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LORD KILLEEN'S REVENGE CHAPTKH II (C.-nt. nued.) "Do you forget Mr Dumla.^ toof" "Often, often I" with air> Hon. "Terribly to U- ileplurcil isn't it ' Hut now that I have found you, my 1'nn. I feel sinv il,;il I n hll make .in iniiiieiliale d,. IMI t me toward the right I i'h You >M!| i- of iinv.tiin.ibl value 'D me. ^ on ill jog my nii-inoM . ^ > will expose my sins. I shall presently be a reformed '-rent lire- n new light. ^"<i think horuMtly you will lie able to undertake, me I" "I think you can talk as much non- sense now as you did in I hi we old days when I was a little child, and fondly believed your folly wiwlon.." It was not a pretty speech, certainly; Imt MUSH MacCilli.-uddy wi.s the oldest of a family who were all famous for saving just what they thought just as *bey thought it, and who. seldom flinch- ed from calling a spade a spade. no matter what might be the consequence. Of each other they expressed their opin- ions favoralde or otherwise (otherwise. as s rnlei wilh a noble openne-sa and an enjoying frankno* not to t>e surpassed. 1'ife in .sin Ii an atmosphere could nol hut pmluce a certain iKmenty, which generally means, when you come to look into it that is, when it Ls direct- ed against one's self a decidedly ob- ject unable freedom of language. "What a fearful HDt-ecn !" said Mrs. Dundas gayly. "I expect you'll turn my hair gray before I've done with you I don't mind tbe accusation i>f talking only nonsense. Now-a-days that is a charm, an eMBptteiUQeat, " ul t hat remark aliout your age ; t hat wan annihilating. Were you only a child "hen last I saw you? Was I quite grown up( Am I so many years your .senior! Come, let me face the horrid truth. Your age. Counlantiat" "Kigbteen." "And I am twenty-five! Quite neven years between us! A century, rather! I -should ! looking for my first gray hair." .She ruse, and ran to a mirror '' into ihe wall of the liltle bijou ii'Niriiiieni in which lea had been .served. Ii ran from ceiling lo floor, and reflect - eJ her !auliful. tall, radiant figure and lovely face, as though it loved them. " I'liere Ls one comfort." she cried, run- ning her fingers through her crisp locks. > I -haired folk scldiMi: grow gray until i.H ii in near. II is hard lo kill the ol>- tiinate < TIIII.SOII. That is Ibe consola- i ion Nalure offered us when she dyed us (his unholy color. Well" she turn- el back to CoiUiLaiilia "and so. when -a*t we were together. I was as young as you are now." "No; verv much older." "I dot > i ' hink so. For a country miJ. you can bold your own pretty well. Cutife/oi. now. il was not rivil i \ou to remind me I hat I grow an old M.rnaa," she lauglied merrily; "but I tni magnanimoua I harlmr no unchari- '>le thoughts. I forgive you. Ife illy Keiieroun you anil grant me absolution for all the misdemeanors t bat n your heart you are imputing to me "You are wrong , I wan not comUMun- ; nt' yon. Why should 1 condemn f" ask- e I ( onatanlia. with a slight contraction of lier brown. -he wa.s irritaUvl, offended; she her fi-.l wan hardly con*-iou why. Some .--rise of ilelicacy waa hurt by t he i her'n whole air. She looked at her n with wide eyes, in which lay sur- i-e and distrust ; tier beautiful cousin. ing liack amongst the velvet cushions. i the lounging position thai the had < trued wan so well suited lo her lion i as a girl li.ul Iwnn a favorite w il h r. Donna as a woman is Hlrnntrcly ids le.ful. Yel withal, there is MOII.<- i'ig about her eum inurvelous charm n attracts her even as it rejieU '- In. indeed f" replied .Mrs Pun itrtleasly. "I say. what a game. "tie /own you've got on I When, ilid in get it from f WkMel Worth/" ' iistantia colored 'How likely it is." she said, wilh a re IH. i.lifiil glance, "that I nh<iiild be. K le lo order a gown from White or "Nof I'm often stupid." smiled Mrs 'iimdas. nenitcnl ly "Hut to look at < ' Ann do you mean lo tell me Mm lave a woman in this benighted vil- .'e equal to that ivmtumet If HO. it's H shame ; she has evident ly a soul above 'In* buttons to be procured here, and i >uld 0et a helping baud to a higher -.(.here." Shoald ahef I'm Ihe woman. I made the gown you so affect to admire. myself." said Cimslanlia. not I regret . .without a ldii.sb of shame. I In- el rayed a poverty of mind, for which .-he was even more ashamed after ward. "No, really f" quest ioned Mrs. Dundas 'I wish I were clc.ver like that. I't.s , HI the mint ilmii.il,!.- turn-out I've i his many a day. ami it fits like a -love." Her tone was very kind and apprecia- te. and tier admiration nounded true 'ni|e'd, it wan true The girl's dress i -imple cotton looked charming, and Miiled her lissom figure and aeOOMII fsi-e to perfection. Mr Oundas is always raving iilmiit Ihe superiority of siinple ele^rano- over ihe more florid ta.stw." Mrs. Dumlas went on, in her soft monotone "lie tween you and me and Ihe wall, he LS a I rifle clow, and keep* a regular ,lud- ss's eye upon the inone\ Uu/ If tie eoiild see you in that gown I should not hear the end until Ihe gown itnelf waa in the rag basket . If. my ilear Con. he should cluuice to Ah I Talk of the of an angel; here he iximen." Mr DnndSA entenul the room He was a large man, tall and well built . at least twenty years his wife's senior Me might not take a first prixe wlieie tMiuly was in question, but certainly Da wnnld he highly commended His face was grave, his hair slightly grii- /!) His moulh wan firm, and perhaps a inffe atern when in repnx* There a Uweh of ssved'y about the whole man Hint imprewed one, and siivtifeMed at the first glance that he would an nnwife cliaracter wilh whom lo play fiutt and loose. He looked M.-oroUM. strung to endure, and mien! He was in all n-spvi.s sin-h a crni < .1-1 to the t.'racchii Muling creature Mh'i was his wife. ih.it one. nmld not f.nl i a remark upon it. He came up the r. ..m with a long, steady .stride to Con-iant ia, and shook i hands warmly with her He. liked her: j one could nee that. And l lien his eyes sought bis wife; , and then it was clear to all the world, had it been present, and certainly to ' Con- 1 ant La, where hut whole heart and ; si m I lay. Such a wonderful l>rirl'''-i' ing of the cold eyen I Such a aofte. g of t he firm li|Ht Mrs. Pundits moved a little, as be came toward her, and changed > ho ex- pression of her lips. She leaned now across tbe tiny table at her side, and held out to him a welcoming hand with I he iinit ty pink palm upward. "We were jusl talking about you." she sail! with an enchanting smile : "wonderin/ what kepi jou, and bow long you could keep away." There was a most exquisite repioiu-h in the last woids. "Tired. Jot" This "Jo" waa a little pet name she bad for him. John he had l-cn christened, an appellation that exactly suited him; and "John Anderson mv Jo" she used to call him in those first days, when be had I wen intoxicated by ihe knowle-dge (delicately conveyed to him hy her) that he was more to her than any other man on earth. Thrice blessed know ledi-'e! This pUyful coxiiot.-ien had naturally dwindled by degrees into the more easy "Jo." It delighted him. The simple word, falling from he.r lips, could, even at hLs gravest moments, win a smile from him He now held lier hand lor a .sucond or so in a warm, fond clasp, and then dropped il. He con I.I not ki -s n. Constant ia iving present; but he felt in letting it go without Ihe caress, as if he had sustained a loss. "Tired i 1 No." lie said, with hi.s calm unile "Would nine or ten miles tire any man worthy lo lie MI calledf I as- sure you, Muw M.nsitlli, u.l.lv, this little woman.", laying his hand softly in his wife's ann. "regards me in the light of a puny Ixiy. and deems me 'tire!' if I wander from her bight for an hour or Iwo." Mivt M;i< tiilhcuddy is so struck by the difference in his wife's expression since IILS appearan.-e. and so lost in an endeavor to reconcile her allusions lo him when alwiii with her manner to him when present, thai she fails to make him any n id\ " Tea f" -nd Mrs. Dundas, sweetly ; looking up al him. I think so yes." He spoke as one J whune thoughts are elsewhere, and then brightened. " I knew there was some- thing." he. aaid, " something I wanted to id I you. Aa I cajne through Ihe lime walk. I saw a carriage wifh the Varley liveries driving down the aven- ue." Mrs. Dundas .started perceptibly, and in .1 doing shook hi.s hand from her .shoulder. She glanced at the mirror near her. and mvoluni inly lifted her hand lo smooth her already beautifully arranged hair. This is. however, a trick common alike lo all w-umen. good .iml bad Coiutlantia, therefore, thought | nothing of that; Iml she did notice the start and Ihe change of color I hat ac- conitituticd it "why didn't you say so sooner f" i said Mrs Pundits, almost .sharply, wilh a quick glance at her husband. She was evidently a little shaken out of her usual idle cornel. iccncr. He had no lime to reply, however, tiefore the fool - man threw open Ihe door and anuounc- | ed " l-ady Varley." Six- ciime in with a half smile upon j her lips and a kindly light in her eyes. A slender, graceful girl, very cold MTV self-contained with a subdued ha light I- j ness that was born with her. and was no spurious offspring of her marriage. vet lull of a aweet graciouane.ss that] sat moHt iwrfectiy upon her. She look- ed only a girl, in spite of her thn years of wedded life, and her mot her- I hood Her fare was singularly devoid of color. ling a clear ivory . her lips were pure ; her eyes rather deeply set and very earnest; lienealh them great purple shadows lay shadows that add- ed to I heir gravity, but had nothing lo do wilh delicacy. Her dark hair w>as coiled in a louse knot at the back of i tier head. Donna rose and went toward her. , Involuntarily she looked past her to thej door, but no one else cnuie in. She re- 1 Iceived her visitor with a delicious lit-, ! He I ouch of friendliness, lieing. perha|>. ' ' freer to do this in that tlie kindly door had admit led no one but her. I.ady Varley seemed struck by her, and pleas- : ed, " 80 more t ban good of you to come so soon." .said Donna, prellily. when I.ady Varley had greeted Conslantia 1 affect ionalely, and Mr. Dundas with the courtesy that belonged to her llv this time Donna had recovered any lit- tie embarraMsment she might have i known. If not U-H.-I dressed, her KOW n was. at all events, more rococo I bun her visitor's, and there could lie no doubt o.s lo which woman had Ihe ; ic dei claim lo leauly. Constant ia ad ben right when she hinted that I.ady V'arlev ininhi nol please the many. Her face was too pale, her mouth not prone enough to laughter Si 'times a glance f mm t he. earnest eyes had lower to , h... k unkindly mirth in oth- ( era. Of Ihi- soul sinning through those eyes few cared In know. Society likes to laugh Society has nothing lo do wilh a soul. There are. loo. few things! so tiresome as a woman with a con-' science. " I am so glad to find you at home to make your asqualntanee really," said Lady Varley in her low. distinct voh-e. "One may go on forever leav- ing cards without knowing aiiyliody. And I half feared Ibis lovely day might have templed you to go out." " When one has only just come lo a new place, there are so many liltle things OIK- iun.il see to one's -elf. if one is lo live." answered Donna, who merer did anything. She put on quite a lit Its ' housewifely air. that sat charmingly on her, and would have been perfect on a mimic stage, l.ndv Varley smiled in quick appreciation, and Mr. Pundas told himself be had married an angel, j (Vmstantia looked down and frowned.' " Hut I am glad I could not go out," went on Mrs. Dundas with one of her ' brilliant smiles, "as my slaying in has enabled me to see you." '(hen quite .suddenly : " I > d Varley did not coma with you?" She changed her position. G *nd fixed her eyes full upon ner visitor UA she, asked I hi*. "No. unfortunately. On Monday we heard of \oiir arrival. On Tuesday l/>rd V , i ley wait obliged to go to Dublin. lli'i.i.ess will, I am afrnid keep him I here fur a week or ten day*. On hi* ii." she looked at Mi Diindas hi-rc and smiled .sweetly, "he hopes to rail upon ynii Mi - Duiid-ui ana be are, I know, i|inic old friends." HIT manner was simple, and very cordial. "She known nothing." thought Don- na, watching her c.lcnely. Satisfied <>n thin |niini, .tin' removed her (fuze, and a faint .sigh of relief escaped her. i giving a dance on the seven- ty-lit h." inid Lady Varle The in- vitation* have heen out mil., little time, but I ho|>e you will wi ceremony and come to m." Slie flushed slight- ly. She wan Ml ill at heart a girl, and a toucli of ahyneafl now and then Rhone through the calm that was natural to Mr. " That will he delirious," cried Mr*. Dm, d-iH jMvlv " Whit ii charming i-li 'ii n you offer me of seeing all my neighliors at once, instead of waving a month or lw<i over it! Are they plea- aant. the.se neighliors?" " Tli.-y are very much like all other neiKhU>rM. I Hupiiose Some are just as one wou:d luve them, some are " she paused, and smiled expressively. The M .lie impressed Mm. Dundas. i slanti-i's -mint can 1* severe at linic.s," the laid to herself. " I wonder. when a month or two haa gone over our heads in \vhirh category I shall find myae.lf f" CHAITKR III. " Divil a bit !" aaid Mrs. Mul.-ahy. As nhe gave way to thin powerful re- mark, she place* i her arm* akimbo. " Modf rale your language. Miilrahy," siid Mi-is MacGillicuddy. This-wa.s not Coiustantia. it wan her aunt a gallant i HP of some fifty iminiii'-r-.. u ho ruled with a brazen arm over the five lurkle.Hs orphans whom an unu ; < father had left, when dying, to her lender merries. She wax tall and U-ny. and of the horsy type Her Mxmplaxina was no sallow that th so-called whites of her eyes caught tin- reflection of it. and her skin seemed insufficient for t he covering of the liones that started gen- erously all over her. In contradict her waa treason; to annoy her. suicide. She tramped up and down the small house they called home from morning (ill nurhi scolding accus- ing, reviling, the two servants and the f.-- nephf AS and nieces without draw- hreath. Hoe waa the terror of the vil- lage school-children, the scourge of the l*rish. Like Satan. .she went to and fro .srekini; whom she might devour. Kren Ihiiini. in I he old days, had con- fniMTl to lieing afraid of her. I'oor soul ! There wa.s very little money in her household, and poverty imliittersl All tier life long sue had s' niggled with it; and when the chil- dren came to her. they iTought with Miem but a scanty pittance, that tre- ly paid for ilirir Inard and the some- what erratic education they had re- ceived, and were still receiving The two viHinger lioys went to the vicar daily; that righteous man having agreed to I < mud into their brains as much Latin, lirark. and Knglish. OR they would hold. on i of the goodly store that belonged ' him. for a sum ton small to lie nam- ed her*. Let hLs good deeds follow him That small sum he gave lo the widows and orphan* of hLs parish. < 'OILS! ant is had been educated by a ilisi mi connection; I'hil. the eldest Brother, was now going through Tiin- u y. helped by the same kind Tint cold hand. After' I'hil caute a girl Norah. a thin, angular liltle creature, with a ahy. expressive face who underwent an awful t mi ion under her aunt Con- stant in taught her music, but Miss Mac- (iillicuddy insisted upon keeping her l.nglLsh in her own hands. It waa a struggling hou.se hoi d : Miss MacCilliciiddy MJPCIII her life trying to make both ends meet a aad employ- ment. She waa old. he would fain rest; Imi the sitting down and the folding of ' he hands at eventide was not for IMT. Six- miLsi still be up and doing. The buichrr must be sharply interrogated; i he. l>aker waa always open to suspic- ion ; the grocer required a elever eye upon him. Ry degrees, indeed, she had grown lo regard these three estimable men as her most inveterate enemies. They were harpies. thieve*. To them all her money went, and ahe forgot lo remember thai thev gave her some- thing in exchange for il. One luxury she allowed herself ; thai was the power of changing her religious riuoiLs as often as she chose. T" day was High Church, and worshiped ve.st menu and candlesticks ; to-morrow lx>w Church, with a virtuous horror of the decent ritual. She hud supported the Presbyterian minister who held Ins chapel in (lie lower end of the town, and after a bit had openly deaerleu him. and given her countenance to the Met body parson who spoke through his none, to his follower* HI the upper end. .Ins' now she wan pleased wilh the vicar because be had given her excellent cab- bage plants for the vegetable garden, and so was pretty orthodox in her views; but one could not lie sure whith- er the next wind would blow her. She had, however never heen a Roman Catholic. I'ruvii.s stank in her n< <- I His. She WM very likely to bold the ten- ets of the Church for some time to come, because her mind was fully occu- pied with a mission. She adored mis aiorut. She had within the past month enrolled herself as a member of the Illne. llilibon Army, and was now occu- pying herself making converts right and left. She was very successful with the old U.lie.s who never drank anything save tea, and with little children, who believed lemonade was the modern name for nectar. The two younger boys.aged respectively ten and twelve., went down to the vicar every morning with brood bands of blue ribbon stitched with ag- gnvssive publicity upon their ro.it.s. and because of them suffered martyrdom an they went by the boys belonging to the college. This college wan kept by an Knglish clergyman, with a voice extra- ordinarily Knglish, and a wife, and a liabjr or Iwo. The lioya scoffed at the little MacGillicuddys as they went by, in the exquisitely cruel manner that hoys can. until their little hearts were sore within their Indies; often reduc- ing the youngest child, who was of a sensitive nature, to tears. Mr. Evans, had he heard of these unlawful pro- lix-dings on the part of his scholars, would have been seriously annoyed, no doubt, being himself one of the chief apost lea of the nine Kiblion movemoeot ; but as for Miss MsoOUliouddy, ahe or- d for none of these things. Hhe entered with aest into the new crusade. It. suited her admirably. It gave her the power of wounding any of respectable people ; it made her fi-l more righteous than those who till clung to tbe pernicious glass of sherry. These she called wiue-bibbsrs, and read them lung leclurea, in which the Rechahites largely figured. She ar- rayed herwtf in blue riblions. It was an excellent mission, and an ei-orw-; one; it |mt a full stop to the wine mer- chant's bill. Rut Mhe would have been very angry had you hinted at this. Just now she wan lnt on tbe con- vention of Mis. Mulcuhy, the cook, who now and then used to take " just a thirnl.leful nate" for tbe good of her "stoniii-k." she said. Il certainly was- n'l for Ilia good of her head, which was eoosidsntbly the. worse for wear after each of theae thimblefuls. But as Mi-. Mulrahy never reuiemliered anything alxmt it the next morning she never could lie drought to believe this. It was a wonderful thiinlile of every shape and size and was a matter of unceasing speculation with tbe younger MaHJilli- cuddys. Mrs. Mulrahy was. boweyer.an invaluable servant, who had been in the f.miily for forty years; and as her i lii'nli!e.s were partaken of only three or four tiiiMvt in the twelve months, dLsmis- al on account of them was never dream- ed nf Hui id convert her to show lu-r the error of her ways, and induce her to oriiMineni ner person with a square inch if Line ri>>bon lhal was Miss MacGilli- cuddy's dreamt (To be Continued.) GROWTH OP THE CITIES llolh lur |.i , n ., u .l tmrrtrtm I r>> iiniii.rir. ire larreatlM ! PP" In 1-01 Scotland had 1.600.000 people. nearly all living in tbe country. In 1891 she bad 4.000.000 people. 2.081.300 living in citim * n d 928,500 in the country. In 1838 there were in Manchester. Eng- land. only 25'J.OOO people, while now, within a radius of twenty miles from the Town hall.ihere are 8.000.000 people. II living on Ihe manufactories. The census shows thai in all England there an- .'O.HOO.OJO people in cities and 8.200.- "*'' in rural districts, an increase of 15.3 per cent, from 1881 to 1891, while the rural districts increased only 34 per cent. That wonderful growth in theae cities Is almost all to be ere Hied to tbe steam engines. If we go across over inlo France we find that tbe population since tbe dis- , covery of ateam has more Iban doubled in its manufacturing towns. In Pru- i sia, sinot* the Franco- Prussian war. tbe population baa increaasU 20 per cent, in ' a decade. Berlin, the capital. Ls eight times as large as it waa in 1831. just al>out tbe time when ateaci began to bo introduced. Holland and Belgium ' nbow a steady increase in tbe cily popu- ii.in over ibe rural districts. I ht> moat wonderful growth of cities , baa been in tbe LYiled Stales, and all inn great growth since the introduc- tion of steam, and tbe real life of these lues is manufacturing. Il is this in- dustrial life whii-.h bos un-rea-sed Ibe population of cilitM and made loein the gntalest power. I'p to Ibe beginning u( tbe war of the rebellion perhaps three I*T cent. o( tbe popuialum at I hut coun- try was in our cilim; to-day S3 per >'' ii-.- in rities. 'Ibis new mduslrial life, this large Ifiowih of ciltes. this immense popula- tion under city governmeul presents NKW CONDITIONS in law- and in all lao lawa of life. Tbe population baa outgrown tbe ordinary ideas of government, and the day is not very far distant when cities will have lo be free and aluioal independent of State, governments. If it was a wine policy in ibe rural age of tbe irpuhlir, or if ii is to-day, for Ibeae rural district* to Lake o*re ol lbenv*elves and all their (oral affairs, certainly Ibe principle if just tut applicable lo tbe government of cities of t unlay. This question is fast "mine to the front it cannot be long put off. Tins is a great age of develop- ment of industrial and t-uuimerrial lile. an. I this new life requires different coo- ditioas f Kim ibe ordinary country life. Tbe people who live in localities know bad uh.ii they want, and if they pay tbe bills they ought to nave what they want, provided it does not interfere with the rights of other* In 1 t) th r we e in the I nit dS'ates six ritwvs. but only one wilb over IJ.HHl ^Ple. In 1850 OIM> city with 500000 people, and only Ihree with 250.000 lo- |de. In 1880 176 ciliea with over 1J.OOO people, thirty-five with 75.000 people. and fourteen with 250.000 people. In 1800 the t,,t ,| population of tbe United StatAs was , r i.3UH.4H3 ; in 1K90 it wan iW.- ii-'_'.J5:i people. The total city population in 18DO was 210.873. and tbe rural popu- lation was .'i.OtfT. i;io. 3.97 per ceut. at the total population then living in the cilira. In 1830 tbe city population was -,N:7.r8i. and the rural population was njN,M, or 12.49 per (nt. in .-Hies. In 1890 tbe city population was 18.284. S. while tbe rural population was 44.- W7 8C5. the city population being S.fl> . per cent, of the l,.tal population. This! Hhows thai while the rural population in ' forty years doubled. Ihe cily populalion incre&sed M,f,,|,i To-day one-lhird of all the people in tbe United States live in cities. In 100 years the tot il iiopulation has increased MiUten-fold. but (be city population Ii 140 times greater than it was 100 years ago. This increase has been almosl en- tirely .since the introduction of steam power, and the consequent industrial era which it created. i INTERESTING ITEMS ABOUT OUH OWN COUNTRY. CUtbtre4 trom Virloii* PolaU from tat Atlantic lo th P.clllc. On Ilia wants early closing. Petrolea is organizing a dramat'.o club. Midland's box factory ' being re- built. Dundas has a whooping-cough epi- demic. A dramatic club is being organized in Pickering. Montreal's license fee is a'COO and Que- bec, 'a 450. Kingston ha* a Uachelor'i Protective Association. Tbe C A. R. is building can in its Ot- tawa shops. Tbe Ouelph Collegiate Institute has a hockey club. A ferry company is to be organized at tbe Canadian Soo. Pansies were picked on Christmas day in a Guelpb garden. David A. Kay's young son was drown- ed at Paris recently. M- f.eo.1, of the Zorm tug-of-war team, was recently married. Another Ruelph gaa well has been struck on Pelee Island. Twenty-Aix families are spending the winter at Island Park. Stephen Trudeau's widow died recent- ly at Bristol, aged 101. There is a Bachelors' Protective As- sociation in Kingsville. Rev. J. A. Anderson, of Goderich. has refused a call to Guelph. American capitalists want to boy the Windsor Hotel. Montreal. 'lay is being exported from about Ot- tawa to Western Ontario. The Bradford fire brigade w ill disband unless paid for their services. Caribou are reported to be excellent and plentiful north of Quebec. A Hamilton man lost $10.000 by th* decline in slocks al New York. llrkey clubs are becoming numerous in country towns and villages. At public auction, the other day Brent- ford market kes brought |1.4M. The Kingston convicts had a 1.20* pound pudding on Christmas day. Renfrew will soon vole on the ques- tion of water-work* and sewerage. Tbe fisheries of Canada last year yielded more than those of France. A company of Chatham youths swam across the Thames on Christmas day. Tbe Middlesex Hr Association will soon banquet Chief Justice Meredith. Mr. D. Baptie. township clerk of South Dumfries- for 40 years, has resigned. Dr. Yemen's residence at Stratford wan recently burned, at a loss of $8.- 000. Ottawa offers tbe Westingbouse Brake Company free site and waler to locale there. Vehicle works are to be established in Truro. N. 8.. by anus Kingston capi- talists. Mayor Little. London, gave 100 Christmas turkeys to corporal ion lab- ourers. Tbe Itaie dea Chaleura railway is to be sold to satisfy wurkingiuen's claims for I JO 000. Ottawa capitalMts have bought a plumliago property near Calabugie for tO.OUO. Rev. W. B. Hinaon. Montreal, hasbeea called to the La4>lil church at Mono- Ion. N. B. Berlin's old town park is now called "\Vootiiude Park" and Ibe new une"Vio- loria Park." A man named aiadoure cut a bole in the ioa at Montreal, jumped through it and was drowned. Ottawa will vol on tbe establishment of a publie library. A f 70.000 bouse is offered as a free gift. MLS Liixie Cowan, of Wroxeter. re- cently made some boniton lace which waa bought by Queen Victoria. Uirajn Walker, il is said, has hurried | .1 ii worth of whisky to He.tri.it. thus getting ahead of tbe new tariff Mr. and Mrs. Jaxnea Willis, of Mount Uelhousie. N. S.. recently celebrated tbe 60th anniversary of their marriage. I/owe towntthip people want tbe (Jov- ernment to pay for the military expedi- tion recently sent there to collect taxes. A man has asked tbe Metcalfe Council to remil |30 be paid a doctor who treat- ed a child bitten by a supposed mad, dog. A tSO.OOO extension i* being made to the Walkenrille brewery, lln products will lie senl in wood to Detroit and bottled there. Hiss Allingbam, who was killed late- ly at Om statioa, deeded a site for an Knglih church at Hawkeslone Ihe night I Worn her death. An Important Difference. Mother Are you sure Mr. Nicefellow love* you aa a husband ihould f Daughter Of course. He wants to marry me. Mother (who knows her daughter's peculiitritien) Loving you well enough to nun i v you is one thing ; loving you well enough to live with you is quite another. A Terrible Disappointment. Mother Why. my dear, what's the natter I Something has happened at Mrs, De Music's party. I know. Tell me all about it. my child. Daughter Hon-hool Mrs. De Music asked me to play, and and when I told her 1 waa out of practice, she said she was 'so sorrv' and didn't ask me again bott-hoo-huo I Red Tabby Cats In London. A lady who has recently returned from abroad say* thai one of the most Interesting exhi)>it which ahe saw in Europe was the National Cat Show of England, which was held at the Crystal Palace, Lamina, in which about 700 cats were shown. "The decided feature of tbe exhibition." ahe said, "was tbe num- ber of superb red tabbies, together with a fine assortment of pure blacks, smoke- oolured oats, and cats with that pecul- iar tons of gloasy coal known as cat Uue. The efforts nf the English cat- liiwilers this year past have been blue and black cat. In tbe opinion of many experts a blaok cat without any mark- ings whatever of white is the moat per- fect variety that Ls known, and it i* proof of i lie appreciation of this that certain dishonest people will pluck the white hairs out of a oat one by one. It has been noticed thai the clauses I hat are open to working-ami in this na- tkxval exhibition are particularly strong in fine black cats. Hlue-eyed. white- ooaled oats are getting to be highly valued in Kngland now. and one of ibeM bore off the other day a sulwtantial money prize lhal waa offered by l*>uia Wain, tbe great oat artist. Anotbet prise of tbe anow was a brown t*t>bp t<mi. Champion Xenophun. whioh ita owner values at I'vlMJM