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Ham and Veal Pieâ€"Take two pounds of veal cutlets, half apound of boiled ham, two dozen oysters, half apound of fresh'made sausages, two tablespoonfuls of savory minced herbs, quarter of a. teaspoonful of grated nutme ,alittle mace, pepper and salt to taste, With a strip of lemon peel fine- lgfi'minced, two hard boiled eggs and half a. pint of water ; cut the veal into square pieces, put a layer of them at the bottom of a. pie-dish. Sprinkle over this a little of the herbs, spices, seasoning and lemon-peel. Cut the e gs into slices, put some of the slices and 3 out eight oysters with part of the sausages, cut into three, then a. layer of the ham in thin slices Proceed thus until the dish is full, arranging it so that the ham is at the top. Put pufl‘ paste on the edge of the dish, then pour in half a. pint of cold water, cover it with crust, and ornament with leaves cut from the remaining paste; Stewed Tunfipeâ€"Put three tablespoon- fuls of butter in a sauce- an on the stove and as soon as it is melte put in one small onion minced fine and one quart of turnips out in dice ; stir until they are brown, then add one heaping teaspoonful of salt, one tea.- spoonful of sugar, one tablespoonful of flour, and half a. sultspoonful of pepper, stirring for two minutes. At the end of this time add a. cupful of milk or stock and simmer for twenty minutes, keeping the sauce-pan covered. Serve immediately. ' One of the very latest ideas for ladies whose time hangs heavily on their hands is to make a patchwork bedcover of the backs of discarded kid gloves, says the London News. To match and combine the colors, both of the kid and the ornamental stitch- ing, and to fit in the shapes, affords an oc- cupation far more fascinating and prolonged than “crazy patchwork.” When finished, the quilt must be lined with a. delicate soft silk or satin. It will really then look a. lit- tle nearer to being worth the trouble of waking it than might be imagined. rzhn expert laundry woman recommended to us the use of kerosene in fine starch to make the linen glossy end to keep the iron from stickin . We tried it and the results were admlrs 1.. About half a teespoonful of kerosene to starch enough for six shirts. The odor evaporates entirely before the clothes are ironed. Each molecule of starch seemed to be surrounded with an infinitesim- ally thin pellicle of the oil, and the iron glided over the bosoms, leaving a. smooth, clean, glossy expanse. Oyster Toastâ€"Select fifteen , plump oysters ; chop them fine and add salt, pep- per, and a suspicion of nutmeg. Beat up the yolks of two eggs with a. gill of cream ; whisk this into the slmmering oysters. When set pour the whole over slices of buttered toast. We have been requested to repeat the direction: for making tomato butter. Pare seven pounds of ripe tomatoes, add to them three pounds of sugar (brown will answer), and one pint of vinegar, one ounce of powdered cinnamon, half an ounce of whole cloves. Boil it for about three hours. It will keep without sealing, and is a very con- venient article to have on hand. Try it. CHOICE RECIPES. Mince Hent.â€"â€"Two quarts of chopped up- ples, one quart of chopped beef, two ounces of minced auetor the same amount of butâ€" ter, one teaspoonful of salt, two of cinnamon, one of nutmeg, and a. little cloveâ€"not more than half a teaspoonfulâ€"one cup of boiled cider, one cup of clear stock in which the beef was boiled, one pound of raisins seeded and cut in halves, and three cups of nicely flavored brown sugar. Stir all thoroughly together in an earthen or granitized pan and let the mixture come to a simmer at the back of the stove while the pastry is being made. Soft, nice kitchen towels may be made by folding fifty-pound cloth flour sacks in the middle, turning in the edges, and stitching all around. Then sew loops on each end. This is a good way to use up some of the sucks that will accumulate. I also use them for linings where thin linings are Wanted. An excellent grease eradicutor is made of the following ingredients : Ammonia, two ounces; soft water, one quart; saltpetre, one teaspoonful ; fine soap, in shavings, one ounce; mix thoroughly and keep in acov- ered vessel. This recipe is a. simple one, yet it has made millionaires of four men who have successively controlled proprietary rights to use it. A pound of bananas, it is said, contains more nutriment than three pounds of meat or as many pounds of potatoes, while as a food it is in every sense superior to the best Wheaten bread. It is not generally understood that bananas fried, baked or roasted are very appetizing, and that sliced and placed in a dish with alternate slices of orange they make a. most delicious dessert. Fruit has a much greater food value than is usually supposed. Those engaged in light work requiring thought rather than muscular exertion can use much of it in displacement of heavier and less digestible articles. Grapes and pears are especially valuable ; partly, perhaps, because their delicious flavor pro- motes a free flow of saliva, which is the im- portant gestive fluid. The cleanest and most polished floors have no water used on them at all. They are simply rubbed off every morning with a. large flannel cloth, which is steeped in kero- sene oil once in two or three weeks. Shake clean of dust, and with a. rubbing brush or stubby broom go rapidly up and down the glanks (not across). In a few rubbings the cor assumes a polished appearance that is not easily defaced by dirt or footprints. In all our experiments we have found nothing so safe and serviceable in cleaning a. carpet as bran slightly moistenedâ€"only very slightlyâ€"just sufficient to hold the particles together. In this case it is not necessary to stop and clean the broom every few minutee. Sweeping the carpet after the bran has been sprinkled over it not only cleans the carpet and gathers all the dirt into the bran but keeps the broom clean at the same time. To test eggs, place them in a pan of cold aterâ€"those that float should not be used, they are bad. Another way is to shake the egg gently, close to your ear; if you hear a urgle or thud the egg is bald. Eggs should fie kept in a cool place and if it is desired to keep for an indefinite time rub each egg thoroughly with linseed oil and pack in bran or coarse salt with the small and down. HOUSEHOLD. HINTS. Take Your Time, Young Folks. Marriage should not be a matter of mere impulse, as it often is, but the result of thorough acquaintance and serious reflection. And there is no better means of helping to this end than the plan of putting girls on a footing as independent as that of the boys. When a. girl has nothing to do but to get ' married ; when there is no avenue of useful ; and contented employment open to her ; ~ when from lack of the proper kind of educa- ‘ tion she is unfitted for any practical career ’ in life ; when marriage, and marriage alone, ‘ is held to be her manifest destinyâ€"finder i such conditions she is far more likely to en- ter into a hasty, impulsive, improvident marriage than if she had the same feeling of self»relia.nt independence that her brother . has. i «EMMA AA.â€" A despatch from Buda~Pesth tells the story of the discovery and dispersion by the police of sixteen persons who had been. driven from their homes by the cholera and had taken refuge undera. tent near the Danube. In continuing their search for other va'grants the police found thirty per- sons of both sexes lying naked in a. filthy, but warm stream of water that flowed from the mill. They had taken stones for pillows and were preparing to spend a. comfortable night. The condition of the hundreds of paupers who spend the night in all kinds of weather on the benches along the Thames embankmont is said to be but little better than this. On reaching Holyhead, the other night lately the Great Eastern had a. narrow escape from destruction. When she reach- ed the harbour it was blowing a. heavy gale from the north-north-west. An order was givenfio let go anchors, but some delay arose, and the vessel was rapidly drifting on a. dangerous shore. Great consternation prevailed on board, and signals were made for help. The sea was very high, and breakers dashed furlousl on the rockbound coast. Just as it seeme impossible to save the vessel, the anchors were got down, and fortunately held. It is said that Bismnrck, the Iron Chan- cellor of the German em ire, is the special partner in a stock an grain commission house in New York. The resident members of the firm will not talk about the subject, but a good many, remembering that the Prince of Wales was head over heels in oil speculations on the Petroleum Exchange a few years ago, say that Bismarck’s desire to scoop in American Shekels is as natural as eating to a. foreigner. Oscar Coley and Will Jones. of Stanton». burg, N. C., were out shooting and saw a squirrel run into a hole in a. tree. Will climbed the tree to scare him out, and Oscar waited for a chance to shoot. The chance came, for the squirrel popped out, but in- stead of hitting the game the boy hit his comrade, who plunged headlong to the ground dead. An arrow point made of ivory was lately extrmted from the breast of a. goose shot near Colusa, Cal. As there are no savages nearer than the Arctic re ions with whom ivory is plenty, the cone union is that the arrow was made from the tooth of a walrus and shot into the breast of the bird by an Esquimaux. The skin of the goose had grown over the arrow. Dr. D, H. Plntt of Pictou, N. S., has a very intelligent parrot. One of its tricks is to strike a. match and hold it for the Doctor to light his pipe. While .‘practising in the Doctors's absence not long ago, the bird dropped a match on some loose paper on the floor, set the woodwork of a window ablaze, and the dwelling narrowly escaped destruction. » James Truett, a fashionable young man of Hindsdale, Ga., was in danger of having his beauty disfigured by the loss of one of his front teeth. In this dilemma he paid a. friend $15 for a sound tooth. The two then went to a. dentist, who extracted the friend’s tooth and inserted it in the mouth of Truett. The operation was successful. Two Denver citizens, buffalo hunting in Park county, Colorado, walked twenty-five miles, and thought they were amply repaid when they discovered a. big bull bison stand- ing alone in the “ very heart of a. mountain fastness.” Of course they joyfully killed the lonely representative of 301103 mighty herd. ' A burglar broke into a store in Spring- field, Mass., the other night, and left a piece of one of his shoestringa on the window where he entered. W. E, Smith was ar- rested, apart of one of his shoestrings was gone, the remaining part corresponded with the piece found in the window, and so Smith is to be tried for the burglary. Mrs. Fleming of Wood county, Ohio, lighted an extra. candle the other night when the preacher and his wife called, and after they had gone away her husband Josiah, boxed her ears for the display of extravagance. Although they have been married forty-two years, she has sued for a divorce. Two lighthouse keepers on the North Carolina coast were recently discharged be- cause for three months they had not spoken to each other. They had quarrelled about the color of the sea. Pau Dvorak, the Bohemian composer, now in London, is enraged whenever he is culled “Herr ” Dvorak. He doesn't at all object to the English “ Mia,” but the Ger- man “ Herr ” is very distasteful to him. The Bohemian equivalent to “Mr.” is “Pan.” Eighteen thousand salmon are said to have been recently caught in Puget Sound at one haul of two seines ; and a lot of fish got away, too, by the bursting of one of the seinea. Mr. Goodman, aged 76, and Mrs. Ireland, aged 68 of Farming, Iowa, had to run away from their children in order to get married. Millionaire Terry, the richest man in Cuba, who recently died, began business as a. peddler. He got rich at that, married more money, and died worth $30,000,000. Mrs. Jane McEwen, who recently died at Studholm, N. B., at the age of 94 years, left three sons, three daughters, fifty-eight grandchildren, and forty-one great-grand- children. brush overwith the yolk of an egg and bake in a well-heated oven for from an hour to an hour and and a. half. \Vhen removed from the oven pour in at the top through a funnel half a int of rich gravy, so that when cold it wifi form a jelly. Mushrooms may be added to this pie. GENERAL NEWS. g HE WOULD PREACH TO THE CONVIC'I‘S, ' and has for a long time been the bible oracle ‘. of the place. He preaches and teaches, a and imagines himself the son of God. He ~ conceived the idea. in February, 1885, that ’ he must fast forty days and nights, and re- fused to eat, but was prevented from doing } so by the prison authorities. He determin- ‘ ed to do so or make his escape, which caus- ‘ ed him to be more carefully watched by the guards. He Waited his opportunity, and I one day at 3 o’clock in the afternoon passed 3 the mining boss in the slope with a. crowd DuBose was taken with a. peculiar-1 mania for Bible study, and beseecth the ‘ prison management to allow him to have ( a. Bible in his bunk, which was allowed him, 9 ( with paper, pen and ink. He wrote oetry { l and prose from the Bible, and would fill page I after page of foolscap paper with his writ- § ings. I He next escaped from the mines in May, 5 1884, when he did not go, for he discovered the dogs were after him by their yells. He “ made a. circle of two miles and returned to ‘ the prison, and as he gave himself up to the = guarg‘, saitl: _ l V “ There is no use trying to get away from those bloodhounds. I have come back home." When thé prisoner was handcuffed he turned to the crowd with a sneer, and said: “ Well, boys, you have got me this time ; bu_t_I’ll make a, br_ea_.k agafiu.” _ WERE BUN BY THE DOGS until next night. The next morning his trail was followed to Canton and struck sixteen hours old, which was followed three miles when their fierce bray told the fugitives had been found. He and his wife were asleep on 9. bed of ine straw, and were awakened by the bar of the dogs. DuBose left his wife and ran 100 yards and got be- hind ») tree and began to fire as the dogs gathered round him. He killed one of the hounds, and as the others of the pack caught the sight of blood they became frenzied and made a, dash for him, when Cranswell rode up and called them off. Du- Bose swore he would never be taken alive and fired at the men, who fired back, and in t1? change of shots his am} was broken Half a dozen with pistols and guns, led by Messrs. E. Vest and John Garner, ran him throu h an old field, firin as they went. Both uBose and his wi e fell, and the crowd drew up to find it a ruse. He was placed in jail, but, aided by his faithful wife, made his escape. He was: recaptured and escaped no less than five times from the jail, which was regarded secure. He was removed to the Chilton jail, from which he escaped twice, and was regarded by the peo- ple as a man inspired by God. The country was in estate of terror, and did not know what course to pursue. He was finally cap- tured by an armed band, was tried by a jury composed of good citizens, and sen- tenced to the penitgntiary for life. He was sent tothe Pratt mines to work out his sen- tenoe. In Janury, 1884, he made a daring and successful escape from the Pratt nines. A party was or inized and started to ca - ture the noted esperado, consisting of tge officers ,of the Pratt mines prison, the Sherifl‘ of Clinton, and the famous E. O. Cranswell, with his pack of bloodhounds. The party went to the home of DuBose, twenty-eight miles from Clinton, on the Coosa River, where his wife lived and had assisted in his escape. The house was de- serted, but evidences indicated that they had been there. The bloodhounds were made to circle round the premises, and it was discovered the pair had escaped five hours before. DuBose and his wife Nine yEars ago he murdeer a citizen named Aldrice in Shelby county, and fled to the woods where he lived in the swamps, Where he evaded the officers of the law until he became hold to recklessness. His camp was in a dense post oak thicket, flat, and in places almost impenetrable, and a. man could hide himself in it for years and no one could find him. DuBose cut through the undergrowth, and on an island surround- ed by water on nearly all sides, erected him- self and wife a hut of such trees and drift- wood as he could secure. The game in the swamp was plentiful, and he lived on it several days. He sufl'ered much from ex- posure and cold, and his hair grew almost gray. But for his splendid physique he could never have undergone whet he did. The couple could stand the hardships no longer, and left for Montevallo. He appearâ€" ed as a. common farmer, but was detected in spite of hisessumed innocence. It was whispered around that he was in town, and the quiet of the village was thrilled with excitement. Brave citizens armed them- selves with determination to capture him. He was trading in the store of Mr. Clay Reynolds, and was in the rear room when Mr. Edward Vest Walked in with a, shotgun and ordered his surrender. He laughed and dashed through a window as Vest fired Wide of the mark. When DuBose escaped he dashed out of the back yard of the store closely followed by his wife, A TRAIL OF BLOOD almost from his infancy, who is 110W serving a life sentence for murder. The daring deeds and thrilling escapes from justice by this strange man would fill a volume. John VV‘ésley DuBose is one of the most remarkable criminals in Southern prisons, whose life has been a. career of ,crime fol- lowed by He holds out his bony hand and tenderlv grasps yours, and says : “Come, sinner, to me and be saved, for I- am the way and the life.” He reaches for his Bible, selects a chapter, and reads in clear and distinct ar- ticulation the words of God, and, closing his book suddenly, begins to deliver a. lec- ture on what he has read, and tells you what good he has done you. He tells you he has read the Bible no less than eighteen times from cover to cover, can repeat it by heart, and that he is inspired ,by its teach- ings to do good to his fellow man. In the prison of slope No, 2 of the Pratt mines, at Birmingham, Ala., is to be seen a tall, healthy-looking white man, of about 58 years, whose long white hair and deep cavernous eyes and hard features attract the attention of the visitor. His bunk is covered with books and stationery, and in the corner near it is a. large Bible, well worn by constant use. The man when approached beckons, and, stopping suddenly, places his hand across his forehead, and, as if seeming to grasp a. thought, says : “ God has order- ed yon to come unto me and ye have come.’ Strange History of a Remarkable (Tonvifl. A CAREER OF CRIME- WHO SCREAHED AS SHE RAN. eviction proceedings are causing so much ex- _citement in Galway just now, mnst have ‘ been a. curious personage. According to l the London correspondent of the Live 001 ; Host, the late Lord, when on his death- ed, ' asked his doctor how long he had to live, was told a. couple of hours, and thereupon 1 requested his valet to wind up a music-box. Q It was whilst listening to its melodious ;_' strains that he went to his rest. I The father of Lord Clanricarde, whose l ! Marshal Bazaine fell while walking in the Retire at Madrid one day last week, free- “ tured his leg, and had to be carried to his ' house by the police and b standers. He is i old, poverty-stricken, an broken-spirited, "_ and he wonders about the streets of Madrid shabbin dressed and Wearin a long gray l beard. He lives entirely a one, his wife 1 having gone to Mexico last spring with the hopes 0 getting some money from certain ‘ family interests there. His son is a. volun- ' teer in a Spanish regiment of chasseurs. The chewing gum yearly used by a certain family of eight persons in Minnesota ‘ costs $150. Dr. Furnivall, President of the Maurice Rowing Club, and at 81, has won three prizes in races this season, lately sent Mr. Gladstone a copy of his letter on “Sculls or Oars,” proving the great superiority of sculls to oars in pairs, fours, and eights. The ex-Prime Minister, in returnin his thanks for the letter, says :â€"“ When was at Eton, and during the season, I sculled constantly, more than almost any other boy in the school. Our boats were then not so light as they now are, but they went along merrily, with no fear of getting them under water.” W. A. Crofl'ut, of the \Vashin ton Post, says that the remains of A. T. tewart lie in the Cathedral at Garden City ; that Mrs. Stewart consented to pay the robbers $25,- 000, and that the money was paid and the bones were handed over to an agent of hers on a hill in Westchester County at the dead of night. Mr. Croffut says he had the story from a. member of the Hilton family. Mr. George Gould and his wife are evi- dently not hearty eatersâ€"at present. The Chicago News says of them : “ They remain- ed in town only a..short time, but during their stay Mr. Gould purchased a. basket of grapes and a fishing outfit. Mrs. Gould carried the grapes into the car where the con 16 made a. light lunch.” Mr. Gould pro ably ate the fishing outfit. George Alfred Gath says he had a ten. dency to blush when he first entered a news- paper office. This was when George Alfred was young. He is old enough now to let the newspaper ofiice do the blushing. Sarah Bernhardt actually talks about turning stock farmer in the Argentine Re- public. Should Sarah begin to talkjragedy to an Argentine steer she will scare the entire drove. Dr. Joseph Burnett, father of Mr. Edward Burnett, who is a son~in-law of J ames Rus- sell Lowell, declares that the report of the engagement of Mr. Lowell to an English wi ow is utterly without foundation. When Uhauncey M. De ew came down from the stand under' the arthold‘i statue after his oration he declared, with a long- drawn sigh, that it was the first time he had ever delivered an address to an audience of applauding steamboatl. Mrs. Beecher says that the only fault she has to find with England is the bad climate 39d bad bread, the latter being so hard that it could almost be used for paving material. That wonderful machine, the type-writer, is manipulated with great dexterity by ladies, and some of them are also good sten- ographers. Where DuBose’s Wife is is not known, but he swears that God has promised him to let him escape, which he will do when he gets an opportunity. In the meantimes, he is as gentle as a. lamb, and spends his time reading the Bible. Miss Kate Field’s favorite saddle horse is Tuck, a. coal black stallion, upon which she takes daily exercise in Washington. The Kin of Portugal recently beltowed upon the in of Spain three military or- ders, and his oyal Babyhood was so de- lighted that he tried his best to swallow them. Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich will reach the half century line of years on the 11th of November. Ex-President Arthur was too ill to go to the polls at the elections. This is the first time that he has failed since he was old enough to vote. THINKING IT WAS A GHOST they saw. One strong miner, braver than his companions, caught him and carried him to the top. He was a. strange V looking sight, and had chan ed almost beyond re- cognition ; his hair ad grown White, his frame was bent, and what was once a‘well- developed physical man was a partial wreck. He acted strangely, and would not eat or drink, and for several days was unfit for work of any kind. He has never been the same person, and is not required, on account of his physical condition, to do hard work. The place Where he was concealed for so long was a remarkble stronghold, on which he had worked for months. For fourteen days days DuBose remained in his place of seclusion without food or water, and did not budge until the fifteenth day, when he heard the men running the pump in the slope, and he made a noise. The men stopped work and abandoned the pumps, of convicts who were behind in their task, and asked him if he had any objection to his unloading an extra car. Permission was granted him, and at supper he turned up missin when the count was made. It was thoug the was trying to escape through the mine to the old entry, and several miners were detailed to look for him, which search proved fruitless and was given up. The next day the entire mine was searched with experienced miners with lanterns and lights Without finding him, and a reward of $10 was oifered for his body, dead or Alive, as he was believed to be in the mine some- where. For several days two men watched every inch of room they could walk over, and were about to give up when one of‘ them spied a light in the farthest end of an abandoned section and went toward it, when suddenly it was blown out. It was decided it was a light made by DuBose. but no one would approach it for fear of being killed. The light was seen again, but the authorities concluded he would need food and come out. PEOPLE. Thereupon the Brahmins assembled and decided by the voices of all present, women as well as men, that nothing was left to move the Dunbar except the human sacri- fice known as “Johur.” Four women pre- sented themselves as victims, but at the last moment two became frightened and with- drew. No opposition being offered, the other two went bravely and willingly to meet death, and were burned alive in the presence of the assembled community. their charred hands being afterward carried by the villagers to Oodypore with a. demand for redress. This occurred a few weeks ago and at midday, no attempt at concealment being made. A recent occurrence in Rainpootana. shows the hold that ancient superstitions still have among the natives. Some years ago the native States of Oodeypore aml_Tonk, with a view of simplifying their boundaries, ex- changed certain villages near Neemuch. In this process a village inhabited entirely by Brahmius passed from Oodeypora to the N ewah to Tonk. This village had been ranted in perpetuity to the Brahmins by a. ormer Maharana of Oodypore, subject only to the nominal annual fee of twelve rupees for protection. After the exchauge the Tonk authorities imposed a. revenue assess- ment, which was raised from time to time till it reached 500 rupees annually. Suc- cessive deputations of the villagers proceedâ€" ed to Tonk to lay the case before the Dun- bar, but without effect. A Party of Drunken Young ile- Cause a Girl‘s Dlnfh. A shocki report comes from the usually peaceful an law-abiding parish of St. George, Beeuce, Que. 0n \Vednesday even- ing of last week a number of young men there got on the spree, and in their drunken- ness resolved to go out there and pick a. quarrel with I. neighbor named VVintle, or to have some fun at his expense. They took a quantity of liquor with them, and \Vintle, who had no notion of their inten. tions, received them with open arms. They lied him freely with the liquor until he came sufliciently intoxicated for their puro ose, when they began the proposed quarrel. grunk as he was, however he did not want to take it up, but did everything in his power to keep the pence. They would not listen to his reason. Finally, goaded beyond endurance by his provocation, he seized his loaded unto drive them off his premises and fire at them. The bullet missed them but lodged in the body of his neice, a. young girl who happened to be in the house at the time. On perceiving this horrible result, Wintle’s tormentors fled precipitately, and medical lid was called in for the wounded girl, who lingered until Friday, when she expired. The district coroner then had VVintle mestod. At latest accounts the inquest was still proceeding. The tragic affair has created a. most painful sensation in the locality. SheeE-ranching is claiming a great deal of attention in Alberta. but the sheep district has been limited from High River on the south to the Bow on the north. Eventually the boundaries will be changed. Flock- masters will, no doubt, observe that the couLtry on both sides of the Canadian Paci» flc Railway, from Medicine Hut to Moose Pass, is In district admirably adapted to sheep. As cattle and sheep must be kept separate, the distinction Will be best carried out by confining the sheep to the country which is best suited to them.â€"American A gun'cultu-rist. The objections raised in two or three quarters, because the Canadian Government; was leasing the ranches to Americans, were too narrow to hold weight, for if the long list of Canadian would~be ranchmen be look- ed at, it will be found that where an Ameri- can has failed to stock his ranch is the bare exception, while the Canadians who have defaulted in this respect, and whose leases have been cancelled, may be counte l by the score. It is not merely because our western ranges are overstocked that the Montana. cattlemen are taking up ranges in Alberta, but because they find it a splendid stock country, summer and winter. This invasion of Montana cattlemen into Alberta, adds much importance to the Canadian cattle trade. Theinfluxofstock thisyearâ€"exclusive of sheepâ€"must foot up at least twenty thousand head, and if the arrangements which the Canadian Government has already made with American stockmen should be carried outâ€"as no doubt they will be this fallâ€"the stock on the Alberta ranges will be nearly double before November. American cattlemen, who have examined Alberta, say that the pasturage is excellent. that there is good water, and stock can winter out with- out much protection. They find that there is sufficient rain-fall to ensure good grass, that the country is not subject to continuous druuths which we experienced South and East, and that the results already attained by those stockmeu who have had several years’ experience in the country, fully entitle the Monteo and Medicine Hut districts to all the praise which has been bestowed on that region by experienced stockmen. Their advent has provoked criticism and objection, but only from a few persons who have been actuated from prejudice. South- ern and Central Alberta. and the western portion of Assiniboin are essentially a, stock district. This is now a fully recognized fact, and the race is only for those who under- stand the business. \Vhen the Dominion Government first undertook to grant leases to cattlemen the terms were easy‘ and the Government depended very much upon the good faith of the leaseholders; but the ex- perience has been that many took up leases who never intended to stock them. If the defaulters did not possess romantic notions of the business, they must have been de- pending on speculation as their principal ob- ject ; but all this has passed away in View of the great demand for ranges by bona fide cattleinen. who have no sooner made at- rangements than they fortify their inten- tions by stocking their ranges without delay. Montana cattlemen have lately been push- ing their way into the District of Alberta in Canadian territory. The have made satis- factory arrangements with the Canadian Government, and there has already been a, large increase in the stock on the Canadian ranges. The Montana men are experienced casttle raisers. Before completing their ar- rangement, they examined the country all the way from the International Boundary Line to the Red Deer River, a. distance of nearly three hundred miles, and they were fully satisfied as to the stockrztising capabiL ities of the country examined. The Canadian Cattle Ranges. Human Sacrifice in India. FATAL FROLICKING»