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 prace epeoUItf «lii)l«j tlC«4 of WtlAt you III nar^3^1, Out. oae, iiparliit i3 Celebmted Fonnolul 3; mailed {otOD« DoDtt| On!. B THE BEST SI ia Canada bxiij. ' ?nW ZenM. DiMOcai Ej^iTSDTEStWI hoithand and Bum :ng cop7 Ciwmiipi"" n America. Price, H-*" ruP. SAiX-IBEBB icaainliieCltyolGo J cnaace will seUchafI ;r partic-L'lan acdrt* J^ i^tQt, Guelph. :fied iii»»- 1 Kegs alwaj» to « iitd especially lor DtlvfiCed; alaooMiP a YWSOAa WO«Mi ^^ 0^rm ^doned on the main line of rui^!^ Railway for â- emething P ^TeSl^aSSdinJ to .11 the d.J tV" L!, ar that point with snoh ua »'«"»ty.thatnothoaghtofpo.. Mv°Ti,».A ever oicnrred to me. t dotie« leci were not eapeoUIly ardaoiu, „An«ibCity was far greater. '«t' ":CreM^y and night, both yj.*** fj-h the niain line had to be al- iior -^u^^n ,. » local exproM each way, HiLj^Bsfl "' I thetttrnout, and waited for ***^M5r««»*^"to a man train b ti^Trnfc^ ^hich had right of way "'^«^-3EPer, and half-a-dozen; '»^oJr^od»tion and freight :='!*' fv,Vt the main line wai always 1=** :?:r,roT)er moment, that the tom- tjltay'Sy when^it .honld be. where th^ local made np ^-5 in short, that ev rything "â- 'f^'Ation for prompt and satlaf actory r^?=°tJnie almost canBtantly at my H:iB«' " ^j Itave already said, the r.V â- Snoteiipeci3.11y!^rduouB. â- j order tobi handy to my boaineas, I ,, cottaae cose by. from the open 5' f^"hi^b. looking ea?tTard, I conid see l^'il^/twi^ for u mile away, and no- f' S the aignalaof "danger" or " â-  were :n their proper poaitiona. orning, ja^t after the local had made '" my wife came ruDning to rr.e ?Smed face. Oarlittle girl wa, " She had »een her only a few mm- ^jd gone, my '""'ore the departure of the train, and t' °»ae a hasty eearch for her aa soon aa ,??£oTered her awence. .She feared she "^ecrher'with a few brief words, and, L '^J around to the station -building, be- F- .ireful examination of every possible r;«aere I deemed it likely the child ';.ue (Siewas only- five years old.) trTieirh. resulted in my finding her fast tvn on the sunny aide of a pile of railroad jj with her doil. half as large as herself, fri't' beside her. -rVnUh-: I had a smgular dream. I -^jjottght I was in the middle of a vast l-Iis tbroughw!:icA stre'.ched, broad a^d l-w before 'me, the double tr.ck of a main It Like outs, yet unlike, for every few iZ-'i I c3uld see open aveitches and blood- lied'iisaah, that gave me an agony of appre- liffision. As I leaked again at the line, my l.'-« fell upon an obiectâ€" a small form lying 4- one of the rails. My child With a P'jhty effort I a^oke, turned over, and I ^-'nV to sleep, and dreamed the same thing liiin with the addition that I seemed 'uate? t a winged horse, and riding for -,c!)5 theswitches, slav Ke, bathed in perspiration, It.- i-uaed myself sutEciently to get up and li'itray little darling's crib, of course to Ld her safe. I walktfd the fljor in my livckiag feet for awhile, looked at the Lock, and again turned in, to dream for the "'.ui'J.hfam' thiiKj to ttirt suddenly I iid Voadly awake, aa if the voice which I r,:sed th-j Thane of Cawdor had hissed in |;v ear, aa in his, " iVeeyj iio more '" loawtke, and find the tirkt gleam of the Incoming day glo^ving gray 'on the eastern • â- A, Ho vever, a visit to all the switches â€" mine, :o;tiio3e of the dream â€" a daah, headfore- r.Mt, into a cool, dtep, running stream :sir, and uwarm breakfast, seemed to clear iwsy whatever remained of the lingering :fc:ts of my nocturnal visions, and 1 felt ike myself once more, Between the pisaage of the down mail uhlcli stopped, and the through express liiicii did not, there was an interval of an air and a half, that was essentially my :wii, But that morning a despatch bad milot one of the directors, who lived 'iiee miles to the south of us, and as it so appttied, the agent, who was busy, request- ii me to take it, offering the use of his fast iwe, whiL'h stood in harness under' the shed -in aL'iniil remarkable for its speed and sidurance, aa I ascert a 'ned thereafter. I hid betn to the director's house on one -rt^o aicnilar occasions, and neither the leentror myself dedmid the tince necessary '.0 go aud c.:me any consideration when an ioM and a half was at my dlsp:84l. Besides, ud auch a course been necessary, he could avetikenthe keys and acted for me. But iere was no thought of that. I drove leisurely over, enjoying the ride Mch, for tbo mare, " Fanny," was in ex- -^ilent apirits, and the air was clear and cisciiig. I hid delivered the despatch, received a iir.ei word of thanks, and was already turn- iig homeward, ivhtn the direct -r came him- ielf toward the paling, calling out to me by ainie, I reined up. " There is some mistake here, Jennings," =««iid, with some excitement, waving the Ittptoh, " This should not have been snttorr.e, but to our agent" On reflec- "^a " He knows the contents, I snppoe " On retiection, I couldn't say, and so stat- !tt, ' Iheu go back to your post at once, and "Itto bim. A special train of excur- »inist. for Hampstead Beach will pass at ^â- ^ Lock out for it." ne turned li-isurely and sauntered up the *«is toward the house, while, without a *«a I started the mare ii to a trot. special train at half past nine ioraw a taat tein wit my right hand, â„¢1took my watch from my pocket with "y trembling 'eft. ^jae twenty-two Three miles of a "â„¢'gntrodâ€" less, perhaps, a quarter of a of detour to the station, when I should ' the trackâ€" and the main line open to ^..'â- "tward for the passage out of the »Ki i! ^^^^^ miles, and eight minntes in "Well to accompli.h it ' J^^J youth I had known something j^« horses, and that knowledge did not me now. I drew out the long whipâ€" !!, "'ed, aa I have noticedâ€" and touched «« mare quietly on the flank. aow can I daicrlbe that ride iatk •"**° ^kere charger met charger l„r* ^^'rl and dust of battle, and men and jj^ have gone down together, but in that T^»M fellowship-association. In thia eartL'"' "'*^* °*° fitly describe the fierce »hto ?* " *** solitary ride against time, KSonl "°""eds ot innocent lives, all uncon- « of the peril toward which they were T^g, hnng trembling in the balance. toT^Jlnow the tempeat which swayed rii^™«i»g soul, aa, outwardly calm and ^^«wt,with every mnacle itrong ai rt^ I hdd tlM am findy «B to k« wwk ud. by voioe wad tomh. •tsotrified tt« of tfaa neoeiritlM and pofl ef the Tta«^ boQMt, fncei, gud«uâ€" wmetinm "MO, Btaxfag la wild-eyed MtoofahmaBtâ€" "*^ P»"t ia one oabrokin flight. My hat WM ofF. my hair and beacd â- tareaming in the wind, my Upt com prB W i i a wve when emit- nn« low cnee of enoonntaemeat to the noble man and thu I roM^ed a low tiae of groutd commanding a view of the line for a mue ox more on eit£er hand. Up to thia moment from the time I had drawn teat rein and glanced at my watch. v" J^" ' **«" **• objective goal for which I was riding. If I could reach it before the whiatleblew at the croMing below, there would be hope. If notâ€" I ahuddered at the alternative. I recalled afterward, and many times, how a thought of my dreamâ€" a long line of awitchea- swept acroas me then how my eyea for the firat time awerved from their ateady gaze at my horse's head, and flished a glance up and down the whole visible line for the coming special Not in sight â€" thank God Stay there k smoke on tiie horizon. But there is no stay ha the wild rush of our onward course. With as unflinching nerve ae when she started, the gallant mar- atretohea away down the gentle declivity, while every moment the distance lessens, and the on coming train gets larger and noisier as itneara us. I atand up in the wagon I urge to great- er speed I wave scarf and hand I shout, but my voice is beyond my control. Ha Joy unutterable I am seen A whistle I â€" the agent runs out with a red flag two whistles Down breves The train is saved, and come.s to a halt not a dez- en yards from the open switch. It v. aa time. (Time -as they say in the racing calen lar â€" seven minutes and a half. This I can- firmed afterward I complete the last quarter of the detour to the station more leisnrely, but am in time to receive from the arms of the agent my sleepy little girl, whom he haa snatched from the shadow of that misplaced switch, where she was lying faat asleep, with her golden Qiirls directly on the raij. That dream again Shall I ever be thank- ful enough I am an older man now, and have other and higher interests in railroads, but not on that line. That experience was too much for me. I left soon after, and my fortunes greatly improved. My golden-haired little darling is now a woman, and happily married, and has a lit- tle darling of her own j[uat beginning to walk. And if you would like to see the gallant mare, Fanny, that won the Jiace against Time, and an affectionate place in my re- membrance evermore, come out to the or- chard, and you will ae" Vmr enjoying a com- fortable old age, petted jt,^d ujireasca oy the whole family. So I end eb I began Dreams are not always true. Nor, on the other hand, are they always false. P£AEL55 OFTEUTH. Help others, and you relieve yourself. Go out and drive away the cloud from a dis- tressed friend's brow, and you will return with a lighter heart. Love is the most terrible and also the moat generous of the passions it is the only one th»t includes in its dreams the happi- ness of some one else. Words of praise are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and afiFection Judicious praiae is to children what the sun is to flowera. Politeness is a sort of guard which covers the rough edges of our character and pre- vents their wounding others. We ihould never throw it off even in our conflicts with coarse people. No way has been foucd for making hero- ism easy, even for the scholar. Labour, iron labour, is. for him. The world was created as an audience for htai tiie atoms of which it is made are opportunities. There appears to exist a greater desire to Uve long than to live well. Measure a man's desires, he cannot live long enough measure by his good deeds, and he hos not lived long enough measure by his evil deeds, and he haa lived too long. The most difficult province in frijndship ia the letting a man see his faults and errors, which should, if possible, be so contrived that he may perceive our advice is given him not so n uch to please ourselves as for his SI n advantage. The reproaches, there- fore, of a friend should always be strictly just, and not too frequent. He that does not fill a place at home can- not abroad. He goes there only to hide hia insignificance in a larger crowd. You do not think you will find anything there which you have not seen at home J The atnfl of all countries is the same. \^ hat is teue any- where is true everywhere. And, let a man I go where he will, he .an find only so mu.h 1 beauty or worth aa he oarriea. So lone as dress does not violate the prin- ciule. of beauty or the laws of healtti, so long j S is made c^onformable to P-Won. «« and circumstances, so long is " »? ^e •» couraged, not orlyos a source of en] o^ent, bunf the fulfilment of a serious dnty-f or the love of dress, which is to the body what ' lanauage is to thought, is as true an inst.net 1^ if the love of wh.t U beautUul and good. No trait of character is n"5«;»l"'J"j?j: female than the P°-"^J»" •L*^^"J^th. Tu't it ^°I?^ir^."^har^Sn1up L'taman go home at »««»*» ^^"l^ iorabythf toils of the day, "d^»^^; Sg" a word dicteted W v««»»d dtopoaitf on! Sis sunshine falling on Ma »eart. Ueia hlppraBd the carea of life are forgotten. Dr. John Hunter, *hr«^to»t "^^J; SL able to '^omj^Vah^^l^^^Z dder. before I conuneno^^Ae^r^wor^ PKB801AL. Sh^bvntirad frMs the Paris ataM, llllaw dder. before I «»??^«" JS^r«5ea"l-. I be practicable. U » be *irt g^SSbl?, I do not »tt«a^ i^ H rt ^^gSpS- •» can »o»mpliah »* "ff^ t^^k^^^ anoeeaa.^ â-  Mme. Sophie Mentn, the famoas niaaJat. â- Bo^ •njoying tiie pnaaoaaiim of a )«ttniM of^000,000, left to her bra Rnaal«ad- TIm death of the vaneraUe Lord BocUmt- hvnahire leavea L^rd Stradbroke senior ^r-4unety-on« yewa oldâ€" tiiongh Lord iSrongham oomaa ia a good aeooad at ninety. By the retirement of Mr. Samuel Merely, the city of Briatol. Englaad, will loae a mu who haa repreaented it in Parliament for MveatMn yeara with diatingaiahed accepta- Cjunt von Moltke, whoae neameaa to death is occaaiottaUy cabled, ia reaUy won- derfully healthy and vigorous for his yeara and he has juat celebrated hia eighty-rixth birthday, surrounded by hia family on hia Slesian estate. The Dnke of Abercom, who died the oth- er day, waa the aenior Knight of the Order of the Garter, a poaition now held by Lord Granville. The vacant atall will probably ke given to the late Dake'a aon-in-law, the Duke of Bucleuch. Thebaw, reprearnted aa the raw head and bloody bonea of Bormah, ia really a hand- some young fellow of 26, the youngest and brightest of the forty -eight sons of hia late lamented father, who rejoiced In the name of Mengdnng'Meng. Pbi'Ippe Daryl, a French essayiat andcri- tic, says of Oliver Wendell Holmes " Eve- rybody who apeak a Engliah on the planet haa been enjoying for the paat thirty yeara the superior proline' iona of thia Boston Frenchman. And yet the Latfaa world re- mains ignorant of hini." The American beauties,' Miss Chamber- lain and Miss Winalow, who went from London to Hambarg to aatocish the natives and casual visitors, were astounded to find themselves forast^^lled by four American sisters named Walker who walked away with the palm for beaniy. M. Cortes, the distinguished mioroscopist has been experimenting upon the t fleets of various condiments upon the tissues of the oyster. He recommends lemon juice as the most valuable of these relishes, aa it has the property of destroying the animalcuTai which infest the stomach of that moUusk. Qaeen Eleanor's Cross at Waltham is to be r stored. It waa dcai^aed by Pietro Cavallini in 1291 and fi; ished in 1294. It is in memory of the consort of Edward I. who accompanied her husband to Palestine and sucked the poison from a dagger wound in his arm. She was the mother of the first English Prince of Wales. The Boston Traie/Zer (Rep says that " a gentlemen who recently met Hon. James 6. Blaine found that gentleman in the enjoy- ment of Tcellent health, in good spirits, and happy in his literary work. He is en- gaged at his task three or four hours a day, takes long walks daily, and shows no signs of disappointment over his defeat last year. Indeed, in talking of that event, he says that he thicks he is happier than he could be in the Presidential chair." The comparative importance of Engli h statesmen, from the newsman's point of view, may be seen in the fact that accord- ing to announcement the London Central News reports allspeechos of Lord Salisbury, Lord R Churchill, Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Chamberlain vu'batim Lord Spenoer. Lord Hartington, Lord Granville and Sir Charles Dilke to the extent of one column each, and Sir M. Hicks-Beach, Sir R. A. Cross, Sir W. Harcourt, Mr. Trevelyan and Mr. Chil- ders half a column each. In La Temperance, Dr. Magnus Husf, the celebrated Swedish physician, is quoted as saying that people of the northern Stat s of Europe who abuse alcohol degenerate visib- ly and afford more frequent y than others examples of monstrosities at biith. In L n- don, at the beginning of the eighteenth oen- tujy, there was an alarming decrease of the birth rate which, on inquiry, was shown to be caused chiefly by drunkenness. Dr. Alvarez, a Paris homeopathist, brought suit ngainst the Princess of Medina CcbH for 600,000 francs for med:e il services, stating that he was entitled to more than the usual ccmpeneatlon on account of the great wealth of his patient. The court awarded him 84 000 francs, he to pav cotts. Most physicians would consider $17,000 a handsome fee, but this doctor was much chagrine 1 over the result. A few days be- fore he had refusad a much larger sum to compromise the matter. Disraeli and Gladstose. It has been s»id, and with undoubted truth, that the man who is Siu artist, what- evfrbehis calling, seeks rtlief in his art when fortune turns unkind and hi has fail- ed in other pursuits. While Mr. Disraeli sat in the Cabinet as prime minister of England he did little in fiction, but he con- trived, after a fashion, to construct scientific frontiers and g ittering political pageantsafter the epic ano grand manner which had exer- cised hia imagination in his books. But no eooner had he realized his last fail, and before the bitter critic could ceclare that there "was aDisr e i," he hied away to hu closet, drew forth Eodymitn, refurbUhed that per- son, wrote some flashing cnapters, and preg- nant epigrams, and g*ve his book to the woild The fame of nia novel was a food for his ambition when the sweetness and glory of power had pajsed away from him. We have another case n point in England now No sooner does Mr. Gadatone fall from the united aaaanlt of the vaunted ^^ian of the aUbiUty of the empire and the vaunted apoatle of ita diamamberment. SL toV^b" bis biui.«i amMtioa by the balmofUterarywoik. I* " ?»* "S?!?^*,' therefore, though a ^very tbo-^btfu^ "f cultivated weekly contemporary ahfaka it la, to SdUm in the page, of thaNintUmth Century aetting his l«oe •«»«"^; irrelgious science in a ooatnbutaon ^^aaad the " Dawn of Creation .nd Wor- Sln" Inthto paper he takea oooasson to SSk of a wnteT^ble honae, i laatriona in STkUtorTpt K»«l-»» " baviagfor ita drirerof piga." Ihlamaata^ethequ..^ Swwo^tbatth. Iltaatrioaa HoiiKdia SSST "«^ â- * *»»• fountain head thaa a ytely dropped the " g. mSCSLLAIBOUS HEMB. W« Btfll wait for the eyidanoa that will ccnyiaoeutiiat aome of the medical ata- daata had aot a leadlag hand in the Hal- lowa'an oatnge. The aohool-maater ia about la tkaae dayi, bat doea he inaiat^ aa tba old-time tcadm oaad to do, that " an honeat nun'a the soUeat woAofGod?" If aome ayatem of yaccinatloa conld ba diacevoed which would preyasit the apraad ' of the annexation-fever ambag the natfona of the world it ml^t prove a Uaariag. The Japaneae can make ailk haadkerchieb which aell aa low aa a ahilling each in Eng- land. Thia ia rightfully rc«iurded aa a aen- oua menace to the English ailk trade. Oook County, Illinoia, has hardly elapaed from barbarism yet if the talea told about the treatment of the insane in her asylum are to be believed. The brutal methods of medievaliam are aaid to flonriah there in priatine vigor. Fair Belva Lockwood ia recounting her Presidental candidature experiences to au- diencea in the far wild weat at fifty centa a head. She ia perhapa trying to catoh a hua- band now, that being the next beat thing to the Preaidency. The clam ia a hard-ahelled animal who keeps himself reaolntely ahut agunat the in- troduction of new ideas, and who ia hardly worth yonr trouble after you have opened him up. What a number of j human clams there are in the world 1 Don't be a clam. Prophecies aa to the ultimate humiliation of the Bulgariana are aa yet preooature.' At present writing the tide of success seems to have tamed. Before the two little powers have done worrying one another the big ones wi!l no doubt have their hands in. A greater nniaance than the gbl with the Immense chapeau concealing all in front of her, or the pretentious fools who make a point of coming late so as to command aome attention, are those concert-goers who sp )il other people's pleasure by peraistent whiapering. Undertakers are aaid to find the winttr time their beat buaineas season, because more wealthy people die then, owing to their over- heated houses, and the custom of bundling themselves in furs, two things which make them more liable to take cold whenever they are exposed. It is said by well-informed Eaglish papers that the agricultural laborer is bitterly op- posed to the church influence in the elec- tions, Hodge has had aome reaaon for com- bining the parson with the squire, as the two forces which have always been most opposed to yielding him his political rights. Nothing in the late Gen. M-Clellan's career interested average British opinion so much as the yarn that got started about his being a more or less distant connection of a Lord Clyde, He rose one hundred psr cent in Eaglish estioiitioa when that was told and sank correspondingly when it turned out to be only a yarn after all. Many men will steal books who would be shocked at the idea of committing the small- est infraction of the eighth commandment in any other way. And a first cousin to him who deliberately steals books is he who borrows and never returns. We wish a good many people would cultivate a proper delicacy o| conscience in thia matter. To find out how much ill-breeding there is amcug the wealthier classes of Toronto, and no donbt of other Canadian cities and towns as well, one has only to take the tes- timony ci some of the ladies who give time and trouble in collecting subscriptions .for various charitable institutions. In houses where better things might be expected they are often treated as if they were beggars asking charity for themselves. A good way of spending one evening every week or fortnight during the winter months is for a number of young people to form a elnb for the special study of some author A Shakespeare club, forinstance,or aBrown- Ing club, uudertJkking to study certain plays of the great dramatist or Aurora Leigh, and meeting for the purpose iu oce another's hoiises, would prove itself not only a very pleasanr but a very profitable institution. Roading a somewhat stirring poem which appeared in one of the leading dailies last week, we were rather startled by the first line of the last stanza, which read as follows " All are bom free and equal." Ood-like lie o( all • he host That build false beacons on the line of life's terrific coast." " God-'ike," aa aii epithet applied to any- thing in the shape of a "lie," haa the charm of novelty, at anyrate, if not of great fitness. It is the hardest thing ' in the world to convince some people who blame all their miafortunea or want of aucoess rn what they call their " bad luck " that the "bad luck" in nine cases out of ten la juat their own.term for shiftlessneas, carel^asness, laziness or mere stupidity. The time spent by aome folka in bemoaning their ba.l luck, if put to good use, would go far to deprive them of any good excuse for indulgence in such folly. The case of a clergyman who seems to have very little respect for his own sacred fdactions is reported. A man died who con- ceived he had been badly treated in his father's will, and, wishing to remind the world ot the fact, left directions to hia min- ster to preach his funeral sermon on the words, *â-  And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. ' The clergyman, whoever he was, actually forgot himielf so much aa to carry out thia piece of unworthy death- bed spite. The 1 -test subject of dispute between the leading party papers of Ontario is the amount and g'^nnineness of the excitement in Quebec Province over Kiel's execution. One side declares that the excitement, if not very great to outward 'seeming, ia aeething far dean in the breaat of the haititants and ia ready to buret oat on the firat favorable opportunity in a way that will prove aa and- den aa it will be terrible. The other party inaiata, fai an equally atrang way, that there ia no auch exdteinent and never waa. ^e ahould like to see the subject that theae party papers won't diapate about. The moat aenalble move yet in connection with theae Paeifio Ooaaa lalanda haa been made by the Hawaiian Goyammeat, who wiahas the other Powara to allow them to i,«it». tiie diffeceat ^oiuM of tbaoe lalaada iato looal lapraaantaHyaVoratamanta wboaa iataattyahall bo gaafaaftaod by tiMOOo- tractiag Powara, and to wham ooaaola diall ba aaat by stwaaia. Ia thia way It ta opoA Uaada waaldb* kept fonvar opaa t» â- d aaataJ fa oaaa uf aay war taajaOm. It b gn^i^fii4( to tiuak that aomnoh favor haa Man ahom totUa aohamo by Oooo Powan to whom it haa al- loadybeen aabaaitled. S.'oriaa are floating thiovgh the mwapa- pera to the effeot tiiat oaitidn MeMa balleva RIel haa come apoa tba world again. Ona half-breed waa walking along toie pralrie» after night, and juat aa the moon had riaen, the great leader approached him and aaid, ' I am not dead take my hand: It i» aa warm aa youra." He gave no explana- tiona,bnt after talking much to the effect that God had q^ared him to the North- West people, diaappmred. It ia not atoted whether the earth awaUowed him, or that he dia* appeared as did tbe witches from the heath of Forrea like the explosion of a bubble. Be all thia as it m^y, many Metis and In- diana believe that the great 1 ader ia upon the earth and living. It has Iteen well temarked, and oan hardly be tooof ten repeated, thateter-nal fame await* the judge who will compel the average lawyer who always fancies that he ahowa hia brains in browbeatiDg witn oa a e w, to treat these witnesses with proper respect. In nine cases out of ten witnesses come into court against their own will to testify conceinicg the crimes or disputes of their neighbors. But the treatment they fre- quently receive from the attorneys is most shameful, and could har 'ly be ex" ceeded if they were the crim'nila themselves. A change is ery much neeaed in this ' respect. In the exercise of no other business or profession is a man permitted to behave himself like a bully and a cad and why it should be so in law nobody can telL The American girl is an institution which demands and receive a great deal of atten- tion. The latest addition to the literature on this subject comes from the Paris Figaro which says " How captivating the Ameri- can girl is In society From the moment when she made hsr first appearance in the saloons of Paris she created a perfect furor. Her engaj^g manners, her freedom from restraint, ker familiar shake-hand at ones conquered that class of young men, mo.-a numerous than mutt people imagiue, who frequent doubtful society on accountof their exceaaive timidity when in good society. Wliat can be more pleasant to an embar- raued youth in company than to have the conversa ion started and carried on by a pretty, chatty girl, totally devoid of false modesty and awkwardness, and having rarely, if ever, an orrtere-^jejwee of marriage? Nor can we conceive any chine more pleas- ing for a 'young man than to be chaffed and brightened on, so to speak, by pretty girls â€" for such the American girl always is â€" who have none of that stiffuess and gaurh- erte, neither the hanr's, nor fee' no- love of gaudy col :rs so chaiacteri tic of their Anglo- Saxon great-grandmothers." A Misuse of Clemency. We think that the circumstances are few under whi:h journals of repute ought to interfere ia the solemn dbcisione of justice* but occasions do arise when silence would be blameable. We believe that, in the commutation of the death penalty in the case of Loison Mongraia, the murderer of Policeman Cowan, we have a c use in point. Cowan Wis one of a reconnoitering party sent out bv Inspector Dickens from Pitt when that Fort was surrounded by the Creea under Big Bear. This chi- f had come under the ramparts and coolly invited Inspector Dickeua to surrender his arms and accom- pany him to the lodges, as Factor Maclean and others had done, promising his pro- tection in the event of compliance. " I^ yon do not come " Big Bear said, " my young men will burn dovn the Fort and do your people harm." Inspector Dickens, of course, sent the presuming savage about his business Meanwhile, Cowtm and another policeman were quietly riding along the prairie towards the fort. Per- ceiving their approach a ouirrber of Big Bear's aien seized weapons, !ind aa the two horsemen drew near opened a murderous fire'upon them. e man rode on and reach- ed the fort, though hit with several buUete but the other. Cowan, fell from his horse up- on the prairie. He lay bleeding and moaning here for half an hoa-, when Mongrain came np and pointed n, gun at his head. The wounded man put up his hand, as if warding the gun away, aad 8aid,»"Don't, brother,' but the heartless murderer fired, and not only once, but twice, into the head of the helpless man. The murderer was appre- hended, tried, and found guilty, and on sentencing him to death Judge Rouleau said "After the verdict of the j :ry, I can do no more than p'onounce judgment. By the evidence given you have been found guilty of murder under the most ihocking circum- stances. When the wounded man was lying helpless on the ground and lifting up hi* hands pleading for his life, you cruelly shot him. never heard of anything more cruel than that a man who saw another lying wounded and defenceless should kill him. The law provides that sentence of death le paased upon you, and the sentence ot the conrt is, that you be hanged on the 27th of November." If ever man deserved death under the law, it sorely was this miscreant yet we loam that the Privy Council has coosiderei his case, and conamuted the death penalty. â- iM I i â-  mm w^^*^^^ A couple stood lefore a jeweler's, the other evening, when the young lady remarked " Gawiiie, don't yon think there ia aome- thing psrf ectly lovely about those clocka T " " What do yon admire ao mnch about tham V he aaked. "Why don't fon see theyâ€" they name the day." The future will tell if Gaw- gie tambled. " What great blessli^ do we mjoy that the heathen know notiiing about!" inqnirad a Sunday-School teacher, "(toap!*' waa Aa anawarthat came oat like the oraok of a i^atol from the email boy at the foot o thedaaa. 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