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LIGHT AND SHADOW. When twilight draws her silvery veil Above tho moonlit sea, And nhantom sMns oil white winers sail Shoreward so peacefully, While hovering angels guard and bless This scene so calm below, It seemeth like the peacefulness A human heart may know. "When darkness hides the sea and land, And distant thunders roll, While waves are shattered on the strand, This thought steals o'er my soul: The night that broods above the sea, The wrecks tho wild wiuds blow, Are like the woe ani misery A human heart may know. ?Lucy McKeone Stapleton. flAQQTA KJX.LKJkJO-CLt 1 ' ? A great white rambling house facing an acre of thick trees and dense flowering ilirubs, with the murmur of ever-beating waves in the distance ?a house that hid itself among the elms and oaks, and shrouded even its doors and windows in thick-hangiug jasmine and cypress vines. Nine o'clock in the morning, but not a creature was visible outside; the matted balconies were empty, the hammocks all unoccupied. Indeed, every room opening from the lower balcony was darkened ex- , cepting one. In this room the blinds were reversed, and a faint breeze j moved the thin white curtains. A , wjis laid here for three Deople, ? and the preparations on it seemed to im- , ply that their event was momentarily exPpected. , Presently the door opened, and a < beautiful girl of about sixteen years of ] age entered. She was dressed in a fine i long robe of white muslin, trimmed } with knots of pale green ribbon, and in j j her hand she carried a bunch of pansies | j and lilies. "I.eroy?" ! "Yes, Miss Cassia." ! "Tell Colonel Bauvare I am wait-1 ? infr." j ( ?1-?- , In a few moments a stout, handsome I man diessed in white linen en- { i ti red. He kissed the girl on the brow j \ softly. | ( "Where is mamma?" } , "She will not appear this morning, j s Sl:e lay awake all night planning about t the ball, and is too fa'igued to rise." i s "B it surely to give a party is not such ; a very important affair, papa?" j c "The people whom I entertain is a very J important affair indeed, cassia." "Dear me! I had not thought of it in \ thai light. I should just invite all the r good dancers and nice people in the ^ neighborhood. There are pLnty of nice people around us." j] "Fortunately this is a very select neigh-1 r borhood; there are no belter families in ! 1 the c ;untry?in the world, I might say? j than the Bauvares, the Pcy-ons, the Le ^ Croixs. the Des Moines?" 11 "And the Riveses, papa. I remember c young Herbert Rives so well! He was the handsomest youth -I ever saw. We t ty must not forget Herbert Rives, papa." it "Cassia, I wish you to distinctly undsr- j stand that Mr. Rives and I have had a r bitter quarrel?an irreconcilable quarrel. 1 If the public sentiment was raised to a T cTmuld shonr. him r piU(JCi "v.., c with a great deal of pleasure. I hope I ? . ehall never hear you speak of either the I father or son again." ''I want Herbert Rives to come to my ball, papa." "It is impossible, Ca?sia." c Cassia was silenced, but not convinced. ' r Toward evening she went out to walk, j t The neg;o girl with hvr had a little j bucket, and was gathering wild straw- i berries as they walked. As she entered e the grove skirting the Rives estate the f thick, intensely green turf, as soft as vel-! c vet. delighted her: the shade and warmth j t and swcjt earthy smell filled tier with a i r ^ delicious, drowsy sense of repose. \ t 'Oh, how nice it would bi to lie down | on this turf and sleep!" she thought. "I c wonder what one's dreams would be in , j such a place?" I c She had scarcely ceased wondering l when she saw a splendid black horse j s quietly feeding, and under a tree not far 1 t away a man lay either dead or sleeping. ; t Not dead surely? She must at least see to j that. In a moment she stood over him. I t He was a young man, handsome as En- s dymion, and fast asleep. | c When they had gone a little apart she ' s paused, thought a minute, and then took c ner handkerchief, and with the little gold I pencil at her chain wrote, "Love has been 1 ? n rm ! i with thee, and thou Knew 11 not. - i ueu i stepping softly back, she laid it on the 1 turf beside h:s head. : t Kot until they were a quarter of a mile ! away did Cassia speak; then she said, ' i softly, "Milly, do you know who that ' is?" i i "Lor, yes, Miss Cassia?Massa Her- J s bert Rives. Done forgot my berries, Miss Cassia. Kin I go back fur'em?" ij ''Yes; lean see the house now. Go i back if you wish." 1 1 "VVh'jn Milly got back to where she had < left her bucket, the horse was sad i led, ] and the young man was slowly riding < away. Milly watched him rut of si?ht. 1 and saw him examine the handkerchief j carefully, then kiss it and put it in h's i " ^ - i i 1 _1 brea-t; all ot w Ji cii pvorvcnin'rs sue rc- < ported, with sora; slight additions, to her mistress. i 1 It was very natural that both younj* < people should" revisit the sccne of this < adventure. But for two days nothing more came of it. Thcv went at unlucky i ' hours and only crossed each other. On the third day they wore fortunate. Cas- : sia. sitting with a book in her lap?; 1 which she wa3 not rca ling?heard the fiery gallop of a horse, and instantly | afterward horse and rider vaulted over the zigzag fence which divided the Bau- j i vare and Rives estates. I < Before Cassia could rise. Herbert had i di sm nintcd, thrown the reins over his ; 1 horse's neck, and, hat in hand, advanced to her feet. 11 is manly grace and beauty , . and his unaffected delight in their meet- i .vl4-Ka ziAnAimcf wViir?li Vi'irl ' < JHiJ 'It'ltU till/ V.V/1HJUWII IT1UUU uuu j . b< c ) iraiiicd while he wa* unconscious of .! ihj power of his attractions. He pre-j j tended no ignorance of Cassia's person; | he addressed her frankly as Miss Bau- j 1 va:-e, and reminded h?r of their girl and i i boy friend-hip lie confessed that he ] had been watching for a glimpse of her, j and that he had dar<d the tres- a<s on j i the Bauvarc land for the pleasure of seek- !; ing her. Cassia met him in the same humor, j There was no formality and no eml-ar- j rassnicnt, and the conversation drifted ! insensibly into low, snort sciuuuues, umuc i wonderfully eloquent by p:ission;ite glnnces and whispered queries that Cassia answered only by smiles and blushe?. After this meeting Cassia was exceedingly amiable and obedient, and she entered with charming ease and interest into all her mother s social plans. The "ball list was made out without any dissent or opposition. The colonel was delighted; he took all "ih? crcdit to himself. ''Cassia is a senlible girl; she saw that I meant what I laid, and she has accepted the situation in a very admirable manner," he said, complacently. Mrs. Bauvare smiled scornfully at the self-complacent father. "Colonel," she replied, "of all the men I ever knew,you are the most easily deceived. Cassia has not accepted the situation; she has gone round it, you may depend on that. If she had accepted it she would never have been so very pleasant about it. I dare say she has met Herbert Rives somewhere, and that she is meeting him every day." "Great heavens! Mrs. Bauvare! why did you not suggest this view of the case before?" "Because I have the ball on my mind at present, and I cannot possibly attend to two things at once, and do justice to both. Beside. I was afraid, if I told you my suspicions, you might in some way or other mismanage things." It was the day before the ball, and the house wa< topsy-turvy. Cassia seemed to be far too b lsy to meet any one that day, and the colonel felt himself so far relieved from duty that he went off for a long ride over the estate. Thus it happened that, being detained several times by the overseer, it was mid-afternoon when he reached the little wood that was P.i.-cio'o tinil Hfti-hipfa trv^tinor jilnpp '*T V. *. '.-11* kJ HUU 41V.MV4VW r 7"' - I will turn in there," he said to himself, "and have a smoke, and perhaps a siesta under the trees." The lovers could not see him, and they were far too much occupied with their own conversation to hear his approach. Milly perceived the colonel first, and cnade some 1'ruitless attempts to warn the careless couple, but they re dly saw nothing of their danger until the a^ry father >tood almost before them. His first feeling was that of complaincy at having found Cassia out; but his second, one of intense anger at her. He uuncled-her her hat, which was lying on ihe grass, and said, with a severe politeless, k,I presume Mr. Rives is not aware :hat he is trespassing; there is, however, i notice on yonder tree to that effect." ' Oh,y.'s, he is, papa; but he asked my Dcrmission to trespass on you for a l.'ttle est and shad.', and I gave him it." She aid the last word with an ominous flash )f light and color in her eyes and cheeks. Herbert apologised with frank polite- ; ie?s, and seemed determined to win at east a ceremonious courtesy from the j colonel. He spoke of the weather, and < vas answered with an informative bow: ; ind at last, being desperately determined < o obtain an invitation to the ball, he' aid, "I hope you may have a pleasant 1 svening for your dance to-morrow, col- < >nel." The colonel stiffly said he hoped so. , <kI have not been invited," said Her- 1 >ert, with the charming strait forward- - less of Youth. "1 do wish tnat you . vould ask me, colonel." i The colonel "believed Mrs. Bauvare's ist quite lull," and after that there was ] lothing for Mr. Herbert to do but mount ( lis horse and gallop away. "Papa. I am ashamed of you!" Those vere Cassia's first words. "I never ho.ight you could have been less than a ; jentleman." "Cassia, I am ashamed of you. I never bought that you could have been less han a lady." "I never have been. If you were joing to shoot a man you would bow to j lim, and treat him like a gentleman." "I do not consider Herbert Rives a gentleman." 1 "I am sorry, for I am engaged to ] lim." , "Such nonsense!" "And I intend to marrv him." i The colonel kept a stern silence, and ' >nly showed his extreme ancrer by the j )assionate way in which he strui-k down ( he grasses and flowers with his stick. The bull went off with great eclat, and, n spite of the colonel, Herbert was pres- ; :nt, not in the house, indeed, but in the \ jar Jens, and on the balcony after the j quests were g:>ne; and Cassia had spokt n i o him a dozen times?in fact, had arangcd with him the time and place of he next meeting. For it was now a trial between wise >ld parents and a pair of dauntless ^ ronng lovers, and the lovers got the best j if it. They nrjt by night and they met >y diy, and thoy never met twice in the j ame place. It *as impossible to detect } heir me sages, or lay any plan to prevent j 1?f?A?Tr ?/>n?mnf An VvrwfV* UUU liicutl'.'g* JLivcij oinauu uu l/vsi<ia ^ >'antations was ia their interest, and ^ hey had safe and happy meetings in the { hut-up drawingroom and the cool sweet j lairy when Cononel Bauvare and Rives , enior were seeking their disobedient ( ihildren a couple of miles away. In the mean time troubles of many ] linds were gathering round both house- ] lolds. Great political questions which j lad little to do with love and lovers were , earing every city home in twain. ' Tnes'j are times when even a brave nan may honorably fly, but Cassia must ^ jo with me," said Herbert to himself, j ind an hour afterward he was saying the . ;ame to Cassia. j "I dare not stay another day, beloved; f I do, I must betray my allegiance to , ny country, or get into serious trouble j with my father and the people here. For ;ven father is urging me in this matter, lie is determined I shall compromise mysslf, and if it omcs to fighting, as I be- i licve it will, he will gladly send me away in the hop; s that it may forever separate ' is. Da-ling, life would be very bare and ;old without you." ''It will be death to me, Herbert; but we can at lea-t die together. Perhaps jvcr o ir graves thsy will know how sruelly they have treated us." "Dear Cassia, we want to live together, :iot die together. I would rather call you wife than have a new Shakespeare write 1 new play about us. A home is better than a mausoleum, sweet. Will you go with mi1?'' "I will go wherever you go, Herbert." ''Then farewell till morning. Meet me at the north gate at 5 o'clock. We c m reach P in two hours. I know x minister there, an old schoolmate of mine; he will marry us at once, and from P we can get a railway train for New York. Will you be there?" It was not in the heart of woman to resist such an eager, handsome lover, and such pleading, passionate eyes, and Cassia said, "I will be there, Herbi-rt." "Then, dearest, I must ?0 now; see, the clouds are breaking and the storm is over. Say nothing even to Milly, and ride Selim, for he is the fleetest horse you Lave. We will leave him at P , to be sent back to the colonel." Then they said Liood-bvi a do^ea times, and still came back to say itonceagiin. Leaving a few tender lines for ner parents and a special little n >te for her mother, Cassia went forth at 5 o'clock the next morning to her lover. Two or three of the house servants saw her go to the stable and saddle Selim cud ride rapidly away, but they had always made it a point of honor to know nothing of Miss Cassia's rides and walks, and they only glanced at her and went on with their work. Herbert was waiting for 1%/v* nv/1 in q fnw minnfoo flio wnnnrr lovers were happily galloping away to P . "We shall be there by 7 o'clock, Cassia, and 1 will call up my friend at once, and we will be married, bi ^ause the colonel may suspect our route. I think he won't, but he may." In fact, the colonel suspected it much sooner than they anticipated. He had ^ risen earlier than usual that morning, having determined to send a challenge as soon as it was oossihle to Cantain Rives. He went to the stable for his favorite horse, and found it gone. There was a hubbub and great confusion at once, though it was not until all the servants c had been examined that the real culprit j was suspected. j Then there was saddling in hot haste, j with many hot words and not a few pro- j. miscuous blows, and after swallowing a c cup of coffee the colonel followed straight f to P . j The colonel found the happy bride j: and bridegroom taking breakfast with j: the minister. He lifted his hat cour- r teously to the latter, but took no aotice of g Herbert. . "Sir," he said, "you have done a very | foolish thing this morning, iou nave 8 married that child there to a very worth- g less and unworthy man.11 e "I think you are mistaken, Colonel c Bauvare. I have known Herbert Rives g intimately for six years.'1 The colonel lifted his eyebrows dis- 0 sentinglv, and turned to Cassia. ''Come j home, my daughter. Wait one year, and ] then, if you still wish to marry this man, f you shall at least be married respectably j. from your father's house. Your mother E wishes you to return also. Come back ~ with me." ? 'My mother has you, father, and she v will forgive me, for she will remember that she ran away with you, father. I must stay with Herbert now." * She had risen, and stood by the side * 1 11 _f -3 i-T- ~ i X 01 ner nusoana; ana even uiu jvu?i_y t father was struck by the extreme beauty t of the young couple; he said, in a softer voice than might have been expected, to t Herbert. u "Where are you going to take that fr child?" d "To New York, sir." I He left them without another word. e On the other hand, Mrs. Bauvare wrote c Cassia a long letter that very night, for- a gave her everything, sent her love to u Herbert, and begged her to transmit s weekly bulletins of everything that might ii interest her. g Unfortunately political events of the s' gravest character soon put a stop to it Cassia's weekly bulletins. Of course, if J [ had been drawing a Inro as splendid in p uharacter as he was handsome in person, > [ should have insisted on Heibert going t] to the war and carving his way to glory p with his sword. But Herbert united r with his magnificent physical beauty n :>nly a very prosaic mind. He preferred h to make money and live comfortably A with his beautiful wife and children; tl and somehow men generally thought just si as well of him for it. tl However, if he had a prosaic mind, he 6i had by no means prosaic affections. One n svening, soon after the close of the war, d he came to Cassia with a radiant face, b "Darling," he said, "do you remember n your father saying we were a couple of c fools, and that when we came to our b senses we could let him know?" p "I remember, Herbert. Poor papa! I How I should like to see mamma and n papa again?" tJ "Can you be ready to start to-morrow, p and take both the children with you?" t] "Oh, Herbert! do you really mein it?" a: "I really mean it, Cassia. I have come T to my sens?s, dear. Since our little Julia o: has grown so nea" and dear to me I have w estimated better how hard it" must have o been fcr your father and mother to give o: pou up. I hope, however, I have been able at least to do something yhich will prove to them I know the value of the iear girl I stob away from them." "What have you done. Herbert?" ? "Redeemed both the Rives and the ' " - ?? i 01 Bauvare estates. Yon snail taice rue title-deeds of the Rives place to mv father, s' ind our little Herbert shall give Bauvare back to his grandfather."?Harper's Weekly. *s The Artfnl Turtle. is It may be safely asserted, that from T ;he highest to the lowest grade, animals 1( lave their own and wonderful devices to L( :>rey on their natural enemies, or to pro- , jure their food. The turtle is a remark- s ible and su *ce:sful fisher. The writer lad the curiosity to know how this slov- c ;nly and slow amphibia lived, and found 1 :o his aston'shnent, in a niuety-pound a specimen's stomach, thres trout, as they ire commonly called in the south, but j' which in reality are bass. On close ex- i imination, whether they had been devoured dead or alive, I found that the , last had evidently not been caught by , nis turtlcship more than twenty-four hours, as it had not decomposed any, . showing the marks where it had almost been bitten in two. The result of my search proved to me Tj that when the turtle's appetite calls upon , him, he lays down in his favorite fishing place, closes his eyes, opens his mouth , to its fullest eapacity, plays his angleworm which is to all intents and purposes, a perfect counterpart of a worm. ^ on the en<J of his tongue, and he is ready for business. The game fish which is F out looking for worms with his habitual rapidity fairly flies into the jaws of death. ? TV1110 turtle finVips nnt.il liis annetitn ia gratified. r( The fact that he lives oil such frne food gives his flesh that richness which is .*o highly prized by epicures, and which renders his soup so highly prized. ?Arkansaw Traveler. n b Iron Ocean Steamers. s( The first iron vessel was launched in d 1817, and is still in existence. But not b till 18o2 did the work seriously begin. y< At that time the Lloyds began to build small iron steamers for short voyages, h A certain amount of prejudice had to be u: overcome, for there were many doubls 81 as to its strength and buoyancy. But it * ' made its way, and the tirst successful tl iron steamer made a transatlant'c voyage tl in 1848, the Great Britain, launched by tiie S Great Western company. Intho>edays the Gre.it Britain was rated as an unusually large si/.ed ship. It was a ship of 3,000 tons burden, and was an iron screw p steamer combining the new methods of propulsion and construction. The voyage* was successful, and the ship is still in existence, and., till within a few years at least, ran to Australia. Her success ^ led to imitations in the English marine, 11 and in 183Q the Inman line was established between Liverpool nnd New York o: of iron screw steamers. It had no profit- b able mail contract, and was purely a commercial undertaking, but under skill- Vj ful management has been very success- a ful. In the United States iron ship Duuaing nas never tajcen root me wuy js it has in England. Americans began early to build small iron steamers, and * do now, but only for coasting lines. We only use iron in cases where we are en tirely cut off from competition, or where " we are driven to it, as it is impossible to use wood for much of the coasting ser- h vice. u tc It has been discovered that foxes re- ti gard terrapin eggs as a special delicacy, and cause by their efforts a scarcity of T diamond back terrapin. 51 .... FARM AND HOUSE. [; FOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE * FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. 1 1 Feeding Value of Straw. In grain-growing sections straw is gen- c irally too plenty to be used up in any s >ther way than as bedding. This use of ^ t involves considerable loss, as the feed- c ng value is distinct from that of manure. 3y passing straw through stock we get ^ )oth items of value. What it contains c >f carbonaceous matter will go to form c at and sustain life, while its small pro- t )ortion of nitrogenous material and phos- j >hate of potash will mainly go to the nanure heap. Of course, straw alone is j lot rich enough to use as feed for even tore stock, but in these days much more ;rain is fed even to store animals than j ormerlv, and with rich feed the use of traw as a divisor becomes a necessity, j Straw finrl orrjiin tnkm thfi nlace nf mnr? ' ixpensive and less nutritious hay. Of | Jj ourse a large part of the straw stack is j " till required for bedding purposes, but ? t is only the portion that has been soiled * r is left over from the feeding ration. * Sven fattening sheep will pick out a j * ittle of the straw thrown out to them j * resh every morning, and with sheep | ' :ept over at least half the coarse feed i a nay be straw until time for lambing ap- j roaches, when a diet more promotive of e ailk production will be in order.?Culti ^ ator. t a low Long Should Cows f*o Dry? ^ At a recent Illinois dairymen's conven- j s ion the following discussion was had on | s his subject. ! t Mr. Johnson: I buy cows and fepd : hem?force them in fact, using them | g p as milkers in a year or two, then fat- c en thorn up for market. I lei them go rv as short a time as possible. Mr. | lostetter; Cows should go dry six to ight weeks. Mr. Johnson: In the way D ows are usually kept, they should be v llowed rest. Mr. Boyd: Much depends j ^ pon the cow. My best cows are per- v istent milkers. I have trouble in dryag them off. If not allowed rest, cows euerally prove poor milkers the year ? ucceeding nearly a full year of milking; !t( ; seems to undermine the constitution. | ^ Ir. Boyd added that the calves of these j fl ersistent milkers are liable to be weak. I c Ir. DuBois: I keep my cows as long as I V bey produce well, and hence j ~ refer to have them go dry six to eight ] ^ reekfr. Mr. : l ean get as much 1 lilk in the life of a good cow, by milking : c er nine months, as longer. Mr. Buell: i H ry cows will give milk right along up to ' e tie time of calving. What must I do? j n jll them and get others? It is not always j lie case a heifer milked up to calving the I e econd time will remain a persistent n lilker; not if, from accident, she goes | e ry early in the season that she will after i c e a short milker; they often regain a f< atural period. A calf from a ''peristent" I q ow, and looking just like the dam, will ' C e likely to inherit the quality. Mr. Reed ! v referred six to eight weeks rest for cows, j g >oes not believe ordinary cows will ; f< lake money for the farmer, counting in ! n ae dry season, at sixty cents per 100 j s' ounds for milk. Professor Henry; a lought there was too much guess-work , a mong the farmers in the dairy business, i 'hey should know more regarding cost! f fnnd. rare. otr. The statement was ' rell substantiated by the fact that no ; ne present seemed to give actual figures f the last season's results. ^ 1; Deep Plowing. In farming, as well as in dairying or ' a raring, everything depends on the con- , b ition of the soil. Here is the foundation, j a nd unless this is in proper condition the n iperstructure is bound to fall. ; s: A great deal has been said and written { 3 to the proper depth to plow, and there ! tl i such a difference of opinion held among i tl irmers in regard to it that the question t( i still as far from being settled as ever, j c fe think, however, that the leading cause ! p v. j;rr ? 1 < n suuu uiuuiuiiuu ui upiuiuu uiajr uu ; i< )und in the difference in the land itself. ! c 'hat good crops are and can be grown on i c callow plowed land that is good, no one : n ill deny, provided the season be neither a )0 wet nor too dry, i. e., with moderate tl lins the whole season. In such c season any one can grow good ; ri rops. But such seasons are ire, and, in fact, every season is S( 1' a1 rf f a Vvn nf a/1 TtTifl^ n lrvrwv ! rVCJLJ l/U LfU I^LIUCU. W 1 L11 tllUUl c* luir^ ^ routh or a long wet sj ell. Now what I ^ le farmer wants is to guard against i f( oth, and the only way to do it is to ! ft] reak up his land as deep as possible? : ^ ly not less than from seven to ten ^ iches. But how is this to mend the e] latter? "VVe answer, very easily. In c, ise of a heavy rain, a large portion of; a le water, instead of running olT, will! a] e absorbed by the deeply disintegrated v ind, where it is held as if by a sponge i Jr >r the use of the plants, and if a drouth 1 iculd intervene, there is a supply of i rater just where the plants want it, and j _ hen exhausted, its place is at once sup- ^ lied by capillary attraction from below. i will thus be seen that by deep' lowing the farmer provide.? against rm'ifh Viv "hfivinrr n surmlv nf ' a . J ? - -n'v ? i ratcr in reseive. or a place i w sady to receive and hold it whenever it! w smes. The better to insure this, how- j d ver, as well as to facilitate the escape of >o much water, it is better to use a sub-: w >il plow and an additional team, run- tr ing the same immediat ly after the e< reaking plow, and ripping up the fub- ' u: >il the desired depth. This need not be j -w one for every crop raised on the land, j u ut only once in every three or four j tl ears. | fc It has been well said that it is better to : ii ave two acres of good land, one on top ! it ? the other, than as many acrcs along- | tl de of each other, as it costs only half ! ei s much to tend them. The way to do j tc lis is by deep plowing, and thus double | tl le depth of the soil, as well as the crops i tl rown thereon.?Baltimore Sun. I ci ! b Farm and Garden Notes. Be sure your seeds are fertile before S lanting. i ^ Plant grapevines and plum trees about. ic poultry houses. J j The maker cannot produce good, i veet, cleau butter, unless the surround- ! j. lgs are scrupulously clean. j f( Three pounds of oat meal, i. e., ground j tc its, with the husk left in, is claimed to i ci e a good ration for ini'ch cows. j u Every farmer may greatly enhance the j T alue of his real estate bv setting out > ct lore ornamental and fruit trees. si If you wish your house plauts to flour- 9; h, put a few drops of ammonia to each 01 int of water used in watering them. ai ai Eggs stored in dry ashes, without jr mching each other, it is said, retain leir freshness from six to twelve months. 5 d The best way to plow for corn is to fL egin in the middle and throw a ridge le p by turning and to throw the furrows i,( >ward the center, finishing up around w le sides. it The tube ose will bear but little cold. d< he temper cure sho*ld not fall below th 0 degrees, ur there will be trouble by in ' Z > .*' r. '-?? , -O*- ' . / _ . ' otting at the center. It is a native of I ;he Malay archipelago. In selecting young Brahrnas an indica;ion of what the plumage will be is given by the bills. When the bill has a dark stripe down the upper mandible the lackle and tail will be dark. One of the best methods to start rose mttings, is to stick the cuttings about in inch deep into moist clean river sand vith good well prepared soil below to relei ve the roots as suon as they strike. Because there is but little in the paper varninp' against nlantinp- bad 9eed. be o O 1 - O ' areful, nevertheless, to see that all the ;orn you plant is sound and lively, and litis avoid the serious expense of replantRed spiders are easrest destroyed by ay'ng the plants earefully on their sides n the open air, and using a hand syringe in them as powerfully as they will bear, f a little sulphur is used in the water it s still more effective. The use of reaper and mower knives is tpt to get the grindstone very uneven, rhe groves thus made spoil the grindtone for any other purpose than grindng sections. Sharpening a dull spade, )y which the whole width of the stone vill be ground down level, is the best j ~ ?< ? 4.1.? . UUUC UL iCillUVIU^ IUU9C 111CI]U3UUC'% flTith a little labor the stone may be made is good as new. The instinct of a fowl leads it to scratch 'ven in feeding on a heap of whole grain. ' rhis causes it to stop eating long enough 0 swallow. We give fowls too much at 1 time, and this causes them to stuff 1 hemselves so as to injure, their crop3, if : ed dampened meal. A little whole grain . cattered among straw will make poultry : cratch for what they get, and conduce : o their healthfulness. A litter of pigs farrowed in spring or ummer grows rapidly if at pasture, be- ; ause the green food keeps the pig's di;estion good and enables it to get full ( lennfit from anv o>ther food that mav be 1 aten. Part of the food for sows giving ailk at this feason should be mangel 1 rartzels or beets, and if these are not to ' e had, put in a liberal portion of bran rith the meal and mix with hot water. The question is often asked?Is there ny value to cob meal, and will it pay , o have the cobs ground? If the cobs j rcre to be ground separate, and the meal ^ ed to the cattle unmixed with the ^ orn meal, it is veiy doubtful if it would ^ ay; but when the corn is ground with | he cob and the meal thus mixed, it is el ieved by those who have tried it that j t will pay?in fact, that it would pay ven if the cobs contained no nutritive ^ ualities, because of the mechanical 1 .Tect which tho cob meal has on the corn ' leal in the animal's stomach. ] The benefit which fowls derive from ] ating charcoal is acknowledged. The ( l .thod of putting it before tiiem, howver, is not well understood. Pounded < harcoal is not in the shape in which i dwIs usually find their food, and conse- ( ucntly is not very enticing to them, j lorn burnt on the cob and the refuse, , rhich consists almost entirely of the ] rains r.din ed to charcoal, if placed be- i ore them, they eat greedily and with a ( larked improvement in their health, as j hown by the bright color of their combs, < nd their sooner production of a greater . verage of eggs to the flock than before. , o oo Recipes. Buttermilk Cakes.?Stir into a quart ; f fresh buttermilk two small teaspoonfuls 1 f soda, salt and Hour e lough to make a 1 utter. Stir thoroughly and bake quick- ; JSalted Herrings.?Freshen; place in ' baking dish; cover with milk and | ake. When cold pick to pieces and add ' n equal quantity of mashed potatoes; , lake into sm ill, flat cakes, flour both , ides and fry brown. Vegetable Brotii.?Scrape and slice , hree turnips and three carrots, and peel , lircc onions, and fry all with a littl: but- ( jr until a light yellow; add a bunch of elerv and three or four leeks cut in . ieces; stir and fry all the ingredients \ Dr six minutes; when fried add one } love of garlic, two stalks of parsley, two ^ loves, salt, pepper and a little grated , utme;?; covcr wi:h three quarts of water , nd simmer for three hours, taking off ae scum carefully. Strain and use. 'routons, vermicelli, Italian pastes or ice mav be added. y Stuffed Lettuce.?Take four large, )lid heads of lettuce, wash them loroughly and boil them in water which as been salted. After they have boiled >r a quarter of an hour take them out tid put them into cold water. Then rain them well, cut th-m open and stuff rith a forcemeat made of veal, tying the [ids of the lettuce round the meat se- j iirely. Now place the stuffed heads in , stewpan, covering them with gravv, nd seasoning with salt, pepper and " inegar. Put the pan where the contents 1 ;av simm.T for fifteen minute3, then tke out the heads (removing the strings) nd serve on a hot dish with the gravy oured around them. Household Hints. A cement for china may be made with i thick solution of gum arabic and warm c atcr, and stir in plaster or rans; use c hile warm, and set the articles away to t rv for two or three days. c An umbrella will last far longer, if I hen wet it is placel handle downward, 1 > dry. The moisture falls from the t 1g:c3 of tlic frame and the fabric dries nil'ormly. If stood handle upward, } liich is usually the case, the top of the c mbrella holds the moisture, owing to c le lining underneath, the ring, and there* a >re takes a longer time to dry. thus in- 1 iring the silk or other fabric with which c is covered. This is the prime cause of t ic top of the umbrella wi aring out soon- ( : than the other part. Umbrella cases, ^ )o, arc responsible for the rapid wear of * ic silk. The constant friction causes 3 le tiny holes that appear so provokinglv 1 lrly. When not in use leave the um- t rella loose. 1 The destruction of moths is one of the f reatest vexations which careful house- t copers have to contend with, an 1 their c eprcdations arc not to be remedied after } icy have once made inroads. Houses 1 eated by furnaces arc especially predisosed to have moths, but every housceepcr must be on the watch lor them, B >r from the time tliat the windows begin ^ > be left onen the trouble beuins. Heavy lrpets sometimes do not require t ik:ng p crery yer.r, un'e s in constant inc. I ake out tho tacks from tlv.'se, fold the ? xr,)ets back, wash tiic floor in strong ids with a ;tabiespoonftil of borax dis)lve;l in thorn. Da<h with insc; t nowder ? r lay with tobacco leaves along the edge ^ id retack. All moths can be kept away id the eggs destroyed by this means, lgrain or other carpets, aftiT shaking. * 'e brightened by sprinkling a pound of ^ .It over the surface and sweeping careilly and thoroughly. It is also an excelnt plan to wipe off the carpet with E >rax water, using a thick flannel cloth ^ rung tightly, taking care not to wet , but only to dampen. Open the win3ws and dry the carpet before replacing L6 furniture. Other woolens, includ- ? g blankets and wearing apparel, must * be beaten and brushed and folded smoothly. Be careful to clean every spot with ammonia and water, not too strong, and a dark woolen cloth. Tie pieces of cam phor into little bundles and put one in each article. Wrap the article in newspaper, as printers' ink is a preventive of moths, anu sew them up in strong sheeting bags, labeled, so that it will not be necessary to open them during the summer except for use. This is a good way for those who do notpos^ss? cedar boxes, and the articles need have no other care if every spot is treated as directed and* the ga-ments are not left hanging in the closet too long before putting away for the season. Couldu't be Caught Any More. "No, you can't come any o' your dodges on me," said a {jranfferfied. passen ger.as thn man with the big, jingling ring full of 'bus checks accoutea him with the inquiry if he was going any further than Chicago. "You can't play me for a sucker I tell you. I've had my eye-teeth cut, I have. AVhy, I've had three lightning rod3 put up on my place, every one of which cost mc seven prices. I've been stuck on Bohemian oats, Russian oats, Australian oats, hulless barley, gold dust wheat, Seneca chief wheat, red line wheat, and all o' them thing}. The last man who caught me on this scheme said he represented a bi<* company, and that he was only allowed to sell ten bushels to one farmer, at $10 perbushel. Bimeby he came around and said he'd sell me fifty bushels on the sly for cash, providin' I'd sign an agreement not to tell on him. He caid he'd takin' a likin' to me, an' would just as soon see me get rich as his own father. I took the fifty bushels, paid him ?500, and signed the agreement. Three months later I found that agreement in the bank a promissory note for $500 more which I had to pay. I've been caught 3ii worthless fruit trees an' fertilizers, an' Dther claptraps by the dozen. One time . [ ordered a new revised edition Bible, in' the blank order which I signed turned up a promissory note for $100. 'Bout a rear ago a stranger, stopped at my house just before dinner time. Of course I isked him to sit up and eat with us. He said he was an agent for the Bible society, ind was not permitted to eat meals without payiu' for 'em, but would be pleased ;o sit up if I would take pay. Of course [ agreed, an' you just ought to have leard that man pray. His was a prayer from way back, an' my appetite nearly nade me sick before he got through asking the blessin'. After dinner he asked - - IIC IU OlgLl tk IC^Clpt tV 1UV/U ug WUIU QUV nr ;he Bible society as a voucher that ie had paid for the meal. Three nonths later that receipt turned up in mnk as a note for $65. I had to pay it. Last summer I built a new barn, and, of course, I wanted lightning rods on it. :V man came along with his wagon and I lickered with him for a contract. He r?raised the barn, and said he wanted to io a good job in my neighborhood, seem' is I was a prominent man an' my ecommend would be valuable to iim in his business, an' drew up plans for an elaborate system )f rods, which he agreed to put up for $10. It was dirt cheap, and ;o I signed his contract. After the work was done I paid him the $10, s'posedthat was the end on't. But it wasn't. The 510 was simply for putting up the rods. For the rods themselves I had to pay $280. I've paid royalties on patented farm machinery which fellows would frimp alnnor nnri find in mv tiossession. " ?? ?x / *na, claiming that by using the machme3 [ had infringed on their patents, threatsned to prosecute me if I didn't settle up. I've bought a half dozen receipts for the manufacture of fertilizers, and as many sure cures for the hog cholera. I've been taken in on freight receipts, lotteries, card games, insurance frauds, patent right venders, widders, bogus ministers, spurious charity agents an' all ?orts o' skin games, but I've got my eyes )pen at last, stranger. "I'm goin' further than Chicago, but ti you think you kin git a half-dollar out V me for that little piece o' pasteboard ind that brass check, yer barking up :he -wrong tree. Do you take me for a nan who has had no experience in the lffairs o' this world?"?Chicago Herald. Lives of the Presidents. r "Carp" says in one of his Washington let A?rt fV?A'r,1oTrAlon/'l T ofirlt>y* Ol f] fnnn^Qrtf j\Jl O ILf IUV;|V1^ r g 1UU\A XA^?(AV( V4V* *4?vuv%s.w? Cleveland will take you aside and whisDer emphatically that the President will lever marry. They will tell you, and low true it is I know not, that the only ivoman that the President ever really oved has been in her grave for more ;han twenty-five years. He met her, they ay, when he was a school teacher in a ittle town of New York, when the down lad just begun to come upon his Kp, and ;he was sweet sixteen. Tiiey loved, but vere too poor to marry. Cleveland had lecided to go'West to make' a fortune, vhen his sweetheart became sick,'and vithin a few days died. James Buchanm's love jilted him when he was a young nan, and he never courted another. Fill- < nore had much the same experience of Cleveland in that he was too poor to narry when he first fell in love. He went j >ff and spent three years at Buffalo with>ut seeing his sweetheart because he was oo poor to pay the traveling expenses of >ne hundred and fifty miles which lay >etween them. Most of the Presidents lave been true to their first loves, and he only instance of a President marryng again is that of John Tyler, who vas too bashful to kiss his first wife luring their engagement, but was bold mough to marry a young girl shortly ifter her death in the White House, rhe first three Presidents married wid?ws, and "Washington had had one or wo love affairs before he got Martha ?ustis. Jefferson was a good matcn vhilc he was in the "White House. He vas a widower and true to his first wife. tfaFtin Van Buren was also a widower , ^resident, and though he said sweet hings without number, he did not talk ove. Jackson's wife was buried in the Iress made for her White House recepions, aud Arthur put a memoriil winlow to his wife in St. John's charcli vhile he was President, and always sat n her old pew. j A Keverie ituaeiy uroKen. laiden in a hammock swinirs, Vhere the elm its shadow fling3; )verhead the robin sings, And the honey bees are humming. )reaming is the maiden fair )f a youth with princely air, landsome, rich and debonair, Who to claim her hand is coming. building castles fair is she, Iwin ing in a reverie, Vhile the robin merrily Trills his tuneful lay above her. row has come the wedding-day; he is decked in fine array, . i cha liAr WJIV I * With her rich and princely lover. 1 !ut a voice the stillness breaks; Lh, the discord that it makes! md the maiden fair awakes From her reverie delicious. ris her pa. Her dreams take wing. [ear him: "Hannah, leave that swing! orae right in, you lazy thing, And help your mother wash the dishes 1" - V'c '" 'i ? ' ' --'iS . GOLD LOCKS' SEASONS "It is Winter on grandpa's head," The little girl, Gold Locks, said, As, perched like a bird on the round of hip chair, She brushed and patted his soft white hair. Then, tired at last, she crept Into his.arms and slept; And her cheeks grew re 1 as a rose, so warn Was the nest of his close enfolding arm. Before sha scarcely woke, . * Or opened her eyes, she spoke: "I feel your heart beat grandpa, dear, And it's just as hot as Summer here." Ah, loving thought. We smiled At the wisdom of the child, For though snows do lie on his dear hairt His heart has only Summer there. - ?Clara Doty Batet. PITH AND POINT. Photographers take the world jtist as it comes.?Siftings. The ice cream sign is the harbinger of spring.?Philadelphia Call. A bad cold makes some men very proud. It swells their heads.?Philadd1 _ rr 7 7 prna iieraia. The gold beater is one of the few men who works the hardest when he strike# the most.?Philadelphia llerald. A stuttering man ought to be always cool-headed and wise. He is compelled to think twice before he can speak once. ? Chicago Ledger. A new novel is called "A Bachelor'* Paradise." A bachelor's paradise! Well, that must be a place where buttons groyr on shirts.?New York Journal. Matthew Arnold is coming back to * this country. He thinks he remembers one place where he let a dollar or two get away from him the last time.? Chicago News. A new bonnet is called "The Cottage." "We have sat behind one, and we can affirm that the name is a misnomer. It should be called "Four Stories and Attic."?Statesman. Before cutting a man's "head off ia China, thfi authorities eonsidcratelv make him drunk. In this country they considerately make him drunk before putting a head on him.?Sif tings. It has come to be that when a New York functionary is late at dinner his wife says to one of the children: ''Ran _ downtown and find out the number of your-father's cell."?Boston Transcript. The question of female suffrage in the Territories has been greatly strengthened by the statement of a delegate from Wyoming that his mother-in-law had voted for him repeatedly.'?New York Commercial. * . ''When should a young womantnarryP asks a writer. After a careful consideration of this subject we have come to the conclusion that they should marry when they get a chance.?Burlington Free Press. . Lady (in shoe store)?"I would like to look at some cloth slippers for myself." Clerk (until recently in th^e dry goods line)?4'Yes, madam; something all wool and a yard wide?"?Harper'i Bazar. ' "The man of the future ages will have three arms," according to a scientist. We have not heard what the extra arm is for, but there is no doubt that it will be very convenient for scratching Ms back.? Graphic. Sitting Bull is said to be on the decline and it is thought that he will not live much longer. This will be good newi 'or the settler in his vicinity wlio is engaged in laudable elforta to grow a scalp. n- * 7- \ 7X.77 ??aa.eturic {uux.j ugh. As a debtor Schabaram has a peculiar method of conduct. "For my part," he ' says, "when a creditor has the impertinence to write to me for his little amount ?that ends it, I don't pay him." "And when he doesen't write*" "In that case I always wait to hear from him." "Ugh," grunted a toper when the barkeeper refused to give him whisky and handed him a glass of water instead. "Ugh, ain't much difference 'tween water an' your whisky any way." "Of* course not," replied the barkeeper. "Only fifteen cents, that's all."?Washington Critic. "Do you people speculate any?" asked a New Yorker, who was passing a day or two in an Indiana village. "Oh, a little; but it has become purty risky," was the reply. "The last two speculators went up for five years apiece." "For what?" "Thev broke into thepostoffice to specu late on stamps."? Wall Street News. Mrs. Yerger ismuch given to gadding. She is everlastingly on the streets, while / Colonel Yerger is much given to staying at home and smoking his pipe. "I believe you love your nasty old pipe more than you do me," she remarked, indignantly. "I guess I do. My pipe doesn't go out as often as you do."?Texas SiftiflQ8. He had fought under the old flag, he said, with a husky pathos, but the officer had two thin-faced women and a colored expressman ready to swear that the row occurred beneath the red rag in front of an auction room, and grew out of a wrangle about the price of a second-hand cook stove with a broken leg.?Chicago Ledger. A WESTERN BOY'S LA.ME.VT. I wished I lived away down East, where codfish salt the sea, And where the folks uave pumpkin pie and applesass for tea. Us boys who's livin' here out West don't get mnrYi half a show? We don't have nothin'else to do bat jest to sort o' grow. Oh, if I wuz a bird I'd fly a million milas away To where thev feed their boys on pork and beans three times a day; To where the place they call the Hub gives out its shiny spokes, And where the folks?so father says?is mostly women folks. ?Chicaqo News. Every Tenth Mnu Strangled. The shah of Persia was driving along the highroad one day, says a Teheran letter to the New York Herald, when soma soldiers approached him with a petition 3etting forth their grievances. They had Qot been paid for nine moutli9. The son af the minister of war, who accompanied the shah on horseback, galloped up among them and lashed them across tUeir faces with his whip. Some stones were thrown, and one of them broke a window Df the shah's carriage. The aide-de-camp shouted to the coachman to start the horses at full speed, crying out that aa Attempt was being made to assassinate his majesty. The following morning the regiment of [spahan, to which the mutineers belonged, paraded in the courtyard of the palace. The shah appeared at a window, tnd, at his order, every tenth man was seized and strangled. Though his coniuct was severely criticised, Europeans lere think him as excusable as Peter for lis severity to the Strelitz regiment, and iiis firmness prevented a massacre of Europeans by the turbulent troops. '