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 Piiiniiii^iiKR^ mlm m i If ft: M u MTTIE'S FiTHE. BY CHABLOTTK M. YOUNG. SV^NOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. In the little village of St Ambrose there had been living for some yean Mrs. Egre- mont and her little danghter, Urania, with Mrs. E/remont's maiden aunt. Miss Head- worth. They snpported themselves by teachins:, but Ursola, or Nattie, as they called her, who at the time oar story opens was almost a young lady, had attended school op to this time, and with such success that she was looking forward to taking part in the next Cambridge examinations. Mr. Egremont was thought to be dead by every one who knew them, and by his wife herself, as she had heard nothing of him for years, although Nuttie had always a romantic notion that some time he would turn up. At the time of which we speak an estate^that had long been without a tenant was purchased by a L»dy Kirkaldy who tosk up her abode there. She was soon favored with a visit from a nephew, Mark Egremont, who had become acquainced with the fact that his uncle, Al- wyn Egremont, whose heir he was expected to be, had been married long years before to a lovely young girl who had been his gov- erness, and he was determined to find the wife or heirs if any, and give them an op- portuniry ot' being restored to their rightful position. He heard of this supposed widow xnd loat ri • time in verifying his suspicions that she w -i no other than his favorite gov- ern ess, !*(i I his uncle's wife. His uncle, who had om v been captivated by her pretty face and b i.U had no serious intentions of marriage, but had been in a measure entrap- ped through .the determination of a Mrs. Houghcou io preserve the innocence of the young giri. and who, after the novelty wore off, had ur d of his bondage and^had, scarce- ly given hoc a thought since, nevertheless came on receiving Mark's announcement with the Intention of claiming the wife he had almost forgotten if she suited his fancy. Finding her as lovely and charm- ing as ever, he took her and his daughter to his home. They were there welcomed by the family to which Mark belonged, and took their place in society, as ic was only necessary to be received into the Canon's family to find a warm welcome with every member of the circle over which his wife held sway. Nuttie very soon became accustomed to her fine clothes and new surroundings, and seemed in her complete abandonment to ten- nis to have ntterly forgotten the studies and kindred interests that had been so large a part of her former life. Bat she still held a tender spot in her heart for St. Ambrose, for her aunt, who had taken up her abode with a neighbor and friend, and for Gerard Qodfrey, to whom she intended to remain true, notwithstanding that it was whispered about that Mark was likely to aspire to a, place in her affections. But Mark's choice was already made, and it was tn provide a home for the fair Annaple Kithven, that he, after much inquiry and solici"ition engaged as clerk at Datton Greci' leaf's Umbrella factory, at St. Am- brose, intenoing, by his own efforts, to re- place the fortune he had lost by his free wai. While on a visit to Italy, Mrs. Egre- mont, in one of those few moments, when she couldHbe spared fromjher rather exacting husband, met Mrs. Houghton then a widow, ill and in poverty, but still, unable to break free from the habit of gambling to which she had been long addicted. It was from her conversation with her mother that Nattie first heard of the circumstances under which they had be- fore met, and this revelation only served to strengthen the dislike that Nuttie had felt for her father from the first. Mrs. Hough- ton died there a repentant woman, her last days brightened by the tender care of the woman she had once been the means of saving. After their return from Italy Nettie took the opportunity daring a short absence of her parents, and with the excuse that she had heard her aunt was ill, to take a jour- ney to St. Ambrose, which of late she had felt an unconquerable longing to see. CHAPTER XXLâ€" Ursula's Rkckphon. " Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought."â€" aBAKSSPBARB. It was at half-past seven o'clock that Ursula Egremont's cab stopped at St. Am^ brose's Road. She had, unfortunately, misssd the express train, and had to .come on by a stopping one. But here at last she was, with eyes even by gaslight full of lov- ing recognition, a hand full of her cab-fare, a heart full of throbbing hope and fear, a voice full of anxiety, as she inquired of the astonished servant, "Louisa, L^tuisa, how is Aunt Ursel I" and, without awaiting the re- ply, she opened the adjoining door. There sat, with their eveniiu; meiJ on the table, not only Mary Nugent, but Miss HeadworUi herself. Nuttie rushed at her, and there was an in- eoherency of exclamations, the first tiling that made itself olear to the senses of the traveller being, " 111 my dear No such thing Only I had a bad cold, and Mary here is only too careful of me." " But Mark said you had bronchitis." " What could liave put that into his head He did not write it, surely " " He wrote it to Annaple Ruthven, and she told Blanche." "Oh I" and Mary Nugent's tone, was rath- er nettling. " And then it was such a terrible time ainoe we had heard anything," added Nut- tie, on the defensive. " Did not your mother get my letter T" said Miss Headworth. "I wrote to her at â€" ^what's the name of that place I hope I addressed it right." "Oh, but I was not there. I didn't go with them.*^ "Ah, yes, I remember. Then did not she send yon T" " No, I came off this morning. I heard this yesterday evening, and I determined that nothing should stop me if there was no news by the post." • Dear child Bat will your father not be displeased?" sud Miss Headworth. " He hasn't any right to' object," cried Nattie, with flashing eyes and a look that made Miss Nugent anxions bat at tbe mo* â- If nt there oonld be little thought save 0! welooBDe to the wann-hearted guL LoidMb waa already Imwing £reah tw, aad eztnn- poriaing adcUtiou to tiie meal, and' Nattie I explaininshow ahe hoped to hava tiair- •d a oimgi«.«t|Ma» " By the bye, I meant to have written to mother for her to have it to-morrow before leaving Waldicotea. la there time ' No, the pUlar at hand waa cleared at aev^ en, and the regular poat cffice could not be reached in time ao they aatiafied them- selves with the knowledge that Mrs. Egre- mont must have had Aunt Urael'a cheerful letter, and Mary recommended tel^raph- ing to the Canon the first thing in the nwrn- ing. Then they gave themselves up to en- joyment. -.T JJ "At any rate, I'm here," said Nattie, "and I'll make the moat of it." And her handsome furs were laid aside, and her boots taken off, and she resigned herself to absolute ease and luxury, while Mary poured out the tea, and her aunt heaped her plate with eggs and rasheiv "such as one doesn't get anywhere elae," said Nuttie, declaring hereelf quite vora- cious, while her aunt fondly admired her growth and improvement, and she inquired into the cold, not ijuite gone yet and there were speculations over what Mark could have got into his head. Mary remembered having met him coming to call, and having told him that she had persuaded Miss Head- worth to keep her bed because her colds wjre apt to be severe, and it was agreed to lay the exaggeration at the door of the lovers and Blanche. Miss Headworth laughed, and said she ought to be flattered that an old woman's sore throat shoold be thought worthy of mention by a fine young gentleman like Mr. Mark. " A very good young man he is," she added. "Ton woul«f never have thought how kind he was in coming in here to tell me everythin? he hears about your dear mother, Nuttie I" "He makes himself ver osefal while Mr. Datton is away," added Mary, taking his young men's class and all. ' " Oh I is Mr. Datton away " "Yes; he has had to be in London a great deal of late. I am afraid he may have to live there altogether." " What a grievous pity I" " He won't be anywhere without doing good," said Miss Headworth, " but I some- times wish we had his cool good sense here." "And how is Mr. Spyers," asked Nuttie. She felt shy of asking for Gerard Godfrey, or perhaps she thought she ought to be shy of his name, and kept hoping that it would come in naturally. "Mr. Spyers is very welL Very busy of course, and very much delighted with your mother's gifts to the church. All her own work, isn't it, Nattie " "Yes every bit. She does lots of em- broidery and work of all kinds when she is waiting for him or sitting with him, and luckily it has never occurred to him to ask what it is for." The two ladies knew well what 7 as meant by Aim, but they would not pursue the subject, and proceeded to pat Nuttie au courant with St. Ambrose affairs â€" how last year's mission had produced apparently an immense effect in the town, and how the improvement had been ebbing ever since, but had left various individual gains, and stirred up more than one good person who had hither- to thought it enough to save one's own soul and let other people alone how Mr. Spyers was endeavouring to bind people to- gether in a guild how a violent gust of temperance orators had come down upon the place, and altogether fascinated and carried away Gerard Godfrey. There was his name at last, and Nuttie was rather gratified to feel herself blushing as she asked, " Ah poor Gerard â€" how is he!" " As good and sincere as ever," said Miss Nugent, "but not much wiser. He is so excitable and vehement." " Yes," said Miss Headworih. " I don't understand the kind of thing. In my time a steady young clerk used to be content- ed after hours with playing at cricket in the summer, or learning the flute in the winter â€" and a great nuisance it was some- times, but now Gerard must get himself made a sort of half clergyman." " A reader," suggested Mary. " Minor orders. Oh, how delightful I" cried Nuttie. " People don't half understand it," added Miss Headworth. " Mrs. Jeffireys will have it that he is no better than a Jeaoit, and really I did not know what to aay, for he talked to me by the hour about his being an external brother to something." "Not to the Jesuita, certainly," said Nattie. "Yes, I told her that but she thinks all monks are Jesuits, you know, and that all brothers are monbs and he does wear his caasockâ€" his choir cassock, I mean â€" ^when he has his service in the iron room at the sandpits. And now heluw taken up' tem- perance, and flies about giving the pledge, and wanting one to wear bits of blue ribbon. I told him I never did take, and never had taken, more than a little hot wine and water when I had a cold, and I couldn't aee what good it would do to George Jenkina and the poor^ fellows at the Spread Eagle if I took ever ao many vowa." " There'a a regular blue-ribbon fever aet in," said Miss Nugent. " Gerard told me I was' aupporting the cauae of intemperance yesterday because I was so wicked as to car- ry the rest of your bottle of port, Miaa Headworth, to poor Anne Crake. ' " Well I he u a dear boy, and youth wouldn't be youth if it were not aometimea rather foolish," said Miaa Headworth, "and it ia better it ahonld be for good than eviL" "Eager in a cause and not for aelfiahneaa," said Mary. " Poor Gerard, I wonder where he will be safely landed I" So did Nattie, who had a great secret flattering faith in being the cause of all the poor young fellow's Merrations, and was conscious of having bM;an the second vol ume of her life'a noveL She went to bed in the elated frame of mind'properto a hero- ine. There waa a ahade over all in the abaenoe of dear old Mriu Nugent, and in Mary's deep moruning; but there ia more tenderness than po^ancy in aorrow for ahocka of com gathered in fnll aeaaon, and all waa cheerful aboat her. She had qaite a triumph the next day, aa old frienda dropped in for the chance of aeeiiig her. The least aereeable enooonter waa that witii ^atk, woo came in on his way to the office, having joat reoetved by the aecond poat a letter nom hia haher in- qairing into Miaa Headworth'a atate. He met NuUie in tiie Teetibokt, with her hat on, and in a great hnny, ai die wanted to walk with Mary to the Solwel of Art, Gerard Godfrey acoompanying tliea aa far aa the offioe and ahe did n««a* fOlUke 1h» htSaa oalled te aoramt, and aakod.'wiat could faav* gnaawiasd her «» «'I1" •« To Annaple Ruthven." « What am I auppoeed to have »"*»» " That Aunt Uriel waa very ill with bron- ohitis." -J " ril be bound that Miaa Ruthven aaid no auoh thing. You don't pretend that you heard it from heraelf '" " No but Blanche did." ,...., "Blanche! Oh, that acconnta for it! Though I ahould have thought yon knew Blan^e by thia time." "But what did yoa aay!" "I believe I aaid I couldn't get akmt- ting pattern Miss Headworth waa to aend Lady Ronnisglen because she waa in bed with a cold. What you and Blanche could contrive to make of a aimple thing like that â€" " " And Annaple " "Well," but checkine himaelf with a amile, "we will not fi^t about that. I only hope it has not brought you into an awkward scrape, Nattie." " I can't help that," she anawered with her head rather high. ,.„ ,. "Y^ouhave written and explamed? he aaid anxionaly. " To my mother, of courae." » "If I were von," he aaid lowering hia voice, "I ahould write or aend a special message to your father." " I can't see why. It waa a miatake.' "Your'a was a stront; measure, and he won t like it. Be advised, Nuttie. Recollect your mother. The ^t way would be to go home at once. I could get a day to take yon â€" if you would start this afternoon.' Thank you I'm not going back till I hear,' abe said proudly. Time being up, Mark took his leave hast- ily, and as he shut the door, Nuttie uttered half aloud the words she had scarcely re- pressed, 'No, 1 thank you' Mr. Mark, I am not going back like a dog in a string.' ' What, was that what he expected of you V said Gerald G^frey, whom she had not in- tended to hear her, but who haul come out of the sitting-room on the sounds of depar- ture. ' He said he would take me home if I coald go at once.' ' Wouldn't he have liked it 1' exclaimed Grerard but a deeper thade upon the I evodng duak, gleama out into an inex- preaaiue lovelineaa of phantom form and "It might be the best way,' aaid Misa Nugent, who had followed young Godfrey. â- 'Now, Miss Mary," cried Nuttie, " as if I could shorten my holiday now that I have it" " And I don't see what business he had to call you to account," aaid Gerard, "A stuck-up fellow." " Of course all the Egremonts are set against my being here," said Nattie. " I thought the Canon offered to bring you last year," said Mary gently. Oh, that was only to Monks Horton I It would have been tantalising." ' Lady Kirkaldy is an exoeUent person," said Miss Nugent. " Is she at home now!" asked Ursula, " Coming next week, they tell me," said Gerard. " Heâ€" your cousin â€" will always qe loafing up there now, giving up all that he had undertaken, I suppose." "Not very likely," said Mary quietly. " It is a mere Scottish anti church influ- ence," said Gerard, turning round at the Bwii^-door of his offioe. " Why else will Egremont not take the pledge " Wherewith he disappeared, blue ribbon and all, while Mary, smiled, though she was vexed and Nuttie observed, " Poor Gerard but I can't see why he should be jealous of Mark now." Mary did not choose to understand what Nuttie imp^ed in her simplicity, and made ary aubatanoe. Stara, biight aa Coleridge'a tiny aun amid the branohea, aparkle in braaa and glaaa; and along the raila there ia a diamond twinkling of dew, and ttie aheen upon the canvaa aeema to overflow the belt- rope and frame the irradiated apacea with a lender atmeaphere of light delicate aa miat. To the amall awaying of the vesael the moonahine on her decka flowa like mn- ning rivuleta of quickailver the ahadowa alternate with the brightneaa, and the re- flected filigree of the rigging crawling to the awing of the atructure raakea one thmk of the thin boughs of a leafless tree stirred by the wind against some snow-dad rise. r A Burmese flonse. A long street, not too clean, traveraed by a raised brick -paved pathway in the middle, runs parallel to the river bank, losinz itself in the jungle at either end. The houses stand at irregular intervals on both sides of it and are all built on much the same plan, whether they be erectiona ot bamboos and mats, orâ€" like Monng Daw'a â€" more aub- atantially conatructed of beams and planks. Their size varies much, for every one builds his own residence and does it as he pleases, ainoe in this happy valley there are no municipal regulations or local government rules to curb the exercise of a taste which is sometimes a little eccentric*. Before many houses there are bamboo frames upheld by poles, covered with luxuriant creepers which produce immense pumpkins. 'Their own atalks are insufficient to bear their weight long before they ripen, so the cultivators brace them neatly up to the framework to prevent their falling. This is the only gar- dening indulged in within the village pre- cinct outside it the reare some ill-kept in- cloBures where a f ew coJirae vegetables are grown. The interior of a Barman's house conveys the idea that he had only enough material for one entire floor, and by way of obtaininr variety laid the front half two feet from the ground and the rear half six feet higher. Thus a man standing on the front and lower floor has above him only the rafters, and the floor of the rear half has nothing below it but the bare ground. The space between the two floors is left open altogether or is protected with^attice work, and a flight of rude stairs enables the family to pass from one story to the other. The upper one is screened from public view by a partition, and is used as a general bed chamber, being walled in all round, with a window or two on the floor level. The lower floor is generally open on all sides, and there the occupants may be found during the day, cooking, eat- ing, lounging, or working, in full view of the passers by. The vacant space below the bed-chamber is utilized as store-house, poul- try-yard, and cattle-shed so the owner has his worldly goods under his protecting eye at all times. The conveniences of civi- lized life find no place in such villages as this, and the people seem to get on in their quiet way very well without them. The post-office is an institution unknown, for no one writes or receives letters. There are no policemen, for theie is notbine for them to do. No Qoa,*m trespass ou the road to Kannee, to be caught and impounded by the stem lervantsof the law and that, as everybody knows, is the occupation without which in the busy town, the native peeler would be a lost man. AOAKADUNLADYoiVtt*' A day or two ago the R^u** " I prtM published w hll!?W,r;' .j«r: ,tfKtsit" buaimiM man whS S^»i4 poor opinion of the cSZ:?» was bom m the Domi^T^ i aentative of the paJSi." W. dianachool.girlUrh»-*JS her native Village would CK gence m her judgment offu* "^7 side the witen She ^^Pl. seiue enough to refrain {^ » unfavorable oDuiion „».'"•* Wfei United met with a few -«„„.«. The business man yoâ„¢q£«e pear to be insensible which Canadians eniov SJWORLD NE' tUttth 2.â€" The wee hartow-e ' answer. He Besides, I " swell" does not til: i* '^» '**. :~r .:ir i. :i*iJMifiW^infm "tW^vi- the United Stete87th'st"il\*t^ They are at liberty to cal?C^?l .»»«j is rather blue ribbon mad. am afraid the fact of being a conduce to your cousin's popularity among the clerks." "Surely he does not give hiauelf airs," said Ursula, her family feelings awaking. " No but I fancy he is rather reserved." " What'a this about giving up what he has undertaken What is it f ' ' When Mr. Dutton went to London, he asked Mark to take hia Sunday aftemoima with the big lads. He thought (they want- ed some one with more reaonrcea and variety than there ia in poor Gerard, who didn't at all like being paased over." I never ahould have thought it of Mark. He never ^dreamt of teaching anybody at home." " Very likely not, but there ia an atmea- phere at St. Ambroae'a." " And oh, how glad I am to be in it I I wonder how long they will let me atay The dear little mother will try to get a Sun- day here, if ahe darea. Indeed, I can't hear before Saturday, and then there would hardly be time to get home 1 Oh, that'a jolly 1 m go to the nnraery gardena, and get such flowers for the vases 1'*^ Saturday brought Nuttie a letter, but not from her mother â€" " Mt deab UBSUI.Aâ€" I write because we are anxious to keep your mother aa quiet aa poa- aible. It waa a aerioua ahock to her to find that you had left home, and ahe naturally anppoaed that Miaa Headworth waa in great danger. Your father waa greatly diapleaaed and she has been much overcome, and very unwell but we hope by keeping her per- fectly quiet that worae oonaeqaenoea may be prevented. Your father detirea you to re- mun where you are f or the preaent, aahe will not have her diaturbed again. Your mother sends her love both to you and to your aunt, and desires me to aay tlUtt ahe will write in a day or two, and that ahe thmks you had better not come back till ahe is better md your father's vexation haa diminished. "Iwiah yon had informed na of your in- tentiona, aa then we could have aacertained thegrounda of the report that terrified you ao atrangely â€" ^I remun your affectionate annt, Jaits M. Eobbmoht.' (to bb ooNTiinrxD.) ♦^ â€" The Ship by Moonlight ,A " ^^ .fr^P ""'ipg qoietly onward or lying reatfnlly in the heart of a calm offera a aurface upon which the mi^ bmahea of tiiemMmwmpamta' idredlove^thinsa. The dear, aha^ ahado^ « reaemble jet ididd upon the ivory of the planka. The apaoaa of mloidor opon the yards between^ i!!*°^iy5 ^roj"^* by the interception of the reflection of die end of a booni or tiie dew of a aall, are like bands td ahinins dl. w. Then b nothins fairer thuTlii re- flec^ «rf a aleepingdi^ with her canvaa "S^ *n«hs huh dobtt if ^l^\ Fritz's Stolen Smoke. There are many anecdotes afloat concern- ing the love of the German Crown Prince for his pipe. The Hamburg Fremdenblatt adds a new one, which is now obtained ' ' from a source worthy of credit. It is both new and true," adds that journal, "and throws a clear light on the oft praised amiability and bonhomie of oar Fritz." The present man- ager of the Hamburg Stadt Theatre was for- merly manager of the Berlin National Thea- tre, and he ia known to have sacrifioad a considerable fortune to his ideal national aims as a guide and leader of the drama in Germany. At that period the Crown Prince waa a constant attendant, it uaed to be said " a demonstrative attendant," at Herr Buchholz's theatre. The manager, for the special convenience of the Prince, caused a little antechamber to be constructed next to his box, to which he could retire 'oetween the acts. One evening Herr Bnchholz en- tered this little cabinet, according to his custom, to give the Prince a loyal greeting. He observed that hia patron, with a sudden action, thrust something behind his back, but an instant afterward drew it forth agun, exhibiting with a smile a burning cigarette. "You will betray me, Buchholz," sayshe. " Smoking, as the notice board says, ia pro- hibited in the theatre." " But your imper- ial Highneaa," expostulated the manager, " this is your private sitting room." "That ia all one," retorted the Prince " I claim no pri^ege. You have tiie right to de- nounce me to the police. I aee only one way of eacape â€" ^you must be partuxps crim- tfiM." So aaying the Prince lumded hia cigarette caae to the manager. Herr Buch- hous bowed, took a cimrette, and stuck it in hia breaat pocket. '*If your impoial High- neaa wiU aUow me,*' aaid he, I will keep it aa a memento. " Ah I" replied the Prince, "you will esoapeyonraelf and will betray me. You moat take a aecond and light it." The manager obeyed, and the Prince aaid ' ' Now von are a feUoworiminal." Thia happened long before the fire at the Rina Theatre, at a time when the prohibition of amoking waa not VMy atrictly carried out, when there waa not a little amoking among the actors themaelves, according to the narrator. Talking of encycloptediaa, the Academy at Pekin haa got one of those treaaariea of human knowledge which leavea the Britan- nica far behind aa far aa bulk ia concerned, bdng in 160,000 volninea. The traffic recdpta of the Canadian Pa- cific railway, ezdnmveof the Sonth-Eaat- era railway, for the week ending February 14, were #188,000, an inoreaae of $49,000 compared with the correapmidinff week laat year. Ia 1850 there were but 58 power looma in udand, bnt about 25.000 are now used in the podnotion of linen fabrics for home and foreign cooaumption, beaidea aevenJ thou aand hand looms scattered tiirdnghoat the oonntzy. .„^ tetsl inoome of London charities in ArLt?" fc" miUions and a half of mon^. Of ttis a million is spent tm. fneign ida- AaoAnr thnwipuurtars of a ndUim ^.^^ » sodaliss and ^^^g* Tl». honltals have an ""iW think rtJ this country would feel keeiil»;!.5 a dUtinctive namelirfi^' and that they would notletanothe, eUp» without rechriBtenbTthT repubUc. What your at have done when they eleotSS • president, or, rather, when thev iZ,* Declaration of Independenr^"^* nounce their umon as the r^nnM- '"• umbia. The.wonderfuJ2"a;" man who gave this splendW ' the world deserved this least!, from posterity. He uvb r. are not LiberaL This U trne. ani^ tme. There isahberalpar^tiV as well as a Conservative, and they pond to the Republican and DeB» parties here and it is not such a loJ since Canada boasted of a Grit Goven We might as well affirm that the jS this country are aU Dimocrata, beoTj the time being the Dempcratio pwtTiil power. He says, 'they take m iia,i being Canadians, etc. Now, this iBBot« a glaringly false statement, but to one* knows Canada and the people almort t absurd to con';radict. There ate « i among those descendsd'.rom so caDed'Ai, icans who are proud of their otigimii to be found amongst those of Engluli i Scotch^ ancestry and there is aim t n ing pride in their own nationality, u as a desire ia both these classes to see ada a nation among uatbns. Betidei^ has left the whole of Lower Canada, ikj I suppose he does not know is pretty i, stocked with a French speaking popniil out in the cold. Or, would he iimlt intelligence of the people here by them to believe the grotesque atsertioiiil the French-Canadians boast of their or English descent He had better d to Quebec to say it." "Again," continued the indignant li " he says they are given over tn adon of titles and place, and they admire' monarchy ' more than anything else. pose he refers to the British monw Well, let us alscj examine into the I this statement. When the Q aeen's son b^ was Governor General of Canada therei a great deal of dissatisfaction openlj i pressed among the people, because theRn a decided effort made to introduce c cex«mony and etiquette at Ridean 1 it seemed evident to the Canadiu that there was a scheme afoot to royalty in the Dominion. The conteqi was that the English Queen's daughter 1 her Scotch husband became very nnpop' Moreover, whenever a distinguished C dian has had the honor of kniehthood i ferfed upon him in acknowledgi services he has invariably been coinpt to run the gauntlet of ridicule. Doatl look like advocacy of titles in archy! In amusing contrast to look at the way in which the 1 Yankee chases up 'dooka' f^^ the royal family i«*^p^cky feeling reg " jtj-. The rumors coi '•^Regency and of tl rfSentlonthento V.S1 ^o were from the star Xhey apparently o ^meit. made for Pri ' •"'"^-- -o the Crown Pr Y,Qoame unexpecl .rapidly *° fjl^ rumor, regarding t '^tion of the Kaiser c. *.ifto.m certain blunt qu. 'J^Bemo concerning the Pi '^wn Prince being again '^^erm-iy -d able t pjasoAtnnoKS tai ^-«££w':5S^rry'c: '♦"^ttTcSwn Princes ac Lrtects. That all pre ,\^^H •*%• f"» age as soon ubek markises,' and princes, made enough money to pose on, aristocracy on the other sideof theAtliffl That they are given to ' class diBtinctKB| is quite true, but this, we must allow, 1 ite advantages over the distinction of n which is so universal in this country. these distinctions depend largely on breeding, culture, respectability, follows that a person powessinjr quisites has a chance to enjoy good ' Consequently, there a lady or a gentK always treated as su^h, whether heorwj dressed in serge or satin, broadcloo* tweed. Here it makes no difference r your manners are, if your dress only up to the standard. If a woman goes »J pmg in Rochester, wd u not Srcised, the chances are ten to one 1 wUl be snubbed by the clerks, boftw| and female, while the salefl'" „ 51 her up with one sweeping glance ftom "^1 to foot before they will buSge to pt ttgl quired artide. Another ^^^'^ZZA ^ce U, that whUe no lady over jjM« ;i the slightest objection to being^»JJ^ J man, the most ignorant and »U'»!^'£ijtl men do not iM" «" Wr !JnW tJS My indignation is such that I »"jb*l the week on thu theme. e°*/,jrtiat»l to only one more term of aDWP 'skinfltats in business." I shall «^°'«" I self withmerely giving thel«;totw ous statement,'as I have not Je ^^ low up my refutation with proow »r^ pariaona, as I could, much to the d« ment of his own countrymen. satisfied that the reputation a- business has long been too weu make itjnecesaary for me » *y ,^ new on that subject. I J^fiifwhenH gentleman to visit Canada ««*P be»tp» can stay longer, and g» a"f 8^on «» pie. and if he does not have o^^^ ^.\ pletoly to reverse h"/^ ,, Wore )»«»»»• SughlJ ashamed of him^U l^^j^ g«- away, then he is incapable ot impressions." Devotion to One Pnisnit' There are persons wilhng J»°^tl^ttW aelveaao utterly to aome/)n« in^reiitio* are wdl-nigh powerless m other «• Bat' The budnes. which ^^^K^ take f^ » a means to certain vainaow "â€" **• length an end in itself to whicft j^ fioe health and leisure, 'f^J'^^ culture and pleasure, and » life itself.. Even tw^J^f Tlieb«*2 atand-point this is a iw^t^J^L, ,0 ^K which maatera the man.i8 nev« j^j aa that which he masters. ^g,t^ perf«tion juat that br»dj «^^*^ larganesi of expenence wwe ^eB««fjl th^u^other chamieto. ^^^^ •d4il4lie expense of the p«i» ^^Ubefa^toTlargetopaf- „ne who knows the mu Jprwda guards itself ag ». trifling danger. "r^Sppoi" that the Kaiser toSKbleto goto the jcrewn Prince wiU be ask ^tori^hteunta the last e inSSseiomethingasndicul. ff Princess will attem, JX son from the l^ge. ^Smes necessary; or that] JSd riakhis popularity by « £ the duef executive powe 'Shout intrigue, he already BCSSia'S FINAKCIAL Tl Ihe depreciation in Ra8s:e ,ib*.rbing the interest mfi llheydoaedtodayat 168 IHies whose whole fortune iBosdan securities are in a iMudeW. The beat financial I^ationwith serious misgr 'm article in the iTrens I that at the end of the lui Inble notes were quoted Itfaosght to be an extremelj 0ctoBerh«t, when the Boei •.wing to the Czar's aW ae quotation stood at 180^- Janwry it had fallen to 1 1 time it has continued to dec Bankers state that the d the growth of distrust in tk dd pontion, combined wit tf notes under orders f rorr The failure of the St. V*e firm of Fehleisen helped t decline. Bullets in the It has long been known tiie skull, with considers nbstance, do not alwaj s if skilfully treated but injury is near the surface erer, fired into the brai through it, and is often lesi tee inside of the ski ade. Nearly all surgeoni liMMiliwg such cases, Dr. Fluhrer, of the Hew York, has successf i •fthe kind. A young Umsdf in the centre of iKooghtto the hospital ud with his right side The scalp having been tiie wound in the skull the track of the bullet ex having paased in six in Une of direction pursue the point at which it vaamarked. At this point the sku^ areolar piece removed trepan), and the ball inch from the skull, traoted by a small fore* ba passed through the healed, and the patient to hedtii the paralys â- an resumed work in The operation in fear houra. There wa Uood from a wounded ^Uffioult to tie. In Hteries may be so dt posdbiUty of arrei The London X^aneet â- *â-¼â- , "Cerebral surg the resulta already that it would not be â- aylimita to its dev miefore hope that e •wnda of the brain l Hie to aurgical meaai ' ^%e Laineet adds ai •i a different charac toeived a bullet-wot « four yeara previoi yw- The surgeon, ^â- â€¢â- sd fractare of *PWsiure on whici "•^•nnined to exploi An ^aidng waa t gyd wnac needle "*« in four. diiGfei V*^{e reanlted in « dear flull, proba ^^ had tunned V ?*"°*i the preaaure "â- â- â€¢4 the insanity .ia Isas Oan three vaniab of Sereoov ai tb 1$^ iBted jwam n^ iaeritably to '^^koidy the I the lady I **%s:l^isooi «bontJ â- .rf-'JCir-^:.-- .â-  '-^..k;;.?;':;; "â- ^. '" ' -iii^^ airitliiiritiintfjiij*^^^^"^^^^^"^---^ itssac, ^:^-ii£,.;Sisi£,^.. ..-?; L^^^.. -^