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An Oj)finW!niJo and What Became of It, H> \V. T. Janic-. in the <una<)ian Magazine- One tlmy, th* Montreal rxpresi of th* Canadian racific Railroad, buuud for To- ronto cam* to a indden itop in a wild part of the country, about fifty miles weat of Sniiih'i Kail*. A young widow, with her only child, a boy of three years old. were the solitary occupants of one of the can. The boy waa *tauding on hi* mother'* lap, looking out of the open window, when a .[.., winging it* flight aero** hi* line of vision, attracted hi* notice, and caused him to ihake hi* cap oil, which fell through the (.perture and rolled down a lowembankment. Thinking the would have time to recover it before the engine *Urted,t lie woman left the child alone on the *e>t and got'otfthe train; but juit a* (he Hooped to piA up the cap, Hi- engine which had (topped while the fireman cleared the track of a stry cow with a loud whittle, (teamed away before he could reach the tram, leaving the poor mother liehind, a crazed spectator of her child loaning far out of the window and creaming luilily for her, with no one near to (natch him from what (he feared would be certain death. struck dumb with terror, (he itood awhile in a (peechleu agony of sn*pene, expecting momentarily to Me her darling'* form mingled lor an initant in the cloud of dui-t whirled up by the wheeU, and, after- m arda, to find hi* mangled body betide the track. Would nobody *ee and rescue the child * " Help ! help ' help ! Oh : my darling ' my darling ' Help ! help !' and a lucceMion of hysterical shrirke lounded in the wake of the thundering train, and echoed among the pine tree* that grew in clump* on either aide of th* track. But the train kept on, going falter and fat- ter, with a little human life a wid- owed mother'* boy trembling in the bal- ance between fate and fortune. In the deliriou* tennon of her eicitemcnt, (he flew down the track, (bricking and ges- ticulating wildly, while the train pcd farther and farther into the diitance, and finally disappeared round a curve in the road. The ilarkrent of a moonless night, which had been lurking in the a*t until the letting un should go down before the horizon, now NEW HOME OF ONTARIO'S LEGISLATORS, vided no legal impediment tbould occur. Mr. Seacombe gave the name of the hotel where he and the child might be found, and entering the cab, he and hii ward wire driven there. That light, at h* *at in one of his suite of roomi, fondling the child on hit knee for he wa* exceedingly attached to children and wu particularly (truck with the little fellow's artless wayt and delight with the began to tteal athwart the wtird ttretch of many plaything! he had provided, he mued *.. : _ _ j i i a I _i > n Twin whtvt VIM ^smu t < l*n>il t li*> ritvir 1 !< uncultivated landicape. Sombre *hadow(, hk. huge, black bat*, ipreid their ebou u P n wh ' h eonndered the heartlea* crus'.tyof a parent who could ao ruthlessly wing* over the lonesome scene and envelop- I n1on one of such tender age and affec s she followed tionati traits. Tutting the boy gently upon sd the woman with jsioom, at with Iruitltt* ha*te in th* direction in which the had teec the lait of her child. Onward and onward she ran, until even the raili wire invisible, know- ing not what might b* thi result of the next '. step. now she escaped de- struction by falling head- long through a trestle bridge when she approached It i* surprising, so beedlevly did ihe come upon it, thinking only ef the danger of her child and naught of her own. Beyond thi* she conld go no farther. What could ihe do now ? True, she could walk back to the tint station and telegraph, and then take the next train going went if ihe only bad enough presence of mind to think of the tint thing that reason would he likely to suggest. Bui she was distract- ed and wholly incapable of reflection or de- liberate action. Her matern%l feeling* wen- , aroused toapilchof in tense frenr.y which, now ' she c .til. 1 no longer punne the one ideatnat poueisec' her mind, increased her pertur- bation to tuch a degree that tht lott all control of herteli and was on th* verge of insanity. Only to follow, alowly at the michl, the ruining train, perchance to find a dying boy and km him before he breath- ed hii Fait, would be lomc relief. Anything but inaction anything but that undivert- ed struggle which wai now being waced be- tween the demon. Insanity, and a woman I reason. And what a struggle ! the throes of it the exquisite tension of nerve and felling ! Could the endure it and not die? Could that woman, now raving, with dit th* carpet among hit toyi, he walked" up and down the room in much agitation for a contiderable time. Then be (looped to caret! him, an. I, after many (imilar over- ture* of affection to assure an attent, he i asked him if he would like him to he hi*' papa. The boy nodded hi* head emphatical- j ly, kiMed him without being bidden, and toon got him at much intereited at himtelf i in a woolly effigy of a dog that would bark when it wai squeezed. After the child had been put to bed by one ol the chambermaid*, Mr. Seacombe t*l in an eaty chair far into the night imok- ing and deep in thought ; and when he rote to retire, hi muttered to himtelf : " Btlore th* little chap (hall be reilored to a parent who abandoned him to the mercy if ttrangen, if he did not tuccced in killing himtelf by falling out of tho train, I'll But the ooacluiion of the tentence, what- ever il wai, he did not utter. The next morning, when the police ter geant enquired at the hotel for .Mr. Sea- combe, he wat told that that gentleman had left the city on an early train, and had taken the child with him. IIL f*ver*l yean had elapsed, when an Amer- ican family, living in a fashionable suburb of Toronto, received as their gueitt a wealthy compatriot and his young ion. A few dayt after I heir arrival, the head of the household accompanied hit gueitt in his bevelled hair and eyes too hof'to weep- i rri s n drive through the icily, for th* knowing the deadly peril of her heart', idol pu'pote of wemg the sights. Naming.very -continu* through the long walche. of ' ">l""t">n a. it wai i pasted, hi at the night a prey to a coninming emotion! TV?"***** ** Lunatic Atyluin, taxing To and fro, up the track and back to the I thal lie w " fH'n\J '^> the medical bridge .he fain would crow, wailing JI)CM . i Prinlendenl, and thai, if hit friend cared santly the went, and ihriekiog aloud with the energy of despair, that the might lie seen by the men on the train* that twept put her like a hurricane, their dozr.lmg headlight* illuminating her turroiindingt for a brief space, gleaming ru the water " In thit ward we have a very pathetic case. A woman, who wa* brought here a few ytan ago, violently insane, and tor that flowed beneath the bridge, and then vanishing in the darkness on the further ide? Vet midnight, and then daybreak, found iier (till aiming for her deiire ; and it wai nol until the roiy-hued hour that follow* iinrite, that "he luccumbed to the opiate of unconsciousnes* that Nature to kindly impart* when a troubled ipirit can no long- er rctitt her ministration*. In the broad daylight a freight train topped to pick up a woman, found in a woon upon the track, and then, with a raving maniac in the cabooM, continued itt journey to Toronto. IL Tn the tmokiiig-car of tho train on which wai the child, a gentleman of fortune, not yet in the prime of life, waa tested. Re- turning from a tithing excuraion, he wai going to make a call in Toronto, after which il wa* hit intention to proceed thence, to hit home in a Southern city. Throwing aaide the remain* of hi* cigar, he left the car an '1 patted into that in which the child wat crying. A hraketman ha 1 cloted the window, and wai now vainly trying to toothe the little fellow. In antwtr to a quettion put by the paiaenger to the brakemai., the latter explained how he had discovered the child, alune, leaning out of tin- window and crying for hii mother. During a ahort con venation on the matttr, thuy agreed in th* opinion that the boy had been put on the train at tome ttation along tht line, and there abandoned by somebody probably hi* mother who withed to get ri 1 of him for a tiniiter re* ion. I'romiaing to take charge of him, th* gentleman, Mr. Seacombe, aat beside the child and bought him loine candy, and by thi* meant lucceeded in making him quiet. Moon after he oeoied crying and fell asleep, and did not awaken until he was being taken from a cab into the police itatmn at Toronto. Her*, to the officer in charge, Mr. Sea- coinb* related what little he knew of the ate, and offered to formally adopt the ohiL' if neither of hit parent* cmild lie (oin.il. Tn tint tin- .'i^e.int said thai I i- thjxighl the magistrate woul.l Mient, pro to go through the building, they would do 11. Hi* friend auentnl, and they alighted from the carriage and were ahewn through the variou* ward*. Pauling at a door, the auperintendent a time unreal rainable, i* now in appearance a tinly of aubdned melancholy that anarliat, capable of reproducing h*r on caiivai, would give hi> left hand to behold. She hain't poken a word for over a year; looki utter- ly dejected : recognize* nobody ; her mind it an inanity : won't eat unlrt* the't forced to. Don 't know exactly vhat the trouli' wai tomethingto do witii a ohild, I fancy, a* that wai the burden of her ravingt when lie came m. Nobody come* to viait her, and nobody could IM found who knowa anything about her. Don't even know her n nine. She wai picked up tome where on the railroad, but I forge I where. She had quite a large turn of money on her peraon and wu well ilreaatd when al.e b-came an inmate. She teemi, from my observation, to be well bred, at though the came of a reipectalile, if not well-to do, family. I i..ii'i ipoak to her, it the will try to hide from ui." With that, hi opened ihe door and there )>efor* them tlood the *ul>ject of the iketoh. Stood, did I sty? That il icarcely the word to describe W attit ido. Sho seemed lixi'l to the tpot.hke a marble imtue : but her feature*, unlike thoae of a stain* and al- together different from the niperinttnlent'i description ol them, expreued a variety of emotion* in rapid iiiccetaion. At tint there wai an unmiiUkable look of lurprinon her faoe, then torrow, which instantly changed to intelligence to recognition of aomchody to unbounded raiiiure. The superintendent wai dun.bfounded, and hit vititort were not a little psrplexed at seeing in her mien something to contrary t hat they had been told to anticipate. (.sunnily the troubled dream of yeart wat Iwing dispelled from her innui and ahe wat quickly regaining her natural condition. What could have caused this apparently un * ublc inetamorphoiii ? There are well authcr.ticaled cases of per- tont having lott their reaton owing to tome domestic calamity, whose miiult have \ , c. recalled to n nonnil I'lindiiinn by hearing a favoiile tune nr teeing a familinr fc. The mult in lliia initauc* i* no more ex- traordinary than that of many oihtr* of a innilar nature. Temperamental and other constitutional mfluence* would doubtleaa affect the patient and largely determine the poiaibility of a cure by tuch meani. But the fact rather than the rationale of the phenomenon it what chiefly concern* thil narrative. So to the ttory : Before anyone wai aware that the tup poted lunatic wai no longer eligible to re- main where the wai, the woman, with cry of joy, had darted forward, thrown her arm* about the boy'* neck and hunt into hytterical aobe. While thi* affecting scene wa* being en- acted, Mr. Seacombe, for it wa* he, wai truck with something in the woman'l countenance that teemed very familiar to him and awakened in hi* own mind mem oriea of a pathetic po*t, of what wa* th* cauie of hi* celibacy. He wa* reminded of the face of one whom he had met and loved a* a young man while on hi* first vitit to Canada. That he had left the country be- fore he had the courage to make a propoaal of marriage to her hail been to him ever tince a aource of regret HIM] they met again at lait? And wai the retnmblance which the boy bore to hit mother the rea- *rn why he bad become M itrongely and o fondly attached to him ? " Are you my mother who left mi on the train V the boy atkad in reproachful tone*, when she released him from that affection- ate embrace to gratify her unlit with an- other look at his face. " Don't (peak so reproachfully tome, my darling. I feel that I am hardly myaalf at pretent. Something terrible hat happened to me winch I .-aunot recall, (iivemc time to recollect my thought*, and I will . But where am I. and who i* thi* gentleman? Mr. Seacnmbe '" (he exclaimed, recogniz- ing him before ha could apeak. " I'ray ex- i.-uae me, I am utterly bewildered, and know not what thene unusual appearances mean. Surely, surely, I have not been ." She had gueased the truth from her iur- rounding*, but could not say tho word rnoet significant of it. While her feelings tound vent in a freih outburit of tean, Mr. Sea- combe took her by the hand, and said that although he had the pleasure of recognizing her, he had not the privilege of tddreiaing her by the name which she had acquired by marriage since they had lait met. Then, turning to th* tuprrintendent, he whiiper- ed a '/lettion into hi* tar, to which that gentleman replied : "Certainly, cjrtainly, Thi* it no time for formalitiei ; we will comply with thote later." When the carriage Mt thi aayl-im il con- tained one more occupant than when it (top 1 ped at the door, and that was Mr* Palgrave, the boy'a mother. On the way back an exchange of confid- ence* took place between her and her former lover, whoae demeanor toward her teemed to imply th.it hit heart was it ill trnt to iti tint attachment, and that love had in no wise diminished by abaonce, laptt of time or altered circumstance*. He confeiicd to having kidnapped the young b*y to prevent hit being restored to a parent, who, he had tnppoaed, had put him on the train and ther* left him to hit fate : while she, reaol- (acting firtt one fragment and then another by the awocialion of I'trcuinitance*, de- scrilied the unfortunate episode* which had well nigh cos' her life as it had for tome year* her reason. Here Mr. Searombe't host interpoMd to nrca* Mrs. 1'algrave to make hi* hou*e her home, to whiun offer the ataented.iayine *h* would gratefully accept hit kind hospitality until the couid make other arrangement*. A few day* later, after they hail rtnewed their former intimacy and Mr. Seacnmbe had learned that hi* friend wa* a widow, thoy were together talking in private about the future of young Harry I'.ilgrave. (but hit adopted father would have it to be Sea- lie, and the boy himself held to that side of the contention), Harry left the room to order the carriage for three o'clock that afternoon. While he wat away, other con- venation of u private nature ensued, and, as a result of it, he returned to Hud then looking very happy, and to be informed that not only wai hi* mother now willing that he should retain the name of hit adopt father, but that she, too, had contented to change her own name to that by which her win had been known for tome time. Harry wai delightod to hea; tint, but he ilul not infer all that it meant until he had distenu nated the newt among: the other members i.f the household, and had it interpreted to him by the exclamatory comments with wh ifh it wa* receivi.l The tew ipeotator* of the nti|itmln <! Mr. Seacomhe and Mrs. Palgrave in St JanuY Cathedral, which took piano as won after- wards as the- ceremony could be lawfully performed, little knew thai they Wield lb tequel to a romance in real life, the like of hicb is rarely heard of even in fiction. < nn;ij. ud The Mtablithment of a monthly steam- ship ters-ic to Australia, between the point* of Vancouver, B. C, and Sydney, N. S. U'., it a matter of great importance to Canada, By this arrangement, which is made for one year and it renewable thereafter if deiired, a prominent Australian tirm oi high finan- ciail Itanding, receive* the subni.lv of |l&i- OOO offered by th* Canadian (overnment tome years ago, and agrees to itart th- service at once the tint steamer to leave Sydney for Canada before May 10. Two tine iteamera will be placed on the mate, id will call at Hawaii and the port of Victoria, B C. Commenting on thi* mat- ter the Kmpire say* : It would be interact- ing in thit connection to know if the utterance! of Sir Cieorg* Dibhe when in New York and Canada a few month" were more than merely prophetic. Our despatch yeiterday indicated that much waa due in th* matter to the patriotic conversation* of a Canadian traveller in Australia, who drew attention 'o the mbsidy offered by Canada for the ettab Inhment of tuch a line and anggeited the advantage* which would accrue from it to the countries concerned, or, a* the v ankee would put it, "the money there wa* in the scheme." But there may be more in the arrangement than appears upon the tur- face. It will be remembered that Sir (ieorgK, (peaking a* Premier of New South Wale*, from who** capital city the new line it to run, laid in very pfain-tpokea word* to a N*w York reporter : "I am going to Canada to-day and I am certainly not doing there in the interest* of America. One of the reason* I am going i* to try and make arrangement* for the running of steamer* direct from there to Sydney, and tbu* San Francisco merchant! w ill suffer. " Accident prevented him from ceeing the Mi n inert at Ottawa, but, in a tpeech at Vancouver, Sir deorge Dibbt reiterated hii deiire for steamship communication and cable connection at well. The probability it therefore that the new line indicate* a strong desire upon the part of New South Walei to eiubliih cloeer trade relation* with Canada. We know from the recep- tion accorded to Mr. U. K, I'arkin tome years a^o when (peaking in Victoria, Tas- mania and South Australia, that these colonies also deiire to trade with us, so that it would appear a* if no better and more timely retponie to a general with conld by our isporten in trying to deal with a new market tui-h a* this will prove to be. The Australian merchant* carry immense stocks, bay in great quantitiei, and store their purchases away in warehouse* which would astonish Canadian! u tiny have done Americans. Buying it reduced to a *ystem, each line beina bought month* befcn th* goods art needed. It therefore require* ex- KrU to (elect good* for the mar- t, but when on.-e a footing i* ob- tained the trade is fairly tecure. So profitable it it, indeed, that Gertnaiy hat gone to great tipease in eitabbihisg steamship line*) to compete with Britain, aae) hat succeeded fairly well, while France, Belgium and Italy are reaching out for a share of the trade, British Columbia will especially benefit by the new line in us ev- ports of fruit and tih, lumber and coal, while the import of raw wool should in time become of great value. Tht United States now im- port* $1,9:3,000 worth of thit product via San Frmicitco, betides nearly half a millien worth of tin ignott, a large amount of coal for use along the Pacific coaat, and soim $.100,000 wor'h of kangaroo tkina And there i* no reason why the imtiente importa- tion of Australian wool to thi* continent, now coming through i treat Britain to New York, might not tome day bt breujrht via Vancouver and the C. P. R., if railway rate* conld be made uffiriently low to admit of thorlAmng the journey by water. Alto- gether th* new arrangement by tbe Gov- ernment is one which opens up wide possi- bilities in trade and entitle! our Adinntra- Iur their far seeing subsidy policy years ago. peo of to A s*e,Bs:er*M Pellrj. Referring to tbe recent additions of a fait cruiser and an armoured baKke ship to th* United Stattt navy, the Week *ayi: Columns are nlltd with netcnp- tions of thi new vettels and caretul etu- mateH of tbeir destructive power as compar- ed with llioti of other uatioos, particularly England. The United State*, it is affirmed, will soon rank with the great naval powers and become formidable on *e* ma well as on land. Scarcely a voioe it raiie I to suggest that there may be reason for the patriotic American to view the navy he I* taxed to huild with alarm ra.her than with compla- cency. None ths leu, ability to bully Chili and overawe H iwau will be dearly bought if it serve* to foster r to strengthen the mil- itary spirit among the American people. The great armies and naviet that curse Eur- ope servt no useful purpose that ocalil not * r - - , r ./..., , ope serve no useiui purpose inai ucaiu 1101, hare Deen afforded than IK furnished hy the | Jf^.J bj Ur lma if. r ; o u ii powerful line of steamer*. .armament*. Without them war. with its A glance at th* trade return* will revetl i the condition of affair* very clearly. In i vii, the United State* exported 113,017,- !.'!_! worth of goods to Australasia ; Cinada exported J.^S!), 100 worth. In the aameyear the Mepublic imported from Australasia $<>,'J:t9,OJI worth of products; Canada im- ported almost nothing. Thit, of course, waa to be expected, but it doe* not follow that with a Canadian-Australian lint of steamship* inch reiults will continue. \lii. h of what the United States (ends to the Pacific Colonies can be, and will be, furnished by Canada if our merchants. multifarious horror*, would be iinpottible, xporti South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South and Western Australia and Tasmania for itMlf in thi* connection : Export* Value while in time* of peace they boUter thron which (hould long sine* have fallen, keep alive tbe fires of international ha- tred, perpetuate the spirit of casts, im- poverish the laud, and reduce hundreds of thousands to a position (oarcely to be preferred to slavery. Such a charac- terization of militarism in Europ* is trite enough in the United Slate*. And yet, with this object lesson before lie: . Amer- ica, secure from attack and unmoleiCed for eighty years, must need* build a nsvy land in it copy faithfully th* regulations of and the State* m*y serve useful purpose*, but the cultivation of a warlike *| int will not be one of thete. The nentimrnt ihst, I in Canada at well as the United Statet, findi expression in the drilling of school- Agricultural implements ....... $l'- v .,49 j boy* with wooden gun*, and that in Canada Beer and aU .................. 139,000 feu given u* a Royal Military College. Carnaget,to .................. Li;, I Hj ,( lou ld hav* no harm on th* American con- ....................... 116,031 i .ment. Kor this reason we art b no mean* , Mnsioal initruminu \f * , * r Ma.hmry ........ Keroseneoil. ~~'''','l iur * that the growing distrust fslt by work- ''.'-'.' ingmen for the militia so largely recruited IS, 543 from their own ranks, and the disposition , S19.875 ( look upon it a* th* sure ally and engin 1, 113,003 | O f capital in every dispute, is all had I,:i..,,.,;t0 Anything that opens the eyt of the peopl ' ne S"'- | Anything that opens the eyes of the people limner (all kinds) 3.'JII.:iK4 to lnB nU gonisni between the spirit of ~~ ! militarism and that of true democracy serves a good purpose. Total In agricultural implements, pianos ami organs, furniture, carriage* and machinery, our manufacturers are deeply interested and should be able to tak* considerable and nroti- -, , - table advantage of the new ste.meit. The ! * ""SPJ? " an e * trenle| y unpopular resi.l- not rigid temperance advocate will be pat- j * nc * Buckingham Palac* lies low in tho valley wi ' oh 8 <ws tlle s <"-pentiue ri^or. Ai riot ic enough to admit that if tho Austral- ians are bound to drink beer and alo they cannot get a better quality than th* Cana- dian brands. Of Ash and timl<er we can supply any quantity required, and in almost every conceivable variety, and then is no reason why Canadian oil cannot be export- 'ed to Australia as largely as American ha* I been. The same principal applies to leather, I and ' i. Inch we can grow in many parts of Ihe country to a* great advanlag* M cau .\hiorui*. But care must b* taken ! ' s i ug for pearl* olT the coait of Ceylon is a dangerous profeuion. The diver plunge* into the dangerous depths swaimiug barks, and after three or four minutes' ab- sence from air re-appeirs, half strangulated with blood ri:* i sg trom eari an I ostrils. A French company ' plan for lighting the Atlantic route from I in I and to Newfound- >nsisla iu mooring ten powerful IliMt- ;nj lights two hundred miles apai . and wit- them l>j i.cctric cabin. > , t