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A CLOSE RELATION, ( MU'TKRIX. My step father's behavior during my mother's tedious convalescence was more th.n exemplary. 1 1 neare 1 suhlimii> linn and magnanimity. His patieiioe waa Illimitable - his devices for enlivening ihe tnonolory of the guarded chamber were iii- mom and inexhauslible. He contrived dainty delicious meals ; fed her with !.. own hands ; brought flowers and fruits to her side : read aloud by the hour in the rich voice whose intonations were a charm against weariness, and in every glance and viord and action gave evidence of profound gratitude at her return to the right "lf that awarded him the highest place in her heart and esteem. One might have sneered at the assiduity of this second wooing, had the effect of his policy upon the patient been oblivious. If she had loved him be- fore, she seemed now to adore him, drawing in animaliou and vigor from his abundant vitality : dcferi mg to his will in matters great and small, with whalilruck me some- times as eager servility. To her children she was affectionate, ap- preciative of the trifling services we were permitted to offer her, and solicitous lest ^ur lung confinement in her room might be reai* 011 ""'* ' or the- change she could nut but obaerv^ in our lo "ks. Yet, even while she remarked .' IDO . B tn '". * talked of winter plans tor the tW' n <>ld. would break off in the middle of a sen;*" 10 * .with lush of almost painful pleasure si *'>e sound C.' her husband's step or voice, and, after his appearance, had eyes, ears, and thoughts for him alone. She never appeared quite content unless he were by her, her head upon his bosom, or her hand- locked in Ins. For what was she trying to atone to him' I vexed myself uselessly with the problem, as with the mystery of his exclusion from her vhnmlier until she hod implored and ob- tained Don's forgiveness. She never named Don in her husband's presence, or seemed to think of him. Occasionally and casually she asked me if he were well and what lie was doiug. I replied as if I saw liimdailv. I had no' spoken with him since the day he come to see lu-i . Knowing me as she did, and the siren, th of convictions founded upon principles learned from herself, could she imagine that the exchange of words between the son of the murdered woman and hersulf could affect tl.e damning fact that severed the victim's child from hers? In her anxiety to make up to her wedded lord for passible damage done hii reputa'ion by dutiful oc- quiet-cnce in his decree, to win him to forgetfulness of their joint and disaitrous blunder, had she no thought for two lives that acquiescence and that blunder had v. recked ? I had no one with whom to discuss the haunting problems. To no qne could I have propounded them except to the man with whom I dared not allow myself to confer. He had not protested against what I had assured him was my ultimatum, nor had he called upon my mother or myself. Not that he frriusliud food for gonip by shunning the house. In defiance of popular opinion as formulated in "Our Society Column," he took Klsie lo walk or drive every fine day. I madebul one stipulation when he wrote a note to me asking permission "to perform Ibis biotherly office In the child, whose languor and i-rowing thinness had excited his uneasiness, as he was sure they musl mine." I thanked him in my reply for his solicilude, and gratefully accepted! Ihe oflei of what would delighl Kliie anu . -on bring back her loel bloom. I begged, how ever, that nn reference should be made to the changed relations between him and myself. She must know everything before long, but I would not grieve her while shu was so far from well. To carry out the pious conceal- ment, I used to go to the drawing room window to see lier off, receiving Don's bow with the kiss she tossed back to me as they drove or walked away. My heart lia I no other sustenance than these chance glimpses, beyond my little sister's affections. I stood forlorn and al- mokl forgollin on the outside of the fenced garden of my mother's, heart. Since what "our special correspondent" still alluded to once in a while as the " late scandal in best circles," I held mjself haughtily aloof from village intimates. Mrs. Wilcox and Kate had gone to a New Voik hotel for a couple ol months and in their absence ..-alls of friendliness and ceremony became fewer and fewer. Mrs. Kobb had foroed her way in twice, and seen no one cxoept Dr. \Vent- worth. Al the third visit, paid after his installation as nurse, she was civilly inform ed at the door that "all the family were engaged." It was an impolitic: measure, but what mattered that? We were a mark- ed h >u*elmld. We had Iwen "talkulalwul :" our private affairs had "got into the papers." The Mapleton elite had always had stifled scruples concerning the reception into full and regular fellowship in their order of a woman who could write "M.D." after her name and had aclually practised her profession to maintain herself and younger child. It wa*o.ld, if "all waa right " in her first marriage that Dr. Salis- bury's will should have settled a consider- able and specific sum upon his first-horn and left the widow and lliy unprovided for. I nder the shield of Dr. Wen! worth's name and character, his wife coulil have lived down unpl-astint rumors had she been rim- tent to ncporl herself as a m'. u, m .n ihoulit. lly overruling her husliand's lietter judgment in lit. thirst for unfeininine pur- suits, she had ruined herself and injured him. "C.A.R." led a lively crusade against women doctors, in which lilf the papers in the country took part. Thanks to this agitation, the nine-days' wonder was debat- ed for twenty-seven and more. People looked uii al our house in passing, and a sketch of Donald Uplon al his mother's grave illustrated one of a series of newspa- per teller* upon "our siilnulian vemetries. " These were the circumstance* which Don choose to advertise his < nun ued connection with us by the only menus left to him. lie rarely showed himself in our streets unaccompanied by Kluic. Sin had nol returned to school. Without con- sulting my mother, 1 assumed the ritnponsi lulity of if 'ping her i.t i.ome. Sbe should not be ostracised or baited l>y supercilious and nii|i.iilive classmates, I gave up the mnt of the fur . i him; In i. The aftcrnoonsahesiMMit with Don. 'I after her c.trly brdtima were passed by me in solitude made heavier by those "happier things.'' As Klsie regained her former looks, I st strungtli, appall te, and interest in ex- istence. Sj apathetic did I becoiie that nothing hurt me nmoii or long. There was dull sat isiii uon in the beliftf that 1 bad lost suiicepuiiilit y to p*in. From tiiii deliition I was aroused as by an earthquake. One November afternoon, so raw that I l.ad douhtcd for a time the propriety of allowing Klsie to go walking with her usua! escort, an 1 wound my own fur boa aboiu her throat, I lingered at the window Ihiougb which I h\l watched the pedestrians until they were lost to sight at a remote turn of their route. Kisie had danced down the walk U> the gate to meet Don, having been on the lookout for him. Her small face and head veetned to move with difficulty in the grey flulliness from which they arose when she waved her farewell. The sparkle of eyes and smile reminded me of a planet twinkling out of a cloud. A fair and winsome thing was this one possession of mine, and I was never so entirely satisfied as to her safe-keeping and happiness as when she was thus accompan- ied. A hard pain assailed my heart, and a tightness my throat, at the anticipation of her distress when the truth shot-Id be un- folded to her. It was singular that she re- mained so long utterly unsuspicious of a rupture that involved much l<> her and much more to ma whom she ardently toved. " I beg your pardon," said my step fath- er's voice at my elbow. He smiled slight- ly and nat agreeably at my start ; there was *gKrated respect in theinclmition of his Autir"" 1 head before me, lorn, and esteem- ed by few, and by none leu than by him- self. " Can you spare me a few minutes?" he inquire.il, ceremoniously. I had nothing lo do, and nobody knew this lieu r than he. I sat down, and waited for him to begin. Ours were elegant parlors, anil they used to be cosily hone-like. The arrangement of the furniture was not altered, yet as 1 glanced listlessly around me they had the ok of a body oul nf which the spirit ha<i fled. Chairs and sofas were stiffor for my knowledge that they had not been sat in for days ; the walls were dead because it had been so long since they threw back merry sounds. It might have been an accidental choice of positions that brought Dr. Wentworih's back to the light while I faced the windows looking down the street. The row of elms massed along the visla were like clumps of dun mist, so flue and thick was the lace- work of naked twigs. The highway was black with wet, and fitful passions of wind carried hurrying (locks of dead leaves before ihem. The clouds were not heavy, but they were a continuous curtain, and drawn closely down behind the hiils. The scene was lightless: the room felt chilly when Dr. Went worth began to speak : You may anticipate the tenor of my communication j to I need not waste time in prefatory remarks. As mailers stand, you must see that it would not be expedi- ent or pleasant that we should continue to live in Mapleton. Did not your mother's health require a change of residence, the attitude of the community with regard lo her demands it, and imperatively. We she and I have therefore decided to sail fur Knn.p" early in January, even before then, should she be strong enough for the voyage. Klsie would naturally accompany us. You, being of age aud mistress of a sufficient fortune, must use your own pleas- ure as to going or slaying. Should you prcf .-r, (o go, there will lie no ilnli -uily in letting this house furnished. If, at your .not her iuclinea lo believe, you should ob- ject to becoming one cf the parly, she suggests that Mr. Donald Upton's wish would probably be to hasten your mar- riage. I offer no advice, or even opinion, on Ihe HIM- He had nol thrown away a word. The dilemma, so nonchalantly stated, so horrible to nn 1 , was before me. Mapleton cf late bail been dreary aud incUment to our shorn fold, but it was home, and Don was in it. I might never speak to him again, or touch his h:md, hut we breathed the same air ; there were blessed whiles in which our paths crossed one another, when the sight of him was vouchsafed to my weary eyes, and Kisie 's prattle of him kept my hoart from starvation. And the alternative, brutally set forth if my tormentor suspect- ed the truth, brought forth in indifference as brutal if ho wure ipnorant, how was I to exclude il from the discussion? how break off here and now all talk of hastening what was never to ! ' My lips were stilfand cold; my voice died in my throat in the first effort to artic- ulate. " I beg your pardon, "snid my step-father again, in dry civility. " How long will you probably remain abroad '.' '" He shrugged his shapely shoulders. "That will depend upon health and in- clination. We shall not revisit Manli-ton for several years, and may decide to spend those years on the other side. Your mother rcmsrked this afternoon that if you were already inarruid and sett'ed here, and desired pai lienlarly to have your sister with you, she might be prevailed upon to leava her in your charge. Unless placed in a foreign lioarding-achool, a child of that age guts little good from going abroad. That is a matter that can be settled later. It is coiitu>t;eiit, of course, upon your action am) Mr. I'pton's." Kor an instant fancy slipped the leash of reason, and leaped forward joyously toward the picture conjured up by his last utter- ances. A house and home of my own, Don's house and mine, with Klsie to have and lo hold, and Ihe ocean between us and the man who had robbed mo of everything else of worth ! The clouds opened above my head and let heaven's boundless glory through, ( i loom and chill had wrapped me close beforu I ftttumpted lo reply. ' You linve taken me tn entirely by sur- prise thai I must have time for delibera- tion," rising tn end whal I could nol have endiiri'd (or another instant. " I will think the matter over, and give you m> answer to-im rrow." He loo, hail arisen. " As you wish," coldly. " I must, how ever, stipulate thai you do not force din cussion of an agilating topic upon your mother. She i uuei|Ualto it." " I hsd not thought of it," I said, in i vi n more free/ing brevity. "That i well. I am relieved that yon show her this much consideration." ked nut of the window, evidently with a single eje to the chances of storm, breathing au air o! Schubert between lips pursed for whistling, and betook himself leisurely ' his wife'j sitting room She wai sufficiently recovered to leave lior l.d- ehainbcr during the day. It did net occur to me then, nor for long afterward, that he had used her name un- justifiably in the communication which lie implied she had empowered him t i make. To this hour 1 am ignorant how much false- hood wa woven into the web of faet, but sober reflection su^tes'.s douhu that would then have boenbalm to my woun-lcil spirit. I was afraid of myself ; afraid of the desperation of loneliness that enveloped and suffocated me ; afraid of the wild impulses surging upon one another, icy wave), bitter n,s brine, stinging like hail. Hardly know- ing what I did, or why, except tht the air of the house bought with my father's money, the house in which Klsio hail been born, and from whi -h this man, my mother's tiiii- li mil, had the rijrht to thrust me into the street, waa intolerable, I snatcho 1 from the hall-rack a shawl, and got myself from the shelter of the roof th.it covered him and the mother who had forsaken her first-born. Like one pursued, 1 paced up one garden- alley and down another, unmindful thai the fall of night brought with it line, cold rain, until I saw KUie's shadow moving restless- ly about my room, appearing npou and passing from the curtains of the illuminated windows. " I have been looking everywhere for you !" she cried, when I had dragged myself up to her. " I thought you were lost. Fie ! fie ! what a naughty girl to stay out of doors until she is wel to the skin and all the curl out of Mr pretty hair ! Oh, I had the loveliest walk ! Sit down, and I'll tell you all about it." She pulled off my wet swathintrs, rubbed my damp cheeks with her warm hauiU, and, pushing me into a chair, perched herself upon my knee. Her eyes shone ; dimples danced about her mouth. How much qoo-1 Don had done her ! Tiod bless him ! oh, Cud Mess In. n ! for Ihe most loyal trim 1, the most gallant champion, oppressed inno- ounoe ever found. I caught my darling to my heart, anu kissed her over and over. I had to tell her, sometime. It could no longer be kept, now that we wore going away forever. For this was the resolution I had taken in my rust- less tramp in the dripping shrubbery. My mother did untcarewii.it bccnme of either of us, so long as her husband accompanied her, but for all that, we ought to go with her. There was nothing else to do. Separa- tum would stir up further scandal comprom- ising her, and we had no other protector, r.lsie and 1. My hcirt bled slow drops aa I summoned strength lo say what would 1-riiH! back the old, unuhildlike worry to the dear lace, 'ho piteous anxiety to her eyes. Yet, if I let pus this opportunity, Dr. Wentworth might consider It obliga- tory upon him to break to her the news of our banishment, and her arllers questioning would precipitate the rest of the revelation. I began in assumed carelessness, winding and hurnishini; upon n>y tinker a stray tress of her hair, which was the color of a chest- nut fully grown and ripened in the sun- shine. " I bav* heard something this a'ternoon, dear, something that surprised and shock- ed me," quickening speech as the remem- bered shadow stole into place. " Doctor says msmma must go abroad. She may not come back for a long time. " She laid her arms about my neck and her ' face upon my shoulder. "\\illit cure her, Sydney?" in a awed tone " Oh, yes, I think so, little one. She is out of danger now, and the change will prob- ably restore her entirely." Klsie was silent. I feared she wa weep- in)!, and when she spoke the cheerful tone took me by surprise : " I can't leave you, you know, sister. You can't do without me since our great trouble came. And you ought not to leave Don. Ho never needed you half so badly before. You are all he haa. So I've btwn thinking that you had better marry him nnd we three will go on living here. Or, would you uu tn Don's house ?" A needle pierced my soul with each naive sentence. 1 could not tempori/.e longer. "Klsie ! listen to me. Maybe I ought to have told you before, but I dreaded to undeceive you. Don and I will never b married. Don't ask me why. Aud don't make it hanler for me than it is now. And ilon'i let this makeyou unhappy if you can help it." Mi.- did not cry out, or tremble ; only sat bolt upright, eyes shining out of a clear face from which every drop of blood had retreated. For perhaps two minutes she was perfectly still ; then the great, lumin- ous eyes came around to rest upon mine. Hi mind was made up. Her accents were resolute. When "the midget " looked .vml spoke in that fashion, fire aud water could not slay her. " I musl ask you, Sydney ! Don loves you so that il would be wicke.1 not to marry him. Why, sister! he has nobody but you that belongs to him, now that his mother is dead." Her mouth worked, but she would not give in until her protest was ended. "I've noticed that you didn't see much of him lately, but 1 supposed you wrote to one another every day, and 'twasn't straniie that it should make papa feel bsd to meet him jusl now. I thought he stayed away on that account, ,,.! that when mamma came downstairs Don would be here again, just aa usual." She was feeling her way, inch by inch. The percept in-, of this and her glance over her snonldi 1 ! at the door gave me the idea that she longed to say something coniidnii- tial, yet which she fancied I might not ap- prove. Sh must not learn to be afrau! of me. We wore, hereafter, to Iu all in all to one another. " What is it love?" I queried. "Speak out all that is in your wise little head. She shook it soberly, and put a hand to esj-li temple. "Il isn't wise, but there is so much in it that it aches sometimes, especially since you lold mo never to peak again of what I can't help thinking of all the tiniR." " Alter this, say what you please," said I, mournfully. "Nothing can hurt me. And it il diif, this dear liaail must not be left to ache if I can help it. It isn't good for my baby to think of things she can't talk out to me." The soberness was not lightened, but she was encouraged. Her voice was little more than a whisper; she glanoed again at the door. " I have known all the time what made mamma ill, why it excited her to have papa in the room until she could see Don and ex- low, pain all about il and a\ him In f.>r s 'iv* papv For it was a fearful thing Sydney, tJaol it slm-ild hv< bem givei when she w* sure il or.^iit not lo bj." I IIM! nearly silenced hur peremptorily ih it. The torture wai li'.ts the fill of hot leal upon ear and hjart. I hold back I miofiite impulse, and let her go OD. I would *ep my word to lier She must not learn to fear my impeluous ino.i li and i|'i: -k tongue. After all, 'h, w .11 only what I ha 1 ea'led her, my lnl.y thinking and speaking with childish incon- sequence. "You see I was right thera when it hap pened. A telegram had corns for mamma, and I took it to Mrs. Upton's, and Rosalie called mamma out of Mrs. Upton's bed room lo get it. I picked up the telegram aflerwar.l from the floor where she had thrown it. It was from Dr. Barker, an I this was what it said : Letter received. Don't run the risk. 1 I tore it up into little pieces. Mamma was unconscious, ami I thoughl nobody else had a right to it. When she read it she pressed her lips to- gether light. You know how she looks wh'ii she is very determined. Then she sat down at Mrs. Upton's desk and began to fill up a telegraph -blank, ltdidn't seem to suil her, and she tore it np and began another. She looked very pale and seriout, and I was wondering what had happened lo worry her, when all of a sudden I smelled chloroform. Yon knnw there is no mistaking the smell. Mamma must hnve noticed it too, for she jumped tip and dashed right past me through the hall lo Mrs. I'ptnn's bedroom. I ran fter her, I was so frightened, and I suppose she forgot all about me. Mrs. Upton was lying on the lounge, and papa wai holding a handkerchief to tier face. He hvl a bottle in his other hand. Mamma Hew right at him, and snatched the bottle, and threw it across the room. Then she fell on her knees by the lounge and began to fan Mri. Upton, and said, ts I never heard her ipeak before, 'My (iod, Raymond! what have you done?' Then Miss West came running in from the other room, and I felt I ought not to stay. And the next thing I heard yon know the rest, Sydney !" My head was so light and the room spun so rapidly about mr that I could summon no words. The frozen quietude deceived the narrator. 1 1 was nol for nothing that the wise lie.vl had ben thinking all theee weeks. The low, steady tone resumed the tale, when I did not reply : "I would have told you everything that Eyesight Saved Aft ; S"i. I'rii-umnnll and oUicr prostrating iii ,..-.,,-, Midi's Sam*- laillla H iin<-<|iL-i);. it to Ihm-iiuKlily I'liiify tlia liliMxl Mint a" e n.-rded strrn-rth. Keml i "My liny ha<l .".'arlet Krvt-r wlii-n 4 >e:irs old, leaving him vrry wmk aril with Mixul pni*. rrf wiifa maker. flu eves i>r:iine In- flamed, Ills suflerlnni were inten.-.e, and (or 7 ' i'vrn npl'll llM e\l-S. I took I ! K.ir Infirmary, hut their MMdliM did him tin f-ood. 1 \itg;iu gtung him Hood's Sarsaparilla wl.i.-h won cured him. I knnw It mnrrtt him ifhl. If lint Ins very life." Amur. K. Hun K- MA.x. 28SM WMjjbfUn St.. Roiu.n. Mass. HOOD'S PlLLSarethebestaftar-dlnnerPUli, an .t Ui^ediou, cuiu ^ ClirToitl liU< I.i KO*i I* A BID VTA*. Mr. > T. TarlarTalk* or ilir null f Ike India *llrr Uiir.lluii Mr. W T. Taylor, a director of the Hong hions; and Shanghai Bank, was in To- onto the other day. Speaking on the India silver question to a reporter he said lhal Ihe people of India had been short- sighted when they hod advocated the sot- wnsion of free coinage. The effect of the nspicion would be that the rupee would wcome scarce, and aa a consequence would u time increaas in value. Kut appreciation f the rape* so brought about would have he some effect upon prices in India as ibe ppreciation of gold had upon prices in ngiand. It would cause greater quantities f produce to be afforded in exchange for lie rupee), which meant a further decline in triees asxi further cheapening of the value f labor. Capital would benefit V>y this, as ow currency in India was established upon gold basis. Silver would be used in India only for th purpose of adornment, and the npee would perform the functions of a The question, however, had O!f FAVOKABLsl SIDB. ^monetising silver in India, which stupee- on of free eeinage of the rupee amounts to. day, yoiu racjllect. but you nani, 'Wo must I WOU I'' increase the jrold value of the rupee, and rednc* the ii.tervat India has to pay Knglanil on her gold debt. Therefore taxa- tion could be reduced. The rup. being depreciated in value, the price of commodi- ties would decline, and laborers could only convert the surplus product of their labor into a leaser quantity of coin, thua having leas to give in eichange for reduced taxation and the necessaries or luxuries tbry desired. Produce being cheaper, the material for manufacture would be cheaper, and manu- factures would also decline, and if the theory that high prices denote prosperity holds good the reverse ought to occur when prices are low anil demouetiyation of silver in India be an unmixed evil. To remove India by a stroke nf the pen from the number of silver consuming countries would be to throw one-fourth more silver on the markets of the world, and reduce the price never speak to one another again of what bas happened.' Ami I thought that von matt understand how mamma felt. Hhe loved Mrs. I'ptou so dearly, and she just worships papa. And although what was done was an accident he must have knovrn that she was opposed to it, 'or he wouldn't have given the chloroform when she was not in the room. I think the reason it made her worse to see him when she was so ill was that it brought everything back to her. And, afterward, when she was better, aha was very sorry for him, and sorry she) hsd seemed angry. She is trying to make up to him now, all the time, and to comfort him. Hemuit suffer dreadfully when he thinks what he di 1." "Saner!" ejaculation burst forth with impaisione'l energy that alarmed her. Smler ! when be has let everybody think at " nce to ;i;l penes par ounce, or by depre- that she did it, not he ! Oh the hypocrite! ciating silver to that extent, it would make the double-eyed, heartless, cruel hypocrite ! | 8'*' ''* l )er cent, more difficult to obtain, by And al! this 'time I, like a fool I tore at my throat, where something choked the words and strangled me lo blindness. " Sydney!" Ihe great gray eyes wide with horrified arnaxement, " did you think eould you, or anybody, believe that our mother had killed Don's mother? Oh, my poor dear ! what you have had to bear, and nobody to help you or tell anything belter t" She wrapped my head in her arms, pat- ting and stroking it, sobbing and cooing aa over something grievously hurt. Sud- uausing a new decline in prices of commodi- ties, measured in gold, nf &', percent. 1IOWC I,. >N' A FINANCIAL WRIl'K. Concluding, Mr. Taylor said: "The result of the change is the entire suspension of trade between India and China. .Insl fancy a drop o; some 30 rupees in every $100. Is it not awful? Some of the leading mer- chants and bankers of Houg Kong wired to Lord Lansdowne, 'overnnr General of India, asking him not to allow the ordin- ance to go through, stating as a reasou the ruination of the Indian trade. The reply donly she let me go, and jumped up, face I w " in th * form ' private telegram to the and tiguie alivs with excitement. \ 9 ov<rno . r .' "g Kong, giving him to un "And that was why you said you never could marry Don T Did you tell him?" The change to sternness would have amused me at another time. It actually cowed me instead. The mistake that had been so disastrous seemed now culpably in- excusable. " Don't blame me, Klsie !" I pleaded, humbly. "Miss West told me how it had happened, and everything helped me to be- lieve her. I have been very, very un- happy !" She compressed her lips, marched across the floor and put out her Band to the bell knoli, arrested the motion, and turned to me. " May I have yo\e phaeton, Sydney ? and may John drive me T I must see Don to-night, or I couldn't sleep a wink. lie mustn't be left to believe this one minute longer." " Do what you please, dear." I was crying outright now, with the soft abundance of a spring shower. Rocks and ice were gone : there were the awakening nf life and the stirring of growth under the warmed waters. She did not ring, and my tears malted her sternness. She came over to me, and again took my head into her embrace. "1 didn't mean to be unkind, Sydney. I was just thinking of Don, ami how he didn't net comfort when he needed it mo.it, and how he loves you, and all that. I'.n.'t \ ou suppose I understand why ho is so good to me ? Just because I am your sister. II. -iivery lonely, Sydney." I had no answer. " If you had seen hint in his home, as I have, -alone ami sa.l, missing his mother everywhere, and with your pieturu--the one taken in your gray-and-silver luncheon gown on his table, side by side ritn hers, and sighing as he looks at them, you'd feel just as I do, only more, don't you know, Sydney !" with a tremendous muster of courage. "'Won't you let me order tha close carriage it's raining, you see and go with me, this minute, to see him ?" (T.I BK OlSTIM HO Types are not used in printing Persian newspapurs. The " copy" is given to an expsrt penman, who writes it out neatly. The various articles are then arranged in page form, and lithography multiplies the copies. During a recent performance of Carmen at Berne, the members of the orchestra, having a grievance with a newly.appointed conductor, organised a general strike and laid down their instruments. After some delay a pianoforte was brought forward, and the last act of the opera was given ill: pianoforte accompaniment only. deratand that the ordinance fiad already been passed and as he feared Lot likely to be repealed either." A Bo.r* on V After the terribly trenchant literary im- pressions of a flying visit to Manitoba which have lately made 'the intending emi- grant pause, a record of experiences in that lone land of illimitable expectation, entitl- ed "Sunny Manitoba : Its 1'eoples ami 1U Industries," by Alfred O. Lcgge (T. Fisher I'uwin), is at least welcome as a relief. The author, if not absolutely disinterested iu his confident view*, since his visit to the colony was to his two sous settled ou prairie farms, is no vnionary enthusiast or adver- tising agent, but a keen, practical man of business, who takes slock of all be nses, and sums up results in figures. Ho is far from blinking the hardships of a settler, the self-denial and self-sacrifice which are involved in constant hard work and con- l mt isolation, the risks nd uncertainties of cultivating a new soil and getting the produce to market, the dreariness of living far from any civilized society, the long periods' hen sunny is exchanged for icy, and labor is waiting for its fruits. The one simple lesson to be learnt from these use- ful and evidently trustworthy pages U that all depends on the fitness of the emigrant who casts in his lot with a colony of pio- neers. Youth, ener<y, determination, a capacity to spurn delight, and to be inde- pendent of social intercourse all these nullifications are indispensable, not only to success in such a venture, but lo enduring it in the prospect of far-off reward. It is not a venture for blase cynics who are sick of the artificial pursuit of old world soci tics, but for younger men of unspoilt ami untainted life, of vigorous tempeiament aii;l fresh feelings, who prefer an out-of-door and open-air existence to all the pleasures of civili/t'd societies and crowded cities. [London Daily Telegraph. Another Walking Tour- Visitor : " What name are you going to give the baby ?" Mother: "1 don't know; I have been tryiug to decide all day which of the many its father bestowed on it last night would be most suitable." Irishmen and negroes possess a more pron, merit and narrow chest than the white races, when. 1 chest is broader and flatter. Dew has preference for some colors. It is said that while a yellow board attracts dew, a red or black one beside it will be ptri'ectl/ ?,-y.