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M u-i M. m - 1 \ - ' i :i fi >* Hor.f. nrr bnrar U U>* IJU< i>">! f*r -I v l j H.u ri While Kn.-h mr i. W .! I. " Hare, wake up, you fellars ! an' if any o' you itoveup steer stabbor* want l' make up for th' good horses yoo've run to death on th' round, jump into yer saddle* lively ! Thur'i e* fin* a bunch of wild horses *even mile* up th' draw *var jumped th* This wi* th* electrifying way iu which Bu.ted Billy, of the " X X'* cattl* outfit announced hi* arrival at our cair.p on Smony Hill Fork the other morning, as w* were at our simple breakfast of saleratu* bread, 'jerked" beef and corT*e, preparatory to breaking camp at the close of the stock round-up for the Big Sandy district m East- lashes out viciouily, and :' ern Colorado. For several days we ha 1 . strength trie* lo break been seeing wild hone signs, while riding the rang* to bring iu the cattle for cutting out, and only th* day before I had been , away a helpless captive. Many hoar* go roven of the rang*. AU ihow that it U only the aturdy (train of centuries coursing through their vein* which keeps tbem, with their wader at th* head, from plunging into torn* convenient " draw " to a wild and luicidal death, But life U sweet an 1 on they go. It is forty-eight hours DOW aince those haled herder* tint diiturbed their peace, and oue can aee that the end of the race i* not fir diitaut. THE KIRST VI'TIM. A little brown filly from the flying band falU, and U left behind, loo exhausted to ii*e. "A-ha-a!" lays the trailer under his breath. A (hot ring) out and at the signal two extra* coin* riiling up. The animal i* ro|>ed, but immediately leaps to her feet, n a frenzy of away. Another hurtling nou*e come* tailing through the air, linking over her bead, and (he ii led | la Trade d txrlrulinrr a Very ferloa* ..mini. >n 1x1*1*. Our London correspondent, (ays the Montreal Trad* Bulletin, writing under date September 24, aayi : It would be dif- ficult to (ay at what period in our history ther* hai been luch a season oi dulnew, low prices, busmen* stagnation and complete torpidity in commercial transactions. Everywhere trade seims dead. At the autumnal meeting of the Associated Cham- ber* of Commerce, at Newport, thi* week, Sir Albert Rollit, the president, aptly <1- (cribed the condition of affairs. " In the present stale of busineu," he said, " it was ditficul', if not impossible, to find much which was satisfactory, or even cheering, in Kngland. The pro*perity of the pant had given way to a wave of wide and deep de pre**ion. In the commercial as in physical world we met with more or th* lss wishing we might run across one of the band known to range in the locality before my return to Denver. Every man in our outfit that etrly Sum- mer'* morning knew hi* buaineis, and had only lo be told by Bob liraham, the boas of the round-up, wliat would be expected of hiiu, to go to the exact place in the forma- tion of the great circle iu tended to be drawn around th* band of wild hones ss the first move in their capture. Joe Sommers, one of the beet rough rider* I ever *aw, ind I pulled out of camp together on tine ponies. Making a wide wing of a dozen mile* to the northwest, and then gradually drifting toward the sand hill near which the band hail been lighled, we saw one tnd then an- other of the boy* who were doing the .am*. Then commenced the work oi what th* author of the " Fifth School Reader" would all "ringing the wild hone," but which by and one by one the weaker fall behind, and after a brief struggle are tied up. The band is completely broken down. d n.w i !ft ; .J- at the end of sixty hour* of continuous flight can scarcely stagger. Then comes the massacre of liberty for them. All the cowboys come crowding close around the helpless animals, which make but feeble resisianoe. An audacious cowboy even give* the lately proud and dashing leader a cruel cut in the dank, with tha flying Up of hi* lariat a* he quietly teal* up. But evin this indignity elicits! but a few spasmodic bounds, so greatly swollen have become the stiffened muscles j %nd fiery thirst in the captive's throat. The weaker have sunk down in the sand, and it i ocly a question of hew many of the ani- mals can be roped and secured by the mean* at hand to the rounding up outfir. Our Kit Canon cowboys were hampered periodic alterations, and tor some lune past the commercial world had been, and seem- ingly itill wa*, on the downward grade, trades, which af- fect most other branches of industry, were dull , the textile districts were harassed by tariffs and perplexed by economic, monetary and labor problem*. Sheffield, Bradford and other centres complained ol the an- nihilation of whole branches of business. the practical minded vai|Uero of the plain* in their forces, and, as usual, were e term* "a piece o' blamed tiiesome ridin'. " When the great circle, embracing several miles, i* closely watched and guarded at every point by trusty riders, the boss of the round-up give* the signal to start. The hono hunter i* not so foolish a* to rush in and try to make an immediate capture. He take* thing* easily. Capturing a band of wild hone* t* not a matter of speed so much a* of endurance. The circle being made ail secure, the next move in (he game U when the band of wild hones, the ad- vance stallion guards of which for some time have been suspiciously (nilfmg the air, see a little cow puny and rider leisure- ly coming toward them over the hills. This is enough. AX (jQl-rXR <JENVAI.. The beautiful black stallion, king of the band by reason of victory in imny fierce battle* (or supremacy of kind, gives a warn- ing snort and stands an instant motionless a magnificent piece of animate statuary against the sky as he sweeps the plains for a second view of the intruder. It take* only a second, hut in that instant, every sub-chief of thebandha* martha e I hi* members, every uiaro n** sprung to tre side of her colt and a* the equine comiiiander-iu-chief give* a nsigh of CKIIIIII tud and turn* for the flight, the whole band oi 300 horse* follow* in his ! piled to allow the greater portion of the Land finally to escape. It i* useless to try to drive a herd of these horse* to the home ranch, and it in also a hopeles* task to try to break an old wild hone for use. These never give in, and if they can do no better will beat their live* out the tint time they are tied up by dashing their head* against a post. The young animals are the only ones the experienced cattleman want*. After securing twenty five of tho best 2 year-olds of Ui nerd, we let th* remainder go uu- harmed. TH CAPTIVES. The animals we captured are fine speci- mens, being beautiful bay*, jet black*, roans, sorrel, three of them cream while* and four calico colored. Each of us had picked bis animal from the choice*t of the herd, and after roping them together se g t curely in a siring made straight for the nearest water, where they were carefully attended, to prevent iheir foundering from over drinking We took them to the home ranch with th* rest of the stock, where tii-y are now kepi, the pride of the X X outfit and the ubjecU of much specuUt.on on the part of the boy* in anticipation of their speed and other qualities, when the time shall come lo put them under the aaddle. BY THE HKST OF Tlifctl CAUSE*. The building trad* was chiefly occupied in punlic or Mini-public works, while ship- building was li'.tla more than a remem- brance, and shipping Wai guttering not only from commercial cause*, but also from an epidemic winch, in IS*.', taught to *uch a progressive port, as to many other places, the lesson which Hull learned in lS49-that it was not only right in iuelf, but true econ- omy to make proper provision for tho publio health. The official returns continued the local business reports, and indicated but very slight signs or likelihood of improve- ment. They showed that the volume of our trade had been diminishing, a/id that the import* du.ing the year had increased by three and a half millions, a* against the corresponding eight months of 1 vjl. This had been caused by a great accession of foods tufls (six ind three-quarter millions) and a comparatively slight increase of manufactured good*) (half a million); while our export* werj marked by a DBCKKAJE Or riVTEKX AMD A QfABTKR MIL- HMssj or over 9 per cent. It wa* obviously un deairable that such commercial changes should take place, and much ingenuity had been exercised to account for their apparent periodicity. The *un spots bail been cited, and soon they might be expected to hear of a cosmic competition from Man, with the advantage of double canals, or the demand for red Martian vegetables an causes of the mischief. [Laughter] But the truth was we must look at home ; the spots were here, not on the *uu. The cause of depression and of crwis WA* wild speculation, reckless at a dutancs a* b*r*tofcre. Tbu is so in many trades, and McKiuleyism aids over- production in depressing trade. Aud yet we still attend with open aims ami grate- fully accept all America and other protect ed countries Mend us. It i* time a reciprocity move was taken. Lord Salisbury thinks so. And he is not alone, and I understand that as early in the new Parliament a* the colossal contest* impending will admit, the question is to be raised. Ft is t TO OLO-TUIK NOT NK( K-^ABY TO i;o B.ki' PROTWTIOX. It U, however, only rational that reciproc- ity should be adopted America thinks she is indispensable to us. This is not so. \V are their l>et customers but there lies the m.|ui'y of their tanfl levelled against us. We can do without the n and can supply our wants in every respect from Canada, Auatralas'a. the Cape and India, while our possessions in Africa will presently be. >me a valuable supplemrn'. It is plea*uH for Americans to seo me transplantation on to their soil oi foreign capitalists. But the (ier:n.tu and KngTuli manufactures bring their workmen with them that is lo say, Ihe latter emigrate to where their work ha* gone, and when tanfl modification comes the rabid protectionists will have cause to fuel sorry. That is in the future. We have the present to look to, and it behooves us to look fact* sternly in the face and boldly ask the question are we going tu siti'own in the road and let the enemy pass over our bodies, or shall we not rather meet them face to f ice with the same guns, holding out our hands to our friends alone? IN A.:lUrn,TtK. Everything tends lo show liow setiou* i* the crisis in agriculture, which has been brought iO>out by bad seasons and low com- petition, but probably the greatest evidence on the subject is not yet before the publio. This U in the large number of farms which aru being given up all over the jmintry and for which now tenants will be wanted this winter. Wo believe that the rest It will be that many will fail to find tenant* and that all connected with the land have a bad time before them in Lane Express. the near future. [Mark Hi.- falllr Trade. The Glasgow Mail editorially discusses the Canadian cattle trade. It slyly pokes fun at the report* of loss on the part of everybody concerned in it, and very perti- nently remarks that if neither the shippers, the shipowner* nor the old country buyers make money year afusr year out of their I- iii&ictions u is simply beyond comprehen- sion why they engage in the enterprise at all. There can be no doubt, however, that the great influx of cattle has totally pros- trated cattle-raising in tho British Isle* and the (/recent appearance of thing! would indicate that the arrivals of cattle in the future will be still morn numerous, fur there w . M want thmt * along, out of sight in the rear, Tue cowboy lounges in lazy contentment on hi* quietly-grazing pony, Bui far in wake, aud (weep* across lha sandy reaches j - . , j j| Ilk. a wh.rlwmiS. and they switlly leave Uu , a Uack km ke , ch My ^^ . t ^^ n /. M ^ U ,! er .\ tl ' n l " l ' Ur ' y P* '"* *'ld '" thet ever tore up th' sage." said Joe the other day to me, as he affection- ately embraced the delicate head of hi* i - - . - , i beautiful little hone and .wept with ail- frotitof the advancing equine ban liualerli mlr , th , ueer ., Uo buii / f hi. LOW leader sou *ee* a second human form, f.vonio possession. shadowed by a spreading sombrero. > ith another commanding n-igh, the general stop*, anl with almost military precision iho entire band obediently comes to rest in his rear. A second only U losl in hesita- tion, and the troop is thundering over the ago brush at right angles lo its former course. In about three minute* another cow.Kiy i* igliteil in trout by the keeu- THE Bt IB HK4T TK11U. A MoreSBr-il Prvs <! Ta m;l.l be of Val Impurlji ur- to 4'anadit A despatch from Montreal say* : Your . rrecpoudenl loams that there is a very s*r visionad leader, and now, after another ; i O u> movement on foot to promote and ex __l I * L _ t . \ \ 1 ' _ I i ,-. wateof wealth, and "olten of prospective > a likelihood, the Cl-tsgow paper says, resource* followed by inflation, want of lhat the American cattle raiscM will soon confidence, contraction of crlit, trading be admitted to a share of Ibe trade. The English Agricultural Department are now ri-nsidering a demand for the admission of live United Slate* callle to lireat Britain, | and certificate* will be forthcoming that ; the Uni'e.i state* is free from disease. It i* lo and in eatment. " Sir Albert concludes that the Barinir crisis is responsible for most of this stagna- tion of trade, hut sufferers here are pi on* to think it is> due to over-production. Never that ay statement of this before m living memory have market, all I "" " J round been so bad. both foodstuff, and *">> * 'V'^""* .""*? , aB J* e " m manufactured article, going really at the ' Th Vorth British Mail, how.ver, sacrifice." we have learned to 'look for I "'" *> - Uke ll for m - nt " d U ' at the from too dry goo.1* dealer*. The British farmer alway* grumbled and always will ; and if you asked hi in at any time how things correspondent laarns that there is a very ser i icm movement on foot to promote and ex- ! wheel, the course of the band is almost par- I port trade in dead meat from tho Canadian ailed with the one taken in starting. At | North-west territories to China and Japan, i ev*ry turn now as th* hone* approach the It WM firjt rumored that sum* gentlemen hmiUof the jreat circle there itarts up a connected with tho Canadian Pacific were ' cowboy, aud as tb* band in swinging around interested in the promotion of this impor- | at last patten it* starting point a wild taut branch of Canada'* export trade, but gleam of defiance flashes in tb* *ye of the j suc h is not th* caae. The correpondeut leader. The frenzied animals tear madly on iu informed this evening that the matter originated with an Kniclish-speaking resi- their course, are turned at every point as j dent ol Hong Kong, who passed through before, and mako another lap of the unpris ' oniug human corral. Clear around again they go. One* <>n appioaoUing the limit of the circle the bold leader plunges straight ahead to lead his baud to liberty, anil one of the cowboys, with a perfect cannonade of shots from his brace of six-shootors ami wild waviugs of hi* big hat, turns them back. AN EX> ITINU I'll ASK. Soon a bronzed rider on a fleet-footed mustang breaks out from behind them and give* pursuit. Now begins the work which w* are all determined shall know no pause until we shall lead these cieature. of the plain captive to the use of man. The buii- neu like little pony in the dust of the rear ha* been there before and know* his busi- ness now. He has caught the spirit of th* sport, and while a whoop hunts forth from his ridor he is laying off the furlongs over the homes of the little prairie dogs in joy- ous bound* a* lie give* wild chase to the fugitive*. For mile after mile the startled jack rab- bit and coyotes scatter on either side as the living cyclone sweep* down the stretch. Itis turned at the quarter by two riders on guard at this important point. But now the quiv- ering sides of hi* favorite pony for which a cowboy will fight any day show the rider that his horse is becoming winded. On noaring (he next turn a shot from his gun gives the signal for a relay rider to take his place with a fresh hone. And so it goes on for hour after hour with relay riders- The light of day, with it. blazing furnace heat, fades into cool and shady night. The hours of the race have passed twelve ard are going on into twenty-four. The rising sun glow* again across the eastern hills on it* diurnal earth-encircling tour, but still th* msrciles* pursuit goes on and i* never allowed to flag. Behind the Hying band i. ever that amazingly fresh little pony and it* determined rilr AU day long the grim messenger of death ha* been in their wake, and BOW i* forcing the pace which (or the first twelve hour* the fleeing- horses were thcmselve* allowed to set. The cirele around which they whirl U much smallef now aud the plains' sand is heavy and dee\> from the trampling of the former laps. TK> stifling alkali dust hangs over the plain in clouds, blood i* mixed with th* flecks l foam now flung from tor- tured nostrils nnd the bloodshot but still defiantly gloimi:^ eye* of the mettled Montreal a few days since, en route for Creat Britain, where certain detail* of the enterprise are being perfected, prior to launching the great undertaking. Kxten- ive refrigeraton are to be established at Vancouver, on the Canadian side of the Pacific, and at Shanghai, Yokohama, aud Hong Kong on the Asiatic coast all of thene being owned and controlled by the pros- pective company. It, is understood that the greater portion of the cattle re<|uiied will oe obtained from the ranches of Al^er- ta, and that the killing will be done at Calgary or at some adjacent point on the Canadian 1'jtcitic line. The correspondent is informed that iho prometr> have con- sulted the cattle men in Montreal anil also the Canadian I'aciflc authorities with regard to facilities for transporting, and have re- ceived every encouragement from all con- cerned. A gentleman discussing the matter to-d.iy said that he had always been under the im- pression that China and Japan produced meat quite af cheaply M western Canada, but a Hong Kong gentleman had informed him that their meat was of a very inferior quality, and that if the Canadian article were onoe introduced in o;i>od order into those eastern countries, it< superior ity would even at an increased rate per Itx, certainly ensure a ready and extensive sale. The movement, in fact, will be watched with a great deal of interest by all classes, as it* complete success would mean millons of dollar) to the great province of Alberta and the Dominion at large. seem* to take it demand of the American* will beat-ceded to. " It l* not easy," it says, " to w* how such a demand can he successfully resisted. " While this li-mand is being considered, however, pleiiro pneumonia breaks out: among some American cattle on a ship at : Deptiord. The incident only shows th* necessity of examining very critically any evidence that may at any lime b* I'orw u ded proteasing Vo establish that cuttle disease I lius been stamped out in the I'uiied Stale*. It i. also an intimation of the ^ratest im- portance of keeping the disease out of this country, tr one caae of the dreaded ailment would seriously cripple a trade winch has already reached nearly $l),OOO,<)UO annually. Indeed the yrecariouine** of a trade cannot i be lost sight of. It is universally conceded ; that tho admission of the L'nitcd Slate* as j a competitor would be a grave injrry to Canadian exporter*. The wboU trade forward. Rales, then, | therefore, hang* upon two eventualities What drivel it is to i lne continuance of pleuro-pueumonia : were he would probably tell YOU, as bod as they could b* : but this year HE IIASREAMIN ON IMS sIDI. Live stock ha* gone down to a level lower than it lias been at for a quarter of a cen- tury, and while the consumer still heanhis butcher remark " weigh here, u'*. Sd. ," the unfortunate breeder groans as he pockets hu. 3*. up to Is., or a little over, for the finest animals our pasture* can prod .ice. So it is with bread, whio'.i maintain, iu last year's price, though the raw material is J" pi>r cent, cheaper. Thu* it is clear it is not refusal to eal that keeps markets low. Th* two sides of the w-irld have been com- peting ior the privilege of supplying our table*. and they have produced It must come must coin.' do TIM fr.,11, (ar J>*U*B. Observation of the working of the trolley, car synicm in American cities inggeats *ome consideration* as to contemporary methods of measuring the value of hu-nan life. The trolley car* go fajl, and tor lhat reason or because they are heavy, or for reasons con- nected with their machinery they cannot o* instantly slopped. Consequently, in cilie* where they are used, they run against a good many people, and they kill a consid- erable proportion of ihe people whom ihey strike. Such killing get* due publicity ; th* newspapers chronicle it, and the coroner sit* on iha remains of the victims. We presume that it will not be denied in any city where trolley cars run lhat they are two or three times a* homicidal * > 'i*e can. Nevertheless, it i* very il> d if ihe population of any city where Ii: .iavej once got in could be induced to :_'> ; . to horse cars, or consent to the sub* tit ui ion of any leas dangerous motor which would les- sen th* death-rate at the cost of a material reduction of the rate of speed. For the way the popular mind reaaou* about it seems to be that the trolley can aave more time fo>* the people they carry than they waste for the people they kill ; consequently they are a gainful :nntilu:iun. When 'hey kill a man of middle age and reaiatiable expecta- tion of living, they wipe out aay twenty yean of that man's tune. Twenty years la 10,312,000 minute*. Suppoe thai in the city where the middle-a^ed man got killed the trolley can carry - Ji,0<W people a day, at aii average saving of five minnte* of time for each passenger. That would be 1UO.OUO minutes saved daily, so that it would take 105 days to make up the time waited by the prmidture daath of the middle-aged man. At that rate, the trolley can in a compara- tively small town might kill three middle- aged mi'n more a year than the hone can do, and suit be able to show a gratifying saving of the time of the community. As a matter of fact, the peuple who get killed are usually children or old people. Of course an old person'* expectation of life being small, old people mak the least ex- travagant form of killing that the trolley can find. For four old people good for five yeais each, however much lamented by their friends, would conn, no more, >tatisti- cally, against the trolley company thin un* middle-aged man with twenty years to run. Children, too, make fairly Jieap killing:, since their expectation of life i* not very good, especially when they are little. The practical, contemporaneous way, therefore, to ascertain whether the trolley cars an an an a.lvantago to any particular town is to compute the expectation of life of the peo- ple killed by them in a year, and compare it with the estimated annual saving of time in a year, to the surviving passengers. The , , , i v of time of course cannot be gone into. The time saved being thai of thousands of pa**engers, i* average lime, and the time wailed must be regard- ed as th* same. If a person gels killed whose life, by reason of learning or I ig'i character, seems !<.-> valuable to be olltet by the salvage of any aggregation of mere average 'j'M n. ii. HIM. tuere i* no help for it but to lump him in with the rest, anl hope the next victim may be so much stu- pider and wickeder than usual as to bring the average n.li; **a n. Wherever it can be deiiiuuniriiieil that the trolley system iu any particular town is taking more life, which i* to aay more U:n e, than it i* enti- tled to, a reasonable utilitarian argument immediately offei* against that particular line. If it can be shown that for a consid- erable term its ha.nicide* have m T than onset llie lime saved by its speedier loco- motion, there may !< a chance of ahating it, or at least of modifying iu habits. But even then it isn't easy. The dead iii.ike no complaint*, and are quickly forgotten, and the living are alway* ready to take chance*. Wherever the irolley y*Mm is not wanted the ounce of prevention should be earnestly applied ; for if that fail*, the pound of cur* may gr.nr lo be a ton, and yet not prov* an etlectual remedy. preach to the farmer, telling him to keep ! aniongit I'nitod States caf.lo, and the prc trade at home by supplying all our want*, venlion of its euUry into Canada, while keeping our ports open lo ihe' slaughter-house* of the world ami Iho piu turages and the cornfields of the twohcmi* phere*. The kind invitation of Mr. ~e.-n. tar> (lardncr to American mutton growen to send on sheep lo compete in our interior markets with the iiome and Canadian arti- cle h.i not worked any hysterically jubilant response. It H really heart-rending to pon- der on the position. In an acoens of mental aberration, some South American sheep runners sent us juftt lately some mutton on the hoof, but they have learned to foul sorry il.ey did. Last weak 115 Canadians were the only ahoep not fed on Knglish pasture* rewsi I ,ii,i. in rltlaai < ,.h, ,>.. AnOtta-va despatch says: The Minister of the Interior has authorized the publica- tion of a notice to the effect that the Uov- eminent of Canada is entitled to all tho crown lands within 'JO mi'.e. of the line of th* Canadian Pacific railway from the sum- mit of tho llocky mountain* to the statu- tory turininus of the railway at Port Mooily. Th* Government of British Columbia has assumed a line proposed by itself, but not agreed to by the (loveiunvnt of Canada, to be the boundary of the railway belt, ha* disposed of land accordingly, and tho pub- lic are, therefore, warned that .ales of crown lands made by tho Government of British Columbia within 'JO miles ot the line of the Cin*d:ui Pacifi: railway are li.oijtl and will not b* rccogru/.ed by th* Dominion Uoverncieai, seeking disposal throughout, the country; yet no record wu* made by buyer* in hasting to the purchase. Hardly, with CJ.INX) cwts. of mutton accompanying the small import of the live article and -W.WJO cwt*. of beet And yet, when the suggestion is thrown out of protecting the interests of the Knglish and Colonial producer against America an the rest of thn world, people rave about price* going up. The greatest proof of the fallacy of thi* argument is the fact that the present ileprtitse.l condition of the meat trade occur* in a season which compares with one wherein then was competition in live stock frem Norway, Sweden aud Den- mark, Spain and Portugal, wherca* thi* year Kurop* ha* been closed to the ontry of live stock since the spring. Prices have gone down to the PROnrCKR BIT .NOT TO THE CONST M EH, and if there were raising of rale* it would b to the farmer's benefit aud not to the latter'* detriment. Why should Knglsnd try any longer to battle against fate ? Cob- den's game lias been tried. It did very well fora time. But we have failed to convince the rest of the world that we are right and they wrong, and it i. about tune we bowed to the inevitable and braced ourselves for the conflict forced on us. Th* United State* has built an impassable t iritf wall against us and its elfects are disastrous. Amongst the many results ihe event of the week ia typical, viz., the closing of three more tinplate factories in Wales, where thousands of men have been thrown on'. ..f work, many of whom have followed iheir master* to American soil to compete with Aiueueau workmen on the *pot instead of I have !>een thinking all day and have arrived at this conclusion : all lha people in the world don't know mu-.-h and they all know the same thing. Mamma has had doMus of calls to-day and each one approached me either with that chestnut " paddy cake, paddy cake" or that hackneyed " trot, trot to Bo.ton" or something about "thi. little pig," but really this last i. so entirely uninteresting that "I have not troubled myself to learn it. Whew, how hut it U ! aud fancy on* wrapped up in flannel like me. An idea strikes me, I will howl a little. One day when I cried the nurse found a pin slicking into me, and since then whenever I cry, for any reason whatever, the nurse undresses me and looks for a pin. So I think it would be very foxy to shed a few mock lean. I bei I'll get a lot of these clothes off me in some way. 1 must bowl at once or the idea will escape me ; 1 find difficulty in retain- ing more than one or two idess at a lime. I suppose it will be different when I grow older. It is a shame that that tiresome old Mother (.loose had no children with talent enough to write something for women to amuse themselves with when they are talk- ing to babies. Mother Goo*e did very well for her time, for doubtless babies' mind*, as well as other things, were then in a some- what immature sta*,e, but it strikes me the old lady i* a little slale for thi* advanced age. I find so few women who can talk plain. It i* almost impo**ibl* to undentand them without giving the o!os*t attention. I trust I shall not be so backward in thi* matter of speech. I havo In en .;'"! to translate much of whai they said, but this creature who is talking to me now is in du'ging in the most absurd combination 01 sounds I'm sur* I could not call them words of which 1 can moke no vnso at all. It m.\y bo some foreign language I understand there is such a thsjg--"oo -oo uly Iweety h-tunnm. " Well, real- ly, she sems inclined lo run on forever. 1 mi Billing quite nervous about it. I think I will just go to sleep. I hope silo won't Vliuk I'm rude. Tkr Latril Fr** ritrslrsi l-i .,.! After leinfl buffeted about by the wind* and waves of tl-e bro.ul Pa,-ihV for nearly two years prst, tho nchooner Pitcairn ha* L.-.l to .Sail Francisco. The Pitcairn 's mission to the South Sea Ulaads was to spread the Uo5pel to the native*. Two year* ago the 'JOth of tha present mouth the IAO- lon schooner sailed from this port, under command ot Capt. Marsh, witii twenty per- sons aboard, Iwsides the crew, the ultimate destination being IVoairn Island. The residents of Pitcairn Island wereover- jnyed at the arrival of the schooner, as the provisions she had on board were very .i.'. p'ablc, and reached them at an oppor- tune lime. fW.niHe of brought nnd the ravages of caterpillars, which swept e, cry- thing in tho nature of green herbage from the island, the inhabitant* were forced lo subsist almost wholly on wild beans, which grow abundanlly on th* island. Apart From privations caused by the lack of nutri- tious food, th* colony was in the belt of Health and (pints. There are now l.'fc} de- scendant* of the mutineers of the Bounty on I'n a:rn Island. Sorrow comes 10011 enough without de ondeiii y : it doe* a man no good to carry around a lightning rod tc altnct trouble. Pat" Ph ware's me gallu*** T" Mary \nn " >hure an'lh have them on. It's the stboyle Oi have to keep up Pauy. " Pat " Well, ye/, hand them over. Oi have somethm' of more importance than the sthoyle to keep up. ' The awful fate awaitingUhe unfortunate Slavin ha* not served to being him to a re- pentant mood. He i* reported to havo listened to his sentence alirmt in a spirit of levity, and now he refuses to accept tha ministration* of any clergyman. In Ihe evidence it was ihown that his indulgence iu intoxicating drink. ai:d the fact that he nearly always carried a revolver, were the causes leading to the commission of tho crime for which he will shortly suffer death. " The Making of Man " is the title of a new book by an American clergyman, who is plenned lhat he is a man rather than a crocodile or an elephant. He says : "The brains of a crocodile or an elephant gener- ate none o' that subtle something called iniinl, whi>-b (lerpetually asks question* that have in) a-nwer, and cherishes beliefs that have no : mutilation." How doe* the rev- erend gentleman know this T How could he leant it ? What right ho* he to say it T It may be that a crocodile's brain does gen- eral* something which asks nnansvvrable questions. At time*, most cct Minly, the rn.-odi'e looks as if hi> were it..*kin*} Hi* altitude and expio.^.ou seem W be uv Jica'ive of thought