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 -a..r 1 ' •. *• â- ^' " -? t;?:: ' V'--V%^/' '.^^^'if *Vv#-^ -;. •â- Â»;f- YOUNG FOLKS. The One Pet Same. Hever had a boy â- Â© many namea, IThey called him Juniny and J i t» and Jamea, Jeema and Jamie, and well he knew Who it waa that wanted him, too. The boya in the atreet ran after him. Shouting quite loudly, " Jim 1 Hey, J-imm!" Untfl the echoea, little and big, Seemed to be dancing a J im Crow jig. Grandpapa, who waa dignified And held hia head with an air of pnde, Didn't believe in abridging namea. And made the moat that he could of " J-a-me-8." Biddy O'Flynn oould never, it aeema. Call him anything elae but •' Jeema," And when die nnrae, old Mra. McVyae, Called him " Jamie," it aounded nice. But sweeter and dearer than all the reat, Waa the one pet name that he liked the beat " Darling "â€" he heard it whate'er he waa at, For none but hia mother called him that. MAEIAN'S OPPOETUNITY. BY KATB SUMNEB GATES. " Crod never sends you anywhere that he does not send an opportunity with you." Margie's Sunday-school book lay open on the stand, and Marian's eyes fell on the above sentence as she looked there for her slovee. She was in a great hurry lest she should lose her car, but something in the words at- tracted her attention, and she stopped to read them over a second time. As she hur- ried out of the house they were still ringing in her eare. God never sends yon anywhei^that he does not send an opportuu' y with you. Was it God who was send' her into the city to-day, and waa he "ending also an op- portunitv for her "It makes me fee almost shivery to hink so," she said to herself. "I had rather feel that I am just going out ahopping there's no very great responsibil- ity about that; but it would be sort of dreadful to feel that God sent you to do something, and you didn't do it. I might not see it, yon know, and I mightn't want to do it even if I did see it," she added, w'th sudden frankness. And, truth to tell, Ma- rfan was not very apt to do things which put her out. Once in the city she waa busy with her various errands, and the subject which had occupied her thoughts on the way down slipped her mind. Just befoie noon she met Nora King. "Isn.t it beautiful out 1" said Nora. " But, dear me, I can't half enjoy it for thinking of poor Grace Barret. What I Haven't ycu heard about her You know she's been studying so hard to fit herself for a teacher, fnd she's overworked her eyesi She has been very sick, and bow the doctor Bays she must stay in a dark room for the dear knows how long. They say ahe'a about wild, for they are poor, you know, and she wanted to help her mother. If I was one of you good folks, and knew what to say, I'd go and see her. Think how the hours must drag; for her mother has to sew, so she's alone most of the time. You and I don't have much to trouble us; do we Going to the Symphony this after- noon? Then I'll see you there. Good-bye." Nora turned to go home, and Marian went slowly in the opposite direction. How hard it must be for Grace She would try to go and see her some time. She Mas not sure that she knew what to say any more than Nora did; but perhaps she could help her pass away an hour or so. And then all at once Marian came to a standstill. Was tWs her opportunity! " O pshaw " she said, impatiently 1 wish I hadn't seen that miserable little sentence. I want to go to the Symphony the worst way this afternoon, for Helen Douglas will have her cousin with her, and it is my only chance to meet her. 111 go to see Grace some other day. Besides, I've bought my ticket I must go." •• It doesn't matter if you have bought your ticket," said conscience very clearly " you know that Edna Graves wovld be delighted with it she never would take it from you as a gift, but if you oflfer it be- cause you can't use it she will feel different- ly. I don't believe ehe's been to a concert this winter think how she would enjoy it You are going to be busy sewing, and won't be likely to come in again for several weeks. I think you should go and see Grace to-day. She may be better before you can go again, and you will have missed this opportunity. Suppose it is the one that God sent you to do to-dayâ€" will you not be sorry by and by if you neglect to do it?" These nuestiona and others like them kept coming to Marian as she went from one store to another. " There's no use in my trying to go to the concert now," she said, impatiently. "I won't take any comfort if I do." So it came to pass that early that after- noon ahe found heraelt in Grace'a dark room but ahe waa more than surprised at the welcome ahe received. "O Marian," aud Grace, with a sob, " you don't know how thankful I,am to see you it just seems to me that I cannot bear it any longer, and yet I can't help myself. Mother ia killing herself, and here I must sit in the dark and fold my hands. I believe that I ahall be crazy before long. Do tell me aomething to change my thoughta for a few minntea any way." " If I were one of you good folka, and knew what to aay, I'd go in a minute" Nora's words flashed tiirongh Marian's mind just then. She waa one of the good ones â€" that is, she waa a professing Christian, and she ought to know what to say to this friend in her sore need of help but she did not, nor could she remember having ever spoken any such words in all her Christian life. " I can't preach," she thought, with^ an impatient shrug of her shoulders, which, fortunately, Grace could not see. " I don't believe in it, and I couldn't say anything to help her if I tried. I should only make a bad matter worse." " Then yoa ought to be aahamed of yonr- aelf " aaid that tronbleaome oonacienoe. "If you -had any real love for Ghriat inyoor heart yon would be aUe to aay sooMtniafg. Grace isn't a Chriatian, nor hw raothor. Think what aa «f|portiDii^ty it. may be Hm* Ood wanta yon to vml" It all ♦wit thxoagh Mariaia'a mind in a manMnt or two, Eatomoiogtoauy «ad tHier* went op from hffir heart Ham most " gmttw aex" »] earneat cry for help that ever ahe had offer- ed in'hejr life. r, • " It muat be ever and ever ao hard, Oracie, dear," die aaid eoftly and heaitatingly. "And I don't aee how yon can bear it only aa yon feel sure that there ia aome good reaaonforit being ao. I haven't had any trouble myself to apeak of .but you know how much my Annt Marian baa had, and ^e aaya ahe haa juat clung to that verae, ' He tnat apared not hia own Son, how ahall He not with Him alao freely give us aU thinga? She aaya ahe hunca if God loved her enoughto give her Hia Son to Buffer and die for her He fovea her enough to give her eve^hing elae that is beat for her don't you think it muat be ao So auntie aaya ahe juat cbnga to that verae, and trusts even where ahe can't aee any reaaon for thinga happening aa they do." That waa all that Marian tried to aay, and Grace made very little reply then, but weeka after ahe aent a note to Marian. " Dear Mari*n," it read, "I want to thank you for your Aunt Marian'a worda. They clung to me and I to them through thoae dark daya, and at last I found com- fort in them. I thank Him now for thoae weeks of darkness, for in them I have found his marvelous light, and now when I am able to take up my choaen work I ahall do it, O ao differently, please God. I cannot write more now, but, believe me, I shall always hold you in grateful remembrance for the message you brought me in my time of need. Lovingly, Gbace." ' 'It was my opportunity," said Marian, softly. " I wonder if it is always true that there is one for us wherever we go. I sball not dare go anywhere without asking God to keep me on the watch for it, and to help me do it when I find it, even if it ia hard." THE WOKLD'S FAST WAB SHIPB, HEAVEN FOE EVEEY OHE. There Is Lots of Room for ffVee Cltotce. The Islam heaven described in the Ko- ran is a place of all sensuous delight, where the righteous recline on couches in a fair garden, drinking the delicious beverage supplied by the fountain Tasnim and waited on by damsels or houris with great eyes and yielding temperaments. The life of the Moslem soldier was a wearying one, a lone; succession of fights undar a blazing sun, and with the prospect of such a divine oasis awaitintr him, he would almost rush to dtath. The lives of the old Norsemen were full of alternate carousingB and strife, and they who could drink the heaviest and strike the greatest number of crushing blows per minute were their gods. So their priests placed these gods in the Valhalla, gave them the beautiful Valkyries to bo their waiting maids, and sent the souls of all heroes slain in battle, to join these roystering immortals, and to pass an eter- nity in chanting sagas and quaffing meads from the skulls of their enemies. Of an entirely different compltxion is the heaven of the Baddist. One ought rather to say heavens, for there are twenty-eight of them, the gradual as cending scale of happiness being as follows The not fighting, tlie joyful, the changf enjoying, the changing others arbitrarily, the assembled Brabmas, the servants of Brahma, the great Brahma, limited light, illimited light, pure light, limited purity, illimited purity, perfect purity, great merit, unconscious, the not great, the ex- empt from pain, the wellseeing, the beautiful the highest, illimited space, illimited science, the place of naught, that of no thought and that of not no thought. This means a gradual firing out process until the result is absolutely nil. The final goal of Bud- dhistic salvation is, indeed, the destmctiou of sin by exhausting its existence, or by impeding its continuance. The state of of blessed nonenity and ecstatic nullification is known as the Nirvana. There is some- thing pathetically eimple in the dis- tinctively opposite idea that regulates the red men's heaven. To him there is spread out the happy hunting grounds, where, with his do? and bow and arrows, he may follow the deer over rustling prairies and through the whispering woods, with no paleface to drag him to school or shut him up in a reservation. Nilsson's Debat. WritinsrofMme.Nilsson-Miranda'sfareweli concert. Dr. Lonis Engel says in the World, of London: "Never shall I forget the sensa- tion created by the young Swedish girl at the Theatre Lyrique, in Paris, and how within one week the name of Christine Nils son was in everybody's mouth. She "who be- gan to sing in the street with her little brother, proud of the receipts of her first concert, which amouted to fivepence half- penny, sent the inhabitants ot the most roue capital of the world mad, following up her successes with Ensiland and America, where she made net profits amounting to a million n fifteen months. O-ood Enough Gold. Woman of the House (to tramp) â€" I can't give you nothin' hot, 'cept perhaps the weacher, but I kin give you 'moat anythin' you want cold. Tramp (a tear of gratitude tnckling down hiawancneek) â€" Thanks, madam; I think I'll take a little cold cash. Nerrous Fears. Brown Is your family having a pleasant time in the country, Ribinson Robinson (who is having a pleasant time in the city) Yesh m' ivife writes me en- joying themahelves very mnah. She shays she's nervous f fear I will drink too mush ishwater. Brown She must be conatitutionidly ner- voua, Robinson. Doable-Action Biain Food. "Yes." aaid Uncle Rastns, " Fas been takin' brain food f o' ter atimulate my mem 'ry, an' it'a wukin' fuat-rate." " I hope it haa work edaufficiently for you to remember. Uncle Baatna, that yon have owed me aeventy-five cents for ever a yeajr." " Yea, aah dat waa one ob de f nat thinga I 'membered, and jea' aa I waa gwine 'ronn' fo' ter pay de money I alao 'membered dat I wuddent have nnffiu' lef ter buy a codfish wif. Dat brain food, Miatah Smif, am er great discovery." It appeara that It ia thefemale acve teea- year loonat that oatries the weapon and de- Btreyay^etatieB. The femalemeaqBito alap Ibeara a worae reputation than her oaftte, ao far aa a "^gjng appar^u is ontoened. ' tbe ezpmaion tomalae. The Croisera orBncIand, France, Cenauy. Kuala, pain, Anatrtan, Italy, »inaU, Chili, China, am« Japan. An intereating and valuable coUeotion of atatiatica baa just been laid before the United Statea Congreaa, oompnamg the prmcipal war veaaela of all naviea, olaaaified iooordlng to apeed. In these days there ia no place in anch liata for veaaela ttat can- not go 15 knota, while acorea achieve a apeed much greater. ' England haa four armored and half d enanarmoredcmiaera that make 15 knot Her armored 16 knot veaaela inc. ude sh Imperieuse and Warap te of 8 400 tona e«h, the^Uingwood of 9.500. the Rodney of 10.- 30O, the Campeidown, l^bow, Anaon, and Howe of 10.600 each. She haa b«Wu.g^« Victoria and Sana P"^! «. lO'fO u^ each, and the Trafalgar and Nile of 11.9«. Her tix nnarmoredcruiaera going 16 knots include four of the Leander claaa, 3,750 tona each, while four more of the Blanche class, 1,580 tons, are building. P*"" touiiarAioredveaaeUiof 17 knota, England haa eiKht of the Archer claaa, 1,770 tons, on which American gunboats of £orktown class are modelled. She has alao the Surprwe and Alacrity, 1.400 tone; four vMsela of the Mersey cla8a,^4,050, and the Polyphemua, 2 640 Of Briash 18 knot vessels, the most remarkable are the armored Orlando, Un- daunted, Australia, Narcissus, Galatea, Im- mortaUte, and Aurora, of 5.600 tons each, all but the two latter already built. Ihe same highspeed U ascribed to the well-known nnarmored vessels Iris and Mercury, 3, 730 tons ani to four small craft of the Grass- hopper class, 525 tons. Great Britain's 19- knot vessels now building are the nnarmor- ed cruisers Melpomene, Magicienne, and Marathon. 2,950 tons, and the Birham and Bellona, 1,800. Of 20 knot vessels, she has building the Medea ani Medusa, 2,800 tons the Vulcan, 6.620,and the Blake and Bleu heim, 9.000, besides seven small vessels of 735 tons. France haa no fewer than four armored and thirtfeen nnarmored vcBsels of 16 knots. She has of 16 knots the armored Courbet built and the powerful Hoche, Magenta, and Neptune, 10,581 tons each, now building. The nnarmored Tourville and Duquesne are also 16 knot cruisers. Of 17 knots the most imporUnt vessel is the Sfax, 4 480 tons, while ttere are four more nnarmored cruisers of the Faucon class, about 1,272 tons. In the 18 knot array we find the two most powerful vessels in the French navy, the armored Marceau of 10,581 tons and Brennus of 11,000. Then there is the switt nnarmored Milan of 1,550 tons, besides eight torpedo boats of the Bombe class, 321 tons. France of 1 9 knot nnarmored vessels has the Forbin, 1,848 tons, already built, and five others of the same class build iDg. She has also under construction the Jean Bart, AUrer, and Isly of 4,162 tons, the Cecille of 5 766, and the Tage of 7,045. She claims 20 knots for the armoied vessels Dupuy de Lome,, 6.297 tons, and also for the unarmored Davonst and Suchet, 3.027 tons, all now building. Italy has.two b'g armor clads, the Duilio Md Djindolo, of 15 knots, and half a dczan unarmored cruisers. She has three powerful armored vessels, the Andrea Doria, Ruggiero diLanria, and Francesco Morisini, of 10.045 tons each, besides two imarmored cruisers, all going 16 knots. Of her three 17-knot ves sels the most important is the unarmored Giovanni Bausan, 3,(68 tons. But it is in her 18-knot vessels thai. Italy is incompar- able, since these include the powerful armor clads Italia, 13,898 tons, and Le anto, 13,550, already built, and the tie Umberto, Sicilia and Sardegna, 14,000 tons, building, besides four small unarmored ves*el8. Her 19 knot un*rmored cruiatrs are four of the Vesuvio type, 3,530 tons, and five of the Dogali, 2,200 tons, three of these nine vessels being already, built. Finally, ot small 20 knot torpedo craft she has nine of the Tripoli type, 741 tons, and six of the Fol- gorc, 317 tons. Germany has one gunboat built and half a d Z3n building of 15 knots. She has also the unarmored cruisers Prinz Adalbert and Leipzig, 3,925 tons; the Alexandrine and Areona, 2,370 tons; the Charlotta, 3,360 tons; the Freya, 2,017. Of 16-knot vessels she has the unarmored Hohenzollern, 1,700 tons; the Pfeil and Blitz, 1,382 tons; the Ziethen, 975. She has no vessels of 17 knots, but she haa under construction the Wacht of 1,240 tons, which is expected to go 19 kncts, and the Grief of 2,000. for which 20 knots are promised. She has also three un- armored /essels building, the Irene, Princess ^ilhelm, and one other, of 4,400 tons each, which are to make 18 knots. Spain h»B an armor-clad, the Palayo, of 9,902 tons, which makes 15 knots, besides two unarmored cmisera of 3,342 tona each, two othersof 1,152 tona, twoof 1,030, and four of 1.- She haa none classed aa 16, and none aa 18- knot veaaela but of 17-knot unarmored cruiaera ahe has tbe Arragon of 3.342 tona, and the Reina Criatina, the Rdina Meroedea, and the Alfonao XIL, each of 3,090. Spain ia becoming famoua for faat war veasels, and haa under conatmction no fewer than aix armored 19-knota cruiaera of 7 ,000 tona, each. She has alao already buUt the famoua unarmored Riena Regents of 5.6 tone, making 20 knota, the faateat veaael of her claaa in the world. Thia cruiaer may be practically the model for the new 20 knot nnarmored veaael of 5,300 tons displacement provided for in the pending House Naval Appropriation bill. Spain has also the DeBtraotor, of 458 tona, a SO-knot ve ael, and both of the Ralna Rsgeate and of the 20 knot torpedo typea she is building three more veaaela each. Russia haa one armored aud three nnarm- ered veaaela of 15 knota, and ia building three armored veaaela the Tohesma, Sinope, and Catherine li., of 10. 181 tona each, to go 16 knota. She alaohas five middle-claaairon- clada, the Dmitri Donakoi, of 17 knota, and the Admiral Nachimoff, Alexander II., Nioholaa I., and Pamjatz Azova of 18 knots. She haa an nnarmored cmiaer of 19 knota, the Admiral Komiloff, and two amall oraft of 20 knota. Brazil haa her famoua Riaohoelo of 16 knota and Aqnidabaa of 15, beaidea the nnarmored Almirante Tamandam of 17 knota. Chili haa the renowned £jmera|ida of 18 knota, and a larger veaael bnilding of 19. Anatrla haa one armored veaael et 16 knota and one of 17, beaidea two nnarmored emis- era of 19 knota and one of 18, witb three Bmall torpedo Iwati ot 20. China' armor- ed veaaela teetede oae of 15, two ot 16, and eno ef IZfanati, vWla Ae haa ftijUT Tininniii et cmiaarB of Ifi. few M 16 «n4 tpo o{ nnarmored cmiaer of the same apeed, and 8h9 haa three veaaela of the famoua Namwa type, 3,650 tona, and 18 knota. ^heae atatiatica ahow that the Honae Naval Committee, in now calling for one more 17-knot armored cmiaer, two more 19-knot unarmored croiaera, and one 20-knot cmiser, are only on a level with the timea. (( 'U«w* Eztia Polite. The moat extreme urbanity of the bowing and amiling white merchant palea into m«re oourteay when compared to the anavity, the delicate anbtlety, of the "colored" keeper of a little croaaroada atore or a ahop m aome of the " darky towna"of the Senth or Weat When Mr. Pompey Lycurgna Wintergreen aeea Mra. Jenny Jackaon entering hia ahop he meeta her at the door with a oonrtly bow and graceful wave of the hand aid aaya;: "How, do, Mia' Jackaon? Come in, Mia Jackaon, come right in. An' how'a all de folka wid yo, Mia' Jackson " " 'Bout de aame aa dey gin'rally am, MiBtah Wintergreen. Mia* Wintergreen an' de chtllun well? " Yea'm, dey ia, Mia' Jackson dey s reely quite fuat-rate. I heerd yo' baby bin aick." " Yea, it waa ao. H'it waa pow'fnl bad off fo* moa' a week, but hit'a 'about well now, Miatah Wintergreen." " Dat'a right, Mia' Jackson dat'a right Sickneaa in de family am a great tribillation, 'deed it am. Anything I kin aarve yon to. Mis' Jackson " " Got any right good mack'rel, Mistah Wintergreen " " Mack'rel, Mis' Jackson 'Deed I'se got some ob de finest mack'rel yo' eber see. Now dar's a mack'rel dat am a mack'rel." " Hit do look nice, I muat say dat, Mistah Wintertergreien. " " Nice, Mia' Jackson? Dat am a feeble word to sprees w't dat mack'rel am, 'deed it am, Mis' Jackson." "I'll take one ob em, sah." "Couldn't use two ob 'em, Miii' Jackson Dey'll keep, yo' know." " No, Mistah Wintergreen, I dono as I could. We ain't right found ob mack'rel nohow. Reckoned I'd git a little fo' a change." " Yes 'm hit's all right, I ain't gwine hab no trouble eellin' mack'rel like dese. Now, w'at else. Mis' Jackson ' ' How's sugar." Mista W inttrgreen " " It am gwin up right 'long. Mis' Jskck- aon." "Dat so, Mistah Wintergreen? Den I better hab a pound." " Bettah say a pound an' a half." ' No our folks likes merlasses fo' sweet- nin' bout well as sugab." " Dat so \\ ell, dat am lucky, ' deed it am so. Mis' Jackson. Now wa't else. Mis' Jackson " " I'll look at some calico, if you please, Mistah Winiergreeiii." " Yes 'm, yes 'm, wid the greatest pleas- ure in life. Mis' Jackson. I'se glad I'se got aomethin' a lady ob yo' taste cayn't help likin.' I said to myself w'en I bought dat caliker, I said, 'Now dat'll suit Misa Jinny Jackson y ' deed I said dat very word. Now ain't dat nice calico, ma'am 1" "It really am, Mistah Wintergreeii." " I knowed yer say dat, Mis' Jackson." " Yo' doo't reckon dat green figgar '11 fade Mistah Wintergreen?" " What Caliker like datpade. Mis' Jack- son Yo's jokin' fo' sure. Dat's de very bes' Merry mack caliker. Mis' Jackson." " Hit do look like a right good pieje, but de figgahs am a little large." " Ho, no. Mis' Jackson now dar's whar I knows mo' 'bout de fashions 'n w't yo does. Big figgahs is all de go now." "Dat so?" " Hit reely am. Mis' Jackson. How many j^a'ds shall I cut off, ma'am " •"Bout ten, sah." " Better say 'leven. Miss Jackson." " No ten'U do. I ain't gwine trim hit much." V Hain't? Well, now, caliker like dU'U make up right stylish 'tbout much flubdub tery in de way ob rufiies an' sicb." " Dat am reely so." " Wat else. Mis' .Jackson " " Nothin mo"^, tab." " No I'se sorry 'deed I am." "Gool day, Mutah Wintergreen." "Good day. Mis' Jackson; good day Real gratit Jde is always rel though the terms Iq which be neither elegant nor gru deed, U the Irishman menwT?*' £ expresaed hia feelings in^We1»6 ia liioBt likely that nobodyTB^,?'*««U thought of reporting or qVoSf *li5 An Iriahman belongii, to » uV ment ref naed to receive wy fl^ "S ma am. replied Pat "And didn't me back, and Commiaaion, though aadly in J^'""' articlea of clothing. Want, how.lS'l'*^ ^umphed over will, and he â- Â«. •"»*Bt Seeing the delegate agrin. h^»^I^ " Sir, they tell me ye «ieWilS"'»S "They are miataken," was a,. " Didn't you aay « God bless v* i- .v brought you the shirt and thei^!?*' the socks the other day "' "*«« ttd " i mind it," said the soldier. •• And did they do you any ^r "Good!" replied Pat •- they warm me feet and warmi warm me all over " "Well," replied the deleeat* «'n,... thepaywegetf" ' "» " Is that it? is that it?" sBked Pat, with a look of admirmg wonder. And then nZ: ing the donor's hand, he exclaimed '"3 blees you I And m»y you live foriVer.rd may your wife live longer nor you do anS may ivery one of your chUdren be ai fatu a pig and as white " The Mistake She Male. At a party the hostess said to a guest- " I want you to entertain Mr. Blank a little- he looks bored to death. I will introduce him and you must try to amuse him. You kno w his strong point is butter, on which he ha) written a book." The lady guest graciously undertook the task of entertaining the man, inwardly won- dering that he should be so interested is butter â€" of which she knew very little- when his face indicated a mind given to much profound thiakiog. However, with butter in view, ahe began on the weather, gradually got to the country, then onto a farm, from that to cows, and at last to butter. The man looked more bored than ever, the magic word butter pro ducing not the slightest effect, and he left her somewhat abruptly and soon withdrew from the house. " I did my best," she explained to the hostess " I went through agonies to prove that I was deeply interested in butter, but it was all in vain." ' Butter!" exclaimed the hostess. "What possessed you to talk to that man, of all men, on butter I told yon be bad jutt written a book on Buddha, and I knev how deeply you two were interested in the same subject." And they said in chorus " Gracious " All Keen-Sighted a? a Hawk, birds of prey have an extent and ISknota. Ji 4^140 tJTtinlriiaiiiin.^S'HeitMSL tmA, «f M kipt% Ki4 an No Wonder Mn. Tomzon Started for Home. Three days after Mra. Tomzon left the home nest to spend a six weeks' vacation with her mother she received a letter from her husband who was left behind. After reading it she announced her firm ani unal- terable determination to return immediately. " But, my dear, what ia wrong " aaked the mother. " Wrong I Wrong Just read that " and she handed the loving epistle to her mother, who read as follows When uncontrovertbl clama upon the jailuaies of dormant efeotion riste to the sur- tace of occarion. 1 am all right. How are yon Inoomprehensibilts may wreck thinga what then Yoq all rit So I. I^or if a man don't take care thinga, thinga won't take care him. That right So am I. For tn live in oongor ia better than to afection a dly. If yon love I as we love mr, Ho wife can bust our love in three. " Mercy on me What doea that mean And can't he apell 7" exclaimed the old lady. " Spell Of conrae he can. But hell have a worlse spell than that when I get home I" anaweted the daughter, vicioualy. The Stomaohe of Horses. Horaee have amall atomacha; remember thia. A good jplan iato divide com rations into three daily portiona â€" the hay, too. Many object to givins hay juat previona to work, aa it dutenda the atomaoH and oaniea the animal inconvenience. Delioate feeders muat be tempted to take their rathma, and ahould never hp fed too atrongly at one time. A " Scotch plate" ia a rale very generally obaerved in England â€" everything cleaned up before placing other food in the racks or mangera. A HtUe llnaeed boiled to a jeHy and mixed with the oom ia aednctive. Hay dampened ana salted will tempt othera. Beans, a double handful, «ra» teliah in weakly subjects pale malt for the oonvale- soent or indianosed damp iMnm and oats are engagfa^ for otiiers. Some grooms gtre onrots sad tfens in small quatttias. Oar- rots nv^^nondinbetea If idyenin exoes- â- ' -^^ ' â-  â- ' '•- â- ^- â- â-  *• ^.: W-'" ' r- â- ** power of vision suited to their mode of get- ting a living. The hawk, in particular, it proverbial for his keen sight What is told of the kestrel catching mice on ploughed Jand will give one an idea of what thU bird is capable of in the way of watching. The bird was perched on a tree fully a hundred yards from where the nearest plough passed up and down. Ever and again it flew to, hovered for a time be'iind one ot the ploughmen, and returned always to its position on the tree. Getting interest- ed in Its proceedings, and wishing to ascer. tain its purpose, we walked up and down the field with one of the ploughmen. Evident- ly not liking our appearance, it did not again come near the plough we accom- panied. However, we had ample opportunities o. observing its habits at the other plough^ and found it was in pursuit of mice whictt were frequently unearthed. At times the ploughs were between two and three hundred yards from its perch, but on a mouse appearing, it was quickly »m and flown at bv the kestrel In "«»' ««^ the mice got out of the way beww " "" rival of ihe hawk, when it hovered above the place for a time, and returned to tbe tree. Twice, however, we saw it pow' upon and carry off a mouse. old A Warning to loung Ladies. YouEg Udies-and, for that matter, ladies as well-who bave bestowed affections upon gentlemen «»]»*« f%^. of age, should closely 8t«/y, ** Holm^ V. Briarley, concluded the other^ the Court of Queen's Bench Jjj in Holm^ became engaged ^toefhe -^^ while he was a mmor, „, hia majority, on account of f^\r^l„i her father's'pecnniary position she offg^ to release him from his eng»g«?«°Luned, offer Mr. BrUrley ^^f^,X^«' though K~b^^~-?y.?irD?d Kf-"" appreciate. Baron """""IV that there jSirice Charles have determined^'^^o„ waa no new promiae, but onij^rj ^^ Baron Huddlestone "w^Saritifiction 1, but only » "i^fMet, of the old "and invalid Promi«.J^„ therefore, who wiah tomake »»^»S «• aure, murt lay to heart the d«J«^ tween a ratifiqatton and f^^^'J^t^J They must be absolutely and "n?""" ^gy «« off with the old engagement before tne, on with the new. .^ ♦^ ' The Pope's BncyoUcal. The Pope'a enoycUcJ on liber^J^^ Human liberty in mdividuate, « "^fy rf and Governmente, impb" rZJlw^^ conforming to a wpreme natton« j emanatNfrom Goi F^e fh" ^»* enemy of honoBt legitimate WjJJj^ g an enemy of l»«?»»t-»r S " UberaUsm or nationalism, wTatftevety that there ia no aupenor l»f ' "^j ^ligK* one must form his own t»«°5»»S' Snoh doctrine tends to deattoy »»J ,^ neaa. the difference between ^^ ^^ between jnatice and wjn'***' ;^Chtf* ^oroe the iole baaia rf -ociej^. *^ ^j^jn U not an enemy of democracy, no form of gov wnment • The June bug di»PP-^"°" The skeeter t»k«" " J^gtaf- And says: ««rveooinew ROUGHltj CHAPTER II. QUEBEC. .^Muof the West !â€" upon thy i 'r-lL.litary grandeur aternly T.^iS3n3««ytbouaitt;atal By Natnre'a maater-hand jje world haa not thy conn dower, Ktemal beauty, atrength, an power. a^M. donds enfold thee in their »e lightning glances harmle brow; jta lond-voioed thunder canno »*â- *' .^. .. -AX Ot warring waves that idly The at»rm aboveâ€" the waters y^j nge and fo»m, they bij seat. «be mighty river, as it onwarc To pour ita flooda in ocean s fbecks at thy feec ita fien guahea, j^nd gently fa wna thy rocky Stem eagle of the crag I thy h The mountain home of heaven jyne to themaelvea, thy childn The power and malice of a wo Wbfle Britain'a flag, beneath 1 sky. Spreads ita rich folia and wind; The offsprings of her glorious If ay rest securely in their moi On the 5th of September, tl weighed, and we bade a Ion Groaae Isle, As our vessel st 5luuu,el, I cast a last lingerin leautiful shores we were leav in the arms of the St. Lawrei ing in the bright rays of the the island and its sister groun iecondEden just emerged fro of chaos. With what joy coul the rest of the fall inexplorin features of that enchanting sci bark spread her white wings t breeze, and the fairy vision gr ed from my sight, tojremain tablets of my memory. The day was warm, and heavens of that peculiar aza gives to the Canadian skies brilliancy unknown in mor tndes. The air was pure a sun shone out in uncommon s ing up the changine woods w low colorinsf, compof ed of a liant and vivid dyes. The rolled flashing and sparklir polled by a strong breeze, i short rolling surges with a c foam. Had there been no other ol in the landscape than this i its vast magnitude, and the 3 neaa of its waters, and its gre to the colony, would have bei haverivited the attention, a admiration of every thinkini Jnever shalll forget thai from Groaae Isle to Quebec, »ll, after the lapse of so mai object that awoke in m] tions of astonishment and wonderiul combinations o grandeur, and power, at e that noble river How the with the sublimity of the aoara upward in gratitude ai the Author of all being, to havinff made tiiia lower worl ly furâ€" a living temple, hea capable of receiving the hon riiippera. Every perception of my n aerbed into the one aense o upon reaching Point Levi, before Quebec. What a s world produce such anoth had been the beau ideal to waa beautiful in Nature- northern Highlanda had hai acroaa the Atlantic but all eollections faded before Quebec. Nature haa lavished all h menta to form this astonie There frowns the cloud c\ and below, the cataract f oai wood, and rock, and river i their ud in making the pic worthy of iU Divine Ortgii The precipitous bank eity lies pUed, reflected ii watera at ita baae, great romantic beauty cf the mellow .and aerene glow day harmonized ao perf aolemn grandeur of the b( and Bank ao silently and aoul, that my apirit fell pn aud I melted involuntarily regardleaa of the eager cro leuit upon the aide of the like' a child â€" ^not teara of i from the heart of pure and I heard not the many voic my ears â€" I saw not the an thronged our narrow deck moment was alone with G of His glory rested visibly objects that composed â- cene words are perfec describe the impression i1 mind â€" tiie emoti.«na it pre homage I waa capable of c â- brine was tearsâ€" teara tl end ainoeie tiiat ever flo eyes.' I never before felt ny own iudgnificance, ai night and majesty of the OsnatianB, rejoice in yc Rejoioe and be worthy of few, of the sona of men ca spot as Quebecâ€" and excli •~Qod gave her to ua ii ^rength 1â€" We will Uve wiUlloto defend her li1 to raise lier majestic \xco\ Mtiiasl ^Leek At die situation foonded on the rock Ikoli^kof tlM UU- *»tt» ofcei slwTe the wat %»ii(iaM aad their str .Isjlyfeet. ^mlSBMdiaas Iâ€" as long i j^ y wirsehres and her, w^ cMpA' ««ac-daM to pla |»|«|Hii tock-defended ^Mlltipir'ii fortress ren iQK%%^i4«( Batnre T IMi#jtt,'««iL love, ' PWN|git«elU0yat to whi •*" :^3o