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SIR GUY'S WARD. A TUTULTJM; STORY OF TX>VE AND ( HAPTfcR XI. (Cos MM u>.) When Mm Chutney has spent a moment or two inveighing silently againit the hard- ueu and uiiibarila'ileneMof men in general anil Sir (!uy Chetwoode in particular, (lie accepts tb situation, and presently start* i-ldly for the hollow in which lies the modest homestead of the venerable Mrs. Hatkcfe, The unconscious csuse of the battle royal thai ha just taken place liax evidently finished his pipe and loungod away through the woods, as he is nowhere to be seen. And Mi" Chrsney makes up her inin I, with a view to killing the time that must elapee be- fore dinner, to go straight to his mother's cottage, and, by prolaiming Sir (iuy's leniency, restore peace to the bosom of that ancient dame. And as the walks she muses on all that liai pissed hot ween herself and her guardian .luring the latt half-hour. After all, what did he (ay that was so very bvl ? She had certainly compared him lo Itrutui, but what of that ? Brutus in his day was evidently a tinning light among his people, and, according to the immortal I'lniwrk. an ornament to his sex. Suppose he did condemn his only sou to death, what did that signify in a land where the deed was looked upon as meritorious? Weak minded people of the present day might tail him an old brute for so doing, but Ihere are two sides to every question, and no doubt the young man was a regular nuisance at home, and much better oat of the way. Then again she had likened him to the Medes and Persians : and why not ' Who should aay the Medes and Persians were not thoroughly respectable gentlemen, polished and refined! uud though in this case there might be some who would prefer the manner* ot a decent Kii|(!ish gentleman to those of the present Shah, that it no reason why the Utter snould be regarded so ignominiously. She has reached this highly 7 satisfactory point in her argument when a body drop- ping from a tree near her. almost at her feet, startles her rudely from her meditations. " Dear me '." says Lilian, with much emphaia, and then knows she is face to face with Heskelt. He is a tail lad,brown-Hkione<) as an Ital- ian, with eyes and hair of gvspy dye. As he stands before I.iliaw now, in apite of his dating naturo, he appears thoroughly abanhe-1, and, with Ins eja* lowered, twirls uneasily between his hands the rather greasy article i hat usually adorns his brow. "1 beg your pardon, nun,'' he says, slow- ly "but might I say a word to your'' "I am sorry to hear such bad accounts of you, Heskett," says Miss Chesney, in re i urn, with all the airs of a dean and chap- ter. SirCuy has been telling you. mus?" says the lad, eagerly; "and it is about my trouble I wanted tosee you. They say vou ha\e great weight with the baronet, miss, and once or twice you spoke kindly to me. ami 1 thought may-be you would say a word for me." "Vou are mistaken : I have no influence' eays Lilian, coloring family. "And besides Heskclt, there would be little use in speak- ing for you, as yo'i .re not to be trusted." "I am. Miss Chesney, I am indeed. If Sir i.uy would only try me again. I don't know what tempted me last night, but I ot my lesson then, and never again I swear iss Here a glance at Lilian's face checks fur- ther protestations. She is n. ( t looking at him; her jra/r is concentrated upon the left pocket f his coat, though, indeed, there is little worthy of udmiraiion in the cut of that garment. Following the direc- tion of her eye*. Heskett's fall slowly, slowly, until at 'ength they fasten upon the object that has so attracted her. Mil-king up in that lucklesB left pocket, so as pUmly to hi seen, in a limp and rather higgled biown wing, the undeniable wing of young grouse. " Heskett," says Lilian, severely, "what have yon lieen doing 1 " Nothing, miss, desperately. " Heskell," still more severely, and with in. I a li.ach of scorn in her tone. " Speak i hf truth . wh.it have you gol in your pock- et,?" " It's just a grouse, then," says the hoy, lieliantly, prodiirin| the bonny brown bird in (uestion "And a tat one," supplements Lilian. "Oli, lleskett, when you know the con- eeiijence of poaching, how can yon do it?" " I 11 because I do known, recklessly : "it's all up MII n me ihn time, because the liaronet swoio he'd pnniih me next time I was caught, and he never breakn In* word. So I thought, tnisi, I'd have a last ttinq, li.iti'ver came of it. 1 ' " lint it mn't 'all up' with you," says Lilian. " I have spoken to Sir (iuy, and hi' promised to give you onn more chance. Hut 1 cannot speak again Heskett, and if you still persist in your evil ways I shall have spoken in vain." "Vou spoke forme?" exclaims he, in- LI rduloualy. " Yee. Kut I fear 1 have done mi good." The boy's eyes seek the groan 1. " I ill. In 'i think the likes of yon would care to say a kind word for such as me, and without the asking," he says, huskily. " Look here, Miss Chesncy, if it will ph is. you, I swear I will never again tuaie a bird." Oh, Heskett, will you promise really ' returns Lilian, charmed at her success, "and can I trust you ? Vou know you gave your word before to Sir. (iuy." " But not to you, mis*. Ves, I will I"- honest to please you. And indeed, Miss Cheiney, when I left homo this morning I never meant to kill a thing. I started with a short oak stick in my haud, quite innocent like, and up by t lie bit of heath yonder this young one run across my path ; I did't seek it, and nuy bad liluk ([O with the oak stick, for, before I knew what I meant, it flew from me, and a second later the bird, lay dead as mutton. Not a stir in it. 1 was always a One shot, mine, with a stick or a stone," says the accomplished H.'iki tt, regarding me grouse with much pi i.li- " Well you have it, miss?" he says thi'ii, li'il'lmg it out to her. " Vo, thank you," loftily : " I am not x rccei T of stolen goods ; aud it is stolen, remember that " " I iMippi.se so, miss. Well, as I said lie (ore. I will lie honest now to please you, jou hare lieen so good to me." " You shooid try to please some ono t higher," says Ulian, with a solemnity lhal iu her i* sweeter than it is comical. " Nay, then, Miss, to please you first, if I may." " Tell me," says Lilian, shifting ground as she hods it untenable, "why do jou never come to church ? ' " It'* to mighty dull, miss " " You shouldn't find it so. Come and say your prayers, and afterward* you may find it easier to be gocd. You should not call church dull," with a little- reprov ing *h >ke of the head. " Do v" never find it stupid. Miss Che* ney?" aski Heskett, with alt diff'deiice. Lilian pauses. Thi* is a homo- thrust, and her innate honesty prevents the reply that trembles on her lip*. She '/" < find it very stupid now and Ihen. ' Sometimes," he says, with hesitation, "when Mr. Ausleii is preaching I cauiiot say I think it quite as interesting a* it might be ; but (till " "Oh, as for him," says Heskett, with a grin, " he ought to be shot, miss, begging your pardon, that's what he ought I never see him I don't wish he was a rabbit snug in one o' my snare* as was never known lo fail. Wouldn't I wring his neck when I caught him ! maybe not ! comin' round with his canting talk, a* though he was the arch- bishop hi aself." " How dare you speak of your clergyman iu such a way ?" says Lilian, shocked ; "you area bad, bad boy, and lam very angry with you." " Don't thru. Miss Chesney,'' piteously ; " I ask your pardon humbly, and I'll never again speak of Mr. Austen if you don't like. Kuthe do aggravate awful miss, and frightens the life out o mother, because she do smoke a bit of an evenin', and it'* all the comfort she have, poor soul. There's the Methody parson below, even he's a better sort, though lie do inivel horrid. But I'll do anything to please you, mi**, an' I'll come to church neil Sunday. 1 ' " Well, mind you do," aay* Lilian, dis- mining him wilh a gracious nod. So Heikell depart*, much exercised in mind, and in the lowest spirits, being full of vague doubts, yet with a keen eonaciousne** thai by hi* promise to Mis* Chesney he haa forfeited hi* dearest joy, and that from him the glory ol life ha* departed. No more poaching, no more snaring, no more mid- night excursion* fraught with deliciou* danger : how is he to get on in future, wilb nothing to murder but time ' Meanwhile Mia* Chesney lining home) flashed with victory encounters Florence in the garden wandering gracefully among the rlowers, armed a* usual wilh the huge umbrella, the guardian of her !<-ar com plexiov. You lave been for a walk?" she auks Lilian wilhanioniihinf '*"<AIII/HI'. " I hope it was a pleasant one. ' " Very, thank yon." "Then you were not alone. Solitary walks are never pleasant. " Neverlheleas, mine wa* solitary." " Then (iuy did not go with you ' " aome- whai hastily, " No. He found he*had something lo do in Ihe Sublet," Lilian answer*, shortly. Mm Hejuchamp laughi a low, soft, irnta- live laugh. " How stupid (>uy is ! " she says. " I wonder it never occurs to him to invent a new excuse : whenever he wants to avoid doing anything unpleasant to bun, he has always some pressing bustneas connected with the stables to lako him away. Have you noticed it ? " " 1 cannot say I have. But then I have not made a point of studying his eccen- tricities. Now you have told me this one, I dare say 1 shall remark it in future. You see," with a slight smile, " I hold myself in such good esteem that u never occurred to me others might find my company disagree- able." " Nor do they, I am sure," politely, ' Iiu' ( iuy is so peculiar, at times positively odd.' " You ama/e me more and more every mineiiU 1 bve always considered him innic a lation&l heni);, not iu the leaat madder than the rest ol us. I do hope the new moon will have no effect upon him.'" " Ah ! you jot," languidly. "But liny doe* bold strange opinions, especially about women. No one, I think, quite understands him but me. \\'e have always been so fond ot each olher, he aud I." "Yes* yuite like brother and lister, 1 suppose? Il ia only nalural." " Oh. ," emphatically, her voice taking a soft intonation full of sentimeulal mean- ing, " not in the very '<</ like brother am! lister." "Like what then ?' asks Lilian, some what sharply for her. ' How downright you are '." wilh a httl lot. I'd laugh, and a modest drooping of her while lids . " 1 mean, 1 ihmk a brother and sister are hardly so necessary to each other's happincis ss we ale to each other, ami been for years. To me, Chetwoode would nol be Chetwoode wilhoul (iny, and I fancy 1 am sure it would scarcely be home to (iuy without me." This wilh a uuiel con- viction not In be shaken. " Perhap* yon can see what 1 mean 1 : though, indeed,' with a smile, " I hardly know myself what it is 1 iiu MI -ju " " Ah '" says Lilian, a world ol meaning in her tone. " The only fault I find with hiin,"gres 01 Florence, in the low, prettily modulated tone she always adopts, " is, thai ho is rather a flir:. I Iwlieve he cannot help it it is second nature to him now. He adores pretly wcmn, and at times his manner to them is rather er caressing. I tell him it i< dangerous. Not perhaps that it makes much difference nowadays, does it? wher women have learned to value attentions ex iictlv at what Ihey are worlh. For my own part, I have little sympathy with those foolish Ariadnes who spend their lives be moaning the loss of their false lovers. Don't you fjrf 1 ) with me? " sud then rolls over to the floor at the other side), and turning two lovely wrathful eyes towards the door, as though the object of her anger were still insight. "Down- right detectable ! and quite an old maid ; not a doubt of it. Women close on thirty are always so spiteful !" tier* she picks up the unoffending hat, , almost unconsciously straightens a dam- '>ow while her thoughts still run on f a isionately. So Sir Guy "adore* pretty women." By the bye, it was a marvellous concession on Miss Be-iiichamp's par', to acknowledge her as such, for without doubt all that kindly warning was meant for her. (Join.' up to her glaw, Lilian run* her ingers through the rippling masses of her 'air hair, and pinches her soft cheeks cruelly until the red blood rushes upwards to de- 'end them, after which, she tells herself even Florence could scarcely have said otherwise. And dues Misi Heauthamp think herself L "pretty woman''? and does Sir (iuy 'adore her"? She said he was a flirt. Itut he. Cyril i* decidedly given that wsy, and some faults ran in families. Now she remember* certain lingering glance*, tender tones, and soft inneundoes mean*, for her alone, that might be placed to the account of her guardian. She smiles somewhat con- temptuously as she recalls them. Were all ,hese but parts of hU "caressing" manner ? I 'ah ! what a sickening word it u. She blushes hotly, until for a full min- ute she resembles the heart of a red, red rote. And for that min- ute she positively hates her guardian. Utterly," say Lilian, in a bestows a little smile upon her companion at .he clos-'i hers, but it quickly changes into an unmistakable little frown as the lock is turned. A shade fain across her face, an impatient pucker settle* eomfor tably upon her forehead as though it means to spend come time there. "What a hateful girl lhal is!" Lilian says lo herself, flinging her hat with a good deal of vehemence on to the bed (where lilt H i III IN HI III I I !<> Uewrlpllua of the l.l.ixl li. Imputation Brtearre*. rtr. Hawaii Owyhee, as it used o be writ- ten, ami may even now be pronounced with an approach to correctness is not a Urge place, since Ontario contains thirty-three times its area and twenty-five times it* population. Hawaii, or the Sandwi. :li it makes one desperate effort to range itself j Islands, haa seen some govern mental till Chi-n mil a Avar *A K A.uvt* at that Slthr tTOIlMfiB Hill) I Does be imagine that she-she-is such a | Jj thejorker* of * aby as to be nattered by the at'.entions of ' ' any man, especially by one who i* the lover of Another woman ? for haa not Florence both word and manner almost claimed him a* ler own ? Oh, il i* too abominable ! And But never mind, wail, and when she haa the opportunity, won't she show him, that's all? What she is to nhow him, or how, doe* not transpire But this awful threat, this carefully disguised and therefore sinister menace, i* evidently one of weight, because t add yet a deeper crimson to Miss Chesney's cheeks, and brings to life a fire within her eyes, that gleam* and sparkles there unrebuked. Then it quietly d.es, and nurse entering finds her little mistress again ea'm, but un- usually taciturn, and strangely forgetful of her teaniiig power*. (TO I" < ONTIM'EI>.) nil. a faille Kr.iri. n. troubles and revolutions since Captain Cook discovered Ihe place upwards of a cenlury ago, and wai, it is supposed, eaten by the native*. After this hist spasm of cannibal- ism they accepted Christianity, but rapidly dw "died in numbers. They were 200,(HW in Captain Cook's time, and there are now few, , ihan 40,00<>. Bui the island* have a productive climate, and occupy a highly convenient position on one of the great highways of commerce. Their capacity to produce wheat, banana*, sugar, rice, and other things, but chiefly sugar, combined with what is called their strategic location, makes them important in some degree. There is no other coaling and refitting station between Auckland aud San Fran- cisco. Although the native population ha* de- creased, the number of foreign residents hi.* risen. The hard work of ihe i iland of Hawaii is done by about 30,000 coolie* drawn from Japan and China. The su^ar plantation*, the banking, the trade, the profusions, and all the Government otlices are conducted by a white colony of about 6,000, of whom 2,500 are British, '.'.OOO American*, and 1,5 DCermana There are also about 9,000 Portuguese, but the** are of litlle political weight, and may be counted with the coolie*. It may be said therefor* that the active population consists of Ihe 6,000 white commercial ami official people and their 40,000 servants, the greater pan of the latter being little above the con dilion of slavery. They are moel of them what ire called "contract labourer*," and occupy a very much lea* free cumli'ion than the worker* of this continent. Cnder these c i re j instances the fiction of ihe sover a Yorkshire village part of a closed gru'-e- yard wa* taken into the rectory garden. Tin- ear. h was dug up, and scarlatina noon broke out in the rectory nursery, and from thence spread over the village. It proved to be of the same virulent character an t!i scarlatina whi -h 3d yean before bad de- stroyed the vik.^gers buried in the precits part of the cliurcrvard which had been taken into the garden and -'".M^ up. No other ex- planation could be offered. The tame state of affairs has been found true in smallpox, yeliow fever and all zymotic and terminal diseases. Kven consumption has been spread, by th agency of earth w impregnated. In the city of Philadelphia about a thousand persons die every year of typhoid, and it has been distinctly proved that the nater supplied to the city is contaminated by leaning and drainage from seven large cemeteries. The writer sums the situation up with the following ringing and sensible para- graphs : "If we are ever to abolish cholera we must do all that i* possible, collectively and individually, to raise the standard of na- tional health. Next, we have to protect the people from the seed* of infective dis- eases. We must intercept the transit of diseased travelers, not by unnecessary and vexation* quarantine restrictions nor inter- ference with commercial and social inter- course between healthy places, but we mutt insist on careful inspection ot sll arrival* from infected port*. The work of the fam- ily or the individual must be left to the family doct or. But the lessons which the cholera of IVr_' should teach everyone are that a supply of pure drinking water muat be obtained ; that whe.i this is impossible impure water must be boiled, and when anyone (lies the body must be cremated, not buried in the earth." eignty of Queen Liliuokalani ha* been kept up since the death of her brother Kalakaua the year before last without much real ba*is. The bulk of icHuene, mj _ f ....,. and trade ha* been American, and the th . un i n teresting. well walched palace park, while* have controlled mailers. Tnere wa* ! retllrn . to ,. r | y breakfast, and engages in a revolution in 1887 which greatly reduced iiu War* ef Ike Caar. The Czar's daily habit* of life aretnoee or a Pope rather than of a secular monarch, his relaxations those of a prisoner rather than of a potentate. When residing at (ialchino he generally rises at 7 a. m. , whereas few nol lemen in the capital leave their bed* much befor midday ; and I am personally acquainted with two who rise with the regularity of clock work at 3 o'clock every day. He then take* a quiet stroll in engages ,, manu ,i ^.r as a preparation for the the powers of the Hawauan monarchy, aud | officia | work o f the even before this the King did not enjoy much supremacy. The monarch* have been content to draw their pay, to pose a* Kingor Queen, and to let the ..lore active white* govern. There would have been no trouble The latter consists mainly iu the reading and signing of enormous pile* of edicts, ukase*, laws, and report*, all of which be conscientioatly endeavors to understand. Upon the margin* of these documents he now had not the Queen- who. by the way, U . wnte , nl . d ecUMon , or h:s impreasions with a Presbyterian determined on the unwise I , f r4n k ne j and abandon which laughs pru- step of attempting to reverie all thi* and to ] j ence an j propriety lo *corn Those who have a native Government with real power. | m.jnu,,, tntt ke k . pt > complete But there is no doubt a trade policy at the back of the revolution and the desire for annexation with the United Stales. A re- ciprocity treaty between the islands and V\ ashingtou wa* made in 187 ', and this led to a very prosperous condition of things. even partial ignorance of the cruel measure* adopted in his name, or else that his boasted lo :e of his people is but the varnish of hypocrisy, are st much astray in the matter of fact as in their appreciation. Cold-blood- ed cruelty or savage hatred is not the cor- until IS!W Hawaii grew the only free sugar , j^ Mme of tb) . motlvea tn4t j tjplre d the that went to the United State.. The pre i : .[.ughter of the Amalekites by Saul, 6r the autos da fe of Arbues d* Epila ; and it An important conference was held recent- nt American tariff, by making all raw [mum . . . . ,,.._ , ^ . ly m niaagow for the purpose of duoussmg ' *nj[ar free, abolished this profitable trade ihou u not be forgotten that there isa moral }' i-. " i'ntirely. | curious tone that might b translated any j way. "But I cannot help thinking For- tune very hard on the poor Ariadnej. I* that the dressing-bell? How late it ha* ' grown ' I am afraid wn must go in il we ' wish to be in ti.no for dinner. Mis* Besuchanip being possessed wilh the same fear, they enter ihe house together apparently in per- fect amily wild eacn other, and parl in peace at their chamber doors. Lilian even the action of the Board of Agriculture in scheduling Canadian cattle. Called by the Clyde Navigation Trust, the meeting con- tamed representative* from the chief loeal bodies of (ilasgow, and from Dundee, Aber- deen and Newcastle. The Chairman, ex- Provoil Browne, of Glasgow, announced that they had met for the purpose of en- deavoring to secure a return to former arrangements, under which (ilasgow hail yeaily handled .iu.iKUl and 4O.OOO head of Canadian cattle. During his long exper- ience not a single c*e ot plenro pneumonia had ever been detected amongst them, and h* behevedthe same to have been the case in Dundee and \berdeen, despite the ctate ment of the Board of Agriculture. Mr. Andrew Leith said that the Dundee Harlior Board had spent an enormous sum of money in order to meet the requirements of the trade, and expressed his opinion that, while the city had henefilted, the farmer* of Forlarshire, Perthshire and Fifeahire, hail also derived much advantage from ob- taining ( 'anadisn cattle for fattening pur- poses in place of having to breed and raise them locally. Mr. Andrew Hutcheson, a member of the Perthshire County Coun- cil said that he did not think a genuine case of pleuro had lieen demonstrated to have occurred amongst any of the animals landed at Pumlei by the Huronaand Monk seaton.' Mr. \V. lie) 1 expressed his belief, as a farmer, that the profits reh/ed from Canadian cattle during th* past season had don* much to save the agriculturist* of Korfar from serious lo**. Kx Bailie Taylor, of Dundee, speaking as a large farmer, also stated hi* firm belief that not a (ingle case of conlagious pleuro had lieen found amongst the cat le from Canada and added, that, as Canadian cattle were much more easily fattened than others a strong effort should IK- made to have these unwarrantable restriction* moved. A committee was ap- pointed and arrangements made for meet- ings of farmers throughout the country to disv'uas the question. This action aud the statements made are very gratifying and may have some effect, even upon Sir. Herbert (iardner. Kut many of the remark* suggest another side lo the whole question. If il IS so profitable for Scotch farmers to fatten Canadian rattle, would it not be lietter for the Canadian farmer to do il himself? Whether these re- strictions, therefore, be removed or not, it may all turn oul for Ihe best in the end. Mil in in j I. .r Ml 01.1 M.III In the biography of Dr. Norman MacLeod there is an amusing account given of a viiir, he paid to ono ol the Western Islands to see a man who was celebrated iu the dis- trict for his great age. The doctor found an old man (we can only quote from mem- ory) silling on a bench ouUide the house am' c,ave him the usual greeting : " I heard that you were a very wonderful old man, and I've come to see you.'' " It'll be my fait her you want lo see," said the old man of the bench. So the visitor went inside and there nitting ovur the peats, w.is a very old nun iiuieeu, bent and doubled up, but Mill, for all that, with all his wits about him. " (iood day to you," saul the good doctor ; " I have heard about you, a very wonderful old man, and I've come to see you." Then he, too, doclnu'd the imputation and pointed with his stick to the " ben," of the house. " It'll be my faither you want lo see," said this old man of the fireside. So there in the "ben, 1 the original Simon Pure was ' discovered at lant, a very, veiy ancient old ' man indeed, as may well be imagined. id prac'.ically ruined Ihe planlation*. A* | i lo)ent c^iud American planters and mreator* hold . o( whi< . n ip , from one-half to three-fourth* crops, and perhap* two thirds of of the f m(te conscience, the effect ,h e action without 1 ' that, vitiatinii its source. " Men never do wrong -- r -. i . so thoroughly and so cheerfully," say* entire capiul of the island*, the deire for I |. MC(llj M wnen they are obeying the promptings of a ialse principle of con- annexation can be understood are treaty obligations with But there France and Kngland which will have to M considered, and it is by no means likely that annexa- tion will be permitted. The greatest part of the growth of the trade of Hawaii took place under what may be called aii acciden- tally favourable position. That this ha* led to a wish on the part of the sugar planter* to get hold of the bounties en- joyed by cane rooted in American soil will probably nol be deemed by Britain an ade- quate reason for an important coaling lation pausing under the sway of the I'uited Stale*. To fancy, therefore, a* many English op- timist* do, that the Kmperor need* only to be informed of the fact in order to repeal the cruel laws and remodel the system of government which i* raining hi* people i* a* reasonable as to delude one's self with the pleasing notion thai an illiterate peas- ant need* but a pair of spectacles in order to enable him to read hi* Bible. sw ( rrevrnl IU <..n.i.c in t < in IU faue eavy Life ln.urar. The Karl of Dudley is said t* have hi* life insured for foY.'jO.OOO. The Queen Kegent of Holland has insured her life for a sum equivalent to over half a million sler- hng. John Wauamaker, Postmaster (ien- eral of the I'uited State* under President Harruou, holds a life accident policy of m- Sir spencer Wells, formerly President of ' surauce for $l,.'<OU,Ol)0, the risk being divid- tln- Koyal College of Surgeons, London, ed between twenty unie insurance coin Kng., writes on "How to Prevent the ! panies. The life of tn* Prince of Wales i* of Cholera." The writer i* one of the mo*t distinguished of living scientists and his words carry weitcht. He first give* a simplu account of the propertien of the iholera germ a* revealed by modern re- earch. The cholera microbe i* a comma- shaped specie* of infinitesimal vennin which from it* vibrating qualities haa been named vibrio*.'* The cholera visitations of past years have proven that its natural sphere and means of subsistence is water ; that ihe germs cannot be carried by the wind for insured fur $SOU,(NN>, or, according to a late report, l, uio.uuo. The late Charles Henry Cromptou- Roberts, an hotel keeper, of Boston, aud a few other* held policies for $5UO,OUO each. Boston ia famed for the heavy insurances upon the live* of its citi- zens, amongst which wasa policy of $*26O,(00 on the lite of the late editor of the " Boston Herald." The lives of six other Bostoniaus were insured for sums of j>'JUO,<>00 an I up- wards. In Kngland a life insurance policy in rarely taken out for more than $100,IXX>, any distance, but only travel by the direct and in London t,ud Manchester thousands of route of human travel ; tilth in itself is not j commercial men hold policies for that sufficient to generate cholera, although it i* , amount. In the case of large insuran.-e a podispoaing causa of disease. policies granted by any insurance company, invaiiably - In all the visitations of c'lolcra to Kng- land the poison has been brought in the same way, always from Hamburg, aud al- ways first attacking damp, low-level, crowd- ed district*, where (as Sir John Simon put i'.| a 'dense population lives in the atmos- phere of its own excrements and refuse.' Kut mere dampness ai.d the vapor of putrefac it almost invaiiably protects itself by re- insuring a portion or portions of the risk. The life insurances in force in the entire world is estimated at upwards of $9O,UOO,- 000,000. The popular idea that water is purified by free/ing ha* been again disproved by re- tion, however powerfully they in.ty aid in the ' cent careful experiments, which show that destructive work of Ihs cholera poison, will j the average amount, of impurity retained by not generate it afresh. The seed is not re- ' the ice i* .'il. 3 per cent, of organic mailer, created. It is preset veil and carried. It As organic matter it the more objectionable passes over the strong, healthy people who | of the two, the case u worse than was form- live in high and diy place*, brealhe fresh *rly supposed, air, and drink pure water. It decimate* | - A Veteran's Story Mr. J***f>h II. ... serich, an old soldier, 52!) K. 1 ;>''th St., N. Y. City, writes us volun- tarily. In 18U2. at the buttle of Fair Oaks, ho was stricken with i,pk>*id fever, and aftor a long struggle In hospitals, lasting sev- eral years, was dis- charged, as Incurable with t'UME>iU. sal'! both limns were affected anrt h could not UTOI long, but a romiwie urged him to try Hood's Uursaparllla. Before he h:u< finished on" b"ttl<> his cough beaan to zet loose, the etmkiiiK seiisntio* Ml. and night " .Us isr.'W li < unit * II" Is now In good health .mil cordially nv^nunciius Hood's Sarsaparilla as a general Wood purifier and tmtte mrM. rie, ,"i|H'i'ia!ly to his comrade* to Ine O. .* K. HOOD'S PlLLl *r* "and made, and arc p'>s> UU in coBUKwIUon. tiruforUou MiU awcafaiMt. ^ the feeble, sickly people who are crowded in damp, low-lying districts, who breathe foul air and ilrink f. realized water." I'lir primary preventive of the spread of cholera it pure drinking water. In impure water only does the insidious germ aclually thrive, but there are no tests by which the presence of organisms hurtful to human 1>c- mgs can be ascertained. There are chemical teats which will decide whether or not organic matter U present in water, but they cannot delermine whether the organisms are injurious to health. All filtered water even should be boiled for five minutes, %nd the filter itself hould be boiled four niinuto* once a we k. A much mure important matter is th*> disposition of the dead bodies of cholera patiente It has been proven that poison- ous germi are preserved by earth, and that it is only a question of time when even ihe body that has been interred in a coffin will impregnate with living organisms the sur- rounding earth. The researches ot Darwin and Pasteur have also shown that the earth worms in time bring these germ* to the surface and disseminate them abroad. In Jos. lli'IMiln-l il