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enough. ”’ “ Not for me. A woman ’3 "no may ulti- mawiy moan ‘yes.’ ” “Illa: a true. Mr. Yates,” replica: Mar- “ I think you are very cruel in persisting as you do, when you have had your answer. I say no. Never ! never 1 never Iâ€"this .. 7 v~v -â€"'- - ‘1‘““"'“"" '~ “ Oh, it is not a crime,â€"tha.t is, being in love with some one else is not. I’ll tell you why I dare ask. Iswear by all the gods that I shall win you. if not this year, then ; next, and if not next, then the year after. I I was a coward to talk as I did ; but I love you more now than I did even then. All I g want to know is that you are not in love 1 with another man.” “ Tell me what your ideal is, so the may try to attain it.” Margaret was silent. “ You think it will be useless for me L_._ I” 5 “ As far as I am concerned you to anSwer me. Are you in love with any one else 2” “ No,” cried Margaret hotly. “ How dare you ask me such a. question 2” II Al “ I’m not a. missionary,” cried Margaret, with sudden anger. “ If your life is to be wrecked it will be through your own fool- ishness, and not from any act of mine. I think it cowardly of you to say that I am to be held responsible. I have no wish to in- ‘ fluence your future one way or another.” 5 “ Not for good, Margaret 2”asked Yates, f with tender reproach. ’. “ No. A man whose good or bad conduct depends on any one else but himself is not ‘ my ideal of a man.” I > _ m _ w... vvuvvbucu, ’6!- .v. "‘ Mai‘éaret, I want; to ask you one more question. 1 have no right to, but I beg you to answer me. Are you in love with any oye else ?” mar. Do not, I beg Sfy; the man who loyeg you.” ‘5 1"... _-L - â€"_â€"â€"n A, .I ' D' “ You surel cannot have so mm 3’ judged me, Margaret. Others have, but I did not expectitofyou. Youarefarand away better than I am. No one knows that better than I. I do not pretend to be worthy of you but I will be a good husband to you. Any man who gets the love of a good woman,” continued Yates, earnestly, plagiarizing Renmark, “ gets more than he deserves ; but surely such love as mine is not merely to be scornfully trampled .jfoot.” “ I do not treat yourâ€"you scornfully. l I am only sorry if what you say is true.” “ Why do you say if it is true ? you know it is true ?” “ Then I am very sorry,â€"very, given under I Don't i a very l sorry, and I hope it is through no fault of f mine. But you will soon forget me. “’hen ’ You return to New Y ork-â€"-â€"" “ Margaret,” said the young man, bitter- “ 1y, “I shall never forget you. Think what ‘ I t you are doing, before it is too late. Think Z how much this means to me. If you finally ' refuse me, you will wreck my life. the sort of man that a woman can ma 1 am; he or: mar. Do not, I beg of you, ruin the life of 5 61.. “A“ , ..uvvu w Mull-I 'eVluenbly attracted the attention (if the ”"3 worth looking at unless he owned a girl, for after a moment’s pause the win- farm. He would saye me money and buy dow opened carefully, and Margaret step- -up the whole neighborhood; then she ped quickly out and closed it, quietlylWPUId realize what she had missed. He standing there. : climbed up on a fence beSlde the road, and u Margaret :3 whispered Yates hardly sat on the top rail, with his heels resting on above his bredth. ’ a lower one, so that he might enjoy his .9 The girl advanced towards the fence. misery With”? the fatigue °f walking. .His 3.}. u Is that you .3” she whispered in return, ynnd imagination pictured himself as In a gwith an accent on the last word that thrilled ew years time the owner Of a large section ’her listener. The accent told as plainly as Of that part Of the country, Wlth mortgages speech that the word represented the one on a good deal of the remainder, including . man on earth to her the farm owned by Margaret’s husband. He ‘ 1-; cs Yes,” answered. Yates, springing ov er sawher now a farmer’s faded wife coming {the fence and approaching her. ' to him and begging for further tune in which . “ 0h 2” cried Margaret. starting _back, I t: I:é'l‘gulflleasctiiv81:11apaural?ierlrlltclh551; e-(m Each“; .u’?“ chec‘kgig herself wnh 3‘ dcatch m ‘26: occasion and grangdly give her husband all 3.§°;§:i,, ouâ€"you startle meâ€"i r. the time he required. Perhaps then she 6‘ Not Mr Yates an more Mar aret but would realize the mistake she had made. Or :Diek Mar-caret, I winted to see gyou allon e , perhaps fame rather than riches would be his ' * a. . _ line. His name would ring throughout the ;.;::pknboo:hthth::§: chilssheflguttnille: land. He might become a great politician a . ’ . . . ° ' ' ‘ - badm to at:tittiesirsimgtzestates . r rea ., ye s a mg er groun . a . . is “ Margret. yw must have 8°“ W 533%? $3313 .332 oiii‘iniédefiiie fifttli): ‘ fiago how It Is wmh me. I love y ou, Margaret, ’ moment, for he was humiliated and hurt. Eloy ally and truly. It seems as If I had loved There is no bitterness like that which assails l you all my life. I certainly have since the n the man who has been re'ected by the girl first day I saw you. . . . J . , u - ne adores â€"while it lasts. HIS eye wan- E‘ne 13:: 311i: ”Y ates, you must not talk to dered tow’ards the black mass of the Howard . - house. It was as dark as his thoughts. He 3.11: gafzogaig“gaggtiifetgmolnwill: fig: turned his head slowly around, and like a You must have kn (1))“ it 10370 a, o ,, g bright star of hope there glimmer-ed up the z n I did not In deed I did, ngot. if road a flickering light from the Bartletts’ real] mean it u ’â€" you parlor window. Although time was .. {dean it , ' I never meant an thin asI stopped as far as he was concerned, he ‘ h' ' i - h' y g (was convinced it could not be very late, mean t 13’ -t is every t mg to me, and or the Bartletts would have gone to ngthing else If any thing. Ihave hnocked bed. It is always difficult to realize that h 283:: twigswgg dlzvioogedsfé, 1::g;t,kbnuetvg the greatest of catastrophes are generally 2' . . - " over in a few minutes. It seemed an age ‘ 31:? love, was until I met 3 on. I tell you since he walked so hopefully away from the g ‘ tent. As he looked at the light the thought ‘ ‘ Please, please, Mr. Yatfis, do ”of say struck him that perhaps Kitty was alone in zggililfim 310;: if It 121:; y true, can- the parlor. She at least would not have . Ih y 'dw orry h ‘ d b treated him so badly as the other girl : and ling ave S“ or done as ma e you e- â€"-and she was nretty too come to think heve thatâ€"thatâ€"â€"oh, I do not know what * ’ ’ . ' ' he to say. I never thought you could be in Eli :1}. 138:1an 3 did hke 5 blonde better w; earnest about anything.” u e. 5- w: H You surely cannot have so misjudged . A fence-rail is not a. comfortable seat. It ni me, Margaret. Others have, but I did not 13 used 111 some .parts 0f the 0911“"? {n such w; expectitofyou. Youarefarand away better a manner as to impress the sitter With the than I am. No one knows that better than fact or its extreme discomfort, and as a. I, 1 do not pretend to be worthy of you gentle hint that his presence is not wanted ear but I will be a good husband to you. Any in that immediate neighborhood; Â¥ates rec- ha man who gets the love of a good woman,” ollected this With a_ smile as he slid off and pu continued Yates, earnestly, plagiarizing stumbled .mto. the ditch by the side of the Renmarh, “ gets more than he deserves ; road. H13 mind had been 3° preoccupied tin out surely such love as mine is not given , that he had forgotten about the dltch. AS nerely to be scornfully trampled under ; he walked along the road towards the star that guided him, he remembered he had «'1 do not treat yourâ€"you scornfully. ireclilessly oAflLered ‘hfliss Kitty to the callous : am onlv 807'” If what "an an“ L. a.____ a) “ion 5...... ,fa a-~_â€"-...b “VJ.- “ Oh !” cried Margaret. starting back, fthen checking herself with a catch in her fvoice. “ Youâ€"you startled meâ€"Mr. MY ates. ” “ Not Mr. Yates any more, Margaret, but fDiek. Margaret, I wanted to see you alone ;"You know why I have come. He tried to ;. grasp both her hands, but she put them iiresolutely behind her, seemingly wishing to retreat, vet standing her ground. :a “ Margaret, you must have seen long fgago how it is with me. I love you, Margaret, 3 gloyally and truly. It seems as if I had loved ‘ {you all my life. I certainly have since the ’first day I saw you.” 3. “Oh, Mr. Yates, you must not talk to gme like this." ? “ My darling, how else can I talk to you? 1- It- cannot be a surprise to you, Margaret. ‘ You must have known it long ago.” “ I did not. Indeed I did not,â€"if you really mean it.” _no_1_-_ any other year. “ Margaret,” whispered Yates, hardly above his breath. is; The girl advanced towards the fence. {5’5 “ Is that you '2” she whispered in return, gwith an accent on the last word that thrilled her listener. The accent told as plainly as ‘speech that the word represented the one fman on earth to her. “ Yes,” answered Yates, springing over i'the fence and approaching her. t. ‘: “In 0” -__'. :1 It nouse, there appeared a light in the door- Wxndow of the room where he knew the convalescent boy lay. Margaret’s shadow formed a. silhouette on the blind. Yates caught up a. handful of sand and flung it Flightly against the pane. Its soft patter evidently attracted the attention of the girl, for after a. moment’s pause the win- dow opened carefully, and Margaret step-I ped quickly out and closed it, quietly standing there. “Margaret,” whispered Yates, hardly‘ BbOVP. Bic Broafi‘n haps there is no moment in a. man’s liiel that he feels the jrzy of being alive more} keenly than when he goes to propose to a. girl of whose favorable answer he is reason- : ably sure, unless it be the moment he walks - away an accepted lover. There is a magic 5 about a June night, with its soft velvety: darkness and its sweet mild air laden with I the perfumes of wood and field. The en- chantment of the hour threw its spell over the young man, and he resolved to live at better life and be worthy of the girl he had ! chosen, or, rather, that Fate had chosen for him. He paused a moment leaning over the fence near to the Howard home- l stead for he had not yet settled in his own E mind the details of the meeting. He would 1 not go in, for in thatcase he knew he would have to talk, perhaps for hours, with every ‘ one but the person he wished to see. If he ? announced himself and asked to see Mar- 1 garet alone, his doing so would embarrass e‘ her at the very beginning : Yates was J naturally too much of a diplomat to com- 5 mence awkwardly. As he stood there, wishing chance would bring her out of the I house, there appeared a light in the door- window of the room where he lznnm Hm Yates whistlipg IN THE MIDST 0F ALARMS walked merrily down the road, “($3ny the Troubadour.” Per- ROBT. BARR IN u CHAPTER XIII‘ not that g "uome right in. Why, what’s the matter , 3 With you? You look as if you had lost your best friend. Ah, I see how it is,”â€" t Yates started :â€"-“you have run out of pro- t visions, and are very likely as hungry as a bear.” “You’ve hit it first time, Mrs. Bartlett. 1 dropped around to see if I could borrowa ” ke till to-mor- Mrs. Bartlett laughed. “ Nice baking you would do if you tried I it. I’ll get you a loaf in a minute. Are you sure one is enough 2” “ Quite enough, thank you.” The good woman hustled out to the other room for the loaf, and Yates made good use of her temporary absence. ’ “ Kitty,” he whispered, " I want to see ‘ you alone for a few minutes. 1’11 wait for , you at the gate. Can you slip out ‘3” - Kitty blushed very red and nodded. ' Again Kitty nodded, after looking up at “ him in alarm when he spoke of the warrant. Before anything further could be said Mrs. Bartlett nnmn in can! Va. ) ,‘disappomted to see Mrs. Bartlett sit- :ting there knitting, like the industrious gwoman she was. Still, it was consoling gto note that none of the men-folks §were present, and that Kitty, with her g fluffy hair half concealing her face,sa.t read- iing a. book he bed lent to her. He rapped [at the door,and It was opened by Mrs. Bart- Elett with some surprise. (‘1': A! V. V _â€" â€"-v~~â€"v Huh 1" LDC. “For the land’s sake, is Yates ?” “It is.” “Come right in. Why, w? thh you? You look as your best friend. Ah, I as Yates started :â€"-‘ ‘you have visions, and are very likely bear.” LIPPINCOTT’S MAGAZINE.” ' He knew he was defeated. Dejectedly , he turned to the fence, climbing slowly ! over where he had leaped so lightly a few minutes before, and walked down the road, cursing his fate. Although he admitted he ( was a coward in talking to her as he did g about his wrecked life, yet he knew now 1 that every word he had spoken was true. What did the future hold out to him '3 Not even the incentive to live. He found him- 1 self walking towards the tent, but, not wish- ing to meet Renmark in his present frame of , mind, he turned and came out on the Ridge LRoad. He was tired and broken, and re- pity on him. Who was the other man she loved ? or had she merely said that to give finality to her refusal? In his present mood he pictured the worst, and imagined her the wife of some neighboring farmer,â€"per- haps even of Stoliker. These country-girls, he said to himself, never believed a man . gates, drawing herself up as one who makes 5 a final plunge. “ You remember the ques- 3 tion you asked me just now ?â€"whether I ; cared for any one else ‘3 I said ‘ no.’ That ‘1 ‘no’ meant, ‘ yes.’ ” He was standing between her and the Window, so she eculd not escape by the'way she came. He saw she meditated flight, and made as though he would .intercepb her but she was too quick for hzm. She ran around the house, and he heard a. door open and shut. woe is not Wanted )rhood; Yates rec. e as he slid off and by the side of the the Great Results Looked for Fro m the Work at Niagara Falls. The time is near at hand when the much- talked-of possibilities of Niagara Falls as a power-producer will begin to manifest themselves. February 1 is set down as the date when the water will be turned on the turbine that in turn will cause a. dynamo to revolve and give forth five thousand ‘ horse power for distribution along the elec- tric wire. By far the largest dynamo that has as yet been operated is the one that generated power for the Intramural Rail- way Company at the world’s fair. This generator developed 2,100 horse power and was looked upon as a marvel by those who saw it. But compared with this machine the dynamo that will begin to turn on February 1 next is a monster. It will develop about two and a half times as much power. We have spoken of but one electrical monster. The company that has this matter in hand will instal ten of them, one after the other, just as soon as they are needed. They have the tunnel and other necessar y works completed for devel- oping 100,000 horse power. The day that the first instalment of this great force will become available for mechanical pur- poses will be an eventful one in the world’s history. Especially eventful will it be ‘ to the cities within a. two or three hundred ‘ mile limit of the falls. For it is the ex- E pectation of the company to distribute its E power over this or even a larger territory. ( When one says of anything that. nnh nun-Hy 0 an...” -“A ._-___ Great Results Looke n i have ever been Delore.” Kitty did not say “ yes,” but she placed her disengaged hand warm and soft upon his, and Yates was not the man to have any hesitation about what to do next. To prac- tical people it may seem an astonishing thing that the object of the interview being happily accomplished there should be any need of prolonging it, yet the two lingered there, and he told her much of his past life, and of how lonely and sordid it had been because he had no one to care for him,â€"-at which her pretty eyes filled with tears. She felt proud and happy to think she had won the first great love of a talented man’s life, and hoped she would make him happy and in a measure atone for the emptiness of the life that had gone before. She prayed that he might always be as fond of her as he was then, and resolved to be worthy of him if she could. Strange to say, her wishes were that was. The one w an who might have put the drop of bitterii s in her cup of life ‘ merely kissed her tenderly when Kitty told her 0f tho nrnnr Ln. ¢L_n L , wuruuess Ieuow. not half‘ good enough for a. little pet like you, but; Kitty, if you will only say yes,I will try, and try hard, to be a. better man than I have ever been before.” K;f.f1v 11:1] â€"~A “ “Kitty, you darling little humbug, you know that I love you. You must know that I have loved you ever since the first: day I saw you. when you laughed at me. Klbty, ELECTRICAL DEVELOPMENT. J vv JVU It seemed, howeve mistaken, for Ki bty idea, and wanted to it was late, and ht her. It seemed, how mistaken». 4:... Yrs. ever! that in this he was .. ...... uuv L mnend to come back, if'you W111 let me. Kitty, remember that talk we had in the kitchen when weâ€"when there was an interruptiOD, and when I had to go 3.an thh om- mm; (1. -.. Yates waited at the gate, placing the loaf on the post, where he forgot it, "“1011 to the estonishrnent of the donor i.” somewhat shrinkmgly as one who was doing the most wicked thing that had been done since the world began. Yates hasten- “I must be off to-morrow,” he began. “I am very sorry.” answered Kitty, in a. Whi_sp§!_‘. vv L H 3.86 that'you do night.” ‘ " ""' ‘ V ‘ Many Sources. . “’33 us a moment to set the News Items "om table. It 18 not; the least trouble.” u Really, Mrs. artlett, you are very A thimble will hold over 100,000 of the kind. I am not, in . smallest; screws made. the sh htest de me hungry now. I g - g Th ' 1' t‘cassociations of Sicil thought. of the mam merely takmg some e 3001315 1 5’ count going, and thank Orrow_ No; I must be 300,000 members. u . . ‘_ u Well,” sai d M23“ Very much. The tzdes of the North Amerlcan l’aufic to the door, “ i ‘come to me, and I Will Eudora, Kan, with a pogulation of 710 in the house.” persons, has seven secret societies. “ You are 1700 - Gold is washed in Africa. by the Isarne1 goungdman, With gegfiietggfg; siting}; means employed by the California ’49.”; on’t; eserve it; b .’ ‘ . . . Yofifipromiseâ€"tomgt I may remlnd you of Each pupil 1n the pubhc schools of the Y'rnm ,, TTn;an Gems-.. A-_L- -A __. -_--__ H, A._ __ Not Worth a. Straw. “Let. h 1111 Walt (1‘0 BE cox I‘TUED). [or Kitty had not therslim H" ‘ ghtest famed to go mto the house, for ., and her mother would miss' you darlinglittle hurpbug, you nun ---.A ! genuine feelizig, “ and I ; but I may remind you of 3-morrow." , 3 10, ’she answered. “Good- u are not half so sorry as h A L , ‘ . - _ ':[ Offered him the chance. ” the gate, placing the loaf re he forgot; it, much nent of the donor in 3 did not have to wait came around the house if he didn’t have sense Salesmanâ€"“ This is beautiful stufi' for a dress, miss. I can assure you tha. young ladies who have bought thi have become engaged by means of it.” Customer (smiling)â€"“ But I am alread married!” Salesmanâ€"“Oh, that doesng make the least dizference, provided you wear a. dress of this material 1” t Several 3 material Awful End on: St. Catharines Young Wo- man Who Went lo Bull‘alo. A Bufi'alo spwisj says :â€"Two years ago Theresa. Butler left her husband and her children in St. Catharines, 0nt., and took service as a. domestic servant in this citv, but that life nalled upon her, and she todk‘ her beauty, which was greater than heri culinary skill, to the circles of the painted songstresses of Canal street. She Obtained service as “danseuse” in O’Niel’s place, and sang joyless songs and danced the dance of death until the end. Several days ago she sent word from her room, at 168 Seneca street, that she was ill and could not per- form, and this morning she was found dead in bed. A box on a stand near by told the story of the cause of death,. for within it were a. number of heavy calibre morphine pills. Theresa’s relatives W111 be noti- fied. , o' - v. -. vv vuvn. Luuua 5114C, and a". the older ones are picturesque with great flufi'y green balls of foliage in the spring, and dense spheres of misty gray twigs in winter. ‘ w_â€"v. “ Power willows ” is the name in north- ern Delaware for those pollard swamp wil- lows commonly seen in meadows. The powder-making Dupozits established 8. mar- ket for this wood in Delaware 8. centu ago, and every stream for a. dozen miles above Wilmington is lined with these trees, i Some have grown to enormous size, _and alll The “last will and testament” of Lord Byron was sold at auction in London a few days ago for 3515. At the same sale a char- acteristic letter of Carlyle to Mrs. Austin brought $20, and a. letter of Byron to 001- eridge, $35. A letter of George Eliot, com- plaining of the literary criticism of certain: persons, was sold for $25; a. letter from Nelson to Sll‘ William Hamilton for $40, and a. number of letters written by Ameri- can presidents and statesmen for $125. “ Power mmmm n ;_ in- _ _ ,, The only money current in the large sul- tanate of Adamawa, in central Soudan, is cowrie shells. The agents of France, who have been trying, with indifferent success, to get a foothold bhere,say there is a dearth of the circulating medium,and commerce is greatly embarrassed by the scarcity of our- rency. ‘ A Yale professor is quoted as 0 that football makes the students in their studies. The London L: cords 100 cases 1.1 which partici; football games played in 1892 in Gr ain received injuries so serious as to hospital treatment. A Buffalo lawyer mourns for his dog, his faithful friend and companion for thirteen happy years. He has buried him in a. se- cluded spot, and has placed above his grave amarble slab, inscribed, “Where is My Dog Rover?” The normal temperature of man is about 98.5 degrees; of the email, 7.0 degrees; oyster, 82 degrees; porpoise, 100 degrees; rat, cat or ox, 102 degrees ; sheep, 104 de- grees; hog, 100 degrees; chicken, 111 de- grees. A Baltimore man has given the nam Hayseed gas burner to a. recent inventio: of his. He claims, first, that it can’t b1 blown out and, secondly, that if it is blow: out it immediately relights itself automati‘ cally. A break in the main water pipe in a street in Tombstone, Arizona, lasn week was found to have been caused by the roots of a. tree, which had grown around the pipe and crushed it; so that it, burst. A Boston theater’s published announce- ment for a. recent week was “The B lack Crook ” every evening except Sunday when Rev. J. J. Keane, D. D., delivered a. ser- mon on “The Future of Religion.” There is now being built at Yarrow, Eng- land, a. torpedo boat, for the French navy made out; of aluminum, which will be hoist- ed m and out with great ease. 4 beer war is The meanest; man yet was an Ohio youth Whogot married and left an envelope con- taining a. 2-centz ferry tlcket 1n the parson’s hand. Five hundred and two of tile 662 students at Wellesley College have put themselves on record as favoring woman’s suffrage. "I Alaska, with its islands, is said to have a coast line of 25,000 miles, equal in extent to the circumference of the globe. Human blood is composed of" of water, 6. 2 of albumen, 14.1 o matter and 1. 9 of saline. There are entire apartment houses in New York monopolized by self-supporting bachelor girls. Two thousand new books will be put on the market, by London publishers alone this winter. THE D ANOE OF DEATH. The Bermuda islands were named for Bermudz, a. Spaniard, who sighted them in 1527. Each pupil in the public schools of the United States costs on an average $17, 22 a year. Eudora, Kan, with a population of 710 persons, has seven secret societies. Gold is washed in Aft-ice. by the same means employed by the Cahfornia. ’49-ers. News Items From Many Sources. 301' is quoted as of opinion :es the students sluggish The London Lancet: re- m which partigipants in 1 (\Ar‘ - WORLD OVER. albumen, 14.1 of coloa‘n: C “1;-.. '2 in Gréab Brit: require 7?. 8 _ parts “You’re simply perfect, Belle,” he cried. "Your hair, your eyes, your dimple. ” “And you.” the Winsome maid replied, “Well, you’re aperfecb simple.” Papaâ€""If you are not guilty of taking those apples, Jonas, why can you not look straight into my eyes and deny the charge 2 See how fearlessly Priscilla. N do it !” Jonasâ€"“That’s all right. Sim didn’t do anything.” pay our banks in Germany to secure the services of a. number of bright, sharp Cana- dian bankers who would handle this class of business, which is enormous with us.” “I had a draft on a German bank to cash,” he said in conversation with a Toronto re- porter, “and went into one of your city banks to get the money. The young man at the teller’s box referred me to the cashier, who looked at the draft and asked me to endorse it. He then took it and in about half a minute wrote some figures upon _ _it and told me that I would get the money from the paying teller. I walked over to the young man and immediately he count- , ed me out the exact amount of the draft . after deducting the current rate of exchange; I was on the street again within five minutes after I had entered the bank. The same transaction would have occupied at least half an hour in Germany. Signatures would have had to have been verified, a book of exchange tables would have been consulted to secure the proper amount of exchange to charge, and then I should have had to go and get some well known citizen to identify me. The rapidity of the transaction so impressed me that I went back and asked the manager how it was done. He told me that he had mastered completely all tables of exchange. He had :simply to find out what the current rate was, and by a mental calculation he at once was enabled to write down on the back of the draft how much Canadian money the teller should pay over. He admitted that he had run some risk in case the draft had been forged, but for this he had depended upon my appearance. He said that if I had not suited his idea of a man who should be possessed of such a draft he would have required me to secure identification. I am of opinion that it would A German Visitor Points out one Superior- ity of Canadian B anks Over German. “I am very much impressed with the Canadian banking system,” said Mr. T. Engel, Hamburg, Germany, who was a. guest at the Queen’s hotel, Toronto, the other day. He IS one of the best known financial men of EurOpe, and is largely inc tcrested, both in Canada and the United states, in mining and railrord enterpris- “D certain, mu uc eagerly accepted, not onl as one likely to further the commerciall interests of that Island but also as frustrat. ing the schelnfB for a British cable touching only on Brltllh 5011- We are not aware whether this. report be true or not but there is sufficient Significance in the mere suggestion to awaken the Imperial Govern- Lth ment to a sense of the riskit is running in m- refusin to render that legitimate assistance n’s to the mpany Which, .1” the circumstan- ces, is necessary and which would result in reciprocal benefits of the most important character. Apart from What may be termed Imperial purposes such a. cable would be of great value in developing the com mercial interests of the colonies. “There can be little doubt” says the Times “that the development of communications does stimulate as well as follow trade.” We have only to look to the progress made in our trade with the Domin- ion to find an illustration of the statement. In spite of the great and successful rival trade route to the United States ; in spite is of the fact that telegraphic communication is kept up at high rates with New York to and London and New York and Lou- n don prices are .alone despatched, the goods of Canada are steadily gaining ground in the West India markets owing to increased steamship facilities and they Would be pushed to a much greater extent were the two countries in closer telegraphic connection. This is the patriotic view which is happily not incompatible with the existence at mutually advantageous com- mercial relations. And equally with the Imperial authorities it is our duty to look to the future and provide as far as possible against the day of international hostilities when existing friendly areas of supply and , consumption may be closed. Such a. con‘ ; tingency may never arise, and all will wish that it may long be averted, but the possi- bility exists and should not be altogether ignored. Markets within the Empire should be opened up and where they already exist .should be fostered as much as possible. Conterminous with the United States lies an immense extent of county peopled with our own kith and kin debarredâ€"unlike its neighborâ€"from growing the products of the tropics. It is a potential market for all we can grow, and our trade with it should be made to grow with its growth. ‘The prime essential to facilitate that end is a direct cable, and it would be a. most unwel- come and humiliating experience if the Colonial and Imperial Governments delayed too long and the Bermuda line, like the line on the other side of the continent, passed into the hands of the French. e a. cut nts res 1g- VY it- PLEASED WITH OUR BANKS- SM 'Domgngoâ€"a. proPosuasl whit}; certain, mll be eaglgflx “Ccepted, n0 ‘3L-1â€" 4.- lb] It is I was just begi: many big people 1 curtain, and there thing I had ever ‘ could not help itâ€" very tight and 0011 was the “Christmi mas was a tree ! A the square when I were Christmas ! and it made me or; was not like the 01 lights all over It, a and apples, and dol‘ little baby smalls That little baby di< hard to be good, I: irls 'umped up an fiandg. I think th‘ Then they all danct pretty song. 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