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 *uiii*6'!?«s:*?:jsi»«rv- .i^iT^i^rt, ..-.- • rf.isUSj*«te *a*««s'0 vj?' -Vt IP H Si *â- ' :-^i I i ybUNG FOLKS BLIPPEBS. ' Sh-h-h-h BOW I Somebody might hMr." ' No, thev won't, Ut/bnot Uaole PiiiL Me waA Sium wutt to bay a pair of dippen for gnmdfather, hudaome oaeayoQ know â€"for i Now Year'a present. .We're geing to pot our mmey together, becaoae one of ns hain't got enough. We've got thirty oenta apieoe. Will that do V " Tea, I think it will," add Unole Phil. "Or, p'rape that'a too mnoh I" ' Wellâ€" no, I think it will be about right." " We'll go down thia afternoon and yon oan ahow them to na. And, Uncle Phil, yon can keep a lecret, can't yon T" » "Yon moat p-r-r-romiae not to breath one «[ord 1" " Keep it till we aay yon may tell." "Keep it in a pansy." "In a what, Susie?" "In a pansy. That's the way to keep a' â- eoret. I heard mamma read it in a book.' fc Tom gave a very prcvoking laogh, bat Snaie hanted oat a book, and ran to mam- ma to show her the poem in wliiofa came felieline â€" "The Motet kepi inviolate." "There," she said, "a violef a almost the same aa a pansy." " 111 keep it," said Undo Phil, solemnly, " in violet or pansy or anytlUng yon say, Snaie. Ill keep it if I have to get a dczen people to help me." " Pretty onea, we want," exclaimed the two aa they stood before Unole Phil s show "Soâ€" didâ€" II" Both atucd aa if tlie double fxdumga ovght toliave made tin two mora alike tliui •ver before. Aa tlie otiian gatliarad around to mo, Unole PbO relieved Iiimaelf by a fearful almnt of laughter, and then went on to ex- plain hoir it waa that tiia aUpper quMHon was nnsettled. and seemed likely to remain so, for Tom declared that Suaie'a choice shonld be kept, wliile Snsie insisted that Tom's should. At laat Undo Phil, proposed a aolemn f amUy council on tlie mattcnr. But grandfather gathered a boy in one arm and a girl in the other, and gave Tom a loving kiss, and Susie two. Then the ear old gentleman aettled it himself, and how do yon think he did it "I shall keep them both," he laid, with a decided stamp of the flowery dipper. That was how. And to thin i7»y the puppy dog and the daides and fern leaf move alowly dde by dde alMut the hon»e, serving aa an every day reminder to Snaie and Tom that they had resolved to be good to each other "all the New Year." A eLEVGASBY COTTBLE BLfilQE OF nFTT TBAB8 AGO. BT JOHN rBAfnOi, MOHCBBAIn No. 17. The old people of Montreal may liave some faint reoolleotion of a Glengarry double alelgh of half a century ago, bat to tii« young of this generation, and even young Glengarriana ef the preaent day, it will be a novelty to them to learn how their worthy grandthers uied to come to town. There- fore, we shall bring them back to those quiet old times before the introdnotion cf railways in this Canada of ours. There were two noted annual arrivals In thoae days whioh cauaed more talk and cre- .__ excitement on the streets of aa aaea nr wf^W* b«n«»r TUi liJA* old OIiiBgazft dMbka aktlgh. alt'hoaw uiilda, Btomglmd^iMU baiit^ U ^VUH w* wtfito. Now to «h*iiM4iBt-*-M u «ah»4pMpe^ d«aMi «awl SATED FBOM THE OBAVE. "With rosebuds or forget-me-nots, and tiiiDKi on," saidSnde. "Pshaw, that's what they have on girl's doings,' said Tom, in contempt. " When I was down at oonain Ro!and's he had a splen- did pairâ€" a ^er's head on the toes. When he he crossed his feet and put 'em up on the fender it made yon think of a fight." Uncle Phil had no tiger-headed slipperv, but he found a pair of dog's heads which charmed Tom, though Sosie did cot lik? them at all. She spied a pair, with daisies and a fern leaf, which exactly suited her fancy. She declared the dogs were ugly and snnbby nosed and pnggy locking (as, indeed, they were), which made Tom angry. " I'm a boy and I'm bigger than yon, and I'm going. to have the dogs." " Isn't it polite to give np to the ladies. Uncle Phil!" ' Unole Phil could not say no to snch an appeal, and began to realize that he had un- dertaken a task quite beyond him, as cns- tomen waited and there appeared no pres- peot of the very differingtaates being brought to an agreement. "I'll tell yon," he said at laat, " each of you take one slipper yon like best and leave grandfather to choose." Nothing better could be done. !.They were wrapped separately, and Tom woaldnt speak to Saaie as they walked home. New Year's was always a busy season, but mamma thooght it a good time to have a little talk with the chUdren and she always managed to find a haU-honr for them. So, with little Bert on her lap, Sasies curls falling over one shoolder, and Tom's short-cropped head resting on the other, she tned to impress on them a lesson of love for the year coming, drawn from experiences ef the year that was gone. As she whispered of kindness and gentle- ness between brother and sister, Toin glanc- ed shamefacedly over at Snsie, and wished he hadn't been so cross. And Sosie's little heart was soon filled with a plan which brought her back to mamma as soon as the others were all out of hearing "Mamma let me go down to Uncle Phil's please, all alone. She had never been so tar by herself, bnt she coaxed and coaxed "because it was for New Year's" so the lit- tle fur cap went on over the curls, and soon the small lasua stood again imiUne nn at Unole Phil. *^ How a CUcage Denttat Kest«re«I HU ITlfe «• Uft. Five weeks ago the wife of Charles P. Pruin, a dentist of Chicago, gave birth to a child. This waa followed by an attsck of pnerperal mania. They were living at the suburb of Oak Park. As his wife grew worse rapidly Mr. Pruin consulted a physi- cian, who, after seeing the patient, recom- mended the use of anaesthetics to quiet her nerves. The doctor here alluded to did not handle the case, but an Oak Park phydoian was called in and he also adopted the same course of treatment, administering k STROKO DOSES OF MORPHINE. The lady was found to be rapidly sinking, till one night she fell back on the pOIow life- less. Her breathing had ceased and the pulse was gone. The attending phydclao, who waa by her dde, made the usual exam- lination and distinctly pronounced her dead. Still, the husband would not be convinced. He placed his hand upon his wife's chest and by seme method tried to produce an artificial respiration, having long made a special study of anaesthetics in connection with his profesuon. He proceeded to work the arms back and forth, pressing his hand on the chest, thus producing an artificial movement. The two doctors who stood by not only endeavored to dissuade him from contianing the operation, but remonstrated with him for committing what they deemed a profanation of the dead. He continued his efforts, and after a lapse of some minutes the patient BEGAN SLOWLY TO REVIVE, Sha h*B steadily improved and it now able to move arfurd. The doctors confess that she would certaialy have died but for these extraordinary efforts at restoration. Diiections to Speakers on Eeligiouff Topics 1. Don't talk too much. 2. Don't talk unless yon are posted. Give the best yon have. "I thought I'd change," she said holding p the daisies and fv ra leaf. " Tom's the up .. ,„„ biggest, and of course he knows best, so I think I ought to give up, don't you " Unole Phil had his own opinion about that, but he kept it to himself as he wrap- ped np the mate to Tom's deg. She wanted to get into the house without Tom's seeing her, and she did, tor he waa at that moment in the bam, looking lovingly at the pnggy dog's head. "But I U do it!" he said resolutely, and he went out by the alley gate and down the street, reaohii^ the storb a half hour after Sode had left it. ' I believe I prefer the other slipper, after all. Undo Phil," he said in a very off-hand manner. "I think they wiU really be more suitable." Unole Phil looked puzded, then seemed about to speak, then checked him3elf and turned qoickly to the shelves. As Tom wasgoins eat of the door he stood holding it half open so long that a lady customer looked impatientiy at him as the aharp wind shook her ostrich tips. Then he marched back to his Unde. "That's bosh, yoa know, Unde, Phil, about being more suitable and aXL that. I think the degs^ are twice tiie prettieat, bnt I'm sorry I was so ogly to Sueâ€" andâ€" good-bye " • Now he fdt like am honest boy. He met Sude in tiie the Iiall skipping in to tea a« be got home. He seized and raised her from ner feet with a mighty hug. " O Tom dear 1 I m going to Iw good to yon all the new year." " Me, too. Sue," was his fervent though rather indifferent answer. She waa lialf afraid he would read in her beaming m)0 all about what she had been doing. And he dapped both hands over ids month for fear it would laugh itself out â€"thia secret wliidi moat bd kept inviolate. ** I oaa't find my slippers," said ^^ruid- father, coming into the cittbig-room, with â- todring feet on New Year'a morning. "Here they an siaadfiitiMr. Yonmn^t have left them hare last night." Snaie and Tom, 1 avbg orapt into his room over night and taken awny UM old cmea had jnit now unwrapped each a now mm and plioad be- fMehisokair. " No, I didn't," said gtand'ather, atontij, aa IM aciatnd hiiMnif and draw tbam on. X]iei» aamod an mwomw cn atllfnsw about thai. â€" d 1m held vn bott fset telo • hotter light to turn «!»*.««• tl» matter. ••Oh- hâ€" liâ€" I" vied Sarin. *â-  Oh-^-rrli k-^4iâ€" h 1" Boraamed Tom. " Whjf i* ozdianged mine I" a**! Snaie. •xolainad 4. Don t talk when people are asleep. Wake some one man and you will hold the rest. 5. Don't try to show off your learning. 6. Get hold of the most stupid man and you'll hold the rest. 7. Don't try, but don't be afraid, to make people laugh. Milk that slops one way will the other. 8. Be natural don't try to be some one else. 9. Avoid cant and pulpit tones. 10. Don't talk too long. A man in Lon- don, who preached until the people all left, said he thought it was a pity to stop when there was nobody to hear. 11. Don't hesitate to repeat what God uses. 12. Djn't keep on talking just because yon are holding the audience. Send them away hungry. 13. While the people are gathering use the time with song. 14. Shoot where people stand. As the old Quaker said to the burjtlar " Friend, I am going to shoot where thee stands. Thee had better get out of the way." 15 Don't gesture and move about too mnoh, and don't talk with your hands in I your pockets.â€" 2 L. Moody. I Frond of His Sister. The Chicago Tribune relates the case ef a young man who was regarded as a phenom- enon, beoanse he took his sister to all the best entertainments, and aotually devoted himself to her durii^ the lecture and opera season. Being praised for his unusual at- tention to his sister, the young man prompt- ly and proudly replied " No, there^B nothing wonderful or extra- ordinary about it. She \i the only woman I know in whom I have the most thorongh confidence. She ia always the same, alwsys pleasant and affectionate, and to tell you the candid truth, I am afraid she'U go and marry some of thoae imitation men around here, and be unhappy all her life. " She has nobody else to look to, and I'll teke care she does not have to look to any â-  body else. I suppose some day a genuine man will come along. If he'a a genuine man, I won't objeot. Until he does come, she s good enough for me, and If I ever find ns good a girl, I'll marry her." The example ia moat commendable. A youns man would do well to seek his sis tersso«dety until he finds anotiier UdyM good aa his datar. ' TheoboulaHonof the London Timet Is nowoonfinodto olubi, hotds, restamSitr pmonawfaoUrottto read, a very Sd dassof bashMosmen, and famillis Tm^ nndw tim latter head do not take it Iti/ of tiie now onlrandilBinBSrwiu kT*?^ ^^IS^JSf*^' " **• WhflaTw merovnlnablittanaw TW^* don moBin* B^MTk. J^^T*' .â- Â»â„¢Lon- HfBtamdwdT *«»l-^««*«l da« 1. ated greater old Montreal than the arrivd of steamer. One waa the first Indian oanoo from the North- West, carrying the newa and the letters of a past year from those then nearly Polar regions. The other was the first batch of Glengarry doable sleighs to reach " John Grant'a " or some other of ttie Scotch Inns or Tavema of Montreal about Chriatmaa week, loaded with all good things to replenish thoMllars of the ^tizens, and to place before tlM traders in pork, Imtter, checsa, etc., an opportunity for profitable investment. Glengarry waa then, ae now, tome 70 to 80 miles from Montreal, bnt travelling was different. Yon could not then take an early train at Lancaster or Alexandria and come to " Town," as Montreal was then called, spend some six hours and get back the same night. To undertake a journey in the old days in winter waa a matter of a week â€" two daya to come down, three days here, and two t3 return. A contemplated viait in the oli time by a Glengarry farmer was known frcm one end of his oonoessicn to the other. It was spoken of for weeks at Kirk or Cliapel as an event, and many and various were the little oommisaions imposed upon him to execute. Since the constmction: of railways the farm houses are stripped, nearly weekly, by traders purchasing everythirg the farmer or his good wife has to sell, such as eggs, but- ter, cheese etc, therefore doing away en- tirely with the annual visits of the Glen- garry double sleighs to Montreal during the put thirty years. Thepreaentobj.ciiistopI tureone of those.old double sleighs with whioh the writer was familiar in his young days, Tae conaty of Glengarry, at the time of which we write, was fairly an agrionltural one. Tne land had not yet been overwork- ed nor impo^.erished. The farms were well stocked, having from 10 to 15 *^ead of horn ed cattie, some half a dozan of good horses, a team or two of oxen, some 15 to 20 pigs, and about 50 theep on each farm, bealcee u well-filled poultry yard of hens, turkeya, ducks, geese. F.-om auoh reaourcea at hand the rtader may fancy the people lived in grtat comfort. The only scarcity was ready cash. The young men of the county nscally wtnt to the ahantiea during the winter months, with their tcNms of oxen or horses to haul the square timbtr from the woods in which it was ont to the nearest stream bark â€"thence to bo flaatod in the apring. By this meauis they earned a good amount of ready cash which they carried safely to their homea in the apriiig. The hoapitality of the people waa nnboanded, particularly to strangers, just such as existed in the Acad- ian land ot old time, and, nnmolfsted by visits of revenue inspeotori orgnagers. Don- ald and E^a'n "pUod the beverage from th. ir own fair sheaves, that fired their Highland blood with mickle glee." A great change has taken place since those p.imitive days. The young men during the past foriiy year« have almost entirely left the county, agocdly number of them to follow the occupation of con- traotora on publio works in the United States and Cwiada many of them have prospered. Not one half, we belie re, of the young men could now be found in the old county of G.engarry as vex. there at the twrtW*"' 5"i*r '*^^»37. wh.nnea5y We invite the reader to come with us in the then backwooda of Glengarry. There under the barn shed It U some 10 to 12 4 leet high. The runpers were cut from a arge birch or dm tree. The whole fa "home made." exceptthe iron on theVnteâ„¢ and the necessary nail* and bolts ThL Whipple trees and traces may be thi sam^ the eontro of the piIZ^^ and a portion of ^Z?« »! A^i ak Mdnatrcet. ' "• 6ll|5 TlMfo were a nwun. t*vem«iaMontr2ffiw' These were the resort rfl? ""fc they could stabUttl^ *« (2 of a dollar a day »k« li^ of tiieir .Idgh^'u'JtV^ 5^ in to wn. The mm ' *»• tiw^ M they thoughtra^""»«2S, Xhe morning talk ti,- **â-  "' breakfast table, ,;««« d»,. •rrival of the'Gi2^P*r,iS now-a-days, when w^'JJ.I^Cj^ wrivingevtry hour, cS i.""»«JtJ tiie importance soch a^. *y »2 oldinhabitantsofKS^.iT^ whole montti previonaonTf .^«Sn boon cut off from th. ^•'•nl waiting the freezbgiVSSf«f many articles of connfrv "!?»'»4t Ita oosIobU iâ€"Sam* *m mm d^asa «a*n tuba or kegs of bnttor in tiM bottom, n doaan or twotoaUB h asaea ntowbago oftfanothy seed, th^ mnoh prinad, a few fowl, tnrkoya, gaeie, oio.. to fiU np gi^-^tiion 8 to 10 weU Mted hoga, (Glengarry pork waa noarly equal to Irish) bosidca many little odda and ends, snob aa homo-made aooks and mita, then much priaad in Msntronl, and, nu^be, afewextraliidaa and stray fun ooUooted at the farm hona^ during tho yoMf. Thia waa something aftar tiMfaabion a Glengarry doable aleigh waa loaded in tho olden time before leaving for Montreal. The whole, we suppose, to wdgh about 2.500 to 3,000 pounds, re presenting a daah valne from $200 to $250. Tho time is tho aecond week of Dooembor, with gopd ddghine tho delay In atarting iawaitiiigtohaarfi tholerrioa had frozen over. AU ianow ready. Food for nan and horae had to be added to tho load. This was aomo dozen bnndloa of hay and a few l»ss of oats for tho horaea and a amall kist or Dox oontaining a good aiaed boiled ham tlad a oonplo of wavea of bread with a few other small items, snob aa a soloot oheoae and a Uttio 'oroadlo" for the man on tho road. By the wi^yâ€" thia top load of hay towering high, something like a loaded elephant, served aa a nioe protection for the man from tho oold winda by making a oozy seat in the centre of it, and if tho good wife made up her mind to go down to town she would 00, nearly aa comfortable aa at her own fireddo. The reader might auppoae the ooat for snob a trip ef eighty mllea woold bo very ezpenaive. It did not ooat over a dollar and a half in oash to reach Montreal, Hen it is, an actnal fact. The end of the first day found them at the Cedars, a halt having been miade at midday to water and feed the horses â€" this cost notlting; tiiey were fed from out of their sleigh supplies. Hie men also had their food irith them, but we shall allow them to have indulged in a few pots of beer on the road dnring the day, costing about a qoaiter of a dollar. Beer waa tiien cheap â€" three or four coppers a glass. Tliis waa.tbeaotaal outlay in oash the first day until they reached the Cedars. The. horses had to be stabled at the Cedars costing a. quarter of a dollar for a doable stall for the night. The men fed their horses from their own supplies, cos ing nothing As for the men (there were always two with a doable sleigh) a dooble bed would cost a shilling, but Glengarrians of that day were aocastomed to rough it, and invariably made beds^ for themselves in a comer of the old- fashioned large bar-rooms by using their buffalo robes and blanketo, thereby saving a little. We shall, however, suppose they spent a quarter each for beer, or something else, to iraah down the food frcm their sup- plied box The first halt the second day was at the Cascade, to water the horses, and dxpence for beer. Then-xt was at St Annes. to water, and another sixpence for beer. The third was at Pointo Claire, for an hour, to feed horses and men, and we shall allow a shilling for beer. Lachine is the next halt, to water, and sixpence for beer. The charges for beer on the road may not have been aotnally indulged in by the men, but they had to pay about sixpence at each halting place to the country innkeeper for the use of his sheds to water and feed their horses, and for this payment were each en- titled to a glass of beer, take it or not. About snnaet the second day a long string of double sldghs (Glengarriana alwaya came insqaada of twelve to fifteen) might be seen between Dorr's brewery and the Tan- neries jogging along at the slow pace of about five mUes an hour. If their approaoh was slow, they made noise enough, annoan- oing the oomlng! of the Cameron and the Maodonnell men to town. The reader of to-day never heard the mer- ry oling-olong of the loud sounding large Glengarry sleigh bells of those days. They could be heard fully half a mile distant. Ihose Glengarry bells were as characteristic of the people as were their own bagpipes. UIghlandere always make a noise by mak- ing themselves heard and felt when they come to the front-be it at market town. In the legulative halls or on the battlefield. Just aa the shades of evening are olosioe enormous pages over the nnlightod streeta ot old Montreal: graph »lbum On'y rnefcnrthof it"M tbe sleighs are passing down St Joseph werefilled ia P*ria, after which it W' street, some wending eir way to "John " '" ' ' ' -^ ' ' â€" «mJto* "sS5v"«SK° St H«„ ,to^j ,t,,„, ^^ I^^Ky ' *•• »"«« of WeUing. MnRrlP"?.^"'^**" '•" t» "Widow McBarton'a," on St Paul street, opposite to ariiioies of conntrv i»j"" aoaroe and dear, and d.iSl^** »« things from the ToS ^i and Glengarry, were Sfea, ^^Anearfy visit to the s2J"«il the thrUty housewlvM «» u J"«H the .t duty S S, .^1 HojN, found Dbmdd,^Evan • y;. ' with all the nitive^igX^A to greet tiieir town oitom.« V ttoladiestoin.^StTb'J.?"' tubs of batter, oheeae. tiS.*" found ready oustomen, " Glengarry butter had. ««.., ofbeing good In those omSS..':? wri^fomidwadysala^Xhfi tiie traders and merch«,t,%lll!^^ balance. Some of throlder (Si' who had visited town umii S*!* bad learned that side, SpS^k* "roasting pieces" kuni^^^^* fore tiiey had prepared tlMn2i?A demand by which they profittEll 0« Glengarry friends^inS I deigbs empty and their pocket, Si! hardaiver. We shall rilow£™J ^Jif '!*f"' »«"ne, after SK needed ar^ioUs as they r qdndlJi houses and farms, the«, beh^^^* hardware llne-.nch a. aT^Z, eto., but one very common artblTl pool salt, took np mostof thedeWu'., every deigh carried half a tcnofkJt This article w.s cheap, about ,fcilli bushel, but one of the most „[.,bt.J the farmer to buy from the count y bikiJ owing to the heavy charge et w«pd those days. " ' The old Glengarry double riefpMlfaj ODce far-famed mail coach of E'sWj now an institution of the put-i njl departed days I We shall never !ah J one on the road. We might nie tot phrase,â€" " Their uaefulnea ii n,! Never again shall their loud aoondliiU once so familiar here, be heud a streets of Montreal, annonnciiigtlian oome arrival dnring the Corhtmui These daya are gone, never agabto re Relic f departed days, fweweli! .. writer fca? endeavoured to pictuNml those sleigha to the best of hit bambltii ty. Although Dot a GlengarrjaD,hefuj familiar in hie young days witha Glai| double aleigh as most Gieugania^, has seen squads of twenty-five and sl times fifty on the road at oie time, mil wax with the Glengarries on theirenB to Montrca' in February, IS38, wlietL were about one hundred double ild^i veying the two regiments. A newspaper man never hunts foridi ti'in. He always " accept) the po(itii;| He is never " bounced." He merelf " ers his connection. It. seems that a XevaJa Indiiniiuji beaten the champion Chinese poker pi I quite badly. There is no doubt of It Indian can be civilized, Miss Linda R. Richards, latenpc- ent of the training school for nunei^i Boston City Hospital, is going to lomj five years to esttblish anl condaot ih»* innitntion there. It will be p»rtif o Gov'-rnrnpr't pttrnage. A Coanecti -.at va'.hy piper m»kiq senttotbe Puis Fxpofisioa abliw ' weighinj; 200 pounds, and having S; asasorSof univerwli rnefcnrthofitip a loc*l fair, and last year was »««* Orleans, where It wai filled « «•" b=en retamed to Holyoke, M»m • be exhibited. Tt ontaiu 60 01 some well known ^^r'ji^ _^ Itr y. J w Fio. 18. ^/v/; Fio. 10. XIIiIJirEET. «^towSrti.ftrti2?r-a a fanilwa of taokfaMflL 8 Itsr -»«'«-brinio.4SKlSS.|r^^J baadadwitii brown^^'J^ijJjS mg to tiie*crown "^%*?p'«ii3 tbo front Figure No-J^jfja :Lif rfdde ]nnasV Ithel 'errel s^