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o <fc IR GUY'S WARD. A . ilKII.UMi STollY OK LOVE AND ADVENTUUE. CH.VriKK MX. "Th." mii'-h. however I m:ti ,nl.l : hi r year* Wen 1. 1"- ilny ninth' make i* anil twenty . But ilici > arc form* which Time to lourh for In-. ir i And ' u: o ,-nlc liis M-J the to vulgar thinir>i." It,,,,. I,,.,*. Next day creates but little change in ..ilian'K demeanor. So far a* (iuy in con- cerneil, lier manner U iitill frozen ami tin denting. She ihowi no ign of a desire to pardon, anil Chetwoode noting this grows hardened, and out-IIerods Herod 111 hi> imitation of her coldneu. Archilld, on the contrary, gives in al- most directly. Finding it impossible to maintain his injured Inuring beyond lunch- eon, he snccnmbs, and, throwing himself u|K>n her mercy, it graciously received and once more liaakain the full smiles of beauty. At heart Lilian is gla<l to welcome him back, and it genial and sweet to him as though no ugly contretemps ha<l occurred Ix-tween them yesterday. Mabel Sleyne bring expected in the even- ing, Lady Chetwoode is especially happy, and takes no heed of minor matters, or else 'ier eldest son's distraction wo ild surely iiave claimed her attention, liut Mabel's coming is an event, and a happy one, and lit halt-past v- en, pleased anil complacent, l*dy Chetwoode U scaled in tier drawing- r*om, awaiting her arrival. Lilian and Florence are with her, and one or two of the others, (iuy among them. Indeed, Mrs. .StcyneV coining is a gratification the more charming that it is a rarity, as the seldom vititt the country, being strongly addicted to city pursuits and holding coun- try life and ruralism generally in abhor- rence. .Mikt before dinner she arrives ; there isa little flutter in the hall, a few words, a few I !>, and then the door is thrown open, ana a yonng woman, tall, with dark r\ts and hair, a nose slightly celestial, and a M : v handtorrc ligure, enters. She walks swiftly up the room with the grand and upright carriage that belong to her, an', is followed by a tall, ftir man, indolent though good to look at, with a straw-colored moustache, and ai much whisker as one iiu.'i.i nwear by. " I 'ear auntie, I have come '" tayt Mrs. .M.Mie, joyfully, which is a fact to obvious at to make the telling of it huperfluoiu. " Mabel, my dear, how glad I am to tee you :'' exclaims Lady Chelwooile, rising and holding out lier arms to her. A pretty pink Hush comes to life in the old woman's cheek*. m iking her appcarten years young er, and adding a thouiand charms to her sweet old fare. They kiis each other warmly, the younger won>an with tender cmpressemrm. " It is kui'l of yon to say to," the says, fondly. " And you, auntie why, bless me, how young you look ! it it disgraceful. Presently 1 shall !> the 1 auntie, and you the young and lovely Lady Chetwoode. I'arl- ing auntie, I am delighted to be with yon again ! " " How do you do, Tom V Lady t'h.-t woode atys, putting her a little to one side to welcome hrr hnsbinil, but still holding her hand. " I do hope you two have come to stay a long tune in the country." " Ves, until after Christmas, so you will have time to grow heartily tick of us, "says Mrs. Sleyne. "Ah, Florence." She and Florence press cheeks sympathnt- n-nlly, ss though no evil passages belonging to the past have ever occurred between them. And then Lady Chetwoode intro- duces Lilian. "This it Lilian," she says, drawing her forward. " 1 havo.often written to you about her." " My siipplanter," remarks Mabel Steync, t .if mi g ilh a smile that light i up all her hi n - m j brunette face. As the looks at l.il in. fair and soft and pretty, the rather '/. 'i nii:i expression that hat grown upon her own n'uringher encounter with Florence fallen, and once more the becomes her own gay self. " I hope you will prove a better companion to auntie than I was," she says, with a merry laugh, taking and pressing Lilian's hand, l.ilriii instinctively returns the pressure anil the laugh. There is some- thing won lerfully fetching in Mrs. Si, . u. - dark, brilliant eyes. she is the beat of children !" Udy t Chetwoode says, patting Lilian's shoulder ; ' , . 1 . ___ 1 _ I _ _ a. I 1 1 f __ shall bring her here some day to let you see her. ' "You must name the day. Would next Monday suit you ? " 'You needn't press the point," Tom Steyne says warningly : " bin for me, the child and its nurse would be in the room at thit moment. Mab and I had a stand-up fight about it in the hall just Iwfore start- ing, and it was only after a gocd deal of calm though him expostulation I ca-ried the day. I represented to her that at a rule babies are not invited out to dine at fight o'clock at night, and that children of her age are generally more attractive to their mothers than to any one else." " Barbarian !" tays Lady Chetwoode. " How have you been getting on in Lon- don, Mab," asks Cyril. " Made .my new conquests?" "Scvaral," replies Tom ; " though I think on the whole she in going off. She did not ni'ike up her usual number this season. She hat. however, on her list two nut- buys in the F.O., and an infant in the (iuards. She is rather unhappy about them, as she cannot make up her mind which it U she likes best. ' " Wrong Tom. Yesterday I made it up. I lik the 'infant' btst. But what really saddens me is that I am by no means sore he like* me best. Hc^^Mcr- rihly fond of Tom, and I tomcti^^Bear thinks him the Iwtter fellow of the twx At this moment the door opens Mid Tally comes in. "Why ! Here is my 'infant,'" exc'aimi Mabol, surprised. "Dear Mr. Mus gruve, I had no idea I should meet you here." "My dear Mrs. Steyne ' I ha>f no idea such luck was in store for me. I am to glad to see you again '. Lilian, why didn't you break it to me ? Joyful surpiises are sometimes dangerous." "I thought you knew. We have been discuxsinz 'Mabel's' cominjj," with a shy smile, "all the past month. ' "Hut how could I possibly guess that the '.Mabel' who was occupying everybody's thoughts could be my Mrs. Steyne ?" "Ours !" murmurs Tom, faintly. "Yes, mine," says Taffy, who is not troubled with overmuch shyness. "Mr. Musgrave it your cousin ! " Mabel aiks. turning to Lilian. "No, 1 am her son,' 1 says Taffy : "you wouldn't think it would you? She is a good deal older than she looks, but the gets h.rsclf up wonderfully. She is not a bad mother," reflectively, "when one couies to think of it." "I dare say if you spoke the Irt.th you would confess her your guardian angel," savs Mabel, letting a kindly glance fall on pretty Lilian. "She takes care ot you, no doubt.'' "And such care,' 1 answers Lilian : but for in 1 do believe Taffy would have gone to the bad long ago." "'Taffy'! what a curious name. So i|Utint, and pretty too, I think. May I. with a muck irrepressible glance, that is half fun, half natural coquetry, "call you "You may call me anything you like,' returns that young gentleman, with the ut- most honhoiiimie. ' though indeed, my dear Mabel, I saw no fault in you.". . . "Of course not. Have yon noticed, Mitt " I shall die of gi Chetney, l.ady ( 'hetwoode r s greatest failing? "Oil. that! V It i lhat she will not see a fault in any'' 1 "- ' ' "She never mentioned your faults, at all events," Lilian answers, smiling. "I hope your baby is c|uit<t well?' 1 I u nre .nk", calmly, who is far loo well- bred ever to forget her manner*. "I'.ti: mi' liapliu". call mi' < lilori-, i .ill me UiiaK<v or I'.irii-. only ml) call uie limit- !" "It is really mortifying lhat I can't" says Mrs. Steyne, while she and the others all laugh. "Sir," says Tom Steyne, "I would have you remember the lady you are addiessmg is my wife." Says Tally, reproachfully, - "l)o you think I don't remember it, lo my sorrow?" They have got down lo dinner and as far as the lish by this lime, to are all feeling friendly and xood na lured. "Tell youwh.it you'll do, Mab," says <iiiy. " You shall come over here next week to stay with us, and bring baby ami nurse with yon, and Tom, whether he like* it or not. vVe can give him as much good shooting as will cure him of hit la/i ness. " " Yes, Maliel, indeed you must," breaks in l.ady Chr iwoodc'n gentle voice. "I want to see that dear child very badly, anil how can I notice all her pretty ways unless she You forget the flowers," says Lilian, triumphantly. No, my dear ; experience has taught me I can purchase them cheaper and far finer than I can grow them for myself. I am a skeptic, I Know," smiling. "I will it try to convert you to my opinion." " Certainly 1 can see advantages to be gained faom a town life," says Lilian, thoughtfully, leaning her elbow on a small table near her, ami letting her chin sink into her little pink palir.. "One has a larger circle of acquaintances. Here everything is narrowed. One lives in the house with a certain number of persons, am], whether one likos them or the reverse, one must put up with them. There is no escape. Vei," with an audible and thoroughly meant sigh, "that is very sad." Thin little ungracious speech, though ut tered in the most innocent tone, goes- home (as is intended) to (Jay's heart. He con- ceals, however, all chagrin, and pulls the earl of the sleepy snow-ball he is caressing with an air of calmest unconcern. " You mention a fact, "say* Mrs. Steyne, the faintest inflection of surprise in her manner. " But you, at least, can know nothing of such misery. Cli<:twoode is fam- ous for its agreeable people, and you, you appear first favorite hern. For the last hour 1 have lieen listening, and I have heard only ' Lilian, lo ik at tin*, 'or ' Lilian, listen to that,' or ' Lilian child, what was it yon told me yesterday?' You teem a great pel with every one here." Lilian laughi. "Not with every one," the says. " No?" raising her straight dark brows. " Is there then an enemy in the camp' Not Cyril, surely ':" "Oh, no, not Cyril." "Guy V" Lilian is silent. Guy's face, as he still strokes the dog dreamily, has grown haughty in tho extreme. He, like Mabel, awatti her answer. '.^what?" says Mrs. Sleyne, in an amuv .i tone, evidently treating the whole mat- ter as a mere jest. "So you are not a pet withCuy? How horrible! I cannot be- lieve it. Surely (iuy is not si ungallant as to have conceived a dislike for yon' (Iuy, do you hear this awful charge she is bring- ing against yon ? Won't you refute it ? Dear boy, how stern you look !" " Do I ? I was thinking of something disagree:.ble." " Of me ?" puts m Lilian, nofto >vv, with a faint laugh tinged with bitterness. " Why should you think what I say so extraordin- ary ? Did you ever know a guardian like his ward, or a ward like her guardian ? I didn't especially the Utter. They al- ways find each other .-n.A a mistake ! Sir Cuy, raising his head, looks full at Lilian for a moment ; his expression is al- most impossible to translate ; then, getting up, he crosses the room deliberately and seats himself beside Florence, who welcomes him with one of her conventional smiles that now has something like warmth in it. "I think yoi> are a very cruel little girl," says Mrs. Steyne, gently, not looking at Lilian, and then turns the conversation into another channel. " You will stay ir the country until after Christmas V says Lilian, somewhat hastily. " Yes ; something has gone wrong with our steward's account*, and Tom isdisaatis- tie.l with him. So he has been dimnissed, and we shall stay on here until we please ourselves with another." "I am glad you livt so near. Three miles is only a walk, after all." "In cold weather a mere nothing, though for my own part I am not addicted to ex- ercise of any sort : I believe,' however, Steynemore's proximity to Chetwoode wns one of my chief reasons for marrying Tom. " " I am glad of any reason that made you do to. If you won't mind my saying i', I will tell you I like you very much," with a slight blush " I am very charmed to heat it,'' sayt Mrs. Steyne, heartily, whono liking for Lilian has grown ttendily : "I should br much ditsppointod if you didn't. 1 foresee we shall be great friends, and that you and auntie will make me fall quite in love with Tom's native soil. But" naively " you rmisl not lie uiikiml to poor iluy '." wise does all in her power lo tear her limb from limb. She also appears to find infinite tmuteinent-in scrambling up snd down Miss Chesney's unhappy kneet, to the detriment of that dainty lady's very dainty gowns, and show symptoms of fight when she re- fuses to consume all such uninviting rem- nants of cakes and bonbons as lie heavy on her hands. Altogether Lilian has i lively time of it with Mabel's heiress, who, nevertheless, by right of her sweet witcheries and tender baby tricks, hat gained a fast hold upon her heart. liut if Ha by knowta slave in Lilian, Lilian knows a slave in some one else. Up to this Archibald has found it impossible to tear himself away from her loved presence : though ever since lhat fatal day at the Grange he has never dared to speak openly to her of his attachment. Day by day his passion grows stronger, although with every wind her manner towards him seems to vary, now kind, to-morrow cold, anon so full of treacherous fancies and disdainful glances as to make him wonder whether in truth it is hatred and not love that fillj his heart to overflowing. She is "One of tho*o pretly, preciou plague*, which haunt A love^with caprice* *ott and dear. That like to make a quarrel when they can't Find one, each day of the <|. .htfnl year: Hewltching. torturing, .1- t tie; ' ; or glow, Ami what Is worst of all won t let you no," Between her and liny a silent truce has been ligned. Thsy now converse with ap- parent geniality : at times they appear, to outsiders, even to affect each other s society: secretly they still regard each other with Distrust, and to them alone it known the frailty of the coating that lies over their late hostility. It is three o'clock, and the 'lay for a won- der i fine, all the past week having been sullen and full of a desire to rain. Now the Tilt. ABE AT BTHm>T. sunen ana tail 01 a uesire 10 rain. .^i>w me - - ---- - - - - -- cloud, having disappeared, and the blue sky who do not know the Northwest t e s hh are dotted with Tiny Hakes of foam-hkerapor is overheal. The air is crispy, and, though cold, full of hie and invigorating jx.wer. "I shall go for a walk*" says Lliaii ap pearmg suddenly in the billiard room, look n iii Hciner I'mler the auspiees of the Northwest t oui! il and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, a number of gentlemen are now in Ontario for the purpose of giving informa- tion in reference to that great country. One of these is Kev. William Bee, who is very well known in these parts. Mr. Bee was for many years a minister of the Primitive M.-tho.lmt Church, chiefly on circuits lu tho vicinity of Toronto, and was for twelve years the missionary secretary and book steward of that church. Since about the time of Methodist union he has been con- nected with Northwest enterprises chiefly the old Primitive Methodist colony, in the well known aud fertile Qu' Appelle district. He has been a great deal in the country from the time it first began to be settled, hat watched its growth from the time mere was scarcely a settler in it, has paid close attention to the methods of new settlers in the country, and in view of his lengthened experience in the country may be supposed to nave a good knowledge of it. Mr. Bee says that it is true that duri.ig the first settlement in the country, and in the boom times, many people went there with unreasonable expectation* of making their fortunes in a few years, and returning to their old homes wealthy people. This is an expectation which is not to be reali/.ed in the farming line in any country, but people have now settled down to a reason- able and normal state, and are sitisfied with a more gradual and healthy improve- ment in their circumstances, (iood practi- cal farmers are generally doing well, and even many who knew little about farming be- fore going there, but were observant aud im- pressionable, are succeeding surprisingly well, Mr. Bee thinks that though many people pose that wing, believe things have been said which are i those who do know the it would be difficult to give a too picture. As a country for mixed farming it cannot be surpassed. Its soil for rich- IIIIU VUIJIICIUV 1U IIIQ UIIIMMIt-CWUB, l"*/- .....".I 1 .. like a little northern fairy, so enca~d i, ' - *"** *"- sKKflS she in velvet and dark fur. Upon her yellow hair is resting the most coquettish of fur caps, from beneath which her face smiles fairer and fresher for its rich surroundings. The two men she addresses look up, and let the honest admiration they feel for her be- tray itself in their eyes. Outside the window, seated on the sill, which is some liltle distance from the be. If there is any fault to be found with it at all it may be that for the time being it is that in some caads it it too rich. At to the amount of labor required of a farmer there. Mr. Bee sayt that any person who has had experience in Ontario will know that to bring 100 acret under cultiva- tion there does not require one-tenth tin amount of work as here, and when brought under cultivation the land does not require ground, is Archibald, smoking. Archibald, a. a rule, is always iraoking. Inside is I "Ir" musl j S"t , J 1 * knows land Guy, also indulging in a cir, and dis- ; W""-'" h " not b f N"J for t!iretf }'". puling volubly about some \nolty point j * nd >' ct h * produced a fine crop of oats conuecled wiA guns or cartridges, or the {^"V y'- He relers to land * proper si/e of shot to be used for particular know. ha. had but one plowing, the nr.t I cannot remember exactly what ; I do remember, however, that the argument breaking of two inches deep, and which a year of light crops yeilded between completely falls through when Lilian makes and 30 bushels to the acre. Mr. IUe says that what I her appearance. " Were there ever such la/y men ?" says Miss Lilian, scornfully. " Did all the shoot- iug with Tom Steyne last week do you up so completely ? I warned you, if you will be pleased to recollect, that there wasn't j says that what appears to con- cern Ontario people most, ana whi.h they ask the most doubtful questions about, is the climate of the Northwest, especially in winter, but that a person who has experi- enced winter in both places will only smile at su h tears. The fact is that, taken as a whole, the Northwest winter is prefer- able, jutt as an Ontario person might sur- prise Knjlish people by telling them that the winter lu his country is preferable to theirs. The fact is that with a c'ear sky and " The durling child, yet, I hope she is well." Lad) < hi-twoode sayt, hastily: feel- ing at though she had been guilty of unkind- nest in not asking for the )>al>y liefore. Mits li>Muich,iinp possesses to perfect IMI ii,..i most unhappy knack of placing people in the wrong position. "Vrite, think you," answering l.idy I'lii-tttooije, instead of Florence, while a little fond glance that it utually rest MI. I for the nursery creeps into lier expressive eyes. " If you tdmiied her in-fore, you will quite love her now. She has grown to big and fat, .md IIUM such dear little sunny curls all over her heail ' " I like fair babies, ' says Lilian. "Bec.iuse you arc a t.iir baby yourself," s.tys Cyril. < can say Mammy and I'appy quite distinctly, mill I have (aught her to say Auntie very sweetly," goes on Mrs. Steyne, wrapt in rcrollc, tionn if her offspring! Udinif. "She .-mi ay Vike' too, and and ih.it is all, I think." \ 'on forget, Malwl, don't you ?" asks her husband, languidly. "You undeirate the child's abilities. The other day when she was in a frtn/y because 1 would not allow her to pull out my moustache in hand- tills the said " "She was never in a frcn/y. I'oni,' in- dignantly "I Mouder how you can say so i.i the dear angel." "Wan she not? if you lay so of course I was mistaken, but at the time I firmly be- lieved it was temper. At all erects, Lady ( In i woo. le, on that momentous occasion M -.11, 'N.iniia wurragood,' without a mistake. She is a wonderful chil.l " ' I 'on 't pay any attention t i him, nun lie," AiMi ii i ititcmpuioiis shrug. "He is him ItU unite idlo i .ili.iut l>aliy, so much so tl si he is aahair.ed of kis infatuation. 1 stays in the house with me "Say yes, Mrs. Sleyne," entreats Taffy : ' rief if you refuse." auntie, I shall .-ome. ihnnk you, if .inly lo preserve Mr. -Taffy's life. Hut indeed I shall be delighted to get hm -k to the dear old homo for s while : it is so dull at Steynemore all by ounelvts. ' " Thank you, darling," says Tom, meek- ly- After dmiiFi- Mrs. Meynr.who ha* laken a be a shame lo take you out, Sirliuy, would I-. nol ? You seem so cosy here,"-glancmg at the fire. -" while Archibald is e?idei.tly bent on exercise. " . w < ! Ike Varrlacr rro>al> 1 hit prolific and versatile essay 1st and soc- olositt Labouchere ha. re,entlv y thrown out the'suggestionthatnomoreprogreesivean- fancy to Lilian, seats herself lirsuls her in the drawing-room and chatters to her unceas- inglyof all things known and unknown. I'NV "ining in later with the i.thei nun, Milks into a chair near Mabel, and with Mus Uc.tuchanip's I'anchette upon his knee em- ploys himself in stroking il and answering Mabel's iiuini'ioiM questions. He hardly looks at Lilian, and certainly never ad- liresoes her, in which he shows his wit- ilom. "No, I can't bear the country," Mrs. siiyne it saying. "It depresses me," "In the spri-ig surely it is preferable lo town," s.iys Lilian. "Is it ? I suppose 10, became I have so often heard it : but my UsUi is vitiated. I air, not myself out of London. Of co. rne Tom nd I go somewhere every year, I i i ii to pleaKe fashion we go, not because I like it. You will say I exaggerate when 1 tell you that 1 find music in the very roll or Hie rest less cabs." Lilian tells her that the will Iwbaillyi-r fr mimic of that kind at Steyneniore : but perhaps the ;.inls will make up for th,. loss. "No, you will prolwbly think me f poor creature when 1 confess to you I prefer Allui to the iweelest nightingale that ever trilled ; that I limply deUsl the dis- cordant noise made by the tncl.ncholy lamb that I think the cuckoo tunlessand mum ' cat. and that I find no transcendent pleasure in the cuoing of the fondest dove that ever mourned over its male. These beauties of nature are throw n away upon me. Wood- land groves and leafy dells ars to me sug- gestive of suicide, and mke me sigh for the 'sweet shady side ' I'.ul Mall. 7 The country, in faul, is lonely, and my own locisty makes me shudder. 1 like noise and ciciienieul, and the babel of tongues." i IIAI'TKK N\ "CM. I- t pn-.itilethil on MI 111 tie iio.ii.iint an<-o Yirifhoubl liks her T that, but tecinir. ^ on -honlil love her I ' .( * }'tm /.i*. It. Four weeks have flown by swiftly, with ungracious haste, an do all our happiest moment., leaving their marks behind them. In their train Taffy has passed away from I 'bet woode, anil all in the house lm\e in turn- ed his departure openly aud suicoraly. M ' ('In miey tor twu whole ilay. was inconi I- able, and cried her pietiy eyes very on! ; after which she rr.overe.l, ami .' ed Iterscl' lo timl couaolalion ill Ihe tnought lhat he has promised to re'ir n (o them lur a fortnight at Chnstmastiiie. " Summer was dead, and Autumn wan expir- ing A ml infunt miller latltflicil upon Hie land All cloud lotwt) anil col.) The men t|ieud half their time wondering if il will be a good hunting-season, ihe women are wrapped in delicious dreamt of fur and velvet. At the Cottage M the roses have flutter- ed into their gri.ve, but in their place a sweeter flower has bloomed. Cecilia's eyes have grown brighter, gladder, her step firm- er, her cheek richer in the tint that rivets the peach. In her calm home she has but one thought, one hope, and that is Cyril. She has foihuhlch him lu mention their en- gagement to Ijidy Chetwoode, so as yet the twet-i. teoret is all tin u own. Florence has gainetl a boua ti le almir.M, Mi lloer aftermuch deliberation having, for private reasons, decided in favor of Miss lioa'iuhamp and her ii;tusn thousand nouuds. But not for Mr. I'oer, however well connect eil. or however f illy cherished by a rich and aged uncle, u Miss lloauc.hamp bt >\\f herself to resign n!l hope of (iuy snd ' woode. At Steynemorc, Mabel and her baby nre laughing the happy hours away ; though, to speak more accurately, it is at Chelwoode most of them are spent. At least every second week they drive over there, to find their rooms reaily, and stay on well content to talk and crow at " mint ie," until the handsome head of that dearest of old ladies is fairly turned. Lilian h.n of COUI-BO gone over heart and mini) to M its Stay lie, who rewards her affec- tion by pravtisiiig upon her the most ingen- ious tortures. With a craftiness terrible in one so young, she. bides her opportunity and then pull* down nil her friend s golden hair: at other times the makes frantic efforts at gouging out hsr eyes, tries to cut her eye- teeth upon her slcudur fingers, and other- advantageous step "ould be taken by woman toward hr political and social aggramli/r mem than by wresting from man the privi- lege he has arrogated lo himself of making ihe marriage proposal. The apparantly cussion is I between cattle leiug covered with wet snow and then frozen on them and shaking off the dry snow which falls on them in the Northwest and remaining as dry as if nothing had been on them. He knows proposal. The suggestion ,s , nuth . il "' h "' 1 b f n on f t] !de in good faith and Us dis- e tl ' e lu the colony referred to, which were is an interest ing if not eulirely .u_ those that were stabled. Of course, they muting the welfare of society, and to this i nxtent it is well founded. Mr. l-abouchere < believes lhat if this change were brought i about fewer people would remain unmarried. I While he does not say so in words he evi- I dentlj assume* lhat woman, being naturally weake-' and mo*-e dependent, has more lo g*i i by marriage than has mu. He l.-emi* it unjus'. ti.at in prc*ediu .. ere her interests are paran.uuui ' prerogative should be limiled lo the powi r of He advances the argument that if man were deprived of the right of proposal he would lie thrown mure on hi. good be- havior in order to induce the woman to pro- pose. Hut i. Mr. l-abon. here quite ure ihtt he ha. contidi-rcd the subject, in all its essentials? The proposition of marriage under the social conditions of manv civiliz- ed countries, notably English and America, is the culmination of a more or Ices extended and intimate acquaint- ance *ud association usually involv- ing attentions and obligations on the part of the man which might be neither convenient nor agreeable for the woman to assume. How far would her assumption of these be necessary were ihe invested with Ihe right that Mr. Labouchere proposes in her behalf? Invitations to balls, to the theater, and ths opera, are familiar inci- denls of a protracteil courtship. Ordinari- ly these social indulgences carry with them the expenditure ot money. If the man shall not take Ihe initiative in the marriage proposal shall he take il in the amenities that lead up to and suggest such a proposal ? If yes, how long shall he keep it up and how shall he determine whether or not the ladv intends to pop the question He would under such a system bo forced to inaugurate a campaign which hs will have no power to bring to a crisis. If the lady it to lead off in these expensive preliminaries and do the inviting herself shall the foot the bills? If not, t him she will lie under llie einbarray'ing necessity of attesting her re- gard for her lover by reducing his bsnk ac- count the bigger the reduction the strong er the regard. This is a grave question, Mr. Labourcbere, and before it is finally disposed of this one point must be per- manently settled : Who is going to pay for the ice cream ? _ they ,. " So people say, and doubtless healthy ; people might be expected to do better there or anywhere else than others. Still, if our Ontario medial men knew the facts in refer- ence to that country, instead of sending their con*u nptive patient* away south they woul.l tell Ihem lo go to our country, and if i they did so, in perhaps nine cases ou> of ten they uuld Inj grc.it ly improved. The dry, bracing atmosphere would put new life and vigor into them." in yet other service. There ot miles ot electric railway The us? of hypnotism as a help to medi cine is growing rapidly. ' : the wood. Who will come with me?" " I will," say (iuy and Archibald, in a breath. And then ensues a paue. ' Kmbarras de richesse.,'' says Miss Chesney, with a gay laugh and a slight ele- vat,,,,, of her brows. "You shouldn't all l '" " *" it is often exceedingly pleas- speak at once. Now which shall I choose? i*" 1 - Chough the thermometer indicates Then, impelled by the spiril of mischief M degrees below zero, thai always possesses her when in her " Bui wnat about it wfcen it goes to 50 de- guardian'. presencTshe say., _ It would , 8^ b l * ' * reverend gentleman was " Well, it is seldom that it goes so low ? but even then thai is equal to about Jji or .'111 degree, below in Ontario, and we know I very well it is often as low as that here. I The slest snow storms half rain and half >_ I snow here, and, as is often the cue, sue I ceoded by a hard frost at night, are a great deal more unplsasant to people and trying on cattle than the worst weather in the Northwest. There is a deal of difference : A discovery of 500 letters supposed to have been written by Voltaire has been made at Ceneva. Karlv in the reason it was announced by the Minister of Militia and Cen Herbert lhat if possible the Martini rifle would be used in the rifle leaguo competitions. It u now found, owing to the number of appli- cations for Martinis, that this will be im- possible, as there are uot enough in titock to supply the demand. For instance, one corps alone applies for 75, and the total ap- plications run up into thousands. It is, therefore, decided that the Snider rifle will have to be used this year. The Martini will of course, be uwd exclusively for the Do- minion Kirte Association matches in Sep- tember. In this connection it may be mentioned thai (it neral Herbert's idea is to n-pUce the Snider iu the hands of the mili- tia, not with the ordinary Martini, but with the new riHu known a* the Martini Metford. Klectricity i. now used in traction, in illumination, in telegraphy, submarine and terrene, in engineering, in tneili.ine and surgery, in agriculture, horticulture, aud tl'ii; ' ulture, in many kind, of median i -1111,111 manufacturing, in heating, in cooking, and i # are thousand* a new electric ship is nearly completed at one of our I'.toi tic ports : and we have a promise of u new kind of electrical balloon. This 14 the electrical age, as well as the age of sltam. We cannot put any limit to the uses of electricity. There may b* other ngencier of natur yet undiscovered that will here- after be serviceable to mankind. It in likely that there will be great tunes in this ri'i-iiy old world within the next thousand years.