St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 22, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 December 1894 — Page 2

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^>lm, W 4 ”^ zW*^ «■ ~w w^Wwjg^ ISB^o CHAPTER X—Continued. To get quietly away, that was the young husband’s first thought, especially as, though she looked and smiled so sweetly, he detected a shade of ■weariness in the dear lace he knew so r ^. T w»lb Uhe could only carry her sal'e- • vmml

’ '’■ •■ - ■ n __ cLltion cni>liiiiHtAca-ny tcrmwl - But Mrs. Grierson had first to be spoken to a little, and she sat close beside his sister, who, in passing, he felt catch his hand. “Rody!” Was there ever a man. old or young, who hearing himself called by a familiar voice, the pet name of his childhood, could stonily turn away? Poor Roderick, anything but stony-hearted, certainly could not. “What do you want with me?” he whispered, pretending to turn over a large volume of photographs which his sister held. “She —I came here on purpose to look at her—she is much nicer than I expected.” “Thank you. Is that all? Then I will pass on. I was going to say good-night to Mrs. Grierson.” The tone, studiously polite, was exactly what he would have used to any strange lady. It seemed to cut his sister to the heart. “Roderick, what can I do? I dare not vex mamma. She holds all my pinmoney; and he is—oh, so stingy! so If I had but known!” “You did know; I told you myself,” said Roderick, sternly. “But it is useless talking. As one makes one's bed one must lie on it.” “I know that. And you?” “There is no need to speak—we had better not speak—either of me or mine.” At this instant the gentlemen were heard coming up; and one of them, approaching, tapped her on the shoulder,with a jovial, “Well, my dear!” A shiver of repugnance—almost of f? head AJ exanut r InoiTKLu , u ., (

“women are fools;” but the greatest of all fools is the woman that marries a fool for his money. Jardine! here still? Do introduce us - my wife and me—to our charming sister-in-law. Or, rather introduce her to us, if Bella thinks it more proper.” ‘‘Yes, yes, bring her here. I bog you will, and quickly. Don't you see everybody is looking at us?” said Bella, hurriedly. Let them look; it is nothing to me,” said Roderick, and was walking away, when he felt a little hand slipped under his arm. “I came not to hurry you. dear, but to tell you that Mrs. Grierson offers to ' take us home in her carriage. She is so kind. 1 like her so much.” “I knew you would, my darling!” Bella heard the words, saw the look : and the -look which answered it. A 1 sudden spasm, almost like despair.

passed across her face—the despair which a woman, any woman, cannot but feel on catching a glimpse of the heaven she has lost or thrown away. But she righted herself speedily; and having much of her mother’s cleverness, slipped out of the difficult position by coming and taking Silence’s two hands with an air of frank pleasure. “You would not carry off my brother this very minute, when I am so delighted to see both him and you? 1 am Bella. Os course you have heard of Bella? Nay; you must let me kiss . you ' my dear.” rhe tonp.Tnr-ntHe imrmniziuwr wa» kind; and tbonch the soft check turned scarlet, it did not shrink from the kiss. Silence stood, neither shy, nor afraid,

nor ashamed, to receive the greeting of her husband’s sister. But when Bella's husband came forward, with rough exuberance. to take his share in the salute, she drew back. “It. is not our custom in Switzerland,” she said in French to her husband; and, as she extended the tips of her lingers, it would have taken a bolder man than even Mr. Alexander Thomson to offer a kiss to young Mrs. Jardine. All this little scene passed within half a minute, attracting no attention except from the Griersons, who stood by. “We are detaining you, and making our family relations needlessly public,” said Roderick; “but the fact is, my wife and sister had never met before. They will meet again shortly, I hope.” “I hope so, too,” responded Mrs. Grierson, in a tone which showed that the gentle old lady was fully cognizant of the Jardine history, as no doubt, in some form or other, was everyone present, or would be, within ten minutes. Indeed, as Roderick took his wife from the room, he felt that, like the celebrated wit in the anecdote, they “left their character behind them.” What matter? What did anything matter, so long as he held fast that tender hand, which, in the friendly dusk of the carriage, he had taken, for he felt trembling much. But neither

they nor Mrs. Grierson made any save the most ordinary remarks, on the way “home,” which yet was so sweet. Arriving there, Silence threw her arms round her husband s neck. “I am so glad, so glad! ’ “Glad of what?” “Of—everything, I think. But most of all to get home.” “What a little home-bird you will grow to. Exactly suited for a poor man's wife. Suppose now I had married a fashionable young lady, who wanted to have, every- day, a dinnerparty, like the one we have left! But you did enjoy it?” “Oh, yes. Only And that was your sister? Did you know she was to be there?” Silence spoke with hesitation, even with a slight constraint. “I did not know, or I should not have • gone,” said

-Tvou mracevmtv*"wns'siie' alway s m<e that, and not like you?” asked Silence, after a long pause. “We were never very much alike, but ” “But you are brother and sister. I am very glad you met. And, if they wish it, you will go?” “With you—not otherwise. But no need to talk about that. Let us talk about the dinner—a regular grand Richerden dinner, and some of the best Richerden folk at it—the little leaven which leavens the whole lump. I like the Griersons. And you?” “Yes; they are your friends, and this is your country; I wish to love it, and them. But lam afraid you will never make a grand lady out of me, like—like your sister.” Heaven forbid! Roderick was on the point of saying, but he did not. In his tender heart there was a pitiful sense of apologizing to his own people. He knew all their faults: but they had belonged to him all his days. Kissing his wife, he said with a smile, “Sisters are sisters, and wives, wives; I am quite satisfied with mine.” “It never rains but it pours,” said he, two days after, throwing over to Silence a heap of letters which had ! succeeded a whole pack of cards, left luckily during a day’s absence, when he had been showing her some Scotch mountains, and apologizing for their not being Alps. “Here are invitations enough. The way of the world! Once met at the Griersons’, all Richerden is satisfied and delighted to visit us. Even my sister; did you notice these?” The cards of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Thomson and a forma 1 dJ.nm-r in vita - TfrwiMnTffiHentlr t I ahnll "I” ..... . ..Ml y* !

e snail got Silence was still feeble in those auxiliary verbs, which to a native can take such delicate shades of moaning. Her husband could hardly tell whether or not she wished to go. But he knew she ought to go. even if at some slight sacrifice to both; therefore he merely assented without opening any discussion pro or con. She tacitly accepted his “Yes,” and he went on explaining or criticizing the other invitations. “Alter all, the world is exceedingly like a flock of sheep. Let one jump the ditch, the others are sure to follow. And this was a very wide ditch to jump, truly." added he, looking round the room. “We ought certainly to take a house, if only for the sake of our ! friends. What agony it must have cost some of them to stop their carriage in front of a flat!” Silence laughed merrily. “And yet

; we are happy in it! It is ugly. 1 know that; but I think I have never been so happy in all my life; and as for all this visiting, is it quite necessary?" ; He hesitated a little; then said gently, “Yes. my wife, if you do not dislike it very much, I think it is quite necessary.” “That is enough; we will go,” “Out of mere obedience, my darling?” “No,” she said, answering his smile with a sweet gravity, “I do not think it is in me blindly to obey any one, not even you. But I honor you so much in all things I can understand Unit in things I do not quite understand I trust you. That Is the only true and safe obedience.” So they went to dinner after dinner.

At Rieherden the only idea of “society” consists in dining. One invitation followed another rapidly, for it was near the end of* the season, and most families were beginning to think of the periodical “going to the coast.” Yet Roderick liked it; she too, after a fashion. “It makes one feel,” she said once when they had come back, “in the sma’ hours,” to their quiet Hat, “like sitting safe in a sheltered hut, with the rain pelting outside.” Roderick laughed. “This place rather resembles a hut, certainly; but would Rieherden be flattered by your likening its splendid hospitalities to ‘an even downpour?’ ” Silence colored. “I don't mean that. You know what I mean. Visiting is pleasant. I am glad to feel you are not ashamed of me, and oh, I am so proud of you! But still, that is only our outside life. The real life is this.” She crept close to him. She felt the beating of the strong, true heart that she knew was wholly her own. Then lifting up her face, all wet with peaceful tears, she looked earnestly at her husband. “I am sorry, I never can tell how sorry, for the women who are not happy.” There is a proverb—Roderick sometimes thought of it nowadays and felt that he could almost Understand it— i “Better is a dinner of herbs where love ]

Is. than a house full of sacrifices wit $ strife.” Their “dinner of herbs” was groi lug nearer than they thought. Roderick one day came in from call on Mr. Maclagan whose hospiti®t ities they had also shared, and lence, with her sweet nature and wi4 d power of sympathy, had persisted even Mrs. Maclagan was, when yo| a came to know her, not so black as sh| q was painted. Mr. Maclagan, Roderick allowed, was always liked and likeable—till now. She saw immediate*? that something had gone serious®? wrong. I “What is it? Your mother?” “No, dear; not my mother this tim ». She is well and happy in England. I may safely forget her, as she does ir e. It is only—oh, Silence! did you ev »r know what it was to owe a lot of mo iey and not have a half-penny to pay it with? At least, I don't mean we are at our last half-penny, but we—that s, I—have been spending a good di a i more than I ought, and Maclagan iLs just told me so, and —but this is chWp ish—you must not heed it, darli»” - said he. trying to hide his extr^e t perturbation. U - .Wn.tinned hi* bead on nis hajj^^K

knelt beside him. She wasvei^H? very childish, or childlike, in nk.my things, and hitherto her husband hjU treated her like a child; an idol, | ir talnly, but still a child. Now tl positions seemed reversed. He 100 l rd up at her for a moment, then laid 4s head on her shoulder with a sigh of elief. ; ” “Oh, it would be such a comfort to tell you everything.” “Do so, then.” 'rhe “everything” was not very serious, but. it seemed so to him, who tad never in his life known what it was to want anything he wished for. “I am an idiot. I know I am, to feel so keenly the lack of a few pounds; but I never was used to this sort of thing. Maclagan asked me to show liim my ‘accounts.’ Why, I never kept accounts in all my days! My mother allowed mo so much a year, or half year. I spent it, and when it was done I came to her for more. Not that I was extravagant; she knew that but, oh, Silence! money seems to slip through my lingers in the most marvelous way. As Maclagan told me. and I could not deny it, I no more know how to make the best of a small income than if I were a baby. Do you?” He looked up in such a piteously helpless fashion that she could have smiled, had she not felt so infinitely tender over him. But it was the tenderness which is born of utmost reverence. Without any urging she answered simply, "Suppose I try;” and began looking over the mass of papers before him. and which he himscL*-re-garded with an expression alm<« ,of k wnww Gur *rr-T7g*tflnr like many another man who,.,^.

leetingordespising thesmall econJtHos which result In large comforts^ann regardless of the proportion off; ngs and the proper balance of expenditure, drifts away into endless worries, anxieties, sometimes into absolute ruin, and all for want of the clear head, the firm, careful hand, and, above all. the infinite power of taking trouble, which is essentially feminine. Roderick watched i;.-; wife slowly untying the Gordian knot, which lie, man like, would have lik <1 to dash his sword through. "What patience you have!” ho said. "Do throw it all aside. You must be very tired.” “Oh. no; it is my business; I ought i to have undertaken it before. My mother used to say it was the man's part to earn - the money, the woman’s to use it. I can, a little. Mammi let me keep house ever since I was 17. I managed all her affairs. Perhaps, if you would let me try ” "To manage mine, and me?” “No!" a little indignantly. lam afraid I should despise the man I managed.’ But I would like to tali' my fair half of th? work of life. Yolrs is outside, mine inside. Will that <|>? Is it a bargain?” I “My love, yes.” “Now”—with a pretty imperioumesa —“you must give me all the monej you have, and all the bills you owe, end tell me exactly how much you h^ a year. Then, take a book and read/No” —pasing her hand over his forebergl, which was burning hot -“go and lie down for an hour. Winm you shall find all right." j |TO BE CONTINUED.' f

■ ; How It Came to an Untimely End. A party of three policemen got leave of absence, the other day, and went on a hunting and fishing excursion, their ob ective point being a secluded /Spot in a locality of whose whereabouts it is only necessary lor the purposes of th s narrative to mention that it. was several miles from anywhere and could only be reached by a long and laborious ou’-ney in a wagon from the nearest rai.wa/ station. The party arrived at its destination an hou- or two before nightfall and proceeded to unload. The tent, the camp-stove, b’ankets, eatables, guns, ammunition, game-bags, fishing-rods, and other necessities of the campaign were taken out of the wagon by Mike and Larry and piled oa the ground. “I guess that s all,” said Mike, pre--1 aring to climb out. “Not by aju ful,” responded Tennis, the ranking officer of the squad. “Look over in th tt corner beyant ye. ’[here s a jug’. It's full. Mind, now, how ye handle it:” Larry picked up the jug with great alacrity. But in handing it out he Lad the misfortune to strike it agairit the hind wheel. And it broke all to pieces. There was a ghastly, horrible silence. it was broken at last by Dennis. “Boys,” he said, in a heart broken, world-weary, but resolute voici “git out o’ that an’ kelp me pile itnese things back in the wagon.”—Cjicago Tribune.

ASKS FOR NEW LAWS. SECRETARY CARLISLE PROPOSES SOME REFORMS. In His Annual Report He Suggests a Few Badly Needed Changes in the currency Legislation—Would Revise the .Bond Laws, Changes Must Be Made. The annual report of the Secretary c* the Treasury on the state of the finales has been sent to Congress. It shows that the revenues of the government all sources for the fiscal year ended .W 30, 18J4, were $372,802,408 and thcexpemli^^l*l^,6os,7sß, which sho’S a deficit of $69,803,260. As compar’d with the fiscal year 1893 the receipt for 1894 fell off $88,914,063. During the year therr ' v ns a decrease of $15,952,674 in the ordinary expenditures of the goremir’nt. The revenues for the client fi St .d year are thus estimated n* o ' l the ba-isof existing lawsp"stX a ^^ ::;; rTotal estimated revenues.... s-Jg 1 cwTis 1 he expenditures for the same period <^e estimated as follows:

^J^S^^eelvHestablislimotit $91,250,000 establishment.. 53« Fur the naval establishment.... 32.50.9.000 For the Indian service 11.509.000 For pensions 140.500.000 For interest on the public debt. . 31.000.000 For postal service 84.427.74 S Total estimated expenditures. .84 11,427.748 The above figures, compared with the estimated revenues, show a deficit of $20,000,000. It is estimated that upon the basis of existing laws the revenues of the government fur the fiscal year 1896 will bo: From customs $ 185.000,000 From Internal revenue piojiut/oou From miscellaneous sources 15,000,000 From postal service 86,907,407 Total estimated revenues $476,907,407 The Secretary thinks many small district offices should be consolidated and a general reorganization of the customs service made. He also asks for $106,000 per annum for investigating Chinese eases and paying expenses of deportation, owing to the new treaty with China. Subject of Currency Reform. The most imjatrfant feature of .Mr. Carlisle's report is his discussion of tl; > subject of currency reform, in the course of which the administration’s plans of a new system of currency are set forth in detail. Mr. Carlisle reviews the financial statistics referred to in the tabulated statement and charges S3,O22JHX» of the d - ficit to the importation of raw sugar prior to the time the new tariff law went into effect. The income tax will afford no revenue till July 1. 18115, but there is reason to believe the importation of sugar must soon be resumed on a large scale, and he thinks by July bl considerable collections under the income tax law will have been made. He is of ti e opinion that the execution of the present laws will yield sufficient revenue for 1896 and leave a surplus of S2S.SI 1.920. In h'mmial legislation for the purfs.s. r Fiwwwxajj,.. rre»hr M*. <>nrlHfe says: ••The «.„ll I-...' e„r.. .... ...

too well-known uefvtM tn our ih unci': system nad tile serloim nature <f the , vjjs threatened by the i 1 ,;vo done more during the last two years to Impair the credit of the Government and the t .-onle of the t'nited Rentes at home and abroad and to check o; r Iminsirhtl and commercial progress Hum nil other things combined, and ir first and plainest duty Is to provide. If po.sslbh . s< effective method for the prompt and permanent relict of the country from the consequences of the present unwise policy." The Secretary then reviews the circumstances leading up to the first Sa i.oiio.ojo issue of bonds, yielding ssx.<;t;i),9l7 iui( ] increasing the la ?e gold in the treasury to 9107,446,802. Th" lowest point reached by the reserve since the resumption of specie payments was on the 7th day of August, 1894, when, by reason of withdrawals in the redemption of notes, it was reduced to 852.189.500. After that date it was slowly replenished by voluntary exchanges of gold coin for United States notes by the banks and by small receipts of gold in the payment of dues to the government until the 14th of November, 1894, when it reached the sum of 961 - 87.8.374. In the meantime, however, the frequent presentation of notes for redemption in gold clearly indicated the existence of a feeling of uneasiness in the public mind. In addition the vast accumulation of money at our financial centers and the genera! depression in business which prevailed in this country had so reduced the rates of discount that the inducement to keep funds abroad was much greater than in ordinary times and made it highly imprudent to neglect any precaution which appeared necessary to insure the safety of our financial position. Therefore, the second issue of 950,000,000 was decided upon. The proceeds of the sale, $58,uoS.oOO, have nearly all been paid into the treasury, according to the terms of the sale, reducing the rate of interest to 2.578 per cent. The transaction justifies the opinion that a per cent, bond could probably have been sold at par TT.,-„ H, „ ex , ... x _ i . . .

Here the Secretary asks for a law giving him such authority, saying it would strengthen public confidence. Preservation of the Gold Reserve. With regard to the redemption of government obligations the Secretary shows his attitude on the hard money’ question and says the one who presents paper for redemption must be given his choice of metals, as a change would work hardship on the public and nation. This condition cannot be permanently remedied except by groat changes in the laws relating to the subject. The situation is the result, too, of throe policies: The circulation of United States notes as currency and their current redemption in coin on demand; the compulsory reissuance of such notes alter redemption; the excessive accumulation and coinage of silver ami the issue or notes and certificates against it at a lower ratio than is warranted. He continues: “Frequent Issues of bonds for the nuruose of procuring gold, which cannot be kernafter it has been obtained, will certainly cause increased distrust among our own’ people as ' as among the people of other countries and not only swell the volume of our seenrities return ng from abroad for sale or refnrkm ’ ^cryase the withdrawal of moot? 1 Ci , p ta heretofore invested in our domestic enterprises. It is not tlie capitalists alone whose interests are affected by the use or threatened use of a depreciated and fluctuating currenoy and,the consequent derangement and airglnution of business. A paralysis of business, whatever may be its cause, strikes first the wage-earner. “Under our present currency system, the volume of circulation Is unchangeable; It is unalterably fixed at a certain amount and no matter how great the emergenev may be R can be neither enlarged nor diminished. Ihe only part of the currency possessing in

— nny degree the quality of elasticity Is that amMt i7n the H 8110 0?/ banking associations B enera lly conceded, I believe that in this particular, nt least, it has failed to meet the requirements of the situation at affairs 0 of ’th Periods in business arrairs or the country. The National Bank Question. WTth regard to the “Baltimore plan” for national banks the Secretary says: lb an suggested proposes to exempt - ^^. rnment of fbe Cnited States from ■ all liability for the redemption of national 1 standhe. , । P l ! cc ntum upon the out- ‘ proper and nee^aiy sAem* i 1 hen coming down to the tariff he sa?si ! WsS® *7 “ r '™ MW! ,'Y hl,e H Places upon the free I r-iw b *S . part of nlost important iron md nv ed ln ‘“'““‘bw-ture, left eothor wH- 1 an<l bituminous coal, togetln r w Ith sevet < 01 her articles of less consequence, still dutiable, thus not only failing to put in force a consistent system “of rev<“ iiiiblo e {n*? n t"i t le;lvln 8 some of our most valuable industries at a great disadvantage as cated.” ed " lU thclr rivala differently lo- ■ CARLISLE’S ESTIMATES. Secretary of the Treasury Thinks He on** J Ct Alon “ with « Million Less. t > tb ' S? cr<ltar y of the Treasury has sent 01 Representatives his esti-

mates of appropriations required for tl>e iiscal year ending June 30, IS’JG, which aggregate $410,435,079 as against $411,879,041 estimated for the present fiscal year. Following is a recapitulation of tho estimates by departments for 1896, with comparisons with the appropriations for 1895, cents omitted: Estimates, Approp’ns, Departments. 18SK5. 1895. Legislative $8,330,742- $10,377,617 Executive 1W.540 194.024 State 1.7X0.538 2,008.218 1 Treasury 138,487,281 133,735,362 I War 54,'55,<>29 55,296,320 ' Navy 31,999,886 26,726.752 i Interior 158,929.873 173,825,971 j I’ostodire 6,532,826 2.468,082 Agriculture 2,400.330 3,227.282 I Labor 187,470 170,011 | Justice 6.724.960 7,730,398 | Grand totals... ‘’110,435,079 $415,760,943 ! The changes of ’crest in these esti- . mates present as compared with tho ap- i propriations for the current fiscal year are | as follows: In the Legislative branch: Salaries and • expt mses are increased about $225,0<M), | public works about $400,000, public print- ; ing about $750,000. rrcasnry department: Salaries and ex- ! penses tire increased about SIIXI,OOO, territorial governments are decreased about $30,000, internal revenue increased $817,000, of which $469,1100 is on account of the collectmn of the income tax provided for by the act of Aug. IS, 1,891. The estimates for public works are nearly S 1.000.000 in excess of the present appropriations of which about $2,000,000 is for the continuation or completion of public buildings ns follows: Allegheny, Pa., t<> complete, 8175,000; Buffalo, continuation, 82OO.GOO; Chicago, repairs, $50,060; Clarksville, Tenn., completion, $15,000; i Fort Worth. Texas, completion, $40,000; Kansas City, continmition, $100,000: Lit- ! tic Rock, Ark., additions, $58,000; New- ; ark, N. J., completion and additional : lands, * 1,000; Norfolk, VX., eouq.L-t i,.n, । $f>0,0oO: Omaha, continuation, S2<M),OOO; I Portland, Or., continuation. $100,000; ; I’m bio. ( id., c»ntinimtion, $50,000; St.

I ’.ml. Minn., c> ntimmtion, 815O.O00; San Francisco, commencement. 8150,000; Savannah. Ga., completion, 8200,000; Sioux Uity. lowa, continuation, 950.000: Washington, I». continuation, 8500.000; M orcest-T, .Mass., completion, 850,000. BrteOetu Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Burbridge died in New York. < 'hina bis accepted the English offer of a 4U p. r cent, loan of £1.200,000. Six murders in two months in Michigan have resulted in agitation for capital punishment. • ’apt. McKenzie, of the Cleveland fire department, has fallen heir to one-fifth of a 8533,000 fortune. Chicago and New York Congressmen win co-operate to secure appropriations for new postoffice buildings. The first rain for four months fell in Arkansas, putting out the forest fires which had done great damage. Four men who robbed the postoffice at Ticonderoga, N. Y. were captured by a sheriff’s posse after a desperate fight. Rev. Dr. Henry M. Storrs, who defended Prof. Briggs before the Presbyterian general assembly, died at Orange, N. J. Vi illiam Brandt, a blacksmith at Freelandsville, Ind., committed suicide by hanging on account of financial troubles. Avalanches of snow, ice and earth, and not an eruption, were what changed the ’ appearance of Mt. Ranier in Washington. Judge McMaster set aside the allowances made by Receiver Failey and his attorneys in the Iron Hall case at Indianapolis. Gov. Waite is continuing his war on Denver gamblers. He charges that the clergy are in league with the worst ele-mc-nt-i. "*'■ ' The proclamation of amnesty issued bv i

* ’..'UVU MJ ; the Czar includes the Lutheran clergyl men who were arrested in the Baltic provinces. Fire which started from unknown ■ causes did $15,000 damage to the boxing i department of the Cudahy Backing Com pany at South Omaha. Judge McConnell of Fargo refused to annul the marriage of Aaron Hirsclifield to Dell Hogan, and declared his witnesses to be unworthy of belief. Robert G. Ingersoll, said to be a no- ! phew of the great New York lawyer, is | under arrest at Minneapolis, charged j with having stolen law books. The Anderson (Ind.) paper mills were j sold at receiver's sale to Crawford Fair- ; banks, president of the American Straw- ■ board syndicate, for $83,000. Many roads are suffering from a ear ! famine owing to increased local business, : while others are sending “empties” East i to accommodate west-bound traffic. Missouri River packers are stirred up ! over the advance in rates on live hogs i and packing-house products and may re- ; taliate by shipping via gulf ports. A negro killed A. B. Leigh, a farmer, i near Newman, Ga., and had a revolver ■ drawn to shoot Mrs. Leigh, but Lilia, a daughter, seized her father's shotgun and drove the man from the house. Cincinnati ministers are fighting Sunday theatres. Two of the ministers went to Havlin’s Theatre and stayed long enough to qualify themselves as witnesses. The police refused to arrest the i actors until the performance was con- : eluded.

CHINESE SUPERSTITION. An Artist’s Experience in Painting an Old Buddhist Priest. Crowds of people assembled as wo arrived at the inn, just before sunset, and among others I spotted the fine head of an old Buddhist priest, says a l writer in the Fortnightly Review. AsI ter a long confabulation and a few l strings of cash, which passed from my I pocket into his hands, I was able to inj (luce him to sit for his picture and I I dashed off a sketch in oils before he . had time to change his mind. Unfort- । unately the large crowd that had gathI ered around, especially the women ; folks, seemed to scold him and talk ani grily at him for his silliness in sitting, j owing to the strange notion that prevails in China-and, in fact, nearly all ovei the East—that if an image is reproduced, a soul has to be given to it, and that the person portrayed has to be the supplier of it at his own expense. Ihe venerable old Buddhist priest, who tv as nursing his “cash” on his lap while being immortalized on a wooden panel and had a curious twinkle in his eve. as it he knew better, resisted bravely for some time and sat like a statue, but finally had to give in. You will die,” cried an old wnmnn

. 5 -viivu iiu oiu woman at lilm; *1 saw your soul coming out of you and go into the picture. 1 did, really; I saw it with my own eyes!” “Sa. did I,” cried a hundred other voices in a chorus. By the time the priest bad got up they had half convinced him that at least half his soul had really gone out j of him; but had the soul gone or not, ho would go and take the cash for safekeeping to his home first, and complain and ask for the restitution of his lost । property afterward. He was a sensible man. So was I, and knowing what । was coming, the moment he had gono j I went into the room and packed tho sketch safely, then took, another clean panel and smeared it over wijh tho : scrapings of my palette to show him ini stead, in case he would come back and i wish the picture destroyed. Twenty ! minutes had not elapsed when he was । back again, of course without tho i “cash,” holding his stomach and com- : plaining of internal agonies. “I am going to die,” he cried, the moment he saw me; “you have taken away half my soul!” “Certainly I have,” said I, sternly. “Y’ou did not expect me to give you all that, ‘cash’ for less than half your soul, did you?” “Oh, no! but I wish it back, as I feel so bad now without it.” “All right,” said I. “I shall go in tho ! room and destroy the image I did of i you; will you then be satisfied?” “Yes.” Here the other panel, smeared with ; palette scrapings, was produced, after ■ .making pretense at destroying it with a knife, and never in my life have I । seen an expression of relief to equal . that of the priest. He bad not felt half his soul so much going out of him, but j he certainly felt it coming back again.

He could swear by it. He was noir perfectly well again! This wonderful cure gave us all a very busy evening. All the villagers who had complaints of any sort came to us to be restored to health. A leper who had lost all his fingers wished me to make them grow again; and a pitiful . case of a poor child, only a few months old, was brought up, whose mother, while busy stirring boiling water in a big cauldron, had dropped the child in by mistake. He was so badly scalded that I am afraid, though I tried to relieve his pain, the poor child cannot have lived more than a few hours. Landed Estates in This Country. There are causes that operate against the feasibility of establishing and maintaining for any length of time large landed estates in this country. The conditions here are very different from those existing in England. English land holdings are generally productive. There is a considerable tenantry on every estate that brings in an annual revenue sufficient to maintain the property. In America the landed estates are generally unproductive. To maintain them requires an enormous annual outlay. They should be. considered, therefore, as luxuries that can be safely enjoyed only by persons of vast wealth during their life-time. As legacies they prove to be incumbrances that cost a small fortune to maintain and that are very hard to turn into cash. The late David Dows appreciated this when he remarked to a friend that, although he was worth 815,000,000. he could not afford to own his beautiful conntwj^^U frying j ton.

. XIILLI he said, “I have a large faffiffvef dren. When my estate comes to be vided among them my country seat wil’ he regarded as an undesirable legacy. M ith $15,000,000 it is easy to maintain; with only $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 it wil?. prove a burden.”— New York Suu. Occupations for Women. Among the trades peculiarly suited to women is that of repairing and rivI eting broken glass and china and mending delicate fans and ornaments. There । seems no possible reason why women ! should not be employed in jewelers’ shops to repair clocks and watches for which deft fingers and careful hand- ; ling are essential. Another occupation out of which some women make a . comfortable living is writing letters for people, generally for servants and i others too ignorant to write for them- | selves. Use for Crazy l atches. : Since the short-lived "crazy quilt” i age subsided the.e has not been much use for bits of silk and velvet which accumulate in many households at a rapid rate. One woman cuts such scraps into narrow’ strips, runs them together cn the wrong side, and makes fancystitches with filling on the right. They are thus made into long strips of brilliant coloring, which are joined together with alternate pieces of velvet The whole makes a slumber coverlet and is lined with thin silk,