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 wmm ':^it:~â- ^v^^'^ii^â-  mmmmmm mrf'^mimm^ifllgliflg^ m I i -m :k*i mm n cMsmsfi ice. JLW.ilHiglit Amid tiie loe Oftkes of the St. Iiswnnce. ^- If there u any pencm Hviag who hM ome particolar event in hie life fixed viv- dly in hia memory," said Greorge Penn, a reaidenc of Grananoque, " that person is my- self, and tiie event iamy experience in cross- ng the St Lawrence River from Gananoqne to Clayton, by the wayof Grindstone Island, one night in Febroary, eight years ago. I bad been wanting to make the trip across the ice to titie island for several days, bat I was t^aid the frozen river was too treach- erous at the time, bat when eleven men from the island crossed over to Gananoque with a load of grist, and reported everything all right, I lost all fear, and joined them on their retam trip. Among the party from the island were Willard Bobinson and George Cammings. " The party got ready to start on their retarn trip about 3 o'clock, and were glad to have me join them. Everything went well until we were within a mile or so of Grindstone Island. By that time it was srowing dark, and the wind, which had been {!nra^ii^lly rising, saddenly began blow- ing a gale, and any one who has ever been in a St. Lawrence River gale knows what that means. While we were doing our best to protect ourselves against the gale, and nrgmg the team to the top of its speed, to ' 'Ur horror the ice began to crack and bend 1h eath us. To lessen the danger of break- i ' through the ice, we stopped the horses, " s. them from the sleigh, and while one of tie party led one of them and another the uiter, George Cnmmings, Willard RobinsDU, and myself pushed the sleigh along, the rest of the party scattering about on the threat- ening ice, to concentrate as litde weight as po;.sible on one spot. The darkness fell about us rapidly, and the gale increased. It was not long before the different groups of our straggling party became separated and lost to sight of one another in the grow- ing darkness. " One of the horses was being led by a man named David Harwood, and he was ' the only one of the others that was near as. We could just see him as he went along, and suddenly we saw the horse he was leaa- ing break through the ice. Hartvood was still on solid ice, but the struggles of the horse to get out broke the ice beneath Haf- ' wood, and we could see him straggling in thte water with the horse. He finaUy man- -aged to draw himself up on a large cake of Ice, and he leaped from it to another, and we lost sight of him. The horse had by this time disappeared beneath the ice, and we siipposed that Harwood had shared the same fate. None of the rest of the party was within sight or hearing. " Cammings, Robinson, and myself stuck to the sleigh. We had been forced out of the direct course to the island, bui we struGigled on, thinkinsr we might soon be able to veer around and strike it again. This hope was suddenly destroyed by the sleigh breaking through, and we were forced to desert it to sav ourselves. The gale was now so strong that we conld not stand up against it. We crept on onr hands and knees in the darkness. We could not see fifty feet ahead of us. We had not crawled far before the ice gave way beneath us, and we were struggling in the water among floating cakes ot ice. " Then for the first time the full horror of our position became apparent to me. The ice was not only weak; it was. actually breaking up in the river, and we were fight- ing for life in the midst of an immense field of floating ice cakes which were grinding each other into powder on every side. Our only salvation lay in each securing as large a floe aa possible, and, taking refuge upon it, trusting to chance for its running suc- cessfully the gauntlet of the grinding, crash- ing fragments that hedged us about. In that case we might be able to withstand the cold smd exposure until succor reached ua, for we felt that some of our comrades would surely reach the island in safety, and at once send rescuing parties in boats to pick np those who were less fortunate. " The cake of ice that I secured was not large enough for me to stand erect upon, «ven if I could have done so in the gale, but I thought it might be less apt to go to pieces with me than a larger one. It was just large enough for me to keep upon it in a kneeling position. Robinson and Cummings drew themselves upon large blocks, and they rocked in the water like boats. It was bitter cold, and the wind howled down upon us with unabated fury. We had been in the tossing floes but a short time when Robinson shouted from his floating block of loe: " ' Boy, I intend to make a strike for shore. 1 11 freeze to death here in an hour, and I might better die in trying to aave my- self than to atand atill and die. Will you risk it with me ' "I looked ahead over the crowding, rashing, swaying mass of ice, the white order of which could be traced in the dark- ness for several rods. It looked so wild and treacherous that I couldn't summon up courage to trust myself upon it, and told Robinson so. Cumminga aadd he couldn't, either. "•You'd better not try it. Will,' aaid Cumminga. 'We'll be rescued aore.' " But Bobinson was determined, and took off his coat and boots. " ' Keep up your courage, boys," he said. I'll have a boat back for yon before two hoars or you'll never see me again. Good- by!" "He plunged into the river among the crashing ice mcea. We oonld see him fight- ing hia way, and cheered him np with worda of encouragement until he waa loat in the dukneaa. Finally, after a aOence of a quarter of an hour, which we interpreted to mean that the brave fellow had beoi ground to piecea in the ice, we heard him diont back to na. He had fought hia way sncceaa- folly acroaa tlie wide atrip of broken ice that lay between oa and a atnp of unbroken ice, and had drawn bimaelf upon the latter. After a few minntea he ahonted again, and we could hear his voice above Hm wind, aa the gale bore tiie worda to na, aaying that he was about to make the attempt to weath- er hia way through the bn^en loe that lay beyond. " It waa then probaUy 7 o'clock in tiie even- ing. Gomminga and I were enomated with Ice. RoUnaon had been gone bat m ahcnrt time when my piece of ice began to go to ^ecea. A mooMnt later I waa atrog^iag m HbB water among ita bagmenta. At tha* moment tha moon OMn« oat bdiiad a okmd. Svitali^htl aawtlwttiM block of kcon woich CnnmiiqaB waa floatiiHr waa a roonj one, and fonwd fttldek, aoia ^i^tlla ioaTl made my way to it with a great effort, m; legawereao cramned bl iMg Jnflftf Hj vSMbed CnamaBgA paSbia ftiooeafid puUing myaelf upon itr, Wlai I «ad r«cjvered myaalf anfficiabt^;1tonoti8e a-w- thing elae I waahonifiad.to- diaoover that Cammings wtm surely perUhing. The moon shone brightly upon us, and I saw that Cummiogs's face was deadly pale. There was a strange look in his eyes, and he did not seem to notice my preaence. 1 stripped off my overcoat and wrapped it around him, and stood between him and the howling tempest, so as to prote^st him aa much as possible. "Just then, to my infinite joy, lights ap- peared on the shore. I shouted, although the chances were all against my voice being heard. I tried to make Cammings see the lights, but he had iapparently lost all aenae of the situation. I knew that he had a wife and five children at home, to whom he was devotedly attached. One little daughter especially waa his pride and delight. Think- ing to arouse him to some effort that wonid keep him up until the help I now thought was surely on the way could arrive, I aaid to him: " 'Think of Ettie, George, and cheer up, if you want to aee her again.' "He looked at me in surprise. 'Why,' he he said, looking out over the ice, with his hand moving nervously about hia chin. 'I see her now. Yonder she comes Don't you see her Don't you see her But what makes her come out when it is so cold, I wonder " "Then I aaw thiit the end of poor Cum- minga was near. Once more 1 called his at- tention to the lights on the shore. 'See, (George,' I said, 'The men are coming out to save us.' "He kept gazing wildly out over the ice, with his hand moving about his chin in the same strange manner. It was heartbreak- ing to see him. I wept like .a child at the sight of him. "For two mortal hours I fought for the life that he himself had no longer the power nor inclination to save. The lights, mean- time, had been moving up and down the shore In a meaningless way, bat none of them approached any nearer to us. Finally one by one they disappeared. Then all hope deserted me. I had kept up by the most Btrenuous exertions, buoyed by the hope of keeping Cnmmings alive until the expected rescuers reached us. I felt, now, that all was lost, and that, do what I might, over taxed nature mast sooner or latter succumb. It was now ten o'clock. Cammings had gradually been growing weaker and weaker, and had sunk down on the ice, where I was rubbiog hia handu and face, in what I knew was a useless effort to keep up the circula tion. Suddenly .be fsprang to his feet. He stretched his hand out, and with a wad such as I never want to hear again, he cried " Ettie's going back I I am going to her ' " The next second he had flung himself into the water. He disappeared at once. I lay flat on the ice, peerins; down into the black depths, in hope that he would come up, and that I might drag his body back on the ice, and at least save that for his friends. But he never appeared again. " It is impossible for me to describe the feeling that possessed me for the next two hours and a half, alone in that field of ice, with one of my companions dead beyond doubt, and the other having probably met a fate equally as terrible as his. The rock- insr of the ice cake on the waves created a deadly nausea within me. I found, how- ever, that the floe on which I stood had lodged against a portion of the field which had not yet broken up, and I waa saved the additional horror of drifting, I knew not whither, among the floes that were con- stantly crashing to piecea around me. I could not feel the beginning of the fatal inertia that preaagea tbe doom of the freezing person, and I tramped up and down the ice floe, and rested not a second. I could not shake off the thought that I would be reecued. The wind had- ceased blowing, but the cold was keen and intense. " At midnight I saw a light on the shore. So weak was I that this welcome vision al- most overcame me. I called all my energy together, and gave a shout that I ceuld not give to-day in my soundest health if I was to receive a fortune for doing it. I repeated the shout at intervtJs, for I saw that the light was moving toward me. It came steadily, but oh I so slowly I After what seemed an age, and it was really an hour, so blocked was the water with floating ice, I could hear the sound of the boat against the ice and the confused murmur of voices. When the boat was within hailing distance I shouted again, and I remembered nothing after that until I came to consciousness at a house on Grindstone Island. " Days elapsed before I was able to be told what had been the fate of the party. Poor Willard Robinson, who defied the peril that lay before him in a daring attempt to reach the shore and send rescuers to Cnm- mings and me, was never heard of again. The otheis, after hsura of atrugsle with Uie broken ice, had reached tbe luand, all of them frozen and exhausted. Harwood had a terrible journey over that waste of wild waters and crashing ice. For a mile he made his way from cake to cake, sometimes floating for an hour at a time on a floe before he could manage to get to another one. Several times the cake npon which he dung went to pieces and left him atragglina in the icy channeL By alternate swimming and leaping from floe to flqe, constantly in dan- get of being nonnd to a palp among them, Harwood, aner a straggle of six honra, reached the Island. He was so badly frozen that he waa nearer dead than alive for days. " ^A^-ms.^jt-*- A Tongli Dnolc MK.JIKKS (to landlady)â€" " What kind o{,aduck did yonsav this was, Mrs Dinkly f Landladt â€" " I Sidnt aay. I dmply or- dered a duck from the bntcher'a." Ms. Jinks (straggling with a aecond joinQ â€" " I think he haa aent joo a decoy da«^" HBALTa ' W6 commend to the euneat attantion of oar readera the foUowing ezferaot from a letter aent to us by a lady snbsnibw " For the last two years my fivo-yaara-old boy has suffered with a diaeaae at the knee- joint, reaultmg in the kiaa of Ae knee-cap, or patella. waa lately operated npon at theChUinn'aHoqpital, HnniiiigtoB Avenue. "If I had tafceahim tiien two yaara ago, he might have been well today. Now the knee may be several years in healing fully, and will be a nearly stiff joiatfor Ufe, whUe all this might have tieen aparad him If I had known what a alight awelling of the knee might lead to, and kept lum in bed a month. ' Yonr paper goes all over the land, and I feel it my duty to ask you to warn the mothers not to neglect what may seem a sUsht trouble with me knee joint, or, worse still, with the hip. It may lead to ampnta tion or even death." The joints, especially those of the knees, are liable to many affeotlona, some of which are due to constitutional defect, and some to other diseases, but most frequently tbe canae is injury from accident. This cause operates especially in childh'od and youth, partly because this period is more full of exposnres, and partly becanae the ten- dency to set np inflammatory action is then at its maximum. The surfaces of all feints are covered with a membrane, the office of which is to secrete a lubricating fluid. Under this is cartilage, to lessen jolt and to render the play of the joints over each other soft and safe. The bead of the bones beneath the cartilage is spongy, and thus more liable to harm. Disease, or over use, or accidental injury may have resulted in inflammation of the synovial membrane. Indeed, it is believed that nearly one-half of all affections of the knee joint are of this character. If the trouble is neglected, the inflanunation may extend to the cartilage and destroy it, leav ing the bare ends of the bones to grate on each other or it may extend even to the head of the bone and give rise to a destruc- tive abscess. The inflamed membrane thickens, in- creases its secretion in quantity, and causes the adjacent parts of the knee to bulge out with fluid. This may have been what first attracted the attention of our correspondent. There is, of course, pain â€" generally severe pain. Of C3ursf a child may have a severe ic jary to the knee which may soon heal, wictiout any further harm. But any subsequent pain at the joinr, m walking.or any bulging oat as if from a fluid, should receive immediate mei-lic-il atttsntion. Meanwhile, tkb^clute rest of the parts, by a recumbent posture of the body, is of tha first importance, and this will coneticnte one of the chief meins toward the cure. How to Feed a S'ck Ferson^.. ' In serious illness the "sufferer must rely chiefly if not entirely upon liquid food to sustain strength. It is important that the nurse should knuw how to give it aa skilfully as possible to avoid unneceaaary fatigue to the patient. The utmoat skill and care in the preparation of the food will be thrown away if the invalid cannot be induced "to take enough of it to nourish him properly, and the norse fails in her first duty who does not devise means by which this shall be accomplished. When the head cannot be raiaed from the pillow a bent glaaa tube can be need to draw the fluid into the month. If the end ia raiaed a littie aa it is removed not a drop need be spilled. Where there is delirium a piece of rubber tubing may be substituted for this glaaa, aa the sufferer might Ireak the tube and swallow a frag- ment of it. Feeding cups of different ahapes are sold with and without spouts. In using them be careful to regulate the flow of li quid, that it does not come too fast. When it is necessary to feed with a spoon, see that there is not a drop in the bottom of it, put it well in the mouth and empty the contents slowly. Always 'place a napkin under the chin to catch chance drops and dry the lips gently with it after the food is givfii. When the invalid is stronger and desires to drink from a cup, the nurse should pass her left hand under the pillow and raise the head on it, holding it at a comfortable angle, while with her right the grasps the cup, adjusting it so the liquid wiU flow easily but not too fast. In feeding a helpless patient with solid food it should be cat into monthfola of a convenient aize and fed alowly, ample time being allowed for it to be masticated and swallowed with ease before offering the next. Nothing ia more likely to take away the ap- petite of a weaa peraon than to be hurried in eating. It ahonld be remembered to bring aalt with the food If it ia liked, to offer a drink at intervala, and to anticipate every want aa f ar aa Is possible. Trast and Gfmbines* " And d'ye think thatiadeawell. Bidder "Lovely, bntphwat^a a oomUne, Tim r "Faith an' I dnnao, h^t tiiey nj* tiuht thraata an' oMntiMa ia htA far the rayftiil daylnra, am' by tha poi«ilti wm wmit ki^^ nervona i^stem Wi% digeatlon, ^^motiaa»^ are (4 ti^ naa of early life. Lafr all amiAera do not rmdk I â-  III tT^-"^--""--**^-^ Bi^^pWW^iiC^^ oaUy. ia retacdad. but iinpet^#]r^ B«rioa8l]r%iipl is one agfk mf t m ^^ tobacco » any Intja.^----* â€" •- ., boys who aao totiaooo ondeivtana thia they can ueirtir hof to beoome men. Ihey will flcow old, «d pcematoMly old; but true, manly 4«v«Iopamt ud vigor they can never attai and fHr tiidr chances of snocess as stndents and soholart, even the mild use of tobaooo impaira them, and the persistent nae wholly daatroya them. Never, bdore the age of twenty-one la reached, ahonld tobacco be Indulged In, and ita use might more wlaely be delayed nntil the body haa become folly and completely de- veloped. Parenta ahonld aee to it, and, if neceaaary, laws ahonld be enacted, that this rule be strictly enforced. There is am awful responsibility here which all should feel, and do their utmost to atay the degenera- tion of our yonth, which la threatened by this, one of the greatest curses known to us â€" the tobacco habit in boys. Little Things That KilL At various times the newspapers have warned the public agunat swallowing ^e seeds of grapes, oranges, etc, because of the danger of such substances getting into a small intestinal bag, or cul-de-sac, called by the doctors the appendix vetmiformis. This la a littie reoeptacle fonnad at the junction of the large and amaU Inteati] i bntitsuse or object no physician knowi. It has been thought to be a rudimmtary or incomplete formationâ€" or possibly some meanlngleas Borvival of a lost anterior type. At any rate, its ezlstenoe, while preaairting no apl parent " reason for being," as the French aay. Is, on the odier hand, a poaitive and constant source of danger, beoanse of the liability of its becoming, the receptacle of some undigested seed or otiier incUgeatible sabatance. In that oaaa it pcodooeaa atata of inflammatinn which in aaariy all eaaaa proveafatid. Fortunately bnt few aaeda, among the great nnmber ao heedleaaty awallowedTaeem togetmto tUa Qttia dea4i^-aiaioiidi anyooaafMBaUkely to lodge Oan. pSpT hapa more caaaa of faflanTmatlon of the boweb than tbe doctora aufeot may ba in xeality doe to thk ofasoara and dkmarded cause. One aad oaae, which to day prodaoaa • btHag of deep ranet iiinns thTniaanda. and whJbhpbuigaB a family into ovenriialml death of J. Robert Dwyer, tiM^ch- Mteemad a^otaat of t|» QonanifmWSk fChMod^ naTwhoae fi^de that " ' Doings in oat lateâ€" Two Iftonmon aether)â€" "HaahMd, wl kent yea oat aotHiar* '*I have joat taan pngpilag to Httie Kittk 3mSbm dfjir-" of yon that 4orpa oauMk well auke nod. Ua oaaa aa baqed th e jjiy i JctMBa tt i» «9,^iMM|qr,«M Thn Tiiliiftirilj|i POEBIGHHOTEB. Warbaloosa coat £500 and Russia haa lately invested. One hundred and seven thousand paupers are now in London. The late Czar is to have a monument in the kremlin costine ^50,000. One hundred million cubic feet of gas is used in London in ose day of fog. The French navigation companies pro- pose to dismiaa all foreign employees. The owner of the London Times, Mr. Walter, u now on the verge o2 a peerage. Gen. Sir Evelyn Wood, one of England's beat, was nearly killed out hunting laat week. A good many have beeii cut ap and built over, bat there are still 444 burying grounds in London. An improved Lee-Burton rifle Is now thought to be the favorite of the British Commission. Prof. Tyndall haa reported a white rain- bow, and Lord Monteagle followa with the aame observation. The Empreaa of Auatria, having been forced to give up hunting, haa taken up fencing for exerciae. A clergyman haa been caught making ulipmi^;8 from booka in the reading room of the British Mnseum. The experiment ia to be tried of connec- tiug all the British lightships with the shore by submarine cables. Pat is is gayer now than it has been since the days of the Empire. The Faubourg, however, is atill offish. The purification of tbe British turf has stimulated the French. Mr. Barnard has been warned off at Nice. The most famous cricket ground in the world. Lord's, has just been enlarged by the purchase of more land at heavy figures. St. Paul's has just had a new reredos pat in costing £37,000. The old Cathedral is coming into fashion again, and ia crowded every Sunday. King Ja-Ja, the African potentate who recently bad to stand trial on board her Ma- jesty's ship Royalist, has been let off with a pension of £800. Germany has now more than seventy man- ufactories of "champagne francals." Of 450,000 bottles imported annually by Russia, Gwmany provides 900,000. The Czar has refused to give the Comto de Paris permission for his son and the son of the Due de Char tree to join the Rnsaian Imperial Guard. The shooting record for a single day was established at Lord Mansfield's.; Pertfaahire, week before last. Fourteen hundred head of game fell to eight guns. Necklaces of colored stones, aa the sap- phire alternating with the ruby of the emer- ald with the turquoise, have lately driven out the diamond in Paris. Baroness Burdett-Contts is about to es- tablish workshops equipped with sewing machinea where poor aeamatreaaea oui go and uae them at a low charge. Forty-one thonaand chaanblea formed one portion of the Pope'a jubilee gifte. The Chattrenae monks sent £20,000 in cash, and California sent a staff filled with gold dol- lars. The Flatten rodca in Holyhead harbor are to be removed, and the. Liverpool Mtr- cwry saya that a "powerful line of American steamers will nuke Holyhead ito head- quarters." London opera has indeed gone down. Her Majesty's Theatre is to be transformed into an immense concert room, capable of hold- ing 4,000 persons, and called Her Majesty's ConoertHalL The famous Goodwih Sands in the 6rit« uh Channel are disappearing. They have receded toward the Kentish coast half a mile within a short time, and ahow aigna of generally breaking ap. Ignatina Donelly mnatpubliah or aubaide. r'lv*^!^°i Profagior of English Literatare In tiie Edinbargh Univeralty, speaks of Mr. rf Mr. Dannelly's cipher as " miserable driv- el drivel endure in a tisane of arithmetical oonnndruma whudi would be hiaaed even In Bedlam." (^ord'a chancea In the coming boat race with Cambridge are oonaidered poor. Mo- Lean, the Preaident of the Boat Club, haa Joat died of l^iriioid fever, tiie moat promla- bwnewoar la laid op with a apram. aad Titheiingtoa, the atroke of laat year, refuses to ~«^ lafV'^*'?!""'**^" Laboratory, with ElS°t*S^ ^^S?""** toiSwbeing Jon* in Sonth KeMbuttoB. The pmrpM la to meaanre evetybody'a phyalqaeuid ara- UMitfMi and ffkia taotti oaefal kn^Qge of tte homan zaoe that we haye not now7 £r 5 " S 'y â- ?«*'»* up, for fiey Swiaa !Ehll win BwUrii ;;. ... I qoenoe. "^HIKht^ miafortune wiihoaS^WC.| Three thousands poS^^ftLVl aroaa from the 5 ' J^ '^SS? a^inst Lady Colin CamthS l^' cate was refused. " Ib,JJJ The Gaikwar of BaroH. 1 month's rent of apal^^P?*! £2lo u ' vnja presented after,rar?^ P«i,tjM 120 for repairs and dftm.!^*Hrrf7 left, and fiis teain wasSi '^*h\ a Judge's order tota^P?'" bapge till £800 wtTeiJ^MS^J poEbe agents. He has ^^, Wtt^ test to^e President " fc-^i A4.4,t.. • .. '"public. •* HTE 5^ i:^i^/gAieu»r* At the canonization ofth?^'*^ I Rome, after the Pope's Bpeed.^««»l nalsire8ented his HoUneKS. *« ^1 ary eifte for the newlv «!!^.*^«'»»l«al which consisted of a thfeWr*** '?l bowls, one sUver and the oS^JjSl «kges, one containing i)iZ,r'«««| doves, and the third*«S r**! finches. There were al8oi^Il}iP«» I o^ filled with water A?SJ^ waWrfi^Sttss?^„:ft^^ Churoh of England Buriri C"'*^ Mourning Reform Ab'SoI""^*} over by Canon Elwvn the » J**«I agreed to: " That inTe inT^.^ of the public health it is l^^^X combined effort should be mfde on thSil of mimsters. of religious membenof the »!* cal profession. ancT persons of iLflii erally, to put a stop to the repubW^^!? gerous and utterly indefensible rnti^A storing up m the neighborhood of C,I pulations vast acoumulatioag of huZu mams in every stage of arrested Ul\ longed decay. " "â„¢ pn- 1 PEARLS OF TEIJTH. If you be nettled with severe raillm I take care never to show that yon are iS unless you choose to provoke more. Whence comes happiness? From tra quillity and self-control. Men without aeU- restraint drift before, their passioM likj rudderless boats before the win! There is nothing in the world phichg.,, such scope to discontent as idleness, no w^ I ter whether forced or volnntary. A mu I had better be darning stockings than ' nothing. Acts become habits habits form chuact er character controls fate. This, or tarn- thing like this,, is the epitome of what ma feel to be the rule and law of rationallife. I It is the coarse to be taken by those vhi I would be masters of themselves and circna- stance. The man who, knowing st to be wrong li lie or cheat or neglect his family or yield ti passion, does these things can claim no ex- cuse from outside influence or the prenoR of circumstances. Indeed, so far from iur ing less responsibility on these accoonti, he has more. He is accountable not onlf for what he does, bat. to a great degree, for what made him do it. What is it to make the best of thinn! It is to rob life of half its cares and to douUt its pleasures, to incsease its brightness botk for ourselves and others; it ia to see tin light shining threugh the clouds when others see only bkckness and finally, its to make thia workaday world a garden oi delight instead of a place of weariness, ud life a thing to be enjoyed instead of simpt; endured. Among the most precious poasesaoniol humanity are its ideids. Whatever of per- erty or hardship, of sioknecf or sotrow, at disappointments or adversity, of failure « weakness or sin may afflict a man, he ha still within him the image of something bet ter, nobler, happier, more succeseful to hopi for and to strive after. To tbia image, varying though it does with the characw and'personality of each individual, ie soci- ety indebted for its continued progrea and improvements in manifold directioui Debts and duties would be nearly 8yiion ymouB words were it not that custom MJ associated the word " debt" so closely mti money as almost to confine it* M«**5°tl alone. Every duty is however reaUya debt â€"that is, something which we owe ua oue-ht to pay. It may be money or it miy be servije, it may be justice or mercy, mb- mand or obedience, protection or friendsup, reverence or love whether it be that wma to us as an obligation to be met, » »'JT be performed, is aUo a debt that u oweo, which a healthful conscience will not aeiw t3 repudiate. The Fate of one Celestial. Poor little Yan Sin Lived ihPekin; ' His diet was rice, Varied with mice He flew his bird-kite. By day and by night, With a frantic hop That would not stop But the kite was strong, And pulled so long, That it drew him soon, Up toward the moon. â-  Though no one has been To seek Yan Sin, It is toy belief He came to grief. Worthy of His Hire- Stranger( to boy)-Boy, can yoa direct to the nearest btmk Boyâ€" I kin fer twenty-fi cents. ,^^ Strangerâ€" Twenty-five cents w" "fey^Yearir.but ita bank director, wl-* gita high pay. â-  The .One Thi^ .^ He (with deep P»«»'°)7?ilL«mao.B« my darlfaig, I love you so. I lo« T^ nuna, deareat, be mine. Ohi She (with «uppr««d ^^ h.« Jack, yoa are so sudden a â- Â» •^llWrdedly)- Don't m«J?.»ji darling-^me is nothmg; " tUnj^ aad yoa're got plenty. aiftflow taHa are now ^^^ T* BidU Otoaia Bboae on Honda W^ q0. m»m mho Cra mnaic bf^. f£^ M. TOHOK. Q^^^PTBR XIX. ':â-  •^ it^ more determme In London and eat ^^-aoi He aecured a i ^^HJi^iHUBia before leavi rMkioHay. tad nol been much corree ul Rectory, and on the farat '.Kownontand Nuttie w« LmT the drawing room ^t np to meet tiiem t by the entrance of Blai »nd weloomes. 1 didnt you know 1 n vs jnst round the corm it has underteAen to do tl nueauntby me.' °l£n yoa ire here for the sea: ft fllav wouldn't come, except to see the pictures, ai ot talk. She's growi more and we believe ic is Oh 1 1 forgot you i we came home last autum a'a nephew, you know, an lugt year to the curacy o t9 hia father's place. li oaly would take themel' 10 have him at home, and Id have flowers on the altai of jolly things. Papa wo .JO much more from him thai "Sdvardsea." Bat he u engaged to May, th Well, no, not exactly. I 1 t think it right till be has for priest's orders. He you know, and he hasn't bat he means it. Lacy, ^w, told me all about it, tther the elders had settled both that he should att ttion, and May should no „^agh they really understai J and ao ahe won't come to 1 foh, thaf a very good of her ' "but why won't they let 1 mmds and be engaged " â- People are always tiresoi nche " and I do believe the I bottom of it, at least Lucy 1 everybody wante to wa I, I mean â€"not Hugh o -to know whether Mark v jombrellas, or turn back and 1 because, then, of course, the living and if he dc It to be certain whether Un( Nuttie, would promise it led May I" 1" exclaimed Nuttie. r dear, I don't like to hei toings," said Mrs. Egren b yes, I knowâ€" It's all vei only tolling you what is ^le's heads, and what woul make it aU rubt with them. *And how is Slark Is Mi Ion 7" asked Mrs. E^rem away the conversation frc a of which Blanche spol of yonth, as yet not r( [I daresay you know neu! Iltrkas we do, now the I here. All his letters go no, Annaple is not in Ix nun can't afford it, you kno ere my lady would have ma I hadn't been bespol iteatfves herself for Muriel.' looked with some disco ^fair-hadred creature who I worldly jargon in a ton: bean flippant if it had idi. S^ asked if Lord I written. [Oh yes, long ago. Lady to make htm nasty abou a't be, BO that's all righ I to get on very well, th idly dull for him now t y, and he can't spend al ftonki Horton." [He will get more into tbe K**aad Nuttie, whereat B I ter shouldera a little, and r You've got out of it at a: i*»y» [Ihopenotr f WeU, then, the look of it ^oneso improved Isn't sh " ~x»wn, 1 declare I Yes against her cousin- it taller when you ca 1 ve got above me and wh 7 o! doing your hair Y iL"""' *®*^ ^*y '^^" being taken for one â„¢ Margaret wUl be quite i » »«s true that Ursula hm « Mai during the last ye L *g«ri*nced hands of M Mchoolgirl air, and turne K*P«ble of becoming tl "â„¢ "wfather had enjoii beauty, ahe was a p •nlmated girl, with th. J** heireas, with a romi *ad there waanoth t being a aucceaa. T with Lady Kirka tl iS^ determined i- J?**- *!gromont, « ;j*«Kked to h)ok aib_ is^.***" " smooth "^ted her husband '^1 of those wl rather at Nice. rjMJd hashed her pr »Mjet,noe and the uni T5?5MyandtheCan ^-WdropUie Idea; i «« Urania, wl 'â- Â«* goto court -•*â-  â- Â»â€¢ at laat c «t her defian together LV?' 't» acrae'i s^" M:^: afei