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 ile country.

An officer, it was rumoured, was on the watch for the Doctor, and Klamat prepared to lead us by way of a blind trail, up the mountain side, without passing out by way of the Howlin Wilderness at The Forks.

One of the most interesting studies, as well as one of the rarest, is that of man in a state of nature. Next to that is the state of man removed from, or above the reach of, all human law, utterly away from what is still more potent to control the actions of men, public opinion the good or ill-will of the world.

As far as my observation has gone I am bound to say, that any expression on the subject would be highly laudatory of the native goodness of man. I should say, as a rule, he, in that state, is brave, generous, and just.

But in civilization I find that the truly j ust and good man is rarely prominent, he is hardly heard of, while some little sharp-faced commercial .meddler, who never spends or bestows a farthing without first balancing it on his finger, knd reckoning how much it will bring him by way of honour in return, is often counted the noblest man among you.

Therefore, I say that the truest men are those who are men for the sake of their manhood. A true man does a good deed for the sake of doing good, for the satisfaction of it, for the dignity that it gives him in his own eyes, and not the eyes of the world.

You see some noble and interesting thi