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And when tho evening dins, Still, too, thy fringed vesture oh uvea the light, l'he lost and glimmer of her I ourftil oyea, On tho daik virgo of night. So, soon thy gloriee wnno! Thon, too, must mourn tho rose of motviing tlied ; Cold creeps tho Intnl ahndow o'or tliy train, And eotilca on thy bead. My heart, aa years go by, Yenrn's for tbo oharm that wooed Its ravished giiae; l'he sympathy ol nituro wnkoa a sigh, And thus its thought betrays. Thou, like the cloud, my.eonl, Dost In thyaelf, of bounty naught possess; Devoid tbo light of hoaven, a vapor foul, Tho veil Of nothingness. FATE. A pitch-dark night, rain falling In torrent*, wind blowing gustily from erery point of the compass at once. Two or three oil lamps flickering feebly in the gloom on a struggling orowd of damp passengers, a chaotio mass of lug page, and? no porters. * Suoli wero oar earliest impressions on being turned out of the London down train at Weetwood, the station for Oinq baven, whither I and some half dozen other officers were bound, to eompleto our eduottion by a oourse of musketry Instruction. N" Where's Oinqhaven?" was my first rery natural inquiry. "And how am I to get there?" Oinqhaven was "Across there," a civil offioial replied, pointing over an expanse of plowed field in the direotion of the south pole. The one omnibus had, it tppeared, departed with a small seieo Uon from the impatient orowd of belated travelers, but would be back again di reotly. "How soon?' I asked. "Well, in abou; an hour or so." Outside the Btation I found an officor Mid his party, a sergeant and some pri rates, about to maroh to Oinqhaven, and gladly I joined tbem. I took it for granted some one knew the way. I aidn't. Bain pelting us viciously, wind blowing our fragmentary attempts at conversation awuy into space. Final ly, at a point whero flvo roads meet, and the wind and rain did their wickedest, we halted. Fire ' and candle light itreamed invitingly out of the unshut tered window of a low, white house; a lign oreaked over our heads in the dark ness, and, after a brief debate, in, we all turned to the oozy kitohen of the Green Lion. We were not unwilling to accept the landlady's assurances tnat the storm would "blow itself out,>-iu half an hour or less. Blie invitod us into her own rang parlor, and here, for the first timo, I got a good look at my companion. He was a tall, handsome fellow, with dark complexion and ooriously light, lager eyes? bv name, I discovered, Oapt. Angus MaoLeish, of the 84th froyal Cromarty) Highlanders. (Here I Introduce myself to my readers: Lieut. Tones, royal North Wales militia.) The landlady's prediction was verified !n lees than the time mentioned. The itonn blew over, the olouds parted, and i olear white moon shown out, Half an hour's quiok walking brought us to the lop o t the hill under which lay the little, town of Oinqhaven. Its red roofs looked pretty and pioturesque in the moonlight beyond, and to westward' the sea and marshes strotohing away gray and mys terious; below us a row of lighted windows showed when the barracks ?food. 4-." * "That's * weloome sight," said Mao Leish. "Were you ever he'ra , before ? " I | tsko% * "Never. I never heard of the plaoe ?ntil last week? ah?" he stopped short. I looked round in amazement. He was standing upright and rigid, his eyes fi*ed on some poiut in the road before ns, his forefinger extended. "Wby, what's the mutter?' I asked, looking down the j;bad-r white and lono ly? and seeing only a milestone stand ing out distinctly from the dark hedge. "TherSl" His eyes dilated with a fixed stare of terror, his breath oatne short and quick, and at last, with a &A*P <*y, lie *wiyed forward and fell insensible on the path. I .thought he tried to say something, but failed to nnderstand him. The soldiers had baited, and two came rushing up, vooif Mating wildly in some unknown tongne. They knelt beside him ai)d raised, him, a 1 , stark and white in tins moonshine. I gave a few directions, to whioh they rouoliriftfeA not the smallest attention ; . but s6u.ehow.they oontrived to. support him b-tween them, and we proceeded to tho barracks, no great distanos, for. innately. X auctioned the sergeant, who had looked' on >n the meanwhile with undis turbed Composure. He declined to commit himself to any opfhion what* aver. The privates were "Oaoloh aim's" own people, puir ignorant Hieland bodies, .tho oonl(i hardly speak English. Could he understand Gaelic? Weel, a word, or miybe twa. What had Oapt. MaoLeish said as he fell? It sounded like "Into my grave/ but he oonldn^ he . positeev. And here Hergt.< Tullooh's I eommunioaliiona cara.e to an abrupt atop, I and J oould onty extant in addition that frslhe Highlanders ,kii?T best what to do witlr their chief, and that "he's be a' foht tbomorn/' , ' ?1 Bo be was. He appeared on paAvcte lgi>t sanugti. I found that be and I [wer? in the ftsme Motion; also, that of all the sixty officers that composed the "oonrse,** he waa .the only, one with fraternised to a eerlain extent - k*d over in Pbitstewn together^the mlar atrinsement of the period, and , ked at the red?book in oompaftY.iiej i an odd young fellrfw, as starehily*] 'lent as a Spanish Don one moment, tho next botlahljr expansive and laiiioatlTe. I think he^raa isaB? d^fefttcly shy ? tlie result of homo bKWnng.* JIG gavo me a description of 1 liia Highland ltouio ono day, with its mountain and moor, loch and fores', whore tho MacLoishs lived in feudal ?tate,- naught appertaining to theciguify of u real Highland chicftnin beipglack ing from the pipers to the deadly feud. The MacLeishs, ol Caolchai n, and tho MacLeishs, of Tuohoran, had killed, hnrned, betrayed, massacred aud gener ally made themselves nam tally unpleas ant from tirue immemorial. * Tho two branohes of this umial'lo fairily sprang from twin brothers, and according to tradition were to carry on tho sarno bloodthirsty relations till they became simultaneously extinct. "And may I ask how you and the representative of tho othtr lino conduct yourselves when vou happen to meet in society nowaduyb?' I inquired. LacL?ish laughed. "We don't meet. Tuohoran was sold generations ago, anil tho MacLei?h of that duto died abroad. Wo liavu often tried to traco out his doscendents, but with only partial success. Pirhajw it's ?5 weli," he oontinued, with no embar rassed laugh, "for they say that though we don1* slay and plunder nowadays, tho? the curse is on us yet. When one of ea"h lino shall mo< t, thero follows calamity. "Ten yeara- ago a clergyman in tho south, chaplain to a hospital, wrote to my father, to sav that nis cousin- Fer gus MacLoish, lay dying, mortally wounded, in some discreditable brawi. My father, good man, started at onoo. Ho was in time to toe the c'ying man, and to promise to befriend his only son, a boy of about fourteen. Fergus Mao Lf i?h died with his hand clasped in my father's. It was their first and last meeting." "Well, no harm came of it, I sup pose ?" "My father never saw his homo again. Ho was killed in the terrible railway accident on the Great Northorn." "What became of the boy?" "Young Fergut? IIo was on utter good-fjr nothing. My mother gave tho ohaplain a carte blanche, and he did We utmost to reclaim him. It was no use. He was in and out of prison half a dozen times, aud at last we shipped him off to the colonic*; but I'm sure I met him tat year at the D<*rby." "How din you know him ?" "By his likeness to myself. It's curi ously strong. Also by another mark ? a out on one ovolid ? that gives him a most sinister look. The ohaplain men tioned it to me." "Did anything happen?" I oould net resist asking. MaoLeihli's face grew dark. "Don't ask me? enough to ruin my life, and make it little worth, having from henceforward. Hnllo! it's srvon o'clock. Do you dine at mess to nighi?" and ho lelt mo to dress. ^ Still I got no nearer to any e xplana tion of the occurrence on tho first night of tho meeting. He always avoided tho Westwood road, I noticod; and another peculiar fact which struck 1110 w.s the .way in which his servant. Alistor? his foster brotbor, ho told mo ? kept us constantly in sight. It was as if ho expected me to do his master a mischief. No matter whore he went Alistor's red head and foxy eyos appoarnd at unex pected mordent?. Ono day MacLoish came into my room in great distress An accident had happened in the hewn ? a scaffold had fallen, aud Alitor, who was pasting at tho nioneia. had boon knooked dowu and injut.-d -roine iron work had struck his head, and, it was feared, destroyod tho sight of one eyo. "He must go up to town as soon as ho can travel. Evorythiog that tho best man thoro ran do for him shall be done. I ll trust him to no ono hero. My poor Alistor !" I was able to assist in making arrange ments for his ctay in town, and both master aud man woro inordinately grute ful. I wont with Maclioiah to soe liira off at Woitwood. Thoro had boon an agonizing acone when ho hoard that tho oculist would require him to bo at lonst a month under treatment. He re f need to go? wept, expostulated, implored ?MawLoish ofijils knoes not, to send him | away ? at leant bo I guessed, lor the ron vernation was carried on in Gaelic. Mac Leish promised to go up and soe him every week ? argued, coaxed, jested, and at last ordered him sternly to bo silent and' obey, and tho poor fellow submit ted. Tears wore in his ona visible <-yo when ho said good by ut tho station, and ho poured out what neomed to bo a flood c>f irapassionod warping. MacLoitdi answered 'gooddiumoredly, Baying in Eng ish ? "You will And ino safe enough, you foolish, fellow. Don't yon think Mr. Jones horeoan take as good oare of me as yduT" Alistor turned snddonly upon me, scanning my fan. with his sharp eye. "Are youbis faithful friend?" I was too Unrmfced to repl; . '?Let all who wi >h well to Oaolohslrn stand by him now, for his dark hour is at hand. i MaoLeinh hurried him into the train, and I haw no more of him. Wo walked .back together down the memorablo Wesiwood road. "0?n you -gnoss what he meanif' asked MacLeisn, after a long silenoe. "Not in the least," I replied. "Dj yon remembox that night we ofcme?' r ... "Pcrfeotly," I answered. "We tnmed the oorner as I spoke, and the broad whito road to Cinqliavon alopod down the hill at our feet ? with the mile-stone standing ont white anil distinot against the dark hedge. MacLeish stopped. '?There, by that stone, on that night, stood Fnrgus FaoLoish. I saw him as clearly as 1 aoe you now. Ho held out his hand and said: 'Welcome! we are watting for yon, Oaolohairn.' His faoe was clear in the moonlight. It was the faoe of a dead man." "I don't l>elieve a word of it " I said etjergotyrily, to asst^e inyielf I was not "Do as yon please/ said MacDeish, W>1dly. ? K ?'It was evident,* I reasoned, taking counsel with mvself, "that poor Miio* Irish's brain had beoomo diseased liv ing all his lifo in a hogio ridden High land. stfpaghold, in an atmoaphero of Qaslw snfifrrstitfon. He would hi bet ter without Alistor hovering about him and ministering to his ft notes, and I mustdomy besttodrag hit* into society. He oertainly hates the tight of his felloW eireatares as muoh as any man 1 know.* Accordingly, next day, instead of onr Jbonal aeoluded seat on th# shingle, by a deserted Maitello tower, I suggested that we take onr books to the parade, i stadying iu ptiblic being a Oinqhaven* fashion ,+r A. "Whete'a the parade ? I've never seen I it jet," he remarked. I. marched him I eastward forthwith. It waa half-past I twelve, on a bright antuann morning, the sun was abining. th? aea dancing, bevies of protty children Jrolioking on tho shinplo, and three of the prettioat girls in Giuqhaven taking- a brisk turn aiter bathiug. The very prettiest l>owe?l to me, and looked as it we m;ght come | and talk to her if we liked ; but all that AlaoLe sh said was : "It was a bad j place for working, and that he wanted | to go to the town and buy some red ink." # "This war," I said. "Yon don^; mean to Ray you've not been near the Lad/a avenue ? ' Wo turned through a gat<* into the cool shade of some pollard elms that made a bowery walk across aomo low lying meadows to the town. "Same dcuct-and-gone country lady? bless her considerate soul ? planted thiagrove and bequeathed it to the town. It's tho piettiest thing in Oinqhaven." "The town doesn't be?m to appreciate it," said MacLeish. "It has been let go to tho bad. These trees want thinning and aome youag ones planting in thoau gai**." ' ^ ?** ??* I 'i. " The mayor and corporation are awakening to a sense of their dultos, I see," I said presently. "They awn ac tually breaking up tho ground and got ting fresh earth in. I suppose it's twenty years since it was done? and it will bo twcniy more before it's done again." WacLeish did not ansvwsr. He seized my arm suddenly and pointed with out stretched finger to the Lust elm of the avenue. "There I" he gasped ; "there he is again." I saw nothing but two wheelbarrows, a plank, and two Rpades sticking upVight in the newly-broken earth. "Hold up 1" I said. 4<Don't faint here, for hoaven's sake I" and I shook him rouahly. Ho looked at me vacant ly, and I hurried him on. Presently he passed his hands across his eyes and drew a deep breath. "My gvavtt? or his !" he muttered. He said no more till we reaohed the barracks, when he turned to me quite calmly and collectodly : "Laugh as you will? it can do no harm. 1 have Keen him ogam. The third time will bo the last." And he closed the door gent ly upon mo. I hadn't a oliance of making many friends among the Chinqhaven reaidentA, sooiable and agreeable ua they were, and was pleasantly surprised to meet some Welah friends established in one of tne parado hotfses for tho season. They were a gay, hospitable set, with half a dozen pretty daughters, aud as many sons, all holidny-making aa hard as they could. Something was always going on at the Pryse-Davioses, and I and many j of my friends wero made cordially wci come at any time. I conveyed numra- I ous invititmns to MacLeish? aU polito- | lv but firmly declined. A picnic to E.istcliffu hay ? a boating party up tho \ river to Lynas castle ? an afternoon dauco. MacLeish was in high spirits; as ox citoil iw any school-girl at the prospect of a dunce; a?ked mo na end of ques tions about the Miss Pryso-Davienea, and mudo me solouinlv promise him in trod hoi ions to all of them. "By tho way, I ought to have some money with me," I Baid as we passed through the gat? on owf way to the merry making. "Wo may want a oab home." "Nonsense; it's a pplendid night; be side, I've plenty." Aud ho drew out his purse as ho stood under the lamp. "No; it's ulJ gold; what a perfeet nuisancer* I noticed a p\ir of hungry eyes gleam ing out of tho darkness as he poured tho inuney back, and I uaw a uigamutTn fig ure movj slowly off. "Lucky thore are two of us," I thought. It was a brilliant litlle dniioj. Tho rooms were prettily and gaily doooratod, tho local confeotioner had surpassed himself in the suppor, and the Pryse D.ivies girls looked as fresh aa if thoy had not passed a whole day under a broiling sun on tho road. "Is this wise?" I asked Miss Winnie, as we stood in the onen Fr^noh window ol the dining room that looked on to the parade. "What? the open air? Oh, it never does me any harm; and the moon in vising bo exquisitely." "J. didn't mean that exactly; but is it safe. to leave these windows open? L^ok at the mob out there. The races have brought all the vagabonds of tho oonntry. together." There was a small inolosure in front of the house, and ovor tho dwarf wall a orowd of shabby-looking people wero gazing in at the brilliantly-lighted room. "I'll send two of the men round to order t^m off," sho said. Tho Us . that departed looked round at me with ihe carious eyes I had seen before. Meanwhile the fnn was beoomlng rather fast and furious. They wore getting up reels. One of the Highland officers had brought hi* bagpipes, on whioh the miscreant was a distinguished amateur performer. MaoLeish was one of the noisest and gayest there. I oonld hardly rooognize the proud, rosorvod boy I knew. The Pryse-Dav ieso.i were bewitched with him and he with them. ?'What has oome to you, MaoLeish?" I asked, when I came apon him, sitting in a dark oorner alone/ his f*oe buried in his hands. lie looked up with a queor, wild *mile. "I'm r.ot mad, Jones, or melancholy. I'm fey; that's what it is." . "Gome home now, there's a good fellow. It's past two, and yon wanted to be early." "Not a bit of itl I've a valse with Miss Winnie, and half a dosen other dances to dispote of." Tho other men departed by degrees. MsoLoish staid on to to the last. I might have left him, but M>me in stinct detained ma. At last w? took leave. Our shortest way Was through I jad/s avenue, and J took it \ritMut reflection, Half way through tho grove MaoLeish stopped, lie bad forgotten someuoftsensiflal commission of one of 1 was too provoked with' him to argue, but walked on; then sat down in the gloom on an overturned Wheelbarrow and waited. 7 , t. . 80 Wo one passed fn?i a tow minutes lator. He was in the fall light of the moon, 1 reoognirod th%MW* shabby j figure 1 had seer, twioe before?a young, broad-shouldered, slouching tough. He seemed to disapi>oar suddenly behind one of the trees as a footstep approached and MacLeish's voioe wss heard singing a valse tune. I caught a glimpse of hie <Hengarry and plaid as he oroseed a streak of moonlight, and tho next mo | mont heard a sudden exclamation. Thej : came a sonille ? blows ? and before could reaoh tliom a heavy full ? a groan i MacLeish was on his knees stmgglim , to rise, held down in tho grasp of a fal ; len man. Ho shook him off as I got up i and staggered to a tiee, against whiol , ho leaned, panting and breathless. "Ho tried to garroto me, und when , I managed to twist out of his hands deal: me a heavy blow ou the head. 1 onl; struck him ouce in self-defonao. Is hi damaged?" I turned tho fallen man over on hi. back. He lay still. I dragged him It the moonlight. "MaeL"ish! no's dead!" Bat MuoLeith had dropped on hi ' knees beside him, and was gazing into tho dead face with a face an ghastly. "Fergus! Fergus MacLeish! Havt i we met? At Wail"' Ho rose perfectly panic stricken. I i was his cousin, he was assured, and in deed tho liki ness would havo convince^ ino of tho fant without tho additional evidence of tho marked eyelid. MacLeish was distraught with terrot Tt was ruurdor ho had done; lie shoult j dio a felon's death. Nothing I coulc say would reassure hira. "Leave him here. Who's to kno? anything about him?'' I said at last "Socioty is well rid of him. What oi earth are jou going to do now?"' He had spized one of the piokaxei i loft by tLo lahoreis, and was digging h fierce haste under tho last, elm tree. "His grave was to be here," he said "Ho caino to show me the spot." I suppose it was a mad thing to do j but seeing hiiu ro'olved I turned to wit] the spade and helped tiim. The earth , being newly-made, was light and easib moved, and we soon made a trench deej 1 enough for a grave. Then we laid th< body gently down, and shoveled in witl feverish haste. The broad, staring mooi j showed every pebble t.n the pathway, i o?ery leaf on the earth. We removed j all traces of the strnggle, replaoed the ' tools, and hurried home in utter eilenoe. MuoLeish held out his hand without speaking, as ho stopped at his own door. I took it without hesitation. 1 am glad to remember that. He fixed his wild, woful eyes on me for a mo ment, and then hurried away. I was too excited and horror stricken to think, and I lay down, dreading the hours ihit had to p??8 before morniug. Strange to say, X blept quietly and dreamlessly far into the next day. and when I awoke I could not realize ihe tragedy in whiob I had taken part. ! "I've dreamed it all," I kept saying to myself; "and a dream is Boon forgotten. I'll go and have a swim and then Bee il tho Pryse-Davies girls are out on the parade. It must be a'l a nlghtmaie." . S ill, persuade myselt as I might, j there wore two things I could not do ? ; pa?* down tho avenue or faoe MacLeish. Where was he, I asked his servant. Gone to the ranges. 1 would go and j meet the party returning. It would be : bost to i o and get the first meeting over in publio. I walk quietly along the pretty country lane, listening for the well-known crack of the rifles. All was silont. Then, at a turn of the road, 1 I came suddenly upon a dozen figures or so walking slowly and silently. Four of them bore a hurdle, on whioh lay somet .ing with an officer's cloak thrown over it. "What is it?"' I asked, though I knew 1 beforehand what tho V9ry words of the j reply were going to be, somehow. "Poor MacLeish I Ho wm in the butts, and came out to look at the tar- j get. They had coasod firing at it. Wo wore shooting at long rango, and some one ? I don't know who? tired at the wrong target. Shot through the heart, he dropped without a cry, stone-dead." I loft Cinqhaven that night, and will never set foot there again as long as I livo. A TERRIbLE FELLOW, The Russian hangman in a convict who was sontoncnd to (loath for robbeiy and murdor, but tho penalty was com muted to imprisonment for .lifo upon oondition that ho should perform the duties of cxeoutioner whenever onllod upon. Ho bun boon confined in Motoow during the p*ht fifteen years,. and is sent from there, under a strong guard, to Kioff, OtlosRft, and St. Petersburg, as his services may be required in one or the other of those cities. A visit to this man is de>ori)>ed by Yiotor Tissot, * Frenoh author, in a work on Russia and the Russians, recently published in Paris. He found the exooulioner repos ing af'er tho exertion of hanging tho two nihilists, Pressniak.>ff and Kiviat kowski. A young Woman of attractive appearance, with a child in her arms, wjw with him. Bho was his wile. The oomforts of matrimony bad not been denied him, and he seems to have had no difBonlty, notwithstanding his con dition and work, in finding a woman to marry him. The hangman's face ia dtporibed as stolid rather than terrible or repulsive. He lias abnormally long arm*, and is itoid to be porsessed ol heroulean strength. He was spoken ol as hwng "thp strength of twenty men." One day thore was a revolt in th? prison, and he 'W*h summoned to help subdue the prisoners. He rnshed ia among thorn, aud killed three with hit bare hands. FBEKOH BP.NBIBlLlTT. In Paris the good feeling of the peo ple is sometimes in advance not only ol its government, but of ite men of Boienco, A physiologist Was advertised to give > j public lecture recently, at the palaoe ol the Troeadero? on viviseotion. He had his frogs, his rabbits, his docs and othoi Unhappy victims on his table, and wai about to begin his brutalities, when i lady sprang on the platform^and entered hnr protest against the proceedings Her eloquenoe carried the audience Witt her, and the vivisectionist, one Laborde, whispering that he was tho victim of i "olerioal oabal," had to withdraw. ) wish I could think that the olergv ha<) anything to do with his discomfiture^ but the fact it they havo no means slig. inatiwd these infamies as they deserve ? Rnchnngt. | EXACTLY. The English troops can probably whij Arabi Pasha if the rainy season does not strike them too soon and too severe^ and find them without food or shelter, b-.it can they oarry the load of prince lings and dnkelings who are att+choa t< the commands and who will havo to lx fed, protected and dry nursed? Th< general i command has had to Ted along with him at least one young su pornnraerary prince connejted by mar risge wjt ih the royal family, and who ii said to havo gone to Ktiypi to get on! of the Way of the butchers' and baker* duns. Coil-nnught be done to shelv< , the idler*? The London army organ ii 1 | anxious for the reputation of the rea ( ' soldiers and officers. ? JBoochtmQ4. flBI. GAJlDRt AKD HOUSEHOLD. FrtU-Trw Caltwre. When designed for small grounds plant peaches, quinces and dwarf pears where the entire soil will be culti vated. Standard pears, apples and oberrles will better endure the hard ship of grass plots, but open the turf three feet wide about each tree and keep the soil mulched at least the first year. In the orchard do not mix peaches with apples, but have each specie by itself, as each has a peculiar habit, and each requires different treat ment. Cultivate the entire surface of the orchard for five years. Some hoed crops will bring almost as good re turns as though there were no trees, and the trees will be vigorous and healthy, whereas if left unculti vated many misfortunes are liable to occur. If a man is half fed, half sick, there are many .disorders that stand ready to attack him, which in full vigor would not get foothold. It is the name with trets. Do not be in hasto to see tliem bear fruit. The better they thrive the longer it will be before tliev come into hearing, but when they do begin to bear they m<an business. In planting an orchard we' should mark both ways with corn marker, and plant in squares ? equal distance from tree to tree every way. Then all will be in line from every angle viewed. This is the easiest and best method. ? Greens Hints on Fniit Cultuie. Anta m Inaectlcld**, It is news to us, says the Boston j Journil of Chemistry, that ants are; great destroyers of canker worms, and ] pro ably otlv?r worms or insects of the j smaller vaiietie*. We watched with j great int -rest the work of a large col- ' ony of black ants which attacked the canker worm on an elm tree in our J grounds a few weeks ago, and were | chdighted with the naturo and result of their labors. The proctsdons of the ants were moving on the trunk of i the tree, one going up cirp'y, the I other coming down, eajli ant bringing ; with him a canker worm, which he beld fast in hi* mandibles, grasping ! the wo.m firmly In the cent, r of the j body. Although the prey was of I nearly the size of the destroyer the ! plucky little ant would run down I the tree In a lively way, deposit its booty in its nest In the gronnd and. instantly return for further slaughter. There were at ons time as many as forty coming down the tree, each bringing along its vic tim, and doing the work with appar ent ease. Extending our observations we noticed that the ants ran up the trunk and out on the limbs, and from thence 01 to the leaves of the trees, where the filthy worm was at work, i and seizing him with a strong grip at about the center of the body, turned about with the squirming worm aud retraced their steps. The worm was ' dead by the time the ant reached tho j ground. If this work of the ants is common, they must prove valuable friends to farmers and fruit raisers, and should be protected in every way possible. The Cur* ?( Farm Machinery Tho advantage (if keeping farm ma chinery from unnecessary exposure to the weather is cogently insisted upon by the Ohio Farmer, which says: I We have noticed that plows last, on an average, about three years; wagons, eight to ten years; reapers, five to eight; drills, eight to ten. We think tln se figures ?are fully as large as the truth warrants. Wo know of many Implements that have not lasted so long, and of many which have lasted much longer. We to-day can point to wag ons that have been hi constant and hard uso for twenty years, reapers that have stood the wear and tear. of liberal use for more than fifteen years, drills that have been in use as long, and other agricultural t implements that have w;wh1 the wear of fully twice the average age of such implements. These implements were not made of un usually good materials nor were they suffered to lie idle. They were put to oonstant use. What, then, is the secret of their greater endurance? It is simply this ? they were taken caro of. when not in use they were put away, and put awny properly. These implements not only lasted longer, but while they were in use tiny very rarely failed. They wero always ready for work. The reapers did noc break down in the middle of harvest and compel all hands to lie idle while uome one went to the rail way station to get repairs; the drills did not fail ' just when the wheat ought to be sown; the wagoos woro not always breaking down and occa* sloning delays and vexations. An other tiling may be said in their fa vor, and that is that they always did good work. The reapers cut a smooth stubble find put the grain down in good condition: the plows did not re fuse to scour; the drills put the wheat in just as a first -clans drill would; and these implements did good work not onl> while they were new, but till the last year they were used. A Few Ward* Ahem Nhevp. - There is no. domestic animal m0T0 liable to disease thin sheep; and yet, with proper care, there is none more t easily kept ina healthy state. Sheep aro j tender, delicate animals, but naturo has , provided them with shields against many dangers. If hnvn shelter in , time of storms, And especially rain and snow storms, have sufficient clean wnter, there is little to be feared from disease. Hheep need frequent changes of pastiiieln tho pasture reason, and the same rulo applies In reference to dry food. It is a rule applying to all ani mate nature that tho more refined tho organization the greater need of va riety In sustenance. We do not mean the variety in classes < t kinds of food, but rather variety In that general sense ( which includes in means of sustenance all proper elements in heatthy growth ! ?care and treatment as well an food. | We believe every farmer ought to i have some sheep, more or loss, as his means and conveniences will Justify. ? But unless he can give them good attention, and cAn care for them well, ! he is better without them. And at 1 this reason they need special care, bo I that they are kept healthy, and started > nto winter in good condition. Oats, rvo and corn ought to be 6ct apart for sheep in the winter, and a little of od? or all of them fed along through the fall Backs and troughs should be prepared and kept clean. An excellent arrangement for feeding Is made as follows : Take a two-inch plank afoot wide and bevel tho edges ; then, on each edge put a four-inch piece even with the edge on the nairow 6ide of the planK. This makes a trough tint and a foot wide. Then on a line three inches from each outer edge i>f the trough bore a row of inch holes three inches apart. Bore them at an angle to correipond with the bevel on the edge of t^e plank. In these holes put sticks, sawed or turned, twenty-tour to twenty-eig it inches long, and put their upper cads through similar holes in a t nee or four-inch piece, and have these top pieces joined at the ends, and at properdi-tan.es bo tween to givo strength. This makes a rack and trough coml i ed which m;iy be k?pt in position by being fas tened on benches or logs, or it may have its own feet. Bran, shorts, any kind of gr.uir.d t'e<d a-id ta t. or whole grain may be conveniently t d in >uoh a trough, and li y and fo<!d? r are wed seruied in the n o'c. Of course the hay must be all clean, d out beCoro putt ng the ground lexl or gra n in the trough. Sheep will feed nicely on both side* of sue i a ra k, and s and in the most ec* nomkal and healthy position. ? Rural Record. RccIim-8, fpoNQE Cake.? lJeat the whites of I ten eggs to a stiff froth, mix with them a tumblerful and a half of pow dered sugar, then a tumblerful of Hour with a teaspoonful of cream-tartar sifted in it; lastly a little lemon ex- j tract and a half teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a vt ry littlo water; bake j in a slow oven in a sheet half an hour, lay a towel over a pillow and turn it bottom upward on it to rest till it will drop from the pan. Pea Soup. ? Take a quart of shelled | peas; boil tho pods in a gallon of ci.id j water until all the substance is boiled out of them; then skim them out, and put two pounds of beet into the pot. Alter the meat is boiled to shreds skim the soup well, strain and return it to the pot; add the peas, with a littlo parsley, and let it simmer until the peas are quite terder; season with pepper and salt; thicken with a little butter and flour, lot it boil up once and serve. Boiled Bice, Georgia Style. ? | Pick over the rice, wash it until the water is clear, put it into salted boiling ; water, allowing a quart of water to each cupful of rice ; boil it twelve j minutes rapidly ; then drain off the ! water and set t lie saucepan containing j the rice, uncovered, in the oven for ten I minutes ; the rice will be dry and tho j grains separate. If the rice is liked j better done, it mu.ct bo cooked a littlo , longer. Thoroughly wash as many I short, thick, sweet potatoes as are re quired, boil them in salted boiling water until they are ju^t tender enough to pierce with a fork, take them up, eel them smoothly, cut a slice about alf an inch thick oil the side of each one and Jay it by ; hold the potatoes in the left band, and with a vegetable scoop or sharp-edged teaspoon scoop out the center, leaving a shell about half an inch thick. Put the part of the potato which has been scooped out Into a colander, mash It through with a potato masher ; add butter, Fait ard pepper to taste; replace it in tie potatoes, putting on each one the slice cut from the side ; put tho potatoes in j a hak ng-pan and bnko them in a moderate oven until tender enough to serve. ! Ilnniifholil Hint*. To waSli oolored table linen use tepid water, with a little powdered borax; wash quickly, using tut little soap, and rinse in tepid water containing boiled starch; dry In the shade, and when al j most dry iron. tfo prevent the hair falling out ap ply once a week a wash made of rne quart of boiling water, ono ounce of I pulverized borax and half an ounce of powdered oamphor. Hub on with a sponge or piece of flannel. "When tho oolor of silks has been de stroyed by any strong acid, it may be rwt&red*by carefully wetting the spot with a strong scap lather, to which a ; little saleratudhas been added. When the color haa been tacen out by fruit stains ammonia will restore It. My way of washing calico for forty flvo years, says an Iowa laJv, has been to take one-halt peck or more of wheat j bran; put it in tho wad?-bollor and pour on from four to six gallons of | water; let it como alowly to a boll; strain thro'igh a coarse cloth, cooling it enough to bear the hands in. Wa h tho calico In it. not using any soap, as it is of a lathery conslstonce; rinse and , ptarch in the shade, and it will set the | color of new calico so that It can be J washed afterward in tho ordinary way. * 1 ?? Man's Host Friend. It is this prepared ea?th that re ceives us at birth and sustains us. It is the earth alone, of nil the elements , around us, that is never found to be an enemy of man. Waters deluge him with rains, express him with hail, drown him with inundations. The air rushes in storms and prepares the tem pest, but tho earth, indulgent and sub servient to our wants, spreads om walks with flowers and our table with plenty. Returns with interest the seed committed to her care, and shough sho produces tho poison, she supplies the antidote. Though con atantly drained to furnish the luxuries ts well as the substantial* of life, yet even to the last she oontlnues her In dulgence, and when life ends sho pious ly covers our remains, protecting from intrusion or harm. ? Pliny . Nan Grows Two Inches In a Msrvt. It is asserted by Doctor Merkel that a person's height, after a night s rest, measured before rising trom bed, U two inches greater than in the even ing. measured standing. On rising a sudden shortening takt'ft place at th? joints of tho legs. The sinking at the ankle is one-third of an inch; at th? knee one-twelfth Jto one-eighth of an Inch; at the hip two-fifths of an Inch The contraction in height Is continued through the day by the gradual yield ing of the arches of thh feet and ol the disks of the spine. FOR THE FAIR SEX. Women a* Dentists. Miss Jessie i\ Detchon, tho young lady win) recently graduated from the Philadelphia dental college, told a re porter ot the Philadelphia Record, thai I e<ide herself ami another lady dentist in that city there Is a Gorman lady who graduated from the same institution, and who now holds the position of pri vate dentist to the Kmpri 8s Augusta, of Austria. Miss Detchon said : " I am surprised that many more women do nut enter the profession, for it oilers them a wonderfully good tleld, and there is no reason why they should j not be successful, since the other lauy | dentist in Philadelphia and myself have largo and constantly increasing practices. When I made up my mind to study dentistry, and the students of i the college \v? re told that they wero to have a lady student come among them, they were very indignant and threatened to make it too j hot for any woman who essayed to take tho course, and ' so 1 started in with sjme littlo ner vousness. From the outset down I was treated with t'.ic greatest cour tesy. AY 1 v," said the ynuog lady, en thusiastically, ?? they were so nice to me that when I graduated I felt as though many of them were as dear to me :ts real brothers would have been." "llave you many gentlemen pa- 1 tients V askeil the reporter, who was , sorry ho had no aching molar. " No; a great majority ?>f my pa tients are ladies. I also attend to the t'othof a great many children, as they are not so nervous with a lady as with a gentleman." Miss Detchon paid that she thought the profession of dentistry a much J better one for women than that ot , medicine, which she had also studied, j as the former was one in which regu? , lar ollico hours could bo observed, j while to be successful in th? practice of medicine a lady must bo ready to sally forth at all hours of tho day and | night, and must undergo no small amount of exposure. A vast amount of white lace wltfc dowers is testuoncd upon costumes In very pale tints. I s/ As the fashion for untrimmed tight I eevos has eoino in, overcuffs of linur. are again worn. White tullo is used in the p}ace ol I an invisible hair net to keep the front I hair in good shape. I Mask veils of tullo dotted vltl chenille are stylishly worn with eith'ei I turbans or bonnets. "Window > hades of fino cream-coloi linen, painted in water colors, are on* of the latent agonies. Velvet clicks embroidered with che nilk-trim dresses of dark camel's hair, cbshmere and Amazon cloth. Black silk stockings, with the Amer ican Hag embroidered upon the instep, is the latest in ladies' hosiery. Fichus in grenadine and large polko dots of silk with plaitings of net uIJ around, are new and admired. Shell-shaped frills of lace in two nar row straps across the shoulders take the place of sleeves in low coi sages. Pinking the edges of rufTles and plaitings is now preferred to tho old method of having them hemmed. Black velvet bonnets are made dressy '"ith buckles of Rhine crystals, or jet. lace turned back from the, brim, stiings of white or colored Ottoman ribbon, and ostrich tips in pale bluf and soft dull pink shades. l'he Painlessness of Death. At birth tho babe undergoes an or deal that, wero ho moie conscious, would bo more trying than a most painful death; yet ho reels it not. Born in an unconscious state, the brain In capable of receiving impressions, hi? entrance into this hitherto unknown world is accompanied during a state of oblivion, known as nature's anaesthesia Pftinlossly w# co;no, whonc9 wo know not - l'ninlossly wo ko, whither wo know not 1' ' From the earliest period of human history death has been considered a? necessaril/ accompanied by puin; bo general i3 tlds belief, that tho terms "death agony," "last struggle," " pangs of death," etc., havo been in almost universal uso in evry ago and under all conditions of society. Nothing could be moro erroneous; tho truth is, pain and death seldom go together ? we mean tho last moments of lifo. Of course, death may bo preceded bv weeks or even months of extreme suf fering, as occurs during certain ixu curablo diseases. 80 exaggerated has bron this notion that it has been considered an act of humanity to anticipate tho " death strugglo" by violence; for ages it was customary among tho low>r classes of Kurope to hasten death by suddenly jerking tho pillow from beneath the head of tho dying, thus throwing the 1 head backward, straining the pharyn geal and thoraeic muscles, rendering I the respiration, already difficult, "hortly Impossible. A Venetian ambassador, In the tiino of Queen Mary, asserted that it was a common custom among tho country people to smother the dy ing by means of a pillow placed over tho face, upon whicn leaned or sat the nearest relativo. This was founded upon tho pious belief that a short road was tho best ono. This custom wai handed down from generation to gen eration. parents performing it f<ir their children, at.d vice versa. But, perhaps, tho saddest privilege ever allowed the near friends of a dying man, occasion al y occurred durlngtherolgn of Queen I Elizabeth, when, through executive clemency ? In executions by hanging ? | they wire permitted to gra p tho feet j of the hu- ponded criminal, and, by clinging to'the extremities, precipitate their additional weight on the l.odv, 1 thereby hastening strangulation. It ; Is needless to say that these theories [ are false In both conception and prac tice. Death Is a physiological process, | and, like all other animal functions, should bo painless. ? Popular Hoifiiux , Monthly. Tho product of tea In Japan now reaches vpward of ?0.t 00.000 ol | pounds annually, the production hav- | Ing largely increased within the last six voars. I In Winter Months, fa winter months, when skies hang low, And earth is wrapped In shrouding snow; When naked branohM, creaking, away, 6tirred by ohili winds on thoir slow way, Our thoughts turn back to long ago. No more for us the cold winds blow, No more the dark days shorter grow? Nor timo nor change con make us stay In winter months. Again our spring-time soemsto glow With all the joy that youth can know; And bleak December flees away, Usurped by memory's blithesome May: How blest to cheat our worn hearts so In winter months ! <? F. E. Durkee, in Atlantic Monthly. UUM'iROUS. A. poor man may be honored, though his draft is not. ? Picayune. By the way, another of the Bala klavii "six hundred" has just ditd. This reduces the rank to about nine hundred. ? UartJ'ord Post. " Will Lovo Win ? ' is the title of a new novel. We fo.-l authorized to say that love, properly backed with a bank account, will make its way with suc cess every time. Professor Beal says that celery, if packed in moss and pla-cd in a cool upo: in the cellar, will retain its tlavor and freshness all winter. We iuiag.ne it might ta^te a little cellary. "Every one must eat his peck of dirt beiure lio dies," faid a meek waiter, in answer to a remonstrance about a dirty-edged soup plate. "Yes," replied the cusUnur, ? but not on one plate." " What is worse than freckles?" asks a young lady. " Corns, my dear, corns. T.iey don't show so much when you're dr Cased up; hut then it you keep straight no one can step on your freckles." "When they bvii'.d a railway the first tiling they do is to break the ground. This is olten done with great cere mony. Tin n tney break the share holders. This is done without cero? tnony. ? Derrick. The mistress has gently reprimanded her maid for ove: sleeping herself in the morning. "You see, ma'am," ex plained th". servant, "1 sleep very slow ly. and so you see, ma'am, it takes me much longer to get my full sleep than it does others, you see, ma'am." An old man advertised " Bookkeep ing taught in one lesson; terms, $1." lie gut a large class oil the opening night, and, after they were seated and the dollars ru>lied in, lie said: "The whole art of bookkeeping hinges on three words ? Never lend tlieni !' ? The J Ud;/r. " Then you think," said "Wittibol to the insurance examiner, " that 1 am a good risk?" "Yes, sir," replied the uoctor; " a first-class one." "Then what in thunder do I want to get in sured for?" said Wittibol. "Much obliged for your examination. Good day." And the ng.'nt had been at work on Wittiboi for six months and more, and thi3 was what came of it. "^low can 1 leave you, my darling?" murmured a Toledo lover, in tones of distressing tenderness as he ol served both hands of tho clock approach n perpendicular on tho dial. "Well, John,' responded the girl, with wicked innocence, "you can take your choice. If you go throngii tho hall you'll bo liable to wako up father, and if you leave by way of tho back shod you'll bo likely to wake up the dog." ? Toledo A me iaan. A Demand for Muffed OwU. "It is really surprising," said a New York taxidermist, 14 what an extraor dinary demand has sprung up for owls this season. It has been good and gradually increasing for two years, but this winter it lias exceeded anything I ever knew before as a rage for any par ticular variety of bird. Wliy, before the holidays, out of every ten people who entered my store, nine were after owls. When tliis year opened I didn't have an owl left on hand except a few littlesereeeh owls. Even now, although the call for them has slackened off since tho holiday .4, whenever a stranger comes in I llnd myself Instinctively moving ovor toward the owls, expect ing they are what is wanted. I don't know why tlie popular taste hu rushed so in that direction any furthei than that it appears to bo one of those inexplicable cruxes that peop'e do not try to account for further tlian by say ing: ' It's the fashion.' Hut I havo stocked ?ip again with all sorts of owls, and am ready and willing for the craze to boom riglit along. l'r.oes? Why, better than ever before. That great snowy owl. the largest and most beau tiful of tho family, is worth $25. I have snowy owls as low as $15, $12 and even $10, but not such a superb speoimcn as that. Vet I used to bo glad to get or $10 for the very best of them. Those great horned owlsaro worth $10 each. The burred, long eared and short-eared owls (tho latter sometimes known as tho swamp or meadow owl) aro worth $1 each. Burred owls made into a screen are worth $P>. They aro not much wanted in fancy forms, however, either as screens or in Hying attitudes. Tho owl's strongest suit is his dignity, and ho shows the best in repose. The Bcreech owls are worth $2.50 each. The Arcadian owls are tho smallest found In this section of tho country, not bigger than quails; and the Sawifc owls, triun somewhere av? ay out West, are nt t more than half their size. They command pretty good prices, as they aro raror than tho others, but Rtill never nn) thing liko the big ones. All the tine lurfjo owls come from Cana la ivs a rule, but this season two hand soino snowy owls were shot ovor in .Jersey . City. Another wns shot on Hiker's hospital and another up by llellovuo hospital. Owls the only birds used for screens? Oh no; not hy any means. Ilerrns, hawks and gulls ar.* also used, and, indeed, many others. The handsomest Is tho white heron, which, when spread out bo aa to make a sort of halo of wlngA and tail while perched naturally on one leg. is wort I. $15. All the prices I have numed aro for owls mounted complete and llfo-like." A hunte. In Custer county, Mori tan it, killn.i 2.V> buff aloes and 8f wolves In ni* %?<eks