ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH." You'd be *vei "** fo for ^K Al^ Of pe d« thought Waa to •ie «ntire. j'ad come all fu^ ' 't' tale to '"' the ' meet ,,;«ed80ma,ytl^i^S lie this was goii^"' »*:»» !y dumb. Thi • '*lo r 7«y carefali"joong Ilook Ipoiated I Ce«a solemnity painful |res8!ve inT;^'"" '"iter lA'Dfe' to say v. ""• toy ' '" ^^Puiehral tcne« '•â- " remonstrated iii« lautitl^^'"""^^--, ira«t triP^ to make •I tried by every Danf'"" *°e tpon the little «hT,-*^*- 'er opinion, decli« -«h-g thing^lreX' r the Toilet. ^ho wants to keen k- """« the aumm^iS the glass stoppers 3 "Whatever is insi/e^h" «hed or sunJurnc A the basin of warn, ^*^« » to be bath^ wUf have a deiigbtfnllv e.perfumeisdelfghfZ o^n cools the .ki.S seep It smooth. ast have ammonia. If country, water as hard fre man mav be 1 m may giren ited liomd wiU make customed to the water er bottle should have 1 to be liberally applied e especially bad, and they prey upon one le daytime. The best to pour plenty of the four ankles letting the ioronghly and become u there is anything a ;e, and from which powerful, if not agree- course, you will take earn or milk for sun- wise you wiU have bble It on your face sun has treated yon irritate the already nibbing it in. ons. great vaiiety of fab- ominent features of tn among them the )U8ewife may fashion Qg costumes at com- lay. Many persons Summer goods until so that they can reduction in prices that time. While resses have changed ^r, yet these changes hat they are adopt- r, and so extremes its of dresses are bort, or with long Vests are almost e of great variety naterial, they arf eats or puffs if of re made flat, and alloons or revers. e mutton lee, are the cott sieeve, or some time past, bumnres are less t them altogether, dths of siUc and â- ed but tlie backs .re again in use, ways, as a single kirt, or in rows me side between across the front rapery between. I, and cross foldd ire omitted the lery to produce ito account the jcllars still pre- itumes are made J a turned-over olds of silk laid hter)â€" And » r young Samp. the day is set, and we are to ly dear, I have t asking too ig me cards to ised for decor- as arsenicaUy Oat of forty id In LondoDf hreehftdonly «d, and nj«« eron.." Oi» iqiiare V^ aAPTER IV. â€" (COXTIXtTED.) '«" the British shores on the l«t of Ja- "'.j5:in:hor.ias I have already shown, 'â- "-ne casile of St. Louis, at Quebec, on |*iif Jof Ssptember, 1832. Tom Wilson PV-'-e Is- '^^ ^*y» "" ***•* speedy l*'*^,'" jad wa^, as we heard irom his |#"r:'.omfor:ably settled in the bosh, had â- i^^:. -^ j-^jjf,^ arid meant to commence â- "doaa in the falL All this was good if* ^^ as he was settled near my bro- "" io:ition, we congratulated onraelvea **' ,y eccentric friend had found a home ^: ' wilderness at last, and that we should ' 5f€ him again. "vihen-.hof September, tne steamboat j-^j!?: /r. landed us at the then small J'fisiae town of on Lake Tne night was dark and rainy crowded with emigrants •aid \^o. On- the and hen ^^ arr"^d at the inn, we learnt that WM BO room for us â€" not a bed to be 'j • 3or was it likely, owing to the num. I ' Jf gn^Dgers that had arrived for several " u, ;£ja we could obtain cne by search- â- ^ farther. Moodie requested the use of a for me during the nii^bt bat even that „a;ed a demnr from the landlord. J Whilst I awaited the result in a passage, girded with strange faces, a p».ir of eyes -iinced apon.m- through the throng. Was U possible ?â€" could it be Tom Wilson? [Hd any other human being ever possess ggch eyea, or use them in such an eccentric I grocer Iq another second he had poshed I jij way to niy side, whispering in my ear, I'We icet, 'twas in a crowd." "Tom Wilson, is that you!'" Do you doubt it I flatter myself that ^e is 30 likeness of such a handsome f«liow :o be found in the world, it is I, I jvear :â€" although very little of me is left to swear by. The best part of me I have left to fatten the musquitoes and black flies io that infernal bush. But where is Moodie ' "Tnere he is â€" tryiiig to induce Mr. 3, -, for love or money, to let me have jbed for the night." " Ycu shall have mine," said Tom. " I eui sleep upon the floor of the parlor in a bUuker, Indian fashion. It's a bargain â€" I'll go and settle it with the Y'ankee directly Iw'atbe best fellow in the world I In the meanwhile here is a little parlor, which is a jjioc-stcak affair between some of us young aopefulg for the time being. Step in here, ' and I will go for Moodie I long to tell him viiai I think of this confoanded conntry. Bat yea will find it out all in good time " ud rubbing his hands together with a most Uvely and mischievous expression, he shoci^iered his way througb trunks, and boxes, and anxious faoes, to communicate to my riusband che arrangement he had so kindly made for us. ".\j;epttnia gentleman's offer, sir, till to-ncrrow," said Mr. S "I can then make more comfortable arrangements for yonr family but we are crowded â€" crowded to excess. My wife and daughters are obliged t} sleep in a little chamber over the stable, CO give cur guests more room. Hard that, I guess, for decent people to locate over the horses." Toese matters settled, Moodie returned with Tom Wilson to the little parlor, in which I had alreiwly made myself at home. 'â- 'vVell, now, is it not funny that I should be the drst to welcome you t) Canada " said Tom. " .Sut what are yon doing here, my dear fellow ' " shaking every day with the agae. But I oc'j;d laugh in spite of my teeth to hear them make such a confounded rattling you wou!d thick they were all quarrelling which ahonld first get out of my month. This shaking mania forms one of the chief attrac- tions 01 this new country.*' " I fear," said I, remarking how thin and pile hs hal become, " that this climate can- not agree with you." 'Xor I with the climate. Well, we shall soon be quits, for, to let you into a secret, I am now on my way to England." â- • Impossible I" "It la true." "And the farm; what nave you done wi-.h i: ' 'SMdit." "And your outfit?" "Slid that too." "to whom?" " To one who will take better cire of both tiian I did Ah such a country â€" such peo- ple â€" such rogues It beats Australia iiollow you know your customers there â€"but hsre you have to find them out. 5u.h a take in 1 â€" God forgive them! I never oould take care of money and, one way or other, they have cheated me out of all .T.ine. I have scarcely enough left to pay Tny passage home. But, to provide agftiiist the worst, I have bought a young beir, aspleniid fellow, to make my peace "i.b my uncle. Yon must see him he is ciise by in the stable." " To-morrow we will pay a visit to Bruin; bit: :o night do tell ui something about yoar- 3e;f, and your residence in thela8b." " Vou will know enough about the bush by .ind-by. I am a bad historian," he con- tim-,ei, stretching out his legs, and yawning Qonibly, •' a worse biographer. I never can nud words to relate facts. Bat I will try what I can do mind, don't laugh at my bluTiders." 'Ve promised to be aerions â€" no eaay mat- ter while looking at and listening to Tom '^iU'.o, and he gave OS, at detached inter- nals, the following acoonnt of himEelf â€" " My troubles began at sea. We had a lair voyage and all that but my poor dog, niy beautiful Djchess Jâ€" that beauty in the beastâ€" died. I wanted to read the faneral service over her, bat the captain interfered 7 the brute â€" and threatened to throw me into the sea along with the dead bitch, as tile unmannerly ruffi in paraUted in calling my canine friend. I never rooke to him f^in during the voyage. Nothing hap- pened worth relating until I got to this P.ace, where I chanced to meet a friend who Knew your brother, and I went up with him to the woods. Most of the wise men of (^Jtham we mst on the road were bound to -he woods so felt hi^py that I waa, at ^t, in the fashion. Mr. waa very kmd, and spoke in raptnrea of the wooda, which formed the theme of conT«nation daring onr jonmeyâ€" their beanty, their vastness, the comfort and indepwdanoe eojoyed by those who bad aettled in them »nd he so inspired me with the anbject that did nothing all day bnt aing aa we rode aioDg " A life in the woods for me " °D'il we cAme to the woods, and than I learned to sing that same, aa 1^ Iridii says, on the other side of my month." Here succeeded a long pause, daring which friend Tom aeemed mightily tiokled with his reminiscences, for he leaned back in bis chair, and, from time to time, gave way to loud, hollow bursts of laughter, " Tom, Tom are yon going mad?" my hasband, shaking him. " I never was sane, that I know rf," re- turned he. Yoa know that it runs in the family. Bat do let me have my laugh out. The woods Ha ha 1 When I used to be roaming through those woods, shooting, â€" though not a thing could I ever find to shoot, for birds ai3 beasts are not such fools as our English emigrants and I chanced to think of yoa coming to spend the rest of your lives in the woodsâ€" I used to stop, and hold my sides, and laugh until the woods rang again. It. waa the only consola- tion 1 had." "Good heavens " said I, " let us never go to the woods." " Yoa will repent if you do," continued Tom. ' ' Bat let me pfboeed on my journey. My bones were well-nigh didocated before we got to D The roads for the last twelve miles were nothing bat a succes- sion of madholes, covered with the most ingenious invention ever thon?ht of for rackins; the limbs, called corduroy bridges not breeches, mind yoa, â€" for I thought whilst jolting up and down over them, that I should arrive at my destioation niinus that indispensable ooverins. It was night when we pot to Mr. • s place. I was tired and hungry, my face dlsfigared and blistered by the unremitting attentions of the black flies that rose in swarms from the river. I thought to get a private room to wash and dress in, but there is no such thing as privacy in this country. In the bosh, all things are in common yon cannot even get a bed without having to share it with a companion. A bed on the floor in a public sleeping-room 1 Think of that a pnblic sleeping-room â€" men, women, and children, only divided by a paltry curtain. Oil, ye sods I think of the snoring, squalling, grumbling, puffing think of the kicking, elbowing, and crowding the suffocating heat, the musquitoes, with their infernal bnzzing â€" and you will foirm some idea of the misery I endured the first night of my arrival in the bush. ' But these are not half the evils with which you have to contend. You are pes- tered with nocturnal visitants far more dis- agreeable than even the musquitoes, and must put up with annoyances more disgust- ing than the crowded close room. And then, to appease the cravings of hunger, fat pork is served to you three times a day. No wonder that the Jews eschewed the vile animal they were jpeople of taste. Pork, morning noon, and night, swimming in its own grease .! The bishop who complained of partridges every day should have been condemned to three months' feeding upon pork in the bush and he would have beoome an anchorite, to escape the horrid sights of swine's fissh for ever spread before him. No wonder I am thin I have been starved â€" stturved upon pritters and pork, and that disgusting specimen of unleavened bread, yclept cakes in the pan. "I had such a horror of the pork diet, that whenever I saw the dinner In progress I fled to the canoe, in the hope of drowning upon the waters reminiscence of the hateful ban- quet but even here the very fowls of the air and the reptiles of the deep lifted up their voices, and shouted, 'Pork, pork, pork ' " M remonstrated with his friend for deserting the country for such minor evils as these, which, after all, he said, could easily be borne. "Easily borne I" exclaimed the indignant Wilson. " Go and try them and tell me that. I did try to bear them with a good grace, but it would no do. I offended every- body with my grumbling. I was constantly reminded by the ladies of the house that gentlemen should not come to this country without they were able to put up with a littlt inconvenience that I should make as good a settler as a butterfly in a beehive that it was impossible to be nice about food and dress in the biuh that people must learn to eat what they could get, and be content to be shabby and dirty, like their neighbors in the busht â€" uncil that horrid word bush became synonymous with all that was hateful and revolting in my mind. " It was impossible to keep anything to myself. The children pulled my books to pieces to look at the pictures and an im- pudent, bare-legged Irish servant girl took my towel to wipe the dishes with, and my clothes brash to black shoes â€" an operation which she performed with a mixture of soot and greese. 1 thought I should be better off in a place of my own, so I bought a wild farm that was recommended to me, and paid for it double what it was worth. When I came to examine my estate, I found there was no house upon it, and I should have to wait until the tall to get one put up, and a few acres cleared for cultivation. I was glad to return to my old quarters. " Finding nothing to shoot in the woods I determined to amuse myself with fishing but Mr. could not always lend his oanoe, and there was no other to be had. To pass away the time, I set about making •M. I bought an axe, and went to the for- est to select a tree. About a mile from the lake, I found the largest pine I ever saw. I did not much like to try my maiden band upon it^ for it was |he first and the last I ever cut down. Bat to it I went and I blessed God that it reached the ground without killing me in its way thither. When I was about it, I thought I might as well make the canoe big enough but the bulk of the tree deceived me in the length of my vessel, and I forgot to measure the one that belonged to Mr. It took me six wefks hollowing it out, and when it was finished, it was as long as a sl6op-of-war, and too unwieldy for all the oxen in the township to draw it to the water. After all my labour, my combata with those wood- demons tlM black-fllsa, sand- flies, and mns- quitoes, my boat remains a useless monu- ment of my industry. And worse than this, the fatigue I had endured, while working at it late and early," brooght on the agae whioh SQi dhgu'tod ma with the country that I sold ny farm and all my traps for an old song purchased Bruin to bear me com- rmj on my voyage home and the moment am able to get riid of this tormenting fever, lamofL" Argwnent and remonstrance were alike in vain, he ooold not be dlinaded from his pupoM. TomwasMobatittateasiilsboar. Tm aezt moniag lia ooDdootsd ns to the stable to see Bruin. The young denizen of the forest was tied to the mangw, qnietiy masticating a cob of Indian com, which ha held in Us paw, and looked half human as he nt upon hit haunohaa. rwarding us witii a aolemn, mMaoooIy aft. ThaM wm aa ex- traordinary likamss, quite ludicrous, be tween Tom and Oa bsw. We said nothinA but uchaoged glaaoss. Tom nad our thoumts. "Yea," said he. " ther« is a strong re- semblanoa; I saw it whtn I boaghthim. Perhaps we are brothers " and takmg in his hand the chain that held the bear, be be- stowed upon him sundry fraternal caresses, which tiie ungrateful Bruin returned with low and savage growls. "He can't flatter. He's all truth and sincerity. A child of nature, and worthy to be my friend the only Canadian I ever mean to admowledga as such." About an hour siter this, poor Tom was diakins with ague, which In a few days re- duced him so low that I began to think he never would see hii native Acres again. He bore the affliction very philosophically, and aU his well days he spent with us. One day my husband was absent, having Moompanied Mr. 8 to inspect a farm, wliioh ne afterwards purchased, and I had to rt through the Ions day in the best manner couM. The locu papers were soon ex- hausted. At that period, they ponessed littie or no interest for me. I was astonished and disgusted at the abusive manner in which they were written, the freedom of the press being enjoyed to an extant in this pro- vince unknown in more civilized commani- ties. Men, in Canada, may call one arother rogues and miscreants, in the most approved Billingsgate, through the medium of the newspapers, which are a sort of safety- valve to let off all the bad feelinn and miJignant passions floating through the country, with- out any dread of the horsewhip. Hence it is the commonest thing In the world to hear one editor abusing, like a pickpocket an op- position brother calling him a repliUâ€"a crawlingtMngâ€"acalum,niatorâ€"a hiredvendor of lita, and Mi paper a smut machineâ€" a vile, corruption, as base and de^roMied as the proprietor, c. Of this description was the paper I now held in my hand, which had the impadence to style itself the Reformer â€" not of morals or manners, certainly. If one might jadge by the vulgar abuse that de- filM every page of the preoioiu document. I soon flung it from me, thinking it worthy ot the fate of many a better production in the olden times, th»t of being burned by the common hangman but, happily, the office of hangman has oecome obsolete in Canada, acd the editors of these refined joumals may go on abusing their betters with impunity. Books I had none, and I wished that Tom would make his appearance, and amuse me with his oddities but he had suffered so much from the ague thd day before that when he did enter the room to lead me to dinner, he looked like a walking corpse â€" the dead among the living I so dark, so livid, so melancholy, it was really painful to look upon him. " I hope the ladies who frequent the or- dinary, won't fall in love with me," said hs, grinning at himself in the miserable looking- glass that formed the case of the Yankee clock, and was ostentatiously displayed on a side table " I look quite killing to-day. What a comiFort it Is, Mrs. M to be above all rivalry." In the middle of dinner, the company was disturbed by the entrance of a person who had the appearance of a gentleman, but who was evidently much flustered with drinking. He thrust his chair In between two gentlemen who sat near the head ot the table, and In a loud voloe demanded fish. " Fish, sir " said the obsequious waiter, a ereat favourite with all persons who fre- quented the hotel " there is no fish, sir. There was a fine salmon, sir. had you come sooner but 'tis all eaten, sir." " Then fetch me something, smart " " I'll see what I can do, sir," said the obliging Tim, harrying out. Tom Wilson was at the head of the table, carving a roast pig, and was in the act of helping a lady, when the rude fellow thrust his fork into the pig, calling out as he did 80. " Hold, sir I srive me some of that pig You have eaten among you all the fish, and now you are going to appropriate the best parts of the pig." Tom raised his eyebrows, and stared at the stranger In his peculiar manner, then very coolly placed the whole of the pig on his plate. " I have heard," he said, " of dog eating dog, but I never before saw pig eating pig." " bir 1 do you mean to insult me ' cried the stranger, his face crimsoning with an- ger. " Only to tell yoa, sir, that you are no gentieman. Here, Tim," taming to the waiter, " go to the stable and bring In my bear we will place him at the table to teach this man how to behave himself In the pre- sence of ladies. A general uproar ensued the women left the table, while the entrance of the bear threw the gentlemen present into convulsions of laughter. It was too much for the human biped he was forced to leave the room, and succumb to the bear. My hasband concluded his purchase of the faro, and invited WiJson to go with ns into the conntry and try If change of air would be beneficial to him for in his then weak state it was impossible for him to re- turn to hingland. His funds were getting ver; low, and Tom thankfully accepted the offer. Lsav'ng Bruin in the charge of Tim (who delighted in the oddities of the strange English gentlaman, Tom made one of onr p jfty to (to BE COKTINUBD.) Oratora. It is encouraging to young speakers to know that there never has beui, and never will be, such a thing as a "bora orator." There has never yet been an instance of an oratttrbriixaB Jnyf i UB i W 'm hu did not amiy hinoaeU assidnoudy jto the cultivation of his *ri. Many arfts nad to overcome gteat phy sical infirmities that rendered it almost hope- less for th«m to adlp|r the career of a public speaker. The best known instance b that of De- mosthenes, who passed some months in a snbterraneui cell, shaving one side of his head so that he could not appear in public. Ha tbere praotioed witii pebUes In his mouth to OTwooma a defect in his speech, and ges- ticulated beneath a suspended sword to rid himself of an ungraceful movement of the shoulder. Even then hs was hisssd from the benm in hit early efforts, but he persevered â€"the world luiows with what sucoees. Whan RcdMTt Waipole first spoke in the House hs paused for want of words and oon- tinaed only ti stutter and stammer. Cur- ran was known at school at stutteriiig Jack Curran," and in a debating society which he joined, as "Orator Mum." Every one will also readily recall Disraeli's failure when he rose to make his maiden speech. Cobden'a first effort was also a hu mi l i ating failure. But one ahould not condade from these instances that every speaker who breaks down is sure to bloisom into fame snbscquentiy. We have been quoting the exceptions to the general mis. More ficquentiy speakers' mishaps are like that of the Earl of Rochester. " My lords," said he, on one occasion, I â€" 1â€" I rise this time, my lords, Iâ€" Iâ€" I divide my discourse Into four branches." Here he came to a woeful pause, and then he add«d: " My lords. If ever I rise again In this house I give you leave to cut me off root and branch forever." Many of the best orators have even to their latest efforts, felt a tremor on rising to speak. Eraklne said that on his rising to plead tor the first time he should have sat down In confusion had he not felt his children tagging at his gown. The Earl of Darby, "the Rupert of debate," always knew when he was going to speak well by his nervousness on rising. This was also a characteristic of Craning. At a din- ner given by the Mayor of Liverpool he was so nervous before being called on to speak that he had twice to leave the room to collect hli thoughts. This may have been, however, owing to the comparative novelty of his position. Many an orator outside his accustomed haunts is completely lost. Lord Eldon said he was al vays somewhat nervous in speaking at the Goldsmiths' D'lnner, though he could talk before Parliament as thonsh he were addressing so many rows of cabbage plants. Mr. Cobden, speaUng of Lord John Russell, said " On the boards of the Hoase of Commons Johnny is one of the most subtle and dangerous of opponents; take him off these boards and 1 care nothing for him." To few was it given as to O'Connell to succeed equally with all audiences. Before he entered the Houie hs was declared to be a mere " mob orator;" but in 1830 ho was returned, and in 1831 he was recog- nlisd at a leider. Wuether In swaying a multitude on a hillside, appealing to the more educated assembly In Parliament, or in persuading a jury in a court house, he equally at home. A Wife's Little Joke She â€" " I'm so glad you can stay to tea. Sach a joke as I'm going to have on my hns band. He's always growling about my cooking, and to-day hu mother happened to drop in and I got her to make some bii- cuit. tVon't he feel cheap when he begins to oritioise and then finds out hit mother made them herself." o; HALF AN HOITB LATKB. Heâ€"*' My dear, you're becoming aa angel of.a cook. These biscuits are as fine as my miother makes." Some of the prettist seaside toQeta an of white cloth, braided with gold and oolOMd braids, or trinuned with Oriental miiA- dery bands. Fine armure silks in bird's-eya psttstas an intlMlooBuof Fraaoein pnparatian foraazt ion's wear. The Tendency of Ghnrch-Ooers. According to statistics obtained by a New York journal the Episcopalian is the only one among the Protestant churches which has kept up In its increase with the recent growth of that city. Allowing for an addition of 200,000, or 15. â- 38 per cent, in the popnlation, during the past five years, we find that the combined Protestant denominations, leaving out the Episcopal, have only gabed 3. 12 per cent, as against a gain of twevle times as much In population. On the other hand the Episco- pal church has gained nearly one- third or 31. 74 per cent. Next to tbe Episcopal church comes the Presbyterian, but its gain is very small, be- ing less than one per cent. The Baptiit, Methodist, Reformed and Congregational are at a standstill or have fallen off since 1882. There seems to be a growing tendency to- ward the Episcopal church because it offers a service that is more attractive without so much regard to the eloquence of the clergy- man. The ministers of other denominations are beginning to appreciate this, as is shown by the fact that at ministerial association meet- ings in Toronto, Presbyterian and other clergymen have declared openly and stronsrly for a liturgical service and more music. â€" Ex. The Euby. There exists only one true ruby, the Oriental ruby. The spiral ruby and the balas ruby must be carefully distinguished from this valuable gem, as they do not fre- semble the Oriental rnby either In nature or composition. Mr. Bablnet says that, the Oriental ruby ranks first for price and beauty among all colored stones. When Its color Is of good quality It has the vivid tint of arterial • blood (a tint called "pigeons blood" in commerce), or of the very color of the red ray in the solar speo- truoi. It is also the rel color of the painter's palette, without any admixture of either violet or orange. Several of the reds in the stained glass pines of our ancient cathedrals, where the light of day shines through them, give an idea of this brilliant oolor. The rnby Is extremely hard, and afterthe sapphire, which surpasies it a littie in this respect, is the hvdest of pre- oions stones, alwaya excepting the diamond, to which nothing can be compared. Accor- ding to a remark of Charles Achard, than whom a more compstcnt person does not ez bt in France, as far as correct appreciation of colored predoiu stones b oonoeraed, weight has not the same effect in their cases as in that of the diamond. Talk about the bitterness of party politics ia Gfuuda* but for Uttamsas and narrow- la i a diwi i t tM M liii iwl oito tlie United States. The lata I«iia|auJ a«Aeld waa bounded for â- DS»»484vUh»IS!(l#bi«b waa paid him In pursaanoe of Cj^Po ^ni^, and aowtl)eNew Vork^rilnme bM entered upon a oampidga nnder the liiiadttig of Pnstdaat Clevebad's neordt fai wMobths ptasoaal character of •veiy aprpQistaMBt aiadebj Idmbreviewed, th* priyata eliaraotiir ot oMti offioor, whose Hspeh â- MBtioaod.liidnf dahred into in order to farabb wMitriat If that sort of thbg b oo wtl a B od waM ofpablio strvaats will havs to ba iam sas i ior aisa whoâ€" obanctars can •triat fnUag an rathsr agarea. MISi GAfiEBTT'S WEALTH. A Woasaa Who Vaaaces 9t*,eae,Ma WaHh airrepcrty. 'Miss Mary Garrett, the daughter of the fenadar ai-tba BaUimon and Oni» Baihcoad system, b an extraordinary women," said a gentbms^lwdl ifciSQkin'iedlricli the facts, and, but that she u a woman, would to-day be President of that road." Mms Garrett has never obtraded her individuality in the ' managemwit of the great property which her father left her at hu deat^ but hsr in- flaence and oapaclty have nevertheless been felt and recogmsad by every one who baa come in contact with the financial manage- ment of the Btitlmore and Ohio Railroad Company. For many years bsfore her father's death aha was his ohief assbtant. Her love for her father was the tnling pas- sion of her Ufa, and lur devotion toliim waa the admiration of her friends and the despair of thoae who sought to win her band in mar- riage. Mas Ganrett to-day, although few per- sons know it, controb and manaoes the Garrett interest in the Baltimore a^ Ohio Railroad, and has for some time been the most potential factor in the manipulation of the interests of that great corporation. She b thoroughly acquainlwd with all the detaib of the business of the road and Its financial status, and has.always been looked upon as one (rf its most sagacious advb«rs. Although personally direoting the man- agement of a property worth not less than $20,000,000 Mbs Garrett b almoat unknown to buslaess men, because hei- fine sense of modesty and trae womanly reserve will not permit her to assume an individual and personal control whioh both her capwity for financial affairs and her direct control of millions of money would enable her to do. There b no woman in the United Statea who can command more- ready cash than Miss Garret. Her knowledge of the road and its mana^ment gives her a position in the counoib of that oorpgration not possessed by any other Individual. When her father was living Mi is Gtrrett was hb private secretary, hb best adviser and hb moat trusted friend, even above any of the old gentieman's sons. Ic was in thb capacity that she obtained her knowledge of the road and her insight into its finan- cial affairs. After the death of her father Miss Garrett's influenoe over her brother, Robert Garrett, was so marked that it became a matter of onrrent talk in Bal- timore, fiat there were oertidn theories held by her brother which even the infla- ence which she held over him could not suocessfuly combat. When the schemes which led to the invocation of the aid of the Drexel syndicate culminated, Robert Garrett saw the wisdom of hit sister's counsels, which he had failed to follow, and practically surrendered to her the management of hb Interest In the road. When he started out on his tour around the world hb sister followed and overtook him at San Francisco, where he was in- duced to give to her the control of all of his interests in the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road Company. Recently, when the syndicate which had helped the Baltimore and Ohio out of the difficulties in which It had unwittingly been plunged began to haggle about the commis- sions and threatened to place the road in an embarrassing position. Miss Garrett quietly brushed them all aside, and put up tiie need- ed cash, and saved the credit of the company. Since the recent death of her brother, T. Harrison G arrett, Mbs Mary Garrett's control of the Garrett estate has become practically unlimited during Robert Garrett'sabsence. Miss Garrett is a most unassuming lady, and would never be taken for a great finan- cier, as she is, at first sight. She b not fond of notoriety, and in manners and habits b a most domestic and home-loving woman. She worshipped her father, and her most ardent hope b to see the great road which he bnilt and brought to such g^at Import- ance kept up to the pisition where he left it, and perpetuated as one of the great institu- tions of the country. Dentistry Eobbed of its Terrors. I had the pleasure of having a tooth filled by a girl dentist the other day. The word pleasure b used to some extent ad- visedly, for there were pleuant things about it She was very pleasant to look at, with brown eyes and brown curly hair, for one thing. She was very pleasant spoken and she had small fingers that went easily in the mouth. She was a sympathetic creature, too, and had all manner of ingenious con- trivances for making unpleasant processes as little unpleasant as possible. She had very tastefully furnished parlors for receiving un- fortunates, and she didn't leave Puck or Judge or anything else oppressively Innny about to remind tnem of tht ir doom. There were fine pictures on the wall and some new books, there were art portieres and there was the girl dentist herself. She used to be a clerk for an importing house, I believe, writing the French and German letters for the firm. She clerked it till she satitfisd herself there was no future in that, then she w«it to a dental college and now she b establbhing herself in the city. She says she likes her business and feeb thoroughly at home in it, and her business, so far. seems to like her. It b her testimony that even in a dentist's chair a man can't resist the temptation to try to flirt, and that she haa had big eyes enough made at her from over a big white napkin to shake any nerves not thoroughly stsady. "And what do yon do in such cases?" was the query. " Let nim proceed till I get well started at work and then he usually has something else to think of. A man can't flirt with a drill getting in its fine work in a sensitive cavity. But most of my patients are women and children," she oonolnded. There are not more thaa two w three women dentbts in New York. There was only one a year go- BeMon to Bepiire. C'erit (to employer)â€"" Mr. Liwberry, I would like to be excused from work thb afternoon." " What'a the matter how " " A beloved aunt b dead and I would like to attend the fnneraL" " Let's see â€" yoa've lost four beloved atuts thb year. Have you any more of them " " No sir, bat I have five uncles." A cynic has said that ona-faalf of the mar- riagea are for money or for hemes, one quar- ter are arranged out cf pique, onO-eighth are love afEairs purely and the remainder are sgread npoa in order that ona or the other of tba pwtisa may eao^a the peraecutioDs of oawalaoma saitoca. K i U 1 ' «, 1- 1 • « 'S I t-Vi -) t. i,^" mi^it^^^mm^ ^iiitiSkm^Siii^mtttitsij^,.^^^iiLL.i.^ ii'jB*^~.^^iIj, •â- â- â- • '•â- -•- :.'j~.-ii-A-jm^j'..fc^jajili^-.. ... ^â- :. " y\--: