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 THE STIRKBRIDGE MYSTERY ^h Iff Hi) 'iiti 1 I ill li'i :ii m 1 ifl CHAP rER III. Dr. £«toB did not stand Icaj; tUaking He advanced into the room, cloie to ifieareB. He had never iten a picture _jMra into artificial pTomiMtca by meana aCl^ta placed behind it but be bad heard ^^haa. and he believed this was one now him. As ha eav the hgarea more stiy, he perceived that the woodenneaa I rigidity â€" characterising them, was due » tikx fact that they ware indeed nothing alarming, mere formidable, than ra- ttattonaon canvas, drawn and painted ' » maaterly hand, and at a diatanca re- HUMtkably life-like, bat apon nearer inspeo 4§a^ eooaewbat crnde and nofilBahed. ^ftriae ma a Ught," he ahoated to the «TCBMB. "Â¥oa need not be afraid. It ia ^atUo^ bat a picture." lixsy «tiil could not be persntded to enter ttoa «pactnient, but Mra. DfifSsld brought 4ft* icmp from Mr.Stran?hne8ay bad-cham- ter, and handed it to the doctor. By ita H^t the picture could be plainly aeen, even jUi« dietaace, to bo but a picture. Deeply intereated, Dr. L'jton examined it, »-fBiMag«n important diaoovery. Beneath â- aim €«are of the young man was written, evDb white paint, the date of the mnrder,and HSha aune â€"Antonio S traughneia) He drew Mxu. Driffiala's attentien tothia fact, saking Berif «he could deteotany reaemblance in the ^aife bandeome face to that of old Mr. -^tnoghuesay. She studied the features at- vteHtiirely, then aaid 'fEbe-cgpea are aomething like Mr. Sfcraagh- mem/ 'v were, I think, air. He had very ^cigbt eyea they u«ed to look almost as tk^ta^i they were on fire, aometimea, and â€" ^pee^tben ia aomething like Mr. Straugb- sewy^g about it. Bat what does it all mean, •â- It meana I think, that Mr. Sbrauehne«ay ^wcr« Ur Brother ton's murderer, " replied Dr. iftott. "Though why the truth should be 'xeH«B)3 in tbi« strange faahon is a riddle J. cimnot {^esa. " "Sat J» Staughnesay must have been a acaidleaged mas wlen the murder to 3k 'jAbce' and -this man here ia quite young," icA^ acted Mrs. DrifSeld, who was a quick- '^Fitted woman. ' 13iesipation, remorae, and the workisg? «. %ad conscience, sometitues age people • itsa. wonderfully short time.'aaid thedoctor, "fljcwrever, I had forgotten the murder was aaaaaiitted so recently â€" about twenty years a^, was it notl I woodar,' mnsingly, "if he hik£. « eon who could have been tbe guilty **f don'c know, air," said the hous'keeper- ' '^c never spoke to me of one but, as I aaid '• "'dbre, he never talked mush about anything ' ;£b ii««ervant9." "ilr. Brotherton's likeneaa, f o far as I re- aneHiber him, eeems to be an extremely good â- aae I wonder ho w hA was doue." **rhert'B a pirtrait of Mr. Bmtherton in !i» house, sir, ' said Mrs. Diffi^ld. "It's tems; in the blue room ever since be had it fiated. Mr. Straughnessy might have ^sepyied from that." â-  "Ah, yes, very likely," said Dr. Loton tecviagway. 'Well, I think one tfaiog at ficurt appears clear if Mr Stranghnesay had antiuteBded oommilitin 4; suicide, he would 'aM(i bave left the door of this room unlocked. '•-â-  Oat whether or no he was mad when he took «js.fatal dose, it might be hard to deter- oare to ± the inqusst held over the body of Mr, :£ jraaghnesny, little farther information •m^tM elicited that might have served to in- Siuuice a deciaion as to whether the deceased lMd«3mmitted suicide, or whether his death Siad. been the result of an accidental over- dama. Neither was anything more, likely â- bi. asttle the question as to whether Mr. ^ijteanehnctsy nac b.en Mr. Brotherton's asafderer, dicclosed cbe picture, with its imfpiSQcdait date and signature, however, imeaaog, to the minds of some, to point un- sstetakably to hia guilt. The fall facts of sake eaae were never known in Stirkbridge, Ibetbritfiy, they were as follows l£r. Straughnessy was an Italian, the son «tCtdUaa peasants. As a lad no w»e remark- t^p faaadsome, andh's giod loobs struck the iKM|f of a wealthy Englishman travelling in ^ifaSf. He was brought to Eagland by the ^^ishman, and here sent to echool. Dor- ic^ the progress of his education he gave 49«CAHiae of artistic talents of such high order esE^a indues hia patron to change his original u^ieation of taking him as p^ge or valet, and pat within his reach, instead, the advantages jtiCsMa artistic training. I^lie Saglishman did not live, however, to iHse whett^r his proie e would .jartify the lapea he entertained of his winning a high ^ocition in the world of art, and dying .dbiidlaas, left a yearly income to the young Tlitf iff on condition than he should chan;;e 3iia Italian patronymic to that of his pttron ^Ssrauithnessy a name the old man -Ssadly believed the lad would make famous. Aifer his pjktron's death, young Strangh rxamf as I will henceforth call him -^nseoeded to Rome, where ho studied in the atedio of a celebrated Italian painter. Here, i^tfae age of twenty, he met and loved a ^•aatiful girl a countrywoman of his 4»ara, of the name of Teresa P^llisca vlaase portrait was being painted by the art- iMvnder whom he was studying, and whom jbe«*winthe studio. She retamea his af- -foetion with feivonr, but, being the child of Abroad, thoagh not wealthy, family, ahe jkuew the sain of n unknown and oompara- ^lirely poor artist would be rejected by her aaather and brother, and her meetings with Setrnt were clandestine conducted with Cfc« Utmost secrecy. 3Jpon tho completion of the portrait. '^resa and her family, consisting' of the •«a«ther and brother before mantioned, left iSsmr, on a visit to Monte G^rlo. Straugh- a8Bsy, loving with all the ardour of his hot mmuAwcn nature, completely absorbed and ^•criod away by his passiop, could think ot aHtUog but Teresa. He could not bend his «â- Â£Â«Â£ to hia work, and fiadioc; his progress «« « ataadstill, and ardently longing for an- «tlier sight of his inamorati, he determined #0 follow her. A week after the forming of Ihis demsioD found h!m at Monte C»rlo. There were several meetings b»twe.en the la««n, strengthening, if that had been ;os- MUe, their mutual love, Ihey were happy, aivinginthe present, and thrusting from I all thonghs of the fstore, «|^h, under iBstaocea in ' whiQh they were might- have Jie^i pre#et«d ^gfg^dMr^ffSSraPSst. end «A«ifs was stkouYiidelv. broken in apm. Wtoile the heart of beautiful Teresa had been filled with the passion of lov«. /»«â- Â» «« her mother and brother had been filled with the passion for play. Night after mght they sat late at the crowded gambling tables, eagerly watching their lack. As is often the case, they were not wise enough to know when to atop, and after winning considerably they played on in the hope of increasing their gains, their blood burning with the wild gambling-fever. Fortune turn- ed aesinst them. Tfleir iossea grew deeper and deeper. They west too far. They leggared themselves and Teresa, and ouly the inter- position of a gentleman with whom they had become acquainted at Monte Carlo, sai^d them from utter psouniary disaster. He lent them money, advisTng them to endeav- our to rotrieve their loRsea by further play. They allowed themselves to be guided by his advice, having completely succnmbed to the passion which sometimes in the notorious building at Monte Carlo suddenly overtakes and overmasters victims who before enterin*' were free from its power. They lost again. And when the gentlemanâ€" an Englishman of the name of Brothertonâ€" asked la lieu of payment of what they owed bim, the hand of Teresa in marriage, possessing as they did no other means of repaying him, they saw no way out of the diffi salty but that his of- fer should be acceoied, and that Teresa should become Mrs. Brotherton of The Tow- ers, Stirkbridge,: shire. When Teresa was informed of thsir decia- ion, she was overwhelmed with grief, bat, tiua to the manner of her rearing, she did not question the right of her mother to dispose of her in marriage. The family honor was at stake, end she, proud of her noble blood, could not willingly allow it to bo smircbed. It was her fate that she would niarry this ugly, middle-aged, prosaic Eoglishman, and do her best to forget the hacdsome Italian, with his dark eyea glowin? with love's Ifirc, and his soft deep voice vibrating with love's tenderness, and she must resign herself. Nevertheless, her trouble was great and her lovpr, seeing how she suffered, fell his own snffjring at the prospect of losing her re. doubled, refusing to accept the doctrine of resignation she preashed to him. When the P^klliecas, accDmpanied by Mr. Brotherton, left Monte Carlo for Eagland, Svraughnessy followed ♦'hem, and in London even while the bridal robes were in process of preparation^ found occjision to see and speak with Teresa alone. A conple of days before that fixed for the wedding, they met, and in a wild burst of grief, forgetting her lesFon of resignation, Teresa co-nfessed how full of loathing was htr heart at the thought of her marriage, how life -nith Mr. Brotherton seemed to offer her nothing but a dall wretchedness, and how her mind was torn with grief at the thought ot partirg with Straughnessy. It was not a wise con- fession^ though one natural to the impulsive lovc-aick girl, and dire were the conse- qaences that ensued. Straughnessy had learnt from Teresa the name and residence of Mr. Brotherton, and with some but half- formed purpose in view of seeking an interview with him to beg and implore him to release Teresa, even at the last moment, from her engagement, without allowing the family honor to scffsr of offering, himself, to p^y by degrees, even if it should cost him all he possessed, the sum for which Teresa's relatives were indebted ta him, he proceeded to Stirkbtldge. Eirly on the morning preced- iog that fixed for the wedding, wandering in Stirkbridge Wood he encountered him, recognising him from r portrait Teresa had shown him. He made a passionate appeal to him imploring him to set Tereaa free. As might have been expected by anyone ac- quainted with the owner of The Towers, hia unaophiatioated pleadinga met with a cyni cal, half -amused, half contemptuous refusal. Straughnessy 'a temper rose. His entreaties where changed to curses, and, in a madfio of anger, as his rival turned to leave him, he drew a knife he was in the habit of carryinr, and ixfiicted the murderous blow. Immediately afterwards he left Stirk- bridge. walKing to a town soma miles dis- tant, and from thence he went by train to London, en route to Paris. His relations with Teresa had been a secret between the lovers themselves he had not beeu espec- ially remarked by anyone in Stirkbridge, and no suspicion that he was in any way connected witfa the murder was entertained by any save Teresa herself, and she revealed nothing. Cohseqaently he escaped without pursuit, and he remained in Paris, unmolest- ed, for several years. He had lost what he most valued, his Teresa â€" for how could he. a murderer, ever again dare to approach her?â€" and urged on by various emotions â€" ^feara of parsait, and capture, axd the hangman's rope, alternating with remorse for the terrible crime and bit- ter regrets for his separation from Teresa â€" be plunged into a course of reckless dissipa- tion, ending in a long and dangerous illneas. Rsoovering, he again continued in his vicious career, endeavouring to drown hia miaery in drink and folly, and again waa taken ill. From the Utter illness he rose with wrinkled face and crey hair, his appearance that of an old man. He would have again sonj^t to deaden feeling in diaaipatiop, but for something that happened during his oonvalesceuoe. While he slept one. night, lie iMd a curious dream. He thought the detectives were on hu track, that downj^long white road they were pursnine him. He was footsore and weary, and, exert himself as he might, they were gainiog on him. Dispcrately he straggled on, but in vain, they were close upon him. A few yarda further pursuit and they would have secured him, had not intervention come in the person of his lost love, Teresa. By some myaterioua power she cauaed his purauers to pass on, leaving him unharmed, and after they kad gone she talked with him. She urged liim to confess his crime and die, and something in her words suggested the idea that he shoul^ the high artistic talents he had j| pioperly developsi, in the confession-^ it should be in the shape of a pll representing the committal of the deed. Ttaei^ea germinated in his braio. waa, as 'I Save said, very superstitii he had imbibed from his mother superstttioiis oarrent among the P?*?^^ZiJ^hiiisnbseqa*nteda( «.„ „ „., long could he q»»««y «* painlessly end hii existenoe, ana he ^^' hJthe length of time he •fc»"W Uke to paint the picture should be his last on earth. It seeded a kind of P«'«t»'»l J "»*'»? ^t his noblest gifts should be thus brought into requisition for a purpoje which, if it did not lead to his legal punishment, would at least serve to blacken bis naine for ever. How he carried out hia superstitious, half- mad idea-living seduded in the yey house which for short periods his victim had inba^ iied, emerging from the grounds only when visittog the scene of the murder in order to obttdn a correct representation of the spot, or when leaving for Berrioheater, where he bought his brushes, and every quarter met his lawyer on business, his income wing re- oeived quarterlyâ€" has been told. The rea- son why he dismissed his servants for a fort- night, was that he wished to remove the tell- tale picture from its usual resting place in the looked chamber, pending arrangements to ba effected by the workmen for lighting up of the picture. the „„ _. and feared that with'the""women [n the house he would find ita diflioult matter to remove so Urge a canvas without their knowledge; one of them might have come upon him in the act, recognised Mr. Brotherton's features, and discovered, or suspected, hia secret bafore he was willing it should be disolossd (TO BS CONTINUED OiraHT TO fiE tfABIEO. »=5;s;..v. "In the Saad-Box." A long while ago there lived in the oily of New York a man who doctored horses, cowa and does. Lidies thee fancied poodles and King Charles's spaniels, and the man's suo cets in curing these pampered pets brought him many patients and much gain. In those days large doses of medicine were given to man and beabt, for scarcely any- thing WAS known of the remedial power of nature. This successful practi doner, how- ever, did not heed Macbeth'd ad'^ce to "throw physic to the dogs." Oa the con- trary he gave the doga nothing â€" no medi- cine, no food, no water â€" for hia panacea was starvation. "Put bin. in the sand-box," was his only order to his manof-all-work, when a lady, having left a sick dog in the doctoi'd care, had deputed. In the sand-box vhs dog re- mained, until it could eat a crust of bread, Then it was sent home, a well dog. The doctor's theory was a sijipla one. As the dog had been overfed, dieting would cu:e the disease. After the dog doctor had departed, his secret became kncwn, and children who re- fused to eat what was set before them were told, "Ah you ought to be put into the sand-box " for in those days when carpets were costly, every family kept a large box oi white sand to sprinkle on the floors ot the living-room and the kitchen. The dog doctor may have read the old story which tella how that mnchmarrisd and most "merrie" King Henry VIII. cured the Abbot of Blading of a weak s Stomach. One day the king, while out hunting, lost his way and found himself outside of the Abbot of Reading's house. It was dinner-time, a sirloin was on the table, and the Abbot, taking the king for one of the Royal Gaard, pressed him to dine. The kisg laid on to the roast beef with such vigor, that the Abbot, who had simply nibbled at it, exclaim- ed " Well fare thy h^art, for here in a cup of sack I remember thy master. I would give a hundred pounds on condition that I could feed as lustily on beef as you do. Alas I my weak and squeasy stomach will hardly d^eat the wing of a small chicken." The king departed, and several weeks afterward the Abbot was committed to the Tower and fed on bread and water. -At the climax ot his emptiness, a sirloin of beef was set before him. The Abbot rivalled the king's performance. Juat aa he was wiping his mouth, out jiunpsd Henry YIIL from a closet. " My lord," he exolumed, ' deposit your hundred pounds, or else no going hence all the days of your life. I have been your physician to cure yon of your squeasy stomach, and I demand my fee." The Abboat returned to Rsading lighter, in heart and purse. â-  L A Story About Wine. In the days of old, tiefore the graps vine was cultivated as it ia at the present time, a man was one day walking in the country and found grpiring wild by the roadside a large grape vine plentifully covered with fruit. He tasted a few of the graphs, and findlsg them very palatable, resolved to take a slip of tte tree home with him and plant it in his garden. He therefore broke off a healthy yonzig shoot and proceeded on hia journey. A thought struck him that it would be a very good plan to keep the slip moist, and seeing the leg of a bird lying on the mound he picked it up, and cutting open the flashy part of It, placed the end of the sapling in it and continued his jonmey. He had not gone far when he found the foot of a lion, and to keep the sapling still m'obt, he out the lion's foot open and placed the sap ling, together with the bird's kg, inside ft and again resumed his j lumey On hb way further ha found part of the leg of a donkey and likewise eutting that open, he placed the sapling, bird's leg and lion's foot inside the donkey's leg, and later on having arriv- ed safely home, planted the lot jast- as it was, in the ground, and left it to grow. Ia course of time the yeuag tree grew into a large one, and bore fruit io abundanoe, from which the man made some wine. Thus it IS that when a man has taken a email quauttW of wine ke begins to "sing like a a bird, ' and having drunk more, becomes *â- â€ž.**-•â-  • ""»" oontinulnff so nntU by swallowing still more he becomes "as stnoid as an ass." ' The Anti- SlaTery Conference. Tlie And-slavery Coaferenoe at Bmatels has been in session for nearly five weeks --*^,S2!?fha?^jr ""^•"' '3i!S S*!**"" we secret, wJ^lMlflp^ilslyipsnnitted to jp^^onferenoe W'.iol jjBiiaii ~pe*tiirl tietdinBfnriir seemed to him hb dream was aa 01 tbol ' fai „ of i roffsr the peudt/ of death by .„« HU horror at the thought of ending his ».. thus was grea^ but he waa tco wretehed to soounv BD niiB on oroam was AmEBSltok'CleiSTsaaB's WaUve Peserlptleii ofHls Hoasekeeiier. The following advertisement b from the Oxford (England) •Guardian " "A beneficed otorgyman oanconsoientiAiiB- ly recommend ayonuff lady, bstween twenty- three and twenty-four, as a superior house- keeper. She poBsessess twa rare qualifica- tions, being domestioated knd aooomplbh- ed. 'She oan play and slog, and knows praoldoally how to cook a nice dinner with economy and punctuality; plays the har- monium at church with much taste, and oan sing any difficult mnsio at sight. Is an early riser. Knows how to drive. A total abstainer from every kind of intoxicating drinks from her childhood. "She b nice looking, bright and cheerful; no gossiper; highly intelleotaal, but un- assuming quick correspondent and a good grammarian. ^, "A brother clergyman, or an influential laymen, or a lady in need of a oonfiiential, oompanlonable housekeeper,' would not be disappointed, Her oommanding presence and modest, attraotive demeanor are appre- ciated by rich and poor. "She has now twenty five guineas a year and deserves more. A native of Suriey and of a respectable family. S*tlsfaotory refer- ence to a county ma^strate and his wife. Address, Rsotor oi lagoldmelu, L'ooln shire." Such a specimen as this nattvd ct a rd^ Ef eotable family should be snapped up with- out delay. The (}iilf St'eam as a Social Foica. The icflaence of the great river of hot water which flows out of the Mexican Guli through the Straits of Florida, to moderate and mitigats the winter climate of the ooun tries it touches, is well known. Bat for the Gulf Stream the British Isles would be as bleak andfro zan as Labrador, while Norway and Sweden would b^ but counter- parts of Greenland. It is ibu tivar in the ocean which pouring its w^rm waters on the western coasts of Europe makes it habitable for clvilzed man and gives to a far northern region a climate which would otherwise bslong to latitudes much to southward. There are many theories as to the origin and cau°e of the Gulf Stream. Soientists have worried thsir brains over the matter to ths extent of fabricating many theories, not one of which is satbfactory to any one but the theorist himself. Oae Interostinf' fact, however, has lately been brought to public notice. It is that the Gulf Stream, wMjh heretofore, after folio wbg up the Atlantic coaat of the (Jaited States as far north as Cape Hatteras and sheering off to the northeastward, to project its cnrrent against the British ooast, u now represented CO be hugging our shore until it rebounds from tho coast of Massachusetts. This is what Lieutenant John Downes, of the Uaited States Navy, says in a recent essay ia the Boston Transcript. He says thb has been going on for the past two years and has had the effect of moderating the New England V'inters to an extent heretofore unknown. We quote from hb statement the following Probably a m» j ority of those living la the New England Ssates at the present time, who have arrived at man's estate, can, with- out any great exertion of memory, recall most vividly the times, not so many years ago, when Winter was a stern reality, and not, as of late years, a delusion and a snare. In the good old days a snow storm of any note meant a season of sleighing for the eld- ers and, of coasting for the boys and girls. It was no infrequent thing for sleighing to oontinue uninterruptedly for dx weeks and more at a time. I doubt If the past three winters could, oolleotlvely, produce anything like a six weeks' period of even respectable sleighing. In the times of our fathers, judg- ing by the tales with which our youthful ears have been regaled, the hand of winter waa sterner and heavier on this land of ours than in more recent years. It would seem that our climate, in common with that of mary other parts of the world, ia undergoing a gradual change. The wonderful oontraat between the two years just passed and their predecessors for many years back, however, oannot ba scaounted for by this gradual change in climate; the cause for so sudden and violent -a departure from the ordinary course of events must Iw sought elsewhere, and unlets the lifelong studies and experi- ments of soientbts are to go for naught wa shall not have very far to go from our own doors to succeed in our search. Then follows hb observations on the reported change In the Ga'if Stream. If this be a facti it b worthy of the most oare- tnl study. No good reason has ever been given for the propulsion of thu hot river through the Atlantic Ocean in the direction it takes. If the Galf Stream werenotdiing more than the escape of the waters that have been " basked up' in the Caribbean Sea by the easterly tradd winds, as some of the scientbts hold, why should the outflow take and midntain all the characteristics oi a swift and volaminons river, instead of spreading out over the surface of the sesT The Qoucltuion b irresbtible that there Is a force which not only projects these waten with great energy into the vast body of the North Atlantic, but maintainsthem through- out their course for three thousand miles or more. The Gulf Stream, as b well known to navigators, b subject to temporary dbturb- ""i" L " **" action of long ooiithiued winds, but the flaotnationa so caused areex- tremdy Inoonsiderable in ootaparison iHth I:!s!5^^'" "' reported If » ilversion so decided and marked has occurred bi the ooarse of the GaU Stream than it b evident that Mme profound altoratioa has taken plaoa in the fnoea tkat have produoed aad maintained thb notable flow. If there has Sf.ii*' ro db«ogutahed a change In thedlmstoof KewSagland other o^atio modifioaaons nost Im wrought ebewhere. -!;if '""'*y from the Britbk shores sSi JL^S^'J!" •ehlevethe overthrow of Briihh power than have, the united ctfirte of«eiirtbMrloantl»'^ight huBdred'smd odd years that have ebpsed siaoe the Hor- Iwtf.fieseat oTDMnliaon woiild he'^S. '\5™«*»Mloo ravolntioBisKl. .-h--. migtitjr \g' ItaST! T?** i»»» "Md* posrtWe the greatest olvfl^vtton rf modem ttaiw. ThatwhS PAssiia The Sultan of TarkevJ., ' gifi.,buthehasap:SS mising in the case of som. .^«3 thelate"Sanset-6oX'Sf Mfaiister at ConsrantinopU J*l ral valuable and teaatifuir^ the Saltan, among theaii, die. Mrs. Cox has now h^'^iu aU these jewels must be sen^?*!? in aooordanse with the cn.fl^^ try. Tlie Sultan evid^ny^'K them over again. ' "'^Po^il A levee in tho n6lB,i,.wv Angeles, Cil, was on ctS°^l scene of a prodigious flow of tvL*** be said of wine and water Tk^**«» howevjr, are rather pleiJ.iiS ot the fermented jaioe of ths^I^H tributedon the occasion. Tt^'*! plained that the levee y»l^M but a river embankment wUoho^T allowed a winery to be diluw 1'^^ enoe. The winery Dronri.*!!*^"' levees ot thb kind^hWl!?. «^ 1 but held up. 1 kind should not ojtj The missionary spirit hu tika,*^ of thevicM of TunstsU, EnnC'N Pitman, and hb two onr»t« Ri*!'" Dickenson and A. J, li%ll have resigned thsfr po^itioiV;* with a vl-:w of laboring Mai^ J Canada. The saorific tiese sa f -making b oomraendabl? but u rSl pear that tbt* haw 4 fflMt»ken iij^ ing the relig'oas ecnditloH of thtD»I for it IS stated that they propose ia one of the large Cjmadiantswi'll! mbsionariea leaving aH, biddiai fy friends, and starting ont fnlly cdii work in Toronto, where thmllr, Anglicau churches alrejkdy, CjI. Williams, a coloured mu,i,ii, J thor of a scheme for tbe emnlmail American negroes In the Bel^cwi companies interested in the C^nm Siate. He was recently sent to the Di States by the direo^-ors of ^ewcorpxi to etqalre aa to the feasibility of tii and has just returned to Europe after ing arrangementdor theempIoymeitii( Congo region of a numbor of ^jdmsj Southern industrial scbook Eiiegin however, to the suggested achsaein wholesale colcn'z ition of Americu in Africa, baing of the opinion tint special training the men of hii rue not be fitted to became coloniats. The Now York doctors ueert thl cflaetzk epidemic has not vet appeinj his side of -.he Atlantic, and that thee! able weather of the psst weekiittea the numerous colds which have^Teiii{ the belief that the nnwelcomo viiitn arrived. This may be trao of Nev but there seems to be good reuontel that the epidemic has reached Boeton, large establishment in that fX% 1 employs 1,100 hands, has temporiiOr the services of 200 of them, who an ill something very like icfloeczt. Oae! and fifty girls employee br another also laid up aud other large busineu have suffered in like proportion. Ihii may not be "la grippe," but it li fully like it. Io British C jlumbia the delibani the license oommissioneri on the nli|ri| the issue of liquor licenses »e pabk report of the procaedmgi at New W ster a week ago illastratesthemethodii licensing boards. The commisiiosenr a pablic hall, and the inspector laid them his report upon the hottlifortbi year. Some places had beenwellaair These were re-licensed. Otbenhid after hours, or had allowed minon tt chase and drink liquor on the pM To these a renewal of tht licaue w nied. The prooeedhigs were cMidsctedi the manner of a court, and thin clearly no room for the charge thalp oonsiderationa in any way inflaeaoed suits reached. An intoresthitr memorial ot toria's vbit to Paisley hat yew «" been raised at Paisley abbey. Herli' la not averse to rembdiog *« ff that she is the descendant of tmj* Stuarts, aud as Paisley U 'OPP"" 5 the cradle of that family »|" 7 .Sj abbey there was founded bl 163 "f"" the High Stewart of Scotland. x'Bi^ pressed a wbh last year to erw monument in thb hiitoricil ipot- ^^ day, aocordirgly. In the preiea«M tingnbhed company. Sir Micn»» Stewart, The Lord L'.entenanM frewshire, unveiled a suitable m»rB» ment with the following ^Oiff. the memory of the memW"»'ipi House of Stewart who " burt«' J Abbey, this stone is pUcsd here 1 deec^ndant. Queen Victoria, on «« of her visit to Paisley-lS8S. Tae vbit to Canada of ^^f^ charged with the iwpe"?»" "^t railro*d method?, with a W.La, I ing of a railroad """"JS-M shadows extraordmary po"»^ way of expeditions glol»-«««^ I steamship Cty cf Paris and th«J,- continental fast mail .**'" ?!^() the actual running t""' liaijenfl town and San Francieoo to » " ^f daya, it b eaay »« o»^"l'" iBj(tl»i would be required for o»«f"f.,,ljl third of the world'a olroo«_JJ. Jj aid of a " Trans B»ii»l 25a «J new raUroad should '.^HA same time that the pw^^f^J^ ^1 b' established between A"" »« ports of the Cji'go *^'*? °' bet**! tourist will be able ^^"^flLi^r starUiog alternatives of » P» ^1 Petenbarg Limited or ny " Line to As hanKO. That Unususl *oJ* A.â€" What b the va^ *^ morning? â- n.atsil^ B.-fdidn't .leap wall UJ5 was an unusual noise in mj Did it wake you op? ^^jn*! Yes, any uoueual noise w j What Was the nnn»u»I JT^J^ WeUyonseemy wlfen"^, the day but stores up »" like thb stored eleotrloHy- ^. But yon were spejiWy »l nobe during the «"«ht .â- ^'g ' log to that. You see *»•' jjj*«" ber sooldlag that it »« Tk.i«*i As long as she j »ws I "•^ieNJ, J But what was the nnwglJfj • ' WeH she be|ikn j •^'"f,,^!!^^ as AsilU; aiid I would h»* j ^\ it had not been for that "» Woat unusual noise I She quit tolking. Waa the Fanlt of the Uare st nsny months ago thei nland from a neighboring t Us wife and first baby. Ai ' (gttled down to Clevelanc Sed \f» Iwiy ^fey » bngsy. « att betook themselves to a hi these very usefu jf Ma on Superior stie iBsthstorioof the glib-tong f ware soon made happy in t kiontwns little veliicle t W\% started cff prondl i piiiM and grins of the pa ,a sffsrent before they hat bat they weren't used t yet and innocently snppi l^tbeenstoms of the place, to Immoderate laughter a IdgMi to feel decidedly un( wvref the subjects of t _i that waa pWn. But l^utT IThey looked each ibgabcut them to excite )at I babyt either. 1 wuk ahead a little wa] Vm going to see what th tbg at," saul she, now thon I did so. The mystery wai k large card dangling on the f was written in l)old black l:Oar Own Make. I clerk had forgotten to placard. "Boecobel." iBofcobel," the fine country .Henry Ward Beecher,ha 75,000. The pkce was bou ' In 1859 and covers abon It overlooks the Hudsoi iffifhlaods, and toward tl Is a Maatiful view, the ee I lybg just thirty feet from h West(Aester Cou ity. I t the present handsome hout 170,000. Surrounding the emitsining a magnificent a ludihmbs, over 6. COO in ni |ooUeetion Mr. Baeoher wa to hb missionary fricnc Indb, the Pacific Islan and In fact all quart sre represented in this â- r spent altogether more I the place. Hooked at Last. [uiglad your name b Mary ween to hb sweetheart, wh Iw""' tor several years, ^QN I Was reading to-day â-  aline which siid *Mary is "Be that woman ever bore.' ' ttiapoetfoally expressed â- *iay It to my mother, w nr:.." 'â-  '"" ••"»• poet, im' fbalfeveso." I^Il»»o also heard my i |»We Was even a sweeter i ^ftiid^hemust have been i J»TOr,ashe tendeily pi »rt'a hand. Jjl do not think he was ml ^*«« the other name ' «1 blush suffused the IS cheek, the sUkenUshe »»alovely eyes, and !n a to JJ2^P«ings ofan^EiUan ••Maiwsout. ••â- .* .;. fteJPeiky Little Brothei tfc*'®5L' yo» mustn' "â- .Mhs Travu. Nobod; •tSj7(WMhlng with pleasur* T^w?? *«fwa perfect ninn '«)# the find of th9 Trio. J^;»»tck p .( T*fWh»t'« that got U r«S'd'S!!5r^* wanted t â-  *Spnge.oar'n check ' J^*** Home Happy. ' IIf*,I*"»«»bor Jims .*do. I remen na-«at bad one, c« »and ohUdrenane Jipeon "^py now. ;*^T dn'hab til ^8S*g«ni wU