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a* 4 Pm & ~° wLZ The\ was the verdict that went forth and thus it was that the hand of God struck him down, and set ber. .lreo from the unbearable yoke and burâ€" dem of his conscious companionship. Rose need never be afraid of him any more. There was nothing to be done bet to surrond him with such care and attention as were necessary to secure his bodily comfort. A trained attendâ€" ant was easily found. A few simple froocriptions as to diet and exercise earnt from the London physician who Interested himself with more than orâ€" dinary kindness in the sad lot that lay before the beautiful woman who had sent for him, and then she turned her back for ever upon Longway Road, and the old garden, and the summerâ€"house upon the wall, and went forth to seek a new home, bumble in size and surâ€" roundings, and lying secluded and far away in the bosom of a green westâ€" ern English county. Here she set up her housebhold gods and began, or tried to begin, her life ence more. Martine and Jacques, of course, went with her, and her busband‘s attendant that was the whole of her retinue. Then one day, the better part of Rose de Brefour arose within her once again and she was struck with ‘shame that she had yielded so long to despair and Inactivity. The cultured mind could not slumâ€" ber in its misery forever. The brilliant inteilect, the keen, appreciative brain fought their way instinctively out of the dark mists of suffering and sorâ€" row, and came to the front once again. By her books she had rescued herâ€" self long ago from succumbing to the circumstances of her life, to her books she now turned again, and raised berâ€" self anew out of the abyss of paralyzâ€" ed hopelessness into which ber fresh troubles had dragged her down. _ t She set to work to sort and settle her library, and was surprised to disâ€" cover at once how great ‘was the pleaâ€" sure she derived from the occupation. The very touch of the calf bindings of her old friends awoke keen tinglings of delight in bher fingers, and the glimpse of parchment pages and roughâ€" edged and brownâ€"stained leaves causâ€" ed her Reart to throb with a longâ€" forgotten joy. s Soon she lost berself and her idenâ€" tity once more in an existence ot abâ€" sorption and meditation, and all the great undying words that noble minds have bequeathed for ever to the world to which they bad bid adieu became once again the very meat and drink of her existence. There came a day, when Rose de Brefour, looking up thankfully to the winter heavens above her, could exâ€" claim from her heart, with a smile of jaws .00 . c cao o. eaeasy €Ou _ "* I thank God for the great good gift He has given to meâ€"for the friends who never change or die, for the comâ€" fort that is never failing for the joy whose sources lie deeper and spring up more unfailingly than any human hapâ€" piness I" _ _ And so, in her own way, she was at peace once more By degrees. too, the house she had come to live in grew more humanized and refined. She took some pains to beatify and adorn it and add to its scanty furniture, not because of any strange eyes thit were likely to look upon itâ€"for now, as in the past, only from a different cause she knew no one, and was not likely to receive visiâ€" tors. It was simply and solely a love of beautiful and pleasing things that actuited her, a natural leaning toâ€" wards all that is refined and gracious in the surroundings of life, that is doubtless an innate tenden®y in every highly cultivated mind. So the little house, no longer bare and desolate as on that dreary night when, all unknown to her, Geoffrey had stood without, and looked through the uncurtained window, become, in a humble way. a reflection of her own orderly mind and a fitting background to her own beautiful self. [ In fixing herself some fifteen miles north of Lilminster, Madame de Breâ€" four had had no thought of bringing herself into contact with Geoffrey Daine, or with any of the past scenes of her life in Hillshire. She was not in fact, in the very least aware that the Hidden House had been purchasâ€" ed and restored and renovated by Matâ€" thew Dane, and presented by him as a weddingâ€"gift to his nephew. She imagined that Geoffrey and his wife must be living in London, and nothâ€" ing could be farther from her thoughts thin she ran the remotest danger of meeting either of them. As a matter of fact, she ran, in the ordinary course of events, mo such danâ€" ger at all; for a great spur of the Downs lay fixed between her house and Lilminster, and a road so bad and so stony wound painfully over the hills in that direction that an effectual naâ€" tural barrier was raised between her and any frequent intercourse with the more civilised portion of the county. No comnon occurrence would have served to override this barrier. But one a;y. Fate or :’rovi_tc‘lence,d or what« ever it i at has the dÂ¥rderi=g or The daily Qn}v'}afifiea of our lives, interâ€" fered in am unexpected manner, and fered in an uncikpecicu Im@umelg U an event, unsxciting in itself, bu, proâ€" ductive of upexpected reslts, was sufâ€" fered to tak«» place. L l.';i:.i"le..‘-;;»xl;i'xiév'downstnirs with a trayâ€"iw1 of glass «od crockery, tripâ€" CHAPTER XXXV.â€"Continued. NTE enE "I would pay myself!" cried Marâ€" tine, striking her ample breast tragâ€" ically with a couple of sharp, emphaâ€" tic blows. " Nonsense |" said her mistress aga!n. "I tell you what we will do, you and I, Martine, we will have the ponyâ€"cart quite early toâ€"morrow, so as to give the pony a rest, and take plenty of time, and we will drive into Lilminâ€" | ster and get all you have broken ‘there." And so it was settled. ped against the carpet and fell. The tray was percipitated into the hall beneath, and every single thing that was upon it was smashed into atoms. The faithful old woman, to whom every item of Rose‘s possessions was precious as an inestimable treasure, ran weeping into her mistress‘s presâ€" ence CRHUT. Ah! what was to be done? She bhad brokenâ€"*" Dieux des Dieux !~â€"what had she not brokentâ€""des carafes! des tasses ! des assiettes !" and, worse calaâ€" mity of all, the china lamp which was always lit at Rose‘s elbow every night, as che sat over her books, had been reduced by her unicky tumble inâ€" to a very ruin! o y " Ah! malbheureuse que Jj¢ SQWSB! cried poor Martine, wringing her bands,.with streaming eyes : "all these years and no such misfortune has ever happened until this accursed day I" 4 APm e im Nn tss P Roge endeavoured vainly to console her. Martine flung out ber hbands with a gesture of despair, and enumâ€" erated the list of casualties over again, ending with quite a desperate cry of " Et la lampe! la lampe!" _"*I must go up and buy all, don. toâ€"morrow !" s Y _‘ Nonsense, Martine! Your journey would cost more than all you have broken." es Mdme. de Brefourâ€"more for necesâ€" sity‘s sake than for pleasureâ€"had set up a little village cart and a strong hardy little pony, who could do a long day‘s work and be none the worse for it. Jacques, who was now butler, gArâ€" dener and coachman eombined looked after it and drove it daily into the nearest village to procure the necesâ€" saries of life for the little household. The following morning early, after breakfast, Rose and Martine started together on their expedition. _ Rose, with a list of things, which the apâ€" proaching visit to a town and shops suggested to her, and Martine with a huge market basket, of French oriâ€" gin, in which to bring back the purâ€" chases. And over the shoulder of the Downs, along a chalkâ€"besprinkled steep and rutty road, their way led them in proâ€" cess of time straight down into the village of Coddisham. > R Martine, elated by the unusual deâ€" light of a drive, and by the keen sunâ€" shiny air, discoursed, as was her hab it, when alone with her mistress, in a free and untrammelled fashion. " Ab! if it would only please Heavâ€" en to take that poor, Monsieur Leon to Itself{!" she began in that artless and ou.spoken manner, which she nevâ€" er took the trouble to repress, * then Madame might live in a town and marâ€" ry again some rich and handsome Monâ€" sieur." " Martine !" oried Rose, reprovingly, " how can you speak so oft poer Monâ€" sieur Leon." f 5 " Ah! yes, I know, la malhaureux ! Does anybody wish him to live, I should like to know ? Not even you, mon ange, though you are so good and resigned to that which le bon Dieu orders. Even (ylnu would be glad if he were to ie I" a thing I" " Mais pourquoi done?â€"since we all think it, every hour of our lives Oh ! I do not think that the thoughts that are spoken are any more wicked than the thougbts that are thought," continued this philosopher of a modern school. Moi, je n‘y vois pas de difference! And if it was to make you happy after the trouble you have endured, why it might be almost a virtue to offer up daily prayers for it to come to pass. Only think, Madame, if you were able to marry again !" _ Hush Martine, I am too old for such thoughts !" § C y o The flush of pain upon her mistress‘ face warned her that she was treading on dangerous ground. Madame de Breâ€" four only said sadly : Aap " Ah! ah! when there was Monsieur Geoffrey. Ah, but he should have waitedâ€"celuiâ€"la !" "Dear Martine, you mean it kindly, but I am never likely to marry againâ€" moreover, it is a sin to wish for the death of a fellowâ€"creature, however sad may be his earthly conditions." But Maritine was an obstinate old woman, and only tossed her chin deâ€" fiantly. She refused to see any sin in wishing for the death of so unprofitâ€" able a person as Leon de Brefour. "It is possible ihat he might serve some excellent purpose in Heaven," she muttered, "but upon this sarth it is certain that there is no further use for him." And then an exclamation from her mistress turred her thoughts from this theme, which for years past had preâ€" sented a vista of fertile speculation to her mind. For the pony cart, after slowly toiling upwards for nearly an hour, was just rounding the shoulder of the Down. A gloroius scene opened out before them. _A vast flat plain, reaching away for miles, lay spread like a map below. _A plain swept by sunshine and shadow, and meiting away into the tender indistinctness of the horizon, whilst close on either side the long range or roundâ€"topped hills swept back, curve beyond curvze, like great billows of a.giant ocean that bave sudâ€" suddenly been stilled into immovable silence. Immediately above them, a conical head, the landmark of the range, rose bare and bleak above its fellows, its brown face, scarred by the furrows of mainy waterâ€"courses and seared by the whirlwinds of a thousand storms. The day was fresh and sunny, and crisp, with g‘bit of frost in the aip. . The windâ€"blown clouds fluing swiitâ€"changâ€" ing shadows upon hill and plain, nestâ€" ling lovingly in the great hollows of the Downs, or hurrying with lightning speed across their swelling bosoms. _ The Downs were looking their best. How often, & year ago, had Rose lingâ€" ered amongst them, and watched their But it is wrong to speak of such je suis!" in Lonâ€" varying loveliness, and how dearly as she watched them bad she mot learnt to love them! _ o ces 36. Involuntarily she pulled up ber pony for a moment, so that she might stop and look at their wellâ€"rememâ€" bered features. A down country i8 like the sea, it gives one the same imâ€" pression of infinite power and of illiâ€" mitable vastness. _A man who has been bred and born amongst the Downs can scarcely fail to have at his heart that solemn conviction of the greatness of the works of God, that sense of the immensity of Nature, with which a seafaring population is more generally â€" credited. Those round, grassy hills, swelling away one beâ€" hind the other, grow upon one wonderâ€" fully when one comes to dwell amongst themâ€"they are so silent, and so vast, and their very uniformity fills one with a marvelling awe. Rose de Brefour had known their strange, weird fascination, and had learnt to love them once ; and now as she looked upon them again, memory carried her back to a certain April day, not quite a year ago, when the east wind had swept chill and bitter across their green bosoms, and the litâ€" tle lambs had sped away at her apâ€" proach, and she herself had gone up to wait and to watch for a puff of white smoke across the far distance of the plains. And as she remembered that day, her eyes filled with sudden blinding tears. _ She gathered up the reins again, and the little pony trotted gaily on, and very soon was carrying [;hpm down hill towards the plain beâ€" ow. Then Zlpof a sudden, as they came down the rdad, a something familiar struck her in the aspect of the counâ€" try. _A square church tower below, a cluster of thatched cottages, a redâ€" gabled vicarage house, amongst the trees. â€" Surely, surely thus must be Coddisham itself! She pointed it out to Martine. She had not guessed that the road would lead her so near to the village, yet since fate had brought her here, a sudden fancy to see everyâ€" thing once more came into her mind. "Martine," she said to her companâ€" ion, as they entered the little village street, "I should like, I think, to stay here and have a walk whilst you take the cart on into Lilminster; you can put up at the hotel, you know, and do your shopping and get some food, and then come back here and pick me up just here by the churchyard. _ I will give you an hour and a half, but do not hurry. I will wait here till you come." And so she alighted, and Martine went on alone. She walked back slowly towards the church, under the overarching boughs of the avenue of trees, that led towards it, under which she had walked that Sunday, now so long ago, when she had met Geoffrey for the first time. _ There were no Diamond Cut Diamond golden leaves, fluttering about her now as she walked, and upon the bridge across the troutâ€"stream no slight figure clad in rough tweed, watching her with a startled look of wondering admiration in his wideâ€"open brown eyes. Half expectant, indeed, she paused, lest some faint vision of that dearly loved face might perchance be conjured up for one brief second by the sad passionate longings of her still rebellious heart; but there was nothingâ€"nothing but the low, mossâ€" grown brick wall, and the babbling brook, singing ever on its way, and the speckled trout hburrying to and fro under the opalescent wavelets. Rose de Brefour sighed. The past never comes back to us. Those sweet moments, so simple yet so happy, that we treasure so fondly in the storehouse of our hearts, never again repeat themselves, howsoever we may yearn and pray for but a shadowâ€"like visâ€" ion of their longâ€"withered joy. _ The place may be the sameâ€"but we are changedâ€"or some one who threw the â€"glamour over all is missing, and we find again in the familiar features of the scene nothing more than the chill blank of a sorrowâ€"laden emptiness. Yet, whilst those vanished hbours were still our own, within our graspâ€" how little we valued them, how lavâ€" ishly we wasted themâ€"how wantonly we flung away in handfuls the rich prizes for the very least of which we now starve and pine in vain! And so the threads are spun amidst sunshine and laughter; spun, and then snapped and lost, never to be found again ! Thinking of all this, Rose de Breâ€" four sauntered on sadly and dreamâ€" ily till her wandering footsteps carâ€" ried her, half unknowingly, past the church, and the last of the poor litâ€" tle thatched cottages, upwards once more towards the great silent Downs above. At first she had no definite intenâ€" tion save to wander vaguely and to think over the past; but when she found bherself back again upon the free, breezy, upland plain, she told herâ€" self that she would walk for a mile along the hills and look down upon the house in the chalk hollow that bad once been her home. The crisp wind caught her pale cheek as she walked, warming it into an unâ€" wonted glow, and ruffled lightly the thick tresses of her auburn hairâ€"not all the disfiguring ugliness of her crapeâ€"covered garments could tarnish her rare and wonderf{ul beauty. She went slowly, thinking much of those stolen days of transient happiness of the past year, days when she had tampered with wrong, bewildering her wiser judgment amidst a maze of false instincts and unreal imaginationsâ€" things which had been foreign to her nature, but which sae bhad permitted herself to be led away by, for the sake of that short fever of hopeless love that had possiessed her so ceterminâ€" ately and haunted her with such remorseless persistency. it "Ah!" she cried, half aloud. ‘"How foolish are those who dread the reâ€" tributions of another world! _ How little they must know of this one! Is not life long enough for punishment and do not a few short years bring down the irrevocable consequences of our sins upon each one of us f" _ _ Then she looked suddenly up, and be« cause the Downs are vast and wide and open, like the plain of their protoâ€" type, the sea, and because like it there can be nothing sheltered or hidden upâ€" on the grandeur of their greatness, then it came to pass that, far away, ghe discerned asmall dark speck comâ€" ing towards heérâ€"a man upon a horse. Very far away when first she saw it, yet coming ever nearer and nearer to her. And then suddenly she stood still, clasping her hands, tightl{ upon her breast. To conceal herself would be impossibleâ€"flight would be in vain â€"and yet had the green earth openâ€" TORONTO d and swallowed her up alive she would have been glad. * For she saw that it was Geoffrey How a Party of Tourisis Were Nearly Carâ€" ried to Their Death. When the "iceâ€"bridge" over the gorge below the falls forms at Niâ€" agara, tourists are likely to flock, to it, since from it a superb view upâ€" ward and upon the cataract can be had. From this icebridge, indeed, the cataract appears to be falling from the very skies. On the 2ist of last J@auuary the ice seemed very strong in the great gorge and more than a hundred people, mostâ€" ly tourists, had ventured out upon it. They were moving about, or standing and looking at the falls, when some of them became aware that the ice was heaving, and soon all of them heard a groaning and crushing sound. Presâ€" ently they saw that they were moving downâ€"stream. The mass of ice on which all these people stood had broken away from the shore, and was moving down toâ€" ward the Whirlpool Rapids. To be carried into that maelstrom meant cerâ€" tain death. The people on the iceâ€"floe as it had now become, were men, WOâ€" men and children. They were filled with terror, and rushed toward the American shore. But a wide fissure had formed here â€"altogether too wide for any one to leap across. They rushed the other way, and here, too, a chasm of open and swiftly rushing and tumbling water separated them from escape. The iceâ€"raft, already feeling the inâ€" fluence of the whiripool, which was but a few hundred yards below, tossâ€" ed and tumbled and strained. The men on the raft feared that it would go to pieces and percipitate all who were upon it into the torrent. They counâ€" selled the people to crowd near one side, and take the chances that the curâ€" rent should force that edge against the shore. e It swung toward the shore, touched it, and the men, women and children poured from it to the landâ€"all exâ€" cept two, a main and a woman. Before these could escape, the iceâ€"raft had swung out intu the stream again, and was pitching up and down more wildly than ever, and rushing downward toâ€" ward the whirlpool. All beholders had given ‘them up, and they had themselves given up, when a rough counterâ€"current caught the ice and hurled it toward the Canaâ€" dian bink. It did not touch; there was still a gapâ€"it even began to widâ€" en, when the man urged the woman to jump. She did ; he followed her on the instant and pulled her up on the _They were saved, and by what will always seem to those who beheld it a special intervention of Providence. The Cry of the Night Workersâ€"**We Want More Trams ?" Engaged in all sorts of occupations the allâ€"night toilers of London form a population equal to many of the flourâ€" ishing cities of England. Men whom the day workers seldom moet or know take up the thread of London‘s busy life and carry it on with never ceasing activity throughout the night and early morning. Vast and imâ€" portant as this section of London‘s working beeâ€"hive is, the end of the nineteenth century finds them almost totally without means of tramway and omnibus transportation to and from their homes . The sight of thousands of weary workers plodding homeward for miles through the London streets between midnight and dawn is, indeed, a curiâ€" ous spectacle. They represent many occupations. Over hali of the entire Metropolitan Police Force of nearly 12,000 men are on night duty,. Then there is the great army of postâ€"of{ice employes, and a vast proportion of the 13,000 or 15,000 bakâ€" ers are necessarily employed after midâ€" night. * In addition there are the night porâ€" ters, gas and electric light workers of various kinds, slaughter men, Covent Garden "hands" costermongers, street cleaners, chimney sweeps, and others. The hundreds of newspaper men have been kept backfor final mention, as it is popularly supposed that they can alâ€" ford to go home in cabs. But many of them hail from the economical side of the Tweed, and the national "carefulâ€" ness‘ prevents them from induiging in wheeled luxuries; so they, too, would welcome a good service of trams to the suburbs. To sum up, it will be seen that Lonâ€" don‘s night workers comprise a popuâ€" lation as large as that of many a proâ€" vincial city. And these thousands of brain and body fagged men have for the most part to tramp through disâ€" malstreets in the early hours of winâ€" try mornings ere they can find that repose they have so hardly earned. But tramless London is making proâ€" gress; very slow, no doubt, but still progress. There is yet vast room for improvement in the supply of allâ€"night â€"â€"â€" ssm â€"â€"___._._. cost of dry docks for twenty years, Butter is prime when it is fresh ; the and not to exceed in any case $20,000 man‘s youthful freshness disappears PeTr annum. . The law as it now stands when he reaches his prime. authorizes payments up to $10,000 and ADVENTURE AT NIAGARA. (To Be Continued.) LAGGARD LONDON. Can@~ | not be filled till the present investigaâ€" | . 3quveil; | tion bas been conciuded. I roman| BRITISH COLUMBIA STATUTES, || ier on | _ Lieut.â€"Col. Prior directed the attenâ€" |, n the | tion of the government to the tucll t wmlthat fourteen statutes passed by the d it a| British Columbia Legislature on Feb, | . ce. 27 lastscontain a clause prohibiting the employment of Chinese and Japanese. | / He desired information as to whether |‘ these will be disallowed. The Prime |‘ : Want| Minister rep ied that the matter was under the consideration of the Departâ€" ations | ment of Justice. orm a GENERAL SERVICE MEDALS. . flourâ€"| In the course of a reply to a quesâ€" | tion by Mr. E. F. Clarke, the Minister seldom‘ of Militia, stated that 11,578 applicaâ€" ead of tions have been received for the Canaâ€" n wilh‘ dian general service medal, of which ut the number 7,291 have been passed upon, nd imâ€"| and 161 decisions reserved pending ndon‘s| the receipt of additional information. { lb‘uux hundred and fortyâ€"one applicaâ€" of the|;ions have come in within a few days, fllmostl and with the exception of these all y and , bhave been c.assiliecd and arranged for from | ‘investigation. The quesiion of how |the distribution wi.l take place, and where, has yet to be deciaqed upon. wefuy ATTACHMENT OF SALARIES. miles| The House went into cominittee on ptween | Mr. Richardson‘s bill providing for the a curiâ€"| attachment of the salaries Of public in | officers and employes of the governâ€" Y |ment. The bill enacted that "in future | all money and salaries due by the Govâ€" politan| ernment of Canada toany public offiâ€" en are|cer or other person in the employ of : grear | the said government shall be liable to ul 4 | be seized by way of attachment in each | l a vast | and every of the provinces of the Doâ€" | 0 bakâ€" miunion of Canudu‘ in such proportion ar mid.| as may be determined by the laws in | }forue' in such provinces. It is furth-1 |er laid down that a copy of the writ it porâ€" of attachment shall be served on the | cers of head of the debtor‘s depariment who | Covent| Shall make a sworn declaration to the | street| Court of the amount due or to become | uthers.‘uue to the employee. The saftary| D have shall then be seized in the proportion | i; as it } allowed by the provin ial laws and the | Cap aj_| amount deducted by the government. any othegulthons may be made by the govâ€"| side of : @rnorâ€"inâ€"council for carrying the proâ€"| areful. | Y1°1008 of the act into effect, and an ging in amount of not more than ten per cent. Wwould i of the monthly salary may be deducted . ; to the ! to cover the expenses and costs incurâ€". .red by the government." l What the Legislators of the Country are Doing at Ottawa. Lama THE RAILWAY BILL. The bili to amend the Railway Act was taken up in the Railway Commitâ€" tee. The Minister of Railways explainâ€" ed the purpose of the bill at lengthb. He said that the first clause made proâ€" vision for a number of requirements that the committee had been in the habit of inserting in each railway bill that came before it. They were deâ€" signed to protect the public, and had relation espectally to the construction and operation of telegraph and teleâ€" phone lines. Another clause incorporâ€" ated in a general provision the usual regulations respecting the construcâ€" tion and operation of bridges. A furâ€" ther provision gave additional protecâ€" tion to railways in the interest of pubâ€" lic safety. It provided a penalty not exceeding $50 or two months‘ impriâ€" sonment for any injury to notices or other railway property. The same penâ€" alty is provided for anyone who enters upon a train with intent fraudulentâ€" ly to be carried without paying fare. |A new provision was one giving the‘ Railway Committee of the Privy Counâ€" cil authority to require the erection of 13 station at any point it deemed proâ€" \ per. Mr. Blair argued that experience {showad the desirability of this provisâ€" ‘jon, in order that railways might not be allowed to hold up towns by locatâ€" ‘ing stations too far away from them [ The final clause of the bill gave the Railway Committee power to frame |\rules to apply to all railways in the | Dominion. This was the result of comâ€" plaints of railway employes. There were many reasons why there should be uniformity with regard to operatâ€" , ing rules. Uniformity would afford adâ€" | ditional protection in the operation of \railways, and would do away with | the difficulty of employes of one getâ€" ting employment on another. I CostT OF THE PLEBISCITE. | The Prime Minister stated, in reply to a question by Mr. Foster, that the cost of the prohibition plebiscite up to June 23, 1899, has been $192,541, and about a thoueand dollars extra will meet all outstanding liabilities. | _ MONTREAL POSTMASTERSHIP. | In reply to a question by Mr. Quinn, ‘ the Prime Minister stated that the vaâ€" ‘ cant postmastership of Montreal will DOMIKION PARLIAMENT LBe AZBURNARRNE NCO C zsc s the St. Jobhn drydock scheme promoted by exâ€"Mayor Robertson of that city. It is also the intentiun of the governâ€" ment to provide that a sabsidy up to $10,000 a year may be granted toward the improvement of any existing dock., BUBONIC PLAGUE, The Minister of Agriculture stated that his attentoin had been called to newspaper reports that the bubonic plague had, reached Honolulu,, and inâ€" structions had been given by Dr. Monâ€" tizambert, Directorâ€"General of Quaranâ€" tine, to prevent the landing of any cases in Canada. HANDLING THE LATE MAIL. Mr. Mulock explained, in answer to Mr. Henderson, that the clause provide ing for bhandling late mail matter on payment of a fee would not interfere with the system now common in counâ€" try towns, by which, after the bags are closed, the citizens hand letters to the mail carrier to be posted on the train. the amendment will meet the case of C 10â€" 000. cotama qumnmintad London Truth receives from "a friend in the court of the Netherlands" a pretty story of Queén Wilhe\mina. The Palace of Soesdyk, in which she enilertained the members of the Peace Commission, was presented to Wilhe/m I1., by the states general, "in token of admiring gratitude for his bravery at Waterloo." The pictureâ€"gallery at Soesdyk contains a series of huge naintings of the battle, illustrative of paintings of ht D&LLIG, SAEUBUERTIENC AIE Napoleon‘s defeat. The young queen visited the palace to give orders as to its preparation for the commission. When she saw the hisâ€" toricai pictures she directed them to be taken down and put out of sight until her French guests bad departed, The royal Dutch maiden is said to have a strong will and quick wit, but she appears to have also the warm beart and kindly tact which have made the English queen beloved in all naâ€" tions of the earth. Another significant story comes to us, the account of the celebration of the silver weddiag of Duke Carl Theoâ€" dor of Bavaria, and his wife, a princess of Portugal. This royal couple, having greatl wealth and simple tastes, have given their lives to the service of the Duke Theodor is one of the most skilful oculists in Europe, and has conâ€" verted part of his Castle of Tigernsee into a free eyeâ€"hospital, where he treats not only royal patients but all of his countrymen who cannot afford to pay a physician. His wife is his trained assistant. The duke and duchâ€" ess are â€"bzlvc;‘;;a-by'all Bavarians, and their silver wedding in April was a popular hboliday. _ § The world has not yet done with kings and princes; but their real powâ€" er now rests, not on arbitrary tyrann bu: on the sams buman qualities wbici maike the bumvlest man beloved. FISH PRODUCE SILK. A shellâ€"fish known as the pianna in the Mediterrane .n has the curious powâ€" er of spinning, a viscid slik, which is made in Italy into a regular fabric. The silk is spun by the shell fish in the first place for the purpose of atâ€" taching itself to the rocks. It is sble lto guide the delicate filaments to the j proper place and then glue them fast, and if they are cut away it can reproâ€" | duce them. The material when gatherâ€" iedâ€"-.which is done at lJow tideâ€"is woshâ€" ed in soap end water, dried _ and .s_lralghtened, one pound of the course \filament yielding three ounces of the |fine thread, which, when spun, is of ‘a lovely burnished goldenâ€"brown colâ€" or. What a1d and fateful words are thesa« Too late! too late! too late! The bitter words that were our last, The broken vows behind us cast, The chance to do a kindness past, Too late! too late! too late! What friendships true there might have been ; Too late! too late! too late! The trustfuiness that once was ours, The sweet delights of happy hours, Have wither‘d like last summer‘s flowâ€" ers, Too late! too late! too late! Too late l too late! too late! Tender hearts are soonest broken, Careless wordsâ€"how essy spokenâ€" Scorn exchanged for Love‘s sweelt toâ€"= ken, Too late! too late! too Jate! Give flowers and kindness ere they be Ton late 1 too late! too late! While life, and beaith and hope are mine, Let friendship, love, and truth enâ€" twine, Then dark Remorse will not be thine, "Tis those who love that suffer most; Regrets may come too lite! John Imrie. Toronto, Canada. The average cost of the stock of the Metropolitan Street Railway Comâ€" pany, of New York, to the original stockholders was not more than #80 a share. Last week that stock was quoted in the open market at #251 a share. Here is 8171 added to the value of every share of stock, and the compiny has $40,000,000 of stock outâ€" standing. The Queen has a great and truly English love for fmagrant flowers of what might be termed she oldâ€"fashâ€" ioned kind, such as mignonette, wallâ€" flowers and honeysuckle. These are dearer to Rer than the chpicest orchide or other exotins. QUEEN WILHELMINA. TOO LATE! TOO LATE! hotel and station w mineg. Over 100 new i shortly ordered for railroad. The Be Guelph, h organs f1 A Belgium comy the sstablishment at Chatham. E. B. 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