and painted by the silent prisoner. Chil- dren’s waggons for summer and sleds for winter were receiving their gay coats from deft fingerm while rocking horses of dappl- ed grey were being saddled with a neatness and despatch that would shame the average groom. . a“ PORK AND BEANS with good wholesome bread baked by them- selves, was the midéiay repast in prc cess of preparation on the day of the visit. The menu is changed daily, but is always plenti- ful and of excellent quality; Hundreds of deserving men, women and children in this fair city would rejoice if they could have sat down to such a. meal on that; raw winter day. ’ Across the yard from the main building are the cookhouse, kitchen and officers’ din- ing room. The appliances fan-preparing the meals are of the latest designs and are kept in perfect order and scrvpulously clean. THE SCHOOL ROOM adjacent, where profitable evenings are passed by those who take advantage of it, and where religious services are also con- ducted when occasion requires. Further on are the tiers 01 galleries round which vigilant guards patrol at night watching throughout the silent hours the many little cells and their locked-in slumbering occu- pants until relieved at cockcrow, when with the precision of clockwork a. fresh relay of oflicers assume duty. The convicts having arranged their cells with silent alacrity, fall into procession at the word of command, there are no laggards, and proceed ‘with measured step to :iblutions and thence to early morning labour. No word is spoken but by the ofiicers. Prompt punishment follows disobedience and so rigid is the dis- cxpline in this respect that it is seldom that an infraction is reported. â€" This part/.ot the building sufl'cred most by the fire oF afew years ago and in redesigning in Mr. Massie displayed excellentjudgment. Here is the library, judiciously, ifnot plenti- fully, furnished and in which the studious spectacled countenance of the convict in charge was observed benignly feasting over a favourite volume, and From the office in the left centre of the main buildine'. and over which presides Mr. R. M. Persse. the courteous and omniscient clerk, a. heavily barred open gate in charge of an atheletic uniformed Cerberus admits to the prison proper. The first observation of the prison cell is here made. They num- ber four, and are tenanted by prisoners newly arrived. When these late comers have gone through a. course of bathing and barbering and have been costumed in clean prison garb, they are alloted an apartment in the galleries so frequently described be- fore. By this coursc of preparation and precaution perfect cleanliness is secured. , IN THE DAYS 0!“ LONG AGO a governor of a prison was generally selected because of unyielding disciplinary qualifica- tions displayed as an army ofiicer or in some other capacity where men were controlled by and subject to him. Too often he was one of those martinets whose serse of justice was blunted in the blind determina- tion to exact the most passive and abject obedience. The nnfortunates given to his care were put to the meanest as well as the most laborious of occupations, such as stone breaking. oakum picking, etc., while the ignominious and useless treadmill was in- troduced as a sort of recreative variety. All i this has been gradually but surely undergo- } ing change, and in many instances has been transformed altogether. Interchange of ideas has accomplised wonders in‘ serving to replace the slave driver with the humane disciplinarian. Instead of keeping to the surface the coarser nature of the criminal it is now the aim to bring out the germ of good that it is claimed is possessed by every man and to utilize it to his cwn and THE GENERAL BENEFIT. To any one who has not inspected the workings of one of these sad necessities for, say, fifteen years, the change will appear little short of marvellous. 'lhis can truly be said of the Central Prison, the provincial institution on Strachan avenue, which, when visited the other day by a newspaper rep- resentative, had on its roll exactly 365 names of men incarcerated for terms of y from three months to five years. A walk 1 through the buildings under the patientj guidance of \Vardcn Massie proved a tour of ~more than passing interest. To the south of the cooking remises is ‘eifirzstt of the_ many ‘comforta. le steam Stroll Through the Central at Torontoâ€" Modcrn Methods Compared Willa oldâ€"- The [lard labor of Todayâ€"WI!“t Con- vict Life Is. It is a satisfaction to reflect that most persons are acquainted with the outside of a prison only. The gloomy exterior perhaps calls to mind tales they have read or heard of suflerings endured by innocent and guilty alike, the endless task and pitiless task- master, the unpremeditated offence and speedy punishment, the dungeon and the lash, and it is with a shudder that they pass on. grateful that they know nothing further, but with an expression of pity for the unfortunates who do. In some respects. perhaps, this universal impression has had a. beneficial elfect, and to the weak and err- ing may have possessed deterrent qualities, but in this advanced and advancing age itis just as well to know that old time methods, even in respect to the prisons, have given place to broader and more humane ideas, and that a shining fellow creature is not now subjected to the harsh and brutal treat- ment considered then. not only as a punish- ment but as a cure for crime. BOW CRIME IS PUNISHED. Within Grim Prison Walls- The new treaty which has been made be- tween Venezucla. and Colombia is the first step toward a triple alliance, which is to in- clude Ecuador. The alliance is to be formed for ofl‘ensive and defensive purposes, but will not have any direct connection with the Panama. canal question. J uzt a word about this (Jliarrington Mis- sion, which is a. feature of the East End. Frederick Charrington belongs to awealthy family of brewers. About seventeen years ago he began to do a. sort of street mission- ary work in East London, near his father’s breWery. His father threatened to disin- herit him, but finally left him a. share, though not a. full share, in the business. Once, on being taunted on the street with wearing the blue ribbon-“ What does it cost you to wear that blue ribbion?”â€",â€"he was able to reply, “ $100,000. ” He sold out his interest in the brewery to his brothers, and built in Mile End Roadâ€"the prolong- ation of Whitechapelâ€"the Great Assembly Hall, which had been projected, but never began, by Keith-Falconer. Every Sunday night 3,000 or more people gather at the evangelistic service of the mission, and its‘ fellowship society, with the constant relig- ious, educational and entertainment work centuring at the Great Assembly Hall, ‘ make'it a. power for good in a district which contains a. number of powers for evil. 1 Charrington himself is a tall, finely built; mun whose rich, drawling tones convey.j somehow the impression of an intense en- thusiasm and a. certain lack of judgment. The Mile End Road, however, not to speak of other streets in London, is not overload- ed with fanaticsof his type. A Noted London Mission. The other Sunday night at; the Charting- ton Mission, which is held ina. long, narrow room double. galleried all around, the coughing ( from the fog ) was more like Fourth of J u‘ y with conglomerate firecrack- ers, church bells and cannonading, than one would conceive as possible issuing from a. merely human_ assembly. Yes, thought the visitor, but it greatly depends on the establishment and how it is managed. It isn’t every prison that’s a. lit- tle world’s fair, botanic garden and reforma- tory combined. If bad men cannot be made good here there is little chance for them anywhere else. “We have ccmparatively little sickness here,” said Mr. Massie. “So little that; it’s not worth speaking ofl“. Regular habits and healthy surroundings soon tell their own story. There are worse places in the world, you’ll admit, ‘Lllafl the insideof a prison.” Returning to the office, the visitor en- countered the processions of prisoners on their way to dinner, and was struck with the tone of rude health which pervaded them all. g im institution- now iossesees something wihin its forbidding walls that the visit- or would least expect to find there. If the ladies of Toronto would but drive out to the prison and see the display,'some of which is destined for the Chicago Exhibition, they would not only be repaid for the trouble but would gratify the Warden exceedingly. His great difficulty is to secure the right kind of men to assist the chief gardener. Convicts as a rule do not exhibit the taste which is the requisite qualification in the florist. THE PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY and measuring room, necessary adjuncts to the institution, were visited and the inspec- tion proved very interesting, but if there is anything around the premises in which the warden takes a pardonable pride it is his greenhouse. This comprises a. succession of compartments in which ferns, roses, tropical plants, flowers and foliage of rare quality and beauty are gathered in gorgeous pro- fusion. This, too, is an illustration of suc- cessful perseverance. There was a. very wall of difficulty raised up when the estab- lishment of a. greenhouse was mooted, but from a. very small beginning M r. Massie suc- ceeded in accomplishing his desire, and the ‘ chellcnt work too. is turned out of the tailors’andjshoemakers’ shops,where were ob- served a number of lads apprenticed to those trades and who by the time their periods of durance have expired, will have something to face the world with. THE WEAYING SHOP is probably one of Mr. Mussie’s greatest triumphs. He found great ditlicult y in start- ing it, from the fact that none would believe that he could make it a success, and for a long time the encouragement be sought was denied him. With characteristic persever- ance, however, he continued to urge the feasibility of his scheme and finally was given permission to make a. small beginning. The development and complete success of the undertaking has been his best vindica- tion. Here are manufactured not only the clothing the prisoners wear here” but the blankets and clothing for all the institutions in the province. Some of the checks and tweeds turned out of this room would do credit to many a factory of skilled weav- erg. Loved to see the flaming forge and hear the bellows roar, were convicts, jealously watched by Argus- eyed guards. N ear by are the engine and boiler rooms, wl'ere three huge furnaces and a. big Corliss engine are kept merrily moving to furnish the power and warmth to the buildings. MORE IXTRICATE EMPLOYMENT. Among the many industries for which the Central Prison is now famous and which With . the others is to be attributed to Mr. Massxe sgenius and enterprise, is the manu~ facture of iron bedsteads and wire mattress- es. Commencing with a design for a. prison cot which would do away with the mat- tress hitherto in use. and which oflered a. convenient hiding place for implements, the persevering warden has gone on until now the demand is beyond his (spacity. Some of his designs adopted for the provincial asylums, hospitals, etc., are mostingenious while the healthful as well as permanent nature of the structures commend them to notice without any preliminary explanation. The wire weaving process, which, of course, is incidental to the mattress making is a. most interesting feature of this department. Contiguous to this building are the shops of the blacksmiths and tinsmiths, and it was difficult to conceive that the lusty dust-be- grimed fellows who wielded the anvil ham- mer or dred feet long by sixty wide presenteda busy scene. About a. hundred convicts are employed. Here as in the binder twine factory, the machines do most of the work, the men merely attending on them. Never- theless great. care has to be exercised and a quick eye and steady hand is as necessary as at some and steady handfiis as necessary A IIE ‘LTHY CROWD. A Port Arthur. Ont, despatch says :â€" VV. H. Harris, of this town, has just returned from the Sultana. mine, near Rat Portage, where he had been summoned to fix up the stamps in the Sultana mill, which had got out of order. As a. test to find out if they were in a. satisfactory condition, the stamps were started up and worked steadily fcr thirty six consecutive hours. The result was electrifying. When the stamps were stop- ped, it was found that the rock operated upon by only ten heads had yielded the ex- traordinary amount of seventyftwo ouncesof gold amalgam, while a similar amount cover- ed the mortar. The concentrates are worth $200 per ton. The rock stamped was just the ordinary vein rock, take-n asblasted out of the twenty-foot vein, I Hajâ€"UK U“ MK“ I D vâ€"vâ€"vuvc \v u: not be restricted in its expression to a period of six months, a year, or two years, as fashion dictates in the various degrees of bereavement. The very idea of fashion in the realm of grief should make fashionable manifestations of its presence most distasteful to all sane and refined people. Fashion in sorrow must ultimately lead us to the insane, where [feeling is unknown. To a certain extent i I A sorrow, then, being life-long, should there is at least a plausible excuse in the adaption of mourning emblems by those of extended social connections and duties. But the excuse limps in that it acknowl- edges that the hundreds of “friends” on the visiting list are, after all, not intimate enough with us to be ablet )remember our ai- flictions and exercise the proper forbearance. So the advocates of “mourning” would con- fess, first, that they mourn through the medium of their clothes ; second, that they ha‘ e to adopt mourning as a. defence from the intrusion of their friends 1 As we have lseen, the infliction 'of gloomy apparel on the publicâ€"whom we do not know, , and who do not know usâ€"is a i violation of the Golden Rule. Fash- ions in mourning stationery, in mourning headgear, in mourning liveryâ€" what a hollow sound they have 1 Does “ mourning ” help to keep alive the memory with“? Possibly, to some; but who of the deal would care for remembrance thus perpetuated, associated with sombre imagery ? And must it be written that “ mourning becomes ” some people, and that I it has been worn beyond even the fashion- } able period for that reason? ‘Vhat sense of grief, or the sacredness of sorrow, or the soleinnity of death, is conveyed when a rosy checked person enveloped in crape comes into a street-car laughing and chattering with a companion ? Is it not travesty ‘! One cannot hope that the aged, accustomed to the usage, will abandon it at once ; if it eases their grief to so display it, who would forbid them, who have lost so many of their life~friends? in the very old there is, if anywhere, an approach to appropriateness in the wearing of at least partial black. But the discarding of excessive mourning display may well be begun by the young and mid- dle-aged. Especially let us not have chil- dren, spirits of joy and hope, masquerading in the hues of death. Why cloud their lives more than nature clouds them? I n all but the very aged it seems as if some appro- priate observance in neck-dress, the wearing lof grays and browns, etc, rather than any 'gay colors, were as far as we could safely go without inflicting our grief on others. , And if we are any more tempted to forget four grief or join in the dance, can we not safely leave these things to the heart? \Vhat conduct is above reproach that does not emanate therefrom? Away with hypoc- risy in grief, as in anything else! If our friends rally around us sooner and beguile us more quickly from the temporary, natural shock of death, from a lonely vigil with death to which we have bond to un- selves, will it not be better? The lesson of death has been often preached,â€"to be also ready. And to that end let the sorrow- stricken work yet more diligently while it is day. There is no truer balm for grief than self-sacrificing work for others. A relic of barbarism, perpetuating the spirit of the days when the mourner shaved his scalp, tortured his flesh, put ashes on his head, starved, made night hideous with wailing and beating of drums,â€"let us gent- ly divest ourselves of this custom of wear- ing entire black for the dead, and see if the world will not b; brighter in spirit as well as brighter to the eye. dress of “ mourning” is so common a. sight in city streets as to excite no interest, then, though the answer is wrong, it could yet he proved by it that the garb of grief i in this respect at least useless. 0n the contrary, however, many sensitive or nerâ€" vous people and invalids are given an uno pleasant and unwholesome shock by the awful black attire ; and to pass it, or sit next to a voluminous mass of stifling crape, is to receive a chill like the damp of the grave. It seems, therefore, only Christian that we should spare others the infliction of a gloom which, in the presence of a greater gloom, or through the hardenment of habitual use, we who wear the weeds of woe do not feel. When we come to consider “ mourning ” as a way of giving vent to our own feelings, there may be two sides to the question, but the brighter side would suggest its being done away with to a. great extent, if not altogether. Shall we delegate our grief to our clothes ‘3 If there is “ that Within that passeth outward show,” do not “ the trapn pings and the suits of woe ” seem a makig light of the real grief by the very inade- quacy of the expression? One will say that it relieves one from the intrusion of worldly pleasures or soc1al enjoyment, from the temptation to forget our sorrow. \Vhat a sad admission ! A real sorrow is life-long. A sorrow of tlicheart grows with our growth as we learn to appreciate our loss, and rightly viewed becomes one of our strongest and best of angels. Let us, then, not fear the forgetting of a real sorrow by the one who experiences it. The March Lippincott’s has a sensible article on the subject of putting on mourn- ing for deceased friends. The writer characterizes this display of the emblems of woe as “ the selfishness of mourning.” It would seem, the article says, as if death were omnipresent enough to need no such frequent reminders as the display sf crepe and the unrelieved monotony of black in the dress of those bereaved. Because we have a. private and sacred grief, why should we tell it to everybody as far as the eye can see? Why should we inflict the often-pains ful thoughts of death on the merchant in his business, on the children in the street, on our friends to ivhom we really wish no sad thoughts. If it be answered that the The Shel “slums: of Mourning. A Great Gold Yield. “ Brick N . 1.” said the s proudly, “ is a paperweight. I I more satisfactory one." The 11 faces at the brick were painted one of them forming a backgn Spray of delicate white flowers. were left. the orginal color, and wax covered with a. coat of t U‘UD-zmk ‘L‘u- nl. uvL€nL I 1.. LI... . “I suppose.” said the scoffe going to wind them with riblx them on the parlor table." “ “A. ---..A-_ 1;"; _-_--- -_- “ Not exaclgy, but come am from bo-day and see those bricks. wish you had them. They an useful, and some of them omnax Seven days later :he scofier we ed to a. group of articles which ‘0 ”@snizs Five clean. new, perfectly p1 lay on the floor, and the girl brought them in surveyed the provaL It; was a common enough sor after all, but then it was their they thought there had never bee the world that could boast o: charms that were embodied in tin of humanity they called their m might be many babies who COI beam of the grocer 'sscales a po more than theirs, and there thousmnd parents who though babies more beautiful than tlzis;i: but this mother and father w ready to 3.11mi; the possibility proximate correctness, man. of of reasoning. This “as their 1 only baby, and it; “as therefo: babyy on earth for them and,bcs1 ~thcir V alentine. ‘ Then. when all the rest hat mother in whose eyes now dwe light hitherto unknown within tl would gather up With a. confidei little thing that was all in all to and wofld insist upon calling ti attention, for the four hundred time, to the many and fast I beauties of the little creature then be highly indignant if he peat twenty times in succession sion that he was confident than most beautiful and wonderful bah had ever produced. She woul infant up to her bosom and k' face until it scarcely had a {3' breathe, and then she would again and, moving slightly awn eyes upon the litt‘e one's var‘ when shrouded in the heighten ment borrowed from distan cc. Father and mother gazed upq newcomer into their housebol that pride and joy that can col fount save that of the love born He would take the petite bund itesimnl baby and innumerable l a gingerly, awkward sort of a w at it for a. moment, and then he 1 down gently upon the 80f; pilla if he feared it would break if i any chance be jostletl against tangible even as a strong currem I used to think it an rasy thing, As easy as any one asks. To keep a. family neat. and prim, And manage the household tasi It seemed {.5 me in my foolish 'prh That the heft of a woman‘s mil \Vas simpjy to Sit by the door insi And mun for the dinner to boil. While out in the summ er‘s score] We men were sweating away. \Vith aching shoulders and jaded From dawn to the clasc of day. But~ sir. I would have you be ass? That thoroughly, one by one. 1 My notions of housework have all And this is the way it was done; My wife suggested a day's excha As she drop a kiss on my bn “Tis hard.” 8 c said. “holding 0. And riding the sulky plow. “You better stay in the home. In And wash a few of the thingm And churn and sweep where it. 11‘ And read till the dinner-be“ ri: "The horses are genflcmnd men I guess Icon drive them smug! I'll try and turn a. furrow or Lwn. For the season is getting late.“ So off she rode on the sulk y pious “’ich hcrjauncy hat. and blouse While I was inwardly vowing a ‘ How I would manage a house. The churning acted ‘spccially me The butter would almnct. come. And then go back to fro: by cream As if I had just begun. But while I was fixmz: potatoes 3 Not fit for a. dog to eat. My wife reLurncd from hvr fol-en: As fresh asa, rose. and ac s A'e-JI Apd bctook me to the 5 bed. While she got} dinner exact I y at As good as ever was spread. With a mortified air I quit the r] We sat at the table opposite-who As always we did before. ‘ When she asked with a smile in 11 eyes. If I would exchange some more Then. sir. I confessed my fault; a “My dear. you're as good as n q The woman who kecps the family Is running a. big machine." It was a. wee mite of a thing‘ “bite, delicate as a. newbo buried within a world of softes that lose up around its tiny face of a frozen sea caught in a. grout was. to tell the truth, a funny ll creatureâ€"this little liaby, witlrl hair lying In fluffy patches 0\er head and its fat little cheek 31 with pristine dimples that as ‘ acquainted with tie expanding of a. baby laugh. Its little eye and wondering, and the lilipi seemed made only to pucker- up ful wail every time some mistal would try to spread a demonsm over the little face. The fire went out. asa fire will d thn the wood i< not put in : And. as I thought of a meal for n 1 did not know where to begin. But somehow, I foam 1 tho morni W ere not. in my usual line. Like those I hand finished am of 0‘ At least for a thousand: in time. Against the stove my fingers I hi And blistered them stinging 501 In trying to scrub the clo: hes a b I scrubbed m y nucklcs the more tact-mud; which the blue HOUSE H0} Ber Exalted Stati A Tale of Bricks. That Baby-