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. . . I once.’to try her only, desired her opinion on a. point which was con- ftiroverted between MI. Thawckum and Mr. Square. To which she answered, "You willl pardon me. I am sure you wallth in eamest think me capable of decidlng {my point in which such gen- tflepep dnsagieei'fl Such was Sophia; and she may be W2“ in almost every one of Scout‘s heroines. apd survives even 111 Thackeray’s Ame’ha Sedle ,â€"â€"-the "genâ€" tile creature" who "took eu- opimons from those Who surroulnded her. such fideflity being much too humble-minded to think fox itseflf." [But the Sophjas and Amelias of the past are indeed dead and dome with now. and a new type of heroine has wise/n and now rules despoitically over the whofle world of fiction. The new type may be divided into two diasses of favorites: the Outcast woman. and those whom, for want ofa. better name, I shall call the Sirens; and everywhere we read of "pure women.” whose o eciaJl claim to that title seems to be eir lack of purity. The sad fact. is that "good “omen,” in the pflain Saxon meaning of the words, aura gone out of fashion-in books at leastâ€"and until the tide of gibdic opinions Cums, we must submit. the reign of her auccemor as best “1.11.1”- 1 never heard anything ocf pertness. om What is called repartee. out of her mouth; no matequ to wit, much less to that ki of wisdom the affetation of which in a young woman is as ab- surd 35.5.1113]. _the_a affeotations of the ape. L o dictatorial sentiments, no judici o inions, no profound criti- cisms. helnever I have seen her in the cdmpany of men she hath been all attention, with the modesty of 3. learn- ar, not 'the forwardngss of a teacher. This statement that good women have gone out of fashion wm probably be received by may people with a shiriek of protest; for it is (unite one of the worst features of the‘ Siren that she masqperades as an angel. The idea. has gon abnqaxl that, pro- vided the heamt is pure, the intention hmmlleas. not‘hin‘g Is wrong, and the Siren is continually .acting in the most- unpq‘incipled way With the best Intern. Hons im the would. But let us examine The masterâ€"minds are responsible for thetype of hero or heroine whichis for the mace to reign in public favor; and it is a. curious fact that since first; novella began to be written. heroines have been divided into far more marked types than men. I do not pretend to account for this fact; but I think that it is one. The earlier novelists be- stowed all their powers of characteriza- tion. upon their male characters; there was enty ot individuality in them; but t y seemed to be contented with one fixed type of heroineâ€"the then Ideal at womanâ€"and added her as a. sou-t 9f stage property to every book. Fiefldlng, in Sophie. VS estern. describes the type which reigned triumphantly tog many _a dey:-- 7 The masters have indeed. in this waY: a. good deal to answer for; illSt “5 the High Priest of Fashion is answerable for a. good deal when he thoughtlessly sends every woman in Europe into crinoline or large sleeves, as the case may be. A Zola, for instance, or I? Hardy, astonishes the world with a splendid, if bit-ultra], bit of work. The public fancy is fascinated by the type- "We mlIISI? paint life ‘as we see it. nothing easier!" they sayâ€"and fearful dries everylit‘erary dabbler; and forth- (with rushes in where even angels might Well fear to tread. "\Ve can all do it, nothing easie'r'l' they sayâ€"and fearful and wde are the monsters they make. Itlis astonishing, too, how long flhey take to tire of them. Long after lthe reading public has become com- pletely sated. with the type they are hammering on at it. seized apparently with a. curious blindness which keeps them tram seeing that they are doing the thing thathas been done perhaps a hundred times already. At last, howâ€" ever. there comes a. breathing Space. What; will they be at next? asks the anxious reader. scanning the literary! horizon for am“, so to speak. Perd Imps it is a. Stevenson this time who comes like Hopeful to give a. hand out of the Slough of Desponxl. Ellis style is illucid, his types are clearly definedâ€" agai-n "nothing easier."is the cry. and. lnatrice they are tricked out in doublet and hose to follow. their leader. And the historicaJl romance runs merrily on its way. Then, just as something new is wanted, commâ€"{let us say,aBarrie. Ah, What fresh fields, what pastures new! But they are not long, uninvaded. "Wheme calme their feet into my field and why 9" !he might rather appropri- wtely enquire. for the green fields are getting all trodden and tashed nowa- days. It is so easy to write about old mothers,.and dominies, and inglene‘uks and the shorter Catechism! One might multiply examples lndefinlvteiy. I have merely chosen these at random to illus- trate what ever intelligent reader plus}: have notice -â€"that there is fash- 1011111 books, asin so many onher_thin_gs. nu, 7..., . .. 7â€",,‘7 ‘7, characters; they merefly wait until the masters have clearly created a. new type, then they take possession of that Wpe whatever it may be. dress it up all/amylase it‘ in fires}: surroundings. and try to pass it off as a. novel crea- tion of their own. The genera-l idea of how a book comes {to be written. is, that the author is posâ€" peased by certain characlexs and inci- demlts and has no mast until he has described them; it would be better for literature it it were so. But only to the past masters in the craft belongs this glory of creation; the great mass of writers do not createâ€"have, that is to say. no independent conception of their The Other Grace. "Add but the other graceâ€"lie 300(1â€" Why want what the angels vauht." -â€"Bny\vn;1ng. Fashions in clothes; fashions in man- ners; fashions in speech. and fashions fin heroines; the law finds no exceptâ€" Pt‘ion. But, perhaps because her history has not often been recorded by masters of the craft, the Siren isnot handled with this consistency. She is the darling of the seribbller, for her type is now so clearly defined that she isvery easy , to manage. She is shown to us in all her fervor, living at a white heat as great as (ever Tess or Trilby went through; but instead of being consisâ€" tently killed off, we are actually' asked to believe that she lives on after the story closes. Imagination does not con- up a. very pleasant picture of the iren's latter years. She would. un- less we are much mistaken, exhibit none of the charms of old age; try to fancy her atthree score and ten. her insanity, which is always described as of the "alluring" type, gone; herl many lovers grown cold in consequence; left} alone with all her exotic ions burnt out. and her heart likea eap of ashes. Impossible that in her long pilgrunage she has gained the reSpect of any hu- man being; she has no female friends, for the good reason that she thought no woman worth making friends with in. the days of her youth; the husâ€" band she long ago deserted for anoth- er man. not unnaturally, has nothing to do with her now, while the "other man” has also proved failhless; the children she neglected can scarcely be blamed for neglecting hem in their turn; and the curiously unexact‘ing Deity Wham she was supposed to wor- ship, has vanished long ago into that limbo where the False Gods dwell. This wolqu be the inevitable age fol- lowing upon a, youth such as the Siren is supposed ‘60 lead. For we are not always young, and the lust of the eyes and the pride of‘life pass away likea dream, and with them there passes away every quality upon; which this modem heroine depends for her charm. It is extmordinsar if all the accumuâ€" lated experience all the centuries has taught us no more than this,: and if we can possibly bring oruzrselves to accept this exotic. erotic creature asa heroic type of Hill that wpman sholuld beâ€"if, indeed. we cam bring oursellves to im- agine that she has any heroic qualities None of the amthoms who with such enthralling art have painted these pic- tlun‘es of outcast womenâ€"take "Tess" and “Trilby” onoeagain asinstancesâ€" nane of then evw‘ continued the picâ€" tvwre. Their heroines were invariably doomed to death, becamse the art inâ€" sight. capable of limimg a. Tess or a Trilby at the whiteâ€"heat of passion knew too Well to try to paint the inn- possibleâ€"ngs fl‘rilby_ hugging This is the creature round whose character a myth as umsubstantial as vapor is being raised just now. Only she, we are bold, can "taste the color of love"-â€"â€"less ardemt naxbures are poor, and of necessity lead lives of foolish emptiness; only the passionate Siren is cgpabfl-e of the eatar heroisms; pas- swn holds. the ield; and the woman who does mot. exhibit this eminenti feminine grace is not head to hem“ ‘ writing about. There is no doubt that 'metfiiren make an effective figure in fiction; but what of the truth of the Wumtian? A fire of straw throws out a, prodigious glare, yet who would "vggtch a_wiurter'g.night"_ besng it9_ Imougn (use with the o'bject’otm’e} Mdors. These heroines are avowedly. bad charaohecr yet redeemed by traits of nobility am however. less dangerous favorites for the public fancy than the afll-conquoring Siren; for the cod reaâ€" son. that they are such mani est crea- tions of the imagination that very few people set muc‘h store by themâ€"they! like he read about them and Wonder if they are possihlle characters. but they are doubtfulanld possibly disap rovmg all the time. The Sirren. on t a con- trary, seems to have fairly possessed the British imaginationâ€"it is scarcely possane to open a novel in which she does not up or. The Siren is a crea- ture of wxd unrestrained passions. desperate. unscrupulous, emotional yet heartless, incapable of sound judgment or of sellf~conlt1rol, and quite without all womanly feeling. She is, in foot, a. moat repluilsive character. yet we are asked to find her irresistable. a. very Queen. of Hleauits to whom the whole made creation bend the knee in wonder and admiration. Now, no one daust the reality eat this character; who has not met aSiren Qâ€"th‘ey are all too com- mon. But the curious thing is why we shamld be asked to admire her? Hbr morality is of such hopelessly involved orderâ€"fiubmiflting as it does to none of the recognized moral codesâ€"that we fol- low hxer devious relations with the sterner sex in disgusted per-plenty. She was always, alas for hun! a hus- band; for the u-nmated herione isas ex- timyt as the Dodo; then she is involved In Intricate connections with some other woman's Husband, there is also the mom who should \have been her husband, and them is always the husâ€" band of her soul], sometimes even the second husbandâ€"a very carnival of husbandsâ€"till we are fain to ask the Sadduoee’s uestion. "Whose wife shall 8h§_i_)e at; t e Resurrection?" imagination. And to e-xhiblt the no« hi‘lity that lies in every ome, however degraded, is now the favorite motif of the day. Heaven forbid M’e shoudd deny the possihi‘rlity of Such good; but the thing may be carried a little too fau‘,a.r1d itis coming to this nowadays, thaJt such women are depicted asbehng capable. of more generous action. more heroic impudse than. their worlhier sisters. The worst of the whole busi- [1.855 is that noone can breathe aword agiainst this new morality but the word P arisee is Whispered, and (that dubious legend of Christ and the Mag- dalene adduced for argument. ’More- ower,so great isthe cry for “Charity” just now. that it woulld be considered woeful hmrshnes in any writer to de- scribe a. woman of scandadous ante- cedents without dowering hen" with such traits of nobility and generosity as Wipe amt. the stain of sin. and melt the reader to tears of sympathy. \Va are becoming too lax altogether; the stem old rule "hate the 511] and love the sinner" is being forgotten, and we are asked to condone the son till there remains no more ’hatred of it, nor any looking 'for judgmean upon it. Oharity isalovely grace; but sentimen- tallty isaweak vice. Let us take care that the one does not lapse into the other. There may be here and there in the curious annals of the human race a. "Tess" of a. “'1‘rilby"â€"bu't the most: charitable mrust admit that they are exceptions, and only prove the rule that a bad {life is a. tolerably clear proof of a. bad heart. This is a tact; there is very little use in denying. though for the purposes of making inâ€" teresting characterâ€"studies the nave- lisnt§ ame fond of doing so. these two types of modemn heroines more closely. I It does not appear to be generally known that aiming the servants of the Queen are two bearing the title of Her Majesty's 'Ihpissuers. One of them fofilowue the court wherever it may be, and the other! remains permaâ€" nently at Windsor. The duty mf these fuynctlonariles is to superintend the packing of the Queen's baggage when the Court migrates, amd their work‘ is so perfectly ong‘almized that every Imember of the establishment concern- ed knows aimlost to a minute when he or she must be ready to receive a visit from the packer. It is also the duty of the Tap‘issiers to maintain) communlcation from palace to palace with reference to all matters: which cannot be brought within the limits of the, royal mail boxes: to knowt by heart all] railway and steamship! routes, and to be abfle to convey any desired article from 01116 place to an other by the swiftest and safest method. First Cow’boy (lost on the prairie) â€"Great Injun'a! \Vill we never find our way out of this? W'here do you s’pose We are, anyhow? Second Cowoby (despondently)â€"I'm afraid we’re still miles away from any human habitation. I see a stake here, and a Sign Lots for Sale. ROYALTY 'S TROUBLES. Few royal folks when travelling re- quire their bedâ€"studs and bedroom fur- niture to form a. pardon, of their lug- gage. as the Queen does. fiocr instance. But many great ladies there are who carry their own beds and bed linen. blankets and quilts, and always a. mac- kiubodh sheet to spread over the mat- tress to guard against dampness for lack Off sufficient airing in transit from place to place. The Grand Duke Paul of Russia. it is true. is always when travelling accompanied ’by a bedstead which he has had buiilt in sections. and which is put up by a. special meohamfic under the superinâ€" tendence of the royal valet wherever the Grand Duke goes, but then it is simypfly because he cam seldom. owing to his great height, meet with cone: lolgg pnoughlfo'r his comfort. but out of the margin thus saved from the annual appropriations for caring for the streets he has actually built and equipped a modest but complete set of workshops, where the entire construc- tion and repair work of the department is executed. Not only are the sprink- lers, rotary sweepers. automatic load- ing carts, and snow scrapers, each af- ter a. special pattern devised by the commissioner or under 'hjs direction, built. in these shops, but even the har- nesses are made there, the horses are shod there, and it is the truthful boast of the commissioners that every arti- cle of manufacture used by (the depart- ment is produced from the raw ma- terial in these shops. It is exceeding- ly refreshing to find there inventive genius constantly brought to bear to produce appliances, not for sale in the general market, and hence of that crude adjustment which can be used any- where. but appliances precisely adapt- ed to the particular needs of Toron- to, with its own climate, soil, street mileage and pavements. By maintain- ing thus its own shops and construction staff, as other large business enterpris- es do, the Street Cleaning Department has produced an equipment such that the commissioner. in some kinds of work, claims now to be accomplishing with four teams and four men what formerly required nine teams and sev- enteen men. A considerable element of this saving of labour has been due to the automatic loading machines. invent- New York not only employs and thus directs all its street cleaning and garb- age despatoh forces but it has 2m organ- lzed department, with an adequate and properly adjusted equipment of horses. carts, brooms, stables and stations, and it pays its men two dollars a day and upward {or eight hours' work. To be sure, it has had a Colonel Waring, but had Colonel Waring been a contract- or or a contractor‘s superintendent the metropolis would not have been the clean city it is toâ€"day. It is by the method of direct labor, under model gooditions of employment, that this first worthy result of the kind in a large American city has been achieved. Toronto, the other of these two exem- plary cities has gone even further than New York in eliminating the contrac- tor. In this enterprising Canadian town. with its 190.000 people,Street Comâ€" missioner Jones, has, during the last seven years, entirely revolutionized the care of the streets of the city. He has not only organized the execution of this work under ed in these shops, which elevate the windmws of litter directly from the street into a dump cart as rapidly as homes can walk. Toronto and New York Are Said to Have That Dislinctlon. The two cleanest cities on the contiâ€" nent to-day are Toronto and New York. and they are both cleaned by direct laâ€" bor, says George E. Hooke. in April Review of Reviews. Whatever. No 5' mifiance of this stluff: weakness wd: reed? _ I am no stickleir for subjectâ€"let. who Will write about what he pleases, how- ever unpleasant. so long as he writes truly; and the Siren. a ty e all too (gunman in life, might well 8 common in books also. if she were only de- scribed as what: she is, instead of as what she is not. In art. a“smdy” is valuable on] as it is tmuthful; and something 0 the same hdlds good in literature. But there is one study‘ often set to beginners in aa‘tâ€"to paint white objects against a white background. and the tyro is clever indeed who gives them form and Substance and yet re- objects agamst a wmte background. and The tyro is dlever indeed who gives them form and Su'bstanm and yet re- tains the whiteness; White souls too are hard to paint, but wtfll some clever painteglshnapgsay the task for very owe of its diffiouity THE TWO CLEANEST CITIES. LIFE A DISTINCT DEPARTBIEN T of the same h¢ But there is one [mars in aa'tâ€"tc mm a white heroine, in the brave old the word, was ever made which of us in age or lfld lead) on this broken Tiâ€"IE WES-T. â€"Jane E. Findlater Now for the way this has worked out, In 1571 and 1572 the Earl of 'Mar was regent 01' Scotland, amd "sat in the plare of the Kimgl.” He destroyed C‘a‘mb-uskenneth Abbey and took its stones to build a; panama in Stirling; which was newer finished, called "lMat’s “’OI‘Ik.“ » ' ‘.[n 1715 the Earl of Mair raised the banner of Jamgs VIII. of Hcotland, whom the English called the "pretend- er,” and was defeated at Slherift'muir in 31 field of blood. H‘is title was forfeit- ed, his lands confiscated and sold to a stranger, the Earl of Fife. u‘he grand- son of the exiled 68.111 lived in Alloa Castle in poverty new" the end of the last century. The castle had been the home of James Vlll. as an infant. One night it was destroyed by fire, [Mrs Erskine being , Three blind ohihd'ren escaped and lived to old age. The family, thus burned out, moved away“: About 1804 a troop of KuwaerJais- ed to repel the threatened French in- vasion, ambled their horses in there- mains of the glrbat hall, and in 18103. weaver was foumd with his loom in the principal room at the castlex Having been dispossessed in Allloa for rent, he had gone to the casfle. Between 1815 and 1820 an zmh sawing actually grew "Proud Chief of Mar: Tho’u shadtbe raised still higher, until thou shaltsit- test in the place of the king. {rhou shalt rule and destroy, and thy work shall be after thy name; but thy work shall be the emblem oxi thy house, and shall teach mankind. that he who pru- elly and haughtin cra'iseth himself upon the ruins of the holy cannot prosper. Thy work shall be cursed and shall never be finished. But thou shalt have [riches and greatness, and shalt be true to thy sovereign, and shalt raise his banner in ‘ In the first place the earldom of Mair is very old. The British House of Lords, having done some hankyqpanky busi- ness with it in 1866, giving it toa. per- son that all the Scots lawyers said ‘was not entitled to it, in 1885 reconsidered their motion to some extent, andoon- firmed the title upon the rightful claimant, ‘but cut off about 400 years of its age. The title really dates from about 1014, when Donald, mormaer of Mam, (fought at the battle of Clontarf in Ireland, when Brian Boroihme was killed. In 1866 the earl of Mr died, and the Earl of Kellie claimed the title by virtue of a. deed given by Mary, Queen of Scotland, in 1565; no Scots flawyer belfieaved in the olalm, but the House of Lords gave the title to : THE EAlRL OF KELL'IE. In 1885 the Lords decided that the ori- ginal title belonged to ME, John Fran- cis Erskine Goodew'e-Erskinq but they dated it back onfly to 1404 "or earli- "Deep shall be thy moan among the children of floolâ€"sonrow. ’i‘ny land shall be given to the stranger, and thy titles shall lie among the (laud. The branch that springs from Lhee shall see his dwelling burnt, in which a, king is nrux‘serlPâ€"his wife a. sacrifice in that same flame, his chiflda'en numerous, but oi little honor; and three born and grown, who shall never see the light. Yet shall thine ancient tower stankl, for the bu‘ave and true cannot be wholly Ionsaken. Thou must (lree thy would» until horses shall be stabled in the hall, 31ml 3. weaver shall throw his shuttle in thy chamber of state; Tthe ancient tower shall be a ruin until an ash swung shall spring from its topmost stone. Then shall thy sor- rows be ended; and the sunshine of roy- alty beam on thee once molre. Thine honors shall be restored, the kiss of peace shall be given to thy countesg though she seek it not, and the days 01' peace shall [return to thee and thine. The lirne of Mar shall be broken" but not until its honors are doubled and ian doom is ended.” The original earldom was very wealthy, so much so that the crown of Scotland seized upon its lands when- ever it could. From about 1435 to 1565 the crown held the lands, and four younger sons 06! thie Scotch kings were created earla of M‘ar; but in each case they died; and in afteu- years the grants were declared to have been'"in- opt.” Finally in My, 1565, Queen Mary grained to Lord Erskine a. char- teu' 01 reparation», not the deed under which the eanl of Kellie claimed the 1:1th Then when thou seemest to be high- est, when thy power is mightiest, then shall come thy fall; low shall be thy head amongst the noules 01 the peogle. STRANGE PREDICTION ABOUT THE SCOTCH EARLDOM 01" MAR. {Now come; in the pfrophecy, which is attributed eirthecr to {L‘homas the Rhymer. to the Abbot at Camhusken- neth, Orr to the regular household .poet or bard. It was taken down in writ- ing in 1799, as follows: Worked for 300 Yenrsâ€"ll "as Exlstea and Been Fulfilled In This Century â€"’l‘lle Lust l’lf'lliclioil (‘ame ’l‘rue hnly Twelve Years Ago. Some persons have gone so far as to say that the “M‘opheoies” of the Old Testament [were written after the event that were “foretold.” That is as may be, but than are some prophecies not in the Bilblle, that are known to have been fulfilled; and what with, the extension of printing- and tyyewriting, it seems probable that hereafter either there will be fewer ,propheciea, or that their fulfillment will be spotted with neatness and amuracy. One of these fulfilled pmpheoies of more or less modâ€" ea‘n time relates to the Scotch earldom of Man and is eminently worth review- ing. 1 l A PRUPHEUY FULFILLEM (THE FIELD OF BLOOD BURNEID TO DEATH}. THE GREEK LOATHES HIM. and even in a. little island like Crete fights him hand to hand. The Arab, Wno is of his own faith, holds him to he the worst of barbarians and rise: against him in armed insurrection at least once in every fiva years. The deâ€" testavtion of him is, in fact, not Europ- ean but universal, and is kept down in every provnnce only by sheer terror of the Ottoman, the holds-st and most men'- oilqss of all Asiaticfigming men._ _ The uses to which paper in various forms can be put seems almost limitless. Gloves and stockings made of paper are the latest innovation. They are said to be superior in many ways to much; of the wool, cotton or silk stuff that; is put upon the market, inasmuch as they are quinte tough and strong, a, quality that is not possessed by the cheap grades of the other goods. The goods are made by kniittrng, just as yarn is used. Paper twine 18 first roughed by machinery so as to be fuzzy like woo}. They are on the market on the other side, but we have not seen them im the United States yet. It Is expected that paper stockings can be sold here im- about two cents a palm. ,At this rate it mfl'l be more econom- ical to use these. and throw‘ them away or rather, burn them, after once using, than to have the ordinary stockings VNoristhere the sli‘gfinest ‘hope of imâ€" prove-mom. 0n the contrary, Ln Wk- gy eivgrythipg mclrudjpg public vutue, is rapidly decaying. There never was a. SulLan so bad as the present, or one so secure; the P3811675 are universally, corrupt and are given] up even by the admirers of the “funk; and as for the soldiery, let Batmk and Anmeinin. answ- er for their char-abter. Nothing sur- vives in the Ottoman except his mag- niiicent courage, his habit of obedience to his officers, and his readiness to die rather than surrender the ascendancy of his caste, an ascendancy which with him means The right to kill all Chrisâ€" tians who will not submit. The treas- uiry is bankrupt the provinces are ruined, the capital rises and retires trembling, While all reformers are thint- ed down. and even: the religious stud- e-nts who appeal to the Koran as conâ€" demning the present regime are order- ed back to their homes to starve there in quiet. After 400 years of unbroken rule this is the condition of Turkey, and then because the Lemntines of the ports are an 'umwort‘hy people, we are told that we ought to sympathize with the "masculine. Ottmnam" and not 1110 civilized Greek. Let us admit that the Turk is masculine, and then ask his ad- mirers if they can point to another race in which. if a mam rises to the top, he becomes, by those admirers‘ acknow- ledgment, instantly and hopelessly bad â€"is transformed, in fact, from a, fine, if brutal soldier or peasant into a Pasha. lle Governs In the Splrlt of the Tartar-s, the Spirit of Destruction. Now. what have the Turks done? They left their deserts on the frontiers of China. and invaded Europe for purposeé of plunder. They reaahed th 9 end 03 their resources, and would probably“ have bean driven back, when, as Dean C‘hJun'ch in his wonderful paper on the wbject ‘has described their leader hit upon the infernal device of demanding a. tribute of children instead of certain imposts. Out of these children none at them Turks by blood, he iormed the “New Soldim," t‘hJe Jamissaries, per- haps the most formidable standing army which mr existed, and with them his successors conqueredConstant'moplo and the Whole of the Eastern Empire of Rome, and. nearly conqmered Hun- gary, but were beaten back by the P01- ish carvalry. From that flay to this they have governed that magnificent empire in the spirit of Tamers, which is the spir- it of destruction. (They have founded nothing, improved nothing, built nothr ing, have produced no literature, ad- vanced no art, sent out no new idea among mankind. They have shown no conception of government except dea- potism, supported, Whenever resistance was made by massacres which included both sexes and destruction which ex- tended even to the animals and the trees. 0f their endless subject-races they have not conciliated one. Greek and Slaw alike, by almost unheard of sacrifices, have at last cast off their yoke. There is no people in the world so submissive as the Armenian. who obeyed the Roman cheerfully for centuries, but even he cannot tolerate the Turk. bhan to washed. It is easy to say that the prophecy was composed after the events. But admitting that pan-t of it may have been, much of it has bean fulfilled since 1799. The homes and the weaver came since that year, as do thei restoratiotn of the earldom. thp kiss of peace, the doubling of the honors. and the break- ing of the line of Maw; this lastcaan'u only twelve years ago, in fapt. Sothe we‘ia'd has been dread out, and, though the two earls of Mr are naturally not on the baht of henna, it may be hoped that pence mats upon the oldest family of Scotland. .hn 1822 George IV. went to Scot~ land to search out the families that had suffered from their adherence to the Stuarts’ cause. and first ,aanonig them he found Mr. John Francis Ers~ kine, the grandson of the Earl of Mal of 1715. To him the kfing restoired the earldom in 1824. The countess of the grandson of this rwtoired earl Mas never pmsented at bow-t, but once was in a small room of Stirling Castle when Queen Victomia entered. The Queen asked who she was, and when she learned, kissed her. When this earl died in 1866 his cousin, the Eanl of Kellie, claimed the title under a. sec- ond charter oi 1565, and won hiscese, so that the honoms were doubled. But even yet the prophecy was not cam- plete. The nephew of the eaa‘l who died in 1866 got the older title in 1885, so that now the line oti Max is broken. PAPER GLOVES AND STOCKINGS at the top of the towed, big enough to be shaken by visitors without being torn up; THE DEEDS OF THE TURK.