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 'Babbit«.V »lem ofhow to •*?* depend, upon^ J- « Wale, and QaeSj o prevent theinjS: ' « far nothing £! e beat mean, of doS »nth anenic over tS '"peniive. Intui bit8 with ten btuhSl ' we used phoephate with this is thittiS "effect I think til, ae ordinary rat tran. we very eipensivS the Government of r to keep the rabbits [Uovemment) lands. ten cents a pair for heir lands. A good week killing rabbits, id one man can work iy bean passed that nds to keep the rab- a fail to do this he L, offence, ?100 for the lird offence the Gov- attend to the rab- the land owner. In 5 are campelled tD 1 the expense is so 3,000 acres is obliged killing rabbits alone, it a few years ag;o I is now only worth by which I can keep make money by it, ranchman cannot do rabbit canning fac- bits much the same I here, and our prin- ;land. At present I ibbits a year, all of ranch, and still this ;he pest down as the I pnt a rabbit atnd a sent I make .37 cents They are retailed a pound, and con- of beet it would be be'come a favorite igland, yet the rab- [ased by the higher n a great dainty. jaea bothered with ^ears. Rabbits were kbout twenty years sporting purposes. (duce four does and breed when two lave on an average I can calcalate from chat the statement II produce 2,OOq,0C0 reposterous as it at t a man over from fore I left, and he e South American the rabbits. Any- overnment offers a the best plan for Drummer. Dg, D. D., theman- ionalist publishing )ol work, and one Dston, is an off hand a bright, winning TKonal masfnetism, aii success. He has ns of the clerical ke a business man. f the time, and he jenerally passes as fzed by the fratem- er. Ongoing into y evening, a smart in a free and easy mday?" ctor. otel, 1 suppose ?_ )p with a friend. I hotel tomorrow a racket Qaitea }e there, iday." why we can nave fellows who are ughttokeep Son- rnmmer.good na- a won't m doji'u go to iU 1 ' „ 1 we go ' • sgationaL It's the but I'll bet yon according t» I* believehwjjr- fled. tanning tried^to ,ut he had i ,but afford it ^v. Blown, ^J^ die **y I ?^^ lotilyeiituie in Bntish Columbia A THANKSGIVINO fflURY. In British Columbia we have not, tiU re- cently, made much account of Thankagiving J, a holiday for, as Dominion subjeoU, our neoole have always been aoougtomed to look jTon it as a kind of Yankee feMtday, about on a level with the Fourth of July, both l^ing festivals peculiar to the -Ameriotui gepnblic. Within the laat few years, however, some Qtoadiana have evinced a diqiatition to have a Thanksgiving-Day dinner, aai^well as tlieir neighbors across the border. The idea has grown in popularity among the Colum- bians. At my father's plaoe (in the upper valley of the Frazer River) we had quite an usi- mated discussion upon this subject one night, three years ago. My brotliers and I were in favor of muing a Thanksgiving festivid, and of gathering to it all our family and as many of the neighboring settlers as we oonld ' to come. b'« -rf# â-  y^^- VVe planned a shooting match and games of skill, like the Scotch, in the forenoon then a right royal dinner, with fifteen different courses of meat, fish and fowl, including elk, deer, bear and buffalo, and, to wind np the day, a ^and party, music and dancing. Bat father wa^ conservative and discount- enanced the whole scheme. In fact, he did not approve of these Americanisms at all bat we finally compromised, and won his consent to the Scotch games and the dinner, while we gave np the shooting match and the dance. As I shall not again mention the festival, for my story is of an adventure I met with while elk -hunting a few days previous to it, I may here say of the dinner, and of the occasion generally, that it was deemed a BQccess, and proved so enjoyable that we have kept Thanksgiving ever since. On the seventh day of November my brother Wallace and I, accompanied by a Toang Englishman namied Winston and Jake Sonnet, a half breed in my father's em- ploy as a cattleman, set off up the river in two small skiffs to hunt for a week before thanksgiving. The Frazer had not yet froaan over. We went up the river, " carrying" around the rapids, one day's paddling, and entered Wil- let Creek, a small tributary of not very twift water, which we followed till the afternoon ot the second day, our object be- mg to reach two little lakes among the mountains, where we expected to find game more abundant. That nisht we made for oarselves a comfortable camp on the creek bank, a little below the first of the twolakes, of which the creek is the outlet. Having had a good dinner and rested an hour or two, we re-embarked and paddled around the lake. It was probably the first time that " Jack- light" hunting had ever been practised there we had brought up a lantern and a reflector for the purpose. The reflector, with the lantern in front of it, was set on the nose of the skiff, and while Sonnet pad- dled slowly and without noise close along the wooded shores, the rest of us sat with onr double-barrels in the shadow, behind the light shield, and watched for game. We had not proceeded far when Wallace heard the brush crackle, and whispered to Sonnet to go easy. A moment later an elk " blew," stamped his feet, and blew again. Winston caught sight of the light on the gray of his antlers, and, rising slowly to his feet, fired at short range with ball, and struck the animal's shoulder. It plunged forward into the lake, directly in front of the stiff, when a Eecond ball from Winston's left barrel put an end to its life. Larding for a moment only to pnll the elk ashore, we went on, and within half an hour I had the satisfaction of shooting a second elk, which stood with its fore hoofs planted on a leg in the edge of the water, staring to intently ai the lantern that, though it did not move, I saw the light reflected from its great bulging eyes. We had no further success that night, however, and, after an hour more, turned back, and having buoyed the two carcasses eich with a drift-log, towed them to oiir camp. The elk were fat and heavy. Next night â€" having resolved to stick to our jack-light and do no other hunting â€" we went out again en the same lake and shot a third elk, a black-tail buck and a " red- cat" but the weather turned very raw and cold during the night. As we felt pretty sure that a storm was impending, Winston and I thought it best to get out at once, lest thj creek should freeze over, for we were satisfied with the bag we had made. Wallace, however, declared that he would not leave ' till he had tried the jack-light on the upper Wke. So, after some dis- cussion, next morning the young Englishman and myself loaded out skiff with tbe best of the venison, an4 sat off for home, where, »f:er a hard day's work paddling and at the portages, we arrived at ten o'clock that Evenins' having ihe current and high water io our favor The event showed that we had acted wisely, for during that very night there came on one cf the coldest and fiercest snow glea of the entire season. It stormed steadily for thirty- six hours, and the fall of snow was full four feet It drifted bad'y too, in som* places to a depth of twenty feet. We felt not a little anxiety for the two tunters left in the mountains, and we should tave felt far more had we known what perus ihey were encountering. We suppMed, liowever, that they were merely snowed m, ?nd as they had eight or ten days provis- ions, Me anticipated no greater danger for them th in is usual fom extreme cold an«i, possibly, SHOW slides. As the high wind Wkept the river open, we expected that *^ter the storm was over they would oome down in their skift ., Ute in the evening of the third day after "w arrival home, they came in m foo^ and » nearly exhausted as to be scarcely abte to *P^ or to stand. Some warm porridge was given them, ** *e never gave spirits in surfi osaes, ano 4ey were put into bed and allowed to sleip '^interruptedly till the next •«*"»25 *hen they got np to dinnw, rrfreshea ^^h somewhat sdfiE, ^ides their own guns, tiiey had brought 7»8 each a Winchester carWno 8»d tovts^ J^ cartridge* intwbhidil^ ""^VS^IS^ *«aed to be Indian moooa*»aadl»nrtfag ?odtsofdeej*iiLlBlow*hiyW ««* " zle to us, and as soon as we were all seated at table, and grace was «aid, father intimat- ed that ha woolA like «a aava the maMer explained. " It u a bMi busiaesB, fatlM«," replied WaOaoe, **,bnt I dob^ see ho# we could have done -tfaMsntly. After .A0 hoys left US Tlinrsday raomfng," heccotfamed, " Son- net and I stayed in oamp till about two o'clock in the afternoon, and then started out in onr akilT for the upper of the two lakes, takint! along with ns just a snack for lunohoim, but leaving most of onr proviAms at the little oamp m tiie area. " We paddled up tlurongh the lower lakes and along the creek oonneotiM; them, then carried around the little faJls, and finally got afloat on tlie upper lake just at dusk. "By tills time it had booome dark and cloudy, and snow began to fall. I wished that I was atdiome, for I knew now by the wind and die abearance of tiie sky that we were soing to haw a hard storm. I knew, too, that we ought to turn at once, and go sack to our camp on the lower creek but we had taken so much pains to get up there that I hated to start back without a shot at tiie game. "It set in very dark and raw, and while I was lighting the jack. Sonnet thoueht he saw afluh of firelight away up the lake but I thought that it was only some reflec- tion* of the matches I was striking on the water that had deceived him. It was only for a moment that he saw it, and be did not feel very sure about the matter himself. „ So we lighted up, and started to paddle slowly around the lake, which is only a good- sized pond, about a mile long by, perhaps, half a mile wide, for a gness. VTe paddled along the wrst shore, Keeping out fifteen or twenty yards from the fringe of bushes, and must have get pretty nearly to the upper end of the lake without seeing or hearing any- thing in the way of game, when snddeidy three or four guns were fired from the oppo- site shore, and as many balls went skipping and whizzing past ns " Well, that of course startled us, 'twas so sudden, and we knew, too, that it meant muchiet of the worst kind. " 'Indians I' exclaimed Sonnet, and he was bright enough to back water. " At tiie same moment I jumped up and blew out the light, and it was Incky we had our wits auout us enough to act in that way, for the next moment three or four more bullets whizzsd by right ahead of us I " We must get out of this 1' muttered Sonnet, and he and I both began paddlinr as smartly as we could down the lake toward the outlet. We dipped our paddles without noise, but shoved tliat skiff along at a great rate, for we thought we would run down the little rapids in the dark and risk it, and so try to gee across the other lake and out into the river in our skiSL "Of course, we couldn't tell anything about, thepturty that had fired at us^wheth- er they really meant to murder us, or only to scare ns off but we both thought that after such a hint as that, we had better skip out as quick as we could. « We were not long getting down near the foot of the lake, but as we drew into the outlet, I heard a noise in the brush, and im- mediately a dog growled directly in front of ns. We both stopped paddling and heard the brush crackle again. " 'They're layin' ferus thar,' whispered Jake. ' They're bound fer to fetch us in the crick.' " 'Kun the skiff ashore then,' I said, and let's take to the woods.' I knew 'twas no use to try to get down the creek past 'em, so we 1 urned the nose of the skiff ashore, and beached her on the sand without mak- ing much noise, for the wind had begun to blow a little, and tbe snowflakes were rat- tling downonthedryJeaves^Mdjwiga^t^ " We took onr guns and crept back into the woods. I tucked part of the cold snack into my pockets, for I knew we were all of sixty miles from home, without food or much prospect of getting an;|^ till we got there. " It was dark as pitch. We had to feel our way amongst the tree-trunks with our hands extended in front of our faces. We got mto the roughest place, it seems to me, that I was ever m. Over and among rocks and trees and logs we stumbled and felt our It was snowing all the time, too, fine way. the wind pellets of ice, like little shot, and howled through the dark w oods. "Gradually, yard by yard, we made our way ap the side of the ridge, on the west shore of the lake. We had not much idea in what direction we 'were travelling, but kept what instinct, rather than any other sense, told ns was a southwesterly course. At last, after four or five hours, we curled down in a pine thicket and lay there in the shelter of the bonghs till daybreak. I then divided what food I had and we ate a little of it, and then crossed over the top of the mountain. â-  "It was snowing steadily the sky was thick it was impossible to see far ahead, or on either hand, Mot less than six inches of snow had fallen and it was beginning to drift. ,., ^. ••We did not think it very likely that the hostile partyâ€" whoever it nught beâ€" would get on our trail, or pursue us far in such a gale. But as our only chance now lay in getting home as soon as we could, we struck out in what we believed to be the right direction, and made the best time we were able. ii. -i "The country, after reaching the summit of the ridge above the lake, is high, rough and thinly wooded. The wmd swept it hard and it soon became dreadfully tiresome walking. The snow was getting deeper every minnte and we went floundering through drifts npto oar knees. At length, we got into a long valley with a line of crags on tbe windward side. Over these crags tbe snow was curl- ing and forming a deep drift "We continued wading along this vaUey for several hours tiU we were completely tired out. nr "MsanwhOe the storm increased. We could not now see ten yards ahead, so packed was the air wit* the driven snow. We ceased to make progress and finding that an extent that we oould now only look out thronsh a few (diinks where the snow had euled avw afe tho top. Bat as tM drift ad- vanced forward, we trampled the light snow down and ealaiyad our cave which proved to be a not nnoomfmrtable pliMe of refuge. "It was irhilo thus en^iged that Iheud a dog bark, and pemiagout, saw, indistinct- ly, four Indians souiaing in ih» driving snow, not niany feet away. Gnats of the Kale mo mentarily hid them from view; thnvwet« covered with snow, and the dog stocd shiv- ering, wtiiaiBs and halt buried, having ap- parently Ipat OM track. "We hastfly looked to our gnas, then peer- ed out aoain. For some moments the Indi- ans stood aa in donbt. 'Then they tried to wallow on for a few steps, but stopped again, turned about andâ€" If you will bdieve it- came flouadaring no under shelter ol tha tame crag where we had dug into the driftl "Tlie reds lud, ot oourse, no idea of ont being so near them, though our first tliought was tliat they were foing to ns out. We heard them grnnt a lew words to each other, tiien three of them began stamping and brush- ing aside ttie light drift; tiiey were not more Aan twenty feet from wliere we lay listening to their taUc and their movements. " WeU, tliey burrowed into tbe drift just as we had done and made a snow-cave for themselvei. The fourth bock stood and held their carbines. Frodi the little glimpses we could oatoh, they did not look like any of the Columlnui red^jns tiiat we had ever seen and they were dressed differently. "After they had got sheltered in their cave we could hear them talk through the snow as plainly as if there had been only a thin board partition between their cave and ours. We dared not so much as bite off a piece of hard biscuit, lest they should hear us, but sat still and held our guns in our hands. We could hear them moving about; and several times the dog yelped, as if they were pulling his tail, or kicking bin. " Meanwhile the drift kept dosing over ns and after a while it got quite dark. Night was setting in but we were warm enough, although we were a little wet, and could have gone t» sleep without any dan- ger of freezing. But we were afraid to do so, lest we might breathe loud and be heard. We were drowsy for a good many hours, however and I, for one, had concluded that we were in no great danger now, for we were covered in so deep that I thought there was little likelihood of there finding us. " But during the night, their dog scented us and began to bark. I suppose that from our being shut into the cave so long, the scent worked through the snow. " We heard the Indians kicking him nd scolding at him several times, to make bim keep quiet but he soon broke out barking and snarling again, and by- and-by he began to scratch and dig in the snow, letween onr hole and theira. " We knew then that he meant us and no mistake about it, and that there was no getting away from a fighu I admit, boys, that at first I felt weak and homesick but I whispered to Jake to sit quiet and that we must get our shots in first, anyhow. " WeU, that blamed dog dug and dug â€" a long wbilis, and barked and whined. Finally he scratched through -into our cave. Such a growl as he gave when he broke a hole into us "The reds must have thought that he was diggixg for some bear or rabbit. We now heard them laugh and then encourage the dog to drag the supposed game ont. But the dcg would not venture in though we sat perfactiy still and did not make a oonhd. He barked furiously for some minutes. "We oonld hear the Indians talking in their own lingo. After a while they began to tread the snow down behind the dog â€" so as to help him get' out the gun«, I suppose, For same time we oould hear them as they trod an4 tramped and dug the snow away, As they got up near the dog he backed out past them. "Then one of them said something and a moment after, we saw a flash of light from either a mateh, or a tinder-box I think, for it blazed np pretty quick, and, through the hole they had made in the snow, I saw a blazing splinter in the fingers of one redskin stuck forward into the aperture. " I saw him as plain as I see. yon I and right behind him were two other bucks with their carbines pointed into the hole, evi- dently meaning to fire as soon as they saw the game. Tbe one with the lighted mateh was whistiing to get the dog in again. " ' Take the further one with the gun,' I whispered to Sonnet â€" 'now/' and we both fired. " Such a yell as rose â€" a regular death- yell â€" I never heard 1 it makes my blood curdle to think of it. " The dog howled, too, and we heard a tremendous tramping and digging- to get but of that cave. Sonnet and I stuck our guns right into the snow and let the other barrels go in the direction of the sounds. " Bat two of them broke out in less than half a minute and we heard them flounder- ing in the snow, for dear life's sake, to get away. " As quickly as we could get in fresh car- tridges from onr belts, we crawled out by the same hole after themâ€" and went straight over the bcdiea of the two we had shot to do it. "But our fighting blood was up now and we wanted to have it out with them. It was dark and still storming, but we got a glimpse of two indiaitinct objects movinfr away, and fi-ed twice after tiiem, I do not think that we bit them, however,, for it was too dark to get a good aim. " After a few minutes, we cropt back into tbe hole under the drift again. I then got out my mateh bottle and struck a light. "We. had riddled the two redskins at whom we had fired first and their two car- bines, and a third also, lay then in the snow. " We felt quite securo then for we lad no great fear shat the.,two who had escaped would oome batdt to hunt us with only one gun. " It was still two or three hours befon it began to grow light but as soon as It was morning, we rigged ourselves npin the deer- liide fro^ eMTmoooasons of tlie two dead â- ad set off again, to wade hmne, if Oosnp. "B«aUy,"said a bright-eyed wooiaa dM other day, "if we an never to talk about our friends, conversation will go begging toe snbjeota." The faot that we all more or leas •*- -^iaea "^iseaaa onr friends, their foibles, then cna 'encies, or their ways and sbeMs, is one .Lo -t which we tluok very iittie. Â¥et we an fully a g reed and If a vote oould be taken at this moment fram everybody, the ofAiion would be nnanimons, that it is mean and unkind to talk In an unfriendly way aboat other people. Oritioism to a certaJn extent may be pardonable, but critidam i^en applied to tiie actions of private in- dividnab is very i^t by a swift aoaosBS to deg^nen^e into thoughtless or satirioal oom- ment. ' The honorable meaning which the word "geeilp" itsdf once bore, referring to one's sponsors in baptism and signifying n- latiou by rc^jious obligation. Is an ulnstra- tkm of uie way in whuh tiw tiling referred to suffers deline. We begin a gentle depn- oatory referenoe to somebody's intinnity of temper, and we find oursdvea specifying a particular time and soene, which straifrbt- way the one who hean tolls again to some oao elM with additions, slight perhaps, but matariaL Before.we knew it we have stirred up a hornet's nest. This may be done with- out any moro potent motive than a mere love of f nn, and half the gossip in the social world is of the unthinking kind indulged in menly from a spirit of drollery. Par worse is that other sort of talk which ends in slander and brains in malice, and which separates friendi tmd sunden the ties of ^ears of interccurse with its sharp and jarring discords. Upon the wholt, it is best not to make associates the stoik subjects of talk at the table or in houehold. There are other things, and plenty of them,, if only we go t hough the worldWith open eyes and hear- txg ears. The newspaper! and magazines furnish material for much intelligent and intellec- tual interchange of thought, and if we were not so blind to thi beauties that nature scatters in our pitk, we thonld find much food for talk in every chanKO of the chang- ing seasona. Gossip is of necessity dwarfing to those who indulge in it, and from an edu- cational p:iint cf view it is utterly unfit for the young to listen to or take part in. It has t)een called a womanly sin, and tea part- ies and sewing societieshave themselves been slandered as centies and fountain heads of gossip and malevolence. But we have nev- er found that women were msre addicted to it than men, and we have no donbt that the masculine club fumiibes quite as congenial an atmosphere for its growth as the ladies' kettledrum. The way to got rid of it is to stamp it out i if it has made ito appearance to frown it down severely, and never to indulge in it even in ite most specious and innocent forms. oonld. One of 'tiie oarbinsa w« Ud In to get much fartiier was impossible we turn- ed aside and beat our way op to the Krea«|^f|^,gg^^|^jt,,^^ tgokone, aayousaw. drift at the foot ol tiie crags. imttmt. drift,. managed **2S£ dkotsetai S^^^b^lS^^Xad tiiesnowwhlBhwehad *«»^J3*l*2t On thswtwe aat down, so «»*aM*8^ Igrthls "Wtthto^anJjrJ**. *« J^ « Aa titm stonn had abatsd aom ew h at by thia time, we jprt «n a littla battsr, thouA vaiy sloWfy, ef eeorsa. Abont tan o'dotdt, I uhted Lamonfs. Peak, off to our rights andwWi^that for a laadsBiiric, w« wen aUe, aa yon kaoir, to fst how, by jrigbt.^ JOM waa aabsiisatW^l^M abaKftf bn- «iMri«oMi aMKHgh. tf ,may BOf SejpJBliy.MKJ i^^iifS^ jbw «tea «o lfap(p«ly: rUHHY LITTLE ST0KIE8. ' HiBPrliteEzonse* LitUe Irviiw was visiting a friend of his mother one- osy, and waa much interested in tbe plotoree whidi hun^ on the walls. fi«loeked with particalar earnestness at a delicate engraving of Anrma (the goodnessof momiag) and another of Spring. His host- ess to^ himon her lap and said. "Will yon stay with me, Irving, and be my littie boy T" Irving's kind heart would not per- mit a point blank reiFusal, so he answered, very gentiy, "I don'c fink I oould. " "Why notr'~apked the lady. Irving made a des- perate effiirt to find a reason, and at last a happy thought struok him. "I couldn't live with you liecause your pictures hsvent clothes enough to wear f' was -the answer. HiiYeiy Poor Time. A Gnelph boy was telling his father one day ot a schoolmate's attempt to sing. "And time," said the ten-year-old in deep disgust "why, he didn't keep any better time than a cow when a dog's running after her I" He Sheared the Gat Little Frankie saw his father's hired man shear the sheep last Spring for the first time. A few days, afterwards Frankie was missing, and about the time preparations ware being made to searoh for him he came rushing in, exclaiming "Oh, papa, I'vesheared the cat and didn^ det much wool eiver " Shure enough, poor pussy's ragged and haggled coat confirmed the lad's t tory. His Beaionable Bequest' " It Is so sudden, Mr. Damelle." " I know it is," responded the young man gently. He stood before her, with his weight rest' Ing easily on one foot, his left elbow on the mantel- piece, his right arm behind him, and nis whole attitude one of careless, unstudied ease and grace acquired only by long and patient practice. " I know it is," he repeated. " Measured by ordinary standards and by the cold con- ventionalities of society, it is indeed sudden. We have known each other only twenty-four hours. Until 8.25 o'clock last night neither of us had ever heard of the other. Yet with the heart one day is as a hundred years. Could we have known one another better,* darling," he went on, with a tremor in his cultivated B flat baritone voice, "if we had attended the theatre, the concert, the church and the oyster parlor together for a dozen seasons Does not your heart beat respon sive to mine " " I will not pretend to deny, Mr. Dar nolle," replied the young lady, with a rich blush mantling her cheek and brow, " that your avowal moves me strangely." " I knew it â€" I felt it," he responded eager- ly. " L3ve is not the slow, vegetable -like growth of years. It does not move in ite course with the measured, leisurely step of a man working by the day. It springs up Uke a.mushr like an electric flash. It takes instant possession. It does not need to be jerked in, as it were. It needs not the agonized coaxing of â€" of a young man's first cnin whiskers, my darling. It is here You will forgive my presumption, will you not, and sp^k the words that tremble on your lipsâ€" the words that will fill my cup of joy to overflowing T" e • • • •' e s The evening had passed like a beautiful dreaih. Mr. DameUe, admonished by the clock that it waa time to go, had risen re- Inctantiy to his feet, and stood holding the hand of his beautiful tetroched. " My love," he said, in eaeer, passionate aooento, "now that you have blessed my life with a measureless, ineffable joy, and made all my fntnre radiant with golden hope, you will not think I am asking too much if I plead for just one favour " " What is it " shyly responded the lovely maiden. " Please tell me your first name T" â€"[Chicago Tribune, Twoff'n FoUoemaD Mamma and baby have stepped ont on the terrace to see whether C3ok has forgotten to give the cat its dinner Thsy find, pussy engaged in cleaning up ite plate, in which operation it is assisted by an immense tom- cat. "Wherever can that creature have come from?" inquires mamma, and baby makes answer "Why, that's pussy's policeman 1" ♦ Gotham's Large Expenses- The Hew York special correspondent of the BufiUo Courier says: It is no wonder that the politicians make such a tremendous scramble for office in New York, consider- ing the enormous amount of money tbe lucky ones have the hemdling of. The board of estimates and apportionment is now mak- ing up the figures for next year. They probably won't be less than $.35,001,000, anyway. Nearly a third of the whole is beyond the reach of the politicians, as it goes out in the State toxes and interest on city bonds. These two items make up nearly $11,000,000, leaving say $24.000,00a for salaries, oontraote, and so on. The finest police in the world cost about $5, 000,000 a year. The public schools, whidi ' a great many people find fault with, cost over $4000,000. The department of pub- lic works, which Geo. Newton has tried hard to reform since Mayor Grace put him at the head of it, but without much success,, spends $3^000.000, chieflv in a political way. The fire department coste in coundi figures say $2,000,000, and the public insti- totions of charity about $3.0C0.000. Tt* figures for the judiciary, nearly all Tor sal- aries, run close to $1, £00.000. Street clean- ing, which is never done in a satisfactory way, takes $1,200,000 out of the treasury. The deoartment of parks costs nearly $1,000,006, the health department $350,- 000, the finance department dose on $3,000,- 000, the law department $200,000, the tax department $110,000. Then there are large appropriations for the registrar's office, and the sheriff's office, amd the common coundi, and for election expensM, and the list usu- ally winds np with $500,000, or so extra undei the head of miscellaneous. It cer- teinly is a grand chance that the politi- cians have when they get control of things in New York, and the desperato scramble they make is not at all surprising. One Hundred Tears A|i:o. The following is among thd laws passed by tha Legislaturo of the State of Franklin. We copy it as found in a speech by Daniel Webster on the ourrenoy of 1838 â€" Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Franklin, and it is hereby as- acted by the Mithority of the same. That from the 1st day of January, 178g, the salaries of the officers of this commonwealth be as follows â€" ffis Exodlency the Governor, per annum, 1,000 deer Aina. Bis Hmoar tlie CSilelJnstioe, perananin, SOOdaerAlaa. Tbe asoretary to his Sxoellenoy tiw Ghiver- ir, par aannm, 600 racoon sldns. Ae Tnasarer of .the State, 450 Badi oonii^ deck, 300 beaver aUns. Otak «f Hoose of Commoas, 20Q Msoibsra of tiie AaasmUy* par Osm, ti^ Jn aji uH i ' lees for.signiiv.a wacc^t* opM^ Ti naasiilllin for'sanrikig a wAhnV «â- â€¢ si^-'i '"^w' O^M. fatoAetew AelSNi da^ e{ Q^. fl^^^ww't -^4^-. '**-- Mi. Webster was in Earnest. A Portland young man and ajBostou'drum- mer tried an experiment recently that brought them considerable experience and not a little permanent wisdom. 1 believe it does not take much (kill to nlay this bunco game." said the Portland young man. " You might try it on that chap over there," said the drummer, pointing to a sober-looking young fellow who sat on the other side of the room reading the morning Preaa. " 1 will start him for you. " So the drummer walked over to the young man and saluted him. " How do yon do You are Mr. Foss of Oakland, are you not Glad to see you." ' Glad to see you, too," replied the other, " only my oame is Webster of North Anson, not Foss of Oakland." The drummer saunterel off and communi- cated the name to the Portland young man as soon as convenient. The latter waited until he supposed the unsuspiaious Anson man had forgotten the incident and then, meeting him by accident as he walked across the cffice, held out his hand and enthudas- tically exclaimed " Why, Webster, how are you How are the folks in Anson " Webster said not a word and moved not a feature but, drawing his arm back quick as lightning, delivered a blow right between the .eyes of the Portland young man. His name wasn't Webster, and he wasn't from North Anson, but he was dead in earn- est, if the yonng man from Portiand wasn't â€" Portland Argva. Litimidation* Reginald Papa, can I have a piece of mince-pie 7 Papa Yon may if yon will promise not to teU mama that I gave it to you. (Pie is devoured in nlenoe.) Reginald I Please can I have some more Papa (sternly) No mora, sir B^jinald (after a pause) I If you don't let me I diall tell mama. He got it. A ffiJBi^ of The FoMiUe Firtore. Frsshman (first night in odisge arOnsed by a Mise)â€"Wboâ€" who's tliat I Staphamtw (draped in â- hee«s)â€"A]Iow na, '^, t» present onr oards, with onr wWms fw a pl ea s a nt njglit's repoise. (3ood nifht^ and â- a|r the angel of paabefnl sleep hver 'iityMittS^riJllita- w ill â- yn fl i '1 m /{-â- J SK«