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 IGULLASK KDthbritifla of j^ ded thata' iadi i led in tlie p--«-^^' reasoda MtLnyil i»taoldiet«»ret»ESl, he reisoniiis ---*^ M »U8e of oUS^2^V »ion. ?le, went to AslJSVri tork Stwte, bateBS »n«a fljnrfahfa, g* omen not; onlyJo 5r f the paper, bat ^^ g establiiihinentt 5211 who viaited the SI" unnatural oleaalii^ of comfort. lei for a graceful ^^ •mted fronte, theT2 ' row, Direcfcoire «!? ' le very edge of Jt 3h aide of the fronttH â- eaa goods beneath tm Qd the collar and t^\^ "latoh. A narrow*?! •eaching conaiderj^yKj ' I bodice, ahowinc it he velvet revera. plyof Ejfyptis'b»,rttJ iwo thouaand milag fcZ aJf atorial rains appear to htHl the uaual inundatioB fc-1 Irngation can, theraCI anything like the wu2?l » crop will oonaeqaaati-?! en will suffer, buaiiuiikl depreaaed, the Governail collect the taxes, B-nrnZi •aria and L9ncion,'and iSi e bonda wUl be auffiajaafcl ite to Manitoba, which wffli eta of a drought in E^\ f prohibition in Maaudn.! id. The State hadwU a, and was not aatidadl the liquor law ia probabb] lan that of any non pmij.! le CTaion. The lowest at •w $1,000, and there ill, The number of licensiati mined yearly by vote ti e New York Tribune Myi; lat thia ateady inoreaie k I temperance legislation k e system of annually nb. ion of licence or nc UoeoM »ch community, e Buffalo Express Capt, ,, now atationed at Fort the deaertiona from tiu ay number 3,003 ananallj, arge number for even 1 1 ut it ia aimply enormw acle Sim'a army ia talrn Tne deserters repreaaat vhole force. Capt H^ff- le 'reqaenoy of desertion of the paygirenbytht ring hia first two yetn I rea in compensation forliii i pay, rations, and cloifa lonth, or sixty seven oaoti have a9 many lives as oaii ett, of New York, deliver- e time ago that one of du companies in the Uait«d d its charter through hav- iber o! the SvLgmr Imit r should be appoiated, it he days of the latter wan its having been fnadtnted embera it is now found aaaigned, thus rendering receivera by the court suits will nave to be but the parties to whom ed now really form tbe I ^ely to go on forever. side of L»ke Mlohiraa last week, clothes hong iled and stained by ashee, ame from was not ap- esenoe is clearly aaoom^ fires which had joat be- airiea cf D^ctt. Ikat j res can be carried toi we hsve had abundant I during the prevalenoo of ashes re known to Iceland to the faro* .Aahea of the gtt*^ coa, in the Eut Indias id, fell long afterwttdi rate, analyaia shotwJ be identical with th^ fell Aear the explodaa hese things occur p erest for laundry ^eoflt- of the Eaglish oonrte )el to the extreme, both QJQatlce. It is to tbe per publishing a jadgs" for libel if statement are wrong. It is hard ly paper, publishing the 1, including the charg* }e hsld responsible for into which that fnoe- yed. If the rule standli rohibit the pnblioatioB ' for judges do B^*^ 1, and the press wooW itself against such mb- will not hold. It j" -rrent of English dooi- he publication of le^ tter. Certainly, thsW lil becoii.e operative 9 In:ernitional Expo^* ured a novel attracted et, the handicraft w lo, Peru, formerly • lavy. His model hM :perimented with â-  jnor Cikmarara nMW apparatus conaisti oi • Its of immense p o** »3hment which foM* tubes form the fraffl** explosives. The JJ a secret and is oaiM" peculiar property •â-  A small volunM mense volume of ihine wish light uds. The test ;ov:emment patroBF mber. The oharg* ' sent the macM* the descent by PjS ;por Camarara l ao** rting point no '" lie om 's. fOUNG FOLE:a jBJ'B OLD PTlOTEK. BT HAB» JAHXS. Ll^ ban a clumsy pitoher bafsre the HlThad been broken off; 00 tUok and JvT and igly, tJ»* Meg dreaded to oajnj Kliâ„¢ to *ie comer aaloon, even in mild, 'at evniB^t •"»* tonight it waa poo- veffliMtr- The wind blew In gnoto» ujd percing, and the cold was intense. J »»i one «f those nights when the snow I «i in litde swirls, and oninoheo nnder â-  feet, aid cute like sleet ao it otrikes • face! (leg's dress was thin, and her ^] got oach protection, even had tlie nd allowd it to hang closely to her, as a iwl ehonii hang. Her bands were bare, and shecould not prtitect them in any Ly on acooint ef that pitcher. Its ngiy iiface eeemid to concentrate and hold aU he icineaa ii the wind against ita sidea, nn- I her nmibneas, she felt the Irarden lipping f ron her grasp, and was obliged to op and deposit it on the snow-covered walk I she conic warm the red fingers for their again. [aII this VIS neither a new nor strange ex- lerience for the child. As surely as the reniog cam»t with it came Meg to the ilooa for fataer's drink^ and out again, and iwn the little back street, to the wretched „je she calkd home. The neighbors were 7ite need towatching her pass, and they immented on her cleverness in neither .eakiog the pitcher nor spilling its con- ints, for Me; was a nice littlo girl. If she m1 been youi sister, you would never have loagbt of allowing her to go out in the reets alona But, as it was, she waa ite naed to loing the erranda, wiiioh gen- lly lay in tie direction of the aaloon; for eg'e father teemed to prefer drinking to iring, if he lad to maKe the choice, tmd e state of hi finances made thia an every- ij Deceesitj. Her mother was a young omanyet, bit so broken up by poverty id tronble, tlat she had lost her courage d self-reepect, until ehe was fast growing good a patrol of the saloon as her drunk- 1 hosband. This, yon see, accounts for le extra eiza f the pitcher it must carry lODgh for two, Meg stood close by her pitcher, braced St an angle of one of the cheerless brick dings whicl lined the street, trying to tore feeling to the poor hands. No one ticed her. People were too much engag- in forcing their way through the wind and low, and reaching home â€" those who had a meâ€" where varmth and light and love aitcd them. The homeless ones were ikbg soma place of shelter there were n doors evei for them, [if only in the where litele Meg and the rest fonnd le drink. Preemtly a big dog sought shelter the same ange, and, seeing the, pitcher, t his nose in it. Meg did not make a lotion to drive lim away ehe had no fear his caring for saloon drink; and some- log like a smili oroseed her cold, little face be nulled hia mae quickly out again, with mtffled sneeze, ind trotted away. By and by thechild took up tbe pitcher id started on, bit it was colder than ever, id the fingers vere stiff again before she lewit, 80, withjusta slight jostle from a sser at the next crosning, down went her rden with a thid. Now the advantage a thick ugly pibher was apparent, it did it even crack, lo be sme, it had not very to fall, as Mej's hands were not very [h above the pavement. But, alas for the k 1 A dirty, jellow streak in the snow »U the eign it left, as it made all haste eicape. Meg was not giren to crying. Experi- w had taught htr the vanity of such a ify. but ehe stood above the wreck in i«e horror, not duing to go home. Her *ther had been too ill to work for some y«, and the money left from last pay day Adwmdled until the had taken the last at to pay for the drink now buried under « mow at her feet. She began in a dull 'y to wonder what was to come to them XT-' f ^*° '"89 man in a ureat coat, tn hu face eo buried in a mtffler that he ud see nothing so far below bis eyes as w Meg, came ruelung over the crossing, '0. before he could ttop himself, knocked i.J.kV.l**" '" **»« drifting snow. pf j" I'er up in aU tendemeso, how- «, and then stooped to look into her face. 'M the man who kept the grocery on the E^ ♦S^^v"'f ** *^« "aloon, and heremem Ctahi l""' ^^° ^w oocasionaUy come lu il I " *°™« â„¢aM purchase. She !wi™°^ a bit of nisery to-night, that neart was touched, and, taking her up ledL.-*' "'"' Pitoher and all, he car *nn*^V".,H"'"" itoreâ€" •• Just till you '"out, child!" he explained. It L*° °**°' came from the old pitsher t»„!5'.P^ """» "l between a whiff ^s !•!! .**j *°^ *^« bits of information j« '^Darted, he soon learned the state of 'JJ" with her. laethr?'""^- I'll fill your pitcher with «ft^?,*«'-t'"«'ithas ever carried 1" If^^^y •' "Ja»t watch me now." TJ\1 ^^^^^ his every move eagerly. i«tr„^° ^^ ""MTch his pocketaf He finallvhf,""' "' ^f^ 1"8« pockets. «**;" She pMuod, trambUnT^ f or ate •«P«olod Ml outbarat, bat tiwR wL^ â- OMMl from the bed, and ahe iroaton^ft more Manrance "ba* aae what th^wS. §•â-¼â€¢ me." 8h« laid bar v»ek^Sh^ «»«" the Ur, table, Mid ^SSSSttS looked Ml in iBOfednHty aa ah. •pwwd «Sh ^h^ rS*^ P-t^o^Tbaf^hS he been entirdy withont money, and the knowledge of hia condition had aMked ud awakoied hbn from hia lethargy. There was little fnel and no food in Ue house, and where ooold he torn for help T Drink had brought him to this, and he nalizsd it The thought of his Uttle, ril-olad ohUd breasting the atorm ontaide, alone, and on snoh a^ eww»d, had ronsed the fatherly inatinota which had been ao long aleepb/. and shamed him utterly. He had not been ao softened for years. The grocer did not know that in his deed of kindness to a forlorn child that night, he waa acting witti God, but it waa true, nevertheless. God had sent hia angel beifore the gift- laden child. "Suppose we have a regnUr meal for once, wife," said the sick man " it would seem like old times again. There is wood enough to boil water for tea a good stiff cup would do me good." Mother boiled the tea, whfle Meg made the table as inviting as she could with the resources at command and when all was ready, it was moved by father's bed. Do you think the little family enjoyed that meal, and were made better by it 7 There waa a long earnest talk in the bare little room, after Meg's eyes were tightly closed for nightâ€" a talk which encouraged the poor, broken mother in one more effort to make a home. The paper wrapped around the tea had proved to be a temperance pledge, and about one of tbe other packages was a paper written over with good words of hope for the most hope- less. "I will be a man yet, wile, with Ood's help," said the father, aa he signed his name to the pledge, "and yon will be a happy woman agsin. The look she rave him was all the answer he needed. The grocer came next day with more pack- ages, and, in a lon^; talk with the sick man, he learned the sad story of his downfall, and then of last night'a new resolve. He came again and asain, aa he was needed, and health and happiness came with him for all the inmates of the home. Time liss proved the sincerity of that father's repentance, and his little Meg, being no longer the slave of the old brown pitcher, baa grown to be a merry little girl who has quite forgotten the miseries of her baliyhood, and who counts the kindly grocer her beat friend. PesCr J'**'"®'"" piece of paper. |aeZ!r*mJ** "' "M »fraid to aak any ««of^J^ ®/"*° nnoothed ont thU "ttleheapof piece ol while 1 WfromS?."'??* WBdinsed milk «i.f"?*^«.«helves. The grocer placed ' » seoonT I P °* ""SW ^*' 'oon wrapped '".» Uttle cw of .While Meg's eyes were growing 'three Cwh?i'"'u"8** "'^« ly "Ido on the F"d it tK -***°^ *« "Id pitcher â€" » «h»k. rolla they and then took from on, were gave Meg yon are *«aent^*u *8 ' Vate wild with ' little BrJ.*'^*'»«one hnttett and ;.\^«^i^ft°*"'"^*^*"8" fcoiybovir* ^^ SP' I am goins to L^r(Z?""*«t»"e«eof £e store "otanaiu"" Pi*ol»« home. You .i^niinvon. '•* "» «»w evening; it Li!!^Wi2^mJ"****'»»' ^0° oee-'^And '•»nnnsB^ii..°*°* ^P^ to toU yon "»»«ul thing that waa for her to .T »^«d -5° **"• » *l*»k him. '♦•S«;^»« Jl»Mka; hia heart did «« warm than hk iMrt oort, Tommy Tough's Erat Voyage. "Ob, Ma, who's that big man up there ' "That's the oaptidn, Tommy." "What's he up there for T" "That is his place, up on the bridge." "What do they call it a bridge for 7" "Because it goes over the dmk." "What deck " '*Why, Tommy, the deck we'are standing on. Don't lie so sillyl" "Can't he ever come down 7" "Who, Tommy 7" "Why, that big captain." "Certadnly he can whenever he likea." "But you said that waa his place." "Well, so it is when he ia on duty." "What duty 7" "Why, on watch; taking care of the ship.-' "Is it hu ship 7" "No, dear it belongs to a company." "Company of real aoldiera 7" "No, certainly not; iiow absnrd yon are 1 A company of bnsinesa men." " Can they sail for nothing 7" " I don't know I suppose ao." " We can't, can we 7" "No, dear." "Why not 7" " fieoanse your father does not belong to the company. Now, be quiet. Oh, look at that ship I" "Where 7" " Why, right there." " Where ia it going 7" "I don't know. Do be atilL I've a headache." " la there a captain on that ship 7" "Yea." " Big as ours 7" " I don't know. Now stop talking." "Ma." V WeU, what u it now 7" " I feel real queer â€" kinder sick." " Mercy sakes. Tommy I Why didn't you say so before 7 Oomf hnrry and let me put yon to bed I" m â-  He Enew Be Had a Sme Thiiu:. " A boy ia a atrange machine, ian't he 7" qneried tlie oolonel aa he looked ont of the office window. "I don't see any tiling ao very atrange abont that particular boy," replied one of the other loungers, aa he aanntered np and aaw a boy of ton on the oppoaito aide of the atreet. " But he's got a jng," peniated the ool- oneL " WeU, what of it 7 Can't a boy cariy a jug 7 ' But he's swinging it aronnd his head I " Let him swing. Yon never saw a boy who wouldn't. " " 111 bet he breaka it before he geta to the comer " exclaimed the ooIoneL " Nonaenae I" " Bet yon twenty dollara." "Done." " Hsdf a dosen mahed np to watch fortiher prooeedinga. The boy oonbinned to awing the jng, apparently bent n^on performing some part!onlar feat, and jnat before he reached tiie oomer liis liand alipped and tiie jus waa daahed in pieoea. I knew it I I knew It 1" draokled the oolonel aa he danoed annmd. " Drat liim^iere'a yoor mon^ I" growl- edjthe other. ' An lioor later attar pending the in- terval in aolemn tltenght^ the lowr nOd^ biqnired "OokM,dldyoa lidnk ym badaeu* "fiatSSly. Ibooi^t the jog fw the bow, and gave him ihy oo«te to ourj aa% the ncocruuiM."â€" [faakM Bkd*. I«*e* iiwartial«Hi tlja fu^di^ Ouwi ^ut^ b.a»T« y_ha.yj7o/l5nDe ^SSpT ttt MMtvstiaftoao^aa who nndertook to on. •^»ttt« g»t work aorosa the lathmna ȣm!°»S.^'!!!? ^S»«*«»» oontinorta, whfah vuortaiatly oolUpoed for wank ol 3?f; '^t^^-wo^l" like sneoeaa, and ^PA?fq?« fc-" •*»• to complete hi. •rtiole ia qneatfott would not have been ao •evere. iftae Sues Canal wiU alwayertarf aaamonnieBtto Da Loasepa' indomitobb Cenornr and peneveranoe, and tiiat hia later oject haa fallal through, for a time it Mt, ia perhana, dne in 1 meaanre to that ^!:i!f«^?iK^*"» *o «MlJ« the engbweringdifficnlUea (which tiie proneoa tSir^'*^^ â- â-  *• gone,*Siew3 that he was quite competent to tiveroonie) Mther than to give dne oonaideration to tiie financial aapect of the aoheme. AtaUevente It seems unf^ to charge the engineer of the oanal with a deaire to "rovolutioniza trade routM, and to show a disposition to rejoice over hia faOure to change the current of trade, for does not the same censure, if there IB any reason for it in hia case, apply to every projector of a oanal or raUway. And why should trade routes not be revolution- ized 7 Is the business world to remain at a standstiU and not keep pace with the pro- gressive ideas of the nineteenth century 7 The main object of the Panama canal is to shorten a great trade route and to save the lone passage around Cape Horn and thua enable vessels bound for the west coast of America or the east coast of Asia to take their careoes to their destination without breakingliulk. He must be entirely out of accord with the spirit of the age, or actuated by selfish motives, who objecte to tbe con- struction of a great work on the ground that it will " revolutionize trade routes." There is a littie more show of reason in what the New York "Times" says, quoted by the writer in the "Contemporary." That journal attributes "scandalous ex- travagance and carelessness" to M. De Lesseps. I am not sufficiently acquainted with the methods adopted to raise the money to siiy whether the charge is true or not, but the fact remains that while the estimat- ed coat was placed at $240,000,000 the aum of 1250.000.000 has actually been expended, with a large floating debt of unknown amount, while a recent report of the Colum- bian Government states that only one fifth of the necessary cutting has been done. These facta preclude the possibility of the canal paying, if it should be completed, and lessen the oliances of the money fa«ing ad- vanced by the French Government, or any one else, m order to save from absolute loss what has already been put into it. As for the probable traffic. Da Lesseps estimated it at 7,500,000 tons a year, but English and American engineers have expressed an opin- ion that it cannot exceed 4.009.000 tons. The company having the work on hand having collapsed, the question arises. Will the canal ever be completed? Da Lesseps has always been hopeful, but be is now an old man. the public have to a large extent lost confidence in him, and it is doubtful whether he can do anvthing more towards carrying to a successful issue his pet scheme. The. only hope seems to be that the original investors, having become reconciled to the loss of what they have put in, will consent to abandon their claim, and tihat a new com- pany, accepting what liaa already been done aa a gift, will complete the work. Meantime the project of a cut tlirough the isthmus is likely to be realized in another way. Attention has long been turned to the San Juan route aa a favorable one for water communication between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Lake Nicaragua and the San Juan River almost cut Central Am- erica in BWo, the distance between the lake and the Pacific being less than twenty-nine mOea. The wondier ia that this routo lias not been utilized long ago. The only objec- tion to it appears to have been that ft would involve a oanal with looks, whOe De Les- seps proposed to have a tide water canal, which he had subsequentiy to abandon for one with locks and a somewhat uncertain water supply at the sommit, an objection which does not hold good in the case of the Nicaragua route, where the supply of water ia unlimited. A Bill to authorial the construction of the Nicaragua Canal haa been paaud by Con- gress, and the matter ia now in the bands of a private company, wliioh proposes to un- dertake the work under concessions from the States of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and in pursuance of treaties entered Into between those republics and the United States. Very careful surveys and estimates have been made, the collapse of the Panama scheme haying taught the promoters that the utmost care must m exercised. The distance from ocean to ocean by the proposed route is 169.8 miles, of which 66^ miles ia by lake, 84^ miles by river, and only 28 8 by canal. Tne greatest cut through rock is three miles long, with an average depth oi 120 feet. The length of the Pana- ma Canal ia about forty milea, all cr nearly all of which would be cutting. Lake Nicara- gua, which forma the summit, is deep and unobstructed, haa a watershsd of 8.000 square mflea, and with that portion of the summit level in the San Juan river to the east and the cut to the weat wiU afford 152 miles of dear navigation. The principal work in the river wUl be a dam 1,500 feet long and aixty- five feet high, not ao great a atmctnre aa the dam on our own Ridean Canal at Jones' Falls. A recent survey also provides for a dam on ths Paoifio side, whioh will reduce the ontting to eight and one- half mUea through a low divide, and three milea at the ocean level, or eleven and one- half milea in all. The summit level will be 110 feet above the moan level of both ooeans, and this will be reaobed by three locks on the eaatcmd and a similar number on tiie weat. The dimenaiona of the looka will be 650 X 70 X 30 feet allowing for the paaaacre of the laigeat veasela afloat. The total coat of the work ia eatimated at $50,000,000, to whioh may be added $15,- WOfiOO for oontingenoiea, at $86,000,000 in all, leas than one fourth what Da Leaaspa' Panama Canal haa afaready ooat. The eati- mated revenue is $8,000,000 a year, and the cost of maintenanoe $1,000,000. It is thought the work can easily be completed 1^1895. The queation of dimato ia aa impertant oaie in oonneotion with tliia work. It wUl be remembered thai great Ice s of me oo- onrred in ooanaotion witii t3ie anrveys and CMWtmoiionof tbe PaoMnaBaflway, ropeat- ed, thoogh to • Mnewhat kaaer degree owing to impcoved aaaita^ during the progrsw of the F« ysBu ssas^ â- HiriiB â- * tiw Mkm^ tmd WlUtaOiBteiaTOV,Mt oalydBriiigoea qwatw^Bi^ The pmpoot, tllai^ h tka* we wm have a PaBeaaCaaal, perhapa twa, bafeie mbt yeara have elapsed, aad that while De iiosaqp maj aot live to aee hia ««*• â- ohame parried to oompletfon, he may anrvive totoe It oanded oat in ofbot by what aaw bow be reamed aa a rival projaot Am for Mr. Whymper, who writes In tiie ' Gbntompor- ary,^' it is to be hoped he wiU witasaa On tevolntionizhig of onr trade rontea by the oanal to which he aeema to be oppoaed, aad of many othera, if anoh ehangea mean pro- gress and a developing of the teaouroea which nature haa plaoea at man'a oommand. Such levolutions are to be desired, not con- temned. ^J. Ji Bill. ADESFEBATEBISE. â- ew tke Bnttsk Maa*er-War CalUepe Cet Ont of Apia â- arbor. Naval-Cadet Geoi^ Logan, son of Thomaa A. Logan, a well-known lawyer of Cincfal nati, and one of the survivors at the Samoan disaster, reached home tbe other night. In speaking of the escape of the British war ship Calliope, Logan said that after the German ships Eber and Adler had been lost the Calliope was seen to be going upon the reef. She was within a stone's throw of it, and had only one anchor left. Her onlv possible chance was to slip tbe remaining qablo and try to steam out. This she did. It was the laat desperate resort, and it was only successful through the skill of her commander, and the fact that she was a modem and powerful ship. Her engines were put at a speed that in smooth water would have driven her into fourteen knote an hour. As it Was, she was driven sgainst these terrible seas for over an hour before she got outside of the first reef, which she barely escaped, and during that hour she was only forced ahead one knot. Alittie mishap would have caused her destruction. She_ was two days at sea and experienced a terrible time. She was washed again and again and lost all her boata, part of her apars and her upper works. As the speed of no other vesselin the harbor exceeded ten knots, it would have been suicidal to have attempted to drive them out. "The CaUiope," said Logan, "in order to keep to the channel in going out, steered di- rect for the stem of my ship, the Trenton, veering only at the last moment to dearlher. It was a moment of terrible snapenae aa we saw the hugh ram of the Britisher towering above onr decks and maUng direct for us. It looked as if she was going toout uain two; and had she done soevery one of na would have been drowned for a oertainty. " As she swung off, almoot within touch- ing dbtanoe, an involuntary cheer was given her by our men, followed a moment later by three cheers all together. Afterward the captain ot the Calliope sidd those cheers saved his vessel, as they put new heart into his men, who were almost ready to give np. As ahe sheered off Admiral Kimberley sig- nalled *Iliavenofires,'aathereaaonwhy he made no attempt to get ont of the way. " After the storm our admiral lentboate to the Calliope to coal with and then gave one to her. In return the British command- er presented AdmLral Kimberley with a complete diving apparatus, and the effioers of the Calliope presented to the offioera of the Trenton thirteen aheep, and welcome they were^ aa the men were living on cauned meat and coooanuto." TEE BET MBSDAX FOBSnS. Pardonable Under the Oinmnutanees. First Cynio â€" " Jones haa filed an appli- cation for a divorce at laat. I predicted that he would when he was married." -, Second Cynioâ€"" You don't â- aylllo.f kiiii what grounds does his ask a aepaqitfon^"^- First Oynioâ€" " Trfpletaâ€" second' tlnft." Time to Join the H^jdiitrjr. She waa the only female child, and ahe had three brothera. One day ahe waa aeon to take all her dolla and .other female toya and throw them into the back yard. Then she marched in to her motiier andaaid " Mamma, I want to get seme of Frank's clothes." Frank waa her amalleat brotlier. " What do you want with them 7" " I want to put them on." "What for 7" " Wdi, don't "^yon think I'm about old enough now to be a boy 7" He Couldn't Afford It A Jewish commerdal traveller in Vienna who had been to the theatre subsequentiy visited a wealthy banker. " Have you been to tlie theatre yet I" asked the banker. " Yes, I have been there." " How did you like it 7" " I didn't like it at all. I never have had so much tediousneaa before in all my Ufe. I yawned ao muph dot I vaa In danger of getting some lockjaws, already." "Why aidnt you leave the theatre 7 You certainly oonld have got np and gone out." " You can talk dot vay. Yon are a rich man, but a poor dmmmer like me oan't afford to throw away dot price of admissions, You dink I vaa some spendthrift already «r some l^otiisohUds. The grsal foieat threogh whioh Stealer eentiy paaoad, whidi he oatimatad to oovar 246 000 sqnare mHaa, ia only a email pari of the great Afrioan lorsat whldi estoada id- moat nabrokaaly from the weal oeael ia the Gaboon aad Omma legiona, with a width of oevoral hnndred mHea to the great lakoa. Thia belt of timber, treading away to tiie heart of the ooatiaeat ia a dbeetfoa a littie soath^ eaat, ia, perhapa, tiie greataat for- oal rogloa la the world. A pari of Italrikea aouth of the Conjo at the gnat aurttMra bend of that river, aad tiie conatey embrac- ed within the big curve ia ooverea with a oompaot foroat, the towertog aad wide* spreading trees ahuttiag ont abrge part of the sunlight. 'In theae foceata. eompletdy ahnt out from the reat of the world, live hundreds of thou- sands of people, who are almost unknown to the tribes living in the savanna regions outside. Sokttered through the big woods within the Congo bend are littie oom^ muuities of Battta dwarfs, of whose exist- ence the faraveller has no inkling until he suddenly comes upon them. Here iJso, along the Sankuru River, are the tree hab- itations described by Dr. Wolf, where the natives live in hute built among the branch- es to escape the river floods. It waa in great clearings made in these f oreata that Kund and Tappenbeok discovered some of the u'ost notable villages yet found in Africa, where well-built huts, with gable roofs, line both sides of a neatiy kept street that stretohesaway for eight or nine miles. These villages are even more interesting than the street to mis in the more sparsely timbered regions touth of them, which were regarded as very wonderful when they were first discovered by Wissmanu. It was his account of these villages that led Bishop Taylor to obooee this part of Africa as the goal he wished to reach. Last year the Commercial Company, whioh â- â-  is investigating the trade resources of the CoDffo, sent its steamer, the Roi des Bdpea, up the Ikatta River into this great timber land, and the explorers described the country along the banks as "covered with an almost impenetrable virgin forest. It is a veritable ocean of verdure, from which emerges 'here and there a wooded mountain." Greonfell penetrated the forest for long distances on several southern tributaries of the Congo, and on the upper courses of these rivers ho sometimes found the wide spreading bronch- os forming a oompleto roof above'the astram. TheNi free noB ioaragaanmtoaaaaan tobe oatbel^ em tiiow ellawlia ooafMoH wUoh An Effective Mole Invigomtor. While travelling in Virginia aome time ago with a doctor we came upon an old oolored man who waa atanding by a mule hitched to an old two-whed vehicle. "Dia mule am balked, boaa," said the old man "an' I'll jis gibadollah to de num what can start 'im." "IwiUdoitforleai than that, naole," sidd the doctor. He took his eaae from the oaniage and adeotad a email ayringe^ which he filled with morphia. He went to the side of the mule and quickly inaerting the ayringe in hia aide pnsbed tiie contonta bito the ^wjâ„¢*!, The mule roared upon ita bind l^iaand giving an astonishing bray started down the road at a break-neck need. The aged oolored man gave a look oi aetonish- ment at the doctor, aad with a load "Whoal" started down tiu road after the mnle. In the oonrae of tea miantoa weoameap to the old man staadttag in the road waiting for aa. Tiie male waa aoediere la aiehti ••Say, boos," aaid tiie darky, "how mnoh yon diarm for dal staff yoa pat fai dat mntet" "Oh, tea oaale Jrill do," laogUogfy re- nltsd tba dootor. ' '*WolLboaB,haaliIatweatyeaBthi Squirt flCdatitaffiaaM I amir katah dat FaithM Buffaloes. Every country boy knows how devoted the domestic cow is to her youn^, but, ac- cording to Colonel Dodge, the female bulfit- lo, incredible as it seems, shows scarcely a trace of maternal instinct, and when fright- ened will run away from her calf without the slightest hedtatioE. The duty of protecting the young devolves almost entarely upon the bulls. I have seen evidences of this many times, but a most remarkable instance was related to me by an army surgeon. He was returning to camp after a day's hunt, when his attention waa attraoted by the curious action of a littia knot of six or eight buffaloes. Approaching auffideatly neur, he discovered that they were all bulls, atanding in a close cirde with their beads outward, while in a concentric circle of some twelve or fifteen paces distant sat at least a dozen large gray wolvea, licking their chops in ImDatient expectancy. Tuese wolves, with the exoof tim of man himself, are the most dangerous of all tbe buffalo'a enemloa. I'he dootor determined to watoh the per* fbrmaaoe. After a few momenta the knot of bnffdo broke up, and, still keeping in a oompaptauim, started on a trot lor tbemaia herd aome hall a mU« off. To hb great aatoa- iahmeot, the dootor now aaw that tiie central and ooatrolBg Hgmw; of thia maiiiee ii foat liltic^plf, ao nei% bem aa MMMy to ' be able to italk. Aftwgofas ft[(7:i!^:^Jinadrei pac«.ltlay down, th« bulla dispioBed thunsdves tea drde ae baforew ami the iroltas, «rho had teotted al(4kgac eaefa side of iMr retriat- ing su^pn^ fat down and Ilpked their ohept again. The ddotori!'dld not jme the end of the affafar, for the hour was late and his camp distant but he had no doidit that the noble fathers did tiieir whole duty by their off- spring, and carried It safely to the herd. I m BoredbyaDnnce. The late Matthew Arnold was bored once during a long joumqr by an ignoramna who would talk literature to him. Arnold wonid not diaputo with him but, when, with cne portentoua serionaneaa of one who haa dia- coveredka great truth, he said, •'In my op- inion William Shakkpere waa a gMat poet," Arnold warmly graapad hb hand, and with equal gravity aaid, "Do let me ahake hsada with the only admirer of my favonritopoet." A atory of a different kind ia told rf Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmoa. TravdUng down to Glonoeater onoe, he waa draped Into a long oonveraatlon, whioh ended in aoonntcy- maa'atakliuthe"aatoorat'a" hat aad aay- lag, "I read aomethlag la tliepaper!the other day about the dze of great mea'a heada, aad I tiiouffht I'd like to kaow the alee of youra. But what bothera nae ia, my head'a tiie bhr- geatofdietwor HeFroyedtheFact. A mufti onoe road ia a learned book that every one who weara a long beard ia a fooL Now the mufti's beard waa long. He dedded to shorten It but, aa no barber waa at band, and, of oourae. ao adatora, he waa forced to try what the flame of hia lamp .woald do. Accordingly, graaping the bowd with hia hand, at what he deemed a reasonable dis- tance from his chin, he put the tip Into the blazs. Up flew the fire snd burnt hia fingers; and, whmi. In an agony of pain, he plucked his hand away, the fl*mea oompleted tiieir work over oheeka and crown. Then the mufti roaliaed thathe wl\o weara a long beard ia a fooL An abaard atory oomee from Viototia* B. C, that the Canadian fiahh* adioooeia pro* pbaed to go armed Into the Behrlag aoa aoal fisheriaa. We wOl adkaowledge f fisblaii ooaateymea up yoadoF nave odved tiiair asede of atteaiioB aad fsfr play, bat Ihair aarely be traatkl to I « i ;•! t. '.I: â- ^MBaa^ufii