EDITORIAL NOTES. tt Crete is to have a peda of some sort appears to be yn for granted. It is entirely pameadal religious con diplomatic blundering. Tsponsty must always lodge somewhere. In the last resort there must be an executive head over all. It has been precisely prompted by as many EA EE Stamboul, are utterly unable io cope successfully with the shifting perplexi- y unextricated from the fevered social bod: In fixing the acne el aya for the explosion that Candia, when eee half as many ei tish soldiers perished as in the whole of the recent Khartoum come in the brittle system introduced by the four Powers, the future of Crete looks possibly a bit brighter. Britishers tians, in the supposed interest of the general peace of Europe. a British Consul is killed the fleets mouth Dockyard rather Down- ing Street. It may so ii the case of Crete; Sven the lethargic Salisbury is orted © be moving energetically towards an amendment, if not a reversal, of t present system of maladministration. The simplest solution would be an An- glottallian occupation of te, in has never shrunk from burdens of that sort, # To the first naval Power in the world the possession of Souda Bay would be s the misfortune to be so situated strategically with reference to the an a. Pctbter to another; while at the same time each Power might hope that it so long as Crete was not neutralized, n the withdrawing of the a disarmament of the Mos- speedy appointment of ection with her demands for tepara- tion for the recent massacres Britain, trusting to the moral effect if no’ the physical support of America, may start such measures against Turkey as will be tantamount to a reckoning for all the wrongs — against en- ians and others perpetrated by thi latter Power in recent yea: is w derstood, however, that Lord Salisbury is not inclined to individual action ete. He is not the kind of ama that makes history rand ecipita t of political pelnte and sthnie eeuctabs all aroun from vie’ with a golden ging, re Rtewecas ed down ble, now peered the later arrivals, were to eat an Lr aie ronan Meanwhile, amidst cockboat and back bell clai Reis ore Seer Sires r, “Cast young lady of eig! crack schoo tying to yalty, Middlemass, who en ES wear bright eyes, and owkie, who, howev: Liv McGowkie end ttle woman fro English scenery, had 5 ed wv, the passengers would scarcely have believed themsel- ves e chatting from the leviathan the of “a yield the thrifty twenty thousand doll: profit. He spea little eee face — just now a | a teeth, which she displays to Marten By EDWARD PT] & THE DINNER BELL. banks, with thet of wood and field d_ ther water ed tracery of tackle and stay, of rig- Ty ited smoke, which ft in a br te starboard bul: watch cores of “: le chances 0! of a pleasant company for much uproar, im- f captain, mates, and no little the “Agsin, suddenly @ Urge to the ten- e!" The steam Gown to Joha end ae cea child- mith from s Sir Benjamin, | near Wi indsor,, where she learn amongst re- the accomplish- ts of an aristocrat. , does not it, t n she faintly echoes, Aver re off wi Ton’ just brought this RE RF RILEY GF RIALS STORIES OF THE SEA__— JENKINS, M.P. Author of “Little Hodge,” “ Lord Bantam,” Ginx’s Baby,” &c. PP AAR SAAR tive city, where she has Har for | 2nd hav s pretty Miss| (ho a few short years back a Auldjo, daughter of the "Reverend An- ew Auldjo, 1 - Ding-dong, ding-dong, _ding-dong,/ minister. os a hig roams r Tegirte dit g-dong, sneer’ off with them in the earliest tender, The ereat ip, Kamschatkan, $500| and given them many a word of sober manding, had cleared the Mersey, and his parting blescme, Sar ae peat vas running up the channel for the| brief exercise of prayer in their late west of the Isle of Man. the breeze cabin—can still be discerned on eing light at N. E., and her speed| paddle-box of the tender, pembeae: welve knots. But for the thad bat by his great height, waving up (an vibration, o£ her screw twirliny wn tear-damped pocket-handker- je great shaft in mighty wevolutions chief with the unguinly regularity of to the lay_of of a flay al. For staunch old man is going back to widower's home, and to his Lord’s wor! ith a ‘shawdowed albeit a ‘re off!" eries poor little Miss iewith, a drops 0 and moist eyes, as she takes ‘her bosom worn locket, containing the photograph of a e kisses the’ glass that ER eh the pistare, ‘and her | poor lit- tle heart, which Oe re quaint and profane stroke of piety. It is the gratitude of a heart evil and full of evil apprehensions. “Wer Wr says a imself in the captain's cabin, feeling the first thrill of motion, ‘8 he lies on the vel- t sofa, and glances round the dark- ere his valet has pil- "re off,”” Snotionless, to set arranged wit hat hi cilent should occupy the favored room astern. But we shall have gone over the whole vessel before we return to our 1 ferocity of a madman. Horrible, jovial bell! To-day every one with Byr That tocsin of the soul, the dinner bell! trifle pale — an but to-morrow afteraoon, driving up pale peariy| beyond the north’ coast of Ireland in the teeth of a nor’-wester, when that rucction| madcap villain stands there, and for file, meant or Me-|five, fll mina bangs and jangles m “Aberdeen, his na- , | where rou S| assigned i ~ | coar: cheeks that 1 ;| him, tal on the thin iron skin of the ship, the wild and wanton brawl of that ym is top whereof sit those whom he selects for the honor to the number of twelve, friends hi r the hei and ee are n me, but are lee ing for the er n garcon—a most encoura; iets strong sherry and stroi tised voyagers man- | fully against the perturbing efforts of on the table. Many of tho ented. Stewards are standing at incerval of every ten p they have been on the table-clot “Wher the swells?” said se-looking amiddle-eged man, aor cooked as if it was no un- the tender a) usual thing for them to weather a over its ‘Ationtic. storm, who sat_at the eve) oot of the captain's table, “He. ad- dressed a young gentleman “opposite to h dark hair and eyes, well-cut "tealures pudtaressrved. and hauj ee bears ‘The young man lazily lifted his eyes towards the speaker, and. inquire than b; tone of and monotonous—"I beg pardon. Wha’ do you mean “Why, don’ ’t you see,” replied the im,| other, not ate. his fellow-t travele ler's manner, “there ain’t any one the head of the table, where the cvells ““Oh!? returned the young soup. spoon vigorou had done, “You kno that only the captain’s frieads fan ‘aristocracy’ are allowed to sit in the twelve first sy and udibiyy When he wed the attack its | places ? To Be Continued. SIXTY eae AGO ane of British Canada Had a Big Re; Now that there is tall of increasing I may point out that sixty years ago, not only Halifax, but all Canada, was adorned with regiments of the regu- f regime and where they were stationed in 339 -— ist Dragoon Guards, Chambiy, Lower Canada. 7th Hussars, Montr 2nd Batt. piace ‘Guards, Que- Grenadier Guards, La- ie. Regt. of Foot, Montreal. 8th Regt. of Foot, Halifax st. t, Sorel. Sr 24th Regt. Canada. 34th Regt. of Foot, Amherstburg. 36th Regt. of Foot, Fredericton. Tist Regt. of Foot, L’Acadie, LC 73rd t Bool, Blandford d Regt. of Foot, Kingston. Eth Rest. of Foot, London. 93 Regt. of Foot, Toronto. 82nd Regt. of Foot, ‘Randwicl Upper 801 Then would n it not been for, the depression result- ing from di Si ciont orleans ‘has veoorded ‘unmer- ous tho ly with there is a collapse and or sometim FAIR HOW'S FGLE EAR The heart of a woman is her most fe Strictly speaking, Chester wa’ right. dictionary 3 2 af the supply of life-giving fluid is metimes fatal s death. We @ peculiarly subject these violent emotions. Long an delicate of course, organ and r. Aside fro: in its illness, to d fa- the direction of a physi What s been Maia fareat the ef- rains or emotions cases where hem. The brain center _beii i turbed, the contracting nerves do not act and the blood: vessels. are- exces— sively dilate: MARCH THE REV. AN INSTRUCTIVE SERMON. A SS tn yee Washington a Dy. Talmag: two men. tat God's dren were march, and now that they bered up and spread its wealth all over ing in light, cluster against fe cheek Ay cluster. e rinds of gra) seemed almost tears eit wonder, nate that in these Bible tices two men to put their strength together to car- ry down one wounds for which this up offers no pel of our Lord Jesus a consol while I pri all comfort would help you Peal ile sa irst, I console ¢ you with the Divine- are cut of to longer yours, but the dre to have a all our love and said old: “Take this child and nurse it for me. I will give thee thy wages.” It is no mere w: It is a Divinely-1 “planted principle in the soul, and. God ald not aint ab a lie, and He perouie not culture OF GOD'S PEOPLE. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES jeavenly Esehol—& the Mea} ted Priends No #ymy e preached from the aun unto the Oh, ah made ; but their chil- living and they were on the had come up to the borders of the promised land, us to know what ‘The sun and shower had thought it worth their while cluster of grapes from bass never to return. The own their ae and e dear doh, ym the Gos- aa thats shall rein there will be n each, and that th: that your departed urs now as they you, and they in same lot * although some very beautiful ground offered him ‘a free gift; nat he red ma‘ Pleasant tot thin yur ied together, When m here, because right besi: good, old, beautiful, feats jother, and it ed as i eatirie begets ar @ little early. Tam. glad you have e; it seems as of old.” Oh, it is the wind comes argo ace Tn woos other., child close up _ to bi wrote peautifully with the tears and ood of her own broken “There was a shaded chamber, A silent watching ban On, a low h asutfering, hid Grasping ber mother's bi But mid the grasp and struggle, With shuddering lips she cried, s life was ebbing fact, ‘Sleep by my side, dear ‘And rieo with me at Ob, yes, we want to be buried to- gether. Sweet antet aires of everlast- ing residence in each other’s compan- S daeneay When the wrecker went down into the cabin of the lost steamer, he found the mether ea the chil ra a each other's arms. as beautiful, thing cheering in all this thought, and {something to impre nee that iva saeparted are ours yet—o1 ing spirits t of salvation ia An that there intercommunication 0 of é ; but it is@ glorious *Pealltys ‘and the train is in ini coming, going, ing, goi friend of yours who died this st e lo you not suppose he told all the fam. ily news about in the land to the friends are gone? Do you not suppose that when there are hun- dreds of opportunities every day for uu your tears, your temptations, your struggles, your victories? Aye, they do. Perhaps during the last war you of sin, ee sorrow, ani ith, and meet in cation with, the Do you suppose that angels of God, | se coming down to this awful battlefield ever were, a they are waiting nd = the hamme; I console you still further with the idea of a resurrection, I know there are a great many pe ac hi derstand it; bt my friends, there are 0 stout es—I could bring a undred, but two ‘ewarthy passages are enough—an David’ will | strike down the largest Goliat r the Bie is coming im their graves shall othetjswarthy pas- The Lord shall descend jout, and the a % archangel, and the trum: the dead im Christ shall arise first,” there wil be si thing as a ‘reteretion x a great many questions I cannot answer about this Tesurrec- tion. r instance,: slay a there shall be he hi his arm amputated—in the surrection, ‘will that fragment of the body mn, thousand miles to g ® 2 3, Be 8 5 ¢. body, while there tl lion other spirits thing, and all the assortment to made within one a hundred and fifty men go into a lace of evening entertainment, me myriad m; tie ust ane will come and riads, and_ myriad: rite bodie: other in the air, do you hear the per- cussion? What is that ste. energy that solves a solid in a crucible? What makes the notches on Fag oak leat different from any other kind of aft Wihat orange-blos- tuft of a. heliotrope these. Can you do it? Then I will the rig riper takes place, The mau- men who went dow: by the me somed spirit, to the city of the bless- ed.” tari from despair, @| upon one of, resurrection’ at oy you will get back you: There is where the wife The ¢ in prose sympat a ‘rith you now more than they ‘Silence sia battled, and Rome fell, ‘rom our eyes.” finite grace, soothe you with an om- -- | nipotent The Greatest Age and conten' At the tae et ‘their death this ach to mountain ap but gazing in one other with these words. present ee thoughts this m that heaven ‘od, by His it comfort. MODERN METHUSELAHS., Mave Attab Niemens-De Cugna, anative of Ben-| hoy ‘They were are ts contemporan- eous with the three-times centenarian, but of course’ they may have made a mistake of a century or two. It is said of Cugna by the historians that he observed the greatest simplic- his mode of life, and hisfacul- marry many t bined ages of the Rovins, father a ther, al ited ears, father, John Rovin, , and wife 164. The Fr that they were married 147 years, and, order. i period trimonial ex- peace JAPS NEVER SWEAR. ‘4 or Japanese never swear. Their lan~, tttendance. at school, am making his- guage contains no blasphemous words. tory. fellows —| The more object, and "bat the throne a river. | nim, Which Some People osset remarkable hold on tife, and during his Hii years a selvedge. was forced to that His hair and beard pre pues seven rows of plain knitting and seven ven-; are wrung lightly lived POINTED acconcreen ata takes 8 pretty Pbk carpenter to Hast pugilist Crue! worae. geldom eut aJazy per- son to ally Dy aang his tire on the road a wealth, Weather-strips w as long felt wants, bread the ‘baker ‘makes 1 soon be classed the more he k. above Bea. ay) Src ela SY ee Som Maseral bial the nigel of their ast dias ieee a, : -|time in nursing animosity. archangel’s’ trumpet comes pealing, |, Some men, become crooked in trying rolling, reverberating, crashing across | ‘© ™4Ke both ends meet. continents and seas, the earth will| The more innings a man has the ive one fearful shudder and the door | ore he enjoys his outings. of the family vault, without being un-| It iq sometimes difficult to get even locked, will burat.¢pen: an the wae an wh credits you. caves of the dead ‘will begin to throb and heave like ves of the sea:| absence hing worsen sme poo tke the the mausoleum of princes will fall) ye ear) into the dust; and Ostend and Gebas-| ,-7B° early millkxman catches 8 glimpse Austerliz and Gettys-|f * woman's tru ‘The heii sts in a title doesn’t alas: pa ase happiness, Work is nuture’s physician, but most peo) oa Peden atic 's idea of Sais is to have kinaly thoughts of her rival, most because to interrupt them. Perhaps it is the microbes in kisses that cause people to fall “dead in love.” r| A few men “think,” others “guess,” some, “fancy,” while still others “'ree- peopl Brus Hele genealogical seceea ith cutting their poor relation! u spre aa times the beginning of another man’s success. ‘The less thought some men give t a subject the more liberal their views. With the exception of ourselves no one ever does things as they should lone. t must be hard on the fingers of the jolly mute who is always cracking Tt alr ays makes aman feel cheap, to be caught looking at a photograph of Soca etiquette doesn’t interest the o is wearing a porous plaster on a hot day. The happins some people de~ pends upon their shitty to make others { ing contributes more toward al setae domestic storms than ‘aclear Po ce. n go abroad to complete thelr aucation and others marry for the sam ane ot charity pushes = man fur- ther along the road: to glory than an act of ‘The o sential judge may be a m few words; but eis wot always a mon ntences. n Cghdital CLVOBEAN ED propose to a girl lacks the necessary Focks to get married on. Love may laugh at locksmiths, but it never smiles ht the owner of a bicy- cle epee denounce the stage aboale ened the, aulueteal is never as black as he §s painted. Copital and ite aie “commingle better if there weren't so many m Ment to get capital without ebay? uthern railway has a female train dispatcher, Nearly every small acquainted with a woman ewiteh-tende aie Ere atl case Pee Beaven| times, if Maffens, the historian of archangel, and trump of God, and the the Indi and Lopez Casteguods, KNIT A BATH TOWEL ead im Christ shall rise first.” You| historiographer royal of Portugal, can y icl Who] be They solemnly averred| A knitted bath towel is an uncom- that Cugna aye! to the remarkable| mon sort of work ta be engaged ‘upon, | age of 370 ye and a little girl who recently made one sonal, it would make a useful holi- day gift. As the is it can readily be seen that a would not be in any way 6 unbleached knitting cottom will be n needles should be use stitches. From beginning to the end knit plain the first three and last in any way may be fancied. For instance, times from black to gray and from| rows of holes. gray to The ignorant people of| ‘To make the holes knit two stitch- Bengal attributed his long life to/es together and put the thread over; magic. Cugna declared it was the re-| then two together, red bot the thread ct H i over across t) needle, and in return- sult of a good constitution and tem-| i507 knit every stitch, the thread over eddanginet cer the needle counting as a stitch. Then Peter Loctron, a French peasant,| knit another plain space of ‘OWS ae died ae sac 1724, at the ripe old) With three rows of holes, then a plain of 183 y% asa shat ten dg| rere eee ror and then begin the at towel cei na on the longevity list, as it is re-)” After bec fhe selvedge stitches knit port lain, tw 5 in, two" fy fovin famil. ‘unievax,| eam, across the nat ending with France, present a striking instance of the selvedge, i old age as a family dower. The com-| Fell t when washed. Eola ever be iront erable couple, hhree children liv- l i e end correspond with the Lp Bere igen gle ke Agee aha thotabe with = tick Ww vy ee it tee work 2 to be 169 Old. In his time three| before it is done, fm iteons and one King were beheaded, | and’ most’ satistacto d he often said that had he be- ORE Oa longed to the royal family he would HIS OWN MAKE. never have been a centenaria I pronaly said the boy who’ was up his own excuse non- a child can easily learn | What are you doing? asked br idle, |