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Let the eyes of fancy turn Where the tumbled pippins burn Like embers in the orchard's lap of tousled grass and fern; And let the wayward wind, 1.11l singing, plod behind The eider-press-the good old-fashioned kindl Blend in the song the moan Of the dove that grieves alone, And the wild whirr of the locust, and the bunble's drowsy drone; And the low of cows that call Through the past.umre-bars when all The landscape faints away at. even fall, Then, far away and clear, Through the dusky atmosphere, Let the wailiug of the Kildee be the only sound you hear; o sweet and sad and low As the memory may know Is the glad-pathetic song of Long Ago! KATIE'S LANTEIN. Truth to tell, the comfortable, old fashioned farm-house, at the foot of the narrow and rocky ledge, had a most pictuesgue position. Away to the southward wound and sm lied the for tile valley, a goodly proportion of whose acres appertained to Grandfather Crowninshield and along the edge thereof swept the curves of the railway after what seemed its birth in the clo vet ledge so very near to Katie Crown inshield's home. As for Kate herself, with her sweet, fresh face and her mer ry brown eyes, the little valley and her nestling honme were all the world to her, indeed, that she had ever known,. for she had been but a wee thing when Grandfather and Grandmother Crowit inshield became father and mother to her, in place of those whose faces she could now hardly remember. Neither did it ever occur to her that she was in any sense an heiress, for she seemed rather to belong to the valley than the valley to her ; while the idea, if any thing had brought it to her mind, that her good old grandparents were not to live forever, would - have turned the brightest June day to the gloomiest December. But, in these latter years, one great entity had painfully struggled into Kat's world, with an apparent mission to unite the valley with that great un known, which lay beyond the hills and ledges. Kate had seen the ragged rift cloven in the granite wall, watching it curiously from door or window, and listening for the dull reports of the blasting charges, until the barrier was parted and the railway crept out and i ound its way down through the valley ; and, ever since the trains began to run, she had connected with them the idea of a life that was almost human. 8he had waved her hantlkerchief enthusias tically to the very first train, and had belt liberally rispondcd to by passet gers and conductor ; and, although she had been then a little girl and was now a young lady, she had. never yet dream ed of any uunmaidenly boldness in giving the same white signal of welcome, at times, when the great railway mystery cane rushing out of the cloven wall There was otto train int pfarticular to wvhich Kie's attentions wvere at last, pretty w~ellI restricted-a through-ex press, wvhich wvent by at eight o'clock in the morning, and there was another froni the same direction again at eight o'clock at tnightt. Firom the forumer, just as easily as hier- own dainty " good mtornintg I' f luttered above the gardetn gaLe, so certainly wVouil theoo be a hleetmig flash of wvhite to answer her from thme platform of one of the cars, or even front the engine itself, for that,, too, had happened. And .Katie knew very wvell that, in these latter (lays, at least, her answer htad always come from the sanme htand. A tall, erect, manly fellow Ito was, dressed in dark-blue cloth ; and Kat'ie had beein wvell aware, for a good while, that he was thte coni (ductor of the train, but she had never yet beent near otnough to speak to himi, or get atny clearer ntotion of his face and its mteanig. Ut,an might be given her in those swift but ahnost (daily glimp.j)es. When or htow he found his way back to the beginning of his perpetual journecy, was a questiotn that Katie never asketd event or herself. -it was enougli that, every morning thte swvift train brought hhntm out of the uttknown country be yonmd thte hills; and added a somettung that htad grown to be very pleasant to the peace and quiet of her day. 'EThere was somiethting very notewvorthty even to railway mien, about the mantner in which the road broke In upont that valley. A (heep) cut, a sharp curyc and a heavy downi-gradc, comibitned to mtake the precise p)oint whtere the contductor 'had hearnted to look for Katie's greetitig an itnteresting one ; and her white ker chtief tmay even have seemedc( Lo wave a species of congratulation at his repeat e(d safe passage of wvhat might at atty time have shaped itself into a daniger.. But that as it imay, the raIlway "cut" hatd erought to Katie Crownmiisleid. among othter results, a shorter and easier path to the htomte of her aunt, her itothier's sister, whio lived just a little way beyontd tihe lodge, and wiho was ever satisfiled if too imny (lays passedi ywithout bringing the sunligitt 01 (atle's face across her threshold. 'AndI *1atie h4~d goe4 returpxi, aniy mid imanty a time, by tile narrow path o>weent the granite walhls. .N obotiy In at peacefutl region dheamed of fear at ing out after (dark ; ani1 agalit and1 gaimn had good Aunt .Betsy detinttd ler pet until night had fallen, although or only compamont0i houmeward wats tier ttle star of a hlantern. There camne a day wvhen Katie's hand rchief fluttered in vaini, andl then an her, whien even th.e repiy she received em the train convinced her that there adbeein a changeQ of some khid, atnd at she would r.eceive nto more signals. from the same hand.., And so she sadly prepared to give it up, in the first lit of genuine blues she had ever indulged in; but, a few evenings afterward, she lingered A i tli i 'burn from Aun Betsey's, o see the night-express go flashing by. It was a grand sight when it camne, incoi parably more interesting and myster ious in the darkness thau over in the day, and Katie wondered she had never thought so before ; but she almost nl consciously raised her little lantern, and swung it around her head as she hal used to wave her handkerchief. Could she believe her eyes ? She almost refused to give them any faith at first, but then there followed a quick flush in her cheek and a warm glow at her heart ; for she was sure there had been an answering light, and she could almost picture a tall form in dark-blue clothing, standing on the platform between the two cars. And now, while the October days grew cooler and glorions evenings long er, Grandmother Crowninshield began to grumble a little at the disposition her darling evinced to pay so many visits to Aunt Betsy. " It's a long walk for you, child," she said, " and it's through the cut too. What if a railway train should come along before you get out ? " 0 grandnamma, that'll never hap pen," laughed Katie ; " the railroad and I are very good friends." " You ought to be," said grandmoth er. "1 never saw any living being care more for a dumb thing than you've al ways done for that there train." ' But grandmother was nearer -right than Katie ; for only a night or so after that-it must have been that Aunt Betsy's clock was slow-for Katie was in the very middle of the cut when her ears was suddenly filled with the shriek and roar with wnich the triiii dashed in at the upper end. H1er heart beat quickly for a moment but not with fear; for, as she sprang lightly upon a projecting rock that she had often before noted as a very avail able perch, she gathered her fluttering dress more closely about her and ex claimed : "There, I'm safe enough ; but to think of is coming so near 1 " Near enough, indeed, and Katie leaned back hard against the crag be hind her ; for it seemed as if she could feel the breath of the iron monster on her cheek. In one hand she clutched more tightly the folds of her shawl,and in the other she raised the lantern, as if its feeble star could co of some protec tion, and then her grasp of it grow sud denly very tight, indeed ; for leaning out a little from the plaLform of a car, and looking forward, as if inpatient for the train to clear the cut, stood a tall, handsome, bearded man, in dark blue clothes, with a lantern in his hand and his eager, watching, expectant face. came so very close to her own I It was like a ilash of lightning ; but Katie kneNv the face, and she knew also ht she herself had been seei, and she had .en mai ked the swift paling of one bronzed vilage ts it reeoguzed her and . then swept on into the darkness beyond. " lie was afraid I would be hurt," she thought ; and thtln she said aloud : " But he must have seen how safe i. was, up here on the rock. I don't be lieve lhe swung his lantern at our gar deu-gate to night." Aunt Betsey's house was some little distance from the upper entrance, and the approach to the latter was gloomy enough, the next night of her visit, even for one who knew every inch of the way as well as Katie did ; but her little lantern shn." out cheerily againist its bright reflector, throwing Its radi anice aauead, as if it were trying to tell tier : " There, dear, that's it ; don't be afraib nowv, l'ul showv you the track I" She liad. not gone far, how ev'er, before the granite walls brought to lher cars, all the way trom tihe lowver 0end and( .,rollmd the curve, as if tihe cut had been a spleakinlg-tube, the sound of voices.thiat were evidently meant to be low and guarded. There wvere other sounds,mmnigled wvith the voices, and Katie could not make out more than a word or so here and there, but there was something aboult it all that start led and frightened tier. At first she was half inceimled to turn anld make the best~ of her way back to Aunt Betsy's ; but thiat seemled foolish, anld Katie wais really a courageous 'little soul. She hid her lainternl under her shawl, how ever, and stepp)ed very lightly and swiftly forward, tryinig to remember if there were not a rock or hollow wvhere she would be as safe from men as she had beeni from the passinig train. She was very nearly through, herself, be fore she coulld anyway make out what it all mount ; but, as she paused in the deep shadows of tile rocks and p'eered timidly out toward the now dull and mnufiled sounds, with whichl the voices were no0 longer mingled, a broad suick gleam, as from a lantern suddenly shaded or extinguished, shot across the track not many yards below, and then all wvas dlarkness and silence. But that one moment of illumina tioni had- revealed extraordinary things to thle keen excited vision of Kate Crowninshieid. T1here were men, three or four, she could not say just how many, but rough, fierce, wild, and anxious-looking andl before them on thle railwgay track [rum which tile rails had been1 pried away just thlere, was a confused heap11 of heavy granite boulders anId fragmnents. Katie understood It as clearly as if those menQi had taken hebr kito their confidence anId had told her words. It was a plot to wreck the train And now slip was om4t in tlle operi air beygn4i the upper pintmipce, 'aint shle (ould see the peaceful light still slining from Aunt B3etsy's window. But there was no time to go there for 1hp. TIle train must-le so very near KCatie did for a moment thin1k of kindling a bright fire on the track, but that wotild take too long, anId the great ruin and horror would1 come before even a sinall fagot wou1d be well ablaze. "There's nothing but my own little lautern," almost sobbed poor Katie. " Maybe he' will know it when he sees it, but lhe maust be warnled before h~e re4es the cut." -'Tlie lanitern shia like a frosty litl star determined to be seen as Katie sprang forward up the track. She had not far to go, for the train was ahead of time to night, instead of being be h I as woi I have been more desir a o - e circumstances. Never had anything appeared to Kate Crown inshield more suddenly than did the great, glarfig eyes of the locomotive headlight, that now glowed upon her out of the overshadowing night, and her lantern seemed to have instantan eously vanished. "It is so small," she cried in agony, " and lie will never see it." Nevertheless, on a low mound of earth and stones, close by the- side of track Katie took her post of charity and danger, and swung her little lan tern frantically to and fro, while she now tried to make her sweet girl's voice heard through the roar and clamor of the rushing train. On caine the railway giant, tugging with him his precious freight of human life, and it flashed upon Kate Crownin shield's mind what an awful capacity for suffering that train might have on board. On, with the great glare and the all-absorbing torrent of sound, and almost before Katie knew it, the object of her hope and fear had dashed ruth lessly past her, and was quickly swal 1owed up from her sight in the rocky jaws of the deep cut. With a cry of grief and disappointment on her lips and a strange thrill of pain at her heart the poor girl sank upon the ground and buried her face in her hands, while the little lantern dropped neglectedly be. side her. Only for one brief instant, however, did Katie yield to the terror and the trouble of it, for in another she had picked up her starry friend, sprang to her feet, and darted away down the railroad track toward the cut. She was light of foot as any fawn, and there were sad wings to her speed, but it seemed to her as if she would never get through the cut. She paused a moment when she reached the lower one, to gather breath and to brush the salt mist from her eyes before she looked upon the awful scene she knew must be pre pared for her. And then-why, there was the train, the rear car rising close in front of her while the others (and there were but few of them that night) stood all erect upon their wheels beyond-not all upon the track, to be sure, but all apparently safe-all, except one great, dark mass, whose polished metal glittered in the varying lights that flashed upon it, and whose hoarse throat screamed angrily with the escaping steam, for the loco motive had come to grief pretty decid edly among the granite boulders that were heaped on the track by the fiends who had planned the wreck. The passengers were swarming out of the cars, and none of them seemed to be hurt at all, nor (lid Katie hear a sound that told of pain as she swiftly thread ed her way among and past them. She had caught a glimpse of a group away beyond even the shattered locomotive, however, which forbade her lingering for an instant. Right down toward her own garden-gate four men were carry ing a heavy burden, and others werd fol lowing, and Katie heard theim say, as she darted by "Who is it ?" "Why, its the conducto-. IIe was thrown fron the platform of the for ward car.'' " Is he killed ?" " They say so. Nobody e'ue was hurt. lie was a splendid ?ello;w A tall, handsome, bearded n:n, in dark-blue clo.hing, but his face was ghastly pale when they laid him on Grandfather C.rowninshield's own bed, and the surgeon, who had been among the passengers, bed~ gloomily above him. "heIad all right," muttered the man of science. " Only a cut or so. Ah, there's a rib, twvo of 'enm, and his armn below the elbow. Struck the ground( so, that's clear, and the other bones are likely to be all right. Must have been leaning out to look ahead, 1 should say. Ilullo, what's that light on his face ?" The light in the room, what with the crowd and the country candles, had been none of the brightest, but just at this moment a clear, golden gleam was pouredl down on the face of the injured man, andi slowly, as if the radiance it self had awakened him, lie opened his eyes and looked dreamily about him. The surgeon heard a sigh that was half a sob close behind him, and looked up to see that the sudden light came from Katie and her lantern, but just then the questioning eyes of the wound ed conductor fell upon her face, and lhe exclaimed, faintly but earnest ly : " I knew it was you. There wvas hardly room to stop the train in, but we'd have all gone to pieces if it hadn't been for you and your light. You've savedi them all, God bless you I" And so Katie Crowninshield sudden ly found herself a heroine, with a swarm of grateful people about her, very much to her (discomfort. They would have made her a presenit if she would have allowed them, but the only really wvelcome words dhe hm*rd from any one were those of the surgeon. "What, killed ? A nmn like him ? Nonsense ! IIe'll carry his arm in a slinig for a month or so, but he'll be up again in a fortnight." Of course, no time was lost in repait ing the track and ini forwarding the passengers, and a few hours only saw the farm-house as quiet and peOaceful, looking as ever, JKven the surgeon) had dlone his work and gone, The engine hay battered and helpless among the boulders who're it had forced its willful way. Tihe conductor lay still on grand father (irowninshield's bed, and the fitful slumbers the surgeonk, opiate gave were starry with signals that white fingers held up before lisa dreaming eyes. As for Kate and her lantern, the latter had fairly burned itself out and asleep on the little table in Katie's own room, and she herself had by no mneans clearly comprehended, as yet, the happy consequences of her railway signaling. It was very much like a dream to her for katie was no prophetess, .nor could even the lantern throw-any light upon the future. She -could not see 'just then, and yet' the d~a3f that followed brought it .all to pass, that neither sh herself nor grandfather and grandmotle Crowninshield would consent to an more railroading or signaling. It ws much better, indeed,, they declared, no did he himself proteid to deny it tha Katie's husband should farm i>roa acres of the fertil valley than that i should be at the mercy of train wrecli ere and wayside latiterns. And who the question was decided to her liking such a hug and k was that whic Kate Crowninshlield gave. " To whoin ?" " Why, to her lant 4rn, of course." Medtiaoval Customs. The Hofburg,, th@'. hief palace of th Auskrlan sovereigns, . n the scene oc an ecet stastical 66ie or act of dev< tion which is. a.QurM i relic of meditavs custo;s.,. " In sccordance with a usage ob served from time itiiinemorial on Maun day-Thursday the cerem my of "washing the feet of tue poor" was this morning performed as usual by their Majesties a the ltuperial residence. In the Middi Ages the custom prevailed at many otbe O itholic Uourts, but- in the present da to faid a parallel would be impossib:e. ex cept, at the Vatican and the palace of th King of 8pain. The proceedings opene< at 9 o'clooc, when twe le old imn. o wh>m the oldest is in his nine ,- birc year and the youngest eitzhty-seven, an< twelve old women, the oldest nmety-slx and the younest ninety, dressed, as usual in the okd German costume, presented tc them by the Emperor and Enipress, en tered the court chapel, in order to receive the sacrament, ani were then brought into the Hall of Cetemonies at the Hof, burg. On each side of the hall was a table with twelve covrs, tie one table fo1 the old men anud the other for the oki women. They are all cit z-ns of Vienna and many among them showed by theit behavior that they had taken part in the ceremony more than once. With the ap p. arance of the clet'&msn at 11 A M. the ceremony began. The Emperor, who was followe+l by all the Archdukes present it Vienna, served the old men, and the Em press, followed by all the Archduchesses and court ladies, served the old women at their respective tables. The Corps Diplo. matique was, as usual, in attendance, but this year. for reasons generally known, the B -itish, Frenoti and Turkish ambiasadore dil not appear. All the ministers were present, as well as court dignitaries anc privy councillors, the chamberlains, the grandmasters and the highest representa tives of the army. The tables being re moved, the E-iperor andl Empress knel d,wn in fr< a of eao'h of the oid people, took off a shoe and stocking from each washed the foot with towels moistenet fromn a goikien ewer, held by a chamber lain. Atter the feet of loe old people had been wiped the Arehda .and Archduch, esss replaced the shbe- diU stocking, and their Majesties concluded the cetemony by hanging round the neck of each of the ok people a purse with thirty silver f wrins The old folks were then sunt hone in cabs each with a well tilled box of provision and wine. The Sheep of,Thib,et. The sheep of Thibet- which are vera nuler,,us, are chiefly a small va,riety o the fat-rumped Persian and Abyssinlan with black heads and necks. 8ome are hairy, with short wool underneath, whil< others bear a long soft and tine wool. I is from the latter that may of the costi Indian shawls are made blot a little o this peculiar wool finds it way to Britisl. India. and is there manufactured. Thi breed Is tountt in its purest state In tht deserts of U eat Tartary : no other vane y being near to c>ntainu.a e its blood. reacues far into thle Interior and naortberm parts oif Russia andl is much dissemninatm in China, Persia, Hmndostan, A-lit Mano andl easttern Africa as we I as Tuibet. I, Pale4tile it is 'more numnerous than an' other breed ; indeed the largest propt, tla,n of the shcap of iorihern Asia beint of this description. Prfessor Pallas coni jec turesa that this chi 'racter arises an tm fat aumpi d sheep froim their feeding upol the bitter and a b!'nns plants found upon t b borders of the Caspian and [Slack seaP And he asserts that when they are removei fronm the places where these plants gros the fatty excrescence bec. mes less, liu Banfleld says, as the fat runmped end fat tailed sheep are varieties which are widel a's:persed, it seemns more probable that the may have been produiced by accident, at may also have been perpetuated by acce dlent, de,ign or fancy. I ile fat- tailei sheep is very ex:enslvely diff id it I found througthonit Asia and a great part o Africa, as well as through the norther parts oif Europe, They diTer, like othe' sheep In the nature of their covering;. I Madagascar, and in some other hot eti mates, they are hairy; at,the Cape of ->o. Hope they are covered 'Wth coarse wo.,l in the Levant their wo3i 1. extremely fnoe r'he proportion which the weight of th tail in some of these sheep bears to thm w iole carcase IS qiute rem'aikable. The usnal dressed weight of, the sace is tr.)m Duty to sixt.y pounds, of which thm tail is sai-l to make .ninre than one fourt part R'.assel describes two breeds or fal tailed sheep abo it Aleppo: in one i. Itl posit of caudal fat is moderate, in the othie sort the tall Is much larger. The unctuou fat of the tails of these sheep is accounte a great delicacy alike by the Boors anit th HIottentots of southern Afr.ca. T'he 11o1 .entots, in their primitive condition pos sessedl im'nense a acas and pursued th pastoral arts with gre-st success strong Muolinge. A very strong teucilage, having snff olent tenacity to fasten sheets of piste hoard together, ajid having the' additionis adv,sntago of being water proof, can 1, made by melting together s q tal' parts < pitch tin I gutta p:rcha. To ntine l'arts< tis add three parts of boiled oil and oni fifh part of 11tharge. (Jontinue the hei with stirring until thorough union of tii lngredients Is eftected. Apply the tnixtui hot or somewhat cooled, and thinned wn a small quantity of benzolo or turpentlr oil. A GDNTIhRMAN, whose nose and chee had become distinctly colored with tli rod wino he was wont to imbibe, sai one day to his little son at the tabl4 'You mius$ eat bread, my.~ boy; brea ialtes your cheeks red," th',e littI boy rephied; "Father, what lots of biea you must have swallowed." - + +(e 0 Various Kinds of Drunkards. r Some men seem to become drunk r suddenly, giving no previous indication t by thickness of articulation or unsteadi ti ness of gait; this being commonly the case whore mental excitement from other causes-as a heated discussion-. prevails at the time. The niost dread d ful and astounding cases are afforded by those unfortunate people who are never sober. How they manage to survive so long as they do is a mystery. There are men who have been perpetu ally under the influence of liquor for o twenty or thirty years. Of course, the brain must have become permanelttly njured, so that we may infer that the . drink these persons now take has little or no real effect on them, and that their state would just be the same without it. Others, again, are systematic and punctual drunkards of regular habits, men who take their quantum and are put to bed unconsciaus every night, yet are capable of attending to their daily business in the iiost extraordinary manner. These, as a rule, never ex ceed a given amount by so much as a glass, and do not suffer so much as intermittent drunkards-at any rate not so soon, for the inevitable conse quence is only a little longer deferred. The writer knew an old doctor In Ja maica who used to aver that the climate was the finest in the world. "Yellow fever, sir?" he would exclaim -" not a bit of it! A vulgar chimera! A malicious libel on us! The fact is, its the vicious irregular drinking habits of the people here that kills 'emt. I drink a bottle of brandy every night, and have-done so for thirty years. I get tipsy seven times a week, in an orderly and decent manner; and I've never had yellow fever nor a day's ills ness!" And to all appearance he was a file, healthy man~of sixty-live or seventy years, with a beard as white as snow. Yet he waa carried off suddenly by a trifling indisposition incidental to the climate; and it was found on examina tion of his papers after death that his age was only fifty-two. It does not by any means follow' either, that because a man is never in toxicated lie may not be drinking too much. Men employed In the great breweries in London, especially the draymen, consume anl enormous quan1 tity of beer. The daily allowance which their employers give them is a very large one, but they rarely confine themselves to that; and the (lraymen, in addition, get much gratuitously froni the customers to whom they are always delivering the casks; so that ten or fourteen quarts is no exceptional con r sumnption for one man; yet they are not f drunkards, in the ordinary sense of the term. The very nature of their work necessitates the employment of none but steady men, strength being also a sine qua non. But if one of these men should break a limb, or get conflued to bed from any other accident, he is almost sure to get flelirium tremens; and a scalp-wound frequently kills him. Brewers' men are notorious in hospitals as being thme wvomrst cases for operation, being pronel to exhibit all the most dIan geroiis coniplications wvhich fetter the success of surgical treatment. A story 0Z ''Johmn Phonix.'' The invitations senit of late to naval oflicers requesting theln to furnish sug gestionus for a change of uniform "'re m nind( me"--as Air. inicolni would have 1saidl-of a similar invitation issued1 by Jeff D)avis whlen lie was Secretary of -War under General Frank Pierce. One of these invit ations was sent to i Lieutenant Derby, a good dlraughitnan - and( a nierry wag, who sent in response a propositioni for having a twvo-inch iron ring appendedl by a p)iece of stronug leather to the seat of each enlisted r man's tm'busers. Long and fornmal 1 specificationis demonstrated thme utility of tis ring. Each oficer was to carry, instead of a sword, a long ah pole0, with a hook on one end. By hooking into 3 the ring of a p)rivate lhe could be kept 3 in line of battle if hg were disp)oscd to Shang back, or caught if lhe attempted a to run away. T1hie ring would also be useful in the artillery service for draft purposes, and in the cavalry men could be locked to other rings in their saddles eandl so kept from -falling off. Thme illustrations which accomplanied the e specifications represented oficers catch - ig infantry stragglers and forcing them into thme ranks, dragoons p)ad locked to their saddles, and artillery men with cannon-pirolongs hitched to their rings, haling huge pieces of ar .tillery up steel) heights. It was very funny, and the clerks in thme War D)e I p)artment enjoyedl some hearty laughs over it; but when it reached the Secre Stary lie became indlinant and regarded .it as an insult, lie ordered charges and( * specifications to be drawn up, and a u court-martial was actually ordered, e when it came to the ears of Governor hMarcy, then Secretary of the4etate, who was level-headed, and who advisela Davis to let the matter drop. He k might convict Derby and dismniss him 8from the service, but lie Wvould be *laughed at from one end of the counti'y jto the other. Davis took the adsiceu e and Derby's "suggestions'" aro stll to [be found on th.9 (#19s of the War. Do, partusenit. Cattle Raising In Texae. The typical cowboy Is with us almost a thing of the past, not simply because the number of cattle has so decreased of hlte, but because the manner of hand lhig them has undergone a radical change. Time was when an owner of 1,500 or 2,000 head of cattle would find employment for fifteen or twenty vaqueros; under the present system three men can now perform the functions for which five times that number were requisite a few years ago. It was for merly the custom upon our ranches to "loose-herd" the cattle during the day and to round thorn up on the "bed ground,' or pen them In corrals for the night. Now we have immense past ures, inclosed by many miles of barbed wire fencing, in which cattle roam at will by day or night. The pasture fen ces are examined and kept in repair by men detailed upon the ranches for that purpose. Ten years ago the cattle were driven North from Texas without re-' gard to sex, age or condition. The re sult was that Texas was almost drained. of breeding as well as of beef cattle. Now there is some discretion exercised, and it is the exception not the rule for cows and calves to be driven "up the trail" or the shipping centres. Many of our stockmen have introduced fine cattle of Durham and other breeds on their ranches with a view to improving their stock. Full-blooded cattle how ever, are not easily acclimated, nor d10 they do well unless fed. Thie half-bred cattle seem to thrive, and in time the long-horned native cattle will be sup planted by a mixed breed of liner qua' ity. Two species of the musea, known here as the "heel fly" and "screw fly," are the bane of the cattle men. The former look very like the ordinary honey bee, and deposit a nit upon the leg of the annmal below the knee. The nit in time devolps into a worm, and eats Its way into the flesh. The "screw fly" is much like the blue bottle fly, and at tacks the animal wherever the flesh is laid bare, by branding or making the ears; it leaves a nit from which the worm is hatched by animal heat. Some time since a valuable calf got screw worms In one of its ears. It was doc tored, and it was thought cured. It died recently, and upon opening the skull it was found that the screw wornn4 had eaten their way to the brain. The present system of branding and making the ears not only disfigures the cattle and destroys the hide, but as may be seen from the above statenmenlt is dan gerous. A llorolno of Tai-ol-Kobir. The old retriver Juno, who earned such undying fame by leading the gal lant Gordon Highlanders at Tel-el-Ke bir, wlas[tho admired of all observers t.he other day at Cairo when the regiment paraded to receive the medals won by its members during the campaign. (ol onol Iammill, C. B., pointed out the distinguished dog to (eneral Sir A rch ibald and Lady Alison, and we doubt not that among thme sp)ectatorJ there was a very general feelinig of regret whmen Juno had to content herself with comn ipliments and caresses insteadl of re ceiving the honorablo whwratn 1. he soh thoroughly dleservedi. Owing, too, to unavoidable circnst ances she cold( not be Included ini either of the p)homto grap)hic groups of the regiment which were takent by command of the Queen. One of these gave the p)ortraits of all' who (distinmguished themselves at Tel el-Kebir, and1( thme other was rep)resenta tive of each rank in the gallant corps. T1here was room for ,Juno on bo0th, in the former by reasoni of her b)eing the first member of the British force to rush'' Arab)i's entrenchments, and in the second on beccoumnt of her being "the regimental (dog" par excellence, it will be a national shame and scandal if .Juno's likeness is handed (downl to pos terity without something in It to show that thme English people)1 recognmized their debt of gratitude to thme noble1 dlog. Whmen we first described her gal lantry at Tel-el-Kebir we suggested that a silver collar, bearing a sultalble inscription, wouldl form an appropriate dlecoration, and we nowv venture to re peat the proposal. The senti mental ity which went to suclh excess~es In tihe case of Jumbo mIght find( a munch more deserving object in Juno. How Uoaada (ot Its Name. Thme origin of the wordl Canada Is cu rious enodgh. Tihe Spaniards visited that country p)revious to the French, and mad.e piartlal searches for gold and silver, and finding none, they of teln said among themselves "A cani nada" (TVhere is nothing here). The Indians, who watched closely, learned the sen tence and its meaning. After the de parture of thme Spaniards the French ar. rived, and the Inianitrs, who wanted none of their company, anud supposed they also were Spaniards come on~ thme same errand, were anxious to Inform them tha~t their labor was lost by tar rying in that,country, and freqpebntly repeat0ed to them the Spanish septence "M Cn natda." The French, who knew as little of Spanish as the Indians, shep posed this hIcessantly-recurrig sotiu was tihe wne of Canada, which it has baorna ever since1 Exereising the Devil. A corrospondent at San Luis Rey Indian Agency gives the following de scription of the manner in which the savages drive the evil one away: "The Indians do not like to take medicines, but they held a few days ago a festa for three successive nights for the purpose of decoying the demon of sickness, and, if possible catch and kill him. It was the best I have yet seen in the many years of my acquaintance with the life and customs of these Mission Indians. After a lot of bucks, naked, but fixed up with paint and feathers, had exhaus ted themselves by dancing and stanp.. ing tile ground about an hour around a big fire, and got hoarse from grunting and howling, an old gray buck, the chissero, stepped into the center of the ring and began, in a low, mournful voice tosing. le was dressed--or rather, utn dressed- the same as the others, witl} the exception that lie held a rattle mfde out of the tails of rattlesnakes i 'his ,iand, while on his head was - tiara formed of three bunches of plu es. "From time to time lhe we out of the ring up on the hillside at looking up in the air in all directions called in a decoying voice for the gh1o . When he returned lie always expl ned in a few whispered words how c icult it was and how dangerous it w for him atnd that he was very much af id. At last, when he camte back again 'om the hill, he danced three times ar id the lire, when lhe was seized with avy convulsions, which brought him, ' fearful moans (and seemingly lie suf fered terrible pains), to the ground. But lie still had force enough left to pull out the bundles of feathers from his head. With these he rubbed his chest, and this releasing him from the power of the demon, he jumped up and with fearful yells everybody followed hn in a wild tumult, men, women and children crying: 'Mactalo, matalo,' (kill him), and beating the ground with the sticks they had ready for the occasion. " 1 got out of the way then, for they seemed to be a lot of wild maniacs, When they returned to the ring they all stod up in a circle, the old 'clissero' dug a hole in the center, and after some more singing and stamping the ground, pulled one of the bundles of feathers from his head, and going around rub bed it against each person. From thin to time lie returned to the hole, and seeming to suck some juice from them, he spat it into the hole. Then lie filled it again, stamped the ground down, and with fearful yells the same wild beating of the ground followed, in winch even old Vicente took part. This conchided the cermonies and everybody went home feeling sittisiled that lie was the one who had hit or killed the ghost and no more sickness was going to pre vail in the village. The whole made a picturesqtue scenle-the swarthy old bucks with their sweaty faces illumina te(l by excitement and dancing; thie huge fire burning in the middle, of which once in a while a kick would send the Ilanies. and sparks away up to the tops of the trees; the stern face of the cap,tain sitting on a chair with a long rod1 in his hand and the audience with eager expectation. sitting on tihe ground; the 'fair sex' dloing their part in 'sing Iig.' Then owls would fly overhead through thme branches of the dark, shiadowing oaks, joiniing in with their voices andI adding to the9 awe of the whole, while fair Lunma's face rose, shining In its soft - splendor, above the mountains to illuminate it all. " (O,iossal Mexican Farmsg. Much has been said and written of the great extent and large possibilities of Mexican haciendas. Bunt probably few people in the United States even yet realize the extent of some of these tracts of land, whore a million or a miu lien and a hailf of acres often coiistitute a single estate in the hiand(s of the own or. There are muany such estates in Mexico large eiiough to hide away many a Eluropean princip)ality, large enough to awaken the envy of many a land p)rop)rietor ini thn Pacific Coast Sit es of the American Union. They are to be found in many of the Central and Northern States of Mexico. The fa muous Salado ranch, for example, con tains over 6300 square miles of land. It lies partly in the States of .N uovo Leon, Coahmuila, Zacatecas and San Luis Po tosi, on the highway to Mexico, and on the line of thme new railroad. It occlupies the central table lands of Mexico at an average elevation of 4000 feet. Chdins of mountains traverse the estate, rich in interal wealth. Thue bounderies of the estate extend more than 100 miles from north to south, and flourshing farms aind large mining towiis are met - at frequent Intervals. A New Methodi for the A,iaiysis of Oli. Th'le author treats a mbaisured quantity of ol with a measuredi quantity of stand-. ard e>iustic alksia. Ten o. o. of oil mea. sured with a pipette were heated In a boiling water bnth for an hour with 20 o. o of a somution of potaisa. whtoh would neutralize 128 o. o of sulphuric acid as 98 grmns -100) o. o. -At the ern. of this heating the.inseed 0118 mentioned )a tho purvious 'midshor' all libded a' caice ot goals Solid or very firm"when hot, always solid when doldi, and easily septarated by mere drailning. The aiKaap e 1o.iO s very diflerently sored ammi $ )to~n ~) satt.p'ea. 1t sill1 u rat i 4he. qufintitios of 'acld, di~,U~h * t e ry 040$10