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The next morning Mr. Everett was jubilant. He had enjoyed a profound sleep, and was ready for any proposiâ€" tion that suggested open air, and the society of the Minturns. He was surâ€" prised to hear that Larry had breakâ€" fasted alone, and had left the hbotel at seven o‘clock punctually. oc a M M .. 2..c < MB i ic d Auicts i omcs " Her name was never mentioned, I assure you." " Really | I wish I could get rid of this impression." " He seems engrossed by his studies â€"determined to succeed in his underâ€" taking." t "I bhope you are right." Mra. Everett used her eyes carefalâ€" Iy upon reaching hber destination, but there was nothing to discover that could assist bher curiosity. Miss Minâ€" turn was clipping blossoms into a basâ€" ket from some of her choice garden plants, and came forward, with basâ€" ket, scissors, apron and shade hat, to welcome her guests. She looked at Mr. Everett with an interest that attracâ€" ted and pleased him. Her grandmothâ€" er‘s recollections bhad excited her symâ€" pathy in his favor. This handsome, forâ€" mal maa, with his reputation as a leadâ€" "The boy is thoroughly in earnest," be remarked to his wife, who waited raâ€" ther impatiently for the wagon that was to take them to Mr.Minturn‘s house. Mrs. Everett was feverish with annoyâ€" ance, amxiety and disappointment. Her hnsband‘s state of mind added to her irritability. That he should find rest and satisfaction under the circumâ€" stances was most provoking. _ . _"Did Larry speak of Miss Minturn last night ? You said you met him and bad a iong talk with him." _ _ _ Eeveer Tess PPuet Pm ie n e er in the world of wealth and power, had once like herself been under the influence of her grandmother‘s care and affection. This fact bridged the distance between them. Underneath the calm â€"exterior.â€"beneath the proud, strong headâ€"there beat the honest, loving beart that ber grandmother bad known and sounded. She gave him a gomle. confidential smile that made is heart bound within him, and led the way to the shaded seats on the broad porch. _*"The nreeze is cool bere, and perâ€" baps you would prefer it to being inâ€" doors Grandma was bere a moment EU "And where are you gning?t" asked Mr. Everett. "To get more flowers and then inâ€" to the diningâ€"room to arrange them." . "May I assist?" | "Can you stand the sun in the garâ€" dent" : "Anything that you can put up with will suit me." ; Rose laughed merrily. "You shall have a big hat." Hoe followed bher to the ball and found a very becoming one. "That belongs to your son." He laughed with her, and they wanâ€" dered about the garden, taking their time in selecting pretty blossoms. "The party on the porch bhad been reâ€" enforced by Mr. Minturn and young Everett, and the gayety became genâ€" eral. The girls, during the day, urged upon Rose the charms of the Newâ€" port sojourn; but she laughingly reâ€" @isted all their appeals to enioy them. Larry found an opportunity to conâ€" sult bis mother regarding a country house in the vicinity and a mode of living that would enable his father to withdraw from active business. Mrs. Everett was accustomed to listening to her son. She respected ms ideas even when she did not assent to them. His ;nrnostness surprised â€" and impressed er. "You are mistaken if you suppose that your father would consent to give up bhis work now. He is only fifty. New York men stay in the swim, as they express it, until they are seventy er more. Why, he would be miserable, buried alive in a place like this."‘ "But he should stop for his health‘s sake." "Nonsense! He looks remarkably well." He complains of his head." "He stays up too late at those inâ€" terminable clubs." "Exactly. If you bad a nice place here, he could invite friends to stay with him:; but the strain would be done away with, I know hbe could be inâ€" duced to turn country gentieman, and Everett was accustomed to slCHINE 117 "Why not? Take up a history; the‘ her son. She respected mis ideas even I Frenchy are described gs brillial;ayt, suâ€" when she did not assent to them. Hn;n perficial, vain, and fickle. They havoi ;arnostness surprised and impres8®0 | Syiminated belief in God and faith in er. P s women‘s purity. The individual makes "KYou are mistaken if you suppose| y3 Wokio$"‘t Wigh Mollie could see an that your father would consent to %\ve American marquise that I met in Florâ€" up bhis work now. He is only â€" fifty. ence. Her eyes had but one expresâ€" New York men stay in the swim, ?H | sion; that of a frightened, hunted aniâ€" they express it, until they are.seve::]y malâ€"misery incarnate. Yet she had all or more. Why, he would be miser@bl®, | }y% ininys for which she sold herself. buried alive in a place like this. h *I used to want to wring that brute‘s '{‘B‘.“ he should stop for his healt sineck when I met him alone. The devâ€" sa ke."" il lurked in bhis eyes; his mouth was "Nonsense! He looks remarkably ! tigerish. Poor girl ! He wouldn‘t let her well. % {speak English,. He bad a mistress He complains of his head. ._ | within a few squares, whom he sup "He stays up too late at those in~ ported with his wife‘s money. Fortunâ€" terminable clubs." s ‘ ately, the properiy is trusteed â€" he "Exactly. If you bad a nice Pl@C€ | can only waste bher income. She is here, he could invnte'fnends to stay | young and she has one child. i have with him; but the strain would be done hear} that he struck bher when inâ€" away with, I know be could be inâ€" | furiated|"‘ duced to turn country gentlieman, and‘ "Why does she stay with bim T‘ leave the struggle to those who must| "I gon‘t know. They were married fight for daily bread. He has enough with three services. If she left bim money for all sengible needs. % she could not have her child. You see, "Ob, Larry, you are looking at things mother, I would rather put Mollie in in a new light. You are influenced by | her eoffin than let her marry one of the surroundings of this place. They these ruffians with their fine vencer wouldn‘t suit you. Your sister bas to of manners." Emm Sm C EOe L "Oh, Larry, you are looking at things in a new light. You are influenced by the surroundings of this place. They wouldn‘t suit you. Your sister has to be considered. Mollie must marry well." "Her admirers can come here." "She is ambitious. Ever since her friend married that French nobleâ€" man she bas felt like meeting these titled people and marrying among them." ntae £ eE yY C cept men who are utterly incapable of understanding or appreciating them. And this ‘=.a misfortune that these _ "But bow silly! You should be able to show her the mistake she is makâ€" "I have tried to reason with her. She can see only the worldly side of it. Bhe argues that she is rich enough, and these men are abroad seeking Amâ€" erican fortunes." p "She doesn‘t know what she is riskâ€" ing." "No, sbe is dazzled by the externals. Why, Larry, that man who married Jessie Sanford was fifty, and she was under twaenty. He was all made up, wore artificial teeth and wig, and sould bardly raise his eyelids. I thought it was simply disgusting ! The idea of a young, bright American girl accepting such a future. I thought of her own hbhonest young countrymen, who would have given her something in return for her youth and beauty."â€" "Why, mother, it is disgraceful â€" positively shocking! It is to me someâ€" what ludicrous to watch the men amassing wealth for these toni.gn idLl- ers who take it, with speers for the manner in which it is made. Could there be a greater burlesque on reâ€" publican principles? But the trans portatiog af American fortunes is the least of the evils. These girls acâ€" CHAPTER VIIL men are not responsible for. It is the result of their whole education. I want you to explain this to Mollie; you can talk to her more explicitly than I can. I want to tell you what I know from observation, from reading, and from conversation. These foreigners impress us with their manners. Well, mother, they acquire manners as laâ€" boriously as we learn to spell. It is superficial. The bhuman brute is alâ€" ways there stronger than we'A‘mer‘i: cans can conceive of it. Now, P‘ll tell you why. You know exactly how to judge of the average American. We may be brusque or sauve according to temperament, talkative or reserved acâ€" cording to our company, We may be highly educated or have but asmatâ€" tering of book knowledge. We may be rich, moderately well off or poor. These are variable quantities, not vital, not essential to true happiness. TI‘ll show you wnat we have that is the secret of all that makes life beautifui, that creates peace and joyâ€"we believe in the chastity of woman." "Why, Larry I" "I knew I would give you ashock. Let me finish and then you will see the necessity of making Mollie realize the importance of this subject. We Americans are born with faith in our mothers, in our sisters, in all the nice women we meet as we grow to boyhood and manhood. We love those who are about us; we respect them; we are taught to reverence innocence, moâ€" desty, purity. We are reared in an atâ€" mosphere that makes us the chamâ€" pions and protectors of women the world over. We live in view of a home with love on its altar; but the cornerâ€" stone is purity. When we first go abroad and learn that there are in the world unhappy women who have lost their claim to respect, we are hurt, shocked at the revelation. We try to find excuses for them, and seek the causes of their condition in the presâ€" sure of circumstances which they canâ€" not control. _ A lost woman is a pitiâ€" able sight." "Larry, you astonish one! The idea of expressing sympathy for such a creature I" "Mother, this creature that you deâ€" spise is to be found in all classes of the community. But to get at the main pointâ€"these foreign noblemen begin at the other end and never reach the holy ground that we stand upon. You have only to recall what you saw and heard abroad. The infant boy is suckled by a stranger, and left to servants until old enough to enter school. He is never under the influence of pure women. His sister and his possible wife are in convents. His marriage is a contract; he taikes his bride as a mere business matter. This man‘s experience makes it impossible for him to conceive of an innocent, good woman. It esâ€" tablishes his position toward all woâ€" men. He does not except his wife. She must be watched. He is a jealous, susâ€" picious husband from the first, Now, imagine our typical American girl â€" petted, admired, strong in her own beâ€" lief in herself and in her motives, acâ€" customed to respect, and on friendly terms with scores of pleasant men, whose theories of life are in bharmony with her own. Suppose she marries this foreigner. After the little exciteâ€" ment is over, and they are left to themselves and each other, what have they in common? A title and a forâ€" tune don‘t include happiness." _ _ , _ "Suppose you have a talk with her. |Bhe doesn‘t know anything about | what you are concerned with. She might be influenced, as she bhas a great idea of your ability. She is conâ€" templating social position, pretty gowns for all occasions, having a coroâ€" \net woerked, and stamped on all her belongings. She thinks, if she thinks at all, that men are all alike, and judgâ€" es these foreigners by her experience of her own countrymen." | _ ‘"How is the introduction to be had?" | _ *"‘That is the easiest part of it. There are several of these oroamental speciâ€" mens coming to Newport this month, ‘and it is simple enough to get acâ€" quainted with them. You see, your ‘project of arural life is out of the ‘question. Your father is devoted to stocks, Mollie has her mind made up to buy rank, and I am depending upon | you to make me happy." _ _ _ "You take the most practical view of the subject, Larry." ‘"Mother, we are manufacturing our own about as rapidly as possible. Where is Mollie ?" "I left ber packing ber trunk. I suppose we won‘t see youâ€"until your fate is decided." CHAPTER VIIL "Impassible! I sbhall bave all Ican _ "Come, come, mother; I‘ll do what I can to please you; but I‘ll have a tussle with the stocks and the nobleman." "Oh, well, Larry, you are young and strong, and men are naturally comâ€" bative and like something to fight. I believe it was a mistake for us to come here. You had enough to occupy your mind, and now you are worried about {’our father and excited over Mollie. eople fancy that the rich have no troubles." TORONTO do now to feel prepared for the examinâ€" ation. Still, I am glad that you sent me bere, and delighted that you came to see me. If there are clouds in the family sky, I ought to know about them. I am no longer & boy, and a man may be dull in mathematics but sharp enough in other branches_of knowledge. I am going to sound Molâ€" lie on the matrimonial question. _ I don‘t suppose I have any rights in the matter, but it would be jolly to have a brotherâ€"inâ€"law that one could respect and like for bimself. o « c . Jak aiu IIRO NUR ACDRRETCCCY "Mollie may expect a return confiâ€" dence," "When I bhave anything to confide she will be welcome to it." . a y BATY MTRCE EhW TTRTTDTETTO COCOSCCC Larry found his sister stuffing small | articles into the coruers of her trunk,. | ziss yes come for a walk ?" j "Yes; you are very good to think of | it. Shall I call Daphne?" | "I want to speak to you, Mollie, I may not have another opportunity," _/ They left the botel and wandered along the shaded road. "I am sorry we are going, Larry.| It is so nice and restful here; but we must bore you dreadfully, and Isupâ€" | pose we‘ve turned the Minturn family ] upside down‘." | "If you‘ll change your mind, and stay here, I‘ll promise you to avoid beâ€" ing bored, and to prove beyond a doubt : that the Minturns have not even been ‘ shaken on their pedestal. See here Mollie, that is the proper thing for you to do. â€" Father will not go to Newport with you, but I think we could coax him to stop here and take a rest from business."" _ | "Miss Minturn might persuade him, I fancy. But, Larry, Miss Van Ness expocts to go to Newport ; the arrangeâ€" ments are all made; and I, too, have agreed to be there,. You are very good to want us here, I am sure." "It makes it homelike, for me, Mollie. Ican‘t see much of you again until the Thanksgiving bolidays.__ That is why I want to talk to you. You see, Mollie, the Everett family is ridiculously small. â€" You and I compose it. _ The way in which we live now tends to keep us apart, and from present apâ€" perrances the distance may increase. Now, if we could put our heads togethâ€" er and work for a jolly, comfortable homeâ€"say here, for instanceâ€"we might induce father to retire from business and take comfort in the real pleasures and blessings of this life. T‘ll guaranâ€" tee to introduce a lot of nice fellows, so that you and your friends will not lack companionship; and perhaps the happiness that we hear so much about and seldom experience may take up its abode with us." Miss Everett watched her brother‘s face, then looked ahead of hber, and preserved silence. ""‘Come, Mollie; out with itâ€"say what you think." "I was thinking that you have reachâ€" ed the land of pleasant dreams. You live in a paradise that imagination pictures. Oh, well, it is very sweet while it lasts." ; ‘"Molly, what do you mean ?" "Just what I say. A few years agod I would have accepted this offer with enthusiasm. _ It is too late. I have had my little dream, and it is over." "Why, Mollie! I never knewâ€"â€"" "I know that. How could you? Why should you ?" "But I am your brotherâ€"older than you. If you had confided in meâ€"â€"" "Ob, you were in Europe." ‘"One can writeâ€"â€"" ‘"Larry, I never thought of you. I6 was all so suddenâ€"so soon over |" _ _ ‘‘Precisely! _ What‘s the use having a heart if you‘re forced break it ?" â€"""And a:i:s_iâ€"sâ€"ivâ€"hy“yc;\i’flave concoctâ€" ed a plan to marry for rank?" a ‘"‘Nothing can wound your heart so much as to be false to its promptings. If you feel for one man as you evidentâ€" ly do, how could you dare marry anâ€" other ?" _ Everett drew his sister‘s arm in his and spoke gently. _ _ _ _ Arel ‘"Oh, pshaw! I‘ll marry some one who only wants my moneyâ€"who lays no claim to my heart." | hat "Let me understand this thing thoroughly. Had you a quarrel? JIa pique at the bottom of it ?"* ‘"Noâ€"what mother calls common sense. We met on the steamer going over andâ€"â€"" ‘"Yes, I know. Go on." "It was all settled between us; but when he came to see me, after we got horme, mother sent him word that I was out. She had reasoned that he was not rich and had no social position. He called several times ; then he wrote telling me that be was always informâ€" ed that I was out or engaged. I didn‘t answer his letter, so he took offence and that ended it." PA _‘"Why, you made no fight whatâ€" ever." "I didn‘t know how. You were away ; father seemed farther off than you. I was a fool, I suppose. If I had it all to do now, I should act differentâ€" ly. It was my first experience, and I lost the battle." ‘"What has become of him t" "I don‘t know." *"*You care, though. See here, Molâ€" lie, tell me his name, and let me find out somelhing «bout him. Keep these foreigners at arm‘sâ€"length, and perhaps you can return to the place of pleasâ€" ant dreams with me." "No. 1 have put it all away from me. He couldn‘t feel any respect for me. I treated him so shamefully. Don‘t mention it to anybody. _ You see, mother dida‘t credit me with realâ€" ly loving him. She thought it was a flirtation carried too far, and she was determined to get me clear of the matâ€" ter. She said she would never content to the marriage, that I had nothing to live upon, and that he was not in a position to marry. These were facts." ‘"‘True, but they are successfully dealt with every day. I am glad you told me of this affair. I never susâ€" pected that my demure little sister was suffering with what the French call an ‘affair of the heart,‘ because with them it is an unusual thing. I shall regard you with very different feelings after this." l "I am sorry you brought up this matter. You have excited emotions and recalled associations that I must put away from me. It would be misâ€" ery to live them over periodically." "It should be delight." "Oh, well, Larry, that is out of the question now." ‘‘*Mollie, it cannot be possible that you would marry from worldly motives. The man who would exchange his title for your money would always be conâ€" temptible in your estimation." _ _â€"*"I can hardly contemplate the idea of a girl of twenty coolly making fer "No more so than I should be in of to \ _ ‘"‘Naturally. _ Otherwise I couldn‘t ‘ have so much to say to you.‘" "Perhaps I am practicalâ€"more 80 than you." \ _ ""Practicalness is all very well; but you don‘t want to carry it to the realms | of insanity." ] "Oh, don‘t get beside yourself. That | doesn‘t help conviction. You‘ve said quite as much as is necessary. You see, you think as I did a few years ago. Wait until you indulge in ‘love‘s young dream,‘ and then find out that your family objects to your plans, and that you haven‘t the money to act indeâ€" pendently. Larry, young people are not worldly ; they are not even pracâ€" | tical. The parents interfere, and scatâ€" | ter their hopes, and sneer at their feelings, and ridicule what was sacred to them. When you experience all this you can sympathize with me and understand me. I am going to avoid ifuture suffering. _ The way is this: | enjoy the bright things, occupy myself with light interests, and keep my heart to myself. 1 see people doing . this. They don‘t allow themselves to feel. They pursue pleasure, they find entertainment, they don‘t care for others, and they don‘t want others to care for them." herself a future of such a nature. Where is your sense of moral rectiâ€" tude? â€" How can you say to ourself that you will relinquish all the boly and lovely joys of existence! Wh{- my girl, you are cultivating a morb d condition of mind that unfits you for taking a sensible, healthy view of the situation. A loveless marriage won‘t cure your trouble. Just possess iour soul in patience for a bit until I have time to devote to your interests. You can count upon me to help forward whatever is square and calculated to muke you really bappy.. Go back to dreamland ; it is at least a sweeter atmosphere for a girl of your age. Betâ€" ter nurse illusions and think of ideals than contemplate marriage on & worldly plan. _ At forty, such a theâ€" ory might be excusable in a woman." ‘"Why, Larry, you, too, have views and ideas about the subject." eokt "A pretty philosophy for an Ameriâ€" can girl of twenty with a father inâ€" viting insanity in his efforts to give her all that she desires I" C ‘"‘That‘s just it. My one desire was to marry for love. That was denied me. _ If I had been allowed to follow my feelings no doubt my best nature would have expanded. I would have had interests and duties to develop love and all the emotions that we read so much about in books. I might have had a little child to male me good and‘ wise. â€" But I was scoffed at. Why, L should like to know $ Grandma was married when she was eighteen, and father was born before she was nineâ€" teen. She was a happy, honorable wife and mother at twenty, with proâ€" per ideas and affections. I‘m a cyniâ€" cal, disappointed woman, not because I am heartless, but because my good impulses have been crushed! _ What you would like me to be I never can be. â€" The incentive is gone, Larry. I know lots of girls situated just as I am. ‘You see, parents are very inconâ€" sistent. â€" Let me show you how. They really force us as regards education. You know that we American girls are taught everything. Of course, it is only a smattering; still, we gain breadth if not depth. We go everyâ€" where, hear and see and read for ourâ€" selves. â€" Necessarily we are precocious; we are developed too rapidly, perhaps; but are we to blame? _ Now, then, when the natural result takes place, and we say that we love, that we want to marry, why, we are told that we know nothingâ€"that we are too young to judge of our own feelings, too igâ€" norant to decide for ourselves! Is not this all wrong? If you put a flower under glass and it opens, can you shut it again 1‘ To Be Continued. | _ Sewing machines have long been used for a great variety of leather work, Some of the machines used for such ‘ purposes, as, for example, sewing maâ€" : chines used for stitching leather or | rubber belting, are powerful machines that stitch through such materials half or threeâ€"quarters of an inch or more | in thickness. Besides machines used for | stitching ileather there are also made isewing machines that are used for | stitching paper in blank books and othâ€" Some of the More Curiouns of the Uses to Which They Are Put. The buttonhole sewing machine is familiar, but it is probable that the buttonâ€"sewing machine is less so. Such machines, however, have been used for years. The same buttonâ€"sewing maâ€" chine might serve to sew on buttons, of a dozen styles and sizes, but they would all be buttons with the eyes at the same distances apart. There are many buttons of various sizes as to diameter whose eyes are punched alike. Buttonâ€"sewing machines are most comâ€" monly used to sew on buttons that are placed close down to the fabric, as on underwear, and many other things, They are not used to sew on buttons as they are often sewed on clothing, where, after sewiug on the button, the thread is drawn with a few tight turns around between the button and the cloth, thus raising the button upon a little column. Ordinarily in the use of sewing maâ€" chines, the material is fed to the maâ€" chine. Insewing carpets the machine travels along the carpet. The carpet with the edges to be sewed together is stretched and held between the supâ€" ports of a frame. The carpetâ€"sewing machine is placed on the double edge of the carpet, along which it trivels, as it is operated, sewing as it goes. There are carpetâ€"sewing machines that are operated by bhand, and also maâ€" chines that are operated by power. _ Many a mother has a most trying time when giving some of her children their bath. The little ones commence to scream, and complain at the sight of soap and water and it seems that no amount of threatening or correcâ€" tion helps the matter any. Naturally the mother loses temper and, of course, the child becomes very cross. It is a good plan to engross the little one‘s attention by telling some storyâ€"someâ€" thing which would be of interest to him. He will forget how disagreeable the water is, and, lo! before he knows, he is washed, and that without any atruggle on either his part or his mother‘s. This plan has been tried and ODD SEWING MACHINES. GIVING THE BATH. COBBLING UP THE GLOBE Temâ€"Elevenths of Africa Sliced Up Among the Powers â€" Routh Sea Islands in &A €rabâ€"bagâ€"Arctic Ice Gardens. w The change in ownership in several large slices of land on the globe, as a result of the Spanish war, makes it interesting to take a birdseye squint at the earth and see what a precious émall fraction of it is not covered by somebody‘s mortgage. By long odds the most stupendous acquisition, at one fell swoop, came when the discoveries of Columbus vested the title deeds to the new world in Spain. Gradually, by writs of ejectment, based on revoluâ€" tion, all this superb domain has passâ€" ed out of her bands, till, at the end of four centuries, Spain now finds herâ€" self driven, bag and baggage, from bher venerable possessions in America. Next in ;xâ€")mt of magnitude was the English conquest of India, Australia, New Zealand and British North Amerâ€" ica. Good government in all these vast regions has tended to quiet title so far that John Bull may be looked upâ€" on as their permanent landlord. Rusâ€" sia‘s absorption of Siberia, the Dutch acquisitions in the East Indies and the territorial seizures of Germany and France left but little of the earth‘s surface in the open market. About a generation ago, after a serâ€" ies of discoveries in Afrea, the powers opened their eyes to the wisdom of slicing up the Dark Continent. Withâ€" in a single generation, and chiefly within the past decade, that vast area has been practically gobbled. Nearly the whole of South Africa and a huge part of North Africa have witnessed a rapidity of conquest comparable only to that of the Spanish captains after the discovery of the new world, but it has not, like the latter, been attended by bloodâ€"shed, rapine and widespread ruin. It was a commercial garb, pure and simple, with the philanthropic anâ€" nex, called the destruction of the slave trade, that oldest and direst plague spot on the continent. PARTITION OF AFRICA. It had, perforce, to be conducted on very different principles from the Spanâ€" ish seizures in America, because there were too many strong powers who wanted a piece of the African pork, and no single ogre would be allowed to swallow it all. So they resorted to dipâ€" lomacy. All the powers were called to the inquest, and each had his surgeon on hand with his knife. The autopsy was managed on business principles by the conventions entered into by Great Britain with France, Germany, Italy and Portugal during the year 1890â€"4. They called it " delimi.jng the preâ€" sent and {future spheres ot action," and the results were reasonably final. Exâ€" tent of the territories assigned to each of the contracting powers was defipâ€" itely settled by those important inâ€" ternational treaties. Of course, the naâ€" tives had no vote. It was division withâ€" out representation. There was one snag, bhowever, and they‘ve not got it out of the channel yet. The Germans introduced a diploâ€" matic novelty called " Hinterland." It means blacklands, or the regions exâ€" tending inland from any strip of ocâ€" cupied seaboard, much like the comâ€" monlaw claim that a man who owns property, owns to the skyâ€"‘*" usque ad coetum." The first clash under this theâ€" ory came when Portugal ran her claims inland till they butted into a choice reservation of John Bull. This was actually settled by a compromise, but there bhas been continual friction ever since over the Hinterland prinâ€" ciple between England, France and Germany in the Central Sudan and the South African dominion. It may lead yet to a warlike matinee. In this way, Africa, which, fifty years ago, was largely the property of conâ€" fiding black cannibals, without wardâ€" robes, is now actually occupied or adâ€" ministered by the powers, or claimed as under their protection, or withis their respective spheres of influence. Large sections of the protected lands are really "administered" by trading companies which enjoy almost soverâ€" eign rights and are responsible to the home governments. Other regions, such as the Cape and Natal, constitute selfâ€"governing colonies, in the enjoyâ€" ment of representative institutions, while others are crown colonies. The vast Kongo basin has hitherto been administered under international guarâ€" antees by the king of tne Belgians. DARK CONTINENT GOGBBLED. So the African autopsy now stands as follows, according to the latest auâ€" thorities. The total area of the conâ€" tinent is 11,980,000 square miles, and here is the result of the dissection in square miles up to date: Great Britain . .. .. .. . .2,818,000 Friahnto, . .. Ono /n + . 8,074,000 Portugal. . .. .. . . . 884,000 Germany. . .. . .. « . 823,000 Italy... » s + o+ 00.596,“” Spain . .. . . . + + + + «_ 263,000 Turkey, . .. .. ~= â€" +1,072,000 Kongo Free State. . .. .. . 900,000 Total European African posâ€" sessions. . .. .. . . . .10,980,000 This leaves the black gentleman and ladies in the proud position to call their own just one million square miles of their c:.girai homestead claim. This bagatelle cf earth is put down in the diplomatic column as ‘ independent and unappropriated," and lies chiefly in the extreme south of Morocco, in Wadai and in regions around the Darâ€"Banda, or core of the continent, where the inâ€" dustrious ivory peddler is still an unâ€" known quantity. Stanford‘s * stanford‘s "Compendium," date of 1895. For instance, with characteristic British modesty, Stanford claims for the queen the two Dutch territories of the Transvaal and the Orange Free TTLE GROUND LEFTI FOR _â€" 2/ HUNGRY NATIONS TO pEVOUR. A few changes must be made in the above figures, which are taken from ol the Fransvaal and the Orange Free State, " beceue: 1v§ifile _nominally auâ€" of the British South African system, with which their destinies are inseparâ€" ably linked." , tonomous, C200 40 } k0 30. > 400 % & @,010,000 6 w2 " Je ": : 1e . t . 8,074,000 +. % % *‘ » + . 834,000 xi x :( link o e « . 823,000 + * « + o+ # + o+ 596.“” Â¥ilisa‘x .â€"" ok~ s s POsOOd + +. s is se se +2,070,000 e State. . .. . .>. 900,000 they practically form a part tish South African system. _â€"-’_â€"____-_â€"_“__â€"â€"_-â€"__ E Again, it will be THE GL“B , | King Menelek, sinc ah:lka:x t:;‘e Iuli:; | and stands prepa LEFT FOR THE thing else ihat come! L q 200000 NO oo s hn ‘a0 King Menelek, since LDA® 91" ° . .. shaken the Italians out of Abyssina and stands prepared to shake out anyâ€" thing else that comes along. Still these are only maiters of detail. A mere transfer of title cuts no figurse when we are searching for unclaimed lands, At the same time it may be said that, in recent years, Britain has made some nominal encroachments OD the Dutch possessions in Borneo and Sumatra, but these little matters don‘t effect genâ€" eral results. t PACIFIC ISLANDS SEIZED. In this year of grace 1898, every inch of habitable Asia, Exarope and America, all of Australia and tenâ€"elevenths of Africa are claimed or occupied lands. VCE F ~ e . 4A wame in LBIS yCar Oe 6°CCC °2 30 Aam of habitable Asia, Exrope and America, all of Australia and tenâ€"elevenths of Africa are claimed or occupied lands. Nothing is left for the nations to gamâ€" ble for now, except the winsome 1C® gardens at the poles, the alluring a¢~ reage of Patagonia and a few petty islets in the South Pacific, where, in the immortal words of Sunset Cox, *"the men don‘t have no politics n.?d the woâ€" AnRCME MBE D MBR CE CC P C us men don‘t wear no clothes." For centuries the nations of Europe bave been singing the " Gobble Song" all over those tropical island groupt of the South Pacific. These are divided into Polynesia and Micronesia. _ The first name is applied to all the inl:m_du. 11P5l Harmdo 18 SPPRACOCC C O ccas ® north and south of the Equator, lying between the Philippines, Papua, or New Guinea, New Britain, and the neighâ€" boring islands, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides and New Zealand, and the meridian of 100 degrees west. The principal of these are the Hawaiian, Marquesas, Paumoti, Society, Samoan, Friendly, New Caledonia, Fiji, Caroline, Ladrone, Marsball and Gilbert groups. These are all very much alike in trop» ical products, and morals tougher than a boarding house steak. But they are all gobbled up elith'er But they are all gobbleéd UpP €*!//* in whole or on a copartnership basis. Uncle Sam bhas Hawaii, France has New Caledonia, the Society, Marquesas and New Hebrides; Great Britain has New Zealand, the Gilberts and the Fijis; Germany has the Marshalls ; Spain, for the time at least, has the Carolines and Ladrones; the Dutch, English and German have sliced up New Guinea ; Germany and England bhave divided the Solomons, while the beautiful and ferâ€" tile Paumotu is under the nominal rule of France as part of the Low Archipelâ€" ago. Samor has autonomy under a na~ tive king, guaranteed by the United States, England and Germany, but there are plenty of loose joints in this armor, and Samoa may be counted as among the possible geese to be pluckâ€" ed. MOTHER EARTH AS NJIOBE. By way of illustrating the splendors of these Pacific possessions and the ease of government, as it were, the Caro lines contain 652 islands and the Pelew group 200. Another group, part of the Caroline Chain, goes by the name of Ruk. Within a lagoon 180 miles in cireumf{erence lie seventy islets, chiefâ€" ly coral reefs, and each has its own breechâ€"cloth rajah or chief. Nearly all these islets are big enough to acâ€" comodate a game of gold. The "blackâ€" bird " schooner man who trades in these regions gets a wife for a case of gin or a bolt ef calico print, while the diâ€" vorce courts would make Chicago blush with raloua rage. There may be a few of these delectable vestâ€"pocket isâ€" lets left for somebody to walk up and ‘"‘govern," but it takes so many of them to make a decent bite, and their morals are so incurably loose, that the game isn‘t worth the candle. Mother Earth, so the territorial wolves say, is welcome to hug these remaining cho colate bantlings to her breast, like Niâ€" obe, for all the rest of her brood has been kidnaped and devoured. This is a day when the delusions to which one has held for years are graduâ€" ally being swept away by those "who know." One such delusion in â€" which we all once believed was that to read while in a recumbent position was injurious to the eyes. Oculists now tell us that if the light be good and the type of the printed page clear we may safely indulge in the luxury of lying down and reading at the same tllpe. But while our oculist tells us this, hbe also warns us that we may not use our eyes before breakfast, as the strain on the optic nerve will seriâ€" ously affect the sight. Bo she who would read before she rises in the morning must have ber cup of coffee and a roll or slice of toast brought to her bedside. Unless one has unusually strong eyes one must not read when one is extremseâ€" ly weary. Exhaustion and fatigue afâ€" fect all the nerves of the "body, and the optic nerve is so sensitive _ that it should receive particular consideraâ€" tion. Nor should one ever be guilty of the carelessness of reading or writâ€" ing facing a window. This, too, is a cr?'gl lill‘itin on the sight. f‘ of for want of faith in Him who proâ€" vides for the tiniest insect in the sunâ€" beam. Oh, when will we learn the sweetest trust in God that our children teach usâ€"we, who are so mutable, so faulty, so irritable, so unjust, and He who is so watchful, so pitif'nl. so loving, so forgiving? Why cannot wa li° HOW IT AFTRCTED HIM. bldun'tm'ihhtuuwhnlmll ve. Not ufilmim ot much, the money 1 apent on telegrams. ;\ 9 TeWLy, 80 irritable, so un‘jnut. and He who is so watchful, so pitiful, so loving, so forgiving? Why cannot we, nlir ping our hand into His each day, walk trustingly over that day‘s appointed path, thoray or flowery, crooked or straight, knowing that evening will bring us sleep, peace and home t CARE OF THE EYES. it will be remembered t::: n TE BB Interesting Items About Great Britain, the 1 AMH Parts of the Gio Assorted for Easy es Biratford wi supply. H. M. 8. Renow fatigable will visi Ist. The net debt of Q June 80th was $24.27 to reports issued at Qi The KRingston Pooi suspended some tim reinstated. The C. P. R. month sale of lands for Au those of last year. Benor Du Bose ha $500,000 against Lor« expulsion from Cana Major Waish, wh Beattle, estimates t output for the year . Warden Metcalf tentiary, has been vacation. The Cataract Pos supplied its first el« Hamilton. An epidemi the cattle in The price of ic« in Ottawa, owing supply. It is now Lord and Lady bid adieu to Cana Quebec for home A London, 14 loan of the cits ly be issued or BHalifax is to h will be the larges be mounted . by modern guns. The Quebec $10,090 towar offered by th pany. Dundas bas . $12,000 to John ada Tool Work premises. Deposits in the Banks during Jul £ wlight decrease . 4 ,'“l' AfO. JThe reports of Ktickeen routes ha by the Federa ed unfounded The Canad Parry Sound ecord of six from Duluth A fire, wl room of th Montreal, ©< Venette, on Gtratford wi for 20 years t pany, and will tures, as an ir pany to locate The Italian The Italian barg\ at Halifax on Mond reports that when ! Santos, Captain Au low fever and was same day. Mrs. M. V. Mcleo tress, has offered q t::it the $8,000 nec release of bail . who shot and killed at London. The first month « ence to 35 able resull ceipts for compared 1897, an 41 In Van continues BStreet _ i some $90 1 electric & intending [E VERY LA ALL THE WOR The ob Company. effect an ten pr. Cla sldent _ j Hospital, with a «s the medic associate ten aft« necte tired €|A L0 there 4@ peop e to get outfits W Arthur Fease for Darlington, The bwkinfi Exchange in euspended. the Ho vember The C castleâ€"onâ€"Tyne, 4+ ed States Governi break of the Spa to be soon hands EStates authoritie The London Ti a correspondent tion by the Briti can practice of flagship to the letins of all inf not necessary + The Millford | tors expect the « gotiations by wl of gteamers for 0 general cargo Y yun between a % Milford dooks. UNIT An Angioâ€" Am the sewing mac forming. inCce ra ce a at being 0 000 xt r Aug .TE L increa rs the will & in inc cate t Minto w otsman £1 Street phy Ot rit t Dawson away . Ti ind starti of Queb @10 ML V 110 is th GREAT CANAT n h D h the vem th 11 m, 18 M OT U WWC A lt MW M t »nt