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Farmers’ Daughters.
The London Spectator says Sk-To
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beasts, and be admittedly prosperous, a
man must have £i,ooo, and make at
least a rent for himself besides his in
terest —that is, must have £4OO to £SOO
a year clear. If such a farmer’s brother,
the shopkeeper, making that income,
kept his daughters 17 hours a day at
housework, with only intervals for meals,
and refused them any education beyond
r -j: ,<» .--,,1 writing, end avoided cam
p B .y, and denounced culture and de
-6 ;; Z.itici, he would be declared a
bad -oit o! curmudgeon, and the clergy
ma-, woulMve kite advm., aud tbe
m ghbors would stir up u h daughters
to rebellion.
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Something Hint llivnl* t»e Fnmo is Pofaoue
of the Bc.rghts.
A cable dispatch states that, the Lou
don medical papers are making an out
cry over a new species of poison, which
they iv-sert is making sad havoc with the
stomachs, if not the lives English
men. It is called sherry, and is manu
factured at Hamburg out of alcohol,
sugar, water aud common table salt.
“Pshaw! we can beat that hollow,”
said an artistic mixer of beverages in a
New York wine room, on Ire.ing shown
the cable dispatch in question. “Why,
some manufacturers in tins city can
turn you ont sherry that h is more poi
sons to the thimbleful than you would
find in a den of rattlesnakes. Oils and
ether? Why, they can supply you with
an unlimited variety of them in some o'
what is called the genuine article or
choice old brands of sherry. There tire
acetic, butyric, chloric, nitric and sul
phuric ethers, and even the bead can be
manufactured by the aid of alum, alka
lies and acids.”
“Those who ship sherry,” said a dealer
m American wines, when questioned ou
the subject, “know how to drug and fix
it for the American market and have it
pass off as genuine. Very seldom one
bottle of what conld be honestly called
the real article ever reaches these shores.
As in liquors, tobacco, caustic potassa,
red pepper, aqua fortis and oil of vitro!
are frequently to be found, so in some
brands of sherry there are ingredients
which the wildest stretch of the imagina
tion never would conjure up.”
“I recollect some years ago,” said a
pharmacist, “there was a manufacturer
in Chambers street who was detected
using lead eoated vats in the manufac
ture of sherry. The English medical
authorities would have something to add
to their denunciations of sherry if they t
h»d the American adulterations mixed j
with those of Hamburg.”
■"‘Almost as bad as the poison of the
Borgias.”
“My dear sir, if the poison of the Boi
gias were in the market to-day they
would likely be used as flavoring ex
tracts for sherry and other wines. Their
vaunted potency would be of no avail at
the present period. They would en
counter poisons used in the manufacture
of our wines which would make them
appear utterly insignificant as curtailers
of life. Even electriidty is biought into
requisition so tone up some wines.”
“How is that?”
“By plunging into a wine vat two pla
tinum plates connected with the poies of
a battery. I tell you that some of the
w'neof the present day is fearfully aud
wonderfully made.”— New York Tele
gram.
Had Regular Habits.
A New York merchant called at the
office of a brother merchant, and said:—
“A young man named Smithers has
applied to me for a position. Was he
not in your employment at one time ?”
“Yes, sir; Mr. Smithers was in my
employment for several months. His
knowledge of business is truly wonder
ful, but what excited my admiration
most of all was his punctuality.”
“Ah ! I’m glad to hear he is puno
tuak”
“Yes, sir. His punctuality in coming
to the store one-half hour too late every
morning is really wonderful. He is also
very regular* in drawing his salary in
alvanceoutof the cash drawer when
nobody is watching him.”— A<estin
Siftings.
Cbilobkn. Miss ~.ve, who, tor sev
er..! ■ ears, ba- been active in providing
Louies in Canada fur English children,
has tn five years pi' trni«ferred 2,100
•a .. r ehildrer, Wu<. >.o >-p.-rt<-Y as doing
t.< i' tin" wli • ■' iiuber •I ni Can-
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"Have you given electricity a trial
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old lady. “Electricity?” said she.
“Well, yes, I reckon I has. I was
struck by lightning last summer and
Love out of the window; but it didn’t
t ._ein to do me no aprt of good,”
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MN MO UY’S HALO.
Sometimes when heart is weary with the strife I
Os life existence in this world below,
\ radiant beam of sun with treasures rife
Fort oasis the shadow w th its gladsome glow. ’
Perhaps a gentle touch of lips so sweet
\'Ll drive the burden from my soul away,
And render life again fondly complete,
An t brighten up the sorrow of the day.
Maybe the memory of some tender hand
‘ [.aid on the weary brow in time ago,”
Will still the murniurings of grief’s command
Into serene and peaceful ebb and flow.
Lightly the shades will rest upon my heart,
When mem’ricß fond of days gone by,
With all their gentleness and joy impart
A glory like some halo from the sky.
A THANKSGIVING SONG.
Behold the leaves are seer and dead
Wi ere late were summer’s flowers;
And storms and clouds arc overhead
Instead < f summer showers.
Come close, good comrades; hearts so warm
Would cheer a bleak November;
And while we praise our winter Arcs,
Sweet summer we’ll remember.
So with one voice of eager song
Make our sincere Thanksgiving,
That while we’ve memory or hope
Life is full worth the living.
Mrs. T. W Dewing.
THE BRAVESr AND CRUEST.
“I declare I feel as light as a bird,”
Stella Markham observed, as she stood j
before the mirror combing out her soft
brown tresses with the utmost delibera
tion. “Your Canadian air is exhiliara- I
ting, Nora. Winter in England means j
fog, damp, and general disagreeable- I
ness. Here it is the perfection of woath
er. Quite too lovely, isn’t, it?”
And Stella, who had gone ont to Mon.
treat on a visit to her uncle —General
Markham, commanding the garrison
there—only a month before, gave a sigh
of pleasure as she gazed out of the win
dow at the glorious prospect being be
fore her.
Her cousin Nora sat at the window
looking out upon the same view with
perhaps as much of admiration, but
hardly the same amount of enthusiasm,
for she had been nearly two years in
Montreal, aud the novelty was of course
worn off in her case.
“Oh, I don’t know !” she said with a
covert smile of deep significance. “It
one had two lovers always in attendance
I suppose even a desert might be made
tolerable.”
A dead silence fell upon the room;
then Stella went on placidly arranging
several rows of ringlets over her fore
head, wondering what had started Nora
on the war path, but venturing no
remark until her cousin said, with abrupt
emphasis:
“WLat do suppose will bo the end of
all this, Stella ?”
“Os what, pray ? Pnt it in plain Eng
lish.”
“You know perfectly well what I
mean, and you ought to be ashamed of
yourself. You have no right to trifle
with such men as Alan Douglas and
Major Valcour.”
“My dear Nora you are, without ex
oeption, the most absurdly inconsistent
person of my acquaintance.”
“I do not deny that 1 have bad variou
ittle affairs in my time, but I never car
ried a flirtation beyond my bounds as
you have done.”
“Indeed 1”
“l am really in earnest, Stella. I re
fuse to be a party to any such perform
ance; and if this sort of thing is to con
tinue I shall leave you to end the affair
as you see fit.”
‘’Dear me 1 what a fuss about nothing I
I don’t think they intend to murder each
01h..r just yet.”
“Perhaps not; but you knew they
both love you devotedly, and why do
you keep them hovering around ? You
can’t marrv them both, and I doubt very
much whether you intend to marry
either.”
“I don’t know that I do,” she an
swered, but the color in her cheeks
deepened somewhat, and she did not
meel her cousin’s questioning glance.
“Then yon are worse than I thought
■ hi were I” cried Nora, with righteous
th. “I never would have beliercd
-.i'li! i.f such wickedness. Stella.
It’s a tin and a shame for any girl to act
i i.s yop. have done I It's what I call con
i temptible!”
■ “Is it, tbongh ? ’ she answered, with a
I little embairajssed langh. “Don’t get
in such a rage with me, Nora. It isn’t
my fault that I can’t make up my mind
I am sure I would be perfectly willing
to oblige you by marrying one of the
gentlemen, but I can’t, for the life of
me, find ont which one tp prefer.”
“You had better not have either if
you've any doubt about it,” Nora said,
bluntly.
“Now you are going back to what
you said before.”
“I wish yon would have done with
this trifling.”
“Nothing was further from my
thoughts,” Stella answered, so gravely
that Nora said, in quite a different
tone:
“You are not in love with either of
them, then?”
“I—l don’t think I am. I believe I
like Al— Mr. Douglas best; but the
Valcour fortune and family arms quite
balance my preference. So you see I
am in a dilemma. Ah, there they are
now 1 We had bettor put on our things
before we go downstairs, hadn’t wo?
What avfry great swell Major Valcoui’.
<•0: cliniau is. I-.’s a hat>dsou[e sleigh,
too.”
Nora went to the wardrobe aud got
out her hat and furs. As she pnt them
on, preparatory to a rido with her
cousin’s rival suitors, she vented hci
feelings in the brief remark that Stella
was the queerest girl she had ever met.
The gentlemen were waiting for them
in the sleigh at the front door, and it
was not long before the robes were
wrapped about them, and they were off
at a rattling pace on the road leading
out of the quaint old town.
It was a clear, breezy day, but not too
cold for pleasure, and the ice-boats—
those swift-winged sleighs so common
on the Canadian rivers in winter—were
skimming over the frozen surface of the
water like beautiful white gulls.
To see those dainty little vessels,
mounted on runners, cutting along over
the ice nt a rate of sixty miles an hour,
thrilled Stella’s venturesome soul with
envy.
“Oh, I wouid give anything in the
world for a ride on one of those boats,”
she cried, with girlish extravagance, and
her speaking eyes followed the graceful
novements of the trim little ice fleet.
“Have you never ridden in one?'
Eugene Valcour asked, in surprise.
“No; but I have always wanted to. I
should think it would be perfectly de
lightful.”
“It is,” Valcour answere 1. “We have
a }>oat, Miss Markham. If you”—
“Ice-boating is very dangerous
sport," Alan Douglas observed, senten
tionsly. “Yon may dive into an air
hole, or capsize at any moment.”
“So they say,” Valcour answered
carelessly; “but I’ve been ont on the
river scores of times, aud have nevei
met with a single accident. It’s all in
the management of the boat. I would
not be afraid to take half a dozen ot
people in the Victorine.”
“That a man has escaped a hundred
imes is no indemnity against possible
■l'eidentH,” Douglas said tersely. “I
Yonldn't care to take anyone with mein
he Victorine—certainly not a lady.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t be a bit afraid !”
-i. L'a cried. “Major Valcour, do take
<■! lam dying to go 1”
“I am perfectly willing to take you,”
ire said laughingly; “only you must
remise me immunity from prosecution
:< case anything dreadful happens to
you.”
Alan Douglas’s face was overspread
with a sudden pallor.
“Major Valcour,” he said sternly, “I
hope yon have no serious intention of
doing anything so foolhardy.”
The color rushed to Valconr’s face,
and his eyes emitted an angry spark.
“I am at Misa Markham’s seivicc,”
he said shortly. “I shall take her if she
wishes to go.”
“Certainly I do 1” Stella cried. “If
there is any real danger, it will only add
zest to my enjoyment. I would like it
above all things wouldn’t you,
Nora?”
“No, thanks !” her cousin answered
1 nervously. “I would rather be ex
j eused.”
I “What! are you afraid, too?” Stella
exclaimed, with an accent that brought
a resentful flush to Alan’s face.
! She might as well have called him a
j coward.
“Whether we are afraid or not, Miss
1 Markham,” he said with quick, cutting
emphasis, “I feel it my duty to inform
you that ice-boating is not a suitable
sport for a lady. In the first place, the i
boats are mere skeletons, and the only
way to accommodate oneself to them is
to lie down flat in the stern. There are
no seats, no cushions, nothing—in fact,
there are only the barest ribs of timber >
to hold on. No lady can ride in one
without real discomfort, and—not a lit
tle discredit to herself.”
“What do you mean to insinuate, sir?”
Valcour exclaimed angrily.
“I insinuate nothing,” Douglas re
plied cooly. “I state the case withou'
equivocation.”
Then he turned to the coachjnan and
said in a low tone: ,>
“Stop here, please! xiadies, I am
obliged to leave you. Good morning,
Major Valcour 1”
“Drive on I” Valcour cried as ho mut
tered something under his breath.
Alan Douglas had leaped lightly out
of the sleigh and, lifting his hat, began
to retrace the road back to Montreal.
“Well,of all the pretty exhibits lever
did see 1” Stella exclaimed with a look
of scorn.
“He was afraid we’d ask him to join
us,” whispered Valcour. “He needn't
have disturbed himself.”
“Tbe idea of a man of his age being
so superlatively cautious 1” Stella added
derisively. “I call that downright cow
i nrdioe.”
Valcour was, of course, not ill pleased
to find his rival in disgrace; but Norn
looked back at the retreating figure of
Alan Douglas with a different feeling.
“You will take mo, won’t you, Major
Valcour ?” Stella asked coqnettishly.
To which Valcour, of course, replied
hat he would take her anywhere she
vished to go.
“We might go this afternoon,” he
laid reflectively; “the iee looks pretty
«>nnd, and there’s a fine breqze blow
ing.”
“Yes, yes! do iet ns go this after
noon I” Stella urged eagerly,
And so it was arranged.
The Victorine.. a splendid little ice
yacht lay just off the landing. Valcour
had provided cushions and robes for
her, but Stella was somewhat surprised
to learn that Alan Douglas hod come
pretty near the truth.
They had met him on their way down
to the river, but he passed jn with the
slightest of f irmal salutes.
“Is there no one else going with us?”
Stella asked in surprise, as Eugene Val
cour tucked the robes about her, and
seated himself in a half-reclining posture
at In r side.
“No,” he answered with a smile. “1
can manage the boat myself, and the
Victorine is so small there is hardly
room for more. Besides,” he added in
a lower and more tender tone, “would
not another person be de trop T You
are not afraid to trust yourself with
me?”
“Oh. no 1” Stella answered with
heightened color.
Then the sails caught the wind as it
went whistling by, ana away they sped
over the smooth, glittering surface of
the ice.
Lviug in the stem of the boat, Stella
looked up at the clear blue sky, aud out
at Hie snow-clad mountains which
skirted their path on either side.
Every obje t she fixed her eyes upon
appeared to vanish as if by magic. The
boat seemed to skim through tbe air.
Even the express train which came
bowling along on the east bank of the
river was left far in the rear.
The wind fluttered Stella’s hair, and
fanned the color in her cheeks into a
bright flame; her eyea sparkled with en
joyment, aud laughter fairly bubbled to
her lips.
“Isn’t this perfectly splendid ?” she
cried for the sixth or seventh time, as
the Victorine circled and tacked in a
lively breeze.
“There is another boat making this
way,” Valcour observed. “It must be a
poor sailer. With only one man in it, it
ought to have passed us long ago.”
Stella watched it for awhile, and then
lay back in the stern of the Victorine
with her eyes closed.
“She is catching up with ns,” Valcour
' exclaimed presently; but Stella was not
t he least bit interested in the chase.
“I feel as if I were drifting away into
dreamland somewhere,” she said; and
then she felt a firm hand held softly
• over her own.
This brought her to her senses; she
opened her eyes with a start and found
Eugene Valcour looking down at her
with an expression she could not mis
take.
“I wish we could go drifting on this
way for ever,” ho said passionately, “yon
and I, darling.”
For the moment his hold on the rud
der had relaxed, and he forgot that con
stant vigilance was required of him.
“Look out 1” was the clear ringing
shout that came from the boat in the
rear, but it came too late.
The Victorine had bore down upon
one of those treacherous air-holes. In
an instant she had capsized, and both
Stella aud Valcour were straggling in
the wafer.
A cold anil frightful plunge was all
that she remembered till hours had
passed, and she found herself lying in
bed, while Nora chafed her wrists and
temples with alcohol.
“Thank God 1” >ra cried, fervently,
as Stella opsned her eyes. “Tell Mr.
Douglas she is safe.”
“Where is Mr. Valcour?” Stella
asked, feebly.
Nora’s face flushed indignantly.
“At home 1” she answered, shortly.
"Fie has behaved shamefully, Stella.
When the boat upset, he just left yon
to drown, and tried to save himself. If
it hadn’t been for Alan Douglas you
wouldn't be here now.”
“Did Alan s,»ve my life ?” asked Stella,
temulously.
“Yes. Oh, he has acted like a hero
to-day. He saw you set out, and felt so
fearful for your safety that he took an
other k boat aud followed you. He was
right near at hand when the accident oc
curred.”
Stella hod nothing to say just then;
but when evening came she mot Alan,
Douglas face to face.
“I sent for you,” she said, holding
out her hands to him. “I owe you my
life, Mr. Douglas.”
“You owe me nothing,” he interposed,
hastily.
“You make it very hard for me,” sh<-
said, looking down. “If I may not offei
you my life in payment for a debt, will
you accept it as a gift ?”
He looked at her incredulously for »
moment, and then he caught her band
with passionate eagerness.
“Stella,” he cried, “you cannot mem
that, after all ”
“I have made up my mind to muff
you,” she answered shyly.
“I cannot accept such a sacrifice,” h<.
said, with a sudden revulsion of feeling:
“this is gratitude.”
“No, Alan,” she whispered, nestling
in his arms.; “it is love. Won’t you be
lieve me when I tell you so? I thiuk I
ought to know.”
“How can I believe you ?” he said,
and yet he folded her to his heart; “my
life, my love, it is too good to be true I”
“I have done with such injustice,”
she murmured penitently; “can you for
give me ?”
“I can forgive yon now,” he answered
rapturously.
Aud so their peace was made.
It was a year after they were married
that Nora c .me to make them a visit in
England. Mention of Major Valcour’s
name paved the way to a free discussion
of the foregoing episode.
“I think,” Stella then remarked, with
conscious pride in iier husband’s worth,
“that true courage must always have in
ii a strong admixture of caution.”
What to Take.—The Journal of
Inebriety gives the results of Dr.
Napier’s inquiry into the nature of diet,
the object of which was to solve the
question of how far certain foods en
couraged or prevented the craving for
drink. He concluded that macearoni,
beans, dried peas and lentils antagouiz
in a marked degree the desire for alco
hol. In the treatment of alcoholism,
farinaceous foods should be used in pref
erence to all others.
To Fbighten the Cbows Away.—The
Ti umansbiirg, N. Y., Sentinel says :
A sensation was created in Kelloggs
i i dle, Cry nga County, on the discovery
: < ? a rebel flag flying in a corn field ot
Rev. Mr. Cross, an Episcope
j i .mister, who came North after the war.
i i ■.. beaded people of the town dec'ared
•■I hi “unrepentant rebel,” aud ordered
■ take it down. Mr. Cross said hi
pni it up to frighten the crows away.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
At Kidderminster, England, the sew
erage outlet was made within five feet
of the town well, and yet after 500 cases
of typhoid fever they had to get a doctor
down from London to tell ’em what the
trouble was.
It is said that the Astors, of New York
city, alone own 3,000 houses, all of stone
and iron. The lowest rental they get
is 81,500 per annum and the highest
$50,000, which some of their enormous
down town houses bring.
American canned fruits once had a
ready sale over all Europe. Some manu
facturers began to play snide with their
goods and now some countries won’t buy
the goods at all. How much better it
would have been to be satisfied with a
good thing.
At the session of the Masonic Grand
Lodge of Ohio a resolution was adopted
declaring it to be the opinion of the
body that the selling of intoxicating
drinks is a Masonic offence, and should
disqualify any one from initiation into
or affiliation with any Masonic lodge.
An Italian Admiral has invented a
shrapnel shell for the 100-ton guns; at
thirty yards from the cannon’s mouth it
bursts, throwing forward seventy-five
smaller projectiles, which in turn burst,
strewing in fan-shape a thick shower of
bulls and fragments with terribly de
structive effect.
The Gaulois undertakes to pay a sum
of 5,000 francs at the decease of any
subscriber who may meet with his
death on a railway or tramway, or by
being run over by a vehicle in the street.
A proportionate sumis paid for injuries.
All that is necessary to do is to produce
the last receipt for subscription. It pays
a compensation to any purchaser of a
single copy should he be injured or
killed the day the paper is paid for.
The Lawrence (Mass.) American re
lates that a lady from that city while in
Ireland last summer was asked by an
elderly reverend gentleman whom she
met in Dublin why it was that she was
not married. '‘You wouldn’t ask that
question,” said the lady, "if you knew
the state of affairs in the city where I
live. Why, there are seven ladies to one
gentleman in that place.” “And why
didn’t you get the one gentleman?”
slyly asked the questioner.
A bbdoubtablb brigand known as
Camilla has for some time been the
terror of the country around Ax, a town
in the department of Ariege, France.
The gendarmes are no match for this
modern Rob Roy, who is a first-rate
shot, a dead band at poaching, and as
bold as a lion. One evening he posted
on the letter box in Ax a notice: “I
laugh at law. The whole of Ax shall
perish by fire.” At the same time a fire
broke out in the market place.
They are telling this story in Wash
ington about a youthful German diplo
mat and a bright young American wo
man with whom he was conversing at a
reception, in the tongue of his native
land: “Why,” said she, “don’t you
speak English ?” “Oh,” said he, with
much dignity, “I cannot think of speak
ing it here. I learned the accent in
London.” There was a moment’s silence,
broken by the Teutonic declaration:
“But I speak French also. Do you?”
“Oh, yes,” said the young lady, “but I
couldn’t think of using it to a German.
I learned the accent in Paris.’’
A better purporting to give a de
scription by an eyewitness of the execu
tion of Mary, Queen of Scots, will be
published at the end of the present year.
It has been found in a manuscript book
among the papers of Lord Eliock, the
Judge, who died in 1793. The book is
all written in one hand, apparently in
the first half of the eighteenth century,
and the account of the execution is a
copy of a letter sent by special desire.
Lord Eiiock’s father managed the affairs
of the Duke of Perth and of other fam
ilies devoted to the Stuart cause, and it
is conjectured that the document is >i
copy of a letter written by a member o
one of these families.
A Notable Duel.
The death at Portsmouth, N. H., of
Mrs. Mary Ann Barron, widow of the
late Commodore James Barron, of tbe
United States Navy, recalls to mind
the celebrated duel of her husband with
Commodore Stephen Decatur.
Commodore Barron was in command
of the Chesapeake when, in 1807, she
was attacked by the British frigate
Leopard, because of Barron’s refusal to
let the English Captain search his vessel
for British sailors. The Chesapeake
was entirely unprepared for action, and
after being riddled by the Leopard’s
shot tor half an hour surrendered. Com
modore Barron was tried by court
martial aud cashiered, not because of
any lack of bravery on his part, but be
cause he had allowed the Chesapeake to
be in such a defenceless condition. In
1818 he applied for reinstatement in the
navy, but this was bitterly opposed by
many officers, among whom was Com
modore Decatnr, who was a member of
the court-martial. This led to a long
and bitter correspondence between
them, and finally ended in Barron’s
challenging Decatur. In the duel which
followed both fell at the first fire. De
catur died that evening, and Barron re
covered only after many months of suf
sering. His death occurred in 185 L
Dr. Sohweningeb of Munich has dis
covered a new mode of reducing th
bulk of the human frame. It is, neve
to eat and drink at the same time, bu
to let two hours intervene. He has, i
is said, cured Prince Bismarck of a ten
dency to obesity in this way. Fat peo
ple have now their choice between four
systems. 1. The original Banting, which
, consists of eating nothing containing
[ starch, sugar, or fat. 2. The Gtermsn
Banting, which allows fat, but forbids
sugar or starch. 3. A Munich system,
1 which consists of being clothed in wo. 1
I and sleeping in flannel blankets instea I
; ' of sheets. 4. Not eating and drinking
I at the same time.