, 1885-12-31

In front of a Clark street clothing
store a number of wax dummies stand,
wearing nice oyercoats and well-shaped
trousers. Among the adult figures are
several youths attired in children's kills,
oyercoats and knickerbockers.
Saturday afternoon a roughly dressed
man, accompanied by his wife, stopped
TO inspect some of the clothing on show.
A pretty little girl of about 4 years chung
to the woman dress. Suddenly the
little one caught sight OF the boy DUN
mics. With a smile she loosed her
grasp on her mother S dress and toddled
toward a nice little boy in knickerbock-
ers. When she got close enough she
caught the little boy by the sleeve of his
jacket. He paid no attention to her.
With 4 puzzled look on her face she
drew back.
A bright idea crept into her small
brain. A smile broke out on her face,
and putting up a pair of pouting little
lips she sire tched forth her hands and
laid them on each shoulder of the hard
hearted little boy. A moment she
waited for the kiss to come. Flesh and
blood could never have withstood the
appeal; it almost seemed as If the little
waxen dummy would melt and pay the
tribute. But he did not. He kept star
ing straight ahead with a look of stead
fast virtue in his blue eyes that was pro-
yoking.
The little maiden was perplexed. She
drew back. Then she turned and re-
peated the experiment. She stood on
her tip-toes, but she couldn't reach the
little boys mouth with her lips. Tears
40 o 49,, k,r nt.no a-1 oh. 4nA1Ia1
back to her mother.
Bad boy, mamma, bad boy" she
sobbod.
The little boy looked straight ahead
and never blinked. lie had given a
maiden her first taste Of unrequited love.
characteristics Of the French Canadian.
Contemporary Review.I
The French Canadian race now num-
bers perhaps 1000, 900, half Of whom
live in Quebec, the province. They
hold frequent continental a reunions,
in which Quebec is spoken of as Canada
la patrie. This race forms so per cent.
of the population Of this province, and,
by reason of its phenomenal fecundity,
is fast gaining ground, not only in 1t,
but in all the surrounding states
ana provinces nj fTe0cn-Ca lA-
dians are divided in politics, and differ
also in the extent of their attachment
to the church from the veriest extraya-
ganoes of ultramontanism to a mildly
anti clerical attitude.
But in this matter OF race loyalty
there is a passionate unity. IL is called
patriotism, but II is not patriotism
toward the Dominion. The | reueh race
elsewhere is unsuccessful at eo,oni a
ton, its weakness in this respect being
partly due to its lack OF increase, which
renders emigration and enterprise
unnecessary and the peopleing Of
new countries diiicult. To this
characteristic the French Cana
dams are II startling exception.
icing probably the most prolific
race in the world. Where ad-
venture fails, thrift stands by them
and as the English race moves west
ward the French expands and fills every
Vacancy and interstice. In fact, it is
driving the more expensive race before
It. This people, in its romantic hours
at least, idolizes its language, and holds
sacred every seyering Characteristic,
and now distinctly aspires to lurm a
new France occupying the whole north
east corner of the continent.
This hope is warranted by the rapi /
extension Of its occupancy, but not ~
the prosperity of purely French local..
ties. from these emigration is rapid.