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and will send forth it* full complement of melody. It u those bird songs that gixo real and attenuate expression to the joy of awakeuiug nature. rselvrn Un.l Our Pre*ideut Harrison retire. I from lhe \\ ir.tj House with an extraordina../ repu- tation so far as hi* t'.e iling* with foreign THE S0\<; BIRDS COIIW They Oarol The Tnumpu of Warmth Orer Gold. 4ml Wkrsi On-- fttrvll* in Ike vt .mrf. or Turk* in Hear Ike Flnt TrIIU .in i Win-ill.:, ihe Fracrn < of IBM- Karl k Eairr* Oe' >slrll asiil IK. ..in- *lrlk i tilsix. Kveryone has read that dainty poem which describes the plight of the village forsaken liy the birds and how tbe school- master wou the maiden by his eloquent de- fence of his feathered favorites. Perhaps one of the most welcome signs of spring better than the triumph nf warmth over cold, of vivid green over cheerles* white is er one. Among the reosl despicable of these the arrival of the feathered orchestra who j was the instruction* given to men along the nuke the morning* and the twilight merry ! frontier not to allow a Canadian who did ASSAILED BY WOLVES Advsntnre of Throe Brothers- I who crave such pabalum * From a pile of respectable city journals, gathered absolutely at random, I have com piled a few choice illustrations. Tiie writers cover a 4 v Colonel Parker 'iilnioro writing in the jgi with foreign I-ondon f.Ya/.Ai.- says : Nothing that 1 have i powen wore concerned. With the - null **' '" Amend pleased me more than a American republic* aii'l with Italy he e.iru- 'lumberman's camp in the pi lie forest*. I 1 1. Ill I N. L0 I sT KOW. Mew Ikr I klnr.r I* al Tkesn Wlik Arosle* or ! n .ml nrk*. 'The great province >l Kiang Soo is )>eiug ilevastated by locust*. Consul .lone* at ' i 'nin-Kiaug sends thf State department an vttort* e.l for his nation the character ol a uully, I Kverythiug aboul it seemed *o deliciously sisters may become useful an 1 happy ? ' (rom ^ ^^ combination of ' scissors aud hope, smiles and soap' in tb* ' Hunting of the Snark ! One article unfolds a plan whereby two striking a* the people when they offered to tbe were suffering with their music. If spi ing holds to its 1 not permanently reside, and have all his he promise of an early coming the birds will lie ! longing* there, towork in the United States. with m soon again. The person who would i 'this naturally led to mue'i hardship and hear the birds to the best advantage and I much petty persecution among poor people, would delight his eyes with their brilliant | Kven if a man announced Ins decii"ii to plumage and quick motions must go forth | take up residence there with his wife and while in Canada we all came to regard him 'P UI<> ft' 11 ' wholesome; even the air you Oh, no, decorative ' and 'effective, as a man of miserably petty ideal whose ' drank in with at much Iwnefit as yon would ' condensing thenchemi 1 will omit quotation bete noir wa* this unfortunate country. Wo an itivigora'.inir draught. T.ie n en employ marks, but retain a* faro* possible arrived at that com-lus on^uot hastily, but "din ln ' business are splendid types of phraseology, as linrf likewise both ' deo- | PS a result* of acts in which'he wan the prime manhood tall, well-built, and alhlelic, orative'aud ' etf. ills who go in mover infinitely small and unworthy the. worthy descendant* of the "Old Country, for i his sort f thing can set each o'heroff ttitude of a groat nation Uiw*nU-a small- slock that .iritt settled in the unbroken wil- by weiring gowns that suit ech other, and denies*. What lielwteu the incursions of posing aliout harmoniously, making picture* ' wild auimals, and Indian* more savage than of themselve*. They should, ot courae, the b*a*U, into the primitive and se<|UO*t- provide theuuelve* with good contrasting ered homsjateads of tho emigrairs, it is a complexions. One might ne, for instance, i wonder indie. t that the Anglo-Saxon sett- j a vivid bionde aud the other a dull-ashen ' lers were not utterly annihilated. "Sheer Monde. As a basis of grit," indomitable courage, and pvrt.<r- mice alone prevented this catastrophe the result being that where the red man shout m the spi mu to the wiwds where they will find some of lhe songsters already exercis- ing their larynxes in timid trills and roula- des. Of course, there are birds that st*y the year around. There are the snow birds that chirp disconsolately in- sombre ments over the grave of nature. house or Knglub sparrow, like the pour, is always with is. You will see him in the roadways picking out his precarious living, ear lhe tamily inside week he was hunted forth. , HI/HI similar visitation some yean ago. ' \Vhsn the locust* make their appearance in one ol these Chinese district* there i* con- sternation among tie uulortunate r.-0k- antry, who aeaemble in the field* with wild clamor and din of gong*, armed with long bamboo* with sti earners attached, aud vainly endeavor to drive ofl the terrible in- vader* who ire smiling dowu in myriad* and devouring their crops before their eye*. Kveiy leaf and twig is covered thick, giv- the appear a i i > of some hideous yellow A faiut sour smell, like I ' ed his wtr- whoop or yelled in fierce jcy ' titully for both : the pretty one, who hasn't : operauon. ., corner j , , erm( : ull vegetable matter, ..always ,. very appropriately suggested where they - ^ lble , the neighborhood. It comi. may best weave the we6 of tbejr fawma- ^ from lh d of lhe luiecu . tions. The writer aw.ire* . ,t work, beau- 1 .,,,, ^ wld ^ Mlct and strange to say, the hardy little brigand has been not at all inconvenienced by this \ it And now it ha* been ducidud that all tbi* conduct wa* not only wrong but, under the laws of the United States, actual- ly illeg\l. It lias been proven that the Alien labor law only governs cases where labor i* contracted for abroad and not case* where a man crosses ihe bor- der and is subsequently engaged to work. Our government was astonishingly lax in very much brains, attract* the admirers to the joriier, ami once they are there- among' the Chinese in the existence of a "king" locust "waug." be is called ol coloaaal sixe aud quasi supernatural char- over his bloody ralp-l<H:k, now re-echoes with the hum of commerce, lhe blow ol the ship-builder's hammer, or the musical n.ii-K OK riiK WOUDMAV'S AX*. To krow what can be done with an axe. ' '"!' :1 . the migration, ol the different swarm*. A; with what skill aud exactness it can lie , efft >fnu " ftam ^ some plac*. the leading official, have pub- Imidled. you should see a lumberman tcil '''r tr iu K the writer with a daring plagiar- \ y .. ^. tlAwd ^ d ^ t offerings to the one olthegiant. of the forest, cut it into D lhe .*"* ' d "'".^y f ble . of . th *' king of the locusts in order that he m;ght * "' I cordwood length*, then spill and reaplit it j ' "''* . be influenced to spare their localities. not testing the matter before, hut now that , to the ,,,; iMl No' bloiv ,. wiled, j "^ 1 know of few sights, -rue. tbe Co.- ul, " more extraordinary than a .warm en- as been shown that the action taken wa* evjh glroke biu lh . exaot piac , jv ,. mten ,i. ing worn without stays, have a distinctly demoralizing tendency, fora woman without , corset* ' loses all moral backbone and want* , ' .' t v it T'."v i * lo* re * a > nj Jrink _ . . ...... rui tiown iy the employment i , . . _, their mean, of sub.i.Umce or suffered other j of , he m ,,. t :ei . t **&- >f ot -, n nv ta smoke cigarette*. .Stil another of ">Jry. !y Mr . go ,he centre of tbe lumber region the>e "'""-no Mem. to be the But the foregoing is not all that the ,, v ,. rv wmler , aw ),,, camps established. - illegal and improper, reparation should be ,.,, for . 9,, w h en tlw tree falls, the olisen-er, demanded ior tho unfortunate meu and on cj their families who have been deprive.! of:,, hRI , revelations <>l the past week h:iv brought ot 1 Among Uie employes at one Man the Behrmg -Nea lnro brothers,as Hue specimensof h tat ion were i to light. No sooner had uie otmi-mg ow three brothers,** tine Kpecimensof humanity commissioners net lied dowu to work than a , cou |,i be seen in a day's march S OJ n it was shown that Secretary Blaine and <; ,(, uow* fell they had a grievance, President Harrison had holswred u;> ti.eir Klllle anferenoe of opinion, with the bow, ose by means of false translations ot Rus- or hea.lman ; so they resolved to leava and make their way to the nearest settlement, a distance of about throe days' journey. hint* for the lurnuhingof a boudoir. .re not at hand for the number women in the novels who own ' . The mow wa* not yet in good order for '"" travelling, being exceedingly loose and the ,wdery, the- reilt of THE l.nw -I M THE I'Miited States outside of boudoirs. The boudoir i* first defined -. It is the room where a woman ' think., dreams, dresses, talk* and read*. Tin- lied must be a 'dainty dream,' the pillows ' snowy invitation* ' A silver rack must hold the ivory-backed brushes of the ; spotless washing-stand tbe toilet-table long and vigorous winter. . . But he is nofc a songster. He say* noth- demanded for tho unfortunate^ meu and ing, but saws wood. THE S0*l! Ml- 1 KROW. The song sparrow is not a migratory bird. During thu winter ne remains concealed in the long grass of the marshes and meditate* upon the operatic score for tl-.e coming sra- on. When spring come* he practises, tim- idly at first, but afterward* with the confi- dence of hi* art, the song be has evolved. He it is win welcomes all the other bir.'.s, a)Ml docnnieut. which fell into their - extending to them a friendly chirp of greet-, at the ll|IM> lhe United State* acquired ing, a n.nical ode a* it were upon their de- 1 Alaska. And unblushingly, Mr. Fos but. The tree prrow, too, i* new, and t<r> the representative of give* his brother w>ng with variations of i ne^hbor^ ackn.iwle.lged that he kno his own In this he is not unlike his human tran8 | BtionM wer . f*[ M . He, however, de brethren, who have been ac.-uaed of pirating c ^ nii tnat lhe ,i ol , umenlt had been with , melodies from other*' opera*. | drawn and the argument, based thereupon ll 'aw hsving occurred since it fell. Also now may we see lhe bluebird, a : canoellod. The taller part of this state- | However, our wlvenlurers were lusty of brilliant bit of col >r in the veinal landscape. ' lm . o t n, denied by the British prew, which '.o'lv :md stout of heart; so sunrise one The lay of the song sparrow is Wagnnrtan. unanimously denounces the contemptible bnliiant morning saw them start, carrying heavy, brocdmg. sombre and somewhat trjck M j, rt y ,,[ gjjly piece of business Ibutalighl "pack ''and only armed with pessimul..-. But the bluebird is one of the j t wa , by the United States resorting to their axe*. As they slowly progressed Italian school, something in the UonUetli ' ,j m a ar tactics that Canada lost what is now ] through the palhleas forest they became tyle, jovial and optimistic. He ha* more lne Kre t er portion of the Stale of Maine, aware that it wa* becoming sensibly colder: to tell about than the r>ng sparrow ind Iu lhe negotiation* which ended inthe Ash- ""' t'>" wa*nota matter of grel import to eay it I Imrton treaty the American* presented a them, for there were sheltered nooks to be for the society column. ' I'h Pha be fly catcher ha. a very flashy f a ) M , n p of that territory. In that case tumid, and fuel in abundance existed on spring suit and u popular with the ladies ! t |, c i r trickery succeeded, but in '.he negotia- every side. The pine-forests at this ssason on that account. Hut lie i* content to pose ! ,, now g OID g O n in Paris the pioUluli- : 0| lt >e year are very silent, for nearly all and doe* nothing more than give a quiet , , ,. taat t |,,y w ,u f sl | miserablv in as- ' the birds have emigrated to warmer cli- " gluck " of aaliitaction as he gobbles an , ublishing lhe greedy poiition they took at mates, even the wild quadrupeds seem to early worm or an untimely fly. | the beginning. Again it will be the duty , be affected by thu .ilence. and with Ihe The purple finch U occasionally *een all ! of the Ottawa government to claim repara- I exception of the Iwylynx aud limber wolf, through the winter, although he i* ome Turn. Not only have Canadian vessels fol- ! " have lost their voice*, thing of a southern tourist during cold lowinu a lce,:tmmt pursuit been seized, but weather. In any caw, become* hack as men have been deprived ot their living. Stat- ul gaged m pairing. The air is filled with clouds of locust* drilling, circling, crosamg and recroaaiug, with a iMut, whirring noise, aud nettling on tbe ground in thousands of couple*. The ground is carpeted thickly with them ; you cannot make a *tep with- out crunching heap* of llier.i under your , ( lnoumkud . more gUirt yoll n , / ? / The egg*> are drponted in hole* drilled by llie female an iLch or more deep in the ground. The lime required for hatching depend* entirely on the temperature, lu hoi weather the new brood begins to week.. bla:k. >r-papei for friends, for business, for lovers, and so on.' Is any comment iioceecary, or possible? 1 urn uncoverini no new atrocity. Kvery one knows the brauti, and these are no worse than dozens of other contributions from dozens of other industrious scribblers On the third lay, a* the woodmen were passing along the margin of n cedar swamp, they became early as February and chimes in with his t.heir property plundered and llirir business ( fin* tenor voice ;i> help out lhe spring over- 1 ruined. U ah a (llatlsume government in ; hearing an occasional yelp. The iure. He is a very handsome bird and doss j power in Kiiulan.l we have grave doubts ->r *o little dreaded by mature whether any demand for compensation will Iw made, but the leail the Dominion Miris not depend on his voice alone to attract his lady love. But Kobin Redbreast, with tho pretty try cau do is to ur^e it. legend of his crimson bosom, is before all these. He has a liking for thu Canadian climate and leaves his southern hotel early , in the year. Itobin Redbreast has no *ong at first. II.- contents himself with hopping about to see , that everything is getting i.nwell. He casts | a critical eye on Ihe bud* and look* approv ingly at the new grass. With hi* head on on* side ho watch tho children playing on the walks. And so until he fall* in love. And then he sings endless sonnet* to his inamorata. He gats* \. > Rr.,il ,H.. U , for HrlllMa; .ill. American, French, and Canadian tiaher man *r all concerned in the change of policy which Newfoundland has just an uounctil m her regulations for selling bait. The main remit of this change is to allow the purchase of bail, on certain !rras. by the Canadian aud even by the r'rcnou consc.ious of the vicinity of the wolves, by ,n i mats human Iwmgs in this country that tbe travellers scarcely I'AID ATTENTION TO TIIE I'lIU I MT \NCE, ,,... ,u appearance at th* end of mnt have it* 'pretty profusion of oxidir.U , M ^ J^ aff >nla .ilver, cut plan i ami flower..' but. 'of an a* ,tiv?as fleas, making extraordinary ! course, the principal thing is the looking- ^^ b aMDf , thwr B lnUM . ular hmd glass. The writing-tabi* must lock inw , ^ UuU a , 1Ualce lhev , ufge . t tb . privacy the love secret, of its owner, and ; ^ of a , warm , b;ack anl i JSed wiih I letter-paper | fuddtn mau::y. In shape they are exact copies of then parent*, save for tbe want of wings. They are greedy feeders, and grow rapidly. By the eighth ur mneth day wing* have budded and the color begin* to change, yeilow spots appearing aud in aboul a month they are full grown. The dean IK tux!, by suitable measure*, of thu formidable peil, involving, a* it doe*, th* prevention of famine*, fever epidemic* aud not*, i* a natter of grave public con- cern. On* constantly hears ot mandarins lo*- ing their button* and iieing unbraced a* the penally of reuiisenee* or failuie to de- stroy the enemy. I ' . S. ConsulJones says the Ch.meMcoii.idcr thai the visitation of tnelocuats is a "calam- ity from Heaven, and that there is no help for it. ' Chinese record* chronicle many instance* of toe appearance and tbe calamities inflicted by locusts in former in rti !>> tin 1.11:1 - irn, , Twe PlgsBlr* ir..m Ike feairml for. -I l.i I., ii 10 I ui ..|. Two mtre*ting young people from Cent ral Afnca have just been brought to Kurope. They are pigmy girls from the forests through which Stanley's expedition wan- dered. They are Akka dwarfs, aud a de- scription of them printed in England says that they are the rirst specimens of their but when they had named a well timbered race '.roucht to Kurope. This is a mistake for several Akka dwarfs have been taken to . l>ul th y h ve " psnliarly cffectir* Italy, but none of them thrived there. | m.lhod. of destroying them. The tiovern- Ur. Stnlilmann and his companion*, while ment usually issue* pioclamations ordering merr.bers of Dr. Kmms expedition, rescued oat the soldier* and encouraging the farmer* ridge a cry was heard in the distance, as if , these two young girls from the hand* of to destroy them. The latter are given a a pack of "fox-hounds were in full chase of their Arab captors. They are .uppowd to t boun'-X fo^their deeUuctioc game. The lumbermen at once concluded j be between 17 and J" years old, are well that lhe pursuit wa* after a mooee or oari- ' proportioned, and about a* tall as boy* of ait. I boo, aud, with natural curiosity, halted , s years. They bore the sea voyage from The soldiers, with their orticer* at their head, are used against the locust* a* against even fishermen, who have heretofore practically he occupie* himself been shut out all together, and to take away the free privilege granted hitherto to the New Knglaiiders, ubjeoling them aympall.etically at the firat levers strolling ; henceforth to the fee charged to all comers, about, and mounting tin- Inglies' tree, pour* I The Newfoundland bait laws, which have with the hope of witnessing a part of the j Zanzibar to llaly well. Neither was atflict K un w a lance, hunt. This they did sooner than expected, ' ed with seasicknees, and they tecame very ! armed *>^ a and in a more disagreeable way than anil -i- paled, for, coming up the slope which they had alieady traversed, were distinctly to be an advene army in the field. Instead of a forth the full flood of hi* eloquent wooing, ill* dearest aud most harmonious that ever came from a tuneful throat. TMK u UK'. THI HE, In April come the wren tribe who exe- cute duos, trio*, quartet* and operatic choruee* with Robin Kedbreast. At the nd of April that primo tenoro assoluto of the volent orcheatra come* before the foot- light* and wakes the echoes with his en- chanting melody. The roeebrcasted gross- beak keeps him company but needs tbe thrill of a grande passion to call forth the liquid gurgles of his lay. During none of April whom the tribe of shore birds, are songsters, come aa coryphee* for the grand ballet that take* place every morning in tho tree top*. They do not oome in Hock* at first. Kach kind ends a few in advance, a fnw braver souls who press clnw upon the ratrost of winter. The linnets are usually among the first to mmglo their songs with that of K.ilnn Redbreast. Before HIM month is far ad- vanced, however, the grass finches, the plovein, the chewinki or ground robins, and that sougless bird with the buss drum arrive and go intc training for the season's en- gagement*. A great niiini.i. ui singing birds of the sparrow warbler and swallow trihti* arrive late in the month, ami do not even need to wet their whistle heforv they tune their pipe*. At the beginning of May migration is at its height. The chimney swifts and swallows do no', pack their vali*o* until late in May. They arrive in time to celebrate the Queens birthday, a display of loyalty on their part that shown that they have no annexation sentiment. They do not belong to tho Ringing contingent; their short, "peep, peep," rescir. >ling rather a pizxicati move- ment, or a Htringendo accompaniment by a highly-strung violin. TilK'-vniiun. The catbirl sings only when the mood i on but makes up for his silonnv when he let* himself loose. Mid-May finds tho goldcu robins or orioles with their orange and black plumage building their curious nest* in liie top* of trees. Other nil .Is there are, both regular and occasional vititors, but those above men I ionud include almost all that I ho average bird lover who is not a siu..-,il of birds will be likely to TOO tn.l ro.Mgn'/e. I -.; I lie InM days of May the orchestra will be full and may l.o heard morning and oveniug, the ni'iriiing performance being far the belter. There will be solos and duos and quartet* at all lime* of the day, and the warbler* will play lh<- accompaniments. Hut at tho *-wo u.!rtri:i<iuce*vuij throat will be tuned cut so much of a figure in international seen several large wolves, followed by a numerous retinue, and without a doubt they were running upon the men's trail. .No time was to be lost : immediate action had at once to be taken: so the three broth- however, each soldier is hempen bag attached fond 'ol'th "ship' 'and UM'***)' of* which ihey j to a bamboo pole, which, with wide-open had never heaid before. They were sent to mouth, is waved back and forth among the Kurope in charge of a young Swahili, a , swarms until blled. when they are I coast native from the neighborhood of j /.jn/ibar. who had been Ur. ^luhunann's ] man servant for five year*. They learned to .peak the Swahili tongue aud thus were able to communicate through the interpre- ter with the white* they met upon landing diplomacy during the last few year*, were era placed their backs to a giant pine-tree, _ onamally designed to discriminate agamsl nm i, with their trusty axes, received to sell ! in Italy. They are on the way -..'.. the French of St. Pierre and Miqueloii. i iheir live* a* dearly a* possible. The first where they will be taken before all sen They received from France so high a onset wa* led !>y four mo*l powerful beasts, eociotie* interested in anthropological re- . bounty that they could undersell lhe New- ( Two of lhe lumbermen, with adroit skill, search. The intention is to take them ; bamboo twigs aud other bushes), and each foundlanders everywhere, and ujubly in , disposed of their respective foe*: not so j back to Africa in a few months, a* they i armed with thi. weapon goes lermauv, :ientinc and the action renewed. " In this section ol the province," write* Mr. Jonee, "the army ha* taken the field, aud the district magistrate has taken up his quarters in the country where the locusts arr Uuckest, to overlook the work nf destruction and to pay lhe farmers Uie bounty. The farmers use large brooms made of the markets of Southern Kurope, from which they^lmost drove the islanders out New- foumllan.l prolested, but tho im;>erial (iov- eminent could not, of course, compel France to renounce her bounty system. France mth the, third man. fell, but, before he Hi. Inadinct aoailant . might not endure the winter of Kurope. i-ould raise hi* axe be I The young women have small head*. I promising foreheads, with lutrou* Dlack rt I.I.K.II DOWN nv TUB UTIIKK IIRI'TB, iv* I ssjHVfjUIW 1 1 VI ifviiin* o j otwin . a esxi tv i I r i i i not only ulung with a natural pride to this nd b l for , h " ?"""?; Poe <>< mind he industry of th* little foothold that remained of what wa*nnceagrcat empire in America, but, under her system of treating the fish- erman as n/rl of her reserve navy, regarded subsides for them a* wise and merited. In tin* dilemma Newfoundland hail reooune to recttictive bait laws, which were so framed as to exclude the French fleet from the privileges of purchase. But the laws required imperial sanction, and, in seeking ". it, not only were based on the alleged uee3 | d " tl-rl > h * d . ' T !~ r ,' " <K:IU1 1 00 .' of regulating the supply ob.i' to avoid it.' "K1 b y the dead and maimed b ' regulating the supply destruction, but also were made applicable j to all foreign vessels, in certain particular*. Thus Canadian and American veeaels could ' only purchase bait by paying a license foe. Then followed the famous effort of New- foundland to arrange her own independent reciprocity treaty with us, under the Bond- lilainn protocol. Tho Dominion, it will b* remembered, successfully protested to the imperial Government, which order- ed these negotiations to cease. The aulhorilie* at St, John* thoroughly angry at this interference, took their re- revenge by cutting off the Canadian fisher- men from all bait-buying privileges what- eAr, and. by way of emphasis, pormittud Yankee vessels to buy bait without lioense fee, just a* they would have done had the lioml Hlaino agreement been carried out. The nonunion retaliated by reviving lapsed customs d'lties against Newfoundland product*, and the very heat ol the quarrel between the ncighlHiuis caused it to bum out sooner, aud led last year to a mutual repeal of hostile regulations. At the same time, some of onr fishermen wore chargmt with abusing tho special courtesy that hail heon given them, and also with violating than- oath, by retelling to the French at St. 1'icrre, at aifvanccd price*, the bait they bought n Newfoundland port*. So it turn. out that the flh*rmtn nf thn Dominion, of New Kngland, and of France start once more on an even footing, with a uniform license fee per ton for the season. Stagnant water bmjomes puti id. Summer heat breed* noxious insect*. He who is without trouble i* often without Uod. must have been leveiely torn, if not killed. Finding that hi* axe could not be further used, the brave fellow dropped it, threw himself on his knees, and buried hi* sheath- knife in the ribs of his asaailant. This thrust wa* so immediately succe**ful in its result* that in a moment after he had recov- ered his former weapon and his position against tho tree. In the meantime hi* brothers hail heen busy : Iheir coolness and well brute* that surrounilou them. The leteon that had taught the I Aden began to tell upon followers, for they now hesitated to charge home, l>ut retained a reeprctl'ul distance, which was toon followed by all re- tiring into their forest retreat*, doubllenly conscious that lumbermen could not be mo- lested with impunity. Tim truth of this story cannot be doubted, for next spring the heads of the slain were presented to the pnqier authorities, to enable the brothers to claim the royalty upon wolves' skull*. By Women for If omra." In an article entitled " liy Women for Women," in the North American Review for April, Lilian A. Nlercur says : " Is it not ' borne in upon ' the sensible womou ot to-day tl.at there is an alarming amount of trash being written by women lot women ? The chief offender is the daily pros*. Maca nine* sift more carefully, aud we all know the moral tone of most of the successful wo- men's publications to be above . nticis.n. But it is the ' .Society Column ' of tlie Sun- day and week day newspaper wfcich we arritigii iho columns headed 'Fir Women's World,' ' Fi-ilie* of the Fair,' ' Feminine Foible*,' and the like pardon a strong quotation fr<>m Shitkope*r -' damnable iteration.' Wt.ll for the men that inch col- umn* are so labelled, otherwise they misfit read themselves into at tacks of nausea. But what of the women for whom suoh columns art - labelled ' The press declare* that it 4 caters to popular taste. ' In tbe name of Ml robust and normal womanhood, > the mental and physical inamfie de eyes, a eoppei -colored completion (few of tho pigmies of Africa are black), hair which grows in separate tight twisted curls, flat noses, and protruding red lip*. Their eye* are very wide open, their hands and feet are small, and the forearm and wrist are perfectly shaped. The spine curves strong- ly inward, making the back hollow and the stomach protrudes proportionately, winch is a characteristic of their race, lu behav- ior they are de^iiUed as infantile, wild and any. On of them is rather cross in dispo- sition, while the other i* of a sunny temperament and was much pleased uh the bead bracelets and other trink- ets that were given to her. While in Naples they were taken tn the house of a wealthy man, aud a number of people were invited to meet them. The sunny-faced sir! showed her appreciation of chocolate bonbons, and was proud of the red lining of her blue frock, aud kept showing it and her stockings to the bystander*. They made a capital J inner on rii-e and meat, eating heartily as long as they were alone with their attendant aud the white man servant, but stopping at onoe when my member ol the family came into the room. At first they ate with their lingers, but, seeing the forks, picked them up and helped themselves with those instruments. They would uot touch orange*, and the Italian man servant had to tail* every dish before they or the Swahiii boy would par- take of it. It i* evident that they were suspic.ou* of being |K>i*oned in that strange land, and followed the practice of Al'ruin chiefs, many of whom have all their food tasted before they eat it. After dinner, the little women were led into* pretty garden wh*r* they sal under a fine pudm tree. They enjoyed the sunshine, gradually acquired confidence, and allowed themselves to he photographed arm in arm, with the little son of their hostoa*. The sunny faced girl shook with laughter while the photograph wa* being taken, but tbe cross girl looked glum and suspicious. They showed neither wondtr nor admiratiou of the people and thing* around them. They will attract great attention in (iermany, and ethnologistn will be particularly glad to improve this opportunity to acquire a belter knowledge of the language of the Akka*. slaughter. When killed and collected they are paid for by weight, which is at the rate of 4(1 ca*h, or 4.-. per pound. The locust*' eggs are dug up and paid for on a similar scale. " During a walk on the hills one day I came upon a spot more than usually covet- ed with locusts. At a distance I saw two or three meu aud a* many Ixiys directing the march of a small army ol duck*, which they do by the use of lung bamlioo poles aud the voice. It is astonishing to see the absolute control they exert over the movement* of the ducks, and the apparent intelligence of the latter. From the opposite direction a small boy. about twelve year* of age, stark naked and burned by the sun to a dark brooie.lithe and beautiful a* a young gladi- ator, bounded upou tbe scene. He saw lhe locusts, and with a shrill yell called to the men directing the duck*. IB a few mo- ments the ducks cauie up. They fell upon th* locusts, .uul m less than a minute every locust and there were millions ol them had been gobbled up. The army of duck* seemed more erhcacious in their destruction than the army of Chinese. "In one district near by it is prohibited to kill the ducks at such times notwith- standing their value in the market*, and they are kept to use against the locust*. This district has one flock ol :<,.VJO ducks." Christian workers sometimes make the mistake of adding mor machinery when it is more steam that is needed. Figure* such a* the following, culled from the Statesman's Year Bo^k for 18U3, rr in- teresting to all Canadian* aud to British ntiiens everywhere : Area of the United States and Territories ................ 2,939,000 Indian Territory ............ ;;.<ii Alaska ................... (31,409 '1,409 The area of British North America is given as follow* : Canada ..................... 3,4,'io,38J Newfoundland and Labrador. . .i ( 'anada may he a* proud of it* material pro- gress and political position a* il muit of the immnnae area with which Unpeople have been dowered by native pluck and Br>lish conquest or gift.